Amazon's original pitch for the television rights to JRR
Story
Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.. "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" cast and more actors who totally transformed for their roles.. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' novels was to make the series a new adaptation of the latter (effectively a retelling of Gospodar prstenova: Prstenova družina (2001), Gospodar prstenova: Dvije kule (2002) and Gospodar prstenova: Povratak kralja (2003)), but the Tolkien estate rejected this proposal.
The dubbing credits for several languages mistakenly list King Durin III as "Durin II"
Amazon finally obtained the rights under the conditions that the series be distinct from Peter Jackson's earlier adaptations, and that they couldn't contradict anything that Tolkien had previously written. Early ideas that were proposed included prequel stories featuring characters such as Aragorn, Gimli and Gandalf, but the showrunners preferred to focus on important untold events from the novels' lore rather than simple side stories, so they settled with the studio that the series would take place during the books' Second Age. Since they didn't have the rights to Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion', 'Unfinished Tales' and 'The History of Middle-earth' (which explores the First and Second Ages), they checked the Lord of the Rings novels and appendices for passages about and references to the Second Age that they could set their story in. They consulted with the estate and several Tolkien lore experts (including grandson and novelist Simon Tolkien) about the inclusion of new characters and plot elements..
Tolkien's "The Silmarillion"
The opening titles is a musical sequence of matter forming various shapes, based on the "Music of the Ainur" creation myth from J.R.R. Featured in The Critical Drinker: The Rings of Power – War For A Fandom (2022). There's lot of criticism of the actors, but could anyone do better with this script?The problem we're seeing more or less everywhere is weakly-written female characters. A good character needs an arc – in the case of Galadriel, they're obviously going for the hero's journey, but if you have her start out infallible and invulnerable, there's no development possible and so nothing to invest in for the audience.Contrast her with Eowyn, who had to overcome her insecurities and social role to become a warrior, and she ended up scoring a critical success against the enemy.We don't love characters for their strengths , we love them for their flaws, and how they overcome them.
What if she'd given commands and gotten her unit organized and used sound tactics to defeat the troll
The modern way female characters are being written is robbing the audience of strong and relatable characters.Also, you have to lift up underrepresented groups, not tear down others. The troll scene showed 10 male elves easily swept away and then defeated by Galadriel without raising a sweat – that was an unintentionally funny scene and a missed opportunity. Which scene was more compelling, this one, or in FotR where a group of the world's most formidable warriors backed up by a wizard barely survived?Why dwell on this? Because Galadriel is the main character of this saga and she's awful – to the point I want to cheer for Sauron.