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Though it isn't clear if that is speculation or from a source. My guess is speculation but I think straying close to the time of the LOTR is more likely because anything else and most fans would be lost. A young Aragorn would be very doable and relatable with a great love story that we never see the beginning of. But the Silmarillion? The story is just too complicated and it doesn't have hobbits or wizards our really even dragons until near the end. Most people who are not serious fans would not even recognize it as the same story as LOTR. Most of the people I know who are not serious fans never finished the silmarillion.
Though it isn't clear if that is speculation or from a source. My guess is speculation but I think straying close to the time of the LOTR is more likely because anything else and most fans would be lost. A young Aragorn would be very doable and relatable with a great love story that we never see the beginning of. But the Silmarillion? The story is just too complicated and it doesn't have hobbits or wizards our really even dragons until near the end. Most people who are not serious fans would not even recognize it as the same story as LOTR. Most of the people I know who are not serious fans never finished the silmarillion.
Sloppy journalism all around covering this story. The Aragorn story would be tough since we have a conception of what he is like. I think they will be forced to go further back in time. Something like The Fall of Gondolin could work. Depends what the execs at Amazon think people want to see.
Amazon Making a LOTR Universe Show (Prequel)
- 13/11/2017 08:17:44 PM
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Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
- 13/11/2017 08:51:39 PM
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What would you have them make instead?
- 13/11/2017 11:47:34 PM
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Uh, nothing, I guess? They've made movies of everything they could, and way too soon for remakes. *NM*
- 14/11/2017 06:37:41 PM
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This is illogical.
- 14/11/2017 06:43:11 PM
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Quotes from the best episode of stargate
- 14/11/2017 06:57:10 PM
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Apparently I am ruled less by fear than either of you.
- 14/11/2017 06:59:29 PM
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But that's how I see it. *NM*
So not looking forward to this
- 13/11/2017 09:11:32 PM
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It's a business. And businesses are inherently conservative about gambling.
- 13/11/2017 11:49:01 PM
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Yes there is some logic to it.
- 13/11/2017 11:57:04 PM
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Chances are good.
- 14/11/2017 12:23:08 PM
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The GOT tv show will still be there in a decade or so
- 14/11/2017 05:29:43 PM
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But by then you will be spoiled on how it ends.
- 14/11/2017 05:33:15 PM
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I didn't think it would end this way. / End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another
- 14/11/2017 06:49:38 PM
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You're starting to become Joel-like in the length of your replies.
- 14/11/2017 07:01:24 PM
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Sorry I get quotey when I get sentimental
- 14/11/2017 07:26:03 PM
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Nothing wrong with sentiment.
- 14/11/2017 07:35:01 PM
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Threadjacks in order to produce flexibility. American Gods 2017 next? Or should I wait and watch
- 14/11/2017 07:44:04 PM
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Oh gods. I had to stop watching that.
- 14/11/2017 08:28:39 PM
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I pulled a damookster. 
- 14/11/2017 08:28:40 PM
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- 14/11/2017 08:28:40 PM
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*NM*
Clips your Mookie card, only 7 more Mookies till you get a free Sub Sandwhich
- 14/11/2017 10:02:39 PM
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A Mook sandwich would be tastier.
- 14/11/2017 10:05:24 PM
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*NM*
Shame
- 14/11/2017 07:34:25 PM
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Literatedog likes it too.
- 14/11/2017 07:36:49 PM
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Evan Rachel Wood gets even better the further into the story you get
- 14/11/2017 07:41:31 PM
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I'm worried that they said Frodo is coming back
- 13/11/2017 09:37:49 PM
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I haven't seen anything about Frodo.
- 13/11/2017 11:49:50 PM
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The first paragraph of the article you linked
- 14/11/2017 02:04:13 AM
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Yeah, I see that now. Sloppy journalism.
- 14/11/2017 12:20:32 PM
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I was assuming they will ignore the Peter Jackson story line and cast
- 14/11/2017 03:30:12 PM
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Nooo
- 14/11/2017 06:26:01 PM
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there really isn't a scenario that doesn't have high a likelyhood of sucking
- 15/11/2017 03:14:46 AM
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You could go with Turin Turamber, And Beren and Luthien. *NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:34:16 PM
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Beren and Luthien would be great
- 15/11/2017 04:31:33 PM
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Also, if the network wants to go wild with Trump stand-ins they could do Numenor 
*NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:44:58 PM
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*NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:44:58 PM
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In related news, I shouted at the movie screen when a Black Panther preview came on
- 13/11/2017 11:57:58 PM
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possible theme music
- 14/11/2017 07:34:26 PM
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I feel I should know this.
- 14/11/2017 10:06:09 PM
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You got it
- 14/11/2017 11:39:46 PM
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Whether you're a goblin or whether you're a hobbit you're tired of the rings, tired of the rings *NM*
- 15/11/2017 04:27:12 AM
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I heard it was going to be a musical
- 14/11/2017 10:28:28 PM
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I really do love that version of ROTK.
- 14/11/2017 10:53:50 PM
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It's a guilty pleasure, isn't it?
- 15/11/2017 04:25:23 AM
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I have no guilt. I'm done with guilt over what I do like and don't like!
- 15/11/2017 01:12:50 PM
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I have to admit to being worried.
- 15/11/2017 08:46:57 AM
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I think we all are. We have been with these characters for decades.
- 15/11/2017 01:15:12 PM
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Everything I hgave seen says a LOTR not a Hobbit prequel so I don't think you will get any first age
- 15/11/2017 02:42:50 PM
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Well, The Hobbit is a prequel.
- 15/11/2017 04:33:03 PM
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It's not really a prequel if it was written before the thing it's a prequel to, is it? *NM*
- 17/11/2017 04:19:35 AM
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I wish they'd make a Pern series instead.
- 15/11/2017 03:33:46 PM
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A Temeraire series would seem easier to sell then "the main enemy is mindless space fungus". *NM*
- 16/11/2017 06:28:12 AM
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