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‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hobbit’ Film, Merchandise, Theme Park and Gaming Rights Sold to Video Game Roland00 Send a noteboard - 18/08/2022 05:36:05 PM

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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Wayne Che Yip made the following comment:

"Tonally, we wanted to reflect the main story points of good and evil. One of the ideas is, how far into the darkness are you willing to go to do the right thing?"

No. Just...no.

That is the antithesis of Tolkien. That using evil to defeat evil only accomplishes replacing one Dark Lord with another is, if anything, the central theme of his writings.

I fear this show will be every bit as disappointing as TWOT.


‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hobbit’ Film, Merchandise, Theme Park and Gaming Rights Sold to Video Games Company Embracer for an Undisclosed amount. (Estimates last year was thinking these various rights were worth roughly 2 billion)

Amazon still owns its rights. Warner Brothers had an animation thing in production and there is a legal debate if this is enough to qualify for rights.

What is IP may never die, but remakes again, stronger and grittier.

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This certainly does not bode well for the Amazon Rings of Power series. damookster - 22/07/2022 04:17:54 PM 871 Views
WoT... read somewhere that travesty was renewed for season 3 *NM* AgentApple - 22/07/2022 09:36:25 PM 320 Views
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Re: This certainly does not bode well for the Amazon Rings of Power series. Duke - 03/08/2022 10:51:32 PM 691 Views
More looking forward to House of Dragon!!!! Anonymous2000 - 25/07/2022 01:28:03 AM 539 Views
Amazon handling Tolkien was never going to be anything other than very dumb. *NM* Narg - 26/07/2022 05:49:13 PM 333 Views
You can never go too far into the darkness to do the right thing Tom - 27/07/2022 02:55:03 AM 541 Views
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Come on. You've seen the trailers. It's already miles better. The Shrike - 02/08/2022 03:49:31 PM 510 Views
Re: Come on. You've seen the trailers. It's already miles better. damookster - 02/08/2022 05:35:01 PM 520 Views
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‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hobbit’ Film, Merchandise, Theme Park and Gaming Rights Sold to Video Game Roland00 - 18/08/2022 05:36:05 PM 535 Views
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