JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Other Middle-Earth Stories Book • Page 9

Something my wife pointed out during our last re-watch was at the end of FOTR when Boromir dies and Aragorn is legit crying when it happens. She loved that they made this small detail a part of his character, and I agree. He also has tears in his eyes in the "For Frodo" scene in ROTK. I feel like any other filmmaker would've made Aragorn an unemotional badass, but PJ and Viggo chose to portray him with such an emotional tenderness. And his character is my favorite of the series for it.

 

The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.: Original Drawings, Manuscripts, Maps & More | Open Culture

 

this better go on the road.

 

I still kick myself for missing the traveling exhibit of props and costumes and all sorts of stuff from Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy when it came through Boston. I don't think I can swing a NY trip right now but I could make it happen if it came to Boston.

 

Nicholas Hoult as Tolkien in upcoming biopic

 

I bought The Silmarilion at a library book sale. Pretty intimidated though

 

Take it section by section as if they’re short stories. The Ainulindale is some of my favorite writing ever.

 

Hopefully I can keep the characters straight. I always have trouble with that in LOTR

 

they’re all mostly contained to their own stories, although a few Valar/Maiar (gods) show up throughout.

 

The Silmarillion is absolutely gorgeous honestly. I struggle with the first two chapters a bit and then it's smooth sailing all the way

 

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someone marathoned the movies while trying to eat everything they eat on screen.

 

I will be going to this in May!

 

This is hilarious. Never would have thought to do this.

 

This sounds like so much fun. Mentioned it to the gf, with the slight hope she'll want to do something similar.

 

Also, I want that guy to marathon the Hobbit movies and eat everything he sees on screen.

 

The Twitter for the Amazon show has tweeted its first tweet:

Show's still almost certainly a couple years out but I guess this is a sign we should start getting some official information sooner rather than later.

 

I’ve not got Prime but this (whenever it arrives) will be the first show that tempts me.

 

Prime probably isn't worth it unless you utilize free shipping a lot but they do have some great original shows:

The Expanse is my favorite scifi show. The first three seasons are streaming on Prime and the 4th will come out this year.
Homecoming was fantastic
Marvelous Ms Maisal
Jack Ryan was decent

 

Yeah, that's my main problem... I don't buy much these days. The occasional book that I can't find anywhere? That's about it.

 

It's been kind of clear for a few weeks now with the maps they've been posting but here it is more explicitly said: it seems the show will not be young Aragorn and instead take place in the Second Age.

 

As a huge Tolkien fan I am extremely excited for this. That being said, I feel like a show that cost this much money set in the Second Age is a huge risk. I know Amazon has all the money in the world, and I am not worried about them losing some of it, but I do worry about the show being cancelled prematurely if it doesn't perform up to expectations.

 

As an exclusively LOTR/Hobbit fan I have no idea about this

 

Same had to wikipedia the different ages in the LOTR universe

 

Numenor could be some good ish.