The Lord of the Rings
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Looks super cool! Can’t wait for more of Tolkien’s world.
I'm really enjoying it so far. The story is good, the acting is good, dialog can do with some work.
It's not as good as the movies, and I never expected it to be. And if you are a hardcore Tolkien supergeek there will be some inconsistencies that might be irritating.
But overall I'm enjoying it and looking forward to where the story is going.
i'll try get to it over the weekend inbetween work commitments.
not a hardcore tolkien supergeek so the inconsistencies wont bug me, i see on some of the crazy fan pages they went a bit berserk over some things but its like the star wars fans in that case! either watch it or dont!
To be honest I am preferring this to House of the dragon.
I never could get into GoT. I think I got halfway through the second season and got bored.
I tried to have a conversation with those geeks and got called a woke liberal.
Whatever they want to call me, at I enjoy my television entertainment without getting offended.
Thanks for the heads up. I've seen the first three episodes but now that it's all out I can binge the rest.
It's actually kind of weird how conditioned I've become to binge watching television content. Week to week doesn't always work for me anymore
Just finished it and without giving any spoilers, unfortunately no Balrog action, but many questions gets answered in the final episode.
Don't listen to the trolls online. Just enjoy it for what it is. The last few episodes really pick things up.
Now I can watch it again in one go. Or I need to find my Silmarilion book to catch up.
Second season is currently being filmed.
I've become the same. Watching one episode a week doesn't cut it for me
The Fall of Númenor
by J.R.R. Tolkien,
edited by writer and Tolkien expert Brian Sibley,
illustrated by artist Alan Lee
Now available to pre-order, to be published on 10th November 2022
Presenting for the first time in one volume the events of the Second Age as written by J.R.R. Tolkien and originally and masterfully edited for publication by Christopher Tolkien, this new volume will include pencil drawings and colour paintings by Alan Lee, who also illustrated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and went on to win an Academy Award for his work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien presented The Silmarillion for publication in 1977 that a fuller story could be told for, though much of its content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island-kingdom of Númenor, the Forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
Now, using ‘The Tale of Years’ in The Lord of the Rings as a starting point, Brian Sibley has assembled from the various published texts in a way that tells for the very first time in one volume the tale of the Second Age of Middle-earth, whose events would ultimately lead to the Third Age, and the War of the Ring, as told in The Lord of the Rings.
- Press release by Harper Collins
Also for Tolkien aficionados, there is the glorious gift of ten new colour plates by Alan Lee, featuring scenes – such as the building of Barad-dûr and Galadriel leading the Elves through Khazad-dûm – that this master illustrator hasn’t previously had the opportunity to depict.
- Brian Sibley
by J.R.R. Tolkien,
edited by writer and Tolkien expert Brian Sibley,
illustrated by artist Alan Lee
Now available to pre-order, to be published on 10th November 2022
Presenting for the first time in one volume the events of the Second Age as written by J.R.R. Tolkien and originally and masterfully edited for publication by Christopher Tolkien, this new volume will include pencil drawings and colour paintings by Alan Lee, who also illustrated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and went on to win an Academy Award for his work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien presented The Silmarillion for publication in 1977 that a fuller story could be told for, though much of its content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island-kingdom of Númenor, the Forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
Now, using ‘The Tale of Years’ in The Lord of the Rings as a starting point, Brian Sibley has assembled from the various published texts in a way that tells for the very first time in one volume the tale of the Second Age of Middle-earth, whose events would ultimately lead to the Third Age, and the War of the Ring, as told in The Lord of the Rings.
- Press release by Harper Collins
Also for Tolkien aficionados, there is the glorious gift of ten new colour plates by Alan Lee, featuring scenes – such as the building of Barad-dûr and Galadriel leading the Elves through Khazad-dûm – that this master illustrator hasn’t previously had the opportunity to depict.
- Brian Sibley
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