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The Rings of Power scanned Switzerland's Lauterbrunnen Valley by helicopter, the same valley Tolkien hiked in 1911, and used Tolkien's own Rivendell watercolor from The Hobbit as its guide.
The rest of the Rings of Power won't be anything Tolkien wrote... but Rivendell, at least, may look the part.
"Therefore do not write down to children or to anybody. Not even in language. Though it would be a good thing if that great reverence which is due to children took the form of eschewing the tired and flabby cliches of adult life." ~ . Tolkien, April 1959
"I have had time to glance at the [Houghton Mifflin] 'jacket' stuff. This account must have been written by someone who has not read the book, but relied on hearsay inaccurately remembered. At least the plot given away might be that of the book described." ~ JRR Tolkien, Dec 1954
"Tolkien was, in the truest sense of the word, an enchanter." ~ Terry Pratchett, Washington Post, June 18, 2000
"I was determined that I didn't want anyone sitting through the opening twenty-minutes of Fellowship; thinking that they were watching anything other than a real world." ~ Peter Jackson on building the Hobbiton set a year before filming
I don't think "Just as breathtaking and captivating as its previous seasons" is doing the work you want it to here...
The first reactions to The Lord of the Rings: #TheRingsOfPower season 3 have arrived:
💬: "The first 2 episodes are bangers and this series is getting better and better as it goes on."
💬: "The start of this season is not only some of the series' best work, but TV's best."
💬: "Just as breathtaking and captivating as its previous seasons."
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Jamie Dornan--portraying Aragorn in The Hunt for Golum--says that for him, Aragorn will always be just Viggo, and he isn't trying to outdo him... I don't envy the task of filling Mortensen's shoes in a film that is simply trying to recapture the magic of the 25 year old trilogy (link in comments).
Read it here: theonering.com/jamie-dornan-…
So, the Rings of Power Season 3 is a soft reboot according to the show runners, with a five-year time jump and a whole new story built around the forging of the One Ring. Hoping to recapture the fandom they abandoned in the first moments of Season 1 is a fool's errand (link in comments).
Read it here: theonering.com/rings-of-powe…
"But if I am to understand that you are enquiring where i am of _Jewish_ origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people". ~ . Tolkien, July 1938, responding to a German publisher asking if he was of Aryan origin.
For the love of… this is NOTHING like Frodo, Sam, and Gollum!
"Of the fate of Ungoliant, no tale tells. Yet some have said that she ended long ago, when in her uttermost famine she devoured herself at last." ~The Silmarillion
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." ~ Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Hail, Gurthang, for thou art all men's bane & all men's lives fain wouldst thou drink, knowing no lord or faith save the hand that wields thee. Slay me therefore, for life is a curse, & all my days are creeping foul, & all my deeds are vile & all I love is dead." ~Túrin Turambar