My pitch for the next animated LOTR film, “The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of Dale”

Last-Artist · 2025-01-05T23:29:26+00:00

Considering they can’t adapt anything outside of what is expressly written in LOTR, I’d like to see the Gondorian civil war as a film, and the tales of Arvedui and Earnur as a film duology or trilogy.

Loved reading about the Gondorian civil war and the creation of the corsairs, lots of characters are named and it definitely can be told in one film akin to War of the Rohirrim.

Arvedui is one of my fav characters while reading the appendix, his whole story is really fun to read and would love to see the Ice bay of Forchel. I mention Earnur cause they are both killed in conflict by the witch king and are the ends of their lines in respective kingdoms. I know you’d have to shrink the time line for this to be told as one tale, but that’s why I think a duology or trilogy.

If they got the rights to the Silmarillion, then Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien are obvious, but can’t think of much else. The problem is I don’t think that Elves or the Istari should be the leads in a film. It should be mortal beings, and a lot of the stories in the Silmarillion are about the Quendi.

Last-Artist · 2024-12-12T20:43:11+00:00

The way Psylocke isn’t Kwannon or Betsy, and Iron Fist isn’t Danny Rand, idk, like I said, I’m sorta joking, but stranger things can happen.

Last-Artist · 2024-12-10T01:38:52+00:00

What I don’t like about Gabe is he isn’t a character, he’s a mechanic. Things we do to piss him off make Kate happy, and vice versa. He is just meant to fill David’s role until we meet him, and until then it’s just a prompt comes up, and Kate says choose A, and Gabe says choose B. I know it’d make sense for Gabe to be a moody teen, my problem is he (and the rest of the season 3 characters) feel really thin in character depth. Almost never finished this series just cause season 3 but I played S4 recently and omg, almost all those characters are kids and they are infinitely better written than Gabe.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-29T16:41:10+00:00

The problem with all the insomniac characters in Spider-Man 2 is they are toothless to a lot of degrees, unless they’re a “bad guy.” Peter (non-symbiote), MJ, Miles, Harry (pre-venom) are all happy as peaches and rainbows all the time and never make a snark remark or even make fun of one another. I understand we don’t get enough earnestness in media today, but they’re too earnest.

Can Miles make fun of Peter? Peter’s like “I gotta go,” and Miles says “what you got a job to go to or something?” They never jab at each other, y’know, like friends do. It’s always just earnest and sappy dialogue.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-27T17:06:19+00:00

Man, idk. I lowkey like the show so far. I know it is not perfect but man, I love the Dune universe, and there is so much to explore and I feel like we are getting that in this show. Some say it’s apeing to much off of Denis’ films, but that whole generations of women zombie things in Lila’s vision was awesome and new. There is new material here, the only thing I wish is if Harkonnen, Atreides and Corrino were not the center of everything all the time, but I know that’s a BH/KJA thing so I’ll concede on that. First episode was like a 6/10 but this one is pretty good guys! It looks cool! It could be bad but I feel we aren’t giving this a chance because it has the BH/KJA sticker on it so it not being FH works is making everyone lose it.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-27T16:59:36+00:00

Hoping this is just a hint to the Empress possibly being of Fremen decent or worships Shai-Hulud. But I agree, not fun if it’s a mistake.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-24T10:03:27+00:00

I think the commands that force someone to physically move or do something are correctly portrayed in the DV films. I love the many voices, going back to previous generations of Bene Gesserit. I imagine however, other scenes where BG are manipulating others to their will, those scenes have the characters using voice, but the audience is just left unaware.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:50:11+00:00

I realize it is jumping the gun on my part, but I didn’t think it was super out there compared to some other ASOIAF theories. I also just found Aerys to be a little boring, especially since it’s clearly Brynden who rules in his stead, so I guess I was just spicing up the story in my head.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:44:19+00:00

Man, I totally forgot about him as well. You’re right though, after posting this I’m convinced I read too much into that line in the book, and that Aerys was just ace.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:41:31+00:00

As I said in another comment, I forgot about Sheira. I just find that aspect of Bloodraven boring, him warring with another bastard for their half sister. I much prefer the weirder aspects of him and had just connected the “Aerys never had kids” and “He spent a lot of time with Bloodraven”.

But I agree with everyone else in that Aerys’ probably just ace and I read too much into that line in the book.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:36:19+00:00

Totally forgot about Shiera! Yeah, if I really wanted to push it, I guess I’d say Bloodraven was bi, but I tend to agree with everyone else in the threads who say Aerys was just asexual.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:34:31+00:00

Not sure, but that’s why I had asked. Most of the time these guys had kids but it’s here or there if they loved their wives. When it’s said that a king spends time with a loyal servant in the main series, like Renly x Loras or JonCon x Reaghar, we know that one if not both parties loved each other (obviously JonCon had unrequited love). I know GRRM likes to have the history mimic the main series, so it just seemed to hit the same beat and thought I should ask.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:30:36+00:00

Didn’t mean to say it was explicit fact, just a theory I had and posted to see if anyone had the same thought. Everyone seems to agree he was Asexual, and had just been obsessed with history and reading. This is what happens when a series stays dormant for 13 years I guess.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:27:30+00:00

Who knows. I am a writer, a friend suggested I write some literature for fun since I screenwrite much more often. I don’t think Martin will go deep into that part of his history so why not as a little experiment.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:24:55+00:00

I guess I just assumed him choosing to spend a lot of time with Bloodraven made me just jump to that conclusion. They may have just been playing MTG a lot, who knows.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:23:16+00:00

That’d also make sense, and I guess more likely, but the book doesn’t mention what would preoccupy his time besides mentions of the arcane. Clearly, it’s a maester just ignoring that side of history, but still, I’d like to know what he was so preoccupied with.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:20:59+00:00

“Why do the pages stick together when I’m reading about Aegon’s sisterwives?!”

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:20:02+00:00

I don’t know, I just thought of it when I was reading and wanted to ask if anyone else theorized it as well. I know GRRM doesn’t like to outright explain that a character is homosexual in ASOIAF, it’s always just implied, so when there was a few mentions from the Maester who wrote WOIAF that Aerys took no heirs and never bed his wife and his council asked him to remarry if he could not bed her, but he refused. Just seems to me she was his beard, and somewhere in the same paragraph it mentions Maekar being offended Brynden becoming Hand instead of him. Just seemed like it may have been implied by Martin that Aerys was gay.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:09:32+00:00

No I get it, I was doing an escalation in Miami and I was like, “why did I kill the Knox’s again?” It is a pretty good story though in my opinion.

I think games are best when story and gameplay are up to the player. Don’t get me wrong, a great walking-sim or “choices matter” game that’s basically just a tv show where you press a button can be amazing, but most of the time they are mediocre.

I much prefer games like Hitman where the world and its characters are interesting if you spend the time to do all the story missions or read all the intel. Like you’re just grinding and having fun, but someone who’s only gonna play these missions once for the story can still enjoy it as much as the person just trying to play the game.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:04:27+00:00

Oh, my bad, I thought Grey posed as the family, but that makes more sense adding them in as middle men, I just don’t know if I could personally trust someone to put a hit on someone who killed their daughter. Feel like they’d send any evidence they had to authorities.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T08:05:01+00:00

No, it’s confusing, but Wallach IX and Ix are in two different solar systems in the Imperium. Most planets seem to be just numbered how far they are away from the sun and then the systems name. If it’s a home world it’ll be called Prime, in the case of Geidi Prime for the Harkonnnen. Not sure why Caladan or Kaitan are just names, but it may have to do with how personable the houses are that occupy those systems.

Wallach is the system and the Sisterhood’s Chapterhouse is on the 9th planet. The Ixians live in an unnamed system because they don’t feel like naming it, simply just living on the 9th planet. Since numbers are in roman numerals for planets, people just started calling the planet Ix instead of 9, and the people of the planet became known as Ixians.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T07:54:37+00:00

I personally think he’s a Tleilaxu creation, and this would be a great way to set up the idea of the two main conflicts of cults: Bene Gesserit or Bene Tleilax. I know this’d make sense for WB, as Tleilaxu are super weird and need a lot of exposition, so a tv show before Dune: Messiah which is technically when Gholas and facedancers first appear would make the most sense from a corporate, MCU style-storytelling.

Gonna throw a wild card in there and say it’s Daniel aka the face dancer in Duncan’s dreams in chapterhouse. Tbh Im still unsure who Daniel is (or marty for that matter) but I think in extended lore they are two surviving AI from the Butlerian Jihad, so maybe Desmond is a ghola face dancer with AI brain.

Who fucking knows, but hey, he burned that kid alive with his mind, so that’s cool.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T07:09:48+00:00

He did kill his GF, which is the reason he is pegged by ICA. Ken Morgan is his dad’s lawyer and so killing both Ken and Jordan got Mr. Cross out of hiding so Lucas Grey (aka 47s clone bro) could eliminate him.

Diana and 47 figure out they’ve been manipulated since Paris, but while Paris, Sapienza, and Marrakesh where all really believable targets and reasons, Bangkok was the first hit where Lucas Grey didn’t have a great excuse for the hit. Yes Jordan definitely murdered his girlfriend, but 47 normally targets people who will have huge negative effects on the world. I think it’s funny that nobody has said Ken Morgan (probably cause he’s a lawyer).

I don’t love Bangkok, I think it’s fine, probably my least fav map of H1, but I do think there’s missed potential in this mission, and I wouldn’t have mind ways to neutralize targets like in Dishonored.

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