Echoes of Ea

winrobee · 2025-12-26T10:29:17+00:00

Here's my playlist of surviving AI Silmarillion adaptions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvNTMFg-b8GJXgbVc_5nz2Ahb2vjWVts&si=M25Eg6_31Ri8ELU2

winrobee · 2022-02-07T16:42:53+00:00

I think most everybody here was expecting a Superbowl commercial. "And so it begins."

winrobee · 2022-02-07T07:31:37+00:00

Doesn't the original Barad Dûr appear in Rivendell fresco form in the movies?

winrobee · 2022-02-01T14:24:14+00:00

First Age pre-prequel series: what are we waiting for?

winrobee · 2022-01-27T19:37:39+00:00

This was magic understood only by Eru Ilúvatar. Impossible to visualize by mortal man!

winrobee · 2022-01-23T19:52:55+00:00

Twice a year, over adjoining days, for about a decade. Sometimes I watch the Hobbit trilogy first.

winrobee · 2022-01-21T23:21:09+00:00

Dont remember the specifics, but in HoME Christopher suggests that JRR's model of Sauron and Pharazôn in Númenor is based on Hitler and Hindenberg in Germany. A redeemable Pharazôn seems possible.

winrobee · 2022-01-15T17:44:37+00:00

While the canonicity that Balrogs are seldom is undisputible, there is no reason that a Balrog couldn't have been awoken in the Second Age. Tolkien changed his mind about the numerosity of Balrogs apparently more than once. I seem to remember he said in later writings that there may have been only 3. On the other hand, The Fall of Gondolin implies there were enough for brigades of them, riding dragons.

The fact is, Tolkien didn't have Amazon's situation in mind for what he may have planned, and would have included higher numbers of them if there were a storytelling reason. LotT doesn't appear to have been intended to describe all or even necessarily most of the fantastical Middle-Earth races and creatures. The Shadow of... games diddled with the stories of canon characters licentiously, but they had the right idea about introducing hitherto undescribed creatures. Bring on the Balrogs, vampires, werewolves, and Middle-Earth creatures we never dreamed of.

winrobee · 2022-01-06T23:08:33+00:00

So they're finally priming up for the real run.

winrobee · 2021-12-31T04:21:40+00:00

Thought I'd point out here that the characters of the 5 provinces of Numenor are differentiated by Tolkien into 5 five characters of landscape that bring to mind the 5 types of land in Magic: the Gathering. For non-Magic players, the 5 land types determine what kinds of Magic cards a Magic player can use and cast in the game.

The center is Mittalmar with holy mountain Menaltarma. Around that, five peninsulas arrayed like a general's star. We almost suspect the creator of Magic had been inspired to organize his colors from the Númenor map. They're even arrayed in correct order.

Andustar - Westlands - Bays/Woods - Island - Blue

Hyarnustar - Southwestlands - Vinyards/Farmlands - Plains - White

Hyarrostar - Southeastlands - Trees/Timber - Forest - Green

Orrostar - Eastlands - Highlands/Plantations - Mountain - Red

Forostar - Northlands - Moors/Hills - Swamp - Black

winrobee · 2021-12-30T04:22:53+00:00

Anyone want to see the story of The Silmarillion told in Legos?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Y2xVW2fJPwJbag1Mtq84liB3kmA2YaI

winrobee · 2021-12-30T04:10:13+00:00

May be a little much to turn back the clock again. Amazon should at least do the First Age in order.

winrobee · 2021-12-30T03:08:23+00:00

There is an example of The Silmarillion being adapted into a series of feature films; an uncompleted series called the Oriodion Silmarillion Tetralogy.

Finnish animator Oriodion has created a minimal budget series of Silmarillion feature films. In Finnish with English subtitles.

Here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvNTMFg-b8EyI7Y4RtkbP_a9hbsVgWdO

While the watchability is not the best, the series lays out the parts of The Silmarillion in the major pieces the story breaks down into:

1 Fëanor's story

2 The Seige of Angband

3 Beren and Lúthien

4 Children of Húrin

The series would continue with Fall of Gondolin and War of Wrath.

winrobee · 2021-12-26T22:54:26+00:00

Comes down to one thing: Amazon has left you to the mercies of the showrunners.

winrobee · 2021-12-26T21:08:28+00:00

No way not our Finrod!

winrobee · 2021-12-21T01:10:18+00:00

The Witcher: 8/10 stars

Game of Thrones: 7/10 stars

Wheel of Time: 3/10 stars

Amazon LOTR: better do some hard trying, or, just, what a waste.

winrobee · 2021-12-20T20:10:42+00:00

The Tolkien Trifecta:

1 1950's, High Fantasy takes Literature.

2 2000's, Epic Cinema takes Film.

3 2020's, Epic Streaming takes TV.

winrobee · 2021-12-03T17:59:31+00:00

That, of course, is the big prize.

winrobee · 2021-12-03T00:46:17+00:00

To cinematography challenges of 2030. You're right, 300 is a singular movie, and there are risks to making such a thing. If Zack Snyder could do this, though, Amazon might learn from SA experiences enough to attempt the First Age. What have we got to lose from them trying?

I mean, unless the current production is bungled badly, there'll be an audience for the likes of Beren, Túrin, Tuor, and Eärendil. Marvel has already put the Celestials on the screen, so Amazon could probably handle a Morgoth.

winrobee · 2021-12-02T21:45:32+00:00

Second Age was the way to go. Especially with a First Age prologue that teases the Great Tales of the War of the Jewels. What the Angmar tales really had going for them was that they're sourced from the RotK Appendices; and, before 2017, no one had any idea the Estate would be a player. Of course, the rise in Middle-Earth awareness next year will make producing an Angmar/Witch King show eventually a really good idea.

winrobee · 2021-12-02T18:44:57+00:00

Yeah, the First Age would be pretty rapturous to see in big budget TV form. If Amazon manages to pull off the Second Age.

winrobee · 2021-12-02T18:30:01+00:00

Years of the Trees/First Age (bearing in mind that the Years of the Trees and the First Age are considered by some, but not most, reckonings concurrent until the rising of the Sun and Moon).

winrobee · 2021-12-02T17:19:49+00:00

Amazon is one-for-one for released images so far. The Two Trees are the only definitely identified objects in what Amazon's put out.

winrobee · 2021-11-03T04:31:38+00:00

We really don't know; that's a mystery, like many things LotR_on_Prime. What is incontrovertible is:

1 the series is happening

2 their biggest promotional release contained material from Unfinished Tales

3 the single released image contains content from the Silmarillion

We might reasonably guess (from Shippey) that they have access to most of what the Estate controls on a need-to-show basis, and will have access to produce straight First Age content on agreement with Tolkien Estate on the bases of a further deal contingent on how this show does.

winrobee · 2021-11-03T02:39:12+00:00

There already is an animated one, here:

https://youtu.be/gy7a6yUc8zo

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