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From Deadline.com:
In its quest to launch a hit fantasy series of the caliber of Game of Thrones, Amazon has closed a massive deal, said to be close to $250 million, to acquire the global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The streaming service has given a multi-season commitment to a LOTR series in the pact, which also includes a potential spin-off series.
The LOTR original series, a prequel to Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which produced the hugely successful LOTR movie franchise.
No details about the deal were disclosed but it believed to be dwarfing any TV series pact to date with a whopping price tag attached.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:32AM (6 children)
From the summary:
-- What Amazon wants a Tolkien fan to imagine when hearing "prequel" to LOTR:
"Finally! I wonder what Age of Middle Earth it will focus on? Maybe someone's going to make the Silmarillion or maybe The Book of Lost Tales. Just imagine the stories of Beren and Luthien or Turin Turambar finally brought to life! Or maybe some tale about the High Kings of the Noldor, or maybe the stories of Numenor? Imagine... perhaps it will all begin with the Ainur singing the world into being!..."
-- What Amazon will ultimately offer to Tolkien fans:
An "original tale" of Bilbo's grandpa getting involved in some lame imitation of a Hobbit-like adventure, having some sort of crazy unnecessarily violent fight scenes, before being seduced by a hot nymphomaniac elf.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:54AM
Marvel but with Hobbits, you say? I think I'm gonna pass.
Wake me when this episode comes up, please.
I'll give it a search on TPB or whatever'll be the standard location of the time.
But I doubt I'll keep it for longer than 1 month - waste of storage space is still a waste, even when the storage space is cheap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:54AM (1 child)
Ditch the rest but leave the hot nymphomaniac elf.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:08AM
Already donw?
Here, save yourself the effort:
https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=elves [pornhub.com]
or, more broadly: https://www.redtube.com/?search=lord+of+the+rings [redtube.com]
https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=lord+of+the+rings [pornhub.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @02:37AM
The Fellowship of the NuvaRing coming soon to a pornhub near you! Watch as the Dildo Slaggins, a diminutive resident of Hobbiton, along with trusty friends, such as Goddaril Bigstaff the wizard, Gimpli the dwarf, and Trilegolas the elf, make an epic journey deep into the Crack of Sumbytch to return the NuvaRing to the cleft from whence it came!
(Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:24AM
Bilbo's grandfather? I don't think that Mungo had any ... wait, you must mean on his mother's side. Yeah, lots of stuff happened with old Gerontius Took.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @02:05PM
My first thought was: "LotR Babies"