Yes i saw the footage. Leaked footage

Yes, I talked about this in the livestream yesterday. Really impressive stuff!

Yes, Shore's involvement should make even the most cynical fans want to at least give this adaptation a chance. The water washing over the mould when the VO mentions Men was a nice touch, too! I share your enthusiasm.

I hope it's nothing like the Hobbit. PJ really crapped the bed with all of those. His best work was Fellowship and he just went down from there. So sad.

"The Last Alliance of the Noldor and Men" isn't as catchy.

@@VoiceofGeekdom still dont what are you about explaing

Ignore the false woke culture that Amazon's LOTR prequel has been unfairly getting.

Yeah. I wasn't the biggest Battlestar fan in the world, all told, but I do remember liking the music.

@@VoiceofGeekdom The music was awesome and that phrase: "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again" is just awesome. It's cyclic history and to be fair Tolkien's works have a lot of cycles of great good, great evils, dark lords rising and falling, kingdoms emerging and then vanishing. Anyway, I'm a bit worried about the script for this new TV show because sometimes when LOTR deviated from the dialogue (or the book prose used as dialogue) the scenes were weaker, and the Hobbit was definitely weaker as it has a lot more original lines not find in the book. The Second Age doesn't really have any complete story and dialogue is rare to find, in fact of all the sections of Tolkien's work to adapt the Second Age is the hardest with the only big cohorent events being: the creation of Numenor and its settlement, the emergence of Annatar, the forging of the magical rings, the War of the Elves and Sauron, the Fall of Numenor, the rise of the Kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor, and the War of the Last Alliance. That's really it and even then dialogue is hard to find. And what of Lindon and Gil-Galad or Elrond? We know virtually nothing, so what kind of stories can be told? How do you form a cohesive story for characters like Galadriel or Elrond or even Celebrimbor when the events told either happen sporadically over hundreds of years and when there is virtually no dialogue? The only way of forming a cohesive story is to infill all the gaps that Tolkien never could and be VERY knowledge about the Silmarillion, the various unfinished tales and the various commentaries Tolkien wrote. Such a task could be done for the First Age as there is the Silmarillion to work on and other unfinished materials, but where is the Silmarillion for the Second Age? There isn't one, and that's what the creators of the Rings of Power show must create! And maybe they could create a story but I highly doubt it would fit with the known books, nor would it capture truly the Tolkien themes. Not in this day and age. What we do know of the Second Age could only be presentable if done in some kind of anthrology setting: one season for a main event described by Tolkien. But to show that on TV? Especially with contracts and actors? Just like Morgoth trying to find the Flame Imperishable I say it can't be done!

@@skatemetrix The problem is Tolkien's writing is Edwardian if not Victorian, and where are scriptwriters who can successfully create dialog that matches?

@@tominiowa2513 God knows? Perhaps someone who knows when to use: thee, thy, thou, thither, wither, fain, etc. And someone who knows the English language and its history inside out! I think there was only one person who could have continued on JRR Tolkien's work and that was Christopher Tolkien, what he did in meticulously showcasing his father's work was pretty extraordinary but if there was the time to expand on Tolkien's work it was during the 1970s (after JRR Tolkien's death). But it's speculation and we'll never know why Christopher Tolkien focused purely on preserving his father's work.

@@skatemetrix Then there is the issue Tolkien used "gay", "faggot", and "queer" in _The Fellowship of the Ring_ when the words still had their original meanings in common speech, and not the post 1960s connotations with homosexuality.