Chen G.
Mithlond
Oct 30 2020, 9:47pm
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I think the answer to your question about Amazon's gamble can only be "largely their own story, based on the name and recognition". They can't make "Tolkien's narrative of the Rings of Power and the Second age" digestible because that narrative as a written-out book doesn't exist even in indigestible form.
We do have a setting, a cast of characters, a narrative, some beats in the plot and arguably a couple of thematic underpinnings with the story of Of The Rings of Power. It may be a thinly-drawn story, but it still is drawn; to say otherwise would be to argue semantics.
That, in between all of that, the writers have large room to explore their creative instincts is actually a very good thing.
I personally see the tragedy of Celebrimbor as the dramatic centerpiece of the thing. Get that right, and I'm good.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Oct 30 2020, 10:01pm)
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