Amazon's Lord Of The Rings Makes One Gimli Scene Even Better
Amazon's The Lord of the Rings series has many fresh stories to tell, but its first season also makes one Gimli scene from the original trilogy even better. Scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on September 2, 2022, Amazon's big-budget show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power chronicles the entire Second Age of Middle Earth, from the fall of the Kingdom of Númenor to Sauron's rise to power. Among these planned stories is the tale of the Dwarven princess Disa (Sophia Nomvete) of Khazad-dûm, a non-canonical character designed entirely for Amazon's new The Lord of the Rings series.
In both Peter Jackson's originalThe Lord of the Rings trilogy and the subsequent The Hobbit movies, no Dwarven women are shown in line with J.R.R Tolkien's original works. In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) alludes to as much as he travels with Éowyn (Miranda Otto), Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), and Legolas (Orlando Bloom) while fleeing Rohan. The Dwarf warrior states: "It's true you don't see many dwarf women...And this, in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!"
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As a result, Amazon's The Lord of the Rings is set to improve this Gimli scene from The Two Towers by providing a first look at the almost mythical race of female Dwarves. The Amazon original showing Disa's reign at Khazad-dûm provides an opportunity for the series to write fitting lore for these oft-unseen characters in Tolkien's original work and provide a look at a race only previously mentioned in passing. Furthermore, Disa's story in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power can finally
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