Amazon's LOTR Ending Already Looks Impossible To Pull Off
Amazon’s forthcoming TV show, Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power, is an audacious project which may be difficult to pull off convincingly. Details have been largely kept under wraps, but the plan is to show events from the history of Middle Earth, surrounding the creation of the great and terrible One Ring, and the War of the Last Alliance which defeated Sauron the first time around. That war, however, lasted for 12 long and difficult years. Doing it justice on-screen while also keeping it engaging for viewers will be a challenging endeavor.
The Hobbit trilogy of movies was marketed as a prequel to the earlier (and much more successful) Lord Of The Rings trilogy, but this was never what The Hobbit was meant to be. J. R. R. Tolkien’s own intent was that the real prequel to Lord Of The Rings was The Silmarillion, which wouldn't work as a movie. A dense and myth-laden history of Middle Earth with a truly epic scope, adapting The Silmarillion itself is an absurd notion. There are, however, a few pivotal moments in the history of Middle Earth that could work extremely well, developed into stories in their own right. The Rings Of Power aims to tell the story of things that are only briefly mentioned in Lord Of The Rings. These include the rise of the Dark Lord, Sauron, the forging of the rings of power themselves, the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last great alliance between elves and men. With care, expanding on these events, thousands of years before the stories audiences are more familiar with, could make for deeply satisfying viewing.
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However, while there are plenty of potentially suitable stories, some may work more effectively than others. The
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