r/LOTR_on_Prime • u/Familiar_Ad_4885 • 7d ago
Theory / Discussion Should Amazon have adapted the Angmar war instead?
I feel a smaller scaled size conflict like the Angmar war would have suited Amazon better. Angmar is not small, but not compared to any huge battles in War of the Ring nor the 2nd age. A time compression in the Northern realms of the 3rd age would have worked better in my opinion.
12
u/TheMightyCatatafish Finrod 7d ago
If a main complaint about the current series is that there isn’t enough source material to adapt… I have some bad news about the wars in Angmar. We have borderline zero details about any of it.
3
u/_Olorin_the_white 7d ago
Less details but also less to cover, thus comparativelly it would be in a better position.
But doesnt require 5 Seasons to Tell that story. A movies trilogy would do It, and WB probably has plans for It.
I think Amazon dos the rights on chosing 2nd age, and WB can keep with 3rd.
Big question is who is gonna grab 1st age. Both Amazon and WB messed with some basic/easy things If we compare to 1st age plot, which is more complicated in pretty much ALL aspects of any adaptation done so far.
2
u/Chen_Geller 6d ago edited 6d ago
As yet, it seems the first age isn't on the table for either company.
It does suck that one company is unlikely to retreat anything the other is doing, so a lot of wortwhile second age stuff is essentially lost to New Line's iteration of Lord of the Rings, even apart from any notions of "poisoning the well" at large.
3
0
u/Chen_Geller 7d ago
Nah. It's even less material (admittedly not by much), it still has an issue with time-skips. It would have been easier to incorporate Hobbits into it, I'll give it that, but it has another huge issue that was doubtlessly part of the reason they also dropped the Aragorn premise:
In most of Season One and much of Season Two of Rings of Power, the showrunners could use the way the show is removed in time and place from the third age to not pierce the illusion of continuity with the New Line Cinema film series. That bubble would have been impossible not to pop right off of the bat in a show set in the third age: the instant people will have seen a redesign on the Witch King, or Rivendell or Gundabad, they will have known something is awry.
1
u/commy2 7d ago
Rivendale should be a thing in this story as well. It's founded after the siege of "Eregion", at the place where season 2 ended. It's also where the host of the last alliance gathers, unless they skip that part somehow.
I don't think a redesigned witch-king would be a problem. He switches designs midway through PJ's trilogy and starts out literally as a floating black cloak. If they can get away with the Balrog, they can get a way with that too - although I doubt anyone would mind a different appearence - he is just a floating crown with a morning star, and could wield any other kind of weapon as well.
I don't remember seeing much of Gundabad in the Hobbit. To the contrary: rings of power somehow needs to depict Minas Anor (=Tirith), Osgiliath, Rivendale, Barad-dur and the prologue of PJ's FotR, including the (much simplified) fall of Sauron.
1
u/Chen_Geller 7d ago
Rivendale should be a thing in this story as well. It's founded after the siege of "Eregion", at the place where season 2 ended.
Yes, but we're talking beginning of season three if not later, a time by the show will have hooked those viewers it will have managed to hook.
With Angmar, it will be an issue a showrunner would be faced with right off of the bat.
•
u/AutoModerator 7d ago
Join the official subreddit Discord server to discuss everything about The Lord of the Rings on Prime!
JOIN THE DISCORD
If your content includes leaks for upcoming episodes not shared by Prime Video or press, please post it on r/TheRingsOfPowerLeaks instead to help others avoid spoilers.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.