HBO should consider Tolkien's works

Now that Game of Thrones ended, HBO is looking for its next epic, binge watching series. They have greenlighted a couple of George RR Martin's stories to fill that void. Maybe those will not be as compelling as GOT was. However, there are plenty of far superior stories from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien that could make an awesome series. The Silmarillion is sort of like the bible for everything concerning Middle-Earth and its association with The Lord of The Rings is a plus as people who watched LOTR and The Hobbit will be more than willing to take that journey. From all the great mythos from that book, the story of Beren & Luthien could be the basis of an epic series. Their story foretells all the events that will follow in The Hobbit and LOTR. It is an amazing fantasy tale full of twists and turns and GOT-like brutal deaths of beloved characters. Of course to do justice to the tale HBO must shed a LOT of money to accurately portray characters and events.

Trivia: did you knew that LOTR main villain, Sauron, was merely the lieutenant of the bigger, badder, more invincible, more powerful character called Morgoth aka Melkor? Morgoth is the main baddie in the story of Beren & Luthien. Many alliances and battles abound in this tale, which at its core, is a nice love story that women will appreciate as they did with Aragorn and Arwen.

High-Elf King Fingolfin challenges Morgoth


Beren watches Luthien dancing in the forest and falls in love with the Elven princess

Thingol, king of Doriath, asks Beren an impossible request to avoid giving Luthien in marriage to a human.


Beren & Luthien's quest






Morgoth falls under Luthien's spell, but not for long


Huan attacks Carcaroth after the monster fatally wounds Beren



Luthien at the Halls of Mandos, realm of the death


The death of Thingol and the fall of Doriath

 

Too late.

Amazon's Lord of the Rings series won't follow young Aragorn

 

Different stories centuries apart. HBO should pick this one.

 

Amazon bought all the rights to make Tolkien stories so only they can do them now. They plan on doing several different stories so maybe they’ll get to that one sometime in your lifetime.

 

It will not happen in my lifetime. I am only 10 years away from the grave.

 

I hope you're 10 minutes from the grave, kidwatcher

 

Stop spying on and jerking off to the daughter in the shower in your own home.

DIE, NOW!

 

"But then, who is gonna watch the kids?"

 

I already told you not to send your daughter to sleepovers, but no...

 

I don't have a daughter....you do.

 

She say she was your daughter. She described you well;"...the homosexual who post in fightbeat spoiling movies an hating everything and everyone."

 

Other great tales from Tolkien: The Fall of Gondolin (a hero's journey with a tragic albeit epic climax where a whole peaceful Elven city is decimated by the evil Morgorth's armies) and also the tale of Celebrimbor and Annantar. Celebrimbor was a High Elf king, descendant of the sons of Feanor who were responsible for the kinslaying of their own kind in their cruel quest to recover their father's Silmaril stones, now adorning the crown of the evil Valar (deity) Morgoth. Celebrimbor, unlike his family, was a peaceful elf who even befriended and gained the trust of both men and dwarves. He was also a master blacksmith and there was nothing he couldn't forge. He encountered Annatar, a Maia (sort of like an ArchAngel), who befriended him and revealed to him some magic to forge rings of power to gift them to the all the leaders of elves, dwarves and men. Celebrimbor first forged 3 rings without Annatar's knowledge, which he gifted to the three High Elves of Middle Earth: Gil-Galad the legendary warrior king, Cirdan, the oldest noble Elf known and Galadriel the co-ruler of Lothlorien. The remaining crafted rings, seven for the dwarves and nine for the kings of men where finished with Annatar's magic. Later Annatar revealed himself to be Sauron, Morgoth's lieutenant, who secretly forged the one ring to rule them all. The rings were supposed to corrupt their wearers and turn them into Sauron's servants, but the three rings of the Elves, which didn't received the spell didn't work as they were supposed to and the Elves removed them when they sense the spell working. The dwarves became kind of immune to the spell as they only turned greedy for treasures which became their doom eventually. But the ones for the men did work turning them into the Nazgul or wraiths the zombie like servants of Sauron. Celebrimbor realizing he was tricked and all the evil he had unwillingly brought went to fight Sauron, who in turn captured him, killed his family and after a long period of torture was finally executed and was hanged as a banner in the war or Sauron's armies against the armies of Elves & Men in the War of the Rings that you saw at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings.



Glorfindel last stand as he defends the escape of the survivors of Gondolin against the Balrog that tries to kill them all.






King Celebrimbor befriends Annatar (Sauron)






Celebrimbor crafting the rings of power while Annatar puts a magic spell





Celebrimbor confront's Sauron and his army as he attempts to rescue his wife and son


Celebrimbor's corpse displayed as a banner by Sauron's Orc's army.

 

Stop spamming the thread with all this goofy shit.

 

they should do it....fags will eat this shit up

 

Is my thread so I can spam it as much as I please!

 

Tolkien is better than Woke SJW Star Wars.

 

Ah’ve read the Silmarillion aboot foor times and think it’s great. Ah am as geeky as fuck aboot Tolkien so wiz loving the stuff Panchy posted. Whit Ah always find fascinating is hoo Middle Earth had faced far greater dangers in its past than the War o’ the Rings... there’s loadsae good stories yet tae be seen on screen.

 

Indeed. The Lord of the Rings trilogy books was merely one of many tales of the Silmarillion and Legendarium and not even the greatest one. I think that Tolkien originally planned to flesh out those stories in detail in individual book form like he did with the LOTR books, but got lazy and left the project.