The Hall of Fire

Probably bad timing for this thread now but I was listening to some CSNY earlier, which I enjoy.

That's my main point of uncertainty too. My understanding at one time (pre-show announcement) was that Christopher is, for copyright purposes, considered a coauthor of the works he published. For instance, the copyright page of my copy of The Peoples of Middle-earth reads: Copyright © The Tolkien Es...

Tol Morwen is included on Fonstad's Second Age world map, yes ( >link< ). I think the biggest tell that Amazon is copying from Fonstad--although I suppose it's possible they're picking it up from other sources which in turn copied Fonstad, as her ideas have percolated pretty far--is the presence of ...

No Minas Anor, Osgiliath, or Minas Ithil; also a larger Tolfalas and no Ethir Anduin too. Amazon seems to have done their homework. Though the Dead Marshes appear to be about the same size as in the Third Age map. Anyway, definitely exciting. I love "Aldarion and Erendis" but would never i...

Gotta say it looks pretty good. While I'm sure it will be a minor part of the film, I was happy to see a glimpse of Tolkien's rugby experience. I was a little worried they might try to push Tolkien's life into a more conventional modern picture of "geekiness" (as with The Imitation Game an...

I can see the appeal of a forging of the Rings series, but unless there has been a second deal which gives Amazon access to posthumously-published material, they wouldn't even be able to use the name "Annatar", so I think that scenario is unlikely. I would be fascinated to see a story that...

Correct!

Your turn, Alatar.

It is indeed!

Sounds like a good approach to me! My take is that I didn't ask for this or particularly want it, but that just means a good show would be an unexpected boon and a bad one easily ignored. (It's easier to say that now that I'm not involved in forum governance like I was during the Hobbit movies; I'd ...

Not Bilbo, but it is a Hobbit speaking.

Good point. I saw that mentioned elsewhere as well: http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_threaded;post=956456;sb=post_time;so=DESC; Ah, there's me being beat by YouTubers. https://i.imgur.com/Dd4A8Q1.png I was quite vocal in my opinion that Young Aragorn was the...

After reading a bit of chatter on TORN and checking my copy of HoME IV and Fonstad's Atlas, there is an eastern mountain range Tolkien thought about and sketched, the Red Mountains or Orocarni. Although if it's the same one, they've moved it inward some. If it ends up being called the "Red Mou...

Thanks, Voronwë! Translation Party is stalling out on me so I just ran this back and forth between English and Japanese in Google Translate until it stabilized. Might be some obvious tells in it. Still, are we included in songs and stories so far? Of course, we are united. But I am reading from the ...

Gandalf in The Quest of Erebor?

"If I had no other purposes, I should not be helping you at all. Great as your affairs may seem to you, they are only a small strand in the great web."

Massively shitty news today about Keith Flint of The Prodigy. Their origin was well before my time but they were/are a standout in my journey to learn and listen to more (and more kinds of) electronic music. RIP.

I'm hoping to make it up to NYC to see this in perhaps a month's time (if I manage to get on the ball and actually make arrangements for it). I found an incredible deal on Airbnb when I was in Midtown Manhattan for the New York Tolkien Conference in 2016, so if I can find something similar again tha...

Cover art from Amazon UK. Click images for full size.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Gondolin- ... 008302758/

Man, after Beren and Lthien last year, I can't wait to read about the escape of Trin and Idril from Gondolin with their child Erendel! :D In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a va...

We know it's not going to be a remake of LOTR, a War in the North story, or based on The Silm, so I'm not sure what the alternative would be. :unsure: A series about the fall of Angmar with Eärnur of Gondor as the main protagonist? That's a far riskier gamble for a $1 billion investment. I would be ...

Ah, I see what you mean. :) I don't think we've had any further clues since last November when we learned that it would be based solely on LOTR and the Appendices and would be set "before FOTR". I think that a Young Aragorn series is the overwhelmingly likely scenario, since I think Amazon...