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Looking forward that day Master Thingol!

I've never thought of it being worth having - until now. That, of course, was Amazon's strategy. Having failed to bully us into getting it by not selling certain products to anyone except Amazon Prime members, thie is obviously Plan B.

Barliman wrote:

More news on the Tolkien / Amazon deal:
1) Christopher Tolkien's retirement / reesignation / removal as chief executive of the Estate; and

I am not sure if I am happy or worried now....
I think might have been a little restrictive with everything, but at least he has been coherent... who knows what will happen to Tolkien universe now, I hope it will maintain it's "nonwarhammer" essence..

Could this help open the door for figures based on The Silmarillion?! One can hope can't he....?!!

adapting and porting to screen is one thing, creating ex nihilo is another...

when I saw for example the cutscenes and movies from the Warner Bros computer games "Shadow of Mordor" and Shadow of War, i was furious... Certainly some of us know about it, it's a pure abomination...

an unknown ranger from the north (named Talion) merging with the ghost of old Celebrimbor who has grown megalomaniac into creating a second "One Ring" himself, but "good version"... calling himself the Bright Lord,  fighting with Sauron, almost defeating him single handedly on who knows which battleground... the siege of Minas Ithil with a Gondorian general named Castamir with his daughter Idril..... Galadriel elven "royal assassin" sent to help, Isildur being in fact a Nazgul against his will (after he was slain, Sauron, as Annatar (oO) putting a Ring of men on his finger... then being defeated...
Shelob taking the appearence of a gorgeous girl...with the appearance of Liv Tyler, like Lolth in the dungeons&dragons, and getting a ring... and almost "kind"....

and some say Peter Jackson made horrors... you have seen no horrors until you've seen those computer games which reinvited all tolkien paraphernalia... pieces of garbage! (visually great, but even MERP never did such outrageous lore assasination)

well all of this is presented as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings... in a location that does not have any impact on the events of the Hobbit at all... but at the end it "matches" what happens in the LOTR movie if you have never read the other books... that's the greatest trickery.... for those who only saw the movies and are not aware of the other writings this seems TOTALLY legit !!  and I do hope that this new deal with Amazon could correct such nonsens even if they take some freedom that can't be worse that what I describe here... which was one of the big reasons of the Tolkien Estate suing Warner Bros for what they did

yeah , well that's precisely the case in those games... they are hollywood blockbusters.... that's the same as playing Mortal Kombat with Gandalf, Legolas, or Sauron or the Witch king as avatar....

soulless and utterly useless.... One can only hope that Amazon will do better than that.... that's possible yet highly improbable... But since IT happened, I thought it could be a good thing that Mithril tries to position themselves to release material from those era, because well Mithril have this sensitivity and soul actually....

I am a dreamer.... and considering Chris Tubb advancing age, i doubt i will ever see it realised, but the fight between Melkor and Finglofin rendered in the same manner as Sauron vs Elendil and Gil-Galad would certainly be epic in Chris Hands.  (Assuming Melkor has the size of a Stone Giant, not a troll...)

rhu°ooOmm ... huom ... right you are, Master Barliman ... huom ... it's good to witness that the young ones still have dreams and hopes concerning this matter .... hmm