Is Amazon doing The Silmarillion?

And the answer surprised many fans who thought the show would be focused on the events in The Silmarillion. Amazon doesn't actually have the rights to The Silmarillion. This means the series will be based on The Appendices at the end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Is the Amazon LOTR show about The Silmarillion?

The new Amazon series The Rings of Power is the first attempt to spin fresh dramatic narratives out of the tales in Tolkien's legendarium, but showrunners Patrick McKay and John D. Payne didn't even have The Silmarillion or other posthumously-published Tolkien writings to draw from.

Does Amazon have film rights to Silmarillion?

We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials.

Why Amazon doesn t have Silmarillion?

Amazon does not have the rights to adapt the material in The Silmarillion; as far as I know, those rights are still held by the Tolkien Estate, and have never been sold. If Amazon wanted to do a First Age series, they'd be limited to the material in the appendices of Lord of the Rings.

Is Amazon Prime Rings of Power based on Silmarillion?

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power isn't based on a book the way that the other films are. The series is actually an adaptation of a singular part of one of Tolkien's books, called The Silmarillion.

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Who owns rights to The Silmarillion?

Another wrench in the works, however, was dropped in the showrunner interviews, when J. D. Payne revealed that the Tolkien Estate still owns the rights to The Silmarillion, which is the primary source text that tells the story The Rings of Power depicts.

How close to Silmarillion is Rings of Power?

Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age is the fifth and last part of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is relatively short, consisting of about 20 pages.

Will Tolkien Estate ever sell Silmarillion?

Unlike The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the film rights for The Silmarillion were never sold and still remain with the Tolkien family.

Is Amazon's LOTR failing?

Amazon's LOTR MMO failed because the company just couldn't get on with Tencent. Amazon gave up on the project after failing to come to terms with Tencent in talks. What happens when you give one of the world's biggest licences to two of the world's biggest companies?

How much did Amazon pay for the rights to The Silmarillion?

The reason Amazon was able to make its new show is because the right to make television series longer than eight episodes is something that was not included in Zaentz Co.'s portfolio of rights, meaning Amazon was able to go straight to the Tolkien Estate and purchase those rights for a cool $250 million.

Why won t the Tolkien Estate give the rights to The Silmarillion?

After he died in 1973, his son Christopher drew from his father's texts and completed the book, which was published in 1977. The Silmarillion has never been adapted to the screen, big or small. Tolkien didn't sell off the rights to it in 1966, mainly because it wasn't done yet, so they remain with the Tolkien Estate.

Is The Silmarillion out of copyright?

This was made possible in 1969 when a deal was agreed between Tolkien's publishers (Allen & Unwin) and United Artists, who purchased the film rights to both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Film rights to The Silmarillion have never been sold, and it remains unlikely that they ever will be.

Is Morgoth in the Amazon series?

Fans know who Sauron is from Peter Jackson's “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and he's definitely being set up as a Big Bad of sorts in this new series. But Morgoth is only referenced in the show and not seen, so here's your brief explainer on this very evil character.

Will Gandalf be in Amazon LOTR?

While the upcoming TV series does have the chance to bring several beloved Tolkien stories to life on-screen, none of them include Gandalf. That's because The Rings of Power will be set primarily in the Second Age of Middle-earth, and Gandalf doesn't come to the land until its Third Age.

Is The Silmarillion about Galadriel?

Fictional biography. Stories of Galadriel's life prior to the War of the Ring appear in both The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. She was the only daughter and youngest child of Finarfin, prince of the Noldor, and of Eärwen, daughter of Olwë and cousin to Lúthien.

Why did Rings of Power get bad reviews?

The primary reason for the dislike was due to lore-based decisions. LOTR fans take Tolkien's material very seriously, so when The Rings of Power started making changes to canon, it didn't sit well.

How much money did Amazon lose on Rings of Power?

The 8-episode season of "The Rings of Power" has cost the company $715 million, or more than 5.1 million annual subscriptions to Amazon Prime, according to the Wall Street Journal. Last year, Amazon said that it had more than 200 million subscribers to Prime.

Is Rings of Power losing viewers?

Well, according to a new report, it sounds like The Rings of Power lost quite a few viewers, much more than it would like, as the season progressed.

Who currently owns the Tolkien Estate?

Christopher Tolkien and his sister, Priscilla Tolkien, were executors. Current executors of the estate include Christopher's second wife Baillie Tolkien and Christopher's nephew Michael George Tolkien.

Could Halbrand be Sauron?

Galadriel immediately becomes suspicious and soon confronts Halbrand. He concedes that, yes, he is Sauron, and hopes to restore order to Middle-earth. He offers her a place alongside him as his queen. Given the sexual tension these two have shared throughout the series, it's not an unreasonable proposal.

Did Amazon pay the Tolkien Estate?

In 2017, the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien, along with executives from Warner Bros., was shopping the television rights to “The Lord of the Rings.” While both Netflix and HBO were interested, Amazon won out with the backing of Jeff Bezos, paying nearly $250 million. For Tolkien fans—like Mr.

Is Silmarillion bigger than LOTR?

The stories in the Silmarillion are beautiful and complex, probably more so than the Lord of the Rings, but the writing is so dense that it is highly unlikely ever to reach the popularity of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Why didn t Peter Jackson do Rings of Power?

According to the report, former Amazon Studios boss Sharon Tal Yguado--who left in 2019--advocated for bringing Jackson on to help with The Rings of Power. The site's sources added that the Tolkien estate did not want Jackson to work on The Rings of Power.

Is there Legolas in Rings of Power?

Having Legolas appear in The Rings of Power is no more a canon distortion than having Gandalf there. The Wizards, Istari, weren't sent to Middle Earth until roughly a thousand years into the Third Age, and there is no evidence, in the books and the Lord of the Rings movies, that Legolas was born before the Third Age.