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Kirill Yeskov's The Last Ringbearer has variously been called fan fiction, a parody, and an alternate account of The Lord of the Rings, from the point of view of the race of Orcs. Laura Miller, writing in Salon, likens the book to Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, a slave's retelling of Gone with the Wind. She comments that it "may be the ...
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
Bezos was a personal fan of The Lord of the Rings, [2] and had previously given Amazon Studios a mandate to develop an ambitious fantasy series of comparable scale to HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2019). [33] On November 13, 2017, Amazon acquired the global television rights for close to US$250 million.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
The episode reveals that the human character Halbrand is actually the Dark Lord Sauron in disguise, [12] and also that the Stranger is an Istar (Wizard). For the latter, dialogue references a line spoken by the Wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but the episode does not confirm which Wizard the character is. [13]
A Hobbit point of view is shared in The Lord of the Rings by narrative, dialogue, embedded stories, and songs, for example in the first chapter. [T 2] Seq Narrative Dialogue Story Poem/song Place 1: Hobbit: The Shire: 2: Gaffer Gamgee: The Ivy Bush inn 3: Hobbits: 4: Gaffer Gamgee: 5: Hobbits: 6: Omniscient: The Shire 7: Gandalf/Bilbo: Bag End ...
Throughout the early drafts, and through to the first edition of The Hobbit, Bladorthin/Gandalf is described as being a "little old man", distinct from a dwarf, but not of the full human stature that would later be described in The Lord of the Rings. Even in The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was not tall; shorter, for example, than Elrond [T 32 ...
Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors". [1] [2] Mordor is home to an "amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic", posing a ...