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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by radicalbyte on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:50PM (#31992841)
Only there is no material to work from - so they've basically taken the same strategy as the final season of GoT did but they're doing that from the start.
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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by kergonath on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:50PM (#31993522)
There is loads of material to draw from. The Unfinished Tales, the 13 tomes of the History of Middle Earth, some drafts that emerged later. The Lord of the Rings is tiny in comparison. Some of the endings are missing, and some are only roughly sketched, but having the general outline of millennia of history really helps filling the blanks.
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