Favreau added that “the two years between when the last episode aired of season two and [now] allowed for time to pass. But it did force us to create stories around them, each individually. It just felt like that’s where the dramatic momentum was.” Favreau may be right that Grogu a...
Even though Jackson went on to have biggies like Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Cate Blanchett (Lady Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Sean Bean (Boromir), and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), the rest of the cast was made up of actors that were still waiting for one movie ...
Not to mention, the cosmology of Middle Earth is not just divided between good or evil but also by divine hierarchy. Gandalf is inherently superior to most of the mortals on Middle Earth. The elves are generally superior to humans, and humans of Númenórean descent like Aragorn are also inh...
Tolkin didn’t have a lot of prominent roles for female characters inThe HobbitorThe Lord of the Rings. Jackson compensated for that in the original trilogy by elevating the love story between Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Arwen (Liv Tyler). So Jackson and his team trie...
But Aragorn didn’t even save the world. As a hidden king trope this isn’t even what Tolkien did. MMJ November 4, 2018 at 3:03 pm “Jon dies” predictions are kind of lazy and drive me bonkers. It’s a cop-out for people who don’t want to think too much about character ...
How did the desecration of Tolkien happen? What cultural factors made this abomination possible? Most creatives in the USA are devout pagans and progressives who live in The People’s Soviet Socialist Republic of California. They are prone to jumping on the latest social...
The biggest problems of the story — Frodo’s weakening, the need to toss the Ring into Mt Doom, Aragorn’s need to claim his birthright, etc. — were people-problems, nothing to do with magic. In fact they were not solvable by magic. That’s what I meant when I replied to Eric ...