is tentatively called The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past. It’s set 14 years after The Return of the King and is inspired by the fact Peter Jackson’s movies skipped some early chapters in The Fellowship of the Ring. “Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began,” the original press release said. It’s not confirmed, but the assumption is Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, and Billy Boyd would reprise their roles as Sam, Merry, and Pippin.
It’s one of the few time periods we don’t know a lot about, and it still has OG charecters.
Like, no matter what they do with it, it’ll be almost impossible to fuck up anything important. It’s a great stage for smaller stories in a larger established and insanely popular world.
It’ll probably be pretty good. But I first read the books in elementary school long before anything but the cracked out cartoon (I still haven’t seen that). So I’m a pretty big nerd about this stuff, this is better than just rebooting it all again. It’s something we haven’t seen/read anywhere else before really.
So it’s about after the books, like an epilogue
Oh yuck. That does not sound very interesting.
I mean…
It’s one of the few time periods we don’t know a lot about, and it still has OG charecters.
Like, no matter what they do with it, it’ll be almost impossible to fuck up anything important. It’s a great stage for smaller stories in a larger established and insanely popular world.
It’ll probably be pretty good. But I first read the books in elementary school long before anything but the cracked out cartoon (I still haven’t seen that). So I’m a pretty big nerd about this stuff, this is better than just rebooting it all again. It’s something we haven’t seen/read anywhere else before really.