Rings of Power RANT - Showrunners admit they don't have the rights to the Second Age
0Another Vanity Fair piece is out, and in it the Rings of Power showrunners admit they don't actually have the rights to the Second Age of Tolkien's works, and they are just making things up.
Ok so that's obviously a bit of an over-simplification of things, and the full interview is far more revealing, but the basic gist of things is that the Rings of Power folks (aka Amazon Studios) didn't want to shell out for (or couldn't convince the Tolkien family to sell) the rights to the Silmarillion and beyond.
So they are re-creating their own version of the Second Age by working with, and I quote: “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit. And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.”
They further go on to say: “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to....As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with,”
But my favorite is: "We took all these little clues and thought of them as stars in the sky that we then connected to write the novel that Tolkien never wrote about the Second Age.”
What the everliving....
Read the Bounding Into Comics piece here: https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/02/16/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-showrunners-admit-they-dont-have-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-or-unfinished-tales
Read the Vanity Fair debacle here: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/10-burning-questions-about-amazons-the-rings-of-power
Learn more about the sale of the LOTR and Hobbit rights from the Saul Zaentz Co. here: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036
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