Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit...
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This is making the same mistake that Disney made with ”Solo”, or that were made with Ridley Scott’s ”Prometheus”. Sometimes it’s best to leave the backstory a mystery. That adds to the drama.
Solo wasn’t a bad Saturday matinee movie. It just had the misfortune of being a follow up movie to the feminist project of the sequels.
I do agree that not every nook and cranny needs to be explored. Some things are left better as a mystery.
The backstory is only a mystery to people who were introduced to Middle Earth through the PJ movies and who have never read the books. PJ stuck with The Hobbit and LOTR, and even there he left a lot out. The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle Earth and other miscellaneous items published by Christopher Tolkien after his father’s death remain to be mined.
Solo was really good. Followed the Marvel formula, don’t make the movie expected. It’s a heist movie in the Star Wars universe. And really with The Silmarilion, the Appendixes and other stuff the back story of LOTR is there’s just not in “normal” narrative form.