[ SECRET POST #4190 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4190 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I think Elrond would have been as good a choice. You have a seriously epic amount of material to choose from in Elrond's life story, from the War of Wrath to the first war against Sauron, the establishment of Imladris, the Last Alliance, the war against Angmar , up to the late Third Age and the War of the Ring. I mean, it could also be a problem in that there's too much choice with Elrond, but if you wanted like GoT-style blood and drama, the Third Kinslaying's your game, what with the whole 'refuge sacked and family separated by Feanorians, two of which find him and his brother and promptly capture/adopt and briefly raise them' thing. Then the War of Wrath, at the end of which his brother up and decides to become mortal, leaving Elrond to basically watch over his descendants forever. Then the first war against Sauron and the Last Alliance gives you the whole running war, elven last stand, death of the Noldor in Middle Earth, establishment of Rivendell angle. In the third age there's the war against the Witch King, the whole story with Celebrian and his kids, and the slow lead up to the War of the Ring. There's a lot of meaty stuff there.

Elrond goes from a kid separated from his family in one of the greatest betrayals in elven history, taken and partially raised by their enemies, to perhaps the single most respected elf remaining in Middle Earth during the War of the Ring, having established and defended his Refuge against Sauron for near enough two ages and lost huge chunks of his family in the process. I mean. There's a lot to work with there. Again, possibly too much, even for a TV series, but you could pick a part to focus on. I'd love a series focused on the run up to the Last Alliance, personally. We did get a lead into it from the prologue of LotR, and there's a lot of room to play around with both flashbacks to the Kinslayings/War of Wrath and foreshadowing up to the War of the Ring.

[(Anonymous)]

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I like both Elrond and Aragorn. They could actually include a lot of Elrond as he plays a magor role in Aragorn's upbringing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but the bits of Elrond's life we'd see through the lens of Aragorn's aren't really the bits I'm most interested in. We'd get a lot of connection back to Elros and Numenor in particular, yes, between Aragorn's ancestry and his love for Arwen, Celebrian as well, and possibly a bit of Maglor and Maedhros given how Aragorn winds up with him, and then Isildur obviously, but all of that would be flashback material at best. The rest is all late Third Age Elrond, and frankly we've already seen a lot of that. Aragorn's time frame really isn't the best for adding more to Elrond than we've already seen.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like you say, I think the problem with Elrond is that there's just too much there - it doesn't really have one, singular hook that you can sink your teeth into. And you're inevitably going to have to deal with the more complex, intense legendarium and backstory, which I have to think that they want to avoid.

I'm definitely not saying that Elrond isn't interesting from a story point of view, it's more that I can't see a major Hollywood studio wanting to tell that story.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn. Now you've made me want that show. I love Elrond!