Amazon, Warner Bros in Talks for LOTR Series Adaptation: Variety

yep where is Dave, its been ages.

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Dont know whether you have seen the TV show Fleabag? maybe there will be a sarcastic to camera dialogue, where she turns to us and rolls her eyes at Annatar's antics, gets drunk with him and then does the 'walk of shame' back to her crib in the morning.

{{ Only way I can see this casting of kids working is if they are covering a long expanse of time, and they are going to play certain characters when they were young, and then swap them out for adults in the roles for later stuff.
If these three are Nazgul as humans then hard to keep the sense of intimidation and power they have if we know they are bunch of kids under the cloaks, they'd have to surely grow up into powerful beings before becoming the Nazgul.
As to a female Nazgul, cant say it hugely bothers me but on the otherhand I am not impressed upon with reasons as to why do it. }}

{{ Wel if I was going to make one Black Rider female it'd be tempting as a writer to tie it into Queen Beruthiel and her cats. Only problem as I think she was early Third Age, not Second- though I dont think we have an exact timeline for when all the Nazgul turned into Wraiths.
But she otherwise fits the criteria, she was a Black Numenoreon, she was cruel to people and animals, despised bright colours and adornments, made disturbing sculptures, had some sort of inherent or learned magic power to control her cats and use them for spying, and her ending is ambigous- set in a boat to sale of into the unknown. And she was despised for her time as Queen and her name was struck from all records. Like many of the other Nazgul we also dont know her name,as Beruthiel is a name given to her by the Gondorians and means 'Angry Queen'. And more interestingly writing wise we dont have a date of birth, she is supposed to have been born sometime between 700-800TA. But thats an assumption working out from when she was Queen and going backwards by a rough assumtion of her age. But what if she were born in the SA and had been given possession of one of the Nine? Extending her lifespan and giving her greater powers with time till she could use her Ring to control the cats, then people before they bung her on a boat to get rid of her? None of that woud technically break canon if they are making up the links. It doesnt contradict I dont think what we know of her.
So a suitable candidate for the female Nazgul role overall. }}

{{ I dunno, manipulating herself into marrying the King of Gondor and becoming Queen is probably about as high as you could get in power for a woman in that system. She'd need to be clever and shrewd politically to navigate Court, ruthless in supressing rivals. I think you could write her pretty dark of character. Using her growing mastery of one of the Nine first to torture animals (she hated sea gulls too apparently) and then enslave her cats to her bidding, then eventually those close to her, whilst arranging suitably gruesome ends for her opponents that she horrifingly commorates in her distrubing garden sculptures.
If I was thinking with a writers hat thats a whole series worth of material right there extrapoltated out. It name checks a genuine Tolkien story and incorporates into its expanded version without actively damaging it.

Given just how much story they will have to clear invent to stick the bits we do know together I think the best can be hoped for is that it expands and incorporates what is known rather than contradicts, ignores or alters its original clear meaning or purpose.}}

{{ Not sure if they are just holding back to unleash the hype when all is done or if they are hedging bets that its best if we dont see what they are up to too long before release. }}

Sounds like a fine angle for them to focus on, and perhaps that will allow them to tighten the story into something more coherent. The fall of Numenor is far more interesting though.

{{ The short answer is I wouldnt. Theinformation available to go on amounts to nullet points, and even where Tolkien fleshed stuff out in some cases or wrote longer prose pieces such as on Numenor it lacks all the stuff you need to make it drama on television- like the dialogue and mos tof the characters youd need, and their persnal releationships. Even under the best circumstances of available info we have youd have to make 90% of it up to fill the gaps, and unless youre Tolkien thats a hard ask, if not imposible not to make an arse of.
Which is why I fully expect this at best to be a decent entertaining fantasy show but its own thing only vaguely related to Tolkien at a distance, and at worse a complete shit show.

But I'll give some thought to how Id do it, if I had to, at gun point or something! }}

Getting a bad feeling about this. Hope I'm wrong.