Questions for The Rings of Power showrunners

Romeran · Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:23 pm

In an upcoming (April 19th) All Hands at my company the two Rings of Power showrunners (J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay) are doing a "Fireside chat" and we've been given the chance to submit questions to the show runners.

If you have a question that you'd like me to submit

1. Please post your question below
2. Please post your questions before Friday April 15th 5:00 GMT-7

Assuming the answers to the questions don't require me to violate any disclosure agreements I'll go ahead and post the answers.

Aikári Salmarinian · Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:42 pm

Romeran: Somewhere is this ringing a bell with me, but I can't find the clapper. In a matter of speaking. What are the showrunners? And what I do to have imagine with this? What in earth must virtual challenges be beyond the idea of roleplay? You are speaking in riddles kinda. Some enlightenment perhaps?

Romeran · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:29 pm

What are the showrunners?

For this upcoming show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_ ... s_of_Power

A showrunner is typically a leading producer, often credited as an executive producer.

And what I do to have imagine with this? What in earth must virtual challenges be beyond the idea of roleplay? You are speaking in riddles kinda. Some enlightenment perhaps?

All I mean is that I have an opportunity to submit questions to the Showrunners for the upcoming show (the same show being discussed in these threads).

Questions could be like "What ages of middle-earth will we see in the show?" or "Will Elrond have blond hair?" or whatever you are interested in. No one has to submit questions, I'm just sharing the opportunity with other fanatics. Perhaps someone will come up with an interesting question.

Aikári Salmarinian · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:39 pm

Romeran: Hmm, thanks for explaining. I hadn't made the connection to that Amazon stuff. You're meaning the director of the movies. Would have been better if this was released in cinema. Everyone could see it then, anywhere around the world. I have no further questions then. Sorry.

Winddancer · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:41 pm

Nice one! Confirm that they have to stick to the appendices? Or is that already confirmed and I missed the memo? Maybe ask why they didnt go with more A listers?

Romeran · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:47 pm

Winddancer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:41 pm Nice one! Confirm that they have to stick to the appendices? Or is that already confirmed and I missed the memo? Maybe ask why they didnt go with more A listers?

I believe the answer to the first one was given away here: https://lrmonline.com/news/what-materia ... -answered/

So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “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.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “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.”

In particular they have access to LotR and TH material too. This means that (as implied in the above quotation) they can use things like “The Fall of Gil-galad” or “The Song of Eärendil” or the Prologue on Concerning Hobbits.

It sounds like they can get some things approved (like names) from the Tolkien Estate: https://twitter.com/theoneringnet/statu ... 29792?s=21 but if it's in the book it's fair game.

Winddancer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:41 pm Maybe ask why they didnt go with more A listers?

That's an interesting Q.

Hanasian · Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:23 am

I have a question:
With the introduction of original character 'Carina' as Isildur's sister, will this character be in addition to Isildur and Anárion, or will she "replace" Anárion?

Rivvy Elf · Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:26 am

Will balrogs be depicted in the show? Will they have wings?

Romeran · Wed Apr 20, 2022 2:34 am

I submitted these questions but alas they did not answer them. In fact they ran out of time and did not answer any of the submitted questions

go figure. I did learn that there is a non-canon elf/human romance with a female human and male elf.

Eldy Dunami · Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:23 pm

That's already been announced (their names are Bronwyn and Arondir), but I suppose we were unlikely to see any substantial revelations through a question and answer session.

Romeran · Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:31 pm

Eldy Dunami wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:23 pm That's already been announced (their names are Bronwyn and Arondir), but I suppose we were unlikely to see any substantial revelations through a question and answer session.

Yeah I think the only unrevealed things they announced were a handful of actors for some of the roles that honestly I forgot. They did call it out as being unrevealed but I wasn't surprised enough by it to remember what they said