The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

[crazy canuck]

Probably effortlessly, all they have really done is released a few pictures.

[celedhring]

Elrond has a very punchable face.

[Syt]

Elrond has a very punchable face.

He also must have had a chin-ectomy at some point.

[crazy canuck]

Elrond has a very punchable face.

Had the same thought, I can't really remember how I pictured Elrond prior to the Jackson movies, but now he will always be Hugo.

[The Larch]

Elrond has a very punchable face.

It's the same guy who played the young Eddard Stark in GoT.

[Oexmelin]

I am on team Threviel/Realistic Candles.

It looks a lot more like "people in (cheap) costume" than a living, breathing world (that I think, with some notable exceptions, Peter Jackson was able to achieve).

[Josquius]

Which one is meant to be a dwarf? The black lady?-she seems the one with the build.

[The Larch]

Which one is meant to be a dwarf? The black lady?-she seems the one with the build.

Yes, and the one in the following picture as well, but that one has the traditional dwarven look we're all used to.

[viper37]

Larchie, Pratchett and Tolkien are in unison. They live secluded lives and look very similar to the men to the point that they are rarely seen, and if seen not recognized as women. http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Dwarf-women

This to me seems like an excellent way to make the dwarves special and to have female warriors.

Edit: One thing Jackson did right, Gimli on dwarf women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-PmAQ9Opu4

Edit2: One thing I recently understood that he and lots of other people did wrong on the dwarves. They are not the scots of Middle Earth, they are the jews of Middle Earth. Their language is even based on Hebrew. I don't see what that changes, but apparently that's how Tolkien saw them.

I interpreted the beard thing as a joke by Aragorn.
That most Dwarf women look like men in the time of Gimli may not be invalidated by the look of a dwarven princess.  If you look at medieval human princesses, they looked a lot different than peasant women.  I had pictures of some maternal ancestors here (gave it back to my aunt, it means much more to her than me), from the end of the mid-end 18th century (ca 1870-1880), so early colonization period for the village where my mom grew up; it was very heard to distinguish who was the man, who was the women.
As for the rest of the pictures... the one with the tree looks very, very, very synthetic to me. Maybe it's because the picture was retouched by Photoshop, I don't know.

[Valmy]

After the disastrous and embarrassing Hobbit trilogy I just kind of decided emotionally that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was all the Middle Earth content I needed. So I am not really interested in this series at all...but hey there is always room for something good so I guess if it gets rave reviews I might check it out.

[Razgovory]

After the disastrous and embarrassing Hobbit trilogy I just kind of decided emotionally that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was all the Middle Earth content I needed. So I am not really interested in this series at all...but hey there is always room for something good so I guess if it gets rave reviews I might check it out.

This.

[Threviel]

I am on team Threviel/Realistic Candles.

Ohh, 

And to expand on another thing, the story seems so tired and tropefull. Mysterious men with a troubled past, the single mom healer meeting an elf for forbidden love, the woman rising up to the demands of war (Galadriel being some commander makes me think that they are omitting Gil-Galad )

It just seems like a tired mess...

[Richard Hakluyt]

After the disastrous and embarrassing Hobbit trilogy I just kind of decided emotionally that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was all the Middle Earth content I needed. So I am not really interested in this series at all...but hey there is always room for something good so I guess if it gets rave reviews I might check it out.

Same.

[Josquius]

I'll probably watch it at some point. Much like I'll get onto wheel of time eventually. But I'm not bouncing in my seat waiting as I was for the LOTR films.
But then things in general were exciting then.

[Threviel]

And continuing my anal analyzing thing I just read today, in a totally unrelated place, that t-shirts were invented in the late 19th century and needed knitting machines.

Fuck it, fantasy shows should have historical advisors.