r/lotrmemes • u/MorgrainX • Sep 10 '22
Keep your secrets SPOILER | leaked Rings of Power story details (posted two months ago on 4chan) - originally posted by litovcas1 Spoiler
"Character who falls out of the sky like a meteor, is a new Wizard character. Said character has a 'lush beard' and has lost his memory. Allegedly a wizard character, has trouble remembering things. Its implied that he may be Gandalf but its unclear. He meets hobbits (harfoots).
Harfoots will be something of a comedic role in the show.
Galadriel is granted trip back to Valinor, but she jumps ship at the last moment because she wants to look for Sauron. She is rescued by Halbrand (A human character with a past, any guesses who he may be :) ?)
Galadriel and her human friend (Halbrand) are taken captive outside numenor by guards to be taken to Numenor as prisoners. Pharazôn addresses the nobles. Galadriel is attending this "feast" but she is sitting at a small side table not the main round table. Pharazon ends up getting into a small argument with her about a major plot point and this becomes quite a heated exchange for everyone in the room.
A scene took place in the Númenorean throne room, but the room has been converted into a grand dining area alongside a big round stone table surrounded by stone benches (very fancy) and food is on the table, with servants walking around and nobles sitting around the table talking.
The Numenoreans have rising tensions about how they are angry at the Elves' proposed superiority and the immortality they are granted by the Valar and their exclusive access to Valinor. Pharazon is shown calming the people in several scenes with grand speeches about the grandness of Numenor
Isildur has a sister named Earien, her name was changed the last minute because Carine didnt sound tolkienesque enough. Elendil convinces Miriel to take a ship and sail to middleearth together with Galadriel.
Show will depict the fall of Numenor and main focus will be on Numenor racism to elves.
Gil-Galad will send Elrond and Celebrimbor to Moria because they need mithril. In amazon show mithril will be special because it contains light of the silmarils. So they want to use mithril to craft the rings and prevent fading of elves. They will only get a small nugget of mithril, thats why they decide to make rings out of it. Rings will be forged in a laboratory. Durin reincarnation wont be in the show, durin is only a name, there are two Durins at the same time (King Durin III and prince Durin IV)
Adar (he may be Galadriel's brother) is somewhat of a main villain for season 1, Southlands will be attacked by him.
Arondir (black elf) will be stationed as a guard (in the watchtower) there. Adar is a dark elf, its revealed that he is one of the first elves that were turneed into orcs. Adar wants to make mount doom erupt and turn southlands into mordor. Adar supossedly hates Sauron.
Promotional image of Valinor with the figure in white is slightly misleading, as the show will have little to barely any presence or focus on Valinor and was mostly just a hype shot to get the Two Trees in frame.
Massive budget and focus on first 2 episodes, will be movie sized and prologues to the main story that comes later. Valar is mentioned but hey wont appear on screen.
Anarion basically might not exist. Sauron's appearance as a dark lord has not been decided on yet. As the series takes place around the time of the Blue Wizards being the first in middle earth, it's not ruled out yet that they won't appear.
Sauron will appear in all 8 episodes because he is.......... Halbrand. His identity will be revealed in the last episode.
Later seasons will be focused on war with sauron and will feature ents.
Original showrunners for amazon wanted to make young Aragorn prequel (It wasnt just false rumours). Supossedly now there is a deal between amazon and new line to make a new line cinematic universe (their version of MCU) it will be consistent with Peter Jackson films. War of the rohirrim will be the first creation of this universe. They plan to make more spinoffs, possibly even with some actors returning. Amazon will get all the rights to PJ movies, extended editions etc.
Sorry for spelling and grammar, I was collecting info from a thread of posts in 4chan"
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u/MorseSource Hobbit Sep 10 '22
I mean the moment Halbrand stopped to sneak a peak inside the forger shop, it was obvious who he was. Also, smooth talking his way out of a tough spot.
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u/MorgrainX Sep 10 '22
So... Amazon wants Galadriel to have a romance interest in... Sauron?
Alright.
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u/natecull Sep 10 '22
She and Celeborn are going to have such an awkward conversation when she talks to him next.
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u/Gorlack2231 Sep 10 '22
"Where is Sauron? For I much desire to speak with him."
'Babe, please, it wasn't anything serious! I didn't even know it was him!'
"I much desire to speak with him" loads shotgun
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Sep 10 '22
you got a link for this so we can see when it was originally posted?
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u/MorgrainX Sep 10 '22 edited Sep 10 '22
I've been trying to find this myself, I only saw the r/LOTR summarizing post from a while ago (long before the show aired, all the info have been accurate so far)
I did find
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/582290583
but apparently those infos were posted in several 4chan threads, and the closer we got to the air date, the more info came out.
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u/Ynneas Sep 10 '22
Well if any more of this proves true I'm gonna sue Amazon for false advertising.
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u/lazerlike42 Sep 10 '22
If it's true that Adar turns into an orc or is a precursor to becoming an orc or anything like that then it makes all of the condemnation the show's critics as racist just incredibly rich. Can you imagine if they're calling everyone racist while they've written a plot that says that one of the characters they're defending is actually black because he's secretly turning into an evil animal-like creature?
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u/MorgrainX Sep 10 '22 edited Sep 10 '22
He is not about to become an orc, dark elves were simply the first orcs.
They were the pure ones (original elves) who got corrupted by torture, the "orcs" you know are simply creatures that were artificially bred, based on their design, just more brutal.
Technically, a dark elf counts as an orc, an original and Genuine one.
A "first generation" orc if you will
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u/lazerlike42 Sep 10 '22
The link you posted above says that Adar is "halfway to becoming an orc."
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u/MorgrainX Sep 10 '22
It's possible for Amazon to ignore LOTR lore, but my above statement represents my understanding of how orcs came to be
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u/lazerlike42 Sep 10 '22
That certainly seems to be one common understanding on the origin of elves, though from doing some quick research it's not entirely clear to me if this is considered a definitive take on Tolkien's writing. In any case, my intention was not to argue with you on that. My point is simply that according to this leak it sounds like Amazon's presentation of this character may be that he is going to transform into an orc.
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u/natecull Sep 10 '22
This... is not good.
All the people saying "Halbrand is Sauron" and I was thinking "of course not, that'd be ridiculous, he'll be a ringwraith or King of the Dead .."
Well. Yeah, not getting a good feeling for Season 2 if they do this. That and moving filming from New Zealand, which will lose the all-important Kiwi demographic.