{"id":136490,"date":"2018-05-18T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136490"},"modified":"2018-05-26T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:18:22","slug":"the-new-amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series-will-focus-on-aragorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/the-new-amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series-will-focus-on-aragorn.html","title":{"rendered":"The new Amazon &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; series will focus on Aragorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a ton of stuff you could do on the years prior to <i>LotR<\/i> or <i>The Hobbit.<\/i> Aragorn as one of the Rangers is busy keeping the peace in the North against orcs and the creeping return of evil, while learning \/ dealing with his heritage as Heir of Isildur. You could do a lot in that setting, with regular visits to Rivendell or even beyond, without affecting the canonical stories. You can also pull in a variety of recorded events over Aragorn&#8217;s long life &#8212; serving in Rohan, serving in Gondor, hanging out with Gandalf.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of good material there. I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-aragorn\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OH7jLQWiKNEX9kRiZrr-AyUJcueAKUDwq2Be3soWQ90TzoFfBOI1ZPsaTDx_6a9OO2uJBIjvaK1EZ36ztaII-2gXGaie_uT3CADerRo8idil9I0sLFQEzqOl3-jh=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-aragorn\/\">&#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; TV Series Reportedly Set to Follow Young Aragorn<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAmazon&#8217;s very expensive Lord of the Rings TV series will reportedly focus on a young Aragorn, the character played by Viggo Mortensen in the film trilogy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/h7kJ4mHuaGP\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a ton of stuff you could do on the years prior to LotR or The Hobbit. Aragorn as one of the Rangers is busy keeping the peace in the North against orcs and the creeping return of evil, while learning \/ dealing with his heritage as Heir of Isildur. You could do a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/the-new-amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series-will-focus-on-aragorn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The new Amazon &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; series will focus on Aragorn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,382,40],"tags":[1619,204],"class_list":["post-136490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-tv","tag-aragorn","tag-lotr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aragorn-lotr-movie-viggo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5712,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/20\/hoody_hoo.html","url_meta":{"origin":136490,"position":0},"title":"Hoody-hoo","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jan-04 7:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"While LotR is one of the key source items for D&D and the like, lots of folks think it would make a lousy RPG. 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