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Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is separately licensed and separately adapted from Tolkien, compared with Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations for New Line/Warner Bros.
So yes, Amazon's Robert Aramayo and WB's Hugo Weaving are both playing the same J.R.R. Tolkien character of Elrond Half-Elven (who at one point founds Rivendell). But their takes on the character are VERY different from each other, both in terms of how they are written and how they are played. They're both playing the same character from Tolkien's books, but Aramayo really isn't playing the same character as Hugo Weaving's Elrond, if that makes sense.
Other characters who appear both in the Peter Jackson adaptations (mostly just in that brief prologue) and in the current Amazon Second Age show are: Galadriel, Isildur, Elendil, High King Gil-Galad, and (probably) Gandalf... the latter isn't 100% confirmed yet, and I guess it's possible the Stranger ends up being one of the two Blue Wizards who ventures into the East (the very Tolkien-knowledgeable Nerd of the Rings on YouTube still believes in this theory).
The Amazon Second Age show also features Tom Bombadil in the second season... a character who appears in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings but who was omitted from the Peter Jackson film adaptation.
As for McCreary using Shore's themes from the WB/New Line films... it's very unlikely (currently they are legally off-limits, because they are owned by a different studio!), and I personally hope it doesn't happen in the future because the characterization of not only Elrond, but Isildur/Galadriel/etc. is frankly so different. I don't want to start hearing the Howard Shore Rivendell theme for Elrond; I want to keep hearing McCreary's theme.
Yavar
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I guess I wouldn't be opposed either, since it was specifically written for this series by Shore and doesn't connect to his Jackson work. That said, I think I would have preferred McCreary get to do the Main Title sequence and put something of his own there which organically connects with the rest of his musical Middle Earth world.
Come to think of it, I kinda regard "Where the Shadows Lie" as McCreary's overarching theme for the series proper. It rather encapsulates what the show is ultimately all about, doesn't it? (For me it's also his equivalent to Shore's History of the Ring theme, which always sort of felt like the "main theme" of the Jackson movies to me, if any of his 60 themes for that could be considered a main theme.)
Yavar
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Yeah, that’s exactly what I think happened. I was only saying that McCreary doesn’t have the rights to (nor should he want to) adapt any of Shore’s themes from the Jackson films.
Yavar
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Sep 23, 2024 - 9:12 AM
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I have mixed feelings about the narrative approach to the series, as Season 1 was painfully slow despite 2 or 3 brilliant episodes, and Season 2 is an over-correction - moving so quickly it stretches the limits of plausibility.
McCreary’s score, however, has been a pleasant surprise. I have found all the thematic material to be consonant with that of Howard Shore, just as the look of the Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, etc. have hewn closely to the Peter Jackson vision. Whether or not there is an intent to evolve themes into Shore’s for LOTR, the harmonics of character/world themes are quite complementary between the two works and I could easily imagine deconstructing Shore’s themes to arrive at those in Rings of Power or had the sequence been reversed, the seeds of LOTR themes germinating from McCreary’s themes. I’m quite happy with how the music has turned out in the series so far.
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