5 ways what can happen now, including Gollum spin-off and young Aragorn

just been new Lord of the Rings movies announced: from studio partners Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, who brought Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy to the cinema. It is not officially known what these new Middle-earth excursions are supposed to be about.

Only a remake of Frodo and Bilbo’s adventures has already been ruled out. Since the film rights primarily relate to JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit, the selection is new main characters however staked out. Even if Warner bosses Michael De Luca and Pamely Abdy think that “complex and stunning universe that JRR Tolkien dreamed of in the [bisherigen] films still largely unexplored” may be.

So what might further exploration of Middle-earth look like? We speculate based on the information known so far 5 possible film ideaswhich could soon become a reality.

1. Young Aragorn: A Lord of the Rings film set in Streicher’s early days

As heir to the throne of Gondor, Aragorn has made a remarkable career from ranger to king in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. Even so, his journey at Frodo’s side is but a fraction of his (thanks to Dúnedain blood) exceedingly long life. A film could easily be youth in Rivendell dedicate: Aragorn grows up under the name Estel with Elrond as his foster father and only gets his true identity revealed at the age of 20. The fact that Aragorn rumors arose before the Amazon series shows the popularity of such an idea.

2. Mithrandir: A Gandalf spin-off with other wizards

Even if the Tolkien heirs opposed characterdecoupling well-known characters and instead approved a series about the Second Age, the initial situation is different for the cinema projects by Warner and New Line, because in terms of rights they run through the Swedish Embracer Group, which is interested in a large franchise including merchandise.

That makes a new adventure too Gandalf, the horror possible. (Even if this is already suspected to be hidden in the Lord of the Rings series.) More interesting and less told than the main characters would be his magical ones Fellow Istari Saruman, Radagast and the two Blue Wizardswho worked in Middle-earth with tremendous power.

3. My darling: How Sméagol became Gollum

As classic Villain Backstory is the closer illumination of Gollum possible in a movie. The fish lover, who started out as a hobbit and fell for the ring, has already been taken up as a tragic fate in some flashbacks of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, but can certainly be enriched with more background information before he gives the One Ring to Bilbo loses.

4. Destinies of women in Middle-earth: Eowyn & Galadriel

In the summer of 2022, the rights holder of the Embracer Group already announced the possibility of further Lord of the Rings films. There was talk of “additional films that could be based on iconic characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Gollum, Galadriel and Éowyn”. In Tolkien, the number of female figures manageable. But female protagonists are trendy and the statement proves that the idea of ​​giving them a stage has been around for a long time.

The history of the ancients elfin Galadriel is already well explored in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series, but offers plenty of material spanning millennia. About Rohans shieldmaiden Éowyn, on the other hand, little is known about what happened before the loss of her brother, unrequited love for Aragorn, and her marriage to Faramir.

5. Do the new Lord of the Rings movies travel to the First, Second or even Fourth Age of Middle-earth?

With The Rings of Power (set in the Second Age), Amazon has proven how flexible the legal situation seems to be: The series is theoretically based only on the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, events from the Silmarillion * are also picked up again and again. So perhaps a brief mention will suffice earlier historical events in the appendix or a Lord of the Rings song around the campfire, in order to tie in with the past. In the course of this, the new films could also instead of a single character, a battle to move into the centre.

Even if the easier route, picking up familiar names, seems more likely, a leap back in time to the First or Second Age of Middle-earth is not entirely out of the question. The new films are not obliged to take the Amazon series into account. It’s likely that the Tolkien heirs couldn’t even ban a Lord of the Rings sequel like they did when they declassified the series. One Lord of the Rings sequel in the 4th age (i.e. after Aragorn’s accession to the throne and the end of the War of the Ring) also becomes a possibility.

Before any new Lord of the Rings live-action movies see the light of day, on April 11, 2024 but first The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim start, which is also produced by New Line as a Middle-earth anime.

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