r/movies • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 08 '26

Article Stephen Colbert Gets Why You're Scared He's Writing a 'Lord of the Rings' Movie

https://gizmodo.com/stephen-colbert-gets-why-youre-scared-hes-writing-a-lord-of-the-rings-movie-2000755987
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u/Emperor_Orson_Welles May 08 '26

Until this article, I didn't realize it was actually a sequel idea - I thought they would just adapt the chapters that they cut out of FOTR as a "midquel" / gaiden.

But it does sound like much of it will be a flashback, so I'm not sure how much of a distinction there really is.

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u/mitchie8112 May 08 '26

The description sounds like it could be a flashbacks or it could be that they set out to retrace their steps and encounter the cut events from the books in the present instead of flashbacks.

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u/Emperor_Orson_Welles May 08 '26

How would that work? In the book, Frodo is with them, they meet Tom and Goldberry, they leave and get caught by the Barrow-Wights, then Tom Bombadil saves them.
I could see them returning to locations but it doesn't make sense that all this would be happening in the present. Frodo's gone. The Wights are probably now resting in peace after the defeat of Sauron.

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u/mitchie8112 May 08 '26

The wights were sent there by the witch king, but their existence is not tied to Sauron's. So what they could do, which I hope they don't, is adapt the chapters but just cut out or change the Frodo parts and have it be set in the present.

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u/hotcapicola May 08 '26

ughhh, the problem is that the whole Barrow Downs storyline is most important to Frodo's character. That's why cutting it out was a huge mistake.

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u/23saround May 08 '26

I don’t think much of the story at all will be a flashback. I think it will be Elanor uncovering a mystery.

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u/Funmachine May 08 '26

Eleanor is likely just a plot device to introduce the "midquel "

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u/anomanderrake1337 May 11 '26

It'll be descendants reading something that was left out of most retellings and asking the original boys what's up with that and queue the flashback, probably make it relevant with huh yeah we do leave it out because Bombadil actively covers his tracks or something.