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Amazon Boss Explains Why The Lord of the Rings TV Show Needs to Have a $465M Budget Amazon Boss Explains Why The Lord of the Rings TV Show Needs to Have a $465M Budget The producers of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series believe the show's massive price tag is well worth it. The success of Game of Thrones for HBO finally proved beyond a doubt that grand fantasy epics with massive budgets can find a home on the small screen. Now, it seems only fitting that the new "most expensive fantasy show" record would be set by a series based on fantasy icon J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-earth. Amazon Stu...

Apr 20, 2021 In the fantasy genre, it’s popular for writers to invent some kind of special, magical material, such as “Valerian steel” from the Game of Thrones series, or Frodo Baggins’ mithril chainmail in J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings. Now in Bangladesh, a lost art of weaving that once created the most spectacular fabric the world had ever known is being revived, bit by bit and full of improvisations, to restore a piece of intangible cultural heritage and the national pride of a nation. The material in question is called Dhaka muslin, and a feature piece by the BBC explains why o...

Print To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I can attest to the troubling destruction caused to store owners during the summer protests. Friends had their shop windows broken and there was looting. (“Yes, they’re actually blaming Black people for the violent insurrection by the pro-Trump mob,” Opinion, Jan. 14) But I also know that Black Lives Matter representatives condemned the violence, and some bravely tried to stop it as it occurred. Authorities concluded that most of the looting was unrelated to the demonstrations against police brutality and that it was primarily carried out b...

By Jessica MasonDec 24th, 2020, 5:15 pm The love of Frodo Baggins’ life was one Mr. Samwise Gamgee. Nothing in the entirety of the Tolkien canon, even Sam’s wife, will ever dissuade me from this fact. Frodo and Sam’s story is about love, no matter how you see it, but for many of us who adore the world of Tolkien, they were queer. So too were Merry and Pippin. And Gimli and Legolas. And Aragorn and Boromir probably had a thing that one time. Also, let’s not forget whatever was going on with Bilbo and Thorin. The point is that Middle Earth was and is, for many of us, a very very gay pl...