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Stephen Colbert Set to Adapt Next 'Lord of the Rings' Movie
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Is this based on anything written by Tolkien? It smells like a boring second story forced by executives because "we need to appeal to female viewers". I don't necessarily mind having another thing happening, as long as it comes together eventually (this is a film, after all), but these tend to feel low effort and distracting in my experience. They always assign it to the token female character, like they can't be bothered to find a way to make her part of the actual story.
The epilogue does state that Elanor was given the red book (the in universe writing of the Lord of the Rings made by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam) and she was a maid of honor to Arwen, and was named by Frodo. Colbert stated the story would adapt chapters from The Fellowship of the Ring such as the Barrow Downs and such stuff. So there's at least a foundation in what Tolkien wrote.
Thanks for the info!