Blending in with the men of Rhun. Ken Watanable (The last Samurai, Memoirs of Geisha) and Ghassan Massoud (Saladin in Kingdom of Heaven) were carefully chosen for their acting prowess and respective regional fame for the role of the Ithryn Luin - The Blue Wizards. The writers will be following the The Peoples of Middle-Earth notes that they arrived in the second age rather than the Third age as stated in unfinished tales. The reason for the racial appearance of the two wizards is because the two Wizards are active in the vast region of Rhun, home to the many different peoples that make up the ''Easterlings''. The Blue Wizards will be at odds with Sauron and his ally Khamul, Khamul at this time is an ambitious king of a powerful Easterling Kingdom and this arc is known as the ''Sea of Rhun arc'' and is just one of many regional arcs in the grand downfall of Numenor plotline that will span the five seasons of the second age.
Ken Watanabe and Ghassan Massoud to play the ''Blue Wizards'' in Amazon's Lord of the Rings
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Ken is based and the other guy already looks a fucking wizard.
i'm okay with this
Why is Amazon ruining everything from the postal service to labor to fantasy adaptions
no one will complain because they aren't black or women. Good choices though.
it's over
You couldn’t even be bothered to photoshop a fake article like the John Boyega Bloodborne guy
What moron actually expects this to be good?
Great fucking choices.
Massoud doesn't even need makeup.
The other guy is best known for playing Saladin in Kingdom of Heaven, he is a very good actor. All in all pretty solid casting choices.
Didnt expect this.
Both are great casting choices.
massiud's an amazing pick and get, other guy might look a little goofy depending on how costuming and things turn out but good overall
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Yeah, fuck off.
>he reason for the racial appearance of the two wizards is because the two Wizards are active in the vast region of Rhun, home to the many different peoples that make up the ''Easterlings''.
This is interesting, sounds like they are casting the series with regions having a native population that is ethnic distinct from each other e.g. blacks are native to some regions and not to others.
Only the most fanatic ones who would eat a dog turd if he letters LOTR were written on it. But that being said, I don’t think these casting choices are too out of place. The wizards are Maiar with a mission in a specific region so it would make sense for them to take a form appropriate for the region.
*puts my dick in his mouth*
do you still like him now that he's gay?
>rhun
>focus on easterling storyline
>blue wizards
>second age
Damn, this be kino already.
This is based casting who would be against this? this is smart casting given the region they went it would only make sense they changed their appearance to match that of the Easterlings just like Saruman and Gandalf looked like the men of Western Middle Earth.
Based casting desu.
>based Watanabe and some dude who already looks like he could be a warlock
Fuckin nice
>blue wizards
cool so there only using character with like no lore at all? also wasn't Ghassan in LOTR already?
They don’t have the rights to any canonical characters so no, they’re not.
some of the writers have worked on shows like breaking bad, better call saul, boardwalk empire and westworld which do have some quality writing
also john howe is involved with the project
idk man it might be decent
>They don’t have the rights to any canonical characters
Sauce?
That's the idea. I doubt they would want to fuck with already existing canon.
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How long do they plan on keeping this show running? Because casting Ken in anything long-term is a risk between all his cancer bouts
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Based Watanabe.
There's fucking none.Retards have already jizzed their pants though.
Into the trash
>Blue wizards
Fanfic-tier writing confirmed.
Fucking based.
Now put your dick in my mouth.
What compels someone to write a fake article and post it on Yea Forums?
you would think but they wouldn't be the first to do it and if they don t own the movies they dont care about its canon
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>hurrr the casting is good I love nonwhites playing roles of characters from a white European mythology
Is this a joke or are amazon shills already flooding the board so that they can astroturf their narrative? I literally cant understand why so many people are trying to pretend this is good casting. The Arab can kind of cut it as a swarthy looking white but some asian? Seriously?
So Massoud will probably be the central character in Khand and Rhun, but Watanabe will have to go even further east. Rhun certainly wasn't East Asian in the lore.
>Jap
>Arab
Okay. Honestly, the only people I genuinely hate, and I mean downright /ahte/ are niggers. Not even Kikes. I mean, Woody Allen, the Coen Bros, Leonard Cohen; gotta love them. I just hate niggers. God, how I hate them fucking niggers.
It's pretty disrespectful to the generations of whites who grew up in medieval Europe hearing this tale told to them by their elders. In fact it's insanely arroagant of them to do this and I hope they are punished for this.
>Blue Istari sent on a mission to the Easterling nations
>Take on the form of Easterlings
It's reasonable. What, did Tolkien say the Ainur couldn't take non-white forms?
I just want to see Idris Elba as Eol. We wuz Moriquendi n shiet.
not sure if you are trolling, but they are saying the series take place in Rhun (in Lotr, the only other ethno group besides European, was middle-easter/black people, fighting with sauron, those people were easterlings).
They* are saying that the ethnicity of these actors are reflective of the easterlings (which implies that there are other regions, where these ethnicities wouldn't match e.g. Shire, Rohan).
*not sure if this is fan-fiction, or actual "casting news", no sources has been provided.
>breaking bad, better call saul, boardwalk empire and westworld which do have some quality writing
oof
>What is Gondor worth?
>Nothing.
>...Everything.
>A wizard is never rate, nor is he earry. He arrives precisery when he means to.
>I really do not know anything clearly about the other two [wizards] – since they do not concern the history of the N[orth].W[est]. I think they went as emissaries to distant regions, East and South, far out of Númenórean range: missionaries to 'enemy-occupied' lands, as it were. What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and 'magic' traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron. - Tolkien