Preface
First, here is the understatement of the century, from Patrick McKay:
We’re not really coming from a place of wanting to add Easter eggs, although that’s there, too. We’re coming from a place of wanting to create something that is as visually sumptuous and rich as those books are, literarily. If you like the show, hopefully, maybe you’ll watch it again and you’ll notice all kinds of new things, whether it’s something in the dialogue, or something in the set design, or something in the costuming, that is hopefully communicating a whole other layer of meaning. And if you’re a fan, there’s no end to the deep dive you could be doing. We wanted the show to be something that rewarded reviewing. We wanted the show to be rich and layered and overwhelming. The way you do that is to just keep adding ideas. And when you’re dealing with Middle-earth, there’s no end to how far you could go.
I, myself, am particularly overwhelmed. All of the following skims the very surface of what I want to talk about (and there are still things I want to cover that are not even mentioned in this post). If you would like an idea of the kinds of theories that are going to be on this blog, read everything!
At first, I tried using the original song of Run Boy Run, which has vocals, but the nature of the song required the dialogue to be semi-lyrical. Alongside the singing, it became messy, and the intermissions were too intense to overshadow with speaking. I stormed through two drafts before realizing there was an instrumental version, and two more drafts later, I finalized the topic. Suddenly, it became a preview for many things I wanted to examine, so my sister calls it my Blog Trailer.