CEHussey

This treatment for a hugely ambitious adaptation of the Second Age of Tolkien's legendarium is my response to another adaptation of that age, a big budget bowdlerization currently airing on another platform. What I wrote represents a rabbit hole I went down, when I asked myself what I would do if handed $1 billion budget to adapt that time and place for the screen. I produced a narration of it for the benefit of a friend who'd rather listen to it than read it--also to get it out there prior to the new upcoming season of that other series to offer a basis of comparison. This gigantic story arc in thirteen episodes combines what I know from my research into the Second Age with my own wild theories of how things turned out the way they did in the end, adding some non-canonical characters and expanding on the lore in places Tolkien wrote less about in his world. If, by some miracle, this adaptation were to be produced the way I envision, it would involve stars and locations from around the world. But for now, it's just a fan project, and I'm yet undecided as to whether this was simply an exercise in madness or actually has potential for production in the future. For now, I'm going to leave it with this narration, while I focus on other projects, but if I get enough encouragement from enough people, I may work on this further. 0:00 Title 0:13 Preface 4:36 Ep. 1 - Many Migrations 9:03 Ep. 2 - The Bringer of Gifts 10:50 Ep. 3 - The Forge of Celebrimbor 14:01 Ep. 4 - Númenor 18:47 Ep. 5 - The Year of Dread 22:02 Ep. 6 - The Dwarven Rings 26:05 Ep. 7 - The Blue Wizards 31:07 Ep. 8 - Corsairs of Umbar 34:22 Ep. 9 - Barad-dûr 39:03 Ep. 10 - Elves and Men 44:04 Ep. 11 - The Mumakil 48:56 Ep. 12 - The Siege of Mordor 1:02:02 Ep. 13 - Epilogue: Isildur's Bane

25 distinct voices + a snatch of a song in 3 minutes & 13 seconds

This is my first foray into editing transitions in a short video that also makes use of my two tripods, two mics, a studio lamp and green screen, as well as all six cameras I own. I also figured out how to key-frame in Sony Vegas, the editing app I used.

I wrote this in a fit of inspiration, following some news I'd gotten about politicians scapegoating and using persecutorial language & policies on those holdouts not getting Covid vaccines & boosters.

My first vid posted on this platform is a panoply of some of the acting work I've done, over the years. I still act from time to time, but much of that work has been curtailed over the past couple of years, due to the Covid scare. I'm not as interested in fame as I might have been as a young man, but I still like to share my modest body of work.