Babylon 5 & Lord of the Rings

[vivdunstan]

Continuing our Babylon 5 rewatch and we’re getting closer to my absolute favourite episode of the whole series. Also watching the season 2 opening sequence I’m thinking of analogies between Tolkien’s Middle Earth / Lord of the Rings and Babylon 5. That’s probably pushing things a bit far, but some similarities are more obvious. Eg Minbari and Elves, Shadows and Sauron, Delenn and Arwen, Sheridan and Aragorn, Technomages and wizards. But again maybe pushing it a bit far! And yes this was all inspired by a LOTR quote in the Babylon 5 episode we’re watching tonight.

Comments

[a_cubed]

It's more Arthurian than LotR!
(Yes, I'm channeling Marcus!)

[andrewducker]

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5_influences#The_Lord_of_the_Rings is fascinating.

[vivdunstan]

Haha! Re Arthurian my head is slightly preoccupied with Wheel of Times/Arthurian links. My mind was rather blown when I realised that one belatedly. Though the names should have been a big clue.

[vivdunstan]

Ooh that's nice. Thanks for the link!

[watervole]

There are certainly LOTR similarities.

Zahadum, for example. The moment Sherridan fell, I knew pretty much what would happen.

Zahadum - Khazad-dûm.

[watervole]

That was an interesting read!

[andrewducker]

A result of the times when fans of a show would collect the results of their discussions and store them somewhere public for all to see!

[vivdunstan]

Marvellous stuff! I always check the Lurker's Guide (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/) after rewatching another episode. But I will now have a peruse of this wiki too. Cheers!

[vivdunstan]

Yup indeedy!

[watervole]

Never really thought about it, but I certainly did some similar stuff for Blake's 7 in terms of putting collated stuff on a single web site.

Don't people make wikis any more?

Fandoms come and go so fast now, that I don't invest in them the way I used to, so I don't tend to do much hunting to see what's out there.

[watervole]

Don't forget SelenaK's episode reviews, if you aren't already reading those. They're very insightful.

[vivdunstan]

I’m not reading them every week but I’ve been bingeing them from time to time. Thanks again for the heads up!

[andrewducker]

They definitely do. Fandom.com is full of them. But they don't seem to be as thorough as they used to be.