Rings of Power

[galadhir]

I have to admit that I stopped watching Amazon's Rings of Power half way through the first episode, because I didn't really recognize any of the characters or the world as recognizably the Middle-earth I loved, and also because by that time I was bored. But every scene I have seen of it has made me want to go 'Oh, God, No. You don't understand this world at all.' So I was delighted to read this article from A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry and find out that a proper historian agreed with me :)

Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat

I can't wait for the next article which deals with things he thinks probably only niggle him and no one else - I suspect those will be the things that I also can't bear.

Comments

[xancredible]

Ooh thanks for the article rec. I'm gonna read that. I did watch the whole thing but I'm not a die-hard Tolkien fan and I had it on as background noise during work xD Given that they weren't allowed to use a whole lot of the source material, I'm not surprised it fell flat for real fans.

[galadhir]

Yeah, I do think that they couldn't have written something that would satisfy Silmarillion book fans given that they didn't have rights to any of the Silmarillion characters. I am slightly boggled that they even tried, instead of writing something set in the period that they did have rights to. I happen to have written a multi-chapter fic about what Lothlorien was doing during the wars of the rings that proves it's possible to write long stories in that period that don't require any characters that Amazon wouldn't have had rights to. The decision to specifically write about a period where they weren't allowed to use any of the canonical stories or characters was a bit mystifying!