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[galadhir]

Just watched the last of Amazon's Rings of Power. Good God, they really did just make the whole thing up, didn't they?

What kind of hellworld do we live in that a big corporation can spend millions just to buy rights to a deeply beloved book so it can comprehensively misrepresent it in the most expensive way possible? I can't even call it fanfiction because whoever wrote this can't have actually been a fan.

Why couldn't they have written a story that they did have the rights to? And then they could have made something that could have lived with the actual canon.

GDI Amazon.

Comments

[katuah]

i hadn't really planned to watch it, but now I will definitely plan to NOT watch it.

[galadhir]

I tried watching it with the mindset that it was a completely independent series that had nothing to do with Tolkien, and while I could keep that mindset up, I found it enjoyable enough, if rather derivative. But I kept running into places where they had just made up lore and contradicted what Tolkien had said, and flattened what could have been interesting into something so generic.

Idk, it's quite pretty and it's less grim and depressing than some stuff out there, and if it only hadn't been pretending to be Tolkien, I think I would have liked it. Maybe watch an episode and see what you think?