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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.

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[xancredible]

Because the layman LotR watcher won't know any better (like me, I only know because I know Tolkien nerds who've told me) and this way Amazon can reap all the prequel benefits. It's capitalism.

[galadhir]

Oh I agree with you, but that doesn't mean I can't be angry and sad about it. I hope at some point a good adaptation will be made. Maybe in twenty or thirty more years when everything has changed, there'll be a Silmarillion adaptation by people who actually love it for itself. (Or maybe nobody will be reading it by then. Who knows :) ) It probably won't be my problem by then.