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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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[sunshine304]

And lo and behold, Warner Bros wants to make more LotR, which actually might use the popular characters again…

IDK whether to be happy or tremble in fear… I didn’t like The Hobbit movies all that much, mainly because they were so incredibly bloated and had that awful CGI computer game look. The casting was awesome, the costumes etc. too. They just wasted it with adding so much stupid stuff. If those had been just two movies, they would’ve been so good.

[galadhir]

I also didn't like the Hobbit movies. I think it could have been good if they'd kept it to just one movie, but yes, too much padding. And honestly the stuff they added was really cliche and not terribly in the spirit of Tolkien. So I'm not sure I trust them to write their own Tolkien fanfiction any more than I trust Amazon. I think I'm in a minority as far as that goes, though.

I never thought I would be sad to see more Tolkien media, but I am excited to know there's a new book out, and I haven't yet got Tolkien's Beowulf, so there are good things to come even so :)