Agreed on all of these points (even though I decided to just not watch ROP on the basis of the trailers alone). The thing I just don't understand is this: why did they insist on doing the forging of the Rings when they didn't have the rights? With the Appendices alone, they have the whole Third Age to play with - an area that Tolkien barely touched!
Compared to that, the Matter of Eregion and the Last Alliance without the rights to the Silmarillion could only end in a mess because any Tolkien fan would complain and all the non-Tolkien fans have no reason to care for a level of detail beyond that of Galadriel's prologue in the films. Or so it seems to me.
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Date: 2023-02-04 12:14 pm (UTC)From:Compared to that, the Matter of Eregion and the Last Alliance without the rights to the Silmarillion could only end in a mess because any Tolkien fan would complain and all the non-Tolkien fans have no reason to care for a level of detail beyond that of Galadriel's prologue in the films. Or so it seems to me.