It's so frustrating because the Silm is an awesome book but it is awesome in a very specific way that needs someone who can do justice to Norse Saga levels of laconic grim irony - and those people are few and far between.
Speaking as someone who only got into Tolkien's sources of inspiration years after she was already neck-deep in the Silm (in fact, I grew up on the bane of Tolkien's existence - Arthuriana *heh*), I think all it really and fundamentally needed was someone willing to bring Tolkien to the screen again (which, say what you will about the changes they made, PJ, Fran, and Philippa did), without wanting to be the next big thing in fantasy (which is what broke the Hobbit films) and just like GoT (a judgement that shows a complete lack of understanding of how Tolkien and Martin differ in how they use fantasy).
And that is why The Rings of Power truly fails: all it was ever meant to be is a cash grab.
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I would be so there for either of these ideas.
Speaking as someone who only got into Tolkien's sources of inspiration years after she was already neck-deep in the Silm (in fact, I grew up on the bane of Tolkien's existence - Arthuriana *heh*), I think all it really and fundamentally needed was someone willing to bring Tolkien to the screen again (which, say what you will about the changes they made, PJ, Fran, and Philippa did), without wanting to be the next big thing in fantasy (which is what broke the Hobbit films) and just like GoT (a judgement that shows a complete lack of understanding of how Tolkien and Martin differ in how they use fantasy).
And that is why The Rings of Power truly fails: all it was ever meant to be is a cash grab.