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It was clearly a labor of love, and the behind the scenes stuff shows that the cast and crew also thought highly of it. They made three extremely long movies that would have had to be MUCH longer if they cut nothing.
Stuff like the removal of Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire made sense to me - narratively, some things have to be cut. I didn't particularly care for giving Glorfindel's heroism to Arwen, which saved no significant time and was essentially a tiny preview of Current Day nonsense. The dwarf-tossing jokes were dumb at the time and NOW are both dumb and extremely dated.
It was clearly a labor of love, and the behind the scenes stuff shows that the cast and crew also thought highly of it. They made three extremely long movies that would have had to be MUCH longer if they cut nothing.
Stuff like the removal of Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire made sense to me - narratively, some things have to be cut. I didn't particularly care for giving Glorfindel's heroism to Arwen, which saved no significant time and was essentially a tiny preview of Current Day nonsense. The dwarf-tossing jokes were dumb at the time and NOW are both dumb and extremely dated.
Mistakes were made but there is enough evidence of respect and effort that they can be forgiven. Repurposing story elements or dialogue elsewhere seems to have been done out of an effort to use as much Tolkien stuff as possible. On this show, it appears to be an effort to draft off the movie trilogy.
Based on what I've read, I don't think this crowd gives a damn about Tolkien or his work. This show seems to be at best mercenary (Bezos wanted his own Game of Thrones) and more reasonably described as an insult to Tolkien's work. But hey - I haven't watched it (or even read The Silmarillion) so maybe I'm wrong.
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- The Crownless
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Deus Vult!
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Rings of Power = Case study of stupid writing
- 16/09/2024 08:10:54 PM
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...what do you think of Jackson's LotR trilogy? There's a whole lot of change going on there. *NM*
- 17/09/2024 02:34:30 AM
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Re: ...what do you think of Jackson's LotR trilogy? There's a whole lot of change going on there.
- 17/09/2024 01:49:35 PM
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I don't know. I remember seeing message boards when the films came out.
- 18/09/2024 03:10:06 AM
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Agreed - no comparison whatsoever
- 18/09/2024 07:36:26 PM
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He changed "a few" things?
- 20/09/2024 11:23:02 AM
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It is possible for a person to dislike this show and not care about sex or race of the characters.
- 23/09/2024 05:43:44 PM
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Yes, and not everyone who dislikes the show dislikes it for those reasons.
- 24/09/2024 01:05:46 AM
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I think Peter Jackson & co. actually liked LotR
- 17/09/2024 02:57:08 PM
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Yes, this.
- 17/09/2024 10:39:27 PM
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I agree, mostly. But the complaint here was that it is foolish to change any of the writing.
- 18/09/2024 03:08:45 AM
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I just rewatched the last two Hobbit movies - those are sort of inbetween I guess.
- 18/09/2024 09:01:01 PM
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Exactly my point. It's not about the canon. The films get the canon wrong left and right, too.
- 20/09/2024 11:26:00 AM
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That's not what I meant precisely - for me the canon is still important.
- 20/09/2024 06:44:10 PM
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Why did I not notice you post this on 'The Silmarillion' day of the 15, Sept ? *NM*
- 19/09/2024 10:45:42 PM
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Because this show is about as relevant to the Silmarilion as NAMBLA is to Gay Pride? *NM*
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Rude metaphor, here is Bryan Cogman who “consulted” for 20 weeks on Lore
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I don't get points for tacitly making a distinction between pedo & gay?
- 20/09/2024 10:42:07 PM
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