DGHCaretaker
Nargothrond
Feb 9 2023, 5:25pm
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I think it's worth remembering that ROP has shown itself to be far more concerned with the "film cannon" of Jackson's Middle Earth than with Tolkien's "book cannon".
This makes sense. Lots of fans out there who only know and care for the films. Lots of fans of the books (Hobbit and LOTR) out there too. I don't mind this aspect of Rings of Power. The hugely popular MCU through Endgame, for example, uses the comic book characters but does not always closely hew to the original stories. That's okay with me because I completely ignore comics, have no love or loyalty to them, and treat them more as apocrypha in my head-canon. I don't want to have to read the comics to understand the film stories. After Endgame, however, the MCU writing has fallen off a sheer cliff wall. Writing matters, which I'm about to address in a terse reply to another post to follow. So like ROP, I have no enthusiasm toward the MCU of late.
Also, I'm sure you know this, and it's just a typo, so I'll just point out for anyone who might be unintentionally influenced by the unfortunately common typo for 'Canon' to think the correct spelling is like the ballistic artillery device, it's not. Canonical -> Canon.
(This post was edited by DGHCaretaker on Feb 9 2023, 5:39pm)
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