Junesong
Nargothrond
Nov 28 2024, 1:03pm
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We are two seasons into a five season show. Based on what we've seen so far they are using their own timeline and telling their own story. As a huge Tolkien fan, I'm really impressed by some of their changes and I'm really curious to see what their story will look like when its all laid out at the end.
I'm still really struck - even after ALL THIS TIME - to see how dismissive some of us are about any changes or deviations from Tolkien's text. It's strange for two reasons - one, it's hard to explain the enormous confidence that I'm hearing about the reasons for the changes (ego, hubris, dogmas, politics, culture war etc...) We can speculate, of course, but the way some of us talk you'd think we were sitting in on the meetings. The internet has made us so arrogant.
The second reason it's so strange, is because the outrage seems so selective. All Tolkien media has been a bastardization to one degree or another. The best thing that could have ever happened to Tolkien's legendarium would have been for him to refuse to sell the rights. Nothing has ever happened in either television or film to enhance his works, they have only ever been diminished.
And yet, ROP gets a wildly disproportionate amount of hate.
I know it's not always possible to stand back and really look at something if you're all tangled up in it - but I think we should try.
"So which story do you prefer?"
"The one with the tiger. That's the better story."
"Thank you. And so it goes with God."
(This post was edited by Junesong on Nov 28 2024, 1:13pm)
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