I love Tolkien. I don’t like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn’t watch it, simple as that. That’s how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don’t buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don’t stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don’t have the energy to complain about it online.
I watched it, but honestly it’s still far, far too much for just the Hobbit. 4 hours, I think? I’m pretty sure I could just read the book in that time.
The writers couldn’t have made anything good out of what little they were licensed to use, IMO.
But the main complaint online, that Galadriel is abrasive and bossy, doesn’t gel with me because that’s literally part of her character growth. I’m too lazy to look up the exact passage in the Silmarillion, but the reason she joined the Noldor’s exodus out of Aman was to set herself up as a ruler. By the time the Fellowship meets her in LOTR she’s thousands of years wiser.
I strongly dislike when a single book is turned into multiple movies. You get 1-2 movies of nothing but set-up and trying to turn minor events into a climax, then one manic movie of nothing but climax
I wish more people could understand that you can just… not consume something. You not liking it doesn’t make it bad and it doesn’t make other people inferior for enjoying it.
My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn’t facilitate that. Amazon sucks.
I love Tolkien. I don’t like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn’t watch it, simple as that. That’s how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don’t buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don’t stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don’t have the energy to complain about it online.
I’ll do you one better.
I like Tolkien, and I like Rings of Power. No its not a perfect adaptation, but its fine. Its better than those god awful Hobbit movies.
The M4’s Hobbit version has vastly improved my opinion of the Hobbit movie(s). I now include it in my yearly LOTR marathon.
I watched it, but honestly it’s still far, far too much for just the Hobbit. 4 hours, I think? I’m pretty sure I could just read the book in that time.
The writers couldn’t have made anything good out of what little they were licensed to use, IMO.
But the main complaint online, that Galadriel is abrasive and bossy, doesn’t gel with me because that’s literally part of her character growth. I’m too lazy to look up the exact passage in the Silmarillion, but the reason she joined the Noldor’s exodus out of Aman was to set herself up as a ruler. By the time the Fellowship meets her in LOTR she’s thousands of years wiser.
I liked the Hobbit movies lol
I strongly dislike when a single book is turned into multiple movies. You get 1-2 movies of nothing but set-up and trying to turn minor events into a climax, then one manic movie of nothing but climax
YES.
I wish more people could understand that you can just… not consume something. You not liking it doesn’t make it bad and it doesn’t make other people inferior for enjoying it.
Just scroll on.
My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn’t facilitate that. Amazon sucks.