have’nt seen it, but since it’s only based on tolkien’s work, i’m not putting any stock in it. i mean, considering the pale-orc and the huge amount of nothing he added to the hobbit, i don’t think this new show’s gonna be any good.
Not at all, the problem is not that there are non-white people in the show, it is just that they were not in that part of the world that Tolkien created and adding them just for the sake of representation is the problem, not the people themselves.
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Didn’t watch it yet. I have a fellow Tolkien-phile at work that I’m gonna talk to on Wednesday and get her suggestion on whether to watch or skip.
It has a budget of $60 million per episode. In comparison, Stranger Things 4 had a budget of $30 million per episode and House of Dragon had a budget of $20 million per episode. So I think people can expect a lot high quality cinematography, but I still don’t want to watch it for my own reasons.
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It’s was hella boring. I liked the dwarves part. The dwarves family thing was touching. Other than that, meh…
That’s definitely the most memorable part.
But what about “Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom” song?
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And I know people have mentioned the “influencers”, but give me a break, they were obviously just paid actors to try to excuse the changes that Amazon made.
I used to enjoy Nerd of the Rings on youtube but he’s obviously bought and paid for by amazon at this point so I’ve unsubbed.
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Yeah, the biggest issue, is that they only had the rights to notes and appendices and condensed and made up 1000s of years of Tolkien lore.
I wasn’t aware of this. Are you saying the rights are only for the appendices at the end of the published Return of the King, and they don’t have the actual rights to the materials from The Silmarillion (including Akallabeth)?
What company do you work for? Just curious.
I work in the game industry and we’ll leave it at that. 
But yeah, my office is nerd central.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”
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They have the rights to the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit. Not the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any the other books (which cover the majority of the time period that the show is set in).
Good grief.
Let me guess, this is the first TV show you’ve ever seen?
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Wait til you hear that a Swedish gaming conglomerate bought the Middle-Earth Franchise - Hobbit and LOTR
You my friend have won the internets this day
Sounds like a review that was 10/10 meme on IMDB
cause obviously Amazon can’t handle negative reviews kek
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Haven’t watched it but I don’t trust any tolkien fan on what they say it is. Like many book to movie/shows if it doesn’t include every single scene in the books it is not true to the original work and therefore mid 