Amazon's $1-billion LOTR flop currently has a lower audience approval than Joseph R. Biden

Not the Bee ^ | 2 Sep 2022 | Joel Abbott

[Rummyfan]

If you aren't aware, the Tolkien fandom isn't happy with Amazon's new work of "art," the $1-billion-a-season "Rings of Power."

There are a lot of reasons why the show is being criticized so heavily – most of them having to do with post-modern, feminist, Marxist ideology that the showrunners are trying to impose on a franchise that is utterly opposed to such things – but I'll let you sift through those in-depth reviews for yourself.

As for right now, let's just glory in the fact that somehow, despite the beloved franchise having oodles of source material to work with, the creators of this hot garbage managed to get a worse initial rating than the current approval ratings of the most unliked President of the United States.

I love and hate to see it (cuz I want woke desecrations of art to fail but I really wanted this to be good).

You can ignore the critic rating. These days, it only serves as a benchmark of whether or not something is woke trash or just trash trash.

[boxlunch]

I agree. Didnt see that at all.

[nutmeg]

Thanks for the info.

[nutmeg]

I have read that at least for UK film makers they can’t get funding unless there are roles for “minorities” even if they have to shoehorn them in, e.g. a black Anne Bolyen in the recent 99th remake of the story of Henry the 8th _ He done her wrong!

Wow, that explains why ALL of the UK-based TV shows (usually set in the 1800s or earlier) my husband and I watch have black and/or gay characters -- where it makes NO sense in the story to have them. Just ridiculous and annoying. They take great pains to make everything appear so historically accurate -- yet ruin the whole thing with race-based wokeism.

[combat_boots]

Someone from a seminary and someone else from a Christian university say that while Christianity isn’t specifically mentioned in LOTR, is a Christianity based fantasy. Boromir and Gandalf are examples.

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/20-ways-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-both-christian-and-catholic.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sV9R5Z02GtE

However, the Amazon spin is not.

My interest in LOTR is that Tolkien invented an entire language, Elvish.

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, but that's because Brainless Joe's many political victories have caused his approval rating to rise by double digits! /rimshot

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[Rummyfan]

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power: No turkey, however bloated and stupid, could ever be big enough to convey the mesmerising awfulness of Amazon's billion dollar Tolkien epic

[Rummyfan]

And another slam here:

Rings of Power: The new hobbits are filthy, hungry simpletons with stage-Irish accents. That’s $1bn well spent

[NetAddicted]

I enjoyed the Bee’s spoof. My brother loves LOTR, books he’s read. I wonder if he’ll try to watch this garbage.

[Rummyfan]

[Enterprise]

"Scuttlebutt is that Elrond himself likes dudes."

My gaydar went off when Elrond first appeared.