phuck off amazon
I understand that they are going for an adult audience. That kind of counts me out because of the graphic sex that they may want.
Sacrilege!!!
Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit...
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This is making the same mistake that Disney made with ”Solo”, or that were made with Ridley Scott’s ”Prometheus”. Sometimes it’s best to leave the backstory a mystery. That adds to the drama.
F*ck Amazon. I’ll read “The Silmarillion” again.
In 1967, our Second Grade teacher read us the first book. I completely understand how Netflix would try and sexualize the story about little people and fairies. After all, the Obama’s are on the board now.
Too bad that I will no longer use Amazon
Don’t be too hopeful. I’m guessing it will involve Frodo getting a sex-change, lesbian elves, and Orcs demanding the Rohirrim be charged with war crimes.
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Orc lives matter.
Great! 35 minutes of walking and five minutes of plot line. Not sarcasm.
It will be specifically designed to ruin the franchise as the Star Wars sequels were.
Chinese are destroying our cultural icons on purpose.
The fact that it is Amazon doing the production should have immediately struck it from your list.
SJW Middle Earth - you can bank on it. Watch at your own peril.
I have been a Tolkien fan since Jr High when I read the books over and over. It has only been in later years the I realized Tolkien’s strong connection to his Christian roots.
I am remembering when Frodo said, “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf replied, “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
As we lament the situation of the world we are in today and wonder where we go from here, Gandalf’s advice rings true. Our responsibility as Christians is to follow Jesus’ command in His sermon on the mount to be “light” and “salt” to the world, not antagonistic and angry, yet at the same time not agreeing and conforming. To be distinct from the world not because we hate them, but because we love the lost sinners. Not compromising, but serving and loving not for our own praise but for the glory of God.
I’ve seen enough films based on Tolkien. I read all the books in college in the seventies, including The Silmarillion. I enjoyed Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, but I barely could get through the overblown mess that was The Hobbit Trilogy. Besides, anything new will be so woke as to be vomit-inducing, and it’s from Amazon Post, so “pass”.