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Hot take: Only the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings should be viewed as canonical Middle-Earth books
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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8832611" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>I would say he would not just be aghast at Rings of Power, he would be aghast at Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings.</p><p></p><p>I would think he would feel the movies miss most of the points that he had in that even the fair of Jackson's felt more foul than what Tolkien intended, and the foul felt more like someone who made horror movies than incarnate what the veil of evil that Tolkien intended.</p><p></p><p>They are separate mediums though and different artforms. </p><p></p><p>Tolkien said to the idea that he did not feel the moving picture was a good match for the books and that it would not be able to capture the books accurately.</p><p></p><p>I think if they paid him enough money (he DID sell the rights afterall) he would not decline them being made, but he would make abundantly clear that they were NOT his ideas and deviated quite a bit (at least with the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit series). With Rings of Power he probably would say they were about as opposite from his own as they could be and that they should not be taken with a grain of salt on having any bearing in relation to the actual Lord of the Rings...but he would be happy if with the money they paid him (though after he saw LotR it probably would have to be a pretty penny to do so. He might sue in regards to what they were actually able to put in them (despite the claim they are based on the appendixes...when it is obvious they EXPAND on the appendixes and are not really BASED on them), but once paid (I'd say a Billion would make him happy) he'd probably allow for whatever they put in them with the comment I stated above and after that stay mum on it forever after.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 8832611, member: 4348"] I would say he would not just be aghast at Rings of Power, he would be aghast at Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. I would think he would feel the movies miss most of the points that he had in that even the fair of Jackson's felt more foul than what Tolkien intended, and the foul felt more like someone who made horror movies than incarnate what the veil of evil that Tolkien intended. They are separate mediums though and different artforms. Tolkien said to the idea that he did not feel the moving picture was a good match for the books and that it would not be able to capture the books accurately. I think if they paid him enough money (he DID sell the rights afterall) he would not decline them being made, but he would make abundantly clear that they were NOT his ideas and deviated quite a bit (at least with the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit series). With Rings of Power he probably would say they were about as opposite from his own as they could be and that they should not be taken with a grain of salt on having any bearing in relation to the actual Lord of the Rings...but he would be happy if with the money they paid him (though after he saw LotR it probably would have to be a pretty penny to do so. He might sue in regards to what they were actually able to put in them (despite the claim they are based on the appendixes...when it is obvious they EXPAND on the appendixes and are not really BASED on them), but once paid (I'd say a Billion would make him happy) he'd probably allow for whatever they put in them with the comment I stated above and after that stay mum on it forever after. [/QUOTE]
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