Celebrim
Legend
My ears were in heaven, but it made my eyes bleed.
It angers me, I don't think that is too strong of a word for what I feel, that the Tolkien property is in the hands of a man who loathes and despises it.
And before you go there, I've read the Lost Tales, Morgoth's Ring, The Long Road and all the other unpublished notes. He is NOT just incorporating material from the larger story. As with the LotR movies, he's deliberately fundamentally altering the meaning and focus of the story not merely because he's ignorant of the stories meaning, but because he doesn't like it. By his own admission, upon reading the stories he felt that they didn't have enough fighting or (his word) "T&A". So he's putting in what he feels they miss and taking out the parts he doesn't like.
It angers me, I don't think that is too strong of a word for what I feel, that the Tolkien property is in the hands of a man who loathes and despises it.
And before you go there, I've read the Lost Tales, Morgoth's Ring, The Long Road and all the other unpublished notes. He is NOT just incorporating material from the larger story. As with the LotR movies, he's deliberately fundamentally altering the meaning and focus of the story not merely because he's ignorant of the stories meaning, but because he doesn't like it. By his own admission, upon reading the stories he felt that they didn't have enough fighting or (his word) "T&A". So he's putting in what he feels they miss and taking out the parts he doesn't like.