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That might be, I haven't read Heaney's (yet) Currently reading Liuzza's. I found Tolkien's "Green Knight" very good, though.

Ah well. My enjoyment of Tolkien's poetry has led me to reading (and enjoying) his version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in Middle-English alliterative verse, as well as his, and other authors' translations of "Beowulf", and trying to learn Old English eventually. Back when I was...

I am not against new ideas per se as I have already stated. But when you translate a work from one medium to another, it would be well to do so faithfully first. Then you can start working with it. Imagine a digital artist announcing that they're gonna colorize an old b/w photography of some...

If you can't create an original story without having to resort to altering that which already exists in order for it to fit, is it really worthwhile doing? And the fact that fewer people have read the Silmarillion shouldn't be a valid argument. People who know the Hobbit and the Lord of the...

Actually, in the Lay of Beren and Lúthien, while Sauron rules over Tol-in-Gauroth where he has Beren and Finrod imprisoned, during the battle with Huan he shapechanges into a wolf and into a giant bat subsequently. Granted, those are not "objects", but still that's shapechanging nonetheless.

That is true. The "Maple Films" edit.

But Frodo was meant to find the ring, don't you know? [emoji6]

Agreed. The novel is an absolute classic, the movies are trash, Peter Jackson or not.

Absolutely. I'd go as far as to say that the less you know of Tolkien's legendarium, the more you'll enjoy the show. Unfortunately.

But he was already in/on Middle-Earth at that time. After the War of Wrath, he wasn't captured, but fled and hid IN Middle-Earth.

If you are content with inconsequential fanfiction, it doesn't. [emoji2369] But then it should be labeled as such.

It WAS written about, by the original author. In the Silmarillion, the Unfinished Tales of Middle-Earth, the History of Middle-Earth series, and in letters by Tolkien. Unfortunately neither of those were parts of the licensing deal, so Amazon can't use them. BUT, according to the producers, they...

While I agree that most of the RT reviews are bots, I think some critique is valid. As for your assessment that this is "why there is so little good fantasy stuff", that's simple: either do a FAITHFUL adaption of existing stuff, or have writers, you know, come up with quality original stuff...

That's my guess as well. At least I hope it is a fake-out. The wizards are supposed to arrive in Lindon by boat, iirc. Círdan hands Gandalf the Ring of Fire on that occasion.

Olorin/Gandalf doesn't arrive in ME until 1000TA, well after the Battle of the Last Alliance, though, when the Elven Rings had already existed for over a millennium.

Having the Fëanorians land in Eriador instead of Beleriand, having a Valinorean elf, daughter of Finarfin, being bossed around by one of her lesser cousins (because that's what Gil-Galad is), and making her travel to Valinor against the ban of the Valar DOES "offensively contradict" things they...

It might be off-limits to show or even just name-drop, but the contracts Amazon signed supposedly stipulate that the show can nonetheless not explicitly contradict any of that material.

Hey, don't exclude me from the movie fans! They were done with uttermost respect and I love them to bits! (Edit: LotR, I mean. The Hobbit movies are utter trash) This however? I have no problem with ethnically diverse elves, dwarves, or proto-hobbits, nor anything that is completely made-up but...

I just finished the pilot. While the visuals are certainly stunning, I find the power-dynamics of the elves quite irritating. If we go by the Silmarillion, Ereinion Gil-Galad is the son of Fingon, which would make Galadriel his first cousin once removed. Alternatively, Tolkien had planned for...

A reward they are technically not able to bestow: Galadriel having been one of the chief actors in the Fëanorian rebellion, after the War of Wrath she is one of the few remaining Noldor in Middle-Earth explicitly bound by the Doom of Mandos and banned from returning to Valinor. It is only when...