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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8809829" data-attributes="member: 59082">Not sure what you are getting at here.Sure, people can legally make stories in Tolkien's world, but just because they can doesn't mean they'll be good, or that they'll capture the "spirit of Tolkien." And in that Letter 131 quote, I'm not sure Tolkien was advocating for people to write books and make movies set in Middle-earth--and certainly not without truly understanding and honoring the source material. But I'd have to re-read the letter to have more of a take on that (maybe tomorrow).As I've said, I think Peter Jackson did a far better job of evoking the "spirit of Tolkien" than Payne/McKay, and it isn't particularly close. But even so, I don't think JRR would have been all that fond of Jackson's films (and he would have absolutely detested the CGI-ridden Hobbit trilogy). Rings of Power would have been seen as a much further degradation of his work, imo, a pale simulacrum that only shares surface similarities like names and basic concepts, but no sense of the deeper mythos and, dare I say, spiritual elements of Tolkien's work.But I think this is all part of a larger problem, and one that is illustrated by a general decay in film-making over the last several decades. We've got copies of copies of copies, and resulting in diminishing returns, with fewer and fewer truly potent and vibrant new films being made. Instead we get yet-another Abrams-esque reboot or remake.p.s. What do you mean by the "Alan Moore approach?"</blockquote>

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