Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="reelo" data-source="post: 9477200" data-attributes="member: 6706121">I'm pretty much in the same boat: I cycle through either LotR, the Silmarillion, the Lost Tales, or the Children of Húrin every couple years, I've delved deeply into Quenya and into Tengwar back in my early 20s and I've seen the movies countless times.I find it terribly dishonest that the showmakers and the press automatically default to "they hate black elves/dwarves and female hobbits" when confronted with criticism. I almost see it as the fig-leaf they hide behind in order to not adress the problems that serious scholars and (otherwise open and progressive) people have with the show!I like Dís. I like Arondir. I like the two hobbit girls. What I don't like is stuff like how badly they treated Finrod in S1. Or the absolutely bonkers story about Mithril/Silmaril/Balrog and how they linked elves to it. I hate how they have the wizards be in in ME when they are a whole age to early according even to the appendices! The show looks gorgeous but I can't help but cringe, eyeroll, and laugh at most of the writing choices they have done.I used to think "The Children of Húrin" would make for an absolutely great TV series if done right, but these days I hope and pray that no producer will ever get his hands on it. That's how ridiculous ROP is to me.</blockquote>