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Legend
A show in which the estate points out what can and can't be used in various media with fan reaction.
It's precisely because so much of this is original that it can be spread out more easily: to follow those more detailed stories makes that more difficult. Rings of Power only needs to keep a few bullet points in place, whereas Beren and Luthien has a complex story to tell, bit big enough that a movie might be too small, but specific enough thst five seasons would be too much.Why not?
I don't have a copy of the LotR at hand, but I'd imagine not more than a few sentences from the appendices actually made it into this show, and they were made into an entire season of television. Why is Tolkien's writing in the Silmarillion stories less worthy of embellishment?
Children's cartoon would seem appropriate, since he was inspired by a toy.In fact, for Bombadil I was thinking either Saturday morning cartoon or family sitcom: "Goldberry, I'm home!"
Mostly because a lot of TV and Hollywood screenwriters actually CAN do a better job of adapting a print author's story for the screen. Not everyone can, but I seriously doubt Tolkien would have done a particularly good job of writing a screenplay or teleplay.Yeah, the problem with TV and Hollywood adaptations of popular fiction is the writers and producers think they can do a better job of telling the author's story than was originally done. It always seems like a cynical attempt to cash in on the popularity of the original work. Otherwise, if the original work is seen as having value other than popularity, why not adapt it faithfully?
Mostly because a lot of TV and Hollywood screenwriters actually CAN do a better job of adapting a print author's story for the screen. Not everyone can, but I seriously doubt Tolkien would have done a particularly good job of writing a screenplay or teleplay.
I mean, we are currently watching a show that features 6 different cultures all headed for absolute catastrophe, 2 of whom already experienced it (the Southlanders and the Harfoots). Amazon, at least seems ready to set up absolute tragedy already.That might be true. But a story like "The Children of Húrin" is, in its written form, sublime. But it is an epic tragedy in the Greek sense. The story of a family —father, mother, son, and daughters— that are utterly crushed by Morgoth.
And while the relatively small focus and limited cast of characters (Childhood of Túrin, Túrin in Doriath, Túrin among the outlaws, Túrin in Nargothrond, Túrin in Brethil, Death of Túrin) would lend itself perfectly for a trilogy of movies or a series, I can't help but think that whatever screenwriter —or worse: producer— would feel compelled to contrieve a happy ending for one or more of the characters, not understanding that it would negate the entire premise of the tale.
Maybe a graphic novel would be better...
Have you read the Children of Húrin?I mean, we are currently watching a show that features 6 different cultures all headed for absolute catastrophe, 2 of whom already experienced it (the Southlanders and the Harfoots). Amazon, at least seems ready to set up absolute tragedy already.