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Nobody should argue that the show is accurate to the source material. However, this article hides behind a veil of "fact" to really just complain about the thin

Nobody should argue that the show is accurate to the source material. However, this article hides behind a veil of "fact" to really just complain about the things they don't like the show. There are huge gaps of knowledge about what is happening in the Second Age so there are all kinds of things that could be happening (elves watching mordor? Maybe. Elrond buddy-buddy with the Dwarves? He had to learn Khuzdul somehow.) but the article cherry picks what it likes and what it doesn't, complaining about there being no evidence of some things while saying that the lack of information about other events is okay because they like the outcome. Assumptions made about what the Elves could have been doing during this time period in Eregion? The author makes them sound absurd and completely outside of what was written. Whatever the Harfoots are doing? That's okay because the author likes their storyline on the show If you don't like the show that is 100% okay, I think the show is a 7/10 at best and sometimes it dips well below that, but don't hide that distaste behind a call for literary purity.

rrwo 4y ago
For what it's worth, the Tolkein Estate is involved with the production, because they were unhappy with Jackson's adaptation. The source material is a vague outline that stretches out over centuries. But I'm tired of purists looking to complain about film and TV adaptations, because there are necessary constraints: - You want story arcs that fit within a season. - The timeline is compressed to keep the story moving. If you don't do this, people will get bored of the show. And in the end, you care about people watching the show, not satisfying purists.
- stepbeek 4y ago
  I think that Rings of Power bangs up against this timeline compression a lot. It feels weird to us that no one is concerned about Sauron - he was just there! But in the canon timeline there were long stretches of time where nothing very interesting happened. That being said, I would gladly watch a TV series about day-to-day shire life in the third age.
  - BerislavLopac 4y ago
    > I would gladly watch a TV series about day-to-day shire life in the third age. That's pretty much The Darling Buds of May. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_(TV_se...
- wrp 4y ago
  > ...they were unhappy with Jackson's adaptation. For a summary of the criticisms of Jackson's interpretation, the only article I know of is "JACKSON, PETER" in Michael Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2007). Maybe someone else has a better reference.
BerislavLopac 4y ago
> this article hides behind a veil of "fact" to really just complain about the things they don't like the show Not at all. This article is primarily trying to answer the question from the title; any personal opinions are incidental, and not the article's focus; it is a personal blog after all.

rrwo 4y ago

For what it's worth, the Tolkein Estate is involved with the production, because they were unhappy with Jackson's adaptation. The source material is a vague outline that stretches out over centuries. But I'm tired of purists looking to complain about film and TV adaptations, because there are necessary constraints: - You want story arcs that fit within a season. - The timeline is compressed to keep the story moving. If you don't do this, people will get bored of the show. And in the end, you care about people watching the show, not satisfying purists.

stepbeek 4y ago
I think that Rings of Power bangs up against this timeline compression a lot. It feels weird to us that no one is concerned about Sauron - he was just there! But in the canon timeline there were long stretches of time where nothing very interesting happened. That being said, I would gladly watch a TV series about day-to-day shire life in the third age.
- BerislavLopac 4y ago
  > I would gladly watch a TV series about day-to-day shire life in the third age. That's pretty much The Darling Buds of May. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_(TV_se...
wrp 4y ago
> ...they were unhappy with Jackson's adaptation. For a summary of the criticisms of Jackson's interpretation, the only article I know of is "JACKSON, PETER" in Michael Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2007). Maybe someone else has a better reference.

BerislavLopac 4y ago

> this article hides behind a veil of "fact" to really just complain about the things they don't like the show Not at all. This article is primarily trying to answer the question from the title; any personal opinions are incidental, and not the article's focus; it is a personal blog after all.