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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 ou
by 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 agoI 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.