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ROP is very very true to Tolkien themes, less so true to details, and I enjoy it very much. The opening theme alone represents the music of the ainur so well,

• lizardking 3y ago
  Whether or not RoP is true to the themes of Tolkien or not or not is in the eye of the beholder I suppose, but it certainly has dispensed with the existing lore. I've read more than my fair share of Tolkien, and the show just doesn't feel like Tolkien to me. It's a serviceable Tolkien flavored generic fantasy show, if you are looking for that sort of thing. The tragedy is that the source material for the second age is so great yet they chose to take the show in a baffling and arbitrary direction, almost completely decoupled from the existing lore.
  • tomr_stargazer 3y ago
    I found a lot to think about in Ostadan's take on RoP: https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/09/26/115304-from-the-rings-of-power-to-poughkeepsie/ https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/09/26/115304-from-the-...
• ffhhttt 3y ago
  > ROP is very very true to Tolkien themes, That’s the silliest thing I read today. For instance attention to detail was a pretty important theme in Tolkien’s works. He was pretty strict about timeframes, military planning etc. in Amazon’s show everyone seems to have a teleportation device, boat hulls breaks the law of physics considering how much stuff you can fit into them and “Galadriel” is the best swimmer in history multiplied by 100… It pretty much a cheap 90s fantasy tv show with an inflated budget that takes itself way to seriously than it has any right to.