lol, Also he graduated from Oxford when that actually meant something. Now every ivory league school and the various hanger-ons is full of legacys who don't know the value of hard work and expect recognition despite being mediocre at best.
>he graduated from Oxford when that actually meant something
uh... I'm pretty sure it still means SOMETHING if you don't go for a joke degree.
note that English lit was recently found to be one of the worst degrees for getting you a job, so if it wasn't Tolkien we were discussing people here would probably class that in with gender studies.
>30 pages of meaningless drivel describing a mundane item that serves no purpose
any grade schooler can write better than Tolkien so that's the easy part
>so bad the old hack had to pen a letter to try to quell criticisms for it
lol great example moron, here it is by the way since you're a moronic homosexual: >[I have received] criticism of the speed of the relationship or ‘love’ of Faramir and Eowyn. In my experience feelings and decisions ripen very quickly (as measured by mere 'clock-time', which is actually not justly applicable) in periods of great stress, and especially under the expectation of imminent death. And I do not think that persons of high estate and breeding need all the petty fencing and approaches in matters of 'love'. This tale does not deal with a period of 'Courtly Love' and its pretences; but with a culture more primitive (sc. less corrupt) and nobler
almost fell asleep reading just this paragraph from how overly pretentious he is, glad his world and life work is being ruined by woke lefties lol
Anon, it seems like you cited something that negates your point. Also, how do you want an Oxford professor of literature to write? If grunting slang and making pop culture references is the only way to keep you awake, please stick to Lil Gay-Nig or whatever trap bs you listen to.
>Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood. Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad. >Bree of Bree-land on Bree-hill
yeah great writing lol
Los Angeles of Los Angeles-land on Los Angeles-hill
lmfao
how do you morons defend this trash
Lmao, seething and literally no argument. The absolute state of Amazon shills.
I think it's hilarious that throughout production they were going for woke points but now that it's completed and we're counting down to release they've finally realised that people don't want that and are pretending to be faithful to the source.
Nobody's buying it. Enjoy your one billion dollars down the toilet, Bezos.
Note that they don't say "the novel Tolkien *would have written*", because even they know they're fricking hackfrauds who're only doing this so they can vandalize his legacy.
>Can we, shitty TV writers with next to no credits hired because our politics align with Amazon's current corporate mission statement, come up with the novel Tolkien, Oxford professor of linguistics and actual genius who wrote the most popular novel of the 20th century behind only the Bible, never wrote? >We, the shitty TV writers, say yes! >If you disagree it's because you're a racist alt-right Trump supporter
no wonder these people insert politic ideology into everything they do, it's literally all they have, it's the only reason they were hired and if they didn't do it they'd have to rely on their writing talent which is clearly non-existant
>Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood. Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad. >Bree of Bree-land on Bree-hill
yeah great writing lol
Los Angeles of Los Angeles-land on Los Angeles-hill
lmfao
how do you morons defend this trash
So literally every other novel that's ever existed? By their metric they can do a BDSM show about bisexual interracial midgets because hey Tolkien never wrote that novel either!
>When Amazon released photos of its multicultural cast, even without character names or plot details, the studio endured a reflexive attack from trolls—the anonymous online kind. >“It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like,” says Lindsey Weber, executive producer of the series. “Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together.” >“Obviously there was going to be push and backlash,” says Tolkien scholar Mariana Rios Maldonado, who is not affiliated with The Rings of Power, “but the question is from whom? Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?”
what's that peter jackson quote about how he didn't want to insert any of his politics or beliefs into the movies because it was important that it remain tolkien's story?
>We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
When I was a kid I had the extended dvd sets and watched everything on it multiple times, all four commentary tracks on each movie, all the behind the scenes stuff, even scrolled through all the 1000s of stills and sketches
When I was a kid I had the extended dvd sets and watched everything on it multiple times, all four commentary tracks on each movie, all the behind the scenes stuff, even scrolled through all the 1000s of stills and sketches
>Tolkien scholar
Yes. But you're not a Tolkien Scholar™, so you don't matter.
>Mariana Rios Maldonado
You're not even close to her level of Tolkien scholarship. >Mariana is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow with the research project “Ethics, Femininity and the Encounter with the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives”: >She is the Equality and Diversity Officer for the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.
>Mariana is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow with the research project “Ethics, Femininity and the Encounter with the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives”:
she's literally, unironically just a waste of resources. all these phd projects like this as a tremendous waste.
>mega-event series
I'm so fricking sick of shit like this. I'm sure directors and studios have always had plans to milk a series as hard as they can but holy shit at least pretend it's not just a big, endless trough of slop.
Well, I have a new hobby: Going through trailers, teasers, interviews and featurettes on youtube and leave a dislike on the video while the autoplay block means they won't even get a view from me. The shit you come up with when you're both bored and annoyed.
It's gonna be so bad bros. But. I bet it'll have reviews 360 out from Terminal List. Critics are gonna worship this slop and real people will puke their popcorn.
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
>Can we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote
Its insane that they absolutely could with the money Bezos is throwing at them, but they wont. Hell, they could throw a bunch of money at creating a Tolkien AI neural net to write the perfect script. But instead we get... this. >and do it as a mega-event series that could only happen now
I'm sure it will be a mega-event clusterfrick, a bomb of sjw proportions that could and would only happen now. At least they'll leave their mark.
Let's ask Isildur
>could only happen now
Tolkien was an English professor at Oxford. The people writing for these shows are Gender Studies B.A.s from state schools.
Gender Studies B.A. is gracious. Associates, tops, if the writers even graduated HS. Likelihood of nepotism is almost guaranteed.
lol, Also he graduated from Oxford when that actually meant something. Now every ivory league school and the various hanger-ons is full of legacys who don't know the value of hard work and expect recognition despite being mediocre at best.
>ivory league school
kek is that like Spelman?
>ivory league
PETA would like a word with you
>he graduated from Oxford when that actually meant something
uh... I'm pretty sure it still means SOMETHING if you don't go for a joke degree.
note that English lit was recently found to be one of the worst degrees for getting you a job, so if it wasn't Tolkien we were discussing people here would probably class that in with gender studies.
Universities were actually easier to get into back in the day.
>he graduated from Oxford when that actually meant something
More than anything it meant you were born into the right social class
I dunno...you would need a cast of Black actors and strong women of indeterminate race 2 have to be lesbian
And any White women needs to with a smart Black guy or a dumb White guy
Also you would need to make constant comparisons to the 2016 American elections but make it fit in world they are in
Then maybe
I don't think anyone has done this, so there won't be any risk of it looking like any other show
They can't but they still will.
>30 pages of meaningless drivel describing a mundane item that serves no purpose
any grade schooler can write better than Tolkien so that's the easy part
Show me a grade schooler capable of writing the Faramir-Eowyn in the house of healing chapter
>so bad the old hack had to pen a letter to try to quell criticisms for it
lol great example moron, here it is by the way since you're a moronic homosexual:
>[I have received] criticism of the speed of the relationship or ‘love’ of Faramir and Eowyn. In my experience feelings and decisions ripen very quickly (as measured by mere 'clock-time', which is actually not justly applicable) in periods of great stress, and especially under the expectation of imminent death. And I do not think that persons of high estate and breeding need all the petty fencing and approaches in matters of 'love'. This tale does not deal with a period of 'Courtly Love' and its pretences; but with a culture more primitive (sc. less corrupt) and nobler
almost fell asleep reading just this paragraph from how overly pretentious he is, glad his world and life work is being ruined by woke lefties lol
I accept your concession
Anon, it seems like you cited something that negates your point. Also, how do you want an Oxford professor of literature to write? If grunting slang and making pop culture references is the only way to keep you awake, please stick to Lil Gay-Nig or whatever trap bs you listen to.
>it's good because [my headcanon]
it's pathetic
Lmao, seething and literally no argument. The absolute state of Amazon shills.
I think it's hilarious that throughout production they were going for woke points but now that it's completed and we're counting down to release they've finally realised that people don't want that and are pretending to be faithful to the source.
Nobody's buying it. Enjoy your one billion dollars down the toilet, Bezos.
So they want to create something original. No they can't
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Note that they don't say "the novel Tolkien *would have written*", because even they know they're fricking hackfrauds who're only doing this so they can vandalize his legacy.
Anyone who actually watches this is a moron.
>that could only happen now
>even them see their time is coming
PROTIP: you can't
>Can we, shitty TV writers with next to no credits hired because our politics align with Amazon's current corporate mission statement, come up with the novel Tolkien, Oxford professor of linguistics and actual genius who wrote the most popular novel of the 20th century behind only the Bible, never wrote?
>We, the shitty TV writers, say yes!
>If you disagree it's because you're a racist alt-right Trump supporter
kek
Leftists could never write anything as SOVLful as LOTR. They are artless babies.
You can look up the writers on IMDB.
They've worked on projects such as Cloverfield, Fear The Walking Dead, Stranger Things and Star Trek: Discovery
With a track record like that, surely a masterpiece awaits that will SURPASS Tolkien's work
Women are cancer.
I'm getting excited now, we might get kino like this
Literally a diversity hire.
no wonder these people insert politic ideology into everything they do, it's literally all they have, it's the only reason they were hired and if they didn't do it they'd have to rely on their writing talent which is clearly non-existant
fricking kek, the state of these "writers"
yes mens I mean yes womxn
Such excellent minds to update Tolkien
>They've worked on projects such as Cloverfield, Fear The Walking Dead, Stranger Things and Star Trek: Discovery
None of those is good though...
It's called sarcasm.
>Can we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote?
No.
>and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now?
Also no.
We do it for Floyd
We do it for Fauci
Middle Earth resists capitalism
I'm really surprised no one has replaced those rainbows with nazi flags yet to farm endless amounts of salt.
wait, is not a shop already from a colorized German pic from the 30s? holy shit
How much of a narcissist do you need to be to think you could even come close to Tolkien level writing?
>Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood. Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad.
>Bree of Bree-land on Bree-hill
yeah great writing lol
Los Angeles of Los Angeles-land on Los Angeles-hill
lmfao
how do you morons defend this trash
I like Tolkien but that is a poorly written and frankly embarrassing excerpt.
Doesn't "Bree" mean "hill"? Hill of Hill-land on Hill-hill.
>Sauron
>Saruman
It's like he was doing it as a joke. Imagine if Star Wars was about Luke and Darth Lukeman.
>Imagine if Star Wars was about Luke and Darth Lukeman.
ha ha yeah, imagine if Star Wars had silly and dumb names
SOU RON
SAH ROO MAN
>capeshit idiots: HURRRRR IT'S THE SAME NAME DURRRRRRR
every fricking thread
What is your idea of a good book anon?
old man and the sea
At what point can we just call fanfiction vandalism?
when they fricking spam it here, paid or no
>mega-event series
Imagine the kind of person who would use this as a positive.
>the novel Tolkien never wrote
So literally every other novel that's ever existed? By their metric they can do a BDSM show about bisexual interracial midgets because hey Tolkien never wrote that novel either!
>When Amazon released photos of its multicultural cast, even without character names or plot details, the studio endured a reflexive attack from trolls—the anonymous online kind.
>“It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like,” says Lindsey Weber, executive producer of the series. “Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together.”
>“Obviously there was going to be push and backlash,” says Tolkien scholar Mariana Rios Maldonado, who is not affiliated with The Rings of Power, “but the question is from whom? Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?”
what's that peter jackson quote about how he didn't want to insert any of his politics or beliefs into the movies because it was important that it remain tolkien's story?
>We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
These grotesque little gobloids are always so uppity
is that fatass sweating? Black folk stink
>including black people is politics
maybe for you polcels, but for everyone else that's just life.
>a reflexive attack from trolls
We're not allowed to have opinions?
Nothing like banter with the boys.
agreed
Man I remember that, it was brutal but he was right about everything. That whole documentary is depressing as frick, Africa will never progress.
What's the title? Also kind of a funny coincidence, because my friends and I were trying to figure out yesterday what's wrong with Africa.
Empire of Dust.
where's the from?
>Tolkien scholar Mariana Rios Maldonado, who is not affiliated with The Rings of Power
When I was a kid I had the extended dvd sets and watched everything on it multiple times, all four commentary tracks on each movie, all the behind the scenes stuff, even scrolled through all the 1000s of stills and sketches
Am... am I a Tolkien scholar?
>Tolkien scholar
Yes. But you're not a Tolkien Scholar™, so you don't matter.
you need to be the "right" scholar.
have you read anything written by tolkien?
The Hobbit when I was a kid and The Lord of the Rings as a teenager
>Mariana Rios Maldonado
You're not even close to her level of Tolkien scholarship.
>Mariana is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow with the research project “Ethics, Femininity and the Encounter with the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives”:
>She is the Equality and Diversity Officer for the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.
>Mariana is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow with the research project “Ethics, Femininity and the Encounter with the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives”:
she's literally, unironically just a waste of resources. all these phd projects like this as a tremendous waste.
>The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.
>Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
The plan: we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now.
>mega-event series
I'm so fricking sick of shit like this. I'm sure directors and studios have always had plans to milk a series as hard as they can but holy shit at least pretend it's not just a big, endless trough of slop.
>could only happen now
What?
Unlikely seeing as theres only been about three noteworthy films made since 2010.
>can we come with the goyslop tolkien never wrote and do as the mega-event goyslop that could only happen now?
>CURRENT YEAR
Reminder that the writers for Rings of Power were recommended to Amazon by this guy.
Can't wait for kino!
They're exactly the type of gormless arrogant butthole Abrams loves to surround himself with. Remember Lindehof? Same breed.
And then Lindelof surrounds himself with literal hacks like Kitsis and Horowitz kek
This man single handedly ruined Star Trek, Star Wars, and now he's going to ruin Lot of the Rings. Amazing. He's failed upwards since 2006.
actually he's been given the job to ruin the DCU next.
Old penis nose himself
The statement is a lie anyhow. This is a money grab.
The answer was no. No they couldn't.
Well, I have a new hobby: Going through trailers, teasers, interviews and featurettes on youtube and leave a dislike on the video while the autoplay block means they won't even get a view from me. The shit you come up with when you're both bored and annoyed.
It's gonna be so bad bros. But. I bet it'll have reviews 360 out from Terminal List. Critics are gonna worship this slop and real people will puke their popcorn.
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
MORE TOLKIEN THAN TOLKIEN
>Can they pull it off?
>Can we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote
Its insane that they absolutely could with the money Bezos is throwing at them, but they wont. Hell, they could throw a bunch of money at creating a Tolkien AI neural net to write the perfect script. But instead we get... this.
>and do it as a mega-event series that could only happen now
I'm sure it will be a mega-event clusterfrick, a bomb of sjw proportions that could and would only happen now. At least they'll leave their mark.