I don’t want any more movie adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. While I’m sure some of the visual effects will be stunning, they’re just going to mess it up.
Some fans have signed a petition begging Amazon to keep nudity out of their upcoming Tolkien series.
I agree with that, but nudity is hardly the biggest threat. I already see articles about how Merry and Pippin or Frodo and Sam were a couple. The odds are good this new rendition will include some completely gratuitous wokeness. (Between the two, I’d prefer gratuitous nudity, but I’d rather have neither.)
This past weekend, the Tolkien Society, one of the oldest of the Tolkien fan groups, hosted its annual seminar in which members present papers on their research and analysis of the author’s body of work. This year, the theme was diversity. [Of course it was.]
“Spurred by recent interpretations of Tolkien’s creations and the cast list of the upcoming Amazon show The Lord of the Rings, it is crucial we discuss the theme of diversity in relation to Tolkien,” the seminar’s organizers wrote in a call for papers.
I am sick to death of this diversity BS, and I don’t want a bunch of movie makers stuffing their woke ideologies into Middle Earth.
Yes, neither, please.
Hard to believe, but movies these days do have less nudity in them than years past (70s-90s). Back in the day, every R rated or PG-13+ movie seemed to have the obligatory nude scene. Not as much these days.
I certainly don’t want to see any woke nonsense in Tolkien.
Aren’t the orcs supposed to be an inherently evil dark-skinned race? I don’t see how you can do anything “woke” with such scenario.
I’ll wait to see what’s developed (if anything) and assess based on the merits of the work. Hopefully, it’s creative, thought-provoking, honors Tolkien and entertaining.