Spoilers Lord of the Rings TV series
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Elves are a goddamn cheat code.
As a WoT fan, I didn't mind the diversity--I minded changing elements of the story that did not need to be changed.
I haven't read anything past the first half of The Two Towers, but from what I've seen online, it sounds like Tolkien never went into a ton of detail about everything that went down in The Second Age, so that really gives them a lot of freedom, as long as they hit those big events from his writing. The biggest change I've heard about is that they're squishing together events that were spread out over thousands of years in the books, which makes sense to me, it can be hard to tell a coherent ongoing story with consistent characters when you're trying to tell a story over that much time.
He never published those works, and I always kind of got the feeling that he never meant to, it just got released after his death because it was there.
Besides, The Silmarillion is objectively a terribly reading experience because its not really a novel, its more of a bible style collection of writings, and the other random stuff found and published after Tolkien's death wasn't much better. I'm sure if he had decided to make the content into actual novels they'd have made for great stories, but the actual format of the information is just about the worst possible for getting information across, much less telling an actual story.
I don't have any faith in the Amazon show, but the idea of someone taking Second Age stuff and telling it coherently is a good idea even if they have to mess with the timeline, since I've wanted to learn about that stuff but don't want to just go through a wiki or try (for probably the 10th time) to get more then 2-3 pages into The Silmarillion.
Apparently they have, because they hired an intimacy coach and required that actors be okay with nudity.
...the Tolkien estate did this? Truly?
All the film studios are doing this now to avoid law suits after the fact. It's why they replaced an actor on a show or film recently with someone else because the old dude refused to follow the coaches lead and what the female costar was comfortable with
No, but they approved it.
Yes. Tolkien was not ignorant of sex.
Oh, from what I'd seen online I was under the impression he focused most of the Silmarillion and that stuff on the First Age, with just a brief overview of what happened in the Second.
As for the sex, this is a different group of people, writing in a different era, with different expectations, so obviously they're not going to do things the same way Tolkien did.
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