Amazon is mutating Tolkien's vision of Middle Earth

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Just be careful where you take it.

 

[Elthir]

😂

Maybe you should get some sleep too S-eS . . . I have a feeling it’s pasture bedtime!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I just took a long nap myself -- so you can muzzle that suggestion.

 

[Elthir]

A long nap? Then why the "long face"?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I like it.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oops! Sorry -- I misread your post. 😁

 

[Elthir]

No problem S-eS.

You've been a "stable" contributor to these puns, and that's what matters most 🐴

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I tend to tail off. . .

 

[Aldarion]

Considering how much Amazon is / will be horsing around, I think a little pun is warranted.

 

[Halasían]

I came back because I had a PM notification. It was from a dear friend. Took a look at the forum and this is what is the top thread?
Personally I don't really give a damn what Amazon does with it. I'll probably watch it out of curiousity and make a decision on whether I keep watching or not after the first installments.

 

[Shadow]

I’ll check it out, but even if it’s a dud I’ll always have the books, and I‘ll always have the Jackson films, which I enjoy despite the criticism they receive around here.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Took a look at the forum and this is what is the top thread?

You know all it takes to raise a thread to the top? A post. 😁

P.S.: That was a hint, in case you missed it.

 

[Radaghast]

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This couldn't be more apt.

 

[LadyGaladriel1980]

There are millions of fans of Peter Jackson's films who probably still have not read either of the books.
Add to those the millions of fans of the Game of Thrones TV series, and you have the market Amazon is aiming for.

Yes, this serie is nothing for Tolkienfans, it is more for teenagers, which dont remember the days, when we had no blackwashing in movies and series, or for game of throne fans, which enjoy to see sex and violence.
But i am totally angry and sad, that Tolkiens descendants allow Amazon to produce such horrible trash.

 

[Annatar]

By the beard of Gandalf, what the hell is that supposed to represent?

Is Amazon doing a Bollywood version of 2nd Age, and they're about to start singing and dancing?

That is so ridiculous.


Edit: Maybe the new version of this...

... when you've smoked way too much pipe weed?

 

[Annatar]

I like this picture better, but I'm starting to get the impression that the producers must have a lantern fetish:

Why do the two women wear a veil in front of their faces and have to stand?
Those seem to be very patriachal organized elves.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Servants? If they're going with short hair on male elves, the two on the right, with their backs to the camera, may well be female.

 

[Annatar]

Servants?

Yes, I thought so too. But servants in particular need a clear view. Why should they walk around with a net in front of their face? They spill the good wine all over the fine gentlemen. (Or maybe they are beekeepers who are about to serve the honey for dessert?)


And why do these pseudo-hobbits wear lettuce in their hair? 😂
Does the lady on the right have a beard? Maybe she is not a hobbit, but a female dwarf with lettuce in her hair?
And I'm pretty sure I saw the guy on the left at a Goa festival the other day....

Everyone knows that it is against the nature of hobbits to travel around all the time. And the most conservative were probably rather the Harfoots.
I'm afraid this series shows a completely perverted version of the hobbits.
Obviously, this is an amalgamation of multi-ethnic pseudo-"Harfoots" who lead a nomadic life and practice primitive tribal rituals. This pretty much contradicts everything we know about them from Tolkien. I think Tolkien emphasized that the hobbits were sedentary and only went wandering when circumstances did not permit otherwise. (Exceptions were, for example, the Bagginses and Tooks who had some Fallohide impact. And they were considered freaks.).

Well, it may be the case here that they were forced to wander by Sauron's evil influence, but the imagery suggests a lifestyle that has long been characterized by nomadism. And this is what Lenny Henry says:

"We're a nomadic tribe, moving with the weather and the fertility of the crops. We have big caravans on wooden wheels and we're very good at hiding things, because humans are much bigger than us and bring trouble."

Well, at least the last part makes a little more sense. Even though the Hobbits had very close contact with the ancestors of the Rohirrim.


Because it is so so beautiful, here again a nomadic pseudo-hobbit picture with one giant lantern and two other lanterns in the background.

I love these lanterns already, don't you? It will be one big Laternabalooza lantern festival.

So, now for a change briefly a picture where I first of all can not grumble around:

Here I could say at most that the armor does not look particularly elvish, but very human and militaristic as we know them from the Middle Ages or perhaps from the late Romans. But well, that is more a matter of taste, like the hair length of the elves. (Or do you think elves must necessarily have long hair?)

In terms of content, however, the scene is probably nonsense. Galadriel seems to be promoted to some kind of knight of the round table or something like that. We will see...

Edit: What is particularly noticeable here is that there are no lanterns in the picture. Which is a pity again, because I had already become very accustomed to it.

Editedit: For that, we may have here a Mallorn tree shining brightly like a lantern, although the scene is probably set in Lindon, where no Mellyrn can grow.
Well, maybe it's just autumn.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This pretty much contradicts everything we know about them from Tolkien.

They may have taken their cue from this:

There were probably many more Outsiders scattered about in the West of the World in those days than the people of the Shire imagined. Some, doubtless, were no better than tramps, ready to dig a hole in any bank and stay only as long as it suited them.
At the Sign of the Prancing Pony

That's Third Age, of course, but it does suggest a tradition of movement, or even migration; certainly the hobbits familiar to us did a lot of it, before coming to the Shire.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Is Amazon doing a Bollywood version of 2nd Age, and they're about to start singing and dancing?

It looks more Pre-Raphaelite to me.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I'd totally watch a Bollywood version of The Hobbit. It couldn't possibly be any worse than PJ's.