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Please kill me already. Why do they have to ruin everything they touch? I can already imagine the retarded political comparisons, they're going to compare themselves to Frodo and the Elves, when they're literally the Orcs invading the West and replacing the natives.
At least they haven't touched Narnia, probably because it's way more explicitly Christian. But I wouldn't put Narnia on quite the same literary level as LoTR.
On the plus side, at least we can piss them off by posting Daily Gondor screencaps.
Idk, they did a pretty good job of just ruining it with the movies. Killed an entire generation's potential for interest in the books.
How bad were the movies? I've only seen the Prince Caspian one, and that was as a middle schooler.
First one was okay, I actually liked it and felt it was a decent start. Also one of my favorite soundtracks.
Prince Caspian was mediocre, and decided to keep the Witch as the main villain for no real reason. It was also injected with a bunch of pointless character drama that didn't come from the books at all, and just sidestepped the actual story at every possible turn. The 45 minute castle siege was something that was only talked about in the book, but was dismissed as a bad idea. It was a major step down in quality, but it didn't fully kill interest in the series.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is many a fans favorite of the books, and they butchered it into a thousand pieces. Also kept the witch around from the first book as the primary villain for no apparent reason, again. It bombed so bad no fourth was ever made, and no one I know would have paid to see one.
For now the franchise is "safe" because no one would want to risk reviving a bomb. Though it's ties to Christianity are so well known, a remake is more likely to just get canceled than be wokefied.
The old BBC TV series/movies were good. I think those went up through The Silver Chair. I recall a lot of people being rather annoyed with some of the changes in the recent movies (never seen any myself.)
Man I'm just glad the trilogy was made when it was. They can't take that away, so when amazon inevitably fucks it up I won't care since I never planned on watching that shit to begin with.