We Wuz Hobbits
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I had a feeling when his son died they wouldn’t respect the source material. This obsession with diversity in everything has ruined entertainment. Very interesting how Tolkien wrote this for British mythology. Also I’ve met plenty of people of different races who love the book and didn’t seem to have a problem with it.
Soon after Christopher Tolkien's death Amazon fired the original writing team for the series, as well as Tom Shippey (a literal Tolkien scholar and estate advisor).
I figured out why long ago, as I'm sure anyone else with half a brain could, but now we have clear-as-day proof for it. The demented vultures Bezos had waiting in the wings must've been waiting for that death so he could finally deal with Tolkien's other kids, who were much happier to sell out, and take that giant diarrheic dump on his Legendarium they've clearly been holding in for a while.
Agree. That is why I bought the Simallarion (sorry for mispelling) and plan to read it in the next 2 or 3 months. Honestly now when a book adaptation is done, I go straight to the source material. I read Dune this summer, and finished Wheel of Time series back in March. Foundation is and the LOTR trilogy (have only read Hobbit and Fellowship) are next.
How did you like Dune? Plan on reading any sequels? I think the series is solid through number four.
I liked it. I had read it about 12 years ago but I wanted a refresher. I will read the next two for sure since I bought them.
The Dune books in sequence go Great, Good, then progressively more insane and obviously stained by 1960’s free love culture. Think of the original Star Wars trilogy if RotJ was Barabella
Sounds bizarre! Thanks for the heads up.
Simarillion?
Yea it’s like a history of middle earth that Tolkien wrote. I may be misspelling it
If you wear cotton gloves, and only have a pencil and paper on you and no cell phone, and claim to be a scholar, you can visit england and hold and read unpublished Tolkien poems and source materials from his university library
What grandkids did to Tolkien in making everything turn negro is a perversion of British folklore
Lord of the Rings is after all a story of hope. Things can be better.
there was no females in lotr. (lol)
Yes indeed. The Hobbits do not even begin to migrate from their ancestral homeland east of the Misty Mountains toward Eriador (northwestern Middle-earth where the Shire is located) until ~1000 years into the Third Age, and the Shire isn't established with the permission of the Kings of Arthedain (Aragorn's ancestors) until about 500 years after that.
The Amazon series is ostensibly set in the Second Age, literally millennia before any Hobbit should appear in the lands of the Dúnedain. Much less a black Hobbit, when (being a sub-race of Men) they consistently lived in the far north of Middle-earth and before migrating, were longtime neighbors of the famously blond & pale-skinned Northmen who would later become the Rohirrim.