It’s Amazing! Granted I’m only like 110 pages into Fellowship but Tolkien is an amazing story teller. I read the Hobbit a while back and since I work from home (the one benefit of my company having Covid hysteria) I get to read a lot more.
I remember Peter Jackson saying he wanted to tell Tolkien’s story. It’s too bad modern day adaptations don’t have that respect for source material. Wheel of Time comes to mind. That showrunner is more concerned with lgbt representation than actually adapting the story. And I have no hope for the new show based on the Simarillion (which I’ll read after I finish the trilogy).
Good point and I think a lot of modern writers are obsessed with it or subverting expectations. Nothing wrong with that but there is a reason that the heroes journey exists. I remember critics gushing over the last Jedi.
Watchmen was amazing but like you said when you do something different like that you get lots of copycats