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).
Keep reading good works.
Do good deeds.
Don't consume modern garbage.
Yea, I’ve reached a point when a movie is being made based on a book I’ve never read I just get the book. Like Foundation is on my stack to read. Recently read Dune
I've watched the first 3 episodes of Foundation. It's literally an analogy for the death of European culture and the the rise of black feminist culture. Stopped watching it.
Is the show really that much worse than the books?
And from your description of the analogy you could take it either way - that is the social commentary on the destruction in European culture being good OR bad.
The black female leads are portrayed as heroes. The white male leads are portrayed as antagonists. Not sure how you can interpret it any other way.