Melkor aka Morgoth was pretty damn evil from the beginning. Everything bad and fell in middle earth came from him. He kidnapped and corrupted some of the original elves, turning them into orcs. He corrupted many Maia, including bad boy Sauron. Heck, he corrupted the land itself.
The entire History of the Silmarils involved his utter hatred for elves in general and the Noldar in particular.
He was Tolkiens thinly veiled Lucifer.
I have zero faith that they’ll portray him accurately.
Melkor aka Morgoth was pretty damn evil from the beginning
Worth highlighting that "evil" in the broader sense here was originally about disharmony as reality is/was a song/music that all beings joined in on and added to in harmony.
Except Melkor who wanted to go off and write his own music while forming a solo boy band with blackjack and hookers which is why his own brand ended up being edgy, emo grunge in various ways.
I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love. I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love.
Well, good news then. This isn't an adaptation of any books. It's forced to be set in the 2nd age, which only has a very bare-bones chronology to it. So it's almost entirely from Amazon's own imagination. I'm sure that will make things better, right?
I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
Part of me hopes they just realise there's far, far too much material for that to ever work. Even just the Mistborn books have decades between the two trilogies and because of characters like Hoid there are still recurring faces throughout every single book before you even get onto the various other Worldhoppers that start showing up in the Stormlight Archives.
I've pretty much sworn off film adaptations now. I'm not going to touch a single one until I've perused the source material first. Not only because we keep getting shit adaptations made by people filled with nothing but contempt for the original works, their creators, and those who liked them, but because there seems to be this all-encompassing view in society that film (and animation to a lesser degree) is the ultimate form of storytelling. That no story is worth actually perusing until it gets a movie, show, or cartoon based on it, and that every book, comic, video game, and even cartoons must aspire to have a live-action adaptation.
Which is why I now seethe whenever I see anyone bring up one of those topics "Who should star in a movie based on X." Seriously, STOP DEMANDING MOVIE ADAPTATIONS!
"Except Trump, alt-right, far right, conservatives, Republicans, Christians, Jews when they're opposing Islam, Asians next week, straights, whites, men, straight white men, cops, J6 insurectionists, Andy Ngo, Jordan Peterson, the Proud Boys, people who don't respect women's bodies by opposing abortions, people who won't take the jab into their bodies, you if you don't watch your step, and Nazis, which everyone previously mentioned are."
Inflation is a bitch. Adjusted for 2001 dollars, when Peter Jackson made his movies, that is only about $3.50. They are really working on a shoe string budget.
Fantasy and sci-fi are going to have a higher upper limit than anything set in the real world, but that's still a ridiculous amount of money for an eight episode series. For comparison, Game of Thrones eventually rose to $15 million per episode, a quarter of what The Rings of Power is supposed to cost.
"Nothing is evil...in the beginning."
Lemme guess...everything evil in Middle Earth, from the orcs to the trolls to the Dark Lords is all the fault of Eru and the Elves oppressing someone.
Melkor aka Morgoth was pretty damn evil from the beginning. Everything bad and fell in middle earth came from him. He kidnapped and corrupted some of the original elves, turning them into orcs. He corrupted many Maia, including bad boy Sauron. Heck, he corrupted the land itself.
The entire History of the Silmarils involved his utter hatred for elves in general and the Noldar in particular.
He was Tolkiens thinly veiled Lucifer.
I have zero faith that they’ll portray him accurately.
Worth highlighting that "evil" in the broader sense here was originally about disharmony as reality is/was a song/music that all beings joined in on and added to in harmony.
Except Melkor who wanted to go off and write his own music while forming a solo boy band with blackjack and hookers which is why his own brand ended up being edgy, emo grunge in various ways.
I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love. I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
Yup. Even before we knew anything about this LotR shitshow, my first reaction was dread.
Aaron Spelling and Kindred: The Embraced.
shudder
Well, good news then. This isn't an adaptation of any books. It's forced to be set in the 2nd age, which only has a very bare-bones chronology to it. So it's almost entirely from Amazon's own imagination. I'm sure that will make things better, right?
Part of me hopes they just realise there's far, far too much material for that to ever work. Even just the Mistborn books have decades between the two trilogies and because of characters like Hoid there are still recurring faces throughout every single book before you even get onto the various other Worldhoppers that start showing up in the Stormlight Archives.
I've pretty much sworn off film adaptations now. I'm not going to touch a single one until I've perused the source material first. Not only because we keep getting shit adaptations made by people filled with nothing but contempt for the original works, their creators, and those who liked them, but because there seems to be this all-encompassing view in society that film (and animation to a lesser degree) is the ultimate form of storytelling. That no story is worth actually perusing until it gets a movie, show, or cartoon based on it, and that every book, comic, video game, and even cartoons must aspire to have a live-action adaptation.
Which is why I now seethe whenever I see anyone bring up one of those topics "Who should star in a movie based on X." Seriously, STOP DEMANDING MOVIE ADAPTATIONS!
“Nothing is evil”
-Evil, 2022
"The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing people he wasn't real." - Some old dead white guy (slightly paraphrased)
"Except Trump, alt-right, far right, conservatives, Republicans, Christians, Jews when they're opposing Islam, Asians next week, straights, whites, men, straight white men, cops, J6 insurectionists, Andy Ngo, Jordan Peterson, the Proud Boys, people who don't respect women's bodies by opposing abortions, people who won't take the jab into their bodies, you if you don't watch your step, and Nazis, which everyone previously mentioned are."
Money laundering.
Yup
Inflation is a bitch. Adjusted for 2001 dollars, when Peter Jackson made his movies, that is only about $3.50. They are really working on a shoe string budget.
Fantasy and sci-fi are going to have a higher upper limit than anything set in the real world, but that's still a ridiculous amount of money for an eight episode series. For comparison, Game of Thrones eventually rose to $15 million per episode, a quarter of what The Rings of Power is supposed to cost.