Redditor says fans need to be GRATEFUL that The Rings of Power exists
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lol, what book is being adapted here?
To be fair he didn't claim anything was being adapted. We just need to be grateful it got adaptated.
Loosely, you could say The Silmarillion.
Personally, I don't believe that's predominantly J.R.R.'s work. I think his son Christopher, and another writer named Guy Gavriel Kay, wrote most of it (perhaps based on notes left by J.R.R., maybe) and passed it off as official LotR material.
No, can't be. They explicitly DON'T have the rights to The Silmarillon, just the trilogy and the appendices to them. This is "fan"fiction by people who hold the original in contempt.
Whether or not they have the rights to it, it is the material they're riffing on. Valinor, Beleriand, fall of Númenor, the drama with Melkor and Sauron, etc.
It's not an adaptation of the "stories" of The Silmarillion, but there is absolutely no doubt that this is where the material is coming from.
You're both kind of correct. No need to speculate though, they've admitted what they have access to and where this stuff comes from.
All they legally have access to for lotr is the appendixes in the books, untold tales, and Silmarillion. They cannot use anything from the Silmarillion itself.
So they have to be stupidly vague about anything they mention in the story, and fill in the gaps with their own fanfic.
Yeah, but there's a huge legal distinction
Yeah, that's what happened. Guy Gavriel Kay is awesome. I highly recommend "Tigana," "Lions of al-Rassan," "The Sarantine Mosiac," and more.
Tigana is cool. I picked it up at a library sale for 50c because the cover was bizarre and intriguing. That was what put Kay on my radar, and caused me to notice how incredibly similar his writings were to J.R.R. Tolkein's supposed 'found' works and notes.
At the same sale, I picked up for similar reasons of neat cover, a book by the Watership Down guy, and hoo nelly, that book did not go as well. Who knew the bunny guy was so into rape-slaves?