Redditor says fans need to be GRATEFUL that The Rings of Power exists
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lol, what book is being adapted here?
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