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And the ruination continues, at least if rumors are true:

And I decided to publish my commentary on Season 1 of Rings of Power: https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/rings-of-power-general-commentary/ Technically not finished, but it was too depressing to continue.

It comes under the purview of "official". Anything that carries the trademark of "Lord of the Rings" is "official" product... but that does not make it canon, except for itself. Rings of Power are canon for the Rings of Power, Shadow of Mordor is canon for the Shadow of Mordor... but neither is...

Uh... canon1 noun 1. a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged. "the appointment violated the canons of fair play and equal opportunity" 2. a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine. "the biblical canon" If it's not by Tolkien, it is not canon.

Derivative works are, by definition, not canon.

I really don't understand that deal with hard canon and soft canon. Considering what LOTR universe is, anything not written by Tolkien is not canon at all.

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And male characters being useless while a woman solves everything, and of course Galadriel is the only one who realizes Sauron is dangerous and has to put men in their place, and Galadriel being rage-consumed manchild, and everything medieval having to be brown and dirty, and elves having short...

Um, the show is pretty much purposefully designed to shit all over the spirit of Tolkien. https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/rings-of-power-commentary-episode-1/ https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-powers-middle-earth-feels-flat/ It can't shove wokeness into...

Most people are more familiar with fantasy than with actual history. And Tolkien is the foundation upon which all modern fiction is built on, one way or another. It is also easier to shit them on that, because Tolkien's canon is written black-on-white and is out there for everybody to see...

Ugh. No, it does not. In fact, I have hard time deciding whether RoP makers are simply clueless, or are actively malevolent and intentionally disrespecting the source material.

Starship Troopers movie may have been an intentional parody of the book, but it was a well-made film and quite entertaining. Please do not compare it to the disaster that is Rings of Power. Anyway, something far better than the series:

Anyway, wrote a review of Episode 1: https://militaryfantasysf.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/rings-of-power-commentary-episode-1/

They do. Hobbit ears are described as "slightly pointy and elvish", contrasted to completely round human ears. Also, I managed to find this:

I'll do it right away, based on what we have seen in trailers: 1) acting - actors won't know how to act at all, so no acting 2) props - cheapskate props from nearest Wallmart 3) plot holes - the entire series will be one giant plot hole comprised of smaller plot holes 4) whole other things -...

Left lives in alternate reality ruled by emotions... wait, we do have name for it. So yeah, in their reality, only WHITE men can be evil. Look at Star Wars.

Yes, that Galadriel. Can you show me one time beyond Alqualonde when Galadriel being "Amazon" and "masculine" is actually relevant to Galadriel's actions within the story, as opposed to being just an interesting factoid? Because I am not seeing it.

Literally that one is pride and the other corruption? You can be prideful without being corrupt - see Galadriel, Thranduil, arguably Denethor and Aragorn. And you can also be corrupt without being prideful. Fact that most major villains are both (Melkor, Sauron, Saruman, Ar Pharazon) doesn't...