Lord of the Rings TV series gets multi-season order at Amazon

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Originally Posted by skip spence

There was a time not that long ago this would excite me somewhat, at least instill a little vain hope that the series perhaps would be good after all. Not so now. There's really no chance of that. Not for Tolkienistas like us.

Sadly, you're right.

Tolkien himself said way back in 1955 that he thought LOTR was "unsuitable for 'dramatisation'". He was quite correct. The language, story, and characterizations are sublime and distinctive enough to make an accurate adaptation, as least as far as the ephemeral qualities, impossible. Another GoT clone with swords, sorcery, violence, and maybe as much skin as they can get away with. Why do an adaptation of someone else's work if you're just going to undo it?