Rings of Power

The Rings of Power season finale dropped this week...

I am genuinely at a loss for words for how bad this show has been. It's an insult to Tolkien's legacy 😟

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I have seen none of the Rings films after the very first, which I viewed in a cinema. It was an animation that ended half-way through the trilogy but never, as far as I know, had its second half made. I think that was back in the 1970s or early-1980s.

I had read the book and that version was fair. It was also beautifully drawn and painted - years before CGI.

However, the film and TV industry especially, has a terrible record of debasing the originals by pretending it can write new versions, even tacking on cheapskate additional stories; presumably lacking the creativity, skill, effort and time to make anything genuinely and fully their own.

Whodunnit · M

@ArishMell Oh, I remember that animation, I think it was made by Rankin Bass. I think it's almost as old as I am, lol

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Whodunnit 41-45... Yes, it is nearly as old as you! A shame the second half was not made.