Wait, seriously?
He even wrote poem for fallen one
Wait, seriously?
I figured this was inevitable the moment Christopher was no longer around to protect his father's legacy. That being said, does anyone here remember the woke Discworld series BBC made last year? No? Me neither. Also, remember how quickly the final season flop of GoT utterly cleansed popular culture of its colon clog? And hey, are those MCU tv series outperforming their movie counterparts?
Things are popular for a reason and altering them leads to flat nothing burgers that are promptly discarded and forgotten. If the mental inbreds in Hollywood think they can mutilate Tolkien for the sake of a quick buck... well maybe they'll get the buck, but the cultural legacy will be lucky to make it as deep as GoT.
Indeed.They are like soviets - thanks to my family i knew how they behaved.They must destroy what they do not stole,and when they could not destroy,they shit on it.I don't think it is just about the quick buck, though. These mental inbreds are Marxists, which means that a conservative, Christian tale like Tolkien's, is essentially a personal insult for them.
Wait, seriously?
10. Tolkien Has Plot Cul-de-Sacs for the Sake of Worldbuilding: Apparently having CAMEOS of famous characters that barely show up in LOTR later is a symptom of old fiction. Nowadays properly constructed fictional settings just add them as post-credit stingers. WTF Tolkien?
9. Random Characters Show Up For a Short Amount of Time in Lord of the Rings
8. Tolkien's Heroes Seem Invincible: The author believes a story where all of the main characters survive is "outdated based on newer books."
7. Some of Lord of the Rings Main Characters Lack Agency: The author cites Merry and Pippin.
6. The Story Takes Awhile to Get Started
5. The Lord of the Rings Books Lack Diversity: Yessssss here we go.
4. Some Races In The Lord of the Rings are Inherently Evil: This is a higher ranked concern then Diversity!
3. The Geography of Middle Earth is Concerning: And I quote "Some critics of Tolkien's work have pointed out some potentially concerning connections between where certain groups live in Middle Earth and real-life biases. Geographically, there is a largely East vs. West dynamic in the books, which is even directly referenced in the text. In the books, the good characters are from the West, and the bad characters are from the East."
2. Tolkiens Work Features Uncomfortable Racial Terminology:
1. Tolkiens World Features Very Few Women:
Let's critique this for a moment.
Points 10 and 9 are bad because LOTR is primarily milieu driven. For those curious, milieu stories are stories that are primarily concerned with the setting of the story above even the plot or the characters. The main protagonist of the Lord of the Rings isn't really Frodo, but rather Middle Earth itself.
Point 6 is basically "Wah, I have ADHD and can't read anything that isn't triggering nonstop dopamine hits in my brain." Also, I don't think LOTR's start is nearly as slow as some of its middle parts, so I don't get the issue.
Point 4 is inaccurate, as Tolkien himself took issue with the idea that all orcs are evil, but good orcs just never really had an opportunity to appear in the story. Also, orcs aren't even a natural race, they are an artificially created race, which is quite different.
Point 2 is simply the use of the traditional literary idea of blackness/darkness being associated with evil. I can understand why someone would feel uncomfortable with it/why a modern author wouldn't use it, but you'd have to be awfully dense to think Tolkien was talking about actual black people - and I don't think someone that dense would pick up a book as big as LOTR in the first place.
Point 1 is because Tolkien's LOTR is based off of traditional Nordic tales like Beowulf, where women rarely had much of a part. Even then, Tolkien definitely gave woman characters more agency and more of a part than the traditional stories he based LOTR off of did.