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One of the tiny irritations lately is the "Rings of Power" show on Amazon Prime.
The show itself is objectively rubbish, plenty of reviewers can attest to that. Some have admitted to falling asleep while trying to review it, one of them was an Amazon employee.
The ten minutes of episode one I had inflicted on me revealed a lot of time spent on costuming and cinematography, not much on characterization and building the world. Also, the producers trolling the audience with gay elves and MAGA rallies, just what one wants in a Tolkien story.
When you read the Silmarillion, Tolkien lays out how the world that includes Middle Earth came to be, why it is the way it is, and how and when it changed to be the way it was in the Lord of the Rings. He tells you who is who and how they got that way.The producers of course ignore all that and insert their own ill-conceived, fashionable nonsense, something we've come to expect from Hollywood the last twenty years.
Irritating, but avoidable. I just don't look.
But then, adding to the stupidity, there are the wankers who fancy themselves 'fan intellectuals'. Today's irritation comes courtesy of the flopping camel, who presumes to ask: "Does Gandalf know the sun is a ball of flaming gas?"
Tolkien wrote that Gandalf was one of the Maiar, the spirits who sang in the choir that brought the universe into being. He knows it is not a ball of flaming gas.
The Bolsheviks are on a roll smearing poop on culture, eh? They are not creatures of reason, nor adult in matters of finance. Get woke, go broke, eh?
ReplyDeleteI hope you did not spend any of your disposable income on this turd from the Harvey Weinstein school of art.
It's Camel-twerp. Do you really think he is familiar with Tolkien's work?
ReplyDeleteSalutations, gents.
ReplyDeleteFenris, someone was watching RoP while I was in the same room ignoring it as much as possible. They lasted ten minutes, quite a feat because I was done after the first gay elf gave his first irritating speech.
Not to mention, the opening scene is the other elf kids throwing rocks at Galadriel's paper boat when she was a child. A misinterpretation of Tolkien's work so profound it has to be deliberate. They're trolling their own audience, people who know Tolkien and care about the stories.
Northern, the camel flop is fairly indicative of reactions from your bog-standard Leftists out there. Whether they've read it or not isn't really relevant to the conversation, they will -never- give an honest opinion. Tolkien was fundamentally a Christian and a man of Western Civilization, therefore they must tear him down and befoul his works. I picked the camel because he was unusually stupid that day, but that type of snide, smarmy commentary is all over the place these days.