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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would say Rings of Power, then again it has basically nothing to do with any books and seems to be based on bad fan fiction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There’s a book for rings of power??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It is very loosely based on the appendages to the ~~Silmarillion~~LOTR.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Appendices to LOTR*

They legally cannot use the silmarillion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They try to sneak some stuff in anyways though.

Like, the whole "master smith discovers alloys" thing was a way to show the three elven rings being made of the different metals without directly referencing the Silmarillion describing them. When they pour out the "alloy" to make the rings they're clearly made of different metals.

But like, who was that for?

Real huge lore nerds you just pissed off because Sauron wasn't supposed to know about their existence or take part in their making? Him not knowing is why his plan didn't work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yes you're right. Thank God they don't have access to that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think they got permission to use a bit of material, especially from the earlier chapters about the two trees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But the thing is, Rings of Power is incredibly fun, because it completely ignores source, steals just enough character names & places to get Lord of the Rings fans excited, but it's not boring. Lord of the Rings is about thousands of pages of walking.

Galadriel is a WOMAN and therefore according to Professor Tolkien is useless. Show makes her the one badass in Middle Earth.

I did hate the not-yet-Hobbits, that was not a good invention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have friends who are big time LOTR fans who absolutely hate it and didn’t get past the first couple of episodes.

Me - who has no context around the whole thing - found it kinda entertaining :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can see how it could be entertaining. Much like watching a train wreck. But "fun" is taking it a bit too far.