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    Pellaeon reacted to Glóin the Dark in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    What Tolkien would have thought about the artistic merits of this show (or Jackson's films) is not in doubt.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Romão in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    At this point, I really do not care if this is good or not and that is honestly besides the point. Tolkien would've hated this sort of "expansion", to put it mildly, of his writings. It's ethically and artistically wrong. He was obsessed with the inner consistency of his life's work. No detail was superfluous. Nothing was added to just create a false sense of depth and fake historicity. It never was lazy world building. The whole thing just becomes absolutely believable.
     
    Amazon might have the rights, but they have no right to do this.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Romão in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    It is precisely because I love the books and admire Tolkien's life work that I refuse to watch this
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Chen G. in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    Ahah, yes, it’s straight up in here!
     
    “And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair,
            and like a meteor,
    A star in flight, ere Yule one night
            flickering down he fell”
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from JNHFan2000 in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    No, they went east to the Sea of Rhûn and maybe beyond, so they only exist in the lore and not in any tale. Because Tolkien threw in that “Five Wizards” mention in LotR, yet obviously only three of them were involved in the War, he had to justify why the other two were off-screen by putting them literally off-map. He mused that they either helped the Easterlings resist the Shadow (thus the Easterling invasion in the War could have been much worse) or else they went rogue decided to set themselves up as deities.
     
    Saruman also went to the east, but he came back. I have a whole fan theory about what he was up to.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Tallguy in Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director’s Cut 4K Restoration (supervised by Mike Matessino)   
    OK. I ordered it. The Big One. If I wind up ordering the standalone down the line (or Spock help me, the 6 movie set) I will pretend this never happened.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Bilbo in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    Is this going to be another Mattris sort of deal, where it’s our own fault if we respond to him?
    Tolkien Disenchantment.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Nick1Ø66 in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    Is this going to be another Mattris sort of deal, where it’s our own fault if we respond to him?
    Tolkien Disenchantment.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Tallguy in Star Wars is better than everything   
    Friends don’t let friends not watch the 4K77. Let us help you. Please.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Tallguy in Star Wars is better than everything   
    But printing the laserdisc onto a DVD and making you buy it in a bundle with the version you don’t want... not a gimmick?
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Manakin Skywalker in Star Wars is better than everything   
    But printing the laserdisc onto a DVD and making you buy it in a bundle with the version you don’t want... not a gimmick?
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from enderdrag64 in Star Wars is better than everything   
    Friends don’t let friends not watch the 4K77. Let us help you. Please.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Bespin in Star Wars is better than everything   
    I watched the Despecialized version, it's a gimmick.
     
    It's a gimmick, like the Special Edition is a gimmick.
     
    It's uneven... as we watch it, we knows what scene is from the original cut, which one is from the Bluray... It's a gimmick.
     
    Then, the 4K77 is a restored version of the movie way more inferior than what is really possible with today's pro technology.
     
    Can I watch the movie as I saw it when I was a kid please, but restored, like every movie is restored today?
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    Pellaeon reacted to Disco Stu in Star Wars is better than everything   
    Wait, how is the 4K77 version a gimmick?
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Chen G. in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    You know, it’s kind of fun to go back through this thread and look at our theories from 4 years ago.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Oswin Pond in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    They drop a trailer, we react. They drop an interview, we react. These events are designed to create buzz around their show and to attempt you to persuade you to tune in.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Nick1Ø66 in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    Not all readers understand or appreciate Tolkien’s achievement. Laura Miller criticizes Tolkien’s more enthusiastic readers for admiring “the quantity, rather than the quality, of invention” (Miller 214), but she fails to realize that the quantity is an essential component of the quality of his kind of invention. Tolkien’s legendarium is the equivalent of the mythology and history of a people, indeed several peoples. That this vast epic was the creation of one man is in a way the most impressive and astonishing thing about it, as much so as its specific contents.
    —David Bratman, Tolkien Studies, Volume 19, 2022 Supplement, p. 3, emphasis mine
     
    Anyone else dumbfounded that the most expensive TV show ever is a pastiche? Who the heck can pull off Tolkien pastiche? And why the heck? Guaranteed to disappoint.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Bilbo in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    They drop a trailer, we react. They drop an interview, we react. These events are designed to create buzz around their show and to attempt you to persuade you to tune in.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Servant of Morgoth in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    I think this is the problem of ROP. It could be a good even maybe great modern generalistic fantasy tv show(with all the issues that being a modern generalistic fantasy tv show brings) but with a very tiny blanket of Tolkien sewed on it. This is way I'm gonna to dislike ROP even much more the two trilogies of Jackson
    This tweet is just an example there are many more of people who attended the premiere in LA and posted about it. I think no I'm pretty sure that I'll live again the nightmares I had with GOT and the Witcher adaptations. Beautiful fantasy books totally butchered and twisted in something else
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)   
    Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialisation has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing.
     
    There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from DarthDementous in THE ORVILLE - Show Discussion   
    Yeah, I thought about that. (It’s a thinker.) There were some bold choices in that script.
     
    They could have showed the audience the stakes—Ed and Kelly (and the audience) find out exactly how the future is changed, and that makes it less of a conundrum. Bolder choice to make them stick to their resolve without having to know.
     
    They could have pulled a Voyage Home and not worry about the damned timeline. (“How do we know he didn't invent the thing?”)
     
    They could have softened the impact by mentioning that, there being infinite timelines, the married Gordon would have lived out his life in his timeline.
     
    They could have given the rescued Gordon a moment of melancholy reflection at the end. But it’s more impactful that he just isn’t there emotionally.
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