The new Lord of the Rings show to be released by Amazon has faced unrelenting criticism and it hasn’t even been released yet.
But the criticism isn’t undeserved. This isn’t a bunch of Tolkien fanatics gatekeeping the classic work with unreasonable expectations and setting unfair standards. Many people involved in the project made it abundantly clear that social Justice was the main focus of the show, and that Amazon had taken liberties with character, race, and other details to make the show more modern.
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It didn’t help that Vanity Fair released a piece with an interview from one of the show’s creators that effectively highlighted the backlash from many fans, labeling them many things, but “racist trolls” was the chief suggestion among them.
It’s this kind of interview that precedes a work that ruins itself with social justice politics and acts as a pre-loaded defense against its failure. It’s the “the show didn’t succeed because viewers are -ists and -phobes” defense. Interviews with creators and other talking heads afterward will confirm and further use this as an opportunity to emphasize that modern works such as the Lord of the Rings are more important than ever.
It’s the same song and dance we’ve seen with other co-opted properties.
But as pointed out by Bounding Into Comics, fans aren’t backing down, and when they saw the spot for the new show during the Super Bowl, users from many different countries posted the same phrase to describe the trailer, and it’s nothing short of brilliant.
J.R.R. is the author of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien focuses on one simple truth: evil can’t create new things, but it can pervert existing.
“’Evil cannot create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what was invented or created by the forces of good,’ J.R.R. Tolkien,” said commenters.
A quote from Frodo can be found in the “Return of the King” where he’s describing the creation of the orcs to Sam.
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures,” said Frodo.
The same phrase was repeatedly posted under the Lord of the Rings: The Rings for Power trailer from Amazon. It is often translated in different languages by users all over the globe. The repeated comment remains visible as of the writing. They include English, Hebrew and Turkish as well as French, German, Hebrew, Turkish and Turkish.
This phrase applies very handily to today’s age where properties are being ripped out from the past in order to be revamped and remade for modern times, and this always includes an injection of woke culture and social justice values.
It is deliberate and not an accident. This is a deliberate move to repurpose brands and franchises we hold in high regard in order create ready-made delivery methods for our message. It’s an attempt to normalize their politics by embedding them in things we love. These properties were quickly abandoned by many and decried.
The same is likely going to happen to Lord of the Rings, as it’s the latest victim of reimagining from a group of people who have lost touch with the people.
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