![]() ![]() In fact I seem to recall Corey Olsen (The Tolkien Professor) contending that they were actually more faithful book adaptations than the first trilogy was. Why was that? I’m not sure that these later films stray any further from the books than the original trilogy did. Changes to the lore (lore crimes?) that hadn’t bugged me in the first trilogy drove me nuts in The Hobbit. Yet I found watching Jackson’s Hobbit movies a decade later to be an extremely painful experience. Sure, there were some huge changes to the book story, but it didn’t seem to matter much – they were just such great films, you could overlook the differences. The movies looked incredible (and still do!) and they were utterly compelling. Peter Jackson’s first foray into Middle-earth was, let’s face it, astonishing. Will it be the unbridled joy of seeing Tolkien’s Middle-earth again in all its glory, feeling that wide-eyed wonder of the first sighting of The Shire or the Argonath in The Fellowship of the Ring? Or will it be despair – Radagast riding his bunny-sled around Eriador, or those twirly-wirly arrow-killer things of Dáin’s army? In all likelihood, a little from column A and a little from column B. And as the hype begins to gather pace for Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings series “The Rings of Power”, I find myself once again back in that familiar place. There are few things in life that elicit a simultaneous sense of excitement and fear quite like the announcement that one of your favourite books is about to be adapted for the screen. ![]()
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