Lord of the Rings - Amazon Series

[Local Trouble]

I assume it's because they're anticipating copious gender and race-swapping of the characters.

[Master]

The race swapping is obvious from the posters though.

[Local Trouble]

Have those characters actually been identified though?  Couldn't they be original characters created for the show?

[SiL]

If you have read Tolkien novels and if you have seen the posters then the answer is obvious. It's self-explanatory.

So self explanatory you can't even explain it?

I'd really like to hear in your words what you think is "woke" about it.

[Master]

That's the point though, isn't it. Tolkien had literal diarrhea of characters.  Creating new for the show and color specyfic, for such author is wrong at best, but for me highly disrespectful.

[Local Trouble]

Well, they did invent Tauriel for the movies.

[Master]

Yep. And that's why Hobbit trilogy dosent even stand next to LOTR.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Because of Tauriel? lol

[Crazy Rich]

Okay let's be real, The Hobbit's problems go waaaay beyond just Tauriel...

C'mon.

[KiramidHead]

This is set during the Second Age, which Tolkien barely wrote anything about. They have to create new characters for there to even be a story at all, let alone seasons of television.

[Master]

There was a lot of second age in The Silmarilion. Black in Middlearth belongs to Mordor and Harrad.

[KiramidHead]

None of it is a particularly fleshed out story, though. The only example of that for the Second Age is in Unfinished Tales, I think.

[Master]

So, the long lost sister of Isildur eh?

[SiL]

That's the point though, isn't it. Tolkien had literal diarrhea of characters.  Creating new for the show and color specyfic, for such author is wrong at best, but for me highly disrespectful.

They can't use a lot of stuff he wrote due to series so expect a lot of new material.

[Master]

New material created disrespectfully to Tolkien's source material is ok.?  Is it ok. to any of you? I highly doubt it.