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Not to mention that streaming services have a penchant for axing shows in much less time than that.

Guess I should stop working now on my new book Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets...

To clarify, I meant the LoTR EEs. As films they were great. As an adaptation of a much-beloved novel, I thought them average.

The same "boring" claim was levied against the original novels. Which I loved. To each their own. I loved the books, found the PJ movies (EE preferred) to be a spectacle of movie making but only average in terms of an "adaptation" admittedly because of my love of the source material. Thus far...

I rather liked the first two episodes. I am a huge LoTR (book) fan, and have read The Hobbit many times. But the Silmarillion and the Christopher Tolkien edited books were dense reading for me which I did in my youth and haven't had the time to pick up again some 30 years later, so I don't have...

It's not the years...it's the mileage...

Just please no more rotating helicopter vista shots...

Are you the final judge and jury of what constitutes a flaw? Some stories don't have male or female characters by design. Do we need more female characters in Shawshank Redemption? More male characters in Mean Girls? The book is the book. It had certain aims. It did not have other aims. He...

Well if you want to take that stand, fine. But don't fake it. Like Astin and Wood did. They're American actors. Speak that way. Don't try to speak with a bad British accent.

For the record, and unrelated to LoTR, I feel The Dark Tower (by Stephen King) should be handled in the same way. Slow and steady over seasons, building character story and relationships, punctuated by action scenes, but not reliant on them.

To be clear, the CNN article I read seems to indicate it will take place "before FoTR" so it doesn't at first seem like they're remaking the actual novel. But in my opinion, if they do a good job of those pre-LoTR stories, they absolutely in a few years time should be given the green light to...

Clearly I'm in the minority, but if this is done properly I could end up enjoying this much more than Jackson's movies. The trick is that it has to be faithful to the source material which focuses on characters and relationships over battles and fighting. Tolkien didn't write explicit battle...