Yawn. Yeah you can hate on a classic from the 2000's all you want. No one will give a shit though.
I dont think viggo mortensen or elijah wood regret their time spent on the films. And the tourism industry of New Zealand certainly doesnt regret the films because they missed a scene from the books, nerd.
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I'm guessing you haven't watched the making of documentaries for Jackson's LOTR trilogy? The trilogy was made with passion and great detail. There's nothing half assed about it. Even the costumes were embroidered inside even though it would never be seen on screen. Just to make it as authentic as possible.
I mean...you can dislike them all you want. But the movies in Jackson's LotR trilogy are objectively some of the best fantasy films ever made. There's nothing half-assed about them. They obviously went off the rails with the Hobbit, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
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To be fair the points Tolkien made with LotR are quite on the nose and don't really have much depth.
Death - Immortality, Good - Evil, Nature - Technology etc
Don't get me wrong i love the books and i liked the movies (Hobbit not so much).
Tolkien build an amazing world. Completly devoid of any relationships beyond the weird platonic thing between Aragorn and Arwen (who was barley in the book) and Sam and his future wife.
While grand it is not very... realistic. We do not know what the story of the TV Show is. We do not know what they mean with nudity. Could be anything. From someone jumping into a river to a full blown orgy. Point is the outrage is way overblown right now.
If it is a story more about the characters and less about the "quest" i can see relationships playing a bigger part and maybe a small sex scene too.
Game of Thrones is the single best and worst thing to happen to TV, because now everyone is gonna be like "We gonna make this the next Game of Thrones" on properties that are nothing like Game of Thrones.
When in fact J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin's worlds are so different in aesthetic. .Its like trying to Game of Thrones up a Mario Bros. movie :P
Each to their own and all that but your reasoning is...odd. The Hobbit deviated waaay more from the source material than LotR. The deviations in LotR were hardly massive or tonally altering. And most deviations were leaving stuff out that they felt weren't essential, they had to fit it into a time limit. With some minor changes, swapping character roles (Eomer swapped for Theoden etc), the only really major one was giving Arwen much more screen time, or the ghost army showing up at Minas Tirith, which didn't really alter things in a significant way. Changes were made for the sake of adaptation.
The Hobbit however, dear god they added so much more in order to pad it out to 3 films, with some significant changes made to characters. It wasn't simply that they wanted to adapt it to screen, they wanted to pad it to 3 films. You are criticising LotR for doing something to a much less severe degree than The Hobbit trilogy, that said thing is bad, but its better if you do more of it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
EDIT: Didn't notice how old the OP was.
They will 100% forsake a good story and characters for woke bullshit.
It does not need to be "realistic". Lord of the Rings is a very idealistic setting. The themes are very on the nose and that's the point. It's not supposed to be some deep, pondering piece about a reflection of our world. Also Lord of the Rings had one of the best relationships you can see on film and it worked without sex scenes - I'm of course talking about the relationship between Frodo and Sam. The relationship between Aragorn and Arwen is also beautiful.
It's completely ridiculous to me that every modern story needs to revolve at least partially around some half-baked romance because otherwise people will feel like something is missing.
Lotr has a lot of inbuilt clout and reputation but if they wanted to make another GoT they would have been better served picking up joe abercrombies first law series. I dont think we'll get another GoT, I think we'll get a series akin to the first trilogy in tone.
I would put Gimli and Legolas above them. But that is IMHO obviously.^^
Doesn't have to. But we don't need another big epic like the original as we allready had this. So i hope it will be smaller in scope and because of that more about the characters.
If they are just going to make the LotR movies 3000 years earlier... meh. Why? We have it allready. TWICE
This is not a TV Show about the "Lord of the Rings" book. It is in the same world way earlier. And while i am sure the tone will be the same as the movies (not the book) the story itself has to be more on the characters themselves. It just runs for to long for it not to do this.
Say it is a 8 Episode 1 hour tv show. You allready have 8 hours of content to fill. Teh complete extended edition of the movies is 11,4 hours.
Say it gets a second season. 16 hours. You will have to show more of the characters and their lives. Otherwise you have meaningless action hero husks.
And pretending that romantic relationships don't exist in this universe and everyone is only platonicly linked is weird. It was potrait like this in the movie. But Tolkien did have quite a few romances mentioned in his books. Particularily the Silmarillion from which the TV show borrows heavily as far as i know.