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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The great fear that many have is Hollywood taking the next step and makes the Tolkien universe more like GOT, i.e. adds a whole lot of sex and gore. I suppose that could happen, but I suspect it will be more like The Hobbit movie, i.e. moving more and more away from the original source material, much like the Bond movies did. I suspect that if the Aragon/LOTR prequel does well for Amazon, we might very see that.
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There is always that fear and not much to be done about it, other than for the Tolkien Estate to back something more inline with the original. In the end it is about controlling the narrative to some degree by participating in it.
On the other hand, as I said earlier, the more different some make it, the easier for me to divorce the original books from the moving pictures in my mind, and just see those last as a fantasy that only has some relation to or bearing on Tolkien's work or that genre.
I thought the Hobbit movies were great entertainment, if you view them in isolation, and don't compare them to the book too much ... somewhat like how other onlookers might have a different take on an event ... and throw in a bit of Chinese Whispers for added distortion.
Talking about sex and gore. Some (maybe many) thought Tolkien portrayed things too clean, and thus not realistic enough ... and that is one of the elements that GRRM has been praised for ... being more realistic ... and also criticized ... particularly in the TV series. For sure, Tolkien has a somewhat Victorian attitude to some things ... no doubt a product or result of the times he grew up in.