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Now, hear me out.
I know that’s something of a controversial stance.
Instead, the way I see it, it’s another form of reverence.
But, I hear you cry, how can meddling with the source material possibly be showing it respect?
Well, let me explain.
No one can deny that Tolkien is a legendary writer.
And what do people long to do with such fundamental stories?
Why, reinvent them of course.
Changing it up
Of course, I’d never say thatallchanges are good or justified.
But The Rings of Power certainly isn’t one of those adaptations.
And after all, why shouldn’t Tolkien’s figures be the subject of reinterpretation?
No two adaptations of William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens are ever the same.
Any adaptation is going to change things, too, by necessity.
No work of literature can be directly translated to the screen.
The conversation around adaptation and canon isn’t going away anytime soon, of course.
Just recently, A Song of Ice and Fire creatorGeorge R.R.
Maybe it’s true that some of the show’s changes don’t quite work.
Change in and of itself is not a bad thing.
And even if that does make for an imperfect adaptation, that can be alright sometimes, too.
And besides, The Rings of Power’s existence doesn’t erase Tolkien’s incredible writing from the world.
That’s the truest act of love that I can imagine.
