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Originally Posted by dreeness
But here's Chris Tolkien, all like... Hollywood is a satanic scabrous brothel, a loathsome sump of vile whoremongers peddling lowbrow filth to the hoi-polloi. ...And I shall have my percentage!
Which is hypocrisy, to use the technical term. (You can google it.)
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No need for Google.
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hy·poc·ri·sy [hi-pok-ruh-see]
noun, plural hy·poc·ri·sies.
1.
a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
2.
a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
3.
an act or instance of hypocrisy.
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How is CT guilty of hypocrisy? He had nothing to do with the sale of the movie rights, and doesn't approve of the way PJ's movies were done. There's no pretense there. The movies were done despite his wishes, and he feels the Estate should at least reap some of the benefit, since they couldn't be stopped. Hypocrisy would be present if, say, CT had been actively courting companies for a film treatment, then gave interviews about how evil was the idea of
LOTR movies.
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Originally Posted by dreeness
Would that be like someone who vacuums up every last motley scrap of paper JRR ever touched, hastily glues it together and sells the resulting garbled mess as a lost masterpiece?
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I don't think Christopher has ever claimed any of his father's "reassembled" works to be a "masterpiece". He's been quite frank about the limitations of such works as
Unfinished Tales and
The Silmarillion. Would you prefer that they had never seen the light of day? And if you don't like the job CT did, who would you have preferred as an editor?