Film Rights to First & Second Age

[William Cloud Hicklin]

I wonder who said that? And do they have any financial interest in remaining loyal and friendly with the Tolkien Estate. That paragraph is nearly a template for post after post on this very site spewing anti film opinion.

Perhaps because true students of Tolkien's writings might reach similar conclusions about the movies. Those who have spent the most time analysing Tolkien's subtleties might, after all, be inclined to a Purist persuasion, and more sensitive than most to PJ's bulldozing of same. You see, unlike your precious movie critics, Tolkien scholars actually know something about Tolkien, and are not, unlike film critics, ignorant of the original edifice PJ vandalized.

Yes, your charge is scurrilous. You're either accusing Christopher Tolkien of orchestrating a whispering campaign against the movies (when in fact he simply ducked his head and waited for them to go away); or you're suggesting that there is some sinister cabal who think their bread is buttered by sucking up to some anti-Jackson position. And what financial motive could there be anyway? If your quote is, as I think it is, from Carl Hostetter, he doesn't make a penny from his linguistic work.

And how do you explain this cabal's permitting Alan Lee to be given a book to illustrate (at CRT's personal request) after he worked on the movies?

Speaking for myself, I railed against the movies, along lines similar to what you quote, long before I ever learned CRT had any opinion at all.

Keep going along these lines and pretty soon you'll have brought in the Illuminati and the JFK assassination.