Zaentz countersues the Estate

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by malickfan

I'm in that minority Inziladun-I was introduced to Tolkien through the (excellent... at least in cinematic terms) PJ lotr trilogy (which I still love) and have gone on to read and own LOTR, The Hobbit, The Sil, COH, The HOME, Letters, The HOTH, Uninished Tales, Tales from the Perilous realm, and more than a few ancillary Works such as The Atlas and Road to Middle Earth, its pretty safe to say Jackson turned me into a Tolkien Fan...but in the years since (especially since viewing that overlong, overblownrewrite of The Hobbit...Part One: An Unnessary Missfire) I've gradually come to view the films, and the related marketing with a less favourable eye, I'm definitely with the Estate on this one, and more and more do I feel Christopher's Comments in Le Monde are becoming a sad reality.

I'm always gratified to see stories like yours.
Sadly though, what I mostly see is a pop-culture bent on the quick, easy entertainment that a flashy film provides, without much regard for anything that requires as much time and imagination as books. And without getting the real tale from them, what the mass audience gets is watered down and designed to sell. It seems there's a common pattern with today's movie industry, so much so that to my eyes there's little to distinguish one film from another. It's all about the money.