Op-Ed from Michael C. Drout: Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe

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NY Times Op-Ed from the pen of Michael C. Drout, professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and co-editor of the journal Tolkien Studies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/o...n-tolkien.html

If viewers find themselves disappointed by “The Rings of Power,” it will probably not be because the computer-generated imagery is second-rate or there are not enough fight sequences. It will be because the new adaptation lacks the literary and moral depth that make Middle-earth not just another cinematic universe but a world worth saving.