The rights are weird regarding this. It seems that New Line Cinema has the rights to make Movies but Amazon has the rights to TV so that is why they can both make media at the same time.

But even more interestingly, Amazon does not have the rights to the Simmirilion or anything like that. They only have the rights to the LOTR trilogy and the Hobbit(plus the appendices in the LOTR). So they are basically making this all up using what they can get from the trilogy, they can't actually use anything else, even material which is actually much more relevant to the time period they are setting this in.

>>46485
>But do these people know anything about LOTR except from movies? When you don't know anything about Tolkien universe and don't care about it, you wouldn't care much about any perversion that is made to script. Authors may put marvel comics crossover into LOTR and it would be ok for audience that just want some video for evening with beer.

I never read the books apart from the hobbit either. Even if they never read the books the movies have created what people's idea of a LOTR movie should be, and black elves and dwarves and Galadriel fighting in armour go against that, as will the general Marvel action scenes and Game of Thrones type perversions that are bound to be apart of this(though the average person is pretty degenerate now so they might not care about that). Because it's such a huge franchise I don't think there are many people that don't have a view of what the world should be apart from people that never cared for that genre in the first place who are not really going to care about this one either for that same reason.

>>46492
Life is not good, Russia has not invaded Ukraine yet.