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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    These themes were distilled into fiction 100 years ago

    Just a nitpick: Rings of Power uses Tolkien’s characters but its story is almost entirely the work of the show’s modern script-writers. They don’t have the rights to use anything Tolkien wrote about that period of Middle Earth’s history beyond what is mentioned in LOTR and its appendices (which is very little).