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Otaku-sempai
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Unfortunately, I don't think that Dark Horse could produce any comics or graphic novels adapting The Lord of the Rings or any other Tolkien works without the cooperation of the Tolkien Estate. However, since the passing of Christopher Tolkien, that might not be the huge impediment that it used to be.
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Zased
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After the Amazon show I'm not so sure I'd want to see any other adaptions or versions of Tolkien's works. Christopher Tolkien seemed like the bottleneck for companies putting out slop interpretations of his father's work and with him gone the floodgates threaten to be opened. |
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Otaku-sempai
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There are a few adaptations that I can recommend. There is the graphic novel version of The Hobbit, originally serialized by the now defunct Eclipse Comics. There is also the BBC radio dramas adapting The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. There are also the Mind's Eye full-cast radio dramas of same that originally aired over National Public Radio (NPR), which I prefer over the BBC ones for several reasons. |
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Egan Loo
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This embellishment of Christopher Tolkien's role has appeared on these forums a few times before. To paraphrase the previous fact-check: Keep in mind that Christopher Tolkien also heavily criticized Peter Jackson's films before and after their release, and yet Jackson still made them. That's because J.R.R. Tolkien himself had sold the adaptation rights three decades before those films were made, so Christopher Tolkien and the Tolkien Estate had little to no input besides demanding royalties. The belief that Christopher Tolkien ensured The Lord of the Rings adaptations were faithful before his passing is mistaken. Ironically, the Tolkien Estate has more creative input now, since Tolkien Estate's contracts were updated after Peter Jackson's films, and the previously sold rights did not include television adaptations. https://web.archive.org/web/20230204091754/https://www.indiewire.com/2013/01/christopher-tolkien-trashes-peter-jacksons-lord-of-the-rings-says-films-lack-beauty-and-seriousness-of-the-books-102485/ https://variety.com/2022/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036/ |
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enurtsol
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In the US, The Hobbit will enter public domain on January 1, 2033 - so they have 7 years and anybody can adapt it like Winnie the Pooh |
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samuelp
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Literally the entire modern fantasy genre is basically a slop adaptation of Tolkien's works, so I don't think anyone is gonna care if we get a bunch of mid quality "set in the world of Middle Earth" comics. Some might even be pretty good.
I kind of agree with the public domain thing here: The Hobbit/the Lord of the Rings, the world tolkien created, they've had many generations to be loved and appreciated and even adapted well (ish), and at this point so many of the aspects of the story are almost absorbed into culture that I wouldn't be against just opening the floodgates. Well, that might have to wait till its really in the public domain but even before that, let's give a bunch of artists and creators a chance to make something good. What harm is gonna do, really? Nothing will change the legacy of the originals at this point. |
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TheGunwild
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I'm surprised we haven't gotten an unfunny and edgy version of Lord of the Rings officially yet with how popular edgy reboots were in the 2010s. |
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