Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P...
by ethbr0 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:14AM
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It's not a subjective but rather objective evaluation -- millions of more people are aware of Tolkien lore than... something off-Broadway.
That's why Amazon paid $$$$ for the rights.
It's unreasonable to ignore that and claim that taking the same amount of artistic license with Tolkien is the same as taking it with something else.
It is objectively different to adapt a more popular and well-known work.
Hubris, arragance, etc. You're coming back to words that mean the same thing. Just because it's a work you personally are not familiar does not make it more/less egregious that someone has taken the material in their own direction from the original. It's just that you have a personal connection to the orginal and may or may not like the reworked version.