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The Rings of Power - S01E03 - Adar

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The Shippy Test

The Shippy test is a framework that can be used to gauge derivative work. It asks three questions: What's the core of the story? And then you want to look at what changes are necessary or inevitable, inevitable because of the medium itself. "I think we do a lot of this by just by force of habit these days," says director Peter Jackson.

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