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The Queen, The Shire, And Amazon’s Absurd Attempt To Commodify Tolkien

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Why Does Amazon Not Get Into All That?

"They've collapsed thousands of years of timeline so they can film this thing, but in doing so, they've destroyed a lot of the significance of these characters and made it incomprehensible," he says. "You don't want to get too far into Tolkien's lore because you have to start dealing with things like God and angels and demons and eternal life and mortality." He adds that Amazon is not going to get into this. 'Not only because I think they're incapable of it, but I don't think they want to'

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