• ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not really a hot take, the Jackson films are almost universally considered the best adaptation of any Tolkien work. The only mainstream debate is whether its LotR trilogy > Hobbit trilogy > RoP series or LotR trilogy > RoP series > Hobbit trilogy.

    There are all the other adaptations, but those are pretty niche to even know about now:

    • the Bakshi LotR film
    • the Rankin/Bass Hobbit TV special
    • the Rankin/Bass RotK TV special
    • Khraniteli (the Soviet LotR miniseries)
    • the Soviet Hobbit tv play
    • the Finnish LotR adaptation
    • mazdak
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      1 year ago

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      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Rings of Power is so far removed from the source material they could have made the same show and not paid for any rights by changing a name or two.

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Oh okay that's less common. Most people find the trilogy fairly even in quality, with the 2nd being best regarded if anything.

        The Jackson films were more or less produced simultaneously as a single mega-film and divided into 3 so it's not that the first one had more time to be made, if anything you could say it had less in terms of post production and reshoot type stuff.