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Did he not?

After suffering through the Hobbit movies, I would completely disagree.

Adding salt to the injury, these movies destroyed the story in the book that Tolkien apparently wrote specially for his children. Talk about taking care of a legacy.

I guess it was difficult to resist the temptation, with so much money involved. But I don't see any other justification for those 3 movies apart from penny squeezing

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Christopher Tolkien had no say in the Hobbit films (or any other prior films). JRRT himself sold the rights to film adaptions of his works to United Artists a few years before his death. The GP is correct that the Tolkien Estate sold the rights for the TV show to Amazon literally months after Christopher retired as director of the Estate... granted planning and negotiations had probably been ongoing for some time, but Christopher would've been about 93 at the time so presumably he was not deeply involved by that point.

They were just a bad adaptation and I quit partway through. But there are lots of bad adaptations. Dune was pretty ill-served until the most recent. It happens. You watch or not and move on. As well as adaptations that are a lot better than the original work.

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