I miss being 10 and watching LoTR for the first time, I genuinely don't think I could work up the interest to watch another piece of entertainment released after the disappointment and insanely high levels of bloom-filter in The Hobbit. Amazon's upcoming show does away with the Elvish languages, and the established appearance of the universe.
People thought the Peter Jackson LoTR movies bastardized Tolkein's IP too you know, in particular Christopher Tolkien was not a fan.
> Amazon's upcoming show does away with the Elvish languages
This is not accurate.
> In the first of five planned seasons for The Rings of Power, the show makes heavy use of Elvish, Dwarvish, and Orcish, in addition to English flavored with British and Irish palettes.
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/amazon-lord-of-the-rin...
The show has a dialect coach: https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-rings-of-power-diale...
> the established appearance of the universe.
Is this about the brown-skinned male Elf and the brown-skinned and beardless female Dwarf? This horse has been beaten to death and back on YouTube and Reddit, and the consensus is that it's fine and faithful to the texts.
Huh? Consensus is a strong word. When and on what basis was such consensus reached? Which lines by Tolkien allow for such an obvious change?
But look at it another way - we were lucky enough to experience it before all of the blooming enhancements.
Also, as annoyed as I also am, it means that even more people will gain familiarity with the general mythology, which is a good thing.
Mythology grows when it is adapted, modified, reimagined, and altered, often imbuing it with fresh vitality and cultural relevance. Consider how many variations are represented in nearly every Ancient Greek myth. I, for one, am delighted that Tolkien's work has risen to the level of myth, and not contained to only his own creative project.
Despite my deep love of Tolkien's work, I do not intend to watch a minute of the new stuff. I wish them luck!
Looks like they mean bloom effect:
> Bloom (shader effect) - a computer graphics effect used in video games, demos, and high-dynamic-range rendering (HDRR) to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect produces fringes (or feathers) of light extending from the borders of bright areas in an image, contributing to the illusion of an extremely bright light overwhelming the camera or eye capturing the scene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)
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At first I thought of a "bloom filter", a kind of data structure.
It's an example of how it's possible to be deeply respectful of the material while extending it and exploring it. I have no idea if "Embracer" is going to achieve that or not, but it means I'm going to keep an open mind about it.