The blueprint for the billion-dollar series isn’t Tolkien’s novels or Peter Jackson’s movies.
hew to the Tolkien so many of us know and love? Visually, the resemblance is nearly flawless. Before Peter Jackson’scheesy, however faithful the screenwriters stayed to the books. Now, the situation is reversed.looks splendid, from the vaguely art-nouveau, autumnal glades of the elves to the towering underground dwarf citadel of Khazad-dûm. As with the Jackson films,take their visual lead from longtime Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee.
—credited to McKay and Payne—that’s uneven. In lieu of fully-conceived characters, it supplies too many shopworn pop-culture tropes. Galadriel is essentially that maverick police detective who insists that he’s on the trail of a serial killer even as the commissioner removes him from the case and tells him to take some time off.
Back among the harfoots, Elanor “Nori” Brandyfoot is another stock type: that restive, rebellious kid whose curiosity and hunger for adventure keeps getting her into scrapes. “Haven’t you ever wondered what else is out there,” she yearningly queries her mother.
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