I think it is about 75% fan fic, because the timeline is absolutely distorted and even the canon elements are less than half of the segments where they are featured. There are several canon characters left out inexplicably.
I think it is about 75% fan fic, because the timeline is absolutely distorted and even the canon elements are less than half of the segments where they are featured. There are several canon characters left out inexplicably.
To add to my previous comment, I’m quite sure Christopher Tolkien hated the Peter Jackson movies. JRR sold the rights in the 60s and he died 5 or 6 years later. Just because somebody sells the rights for money does not whatsoever mean they agree with what’s being produced. it’s essentially, regardless of what the Internet says, and adaption by a fan, on a completely different medium, for a different purpose and a different audience. The Peter Jackson movies were probably made to sell toys. It’s toy fiction, like Star Wars.
No one said anything about the author's blessing; we don't know what Tolkien would have thought. I'm not even going to address everything else you said, as it is very ignorant.
Ok. You used the phrase “owners blessing”. Nothing I said was “ignorant”. That’s complete nonsense incredibly disrespectful and petty. Its a “chat”address the comments or don’t.
Or a small child read the Silmarillion once then re-wrote the story from memory. That’s what RoP comes across as sometimes lol.
FYI, people on the internet rarely respond to facts in my opinion and often have alternate definitions of things.
I did not state for a fact that TRoP is fan fiction, I just asked if people thought it was. The Tolkien estate gave TRoP the rights to some of Tolkien's works, so even by the strict definition, the showrunners could be engaging in fan fiction, but the estate has just chosen not to enforce their legal rights.
In defense of the “owners rights” definition:
Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise. They produced something that Lucas would not have, in the sense that his story was rejected.
Is what Disney did fan fiction?
I would not call that fan fiction
@Jeff van dingle I'm not sure you know what you're saying—you said fan fiction is a misnomer because it isn't an apt description of The Rings of Power. It's precisely the other way round. The fact the definition doesn't fit is the reason it isn't fan fiction. Again, you can't just invent a new definition.
I think the rest of what you said made some decent points, they're just not particularly relevant. Whether the current holder of the rights likes the result or not doesn't affect its validity. Whether it should is quite an interesting one.
@Fandyllic That's a fair argument, considering that you're right, Amazon technically never received the rights to the Silmarillion. I would still think of fan fiction as more of a completely unauthorized work written by some rando on the internet. Most sources define fan fiction as an adaptation that is not commissioned by the owners of the copyright in question.
@WizardWarrior1 "Most sources define fan fiction as an adaptation that is not commissioned by the owners of the copyright in question."
This isn't quite right, most adaptations are "not commissioned by the owners of the copyright in question", but the adapters request permission and if it is granted, it can be thought of as an "official" adaptation. While not common, even official adaptations are disclaimed by their creators later, but they rarely take legal action. Recently, there was an extreme case were a manga author actually committed suicide due to their displeasure with an adaptation.
I could have thought of a better word than fan fic, but I think many readers understood what I meant.
Are Disney movies like The Little Mermaid fanfiction? No. Hence RoP is not fanfiction.
What do you think?