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Hollywood Is Still Trying To Corrupt J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work

Under the pen of someone like Colbert, the upcoming Lord of the Rings spinoff will almost certainly corrupt Tolkien’s work and reduce it to nothing more than pop culture slop

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If you thought Hollywood was done trying to corrupt and destroy the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien, think again.

This week Variety reported that Warner Brothers announced yet another Lord Of The Rings spinoff film is in development — and that Stephen Colbert and his son are writing it. Colbert is apparently a “vocal Tolkien fanatic,” and is working on a script derived from the early chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring that didn’t make it into Peter Jackson’s acclaimed trilogy.

In a recent video announcement by Jackson updating fans on the progress of the next film in the franchise, Andy Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum, Jackson brought in Colbert to talk about this new film, whose working title is, The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past. Colbert said he pitched Jackson on the idea of a film “that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made?”

Based on the synopsis of Colbert’s script, the answer is clearly no. What Colbert and his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, have come up with is at best a profound misrepresentation of Tolkien’s work and at worst a deliberate distortion of it.  

Here’s the synopsis: “Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo — Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why........

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