Olwe talking about Amazon’s Lord of the Rings

Nice job Olwe! Live interviews are always hard, and the time delay must have been brutal to deal with. ? from me!

Good job.

I'm not sure about "adding to the canon meaningfully". I can't really see how anything not written by Tolkien can really be considered canon.

This series is (authorised) Middle-Earth-inspired fan fiction, as there simply isn't enough detailed material written down for it to be anything else (considering this is a multi-series commitment).

Quite surprising interviewer approach actually. She was really, really trying to get something negative out of Marcel, wasn't she?

I think she was, she just wanted him to say that he hated it all, she picked the wrong person for that. I can think of some people who would have obliged if they had been on

Her questions were quite valid though. This whole thing is essentially fan fiction - it’s ripe for the writers to introduce contemporary themes of diversity, inclusion,
sexuality, gender quality etc. for the sake of appeasing causal audiences, or at least to avoid being vilified for not addressing the problems in Hollywood (or largely, in America).

I’m a person of colour and yet I never felt like Tolkien’s stories were “white” to the point that they made me feel somehow excluded.

Oh well... cautious optimism never hurt. ?

Trotter wrote:
I think she was, she just wanted him to say that he hated it all, she picked the wrong person for that. I can think of some people who would have obliged if they had been on

I think it is hard to hate something that doesn't even exist yet. I guess one can hate the idea of it. I'm pretty much ambivalent as to its existence, as I won't be watching it (time for TV is limited, so I have to be selective and this does not appeal in the slightest). I also don't play (modern) Tolkien videogames. The existence of either type of fan-fiction has exactly zero impact on my life.