#im honestly really upset about celeborn

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In general I feel that most adaptations are terrible, and, at least for all modern adaptations, exist purely to make money for a studio desperate to become "The Next Big Thing™". Now by and large I don't particularly care; does it suck that The Witcher ended up being a super boring political slog instead of a fun monster of the week adventure with a girl and her parents? Sure, but I'm not a part of the The Witcher fandom, most book/game fans recognize the show is shit, and by and large its skipped the public consciousness such that it makes little no impact on much. In fact, The Witcher might, if anything, shed light on creators crapping all over existing IPs to make a name for themselves by using a preexisting IP as a resume to make the things they actually want to make.

Wheel of Time I have no investment in, having never watched the show or read the books, but I'm given to understand that by and large, its fairly universally disliked, and that the book fans are disappointed but largely unaffected by it's current crapness except to note its crapness and move on.

That's not to say that these sort of shit adaptations aren't disappointing; they certainly are, but because the two fandoms were largely unknown in the public conscious, and bad enough that even the most "normy" of people skipped by them, their effect on the existing IP is little.

Star Wars is it's own sort of hell, because while the characters I love are mostly safe (thanks in large part to Disney deciding to write their own stories, thereby inadvertently saving my characters from a fate worse than death), the utter crapness of the current DisneyWars saturates enough of my online fandom life to be mildly annoying in that I can't avoid it. But also, people who are obsessed with Ezra or think that Ashoka Tano are the best thing ever don't bother me much, bc in the Star Wars I knew and loved, these people never existed.

Tolkien is different in a way that is often hard to express, but I think it comes down to both his feelings about his stories, and also the general view of the public. I've had this argument with people a million times, that while yes, the books will always exist, with the current way that media is consumed, the amount of people who have actually read ANY Tolkien at all is smaller than you'd think. I've stumbled across countless posts from people talking about how they are huge Lord of the Rings fans, and have never even read Fellowship.

Now, I'm fully aware that there are people who will be offended by this so called "gatekeeping", but I remain baffled by the sheer number of Tolkien fans who have never actually consumed any of his written works. I'm aware that the Silmarillion is dense, and I'm certainly not about to recommend HoMe to the average reader, but the number of people who speak with authority (and incorrectly) on the themes of his works that have never read past Rivendell is astounding.

And the issue is, by and large, Tolkien is known now more by the Lord of the Rings movies made in the early aughties than he is by the works he wrote. Christopher Tolkien worked tirelessly to ensure that this father's authentic work would be persevered, that anything published posthumously would adhere so strictly to the vision of his father that large chunks remain unwritten to this day.

And then Amazon comes in and bulldozes over everything, and we are asked to be okay with it. More than that, we are asked to accept it, to stop being worried or concerned about it, to just shut up and live with it.

It doesn't matter if you like Rings of Power. It doesn't matter if you have never read a single Tolkien book in your life. It doesn't matter if you think Tolkien is an overblown writer who cared too much about nature and language and not enough about stories (an argument I have sadly seen far too much). The fact remains that Rings of Power and its writers did not give a single fuck about writing anything close to what Tolkien wrote or would have wanted. Rings of Power is crafted to be a resume for it's showrunners on their next steps to Hollywood, and attempt to create the next "GOT", the next Big Thing that will garner them enough fame and attention to let them do what they really want in Hollywood. The show cares nothing for it's source material--that much is clear from the handling of the characters, the butchering of the timelines, the mere fact that they seem to have not even given a single thought to theme or message or meaning.

And while sure, I will always have Tolkien's works for myself and those people who actually love Tolkien, and not the visual representations of his works, butchered onscreen (and yes, I do mean the Jackson movies as well), by and large with the passage of time, Tolkien will come to mean less the stories loving written of a world he envisioned, and more to mean the corporate schlock turned out for profit or the lovingly misguided fan interpretation of one of the greatest fantasy stories of all times, at least to the larger public conscious.

I will never feel bad about my criticism of Rings of Power. Never. Because it wasn't created for anything more than corporate greed and resume building, and each new fact revealed cannot convince me otherwise.

Celeborn is merely the longest in a long line of characters who are victims to a story that uses their names but not their likeness, not their soul, not who they are to the story they were used to create. At this point, it doesn't even make me mad, it makes me sad. The Second Age has always been important to me, for the stories it told and the characters it created, and watching it be handled like this hurts. And I doubt it will ever stop.

[sixxxer]

SPOILERS FOR RINGS OF POWER EPISODE 8

loved the first season of the rings of power!!

all of the actors did such an amazing job at portraying real emotion and connection. the way halbrand's face changed during the reveal? wow. the easy way in which everyone cries without holding back.

there are so many things to be upset, pissed or straight up confused about but honestly i watched it as a completely detached thing so i can actually have fun with it

a lot of changes! and canon that got screwed! but i liked the changes they made! it fit the on-screen characters. absolutely adored the gandalf/hobbit storyline, i cried every time i thought about the fact that nori is the reason he loves hobbits so much

extremely obsessed with elrond, durin and disa's friendship. i can't wait to see if durin will mine mithril for elrond and the rings or if he'll do it for greed like it was told.

isildur obviously lived (not so much celeborn lmao?) but im curious to see how he managed to get out of the burning hellscape with his horse. maybe he'll meet gandalf and nori?

i actually got chills when the rings were being forged, somehow it really clicked then just how old everyone is. galadriel and elrond were there! like DAMN y'all old

[celeborn-of-doriath]

// Hi guys, as some of you have noticed, I have turned off my ask box on this blog. I am no longer taking asks on this blog or doing memes. It was just getting to be too stressful and I can’t handle it anymore. I really want to RP Celeborn but I get so many asks here that I can either do threads or asks, I can’t do both. When I look at my ask box I feel completely overwhelmed and demotivated. Because of that I am only doing threads, no asks. Not a good feeling to look at the ask box and literally see 1,000 unanswered asks. If you want to contact me ooc please hop in the IM or hit me up on Skype.

I am also no longer doing Sexual Sunday on this or my other blogs I think. It’s just really depressing to watch my female muse get passed over every single Sunday while my male muses get completely inundated with smut requests. It honestly leaves my female muse crying every single Sunday since I have had her...that’s like literally 10 months of her being upset on Sunday. Literally. 10 months. I mean, honestly, just think about that. 10. Months. Not good for me. Not good for my creativity. Not good for my writing. Not good for my muse. It puts me in a really bad/depressed mood for days and makes me lose interest in ALL my muses. If I want to keep my muses around I have to make a good environment for ALL of them, not just the boys. 

It’s also about trying to keep things fair for all my RP partners. I think all of us play favorites to an extent and that’s natural. So do I. But I genuinely DO try to do regular replies to all of my threads and I don’t want to be neglectful to any of you. I want to spend at LEAST one full day a week on each of my muses so that we can do some fun back and forth instead of only replying to you guys once a week, two weeks, whatever. But each time I DO come on here to do that people start sending me hundreds of asks so I log off again. You are all important to me and all of our threads are important to me. I don’t want to EVER make any of my RP partners feel like our thread/ship is unimportant to me bc I know how much that hurts so please bear in mind that a lot of this is about me trying to make sure I give all of you adequate attention instead of only spending my time on one muse/only ask responses.