Sex & Sensibility: Amazon’s Nude Take On Tolkien

The One Ring Net ^ | Oct 6, 2020 | Cliff Quickbeam Broadway

[LadyDoc]

They want to remake Middle Earth into Game of Thrones. Spread the word: Maybe if fans object harshly, Amazon will change their mind.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve never seen a single episode or even minute of Game of Throne. However, someone here once called it soft porn.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

If Amazon decides to put soft porn in this series, then good luck on ever getting Tolkien’s estate to release First Age material.

[DesertRhino]

Intimacy coordinator? Fancy word for pimp.

[LIConFem]

I’m nearing the end of season two. Parts of it are absolutely pornographic. Easy enough to skip past those parts since they add nothing to the story. But aside from the occasional gratuitous grab-assing (and worse), it’s an excellent series.

[humblegunner]

They want to remake Middle Earth into Game of Thrones.

Cool! Some of those Elven chicks were hot.

[BenLurkin]

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Do you think Tolkien’s estate is considering releasing First Age material?

[Spirochete]

I’ve never seen a single episode or even minute of Game of Throne. However, someone here once called it soft porn.

The first few episodes had some "soft" porn. I think it was dialed way back after some outrage.

The rest of the series just showed occasional boobs.

[LadyDoc]

the eleven chicks might be seen by you as “hot”, but Elves are monogamous and mate for life, so you'd be out of luck.

And that is the point the author, a Tolkien expert, is making: Tolkien left such things out of his stories, not because he hated lovemaking, but because, like old fashioned movies, such things are better to be implied than shown.

How many modern movies include nude scenes or R rated scenes (or gratuitous violence for that matter) to attract an audience, but in reality these scenes just slow down the plot?

and the author also points out that a Tolkien themed show would be assumed by parents to be child friendly...

and the push back by fans will result in the series being rejected. One reason Peter Jackson's original films followed the book was that he got input from fandom that Tolkien’s story was important.

Get woke, go broke... this is another left wing attempt to destroy culture.

[mewzilla]

For anyone else curious, from a few months ago...

Intimacy Coordinators Are Making Waves in Hollywood—Here’s How to Become One

Snort.

[humblegunner]

Whatever.
Them Elf chicks were hot and are entertaining to look at.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

They want to remake Middle Earth into Game of Thrones. Spread the word: Maybe if fans object harshly, Amazon will change their mind.

The Tolkien heirs have probably been waiting for a long time to cash in on the fantasy craze that JRR Tolkien pretty much started - let's face it, the entire fantasy genre in literature and now in television pretty much exists because of 'The Lord of the Rings'.

Christopher Tolkien served as a faithful and brilliant keeper of his father's legacy, and I'll be forever grateful to him for 'The Silmarillion' and 'The History of Middle Earth' (especially 'Morgoth's Ring'). But he's gone now and I guess the family has a right to make some money off concepts everyone has ripped off for decades. I didn't see the Peter Jackson movies - I know what Aragorn and Gandalf look like in my mind and I don't want to see what Peter Jackson thinks they should look like. I will not watch any TV series based on Tolkien's work. The books are always there.

[Spirochete]

[The rest of the series just showed occasional boobs.]

Let me add, lots of gutter language referencing body parts. Definitely not family-friendly, while Tolkien's milieu began as children's story books.

[Two Kids' Dad]

No, it’s a legit job to prevent actresses from being pressured into doing things they’re not comfortable with. I know an intimacy coordinator.

[Spirochete]

Them Elf chicks were hot and are entertaining to look at.

Liv Tyler.

The other actors in elf-costume seemed stoic and alien. Long straight hair and expressionless faces.

[MinorityRepublican]

I don’t remember any boobs in the last season at all. Maybe once or twice.

[MinorityRepublican]

Hollywood is filled with perverts so each set should have an intimacy coordinator.

[proud American in Canada]

GoT is an excellent show but it definitely has a lot of nude scenes.

I would agree with your friend. The show is “soft porn.”

[proud American in Canada]

I agree. Most love scenes in movies are kinda boring. They’ve become so commonplace that they’re not interesting.