Tolkien scholar: Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe

[alwaysbroke]

i always get those two mixed up.

It's a good read. Not a review of the first two episodes at all. It's good to remember not all material translates well to big screen.

I think video games have an advantage here over purely visual media. Games are interactive. You can develop deep gameplay mechanics to show a moral story progressing. By interacting with the game you reinforce the point. You can retain the textured, poetic, literary side of the source material in a game. In a purely visual medium you need exceptional acting skill to achieve the same result. Even then there still no way to preserve the literary texture in a purely visual medium. This is probably the crux of most criticism. The source material is more than just hollywood style moral punchlines and heroic sacrifice.