User blog comment:High King Ithilion/Amazon To Produce a Lord of the Rings Series/@comment-26236093-20171114184005

I can but re-iterate that which was said by Christopher Tolkien in this Interview with the Newspaper Le Monde.

"Tolkien became devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work."

- Christopher Tolkien