Are you kidding me? "If" I've read the Silmarillion?
This... This abomination isn't a reflection of Celebrimbor. It is disgusting fan fiction that plagues us all.
My nerdrage has turned my mind as black as Feanor. I shall depart to the Lore Forums, and forever remain Tom of MATTOMPHI.
I treat Tolkien's writings with the reverence most people would have for holy books. I've punched my own kin for setting one of his books on the floor. I cherish those stories like nothing else.
The movies were great (expect the Hobbit), but I hate works that take creative license with Tolkien's works. Shadows of Mordor might be a great game, but it is apocrypha.
However much I love the loose canon of Elder Scrolls, I'm the exact opposite with the Lord of the Rings.
It is the overly dense nerd bible, and I am the truest of believers.
but I hate works that take creative license with Tolkien's works. Shadows of Mordor might be a great game, but it is apocrypha.
I've got to disagree with this. My biggest complaint with Tolkien is that there are quotes floating around about his dislike of other's interpretations and he came across as quite precious about his work. That is totally fine, don't get me wrong, but once an intellectual property has been sold the author's decision has been made.
If you make something and then sell it to me, it is now up to me what or how I interpret my own property. Either make pains to stipulate some contractual clause or shut the fuck up about it. This was my biggest gripe with Star Wars: To have all that old stuff classed as "Legends" and non-canon is bullshit but is justifiable due to new ownership. However back in the days when GL was the owner there were times he didn't respect and hold to an author's vision - Karen Traviss and her Mandalorians for example. Fine that he didn't like it but it should be a case of tough shit. You sold out and let people work in the universe so quit whining and suck it up George.
Or in a way, like with George R.R Martin and fanfic. Say, I actually make some of the games I want to right? Phil, if you buy a copy, you can do whatever you want with it. You can mod it in so the sun looks like a giant dick, you can write slash fanfic, you can make a spin off game if you'd like (just tell me first), and I would be fine with it.
Or look at H.P. Lovecraft, he encouraged people, if I recall, to add to the mythos. (Even if he was all kinds of racist and Anglocentric.)
What about George RR Martin and fanfic? I know nothing about that, please tell me more.
I think there is a difference when it comes to buying a game. Sure you can mod it to hell and back but your ownership doesn't give you rights over the IP, just over the disc you own. Yet if I bought The Elder Scrolls IP and decided to make all dark elves live underground like in Forgotten Realms then provided there is no limiting clause in my purchase I can do as I please with it. Doesn't make it right to do that morally and I could lose all TES fans, but legally I'd be just fine.
So with regards to The Hobbit, I'm perfectly fine with Tauriel as a character despite not being in Tolkien's writings. People can complain about it and are perfectly within their rights to only hold the books as canon, but it won't change the fact that Tauriel liked dwarven dick.
That's disappointing to hear that. I always approve the right to interpret art and love to see it exercised. For an author surely that is the highest compliment? If I want to read Tolkien and give Aragorn a high pitched and girly voice, surely there is nothing wrong with that as an interpretation?
I'd be like, "I didn't intend that character to be like that but I like that interpretation" or "that's novel, making Aragorn sound so stupid. Not my cup of tea but it's cool you're inspired."