It’s symbolically appropriate that Fake Tolkien returns in 3 days with its lead actor stuffed into a fake hairpiece.
It’s difficult to have a discussion about the moral travesty of Fake Tolkien because we live in a time and place where the crime has been normalised.
Imagine pointing out a theft in a society where theft is not just legal, but a profitable corporate enterprise.
“Who cares if they robbed that dude, dudes get robbed every day!”
So get ready for 8 weeks of the public violation of the creative spirit of JRR Tolkien, as the great myth maker of the modern era is exploited and degraded, and his great myth for the modern world is used as a brand for a generic trash fantasy tv show.
While an audience of people conditioned to understand art as nothing more than a consumer product watch and cheer.
Think of Aslan being shorn as the people hoot and jeer and you have some idea what awaits the memory of Tolkien.
How did we get here? How did our culture fall so low?
That’s the topic of Fake Tolkien : the corporate forgery of JRR Tolkien over on the Science Fiction channel.
Watch on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79K9R1WWvns
Or follow the SF channel on Spotify – https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/damien-walter2/episodes/Rings-of-Power–the-corporate-forgery-of-JRR-Tolkiens-Lord-of-the-Rings-e2nj3f7
Damien Walter 
I just spent 17 hours watching Phil Jacksons interpretation of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, which are among my wife’s favorite movies, complaining about how Jackson interpreted the books, which I have read 4 times and love. Sounds familiar although worse!
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