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What did Tolkien's family think of the Peter Jackson movies?

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Tolkien's children were John, Michael, Christopher, and Priscilla. Michael died in 1984 and obviously never saw them. John died in 2003. I believe I recall that he didn't mind them, and disagreed with his brother Christopher's assessment. I don't know if he saw them all before he died. read more

The Tolkien estate truely (J.R.R.Tolkiens descendents) believes that many or quite a few of the characters and or events in the peter Jackson trilogies were portrayed poorly and in a manor in which Tolkien himself would not have deemed correctly - because of this the Tolkien family really despireses the movies and would not like to see another movie based on any of J.R.R.Tolkiens books and works . read more

The core works remain the core works, and the article notes that the original Lord of the Rings books saw a massive uptick in sales after the release of the movies. Tolkien's ambitious 12 volume history has sold half a million copies, a feat surely aided by increased awareness brought on by the movies. read more

You cannot deny Peter Jackson has done wonders with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, C.Tolkien is asking way too much from Peter in fact he is asking for the impossible, although I doubt that is what it is all about, C.Tolkien is, in the words of this modern time, butthurt. read more

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