Not worthwhile

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2008)

I suggest to rename Mr Jackson's venture into "Some hitherto unheard of adventures of the Company of the Ring, as happened while Tolkien wasn't looking" or something similar. If Jackson had changed all the names, this would go down in history as another bad attempt at copying that already overrated piece of fantasy literature by Tolkien. Not the greatest of books,really, still it deserved a far better adaptation than this. So pretty please, Mr.Jackson: Give the amount your 'vision' devoured to the BBC and let them make a three-season TV series from it. (I bet there'd even be enough left to make "Finnagan's Wake" into a TV series, on top.) The BBC version will surely look better, it might -by chance- contain more of the events from the original story and -if we get very lucky- these would even be presented in the right order.
Gah.