Adaptation is the Death of Human Spirit

By Real Life Fake Wizard

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So how does a hero turn into a villain? How are parables meant to empower defiance hijacked into phrases of submission? It’s the same way the story changes in the telephone circle. There are sentences kids just don’t understand being said, or maybe they misheard. They caught some of it, most of it, and filled in the gaps the best they could. But in our creative world, there are more than just people mishearing what is being said, and they’re actively changing the substance of the message in the middle of the line and then passing it along, meeting their own values, ideals, and sensibilities. The people running these studios are just playing telephone, but it’s at the expense of human expression. See, people today look at Rings of Power, and they may think that that’s what Tolkien intended, but there’s also a deeper meaning there too; they think they understand Tolkien. They think that this version of the story is true, but also that this is what he always wanted. They don’t feel like

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