1000 times yes

The bbc radio adaptation in 13 episodes was near perfection.

Absolutely correct.

An authors view of what their work is, is no more definitive than anybody elses. Shakespeare wrote some commentaries on his plays, nobody cares or even reads them. There are most certainly ASPECTS of Tolkiens work that are clear allegories. In literature there is no simply saying 'this book is an allegory about'. Nobody writes like that except morality plays that were SPECIFICALLY written as allegories. An allegory doesn't 'necessarily' mean a 'moral' or a simple analogy.

Love!

Would agree about Brian being such a gentleman after ROP really fucked him over.

Ah! Time will tell. 😁

@@NerdoftheRings I will be waiting in eager anticipation! 😊

He also did a lot of new art for this book akin to The Great Tales books.

Lee pretty much did all of the new cover art for the Chris Tolkien edits of JRRT's work in the past decade including Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, Fall of Gondolin, and various others unrelated to Tolkien's own writings such as The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, and The Fall of Arthur.

@@mnomadvfx Actually I love the style of recent Tolkien editions with artwork by Alan Lee and Ted Nasmith (an artist I enjoy a little bit more for being more different from the films).

He did the art throughout the book.

He’s such a nice guy. I love chatting with him.

@@NerdoftheRings And you’re a good interviewer! It’s always a pleasure to see nice people talking about what they love

Ganfalf was the perfect Frodo? Confusion of da highest orda.

@@davidhimmelfahrt3732 , Ian Holm was Bilbo in the films and Frodo in the radio drama when he was younger. Gandalf is Ian Mckellen in the movie. Brian Sibley wrote the radio play.

to bad he is a sellout and sold his soul for amazon

I caught that too, made me chuckle

Haha! You bet that’s exactly what happened! 😂

I'd say it was an opportunity for Harper Collins to benefit from any interest generated by the show. I think Sibley says at some point in this video that HC was the initiator of this project. It's clearly an attempt to make Tolkien's second age writings as palatable for a general audience as possible, without getting bogged down by the fragmentary nature of these writings.

You haven't listen to the interview have you. Brian mentions rings of power. Listen to the interview and listen very careful to what Brian says about the show.

@@gaebren9021 I made the comment before getting to that part of the interview :-)

@@colocolo1546 So now you know. Adaptations are made of source material all the time. The 1979 Bakshi's Animated "Lord of the Rings" is my favorite of the Tolkien adaptations. Like Brian said, it is great that Rings of Power was made because it instigates interest in the original source material. Brings people who may not have known Tolkien's work to his work and that is a good thing. RoP might not be lore but it is a lot of fun and a lot of people enjoyed it. And if people are drawn to Tolkien's work because of it, all the better.

@@gaebren9021 Sure, if you want to go with "no publicity is bad publicity". If people pick up the books due to RoP, then good, but now there is also an additional book that might also attract new readers, and I find that to be even better.

True. The storyline with the downfall of Arnor and the war with Angmar is very interesting.

He's being interviewed. He's supposed to talk.

Haha! Not as long as the last one, but still a substantial length!

@@Dm_NerdoftheRings-on-Bestgram Stop trying to spam me you moron. Reported.

Brian's book is indeed great! I highly recommend it. As for the other portion of your comment, the idea that simply *talking* about a tv series adapted from Tolkien's works is some betrayal is one that baffles me, to be honest. I'm afraid I will never understand how personally offended folks are about others talking about the positives/negatives of an adaptation. 🤷‍♂️

@@NerdoftheRings funny mate....I didn't mention betrayal or any of the critical* words you've used here in this response. But, since you're here - what's more likely to happen? Rings of Power Season 2 gets shelved or Season 2 gets completely redone?

@@BitigoBlack ooooh. You are tricksy! 😄Way to turn it on him. You can't blame him for his reaction. The comment section during the RoP screenings was brutal. And even to him. Calling him a 'shill' and accusing him of selling out by the thousands. He has been doing this for years, providing great content and all of the sudden he is hit with 10 weeks worth of hundreds of passive or outright agressive reactions and posts. This video is about a book. Not the show. Yet some people can't help but still bring up RoP. I can imagine Matt being a bit reactive to that after he just posted an interview with a writer for us to enjoy.

Matt kept a sensible and professional tone. The show had positive and negative points. Amazon didn't produce it just for LOTR experts.

@@BitigoBlack The show was always a success regarding audiences. As you'd know if you bothered to Google instead of listening to the usual hysterics.

Blackwells, Books A Million, Barnes and Noble, any bookstore really. I'd suggest Book Depository but someone said they're owned by Amazon. I ordered mine from Amazon because they've promised to deliver on the book release date.

All you need to do is go to your local bookstore. I am sure they have a website. Rather than asking us to provide links for you, you can try looking online for a bookstore. The internet is your friend.