“Tolkien Turns in the Grave”
Elon Musk criticizes Amazon’s “The Rings of Power”
In two tweets, the currently richest person in the world made disparaging remarks about Amazon’s new series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”.
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On Twitter, Elon Musk does not give a good hair to Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings” series. The Tesla boss criticizes two main points.
Tesla boss Elon Musk (51) was critical of the “Lord of the Rings” series that appeared just a few days ago on Twitter. The currently richest person in the world writes verbatim about Amazon’s major project “The Rings of Power”.: “Tolkien turns in the grave”. Musk is referring to the British author JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), on whose works the “Lord of the Rings” series by the two series creators and authors JD Payne and Patrick McKay is based.
The Tesla boss is also bothered by the image of men in “The Rings of Power”.
In a second tweet sent immediately afterwards, Musk commented on male and female characters in Amazon’s series. The 51-year-old writes: “Almost every male character so far is a coward, an ass or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice”.
Musk, who often attracts attention with controversial tweets and opinions on a wide variety of topics, is in line with numerous network trolls and critical voices in the case of the “Lord of the Rings” series. So far, they have complained, among other things, that non-white actors can also be seen in the fantasy series. In addition to these racist hostilities, there is also frequent criticism online that those responsible for the series have placed a female character at the center of the plot with the elf Galadriel – also mentioned by Musk. This is a key difference from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” films. Another often-voiced caveat about Amazon’s major project is that the series doesn’t do justice to the works of original author JRR Tolkien. Musk also picks this up in his first tweet.
Is Elon Musk’s criticism mainly aimed at Amazon boss Jeff Bezos?
The industry magazine “Hollywood Reporter” also comments on Musk’s two “Lord of the Rings” tweetsthat there would be “a long-lasting enmity and rivalry” between SpaceX founder and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (58). This has intensified again due to the direct competition between Musk’s space company SpaceX and the company Blue Origin founded by Bezos. Tesla boss Musk has regularly expressed negative opinions about Bezos or one of his companies in the past. The series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is the prestige project of Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video.