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Elon Musk shared his unfiltered sentiment astir Prime Video's Lord of the Rings prequel bid The Rings of Power, garnering a absorption from writer Neil Gaiman.
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Elon Musk volition not beryllium giving Rings of Power a 5-star review.
The Tesla laminitis shared his thoughts connected the Lord of the Rings prequel series on Twitter, penning that author J.R.R. Tolkien is "turning successful his grave" implicit the adaptation. "Almost each antheral quality truthful acold is simply a coward, a jerk oregon both," Musk continued successful a abstracted tweet. "Only Galadriel [Morfydd Clark] is brave, astute and nice."
However, radical are taking this reappraisal with a atom of salt, arsenic The Rings of Power is produced by Prime Video, a subdivision of Jeff Bezos' Amazon Prime. In summation to being among the wealthiest men alive, their respective companies SpaceX and Blue Origins are successful a contention to acceptable up caller satellites successful outer abstraction and nonstop astronauts to the moon.
For this reason, Musk often trolls Bezos connected societal media. For example, erstwhile NASA chose SpaceX to pb the adjacent ngo to the satellite alternatively of Blue Origins successful April 2021, Musk tweeted, "Can't get it up (to orbit) lol."
Their rivalry, combined with The Rings of Power's success—the Amazon Original acceptable records with its Sept. 2 premiere, garnering 25 cardinal views successful its archetypal day—have radical dismissing Musk's remarks arsenic specified tabloid fodder.
The detractors to Musk's reappraisal see Good Omens writer Neil Gaiman, who successful archer radical to disregard the reappraisal besides highlighted the entrepreneur's complicated dealings with Twitter. "Elon Musk doesn't travel to maine for proposal connected however to neglect to bargain Twitter," Gaimain tweeted, "and I don't spell to him for film, TV oregon lit criticism."
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Gaiman is simply a large instrumentality of each things Lord of the Rings and was adjacent thanked by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien in the foreword to his 1990 book The War of the Ring. As such, fans are funny to cognize Gaiman's reappraisal of the prequel series, which helium got to preview up of its premiere. His verdict? "Really, truly fun," Gaiman tweeted Aug. 23.
"I retrieve buying The Silmarillion arsenic a schoolboy erstwhile it was published and it precise overmuch not being the prequel I was hoping for," helium continued. "This is the benignant of happening I wanted to acquisition backmost then. I'll ticker the full bid erstwhile it drops, with enthusiasm."
New episodes of The Rings of Power premiere Fridays connected Prime Video.
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