Amazon Prime's showrunner woke up Lord of the Rings: Ring of Power The streaming series now claims that J.R.R. Tolkien's classic is about “climate change.”
Patrick McKay is one of them. ring of power showrunner, compared Destruction of the dwarf city of Khazaddum due to climate change, according to hollywood reporter.
The producers chose to make the fall of the dwarven kingdom and Khazaddum (also known as Moria) more prolonged. The battle for the underground city continues from the just concluded season 2 to season 3. In Tolkien's original work, the city's destruction is not depicted as having taken a long time to fall, but only as falling to a giant dragon known as the Balrog, whose fury caused the dwarves to flee the great city. I am.
McKay was asked about how his show was treating the fall of Khazaddum, and claimed that the treatment of the story was similar to global warming.
“This is about how societies collapse. Usually gradually, but then all at once,” he exclaimed. “If you want to use climate change as a metaphor, climate change is not an event. It's a process that waxes and wanes, always moving in a darker direction.”
“I don't think a great and powerful kingdom like Khazaddum will fall apart anytime soon,” he said, explaining his decision to deviate from Tolkien's original work.
“Autumn is the result of many disasters over the years. And I think the Balrog will sell out Khazaddum to get out and that's how it all ends. It's even more complicated. We think there's a bigger story to be told here. “I'm thinking about it,” the TV executive concluded.
Unlike McKay's vision, Tolkien's Appendix A: lord of the ringsKhazad-dûm is not depicted as taking years or even decades to collapse. According to Tolkien, the city was abandoned about a year after the terrifyingly powerful Balrog rose to invest in the city.
That passage reads:
And so they roused from their slumber the horrors that had been hiding in the depths of the earth since the arrival of the Balrog of Morgoth, the host of the west, who flew from Sangorodrim. Durin [the Dwarf King] His son Nain I was killed the following year. Then Moria's glory faded, and its inhabitants either perished or fled far away.
All of this may seem like getting too far into the Tolkien weeds, but it clearly shows that McKay's enlightened determination to the fall of Khazad-dûm is very different from the original. It was nothing like “social collapse” and nothing like “climate change” in Tolkien's original work. In Tolkien's actual story, Khazad-dûm fell quickly.
It's all just one sad example of a woke agenda shoehorned into a classic story.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time an Amazon Prime series does something like this. The entire work is filled with virtue signaling about issues of “diversity” and “race.” And by the end of season one, the billion-dollar production had lost 63 percent of its audience. And, unsurprisingly, season 2 saw an equally precipitous decline.
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