'Looks Like Utter Cr*p': Netizens Livid at Amazon’s Prequel to Lord of the Rings

Anybody in the industry will tell you that turning a book into a film is a path fraught with pitfalls and will earn anyone who tries nothing but censure from the book's fans. They maintain that something essential has been lost in translation. Even Peter Jackson’s widely praised Lord of The Rings was not free of the wrath of Tolkien nuts.