Washington:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has criticized Amazon’s big-budget fantasy drama series “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power,” stating that the late author JRR Tolkien is “turning in his grave.”
According to Variety, Musk took his official Twitter handle and slammed the show with a few short tweets containing the above statement.
His second tweet read: “Almost every male character so far has been a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and kind.”
Tolkien is turning over in his grave
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2022
Galadriel, played by Welsh actor Morfydd Clark, is a warrior elf and the protagonist of the series set thousands of years before the events of ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
Clark himself has been the target of criticism from online trolls, with complaints generally claiming that the regal character of the character in the original JRR Tolkien novels and Peter Jackson movies has been replaced with an all-action warrior elf queen.
It’s worth noting that Musk, who is currently entangled in a web trying to end his proposed $44 billion takeover of the $44 billion social site Twitter, has a long-running feud and rivalry with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which has intensified as Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’ Blue Origin competes directly.
The enmity between the two richest people in the world has led to the Tesla CEO habitually trolling or shitposting Bezos and his companies.
So far, “Rings of Power,” directed by JA Bayona, Wayne Che Yip and Charlotte Brandstrom, has been a huge success for Amazon, with 25 million viewers for the first two episodes, Prime Video’s best-ever premiere, The Hollywood Reporter reported. .
The eight-episode first season will run through October 14. According to Variety, the second season of “The Rings of Power” is already in the works as part of Amazon’s five-season deal with the Tolkien estate.
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