Tolkien cash-in

sir – Tanya Gold (telegraph.co.uk, October 3) is right that Amazon’s The Rings of Power is a betrayal of JRR Tolkien, but this is nothing new.

Although Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy largely did justice to the work, it still cut out sections of the plot (which was excusable, given the extent of the source material) and changed the ending (which was not).

The Hobbit, however, turned a short children’s story into three blockbuster films with new storylines, characters that never appeared in the original, and an excess of computer-generated imagery. To create five seasons of The Rings of Power out of no more than Tolkien’s footnotes is, again, simply cashing in on the work of a master. Charles Smith-jones

Landrake, Cornwall