“Very few people are just writing it off … I would say cautious optimism is probably where most people are at.”
His verdict? “I’m excited to see more,” he says. Gunner says the show’s creators have taken great pains to engage the Tolkien community, and was among 100 fans who went to the star-studded premiere in Leicester Square, London, graced by Bezos. “Some of them are saying it’s amazing, beautiful, spectacular. “I think it’s fair to say there are some mixed reactions from members about what they’ve seen,” says Gunner. Although with more than 500 members of the society gathering for Oxonmoot in Oxford this weekend, and a screening of the first two episodes and a panel discussion planned, debate is likely to be impassioned. After greedily devouring the first two episodes, released at 2am in the UK, some fans were in seventh Valinor, while others have lambasted its creators for, in the words of one energised armchair critic, “spitting on the legacy of Tolkien”.Īway from the furies of social media, the reaction is nuanced, says Shaun Gunner, the chair of the Tolkien Society.
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