So far ‘Rings of Power’ has been an enormous success for Amazon.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has criticized Amazon’s big-budget fantasy drama collection ‘The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’, stating that the late creator J.R.R. Tolkien is “turning in his grave.”

According to Variety, Musk took to his official Twitter deal with and slammed the present with a pair of brief tweets which included the above assertion.

His second tweet learn, “Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.”

Tolkien is popping in his grave

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2022

Galadriel, performed by Welsh actor Morfydd Clark, is a warrior elf and the lead of the collection set hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’.

Clark has herself been the goal of criticism from on-line trolls, with complaints typically claiming the regal nature of the character within the unique J.R.R. Tolkien novels and Peter Jackson movies has been changed by an all-action warrior elf queen.

It is price noting that Musk, who’s at present tangled in an online attempting to exit his proposed USD 44BN takeover of social web site Twitter, has a long-running feud and rivalry with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, that has intensified as Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’ Blue Origin compete straight.

The enmity between the world’s two richest folks has seen the Tesla CEO habitually troll or shitpost towards Bezos and his corporations.

So far ‘Rings of Power’, directed by J.A. Bayona, Wayne Che Yip and Charlotte Brandstrom, has been an enormous success for Amazon, scoring 25 million viewers for the primary two episodes, Prime Video’s high premiere ever, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

The eight-episode first season will run till October 14. According to Variety, the second season of ‘The Rings of Power’ is already within the works as a part of Amazon’s five-season settlement with the Tolkien property.

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