The Lord of the Rings proves fantasy movies don’t need to be accurate, just faithful

It’s not easy to adapt fantasy literature for the screen. As we witnessed with Netflix’s The Witcher and HBO’s Game of Thrones, there is a very thin line between the compromises necessary to bring a story to a different medium and doing wrong by the source material, and it seems that screenwriters and producers have forgotten how to walk on it in recent years. (Open the “Galadriel’s depiction in The Rings of Power” floodgates!) Meanwhile, 25 years after its debut, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings has returned to theaters with overwhelming success, proving that to be faithful, an adaptation doesn’t necessarily have to be accurate.