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Legend of the Seeker
2008 · TV series · 42 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Sam Raimi, Terry Goodkind
Science FictionFantasyActionAdventureDrama
The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.
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> other swords and sorcery movies aren't fungible with LOTR.
I'd pay for more Legend of the Seeker, or for someone to do a Mistborn series. I'd pay to see Game of Thrones.
> Over the years, a sort of parallel universe has formed around Tolkien's work, a world of sparkling images and of figurines, colored by the original books of the cult, but often very different from them, like a continent that has drifted far from its original land mass.
I much prefer the Legend of the Seeker author's attitude toward the television adaptation: The story in the two different mediums are each their own separate things, to be enjoyed in their own separate ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth#TV_series_adaptation
Let's face it, there are certain people who will read the books and enjoy them for what they are. Then there are other people who won't read the books but will see the movies. What difference does it make?
As for the "Hollywood accounting," that's unfortunate. All parties in a deal should feel they benefit, and none should feel hey have short shrift.