David O'Mahony: Gatekeepers for screen adaptations of books should leave the rest of us to enjoy them

Fine, if you're unhappy about a screen adaptation of your favourite book; hate changes to the stories and characters, by all means be unhappy about it. But don’t deliberately get in the way of somebody else enjoying it

Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel is someone you’d follow into battle thinking you might win. Photo: Matt Grace/Prime Video

I might get cancelled for this one. Spurned by fellow readers, a pariah to my fellow writers, maybe even cast out of Bookhalla altogether.

I really like Rings of Power, Prime’s series based on the Lord of the Rings and its epically detailed appendices. There, I said it. It’s out there. I’m not taking it back and you can’t make me.