I Love ‘Lord of the Rings.’ But I Beg you, Stop With the Spinoffs

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, my favorite film property, is slowly morphing into yet another cursèd cinematic universe that will haunt me with new installments of diminishing quality until the day I die. I mean, seriously, who in Galadriel’s name actually wants a whole new set of movies built around Gollum?!

The tragic news hit Middle Earth on Thursday: According to Variety...