{"id":145764,"date":"2022-09-06T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/musk-stokes-bezos-rivalry"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:24:06","slug":"musk-stokes-bezos-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/musk-stokes-bezos-rivalry","title":{"rendered":"Musk stokes Bezos rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-stokes-bezos-rivalry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both,\u201d he posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cTolkien is turning in his grave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon aired the first two episodes of <em>Rings of Power<\/em> on Friday, which centered on Galadriel, commander of the Northern Armies, bent on exacting vengeance for the death of her brother centuries earlier. By comparison, fellow elf Elrond prefers his life of quiet counsel to King Gil-galad, who attempts to send Galadriel away to avoid any military skirmish with Sauron\u2019s scattered forces.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over Amazon\u2019s <em>Rings of Power<\/em> began in earnest after showrunners and studio executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2022\/02\/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">argued in <em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> they needed to take liberties when adapting Tolkien characters such as Galadriel and Elrond, since his Middle-earth was badly in need of an update to reflect today\u2019s more modern societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlmost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both,\u201d he posted to Twitter. \u201cTolkien is turning in his grave.\u201d Amazon aired the first two episodes of Rings of Power on Friday, which centered on Galadriel, commander of the Northern Armies, bent on exacting vengeance for the death of her brother centuries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}