Would Tolkien have liked the story of Shadow of Mordor?

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XanderXT said:

Eddie_Raja said:
My opinion: Who the hell cares? It's a game that is an orc-killing simulator. It doesn't need to make a dead guy happy to justify its existence.

I dunno, if Tolkien hated it, the sales would be very different.

Ken Kesey and Anthony Burgess absolutely deplored the film adaptations of their works, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Clockwork Orange, weren't shy about making it known, and no one gave a shit (though in Burgess' case he just kind of hated A Clockwork Orange in general).  But of course Tolkien's fanbase are ridiculous, fanatical nerds who take his work as gospel, so maybe his disaproval would have had some effect in the long term.