Tolkien

''Tolkien would hang his head in shame if he saw what this movie did with his ideas.''

It didn't do anything disgraceful with ''his'' ideas. Not only does this film owe little to Tolkien, less so than most other fantasy works, but most of the tropes it does contain that are comparable to those found in his works were not invented by Tolkien at all. I am a fan of Tolkien's works but unlike some I am not going to prescribe originality in places where it doesn't exist. The main similarities in this is the use of the quest theme, the mystical weapon, good verses evil and a big bad in a dark castle... none of these tropes were invented by Tolkien and he acknowledge these facts many times. He borrowed these from heroic legends, Medieval literature, poetry and plays (''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'') and other fantasy works. If you think Tolkien is extremely originally I suggest you read the works of the Marxist author William Morris or Lord Dunsany, both of whom were important influences on the work of Tolkien.

And the Slayers are not much like the Ringwraiths if they were who the OP was referring to when he mentioned ''black knights'', not only do the Slayers not travel incognito (like the Nazgul, who were probably not armoured like they were in the movies) for most of the story, they are also a vast army and not a small group of elites. And they come in different colours. In some ways you could compare them more with the Orcs, but the only similarity they have with them is that they are an army and evil.

Formerly KingAngantyr