Ring of the Nibelungs

As a big J.R.R. Tolkien-fan I loved the books and would say that Peter Jackson did a good job there. For me, there's only one legend as big as Tolkiens LoTR and so I really looked forward to this film. The Legend about Siegfried, Brunhild and Kriemhild is an evergreen is one of the few sagas almost every German *should* know. I first read it in primary school and I loved it since then. But this film is nothing like the saga: The facts are all wrong, almost all love-stories and relationships are kind of mixed together, to get even bigger emotions and backstories: Niebelungs were never out of mist, although their name suggests it. Alberich was an honorable Niebelung, Siegfried even gave him the order to care for his gold. In fact the smith kinda evil. Siegfried never lost his partens and was always son of a king, Kriemhild never needed magic to get Siegfried and so on and so on... And who the heck decided that Benno Fürmann is Siegfried? Hagen is the only character they didn't change. This is not the legend I know by heart since I was little and that's a shame. If Peter Jackson would have changed the book so much no fan would have liked the movie.