Lord of the Rings on Prime

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we also have to remember what this series is based on, so a lot of new with old stuff will be added and changed, Its based on Tolkien's writings rather then a full novel as there is no real full Second Age story, its all over the place.

I don't mind creativity and new stuff. I just dislike un-creativity, quota to be filled and tokenization-worldbuilding which - so far - seems to be 90% of what we've seen so far. Like all of the 'diversity' stuff (which I have my doubts will be justified in logical ways, but we shall see), forcing hobbits into this, wizard dude from meteor, a "quest" "mission" across Middle-earth led by Xena Princess Galadriel just because (they're all so disturbingly wet about that Tolkien quote about Amazons yet conveniently ignore other ones), seemingly irrelevant unneeded Halbrand just to have a "Rohan" nod and "romance" thingy with Galadriel maybe, healer from a random village romancing a black elf with a child that has a weird sword artifact but what for in the story about rings who can tell, Adar being villain here instead of Sauron/Eastern Man under his service/anything else that would help with a bit more nuanced context of Sauron's domain in the East, if some casting leaks are to be believed yet another original character described as "Loki on the run who would sell their own kind to save his skin" all of which sounds to me like there will be lots of vagabonds... so clearly not enough focus and substance where it matters to this grand story about the forging, Eregion war, Numenorian colonization and Fall. There is this weird argument going around that they need to add so many characters because otherwise it would be just lord elfs, court Numenorians, dwarven royalty, and maybe others but prominent figures in general, and like that's something 'bad' but... but... if they don't like it they should have picked a different Tolkien story or even better redo LOTR? Because that's like the entire point of that Second Age story they chose - it IS about prominent figures and lords and that's where the focus should be otherwise it'll quickly turn into a cheapened imitation. Like maybe Sauron gives those rings to some randos from villages and strong adventurers, just because they are characters in this, and not based on his military strategy and geopolitics of Middle-earth lol

With the more logical and sensible approaches/storylines to explore apparently flashed down the gutter. To name just a few, Galadriel and Celeborn's relationship won't be explored (she will be single here undoubtedly), we'll hardly see nuanced, interesting, politically manipulated situation of the East stuck between Sauron/Numenorian colonization (since Sauron's organized Eastern dominion isn't even established here yet just some rando fallen elf going berserk with orcs looking for the talisman of power like it's some kind of mmo), Sauron is reduced to 'mystery' villain so hardly acting as such, perhaps even with memory loss and parading as 'a wizard' because they gotta have a wizard, HENCE... keeping in mind it's compressed timeline we'll most likely NOT see the military campaign finale with Ar-Pharazôn armies crushing Sauron's over dominion of Middle-earth in all its glory, the one and single time in Middle-earth when Sauron wielded (he did turn it into a victory later in Numenor court, kind of, but this was still a huge military loss and humiliation, the kind of which he didn't really suffer in Eregion campaign). Also, overall, without Ruler Sauron in the picture from the start, the show basically says no to any sort of interestingly handled political aspect of the story - will probably be a bunch of evil orcs pitted against better organized elfs and men in cool armors like movies even though a long tv series could have done it better, with more nuance and more POVs and more factions involved. Sauron had ambitions to rule over things and be worshiped too, not just let the orcs burn everything to the ground.