Canonically Celebrimbor gets the idea to make the Rings from Sauron while he’s being held prisoner

I haven’t watched it yet... but what’s the point in making Feanor her father?

Yeah. As soon as they said Finrod had been killed by Sauron, I sputtered in nerdly outrage at my screen “Do Beren and Luthien mean nothing to you?!”

Cool idea, but Eärendil didn’t have particular magical powers, and he was doomed to never touch the mortal lands again. The most recognisable star in the sky would be gone if he wasn’t where he was supposed to be.

The heavily foreshadowed twist of the season is going to be that the elves have had Sauron in captivity the whole time.

The actor who loses it on Arondir in the bar is also Theo’s friend whom Theo shows the blade. I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy turned out to be some sort of servant of Sauron.

Well, ackshually...

Yeah, it’s a part of the prologue sequence. 

Tolkien tried and failed to get the Silmarillon published in his lifetime for decades.

No, those are not heavily edited. Unlike The Silmarillion, those are the actual, direct drafts that Tolkien had written. In those books Christopher Tolkien chose to publish unedited texts accompanied with his own commentaries about the contexts in which they were written.

Ok, so The Silmarillion is somehow less well known than say Morgoth’s Ring, Unfinished Tales or one of JRR’s letters? No, no it is not. It is easily #3. Don’t even try to argue it.

I.e. The LOTR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

All of those quotes come from very tertiary sources, BTW.

I’m giving this series a chance, but I admit... seeing Galadriel as a sword-wielding warrior? Yeah, that’s really not consistent with what we know about the character.

You only need to write the words “Rings of Power” on YouTube search bar to find dozens if not hundreds of hate clips that overwhelm all legitimately curious or critical videos by an order of magnitude. 

You’re gonna have to be more specific than that. Which plot developments, what people and why do you call it Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring instead of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring? 

The Second Age material has much more to do with political infighting among fantasy characters, and if we learned one thing from Star Wars it’s that audiences love fantasy politics.

Where is Celeborn again?

He didn’t have to, Isildur was already the King of Gondor. He gave up the crown to become the King of Arnor, because that title came along with High-Kingship that would have given him authority over both realms. But he never had the chance to claim it, and the whole idea of a High-King was buried. 

The only thing that might interest me is to see how they handle the Changing of the World (from flat to round), which ought to be a special effects spectacular, but probably won’t even be mentioned.