British TV shows have had the norm of 3-8 episodes per season for decades. It’s not new or unexpected. Quality over quantity. There’s five seasons of the show coming, the episodes aren’t gonna run out. 

Not sure how they can. The elves sailing to Valinor were already using the Straight Road, which shouldn’t exist until after Pharazon’s pholly (sic).

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. 

Celeborn has been confirmed for season 2 of the show. I currently expect that they’ll run with his oldest backstory as a Nandorin elf from Lórien, and move their meeting to the Second Age.

Thingol, not Thranduil.

It’s not being used in common use, though. We can probably assume that Sindarin is represented by English in the show, since otherwise we’d be watching most of it subtitled. Quenya is only being used on special occasions.

She’s on the list.

Thranduil of Doriath banned the public use of Quenya in his kingdom, and the ban unofficially spread pretty far past his borders. But Arondir and co. are presumably supposed to be Nandor from east of the Misty Mountains, and not directly involved with any of the happenings in Beleriand in the First Age. I don’t think…

I still like the show, and this episode introduced a bunch of very promising things, but I also have my annoyances with it. For this episode it was Galadriel’s bizarre attitude. Why treat everyone in Númenor with abject hostility, when reason and basic courtesy would get so much further? I understand that this…

We might still get it in future seasons as Amroth and Thranduil (and maybe Oropher?) are likely to be introduced somewhere down the line. But the audience needs to be introduced to this stuff in bite-sized chunks as not to be overwhelmed.

Well, transitioned rather than outright sped up. Númenor is still clearly thousands of years old, so the Second Age has been going on for a good while. But in this version of the story, the Rings of Power get made much later in the timeline, which also moved a bunch of other events around.

Pacifica was most likely designed for the multiplayer expansion that’s currently in the wind. I’d expect that we’ll get two single player expansions like The Witcher 3, but it may be that the multiplayer expansion will never come to pass, depending on what kind of technological hurdles CDPR has behind the scenes. 

Except that the Witcher 3 expansions do take place after the end of the main narrative...

On Men being cowards and jerks: I assume Musk was referring to the fellah from the raft.

Tolkien did identify some characters as white, but not all the elves. The description in The Silmarillion was written specifically about the Noldor, not the elves in general, but the editing made it less than obvious. 

My biggest issue with the show so far is the disney prince vibe all the male elves are giving because apparently Amazon’s budget didnt include wigs.

The irony is that the show downplays just how perfect Tolkien portrayed Galadriel as. Tolkien’s Galadriel was instantly great at everything she did, physical or otherwise. She always overshadowed her husband by a mile. Almost everyone was at her beck and call, and those who didn’t believe her or follow her advice were…

Like many characters on this show, Criston is pretty one-note. But what he does have going for him is a sparking chemistry with Rhaenyra; and god, do I wish they would kiss already.

It might also refer to a mortal line of kings appointed by Morgoth, I suppose. There might be a dark parallel storyline to Aragorn’s where these people get their rightful king, and he ends up becoming a Nazgûl. 

Maybe, but I wouldn’t count my chickens just yet.