I am not well versed in the lotr lore, can you tell me in what big way is the show departing from the books?

Then did the sons of Tar-Minyatur ride tall and fell and fair
upon the ships of Belegaer with sails blond as their hair
But first they had to lade aboard each single colt and filly
Using some sort of horse pulley harness that all looked rather silly

I’m getting some major “DENNIS! There’s some lovely filth down ‘ere!” vibes from this shot.

They are trolling us all with the typos at this point. 

“In the semi-final round, Hardy spared martial arts veteran Danny Appleby”

This is borderline incomprehensible. Lay off the cocaine

A recent Consumer Product Safety Commission alert is urging people to not use male-to-male power chords

So we’re making fun of people’s physical appearances now? Cool.

It took me a while to learn how to be lazy.

Lipnicki said that he started taking acting classes and “really studying it” after high school, and he started doing theater as a way to work with more actors and really get into acting. These days he’s back in the business, doing what he can when he can. He told /Film that he has a “great relationship” with his past…

Starring Tilda Swinton as Ezra Miller.

I have nothing to do with this

I mean, you can just say “the two met when Iron Eyes was 12" or something. The issue isn’t they/them pronouns so much as writers not expending the 0.5% extra effort to make sure everything is clear.

It’s interesting to go back to old articles on this website and see the difference in tone. Many of his movies are middling. He also made some of the greatest comedies of all time. He has some horrific accusations against him. Many people have called those accusations into question. Those four ideas can all co-exist.…

Having one error in the article is fine. Let's be fair about it. To err is human. To have inconsistent editorial staff is AV Club.

Or maybe it was an honest mistake? 

Nah.  He made some good ones just after that.  He should have stopped at 25 like DiCaprio.

It’s as if Ezra Miller looked at the long arc of Johnny Depp’s career and said “I can do that, but twice as crazy and in a third of the time!”

JFC, Cordova was cast because the showrunners found him to be the best actor for the part. That’s it. The pigmentation of his skin didn’t, and doesn’t, matter in a show about fantasyland.

Is this even needed? I just open my dishwasher when it’s done, pull all the racks out and by the time everything is cool enough to touch, it’s dry. I call BS on this one and any perceived positive results are likely psychological. Even most of the comments on the TikTok say it doesn’t work.