They said he went hunting for Sauron, but not after the war. Right before the bit about his death, Galadriel said “Morgoth was defeated... but not before much sorrow.” This at the very least leaves the timeline of his death an open question.

This article is about how it is being review bombed, and you’re looking at an audience score. I was talking about the critics score, because you mentioned reviews.

Except that’s a lie, considering it is sitting at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes (one point more than House of the Dragon).

Finrod doesn’t actually die after Morgoth is defeated, he dies during the War of Wrath. This isn’t just me saying “In the books!”, the show actually doesn’t say he goes searching after the war - we’re just told about his death after we’re told about the war. The actual timeline of his death is left vague.

Literally the first image released for the show was of Valinor - albeit, Valinor in the First Age. That shot of the Two Trees, and the city of Tirion in front of them. It has also been shown in more than one trailer.

Better a pig than a fascist!

I don’t think the show is going to go all the way to Aerys in those 4-5 seasons. I think all that time is going to be spent on the Dance of the Dragons.

Both!

The show has changed the timeline a bit here - this is actually nine years into his reign. 

There is a very compelling theory that Amelia Earhart was eaten by crabs.

“Shills” here would also include Neil Gaiman, who was also there.

Actually, HBO itself wanted more seasons, and also suggested going to around 10. It was D&D who insisted at keeping it at 8, because they were tired.

No, it got an advance order for five seasons. It’s already renewed.

Young Ned Stark is going to be busy playing Elrond on The Rings of Power for the next several years

I actually heard the opposite - HBO axed it in part because it was so visually different from Game of Thrones, and they felt that it wouldn’t feel like the same franchise. They were going for more of an ancient, Bronze Age esque aesthetic for the First Men.

I don’t think so - all five seasons of this show are going to be set in the Second Age, so any additional adaptations would have to be totally new TV shows decades away.

Rivendell doesn’t appear in the trailer at all, considering it hasn’t been founded yet, so I don’t know what visual cues you’re seeing of it at all.

Maybe it started as a prequel to Homecoming, and then Sony threatened to get lawyers involved.

Right, but the timeline compression was done to suit the narratives of the forging of the rings and the downfall of Numenor as one big epic, to streamline the major events of the second half of the Second Age. Gandalf isn’t a character in these stories at all, and we have stories about his arrival in the mid-Third…

Apparently, they only OFFICIALLY have the rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (including Appendices) but have worked closely with the Tolkien Estate throughout (Simon Tolkien was even an advisor on the show) and seem to be allowed to use, on approval, relevant sections of Unfinished Tales and The…