Yah I just didn’t want to have any misconceptions that I just rage hate the show or something. I want it to be good, but I also don’t want it to trample over established lore. Like yeah the LOTR movies made changes and cut stuff, but not at this level. Like the time compression really kills a lot of the ‘threat’ of…

Well, the LOTR movies made plenty of changes I don’t like, but I generally understand why those things were done from a filmmaking perspective. Like I understand why having Arwen show up to help instead of Glorfindal was done, because Arwen is just kind of scenery in the books and Glorfindal doesn’t have any impact on…

I did always think it was a weird magical decision for Elwing to change into a plank, but I suppose if there was a ship wreck of some kind, having that ability would come in handy. I still don’t think changing in a giant board is as useful as, say, becoming a bird or something, but what can you do?

That sketch did help launch the career of Donald Glover, and I know some of the other guys in that troupe are pretty prolific and active comedy writers, so I think it's less people's brains didn't work and more that everyone was just happy not considering the implications of what they were doing. Also obviously there…

A couple other folks replying to you have kind of hit the nail on the head. My biggest issue would be the timeline compression. By the time Isildur is born, Celebrimbor is dead, the Numenorians have already fought Sauron once, and the One Ring has been made. Numenor already has colonies in Middle Earth and the…

At this point, it doesn’t matter. They’re so far off the books (which isn’t explicitly a bad thing) that even if they were, they’d be effectively totally different.

Hey now. We can't have any nuance here. This is the internet.

If you guys hire any writers on the A.V staff, you should have them watch this and get their feedback.

I’m really upset I know who Andrew Tate is. 

From what I’ve heard, and this is strictly in the ‘rumor’ category so treat it as such, there have been some additional negotiations which allow some material from the other sources to be used or mentioned to some degree. I know that the new compilation Second Age/Numenor book has a big Amazon's Rings of Power sticker…

Its also worth remembering that the show doesn’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, so anything expanded out in that or Unfinished Tales is, with a few negotiated exceptions, likely going to have to be changed or not follow the same path.

According to Gunn, DC/WB basically offered him whatever property he wanted, including Superman. He picked Suicide Squad because he’s a fan of the comics, and also (my speculation here) his writing is strongest with ensembles.

Or Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. They're very similar.

The game had a pretty mediocre to bad story that worked better when it was called Johnny Mnemonic, so I'm glad the show is actually doing something with the potential of the setting.

I loved until the post Stonebridge/Scott seasons. Like the show is kind of over the top and dumb but those two have a really solid dynamic that makes you want to watch through. I didn’t get that from the newer ones.

I think the show looks like absolute garbage. I’d be happy to be wrong, but I was talking to someone about it and they agreed but immediately went into “And Elves were created before there was a sun and moon and dwarves lived underground. They shouldn’t be black”. Then I had to kind of backtrack and defend a show that…

I meant more of sole kingship. Gondor was jointly ruled prior to that by Isildur, as you mention, and his brother, although obviously under the High-Kingship, but Isildur could have fully consolidated his power to be under his line alone. I’m not sure that would have really been politically feasible though.

They knew it was an instrument of the enemy, could control the lesser rings, and couldn’t be trusted, but it’s debatable they knew the true nature of the One Ring and the full extent of Sauron’s power in it.

True enough, which is ironic because if Isildur was taken by the One Ring, he easily could have claimed kingship instead of putting Meneldil on the throne.

Putting people in the direct line of extremism is never a good idea. I don’t think the article is the problem, but sending people to the source, I assume just ‘for the lulz’, is. It doesn’t even have to amplify it for people here. Maybe you watch the trailer and think it’s stupid, which is fine. But you have added a…