Well, among other things, Herbert disowned his gay rights activist son Bruce, almost certainly over his homosexuality.

The Baron is a blatantly homophobic figure in the book as well, since Frank Herbert was extremely homophobic, himself. They probably won’t reference his sexuality at all in these films.

“Unaltered” in the sense that she is not subject to the genetic degregation that the deliberately modified clones suffer from, which prevents the Kaminoans from cloning them indefinitely. Also, the mutation doesn’t have to be significant; Omega might be intersexed, for all we know.

Around but unaccounted. They didn’t appear in record until the early Third Age. They were implied to have been a great deal smaller and extremely secretive.

Omega is unaltered. Her changed gender is due to a random mutation, like the differences within the Bad Batch.

Sometimes it’s a bounty, a proof that you killed a dangerous critter that was endangering the shopkeeper’s business. Otherwise it could be an exotic curiosity to be sold to the rich and bored, a magical resource to be sold to alchemists, etc. etc.

You don’t have real depth perception but your brain will learn to simulate it at least somewhat from shadows, reflections and such.

Those were birthed by his female giant lover, actually. 

Loki didn’t give birth to the giant snake, it was his giant mistress who did that. He did give birth to the horse, though, and one legend claims that he spent years a simple farmer’s wife just because he wanted to try it out.

In that case adaptations in general are already pointless. We already know how the book ends, who cares about seeing in a different medium?

He’s clearly a master ventriloquist.

True, but racism in its modern sense developed from the early Middle Ages onwards and culminated in the Age of Exploration. Before, prejudice definitely existed, but there wasn’t enough of a united identity to form around a concept like race. The ancient Romans didn’t feel any more kinship with the pale barbarians of…

The difference is closed environment, time and especially the employee conditions. You are crammed to a closed space with thousands of other people for weeks at the time, while the people who serve you live in cramped conditions and won’t get paid if they don’t work, sick or not. Subsequently, just one sick kitchen…

Sounds like he was too jetlagged to pay attention.

The Golden Age movies are pretty good, though the original manga is obviously the definitive version.

Firstly because it sounds like they’re winging a plot based on the appendices in the back of LOTR and not any of the stuff found in the Simarillion

While we’ll undoubtedly get to that if the series or its spin-offs go on for long enough, based on what little info we have at this point, I think that the show will start much earlier, in the time the Great Rings were made, and the Númenorians were first starting to establish colonies in Middle-Earth. 

Yep, but I wanted a Second Age example.

That particular scene was considered one of the poorer effects shots of the films even when they first came out.