It does? How? It’s just telling the story in the appendices about the Second Age.
… what?
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No, it doesn’t.
It’s the tongue-and-cheek annunciation since the writers of the Rings of Power made Giladriel the girl-boss Mary Sue.
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is quite decent as well.
“Her mother-name was Nerwen (‘man-maiden’), and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor; she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth.
[…]
Even after the merciless assault upon the Teleri and the rape of their ships, though she fought fiercely against Fëanor in defence of her mother’s kin , she did not turn back. Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Fëanor with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could.“
- J.R.R. Tolkien, himself.
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Let’s see: awful writing, awful acting, girlboss super warrior and her band of incompetent simps, vagabond hobbits which goes against everything hobbits value (hearth, home, good food, ale, and ole Toby), and virtue signaling tokens in every middle earth race as if that’s how genetics work. Straight up roaring dumpster fire for any that grew up reading Tolkien. If you enjoy it, I’m happy for you. But this should be its own standalone generic fantasy show with no reference to LOTR.
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A match; not the Troll Slaying, acrobatic idiot that somehow beats five armored Numenorians by shoving them into a cell.
Gatekeeping is good sometimes.
I think people are starting to learn that.
Without good gatekeeping you get things like Rings of Power, The Acolyte, Assassins Creed: Shadows etc etc…
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But how doesn’t it? I mean, I’ve read the appendices. The events haven’t changed, as far as I remember.
What exactly is being crapped on?
So we hate women who fight. Got it.
I guess having a logical conversation wasn’t going to happen here. Nevermind.
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Legolas beat an entire mammoth by himself… yet not a peep. Yall just yapping.
No, you guys are just radical. Thats all. We all played hello kitty island’s adventure and we also played Halo. We don’t care.
Giladriel creates the Rings? Sauron was some random guy named Halbrand?
Really?
We actually pay attention to the source material. Such radicals.
Dear lord, that show… RIP Starwars.
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Calm down lol
Who is “you guys” and what is “radical” to you?
Was bad worldbuilding, but a good start to insight into the Sith. It was actually well done in that respect.
There’s more to the Sith than “RAWR ME WEAR BLACK AND HAVE RED SHINY AND LOOK MENACING!” Acolyte was beginning to show that. It was a look at how the Jedi aren’t infallible, their ways aren’t all benevolent and that there is another side to the Sith. That’s stuff you can only find in Old Republic right now. High Republic was a great time to introduce a whole new era of Star Wars we haven’t touched on yet.
But ridiculous people have to keep bringing in “BUT MUH LEGENDS” that aren’t canon and screaming like children, instead of understanding that this was going to be a great way to show more depth and history.
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I don’t really care about that. What I care about (or also don’t care about) is characters that might as well be faceless mannequins speaking in the same robot voice. Is there a sexy one? Is there a fun one? Oh hell no this is SRS FNTASI.
(Also, 10+ hours of LoTR without Tom Bombadil is “honor”?)
(Also also, it took me a half dozen tries to get past hobbit roasting in The Hobbit, and when I eventually – I don’t remember a single minute of it – managed to watch through to the third movie, I decided halfway through that there was no way in hell I was ever going to finish it, as it just gets worse the longer it goes on.)
I think it’s because Jackson did good films in the first place, with a lot of humility and respect for the material, whereas Rings of Power is too self-important, trying to set itself apart. Like when writers think they’re smarter than the audience.
I don’t mind the most of the lore changes, black elves and dwarves, goblins with loving families, whatever, but making Giladriel a superhero just seems the most out of touch with the general vibe of the books and lore. I don’t know, maybe i just don’t like the actresses performance.
I ducked out in the middle of the first season though, so maybe the show is better? i may throw it on the next time I’m out gathering
Tom Bombadil had to be cut for run-time. The Fellowship would’ve been five hours long.
I personally like the show a lot, particularly the dwarf story line. It’s awesome to see the kingdom in all its glory.
The trilogy is by far my favorite movie ever.
I’ve read the books many times but could never slog though all the prehistory.
I’m not a purist but I really enjoy this stuff.
And it really is a slog. LOL But it can be interesting. I used to read it to fall asleep. 
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Tldr is that for some people, I am one of them, taking existing IPs with existing established lore, and then taking a wrecking ball to it, is a vile behavior.
If they had just not set it in tolkien’s universe, no one would care.
Same with the Star wars slop they keep putting out. Same with every other trash fire they keep making.
Create something new, don’t engage in cultural vandalism, that’s all anyone really asks of them.
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