notes: please don't get angry if you like it, this is just my opinion i only watched part of episode 1, but i know what happens from recaps on youtube so.. amazon made a tv series about the lord of the rings called rings of power. it takes place before the events of lotr. at first, i was really excited because i'm such a lotr nerd, but soon i was disappointed instead. so what's the problem? the main problem i have is the lore. the writers COMPLETELY changed the story. for example, it shows finrod felagund getting killed by orcs?! in the book he was killed by a werewolf while protect beren. and that whole weird rube goldberg machine that made the southlands into mordor made NO SENSE. i'm so confused how that made a volcano erupt. another change i hate is that they made numenorians come to middle earth to fight. i'm pretty sure that never happened. i also don't know why there are hobbits, since i'm pretty sure hobbits didn't exist at that time. about the hobbits... i don't like them. they are so selfish and cowardly. speaking of selfish, lets talk about galadriel. i absolutely HATED her from the start of episode 1. she only cares about finding sauron instead of listening to her friends. when she goes to numenor, she is extremely rude even though they saved her life. she is nothing like the galadriel we see in the lord of the rings. and you can't make excuses about her being like this because she's too young to understand. at this time galadriel would be more than 4000 years old. a lot of other rings of power characters are also like this. they're all really dislikable. the last problem i have is the designs. tolkien states many times in the books that elves have long flowing hair, yes the boys also have it. but almost none of the guy elves in rings of power have long hair, except for gil-galad. without their long hair, it really doesn't feel like middle earth. (at least for me) ok the end thanks for listening to me rant
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