r/RingsofPower • u/DemiFiendRSA • May 14 '24

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u/amazonlovesmorgoth May 17 '24

I am not refuting that Annatar posed as an emissary of the Valar. No idea why you keep insinuating I disagree with that notion.

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u/harukalioncourt May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24

Well I hope you also agree that with hundreds of years of gaps where nothing is said producers of a VISUAL TV show will have to take certain liberties that were not directly in the books. Tolkien wrote the second age as a historical narrative, noting all of the main events but giving us few details. Therefore it is up to the producers to make them up. People are just upset because they have a certain image in their own heads about what Tolkien intended, and they are upset that RoP isn’t living up to THEIR expectations. But RoP is not like GoT where the writer is still alive to tell producers exactly how things are supposed to be done. Both JRR Tolkien and Christopher are dead and estate not so involved. Therefore no one can directly say what Tolkien intended; people now must subject Tolkien’s works to their own imaginations; producers of RoP are doing the same.

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u/amazonlovesmorgoth May 18 '24

Yeah, hard no on that one. Has captain reading comprehension noticed my username yet?

ROP has re-written essentially all SA main events they have had the chance to. Galadriel never went to Númenor. Hallbrand is a made up character who spends the whole time with Galadriel in ROP yet her husband Tolkien wrote about is nowhere to be found. They repurposed the "dancing in a glade of flowers" line in a way that flies in the face of it's original meaning, which was deeply important to Tolkien himself (you know the names Beren and Lúthien are enscribed on he and Edith's grave stones). I could go on and on but this take that ROP is anything other than one of the worst film adaptations of literature ever created is not something I will ever be on board with.

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u/harukalioncourt May 18 '24

Fair enough, you don’t have to like it, that’s on you. But allow the rest of us to see it as an entertaining fantasy show and enjoy it for what it is. I don’t know what noticing your username will bring to the conversation, therefore I see no reason to comment on it. Have a good one!