Thread by @JayNoSnax

Amazon's debacle known as #TheRingsofPower has a lot of bad writing. And while I am not a #Tolkien purist by any stretch of the imagination, willful violations of continuity & lore for no reason other than flexing is inexcusable. What follows is an example. Spoilers ahead...

🧵 - Case in point - "Dead" or "Missing" Celeborn. There was just no reason to mention him at all - but when Galadriel name drops him, it unravels her whole motivation for pursuing Sauron - namely that her brother died while fighting Morgoth's forces...

🧵- We are beaten over the head constantly with her brother's death. Now, we know that Celeborn isn't dead. They are at least careful to write that he wasn't "seen again." Because if he's dead, it screws over a lot of lore, least of which is that he is in #LotR.

🧵- But it also makes a mockery of #Galadriel's motives -- avenging her brother. Why wouldn't she be avenging her husband? Or better yet, seeing as it is not confirmed that Celeborn is dead, why wouldn't she be fixated on finding him (or confirming his death)?

🧵- They would have been better of never mentioning Celeborn. We could be left to assume they have not been married yet.

🧵- But for some reason, the writers need to make sure we know she is available so they can carry on the Macguffin that she will become romantically involved with Halbrand (a possibility they dispose of the very next episode anyway!).

🧵- What the writers therefore leave us with is a "violation" of lore that we know they will need to fix at some point with a "What do you mean, Celeborn might still be alive?" Kind of like how they'll have to pull a "What do you mean, Ilsidur is alive?" at some point also.

🧵- But more importantly than that - they succeed in making a mockery of Galadriel (not the first nor last time they do that over the course of 8 episodes). Her very un-elf-like motive of revenge for her brother really should be an un-elf-like revenge quest for her husband! (end)

Here's the unroll:
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I wish I had written "Celeborn - her husband" here so as not to leave anyone thinking that I think that's the name of her brother and throwing confusion here for the casual Tolkien "fans" who don't readily know who Celeborn is.