1/ This might be a risky statement: The primary problem in #TheRingsofPower isn't that that they're changing Tolkien. It's that it's poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly paced, poorly directed, with poorly constructed characters... The entire project is an amateur exercise. 2/ The poor writing began early in episode 1. We learned that rocks look down and ships look up--and this was supposed to be some sort of wonderful guiding statement about how to live--but it's so clunky and unimaginative. And the entire show suffers from this.

1/ This #TheRingsofPower trailer concentrates on. 1: Rewritten Galadriel. 2: Rewritten Tar-Miriel. 3: New Character Arondir. 4: New Character Halbrand. 5: New Character Disa. 6: New Harfoots. 7: Galadriel in Númenor. 8: Elrond lecturing Galadriel. 9: The Meteor Man.

https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1562062979281010688

2/ When people wonder why there is such a fan backlash against this show, THIS is why. There is nearly NOTHING in this trailer that a lifelong, hardcore, Tolkien reader like me can point to and say, "Hey, that's from the books!"

1) Read the Vanity Fair article and there’s a lot of red flags. My first thoughts follow… vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022… 2) Amazon — “But really, does it feel like Middle-earth if you don’t have hobbits or something like hobbits in it?” 🤨