Servant of Morgoth

Great now they can write more nonsensical Gandalf/Galadriel
 
And who would play him anyway. I need my extremely charismatic emotional support gay man to play Gandalf. Not impossible to cast, but it is harder than usual.

I think this is going to suck because of the time compression. I think the way to do this was to make a FANTASY show and let the mortal characters die. Have huge jumps in time. Let the immortal characters be the joining thread. Both kinds of characters could be pov characters, but some die.
 
Then again, I wouldn't have made this in the first place. It's just Amazon wanting mainstream appeal.
 
 
Normal people make this and post it Ao3. Less normal people demand huge budgets and are desperate to be taken seriously as "adaptations".

I'm good friends with quite a few guys who met the showrunners in London recently, and who's opinions I trust. The overwhelming impression was that the showrunners know their Tolkien very well, and between them and myself, we've had great arguments about whether that's necessarily a good thing, whether what matters is their ability to helm a TV show over their ability to interperate Tolkien, etc...
 
I also thinking listening to an artist talk about the work of art is far less important than looking at the work of art for yourself and seeing what they actually made, as opposed to what they say they made. Some of this stuff: derpy Hobbits with cute English names (and, in one case, a bad Bach wig) transplated into this work, pre-Mordor, a man who literally falls into the show from the sky - that sort of stuff doesn't inspire great confidence in me, personally.

Is it too late for Jeff Bezos to tell the world what we've seen and heard to date is all one big expensive joke, and that they're filming something not awful in secret?