re: First look at Galadriel in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series

The three branches of Elves were the Vanyar, Noldor, and Teleri


Fixed.

I'm disappointed they aren't doing the show about the fall of Gondolin. They'd probably have to spend the entire budget in one season though.

Don't watch it then

There are some folks out there who like the material (Tolkien's universe), who are interested in what this show presents. It might well be dogshit. It might be good. I'm generally cautiously watching things, and look forward to seeing what comes out.

A bunch of what is written tends to be slanted towards the article/publication's perceived audience, and has been. Remember, for the longest time we saw reports (completely unfounded) that we'd see more of Aragorn and Gandalf etc, in some articles. Others wondered about how they'd fit Hobbits in (as I understand, they DON'T).
Someone here went on a rampage saying it would be totally slanted to fit the Chinese audience.
There was a big outcry about 'intimacy coaches' and sex.

The show hasn't aired yet, not even a teaser with live action. We know very little of the plot (other than overreaching themes), nothing of the photography style, etc.
There are new characters, but when you scan over the source material, you see that's basically a necessity. He didn't write a novel or even a short story about this era, we have Christopher Tolkien's edits of his fathers notes. Some characters are based on a single sentence, or an entry in an appendix.

For all the casting complaints, let's see how they do first

And, I'm going to go off the beaten path here. My biggest "uhh, what?" comes from:

Elrond.

When I see this photo, I just think "JAW"

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None of these photos are doing it. Honestly the Galadriel photo was the one that pissed me off the most. While Galadriel is extremely powerful, it has nothing to do with her swordplay.

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We see her with a sword, not swinging it. To be 100% fair, I think she did draw and pledge her sword way back in the day when the Noldor left Valinor. Was supposed to be a hothead back then, that mellowed with age and experience.

By the Second Age I think she was the last of her generation, at least among the upper royalty.

Well if you aren't a racist piece of frick

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This is supposed to be Galadriel?

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Yes. Galadriel of Tarth.

Self-admitted non book readers are curiously all informed about Galadriel and her role as a 'rebel leader' and know all about her heroics from the battle of Alqualondë.

These white Knighters are just fanboying for Amazon, and have never picked up any Tolkien book. Probably never will.

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The absurdity

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is caring this much about a really outdated and lazy part of Tolkien's text. The old "every species has the exact same skin color, set of clothes, and general look" tropes of fantasy and Sci-fi world building suck. That part of Tolkien's work isn't good. That part of Jordan's work is good. That part of Gene Roddenberry's work isn't good. It should be okay to modify things that suck.

This show might very well be awful, but changing the skin color of a few characters doesn't show flagrant disrespect of the source. And your argument for skin color stuff doesn't prove your fandom of the novels; it just tells us you've fetishized an unimportant detail of the novels to reinforce some of your social beliefs.

'Source material' for Thor is an actual Nordic religion. Marvel itself bastardizes all of that by making Thor a 'superhero'. What if a studio in China made Jesus into a superhero?


But Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarök is an entirely different issue than bastardizing Tolkien's work.

Oh look, Jay Are with another shite take.

At least you're consistent.