@LiberalLibrarian Do not watch Rings of Power. It's awful for purity or even gestalt. Jackson at least loved Tolkien.
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Rings changed fundamental pieces of the lore.
Jackson moved things around a bit but clearly wanted it to be a love letter to Tolkien's work, and keep the underlying message of how defeating corruption is exceptionally hard.
Rings of Power is just making a buck off the name & intellectual property. The effects & makeup are good, but the story really isn't.
Nerd purity is having a cow that there's a black elf or black dwarf, and that isn't what bothers me.