Oberstein
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Rings of Power shows the weakness of Silmarillion era material WITHOUT full access to the actual Silmarillion. To give full benefit of doubt to the show creators, it's possible that most of the bizarre decisions they made were because they had to explicitly AVOID Silmarillion stuff even when intricately linked to the appendices info they did have rights to. Plus the decision to collapse it all into a single human lifetime. With those two constraints the end result was always gonna be dodgy.
Let's add the incompetent scriptwriters who swarm all over the streaming platforms.
Even if they would have the full rights to The Silmarillion, they would do something wrong with it.
I'll wait for the AI to improve, so we can have our own versions soon.
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