I think the ability to change one's mind is actually super important and something we under-value as a culture these days, preferring rigid "sides" that we have to fall on whether it's politics or a TV show. I prefer to listen to my own instincts on these matters, and keep an open mind.
The famous quote often attributed to Keynes is relevant here. Allegedly he'd been criticized for repeatedly changing his opinion about some matter. He responded, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
I have to agree that Numenor seems to be a terrible, painful, miss on the part of the show. Having Galadriel find it in such a hostile, unfriendly state is cataclysmically contrary to the established lore. For fish's sake the rings have not been forged yet! In the legendarium Numenor was very much elf friendly at this stage. When Sauron forged the one ring and the elves took their three off Sauron made war on them and the Numenorians came and kicked Saurons ass for the elves. This Numenor is not only not that Numenor but we can SEE the future Numenorian King who presided over the Islands sinkins skulking around HUNDREDS of years before it should possibly occur.
And that's without getting into the Numenorians' attitude problems. This people are more advanced than other humans, sure, but do they seem like a people whos' scattered refugees could build Orthanc or Minas Tiriths magnificent structures? Certainly not. Nor have they any sense of the Numenorians morality. This is a people who, at this time in the legendarium, are a well meaning and virtuous people. They are a people who are mildly jealous of their elven friends immortality and have an unshakable apprehension of their own mortality but they're a people who'd send armadas to their elf friends aid when they got in a pickle. This bunch of Numenorians are a joke. Sauron wouldn't need to go there in person to corrupt them- he just needs to mail them a box of pamphlets. Again... HUNDREDS of years before the isle is due to sink.
Galadriel is a remarkably immature 5,000 years old, yeah. They're just making tons of stuff up by now and it's starting show since Tolkien made up better stuff. I did enjoy the Not All Who Wander song, though.
I think the ability to change one's mind is actually super important and something we under-value as a culture these days, preferring rigid "sides" that we have to fall on whether it's politics or a TV show. I prefer to listen to my own instincts on these matters, and keep an open mind.
The famous quote often attributed to Keynes is relevant here. Allegedly he'd been criticized for repeatedly changing his opinion about some matter. He responded, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
I have to agree that Numenor seems to be a terrible, painful, miss on the part of the show. Having Galadriel find it in such a hostile, unfriendly state is cataclysmically contrary to the established lore. For fish's sake the rings have not been forged yet! In the legendarium Numenor was very much elf friendly at this stage. When Sauron forged the one ring and the elves took their three off Sauron made war on them and the Numenorians came and kicked Saurons ass for the elves. This Numenor is not only not that Numenor but we can SEE the future Numenorian King who presided over the Islands sinkins skulking around HUNDREDS of years before it should possibly occur.
And that's without getting into the Numenorians' attitude problems. This people are more advanced than other humans, sure, but do they seem like a people whos' scattered refugees could build Orthanc or Minas Tiriths magnificent structures? Certainly not. Nor have they any sense of the Numenorians morality. This is a people who, at this time in the legendarium, are a well meaning and virtuous people. They are a people who are mildly jealous of their elven friends immortality and have an unshakable apprehension of their own mortality but they're a people who'd send armadas to their elf friends aid when they got in a pickle. This bunch of Numenorians are a joke. Sauron wouldn't need to go there in person to corrupt them- he just needs to mail them a box of pamphlets. Again... HUNDREDS of years before the isle is due to sink.
Galadriel is a remarkably immature 5,000 years old, yeah. They're just making tons of stuff up by now and it's starting show since Tolkien made up better stuff. I did enjoy the Not All Who Wander song, though.