This is why we can’t have nice things

I mean, if there’s going to be a teenager prone to violent death, it’s a child soldier in a supernatural fight against kaiju.

I don’t think it’s that kind of show

I’m constantly in awe of people’s assumptions that Tolkien actually wrote a complete narrative, much less a ready to go to screen script, about anything beyond the Hobbit and LotR.

If you want a movie or game about anything in Middle Earth besides the events of those four books it is going to be an adaptation with a bunch of filled in blanks, and it’s going to have to change details because Tolkien’s notes are mostly broad strokes history that simply will not make an interesting film.