So I watched LOTR: ROP.

…I applaud the mad genius who convinced Jeff Bezos to turn what looked like a homebrew Lord of the Rings campaign using the 4e D&D rules into a major television series. Although your silver tongue is wasted upon such activities, my friend. You should be using your supernatural charm to promote something nobler, like clean water charities.

Seriously, this is a train wreck. I’m trying to decide if it’s enough of a train wreck to watch the second episode. Also: I get that JRR Tolkien never wanted to get into it, but humans and elves in his world must have banged. Like, a lot. And even then Tolkien kind of half-admitted it in canon:

Isn't that Dol Amroth's whole thing, a city of halfelves?

— ProtestantMonk (@Protestant_Monk) September 2, 2022

At least the noble families, yeah.