There are a lot of problems here, but let’s start with the idea that Gil-galad, as high-king of the Noldor, would have had any authority to “send” Galadriel or anyone else back to Valinor, much less punish Galadriel for not following his orders. Eventually, she’s rescued by a group of shipwrecked human survivors on a raft, which is where we leave her at the end of episode two. Galadriel clearly doesn’t want to go and at the last moment jumps ship and swims back toward Middle Earth. He then grants Galadriel and her company the honor of returning to Valinor, the realm of the Valar in Aman across the Sundering Seas. Gil-galad Had No Power to ‘Send’ Galadriel (or Anyone Else) to ValinorĪfter Galadriel returns from what appears to be an unsuccessful, centuries-long mission to hunt down Sauron (a mission that implausibly ends in mutiny), the high-king of the elves, Gil-galad, proclaims the war against Morgoth’s forces to be over. Payne and Patrick McKay decided to ignore, truncate, or completely change important elements of one of the greatest works of literature in the English language - either because they failed to understand the lore to begin with, or because they hate Tolkien’s deeply Roman Catholic mythology so much they deliberately tried to destroy it. With that in mind, here are the three most egregious instances where Amazon’s showrunners J.D.

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