To truly enjoy this show, you have to somewhat ignore the weight of the eons depicted in the source material. This is a weighty and ponderous mystical story, but the show has made the decision to compact thousands of years into mere decades for the sake of urgency and coherence in its visual format.
I do agree that another she-elf would be welcome, though. Galadriel needs a friend who isn’t burdened by the weight of the audience knowing he’ll someday be one of the last great elf-lords bearing the burden of his ancestors. She is fundamentally a lonely character, but it wouldn’t hurt for her to have some relationships that weren’t pure tragedy and conflict.
You nailed it, the silmarillion (even this chapter which is basically the Akallabeth) is an epic, and trying to compress it to a weekly drama strips much of the underlying atmosphere.
This isn’t house of the dragon, this is an allegory about man and his mortality under the light of his hubris, and it’s not going to have the same script bite as something from grrm.
To truly enjoy this show, you have to somewhat ignore the weight of the eons depicted in the source material. This is a weighty and ponderous mystical story, but the show has made the decision to compact thousands of years into mere decades for the sake of urgency and coherence in its visual format.
I do agree that another she-elf would be welcome, though. Galadriel needs a friend who isn’t burdened by the weight of the audience knowing he’ll someday be one of the last great elf-lords bearing the burden of his ancestors. She is fundamentally a lonely character, but it wouldn’t hurt for her to have some relationships that weren’t pure tragedy and conflict.
You nailed it, the silmarillion (even this chapter which is basically the Akallabeth) is an epic, and trying to compress it to a weekly drama strips much of the underlying atmosphere.
This isn’t house of the dragon, this is an allegory about man and his mortality under the light of his hubris, and it’s not going to have the same script bite as something from grrm.