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The actress that plays her is classically beautiful (M-Clark). She looks like the type of woman that would be a goddess for artists prior to the 20th century. I am OK with Amazon making their own story. The unpublished Tolkein stories/history/lore was unpublished for a reason- it was unfinished. So he didn't really have a real story for Galadriel in the first place. All these stories/notes were put together by his son, Chris Tolkien and published decades later. I see the critics of Amazon saying that they are ruining Tolkein- doesn't make sense to me. To ruin something means that there was a detailed story in the first place LOL.

I noticed that there are a lot of attacks on the show on social media (particularly on youtube, this has been going on for a year), because it was made by Amazon, is based on appendices/Silmarillion and it has woke casting. There isn't much about pre-LOTR Galadriel in Tolkein's Silmarillion. It's basically a fantasy-history/lore book, and rather choppy/disjointed at that. She was a sort of demi-goddess. I don't recall anything about her wearing Aragorn's outfit and being an adventurer lol. She was more of a political leader. I haven't had a chance to watch the episodes yet but it looks like they got the Golden age/decline of the elves rather right. In Tolkein's universe, in the prehistory Elves were superhuman/higher beings that lived well. But they declined, in part due to the wars. By the time of the Hobbit/LOTR the elves are already very declined, and Galadriel is passive and leaving middle earth.

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Yea, I have her subbed but for some reason youtube didn't recommend her to me in ages. I wish she did bikini/lingerie She is gorgeous.

She is 22 years old, lol. Looks so young in HoD.

The lead actress for House of the Dragon looks very child like but in reality she is in her 20s. Milly Alcock - Wikipedia

4k environmental shots This is literally in Elden Ring as well:

4k environmental shots This is literally in Elden Ring as well:

An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed - VICE

@Stromboli1 The Hobbit films also had similar criticism, being big budget but the actual writing, acting, and casting was flawed. The irony is that Peter Jackson did both series. The behind-the scenes scoop was that the original Lord of the Rings Trilogy was a real unicorn, like the Witcher3. Many years of passionate hard work, vision, and pre-production went into making the films, and once they got the crew together it was perfect storm, really great casting, writing, art etc. However the Hobbit was a different story. It was corporate cash-grab and not a genuine project like the LOTR. The actual book only had one film worth of content and it was children's book too. The production of it was more along the lines of 'we're making it up as we are going on', just way less successful than the original trilogy. Ian McKellen ( Gandalf) even wept on the set at one point as it was not going well.

@Enrico_sw My story behind the youtube channel is that I really admire how people can monetize and expand their engagement with their passions and life experiences. And most of all, share their unique gift (if they possess it that is--), which is their analysis, their perspective. This is a huge to me, that a good passive income can potentially be gained with this activity. It's like they did what they love, did additional work to convert it into videos, and then got well compensated which helps them to do other things with their life. You should know what I mean and maybe you feel the same way. Passions are really meaningful and fulfilling, particularly when you complete them. But they come at an exceptionally high cost of attention and time, where other less pleasant, often obnoxious but necessary 'real world' things could have been done. This has bothered me for a long time in the back of my mind. I completed by passions about 95%-97% so far and am in the position to contribute, I also have a lot of professional knowledge that could be released out there. If this can be converted into something successful in outside world it would redeem the sacrifices for following the path of one's soul, rather than taking the well worn, beaten paths. There are successful channels on youtube that has genuinely good, timeless, and helpful/educational content, without engaging in click baiting and current events. I hope that mine will be like that.

This show seems to have really mixed (genuine) reviews, and Amazon is astroturfing where they can. I want to watch it later. I need to finish H of the D first.

I heard that Rings of Power is better than the Witcher show but not as good as the House of the Dragon. It has huge production values but this is not matched with the quality of casting, writing, and acting. So it's like a great looking but middling show, not bad not great.