I'm not really 'defending the series', just giving it a chance. I'm just waiting for the finished product before making sweeping blatant judgements and writing it completely off like so many. The casting doesn't bother me any, nor does the company that is producing the project, so putting those two thing aside, I see the producers are following along the lines of the mold set by Peter Jackson's 'adaptation' (aka wholesale changes to Tolkien's writing). The little bit I've seen of the series (a few stills, promo posters, and one short teaser) aren't 'dealbreakers' in my eyes and so I remain on the low end of 'cautiously optimistic' on the tilt-o-meter. If THAT is 'defending the series' then so-be-it.
This serie will be a big failure, i guess, they will end it after season two, because not enough people want to watch it. There is nothing in this serie from Tolkiens
middle earth, there is only the Name "Lord of the Rings"; but the serie has nothing to do with Tolkiens characteres and storys, and i am really angry, that they show
Galadriel, which is my favourite charactere in the books, as a Marvel-Superhero-Warrior-Woman. That has nothing to do with the etheral Galdriel, that Peter Jackson and Tolkien has created. This serie is woke-propaganda, nothing else.
My heart bleeds, when i see how they use Tolkiens Name for something like that. They show not Middle earth there, so this serie is nothing for Lord of the rings fans, which want to feel the magic of Middle earth again.
The casting bothers me totally, because black
elves and dwarfes dont exist in Middle earth, and the producers didnt take the chance, to give the black actors roles as
Haradrim, for example Haradrim, which go in resistance against
Sauron.
And what me also bothers totally is Galadriel in
armor with a
sword...that dont fit to
the wise, peaceful and kind elvenqueen.