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A lot of Tolkien fandom has defended the PJ movies' sometimes drastic changes as totally valid artistic choices in an essentially separate creative work, so the meltdowns over the existence of changes in the Amazon series are ... hmm. Interesting.

(I don't like some of the ones we're hearing about, either—Elrond?!—but there is a blatant double standard going on here in how much independence adaptations should have. Can't lie that I have some schadenfreude, though.)