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[anghraine]

Aww, I've just spent several hours explaining various backstories from The Silmarillion to my mother. She's watching ROP and really likes it, and is also listening to an audiobook of The Silmarillion at night but keeps losing track of things and getting different things from each confused, and is trying to figure out details. She's very worried that the Stranger might be Sauron and took awhile to warm up to Galadriel but really liked her in Númenor. She also feels the Númenóreans should be more visually distinct in adaptations than they ever have been (I agree; it bothers me less with ROP because at least there's a cool, vivid aesthetic for them and no species is cast that way, but I would personally prefer a weirder take). She was baffled by basically everything Tolkien ever said about Elrond given his depiction in the Jackson movies, and had previously thought ROP's Míriel and Elbereth were the same person, so there was a lot to clear up, but it was fun (though as a dedicated dog person, she was very sad about Huan!).

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[anghraine]

It was, thank you :D