Blinded by her need to confront and end Sauron, she puts the lives of elves under her command at risk. Galadriel, who is of noble lineage, is ambitious, not stupid.Her squad of elves is chasing a supremely evil character. Their lives are at risk by definition. Who wrote this crap? a coddled millennial missing his “safe space”? While not the best fantasy I’ve ever seen, I found it entertaining and definitely more in the spirit of Tolkien than the Hobbit movie’s amusement park ride and orc vendetta.
The problem is Tolkein already wrote the story of The Rings of Power. It’s the third part of The Silmarillion, and the events therein are already laid out in exquisite detail. Not only is Amazon’s abomination making up different events, it is depicting characters with known histories acting completely out of character and doing things they never did. This isn’t like filling in the 18 years of Luke Skywalker’s childhood where we have no details, or doing a series that explores how Indiana Jones went from idealistic Eagle Scout to cynical professor. There are no real gaps in Galadriel’s history.