Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

There are a very many issues with this series, far too many for me to bother putting here, but my most major gripe with the series is the utterly terrible writing. Amazon gave nearly a billion dollars US to two completely green screenwriters with no prior experience, and let them run with it. Tell me how that was supposed to be a good idea. A lot of people have been arguing otherwise, and it's been one of the main selling points for it so far, but that doesn't make any sense to me, and it's because this series doesn't come across as particularly empowering for women at all. Despite her being thousands of years old, it portrays Galadriel almost like an impatient, bumbling, headstrong twenty-something-year-old nitwit, and I can tell you now it's simply because the writers don't have the chops to convincingly write a multi-thousand-year-old elven woman who would actually have ridiculous amounts of patience, prudence, self-control and integrity. She has had to on three different occasions now, in only 4 episodes, be calmed and guided by men because she comes across as a typical impulsive little girl. Galadriel would be cunning, quick witted and manipulative (in a way that she would 'guide' the people around her to achieve her goals, with those within her machinations wanting to be 'guided' by her because of her bearing and her standing, and because of the very way she carries herself). Elrond, Halbrand and Elendil have all had to talk sense into a near, what, 4000 year old elven woman? They've had to calm her, talk sense into her and keep her from acting like an impulsive young woman. It's literally unbelievable. It just doesn't That is just unbelievably poorly written and in no way does it represent Galadriel, or women, in an empowering light. If you think about it, it's far more difficult to write someone with those superior traits, because you have to write the entire plot around them, you have to create the sense of intrigue, the manipulations, the political and social issues surrounding an individual of that age, how she has the knowledge and the aura of an individual that could easily think circles around the vast majority of people she meets because of the sheer amount of experience she has. She can't have spent the entire 3000-4000 years of her life acting like a twenty year old. So, in that regard, this series is a massive failure. And that's a shame, because as a near billion dollar series with so much history it deserves so much better than a couple of inexperienced nobodies as writers. Tolkien was writing stories that were fundamentally and irrevocably Northern and Northwestern European in their origin and ethos. He wanted to write a mythology that symbolized all that had been lost in Britain after the Norman Conquest, when the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of Anglo-Saxon England was to a great extent, destroyed. Greeks have the Iliad and the Odyssey, Indians have the Mahabharata, Romans had the Aeneid and the tales of Romulus and Remus, Mesopotamians had the Epic of Gilgamesh, Arabs have One Thousand and One Nights, Africans have the Queen of Sheba, and of course Jews have the Torah and the Talmud. Well, the English have the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and the Silmarillion. It's something for people with European heritage to be proud of and millions of others to find joy in, but when it's ruined like this as some kind of agenda pushing cash grab, that's far more than just disappointing─it's insulting.