The Rings of Power S03

I like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. I like its third season more than the first two, which is saying something. Tolkien fanatics, I have decided make poor critics of adaptations. I say that as one. We fixate on the wrong things, like how faithful the show is to the source material in terms of plot points. But this show works because it grasps the text in spirit if not in body. Peter Jackson-directed trilogy, which went on to win gazillions of Oscars, also chose to discard material that did not fit into the story it was telling, and my fellow nerds tend to forget that. Of course, it adapted the closest thing geek culture has to a sacred text, the main tome.