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Ah OK, fair enough. I might check it out as I patrol the high seas, then 😉
The weirdest thing about the people talking about it not being "lore accurate" is that they'd usually complain about things that are actually fine for the lore but ignore the things that aren't.
GAlaDrIEl wAsnT a WArRiOr, suck my fucking hairy hobbit foot.
There are some weird dialogue and graphics choices though. Prepare to roll your eyes a couple times, even if you end up liking it anyways.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain for me how she survived a face full of pyroclast.
Because Elves, bitch- Tolkien
That's a doozy though. Does it mean we can assume the guy who 1v1'd Ancalagon the Black could tank the fire breath?
Like, I guess? The idea of a fighter blocking dragon breath with a shield is pretty iconic fantasy imagery if nothing else, and it's hard to imagine Ancalagon just not using his.
Okay, I chuckled on this one.
Also, I don't remember her having a shield??
She used the same space saving technology the Numenorians have in their galleys.
Funnily enough, 150 men and some horses would have been historically plausible. They really should have left that number vague. There should have been as many Numenorians as the plot demands, just like elves.
It's never been about lore accuracy. It's about accuracy to their individual subjective historic reading or thinking about a text. When a book gets adapted to a film, it's natural to want it to be like you imagined. What they don't understand is that if it isn't, that's not necessarily because it's inaccurate to the text. The reader might not have had the requisite general understanding to put the text in context.
In practice even this is a very charitable view of the people complaining. Usually it's literally just that they imagined it with more cis white people and traditional gender roles. That's if they even truthfully engaged with the source material they pretend to champion, and aren't just people with an agenda trying to dupe fans