In one of Tolkien’s letters, he specifically says that if Gollum had been redeemed as much as he could, he would have taken the ring and jumped into Mt. Doom voluntarily.

It’s a shame because it’s one of the best superhero movies I’ve seen since Endgame

Why yes I will send and receive messages on a platform that is even more compromised than Discord

It responded to the question about Harris, but it didn’t really give an answer.

I don’t have a problem with centering the story on a character who they can flesh out however they want, but the vibe of this, what with the strange inclusion of Mumakil and a Watcher in the Water, puts the vibe more in line with the Shadow of Mordor games. The line at the end of the trailer actually has me wondering if they’re treating an aspect of Shadow of War as canon.

Toledo is a good bit

For me it’s that Gimli gets done dirty in terms of comic relief.

Sam gets hit with it too, but he’s not falling over himself to call Frodo “Master” and defer to everything he wants, so he comes off as more dignified overall which I like.

The movies aren’t perfect, but they were too good in some ways. The movie aesthetic has dominated artistic conceptions of LotR since they came out.