...have at least an accurate take on what actually went down in the Second Age of Middle Earth as do the toxic superfans who take "The Red Book of Westmarch" to be inerrant gospel... 3/END
Don't get me started on the translation issues the-toast.net/2014/12/08/d...
A willing foe, and sea room.
And that's before one gets to the revisionist interpretations of orcish oral tradition in The Last Ringbearer.
The layers of BS had gotten so thick that Gandalf had to play research librarian and find the original documents to figure out for certain which ring was Frodo's.
I mean, apart from screwing up the basics of everything from how sails work to how big boats are to how fast cavalry move to (on and on and on)...
Not sure of context here, but I think the "history written by victors" angle on LOTR is relatively well covered by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...
Lol. Is it true then, as "The Rings of Power" implies, that Gandalf actually was a huge Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan and got arrested once for stealing a bottle of tequila from a Sports Bar? I guess it is plausible...