Ashiya Douman

I am kinda tired of people bashing Rings of Power and trying to fallback to original stories and complaining about Celeborn despite him being a mere name in the original work. What is his role in the books? He did exist, and he existed precisely because back in the time when JRRT wrote his stories you can’t imagine a female leader without husband. He wasn’t a character, he was “Galadriel’s husband” and did not play huge role, because Galadriel herself was a support character in LOTR (the story was about Fellowship). Even the “about Celeborn and Galadriel” append was 99% about Galadriel.

And now purists pretend to like this non-character because they do not like that in the show Galadriel actually had chemistry with another character and obvious hints at romance in the latest series.

I personally think it always should be Celembrimbor x Galadriel in the Silmarillion, because it makes the most sense, he is actual interesting character with important plot and great craftsman. But since it is the show and not the Silmarillion, I can’t ignore that her plot line with Halbrand is great. (Regardless if he’s Sauron or not, I think he is not.)

And it would be a huge waste to say “it did matter not”.

And even if Halbrand did not exist, the idea to remove Celeborn was right because he adds nothing to the original story and is a manifestation of an outdated message that every woman must have a husband (even great warriors like Eowyn and wise queens like Galadriel and Melian).

Amazon, you should absolutely ignore every purist because they’ll complain about everything anyway. Like they did complain about Peter Jackson’s LOTR, which is most close adaptation possible, or “The Hobbit” trilogy. They’ll never be happy with any adaptation, and they do not deserve any consolation.