Okay, after this massive disaster a.k.a. Amazon’s The Rings of Power, and 8 episodes of torture and boredom, I have finally figured out a way of making the pain sufferable. Kinda.
So, does anybody remember CATS 2019? Yeah, I'm in pain, too. BUT, some person (bless their genius) wrote a fanfic about a cat from the original universe who was magically transported into the absolutely ridiculous CATS 2019 universe. I haven’t laughed so much in ages.
Now, we need the same thing for RoP:
Imagine, our Sauron working out his ingenious Annatar ploy and finally being ready to "befriend" the Elves in Eregion, only to end up in a place where his glorious waving long hair (into which he's put a lot of effort) seems to be completely behind the times, the famous lady Galadriel reminds him of toddler-Glaurung having a temper tantrum (frankly, Sauron still has no idea how Melkor has kept that beast from burning Angband to the ground) rather than one of the wisest and fairest beings around, and Celebrimbor (in his opinion the hottest Fëanorian to ever walk the Earth) turns out to look like what Men of later Ages call a Palpatine. Whatever a Palpatine is, attractive is not one of those things. So much for seducing Celebrimbor into his cause.
And then, as if that hasn't been enough already, Sauron runs into some guy named Halbrand, who claims to be him. Please, as if he'd ever grow one of those obsolete beards! Not to mention that bearded Sauron seems to have something going on with Galadriel the Not So Wise. What happened to Celeborn, even he knows of that marriage?!?
And the Númenóreans seem, rather than to worship Melkor (also technically his personal effort), believe in the fact that the sea is always right. Is that Ulmo? Or Ossë? Do they even know Ossë?
Anyway, just a very confused Annatar/Sauron in an Arda that somebody ordered from Wish having one hell of a ride.
