Just a Tolkien nerd.

New Lotr alphabet illustration

B is for Bard the Bowman, from the Hobbit films and book.

F is for Fangorn

Some of the criticism going around about this movie baffles me.

"It doesn't follow the lore!" The lore... the lore that is an Itty bitty portion of the appendices that lore? In which maybe four people even have NAMES? Yes actually it does. It adds to it certainly but it doesn't actually remove anything. If you don't think there should be anymore Lotr content because Tolkien has passed, sure fine that's a fair stance. However if you want more content SOME creative liscnse is going to be taken.

"Hera is a mary sue!" The internet doesn't even know what this means anymore. It just gets flung at any female character that does anything. She's capable and she's kind and for some reason people seem to hate that.

"The animation is bad!" No it isn't. It suits the story and the world it's in. An older anime style gives this far more charm than hyper-realistic animation ever could.

"It should have been live action" Why? No really why? What would that have added? It wouldn't have been anywhere close to original trilogy films, nothing ever will be. Those movies were literally lightening in a bottle. What does this story lose by being animated that it would gain in live action?