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2 and 3 already answered here, so I'll replace those in the sequence with 1 and 5, but feel free to send another ask if you'd prefer to choose other questions. :)
1: How I found out about RoP would be from Facebook, years ago, when all we knew was that Amazon had acquired the rights to make *a* Tolkien show, but nobody had any details and the speculation was that it would be about young Aragorn. At that point I asserted my very correct opinion that young Aragorn would be boring and they should focus on the vast and blank canvas of the Second Age instead. Pretty sure the group that was posted in no longer exists, but I do have this comment from February 2019 showing off my prophetic abilities on a post about this blog post dissecting some of the cryptic clues Amazon had started dropping.
And then obviously I followed show updates obsessively from there, like any normal person would.
4: Favourite location in RoP would be Ost-in-Edhil. It bothers me SO MUCH that they can't call it by name and just have to say 'City of the Elven-Smiths' on titles and refer to it as Eregion in dialogue, even though that's the name of the whole area rather than the city. I know it's Ost-in-Edhil, though. My heart knows. And also my brain. Because of reading. Anyway, I love the architecture, I love the mix of wood and stone buildings, I love the whole design, and I want to live there.
5: Favourite song or piece of music. This isn't exactly a single answer, but I go absolutely FERAL when we get a variation on a character's theme to give it a different vibe. The best example would be how Adar's theme is reworked into a different mode when he appears in elven form in 2.8. It's the same melody, but a completely different harmony, which completely recontextualizes things from this creepy, unsettling sound into wistful elvenness. We get the same kind of thing with Sauron's theme as well, when Halbrand is sitting in Celebrimbor's study in 2.2, and when Annatar pleads with Celebrimbor in 2.6 to use the "pure mithril" to finish the Nine. In both of these cases, the menacing Sauron theme is reorchestrated to sound noble and trustworthy. Fucking love that.
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