#second age shenanigans

Celebrimbor discreetly leaving the audience for the duration of the Nargothrond Incident(s)

Galadriel not-so-discreetly leaving the audience for Finrod's death

The Rings of Power show is extremely racist, Eurocentric, and xenophobic.  And probably homophobic, too.  

A brief list (there are probably more):

British men cast to play main heroes in a nation (inaccurately) based off of Greece and Rome, instead of people from those areas or descended from people from those areas.

Pharazôn being a villainous character and having an Irish accent, while all the “good” characters either have lighter Irish accents or are English

The only black Elf being Silvan, a group famously called “more dangerous and less wise.”  (The 19th century called.  They want their “white man’s burden” propaganda back.)

The fact that Sauron is probably going to be queercoded.

The fact that all of the powerful characters save one are played by Northern Europeans/English people.

1. Even though Numenorean smiths are good, that armour’s plainly elven-made, or at least elven-styled, and probably pulled from the Numenorean Royal vaults, unless Elendil has a Faithful priest-hole/elvish otaku shrine somewhere in his house, which would be comedy GOLD.

2. If Galadriel’s armour did come from Numenor’s Royal vaults, the Star of Fëanor makes perfect sense, because who would be more likely to both have relics from the War of the Jewels/War of Wrath, a sentimental fondness for the Feanorian faction (or at least two of the Soms of Fëanor), and enough goodwill/clout with the Sindar of Lindon to lay claim to items associated with them than Elros Tar-Minyatur?

But be the serpent under't