The Rings Of Power's Elves Will Have A Serious Age Problem

thegamer.com:

Amazon is making a lot of changes to Tolkien’s writing for the forthcoming Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV show. Many of them are less changes per se, and more filling in the gaps between Tolkien’s sparse sentences on the period. If you don’t want to see people filling in those gaps then that’s your prerogative, but I’m excited to see where showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne can take us in Middle-earth. As long as they stick to their promise of not contradicting existing stories that Tolkien wrote, I’ll be happy.

However, one key part of the recent Rings of Power media blitz has me a little worried: the time compression. The events of the Second Age take place over thousands of years, and that length of time is important, especially when talking about the fates of men, who live for a fraction of the time that elves do. The Fall of Númenor is not something that happens overnight, the hubris across generations of kings contributes to the nation’s downfall.

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We already have the perfect way to blend several generations and to show time passing: the elves. Galadriel is set to be the main character of the series, and while I’m a little disappointed it won’t be entirely about her hair, her iconic monologues from the Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens trilogy could open each season of the Rings of Power and set the scene as we enter a new era.

The elves would be the one constant throughout the show, and we’d have to come to terms with the fact that the humans we grow to love would die every season - maybe even off-screen as hundreds of years pass. This would be pretty revolutionary (I’m not talking about shocking and gruesome Game of Thrones