The Rings Of Power’s Meteor Man Might Be Based On Tolkien After All

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Any fandom will have high expectations of a new adaptation based on their favourite work, and that seems to go double for The Lord of the Rings. I’m more positive than most about the forthcoming Rings of Power TV show, and plan on waiting until I actually see it before passing judgement. Others are not being so charitable.

I don’t mind the fact that Disa, the show’s leading female dwarf, doesn’t have a beard – mostly because Tolkien revised his own thoughts on dwarf women’s facial hair multiple times, eventually writing it out of the canon. The time compression worries me a little, as does the line of Durin, but I’ll give these lore transgressions the benefit of the doubt until I see how it works in the finished article. I love the images we’ve seen of warrior Galadriel, but I hope she’s three dimensional and has more to her than just being a soldier. These are all questions and queries I have about The Rings of Power, things that I’m not sure will work, but we won’t know until we’ve seen it.

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According to expert Tolkienists, showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay have a deep knowledge of the lore, and are using that to fill in the gaps in Tolkien’s sparse writings on the Second Age. I don’t mind filling in the gaps so long as nothing contradicts what Tolkien wrote, but the figure dubbed ‘Meteor Man’ by fans and officially known as The Stranger felt like an addition too far. Until I found out that he might actually be based on some obscure Middle-earth lore penned by Tolkien himself.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a collection of poetry that Tolkien wrote, intended to be read as Middle-earth legends and songs that have been passed down through generations. The