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>the show is not faithful to the source material.

I think it actually is pretty faithful to it. There is not a lot of sources for the 2nd age from Tolkien and they did a great job with what was there.

Most of the bad reviews are just trolls screeching about some political agenda that is completely ubrelated to the show.

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not sure if accurate because i know nothong beyond basic LOTR story but saw something that said if they were faithful to the source material nothing of interest would have happened until the middle of the 5th season

No, they really skipped over a ton of the first age. With the second age, I think it'll come down to pacing. There are a number of notable events that quite literally reshape the world from the end of the first age to the beginning of the 3rd.

The writing in it is pretty terrible though. Hopefully gets better.

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