**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S2E4 - 'Eldest'

[Alassë Estel]

I concur, taking Tom Bombadil from his wood is just wrong.
Sure, he probably wandered a little in the older days, but living in the middle of a desert??

I really dislike this injection of Tom as a mostly irrelevant character in a mostly irrelevant plot.

Everything to do with him felt off.

And Old Man Wil-- er, I mean "Ironwood" was the biggest eye-roll moment of the episode. They don't even bother pretending that they aren't copy-pasting things from the books into their capricious plot.

I also appreciated that they didn't drag out Estrid's "betrayal" all season long.

This plot-thread with Isildur and Theo (whiny emo-child though he is) I like the most, which is ironic condsidering that it is totally original and also the least pertinent to the overall story.

The quicksand scene felt suspiciously reminiscent of that bit in the Princess Bride...but they needed a redemption bit somewhere, I suppose. And the Princess Bride can't boast a man-eating quicksand worm anyway.

Their music really is the shining point in the series. The dwarven/Khazad-dûm theme especially is really well-fitting.