I watched The Crown until it got to things I remembered. I think probably the most outstanding episode (and one of the last) I watched was the one that included the Aberfan disaster. I remember coming home from school and seeing it on the news and thinking the children who died were my age ā¦
I donāt have Netflix any more and I know I would get really annoyed when things were āwrongā. I hope Imelda Stauntonās good as the queen as sheās an actress I admire a lot.
Fiction based on true events dont always have to be accurate to enjoy it, could think of it like the line put at beginning of each Fargo episode which states that its based on real life events but may or may not be true 
I love Fargo, big fan!
I enjoyed quite alot the latest lotr based series aswell which amazon poured huge budget on and the show itself were just like i imagined for fantasy with lotr theme and i really liked the writing and everything of it. Public opinion on other hand almost cancelled the whole show and squashed its reviews just cause it were not accurate to Tolkien, which I imagine even Tolkien himself would just found silly. Good show and got so many bad reviews for not being accurate, was sad to see that but didnt stop me from enjoying it!
Saruman the bafoon!!!
Fun fact: Tolkien was a university professor in the city I originally come from and was working on what would become The Hobbit and LOTR books during his time there and rumour has it that parts of middle earth are inspired by areas of my home city where he lived and spent time.
And because WoW takes inspiration from LOTR that also means that WoW is inspired by my home city 
I still havenāt ever managed to read the books thoughā¦
He was old guy from british 1900-1970 era. He writed like his influenced by his surroundings. people complaining and giving bad reviews on amazons additions on rings of power series would only amuse him or atleast I imagine he would be happy his legacy is living on in this way for this long, his intelligent person. I havent read the books either but im a fan of lotr and tolkien in general 
If I remember right during reading the appendices at the end of Return of the King he states that he based the industrialization of Isengard on the industrialization of the countryside in the North.
But please donāt get me started on LotR or I will rage about the movies, excellent though they were, I find peter Jacksonās claims that he read the books extensively laughable when you compare the books to the movies.
Arwen. In the book. Hardly mentioned. It was Glorfindel the Elf Lord who found the Hobbits and Aragorn after Weathertop, it was Glorfindel who led them to the Ford, it was Glorfindelās horse Asfaloth who was strong enough to bear Frodo safely and outrun the Ulairiās horses (Nazgul only refers to the Ringwraiths in Black Speech when theyāre mounted on their flying steeds) and it was Frodo alone who stood against the Ulairi at the Ford. And he crumbled pitifully at the command of the Witch King. The river rose itself upon it sensing the Ulairi started to cross but Gandalf did enchant it with the white horses. 5 Ringwraiths were swept away in the flood, the other 4 were driven into the Ford by their horses when they saw Glorfindel reveal himself to them in his full power.
In the moviesā¦ Well. Gotta give Liv āThe only actress so wooden she could have been an Entā Tyler a little bit more screen time than her usual of crying on cue. Being the daughter of someone famous also helps.
The lack of Tom Bombadil and the Barrows of Carn Dum.
In the books. The only other person in Middle Earth who is completely incorruptible by the Ring. In fact when he puts it on after Frodo willingly just hands it to him, he doesnāt even disappear and hands it back without a second thought. Also revealed in the Council that he would pay it no attention whatsoever and therefore would be the worst Guardian of it, powerless as it is on him. I can only guess Jackson removed all mention of him as he wanted the Ring to be all powerful over every single living thing in Middle Earth, and Bombadil made a mockery of that.
The Barrows of Carn Dum. Important to the lore as they were tombs that contained the southernmost graves of the corrupted Men at the very southern border of the Witch Kingās realm of Angmar. Frodo and the hobbits were warned not to go there by Bombadil but were lured there and trapped by a wight who nearly killed all 4 hobbits until Frodo woke from the spell and sang for Bombadilās help in destroying both curse and the wight.
Saruman in the movie suddenly disappeared (unless you watched the extended version of the Two Towers and even thenā¦ lolā¦) which of course meant missing out an entire sub story of the Shire.
In the book after his defeat at Isengard he pretended to be a wandering beggar making his way northwards, hitherto unknown to the Fellowship who come across him with Wormtongue while leaving to join his his Men to over run the Shire and offering positions of power to hobbits such as Sandyman. which he already had spies and servants at work there long into the War of the Ring, subtly corrupting the Shire. After the war of the Ring ended and the hobbits parted company with the remaining Fellowship they returned to the Shire after being warned by Gandalf that all was not as it would seem when they returned. They return to find it over run with Sarumanās remaining army and organise the Shire into resistance, ending in the final battle of the War of the Ring which ends in Saruman being told to leave the Shire, and after Frodo offers Wormtongue refuge, saruman abuses him and Wormtongue cuts his throat then is shot by the hobbit army.
One day I really need to read the lotr books! Even as fan of lotr for some reason havent read those yet, I read alot forgotten realms and dragonlance back in the day raistlin and caramon and the like the whole bang. But mostly focused on sci-fi from this one writer Harry Harrison who has unique humor I enjoyed and is the writer of make room make room which soylent green was based and propably most known but my favorite were the stainless steel rat series.
Old ww2 vet with passion for writing sci-fi and twisted sense of humor and bit of hate towards authorities and goverment for understandable reasons from his perspective and which his writing and humor were usually colored with, could say bit of anarchist but not a extreme just funny
Iām sorry but Iām just a colossal nerd on things like that and when I see people make out theyāre LotR experts and yet have no knowledge of things like I posted I just eye roll.
But one thing I eyeroll and shake my head in silent rage at is people who mention THAT Mel Gibson movie and tell me how good it was.
Yeah. Let me stop you right there.
Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Yeah you read that right.
Battle of Stirling BRIDGE
Except no bridge.
I suppose we should be glad Mel didnāt have a sudden entrance of leather-clad buzz-shaved Australians in generator-powered sand buggies appear on the hill to help out.
I just realised everyone has a xmas mog except me, I need a xmas mog my god do they all look good. Need to look into this how to join in.
Ah but you wonāt rock it like I do with the uber gorgeous and in no way whatsoever to be found on Azeroth(yeahthatdiscord) Souldefiler wearing it.
(I think I forgot to put the hat on)
Souldefiler is not on that discord before you go looking you deviants.
Me neither!
But to make up for it, Roscoe in a Santa hatā¦
Storm in my Santa hatā¦
lol that lookā¦
āI will pee on your bed sheets tonightā¦ā
I have still a full hour and a half to kill as my deliveries are done. I need to find something to do
my god it is slippery outside now that it rained yday, stroll around block on the freezy roads and now hot mug of glƶgi 
https://ibb.co/2jYk7fZ
My favourite part of that movie is the spot on accent he does
Young Wallace. Broad Glaswegian, even down to the āDa?ā
Glaswegian for dad
Grown up Wallaceā¦
lol. A mix of Scots, Irishā¦ Drunk Aussieā¦ Englishā¦ Raving anti-Semiteā¦ Americanā¦ add in some German and a little French and voila. The Mel Gibson art of movie accents now available at all good accent mangling shops near you.
But the best part of all, without any shadow of a doubt is when he tells Hugh De Cressingham (for that is who itās supposed to be) in an accent I can only imagine he spent six hours watching endless Father Ted to tell the commander of the English Army to come over the field and kiss his own (Redacted) to perfect.
If you donāt know what Iām talking about, itās in here.
Skip to 1:30 and wait for it, itās brilliant.
She doesnāt go upstairs. Unlike my previous mutt who would snuggle under the duvet - was amazing for my back issues