#tolkien the og elrondriel stan

[wild-flowerhoney]

I don't know how bold the showrunners are, but I never expected the Galadriel/Elrond kiss to happen, and it was approved by the Tolkien Estate.

Glorfindel and Tom Bombadil don't exist in the movies, and that breaks the lore, so I could in theory see Elrondriel happen to cut out filler characters that add nothing to the story, especially with the timeline compression they've chosen to apply.

Also, the showrunners have said in an interview (nerd of the rings) that some characters would gain more importance, and I suspect they were talking about Gil-galad and Elendil. I can't see them adding Celeborn after the fall of Eregion. He adds nothing to the many storylines in motion.

Elrond is the one who will defend Imladris against Sauron, he's the one who will obtain Vilya, Gil-galad's ring, and he will be made vice-regent of Eriador. Celeborn is really not needed.

they've made some important Choices with elrond and galadriel's characters - the easy intimacy, the physical closeness, posing them as one another's confidant. they definitely knew where they were heading and if they're gonna cut out some lore it would be extremely easy to replace it with elrondriel and the 'casual' fans (unaware of what's in the books basically) would not even realise it, especially since i know some people actually thought it was already a thing in the PJ movies (whatever they had going on in the hobbit was. interesting.)

in the show itself elrond really covers all that celeborn could've been, so i don't see him as necessary either, especially since i dont see how they could introduce him without cutting back on what they've already started.

also them having the stamp of approval for that dynamic is really interesting - tolkien did initially write galadriel and elrond as being married, after all.