LotR: The Rings of Power 2.01 - 2.03

In which the show is back and continues to please me. No doubt this is partly because it's been decades since I read the books, and while I liked them, I was never passionate about them. (Meanwhile: behold my childhood love for Michael Ende's The Never-Ending Story and the corresponding grrr-arggh feeling towards the movie (the first one, I never watched the, spit, sequels), so Tolkien purists, I get where you're coming from, I just don't share it in this particular case).) But I do like this series and am completely on board with most of what it does.

( Spoilers catch up with what various Elves, Dwarves, Numenorians, Istari and a Harefoot or two are up to )