Sure, some things were invented for the show but so much of it was taken from the source material. As you've probably seen before, Amazon has the "x-ray" feature, where if you press the up arrow on your remote, it brings up the actors in that scene. There's also a tab or link for the characters, etc. For the RoP, they also added "trivia" (I mentioned this earlier in the thread). There are maybe ten each episode and each is a short bit of info with the source of that material; e.g. one of the appendices to the LotR. There's also a link to where in the episode it occurs so you can jump directly to the scene.
Anyway, so it's not like they didn't follow the source material. They just took a few liberties with it. But I agree, they are respectful of JRRT's vision. Good enough for me.
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