Sophia Nomvete, who plays Disa, has talked about the reasoning behind this decision, explaining that they wanted to celebrate Disa’s passion and sexuality and visually combine that with her physical strength. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to. As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.” From there, Elon fans leaped on Gaiman and laid criticisms at his door for Rings of Power…you know, that show he didn’t write or make!
