Miller should have stopped after The Road Warrior. Third movie was okay, but not good. The new sequels are just BS. In my opinion there's no Mad Max movie without the original Max, Mel Gibson. An idea about "old Max" could have been interesting though.

Wakanda this, Wakanda that. Boring.

The only good thing (a great thing!) in Black Panther was the Panther himself, additional stories about bald women with spears are self-repeating.

Sauron regained his form during the following millenia. As Gollum said in the book, ""he has four fingers on the black hand, but they are enough". Gollum was interrogated personally by Sauron, apparently in his Dark Lord form.

Sauron seemed unable to regenerate one finger, the "ring finger" Isildur cut.

The theory does not explain how African Stoors suddenly turned into white British middle class folks as seen in LoTR. The different (hobbit) races do not mingle into singular, same-looking community in few thousand years.

But since Rings of Power is not Tolkien's work or world, it doesn't matter. It's expensive fan fiction, but rather entertaining fan fiction nonetheless.

He was not. However, Rings of Power is not the first ever on-screen depiction of the character, as Illisia wrote.

Tom Bombadil appeared on the Finnish tv-series Hobitit ("The Hobbits") on 1993. The series depicted the stories of The Hobbit and LOTR, and actor Esko Hukkanen played Tom Bombadil.

The tv-series was used to be found in YouTube, as there is no official release. It's probably still there.

The series Hobitit was made with a small budget but with a great heart. Certainly it was and it is more respectful to the stories and characters of Tolkien than Rings of Power (or Jackson's movies, especially The unnecessary long Hobbit Trilogy).