Come on dude. Just come off it. Your opinion on this show is all you can talk about.
The point of white hair is that this is something that is also different in the show vs the source material.
The point is that Amazon is not following the source material and they don't have to and are well within their right not to.
Just as any other company that buys the rights and does another work set in Tolkien's world doesn't have to.
Whether those changes that are made from the source material are "good", "cosmetic", "releavant" or anything else is pure interpretation on Amazons part or any other studio. Just the ability to like those changes and see the result as "good" is purely subjective opinion on the part of the viewer separate from the facts of what Tolkien wrote.
Stop pretending this is about anything more than that.
I don't need to prove facts because they are facts. You just keep doing this silly duck dance around things you cant refute.
Surely your point here is not to pretend to argue with me about the facts of copyright law or what legally Amazon can and cannot do with this adaptation.