The point these people keep missing is this tower is completely made up by Amazon. The whole point in the story of how the rings were made is that Galadriel founded Eregion as an Elven REALM to defend against Sauron's threat. And it is in Eregion that Celebrimbor set up his school of Elven smithing and worked with the Dwarves, which in turn attracted Sauron to show up in the guise of Annatar. That is the entire flow of the story in the books. This out in the middle of nowhere tower with random southlanders is just another example of Amazon's made up story being far worse than what Tolkien actually wrote. And it appears that at every point they are deliberately being as different from the lore as possible bordering on them trying to have their own "version" of Tolkien that they can own which has its own continuity from anything else in film, animation, games or anything else. If that is true, then they should have made sure that this 'alternate universe' was more compelling and interesting than what is in the Lore so that even those 'Tolkien Purists' could appreciated this on its own merits separate from how faithful they are to Tolkien. At this point the only thing they are doing is making a mess because the story is just a jumble of coincidences and contrivances instead of a naturally flowing narrative that makes sense and is easy to follow whether you are a Tolkien expert or not. It isn't that difficult to make such a story as you can see these kinds of stories in games all around you everywhere. An elven Tower by itself is not how Elves work in most high fantasy works, they typically have an outpost consisting of many Elves which could have towers in trees and so forth to defend an area.... In fact, something like what we see in WOW all over the place. So how come is it that games, books, anime, comic books and all other sorts of media are more able to fit in with the lore that Tolkien wrote than this series? It is trying so hard to be different that it stands out like sore thumb and the question is why?