No I didn't. I didn't say anything of the sort.
You have no reason to reply to me about something you're projecting here, because I did not make any point that the show's canon retcons anything. I have always treated the show as a separate thing from the books, so I don't know why you're coming at me with these bogus explanations for things that have nothing to do with what I've actually said.
I don't think you can apply LOTR's canon, whether from the PJ movies or books or any such, to Rings of Power, because Rings of Power is so far its own adaptation. It doesn't exist in any existing LOTR adaption or book universe. It may pay homage to things said in LOTR, whether from the movies or the books, but it doesn't actually connect to any other adaptation. Rings of Power is its own universe, and anything that leads from RoP straight to LOTR would merely be assumptions.
And that would be specific to Season 1, so I'm not sure why you think it's necessary to address this by saying Arondir's story isn't finished. My whole point is if he's even crucial to later seasons, they may as well introduce him directly in later seasons. His entire role in this first season was unnecessary to the overall plot. And as a PoV character, his actual story isn't even properly addressed in how he would fit in a Season 2. My criticism is specifically of Season 1 and the treatment of this character and how he fits into the overall plot.I brought up Arondir based on your other posts concerning his apparent pointlessness and/or lack of conclusion
Just saying his story isn't done doesn't settle anything I've talked about, since my whole point is that he could literally be a character that is introduced in later seasons. I am making a point that his lack of conclusion outside of 'starting fresh' doesn't really tie much in to S2. It's hard to say if he will even be back, it's left open like the Harfoots sans Nori.
If I merely wanted to headcanon the fuck out of this show to make sense out of it, I absolutely could, but that isn't the point of any of my criticisms. My point is that the character of Arondir seemed pointless as a POV character, considering I personally think his purpose in the overall arc was contrived, while all the plot elements that connect his purpose in the story as a POV character ended up being given to Galadriel, while his own conclusion is left completely open.
If that is the case, he may as well have been introduced in the later seasons as a character who happened to have history in the Southlands when shit went down, rather than following his journey and splitting up to 5+ PoV arcs in a series that already had very obvious pacing and plot development issues.
Just saying that this character's story is unfinished doesn't address the fact he barely had a story in Season 1 to begin with, and was shoehorned into an already cramped series with too many POV arcs to begin with.