This Rings Of Power Plot Hole Still Bothers Redditors the Most
Spotting plot holes in various pieces of media is somewhat of a sport on the Internet.
Sometimes this is done in the spirit of good cheer and constructive criticism. In case of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, anger born of disappointment is the more common sentiment. And the hunt for the plot holes is not too difficult.
No one had seen any sign of orcs for hundreds of years, even Galadriel who completely devoted her life to hunting Sauron and his orcs?
Guess she never checked the Southlands!
Galadriel and the Númenóreans arrive just in time to save the Southlanders from the orc assault, despite half the world away a day ago? Must have borrowed one of those teleportation devices which a lot of characters used during Game of Thrones later seasons! Why then were elves sitting on their hands during the same battle, given that one of their outposts got wiped out? Ehhh, just shut up and watch! And so on.
But going by the common measure of Reddit upvotes, probably no plot hole angered people as much as making Celebrimbor into a sort of a dunce.
Celebrimbor was supposed to be one of the most skilled elven artisans in history, with the ambition to rival the unsurpassed of skill of his grandfather Feanor one day, as well as (in the book lore, at least) one of the wisest and least selfish of elven princes.
Yet as soon as he started working with mithril, he ran into problems, which completely confounded him. Sure, mithril is an unstudied miracle metal. Some snags and difficulties are to be expected, perhaps. What completely undercut Celebrimbor as a character was retardedly easy solutions to said problems, which he could not spot, but others did.
Are you really saying that one of the best smiths to ever live has no idea about using alloys to amplify those qualities of metal which he needs, without Sauron being there to propose that?
Or, when he's still struggling, to have Galadriel figure out that he is "pushing himself too hard," magically fixing his attitude? (Not only a near-stranger being able to notice that you're approaching your craft wrong is insulting in itself, "stop pushing yourself too hard" is the sort of advice that mere apprentices tend to get in fantasy stories.)
In short, the only smith with enough mastery to forge the titular Rings of Power is actually not good at his craft!