If they just wanted to make random shit up, they would do so, then point to the lack of license as the reason why they had to.
The fact that Amazon has officially licensed _The Silmarillion_ and _Unfinished Tales_ means that they're probably trying hard to make their story link correctly to extended lore.
Lord of the Rings: Second Age (or at least that's what I'm calling it) details have dropped.
(For the record: this is all correct, but was a mirage in front of my real problem. My actual problem was that Chrome was hanging while trying to use the GPU, because the GPU isn't virtualized. All the sandbox problems were caused when I tried to see what was happening.)
Chrome thinks unprivileged user namespaces are a good way to sandbox their processes.
Debian thinks they're a serious security risk and disables them by default.
Docker relies on them, but doesn't allow them to be used recursively.
Which means that I can't run Chrome inside a container, because it needs to be able to make new namespaces, and that's a privileged operation.
And I'm not the sysadmin. I only have (pseudo-)root inside the container.
(It's a real business. He was a Doctor. It's not one of those <cabs but with an app that lets me get paid when you work> disruption things, nor a <online service that let's me get acquihired by a FAANG then gets shut down.>)
My uncle's business went public. He hired a lawyer to give his kids the <you're rich now. No, actually rich. Here's how to defend yourself against grifters> talk.
That's a talk you can hire someone to give your kids.
(Those cousins are all adults, FTR.)