Everyone to Hobbit Trilogy: "Perhaps we treated you too harshly."

@edelmantoamendola

Ай бұрын

Yeah Hobbits getting the SW prequel treatment now. But hindsight is always 20/20. Tried the first ep of ROP think I made it 7 minutes.

@witchdoctorwill1796

Ай бұрын

Ehhhh

@mishkaroo

Ай бұрын

No. That's not how it works. The Hobbit movies were far too Hollywoody, the stuff they added didn't feel organic and Jackson loves CGI far too much. They are not horrible - just nowhere as good as the LOTR.

@benv9788

Ай бұрын

No, it's still bad.

@alexreiz6128

Ай бұрын

To be fair Hobbit was quite bad, yet "magic" of LotR world still kinda was there more often than not. Rings of Power somehow so shamefully unconvincing and corny that it can pass for bad parody show. Like, those dialogues writing is porn parody level with joke part removed, if not worse

Galadriel: "There is an imposter Among Us!" Sauron with blonde wig and elf ears: "Oh dear, what shall we do? That is terrible!"

@billmcdermott9647

Ай бұрын

Wouldn’t it make more sense to have multiple actors play Sauron in his various forms

@carlrood4457

Ай бұрын

It had such a "Everyone though Matt Smith looked really cool, so we'll do it too." vibe.

@XgoodbyeX

Ай бұрын

​@@billmcdermott9647yea that's too smart for these people.

@TheBananamonger

Ай бұрын

@@billmcdermott9647 yeah then they could have actual actor diversity but the writers are dumb

@chaosgyro

Ай бұрын

Sauratar: "I saw Elrond vent. Sus"

Orc: How will you infiltrate the elves this time Sauron? Sauron: think I’ll just wig it!

@Lonovavir

Ай бұрын

"Hey fellow elves, I'm totally one of you cool cats" - Sauron the obvious.

@aronthedev3074

Ай бұрын

That meme of Steve Buscemi comes to mind- "How do you, fellow elves?"

@fixer1140

Ай бұрын

- They wear wigs now??? - They wear wigs now

@stephenmarshall8367

Ай бұрын

Red wig..... standing by.....

@isaacm2374

Ай бұрын

Or....Sauron may have a different appearance when others look at him.

"Why does a boat float and a rock sink?" "Buoyancy. Next question."

@brianbagnall3029

Ай бұрын

Because a rock looks down?

@seafoam6119

Ай бұрын

@@brianbagnall3029because boats have women carved on their fronts and women get things done. Girl power!

@robdielemans9189

Ай бұрын

A duck!

@jimbo9305

Ай бұрын

There's a Monty Python joke in there somewhere. "What also floats in water?" Bread! Apples! Very small rocks! Cider! Gravy! Cherries! Churches! Lead! Lead! A duck.

@brianbagnall3029

Ай бұрын

@@jimbo9305 I see you are a man of science.

Lord of the Rings cosplay is more authentic than the costumes from Rings of Power.

@Raycheetah

Ай бұрын

Cosplayers are notorious for their intensive research. Hack showrunners? Not so much. =9[.]9=

@svetlanaandrasova6086

Ай бұрын

Cosplayers love the source material.

@petriew2018

Ай бұрын

higher quality too. Many of them will actually add at least plastic to their armor print t-shirts so you don't see the supposedly metal scales creasing every time a main character moves their arm....

@RambleOn07

Ай бұрын

Cosplayers, at the very least, know their audience and know that they need to compete with others.

@doomhippie6673

Ай бұрын

Hm... how do all these cosplayers know what people wore in Tolkien's stories? He really hasn't given us so many clues. So.... that's a matter of interpretation.

‘That hairline was broken!’ ‘It has been remade!’

@sari5749

Ай бұрын

🤣 shit I just read the last line in Viggo's voice.

@aeroprime3322

Ай бұрын

Behold! The Mullet of Power!

My favorite quote so far was "One Wig to fool them all and in plain sight hide him."

@Mouse_Metal

Ай бұрын

Perfect! :D

@zacharymcmillan2788

Ай бұрын

"One weave to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them!" 😂😂😂

@josephnjuguna1986

Ай бұрын

😂

The writers in the comments for that video are infinitely more creative than the show writers.

@Finis.Terrae

Ай бұрын

Its all for the attention,hoping they will end up in big youtuber videos. Most comments on YT are attention seeking,you cant even tell anymore who's honest and who's saying certain stuff because its hype atm.

@inendlesspain4724

Ай бұрын

@@Finis.Terrae mfw attention-seeking shitposters on YT comment sections have more creativity and soul in their writing than "professional" writers working for a high-profile show made by a multi-billion dollar company.

@michaelhartmann3919

Ай бұрын

another cheap comment. You'd better keep looking at Facebook/Instagram stories, you hobbit

@Mereologist

Ай бұрын

@@Finis.Terrae UR MOM is attention-seeking! SNAP!

@seafoam6119

8 күн бұрын

@@Finis.Terraeattention seeking compared to screenwriters backed by trillion dollar corporations.

God, the comment section of the trailer has to be saved for posterity.

@XgoodbyeX

Ай бұрын

Same with the acolyte, those comments are comedy gold.

@bitty_beastly47

Ай бұрын

Is it just a bunch of "I love the part where (thing that didn't happen happened)"? Cuz those are tired af

@fixer1140

Ай бұрын

​@@XgoodbyeX"This is gold Jerry. Gold" 😂

@Zac_Frost

Ай бұрын

@@bitty_beastly47 Man, those are some of the most creative and funny ones there. XD Half of the wild, out there stuff people come up with would actually be better than what we're sure to get.

@och70

Ай бұрын

There is a higher level of creativity in those comments than the show itself will ever come close to approaching.

"You have not seen the wigs I have seen"

‘Oh, my old hairpiece. I should very much like to wear it again. One last time.’

I'm still slowly processing that in this canon, GALADRIEL is the one who corrupted SAURON.

@JayDarklighter

Ай бұрын

this is how retarded their understanding of Middle-Earth's history is - because Sauron was already evil, he was a lieutenant of Morgoth. If the people who wrote Rings of Power wrote the Titanic movie they would be blaming the actress Kate Winslet for the Titanic hitting the iceberg

@sexistspaghettios

Ай бұрын

If you haven't watched it yet, go watch the Despots video on it. He does a pretty good break down and lays it all out!

@jakomioftherose2434

Ай бұрын

If this is canon then I am a living reincarnation of Ghandi.

@JoJo-vg8dz

Ай бұрын

Nah. Why would the elves chase him for a century if he wasn't already evil?

@SirRorschachJack

Ай бұрын

This is not canon. This will NEVER be canon. It's garbage.

Wigs of power

@Sergeant_Fury

Ай бұрын

Lord of the Wigs

@jhammer4919

Ай бұрын

I love that one 😂😂😂😂

@irena4545

Ай бұрын

I used this name in a response to some RoP fan, and he corrected me that it's called "Rings of Power". Quite telling about the IQ of people who like the crap.

75k bots must be costly for a flop

@Max_Ohm

Ай бұрын

I doubt they are paying some southeast asian bot farmer very much though

@jessejames8900

Ай бұрын

​@@Max_Ohma southeast Asian bullet farmer.

@Enerdhil

Ай бұрын

Well, Bezos has money to burn....

@Tom-sd9jb

Ай бұрын

I dunno, I have a buddy who thinks rings of power was great. He also doesn't mind female custodes and calls those that are pissed of with stuff like neckbeards. He is the typical cattle consumer type though. Maybe we shouldn't be buddies anymore

@Elenrai

Ай бұрын

@@Tom-sd9jb you should stay friends with him. No offense, but if he says shit like that, he is actively "towing the line" and yknow who wants to be unnoticed like that? child touchers. Nuff said, stay nearby and keep an eye out, cut the emotional ties and be on guard, I have yet to find a man acting as you describe your friends behaviour, that did not turn out to be a VIOLENT hypocrite at the very least, seriously, keep an eye on, your friend is suspect as fugg

Sauron's disguise is the equivalent of people trying to trick their dogs into thinking they disappeared by holding up a sheet, then ducking around a corner when the sheet falls.

@sinisterling

Ай бұрын

the sheet scheme way more elaborate

@criticalcommenter

Ай бұрын

Almost as bad as a guy popping on some glasses and becoming unrecognisable

@davidanderson_surrey_bc

Ай бұрын

@@criticalcommenter Why, who could you possibly be referring to?

@WEKM

Ай бұрын

Only, those ones where they run into the wall or door.

Elves: "We will smite Sauron!" Sauron: "It's wiggin' time!"

I just imagined King Shark from Suicide Squad saying he'll put on a fake mustache

@jessejames8900

Ай бұрын

All he needs is 'Energico'.

Hans Jensen: Do you wear wigs? Sauron: No I do not. Hans Jensen: Have you worn wigs? Sauron: No I have not. Hans Jensen: Will you wear wigs? Sauron: Maybe. Hans Jensen: When will you wear wigs? Sauron: …

I love when people universally hate bad shows, you get a new show in of itself of just watching people crap on it with really funny comments

The more you think about Tucker Carlson's quote, "The marriage of ineptitude and high self esteem is the hallmark of our times" the more you realize how much it applies to everything new now. _Especially_ the team responsible for RoP.

@andrewthorsten3809

Ай бұрын

it was the Dunning of times. it was the Kreuger of times...

@justinlast2lastharder749

Ай бұрын

More like the "Hell Mark"

@stumclellan5988

28 күн бұрын

And to be quoting Tucker Carlson as any measure of even the slightest whiff of good sense is an indicator of just how far down at the bottom of the barrel we are scraping.

@Unpainted_Huffhines

28 күн бұрын

@@stumclellan5988 Okay, you hate Tucker Carlson. Noted, thanks for sharing.

@oskarskalski2982

27 күн бұрын

Look at the interview of Tucker by Joe Rogan. When Joe Rogan seems like the more reasonable one in the room you know you have a problem.

The tragedy of the show's creators is that they have obviously seen good TV but have absolutely no idea what made it good. So they put together all kinds of random stuff hoping it would work.

@mrrodriguezHLP

Ай бұрын

How does Bezos, on a testosterone high, not flip tables over in every RoP meeting? Hopefully, he is a rail of pure Peruvian and a cycle of trenbolone away from giving this show to The Boys showrunners.

@fishjones4618

Ай бұрын

It’s the Ed Wood effect. He’s seen great movies. He just couldn’t make them. I’m a sports fan. I love baseball and know how it’s played. It doesn’t make me an all star shortstop.

@fishjones4618

Ай бұрын

@@mrrodriguezHLPAt the end of the day, Amazon is still a mail order company. A high tech, multibillion dollar Sears & Roebuck. Unlike Disney or Paramount, they can take the hit. It’s just couch chance to Bezos.

@Skyblade12

Ай бұрын

@@mrrodriguezHLPBecause Bezos has no testosterone? He’s a rabid far lefty, this show is probably the pinnacle of cinema to him.

@FercPolo

Ай бұрын

You mean women failing to find the true thread of honest legitimacy? Sounds like literally all the rest of life.

I find it so odd that so many of the writers/cast of the Rings of Power openly admit they didn't like Tolkein or his writing. Imagine a bunch of men directing the next Barbie movie, where they openly admit they hated barbies and never played with them. It would be such an odd thing to do. Yet here we are, with Amazon giving us more "content" that nobody wants, written and acted by people who don't like the source material, who don't understand the source material, and where they have a disdain of the man who created it all. Surely we are living in an episode of the Twilight Zone now. How could billion dollar companies be so braindead about all of this.

@margolane3361

Ай бұрын

Humiliation ritual

@XgoodbyeX

Ай бұрын

Yeah the actively hire people who have no interest in the source material, its no wonder all these shows end up forgotten lol.

@KendraMorgan-ob2fr

Ай бұрын

What cast members hates Tolkien

@sianais

Ай бұрын

Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Anything made by white men about white men was only good because of white male privilege, not creativity, talent, or ability. (Let's pretend only white men made stories about white men exist like these people are for a second) So, to right that wrong, all those stories must be redone with the tenets of the new do or dei religion. Makes sense now? They're batsht.

@FeeriiEekii

Ай бұрын

And don't forget the one Tolkien expert they had left (or was kicked off of) the production

Never forget that the first season aired on the anniversary of Tolkien’s death

@josepnebotrius872

Ай бұрын

It was murder attempt

‘Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!’ *Isildur puts on wig - ‘No!’ ‘ISILDUR!’

Amazon is gonna dig themselves deeper than usual.

@SDesWriter

Ай бұрын

They’ve already stuck all their customers with commercials on movies and TV shows even if you’re paying for Prime Video

@Konghammer1

26 күн бұрын

The insane part is fallout, minus the lore destruction, was a really good show with a really well written main female lead and an actress who nailed it. How do they do that and then mess up so badly here???

0:00 Takeaway from the video : If your Clark Kent disguise fails, use the Sauran one.

@Enerdhil

Ай бұрын

Yes. The wig is better.🤪

The Ringworms of girl Powah

Just to remind people. Boats float because of buoyancy and the displacement of water..

@Flitalidapouet

Ай бұрын

Nah, it's the sky thingny, what? you hate science? 😅🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓

@malango255

Ай бұрын

@@Flitalidapouet and apparently rocks can look down. 😀

@Knowbody42

Ай бұрын

It's because of the mass to volume ratio of the object verses the mass to volume ratio of the water the object is displacing.

@jeremiaas15

Ай бұрын

@@malango255 Apart from pumice, obviously. It's famously an incurably optimistic rock that only looks up.

@criticalcommenter

Ай бұрын

Some rocks do too

Drinker hit the point: "They really think they are smart".

Bro put on a Party City wig and pushed his hairline back so far Vegeta is dying of laughter.😂

@Enerdhil

Ай бұрын

Yes. The hairline makes him look older, not better

@zacharymcmillan2788

Ай бұрын

"You ain't got a forehead you got a fivehead." - Mike Epps - 'All About The Benjamins'

They literally did the Phineas and Ferb bit of Doofenshmirtz not being able to recognise Perry the Platypus without his fedora 😂

@DamienDarkside

Ай бұрын

Ah it's just an elf. Oh! Sauron the elf. *removes wig* EVIL SAURON?

@jothecocopop

Ай бұрын

@@DamienDarkside Exactly what I was thinking 😂

No matter how hard Amazon tries, they'll never replicate Tolkien's legacy. 💯🎉

@XgoodbyeX

Ай бұрын

Yeah they had the chance too as long as they respected his legacy, but instead we got the rings of power.

@Elenrai

Ай бұрын

Amazon cant even provide a service that I want to pay for. Except Jeremy Clarkson but...even then... ⛵☠

@richdurbin6146

Ай бұрын

What do you mean “try”?

One wig to rule them all. One wig to fool them. One wig to elude them all. And now they can not find him.

@qasimmir7117

16 күн бұрын

🤣

Little platoon made note of one of my favorite things about rings of power season one. There’s a clip where guyladrial is being bullied as a child and the kids astutely say to her and her “paper” boat that it’s not going to float. She says: “it’s not going to float it’s going to sail.” Little platoon noticing that the boat has no sails: idk how it’s going to do that because it doesn’t have any sails. It quite literally can only float.

@onomatopoeia7505

Ай бұрын

Every boat sails, even those who don't have sails. So saying that something sets sail doesn't mean literally rolling out the cotton.

@vaporwavertv6444

29 күн бұрын

@@onomatopoeia7505 A sail boat is a boat that has sails.

‘The age of men is over. The time of the toupée has come!’

I like it when sauron screams 'Mordor Kombat' and the music kicks in

@onequickthing8950

Ай бұрын

It sent a shiver down my disembodied spine.

Rings of Power made me root for Sauron over any of the protagonists. Can't wait for the same thing to happen here.

When you absolutely have to hire every wrong person for every aspect.

@buckjones4901

Ай бұрын

Yes DEI at its best, "everything woke turns to shit" - Pres Trump.

"Everyone really liked Daemon and Aemond. Let's make Sauron Targaryen and everyone will think we're cool too."

The Rings of Power is a joke

@cfn_rambo8752

Ай бұрын

You can say that again 😂

More a general Hollywood comment, rather than something specific to RoP. I watch 12 Angry Men last night and realized just how uninspired modern Hollywood is when it comes to dialogue. This was a great movie that was just 12 guys in a room talking. It was full of drama, suspense, emotion, etc. It's notable that most of the actors in the movie were people you saw in TV and movies all the time from the 50's to the 80's. I think of movies I grew up with from the 70's to the 90's and there's so much great dialogue I can quote. There's very little from the past two decades that's memorable. For all the Marvel success, how much has entered the popular consciousness? Where are lines like "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.", "We're gonna need a bigger boat.", or "I am your father." Hell, I remember more for low budget horror/scifi/comedy "Night of the Creeps" than anything from this century.

@cyberdelicxp9125

Ай бұрын

Agreed. 12 angry men is great. Some other Movies similar in intensity and quality that are essentially just people talking, in one room worth checking out: Man From Earth. Whos afraid of Virginia Wolfe? God on Trial.

@sianais

Ай бұрын

MCU has some. You might just be outside the demographic that uses them. Stuff like that are communicated using gifs, memes, or stickers for the most part. The medium changed.

@Enerdhil

Ай бұрын

Go ahead. Make my day 😁👍

@zacharymcmillan2788

Ай бұрын

That depends,did you watch the original b & w film,or the late 80s version,with George C. Scott,Jimmy Smits and Courtney B. Vance?

@ReinoldFZ

Ай бұрын

Outside of memes like "I understood that reference" the Nolan's Batman trilogy has memorable phrases, I guess more movies do but honestly I don't pay much attention, among those that you mentioned the "I'm your father" sounds sub-par.

The sad part about the whole "alloy" thing is that there was an easy fix for it: Have Celebrimbor suggesting alloying first and then show him trying different metals in different combinations. And make him nervous and frustrated about millions of possible variants to comb through and not enough mithril to brute-force his way. And then get Sauron (who is canonically only two steps away from the god himself and thus is orders of magnitude smarter than Celebrimbor) wander into the forge, "accidentally" arrange correct metals in correct proportions on the table and then "clumsily" drop those into a crucible. Sauron gets kicked out by Celebrimbor, but leaves enough clues for him to proceed as if on his own.

@rageagainstmyhatchet

Ай бұрын

Such basic writing. Your idea is clearly better.

@tvctaswegia497

Ай бұрын

Amazon, hire this writer immediately.

@EvilDoresh

Ай бұрын

Really this would've gone a lot better if anyone did _any_ kind of research into metallurgy.

@juliemaiifanai8365

Ай бұрын

The fact that they made Celebrimbor, the son of Curifin, who was himself the son of Féanor, the greatest Smith in noldorin history, become a bumbling middling smith should be a crime in itself. If only someone in the show read the books 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@ReinoldFZ

Ай бұрын

I think it would be more interesting if Sauron is pouring part of his being into these rings so they can halt the decay or aging of the world, in order to trick the elves into bonding their power to them. That could save why mithril is just a metal in the LOTR continuity, with the shirt-armature for Frodo.

"One trailer to piss them off and on the internet, bind them; In the digital space where the trolls lie" - Famous Guy

I love the part where one of the nazgirls says “the wig of Sauron shall fool middle earth one last time”!

Just a single image from the show is enough to tell you that they don't know what they are doing

@EwanCumia

Ай бұрын

The reality is these assholes at Amazon know exactly what they are doing. All of them are deliberately destroying the legacy of Tolkein.

The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the wig, and the wig survived!

Harbrand: I can not have Galadriel for my own, so I shall become Galadriel.🙄

"Rocks are sinky." 😂😂😂

A last alliance of men and trolls marched against the armies of Amazon, and on the very slopes of Mount Prime, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth.

Amazon deserves to go bankrupt for RoP decisions

"The sea is always right!!!" - Epic poetry Tolkien would be proud of.

@josepnebotrius872

Ай бұрын

It isn't Guyladriel didn't drown

*Sauron attempts to posses Theoden Theoden: Mhaha hahaahaa! You have no power here. *Sauron puts on wig Theoden:🫨!

"But they were all deceived, for another wig was made"

My favorite part of the new trailer was when Sauron said, "It's-a me, Sauron." then pulled the Rancor out of his wig and led the forces of Narnia to have a dance-off against Venom for control of Eternia. This will truly be a TV show of all time.

You know what I want? A horror show about all the poor people the Harfoots left behind and the brutal stories of their attempts to survive

”You cannot wear it! None of us can. The One wig fits Sauron alone. It has no other master.” - Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt.

9:09 "Memes, uh, find a way!" - Not Jeff Goldblum

I'm not a huge Tolkien fan. I got to watch all of my friends who were have an absolute blast going to see the films in the theaters. I was kind of jealous. After everything that's happened with this show, I'm no longer jealous. Quite the opposite. It has to be the worst time to be a Tolkien fan. In 2024, thanks to corporations, we've all cried over the corpse of some IP we adored as kids. My wife gets frustrated by the fact I typically shy away from any new movies or TV shows. 🤷

Amazon assistant: Even if it is breached, it would take a number beyond reckoning, thousands to film the show. Amazon boss: Tens of thousands! Assistant: But my Lord there is no such force. *Shows the 10,000 wigs in the Amazon storage vault Assistant: 🤯😢

"Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?" "I'll tell you what they don't see, any hope for Rings of Power"

Wigs are the friends we made along the way.

War of the Rohirrim is our only hope at this stage

@davidj8580

Ай бұрын

"There is some contention as to the focus of the story: some at Annecy film festival claimed that Helm's daughter, Héra, is the heroine of the film." Well, there goes that. She is of so little consequence to the actual story that she is unnamed.

@ENTERTAINtheDUDE

Ай бұрын

@@davidj8580 Hmm, I often never mind about such things in anime as it allows you to believe the unbelievable and have fun with it but it does sounds like a tick box move.

This is the continuation of the Dave Filoni school of Dire-log, instead of dialog. Who knows maybe they've added Filoni's 20 second gap before reply.🤣🤣

Boats are Floatty!

Someone should tell these people about the concrete canoe competitions that engineering schools have.

Dunning-Kruger at it's best. Not that there aren't enough excellent examples already around....

I love that RK is on the stream!

Tolkien was by far masterful when it comes to the high sounding dialogue! Let's take the example of the conversation of Finrod and Andreth: "All ye Elves deem that we die swiftly by our true kind. That we are brittle and brief, and ye are strong and lasting. We may be "Children of Eru," as ye say in your lore; but we are children to you also: to be loved a little maybe, and yet creatures of less worth, upon whom ye may look down from the height of your power and your knowledge, with a smile, or with pity, or with a shaking of heads.' 'Alas, you speak near the truth,' said Finrod. 'At least of many of my people; but not of all, and certainly not of me. But consider this well, Andreth, when we name you "Children of Eru" we do not speak lightly; for that name we do not utter ever in jest or without full intent. When we speak so, we speak out of knowledge, not out of mere Elvish lore; and we proclaim that ye are our kin, in a kinship far closer (both of hröa and fëa) than that which binds together all other creatures of Arda, and ourselves to them. 'Other creatures also in Middle-earth we love in their measure and kind: the beasts and birds who are our friends, the trees, and even the fair flowers that pass more swiftly than Men. Their passing we regret; but believe it to be a part of their nature, as much as are their shapes or their hues. 'But for you, who are our nearer kin, our regret is far greater. Yet, if we consider the briefness of life in all Middle-earth, must we not believe that your brevity is also part of your nature? Do not your own people believe this too? And yet from your words and their bitterness I guess that you think that we err.' 'I think that you err, and all who think likewise,' said Andreth; 'and that that error itself comes of the Shadow. But to speak of Men. Some will say this and some that; but most, thinking little, will ever hold that what is in their brief span in the world has ever been so, and shall so ever remain," ... "Then Finrod was silent; but after a while he said: 'These words are strange and terrible. And you speak with the bitterness of one whose pride has been humiliated, and seeks therefore to wound those to whom she speaks. If all the Wise among Men speak so, then well I can believe that ye have suffered some great hurt. But not by my people, Andreth, nor by any of the Quendi. If we are as we are, and ye are as we find you, that is not by any deed of ours, nor of our desire; and your sorrow does not rejoice us nor feed our pride. One only would say otherwise: that Enemy whom you do not name. 'Beware of the chaff with your corn, Andreth! For it may be deadly: lies of the Enemy that out of envy will breed hate. Not all the voices that come out of the darkness speak truth to those minds that listen for strange news. Yeah there is a lot of great almost philsophical sounding dialogue of Tolkien's authorship! But these morons at amazon don't have the rights to use any of it! This also brings in mind the conversation of Amandil and Elendil in the Akallabeth: "And Amandil ... was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed. Therefore he called his son, Elendil, and he said to him: 'The days are dark, and there is no hope for Men, for the Faithful are few. Therefore I am minded to try that counsel which our forefather Eärendil took of old, to sail into the West..., and to speak to the Valar, even to Manwë himself, if may be, and beseech his aid ere all is lost.' 'Would you then betray the King?' said Elendil. 'For you know well the charge that they make against us, that we are traitors and spies, and that until this day it has been false.' 'If I thought that Manwë needed such a messenger,' said Amandil, 'I would betray the King. For there is but one loyalty from which no man can be absolved in heart for any cause. But it is for mercy upon Men and their deliverance from Sauron the Deceiver that I would plead, since some at least have remained faithful. And as for the Ban, I will suffer in myself the penalty, lest all my people should become guilty.'" The Silmarillion, Akallabêth This is the example of Tolkien's dialogue!

@Sorain1

Ай бұрын

It's a reminder of the depths Tolkien went in thought, that Andreth states a view that the idea that 'humans dying quickly comes from Evil.' It's also something that would never be set aside to continue the discussion with 'modern' writers at the helm. The moment a character disagrees with another in the slightest, they have to have it out. (which I imagine is a feature of any conversation the writers are in, and makes them impossible to have discussions with.)

"The beacons are Lit! Ratio calls for aid!! " "And the people will answer.. Prepare for collectivism"

Rings of Power is the final product of decades of participation medals. Decidedly unexceptional people handed credits, like so much candy on Halloween, rolling up on Amazon Studios with a reem of vocational studies certificates in hand to justify why they're the Right Person For The Job of leading this project. And the criteria for selecting the winner was which one had the most gold stars affixed, like magpies salivating at the baubles festooned across the chests of N Korean generals. I'm almost disgusted to the point of canceling my membership and paying for the shipping on my 6-pack Fruit of The Loom boxer-briefs. Grrrrrr!

When I was reading the Silmarillion many years ago, I was imagining all these tall, noble warriors like Gil-Gallad and Elendil and Elrond and the others, some uplifting music that made me want to jump on a horse and charge the bad guys and Sauron as a slimy trickster oozing and shmoozing his way around so that everyone loved him be we knew he was a creep. Then Amazon turned into a YA novel....

The Rings of Power: The Wig Returns 🤣🤣🤣

the thing that pissed me off the most is how old as hell celebrimbor looks like, dude is literally younger than galadriel in lore(to be fair i am pissed off about every character in this show)

One wig to rule them all

Read Ursula K. LeGuin's essay on fantasy dialogue and prose, "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie". It's an amazing study of why fantasy dialogue (and prose) is different from modern dialogue (and prose), and whenever a writer who doesn't understand this attempts to write fantasy, it rings hollow. This is why so many writers give up and simply use modern diction and idioms, which often sound hopelessly dull (and can be transplanted right back into a police procedure novel, or an episode of Law and Order.) The writers of this show clearly did not do the assignment. This is how I know they're not real writers; they're just "winging it" and hoping no one notices. It's laughable.

Will Guyladriel win against an entire army of cave trolls just by looking at them smugly this time?

There is one thing about this boats-and-stones-metaphor: when Gollum plummeted into the volcano, he was looking up, yet he sunk into the lava (which, by the way, is physically impossible because of the higher specific weight of molten stone): why? Was the lava even looking upper?

"Its going to be darker this year." "The show is going to explore more disturbing adult themes?" "No, they cut our budget so we don't have as much lighting."

Gary, "We need a goo."🤣🤣🤣 I bet that's exactly what they really said.🤣🤣

THE MONEY THIS COSTS IS A SCANDAL IN ITSELF

Lord of the Rings: peak cinema The Hobbit: BOOOOO these suck!!! Rings of Power: You know, maybe the Hobbit wasn’t so bad (I know I enjoyed those movies despite their flaws)

"Clark! Where did you go?! You just missed Superman!"

If the black darkness thing is concentrated evil, I'll die of laughter. That's like Willow TV show with the liquid evil.

Can't believe, that they made Shadow of War more lore accurate.

❤ An Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman, an Aussie, and a couple of Yankees walk into a podcast...

I never imagined that The Lesbian Hobbit will be the least worst of the Middle Earth films

Wasn't expecting Lord Shad to be there! Good to see him in the Pod!

Ring of power writers are like the tiktok philosophers wearing thick frame glasses to appear intelligent.

And the saddest thing about this is that women directing is not a bad thing, but their reputation is going down because bad directors are in charge. That has nothing to do with the gender but only with the competence/talent of the director or producer. In fact there are very competent and very good screen writers/directors/producers and actors of women out there.

@Sergeant_Fury

Ай бұрын

Well, they need to get them back from wherever out there is.

@Lemon_Inspector

Ай бұрын

People of women

Sauron actor was pretty good though, he would have nailed it with a good script

@Sorain1

Ай бұрын

A pity, to see skilled and talented actors wasted on poor scripts with bad direction. Same for the 'Fallout' show from what little I've seen in clips of it.

"Everything bad that happens is Galadriel's fault" - Amazon LOTR

One wig to rule them all…

I fear the show is going to be so bad that the Critical Drinker will give up booze

The dark wig shall not avail you! Flame of Udun!!

@Tom-sd9jb

Ай бұрын

😂😭

I'm still astonished the second season is actually happening at all. I know these shows get ordered multiple seasons at a time, but I was certain they were just going to write the whole thing off as a tax dodge or something

@EvilDoresh

Ай бұрын

I blame their "If you don't like this, you're sexist/racist/whatever" outrage marketing. Ending this after just one season would prove the "haters" right.

@directrulefromgamerchair3947

Ай бұрын

@@EvilDoresh That'd only make sense if the "true believers" in liberal politics have managed to muscle out the bean counter moneymen in the corporate hierarchy. If that has happened, expect a lot more wacky nonsense to go down in future because even making money will be a distant second to producing propaganda.

Do you know why boats float and rocks sink? Boats have superior displacement properties over rocks. Oh...uhm, er...yeah.

@EvilDoresh

Ай бұрын

Magic.

everyone in the show has dr doofenshmurts levels of object permanence

Sauron shouldn't even be able to stand in Galadriel's presence, she would know instantly the darkness in him it is her ultimate power, Galadriel's has empathic power to read other people's souls and perceives the darkness within. The whole ROP thing is fan fiction at the best.

@EvilDoresh

Ай бұрын

Fan fiction might actually _respect_ the source material.

@juliemaiifanai8365

Ай бұрын

Crack fan fiction, maybe. Most LOTR fan fiction I've read have immense respect for the lore. And most of them would've written better dialogue too

@EvilDoresh

Ай бұрын

@@juliemaiifanai8365 It's certainly closer to _My Immortal_ in spirit than any _decent_ fanfic.

It’s amazing how bad the writing is. This generation has very little talent. They just think they do.

I was amused by “Prepare yourselves for battle”. Why when super girlboss is just going to destroy everything without even working up a sweat? Everyone else can just watch and have a light snack.

@onequickthing8950

Ай бұрын

She has to boss somebody around.