In Rings of Power, it’s safer to be around Sauron than the Harfoots. At least Sauron made an effort to connect with you in order to corrupt you. The Harfoots will either just leave you to die or make sure to finish you off once they consider you no longer useful.

@superfuss1984

3 ай бұрын

Proto-Gollums.... 🥳

@Mj0Skyver

3 ай бұрын

@superfuss1984 Hahahaha! Oh, that's gooood.

@S4ns

3 ай бұрын

Sauron never ate the yellow sunshine berries. Just saying.

@wytho3751

3 ай бұрын

Evil Hobbit Leader: “remember that one asshole who got stung to death by bees?” Evil Hobbits: *raucous laughter* “Yeah what a stupid half-wit! What with his screaming and frothing and shaking…dumbass.”

@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133

3 ай бұрын

​@@Mj0Skyver Tbh Gollum is 500+ years old. Who knows, maybe hobbits went from assholes who were only different from Gollum because they didn't find the ring, to the nice folk who could resist the ring just because they are not capable of thinking big enough to be tempted by it.

Gotta love this. The reason Mordor looks so unquestionably unnatural in the map (how many natural _perfectly square_ mountain ranges has nature created?) is because Sauron actually forged the land itself, with care and purpose in every choice. But no, old man Waldrig turns a key in a hole, that'a'do it!

@Tyarrk

3 ай бұрын

When i look at the map of middle earth it looks as if the mordor mountains as well as the mountain ranges separating gondor from rohan and rohan from then western part respectively form two overlapping C shapes. It reminds me of structures left behind by ice age glaciers.

@philleW12

3 ай бұрын

I need to double check this, but i think the Mountains of Mordor where made by Melkor, Saurons Master. So its not Sauron who forged the land, but rather Melkor. Still, the point still stands, Mordor is literally crafted with a purpose with a square mountain range that acts as a natural wall that makes it nearly impenetrable (unless you know someone like Gollum who knows about the secret passages into Mordor). Melkor explicitly made the Misty Mountains as a way to stop Orome from hunting the Fell beast, so it makes sense that Melkor would raise the Mountains around Mordor as a way to create a natural barrier between Mordor and the rest of Middle-Earth, making his land harder to invade.

@RhysCallinan-bv1wi

3 ай бұрын

​@@philleW12I know Melkor used magic to create the ever erupting volcano, at least. Dudes a fucking beast. Ended an age by destroying a tree, no wonder Sauron copied his armour set. Even Balrogs served him.

@Violaphobia

3 ай бұрын

It definitely fits with Sauron’s goal of an ordered, utile world that is antithetical to the natural one

EFAP highlights: The dumbest scene in Rings of Power. Me: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

@Avarn388

3 ай бұрын

@thomaspunt2646 As a fan of Batman Beyond and Blight, you win the comment section. Well done.

@Jackrabbit_Slim

3 ай бұрын

The Galadriel sword training scene is a definite contender.

it is my firm belief that collectively, the efap chat - all concussed, drunk AND high - writing one word each, can still come up with a better story than amazon's "writers" could ever hope to put to paper on their best day...

@Five0f5even

3 ай бұрын

At least for sure you'rr getting more than one draft.

@ThePenAndTheRose

3 ай бұрын

A truly impressive level of failure and incompetence. Beautiful in its way 🫠

@jeremyusreevu237

3 ай бұрын

I've played Frantic Fanfiction with my creative writing club, and all of those stories we wrote when playing that game are better than ROP.

@SuperMegaGaylord

3 ай бұрын

Executive- "But do they have the workplace positivity we need?" Rags- "I jusht... I jush shlove you guys. You're is all the besht, I love shoe, even Jay. Even Jay" Executive- "Awww, he even loves the gay one, ok we're all good."

When Pompeii erupted, the pyroclastic cloud covered the city, superheating the air to 500 degrees in a matter of seconds. People died where they stood, cooked inside and out. The village in RoP would have been wiped out. Everyone would be dead.

@MST3Killa

3 ай бұрын

Well, to be fair...this is literally "fantasy".

@ElhajMahmoud

3 ай бұрын

@@MST3Killafantasy without universal rules make you out of the immersion and is equal to playing with dolls as a 4 year old pulling plot points out of your ass

@MST3Killa

3 ай бұрын

​@@ElhajMahmoud Being fantasy doesn't mean there aren't rules, just that they aren't necessarily the same rules as our real world. Hence, fantasy. Comparing a fantasy to reality really doesn't mean a whole lot if the internal logic of that fictional world supports that fantasy element. In this case there is no internal logic to support it, thus we default to the logic of the real world, not the fantasy world, so it doesn't hold up... And I didn't say it does hold up, but just that it is fantasy, so I'm sure to their mind, that's all the thought they put to it. "Well, Sam and Frodo basically survived heat from Mt. Doom... Legolas survived crazy illogical acrobatics... Gandalf survived falling a jillion feet with the Balrog... so what's really the difference if Galadriel does this?" ... This is how I imagine their thinking went.

@XenoSpyro

3 ай бұрын

@@MST3Killa does the fantasy excuse cover galadriel wearing heavy plot plate of greater fire resist?

@Desregaurd

3 ай бұрын

@@XenoSpyro I think he's saying that "its fantasy" is how people are excusing it, not that he himself holds that position, which if you do it leads you to ludicrous extremes... So, not only does the fantasy excuse cover your scenario, it would also account for absurd scenarios such as Galadriel swimming in lava naked and being completely unharmed, making rainbows appear with her every word, cause babies to spontaneously manifest with each breath, and kill her enemies just by thinking about them a little bit.

Tolkien's work is a beautiful house, fully furnished and well-kept. This series is the equivalent of taking a shit in the hallways because they were more empty than the rooms.

@mordirit8727

3 ай бұрын

This series is the equivalent of dust settled after the interior was left unatended for many years: it has somewhat the general shape of it but, in reality, it's nothing more than trash that will soon be swept out.

@afelias

3 ай бұрын

It's more like being led to a beautiful toilet inside the Master's bedroom of that house and deciding still to shit on the floor while breakdancing, getting it everywhere but the toilet bowl.

@a_rat_named_mouse

3 ай бұрын

​@@afelias Walking up to the gorgeous porcelain throne room nd peeking in, wondering why it's empty. Then you slowly look up and see it smeared across the walls and dripping from the ceiling and shower curtains...

I love how there’s a thousands-degree pyroclastic flow that destroys everything in it’s path and sets the land on fire killing untold numbers, and Impostriel just stands there and takes it right in the face without even stumbling.

@weareharbinger914

3 ай бұрын

I think the best part is a ton of regular humans survive it too. I'm not sure how we can ever feel they're in danger if they tank that to the face. They only die if the plot says so.

@mdlsome4183

3 ай бұрын

She survived because she filled her lungs with the breath of an ice troll that she killed.

@christianmock7068

3 ай бұрын

@@mdlsome4183 That would certainly explain her frozen expression.

25:44 Oh my god, I figured it out! Halbrand is a red herring, a secondary distraction for anyone who suspects Sauron might try to pull off an Annatar-type ruse; he's actually disguised as Galadriel herself, while the real Galadriel is off wandering with Celeborn! The second season will have Cate Blanchett's return and the reveal of this terrible betrayal!

@silverscorpio24

3 ай бұрын

As non-sensical as that is, I would prefer that.

*Therapist:* Blue Fringy isn't real. He can't hurt you. *Blue Fringy:*

@FourOf92000

2 ай бұрын

he's a cassowary, cuz Straya

I cant believe they started *Mordor* like a dang honda civic

The rings of power, unable to Google, "What happened to pompeii?"

@hawttub_2265

3 ай бұрын

Rings of power was unable to google a lot of things

@ShadowRulah

3 ай бұрын

I would have satisfied for someone throwing "volcano hot??" into bing.

@Joe45-91

2 ай бұрын

It's a magical volcano don't ya know? The fire only affects buildings and horse saddles 🪄🔥

Instant Mordor. Just add sword.

@CarlosThadeu

3 ай бұрын

Just like Doodle God. Earth + Sword = Mordor. Simple. 😂

@jacobkleinsasser5658

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Billy Mayes.

The series forgets that according to Tolkien, the dwarves disovered mithril in the first age.

@Violaphobia

3 ай бұрын

You can’t forget what you never knew 🫠

Its my favourite dumb scene. I have a gif of the pyroclastic cloud before it hits Galadriel, complete with people running toward it. It is the quintessential scene to show that those writers have no idea what the fuck they're doing.

@princepsbellum3413

3 ай бұрын

It's a pure clown show 😂

I just want to point out that it also doesn't make sense for sam and frodo to enter the volcano. The air is nearly unbreathable and it would be 100s of degrees. We look past it in LotR because because its only 2 suspensions of disbelief, vs dozens

@Vulgarth1

3 ай бұрын

It's also subconscious suspension of disbelief, because the film establishes people with physical bodies can go in there twice before Frodo and Sam do. When Sauron is shown forging the One Ring, and again when Isildur and Hugo Weaving are there.

@ElhajMahmoud

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, the magma looked pretty far down the volcano when they were in there and when golum fell. So I can kinda believe they can enter the volcano and not get burnt

@battlekirby

3 ай бұрын

@@Vulgarth1Hugo Weaving is my favorite Tolkien character.

@constcarry

3 ай бұрын

They show in lotrrop that the volcanic eruption is annihilating everything in it's path. Even if volcanoes didn't do that on real life, rop establishes that this explosion causes apocalyptic destruction.... So to then allow everyone to survive it is ridiculous

@constcarry

3 ай бұрын

In PJ's LotR, he doesn't show dozens of objects catching fire or melting, nor does he show other characters falling dead from the heat when entering Mt. Doom before Sam and frodo go in

You just know the writers were so happy about this Thinking they had actually made something cleverly set up with all the pieces shown ahead of time How embarrassing

If there's a pathway for the water to get in, there is a path for the pressure to get out. It's called a Geyser.

1800°F 60MPH and Gag-ladriel just stands there covered in Cheeto Dust. That show is a comedy.

I'm now remembering the line from Mole in Atlantis: nonononono. In order to start the volcano it would take an explosive force of great magnitude....... Everyone looks at Vinny.

This TV show is part of the Gollumverse, an alternate timeline created when the TVA sacked Smeagol and set him on a different path.

I was hoping for that scene where the humans enslaved by the orcs are trying to yank their chains apart like a bunch of neanderthals.

@AnAmericanMusician

3 ай бұрын

"Get your paws off me, you damned, dirty orc!"

When I first saw the image of Galadriel standing in front of flames I thought they'll show the destruction of the Teleri-ships. Never could have come to my mind that she gets a pyroclastic flow straight to the face. But well...

Water has to be BELOW the lava to cause an explosion. If there's no pressure, there's no explosion.

@constcarry

3 ай бұрын

You missed the scene where they explained that the dam was holding back liquid tnt, not water

@janbosch5951

3 ай бұрын

Big ol' reservoir of nitroglycerin

"The true meaning of Mordor was the Volcanoes we made along the way"- Sauron Baggins, 2nd Age

Suggestion for another EFAP Highlight from RoP: The section of their 3/4 review where Mauler discovers what actually happens to Harfoots who "go off trail" "They ate him".

It really is a tough choice about what is the dumbest scene because the stupidity compounds across scenes. This scene is not only stupid in itself, but it also compounds the stupidity of geographical confusion in earlier episodes, the horrendous decisions made by individuals that led to this moment (mostly in this episode but in other ones as well), and of the villain's plan. Similarly, the revelation that Halbrand is Sauron is stupid in itself, but it also compounds how stupid it is that so many things had to work out just so in order for Sauron to get to where he is at the end of the series and for the Elves to make the Rings of Power despite Galadriel knowing that they were Sauron's idea (don't even get me started). And so on it goes throughout the series.

In the lore Sauron caused Mt Doom to erupt through his force of will alone in the Amazon show he gets a old man to turn on the water. 😅

My top worst moment from the show is when she push's the guards into the cell they were keeping her in. Its so awkwardly cut and obvious there was a more elaborate scene where she is supposed to outsmart and overpower them, but they couldn't get a decent looking take so they just cut it all out and the 2 seconds they show is still terrible 🤣

It’s the difference between concocting a brilliant plan because you actually have the expertise and concocting a “brilliant” plan because you read a pop science article once. It used to be the domain of modern Star Trek, but lo and behold it’s now the domain of modern Lord of the Rings!

@dodojesus4529

Ай бұрын

And by "read" we mean, glanced at an AI rewording it once

Alt title: "Mordor, Birth of a Nation"

That's an awfully short video for the whole of ROP, which is entirely the dumbest scenes in the show.

@MannyNamiro

3 ай бұрын

I tried to think which scene it was before I clicked the video, but I honestly could not pinpoint it. From "The boat is looking to the sky" to the "Have you, a master smith, tried making alloys?" to "I have the tempest in me!" to "Give me the meat and give it to me raw" there were just too many contenders.

@EFAPHighlights

3 ай бұрын

While maybe not the dumbest by everyone's metrics, this was the point where the show broke my brain. Everything before it was so insufferably boring that I couldn't work up the energy to feel offended by it, but this episode was impressively stupid.

@Handsy_McGee

3 ай бұрын

​@@MannyNamiro I dunno, the meat line may be my *favorite* in the whole show

18:14 I can't interpret nothing in Guyladriel expression but resignation for her own iminent death. Because that's what supposed to happens next.

See, this seems like a perfect job for the "great earth eaters" from the Hobbit, who apparently don't otherwise exist in the universe.

@kingragnarok7302

3 ай бұрын

The orcs forgot about them too.

@MST3Killa

3 ай бұрын

@@kingragnarok7302 well it's not like the orcs ever later had to try to breech any large fortification or anything where coming from underneath might be advantageous....not like at any kind of Deep or a Minas Tirith or anything. Silly one use world breaking worms.

@Will_Parker

3 ай бұрын

Which is especially funny because they're only mentioned in the books as being so ancient most people have forgotten about them so the orcs in the second age should know about them but the ones in the third age shouldn't

This and the walking dead nuke scene are tied in my head for top "WTF, that's not how that works" modern writing.

“Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have made.” - B.R.R Bagkeins

On the bright side, this means that Gollum was probably just fine after he fell into Mount Doom.

@AsperTheGhost

2 ай бұрын

No what ROP was implying that because Golums as a race are 99% water he caused the eruption of Mount Doom at the end of RoTK.

It’s usually comedic relief when unknowledgeable people think they’re smart, and fail dismally. The difference is that the writers also sunk tens of millions of dollars and a beloved franchise. The writers seem both oblivious to what they just did yet proud of their accomplishments, and it infuriates me.

@leakyboat224

3 ай бұрын

*hundreds of millions

@ElhajMahmoud

3 ай бұрын

@@leakyboat224but my lord, there is no such budget waste

If they are Wood Elves, then they wouldn't necessarily be under Gil-galad.

I dont care if you are immortal, YOU DONT SURVIVE A PYROCASTIC FLOW!

Man, I wonder who that friend was who loves LOTR that was ranting in all caps to Mauler.

Ignoring the heat, I would think the dirt and ash going that velocity would scour skin right off the bone.

Oh god, can we get a highlight of the Harfoots cannibalism and how awful they are? That shit makes me laugh every time.

@Ranben.

2 ай бұрын

Can we get a highlight of Humans vs Chains 😂

30:30 Fringy doesn't understand that, if you create a group of characters with a single personality trait (but overall a plank of wood), the audience can make sh_t up about them in their minds and be deluded into believing the show actually did that instead of just being headcanon. And it clearly works, even if it shouldn't.

@AsperTheGhost

3 ай бұрын

That's why every generic drama show on TV, or every teen fantasy novel has a main character that is a block of wood. The audience can project what they want or just self-insert as this cool character doing cool things.

Writer : Okay so Sauron makes a sword to make a dam? In this Ep that plan goes into action! The good guys will be defeated by the fiery flames of the volcano. Me : But why? How do they survive that? Writers : Pfft... who cares it's fantasy... Don't you think this story beat was so cool? Me *slowly wraps my hands around their throat to give them a hug*

Galadriel should have been vaporized right where she stood - if she survived against all logic, she'd look like Freddy Krueger.

How this scene managed to get through these writers without them seeing any problems is absolutely beyond me. Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking? As someone who's writing my own story and have gone through it over and over again to fine tune it, it kind of offends me how completely talentless modern Hollywood writers are.

@princepsbellum3413

3 ай бұрын

It's written by committee I think. Noone dares say anything out of fear for losing their own material.

As someone who has experienced 2 volcanic eruptions, is funny to see how nonsensical this was lol. Edit: funny how easy it is to forget that this series, and a lot of others, even existed.

@armoredghost918

3 ай бұрын

Wait a second, back up, you’ve experienced WHAT TWICE?!?!?

@AppleInk

3 ай бұрын

@@armoredghost918 Yes! I was around Chaiten back in 2008 when it razed its village, and living in Villarica in 2015 when its volcano erupted, both in Chile, This land is defined by its volcanic activity and earthquakes every other week lol

@armoredghost918

3 ай бұрын

@@AppleInk wicked

@88HELLJUMPER88

3 ай бұрын

​@@AppleInk jeez, makes my home seem boring. We get a .6 earthquake every few years and a sunny day here and there. Oh, and I saw lightning one time like 4 years ago!

@AppleInk

3 ай бұрын

@@88HELLJUMPER88 Oh, I see 0 : Well, we don't mind 5s or 6s, because we have had so many quakes in the past decade that we got desensitized lol. Back in 2010 we got a 8,8 and a tsunami but it was worse than that. Between 2014 and 2015 we got a bunch if 7s and a 8,4 in 2015 + tsunami. We even got the biggest quake in history back in 1960, it was around 9,4 so yea..pretty shaky around here lol

The writer read a wikipedia article on volcanoes and made it the keystone of the entire franchise. Though it does make me think I could make it as a writer.

I absolutely f-ing loathe Rings of Power. I just hate it, with a deep, viceral, physical intensity.

He Mordor'd all over the place.

I can't believe that you can honestly give this show positive review - especially if you are professional reviewer...

The dumbest scene in rings of power? It's been narrowed down to one? Truly?

For those who don't know, a volcanic pyroclastic flow, like the one that hits Galadriel and co., has a temperature between 200C and 1,000C (390F-1832F) and hit her at 80-700KPH (50-450MPH). This is a force of nature hot enough to make skin spontaneously combust (500C) hitting her at a speed somewhere between a highway car and almost 2X the speed of the fastest train ever built (460KMH). The actor is right; it was clearly a moment of peace and calm for Galadriel.

@dodojesus4529

2 ай бұрын

Its Jurassic world 2 all over again.

That must have been a hard choice to make

I just go back to my memories of youth, Galadriel was a great hero & spell caster, thru Jackson’s great trilogy, & not so great trilogy, & returns to the books, Galadriel was a great hero & spell caster…only to learn in this story she is the hero Morgoth needed, returning Sauron to the path of evil, the basis of the rings, a great warrior who doesn’t seem to realize magic even exists or is a tool for lessers like men.

Im very confused about where they are on the map. When did the numenoreans get their horses over the mountain range that surrounds mordor, or did thry somehow take the long way around?

I think the first or second RoP EFAP was the first I caught live. Ahh good memories of hard and soft magic mines 😊

8:28 Rags has watched Avatar: the Last Airbender, proving himself as a man of culture!

@80krauser

3 ай бұрын

… Does he know Chat?

@regaliatwo

3 ай бұрын

you were obviously not here when they both trashed ATLA

@CarlosThadeu

3 ай бұрын

Oh hey, someone new to efap 😂 Poor innoncent soul

If I was hit by a volcanic explosion, I would simply not get vaporised

This show would have somewhat redeemed itself if it turned out that Galadriel was Sauron all along

There is so much dumb to choose from.

The dam mechanism could have been some sort of ancient self destruct mechanism, a last resort to deny an enemy victory over the area. And the orcs simply plan to use it for their own plans. But of course it had to be part of a master plan, no matter how little sense it would make.

Rings of Power, or "The One Show That Finally Decided to Destroy the Last Bit of Sanity that Poor Wolf Had Left"

I barely know anything about LOTR... but even I can recognize how stupid and sh* all of this is 😂

This makes me wish so hard that they did a live reaction to the series, somehow. I bet their laughter was infectious.

Guilt + Fear + Rage = Peace. 😂😂

How Mordoor should have been made: a kingdom pops up in the southlands boasting of their active and rewarding god, attracting many people to join, even elves. This kingdom even has it's own wizards. The kingdom becomes big and radical and starts putting preasure on other kingdoms until someone escapes the kingdom with news that the kingdom is doing terrible rituals to summon their evil god, heros try and stop them but they fail in the end and now their god drastically alters the lands, it's people and now has a very strong foothold in this world.

I wonder. Did they make the ash red to avoid blackface accusations from Twitter?

Okay but when are we getting the "Homer" clip from the rings of power coverage?

FYI: Naples is built at the feet of Vesuvius, there is no way a plinian eruption turns a fertile land into Mordor without magic, which is the thing they have shown.

Maybe the explanation for how they survived a volcano to the grill isn’t that they’re in a magical world. It’s that they’re high level D&D characters. The level one only have five hit points so they’re literally toast. The PC’s are level 30 and can tank it.

@Lemon_Inspector

3 ай бұрын

There is an unofficial but widely accepted rule for fire damage from lava in D&D. It goes as follows: If you step in the lava, you die.

Season 2: Somehow Sauron returned....

Galadriel used Her Valinor Powered Chi to survive the Pyroclastic Flow.... 😝

After remembering this shite I bet they will make Baradur at the sword tower and be damn proud of it.

Wait, Fringy is supposed to be a cassowary?

@tristandpc

3 ай бұрын

Just for Halloween.

@blankadams3120

3 ай бұрын

@@tristandpc Ah, wasn't sure.

Old man Waldreg at it again

I'm still stuck on episode 2 efap😂

Obliteration. How peaceful.

There are vodeos of people throwing items in to a volcano, after a few seconds there is avery small eruption of magma. If they had dropped 1000 orcs carrying a barrel of gun powder cast themselves in to the volcano to cause the explosion it would have been better. A) Showing how much Sauron does not care about the body count. B) There could have been a few episodes on a seige around the town in an Alamo style, leaving just a few alive to warn some other towns arounf the area

Lord of the Rings in names only. They could have easily changed the names, which would have made it an original world and story, and it probably would have been received better (mixed at best, but at least better)

Ah... the series that makes it seem like Sauron took over the planet because everyone else was just r-word-tarded.

Guys, you can't just upload the entirety of Rings of Power like that lol

Conflicted?

Is this pompei?

Lord of Ring: Ring of Power tisms are indeed maximum cringe

I like cassowories

RoP is a great comedy

Dont remind me of this garbage

I love to forget that Rings of Power exists. LOTR has a special place in my heart and I refuse to let woke nonsense like this destroy Tolkien’s legacy.