How do you feel about the Harfoots? Let us know below!

Putting aside the fact that Harfoots are Hobbits and not "proto-hobbits" as the showrunners claimed, the worst thing about them is their Eru-awful Irish accents. Being Irish myself, it makes me cringe every time Lenny Henry opens his mouth.

Awful characters in an overall awful show. The whole show is just awful 😞

@jaredandrews5806

23 күн бұрын

They're my favorite part of the show

All of them .. all of the characters in RoP are the worst.

It’s the laziest writing I’ve ever seen.

Survival of the fittest baby.

@SagaSessions

24 күн бұрын

That is their way. “We wait for you.”

The Harefoot are fairly believable. Why did they’re society not continue? Because it’s terrible. It’s just popular to hate on Rings of power.

@javiersds8081

22 күн бұрын

It's popular to hate on it because it's utterly terrible. It's not the fault of the audience that they're smart enough to tell how bad it is.

@personanongrata6249

21 күн бұрын

@@javiersds8081 it’s really not. It’s fine.

I didn't have as much trouble buying into the idea of Harfoot culture having a brutal underbelly. A lot of cultures do, both in the real world and in Middle Earth. Look at American gun culture and how we won't tighten gun laws even in the face of endless school shootings. Millions of Americans who are otherwise decent to their neighbors, family, and community, think it's a sensible policy to have zero restrictions on guns. In the case of the Harfoots, the tradition of leaving people behind seems to be born out of survival. The show works hard to position Harfoots as sitting ducks to every kind of prey. The lesson they've learned is that if they don't keep moving, they'll all die, so stopping to help one who falls would seal the fate of the entire tribe. You can argue about whether that's really true, and in fact the characters on the show do just that. You can also argue that this culture fits awkwardly into Tolkien's wider lore. Like, why do later hobbits manage to settle comfortably in the Shire without this constant fear of annihilation that Harfoots experience? But within the world of the show, I think it seemed like a coherent idea that complicated our picture of the Harfoots but didn't make them irredeemable monsters either. Also, the bit where they talked about people being left behind, "we wait for you," seemed to me to be a mix of people who died of accidents and natural causes (figurative leaving), and people who literally got left behind because they couldn't migrate with the others. "Left behind" in their culture, is synonymous with death regardless of how it happens. I think that's actually and example of pretty good world building.

@tangofett4065

18 күн бұрын

lol “zero restrictions on guns”? What part of America do you live in? We have gun laws. The main problem is the fact that Criminals DON’T obey the law!!!

@patjacksonpodium

18 күн бұрын

Well said. See, this is someone actually taking the time to think about things above a surface level instead of just dismissing complex topics as "not making sense."

@biligator

17 күн бұрын

@@tangofett4065 god you’re so boring

1:16 Prologue. Close enough.

I couldnt disagree more. They were my favorites for sure. In fact, Nori is the HEART of the show. She represents Tolkien’s themes very well.

@SagaSessions

11 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Although it wasn't conveyed in this particular segment, Nori is actually our favorite character (despite our dislike of the Harfoot culture).

Let’s not ignore the fact in “the Hobbit” bilbos stuff was being auctioned off when he came back from his adventure, and in the “lord of the rings” Frodo stuff was being distributed before he left the shire. I haven’t watched “the ring of power” series, but the hobbit race have flaws that were written by Tolkien himself.

“Like”.

The entire series is a travesty. I didn't even get half way through the first season. Couldn't take the projectile vomiting anymore.

@robertnguyen2025

22 күн бұрын

Half way ? Are you mad crazy .I tried to watch up to 20 minutes of it and it was the worst series I have ever seen.i rather watch power ranger

It's still better than the wheel of time adaptation. Im not saying RoP was good. But it only partly broke middle earth.

It was the best part of the show for me

@SagaSessions

23 күн бұрын

Really? Glad you were able to find enjoyment in it! We need some diversity in the comment section 😂

@robertnguyen2025

22 күн бұрын

Why do KZread allow children comment here ?😊

So just for the sake of diversity here, coming from someone who actually really enjoyed RoP very much, "It doesnt make sense" when it comes to a culture of a fantasy setting is a really, really lazy critique. Of course it doesnt make sense to you: You're not a Harfoot. If you were to take nearly any aspect of a culture different from your own and look at it through the lense of your own customs, of course they'll not make sense. They'll seem backwards and like "lazy writing." But its not, its just different from what you'd expect. Doesnt mean it doesnt make sense. For example, in the US we have nursing homes. In many Asian countries, they dont really do that as much. Old people often live with their families pretty much till they die. Would it be proper for someome from one of those Asian countries who didnt know about retirement homes to watch a movie about a retirement home in the US and say "That's stupid. That makes no sense. Why put Grandpa there? Just have him live at home. This is lazy writing." No, because thats not lazy writing, its just a CULTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT. and the Harfoots have a brutal culture. Sorry its different than what youre used to with Hobbits but not every culture is the same.

@tangofett4065

18 күн бұрын

The RoP is FULL of lazy writing and contradictions. The Harfoots being all about surviving and togetherness, only to leave people behind to their deaths doesn’t make any sense at all.

@patjacksonpodium

18 күн бұрын

@@tangofett4065 Because people and the societies they create aren't absolutely *PACKED TO THE BRIM* with contradictions? Look at politics. Enough said. Don't even get me started on religion. How many people say one thing and do another? This is reality. So why do you expect a society in a fantasy setting to be pure and flawless and logical as if they were some weird robots incapable of doing something that Does Not Compute? You gotta go further than the knee jerk reaction thought process here. Life and people are complicated. And they are under no obligation to be free from that. To ask for anything otherwise is to ask for surface level, shallow, simple storytelling.