I definitely like the nuance of him shedding a tear. To me, it shows like how maybe the last piece of "innocence" he had was cast away to follow his ideal blindly. Sort of like a trickle down effect of how he started as a divine maiar full of grace and now he killed someone he genuinely spent time with and learned from. Possibly the closest thing he had to a friend and not just a subordinate.
at least that is his humanity the show wants to tell us, he has nothing to do with the Sauron in Tolkiens Legendarium, where Sauron was evil for several thousand years after being recruited in the early first age by Morgoth.
@@belegur8108 Tolkien's letter to Peter Hastings: "But at the beginning of the Second Age he was still beautiful to look at, or could still assume a beautiful visible shape - and was not indeed wholly evil, not unless all 'reformers' who want to hurry up with 'reconstruction' and 'reorganization' are wholly evil, even before pride and the lust to exert their will eat them up."
@@oWarlock360o never said, that he was iredeemable evil ( that point maybe was after the Akallabeth and his ability to appear in fair form being stripped away ), only that he joing Morgoth willingly as early as the first age.
I think the title is misleading since Tolkien fans are not actually watching the show and they would not know wtf is going on with this series writing kekw
@@wilsoch i mean tolkien fans love LOTR and some even love HOBBIT, despite both LOTR and Hobbit having huge amount of changes compared to books. It's just rings of power is terrible show, so it's ultra fair to be toxic towards it
@@willbaskin700 You don't understand what the word "objectively" means, clearly. I'll help you out: just because you don't like it doesn't mean others do. But stay mad, by all means.
What's crazy is that some of this stuff that happens in the show transpires in the books over the entire second age. But somehow only takes like a few months in the show. It's annoying
Well the real question is why are they doing this? In other words, why don't they just show the creation of the Rings and then do a montage or jump forward and then do the rest of the story? Instead we're just getting a mush of Adar and Elrond and the Battle of Eregion which doesn't make sense in the context of making the rings. And why did they have Sauron go to Numenor with Galadriel In the first season? That's such a bizarre story. And it simply led to her on a failed military mission to Mordor for no reason.I think we're just going to ignore that whole plot line.
@@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp it lead to her discovery and first deception by Sauron. Sauron is happy that Adar is destroying eregion, more elf destruction the better for him- he is using the situation to his advantage. And he needs that battle to distract the elves while he works on calebrimbor.
I definitely like the nuance of him shedding a tear.
To me, it shows like how maybe the last piece of "innocence" he had was cast away to follow his ideal blindly.
Sort of like a trickle down effect of how he started as a divine maiar full of grace and now he killed someone he genuinely spent time with and learned from. Possibly the closest thing he had to a friend and not just a subordinate.
Could also be seen as the dichotomy of the little bit of the maiar of him vs the tainted and corrupted by morgoth version.
at least that is his humanity the show wants to tell us, he has nothing to do with the Sauron in Tolkiens Legendarium, where Sauron was evil for several thousand years after being recruited in the early first age by Morgoth.
@@belegur8108 Tolkien's letter to Peter Hastings:
"But at the beginning of the Second Age he was still beautiful to look at, or could still assume a beautiful visible shape - and was not indeed wholly evil, not unless all 'reformers' who want to hurry up with 'reconstruction' and 'reorganization' are wholly evil, even before pride and the lust to exert their will eat them up."
@@oWarlock360o never said, that he was iredeemable evil ( that point maybe was after the Akallabeth and his ability to appear in fair form being stripped away ), only that he joing Morgoth willingly as early as the first age.
@@belegur8108 yeah, so my point stands. It's at this point still well within Tolkiens own words for him to show things not wholly evil.
I think the title is misleading since Tolkien fans are not actually watching the show and they would not know wtf is going on with this series writing kekw
Honestly, Tolkien fans are more toxic than Star Wars fans these days.
@@wilsoch i mean tolkien fans love LOTR and some even love HOBBIT, despite both LOTR and Hobbit having huge amount of changes compared to books. It's just rings of power is terrible show, so it's ultra fair to be toxic towards it
@@wilsoch So true.
@@wilsoch Tolkien fans love the movies, they just ate ROP because it is in fact objectively terrible and constantly contradicts itself lol
@@willbaskin700 You don't understand what the word "objectively" means, clearly. I'll help you out: just because you don't like it doesn't mean others do. But stay mad, by all means.
30:32 Draco Lannister
Gandalf keeping the rocks afloat? Don't you mean Rey?
Haha yes my mistake!
What's crazy is that some of this stuff that happens in the show transpires in the books over the entire second age. But somehow only takes like a few months in the show. It's annoying
o get over it
Right. I was hoping that Amazon would keep this show running for 3,500 seasons. 🙄
A few months? Not even, more like a few weeks.
Well the real question is why are they doing this?
In other words, why don't they just show the creation of the Rings and then do a montage or jump forward and then do the rest of the story?
Instead we're just getting a mush of Adar and Elrond and the Battle of Eregion which doesn't make sense in the context of making the rings.
And why did they have Sauron go to Numenor with Galadriel In the first season? That's such a bizarre story. And it simply led to her on a failed military mission to Mordor for no reason.I think we're just going to ignore that whole plot line.
@@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp it lead to her discovery and first deception by Sauron.
Sauron is happy that Adar is destroying eregion, more elf destruction the better for him- he is using the situation to his advantage. And he needs that battle to distract the elves while he works on calebrimbor.