Genuinely. If it was a literary treasure of Indian or Chinese culture being deliberately defaced with a political agenda like this, people would call it what it is: cultural appropriation. (And they'd probably call it r---ism too). But because it's English culture, it's "representation and inclusion" and the people who don't love it are the r---ist ones. The double standard has to stop.
@@cosmicmuffin322 it’s English culture ?😂 okeyyy interesting What about the cultural appropriation of Gods of Egypt, Jesus (Bible etc) we can go on and on. Whitewashing and cultural appropriation has been the mainstay since forever it’s just hurtful when it’s your “culture” being adjusted
@@lombe-andrewmusonda17what..? If anything, Christianity (eastern religion) appropriated the English (western peoples). The cultures which Christianity has integrated were largely preserved within the tradition. Why do you think we know ANYTHING about Norse religion? It’s because the Christian monks recorded and preserved it. Believe me, all people have their sins, Christians included, but what was part of the cure? What was part of the disease? There is a difference between submitting to what your people organically believes is a greater spiritual truth, and a small cohort of ideologues undermining the values of a traditional text within a reproduction of said text. There are consensual forms of cultural integration, and non-consensual. This is non-consensual.
True. Bit even if you leave the lore knowledge outside.... the show established them as friends with no chemistry in other directions so far. This kiss out of nowhere is just wrong, in any way.amd I thought the worst thing they could have done would have been kissing "Halbrand" 🙄
@@ErnaB790 the real cringe part is in how it was shot. In theory the whole thing was supposed to be a distraction from him slipping her a makeshift lockpick (in full view of the guards who can see their hands making the trade, but setting that aside), but the way they shot it, the way they lingered on the kiss, the facial expressions.... the whole scene was designed to be cut out of context and used as shipping bait. It's so transparent and it's so embarrassingly cringe.
@@Kyle-sr6jm I still kick myself that it took me awhile to connect Gandalf's fireworks with Saruman's demolition charge. Different applications of the same craft. And I like that Tolkien left it to the reader to figure out--or not, because it really doesn't make a difference
You may find him sitting in any one of our hotels, on the chairs that bear his name. The Celeborn chairs, placed at an optimal viewing angle towards the bed where his wife and strange men lie.
obviously...not. 1st season: bunch of pesants do not hide in a fortress, not in the mountains, after the "clever ploy"...they just go home to their village without as much as fences riders of numenor spread out in a gallop as if attacking on an open field...then ride into the village over one...one single bridge...no surrounding or crossing this little stream at several points...no...just riding in over this one little, easy defendable brigde in two straight rows/lines...in pairs of two 2nd season... ah forget it...where to start??? it s a shame. GoT was not much different in this regard. in both cases it s depicted as an eight year old would imagine battles sad
Priorities. Wigmakers and dialect coached aren't cheap. Just watch Sauron in that sweet hairpiece saying Errrrrrrrrregion and tell me you didn't get arrrrrrrrrrroused.
They have a trebuchet that can destroy mountain parts but dont use them on the city walls 😂. And jesus christ the river bed just magically became dry that the orcs can actually run
Makes as much sense as the Rube Goldberg machine origin for Mordor. It's what Payne and McKay do...they write like 10 year old bots playing with their action figures.
20:30 - Random elf named Rian...a human name of the house of Beor from the 1st age. A very famous human name...gets given to an elf? Rian, was the wife of Huor, and mother of Tuor, father of Earendil the mariner...Elrond's father. So Rian was Elrond's great grandmother. But sure, let's just slap it onto an elf because it sounds badass and call it a day.
Especially as elves do not reuse known names. Men do. Elves do not. Or was the archer that old that Elrond's human foremother was named after her? Then Elrond would be a baby for her. That would show.
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans. I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans. I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
The cavalry fighting IN the forest kills me. Cavalry... doesn't work like that. And then they have Elrond mourning the death of his horse in a completely unearned moment of forced sentimentalism. There were SO many "payoffs" that were never set up in the first place.
The one realistic part was the Elven horses getting bogged down in the riverbed because yeah, it'll still be mud and not dry enough to walk or ride over. But this is the aggravating thing about the show in general - they do something kind of right, then ignore they did it and do something else because the plot demands it.
It is because a woman worked on it. It is the same nonsense as siege and other warfare aspects. They were laughably bad. I do not shame whoever did it for being a woman. I shame her for obviously not caring about warfare and yet creating this atrocious moment in the show.
Even if we argue that the lesser rings couldn't be destroyed in a normal fire it should be a able to be destroyed in the fire that created them, Celebrimbor's forge, which is why the One Ring needed to be destroyed in the fires of Mt Doom where it was created.
I just can't fathom who they wrote this show for. You would have to be distracted, disinterested, and stupid to think this is anything approaching serviceable. Im still convinced that this is a money laundering scheme.
Money laundering has a selfish, but understandable purpose - to get rich doing crimes. This is a hate crime, a deliberate desecration of the source material. This is a hill in the culture war, one the lunatic left wanted to take as theirs more than any other. Money was never the point here.
These 2 got a huge break after 10 years of mediocrity. I suspect they now know even if initially full of confidence, able to bullshit the head of Amazon, cannot bullshit Tolkien purists or even nominal fans. The first season's failure proved that. They admitted they would not listen to outside criticism of S1 for this one. So are likely to prefer to burn Tolkien's legacy to the ground rather than admt they can't cut it. Greenlit at the height of woke when this type thought they'd dominate entertainment. Their proven response to a hint of criticism is merciless attack. Failure will cause them to destroy what we love rather than accept we are right. It's never their money they're pissing away.
almost as stupid as just about every elf, unfortunately. That battle scene was a complete embarrassment and an insult to everything Tolkien actually wrote.
@20:40 I found it so funny how the Elf Girl get hit by like 7 Arrows, removes one arrow from her back, fdroped on her knees to torch the arrow, stands back up with all her wounds, does the action pose with eyes to elrond (like, look what i can do) hits a hole in one, doesnt die instantly so she has time to look how she's blowing up the siege weapon... that was something else man Also everyone is teleporting around! Arondir, last time in southlands tracks the orcs, than convienently finds 2 deserter orcs and they have a map, but we never see how close Arondir is to Adars army And Elrond, he teleports from Lindon to Eregion to Khazad Dum and back, i mean wtf...?
He used fast travel. Just like how they read the scripts to know that there was a small orc skirmish in the Southlands while they themselves are in Numenor.
This is so wrong on so many levels...in addition to that: - why has no one from up the wall tryed to set it on fire earlier? - where does the explosives come from? In lotr only sorcerers had knowledge of such things.. - why are the explosives even there attatched to that device? - is blowing up someting this close to a partialy damaged wall realy a good idea? 🤔
At this point I'm actually starting to feel bad for them. I mean, there apparently aren't any adults over there capable of seeing this stuff and just saying no, no way can we put this slop out there, and putting a stop to it. I mean, grown professionals signed off on this. Smh.
@@JesterForHire1663 Never feel sorry for 'Woke' Covert Narcissists and Sociopaths. The 'Woke' Narcissism movement literally represents Tier 2 and 3 of Evil. The Cluster B disorders...
I’m not a professional writer by any stretch, but I’m convinced I could write something better. Would it be Tolkien quality? Not even close, but it would be better than rings. I’ve known bong smoking dungeon masters with greater creativity
I like to imagine the 2 blue Wizards (something actually interesting they could have explored more in RoP) were too busy getting high, listening to Led Zepyln, playing D&D, and wishing they were getting laid in Conan the Barbarian's universe. That's why the're absent and aloof.
Almost anyone could do a better job. It's infuriating. Someone with less skill than a 3 year old got all that money from Bezos, pocketed it, and vomited out this abomination.
The explanation for this is: Oh troll was cool right? Let's use a troll. And forgot about anything they set up earlier. If you cannot even remember your own character as a writing room, it simply shows how little you actually care. Or how stupid you are. Or both
It was part of the bigger picture without the troll he wouldn't of been able to break through Oregon and defeat sauron that was the thought process. He wasn't just releasing it for nothing
Just one technical: real life medieval helmets actually were rather large. It was because soldiers and knights wore padded arming cap which was thick (as something that is supposed to cushion blunt impacts should be) then depending on period a chain-mail hood and during crusades where great helmets were all the rage a skull cap/bassinet (basically a second helmet under great helmet on top of everything I named). The main problem with obviously plastic helmets in this shitshow is no face protection, no neck protection, no arming cap, no chain-mail and a pointless thing on top which would in battle basically catch every blow and transfer it to your neck... helmets are round because they are supposed to deflect blows to save neck and brain from blunt injury.
I love your review videos. Thank you so much… And in response to “if you hate it so much, why do you keep watching?” I already know that answer ~ ‘He watches them so I don’t have to.’
I think those guys haven't watched anything better, or they are just the kind of guy that consumes passively without getting invested. Like eating a bag of chips.
I know a few, and to no surprise they also thought the Star Wars sequel trilogy was “the bestest eva!”. They’ll consume and defend whatever slop they shovel out, since they lack any form of critical thinking skills as Prawnstar mentions.
@@misterfevillord1588Yeah i have a couple family members and a few friends at work that basically believe that because this is a wokist production its automatically passable and its right to watch it...if you dont you're your suspected of being the: 'far rightwing consevative' which is what everyone is that is even slightly suspected of considering Wokism as a part of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
@@crazyralph6386 Why would they? He was a product of a problematic, uncivilized and unenlightened past. A neanderthal who was part of the patriarchy and insisted on using pronouns of the oppressors. His literature exists only to be rewritten, a vehicle upon which to signal their enlightened virtue and put their thick female foot upon the neck of of the ultimate evil: the male with healthy levels of testosterone.
Amazon story "writers": Celeborn did not passed the borders(checklist for DEI) of this land (Rings of Power abomination). He has fallen into the shadows (forgot him).
@@weirdfish09- OMG, with alllllll of the things wrong w/this show, it is VERY telling that ya'll are still b*tching & moaning about the existence of a **gasp** Black Elf being in it. As if THAT is the major issue here. 🫣 haha What?! Do you all magically think that the show would become a 10/10 if Durin didn't have a black wife or something?! Like, stop it. Ya'll need to get over that sh*t & address the REAL problems at their root. Cuz the whole entire cast of characters could be made white tomorrow.... but that wouldn't "fix" anything w/the writing, pacing, lore breaking, etc, now would it?! Get real. It's honestly hilarious that ya'll are still droning on about the race of the actors in the show anyway... considering the fact that THEIR characters are some of the more likeable ones in the whole damn nightmare! I mean, I'd rather spend an entire episode on the conflict re: the dwarves, or watch Arondir kicking ass... than to see Galadriel or "the Stranger" even one more f*cking minute! The actors they chose to play the main (white) characters are terrible in their roles! Maybe THAT'S what's really pissing you off. 😂 Maybe you're all just pissed that the characters of color are some of the ONLY ½ way decent characters the show has to offer. Wellllll you'll just have to get over that sh*t. Cuz black folks spent the better part of their entire lives with the shoe on the other foot... but ya'll didn't give a sh*t about THAT, did you?! We had to watch characters like Noah, Moses, Jesus, Pocahontas, Ghangis Khan, and even the entire Egyptian pantheon... allllll being played by white actors. For our entire lives. But not once did ya'll complain about "race swapping" or "aUtHeNtiCiTy" THEN. So you'll live, okay?! 🤦🏻♀️🙄 We got bigger fish to fry when it comes to this Rings of Power show! It's got WAY bigger problems than there being a Black Elf in it ffs. Ya'll sound bigoted & lame AF. STAY FOCUSED. Cuz Hollywood doesn't have to listen to your nonstop crying & whining that there aren't enough straight, white males in your entertainment anymore. 💀 lol Not after ya'll spent a lifetime having EVERY piece of media be centered on them. Again... you'll live.
That is the magic of the construction of Ost-in-Edhil: the walls are tougher than the material of the mountains. *Unless* you have two Orcs with sledgehammers knocking ringbolts into them 😁
And as we found out in the last episode they apparently also knew of the secret tunnel that leads directly into the city, so why blow up the mountain in the first place
@@Nawalta Yes, that's one of the things that make it seem like they cut out some scenes. Either there's a traitor in Eregion feeding information out to Adar, or the Orcs discovered this on their own. So then they could just have invaded the city that way. But this show never bothers to explain anything, so the purpose of the secret tunnel is to be a trap for Galadriel. That's why the Orcs are just waiting around outside instead of sneaking in to the city that way: it's there for one purpose and then forget about it.
The writers are ACTIVELY vandalizing every aspect of this great man's writing, his literature. They are absolutely bastardizing every story beat, NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE! The only intelligent creatures there are the horses! Also... OP sauron is just why? He's like Goku but has forgotten all his superman force powers, or uses them like in really dumb ways? Someone spent a ton of cash... A TON... to get off destroying Tolkien. That's what these people do. Anti Fans, they are doing this to everything to destroy it. Harry Potter, WHO, SW, ST, LotR, you name it, these people are just getting off doing this.
You are not getting it, everything we saw on Peter Jackson's trilogy, all the quotes, action scenes, etc... Happened before and better in rings of power!
I think the kiss was definitely just meant to be a ploy to cover for handing her the brooch. BUT, but, but - that DOES NOT excuse it, because he literally just could have hugged her like a friend, & that would have covered more. But, the writers chose a kiss because they KNEW it would piss people off & get people talking.
That was funny when we were supposed to feel bad for Sauron because he was "tortured" by Morgoth. In the books Melkor/Morgoth *LOVED* Sauron, the troves of fanart prove it 🤭
Oh my man. I knew you were going to have some fun with this one!!!! Let’s go!!! And I thought episode 4 was the worst. This was an absolute disaster….in an episode where the penultimate battle takes place. And the lore changes to the battle of Eragion are MADDENING!!!
Spoiler alert: They're positive, IT's sentient, and that will be the great reveal of Season 3. The Sauron-Sentient-STD-Prince of New Darkness is HERE...and he wants to marry Guyladriel. ( you can't be against this without being labeled a hater either... love that STD-Mutant-Sauron-Heir... love it, you will!)
forget translating tolkien into a series, because clearly it was never their intention, but there is no freaking way anybody with a brain thinks the whole show is gonna work at all. amazon never beats the 💴 laundromat allegations
You know what I love? Our politics are so different, but we can still agree on what is and isn't good media. Thank you for watching this so that so many of us don't have to.
No a child's writing might be amateurish but at least they generally are geared toward fun; just look at Axe Cop for example. A child could never be so purposely subversive.
"You gotta hate Tolkien to do this" - well, they DO HATE Tolkien. Didn't they say they were "going to correct Tolkien's work"? Write better stuff than him? And, so, we get this excrement.
I am absolutely stunned at how people defend/claim they enjoy this show. Even disregarding the complete trampling of Tolkien's works, the whole thing stinks. The plot, acting, pacing, scenes...It is an absolute bloody mess.
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans. I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
What makes the scene with Galadriel and Elrond smooching all the more insane is that, as Elrond is slipping Galadriel the broach/pin; there is an orc looking right at them as it happens - but, he somehow misses the exchange that's happening right in front of him. I guess orcs have poor eyesight to have missed something that Elrond did a terrible job at hiding.
I don't think the writers understand how sight works. Remember back in season one? Halbrand steals Galadriel's dagger back from Earendil, then gives it back to Galadriel IN PLAIN VIEW of every guard in Numenor. And... no one noticed.
Don't be silly, OP. The kiss clearly made the orc dreamily reminisce about the hot she-orc and loving family he had at home. If you look closely, you can just make out the ditzy smile on its face.
When you described Sauron trying to play the victim, I think you also quite aptly described the writers and show runners of this farcical desecration: "He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong -- he's convinced he's right, and by the time he finds out that others disagree, he's too full of himself to change his ways." Perfect description of these idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
3:37 Eh, don’t overthink it too much. I’m sure the logical explanation is that Moses and the Hebrews just happened to take a shortcut through Middle Earth on their escape from the Pharaoh, and Moses parted the waters to allow the oppressed Orcs to rise against their tormentors. See, it makes perfect sense!😉🤣
One of my favorite movies is Faust by Jan Svankmeyer. There’s a scene with a jester that’s reading a book and he sits on it because it’s in Latin and he can’t understand the words, saying “what have I just read? Perhaps I’ll sit on it instead, for what my eyes could not comprehend, might very well go in the other end” 😂
The Silmarillion even says that the Noldor are the most skilled in cutting gems and then this show portrays Celebrembor making the Three Elven Rings as having rough uncut gems. 🤷
Stop calling it Fan Fiction. Fan Fiction is, usually, badly written, but from a standpoint of love for the original. Whoever wrote this is not a fan. This shows nothing but utter disdain for the original story.
22:28 I'm glad to hear this legend from you- I don't recall much, only read the trilogy and Hobbit, and heard some tales from a friend who was deep into it. The rings are so integral to the story, they are like inanimate characters- this I grok- and like legendary swords therein, they must have powerfully deep histories. I didn't know Nenya's pristine history, thanks! That adds to Galadriel's character, too: beautiful, badass and wise woman with a legendary and pure piece of bling. For this show to focus on the rings in name, and then to not show them, rather to invent new characters for the names, is gross- it doesn't have to be gross, since they could state novelty as their intention, but they didn't. They said they'd secured IPR and were going to use it, then proceeded to title the show with this peculiar group of storied characters; I discount obfuscation as an argument that this was not deceptive marketing because that is for swindlers (and charlatans) to utilize when they're being squeezed, or doing the squeezing. Moreover, this is not a technical-legal thing (their obfuscation probably does protect from false advertising claims), it's a trust-integrity thing; not a single vial of snake-oil, it's an established entertainment project and piece of literary art. [Edit: ref 23:31] If they'd only called it "Adventures and Romance: Gal-Rron'g on the Great Sea based on the wurks of JRrRrr Tolkien," then it would deserve to be judged solely on its own criterion, and comparative criticism wouldn't be relevant (to this story). Oh well…
Galadriel is also Elrond's 1st cousin thrice removed, since King Turgon was her cousin, Idril was Turgon's daughter and the mother of Eärendil who was the father of Elrond
Celebrimbor’s the one that actually loved Galadriel but for several reasons couldn’t pursue that. One big one being how closely related he was to her. We already knew there was something going to happen there. Why else would she yap at fake Elrond like a chick who was crawling back after being caught cheating with some fuqFace called fake Annatar and discount Aragorn known as NotSauron, galavanting around with him forever but as the wisest and sharpest elf since before the first age began couldn’t sense what the fuq he was considering he had been effected by Melkor became Morgoth long ago before the first age even began. The descent downward for Mairon literally began in the first age. When he was mainly known as Gorthaur. That and she literally is already LONG married to the epic Celeborn. So this already breaks many rules. And several elvish customs and simply breaks how they are biologically. They mate for life. They don’t eff around and sleep around. She was already long married with a effing daughter named Celebrían. Who married Elrond. And had Arwen, Elladan and Elrohir, Arwen’s twin brothers.
I'm watching this show vicariously through your reviews, which are hilarious and I'm sure are FAR more entertaining than the show could ever hope to be. Thank you. Thank you for sparing me.
21:08 It's even worse when you think about it in the greater context of the season. If he can turn the elves against each other, then why couldn't he turn the orcs -- who are far more predisposed to such behavior -- against each other when they turned on him?
Those guys in the crazy Celebrimbor still look human. they look like riders of Rohan. At least Jackson TRIED to cast people who look like elves...man this is so bad.
your review is 100percent on point.. the stupidest writers... youd think theyd hire at 1 person to look objectively at scenes and tell them ' hey you know..that's some stupid shit.. maybe you need to change it'.. but that person would have to say that 100 times a day..and get fired quickly
I want to thank you for watching and reviewing this as I am not wasting my time watching it this season. I actually enjoy watching the reviews more. My theory: For the final episode, Gandalf will wake up and realize it was only a dream after his fight with the Ballrog in LOTR 😂
I didn't think I'll ever see a battle worst than "Siege of Winterfell" from Game of Thrones. But here we are... trebuchet knocking down a mountain range to fill a riverbed. I mean... I don't even know how to express what I feel about that.
You watch it and comment so we other fans don't have to. I thank you for your service good sir. I hope none of my other favorite stories get adapted just now. This bunch of "writers" are not able to write anything worth reading or watching. Maybe in 10 to 20 yrs we will have people able to write good stories again.
Oh, the bruises upon your spirit made by this show... JSG? Of the two of us, you are the greater Tolkien fan with the greater knowledge and love. I would not know much of the truth from the fiction were it not for the punishment you have endured by watching this. And yet after having done so, you still have the heart and resolve to share your perspective with us. I am enlightened and impressed. Ni 'lassui En, JSG. =)
Amazon also changed the layout of Eregion between S1 and S2. That photo you showed of the lighter Eregion with the beaches was from S1, in S2 Amazon decided to magically add a giant wall, I guess because the plot of S2 needed one…
18:45 i can see it now: Galron: she's gonna sleep with him and he'll be gone in the morning having looted her apartment. Bad Boy delivers rings to men by pawning them for beer money, a wig and some powder, and a bus ticket to Morrrdorrr Gal(*´_⊃｀)❤(´⊂_｀*)Ron for da 🎉 wiiiiin🎉
Three Voulme of the Lord of the Rings books, ,which is 7 sets of Lord of the Rings books indulding the Hobbits, were written by JRR. Three Lords of the Rings trilogy movies were made by Peter Jackson. Eleven Oscars were won for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But all were deceived, as one Ring of Power show was made in the Amazon Prime, one show to ruin them all, one show to defame them all, and one show to completely destroy the lore.
The part where Galadriel yells "BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!" and all the orcs throw down their weapons, flee back to Mordor, arrest Sauron themselves and subject him to a military tribunal brings tears to my eyes, Tolkien would've been so proud.
Amazon, the RoP producers, and showrunners, aren't storytellers. They are manipulators bastardizing Tolkien vying for clicks. Glad I gave this show a pass but the reviews are entertaining.
The writers have no real life experience and nothing to draw from except their twitter bubble. That’s why they come up with these toddler level plans and that’s also why they don’t understand distances. They have no idea how much time it takes a person on foot to travel a given distance.
Its just like what happened to the Witcher series: they hired writers and showrunners that not only don't CARE for the source material, they outright HATE it. You can feel the pure DISDAIN they have for LOTR in the show, its almost palpable. They hate the fans too, considering the smear campaigns they sponsored in the past. And, well, we all know what happened to The Witcher. Rings of Power won't survive for long, lets take comfort in that.
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.” -Treebeard
Now there is ... Acolyte
Genuinely. If it was a literary treasure of Indian or Chinese culture being deliberately defaced with a political agenda like this, people would call it what it is: cultural appropriation. (And they'd probably call it r---ism too). But because it's English culture, it's "representation and inclusion" and the people who don't love it are the r---ist ones. The double standard has to stop.
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Such a good point. You’re 1000% right
@@cosmicmuffin322 it’s English culture ?😂 okeyyy interesting
What about the cultural appropriation of Gods of Egypt, Jesus (Bible etc) we can go on and on.
Whitewashing and cultural appropriation has been the mainstay since forever it’s just hurtful when it’s your “culture” being adjusted
@@lombe-andrewmusonda17what..? If anything, Christianity (eastern religion) appropriated the English (western peoples).
The cultures which Christianity has integrated were largely preserved within the tradition. Why do you think we know ANYTHING about Norse religion? It’s because the Christian monks recorded and preserved it.
Believe me, all people have their sins, Christians included, but what was part of the cure? What was part of the disease?
There is a difference between submitting to what your people organically believes is a greater spiritual truth, and a small cohort of ideologues undermining the values of a traditional text within a reproduction of said text. There are consensual forms of cultural integration, and non-consensual. This is non-consensual.
I live in England, quite some miles from the resting place of JRRT, but even here I can hear the humming of the poor man spinning in his grave.
You must be experiencing tremors then.... constantly.
Wake up babes, new renewable energy source just dropped
That man must sound like a jet engine the way those dead bones are spinning
Maybe Amazon was contracted by the Uk govt to create a new power source....
Nah, that's way too logical for them
Like a beyblade
Elrond kissing his (still married) Mother-in-law:🤮
Somehow Elrond kissing Galadriel was even more gross than all the incest relationships in GoT
Dude’s into his Oyakodon 😂
True. Bit even if you leave the lore knowledge outside.... the show established them as friends with no chemistry in other directions so far. This kiss out of nowhere is just wrong, in any way.amd I thought the worst thing they could have done would have been kissing "Halbrand" 🙄
@@ErnaB790 the real cringe part is in how it was shot. In theory the whole thing was supposed to be a distraction from him slipping her a makeshift lockpick (in full view of the guards who can see their hands making the trade, but setting that aside), but the way they shot it, the way they lingered on the kiss, the facial expressions.... the whole scene was designed to be cut out of context and used as shipping bait. It's so transparent and it's so embarrassingly cringe.
@@petriew2018unfortunatley true 😩 just getting some headlines on people reacting to this shit.
The only time I remember orcs having explosives was at Helm's Deep (book & movie), but that was really a Saruman thing
Which makes you wonder how the tar bucket explodes and why such an explosive thing is attached to a wall pulling siege engine
It was a technology so alien, it was magic.
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I still kick myself that it took me awhile to connect Gandalf's fireworks with Saruman's demolition charge. Different applications of the same craft.
And I like that Tolkien left it to the reader to figure out--or not, because it really doesn't make a difference
Excellent point.
Uruk-hai*
Where is Celeborn? For much I desire to speak with him...
😂😂😂😂😂
You may find him sitting in any one of our hotels, on the chairs that bear his name. The Celeborn chairs, placed at an optimal viewing angle towards the bed where his wife and strange men lie.
he ran as far as possible when he saw the script 🤣
This cracked me up lol 😂
Showrunners: who's Celeborn?
Did they not consult people with knowledge of battle tactics? Considering the high budget, it should've been a no brainer.
Well, there’s your problem right there: There are no brains involved with the production of this show.
obviously...not.
1st season:
bunch of pesants do not hide in a fortress, not in the mountains, after the "clever ploy"...they just go home to their village without as much as fences
riders of numenor spread out in a gallop as if attacking on an open field...then ride into the village over one...one single bridge...no surrounding or crossing this little stream at several points...no...just riding in over this one little, easy defendable brigde in two straight rows/lines...in pairs of two
2nd season...
ah forget it...where to start???
it s a shame.
GoT was not much different in this regard.
in both cases it s depicted as an eight year old would imagine battles
sad
Priorities. Wigmakers and dialect coached aren't cheap. Just watch Sauron in that sweet hairpiece saying Errrrrrrrrregion and tell me you didn't get arrrrrrrrrrroused.
@@FullFNCodebased😂
Ask advice from the Patriarchy? Not in the cards with these amateurs😂
They have a trebuchet that can destroy mountain parts but dont use them on the city walls 😂. And jesus christ the river bed just magically became dry that the orcs can actually run
They gave that privilege to Elrond, they knew he would enjoy catapulting an orc towards the walls of Eregion
Makes as much sense as the Rube Goldberg machine origin for Mordor. It's what Payne and McKay do...they write like 10 year old bots playing with their action figures.
plus river bed is on a lower leve;l it is a good job Elves dont have great eyesight or are ledgendary archers.
And pull their massive siege engines across
Luckily the river decided to stop flowing at that second. You think they could at least understand how water works but that be asking too much
20:30 - Random elf named Rian...a human name of the house of Beor from the 1st age. A very famous human name...gets given to an elf? Rian, was the wife of Huor, and mother of Tuor, father of Earendil the mariner...Elrond's father. So Rian was Elrond's great grandmother. But sure, let's just slap it onto an elf because it sounds badass and call it a day.
LOL, you can't be serious?!
Especially as elves do not reuse known names. Men do. Elves do not. Or was the archer that old that Elrond's human foremother was named after her? Then Elrond would be a baby for her. That would show.
She's special because she's a powerful independent diverse woman of colour victim badass!
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans.
I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
@@jamesmaybrick2001 You can't be serious that the elf named Rian is the same name as Elrond's father.
Elrond sees Galadriel.
*banjo playing intensifies*
🎶 *Sweet Home Rivendell intensifies* 🎶
Celeborn has been in the bathroom this whole series. His zipper got stuck.
mother in law doesn't mean they're related by blood...
More like "Pronhub intro intensifies" since most of its videos involve step-sons and step-mothers....
@@Taterzz they are related by blood. Galadriel is related to both mother and father of Elrond. She is like his great grand aunt.
Correction: The helmets AND the armor looks like foam. Also look at the horse armor, some weird cheap looking cloth strapped around a horse.
Only on top of the horse..;) to protect them from their riders...
It should at the front! 🙄
Gil-galad sword doesn't fit its scabbard.
@@grumpysorc3744the sword is also foam
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans.
I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
@@JohnnyZenith ROP is worth watching, but only as a parody.... Rings of Parody.
The cavalry fighting IN the forest kills me. Cavalry... doesn't work like that. And then they have Elrond mourning the death of his horse in a completely unearned moment of forced sentimentalism. There were SO many "payoffs" that were never set up in the first place.
The one realistic part was the Elven horses getting bogged down in the riverbed because yeah, it'll still be mud and not dry enough to walk or ride over. But this is the aggravating thing about the show in general - they do something kind of right, then ignore they did it and do something else because the plot demands it.
It is because a woman worked on it. It is the same nonsense as siege and other warfare aspects. They were laughably bad. I do not shame whoever did it for being a woman. I shame her for obviously not caring about warfare and yet creating this atrocious moment in the show.
We’re going to discover Adar is Celeborn 😂
Dont joke about that dude. It could be true.
I believe it at this point!!!
Jesus, please don't say that.
I mean... why not 🫣
That's absolutely nonsensical. Therefore you're probably spot on.
Even if we argue that the lesser rings couldn't be destroyed in a normal fire it should be a able to be destroyed in the fire that created them, Celebrimbor's forge, which is why the One Ring needed to be destroyed in the fires of Mt Doom where it was created.
Nah. You can’t unforge them rings in the same forge you made em in. That’s crazy talk.
@@GB-mu9ue exactly, haters gonna hate.
Rings are created with magic. Why in the world would they be destroyed by a normal smithing fire?
I just can't fathom who they wrote this show for. You would have to be distracted, disinterested, and stupid to think this is anything approaching serviceable. Im still convinced that this is a money laundering scheme.
Money laundering has a selfish, but understandable purpose - to get rich doing crimes.
This is a hate crime, a deliberate desecration of the source material. This is a hill in the culture war, one the lunatic left wanted to take as theirs more than any other. Money was never the point here.
These 2 got a huge break after 10 years of mediocrity. I suspect they now know even if initially full of confidence, able to bullshit the head of Amazon, cannot bullshit Tolkien purists or even nominal fans. The first season's failure proved that. They admitted they would not listen to outside criticism of S1 for this one. So are likely to prefer to burn Tolkien's legacy to the ground rather than admt they can't cut it. Greenlit at the height of woke when this type thought they'd dominate entertainment. Their proven response to a hint of criticism is merciless attack. Failure will cause them to destroy what we love rather than accept we are right. It's never their money they're pissing away.
@tkps well said. Yeah, I'm very familiar with the 2 show runners. Their time is limited, I would think.....and hope.
The show was made for people who can’t think. That’s the only answer. People who won’t say “wait…why is this character doing that nonsensical thing?”
Like SW and MCU, it appears they’re making it for themselves?
How stupid did Disa look with the warhammer?
And naked leg😂
Warhammer and 40000 pounds
almost as stupid as just about every elf, unfortunately. That battle scene was a complete embarrassment and an insult to everything Tolkien actually wrote.
We need a scene with Disa sumo wrestling an Asian dwarf to get our diversity bingo card.
Disa will beat the Balrog by singing
@20:40 I found it so funny how the Elf Girl get hit by like 7 Arrows, removes one arrow from her back, fdroped on her knees to torch the arrow, stands back up with all her wounds, does the action pose with eyes to elrond (like, look what i can do) hits a hole in one, doesnt die instantly so she has time to look how she's blowing up the siege weapon... that was something else man
Also everyone is teleporting around! Arondir, last time in southlands tracks the orcs, than convienently finds 2 deserter orcs and they have a map, but we never see how close Arondir is to Adars army
And Elrond, he teleports from Lindon to Eregion to Khazad Dum and back, i mean wtf...?
He used fast travel. Just like how they read the scripts to know that there was a small orc skirmish in the Southlands while they themselves are in Numenor.
This is so wrong on so many levels...in addition to that:
- why has no one from up the wall tryed to set it on fire earlier?
- where does the explosives come from? In lotr only sorcerers had knowledge of such things..
- why are the explosives even there attatched to that device?
- is blowing up someting this close to a partialy damaged wall realy a good idea?
🤔
“The battle of winterfell is the dumbest siege ever filmed”
Rings of Power writers: “hold my soy latte”
They must have hired the same cinematographers, the contrast is all black with a touch of black for highlights
No surprise there, femboi betas and purple-haired women who made this cr4p are not really experts for medieval tactics.... or common logic.
At this point I'm actually starting to feel bad for them. I mean, there apparently aren't any adults over there capable of seeing this stuff and just saying no, no way can we put this slop out there, and putting a stop to it. I mean, grown professionals signed off on this. Smh.
@@JesterForHire1663 Never feel sorry for 'Woke' Covert Narcissists and Sociopaths.
The 'Woke' Narcissism movement literally represents Tier 2 and 3 of Evil.
The Cluster B disorders...
ahahaa i still think that the battle of winterfell is worst
I’m not a professional writer by any stretch, but I’m convinced I could write something better. Would it be Tolkien quality? Not even close, but it would be better than rings. I’ve known bong smoking dungeon masters with greater creativity
You underestimate bong smoking dungeonmasters, but yes, anyone that merely respects the lore would do better
I like to imagine the 2 blue Wizards (something actually interesting they could have explored more in RoP) were too busy getting high, listening to Led Zepyln, playing D&D, and wishing they were getting laid in Conan the Barbarian's universe. That's why the're absent and aloof.
Almost anyone could do a better job. It's infuriating. Someone with less skill than a 3 year old got all that money from Bezos, pocketed it, and vomited out this abomination.
Just when you thought that volcano jump-starting contraption from the first season was the stupidest thing they could do with water...
😂
That was a good antagonist's "evil plan" concept, totally wasted in this show.
*volcano jump-starting contraption* 😄😆😅🤣😂😅😆😁
Tolkien fans "why did you do it?"
Amazon "...we wanted to destroy something beautiful!"
and by destroy you mean desecrate
YES. 💯💯💯💯💯
Fight Club ref ☑️
Are they Morgoth? They have to tell us it's like being a cop.
Meanwhile Bezos: "Because I can".
All the elves in this show just feel like humans. They don't act differently than any group of men from what I can tell
Well at least the Orcs are still the embodiment of evil...
@@The_Reality_Filter😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Au Contraire mon frere - these elves act far differently than any group of men with IQ over 50 that I have ever come across.
Except... Adar is more than happy to send in a hill troll that he knows will kill orcs as well. So yes, him crying over the dead orcs is bad writing.
The explanation for this is:
Oh troll was cool right? Let's use a troll. And forgot about anything they set up earlier.
If you cannot even remember your own character as a writing room, it simply shows how little you actually care. Or how stupid you are. Or both
It was part of the bigger picture without the troll he wouldn't of been able to break through Oregon and defeat sauron that was the thought process. He wasn't just releasing it for nothing
@@cargoraygaming9274that’s a creative way to say the show is shiiit. Well done! 👏
@@babansif no your just blindly hating I just described the thought process for Adar releasing the troll
Blocking the river would be impossible, since the river would just overflow over the rubble.
The water is always right!
Why are you applying logic to this madness 😂😂
You're unwavering defense of the lore is admirable.
Just one technical: real life medieval helmets actually were rather large. It was because soldiers and knights wore padded arming cap which was thick (as something that is supposed to cushion blunt impacts should be) then depending on period a chain-mail hood and during crusades where great helmets were all the rage a skull cap/bassinet (basically a second helmet under great helmet on top of everything I named). The main problem with obviously plastic helmets in this shitshow is no face protection, no neck protection, no arming cap, no chain-mail and a pointless thing on top which would in battle basically catch every blow and transfer it to your neck... helmets are round because they are supposed to deflect blows to save neck and brain from blunt injury.
I love your review videos. Thank you so much…
And in response to “if you hate it so much, why do you keep watching?”
I already know that answer ~ ‘He watches them so I don’t have to.’
The river bit wasn't surprising since these people also don't know how volcanos work or how lethal they are.
They don't understand distance and time, either. Or how horses work.
I know People who think its good. We are no longer friends
I think those guys haven't watched anything better, or they are just the kind of guy that consumes passively without getting invested. Like eating a bag of chips.
@@misterfevillord1588Nah, their is just a segment of society that lack the ability to critically think. Its a sad truth
I know a few, and to no surprise they also thought the Star Wars sequel trilogy was “the bestest eva!”. They’ll consume and defend whatever slop they shovel out, since they lack any form of critical thinking skills as Prawnstar mentions.
@@misterfevillord1588Yeah i have a couple family members and a few friends at work that
basically believe that because this is a wokist production its automatically passable and its right to watch it...if you dont you're your suspected of being the: 'far rightwing consevative' which is what everyone is that is even slightly suspected of considering Wokism as a part of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Poor Celebrimbor, his entire redemption is stolen. His final acts of defiance reduced to a weak, old man that everyone ignores.
I get the feeling that the showrunners have never done a day of actual work, you tend to learn basic physics through life experince.
Or even read a book in its entirety? Guaranteed they didn’t read any of Tolkiens literature.
@@crazyralph6386 Why would they? He was a product of a problematic, uncivilized and unenlightened past. A neanderthal who was part of the patriarchy and insisted on using pronouns of the oppressors. His literature exists only to be rewritten, a vehicle upon which to signal their enlightened virtue and put their thick female foot upon the neck of of the ultimate evil: the male with healthy levels of testosterone.
This show makes season 8 of game of thrones look like a masterpiece.
Celeborn meme: "Tell me, where is (checks notes) Elrond? For I much desire to speak with him."
Amazon story "writers": Celeborn did not passed the borders(checklist for DEI) of this land (Rings of Power abomination). He has fallen into the shadows (forgot him).
@@weirdfish09- OMG, with alllllll of the things wrong w/this show, it is VERY telling that ya'll are still b*tching & moaning about the existence of a **gasp** Black Elf being in it. As if THAT is the major issue here. 🫣 haha
What?! Do you all magically think that the show would become a 10/10 if Durin didn't have a black wife or something?! Like, stop it.
Ya'll need to get over that sh*t & address the REAL problems at their root. Cuz the whole entire cast of characters could be made white tomorrow.... but that wouldn't "fix" anything w/the writing, pacing, lore breaking, etc, now would it?! Get real.
It's honestly hilarious that ya'll are still droning on about the race of the actors in the show anyway... considering the fact that THEIR characters are some of the more likeable ones in the whole damn nightmare!
I mean, I'd rather spend an entire episode on the conflict re: the dwarves, or watch Arondir kicking ass... than to see Galadriel or "the Stranger" even one more f*cking minute! The actors they chose to play the main (white) characters are terrible in their roles!
Maybe THAT'S what's really pissing you off. 😂
Maybe you're all just pissed that the characters of color are some of the ONLY ½ way decent characters the show has to offer. Wellllll you'll just have to get over that sh*t. Cuz black folks spent the better part of their entire lives with the shoe on the other foot... but ya'll didn't give a sh*t about THAT, did you?!
We had to watch characters like Noah, Moses, Jesus, Pocahontas, Ghangis Khan, and even the entire Egyptian pantheon... allllll being played by white actors. For our entire lives.
But not once did ya'll complain about "race swapping" or "aUtHeNtiCiTy" THEN.
So you'll live, okay?! 🤦🏻♀️🙄 We got bigger fish to fry when it comes to this Rings of Power show! It's got WAY bigger problems than there being a Black Elf in it ffs. Ya'll sound bigoted & lame AF.
STAY FOCUSED. Cuz Hollywood doesn't have to listen to your nonstop crying & whining that there aren't enough straight, white males in your entertainment anymore. 💀 lol Not after ya'll spent a lifetime having EVERY piece of media be centered on them.
Again... you'll live.
I need a season 3. I don’t know what I would do without these UA-cam videos from JSG and others.
Don’t worry, there will always be another Star Wars to trash
don't worry watch Adar be Galadriel husband all along.
Maybe we'll get a spin-off show called Celeborn All Along 😜
I made a joke first season that with the way Guyladrial treated Celeborn he sided with Sauron 😂
That would be the only fun in the show😂
So they used some stuff to explode mountains, but didn't use the same stuff to bring down the walls. Interesting.
That is the magic of the construction of Ost-in-Edhil: the walls are tougher than the material of the mountains. *Unless* you have two Orcs with sledgehammers knocking ringbolts into them 😁
And as we found out in the last episode they apparently also knew of the secret tunnel that leads directly into the city, so why blow up the mountain in the first place
@@Nawalta Yes, that's one of the things that make it seem like they cut out some scenes. Either there's a traitor in Eregion feeding information out to Adar, or the Orcs discovered this on their own. So then they could just have invaded the city that way. But this show never bothers to explain anything, so the purpose of the secret tunnel is to be a trap for Galadriel. That's why the Orcs are just waiting around outside instead of sneaking in to the city that way: it's there for one purpose and then forget about it.
Worst adaptation ever made. It has nothing to do with LoTRs.
I sense a tempest in you!
"Did you not hear me, Gloin?" said Elrond. "The three were not made by Sauron, nor did he ever touch them."
Clearly Elrond was too busy during the 2nd age jacking off to thoughts of his mother in law to pay attention.
"The Great Desecration of Our Age."
This is the true title of this show.
The writers are ACTIVELY vandalizing every aspect of this great man's writing, his literature. They are absolutely bastardizing every story beat, NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE! The only intelligent creatures there are the horses! Also... OP sauron is just why? He's like Goku but has forgotten all his superman force powers, or uses them like in really dumb ways? Someone spent a ton of cash... A TON... to get off destroying Tolkien. That's what these people do. Anti Fans, they are doing this to everything to destroy it. Harry Potter, WHO, SW, ST, LotR, you name it, these people are just getting off doing this.
Amen Brother👍👍
Orcs didn't use an explosive in battle until Saruman invented it, and had them use it for the first time against the walls of Helm's Deep.
Yeah, if it had been a normal thing since the second age, then nobody would be surprised by it at the end of the third.
Exactly.
You are not getting it, everything we saw on Peter Jackson's trilogy, all the quotes, action scenes, etc... Happened before and better in rings of power!
I think the kiss was definitely just meant to be a ploy to cover for handing her the brooch. BUT, but, but - that DOES NOT excuse it, because he literally just could have hugged her like a friend, & that would have covered more. But, the writers chose a kiss because they KNEW it would piss people off & get people talking.
That was funny when we were supposed to feel bad for Sauron because he was "tortured" by Morgoth. In the books Melkor/Morgoth *LOVED* Sauron, the troves of fanart prove it 🤭
Been waiting for your take! Awesome.
Elrond kissing Arwen's grandmother, WTF!
What in the Sweet Home Alabama is going on here?!
You are so right: this is a sacrilege. I hate it.
Oh my man. I knew you were going to have some fun with this one!!!! Let’s go!!! And I thought episode 4 was the worst. This was an absolute disaster….in an episode where the penultimate battle takes place. And the lore changes to the battle of Eragion are MADDENING!!!
Of course Amazon presented workers chained to their working station, with no bathroom breaks, as a thing to do...
the lore has been so utterly fucked, that it needs to visit the doctor to be checked for a STD.
Spoiler alert: They're positive, IT's sentient, and that will be the great reveal of Season 3. The Sauron-Sentient-STD-Prince of New Darkness is HERE...and he wants to marry Guyladriel. ( you can't be against this without being labeled a hater either... love that STD-Mutant-Sauron-Heir... love it, you will!)
Or for reconstructive surgery.
There's Tolkien's writings, and nothing else.
elven pie, where Galadriel is Stifflers mom.
The appearance of the rings always cracks me up. I see better jewelry at the Ren Fest.
forget translating tolkien into a series, because clearly it was never their intention, but there is no freaking way anybody with a brain thinks the whole show is gonna work at all.
amazon never beats the 💴 laundromat allegations
I'm not even watching this show and its just so painful.
You know what I love? Our politics are so different, but we can still agree on what is and isn't good media. Thank you for watching this so that so many of us don't have to.
It is like a child wrote it.
No a child's writing might be amateurish but at least they generally are geared toward fun; just look at Axe Cop for example. A child could never be so purposely subversive.
How do you prepare a siege across the water without boats? Xerxes King of Kings laughs at this contrivance from his pontoon bridge boats.
"You gotta hate Tolkien to do this" - well, they DO HATE Tolkien. Didn't they say they were "going to correct Tolkien's work"? Write better stuff than him? And, so, we get this excrement.
Yup. They also said “Middle Earth Is Too White” and “we’ll write the story Tolkien never wrote”
here he is! I i thought id lost you for a second, after your past few episodes... lol
Tolkien: God, why can't I spin in my grave for this travesty?
God: Because the speed of your spinning would trow the planet off orbit!
I am absolutely stunned at how people defend/claim they enjoy this show. Even disregarding the complete trampling of Tolkien's works, the whole thing stinks. The plot, acting, pacing, scenes...It is an absolute bloody mess.
They lack all form of critical thinking skills and logic.
Short elves, elves with short hair, numenorians are short, nobody ever mentions their longer lifespans.
I'm flummoxed as to why nobody has realised that if it isn't Peter Jackson's LOTR it isn't LOTR and not worth watching.
I bet you have watched it thou? I gave up after 6 episodes on season 1... rop just goes in the bin to never watch like star wars and mavel stuff now
What makes the scene with Galadriel and Elrond smooching all the more insane is that, as Elrond is slipping Galadriel the broach/pin; there is an orc looking right at them as it happens - but, he somehow misses the exchange that's happening right in front of him.
I guess orcs have poor eyesight to have missed something that Elrond did a terrible job at hiding.
I don't think the writers understand how sight works. Remember back in season one? Halbrand steals Galadriel's dagger back from Earendil, then gives it back to Galadriel IN PLAIN VIEW of every guard in Numenor. And... no one noticed.
@@melissar4612It's some Skyrim pickpocket level of crap
@@melissar4612Eärendil? He’s not present in the show thank god.
Don't be silly, OP. The kiss clearly made the orc dreamily reminisce about the hot she-orc and loving family he had at home. If you look closely, you can just make out the ditzy smile on its face.
When you described Sauron trying to play the victim, I think you also quite aptly described the writers and show runners of this farcical desecration: "He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong -- he's convinced he's right, and by the time he finds out that others disagree, he's too full of himself to change his ways." Perfect description of these idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
3:37 Eh, don’t overthink it too much. I’m sure the logical explanation is that Moses and the Hebrews just happened to take a shortcut through Middle Earth on their escape from the Pharaoh, and Moses parted the waters to allow the oppressed Orcs to rise against their tormentors. See, it makes perfect sense!😉🤣
I have to wonder if the people behind this show have actually read what Tolkien wrote, or if they just licked the ink off the pages.
One of my favorite movies is Faust by Jan Svankmeyer. There’s a scene with a jester that’s reading a book and he sits on it because it’s in Latin and he can’t understand the words, saying “what have I just read? Perhaps I’ll sit on it instead, for what my eyes could not comprehend, might very well go in the other end” 😂
Don't care. They can never hurt the original work. In fact, it shines brighter in contrast.
The Silmarillion even says that the Noldor are the most skilled in cutting gems and then this show portrays Celebrembor making the Three Elven Rings as having rough uncut gems. 🤷
They wanted an EPIC BATTLE. This Monstrosity of Sheer Incompetence is what they give you the pleb!
BASK in their AWE!
Amazon made most expensive fan fiction of all times
It didn't come from the place of a fan of the original work. This was just a Tumblr "Fixed-Your-$H!T" stereotype approach.
No, it's just a VERY crappy rip-off
There are no fans evident at Amazon, just haters of Tolkien who believe he got his own story wrong and need to remake it in their own image.
And it's not even good, or even _interesting_ fan fiction.
Stop calling it Fan Fiction.
Fan Fiction is, usually, badly written, but from a standpoint of love for the original.
Whoever wrote this is not a fan.
This shows nothing but utter disdain for the original story.
I'm sorry you watched this...
22:28 I'm glad to hear this legend from you- I don't recall much, only read the trilogy and Hobbit, and heard some tales from a friend who was deep into it.
The rings are so integral to the story, they are like inanimate characters- this I grok- and like legendary swords therein, they must have powerfully deep histories.
I didn't know Nenya's pristine history, thanks! That adds to Galadriel's character, too: beautiful, badass and wise woman with a legendary and pure piece of bling.
For this show to focus on the rings in name, and then to not show them, rather to invent new characters for the names, is gross- it doesn't have to be gross, since they could state novelty as their intention, but they didn't. They said they'd secured IPR and were going to use it, then proceeded to title the show with this peculiar group of storied characters; I discount obfuscation as an argument that this was not deceptive marketing because that is for swindlers (and charlatans) to utilize when they're being squeezed, or doing the squeezing. Moreover, this is not a technical-legal thing (their obfuscation probably does protect from false advertising claims), it's a trust-integrity thing; not a single vial of snake-oil, it's an established entertainment project and piece of literary art. [Edit: ref 23:31]
If they'd only called it "Adventures and Romance: Gal-Rron'g on the Great Sea based on the wurks of JRrRrr Tolkien," then it would deserve to be judged solely on its own criterion, and comparative criticism wouldn't be relevant (to this story).
Oh well…
Galadriel is also Elrond's 1st cousin thrice removed, since King Turgon was her cousin, Idril was Turgon's daughter and the mother of Eärendil who was the father of Elrond
Rings of Incest
Celebrimbor’s the one that actually loved Galadriel but for several reasons couldn’t pursue that. One big one being how closely related he was to her. We already knew there was something going to happen there. Why else would she yap at fake Elrond like a chick who was crawling back after being caught cheating with some fuqFace called fake Annatar and discount Aragorn known as NotSauron, galavanting around with him forever but as the wisest and sharpest elf since before the first age began couldn’t sense what the fuq he was considering he had been effected by Melkor became Morgoth long ago before the first age even began. The descent downward for Mairon literally began in the first age. When he was mainly known as Gorthaur.
That and she literally is already LONG married to the epic Celeborn. So this already breaks many rules. And several elvish customs and simply breaks how they are biologically. They mate for life. They don’t eff around and sleep around.
She was already long married with a effing daughter named Celebrían. Who married Elrond. And had Arwen, Elladan and Elrohir, Arwen’s twin brothers.
Celeborn is Elrond's maternal great-granduncle 💀
I'm watching this show vicariously through your reviews, which are hilarious and I'm sure are FAR more entertaining than the show could ever hope to be. Thank you. Thank you for sparing me.
21:08 It's even worse when you think about it in the greater context of the season. If he can turn the elves against each other, then why couldn't he turn the orcs -- who are far more predisposed to such behavior -- against each other when they turned on him?
Appreciate both the Tolkein-based analysis and the entirely appropriate Kill Bill reference.
Nenya looks like a Ring Pop lol....
Those guys in the crazy Celebrimbor still look human. they look like riders of Rohan. At least Jackson TRIED to cast people who look like elves...man this is so bad.
This video made my morning. I skipped the big battle a few minutes in, it was so bad. Thank you for explaining everything I was feeling. 🤟
your review is 100percent on point.. the stupidest writers... youd think theyd hire at 1 person to look objectively at scenes and tell them ' hey you know..that's some stupid shit.. maybe you need to change it'.. but that person would have to say that 100 times a day..and get fired quickly
Wow, I can't believe everyone has already watched all the episodes! I'm still stuck on the first one🤣
Thanks for watching so I don't have to.
I want to thank you for watching and reviewing this as I am not wasting my time watching it this season. I actually enjoy watching the reviews more.
My theory: For the final episode, Gandalf will wake up and realize it was only a dream after his fight with the Ballrog in LOTR 😂
"Evil cannot create anything new they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made".
Hope he doesn't ruin his blood pressure when making the next video. Gawddamn.
I didn't think I'll ever see a battle worst than "Siege of Winterfell" from Game of Thrones.
But here we are...
trebuchet knocking down a mountain range to fill a riverbed.
I mean...
I don't even know how to express what I feel about that.
Wouldn't the water just flow over it?
You watch it and comment so we other fans don't have to. I thank you for your service good sir. I hope none of my other favorite stories get adapted just now. This bunch of "writers" are not able to write anything worth reading or watching. Maybe in 10 to 20 yrs we will have people able to write good stories again.
Arrrdarrrr puts on the ring and than turns into Celebrion. Wouldn´t that be quite wonderful? 🤪
Not sure if you meant Celeborn or Celebrian, but either way it’s pretty funny.
@@davidpolander5899 Celeborn. Sorry^^
after giving up half-way through season 1 I'm so glad I have your videos to watch, it's comforting to know that I'm still not missing anything ...
I keep hearing Beavis & Butthead "Breakin' the Law! Breakin' the Law!"
You can say it is much closer to the books when you never read them, or held them, or probably know how to read.
rings of power is woke american crap.
Oh, the bruises upon your spirit made by this show... JSG? Of the two of us, you are the greater Tolkien fan with the greater knowledge and love. I would not know much of the truth from the fiction were it not for the punishment you have endured by watching this. And yet after having done so, you still have the heart and resolve to share your perspective with us. I am enlightened and impressed. Ni 'lassui En, JSG. =)
Weren't the orcs buring up in sunlight in season 1 and now they are out fighting at dawn!
Amazon also changed the layout of Eregion between S1 and S2. That photo you showed of the lighter Eregion with the beaches was from S1, in S2 Amazon decided to magically add a giant wall, I guess because the plot of S2 needed one…
At this point I'm just going to assume that the people making this are possessed.
18:45 i can see it now: Galron: she's gonna sleep with him and he'll be gone in the morning having looted her apartment.
Bad Boy delivers rings to men by pawning them for beer money, a wig and some powder, and a bus ticket to Morrrdorrr
Gal(*´_⊃｀)❤(´⊂_｀*)Ron for da 🎉 wiiiiin🎉
Three Voulme of the Lord of the Rings books, ,which is 7 sets of Lord of the Rings books indulding the Hobbits, were written by JRR. Three Lords of the Rings trilogy movies were made by Peter Jackson. Eleven Oscars were won for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But all were deceived, as one Ring of Power show was made in the Amazon Prime, one show to ruin them all, one show to defame them all, and one show to completely destroy the lore.
Eleven Oscar prizes where won by the Return of the King movie alone.
The part where Galadriel yells "BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!" and all the orcs throw down their weapons, flee back to Mordor, arrest Sauron themselves and subject him to a military tribunal brings tears to my eyes, Tolkien would've been so proud.
Pure spite at this point.❤
Amazon, the RoP producers, and showrunners, aren't storytellers. They are manipulators bastardizing Tolkien vying for clicks. Glad I gave this show a pass but the reviews are entertaining.
Evil cannot create……..
Imagine spending 1 billion for a fanfic... we live in the dumbest timeline
The writers have no real life experience and nothing to draw from except their twitter bubble. That’s why they come up with these toddler level plans and that’s also why they don’t understand distances. They have no idea how much time it takes a person on foot to travel a given distance.
Its just like what happened to the Witcher series: they hired writers and showrunners that not only don't CARE for the source material, they outright HATE it. You can feel the pure DISDAIN they have for LOTR in the show, its almost palpable. They hate the fans too, considering the smear campaigns they sponsored in the past.
And, well, we all know what happened to The Witcher. Rings of Power won't survive for long, lets take comfort in that.