Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 2 did it improve, did it save Rings of Power from the disaster that was the first episode? Well...No. Starting with Galadriels odd decision leading into meeting Halbrand and a very weird scene between Elrond and Celebrimbor. This was certainly an episode of a fantasy show. But what did you think of episode 2 or the parts you saw in the review. Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Ach to be sure to be sure the Irish accents are weird I thought Hobbits had Cornish/Devonshire accents? This whole show is dumb just doesn’t know what it wants to be. It’s a pg13 version of Game of Thrones; Game of Power Rings?
I actually thought E2 was an improvement over E1, but the show still has A LOT to prove. Galadriel's plot wasn't great, but we got to see a sea monster, it just seemed like a strange writing choice to inevitably get her to end up in Numenor. The Harfoots plot was meh. Khazad Dum was cool to see but the most intriguing part about it did not come until the very end of the episode. I however think the rising darkness in the southlands is the most engaging POV to this point, even though the Bronwyn and Arondir forbidden romance is the most overplayed love story trope.
I figured out why so many of the elves have short hair. It's so you can see the pointy ears. Otherwise, we would have no idea they aren't supposed to be humans.
When the Targaryens in House of the Dragon with the pale blond wigs (and no pointy ears) look more than elves than the elves in Rings of Power you know there is something seriously wrong there...
True...i showed my husband, who isn't a LotR/Tolkien fan like me pictures of "these elves" and he said "what's that? Star Trek? Mr. Spocks Family?" ....in PJ 's Movies he was even not interessted in the story impressed by the angelic look of Arwen, Celeborn, Galadriel, Elrond etc. ...
You know that Tolkien never mentioned the elves having goddamn fucking pointy ears 0 times any of those novels. He described them as being the fairest of all the races of Middle Earth. Tall attractive and elegant with a refined way of acting speaking and moving. A kind of grace so to speak. So I'm wondering why you compare elves to a bunch of inbred power hungry twats? The Game of Thrones series and any to come after it will never compare to the world of middle Earth.
I love the fact that the modern era has spawned meta-entertainment; the better the show, the more you enjoy it but the worse the show, the better the youtube videos slamming it are. There must be a point where garbage provides more overall entertainment than brilliantly made, entertaining art.
And of course, Nimrodel's story shows that elves drown. Also, an elf who drowned would just wind up in Mandos on Valinor, so Galadriel might as well have stayed on the ship.
There is a big difference between Elrond and Galadriel... "Her mother-name was Nerwen 'man-maiden', and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor;she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the lore masters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth. Even among the Eldar she was accounted beautiful, and her hair was held a marvel unmatched." - Vol 12 - The Peoples of Middle Earth (HCP 1997) "Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Feanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years."
@@tiagoalest6425 there is a difference between Elrond and Galadriel, but the differences described in this quote are not shown in the slightest in the show, and do not relate whatsoever to an ability to swim hundreds of miles
I don't think he got tired, he noticed his friend getting tired and didn't want to humiliate him. He thought it was his best chance of repairing the friendship. To me the real issue was that elrond missed durin's wedding and children and all that in the first place. He's so... sensitive I highly doubt he would have just skipped it. Let down from the writing.
It is well known within the scientific community that this swim is perfectly feasible as females of most species can swim hundreds if not thousands of miles Just on girl power alone. They don't even have to take a break unless they just feel like it Truly stunning Of course!
@Productive Elf technically he never said she was a human. He referenced females of most species. Which would include female fish, which actually can swim for thousands of miles. Yeah I'm an asshat.
She has infinite stores of Yasssss Queen energy. She is swimming back to her manz, Celeborn, to be forgiven for leaving him out of the first 2 episodes while she has her not married with a daughter fun.
@@Delphar This checks out. Some scientists have theorized that if one has the urge to speak to a manager And it's really sincere about it she might summon a flock of eagles to personally deliver her to them
Why does Celebrimbor, last in the line of Feanor, remind me more of a Hobbit than a Noldor Elf? And why is he wearing a dress made from his grandmother's curtains?
Tom Hanks in Cast Away should have just swum into the middle of the ocean and found a boat like an elf instead of mucking about surviving for years with Wilson
@Bumfluff Addlepate Agreed. His constant man splaying all over the beach, constantly letting his egotistical masculinity get the better of himself, victimizing his own shriveled testicles and objectifying women by naming a ball "Wilson" instead of "Them/They" is just truly disgusting.
Ohh i just vision Tom Hanks drifting by shouting, life is a box of chokolade, haw you seen wilson, lt dan has magic legs. Can not get it out of my mind 😂🤣
Right? like how can one fail this badly with that much of a budget. They could have printed money from this show if they stuck to the lore and actually gave half an attempt to make it likeable. This has to be deliberate of how bad it is. Like there is no really other way to explain it
@@MyAramil one could think, they at least would get something right by pure coincidence, because they obviously never had a copy of Tolkien's work in their hands. But as Albert Einstein once said: "Do not attribute to malice what could simply be explained by stupidity" (paraphrased)
I know there are rights issues but regardless the Silmarillion for the most is still canon for this RoP world, They could have alluded to the past with the characters' personality and backstory. For example they could have had tension between Elrond and Celebrimbor and with Dwarves given the Kinslaying and the dwarves killing his ancestor. Celebrimbor should have been the liason with the dwarves given his father had learned their language. By change the lore like they have so far it's no longer resembling the source material and therefore no Tolkien or Middle Earth.
I appreciate how they made the POC Elf a groomer!!! He watched over that town for 79 years then fell in love with a child he watched grow into a mid 20 something… uhhh huh!!! I also enjoy that 6ft 6inch Galadriel is shorter than everybody!! Lmao
Even worse, Elves don’t get involved with men because when they do, they give up their Elven lineage, lifespan, and afterlife and are counted among mortal men and the unknown fate of the afterlife for men.
@@knotengajin7359 No, Luthien was the only Elf to have died. Arwen was part human, so she can choose mortality. All other elves have to live with heartbreak for the rest of time (from a conversation between Finrid and a human named Andreth).
@@helenwhs Luthien died as an elf after Beren’s death but sang such a powerful song to Mandos in the afterlife that she and Beren were granted a second life with the caveat that she would die a human’s death and be sundered from the elves. Beren and Luthien’s child Dior was a full elf. His daughter Elwing was an elf. Elwing married Earendil Half Elven who was the first granted the choice and would have chosen Men but for Elwing. Their children and children’s children were granted the choice of Elf or Man, but both Elrond and Elros lived as elves for around a century before Elros chose Men and became the first king of Numenor. Arwen lived as an elf for over 2,000 years before marrying Aragorn and after his death regretted her choice. The outliers are Tuor and Idril whose fates weren’t expressly told outside the Elves holding that Tuor alone among men was numbered among the Elves he loved.
@@knotengajin7359 Yep! My point was that the random Elf off the street (like Arondir) will not die if they had a human lover. The movies may mislead people into thinking that.
@@knotengajin7359 Tell me you know as little about Tolkien's work as the makers of Rings of Power without telling me you know as little about Tolkien's work as the makers of Rings of Power.
Er, wasn't Arondir carrying a flaming torch when he first entered the tunnel - how did it transform into a lantern? And where exactly did Galadriel have her knife stashed when she was dragged soaking wet onto the raft? Continuity... who needs it!
"It was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes. And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice"
By this stage in The Fellowship of the Ring, the hobbits had left the Shire, been to Bree, been to Weathertop, been to Rivendell, been to Moria and been to Lothlorien. We've met the entire Fellowship, plus Gandalf, Elrond and Saruman and we know what the goal of the protagonists is and what stands in their way.
defenders would say it's a slowburn to set up characters and set pieces but I'd say it's just boring. With GoT not knowing hardly anything about it I was able to get immersed in that world in the first episode despite little happening because it was better written.
The part when Galadriel said, “Like a glove” after drifting her 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo into a parking space really showed how stunning and brave she is and left me in tears of joy.
@@marioskublan7273 I choose to spell it: Guy Lad Real, and happy I took French in college so that I'm able to roll those R's - like a Guy Lad Real, she must have been the speech coaches prime student on the cast.
"This scene hasn't dragged on enough..." That's how I'd describe the first two episodes, boring scenes where nothing happens and that never seem to end. I watched the first two episodes with my better half and after the first episode she groaned because she thought we had already watched both episodes!
@@casualcausalityy I don't support Amazon in this endeavour and I was certain the show would be awful based on the marketing. However I consider it to be poor form to not see for myself. So I did and based on what I saw I won't be watching anymore. I did the same thing with the wheel of time, but there I could barely make it through the first episode!
Watched with my spouse, and we started the second, but just didn’t care and changed it to something else, completely forgetting it happened. The quality was revealed in the first scene, but when she jumped out of the ship, I just checked out completely, anything after that is pure contrivance.
I have one question about Galadriel swimming across the Sundering Seas. She appeared to be looking down at the time. Why did she float like a boat, instead of sinking like a stone?
Didn't realise it before: When Haldir said "We have not had dealings with the dwarves since the dark days", he meant back when elves & dwarves mysteriously had dark skin, before it got bleached in the third age...
to tell you how little I care for Galadriel, I honestly forgot she was a thing until she gets rescued; and when she did, my reaction was, "oh yeah, she's in this...dammit."
I got chills when Galadriel said "Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something Gollum never told us."
Of all the various bad decisions they made casting and writing wise, Galadriel really takes the cake. How is it possible to massacre such an amazing character and make it that insufferable blend of Mary Sue and Karen ?
@@MyAramil With an elven ring of power and a couple thousand more years of wisdom and development. But i agree she is not even remotely an unreasonably powerful character for what the source material describes.
To be fair, the casting isn't anywhere near the big problem. The actress looks the part well enough and has some acting skill. It's completely the writing and directing that suck. Actors have very little say over the script and how they're suppose to portray the character unless they're already a big A-lister and have leverage to make changes. There's no way any amount of good acting could get past that. Even if you took out all the woke and diverse casting decisions, it would still be just as awful.
@@MyAramil that feeling when in pursuit of making a strong female character writers actually made said character much weaker. Even in second age Galadriel was supposed to be old and wise and powerful, people actually listen to her because of her wisdom and followed her out of love. Whatever this character is she’s no Galadriel
The only interesting part of this show was elronds interaction with durin.. where he said 20 years may be the blink of an eye to an elf but a lifetime for me... elronds reaction was honestly the only genuine part of the entire show... and made the previous 20 minutes of needlessly smashing rocks even more pointless than when they were doing it.. I still say this show is more world of warcraft than Tolkien...
Agreed. Elrond and Durin was the only time the exchanges between two characters didn't feel "acted" but rather genuine and interesting. Every other character interactions ranged from badly acted to very boring.
@@knotengajin7359 yea i get that.. he should have said 200 years.. that's still the blink of an eye to eldrond... lol I'm clutching at straws here man lol
@@knotengajin7359 That's true I'd forgotten. I still think the exchange between the two friends was more interesting and especially better acted than the rest. You could replacd 20 years with a longer timeframe.Even if they live longer than humans I wonder if they perceive time the same way elves do.
I liked this scene as well. But then I realized that they only told us that they were best friends but they never showed it to us! Screenwriting 101...
You missed a cute little detail. In the dwarven city, when elrond is escorted to the prince, there is an ox with a cart in the background. It is part of a procession moving towards a building. However, if you look at where that procession could've come from, there are only stairs. The cart is loaded with a huge rock. There is NO WAY that ox could've carried it to where it is. People actually took the time to animate that and either didn't care enough or somehow didn't notice how ridiculous it looks.
My favourite scene in this episode is when Elrond demands Celebrimbor tell him the truth but Celebrimbor yells back "You can't handle the truth!!!" Intense...
Disparu, do not forget the time compression! Meaning Galadriel may have been swimming for YEARS before finding that raft. Btw this hatred against Elves from the human side... where did that come from? This show is more Dragon Age than LOTR.
yeah other than easterlings of the First Age joining Morgoth they didn't have any real hatred of elves. Even in the Third Age while they might be afraid of Lothlorien and Galadriel, Boromir went to the House of Elrond. Knife ears was painfully bad
One thing i thought was very weird, that wasnt mentioned, is that when Galadriel was sinking she was completely unconscious, and could not free herself. But as soon as he got her free she is awake and strong again, swims up and pulls him onto the boat. ?????? why didnt she just free herself? It was a rope of unconsciousness?
Amazon are withholding the reviews on their site; IMBD (an Amazon company) has reportedly been removing low star reviews (anything below a 5). Says it all really.
"We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we were going to put all of our own politics, our own messages and our own themes into these five seasons. ... In a way, we were trying to make these films for us, not for the fans or Tolkien himself."
Welcome to Mediocre Earth - Where Wood sinks like a stone, where giant rocks that have existed for thousands of years are smashed by a single hammer strike, where orcs dig tunnels faster than industrial excavators, and where every boat in the ocean seems to pass through the same area of wyrm ridden and storm tossed sea...
It's quite strange how they expect us to think the villagers are small-minded bigots, even though Bronwyn is literally flirting with a soldier of a hated occupation force. If this show was anywhere near realistic, they would have shaved her bald and threw her out the very moment the elves left. That's how most occupied communities react to that, when the occupying force leaves. She seems to be lucky enough to be part of a relatively nice and tolerant town.
So Celebrimbor shows up to Durin's Door, which he actually crafted as a gift to cement the friendship between the dwarves and elves, and then Elrond leaves him outside because . . . Celebrimbor doesn't know dwarves or something?
Gandalf and the other wizards came in boats. Sending someone in a meteorite isn't hiding your spies when it is streaking across the sky and the world was flat soooo everyone saw Gandalf including the enemy.
Also Gandalf (if he does end up in this show) didn’t come to middle earth (on boats like you mentioned) until the 1000th year of the 3rd age, so there a few thousand years ahead of themselves here lol
World of Warcraft series is coming along great, I loved the quest to ice crown cathedral, iron forge looked amazing and I liked the cinematic of silver moon city.
TBH It is literarily as bad as writing and story in WoW, they ruined all that was there to be had of story long ago and it all pompous bumper sticker idotic dialogue, ruined story arcs ans setup from Warcraft 3 and the early books. Its like they took that as a template of "good fantasy story telling".
So from this episde I'm going to give my guess for the dwarves storyline. The chest contained mithril so that's why they didnt want the elves to know about it....then they start digging out of greed to get it, and of course the princess is going to do her listening or singing and warn the dwarves about "something" being there, but since the series theme is women giving warnings but nobody listens to them, the dwarves find the balrog.....over 3 thousand years before it's supposed to be found Okay, was slightly off. But making the dwarf kingdom be destroyed because they were helping the elves and not because they were greedy is complete off from Tolkien's work.
@@Lttlemoi the way they're putting characters in places they've never been in the books or allies with people they never met why not screw that up as well
@@Lttlemoi It could though, they might want to tie it in with the Hobbit and just say that Disa sang and found the arkenstone or something. It's not like that would be the worst deviation anyway.
The scene with Celebrimbor going away for days while Elrond breaks rocks makes perfect sense - Celebrimbor knows that he needs to get away from the dwarves' agro range to fast travel.
This show has a lot of problems, but the one that stands out to me, is that it's boring! It's unforgivably dull! And the main characters being insufferable doesn't exactly help!
When Galadriel crashed her ship in to the Imperial Walker and said to Thulsa Doom "That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love." I nearly passed out. Most epically brave scene ever.
Wouldn’t a single mom tell her child that she is leaving on an overnight journey, with an elf no less, and maybe make sure said child will be okay on his own?
Apparently the size of that ocean is comparable to the Atlantic..... If we say she's in the middle when the raft shows up, and take the longest linear route in the Atlantic ocean(3000 miles, 1500 because she's in the center, mind you), she just swam more than a whale averages in 15 days...... As one Reddit user mentioned(Sharp-Engineer3329), "It was further for her to swim back to middle earth than it was for Frodo's whole journey from Shire to Oroduin."
"thats not who we are" "thats not who you are..." Im sorry, didnt they make a whole thing about how these hobbits are very caring and got big hearts and what not?
@@lighthousefilms5530 yeah but before that he said what the hobbits had above the other races was that they care for one another, that line added, to me sounds like theyre trying to say these "hobbits" are very caring and all that. So this sudden move to not give a flying fuck about a defenseless guy is just... What?
That Galadriel was planning to swim all the way from the shores of Valanor to Middle earth is such a wtf moment. AM i suppose to believe this person is a commander and people use to follow her. She may still be planning to swim to Numenor but still that a long way this is such bs. The only thing i liked was Khazad Dum part. I'm not a token expert, have only watch LOTR movies, and see to many lore videos on yt so cant say about lore braking stuff but the biggest issue is that the series is kind of boring.
Can't blame you for not wanting to review the whole season. Even when you explaining the scenes, my brain immediately doze off. The leave of sheer boredom from RoP is phenomenal 😂 10/10 for wasting people's time and money and for being effective on damaging IQs
The whole swimming thing had to happen because they decided to use the whole light vagina thing at the entrance of Valinor. I guess it wouldnt have been epic enough if they'd made it so she can just refuse to step off the ship at a dock. So just for the sake of their opera scene, they put GUYladriel in the sea swimming back to Middle Earth. PEOPLE HAD A MEETING AND SAID THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
I think about that all the time... somewhere, not too long ago, a group of middle-aged adults in nice clothing gathered around a table and somehow agreed that this was a good idea...
It made no sense any way. Valinor was still connected to Middle-earth at this point and not walled off at all. In fact, the Numenoreans on a clear day could see the shining city of Tirion with their keen eyesight and were forbidden from sailing out of sight of Numenor so that they would not be tempted to go to Valinor. Valinor was only separated from Arda when Ar-Pharazon sailed to Valinor that the Valar gave up their dominion of Arda and Iluvatar sundered Valinor from Middle-earth, literally at the end of the Second Age.
@@knotengajin7359 exactly! This is complete departure from the lore. Even in the 3rd Age I never got the impression that people stepped into the light. It's ridiculous!
I will never understand how it is possible that some humans design literal spaceships and others allow...this...to happen. Remember, this is not a fanfic written by someone with no experience, numerous people looked at this script and went "this is good... I feel good about it"
Elrond was portrayed as a total asshole - he never remembered his friend for 20 years and then all of a sudden when he needed him he's like - hey, I'm back!.... Can you imagine someone from your high-school years coming knockin on your door and be like - hey, i have this giant project I need you for... come do this thing I need you to do for me but I never cared for you in the last 20 years... Pure elvish elegance and diplomacy
I wouldn't mind asking a friend I haven't met for 20 years to ask for a big project. My motive would be more on the line of "Perhaps this might be fun for you and we can refresh our old times again. Do you want to help?" A lot of things can work if the motives are right. But those characters in the show are only content driven, not character, circumstance or even plot. After all they don't have consistent or likeable characters, the environment and circumstances are just there to look nice with no relevance and the plot is not coherent enough to deserve the name plot.
they are both from very long lived species. It is more akin to meeting your friend after a year and just going - Been busy, sorry dude, should have stayed in contact. - No worries mate.
He is a wanker, Elrond was no wanker. He actually fought with Gil Galad, Glorfindel, Celeborn and the Dunedain in the second age where he was already over 3000 years old.
Best 'breakdown' ever... the sarcasm and wit at a speed I sense came right out having good genes...🤩 and lots of ☕️... That bit about 'stage accent' was pure gold. 🏆
Yeah, can't bring myself to watch this disturbingly reanimated corpse of a show. At least I can laugh about it with these reviews and get some form of entertainment from it.
Just realised a worldbuilding point. Entrances to Khazad Dum should be large gates at this time rather than a tiny door as the Dwarves traded a lot for food in exchange for their crafts. There should also be a good road leading up to KD rather than a remote barren hill. It's also likely that at any of the major entrances there should be a small town like Dale and Erebor for all the traders and people springing up to offer services. It also doesn't make sense if major gates existed why Elrond would go to a barely used back entrance when he's a diplomat who likely would need councillor approval to enter.
"Because it's there" is cool when you're trying to be the first person to climb Mount Everest, not when you're talking about a Death Hole of no significance beyond your getting dismembered by orcs once you've entered it.
Bro.. EVERY SINGLE one of your critiques are fucking hilarious there are times my laughter drowns out your words and I have to go back. Always happy to click your vids.
In the real lord of the rings she might have been able to get back from the middle of the ocean because she could have summoned waves, or Ulmo might have saved her. It's a stretch but more in line with Galadriel being able to sing leaves into gold than take down trolls.
So people made fun of him for planting a tree deep underground, where “there is so much darkness”, even though the place he planted the tree was in an area bathed in sunlight by the means of a sun well. Hmmm
Given that Christopher Tolkien was unhappy about the devotions Peter Jackson took in his films, I dread to think what he'd make of this show which utterly trashes all of Tolkien's lore in terms of characters and the established story. If he was alive and expressed his disgust and I believe he'd seriously not like and be borderline furious with what they'd done he'd probably be called a bigoted toxic racist despite being the literary executor of his father's works.
The way the table flew across the room was absolutely jarring. The things' massive, bare minimum 100 pounds. I don't think the writers realize the amount of strength required to just one arm toss that kind of mass. It's the kind of strength that would make strongmen look like toddlers. Let's not even go into the broken physics of the table just accelerating randomly and bouncing.
They should have called this show “lord have mercy”. It’s a CW show and even for their low standards, this one is really bad. All kinds of wrongs happening. Dialogue is nonsense, script is nonsense, actors are uncharismatic, the whole story is nonsense. Cinematography looks like a video game. Homosexual tension between every male. But at the other hand the elves are so ugly that they’ll keep me straight as an arrow. And the worse of all is that it bored me to dead. 🤦🏾♂️
Just as a technical note, filming in a volume generally HELPS a shot look more realistic...the lighting is literally generated by the background. With greenscreen, you're guessing what the background lighting is going to be, and it's a lot of work getting things to balance in post. If that was a volume, they're doing it wrong. 🤓
The fact that this show so little resembles Tolkien when it is supposed to be inspired by his works is honestly astounding. Spaceballs felt like a better homage to Star Wars. And it was funny. This doesn't even have basic entertainment down.
There is too much wrong with this show to be Tolkien's work. Even to call it an adaptation of it is disingenuous. This should have been a stand alone series, seperate to, but "inspired" by Tolkien. Were it that, I might stomach it. As it is, I despise it for the evil it does to literature, philosophy and culture.
They don't have the rights to the lore. Obviously it is a stand alone inspired by Tolkien. And if we add to it that they can only make cheap movies doesn't make it better.
You forgot to add how that scene moved you to tears, exactly like every other hater with the mentality of a cretinous 5-year-old. Still, I'm sure you'll remember to copy-paste it for your next retarded comment parroting this idiotic form of so-called "humour". ZzzzzZzzzz
A few hundred or a few thousand miles of swimming without any water while carrying a heavy knife? Thankfully she never considered ordering the ship be turned around or ordered a male elf to carry her across the ocean. After all thousands of TRAINED MALES ELVES had been put under an untrained female elf for hundreds of years who dragged them through hell in her insane hunt for Sauron.
When Eru Iluvatar sang everything into existence, guided the Ainur to sing his song, one guy’s pride decided to throw wrenches. Melkor’s hubris, tried to derail Illuvatar’s song. Amazon’s Melkor, the corporate satan doing the same replacing Tolkien’s music with post modern relativist garbage, tempting the likeminded and the weak to dance in the chaos.
The big dipper did exist in middle earth. It is called Valacirca and was put in the northern sky by Varda as a challenge to Morgoth. It was called the plough by some or the sickle.
well, it was written as a replacement for Anglo-Saxon myths, and in the introduction of the hobbit, JRRT states 'this is a story of long ago'. So, yes, in a way it is our own planet. it's a 'mythic past', just like the Greek myths, the Norse myths, or those in the Bible.
I've always been very confused exactly what Middle Earth was supposed to be. I finally came up with the solution, it wasn't our earth, It was a mythic earth, Other-when, other place... not in any universe, any dimension... unless you can show me on a map where Mt Olympus, Valhalla, and Valinor all are. I have to admit when I first read the trilogy in prehistory (circa 1967) I thought it was supposed to be in prehistory earth... circa before the the end of the little ice age because he mentioned dragons, creatures from other ages, which I took to mean dinosaurs (???) and very large elephants which I took to mean mammoths. I will be honest and admit I was an easily confused teenager.
I'm listening to the audiobook version of The Silmarillion read by Martin Shaw. The subtly & beauty of that work, compared to the dull, wearying mediocrity of Rings of Power, brings the insult to Tolkien into painfully sharp focus. I can only hope people who discover his legendarium via this show eventually come to hate Amazon's sleazy product & reject it.
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 2 did it improve, did it save Rings of Power from the disaster that was the first episode? Well...No. Starting with Galadriels odd decision leading into meeting Halbrand and a very weird scene between Elrond and Celebrimbor. This was certainly an episode of a fantasy show. But what did you think of episode 2 or the parts you saw in the review. Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Ach to be sure to be sure the Irish accents are weird I thought Hobbits had Cornish/Devonshire accents?
This whole show is dumb just doesn’t know what it wants to be. It’s a pg13 version of Game of Thrones; Game of Power Rings?
Not impressed.
I actually thought E2 was an improvement over E1, but the show still has A LOT to prove. Galadriel's plot wasn't great, but we got to see a sea monster, it just seemed like a strange writing choice to inevitably get her to end up in Numenor. The Harfoots plot was meh. Khazad Dum was cool to see but the most intriguing part about it did not come until the very end of the episode. I however think the rising darkness in the southlands is the most engaging POV to this point, even though the Bronwyn and Arondir forbidden romance is the most overplayed love story trope.
Swum! Love it, awesome work. Thank you
It's the "dangly bits" for me bruh😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
I swear the "dark Galadriel" we saw in The Hobbit didn't have nearly as much venom in her eyes as this "Galadriel" all the time.
I figured out why so many of the elves have short hair. It's so you can see the pointy ears. Otherwise, we would have no idea they aren't supposed to be humans.
Or, they don't want to buy or customise too many wigs.
Actually, I don't believe Tolkien ever said that elves have pointy ears.
@@MollyHJohns that was my thought as well. but, the short hair to show off the ears thing makes sense with everything else going on with this show.
@@witchhazel4135 I'm not a Tolkien scholar. I read the trilogy once and saw the movies. I think I should read the books again.
I'm suprised they didn't just wear badges with elf on it, its what Tolkien wouldve wanted
You'd think it would be hard to swim to land in the middle of the ocean. But it was super easy! Barely an inconvenience!
You only have to stare upwards. That will make her float with ease. She is only making use of superior elvish wisdom.
Understanding this reference is TIGHT
Wow wow wow...wow.
The pitch meeting is going to be epic😂😂😂
I’m surprised she didn’t pull a Highlander and simply sink to the bottom and walk out.
When the Targaryens in House of the Dragon with the pale blond wigs (and no pointy ears) look more than elves than the elves in Rings of Power you know there is something seriously wrong there...
I was thinking exactly that.
They do look more ethereal.
True. The Targaryens kinda remind me of blood elves from WoW. Definitely the hair
True...i showed my husband, who isn't a LotR/Tolkien fan like me pictures of "these elves" and he said "what's that? Star Trek? Mr. Spocks Family?" ....in PJ 's Movies he was even not interessted in the story impressed by the angelic look of Arwen, Celeborn, Galadriel, Elrond etc. ...
You know that Tolkien never mentioned the elves having goddamn fucking pointy ears 0 times any of those novels. He described them as being the fairest of all the races of Middle Earth. Tall attractive and elegant with a refined way of acting speaking and moving. A kind of grace so to speak. So I'm wondering why you compare elves to a bunch of inbred power hungry twats? The Game of Thrones series and any to come after it will never compare to the world of middle Earth.
I love the fact that the modern era has spawned meta-entertainment; the better the show, the more you enjoy it but the worse the show, the better the youtube videos slamming it are. There must be a point where garbage provides more overall entertainment than brilliantly made, entertaining art.
Nothing like warming your hands on a dumpster fire
Already crossed that rubicon
That's always been the case. It's why I love Deathstalker 2
Fast food may fill your belly but it doesn't fill your soul.
It's joy without suffering... I'm almost spoiled.
It's so nice to see Elrond looking like a snotty faced 14 year old instead of an elegant slender elf known for his wisdom.
Hugo Weaving with his Permanent Rageface pulled off elegance, dignity, and timelessness, flawlessly. This guy and his bosses have no excuse.
@@SkullkeeperVSK Agreed. His next-to-last appearance in RotK actually hits me harder than the moment around it.
So elrond, an elf, gets tired from breaking rocks, but galadriel, an elf, can swim for INFINITE DISTANCES
And of course, Nimrodel's story shows that elves drown. Also, an elf who drowned would just wind up in Mandos on Valinor, so Galadriel might as well have stayed on the ship.
There is a big difference between Elrond and Galadriel...
"Her mother-name was Nerwen 'man-maiden', and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor;she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the lore masters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth. Even among the Eldar she was accounted beautiful, and her hair was held a marvel unmatched."
- Vol 12 - The Peoples of Middle Earth (HCP 1997)
"Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Feanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years."
@@tiagoalest6425 there is a difference between Elrond and Galadriel, but the differences described in this quote are not shown in the slightest in the show, and do not relate whatsoever to an ability to swim hundreds of miles
I don't think he got tired, he noticed his friend getting tired and didn't want to humiliate him. He thought it was his best chance of repairing the friendship. To me the real issue was that elrond missed durin's wedding and children and all that in the first place. He's so... sensitive I highly doubt he would have just skipped it. Let down from the writing.
@@tiagoalest6425 Unfortunately this is not the Galadriel presented by the actress playing her. At all.
It is well known within the scientific community that this swim is perfectly feasible as females of most species can swim hundreds if not thousands of miles Just on girl power alone. They don't even have to take a break unless they just feel like it Truly stunning Of course!
@Productive Elf technically he never said she was a human. He referenced females of most species. Which would include female fish, which actually can swim for thousands of miles. Yeah I'm an asshat.
She has infinite stores of Yasssss Queen energy. She is swimming back to her manz, Celeborn, to be forgiven for leaving him out of the first 2 episodes while she has her not married with a daughter fun.
I would argue that the sole reason she was able to survive that swim, was because she had to speak with the manager.
@@Delphar This checks out. Some scientists have theorized that if one has the urge to speak to a manager And it's really sincere about it she might summon a flock of eagles to personally deliver her to them
@@jonathancripe5776 One Queen to slay them all.
Why does Celebrimbor, last in the line of Feanor, remind me more of a Hobbit than a Noldor Elf? And why is he wearing a dress made from his grandmother's curtains?
Curtains were on sale at Family Dollar!!
hope granny won't notice
Granny brimbor knitted those out of pure 70s mithril
I just get the theme to the golden girls whenever the elves come on screen..
But, but, but.... those were a billion dollar curtains!
Tom Hanks in Cast Away should have just swum into the middle of the ocean and found a boat like an elf instead of mucking about surviving for years with Wilson
Swam
@Bumfluff Addlepate Agreed. His constant man splaying all over the beach, constantly letting his egotistical masculinity get the better of himself, victimizing his own shriveled testicles and objectifying women by naming a ball "Wilson" instead of "Them/They" is just truly disgusting.
Wait... isn't that exactly what he did at the end though?
and then wilson couldn't take any more and left him
Ohh i just vision Tom Hanks drifting by shouting, life is a box of chokolade, haw you seen wilson, lt dan has magic legs. Can not get it out of my mind 😂🤣
You know I have to give them props. Its hard to get literally everything wrong.
Right? like how can one fail this badly with that much of a budget. They could have printed money from this show if they stuck to the lore and actually gave half an attempt to make it likeable. This has to be deliberate of how bad it is. Like there is no really other way to explain it
@@MyAramil one could think, they at least would get something right by pure coincidence, because they obviously never had a copy of Tolkien's work in their hands. But as Albert Einstein once said: "Do not attribute to malice what could simply be explained by stupidity" (paraphrased)
I know there are rights issues but regardless the Silmarillion for the most is still canon for this RoP world, They could have alluded to the past with the characters' personality and backstory. For example they could have had tension between Elrond and Celebrimbor and with Dwarves given the Kinslaying and the dwarves killing his ancestor. Celebrimbor should have been the liason with the dwarves given his father had learned their language. By change the lore like they have so far it's no longer resembling the source material and therefore no Tolkien or Middle Earth.
@@belegur8108 Than it means that they are wrong on purpose. If someone is always wrong at guessing at flipping a coin, it means he knows...
Apparently it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
I appreciate how they made the POC Elf a groomer!!! He watched over that town for 79 years then fell in love with a child he watched grow into a mid 20 something… uhhh huh!!! I also enjoy that 6ft 6inch Galadriel is shorter than everybody!! Lmao
Even worse, Elves don’t get involved with men because when they do, they give up their Elven lineage, lifespan, and afterlife and are counted among mortal men and the unknown fate of the afterlife for men.
@@knotengajin7359 No, Luthien was the only Elf to have died. Arwen was part human, so she can choose mortality. All other elves have to live with heartbreak for the rest of time (from a conversation between Finrid and a human named Andreth).
@@helenwhs Luthien died as an elf after Beren’s death but sang such a powerful song to Mandos in the afterlife that she and Beren were granted a second life with the caveat that she would die a human’s death and be sundered from the elves. Beren and Luthien’s child Dior was a full elf. His daughter Elwing was an elf. Elwing married Earendil Half Elven who was the first granted the choice and would have chosen Men but for Elwing. Their children and children’s children were granted the choice of Elf or Man, but both Elrond and Elros lived as elves for around a century before Elros chose Men and became the first king of Numenor. Arwen lived as an elf for over 2,000 years before marrying Aragorn and after his death regretted her choice. The outliers are Tuor and Idril whose fates weren’t expressly told outside the Elves holding that Tuor alone among men was numbered among the Elves he loved.
@@knotengajin7359 Yep! My point was that the random Elf off the street (like Arondir) will not die if they had a human lover. The movies may mislead people into thinking that.
@@knotengajin7359 Tell me you know as little about Tolkien's work as the makers of Rings of Power without telling me you know as little about Tolkien's work as the makers of Rings of Power.
The part when Galadriel's brother turned to the prison warden and said "I is tired boss, reals tired" ... brought tears to my eyes 😢
God, shut up. You're not funny. You're just an NPC
Both Tolkiens could power all of Europe by how much they're spinning in their graves
Europe??? Try the Northern Hemisphere
This got a good chuckle out of me
Amazon needs to add the "unlikable female protagonist" trigger warning to this show like Hulu did with "Not Okay". 🤣
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Agreed! :)
Maybe the RoP and She Hulk show runners are circle jerk friends
in the tags aswell, so one could filter it out :D
OH NO HULU HAS THIS GREAT SHOW THE CUM UP!!! FREDOOM...BUNCH OF...NM
Er, wasn't Arondir carrying a flaming torch when he first entered the tunnel - how did it transform into a lantern? And where exactly did Galadriel have her knife stashed when she was dragged soaking wet onto the raft? Continuity... who needs it!
She's a type B. She probably stashed the knife in her strong, mithril-lined vagina.
It's only a matter of time before someone spots the inevitable Starbucks cups left on the set. They ought to be there
You know were she hid it.
In her asshole because she's already had her phalloplasty.
In her female storage spot for phallic objects.
In her vagoina
"It was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes. And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice"
From the Ainulindalë. You couldn't have picked a better verse.
The discordant tones of Melkor?
Irony is a hell of a drug!
I feel there is something you want to say with this reference, but can't put my finger on it 😆
Including the reviews on "impartial" webs...
By this stage in The Fellowship of the Ring, the hobbits had left the Shire, been to Bree, been to Weathertop, been to Rivendell, been to Moria and been to Lothlorien. We've met the entire Fellowship, plus Gandalf, Elrond and Saruman and we know what the goal of the protagonists is and what stands in their way.
defenders would say it's a slowburn to set up characters and set pieces but I'd say it's just boring. With GoT not knowing hardly anything about it I was able to get immersed in that world in the first episode despite little happening because it was better written.
But its not due to get 'good' until series 3
The part when Galadriel said, “Like a glove” after drifting her 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo into a parking space really showed how stunning and brave she is and left me in tears of joy.
It’s Guyladriel…. Can we get it correct jees!
in all fairness if anyone can drift into a tight spot with a 1970s era V8 muscle car with all the styling and control of a brick, it is Galadriel
The way she struggled her way out of a rhino’s ass really put me to tears.
@@Hollyclown I am so glad someone got the reference
@@marioskublan7273 I choose to spell it: Guy Lad Real, and happy I took French in college so that I'm able to roll those R's - like a Guy Lad Real, she must have been the speech coaches prime student on the cast.
"This scene hasn't dragged on enough..." That's how I'd describe the first two episodes, boring scenes where nothing happens and that never seem to end. I watched the first two episodes with my better half and after the first episode she groaned because she thought we had already watched both episodes!
Mine fell asleep.
Why are you supporting Amazon in this desecration of Tolkien? Every viewer just encourages them to continue
@@casualcausalityy I don't support Amazon in this endeavour and I was certain the show would be awful based on the marketing. However I consider it to be poor form to not see for myself. So I did and based on what I saw I won't be watching anymore. I did the same thing with the wheel of time, but there I could barely make it through the first episode!
Watched with my spouse, and we started the second, but just didn’t care and changed it to something else, completely forgetting it happened. The quality was revealed in the first scene, but when she jumped out of the ship, I just checked out completely, anything after that is pure contrivance.
I have one question about Galadriel swimming across the Sundering Seas. She appeared to be looking down at the time. Why did she float like a boat, instead of sinking like a stone?
She heard YAAAAAASSSS QUEEENNNNN so she decided not to sink
* written to make idiots feel like they're smart for watching said pseudo intelligenctual garbage *
Thank you
It's simple really. She had her eyes closed the whole time.
This scene where Elrond says "I'll be back" before entering Khazad Dum, moved my heart.
old grumpy celebrimbor still stands there and is waiting for him
Didn't realise it before: When Haldir said "We have not had dealings with the dwarves since the dark days", he meant back when elves & dwarves mysteriously had dark skin, before it got bleached in the third age...
Good catch! I thought that was a reference to the elf and dwarf genocide
Make Mordor Great Again.
to tell you how little I care for Galadriel, I honestly forgot she was a thing until she gets rescued; and when she did, my reaction was, "oh yeah, she's in this...dammit."
I'm so glad that I decided to not even hate watch this show.
Same. 😂
That's smart, but if you ever change your mind just pirate it
@@abyssprimus and when you say, "Rag", remember to roll your R's lake a bad-ass dude-babe snarl, oh the acting chops on that Guy Lad Real!
I got chills when Galadriel said "Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative.
That's something Gollum never told us."
Of all the various bad decisions they made casting and writing wise, Galadriel really takes the cake. How is it possible to massacre such an amazing character and make it that insufferable blend of Mary Sue and Karen ?
Agreed! Why not creating a whole new character? This is the epitomy of Nostalgia Bait!
And even making her underpowered. Seriously she was so powerful in the lore that she did not even need to touch a sword, Her magic was strong enough.
@@MyAramil With an elven ring of power and a couple thousand more years of wisdom and development.
But i agree she is not even remotely an unreasonably powerful character for what the source material describes.
To be fair, the casting isn't anywhere near the big problem. The actress looks the part well enough and has some acting skill. It's completely the writing and directing that suck. Actors have very little say over the script and how they're suppose to portray the character unless they're already a big A-lister and have leverage to make changes. There's no way any amount of good acting could get past that. Even if you took out all the woke and diverse casting decisions, it would still be just as awful.
@@MyAramil that feeling when in pursuit of making a strong female character writers actually made said character much weaker. Even in second age Galadriel was supposed to be old and wise and powerful, people actually listen to her because of her wisdom and followed her out of love. Whatever this character is she’s no Galadriel
The only interesting part of this show was elronds interaction with durin.. where he said 20 years may be the blink of an eye to an elf but a lifetime for me... elronds reaction was honestly the only genuine part of the entire show... and made the previous 20 minutes of needlessly smashing rocks even more pointless than when they were doing it.. I still say this show is more world of warcraft than Tolkien...
Agreed. Elrond and Durin was the only time the exchanges between two characters didn't feel "acted" but rather genuine and interesting.
Every other character interactions ranged from badly acted to very boring.
Dwarves live several hundred years, 20 years would be more like a month to them. The line would have worked with Men, but not Numenoreans.
@@knotengajin7359 yea i get that.. he should have said 200 years.. that's still the blink of an eye to eldrond... lol I'm clutching at straws here man lol
@@knotengajin7359 That's true I'd forgotten.
I still think the exchange between the two friends was more interesting and especially better acted than the rest. You could replacd 20 years with a longer timeframe.Even if they live longer than humans I wonder if they perceive time the same way elves do.
I liked this scene as well. But then I realized that they only told us that they were best friends but they never showed it to us! Screenwriting 101...
You missed a cute little detail. In the dwarven city, when elrond is escorted to the prince, there is an ox with a cart in the background. It is part of a procession moving towards a building. However, if you look at where that procession could've come from, there are only stairs. The cart is loaded with a huge rock. There is NO WAY that ox could've carried it to where it is. People actually took the time to animate that and either didn't care enough or somehow didn't notice how ridiculous it looks.
My favourite scene in this episode is when Elrond demands Celebrimbor tell him the truth but Celebrimbor yells back "You can't handle the truth!!!" Intense...
Only to say... "You are a Wizard, Harry" and take him to be trained by Doctor Michael Morbius himself.
I didn't even know Jack Nicholson was in this show.
@@flaviomonteiro1414 It's Celebrimbin' time
@@Rob07601 The magic of make up
Masterful writing - a truly inspiring quote.
Disparu, do not forget the time compression! Meaning Galadriel may have been swimming for YEARS before finding that raft.
Btw this hatred against Elves from the human side... where did that come from? This show is more Dragon Age than LOTR.
They probably took that from the Witcher or something.
Isn't knife ears from DA?
yeah other than easterlings of the First Age joining Morgoth they didn't have any real hatred of elves. Even in the Third Age while they might be afraid of Lothlorien and Galadriel, Boromir went to the House of Elrond. Knife ears was painfully bad
They stole that from The Witcher
One thing i thought was very weird, that wasnt mentioned, is that when Galadriel was sinking she was completely unconscious, and could not free herself. But as soon as he got her free she is awake and strong again, swims up and pulls him onto the boat. ?????? why didnt she just free herself? It was a rope of unconsciousness?
Your videos are so the perfect mix of an audiobook, a comedian reading it, and excellent editing.
Galadrrrrrrrriel is the most insufferable character ever
I'm rooting for the Orcs.
Every single scene in this show is so aggravating
Currently standing at 37% on Rotten Tomatoes...I wonder how long before they put those reviews "on hold".
Amazon are withholding the reviews on their site; IMBD (an Amazon company) has reportedly been removing low star reviews (anything below a 5). Says it all really.
"We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we were going to put all of our own politics, our own messages and our own themes into these five seasons. ... In a way, we were trying to make these films for us, not for the fans or Tolkien himself."
The part where the strange wizzard told the fireflies about fight club was so inspiring
you got that wrong. It was a Monty Python easter egg. Meteor Man just told them "The funniest joke in the world"
the first rule of firefly fight club is we don't talk about firefly fight club.
Welcome to Mediocre Earth - Where Wood sinks like a stone, where giant rocks that have existed for thousands of years are smashed by a single hammer strike, where orcs dig tunnels faster than industrial excavators, and where every boat in the ocean seems to pass through the same area of wyrm ridden and storm tossed sea...
It's quite strange how they expect us to think the villagers are small-minded bigots, even though Bronwyn is literally flirting with a soldier of a hated occupation force.
If this show was anywhere near realistic, they would have shaved her bald and threw her out the very moment the elves left. That's how most occupied communities react to that, when the occupying force leaves. She seems to be lucky enough to be part of a relatively nice and tolerant town.
So Celebrimbor shows up to Durin's Door, which he actually crafted as a gift to cement the friendship between the dwarves and elves, and then Elrond leaves him outside because . . . Celebrimbor doesn't know dwarves or something?
You’re quickly becoming my favorite content creator.
Legitimate criticism: they didnt show enough of the elvish culture in order for that ‘introduction to dwarven culture’ to rly have a strong contrast
That is because they totally threw out Lore
Gandalf and the other wizards came in boats. Sending someone in a meteorite isn't hiding your spies when it is streaking across the sky and the world was flat soooo everyone saw Gandalf including the enemy.
Also Gandalf (if he does end up in this show) didn’t come to middle earth (on boats like you mentioned) until the 1000th year of the 3rd age, so there a few thousand years ahead of themselves here lol
It's not gandalf it's optimus prime...
@@Ma55ey then where's Megatron?
@Renato Mento And when Gandalf came to middle earth, he wasn't some blithering idiot who couldn't speak the language like "The Stranger" exhibits.
@@jonathancripe5776 Yea this isn't gandalf.
World of Warcraft series is coming along great, I loved the quest to ice crown cathedral, iron forge looked amazing and I liked the cinematic of silver moon city.
TBH It is literarily as bad as writing and story in WoW, they ruined all that was there to be had of story long ago and it all pompous bumper sticker idotic dialogue, ruined story arcs ans setup from Warcraft 3 and the early books. Its like they took that as a template of "good fantasy story telling".
Without realising it I said out loud oh cool ironforge.. lool
Hopefully we will see orgimar and stromwind soon
lol I should watch it with this mindset
Galadriel kept mispronouncing "Anu belore dela'na," though.
My favorite part was when Arondir said good morning to Galadriel and she turned around and yelled, "Up yours, knife-ears".
“Up yours, elf moralists. We’ll see who cancels who!”
It's Twue. It's twue. It's TWUE!
"Sauron is just pawn in game of life."
@Sousabird Funny how every single racist in television is a white man.
Whamen are so advanced!
So from this episde I'm going to give my guess for the dwarves storyline. The chest contained mithril so that's why they didnt want the elves to know about it....then they start digging out of greed to get it, and of course the princess is going to do her listening or singing and warn the dwarves about "something" being there, but since the series theme is women giving warnings but nobody listens to them, the dwarves find the balrog.....over 3 thousand years before it's supposed to be found
Okay, was slightly off. But making the dwarf kingdom be destroyed because they were helping the elves and not because they were greedy is complete off from Tolkien's work.
Or the Arkenstone🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@melrobertson2743 The Arkenstone was mined much much later from the Lonely Mountain, not Khazad-Dûm
@@Lttlemoi the way they're putting characters in places they've never been in the books or allies with people they never met why not screw that up as well
@@Lttlemoi It could though, they might want to tie it in with the Hobbit and just say that Disa sang and found the arkenstone or something. It's not like that would be the worst deviation anyway.
@@gianna526 No way I'm touching that even with a ten foot pole. Besides, would they even have the rights for that?
You’re probably one of the best up and coming commentators. You’ll be way into 6 digits subs in no time.
The scene with Celebrimbor going away for days while Elrond breaks rocks makes perfect sense - Celebrimbor knows that he needs to get away from the dwarves' agro range to fast travel.
This show has a lot of problems, but the one that stands out to me, is that it's boring! It's unforgivably dull! And the main characters being insufferable doesn't exactly help!
Ah yes, Orcs, who have enhanced sense of smell, would definitely never find a stupid boy hiding in a cupboard...
When Galadriel crashed her ship in to the Imperial Walker and said to Thulsa Doom "That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love." I nearly passed out. Most epically brave scene ever.
I was literally shaking
Wouldn’t a single mom tell her child that she is leaving on an overnight journey, with an elf no less, and maybe make sure said child will be okay on his own?
That's how much she cared for her child.
That's black fatherhood for ya. Tolkien wrote this as a mythology for England, Amazon turned it into a reflection on modern American culture.
Apparently the size of that ocean is comparable to the Atlantic.....
If we say she's in the middle when the raft shows up, and take the longest linear route in the Atlantic ocean(3000 miles, 1500 because she's in the center, mind you), she just swam more than a whale averages in 15 days......
As one Reddit user mentioned(Sharp-Engineer3329), "It was further for her to swim back to middle earth than it was for Frodo's whole journey from Shire to Oroduin."
"thats not who we are" "thats not who you are..."
Im sorry, didnt they make a whole thing about how these hobbits are very caring and got big hearts and what not?
Hearts that are bigger than their feet was the line lol
@@lighthousefilms5530 yeah but before that he said what the hobbits had above the other races was that they care for one another, that line added, to me sounds like theyre trying to say these "hobbits" are very caring and all that. So this sudden move to not give a flying fuck about a defenseless guy is just... What?
@@TheMakushimirian I totally agree, makes no friggin sense
That Galadriel was planning to swim all the way from the shores of Valanor to Middle earth is such a wtf moment. AM i suppose to believe this person is a commander and people use to follow her. She may still be planning to swim to Numenor but still that a long way this is such bs. The only thing i liked was Khazad Dum part. I'm not a token expert, have only watch LOTR movies, and see to many lore videos on yt so cant say about lore braking stuff but the biggest issue is that the series is kind of boring.
Can't blame you for not wanting to review the whole season. Even when you explaining the scenes, my brain immediately doze off. The leave of sheer boredom from RoP is phenomenal 😂 10/10 for wasting people's time and money and for being effective on damaging IQs
The whole swimming thing had to happen because they decided to use the whole light vagina thing at the entrance of Valinor. I guess it wouldnt have been epic enough if they'd made it so she can just refuse to step off the ship at a dock. So just for the sake of their opera scene, they put GUYladriel in the sea swimming back to Middle Earth.
PEOPLE HAD A MEETING AND SAID THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
I think about that all the time... somewhere, not too long ago, a group of middle-aged adults in nice clothing gathered around a table and somehow agreed that this was a good idea...
This was the best way the writers could think of getting her and bargain bin Aragorn to meet and then get to Numenor.
It made no sense any way. Valinor was still connected to Middle-earth at this point and not walled off at all. In fact, the Numenoreans on a clear day could see the shining city of Tirion with their keen eyesight and were forbidden from sailing out of sight of Numenor so that they would not be tempted to go to Valinor. Valinor was only separated from Arda when Ar-Pharazon sailed to Valinor that the Valar gave up their dominion of Arda and Iluvatar sundered Valinor from Middle-earth, literally at the end of the Second Age.
@@knotengajin7359 exactly! This is complete departure from the lore. Even in the 3rd Age I never got the impression that people stepped into the light. It's ridiculous!
I will never understand how it is possible that some humans design literal spaceships and others allow...this...to happen.
Remember, this is not a fanfic written by someone with no experience, numerous people looked at this script and went "this is good... I feel good about it"
This review was a million times more entertaining than the entire first two episodes of this pathetic show. Bravo!
This has to be more entertaining than the actual show! Truly enjoying your description.
Elrond was portrayed as a total asshole - he never remembered his friend for 20 years and then all of a sudden when he needed him he's like - hey, I'm back!.... Can you imagine someone from your high-school years coming knockin on your door and be like - hey, i have this giant project I need you for... come do this thing I need you to do for me but I never cared for you in the last 20 years... Pure elvish elegance and diplomacy
I wouldn't mind asking a friend I haven't met for 20 years to ask for a big project. My motive would be more on the line of "Perhaps this might be fun for you and we can refresh our old times again. Do you want to help?" A lot of things can work if the motives are right. But those characters in the show are only content driven, not character, circumstance or even plot. After all they don't have consistent or likeable characters, the environment and circumstances are just there to look nice with no relevance and the plot is not coherent enough to deserve the name plot.
they are both from very long lived species.
It is more akin to meeting your friend after a year and just going
- Been busy, sorry dude, should have stayed in contact.
- No worries mate.
He is a wanker, Elrond was no wanker. He actually fought with Gil Galad, Glorfindel, Celeborn and the Dunedain in the second age where he was already over 3000 years old.
Best 'breakdown' ever... the sarcasm and wit at a speed I sense came right out having good genes...🤩 and lots of ☕️...
That bit about 'stage accent' was pure gold. 🏆
This will be the only way I experience this show. So…keep it up!
Yeah, can't bring myself to watch this disturbingly reanimated corpse of a show. At least I can laugh about it with these reviews and get some form of entertainment from it.
Same
Amazon ROP is like a computer rpg, they just use the map to fast travel.
Just realised a worldbuilding point. Entrances to Khazad Dum should be large gates at this time rather than a tiny door as the Dwarves traded a lot for food in exchange for their crafts. There should also be a good road leading up to KD rather than a remote barren hill. It's also likely that at any of the major entrances there should be a small town like Dale and Erebor for all the traders and people springing up to offer services. It also doesn't make sense if major gates existed why Elrond would go to a barely used back entrance when he's a diplomat who likely would need councillor approval to enter.
I had this on while I was cooking and I was laughing out loud! Keep it up, man!
This show reminds me of when I'd leave an assignment until a few days before and have to stay up all night writing beautifully sounding waffle.
-"I need to go down this hole bro"
-"why?"
-"Its there innit?"
Gold.
"Because it's there" is cool when you're trying to be the first person to climb Mount Everest, not when you're talking about a Death Hole of no significance beyond your getting dismembered by orcs once you've entered it.
Bro.. EVERY SINGLE one of your critiques are fucking hilarious there are times my laughter drowns out your words and I have to go back. Always happy to click your vids.
So, Elves can teleport except when wet and they have at least one extra dimensional 'pocket' to store stuff until it becomes relevant to the Plot?
In the real lord of the rings she might have been able to get back from the middle of the ocean because she could have summoned waves, or Ulmo might have saved her. It's a stretch but more in line with Galadriel being able to sing leaves into gold than take down trolls.
5:22 Shows what the showrunners know about the lore. The Fallohides were the adventurous ones, not the Harfoots.
Amazon: “She’s adopted”
So people made fun of him for planting a tree deep underground, where “there is so much darkness”, even though the place he planted the tree was in an area bathed in sunlight by the means of a sun well. Hmmm
"I need to go down that hole bruv"
"Why?"
"It's there innit?"
This whole show 🤣
Given that Christopher Tolkien was unhappy about the devotions Peter Jackson took in his films, I dread to think what he'd make of this show which utterly trashes all of Tolkien's lore in terms of characters and the established story. If he was alive and expressed his disgust and I believe he'd seriously not like and be borderline furious with what they'd done he'd probably be called a bigoted toxic racist despite being the literary executor of his father's works.
Galadriel weighs the same as a duck and therefore floats on water, which means she is a witch.
"It's a fair cop." - Galadriel
I genuinely hate the Harfwits or Harfoots or whatever.
They look like they stink.
Excellently hilarious review. Well done, Disparu. I'm boycotting the dumpster fire, but enjoying the heck out of honest reviews like yours.
The way the table flew across the room was absolutely jarring.
The things' massive, bare minimum 100 pounds.
I don't think the writers realize the amount of strength required to just one arm toss that kind of mass.
It's the kind of strength that would make strongmen look like toddlers.
Let's not even go into the broken physics of the table just accelerating randomly and bouncing.
They should have called this show “lord have mercy”. It’s a CW show and even for their low standards, this one is really bad. All kinds of wrongs happening. Dialogue is nonsense, script is nonsense, actors are uncharismatic, the whole story is nonsense. Cinematography looks like a video game. Homosexual tension between every male. But at the other hand the elves are so ugly that they’ll keep me straight as an arrow. And the worse of all is that it bored me to dead. 🤦🏾♂️
Agree 100%!
Just as a technical note, filming in a volume generally HELPS a shot look more realistic...the lighting is literally generated by the background. With greenscreen, you're guessing what the background lighting is going to be, and it's a lot of work getting things to balance in post. If that was a volume, they're doing it wrong. 🤓
Loving your commentary. Very witty. Very intuitive.
The fact that this show so little resembles Tolkien when it is supposed to be inspired by his works is honestly astounding. Spaceballs felt like a better homage to Star Wars. And it was funny. This doesn't even have basic entertainment down.
Amroth: "Galadriel swam the entire ocean...?"
"Well... f**k me, then."
There is too much wrong with this show to be Tolkien's work. Even to call it an adaptation of it is disingenuous. This should have been a stand alone series, seperate to, but "inspired" by Tolkien. Were it that, I might stomach it. As it is, I despise it for the evil it does to literature, philosophy and culture.
They don't have the rights to the lore. Obviously it is a stand alone inspired by Tolkien. And if we add to it that they can only make cheap movies doesn't make it better.
It's too boring no matter what they call it
"Her contribution is that a man with a spade didnt do it". That was so awesome .
“Worms are well renowned for having fins “ ……..I’m crying 😂😂😂😂😂
It was the next evolution of the worm from Tremors.
20:00 the cut to GaladReyEl swimming in the ocean had me LOLing
the scene where Jake and Ellwood tell guyladriel that they're getting the band back together is classic Tolkien.
Genuine laughter from that one. Cheers
I thought it was awesome when Galadriel went after Jake with the M-16 and forgave him after he took off his glasses and gave her”The Look.”
You forgot to add how that scene moved you to tears, exactly like every other hater with the mentality of a cretinous 5-year-old. Still, I'm sure you'll remember to copy-paste it for your next retarded comment parroting this idiotic form of so-called "humour". ZzzzzZzzzz
A few hundred or a few thousand miles of swimming without any water while carrying a heavy knife?
Thankfully she never considered ordering the ship be turned around or ordered a male elf to carry her across the ocean.
After all thousands of TRAINED MALES ELVES had been put under an untrained female elf for hundreds of years
who dragged them through hell in her insane hunt for Sauron.
Appreciate your work. “We get a face that hasn’t been seen since Will Smith stumbled in on his wife with the pool boy.” ROFL
2:29 playing this part on repeat got me fucking rolling on the floor. that face is priceless.
38 more of these reviews and I am starting to believe that the 1 billion dollars have been well spend by amazon! Please keep up the good work.
Peter Jackson's crew was able to mix live action, matte paintings, and CGI with less money and made it work.
So it can be done.
When Eru Iluvatar sang everything into existence, guided the Ainur to sing his song, one guy’s pride decided to throw wrenches. Melkor’s hubris, tried to derail Illuvatar’s song. Amazon’s Melkor, the corporate satan doing the same replacing Tolkien’s music with post modern relativist garbage, tempting the likeminded and the weak to dance in the chaos.
43:58 "Now, if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, now’s the f***ing time!"
Did anyone else notice the star constellation was the Big Dipper. That would make middle earth our own planet?
Ya ok can we talk about that?!???
The big dipper did exist in middle earth. It is called Valacirca and was put in the northern sky by Varda as a challenge to Morgoth. It was called the plough by some or the sickle.
well, it was written as a replacement for Anglo-Saxon myths, and in the introduction of the hobbit, JRRT states 'this is a story of long ago'. So, yes, in a way it is our own planet. it's a 'mythic past', just like the Greek myths, the Norse myths, or those in the Bible.
I've always been very confused exactly what Middle Earth was supposed to be. I finally came up with the solution, it wasn't our earth, It was a mythic earth, Other-when, other place... not in any universe, any dimension... unless you can show me on a map where Mt Olympus, Valhalla, and Valinor all are. I have to admit when I first read the trilogy in prehistory (circa 1967) I thought it was supposed to be in prehistory earth... circa before the the end of the little ice age because he mentioned dragons, creatures from other ages, which I took to mean dinosaurs (???) and very large elephants which I took to mean mammoths. I will be honest and admit I was an easily confused teenager.
@mark martineau Are you saying that if you traveled to, say, Alpha Centauri, the Big Dipper would somehow vanish from its night sky?
I liked how Qui-Gon Jinn said to Guyladriel: "Every Jedi who ever lived lives in you." I was wondering if that was appropriate for children...
I'm listening to the audiobook version of The Silmarillion read by Martin Shaw. The subtly & beauty of that work, compared to the dull, wearying mediocrity of Rings of Power, brings the insult to Tolkien into painfully sharp focus. I can only hope people who discover his legendarium via this show eventually come to hate Amazon's sleazy product & reject it.