The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series

👉🏾 NOW A DEBATABLE AND DESERT LAND 👈🏽

“Yester-eve” really stood out to me as well. There’s a lot of straining for heightened language which doesn’t work, and I just don’t understand how no one noticed how stilted and awkward it can be.

I’m still not used to emotional elves.

but how did the land name change happen, was there a referendum or what

It was a vibe shift

the land name change is like when you throw the one ring in the fire and letters appear, but with a volcano

the land name reveal parties are getting a bit over the top, i blame the elves

we very much need to see orcs in ordinary down-time, chatting, chilling, not pillaging, debating small local issues like borough signage, ash clearance, bin collections

Hear me out but as the orc tele-cinematic universe expands maybe we can get the occasional trade dispute between rivals. Or complaints about orcs “juking the stats” with regards to manflesh supply.

xp arguing over who the bins get delivered to..

Enjoy a last trailer?

Is there only one episode left this season? Jesus

So, so bad

orcs in ordinary down-time, chatting, chilling

I remember that scene in the Hobbit

loveable cockney trolls

title card reveal:
BOW BELLS

Gotta love the defensive tone in some of the responses!
"Look, you nerds..."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-criticism-response-1235234018/

Those are all minor criticisms, although I guess it would weird to expect the Hollywood Reporter to be like "why is the dialogue so bad? why doesn't ANY of it make ANY sense?"

surprised i didn't realize till now that one of those guys is ex-stylus-mag

Hollywood Reporter should have just shown them mark s's comments from this thread.

next can we put alfred in charge of narnia

(self xp)

ent fap

terrible episode. so many times i wanted to scream "get on with it" at the tv.

When Alfred is done with fixing LotR and Narnia, there are a few other fantasy franchises that need fixing (ahem House of Time, Wheel of Dragons, etc.).

would watch Tolkien Jeopardy

"This author was a serious fucking nerd."

*views season finale*

*throws hands in air*

Christ on a bike.

STOKED FOR THE PUKELMEN

celebrimbor just baffled by the smallest amount of smith-science, "an alloy you say, what an intriguing suggestion"

*wildly googling "eloi"*

"those words, HAIL THE NEW FLESH -- where did you hear them?"

time to fuck sauron

it'll need to be something… smaller (hobbit-sized)

really darth mauled the cool-looking non-canon character there

That was...frequently hilarious.

its a comedy like breaking bad

i'm good!

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i haven't been posting in here too much because i don't want to be too negative and i do think that in some ways the show is a good time.

but episode 5 took me _three_ different attempts to get through. this giant's storyline is unintentionally hilarious. the galadriel scene where she trains the soldiers was tedious (in that you can predict how the entire scene goes, before it happens) and a weird obvious nod toward getting a some sort of fighting choreography emmy, with the playful music in sync with the swordplay. i watched all of the hobbit trilogy on an airplane. i feel like that when i am watching this show.

not that imdb knows anything, but it had episode 5 as the worst and episode 6 as the best of the season (this was before the finale was up). a friend told me that if i didn't like episode 6, i could just give up. i'm just trying to get through episode 6. but i have the feeling ep. 6 is the best because there's more CGI / big battles? my hopes are low. but i know that hope is the very last thing to go, before the darkness, and the very first thing to return..

I myself have been equivocating but I think I'm ready to admit this show is... really not good

By which I mean that I don't desire to see more of it

If we can't be glad because Amazon spent a billion or so dollars giving us an amazing extension of the Middle Earth story to enjoy, then we can at least be glad that Amazon wasted a billion or so dollars making something we can easily walk away from and ignore while we find better things to do with our time.

i will never find better things to do with my time

I was uncertain why it made such a thing about Elrond finding the scroll in the water, when all it tells him is that Halbrand isn't who he says?

I guess it's supposed to be Portentous in terms of Future Events and Internal Conflict. Thrilling.

its a comedy like breaking bad

Well now it's funny you should say that:

“Season one opens with: Who is Galadriel? Where did she come from? What did she suffer? Why is she driven?” says Payne. “We’re doing the same thing with Sauron in season two. We’ll fill in all the missing pieces.”
“Sauron can now just be Sauron,” McKay adds. “Like Tony Soprano or Walter White. He’s evil, but complexly evil. We felt like if we did that in season one, he’d overshadow everything else. So the first season is like Batman Begins, and the The Dark Knight is the next movie, with Sauron maneuvering out in the open.”

(I want to hurt these people.)

I appreciate the tartness here:

That’s not to say there haven’t been highlights in Rings of Power’s debut. It and its characters have often stalled on repeating the Tolkienesque themes of hope in the face of despair over and over, with what has essentially just been increasing amounts of despair—but as simple that it is, there’s still something charming about it. And, of course, it has continued to be a ridiculously pretty show, gleaming with the millions upon millions of dollars at its disposal. “Alloyed” carries this on much the same, but in a madcap 70 minutes that both feels like too much and not enough is going on. It does, however, actually take a step forward in the long narrative of the Second Age it reveals to us, for all that aesthetic glimmer, what we’ve experienced every week for the past few months was both incredibly obvious and, at the heart of it, quite empty.

I was going along with it, enjoyed ep 6 a lot, but this final episode. oh no. oh no no no

Truly. (And Episode 6 was the best and also stupid as fuck, per my comment earlier.)

yeah I was going along with it, this will all work out in the end. just tweaking the story to make it a viable TV show. all the obvious and completely stupid plots will just be misdirection etc. whoops

CelebrimBORING, amirite

what if instead of swords we made something smaller…
yes…
three…salmon forks.

quite a flurry of naff shoehorning, kinda ruined the dull yet beautiful vibe of the rest of the series imo

all i know is i still have a slight outside chance that the bob odenkirk wizard is going to turn out to be tom bombadill (private theory)

Looks like a number of torrent sites had the South park LOTR video quest episode upped as the LOTR series episode 8 yesterday.,
I hadn't seen it before, not sure how much of South park I have seen though.

Rhys Ifans wizard, call him by his name.

"It would be... smaller.. than previously imagined" was prime Palin-channelling.

I suppose that the next series will start with what Eärien saw?

I have completely forgotten in which state we left Theo and his blended family, and it is bliss.

All in all though, this wasn't significantly worse than any of the other episodes except 6, unless, I suppose, you're viewing it as a mystery?

https://lathamgreen.blogspot.com/2022/10/bilbo-and-gandalf-tale-from-undying.html