LotR: Rings of Power Season 2 Is Here.. 

_Was there a problem with your meal?_ - Nerwende Artanis

Searching for hr😂

Hey Amazon, I didn't hear no bell.

By coincidence, Sauron's looking to be promoted to Middle Manager of Middle Earth.

Galadrrrriel

They can never take my dvd's! Collect physical media everyone!

Greed thru ideals it seems. That and the Tolkiens legality.

Don't read my name!

and in the darkness discard them

every minute an insult to middle earth. pure, unfiltered dogwater.

None of these films or series feel particularly like Lord of the Rings, neither are they faithful to the lore. That includes Jackson's trilogy. You aren't going to get Tolkien's decidedly rural and Edwardian sensibilities in any of these productions. That's not even a reasonable expectation. There are far more useful things to critique about the show than its strict authenticity to the source material (or lack thereof). For one, it's just not written or directed very well.

​@@g.lowenklee2268 The trilogy was at least respectfully trying to still capture the essence of Tolkien.

@@SkyClearsyeah, the trilogy will be remembered and loved just like the books.. this will be a footnote in history.. maybe brought as an example what not to do🤪

I grew up on this and i don't think you get it. Good luck on your new career as a citric

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if undercover feds were smart they'd wear one of those FBI "female body inspector" shirts.

It is just James O’Keeff with a wig and glasses getting government agents to tell him all the illegal things that they do Oh wait, he’s done that Twice Maybe Hollywood writers don’t realize that most of us are not as stupid as they are

I'm so sure his face reveal in an elf outfit here was just for the trailer. like, revealing him to viewers, though most of the time he had a different face. i can't believe they're so stupid to disguise him with just a wig... i just can't

wait I haven't seen anything lotr related, but let me guess: it's the blond guy with long hair

@@Dukhevych Which is arguably just as bad/even worse, because then there's absolutely no subtlety or mystery or figuring out his identity, it's just unbelievably ham-handed and terrible all around.

Low key god tier comment

That's completely racist against Orcs. Orcist? Orcrist. Now it all makes sense

Usual suspects 😂

Insane 😂

Racist!

This needs to be up there

He already knew this garbage of a show was getting a season 2 so he decided to peace out sooner.

For death and glory

Hail!

Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!

lmao!! YES!!!.

Don Lemonless*

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jesus😂😂

They will be squeezing all the juice from that half of a Lemon.

Don't forget the Dwarves also.

Woman power and girl bosses

Dark Elves?

@@Michael0663-qo4wx Women aren't the issue. Race swaps are.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

She was in Russia ?

Don't read my name!

Lmao

Joe Biden? I didn't know you had a yt account.

It's all very formulaic and played out

It reminds me of the parody trailer that The outer Worlds 2 made fun of.

It’s because it’s a trope, some time and time before this time.

All the brown noise made me feel like pooping, lol.

because it's the same sht music they use for all kind of movies like this

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If their figure of 100 million viewers in the first 28 days is true, then 37% of that is still a huge number

@@director5193 "Amazon announced that The Rings of Power had been watched by 25 million viewers globally in the first 24 hours that the first two episodes were available on Prime Video, the service's biggest premiere ever." except they didn't have 100 million viewers...

this is not tolkien's work, take it as an NSL sketch or cheap satire, they're making bad fanfic

RoP is NOT Tolkien. Its fan fiction based on Tolkien’s work

@@zeed33r To the naysayers here, you think these people won’t one day sign off on Tolkien’s works being dramatically rewritten for modern audiences and only that version being reprinted or sold digitally? Nothing is sacred or off limits to them. They’ll do absolutely anything to everything until society loses whatever is holding it back from going berserk.

@@Realdrlipschitz It's not fan fiction. It's hate fiction.

Lack of talent that's just what it is.

Forth, and fear no darkness!

"I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed." Perfect casting for Theoden. RIP Bernard Hill.

rip king

Hail Theoden King May he find honor and peace in halls of his fathers

At least he didn't have to watch this pish

This is true. In a more generic sense, Tolkien’s work exuded moral virtues and values and dichotomies between good and evil, and modern writers can’t replicate the greatness of these works because they (in a general sense, probably some do) have no moral virtues or values and believe in neither good nor evil and instead live in a gray sea of ambiguity where nothing has divine meaning.

Lord of the Rings is just our own lost revised history. You could literally view it through the lens of ancient astronaut theory, and then everything makes sense. Numenor is literally Atlantis. Elves and everything OTHER than humans are ALIENS. And they check out and disappear from literally EARTH for some unknown/said reason Plus, the universe of lord of the rings takes place on actual earth. That’s revealed at the end of the story, when one of Aragorn’s descendants in the 17th century finds a way to make it to the undying lands. It’s a popular story, because it’s the same one that’s been told over and over because it’s just our history given to us on the silver screen or in a book. Tolkien also claimed that he based the Lord of the rings on old, lost and forgotten manuscripts, that he found in the basement of the University that he worked at that was supposedly our own LOST HISTORY. You can say it was for marketing, but I do not believe so. The same story is told over and over again. It’s told by every ancient culture around the world, as well as every favorite fantasy or sci-fi movie you have ever watched. I hope people will wake up to this and know that the world you live in is truly stranger than fiction and utterly amazing.

​@criticalcog6363 George Martin is not religious and made one of the best if not the best pieces of fantasy, earning a name as renowned as Tolkien. I guess he just doesn't exist in your eyes? Religion is important to include in writing because so many people are religious and it is so intertwined with history, but to assume someone can't write a good story because they don't follow the exact same set of morals as yours is quite ridiculous

@@nickm.4274 The issue isn't that you can't have good writing without religion. The issue is you can't adapt Tolkien's work without his moral themes and modern day Hollywood seems to hate all the morals Tolkien wanted to express.

@@nickm.4274A lot of the dialogue in the LOTR movies and parts of the Hobbit was taken word for word from Tolkien's books. Tolkien was an expert in the ancient sagas and old english and the rhythm and rhyme of those old languages. Its almost impossible for a modern writer to match that dialogue. Martin's writing is uninspiring by contrast. Martin just doesnt have the majesty of Tolkien's words. And Martin's stuff is very derivative. There is no real comparison between the two writers. One is Mozart and the other is the woman who wrote 50 shades of Grey.

I'll make it quick and then do myself 😆.

5 total

Ten years my dude, ten years 😂

@@timothymartensen9040 😱💀

Choose the form of the destructor!

They just picked up some homeless people off the street and slapped pointy ears on them.

So true. ;P

You know what? At first I thought they were hobbits. Because they have pointy ears aswell.

Yup, I call them walmart elves. It's hilarious how bad Amazon's elves are

true!

The Marvelization of Entertainment.

THIS! I saw an article on my phone about the trailer, so the trailer played mutely as I read the article. And when it showed Galadriel & the others with the camera circling around them, I was like "oh no. It's the Avengers camera spin. why." I personally love the 1st Avengers film, but I despise how everything now has the 'Avengers team-up/camera circle' shot inserted into media for main characters. Not everything needs the same filming style. My mind just immediately goes: STOP. IT. Same for your comments on the trailers. I used to love trailers - even if the tv show or movie or whatever wasn't great, I loved the trailers & loved rewatching the trailers. I recently watched Miyazaki's "The Boy & the Heron" in the theatre with my aunt & uncle, so obviously there were trailers. All of us felt nothing with the trailers. The movie was incredible, but we all agreed the trailers didn't make us care at all about them or want to watch. It really makes you realize that while styles can change (2005 trailers aren't like 1970 trailers), there is an art & creativity to media & promoting media. Whether tv/film/videogames/etc. and that seems to be getting lost with so much material now. I don't get interested seeing stuff like this anymore. Some videogames still & Electric Entertainment (like Dean Devlin with "Almost Paradise", "Leverage Redemption" etc.) will draw me in. But the other stuff? I just don't care.

100% agree, I hope that this like trash music is just for the trailers. Cuz man that would truly ruin the mood for me. I have a fools hope that season 2 will redeem itself kind of like wheel of time did. But we'll see

I think the two towers trailer is better and it was pretty heavy with the epic music, but they prolly just used it better

The horrible 'Transformer fart' sound they make at the beginning of every trailer now gets so old.

Lord of the Gypsies?

Well, they have the hobos in the form of their knockoff brand of hobbits.

In the land of detroit, in a happy Hobbo-Hole, lives a little lad named Blimblo of the nine-fingers!

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Oliver Twist: The Legend of Fagan

But look a balrog!

@@Senorbenignhillarity Waaaaah!

Get a grip people... just because something is bad/average doesn't make it disrespectful.

@@blackdeath099 it does and its across the whole entertainment industry and you know it...trying to say otherwise is proof that youre part of it and push towards it also

@@Senorbenignhillarity OMG! its FRODO in rings of power!! better keep my subscription, stg these are the type of people they are catering to.

Literally the plot of season 1

Amogus

@@summer7603 AMOGUS!

If you knew about the second age you’d know that sauron is about to cause Hella turmoil in middle earth without having to do any fighting he hides among the ppl and corrupts them

@@aziandomination16 This show doesnt even know which age its in...

Yeah if with volcano you mean her own snizz

The volcano dried her up and the wave will remoisten her.

Don't read my name!

​@@whenpigsfly8178to funny 😂

@@whenpigsfly8178 BASED!! lol

THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT!

DO YOU WANT LUNCH?

AI dialogues, it's plain as day and they can't hide it anymore, now that they shot principal photography during the writers strike. Hollywood productions mandate the presence of a senior writer on set at all times, yet they didn't follow that rule, unless of course the script came from an AI.

I AM GOOD!

There is a tempest in me! FU!

We had so good in 2003

@@summer7603 Same. I've watched all 3 movies with my dad also. I was 17 when Fellowship came out, so like a lot of teenage boys, I didn't have the greatest relationship with my dad at that time, but those movies sure helped us bonding. I'll always cherish those moments.

The triple feature when Return of the King came out will forever be my favorite cinema experience ever. The only thing in 21 years that came even remotely close was Dune.

Fan fiction is by fans. Does not apply, here.

People hate on this show too much. One good season can change everyone's mind.

billion dollar project

understatement

It's a Jeff Bezos vanity project. He's a massive Tolkien fan and wanted a Game of Thrones of his own on Prime video. Profits are irrelevant in this case.

They don't care about profit. They care about pushing the narrative of diversity and inclusion, replacing all old original versions of any stories with newer "diverse" ones.

That line makes no sense lol. This is closer to what it should be then season one but they are already painted into a corner.

@@richardwallis9374 Exactly mofos think we're dumb as rocks

Among us 🤣😁🤣😁🤣....

LOVE among us, great game with friends and fiends alike.

the only, solitary reason i can imaginje for this to make sense is if it turns out that sauron split himself in two or something. we met one part of him last season and the other part had been hiding amongst the elves all along preparing.

Avengers assemble!

No no. Just drawing your sword isn't cool. You have to twirl it around so you can risk killing anyone next to or behind you.

and the BWAAAAHHH sound

I disagree that it’s fan fiction. Fans would do it better. These are people who obviously despise Tolkien and everything he made. They are certainly not fans.

Nailed it! Ever since Transformers won an Oscar for sound design in 2007 every friggin sound production took the samples. I’’m over done now & it’s not even done properly

I reckon it started back in 1997 with Del Toro’s film Mimic

writing is for the women ..

'IP mining' a term coined unironically by Disney's Bob Iger. He was a breath away from stating it more plainly; IP raping

​​@@arbiter8246 no it's not. I am a woman and it's definitely not for me. We are women,not tasteless idiots.

doesn’t even look good imo. looks so bad compared to Jackson’s LotR trilogy.

Really it just mean that the special effects team are competent. Unlike the writers.

I mean, thats pretty much Boromirs character arc.

To be fair, in the Silmarillion his return is just like that and the Numenor sink is basically "What is this Sauron dude? Let's beat his a$$" to "Wait... He is handsome. He is a Gigachad. Let's take him with us... Ohhh Nooo! The evil dude is evil".

This dude doesn’t know who annatar is lmao

@@rottingout6667 was Annatar in human form before his elvish form as written by Tolkien himself?

That's literally Tolkien's story. You guys are so obsessed with just being angry all the time lmao..

@@FirewynnTV I can hope to only enjoy this piece of art in its own form. I know he shape shifts into images of his own creations, werewolves along with other beasts

Rings of Power brought to you by Columbia University students

They still havent fixed the armor, just made the main cast not wear any to make it not obvious. The extras are still wearing 3d printed chainmail shirts made of cloth.

You mean you were not impressed when they Avengers assembled?

And the Galadriel fight scenes are a travesty. XD

I mean Aragorn exists, who is like the exact opposite of toxic masculinity, and he came from Tolkien’s works. So, maybe he wasn’t so bad after all.

​@@brycevarcho8374nah nowadays if you sliped one time you sliped for eternity

All I know is that if we don't get enough genetics within our local half foot community then I will simply despair 😭

Nah, man. Aragorn is trans now.

@@banhammer3904 he always was trans, and so was Arwen, they were an interracial trans couple, didn't you know?

Yeah, the Ring is to keep them in the darkness, the darkness is the destination.

They should put guyladriel when they show that phrase cuz someone was definitely binding her chest up harder this season. She's flatter than s1. You could surf or iron your clothes on her.

That would require more than the most passing knowledge or care about the source material, which its clear that the showrunners lack.

The darkness facilitates the binding, yesss

But Baldur's Gate 3 had good writing! It's way better than this drivel!

@@randompseudonym4519 Yep. Can't argue with that one

It was greenlit by the orc who run their HR department. The same orc who fire employees on medical leave, put employees on performance plans etc. That orc is a real Excel wizard so it was only natural that he would also make creative decisions for Prime.

Literally Bezos

​@@fomobull4187we want the real second age akallabeth not this bullshit

Larry F1nk greenlit it

Nobody with merit

This is Sauron we’re talking about. Not making any excuses for the show, but if anybody could fool some of the Elves, it would be him.

Writers nerfed them lol

If can't write smart characters, you just make everyone around them stupid

You're talking about the species that doesn't know what alloys are, not even their most talented blacksmith.

with incredibly cheaply made face prosthetics too! They couldn't recognize him with a silly wig on! Omg...

That's a bit over over exaggeration... Most people have fish brain memories rage in the moment then they move on.

Different actor

@@drtyprior r u trolling? its the same actor

it's already woken everyone up

Based on the downvotes on the trailers, it’s about to be a rough time at Amazon lol. I’m sure they’re getting the false-flag anti-black posts ready to go as we speak. “You racists!” and “You Misogynists!” were already used last season to try to deflect criticism, but I bet they’ll use those same tactics this time around.

@@moonthekiller1564 *Made everyone fall asleep

@@tiestofalljays They'll be working on manipulating review and audience scores again

@@tiestofalljays Doctor who: hold my beer

This, they did this just to use the comparison hype. They honestly just dropped the trailer at the same time to say "You just saw shit, now come here and see something good".

It's what streaming services do instead of dropping diss tracks

Yet you'll still watch it just to keep b*tching about nothing....

​@@maxKP51 Imagine bitching at a show worth bitching about, what a shocker.

@@maxKP51 it's literally worth watching for the memes, just like the Halo series

bet

I really thought it looked fine I really don't know how you can make TV look better than that visually and sounded great too

Like a YT movie

product of propaganda

Billy May's: But wait, there's more!

Knowing its worse than season 1 without seeing it, what are you nostradameus, no your just a hater nothing more. If you dont like it dont watch or talk about it watch something else and spare us your whining

⁠@@ybtcpro960 it’s called Inference. He formed a conclusion based on previous evidence and facts. Just because you may have no clue of what that looks like it doesn’t mean others don’t (hint: it’s what helps most of us make decisions). Regarding the whining part it’s seems your even worst, you’re basically whining that he’s whining. Either let him vent his grief or move on, nothing worse than someone who thinks they know what should be important to others (and yes, you know you came here just to whine and make others feel inept)

@@Fynorios inference. No they had made there mind up they hated it when it was concieved nothing less

i laughed when i saw it. It's bad.

She doesn't belong their

She had 3 minutes of screen time in the first season, but they baited hate clicks by putting her on every poster. Shows as activism, it is Amazon Prime's strategy confirmed by production sources.

They showed her leg the last season I almost lost my lunch

​@@TheZapan99I mean, don't forget that the motion picture academy stated several years ago that they were implementing strict diversity quotas...you MUST have certain percentages of perceived minorities in your project.

I wouldn't pollute my eyeballs and watch this thing. I'm happy to see clips while others rag on it.

This is not content worth sailing the seven seas, it's just thrash.

Bruh you'd have to pay me just to watch this rubbish

We need to make a DEI bingo card.

I will just watch the videos of people making fun of it.

No they'll do everything it takes to taint JJR Tolkien's work in the name of Diversity and Inclusion...but yeah I agree and it's insulting.

'we're back in Middle-earth' Umm... we're really not.

I agree with the hobbits, but the elves, Aaragorn and the wizards are super heroesque, like how demi gods from history have a super hero feel to them if only due to them having abilities far greater than normal humans having.

@@iguran6035 I'd argue that Gandalf gave off more of a angelic feeling rather then a heroic, with his actions of trying bring people to do good. Aragorn definitely gives off a more super human vibe though were introduced to him as strider and thus see him in a state of a distrusted lone man at a bar with a ragged appearance. His transformation and growth into becoming the superhuman figure he becomes is a result of his continued selflessness and good actions.

​@brydonthunder well Gandolf is symbolic of Jesus so....

​@@iguran6035 They're neither regular folks nor supeheroes. At some point Dungeons & Dragons got heavily influenced by comic books and pushed the power scale off the charts. Which isn't a bad thing if you want to offer your characters a way to progress from nobodies to heroes and eventually to superheroes or even gods, depending how far you want to push it and what kind of experience you're looking for. When most people think of fantasy they might have that style in mind. But this has nothing to do with Tolkien's heroes. Some are regular folks, some are immortal beings, but they're all bound to hard limits. Except for the wizards.

Apart from the landscape shots (which are usually rather nice), the rest of the show looks amazingly cheap from the costumes to the props. Even the dwarven ring of power looks misshapen and shitty, like something you'd get out of a vending machine.

Don’t be concerned the first episode will do incredible with hate watches then the show will fall into an endless abyss

@@thetrashcanman7537 You're absolutely right. EVerybody gotta get paid on youtube too.

Yet the irony is that you can cut legless from the movies, and nothing changes... He couldn't even shoot down the berserker in the two towers... I don't even remember him having much to do in the books

@@Keln02 Come to think of it... Gimli was responsible for Moria. Aragorn was Aragorn. Merry and Pippin played their part in the fangorn forrest. Sam literally carried the whole thing. WTF did Legolas do that had any impact on the story? Edit: love the answers. Keep them coming 😂😂

@@bananasaur5209 he was helpful in the pursuit for Merry and Pippin... kinda

@@Keln02 He saw stuff that was really far away and shit

@@bananasaur5209 He told Aragorn where they're taking the hobbits to. Also, he slid down stairs with a shield as he fire arrow on the way down like it's some tony hawk skater pro game.