New Rings of Power Preview BREAKDOWN 

Maybe they got lost and then got eaten by Shelob.🕷️

@@Enerdhil 🤞

I'm still hoping that the Istari is Saruman and we gradually see why he began to despise Hobbits Gentle reminder that he and Gandalf both have been keeping tabs on the Shire

Yes, I laughed out loud at Matt's sudden narrative halt.

The Harfoots remind me of the trolls from Frozen.

Same 😂🤣

immediately ran to the comments to see if anyone noticed...was not disappointed!!

When?

@@poilagratter2417 24:29 here!

@@milkompoukalo Thx!

Tolkien would have wanted his work left alone by this corrupt profiteering corporation

"correct amount of time discussing that entire race." (No racism intended though, they are just a sh*tty race... ok, I think I can't make it sound right)

😂😂😂😂😂

@@johngerardi6270 Nori and Poppy are good characters.

@@Ragar-ey5bl I liked the harfoot story more than anything else in the show but maybe thats because the rest of the show was bad enough to make the harfoot-part likeable in comparison

The pause is what killed me! Definitely intentional. So funny.

Yes...I feel like Tolkien probably had an entire story in his mind about that Arnorian noblewoman, but never got to writing it down. One can only imagine themselves what that would have entailed.

Cant believe anyone would consider watching after the first few eps of the first season.

@@MrPopo-nn7kpBecause it was thoroughly enjoyable. Was it perfect? Nope. But it was entertaining! Lighten up and enjoy it!

As the smokes his pipe with the light glimmer just show his eyes lol

🥸

@@Enerdhil 🥸 hey celembribor I’m not Sauron can we make more rings. I swear I’m not Sauron 🥸

@@DrewbattleTheGreat 😂🤣😆 You write better lines than Payne and McKay.😂

Just wait and see how it is explained. Celebrimbor doesn't know that Halbrand was Sauron.

It's not hard to imagine that just because we see Halbrand in his similar appearance that celembrimbor might be seeing a different version or person.

Exactly 👍🏼

I hated that people were so quick to say her character was ruined, instead of her character growing and changing over seasons and becoming the Galadrial we know and love.

@@superalex126 I actually made a video on her storyline, what I think they did right and where I think they missed the bus. Because I do think they had a purpose with her, the execution just needed work.

​@@JustInTimeWorldstrying to turn a static character into a dynamic one is not easy

@@agentspaniel4428 💯 and internal story arcs like that with no power growth is hella hard.

Gotta disagree here. Most of the other helmets are comically small. The helmet of Elendil for instance would be a dreadful experience in battle, as it clearly leaves almost no room for padding. Not to mention the constant expose-your-neck thing that this show does…

I agree with you on the look of the elves. I was very excited when i heard that a Lord of the rings TV show was being made. I heard about the budget it was going to get. I was so happy that Peter Jackson was suppose to be involved. I was expecting a look and feel of those Peter Jackson movies. Also i was happy to see the same tone and style of character writing of his movies in that TV show. Unfortunately when i saw that Jackson was no longer apart of this production. And the showrunners was from bad robot.My hype level went down dramatically. Because all i could see was JJ Abrams and the destruction of Star wars and Star Trek. Being a optimistic i was still willing to give this show a four episode chance. I was let down so bad i stop watching after episode 4. My biggest problem was the elves.The race of the actors playing the elves was never my problem. Elves don't have short hair. Nor do they have punchable faces. In old school star trek. We've seen many different actors of different races play Vulcans. Yet all of the Vulcans looked and feel the same . It did not matter that the actual actor was from a different race. The Vulcans character on those shows looked and feel like Vulcans. I did not get this on this show. Spock and tovak was two Vulcans from two different star trek shows and timelines. Yet both felt the same. We knew that they was from the same species without being told. That really bugged me watching rings of power. I love this channel. It has very good Tolkien content. Hopefully season two will learn from its many mistakes from season one. I will give season two the same four episode chance.

I’ve never felt like anyone has got the elves right

To be fair, Annatar is supposed to be the most beautiful of the Elves as a disguise

@@JohnPeacekeeper I always got that image of him. He was describe as being incredibly stunning in the most beautiful way. There are some men who is so manly that other men are just attracted to his manly energy. This is the way i always seen annatar but in a male elvish way. But this show seems like they did not want to go in that direction. There was nothing stunning about none of the elves in season one. Hopefully they will get annatar right in tone and feel in season two .

Never mind the dwarves...females without beards, black dwarves..etc etc...

"uh...I gotta go"

@@Caerulean that's a good one

I loved Nori!

Season 2 is shaping up to be great! The teaser was better than I expected and the promo images we've been getting have been stellar imo

This is the Tolkien channel that was always doing positive spin. It paid off in all the new subscribers.

@deanzaZZR Doesn’t make sense everyone knows toxic rage bait gets more views. If you leaned into that you would get way more subscribers

@@tevildo45 There was too much competition for the rage bait audience to make a lot of money out of it. Some people actually enjoyed season one, amazing but true.

​@@deanzaZZRhe either doesn't understand who Tolkien was or was paid well to promote this vile insult

I agree with this. People pretend to be repentant as a form of manipulation all the time.

So question how did he manipulate her when he was being honest from the get go? He told her that he wasn’t the king and found the symbol on a dead man which was true, he told her that he didn’t want to go back to middle earth and she basically forced him. He basically told her hey I’m not who you think I am or what you want me to be but she didn’t listen…

@@DarkSide_Gaming21338 you don't manipulate just with lies and deceit. You exploit your victim's weakness and he apparently knows what makes Galadriel tick.

@@PseudoNym100 that’s true but the issue is we don’t see it we see her trying to say hey you need to come with me and take your place as king of the south lands (even though he told her that he wasn’t the king). He made it clear that he didn’t want to go and he made that known many times. If anything I’d say she manipulated him but not taking no for an answer and guilt tripping him into going. Otherwise he just kinda did his own thing on Numenor and didn’t show any intention or want to go back to middle earth.

@@DarkSide_Gaming21338 some of the greatest manipulations are when you get to have the other person do what you want when they think it's under their own volition. He knows Galadriel will keep pushing him to do the things she already encouraged him to do. So he can easily say I don't want that, I don't want that, and then he goes with her and all the time she's thinking it's because she pushed him and not because it was his plan all along. You say he didn't want to leave numenor but why did he pick those flights and steal that Smithy crest? He knows he'd get caught. And in the fights his pride showed through via his brutality. Sauron really is a master of manipulation and the writers did a good job with that part by having it be so subtle instead of overt.

i agree here. sauron's manipulative and deceit is his calling card. but this makes the elves the answer of "fool me once, shame on you. but fppl me twice, then shame on me."

I am happy we get Annatar on screen for first time. But "delay" is because Annatar doesn't appear in lotr books. Tolkien Estate was late to wake up and give Rights to it.

@@sauron5666 so the estate relented?

@@dougmphilly they don't sell rights for anything than lotr and hobbit but Amazon got small bits like: using Annatar name, passages about Blue wizards and some 1st Age references to Morgoth and Ungoliant. I bet they wanted even more money for it. Remeber every comes and go around the money.

​@@sauron5666I think they can use blue wizards because they are mentioned in the books.

@@danielsilva-duarte571 they could certainly be part of it!

Edit: Finrod.

Tolkien portrayed the elves as beautiful, epic, powerful, but often melancholic. ROP portrays them as mortal, ugly, and petty. I wonder if they even knew that Elves aren't supposed to die of old age. Who the heck decided to cast Celebrimbor as an older middle-aged guy? Maybe Cirdan would look like that but not Celebrimbor.

Very well said. In particular Gil Galad and Celebrimbor have been my biggest dislike in the first season, the casting, acting, writing and character look/design for both of them has been very poor.

@@Nathaniel_ScottGil-galad looks very similar to Mark Ferguson and neither look old. Celebrimbor yeah he’s not the best casting.

Love the harfoots!

@Enerdhil agreed, and it doesn't need to turn into a argument on the internet spreading divisions in the fan base. God knows enough other fanbases are divided.

You can try to watch Season 1. You can quit anytime you want to.😁👍🏻

​@@logan3093 Yes. Actually, I do not like the series, but I think everyone has a right to their own opinion. I find that I can have rational discussions with fans of the series. Often I disagree with them, but I totally understand where they are coming from.

@Enerdhil I can really respect that. I went into season one, was let down, but my sister who was just getting into middle earth really enjoyed the show, and she has read the hobbit, for context she never reads, and she's only 9. Why my parents let a 9 year old watch rings of power, idk. But she likes it, and she's the biggest middle earth fan that I know knows all the valar by name, can name most characters from the silmarillion, I can't do that. I doubt she would've gone on her middle earth journey if not for her stumbling across the show. Regardless of its quality in my own opinion.

@Enerdhil also, sorry to ramble lmao.

Are trolls immortal..?

@@mokarokas-1727 No. I just presume they age really slowly.

Agreed. And I love that nerd of the rings is critical/honest but respectful instead of how vitriolic and over the top angry most RU-vidrs are. One of my fav channels

I wish I didn’t have such high hopes for this show..such a disappointment 😢

Possibly, though they may just be simplifying the Dwarven Lore to fit the accelerated timeline.

Maybe there’s a gathering of Dwarves on Kazad Dum

The Battle of the Last Alliance will be season 5. Season 2 is about the battle for Eregion.

wut She has two facial expressions in the show: smug and annoyed.

She is great.

The Terror is fantastic!! And I agree, he nailed his role in that show

I think his Celebrimbor is perfect.

Which is extremely refreshing

In his last writings about beards he did not include Dwarf women in his list of people who had a beard, only male Dwarves (The Nature of Middle-earth, chapter "Beards")

I don’t agree with your take on Star Wars Theory, he has put in enough time and effort to grow the largest channel in the world and is genuinely disappointed in the show as is wi the millions and millions of other Star Wars fans for their poor writing choices and sketchy acting

“Before his fall to the darkside” 😂 so because someone dislikes bad shows that you like they’re evil? Displaying your own dark side here I’m afraid.

Criticising a show means you've "fallen to the dark side" ? mindless consumer lmao

@@Rauruatreides I think getting non-reading audiences to understand how “good” Sauron was was a good enough reason for the show runners to do the mystery box. 💕

It's not that they are unnecessary, it's because they are evil.

@@cyclingnerddelux698 It seems that many people did not get that the Harfoots had to leave behind their dead. Members of the tribe who died because of bees, wolves or were killed in a landslide. They were left behind _after_ they had died. That's a completely different matter than Harfoots being banished for endangering the group. And the only one constantly talking about banishment this is Malva.

She was great!

I have a feeling you will watch season two, considering you are watching a 26 minute video breaking down a few photos of it …

@@staffo_xci8155 That doesn't mean anything. I've barely kept up with news on it. I just watch other stuff.

@@TheGirlWhoStoleAStar 🤷‍♂️ just saying, seems so much hate towards the show but people spend a lot of time watching content related to it.

​@@staffo_xci8155 People likes to whining about something just to be the focus of attention.

​​​@@staffo_xci8155 I don't want this show to do bad. I didn't wish anything ill on it. I love everything Tolkien. If this show pulled itself up and did better than season 1 I wouldn't be upset. I don't know why you assume I'm like a hardcore hater of the show, I just said I was disappointed in season 1. It's just hard for me to get back into it. This is like the first video I even watched about it. What are you on about?

He's supposed to be in this season. I believe he's been cast.

whoever he is I only hope he gets a white hair and beard - he is the only known elf who has these, so Amazon, better not mess this up again, like the female dwarves

I get it. As a Tolkien fan it's hard to understand a lot of the decisions by the writers and show runners. But just a few things I'll point out: yes, they've messed with the timeline of some events. But the second age is like a dozen bullet points in story arcs - it's not very fleshed out and takes place over what, 3000 or 4000 years? They had to compress some things. I'm not a big fan of the powers of mithryl as expressed in the series but the fact is that the elves' fate are tied to the fate and condition of the world. They had the need to express this visually since it's not a book story. So you tie the fate of the elves and the cure of the elves with something tangible. I'm not saying this is great or even the right way to go about it, just why I think they did what they did. Galadriel was punished for insubordination. A big no no for a soldier. Since they don't execute elves and everyone knows that Galadriel is powerful they set up a banishment so she couldn't interfere and press her will into the elves while there existed a high king of the Noldor. But I don't think they explained about the elves and going west well enough to incorporate it like they did into the story. The forging of the rings was definitely rushed. I don't think the world was showing very much decay by the time the elven rings were forged in the series, as in they had time to be creating other lesser rings first. They could've probably ended the first season with one lesser ring of power being created that shows hey, we are early in the story and don't need all the reveals to be out now. The good news about the rings being forged is that the part that matters the most is that Sauron makes the one ring after the other rings are finished. I mean it's like a 300 year gap between the elven rings and the one ring being forged. And again, we have a compressed timeline so the elves need to have had (or make it feel like) ample time with their rings before Sauron creates the one ring. I think they still have room to improve on what was done and that there's still time to have it make more sense in terms of storytelling. Telling a story by writing and by a live action are verrrry different. Books read like how the author wants. Films and series have to find ways to represent the art of the author in a very different medium. That's why many book to movie/series don't always work well. It's difficult to transform written expression into a visual story.

@@PseudoNym100 I understand the need to compress the timeline, but it still doesn’t justify the fact that they messed up the forging of the rings. To solve the time compression, I think I would have done it completely differently. Instead of a “Rings of Power” series, I would have something like “Chronicles of the Second Age”, (or something more catchy lol), where I would have split the series up into several parts focusing on different major events of the second age. So that each season is hundreds of years apart. I think it would fit the source material much better. Of course, I would only do it if i had the rights to the Silmarilion and the rest of the books. If not, stay away lol.

@@ShaDoW-uc7bn I hear you. I'd be lying if I said I was good with everything in the show. I have to watch it more with the mentality that's it's a story inspired by the second age rather than it being stories of the second age. My Tolkien side doesn't particularly appreciate it, but my easy to entertain side is okay with it. Lol.

Completely agree with everything

I'm sorry there was a *Soviet* adaptation of LOTR?!?! How bad is it?

@@Thrawn215 probs rings of power

​@Thrawn215 There was 2, one of the hobbit and another of lotr

​@@Thrawn215There have been 11 adaptions of Tolkiens works to film. TROP is the 11th, PJs LOTR was the 9th!

@@Thrawn215 Very. The film is fuzzy and they play generic club music over various scenes (like the Nazgul). Its on RU-vid, so you can search it up if you want.

Do they wear wigs?

@@danielnilsson9835will you wear wigs?

Ven will you vear wigs? 😂

Eh it's easy to just empty expectations and brain to consume and enjoy any show. It's also OK to have an opinion that's not totally 100% positive on stuff. I mean, people actually sat on their couches and enjoyed Bing Bang Theory.

Same. I consider myself a Tolkien fan, first reading Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales in the 1980's in my teens, and love seeing my favourite fantasy realm come to live. The rivet counters can get triggered if they want. I just enjoy seeing the show.

@caolanod2261 Rivet counters haha I’m stealing that

Lucky…. Wish that was me

@@tevildo45 I learned this term in model railroading. There's haters there too who don't consider "real modelling" if your creation isn't EXACTLY like it is in real life. If the actual engine had 35 rivets holding the side of the cab on, then your model should also have 35. if not, it's trash and you're not a real modeller. 🙄😆 wankers.

😂 A Dumpster Fire would come up with a more original story than these writers.

Edgy ​@@moondogg_monte

It was a dumpster fire though… I enjoyed it anyway.

If you tweak 💩, you still get 💩

Totally agree. There were certainly reasons she was exiled after the War of Wrath. Plus, when we finally see her at the time of the Lord of the Rings, she is thousands of years into that exile living in a world she knows has no place for her regardless of who wins the War of the Ring. It is nice to see the beginnings of that journey here.

There are lots of reasons why a 'bad ass' Galadriel could be seen as plausible. Who really has a problem with this, at base? The problem is that the character is dull, one-note, boring, etc etc. There are countless small choices - the written dialogue, acting choices (delivery etc), the scripted interactions, character psychology (both of Galadriel and those she interacts with) etc - which means that we have *this* version of bad-ass Galadriel, and not another. I think it's trivial to imagine a more coherent, compelling, complex, memorable version of a bad-ass Galadriel. Put aside her basic character 'type' and whether such a type is justifiable (I think it is): the writers of this show simply haven't created a great Galadriel. This version of the character will (based on what we've seen) disappear from memory leaving no mark behind. It's weightless and amateur.

@@dougmphilly the show really helped us, the fan base, think through the flaws Tolkien had written for her character. I still wish the show had made some of those things more explicit (like her desire to rule others) with some political talk with Gil Galad about not wanting to leave the land she was ruling, but perhaps enough was communicated when her troop mutinied her rule…and we’ll end with people willingly making her queen though she turns the title down like George Washington and makes herself “Lady of the Wood” instead.

@@mrs.manrique7411 perfectly stated.

@@trevorbyrne4668 i do think that amazon did not get the epicness correct. it feels live a live action reboot of the rankin bass cartoon versions. i find nearly all of the characters stiff. so the dialogue at times leaves me a bit cold. but galadriel's character in LoTR is not the same person in the Silmarillion. So what does a Second Age Galadriel act like?

I feel trivial saying it, but elves are supposed to be the wisest and *fairest* of all beings. They're supposed to be eye candy, the ultimate eye-candy in fact, and Celebrimbor is not nearly as old as a lot of the other characters running about looking barely out of their teens, Galadriel for instance. I'm not crazy about the casting of Elrond, but Celebrimbor completely takes me out of it.

@@LaJokanan Fair looking beings upset the Js who made this show and want to make elves into ugly muddies.

He looks like he was born to play an aged hobbit like bilbo not a regal beautiful elf the casting is just absurd

Celebrimbor was horribly miscast. I don’t know why they didn’t take a hint from Shadow of Mordor and look for someone similar. Unless they just wanted to differentiate ROP from Shadow of Mordor.

@@headshot217 The jews hate lotr and this exists to desecrate it for them.