Readers REACT to Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer 

Hopefully they didn’t just spend it all on the trailer scenes ;)

That makes three of us! ;)

Definitely long enough to bring the hype! Looks already like it will be much more epic than Season 1. Also felt like a longer trailer than usual? Or maybe that’s just our initial reaction

Yeah! They were released after the LOTR movies, but they take place like ~50 years earlier! I really enjoyed them too, Marty didn't as much ;)

Even the lines in this trailer where he is asking if it's his task to stop the fire and confront Sauron, and Tommy Bombs is asking him not to abandon the people of Middle Earth, that all sounds very Gandalf to me. But I don't think they will ever use that name in this show.

@@quirkyjoeAnimated this might have some spoilers idk it’s all been released publicly so don’t read if you don’t want to know what’s been stated about the second season so far…. the showrunners stated that the stranger will be named this season. There’s also another wizard (who is called the dark wizard) confirmed for season two played by cirian hinds who leads the “cultists.” Tolkien at one point stated that he believed the two blue wizards went to the east and that one of them fell to darkness and became a leader of magic cults. All of these things point to them adapting this storyline as it lines up almost perfectly in canon. On top of that Tolkien stated that while he may have traveled to middle earth pre TA - Gandalf never went east. This would also be before Saruman (what many people are assuming is the dark wizard of this season) fell to the dark side so to speak so that wouldn’t make sense for him to be the other dark wizard only to come back as good and then back to bad again… I understand why they might change that for this adaptation but I don’t believe they will. We will see soon though!! I trust the showrunners will pull this off. Their plans for all of this have been the same since before season 1 so I’m excited to see what they have in store!

@@colin4836 Thanks! Appreciate the spoiler warning and the info. I always saw the blue wizards as a pair but I am open to wherever it goes. I would also be fine if this IS Gandalf under another name, testing the water before returning to Middle Earth in another form at the start of the Third Age (with no real memory of previous experiences). And I would be fine if these were other test run wizards sent out long before the five familiar Istari. It is pretty good that they have the 50 hours of story pretty much planned out already. But it also makes me think they will save big conclusion stuff for each storyline for season five, and it's nice to speculate what stories the Stranger might experience in the next three seasons and to what kind of satisfying end. Excited for him to duet with Tommy Bombs too, if that happens.

@@quirkyjoeAnimated yeah I’m coming around to the idea of him being Gandalf but we will see. I’d be especially happy if he was a blue wizard though. One less thing for haters to harp on. I’m excited either way!

@@colin4836 „That Olórin [aka Gandalf], as was possible for one of the Maiar, had already visited Middle-earth and had become acquainted not only with the Sindarin Elves and others deeper in Middle-earth, but also with Men, is likely, but nothing is (has yet been) said of this.“ (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth - Part 2, Chapter XIII, "Last Writings, p.381")

I did see the full season but Marty didn’t finish since he didn’t enjoy it. Still excited to see what they do with season 2!

You're describing episode six, there are two more episodes after the volcano eruption.

@@joebobhenrybob2000 that’s actually exactly how a volcano works. But that didn’t even happen in the finale for one, it was episode 6, so your recap needs a little work. “Violent volcanic eruptions occur in large part because water is involved. The water is dissolved in the magma. The magma rises to the surfaces, the water makes bubbles that can turn to steam and the steam and water expand so rapidly that they basically blow the magma apart. That stuff piles up near a central vent and that’s what makes big volcanoes. If that water is in a confined area, like a bottleneck, there’s going to be a steam eruption - we call it a phreatomagmatic eruption. We see that happening in Hawaii all the time where lava flows into the ocean, and some of the lava can get blown around if the water gets trapped under it.” - Jeffrey Carson, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University, whose area of expertise is volcanic activity.

And here's me thinking they'd be praised for practically making Mount Doom instead of CGI 🤷🤣

This entire comment is one wrong take after another 😂

1) "The beginning of Hobbits lies far back in the Elder Days that are now lost and forgotten. Only the Elves still preserve any records of that vanished time, and their traditions are concerned almost entirely with their own history, in which Men appear seldom and Hobbits are not mentioned at all.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Rings, "Concerning Hobbits"). 2) According to the books Galadriel was not at all above the desire for vengeance, she was of "amazon disposition", fought against Feanor's Noldor in Alqualonde and watched the Dwarves of Khazad-dum "with the eye of a commander" (Unfinished Tales). The only magical thing about Galadriel is Nenya. And her mirror. Nenya was gifted to her by Celebrimbor and knowbody knows who made the mirror. Apart from that Tolkien never mentioned her using magic. The love story with Sauron is not weird, it's a fantastic reference to Osse and Uinen. Celeborn is back in season 2. 3) „That Olórin (aka Gandalf), as was possible for one of the Maiar, had already visited Middle-earth and had become acquainted not only with the Sindarin Elves and others deeper in Middle-earth, but also with Men, is likely, but nothing is (has yet been) said of this.“ (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth - Part 2, Chapter XIII, "Last Writings, p.381") 4) Wrong. Tolkien very much struggled with the concept of Orcs and the question of the possibility for redemption. Check out "HOME, Morgoth's Ring" 5) The great advantage of the compression of the timeline is that now, for the first time, the vast majority of casual fans will get to know all the big events of the Second Age in one coherent story, without Men and Dwarves dying all the time. That's the reason why the compression of the timeline has the blessing of the Tolkien Estate. As long as Celebrimbor does not meet Elendil and Isildur there is no damage done. 6) Middle-earth is full of grey characters: Osse, Feanor, Thingol, Maedhros, Turin, Saruman, Denethor, Boromir, just to name a few. And Sauron was called "Sauron the Deceiver" for a reason. Especially in the Second Age deceiving Elves and Men was his main strategy. 7) If you do not want lots of new dialogues (there are barely any ones in the books), don't watch a Second Age show. Many of the dialogues lines are actually great, like e.g. "I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence" 8. Most of the sets are real. Only the wide Arial shots of e.g. Eregion, Numenor are CGI. 9. Galadriel is clearly described in the books as a power women and warrior, and Middle-earth includes Asia and Africa. Elves and Men awoke in Asia, not in Europe, the Elves in the area of modern day Iraq, Men even further to the east. Galadriel's grandfather e.g. is an Asian immigrant. 1/3 of all the Elves did not even go into the West. They are the Avari. Nobody knows what happened to them and where they went. Arondir could very well be a descendent from Avari Elves from Tolkien's "Hot Countries" aka Africa. Disa might also be from a southern House of Dwarves. Only the modern day mixture of Hobbits does not make any sense.

@@anni.68 The fact you ate them up on every point just shows that these people hate for the sake of hating and have probably never picked up a book in their lives. Great job, you left no crumbs.

@@anni.68 2.) I would contest that Nenya wasn't the only magical thing about Galadriel. She lived for a long time in Doriath with Thingol and his wife Melia, a maia, who she was friends with and from whom she learned a lot. She had skills that humans would consider "magic". The mirror of Galadriel was made by Galadriel. But otherwise good rebuttal. Also, Tolkien himself had different versions of most of the stories and apart from The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings that were published in his lifetime, there it no single canon that can be set in stone. Galadriel is one of the characters that is probably the most subject to different interpretations even by Tolkien himself. Also, shifting of some timelines is necessary to tell a story that spans millennia in a concise way.

@@akaha001 Yes, Galadriel's description in the books gave even Christopher Tolkien a headache 😀 In the Silmarillion it is told that Melian the Maia taught Galadriel "much lore and wisdom about Middle-earth", not magic. And she taught her how to make Lembas :) Melian was one of the Ainur, her "magic" was an integral part of her being. She could not teach somebody else how to become a lower rank angel. Which does not mean that Galadriel could not use any magic. Finrod, Glorfindel and Elrond used magic, and Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor (except Feanor). Therefore I assume that she had the ability to use magic, too, even if Tolkien never mentioned it. Can you tell me any source where it is said that Galadriel made the mirror herself? That would be great.

@@anni.68 9) The modern-day Hollywood power woman is awful, modern Europeans came from Asia, Pontic Steppes area.

That’s some serious excitement! 🎉🎉🎉