Rings of Power Review Episode 4 - It Gets WORSE! 

Love ya bro!! Thanks for the hard work!!😊

Friend, how you maintain the energy to cover this shite is one of the eternal mysteries. RoP is HORRIBLE, and not in any sort of fun or jaw-droppingly insane way, such as was the case with Halo in e1 and its routine denial of physics whenever the script writer thought she could jolt you.

you jinxed us for next episode fam ,no harfoots(obligatory Irish pronunciation) this week but next week it'll be harfoot heavy . XD Your explanation is excellent of why the tempest line feels so juxtaposed when queen is trying to understand and Galadriel just shouts like a child. "I have a tempest in me"

The actress playing Tarmariel played Crixus’ girlfriend in Spartacus season 2. Needless to say she was absolutely awful in that as well.

Two words: Boring abomination.

Says also the immortal who literally threatened a mortals life because he "apparently didnt know who he was talking too". Seriously, comparing someone to a horse (not even in a derogitory way, just figuratively), or THREATENING TO KILL SOMEONE over the fact that someone disrespects you (who kinda has good reason to disrespect you too: You ARE a prisoner after all), which one should be considered the bigger insult? The entitlement on display there is just stunning.

@@random.3665 its very telling that this new woke sees complete psychopaths, demeaning behaviour and manipulative powertripping as strength and independence and desireable :DD

How about a cow? Lol

Spoiler Alert: he does, the island gets destroyed and swallowed by a tidal wave thanks to him

@@admontblanc well, technically you are right, but I meant in the whole of the story (fanfiction). enslave the many peoples of Arda and fuck the Valar n'shit.

@@admontblanc Yeah, in the books. We can't know who sinks Numenor in this show, nor why will they do it, nor who's indirect fault it is, nor when it will happen, since this show can't take stuff directy from the books, and even if it could, it probably wouldn't because the showrunners are too narcissistic and are convinced they will do a better job than JRR Tolkien. In the books Numenor was sank by Eru Iluvatar because Sauron outplayed the Numenoreans and convinced them to go attack Valinor and sacrifice their children to Morgoth (Numenor had weary of producing braincells during Pharazon's rule, therefore that happened).

Sauron- er I mean Halbrand- is the only one who calls Cowladriel on her bull, too. Sauron is clearly the good guy, I'm rooting for him!

IMO the "writers" are trying to make Sauron and Orcs the heroes.

@@Lonovavir that’s typical of marxists to flip heroism on its head.

Orc lives matter...

@@Lonovavir The real hero of this story is the EMP that erases it from existence.

lul

So, the Producers against the Patriarchy took Tolkien's vision of Numenorean pride in the face of death of suffering ..Mythic, Homeric, Shakespearean...and changed them into MAGA Numenoreans to score a political gotcha point?

It's either infinite arrogance or infinite ignorance. I highly doubt they even read the original source.

I used to watch this show to laugh about how bad it was for the first couple of episodes but watching this episode honestly made me really depressed. I mean it's not an adaptation of some random fantasy books, it's Tolkien, it's so sad to see such a fantastic fantasy universe that he literally spent his life creating being turned into some political propaganda garbage about things like immigration. First it was movies, now TV shows and video games, soon there won't be a single thing we do to entertain ourselves and think about something else that won't be full of political garbage and messages about our modern society

Well put

Yeah, but you got to remember that you... haven't seen... what _she has seen!_

Hahaha Yes at this point I'm rooting for the bad guys to win and wipe all these horrible actors off the face of Middle Earth 😄

😅😅😅 totally relate to Sauron now

# Sauron did nothing wrong

yea except those of us who actually read Tolkien's work have known that since we were like 10 years old 😂

Sauron got a free pass to destroy Numenor as long as these dumb people will die off xD I hope he will destroy the asocial Harfoots too.

I did hear that line in my head as the wave crashed down on her and the child she snatched. 😄😄

THAT is why they never hired YOU to write for this show!

😂😂😂😂😂

Powerful, bold and brave

I'm still crying.

Oh, and when JJ Abrams popped up in a cameo and said, “ring making is like poetry…. It rhymes and we put the final rhyme in a mystery box so the kings want to find out what’s inside…” And then that moment where Sauron gave him 30 pieces of silver… Never saw that coming!

Feel like that's something the new little mermaid would say tbh

The queen of Numenor is just angry and bitchy looking the whole time too, I literally hate looking at her. There's a difference between being serious and having Resting Bitch Face, wtf

That's modern female empowerment for you. So brave so strong 👏

Man, when they put galadriel in jail i started clapping no joke hahaha

she act like proper modern wahman

Galadriel is close to 2000 yo at the very first year of SA. Or 20,000 yo if you take the later version by Tolkien of 1 Valian year = 144 Solar year.

A largely overlooked, recurring theme of these series.

Insert, “It’s funny cause it’s true” gif

Its not the elf that will destroy Numenor, it is Karen.

Episode 1 she demands to speak to the manager of the elves. Episode 2 she demands to speak to the manager of the raft. Episode 3 she demands to speak to the manager of Numenor. Episode 4 she demands to speak to that manager's manager.

@@HerculesBallsInc episode 5 she demands to speak to the manager of the army (and be promoted to general)

The Galadriel locking up the guards was laughable. I immediately hit the back 10 seconds to see if I'd missed how she'd done it. But as you said, they bottled it. So lazy.

@@arthurballs9632 She just shoved them in like they were toddlers .... so epic.

@@toddtaylor6506 They forgot to add the Benny Hill music.

I also love how none of the soldiers make any noise whatsover. You know, like, to maybe alert some guards outside that a psycho elf on her period is on the rampage? So revolutionary, so brave, such courage.

Aren't Numerians the best warriors in middle earth and stand at least at 6'+ in height?

I don't think you used good examples. The first and third ones are pretty vague as compared to the show dialogue.

Hey now. Don't be impugning clowns by comparing them to the show writers. (😉)

Tolkien was a Professor of English in Oxford University for a reason. They had high standards in those days.

@@rhuiden4086 I remember reading somewhere about a professor from British (I think?) university trying to pass the entry exam for the very same university from 100 years ago. And he failed. So he asked his colleagues and they all also failed.

The dialogues in the show are ATROCIOUSLY bad in comparison, most of the time they don't even make any sense, the characters talking are spewing nonsense (prime example Finrod's weird rock and boat in the prologue!), take any piece of actual dialogues between characters from Tolkien, and one will see that it's not only high souding, epic, but also has deeper meanings, important lessons, hell Tolkien came up with the whole proverbs and sayings of the peoples in Middle-earth!! "Yet oft in lies truth is hidden" "It's an ill wind as blows nobody any good ..." "And All's well as ends Better!" "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears." "But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls." "He can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree)" Even Orcs get one :). "Where there's a whip, there's a will" But actual dialogues of in one case a monologue of sorts are really something else: "And Amandil, becoming aware of the purposes of the King, was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed. Therefore he called his son, Elendil, and he said to him: 'The days are dark, and there is no hope for Men, for the Faithful are few. Therefore I am minded to try that counsel which our forefather Eärendil took of old, to sail into the West, be there ban or no, and to speak to the Valar, even to Manwë himself, if may be, and beseech his aid ere all is lost.' 'Would you then betray the King?' said Elendil. 'For you know well the charge that they make against us, that we are traitors and spies, and that until this day it has been false.' 'If I thought that Manwë needed such a messenger,' said Amandil, I would betray the King. For there is but one loyalty from which no man can be absolved in heart for any cause. But it is for mercy upon Men and their deliverance from Sauron the Deceiver that I would plead, since some at least have remained faithful. And as for the Ban, I will suffer in myself the penalty, lest all my people should become guilty.' 'But what think you, my father, is like to befall those of your house whom you leave behind, when your deed becomes known?' 'It must not become known,' said Amandil. 'I will prepare my going in secret, and I will set sail into the east, whither daily the ships depart from our havens; and thereafter, as wind and chance may allow, I will go about, through south or north, back into the west, and seek what I may find. But for you and your folk, my son, I counsel that you should prepare yourselves other ships, and put aboard all such things as your hearts cannot bear to part with; and when the ships are ready, you should lie in the haven of Rómenna, and give out among men that you purpose, when you see your time, to follow me into the east. Amandil is no longer so dear to our kinsman upon the throne that he will grieve over much, if we seek to depart, for a season or for good. But let it not be seen that you intend to take many men, or he will be troubled, because of the war that he now plots, for which he will need all the force that he may gather. Seek out the Faithful that are known still to be true, and let them join you in secret, if they are willing to go with you, and share in your design.' 'And what shall that design be?' said Elendil. 'To meddle not in the war, and to watch,' answered Amandil. 'Until I return I can say no more. But it is most like that you shall fly from the Land of the Star with no star to guide you; for that land is defiled. Then you shall lose all that you have loved, foretasting death in life, seeking a land of exile elsewhere. But east or west the Valar alone can say.' Then Amandil said farewell to all his household, as one that is about to die. 'For,' said he, 'it may well prove that you will see me never again; and that I shall show you no such sign as Eärendil showed long ago. But hold you ever in readiness, for the end of the world that we have known is now at hand.'" Hell even the simpliest line from appendices THE ONLY spoken line that they have for Second Age material :). "And Sauron lied to the King, declaring that everlasting life would be his who possessed the Undying Lands, and that the Ban was imposed only to prevent the Kings of Men from surpassing the Valar. 'But great Kings take what is their right,' he said. At length Ar-Pharazôn listened to this counsel, for he felt the waning of his days and was besotted by the fear of Death." (Appendix A) It still sounds BETTER than anything written by the show because it's not artificial, the main problem with the writers of the show is that they TRY to sound epic and imitate the Tolkien high style but often just screw up basic logic of the sentence or just make it weird. I am more sad that they will never adapt this piece of speech of Sauron to the elven smiths of Eregion: "Only to Lindon he did not come, for Gil-galad and Elrond doubted him and his fair-seeming, and though they knew not who in truth he was they would not admit him to that land. But elsewhere the Elves received him gladly, and few among them hearkened to the messengers from Lindon bidding them beware; for Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship. And he said to them: "Alas, for the weakness of the great! For a mighty king is Gil-galad, and wise in all lore is Master Elrond, and yet they will not aid me in my labours. Can it be that they do not desire to see other lands become as blissful as their own? But wherefore should Middle-earth remain for ever desolate and dark, whereas the Elves could make it as fair as Eressëa, nay even as Valinor? And since you have not returned thither, as you might, I perceive that you love this Middle-earth, as do I. Is it not then our task to labour together for its enrichment, and for the raising of all the Elven-kindreds that wander here untaught to the height of that power and knowledge which those have who are beyond the Sea?'"

And, for that matter, all their 'good' characters are generally self-absorbed unempathic monsters who show how 'good' they are by constantly humiliating anyone who gets even slightly in their way. You know... just like villains would do.

Villains are better than those so-called "Good Guys" cuz atleast they know what to do and what they want in life

My sense is that they were trying to make the evil character redeemable (or “good”) in some ways as a futile attempt at creating moral ambiguity. But since they’re hack writers, they couldn’t pull it off.

"They are like this because they do not know good from evil." - Marcus Aurelius

"I can fix him!" - That "Super Fan", probably

Writers can’t decide if Galadriel is a warrior or a rogue…

This was Amazon emulating Leia defeating mercenaries with the use of twigs......

But not in the right way

Nah in that jail scene the guards are just "they don't pay us enough for this shit" and they...gave up :), 'oh no the elf is escaping ahhh yawn, we'll spend nice quiet time in the cell'. It's hilarious how mundane the Numenoreans are in the show though, these men are supposed to be greater than Aragorn on average! They should have great strength, endurance and all that, physically they are on par with the Elves both in terms of height and physical capabilities! :) Indeed her using magic would make way, way WAY more sense, hell there is precedent in the lore, in The Hobbit the Wood Elves used special enchantments, spells that put people TO SLEEP!!!! They could have used this as a sort of callback reference, in any case Galadriel in the show has no any of her canonic powers! Even her innate telpetahic mental powers!!! Which is totally weird, INSANE even, how are they going to explain her becoming a sorceress type...will they go the cliche, oh she received a ring and it's all from that?! Ughh such an oversimplification and dumbing down! "They shouted and called: "Bilbo Baggins! Hobbit! You dratted hobbit! Hi! hobbit, confusticate you, where are you?" and other things of that sort, but there was no answer. They were just giving up hope, when Dori stumbled across him by sheer luck. In the dark he fell over what he thought was a log, and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep. It took a deal of shaking to wake him, and when he was awake he was not pleased at all." ... "They wondered what evil fate had befallen him, magic or dark monsters; and shuddered as they lay lost in the forest. There they dropped off one by one into uncomfortable sleep full of horrible dreams, as evening wore to black night; and there we must leave them for the present, too sick and weary to set guards or to take turns at watching. Thorin had been caught much faster than they had. You remember Bilbo falling like a log into sleep, as he stepped into a circle of light? The next time it had been Thorin who stepped forward, and as the lights went out he fell like a stone enchanted. All the noise of the dwarves lost in the night, their cries as the spiders caught them and bound them, and all the sounds of the battle next day, had passed over him unheard. Then the Wood-elves had come to him, and bound him, and carried him away." ... " Consequently Thorin was angry at their treatment of him, when they took their spell off him and he came to his senses; and also he was determined that no word of gold or jewels should be dragged out of him." The Hobbit If WOOD ELVES could do something like that, why not Galadriel who is one of the most powerful in those types of abilities! :)

@@clogs4956 She's a modern female protagonist. She's good at everything she tries because...reasons.

You deserve a medal for the work you are doing sir.

@@nt13987 I second that...

Honestly, "the RoP reviewer" would be a perfect subject for Mike Rowe.

To be honest I am rooting for Sauron or better the return of Morgoth …

To hit California? Yeah, me too.

Wish it would swallow Galadriel...and Elendil's useless, staring daughter (Why is she even in this?) ...and the writers...and definitely the Har-bits. I asked myself with the last ep "Can it get any worse?" Asked...and answered.

All hail the wave!

Okay..watching this channel and reading the comments, I feel compelled to give the show a second chance (I endured episode 1 and 20 minutes of the second episode, then couldn't stand it anymore), just to watch that wave 😁 and Sauron kicks everybody's ass.

True...I have no more tears of joy left to cry /s

You don't understand: Black elves are superduper compassionate compared with nasties white elvsies.

Also how the orc seem to share this human moment with him before he dies. You watch it in disbelief. It’s so unnecessary.

They trying to sympathize beings that were made by the ultimate evil to reflected his own corruption. I dont even know why they think that was a good idea.

At this scene it felt like they still had a little elf soul in them because Sauron made many elf to orcs with dark magic. It's why we see some orcs have elf armor and helmet. But in third age they are more fully upgraded orc and are hatred and forgot what they comes from. I don't defend the shit show but that scene make sense. Adar maybe is a another shape of Sauron? Or only a old lost elf that Sauron use to recruit orcs like a puppet 😅

@@niclas0jansson Orcs were made by Morgoth several thousand years before the events of this series They have been orcs for a very long time by this point

Xena and hercules had way better writing.

I am so glad someone else is as bothered by this as me!! Just makes the scene just look like a set and not a real place.

Lets hope he still gets the chance to make that Conan show.

For once, karma was on someone’s side lol

Seriously Amazon has given me a huge callous on my forehead from facepalming so much

I FUCKINg KnEW house of the dragon LOOKEd very Hyborian Age for some reason!

And who’s that guy?

Yeah he literally couldn't have made more noise if he tried.

To me it was weird that the boy (forgot his name) managed to get into the well so fast in the first place. The orc wasn't far behind him, but somehow the boy had enough time to get into the well.

@@rexomnipotentus387 And be under water fast enough for all the ripples to disappear

Yeah right, considering that the well would have amplified any noise he makes, all of the orcs should have heard him.

Hiding under water because he made a little sound, afraid someone could have heard it… then comes back up making 10X the sound. Great

Now we know why the plot was kept secret for so long including from the cast when they applied for their jobs. Even after they filmed it they wouldn't let the cast so much as mention it. Galadriel was an obvious one but the rest could have done any of the parts as most of 'em are made up anyway. Other than a couple of long term UK character actors, I've never seen these people in anything so they must have come cheap too. I wonder if it's a money laundering scheme?

@@tkps d'you know, I can't help thinking along similar lines....I mean, this bloody show is genuinely SO bad, you almost would think it was deliberate, you're not going to tell me that the good people at Amazon didnt realise this thing is a stinker, there HAS to be someone there who could look at this and see what a piece of crap it really is........we've now had half of the first season already, and we're told that season one cost nearly half a billion dollars, yet to me, one of the most obvious things about it, is how incredibly cheap the whole thing looks, and whatever they're paying for the writers is way too much for what they've actually got from them.........I know we all love conspiracy theories, many of which actually ARE crazy, but come on, what other logical conclusion can you reach when you see a show like this, with such a staggeringly huge budget, that is so completely, consistently, awful? Professional film-makers, scriptwriters and actors, the greatest work of fiction as your source material, a budget that would run a South American republic for several years, and THIS is what you make of it?? Logic would suggest that, surely, SOMETHING in the show would be good, or memorable, or impressive, most bad movies or shows do often have bits which impress you, but absolutely everything about Rings of Power is so consistently ludicrous, inane, pointless or just plain stupid, you cant help thinking "is it this bad DELIBERATELY?" ...........we wonders, precious, yes, we wonders...............

@@MichaelHill-we7vt IMO, this debacle is being set up to fail. We have writers who have no track record, activists pushing agendas, the alienation of long time fans, moving production half way around the world during series. It is almost as if Bezos is going to use the $1BN spent on this as a massive tax write off for Amazon. In the end it might be the American taxpayer that funds Bezos' purchase of the rights to LOTR. Even a billionaire nerd would baulk at paying $0.25BN for the rights. However, a good accountant will have pointed out that the rights could be obtained for next to nothing as a tax write off.

mexican food makes me fart a lot too. he is just using RL experiences in his work. normally thats a good thing.

And got paid a bigger paycheck than you or I will ever see..

I've eaten a curry recently! 😂

@@the_absurd_hero it’s fucking bullshit man. Seeing all the crap that suits unashamedly put on streaming services.

Someone got paid to write it.

"fake hobbits", it's like saying Numenoreans are fake Gondorians, you know that?

Harfoots are not fake Hobbits. They are one of the 3 original tribes that existed before they settled in and around the shire.

@@richardnixon7446 The point of calling them Fake Hobbits is that they're trying to invoke Hobbits without being called hobbits Numenor isn't a ripoff of something you remember...but it's something worse: a big allegory

@@joesmutz9287 they aren’t called hobbits simply because there’s no point of calling them hobbits, that word wasn’t even invented basically because the other species barely knew of their existence. And that’s not an Amazon thing, they don’t appear in the Silmarillion at all. Their first appearance is in The Hobbit, and they’re called hobbits, but the setting is the 3rd age. I will make an example, now you are complaining they’re not called hobbits, but let’s imagine if the Silmarillion called them Harfoots and ROP called them hobbits to make them more recognizable to the public, you would complain anyway. Your point is: let’s complain everything Amazon does because it’s mainstream. It is simple to understand the reasoning of you folks

@@richardnixon7446 I'm afraid you missed the point They couldn't do anything with Hobbits So they found something that would be the Hobbits they couldn't use The correct answer would have been to not have hobbits at all Or given how much they're abusing the lore, just have Hobbits despite them not really being usable Instead they took the worst of both worlds: They had their hobbits, but keep claiming they aren't hobbits so they can "technically" fit within the letter of the lore It's Amazon saying they're not Hobbits, but trying to pretend they're hobbits anyways Hence, fake hobbits

I was thinking the same fkin thing about that Boromir part lol I was screaming at the screen 'no! No! You didn't earn that!' 😅

To be fair they are shit shooters lol but i thought the same thing. I was like i don't care about the guy elf enough to worry if he died. He didn't even go into melee like boromir he just shot his little arrows.

even better, they held their arrows when Arondir, Bronwyn and Theo where taking a short rest 50' outside the forest, only to start shooting again, when the trio moved again...

@@mitchellpolinop7650 interestingly in the lore Orcs are actually a decently good shot with bow, I mean in book Frodo would have died several times from an orc arrow if not for his mithril chainmail! :)

They tried so hard to have an emotional scene

😂

@@sunnysied713 it's from when gally met saury lol

A man of culture I see.

😂

whats worse is in the kind of setting that this is 70-80% of all endevour/work is the making of or the preserving of food and related industries

Sigh I feels ya I tell everyone watch the movies if you like them read the books

foward 100 years, and nobody will remember. another reset is complete.

This is top argument.

Not a high bar 😂

It’s extremely problematic and downright transphobic for you to think two powerful women could be imprisoned by a filthy man in the first place. Reported!

LMAO

lol

adn went straight into weinstein's dungeon

And Mickey Dolenz's Locker, and Peter Tork's, all the Monkeys had lockers

She impresses herself every day.

That`s why There is no Celeborn and Celebrian. She has killed them herself.

GLadreeee hel simply marched 4 Numenorian armsmen into her cell, yep no Mary Sue here, then she Karened it demanding to speak to the manHERger and have her hosts bow down to her great epic leadership. This show is written by driveling idiots.

You realize it's not a Tolkien series, yet you follow this clown who expects it to be one? Heck, let's be honest, Galadriel is hated on so much in this series while she actually was a c*nt until she went to a lot of BS. Silmarillion even acknowledges Galadriel was a c*nt back in the day. She's a snobby blonde that wants to rule a realm of her own, as a Tolkien fan you should realize that. I really hate Disparu for trying to make the whole series seem like a joke, while a lot of stuff makes sense. I'm very sure that if we gave this dude the same cash flow he would make the series worse then it is now.

er hate to disagree but this show doesn't attempt or pretend to be, more like cut off tolkein's face and wearing it in the hopes we won't notice there are characters we are familiar with but they are actually strangers that are doing whatever they want.

@@georgebaldford3186 Ah, couldn't agree more, my friend.

My male incel friend

@@tdoom1354 "incel incel incel.. that's all I've got"

Yeah it's in the final episode where Tom Bombadil also begins mansplaining Galadriel her area of expertise before She-Hulk puts on all rings of power and says her famous catch phrase: "It's Morgothin' Time."

lol man

The actress who plays Galadriel probably has as much ass as a sock with a couple of onions thrown in. Would rather see Sam wise have a go.

Right? Obviously Thanos & Sauron should have been put in a room together so that Galadriel & She-Hulk could twerk at them. Problem solved. Empowerment!

The Twerk competition is after she falls out of love with Sauron.

🤣

Yes, this show makes me root for evil in the battle for middle earth.

You know a show is bad when you're rooting for the apocalypse of its world.

@@GoldenFava Which side is evil? After seeing that Galadriel and the Hobfoots will leave their injured companions to die at the drop of a hat rather than help them along, I'm pretty sure that everyone in the show is evil.

@@usererrer7493 great point. Typical post modern approach from these terrible writers.

it was the best allegory for female orgasm ive ever seen.

Foreshadowing at its finest.

no no no thats numino'RRR... just ask Galad"RRR"ielle

I’m thinking that Guy-lad-f’real is just Morgoth/Melkor in drag trolling his boy Sauron D’Lord. It’s “Da Rangz o’ Puwr!”

@@brockdavid or is it Guy-Lad-for-real? 🤔

I think this episode is the worst of the four. Episodes 2 and 3 weren't bad actually. Episode 1 was alright, but this episode. Holy Cow!

Brilliant! From Encyclpedia of Arda: "The name mithril comes from two Elvish roots, mith (probably 'mist' in this context) and ril ('glitter'). Mith has the secondary meaning of 'grey', but since we know that mithril not only had a silvery sheen, but was also fabulously light, it is surely the meaning 'mist' that is intended."

I'm pretty sure that with the orcs they're desperately trying to deflect the accusation that 'orcs are bad and they're dog whistles for black people' by both making the orcs good and giving them blue eyes and white skin.

True to the lore indeed, just the completely wrong lore^^.

To be fair though, one was an Orc, the other an Uruk-Hai. It would be like a group of Neanderthals and Homosapiens turning on each other.

@@5RndsFFE there's actually some debate on the exact difference. Peter Jackson makes it appear as though Urak-Hai are breed, but there is evidence to suggest that they are just smarter and more elite soldiers with stronger training.... so maybe more like the difference between a new army grunt and a navy seal.

those lotr 2 towers orcs were too misogynistic, and don't represent the current world. Amazon FIXED that Tolkien mistake, by making RoP orcs gender fluid gluten free vegans.

@@ohifonlyx33 Ehhh Uruks existed in Mordor for quite a while, being known as Black Uruk’s, the largest breed of Orcs. Uruk-Hai on the other hand we’re a sub set and creation exclusive to Isengard. Whilst it can also be said that Uruk-Hai simply means Orc-folk.

You can argue that the difference between the second and third age is thousands of years which can change the nature and behaviour of orcs just like how human beings are shaped by their environment over thousands of years. How English people behave now for example isn't the same as they behaved 2000 years ago. Also, orcs in second age were affected by sunlight which isn't a factor mentioned or alluded to in the Jackson's LOTR movies.

This tired meme is staler than your Mom.

Then the pigeon flew away. And in the theatrical version, Megatron looked at Ariel and said "All I could do was sit there and watch Ariel die." The director, Martin Scorsese always said Megatron was a Replicant, but I doubt it. When Melville wrote DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF MITHRIL SHEEP, he was adamant that Megatron wasn't a Replicant.

The dialogue is monumental... The sea is always right Rocks look down The trees are leaving Walls have ears The sky is the limit There's no place like home I remember when all this was fields

"I need you Galadriel, I need your magic, I need the old Blade Runner" - Gil Galad

If they didn't do it then, its happening soon. The Sauron-Galadriel thing is inevitable in the show. That is why they wrote her husband out of the story.

@@Jim-Tuner Which means Arwen can never exist in this specific universe cause Guyladriel won't give birth to her daughter for Elrond to marry.

@@moonlitskylight5740 Sauron could end up being the father.

Wait i missed, how is that skinny beard guy on the raft Sauron?

Nah-Galadriel and the Regent will get together.Female pathogenesis.

While that would be absurd, because the kid would know he has elf ears. So he should already assume that elf is his father. But since it's these writers, i can see them doing something so stupid.

That was grotesque. Wait no, it was actually Burlesque

Na she used her Jedi mind control not her Superman or sorry “superWOMAN” strength she has many powers but she is wise enough to use them separately or something idk nobody can save this shit show.

It's like the most CW Supergirl thing, ever.

She took a course in Elf Defense before going to Numenor.

@@bjornh4664 That pun deserves a cat ass trophy.

The area in the south of Mordor around the sea of Nurn was supposed to be agricultural in the third age. That was where the food for the Orcs was supposedly grown.

As a Third Age Total War fan, I can guarantee you, if someone were to travel from Harad to Minas Morgul, it would take a looooooong time

and they get about 200 peasants out of all this villages? Couldn´t amazon afford more people? Or did everyone refuse to participate in this nightmare of a show?

I agree (Boromir gets shot at the end of fellowship by the way!) It makes sense, it's supposed to be Boromir's pov, he can only focus on one thing. No one's injured in that scene, who's point of view are we in? It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work. Maybe they just want to look like they know what they're doing.

In the directors commentary on that DVD, Peter Jackson said that was done on purpose and was supposed to evoke the feeling of drowning. Boromir Realizes after the first arrow that he is going to die (metaphor: falling into the water and sinking) but he wants to redeem himself for what he did to Frodo. He continues to fight bravely, even after the second arrow. After the third he is kneeling and looking into the eyes of the uruk (Lurtz? Sp?) as he is drawing back his bow. Then Aragorn attacks the uruk etc etc The lack of sound heightens the very emotional scene because we actually care about the characters and want the good guys to win, which is kind of the opposite of this show haha

@@gianna526 " It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work." Just another example of the idiot showrunners using the techniques of more-talented, more-intelligent people without understanding *why* those techniques work.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who saw that they were trying to recreate that scene. RoP tries so hard to evoke emotions and nostalgia by mimicking scenes and dialog from both trilogies but they fail every time because everything is done badly

@@dronesclubhighjinks thankyou .

I cannot wait until the scandals are revealed from this show about the overbilling the underdelivering, The shotty work the bad CGI I cannot wait until heads roll roll and we get insider information on there information on the disaster that this production was and is and always will be

I think they're going to keep pushing with their bellies with the statement "Next season will be better" and so on.

This is true. I'll compare this show to Troy, since they both had huge budgets and were both ripping off classic literature (realllly classic in Troy's case) and because Troy used a similar setting to Numenor. Troy managed to look good while having expensive stars and big battles. So I can see why everyone's asking where RoP's money has gone.

Wait until you see the next episode... PepeLaugh

They all got left behind

To be fair, the actress playing Nori is probably best from the entire cast. She atleast is beliavable as the character she is playing. Most of the rest are still just actors in costumes.

This episode was one the worse things once made: Galadriel plot born dead and it is worse here ( if this is possible). Numenor's first look was gorgeous, a huge city plenty of castles, buildings and life. But after that, all Numenor was restritc to two little alleys and a tiny square that looks the same scenario filmed for different angles and with people dressed as elementary children. And, for God sak, who wrote this dialogues? A 6yo boy does it better. The biggest question here is: where they put the 1 billion budget? Amazon's mistake was let this series in so amateurs hands: weak showrunner, weak direction, weak acting... They thought that simply put "Rings of power" on its title would be enough to do it been a automatic sucess.

It literally looks like a random place in an old Star Trek episode. Pristine sets that don't look remotely lived in.

I'd watch his spin-off series.

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