Something I haven't seen anyone comment on is how Sauron tells the elves who brought the dead soldier: "Bury him. Show this to no one", when they're literally in the middle of a square full of people.
Why would they not even be the least bit suspicious about this? Shouldn't they at least ask: "Wait, why should we not tell anyone? Shouldn't be warn people?" Then he can at LEAST say something like: "I understand your concerns, but we don't wish to create a panic. We would cause even more problems if we did." Even that makes little sense, but at least it'd TRY and justify it.
I’m really digging how fickle the Numenoreans are with choosing their leaders. First an eagle shows up so everyone roots for Pharazon, then Miriel gets spat out by a sea beast so they then root for her. I wonder what’s next? Will a bunch of flower petals fall on Pharazon’s head, causing everyone to run back to his corner?
FINALLy somebody mentioned the ass costuming! My personal pet peeve about it is how they refuse to layer! Look at Boromir's outfit, you can CLEARLY see he is layered and even has mail included! The mail Guyladirel wears looks like hard cake candy got sewn in and the mail itself was cut to pieces!
The Numenorean moob armour is literally a plastic chest plate and underneath, chain mail print on synthetic fabric. It's all SO bad but the armour and chain mail is absolute dogshïte.
Can you even imagine submitting a story like this to a professional editor for review with the intention to publish it? It would come back with so much red and post-it notes that you could barely see the original text, probably including a request to never contact them again. 😅
The clumsy references to Tolkien's books and Peter Jackson' movies are so awful. Like did Gandalf actually learn the "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?" from this obviously non-canonical "Bom Tombadil" who actively interferes on matters concerning Middle-earth? According to my headcanon at least, this is something he came up by himself after interacting with humans and hobbits etc. for a millennia. RoP cheapens all of this. This is of course what happens when total amateurs are given the keys to Tolkien's world. Cheap memberberries and nothing worthy of their own. Zero subtlety.
Eregion is... teensy tiny in scale. I think one of the smiths was also one of the guys loitering directly outside the door in Celebrimbor's vision. Even when the attack happens, there are seemingly handfuls of soldiers, who react with something like ""oh no, we're being attacked". If building to a battle, it would make sense to make Eregion seem populated. Soldiers should assemble and do something more than wait for an attack. Civilians would arm themselves, or be moved into a reinforced structure. With Shows like RIngs of Power or The Acolyte, you have limited options in terms of real world locations and you can't just tell your extras to wear their civilian clothes. You're going to burn a lot of budget on CGI and set construction - compared to a show set in the modern day, where you can get billions of dollars in set construction and backdrops for free. The location shots are pretty. Some of the CGI is solid. But world building also covers having more than 12 extras to create a location that's supposed to be a city. The project was always going to put a lot of stress on their budget, so they needed ways to get the most bang for their buck. Building the Hobbit village must have chewed up some dollars, when they could equally have just had the hobbits stumble into just a random village. You'd still get the moral issue of endangering their hosts or a portrait of having a home, but you could have avoided stressing the budget and the pointlessness of the shire being the function of a prophecy. And it would have spared people the comedy of lizard breath. An absolute humiliation would be if the Daily Wire's upcoming fantasy show looks better or has better storytelling.
Also... why the heck can't Mirdania (AN ELF) read a Sindarin (ELVISH) sentence written in Cirth (ELVEN) runes? They don't even try to hide the fact they don't care. It's so lame it hurts 😅
I truly believe there is a mini series that we are not aware of... that develops the chemistry romance between not hobbits... the fast travels of everyone... and many other unanswered questions...also when everybody got the memo where southlands was renamed Mordor.... I mean, the volcano thing just happened weeks ago (shows timeline)
I can't stand this fake diversity ( who is in fact The opposite of it ), if they really wanted to add various ethnicities. They had the Haradrim, the Umbar pirates, the Easterlings in the Tolkien's lore. But the real goal of this ludicrous show is not diversity, it's deconstructing Tolkien's Work and destroy it.
This is one of the many episodes in this series, where its blatantly obvious that each episode is basically written in isolation, and the wirters don't care what was established before even within their own fanfiction. If this weren't so funny we'd need Maglor to compose a lament for this^^
I don't know how you manage to get through with this episode because I lost braincells even just watching Disparu's review to the point being indifferent to it. I hope you recovering your sanity after watching this series and pray for Eru for peace of mind 🙏
The Fellowship of the Wigs - who play as the Anvil Dodgers. Silently. We don't meet the citizens of Eregion until Sauron yells at them. They seem witless. Everyone seems witless. Everywhere. All at once. Tar-Miriel and the Wyrm was done waaay better by Andromeda and the Kraken in Clash of the Titans. And the music is dull and lifeless throughout. This is McCreary hitting the and mailing it in. It's awful.
> I think this could work if only there was more buildup and development, let's say the two Durins started off on really good terms from season 1 and as the ring enters the picture the cracks slowly start to show But they did - oh, wait, we aren't taking the timeline compression into account, are we.
I think you got it about the costumes, I was critical of the first LOTR movie(I still think Bakshi's is better) I wanted to edit them all together into something more cohesive but with copyright restrictions where would I show it(I already got banned on TikTok). 😝 Nine rings for the streaming services.
Yeah but it was still entertaining unlike this boring trashy fan fiction. You have to be really brain damaged to enjoy this because it is boring and has no substance or depth
Entertaining? You must be brain dead to think this crap is entertaining. Your taste in quality leaves much to be desired. This is an insult to Tolkien and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Even with the changes Jackson made, the trilogy is still true to Tolkien and far superior than this expensive fanfiction
In terms of story arc, Jackson added tension in the context, conflict and climax of LotRs' characters, by means of deviations at the detailed level of design, but always arriving in the resolution that Tolkien intended for the main characters and the whole story. Every change was coherent with Tolkien's conclusion. Jackson's exaggerations or enhancements of character flaws didn't destroy the credibility of the characters and the storytelling. Jackson's team enhanced tension, but they preserved the fundamental structure of the core sequence of events that Tolkien set up at the conceptual level of design. In the case of RoP, Payne and McKay are introducing deviations in order to build tension, but at a higher cost. Their deviations are destroying the original structure of the story about the Rings of Power and the Fall of Númenorë at the conceptual level of design, a structure that Tolkien set up in the chronology _Tales of the Years_ (Am4zon has access to that source material) and in the Tolkien Letter 131. However, Payne and McKay deviations are not building tension and are not improving Tolkien's cause-consequence structure of events. Payne and McKay's characters aren't having a convincing and compelling evolution towards their resolution. Tolkien didn't write his chronology about the 2nd Age just to fill in the blanks, the chronology reflects the aesthetic and philosophical core themes, and builds a credible process for the rise, apogee, decay and fall of Númenor. This chronology, and the storytelling in the Silmarillion, are still far better and have more depth than Am4zon's, even if Tolkien's chronology and the Silmarillion do not have a full prose development at the detailed level of design. "... wildly entertaining show", are you satisfied with the arc of the Stranger?
