On the bright side, this makes clear that this mess doesn’t take place on actual Middle Earth, where the sun rises in the East. This is Bizzaro upside down Middle Earth… where nothing matters.
@@troffle Hard to, when YouPoop bl0cks most of my comments, even if I replace certan characters in certain words, but I'll try. It's bad on purp0se. Not just this show, but pretty much all on them. First, they want to subvert old cultural ic0ns and replace them with their own. Their ideo|0gies make no sense, so a show depicting those are bound to make no sense either. Second, it's about dumbing pe0ple down, c0nditioning them to accept illogical things without asking questions. There is nothing more valuable to the people in charge (not the p0liticians, but the m0ney men giving them orders) than a population that accepts illogical things without questioning them. And what better way to condition them, than to bombard the entertainment that EVERYONE consumes with such nonsense? Worldwide? Third, if you only feed people this nonsense, then after a while, the masses will gladly accept "entertainment" of the lowest quality. Which is cheap and easy to produce. So in the long run, it gives them both direct and indirect ways of gaining p0wer, c0ntr0l and m0ney.
*Orcs:* have trebuchets capable of sending boulders flying over a river and destroying the side of a MOUNTAIN. *Same Orcs:* don't aim trebuchets directly to the only front wall of Eregion to destroy it from a safe distance.
What really happened (according to Unfinished Tales): Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, and went to Eregion (Eregion is a land, not a city); Celebrimbor welcomed him as such. 200 odd years later (lol), the smiths began making the rings of power. Sauron then went to Mordor to make the one ring. Celebrimbor found out about the ring and sought counsel with Galadriel, who suggested they hide the rings, never to be used while the one ring existed (it was at this point that the rings should have been destroyed). Celebrimbor gave two of the rings to Gil-galad, and Galadriel got the third. Sauron returned to Eregion with an army and laid siege to the land. A force of Elves was sent by Gil-galad under Elrond to help but they were driven back, and Elrond took refuge in a valley where he later built Rivendell. Celebrimbor was slain and Sauron took the remaining rings (and at some future date gave them out to Dwarves and Men). The Dwarves of Khazad Dum attacked Sauron's forces in the rear, but they were unsuccessful and were forced to retreat back to Khazad Dum. Sauron then marched west to attack Gil-Galad, and it looked like it was all over for the Elves, when suddenly a massive Numenorean army landed and crushed Sauron's orcs. Sauron then fled to Mordor promising revenge on Numenor.
The three elven rings were crafted last, after Sauron left, without his involvement. Celebrimbor just used the skills he learned form Sauron to create them. That's why the elves thought they were absolutely safe until the one ring was forged.
See...? Why couldn't they just adapt this??? Did they not learn from the HUGE success of the movies??? Just bring Tolkien's work to the screen, as best you can! Of course some changes will have to be made, but the fewer the adaptations, the better!!! And boom!!! Sit back and watch all that money come in, as people go nuts about the show!!! But nope!!! The show runners believed that they could do these stories better than Tolkien Himself!
The show runners read this quote " Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." Then did no additional research and wrote the skeleton of their story. In the order the passage describes. Once they figured out they got the order wrong it was too late.
@@HughSmith HOW WAS ANY OF THIS PRODUCTION ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WITHOUT RESEARCH AND EDITING? I absolutely don't buy this story, simply because they DID have Tom Shippey on staff for at least a day. They had to find an excuse to axe Shippey.
One thing made me pause and scream "nooooooo" during the series episode: Celebrimbor tried to hummer his shackles to break them, but when he finds the thing that is made for cutting metal, he decides to cut his thumb off? Wait! What!? Nooooooooo😂
The metal cutter is sort of like a paper cutter. It probably works very well on thin sheets of metal. I doubt it would have worked on those thick shackles. Probably would have needed a hydraulic press to cut clean through the shackles. One thing Cellie-bellie didn't do was stick something between the shackle rings and hammer them that way.
@@BrianD0313 You are right! The shear is for thin stock, but you would think he could have figured another way outta those shackles than pairing his thumb off! The dolt!!! What else should we expect from Keebler-boring-bimbo!?
I love how nobody calls Celebrimbor by his name, every youtuber has their own nickname for him. There's a gag in Spanish speaking youtubers where they call him Aunty Josefine, the stereotypical elderly aunt/grandma who likes to cook for you, always comments on how tall and handsome you've gotten and worries when you're not wearing a sweater and it's cold outside.
Actually I rather liked the first one, it seemed to follow the book pretty well. The second and third installments were, um, well…shall we say, utter departures from the source material.😢
The path you walk is made of sea water, and the sea is always right. So always keep your feet facing downward, because even a stone cannot look upwards like a boat can. 🙏
The battle was nonsensical, eregion had 10 elves defending it, the orc numbers went up and down whenever the plot required, there was no sense of scale or location
No no no, when the small group of orcs teleported across middle earth to eregion they obviously got duplicated, that's also the reason why the super soldier elf is gonna live, that guy with a sword in his stomach was his teleportation clone. i think SOMEONE just didn't follow the plot! 🧐
@@TheHumanVoiceBox it works better if you think of it like a video game with really limited capabilities. Theres only like 10 elves because that’s the npc limit. You can have a billion orcs as background, but they have to keep spawning them in because any more than 10 active ones on screen at a time crash everything
Critical Drinker did, rather than an episode review specifically, a review of The Three Elements an on-screen battle needs, comparing this one to Helm's Deep. Absolutely worth it.
@@troffleyep, that was one of his finest synopsis of the glaring differences between Helms Deep and this mess of an episode. the writers are either completely incompetent, or just plain lazy?
Durin III's rallying speech is extremely embarrassing to watch even when your alone. Both Durin & Disa's Scots accents are over the top annoying. Why do the dwarves have to be Scottish?
Thank you for your service, and sacrifice. I’m a Tolkien nerd for over 50 years, and watching great critiques like yours is the only way I will watch the abomination of RoP. “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I like that celebrimbor explaining saurons plan was meant to be a look how crazy he sounds yet all it did was emphasise how stupid saurons plan really was.
We used to have the skill to translate content to movie, but not the means to make fantasy movies. Now we have all the means to create fantasy movies but not the skill to translate content to movie.
They also stole Obi Wan’s line from A New Hope- “they’ll be back, but in greater numbers”. I swear these amateur “writers” just pull random movies out of a hat, and just steal parts of them? 😂
They have ONE episode left to wrap up 4 storylines for the season, that none are even close to wrapping up. Episode 8 is going to be a mess that ends all the storylines on a bunch of cliffhangers.
@@RoseBaggins I mean even if the last episode is super long, we know, Sauron & Galadriel fight. What happens with Adar? Are the Ents showing up to clear the damn of the River? (They can’t stop ripping off Peter Jackson, so you know that’s happening). Do the Dwarfs show up to the battle? They’re going to tease the Balrog again. What about Durin 3? What is going on with Isildur? Who’s in charge of Numenor now? What vision will Palantir show someone? Will Not-Gandolf get his staff? What are they even doing with the Hobbits in this story and the Dark Wizard? Imagine trying to cram a little bit of all of that into an hour!
Maybe Sauron was snorting mithril the whole time? That would explain the "Why are we running out of this stuff all the time?" and why you can still make rings with the goop
The people who cobble this show together kinda forgot to add "include military tactics" in the prompts they sent to the AI that writes these terrible scripts. I feel bad for that poor AI, having to pump out trash to people who don't even know what anything other than trash looks like. Writing masterful manipulation and subterfuge takes someone who knows what they are doing, and an AI cannot do that for them. I was on the fence on whether this show was partially (if not completely) generated by AI, but it's so obvious at this point. AI can only do so much, and if you ask it to do something complicated like come up with a truly ingenious way to trick ancient elves or plan battles for specific situations, it'll give you nothing but the concept of that and not actually what you're asking. I'm just glad I don't pay for this show or this service, and that the people making fun of it have so much fodder for us to laugh at.
Elrond talking to his wife one night, "you know i kissed your mom once, its a bit complicated, but she was a good kisser." Arwen and Aragorn gotta sit there and listen to that story with gramma Galadriel right there trying to eat her soup. gandalf sitting there desperately trying to light his pipe rather then be involved in this awkward situation at dinner. bilbo trying to cover frodo's ears to save him from the scandal, sam is horrified while merry and pipin think its funny as shit. meanwhile celeborn is just not in a good mood at the moment, and glorfindel just left the room out of embarrassment
The good news is that this show does prove how good Tolkien´s stories are compared to this confusing nonsense. And also - Elrond´s hair finally looks good. Small victories. 🤷♀
The mouse was so obvious rip off of The Matrix' deja vu cat... and also it seems like the scale of the cgi things in most of the large-scale shots is a bit off...
Yep, otherwise why even have a glitchy mouse. Why not just have something more appropriate to the illusion like weird glitchy candle flames...something less noticeable than a 🐀 in room.
@@Jiraiyashouse666 Agree)) And the stupid thing is - he did a clever thing with the candle, to figure out... but no, they just need to rip off something... Making this deja vu mouse just downplays the power of magic, makes it less magical, makes it simulation like...
@@bdleo300 It broke the lore. The Last Alliance of Elves an Men was the last time elves and men fought alongside one another, and by the time of the War of the Ring, the few elves left in Middle Earth were far too busy defending their remaining refuges to send aid to Rohan, a nation they had no ties or ancient obligations towards. Granted, it is not nearly as egregious a lore-break as this entire Amazon show is, but still.
I've been waiting for this, way more enjoyable than the actual episode. I'm quite disappointed that next week is the last episode of RoP so it will also be the last 'Let's Laugh at'.
So now galadriel has 9 rings and adar has one too. And Adar had both galadriel and elrond (twice) at his disposal this episode and just let them live because. A real dose doe/ duck duck goose of a show. Thanks for watching so we don't have to!
@@bdleo300 I am so throughly confused how amazon could buy the rights to lord of the rings material and write the dumbest days of our lives scripts (at least those folks had the excuse of having to write five shows a week) - dun dun DuN, your worst enemy is actually your husband in disguise, back from the war. Though not a forgone conclusion (they killed almost celebrian in ergion, so, who knows), it is a definite dumb possibility and not worse than Celeborn popping up poppi style with a picnic basket, saying he was trapped in a tree or whatever.
I appreciate your videos on this awful show the most. Other creators play actual clips of the show and that forces me to actually see it. But instead you make the entirety of your video enjoyable.
Celebimbo: “Smellrond, the dorc army is attacking! What should we do?” Smellrond: “Summon the mentally challenged toddlers, we need a battle plan!” Cue suspenseful kazoo music…
My favorite part is when the diverse Asian elf shoots an arrow into a bucket filled with nitroglycerin and gasoline and the WOODEN Siege device ravager to take down the wall.. EXPLODED 💥 like a car from an 80s TV show😮😂
I found it particularly funny that everybody on the battlefield (orcs and diverse elves) watched that one single arrow among hundreds of archers in the middle of the night 😂
I absolutely admire Liene's commitment to the bit. I can see her losing it behind it all but she's committed and pushes through it all through sheer willpower.
Your review is the best one I've seen! (had a boring day and I keep getting recommend these '^^) You doing the voices instead of showing clips is so good :D
this appeared in my feed. I have only watched the first episode of this season and decided I will not give amazon the joy of having one more viewer on this series. Now I am going back to watch all your videos on this season so I can see for myself what I have saved myself from
I mean that’s not even mentioning the small inaccuracy she made. The orcs couldn’t go that way with an army that big not through that pass they would’ve had to go through Rohan past Isengard and then gone north. With an army that large(or small depending on the scene) the fellowship of elves should’ve easily made it to Eregion months before the orcs were even close.
My belly laugh when you rolled your eyes and said “oh fuck off” to that awful line, a kings place is where ever the need is greatest… l hope they never cancel this show, thank you for your comedic service. I wouldn’t even hate wash this trash but your summation videos are the best laugh I get in the week 😂😂❤
As always, infinitely more entertaining than the show itself! You’d think with the biggest budget of ALL TIME they could make it look like battles and Duran’s crowd had more than 50 people in each.
Amazon should have produced a smaller TV show, focused on a few characters, all in a single place. It could have been about the men of Dale and the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain resisting Sauron’s forces during the War of the Ring. It could been simply about Rangers protecting hobbits and travelers. I can’t understand why Amazon produced a TV show this huge, with so many expensive battles, so many locations, and only to hire the worst writers. It’s none of the people who wrote Succession available? Why is Amazon trying to imitate House of the Dragon or the later seasons of Game of Thrones? Think about the EARLIER seasons of Gane of Thrones in which there were barely any action scenes but a lot of good dialogue.
Actually, that's not a bad idea. But they wanted to somehow 'condense' characters and events from a few thousand years into a few months. Even some incredibly talented, creative and good writers couldn't do that, and these muppets are not good writers....
If they wanted the next GoT (which is almost verbatim what Bezos demanded from atop his Smaugish hoard), they should have done the Fall of Arnor/the War of the Witch-king. Lots of big battles, very little known plot, plenty of room to make up whole cloth characters, and they'd have had the chance to do a Tolkien adaptation first and bring Glorfindel to the screen. Also: Hobbit archers. We could have had a battalion of Hobbit archers and it would have been completely lore -accurate.
@@jojobookish9529 i think that's what they did with the anime movie coming out in december. "War of the rhorrim" or whatever. Starring main girl herá, a character who was an unnamed daughter in the books.
Liene was born to mock The Rings of Power. Back at the beginning, things started out saucily dry, then went James Bond martini dry, then went Sahara dry, and now are sleep all night drunkenly snoring dry. Dry humour is the best response to bad writing. Thanks for the laughs from a Tolkien fan.
I think it's impressive that Grammabrimbor figured out he was in a dream sequence from a few bits of repetitive and reality defying scene construction. I just thought I was in a typical Rings of Powah episode.
You are so much more entertaining than this awful show. I never regret the time spent with your summary/ commentary unlike the time spent with the actual episodes. I've gotta believe the actors know it's shit. How can they not?
I do feel really bad for the actors, a lot of them seem very talented but there's only so much you can do with this story/dialogue - I hope to see them in better things in the future
I must admit it's impressive the orcs found a Tyranid. Even more they got it to fight for them. Good choice with a ravener though. Good at burrowing and getting through walls.
This video is SO much better than the random fan fiction (with familiar names and places, but otherwise no actual connection to what Tolkien actually wrote) we're getting from amazon.
If his blood could do the trick, why did he even bother going to the dwarfs' mountain to ask for mithril? Maybe it's like replacing milk with oat milk in cappuccino...
I've enjoyed your consistent coverage of the greatest Fantasy satire of our time. Thanks Liene.
I for one wouldn't call it a satire- it lacks the wit & sophistication of one. More like spoof than anything!
Rings of Parody
"The Dwarves are coming! Look to the north - where the Sun is rising!"
Haha! Yep, these writers are something else.
you mean your compass doesn't point toward sunrise?
On the bright side, this makes clear that this mess doesn’t take place on actual Middle Earth, where the sun rises in the East. This is Bizzaro upside down Middle Earth… where nothing matters.
It's actually unbelievable how incompetently written this show is. It's such a complete mess...
All on purpose.
@@unitron2005 Please explain that logic. I don't want to leave it at the overused quote "make it make sense" but seriously help me understand this.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! Shocked! Well, not that shocked…
Written by people who have absolutely no idea what they are writing about.
@@troffle Hard to, when YouPoop bl0cks most of my comments, even if I replace certan characters in certain words, but I'll try.
It's bad on purp0se. Not just this show, but pretty much all on them.
First, they want to subvert old cultural ic0ns and replace them with their own.
Their ideo|0gies make no sense, so a show depicting those are bound to make no sense either.
Second, it's about dumbing pe0ple down, c0nditioning them to accept illogical things without asking questions. There is nothing more valuable to the people in charge (not the p0liticians, but the m0ney men giving them orders) than a population that accepts illogical things without questioning them. And what better way to condition them, than to bombard the entertainment that EVERYONE consumes with such nonsense? Worldwide?
Third, if you only feed people this nonsense, then after a while, the masses will gladly accept "entertainment" of the lowest quality. Which is cheap and easy to produce. So in the long run, it gives them both direct and indirect ways of gaining p0wer, c0ntr0l and m0ney.
*Orcs:* have trebuchets capable of sending boulders flying over a river and destroying the side of a MOUNTAIN. *Same Orcs:* don't aim trebuchets directly to the only front wall of Eregion to destroy it from a safe distance.
dried river: my bed is strong enough to make a battle ground for an orc army and trebuchets and a troll - but i am too muddy for horses riding...
Tbf, they stated on city. Then changed tack to get -Grond- that bearing puller into place
Basic physics doesn't exist in ROP.... or basic logic.
see, they can't hit the walls cuz the trebuchets keep overshooting the mark and hitting future Rivendell instead
That wall that magically appeared between seasons
What really happened (according to Unfinished Tales):
Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, and went to Eregion (Eregion is a land, not a city); Celebrimbor welcomed him as such.
200 odd years later (lol), the smiths began making the rings of power. Sauron then went to Mordor to make the one ring. Celebrimbor found out about the ring and sought counsel with Galadriel, who suggested they hide the rings, never to be used while the one ring existed (it was at this point that the rings should have been destroyed).
Celebrimbor gave two of the rings to Gil-galad, and Galadriel got the third. Sauron returned to Eregion with an army and laid siege to the land. A force of Elves was sent by Gil-galad under Elrond to help but they were driven back, and Elrond took refuge in a valley where he later built Rivendell. Celebrimbor was slain and Sauron took the remaining rings (and at some future date gave them out to Dwarves and Men).
The Dwarves of Khazad Dum attacked Sauron's forces in the rear, but they were unsuccessful and were forced to retreat back to Khazad Dum.
Sauron then marched west to attack Gil-Galad, and it looked like it was all over for the Elves, when suddenly a massive Numenorean army landed and crushed Sauron's orcs. Sauron then fled to Mordor promising revenge on Numenor.
Clearly, you are some kind of hateful #DudeBro, for bringing up what the #FarRightThug Tolkien wrote in his bigoted books. Or something. 🤤
The three elven rings were crafted last, after Sauron left, without his involvement. Celebrimbor just used the skills he learned form Sauron to create them. That's why the elves thought they were absolutely safe until the one ring was forged.
See...? Why couldn't they just adapt this??? Did they not learn from the HUGE success of the movies??? Just bring Tolkien's work to the screen, as best you can! Of course some changes will have to be made, but the fewer the adaptations, the better!!! And boom!!! Sit back and watch all that money come in, as people go nuts about the show!!!
But nope!!! The show runners believed that they could do these stories better than Tolkien Himself!
The show runners read this quote " Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." Then did no additional research and wrote the skeleton of their story. In the order the passage describes. Once they figured out they got the order wrong it was too late.
@@HughSmith HOW WAS ANY OF THIS PRODUCTION ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WITHOUT RESEARCH AND EDITING?
I absolutely don't buy this story, simply because they DID have Tom Shippey on staff for at least a day. They had to find an excuse to axe Shippey.
One thing made me pause and scream "nooooooo" during the series episode: Celebrimbor tried to hummer his shackles to break them, but when he finds the thing that is made for cutting metal, he decides to cut his thumb off? Wait! What!? Nooooooooo😂
And the best part is - he wouldn't be able to break free like that.
@@Savigo. Yes! I mean, I imagine that thing would chew his thumb until he passed from the pain.
The metal cutter is sort of like a paper cutter. It probably works very well on thin sheets of metal. I doubt it would have worked on those thick shackles. Probably would have needed a hydraulic press to cut clean through the shackles.
One thing Cellie-bellie didn't do was stick something between the shackle rings and hammer them that way.
@@rodrigoffdsilva This is Idiocracy’s “Ow, my balls” but using Tolkien’s names
@@BrianD0313 You are right! The shear is for thin stock, but you would think he could have figured another way outta those shackles than pairing his thumb off! The dolt!!! What else should we expect from
Keebler-boring-bimbo!?
Do the showrunners know Elrond married galadriel's daughter?
Yes, but they don't think it's good for a modern audience.
I hope they didn’t.
as man of culture i am just waiting for the hot stepddaugher gets stuck scene ^^
In the first draft she gets stuck under the bed.
Their from Alabama - that stuff happens their all the time
I love how nobody calls Celebrimbor by his name, every youtuber has their own nickname for him. There's a gag in Spanish speaking youtubers where they call him Aunty Josefine, the stereotypical elderly aunt/grandma who likes to cook for you, always comments on how tall and handsome you've gotten and worries when you're not wearing a sweater and it's cold outside.
dollar-store Skip Bayless cosplaying an elf basically lmao
In Poland, he is referred to as 'Twój Stary', which is a rude term for the stereotypical 'old' dad
This show makes the hobbit trilogy look like a masterpiece. 😅😅
Actually I rather liked the first one, it seemed to follow the book pretty well. The second and third installments were, um, well…shall we say, utter departures from the source material.😢
@@jeffsmith5436 At least they nailed Smaug, both figuratively and quite...literally.
we didn't know how good we had it 🥲
There is a cut version of the hobbit that cuts out all the fluff and follows the book more closely.
This is far better than The Hobbit.
The path you walk is made of sea water, and the sea is always right. So always keep your feet facing downward, because even a stone cannot look upwards like a boat can. 🙏
stones are sinky cause they look downwards etc etc...
You've just given the writers their next line.
The battle was nonsensical, eregion had 10 elves defending it, the orc numbers went up and down whenever the plot required, there was no sense of scale or location
No no no, when the small group of orcs teleported across middle earth to eregion they obviously got duplicated, that's also the reason why the super soldier elf is gonna live, that guy with a sword in his stomach was his teleportation clone. i think SOMEONE just didn't follow the plot! 🧐
@@TheHumanVoiceBox it works better if you think of it like a video game with really limited capabilities. Theres only like 10 elves because that’s the npc limit. You can have a billion orcs as background, but they have to keep spawning them in because any more than 10 active ones on screen at a time crash everything
Critical Drinker did, rather than an episode review specifically, a review of The Three Elements an on-screen battle needs, comparing this one to Helm's Deep. Absolutely worth it.
Thats skyrim you have when you do the civil war quest lol.
@@troffleyep, that was one of his finest synopsis of the glaring differences between Helms Deep and this mess of an episode. the writers are either completely incompetent, or just plain lazy?
And all 30 dwarves were like “Hell yeah, brother!” 😂😂😂
Durin III's rallying speech is extremely embarrassing to watch even when your alone. Both Durin & Disa's Scots accents are over the top annoying. Why do the dwarves have to be Scottish?
Thanks for presenting this series in a way that makes me smile!
Thank you for your service, and sacrifice. I’m a Tolkien nerd for over 50 years, and watching great critiques like yours is the only way I will watch the abomination of RoP.
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I like that celebrimbor explaining saurons plan was meant to be a look how crazy he sounds yet all it did was emphasise how stupid saurons plan really was.
"Why did they make one part of the wall thinner"..... thank you, any of us with building experience I expect like me burst out laughing.
I swear that is the damndest!!!
0:45
Poor guy, it's this very moment where he realised that he does not actually look like an elf....But a hobbit.
Shock of his life.
We used to have the skill to translate content to movie, but not the means to make fantasy movies. Now we have all the means to create fantasy movies but not the skill to translate content to movie.
truuuuuue
Chad Elrond gets the mother daughter package.
Laughed way to hard at this 😂😅
They are family, but not really.
“You should have kept charging” is the smartest thing said so far in both seasons. Then again, second place is that “stones go down in water” so….
You must be the sea because you’re right.
The evil metal music at the very end of the Episode clearly showed that it is a parody
Right? I was just laughing at that point😂imagining a mediocre metalband with orcs in Mordor or something like that.
I saw that on another video review, and thought that they added it??? But no, Amazon actually did that!
@@Vio1380 With galadriel as lead singer 🤣
RoP = Rings of Parody
the music was like a jump scare 😂
Amazon should just put these wrap ups on Prime. They're infinitely more entertaining than the actual series
Haha! Good point.
I won't cost them a billion dollars either, I'll settle for a measly couple million 🤪
@@LienesLibrary Chump change! You're worth far more! Make them beg & grovel!
It's actually crazy they managed to make something worse than The Wheel of Time. This is insane levels of bad.
Please! Make a cut with the elven travels with the little map you did!!! That will be gold!
Celebrimbor having a Truman moment with the mouse, and Sauron stealing the famous line from The Devil's Advocate.
ohhh, what was that line?
@@sneakerphotgrapher "Oh! I have so many names!". Amazon tried to mimic that memorable moment.
They also stole Obi Wan’s line from A New Hope- “they’ll be back, but in greater numbers”. I swear these amateur “writers” just pull random movies out of a hat, and just steal parts of them? 😂
They have ONE episode left to wrap up 4 storylines for the season, that none are even close to wrapping up.
Episode 8 is going to be a mess that ends all the storylines on a bunch of cliffhangers.
But don't you know? They need to save some mysteries for the next season!
@@RoseBaggins I mean even if the last episode is super long, we know,
Sauron & Galadriel fight.
What happens with Adar?
Are the Ents showing up to clear the damn of the River? (They can’t stop ripping off Peter Jackson, so you know that’s happening).
Do the Dwarfs show up to the battle?
They’re going to tease the Balrog again.
What about Durin 3?
What is going on with Isildur?
Who’s in charge of Numenor now?
What vision will Palantir show someone?
Will Not-Gandolf get his staff?
What are they even doing with the Hobbits in this story and the Dark Wizard?
Imagine trying to cram a little bit of all of that into an hour!
@@TheStacanova I suspect they'll forget to pay off half those plotlines. There's stupid, really stupid, then there's 'Amazon Stupid'.
Cliffhanger. Yes. They should all just let go.
Yeah, it'll probably be long. Maybe 2 hours, who knows?
Maybe Sauron was snorting mithril the whole time? That would explain the "Why are we running out of this stuff all the time?" and why you can still make rings with the goop
The mithril Sauron brought back wasn’t real Mithril. It was made using Sauron’s blood
Space Spice 😂
The best part of this episode is that nobody was looking for sticks.
That mountain was made of Weetabix lol
All he had to do was pour milk on it!
My favorite RoP reviewer, by far!
thank you 🧡
She does have a certain panache. There's two others that are pretty funny as well, but Liene cracks me up the most I have to say!
The people who cobble this show together kinda forgot to add "include military tactics" in the prompts they sent to the AI that writes these terrible scripts. I feel bad for that poor AI, having to pump out trash to people who don't even know what anything other than trash looks like. Writing masterful manipulation and subterfuge takes someone who knows what they are doing, and an AI cannot do that for them. I was on the fence on whether this show was partially (if not completely) generated by AI, but it's so obvious at this point. AI can only do so much, and if you ask it to do something complicated like come up with a truly ingenious way to trick ancient elves or plan battles for specific situations, it'll give you nothing but the concept of that and not actually what you're asking.
I'm just glad I don't pay for this show or this service, and that the people making fun of it have so much fodder for us to laugh at.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who suspects AI assistance in this show.
I half expected Bookborn to show up and explain that, in the book, Galadriel is married to Celeborn. And Elrond marries their daughter.
You are the best! Now I am sad that only one espisode is left this season. 😥
Elrond talking to his wife one night, "you know i kissed your mom once, its a bit complicated, but she was a good kisser." Arwen and Aragorn gotta sit there and listen to that story with gramma Galadriel right there trying to eat her soup. gandalf sitting there desperately trying to light his pipe rather then be involved in this awkward situation at dinner. bilbo trying to cover frodo's ears to save him from the scandal, sam is horrified while merry and pipin think its funny as shit. meanwhile celeborn is just not in a good mood at the moment, and glorfindel just left the room out of embarrassment
So Elrond kissed his mom in-law? Celebrian's mom surely has got it goin' on! 🤡🤡
@@jmwoods190 he suddenly became a Targaryen
RoP writers getting thier plot from porn hub. Write what you know, i guess
clown show in a clown world.
Inbreeders!
@@rodrigoffdsilva the moment when ROP turned into GOT
The good news is that this show does prove how good Tolkien´s stories are compared to this confusing nonsense. And also - Elrond´s hair finally looks good. Small victories. 🤷♀
Keebler-boring-bimbo's hair was more consistent, Elrond's hair changed with the tides. Elrond looked like a Rice Krispies elf.
@@allthings2allmen True😂
The mouse was so obvious rip off of The Matrix' deja vu cat... and also it seems like the scale of the cgi things in most of the large-scale shots is a bit off...
Don't forget bombadill as oracle. And hagrid helping to pick out Harry's wand at the same time.
Yep, otherwise why even have a glitchy mouse. Why not just have something more appropriate to the illusion like weird glitchy candle flames...something less noticeable than a 🐀 in room.
@@Jiraiyashouse666 Agree)) And the stupid thing is - he did a clever thing with the candle, to figure out... but no, they just need to rip off something... Making this deja vu mouse just downplays the power of magic, makes it less magical, makes it simulation like...
"A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something."
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers my first thought when I saw the mouse “Ohh… please don’t…”
Remember in the trilogy how crisp the elven archers were. And how tragic it was that elves lay dead and dying in Helm’s Deep
No elves fought at Helm's Deep (apart from Legolas), that was fanfic written for the films.
@@mostlyholy6301 yep, but it was actually a good idea. It wasn't good idea they all died so easily....
@@bdleo300 It broke the lore. The Last Alliance of Elves an Men was the last time elves and men fought alongside one another, and by the time of the War of the Ring, the few elves left in Middle Earth were far too busy defending their remaining refuges to send aid to Rohan, a nation they had no ties or ancient obligations towards.
Granted, it is not nearly as egregious a lore-break as this entire Amazon show is, but still.
I've been waiting for this, way more enjoyable than the actual episode. I'm quite disappointed that next week is the last episode of RoP so it will also be the last 'Let's Laugh at'.
Same here!
until next season! 🤪
I never went to smithing college, but I think I would have cut the chain to the cuff instead of my own flumb
Exactly what I was thinking!
but, you see, Frodo lost a finger so....losing fingers is what makes it Tolkien 👍
@@LienesLibrary How did I miss that? Gee! Am I slow!
If only Celebrimbor knew an elven smith.
@@ReD4eva94 Keeblerboringbimbo Jones!
So now galadriel has 9 rings and adar has one too. And Adar had both galadriel and elrond (twice) at his disposal this episode and just let them live because. A real dose doe/ duck duck goose of a show. Thanks for watching so we don't have to!
Adar is Galadriel's husband.... no really he is, you'll see.....
"What happens if an elf puts on a ring of men?"
@@bdleo300 I am so throughly confused how amazon could buy the rights to lord of the rings material and write the dumbest days of our lives scripts (at least those folks had the excuse of having to write five shows a week) - dun dun DuN, your worst enemy is actually your husband in disguise, back from the war.
Though not a forgone conclusion (they killed almost celebrian in ergion, so, who knows), it is a definite dumb possibility and not worse than Celeborn popping up poppi style with a picnic basket, saying he was trapped in a tree or whatever.
Was Christine that important? I mean, she was the only assistant with a name and lines, but she did nothing besides hitting on Sauron
We learned that she was "Doomed to Die"!
Liene, you’re a special one. Ty for putting these together. Absolute gold!!! Cheers.
I appreciate your videos on this awful show the most. Other creators play actual clips of the show and that forces me to actually see it. But instead you make the entirety of your video enjoyable.
so cringey, even a few seconds of the show is enough to feel it ooze out of the screen
Celebimbo: “Smellrond, the dorc army is attacking! What should we do?”
Smellrond: “Summon the mentally challenged toddlers, we need a battle plan!”
Cue suspenseful kazoo music…
Yes! Yes! Yes! Wax paper & combs will work fine too! Now get in formation you idiots!
the dwarves couldn't join the battle cause the 1 bill budget wasn't enough to fit em on screen
You nailed it, i enjoyed watching this video far more than watching the Episode!
I’m so glad the actor that played the mouse in The Green Mile was able to land a role in ROP 😉
Mouse ville!
I enjoy your sarcasm . LOL . 😂
I just learned about Liene. Liene is awesome.
Make sure to go back and enjoy season 1
@@hewiex I'm only enduring watching the series because then I can laugh watching her videos. Her reviews of fantasy books are also great.
@@rodrigoffdsilva Same here!
These are so funny. Appreciate the roast
"Eregion really should have done more disaster drills." Epic! 😂
My favorite part is when the diverse Asian elf shoots an arrow into a bucket filled with nitroglycerin and gasoline and the WOODEN Siege device ravager to take down the wall.. EXPLODED 💥 like a car from an 80s TV show😮😂
I think it was valyrian fire in that bucket.
Ninja elves do double damage
I found it particularly funny that everybody on the battlefield (orcs and diverse elves) watched that one single arrow among hundreds of archers in the middle of the night 😂
Don't Ask Questions, Just Watch Explosion and Then Get Excited for Next Explosions
@@redrum3405 🤣🤣 That DEI Elf must have rolled a 20 A critical hit that hits regardless of the target's AC or any modifiers... So big BOOM..
I thought Sauron was supposed to be the ultimate deceiver but he is being the ultimate gaslighter. I didn’t know this was a comedy.
It is a comedy. And the billion-dollar budget is its biggest punchline
@@josephjagusah8668 nice and true comment
This was far more entertaining than that awful episode.
more like rings of POWDER, cus you know that's what fueled this nightmare of an idea~~~
Also where the money went
@@MSpotatoes lol so true
I lol'd all the way through this, thank you. It almost takes the edge off the bitter sting of disappointment I have with the series...almost.
I’m glad you didn’t forget Mr. Mouse
🐭
Another classic episode of ROP satire. I skipped episode 6, but this one has brought me right back.
I absolutely admire Liene's commitment to the bit. I can see her losing it behind it all but she's committed and pushes through it all through sheer willpower.
I would actually watch a series where that mouse 0:30 is a master smith.
Significantly more interested in this whole Ratatouille script idea..."and 900 rings for wittle cute mousies of field and forest"
Don't forget the Capibara rings.
and Jackson didn’t have to use his A game to accomplish that 😅
maybe a Ratatouille/Redwalll crossover, since multiverses are all the rage....
8:15 that's because the goop was identified as metal, that's why it worked, but then it changed its mind, so it later becomes goop again
Your review is the best one I've seen!
(had a boring day and I keep getting recommend these '^^)
You doing the voices instead of showing clips is so good :D
this appeared in my feed. I have only watched the first episode of this season and decided I will not give amazon the joy of having one more viewer on this series. Now I am going back to watch all your videos on this season so I can see for myself what I have saved myself from
happy watching! 🍿
Illusion Mouse or not Illusion Mouse, the vengeance arc continues, REDWALL CANNOT BE DENIED
waiting for Sauron to say "I am that is..."
I’m just here to see Liene’s facial expressions while trying to explain this fiasco of series 😅
Yeah those river beds dry very fast near Eregion, no mud at all, like a bathtub.
Gurgle gurgle! 🛁
And we’ve learned that… By now, every main character has gained enough xp points to unlock fast travel!
except the not-Hobbits and Great Value Gandalf, they're not getting very far 🥲
The elves running into the orcs when they were coming from different directions is something, no one else has commented on so far
I mean that’s not even mentioning the small inaccuracy she made. The orcs couldn’t go that way with an army that big not through that pass they would’ve had to go through Rohan past Isengard and then gone north. With an army that large(or small depending on the scene) the fellowship of elves should’ve easily made it to Eregion months before the orcs were even close.
I find the asian elf even more bizare than the black elf or dwarf.
This is my favourite take of the series, thank you
OMG. Cele-belly...I'm dead 😆🤣😂
My belly laugh when you rolled your eyes and said “oh fuck off” to that awful line, a kings place is where ever the need is greatest… l hope they never cancel this show, thank you for your comedic service. I wouldn’t even hate wash this trash but your summation videos are the best laugh I get in the week 😂😂❤
lol it's what I actually said when I was watching the show, decided to keep it for the video 😂
@@LienesLibrary oh to be a fly on the wall while your watching this car crash show 🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap - glad I found this channel! Excellent work.
0:03 - Btw, if the bridge is facing east from Eregion it means the river is going the wrong way (south to the north).
How DARE you! The RoP Show-ruiners Pain & Decay are geniuses! You are wrong: terribly, TERRIBLY wrong. 🤪
I love when this comedy is released each month every episode is funnier then the last one
Thank God there is only one more.
So orcs no longer burn in the sun?
You know, how they immediately burst into flames under the sun in season 1? WHich was a major plot point?
Rings of Power is the gift that keeps on giving, first I get to laugh at the episode and then along with all those lovely reviews making fun of it.
I love how you narrate the episode. It fits very well.
By far the best dunking on Rings Of Power on RUclips. Bravo!
I'd love to know whether or not Jeff Bezos actually watches this show and, if so, what he truly thinks of it.
His Son as well, who famously said "don't fuck this up dad!"
I wonder how many time he's had to change schools since this travesty launched?
I'm sure Bezos couldn't care less.
He is busy inventing in-ergonomic toilets in order to cut down the poop time of his stuff by 2 min.
As always, infinitely more entertaining than the show itself! You’d think with the biggest budget of ALL TIME they could make it look like battles and Duran’s crowd had more than 50 people in each.
thank you 😋
Secrets of their song is referencing the Valar
Amazon should have produced a smaller TV show, focused on a few characters, all in a single place. It could have been about the men of Dale and the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain resisting Sauron’s forces during the War of the Ring. It could been simply about Rangers protecting hobbits and travelers. I can’t understand why Amazon produced a TV show this huge, with so many expensive battles, so many locations, and only to hire the worst writers. It’s none of the people who wrote Succession available? Why is Amazon trying to imitate House of the Dragon or the later seasons of Game of Thrones? Think about the EARLIER seasons of Gane of Thrones in which there were barely any action scenes but a lot of good dialogue.
they are to thick to understand what people really like in a show, and even if they are not good enough to wright a good story.
Actually, that's not a bad idea. But they wanted to somehow 'condense' characters and events from a few thousand years into a few months. Even some incredibly talented, creative and good writers couldn't do that, and these muppets are not good writers....
Probably because "succession" is deep in bed with the red scare clique in new york city and it would be politically unacceptable to hire them.
If they wanted the next GoT (which is almost verbatim what Bezos demanded from atop his Smaugish hoard), they should have done the Fall of Arnor/the War of the Witch-king. Lots of big battles, very little known plot, plenty of room to make up whole cloth characters, and they'd have had the chance to do a Tolkien adaptation first and bring Glorfindel to the screen. Also: Hobbit archers. We could have had a battalion of Hobbit archers and it would have been completely lore -accurate.
@@jojobookish9529 i think that's what they did with the anime movie coming out in december. "War of the rhorrim" or whatever. Starring main girl herá, a character who was an unnamed daughter in the books.
Liene was born to mock The Rings of Power. Back at the beginning, things started out saucily dry, then went James Bond martini dry, then went Sahara dry, and now are sleep all night drunkenly snoring dry. Dry humour is the best response to bad writing. Thanks for the laughs from a Tolkien fan.
my philosophy is: you're either laughing or you're crying 🤪
I think it's impressive that Grammabrimbor figured out he was in a dream sequence from a few bits of repetitive and reality defying scene construction. I just thought I was in a typical Rings of Powah episode.
It’s the emphasis on the “rrrr”s on the names for me hahaa i am losing it hahahaha
Gil-Galad doesn't fight battles, he plays chess. Hides in a corner and keeps himself safe until the endgame when you hope its safe to come out.
Orcs generally has a strong sense of smell yet Gelladrrrial don't ring any bell even with this close proximity
She had a little can of scent guard she keeps in her skivvies for such occasions! Always good to be prepared!
@@allthings2allmen WHHAt ? .... nvm ... i got it
My mind cannot comprehend how they flushed so much money on this.
Absolutely love your original commentary.
Well done! Thx!
You are so much more entertaining than this awful show. I never regret the time spent with your summary/ commentary unlike the time spent with the actual episodes.
I've gotta believe the actors know it's shit. How can they not?
Agreed!
I do feel really bad for the actors, a lot of them seem very talented but there's only so much you can do with this story/dialogue - I hope to see them in better things in the future
@@LienesLibrary Agreed!
I must admit it's impressive the orcs found a Tyranid. Even more they got it to fight for them. Good choice with a ravener though. Good at burrowing and getting through walls.
This is probably the most nitpicked show of the last 10 years.
I'm really enjoying it.
Its more fun watchin Leane talking about the Rings of Shite..than Actually watching it. CLASS!
This video is SO much better than the random fan fiction (with familiar names and places, but otherwise no actual connection to what Tolkien actually wrote) we're getting from amazon.
If his blood could do the trick, why did he even bother going to the dwarfs' mountain to ask for mithril? Maybe it's like replacing milk with oat milk in cappuccino...
@12:32 Why does everyone think “foremother” Melian = “mother” Melian!?? His beautiful mother was Elwing. 💕