Amazon HIDES Cringe Rings of Power Teaser | The WOKE Appropriation of Lord of the Rings
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2022
- Amazon FEARS the RATIO. The most recent Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power teaser for another trailer has been put on Amazon Prime. Wonder what lead to that decision?? (sarcasm) All on the same week The Tolkien Society announces a new paper for 2022 attacking fans. Guess they are trying to out due their intersentionalfest from 2021.
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Tolkien fans are not having this garbage, and it's glorious to see!
They don’t give a crap about their grandfather only the money that his legacy has accrued.
It’s Despicable.
But it is the fans who are the true inheritors of Tolkiens legacy. For middle earth cannot die for as long as it lives in our hearts.
@woooudo But Priscilla is dead
That's because Tolkien fans are generally smarter than most. But they've ruined Doctor Who, so I don't doubt their ability or tenacity in ruining Tolkien anyhow.
i bet the normies won't be that impressed either. This looks like discount Game of Throne, in every way imaginable
The production value is so low they can't even put their stars in real armor for the promo shoots... painted cotton 'chain mail' in a billion dollar production... that's just embarrassing...
I must admit as a Star Wars (40k now since Star Wars sucks) this warms my heart.
Actors of African descent featuring in a mythology set by Tolkien in an Anglo-Norse setting make as much sense as Germanic and Scandinavian actors featured in a depiction of African mythology/folklore. It's a total absurdity, reflecting the creators' narcissism, their agenda-driven priorities and their brazen disrespect for both Tolkien and his works.
It's actually a massive tragedy that there isn't an African Tolkien. Genuine African fantasy is basically nonexistent, at least in the popular zeitgeist, and the people nominally trying to fix it either make goofy patronizing insertions of western fantasy into African settings (like Wakanda) or just put black people in established western fantasy. Why isn't Amazon making a story steeped in African mythology and language?
To me it does not matter. They are human actors pretending to be hobbits, dwarves or whatever. Skin tone should not matter. I think they use that for race-baiting.
Portrayal of Galadriel and having their own versions of the lore, characters living when they were not born yet, fake-woke hatebreeding etc ruins it for me. Did not watch SW and will not watch this.
@@carbonara2144 It is true in the end that they are just pretending. But imagine a movie featuring a white male playing Malcom X or Nelson Mandela and a director defending this choice with such argument. There is enough myths and stories for pretty much every race/colour on Earth, no need to force things. Furthermore, Tolkien explicitly stated he was creating a mythology for England, it is therefore a bit direspectful to his will......
definitely, and if you want people of African descent on the screen on fantastical adventures just pick one of their stories, Africa is big ad fuck and full of stories as rich and awesome as Norse stuff!
@@deiniou ding ding ding. Points for you!
African folklore is ripe for all kinds of storytelling opportunities - especially now.
I also notice that they waited to pull all of this shit until there was no longer any member of Tolkien's family still alive who cares about his work or defending him. The only descendants of Tolkien now are just willing to take the money and disregard anything else.
True. This is so sad
"But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the themes of Illúvitar, for he thought therein to increase the power and glory of the role assigned to himself” - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Absolutely brilliant. And just as Melkor’s efforts failed and only served to enhance the beauty of Illuvitar’s creation, so too shall the efforts of all these woke buffoons fail to tarnish the beauty of the lore that Tolkien gave us, and will forever pale in comparison to the decades old Peter Jackson films.
Once the stench of Amazon has been swept away, perhaps some actual fans can pull a Dave Filoni and give us something new that’s actually worth watching. That “War of the Rohirrim” animated film looks like a promising start. Perhaps an animated renaissance of Middle Earth stories is what we need.
I really don't want to see LOTR's legacy destroyed due to a non-lore abiding spin-off.
I do want to see it because I love watching nerds squirm over something that doesn't matter...over and over and over.
They can’t destroy it because it still lives strong in all our hearts.
They may seek to pervert and destroy, but they cannot control us.
This going to get treated like the last air bender "movie". In the hearts of all true fans this just doesn't exist and isn't part of any reality
@@nathandiaz3446 WE FOUND THE SJW
@@nathandiaz3446 Dude for people like you it doesn't matter because you never liked tolkien. You never read the books, saw the movies, thought about the material. Good for you, you have different hobbies. For us this means a lot and we don't want it to become just another cash grab that relies on nostalgia instead of quality in order to make money. Why are we at fault for that?
It makes me so happy that Tolkien fans are coming together and uniting against this show. Amazon is going to lose a billion dollars and none of us are going to complain.
How will Amazon lose money though? That’s what’s so frustrating. The series is bought and paid for. The only way it loses money if it directly causes mass cancellations of Amazon prime.
I'm unsubscribed already. No more garbage shows for me ... of which there are far too many anyhow on Amazon Prime.
Celebrate Amazon's catastrophic loss and use it to destroy their next attempt to desecrate things that matter.
@@JP-vj7fp No one believed Disney could ever be deposed. 40% drop in Disney stock AND COUNTING.
Its amazon..they could afford to lose money, and considering how cheap this series is, its feels more like money laundering scheme.
If they wanted a show about diversity, they could've explored the history of the Haradrim and how they were persecuted by the Black Numenorians, basically forced to ally with Sauron because of this and it would've still been true to the source material.
But that would require actual integrity and ethics, so they obviously didn't bother.
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This is actually a very good movie plot!!!
Woke activists require there be this illusion of white supremacy so they can get paid. They need it every where they can so often they make up problems; “systemic racism” ;)
On an unrelated note, screw blm and people that gave them money.
And imagination....sadly they are lacking.
This year I became a member of “The Tolkien Society”. The first issue I got from them was interesting, it was ok, but not great…the second issue was gag inducing, woke bs. They don’t respect Tolkien. If this is a trend for them I will not be renewing at the end of the year.
And I'm sure they don't give a fuck if you're there or not. Who cares.
None of this woke nonsense ever entered into Tolkien's consciousness. If that disqualifies him as a worthy author, fine, don't read his books. But don't try to find or not find something in his writings that never passed through his head in the first place. The same goes for adaptations.
Don’t read any books before 2000
Wokeness did not even exist when Tolkien was alive.
@@kaizokujimbei143 Yes it did, it was just called Bolshevism back then.
lol i love how minorities existing just means "woke politics" tou you. What a bizzare view of people the right has
@@johnnystevens1248 Liberals want to replace Europeans with illegal Muslim and African immigrants. This is not a question of coexistence with the minorities. This is a full on invasion of Europe.
I’m glad that Tolkien fans aren’t the brand simps that Star Wars fans are.
All you need to do the flush the simps from the bushes is put Jackson's Legolas, Gandalf, or Frodo in there. They'll lose their shiz just like the SW simps did when discount Luke dropped in at the end of the Mandalorian.
Not all Star Wars fans, but far too many...
That isn't exactly a fair statement. While wokeness had existed in Hollywood before the destruction of Star Wars, Star Wars was the first truly big franchise they had a chance to ruin. Before that it had been smaller things, with the biggest being Ghostbuster 2016. The woke destruction of Star Wars may not have been where it started but it is where this crap really started gaining momentum. So most Star Wars fans were blindsided by this crap. And many, including myself, haven't touched any of it since Force Awakens or TLJ. The biggest difference with Lord of the Rings is that the fans can see it coming this time. They have seen other franchises and fandoms destroyed by big, woke corporations and know all the signs.
@@GodEmperorOfDune747 exactly, the simps are the PJ film fans. The TOLKIEN fans were turned off by the errors in PJ’s films, and will remain uncorrupted no matter who is tacked onto this 💩.
They actually mess with the nerd bible, the Silmarillion.- This is actual real literature, they plan to defile. Not some Hollywood movie flick, that belonged to them to begin with, like Star Wars.
They dug too deep. They have woken up some monsters. If they think the Star Wars controversy was bad .... They have seen nothing yet.
If Amazon was smart about this, they would have bought the rights to dungeons and dragons and made this all original work with that. They wouldn't piss anyone off and could use the lotr license on a tent pole project where they give the fans something better.
D&D and warhammer are also struggling with race baiting activists atm.
If they'd been smart they would have approached Steven Erikson about the Malazan series.
@@aninternetuser4306 that is true, yet the trailers still look like a new DND show. One woke at a time right.
@@aninternetuser4306 at least in D&D there's drow elves and human characters. I played D&D as a kid growing up in the 80's
@@aninternetuser4306 I can see them creating new Queer Founding in Warhammer 40K. Following these Adepti Astartes fighting against Chaos in fan-fiction will be so much fun.
Wait, they’re having the non-Hobbits and Ents existing right next to each other? Even though Treebeard doesn’t know anything about the Hobbits (or non-Hobbits)? Sounds like Orc mischief to me!
This obsession with diversity is getting very tiresome. A series was made in China in 2019 about the Ming Dynasty and, guess what? Everyone was Chinese.
gotta get some norsemen in there, i feel underreprisented
Only with the show that based on Western culture, "diversity" ing other cultures is against woke dogma
@@snowown if you can't 'see yourself" in a series about Ming Dynasty I stand with you as an "ally"! And I have one message: we resit
problem is the Lord of the Rings is a right wing book.
The Ming Dynasty happened, the events in Middle-earth did not. Now do you understand?
20 years ago we had conversations - and sometimes fights - about Tom Bombadil, Elves at Helm’s Deep or the role of Arwen in Jackson’s movies, ending up accusing each another to either not have read the books or not have understood them (when we all actually read them).
Today people who do not bother to read or understand Tolkien at all tell the same people that they are racists, because - just like 20 years ago - they are discussing the lore. “Shut up and consume product”. I am deeply disgusted!
The product sucks. If you want my money produce something i want.
@@michaelreifenstein2114 And that is why Japanese fantasy anime is kicking the pants off the garbage out of Hollyweird.
Ah! Nirvana, hey? I had issues aplenty with Jackson, but I forgave him because those films were made from the heart and his omissions and changes were dramatically logical. What Amazon seem to be creating is an abomination subject to the whims of the current sociopolitical thinking in certain circles. It is going to suck, and I share your disgust.
No, the racists upset at seeing nonwhite actors are being called out for their racism. If that’s you, then “be better”.
@Faroe Not to mention just how bad it looks. The world doesn't look real, just like some cosplayers got together and made like a fan video or something...
When the Lord of the Rings movies were released, I was not happy with some of the editing choices made in the stories, BUT I still love the movies because at their hearts was respect for the body of work from which they were produced, and a love of Tolkien. In the little bits of Amazon has shown, and their media hype around this show, I see no respect of Tolkien, just a desire to change it for marketing and gaslight everyone who knows and loves his work. It's very sad!
It’s difficult to comprehend why they didn’t simply make their own fantasy series in their own fantasy world...
Since that’s obviously what they did...
They couldn’t get financing for their agendas...
But by spending a billion dollars on a misrepresentation...
They have most likely undermined their interests and agendas in terms of future viability...
lol
On stage no one cares about the personal characteristics of the actors portraying the characters in Shakespeare’s works...
Unless they do such a awesome job bringing the characters and story to life that they become “fans” of the actors who did such a excellent job.
lol
They are essentially displacing the storyline and mythos with token misappropriation modern echo chamber nonsense then reacting to valid criticisms with the same echo chamber social agendas that couldn’t get funding in the first place without using a big name brand franchise heavy hitting classic work literature.
It’s ridiculously ridiculous...
Been saying this for years since Disney picked up Star Wars. They were just crapping on all the lore and established mythos of the SW universe just to tell their own stories with their own characters....just write an original story at that point. It was the same with Star Trek reboots as well but albeit to a much lesser extent. At least in the case of Star Wars they came up with a crappy time travel mcguffin to explain away their creative choices...it shows they were at least trying to show us they were not trying to undo all the previous Star Trek lore.
It's not difficult to comprehend, it's called subversion.
Because nobody would watch it
@@mar117117 10% of the general population is their target audience...
lol
But they want to make that mainstream...
Apparently by appropriation and forced indoctrination...
It's not difficult to comprehend why the didn't create their own original fantasy. Their intentions are to degrade Tolkien's works! Secondly, they do not have the talent to create anything remotely close to the level of the mans works!
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -Tolkien
We can take solace in the fact that the books will remain, forever untarnished by the passing of time and undimmed before the breaking of the world.
We shall mock! Until we can mock no more!
These lines give me chills
this video needs to be re-edited to close on this quote.
Fighting back with the wisdom conveyed through Tolkien's works and from his own musings might be the best way to go about this.
Wasn’t tolkien a staunch catholic conservative? It’s like making a show about the Koran or bible and placing modern politics in it, it won’t work ..
Lol speaking of that. Netflix did make a show about Jesus and they made him gay in it.
@@frankzappa9853 SMH 😟
Don’t be a bigot; Mother Jones posted an op-ed saying “Yes, X is actually Y” so it’s established science
These activists are trying to replace Europeans with illegal Muslim and African immigrants. They will not show any disrespect to those.
@@frankzappa9853 cool name. That is all
Dr Thomas Sowell pointed out that “Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice.'". Those who are envious of the accomplishments of those who came before, all too often feel they have to reinterpret their works to the advantage of the less talented current crop of talentless hacks.
Yes. Because paying homage to the groupthink comes before articulating any actual truth or beauty, so all they can do is parasitize. They know they can't produce anything of this depth or caliber themselves.
thomas sowell is a neoliberal clown, you shouldnt be listening to garbage like that just because it disagrees with some other garbage. better to avoid the garbage.
These so called "activists" choose to obsess over the genders of fictional characters instead of trying to make actual change in the real world for those who need it. Sloth is another of the seven deadly sins that has become an admired virtue.
It's amazing to me that we can have shows like Arcane that focus on political and class issues with tact and in a way that enhances the characters made by a group I had never even heard of from France, while at the same time we have "Professional Writers " in Hollywood butchering lore and destroying decade old franchises with C list writing and no respect for their own history and Canon.
And the guys in France are doing with video game characters. Guess that Hollywood money cant buy talent after all...
There are so many capable writers out there, but they only pick the compliant, obedient, or pull from nepotism to get their writers.
Arcane is written by people from the USA though and probably some of the writters would be considered SJWs by some people. Which goes to show it's not a "SJWs problem" but a "writting a good story and interesting characters" problem we have with a lot of recent productions.
@@Yemeth42pis SJWS cant see works of art without turning it political. There world view doesnt allow them to be creative
@@andrewgreeb916 Mostly they only hire the writers who are also part of the woke cult, and those people are basically all lobotomized drones. Lobotomized drones don’t make good writers.
@@Yemeth42pis If they don’t take every possible opportunity to preach The Message they aren’t really SJWs.
I find it hilarious that Amazon hid the teaser of a teaser to a trailer on Prime. It just shows the cowardice. If it were good they would have plastered it all over social media. Starting my yearly read of Tolkien, starting with the Silmarillion. Also, looking into getting the Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien and Unfinished Tales. I haven't read those yet and I'm looking forward to adding them to my collection. That will be the way I chose to honor Professor Tolkien this September 2nd. I will enjoy the well deserved roasting that Amazon and the shills will get over the dumpster fire that is the RoP. The RoP shall not pass. Hold the line Tolkien fandom!
They seem to get a slight suspicion, they will have to take an mountain sized "L" home.
I was hesitant about starting Unfinished Tales but it had some of my favorite stories in the Legendarium, enjoy!
They didn’t hide the trailer. It’s supposed to be exclusive to Amazon Prime members to drum up in interest in the upcoming Prime Days event. Quit lapping up this buffoon’s bullshit.
They just know people hate this trash and are trying to avoid fueling the backlash even more.
Agree too War!
It does put a smile on my face to see these companies and their activists get pushback for their woke garbage.
You think a bunch of incels whining on RUclips is “pushback”?
and right wing channels defending a right wing book.
@@ashleyfairway.540
Right Wing Book?
@@ClaytonStone895
Ah, good to meet another Fellow Traveler who measures a man's worth as to whether he has sexual access to the hole of woman!
/sarc
@@ClaytonStone895
Hmmm, let's see if this one gets eaten by Ewe-Toob.
"Greetings fellow AMOG!"
Eww everything woke turns to 💩
Entertainment is essentially fast food now- carefully made to spec, packaged, never intended to taste different, and jammed down your throat.
"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery"
The Tolkien society have become a complete joke.
Like all other institutions taken over by Marxists.
Transcendence is a far more important literary (and cinematic) experience than representation. If your ideal literature is one that simply represents you, you will never get beyond yourself. Books will be nothing more than a mirror. You will be narcissus. Transcendence allows you to wear the mask of the hero and the villain and enlarge your being with what was not already there. THAT is the difference between Tolkien and the Amazon series. Representation CAN be a good, but it is NOT the pearl of great price. C. S. Lewis, Tolkien's mate, said "But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do." How to read/watch: humble yourself, submit, listen, receive. Don't go putting your own ideas into it. You'll miss it altogether.
I can't even.. This is just such bollocks. Poor Tolkien
To the woke directors who made this crap, please hear me out
...
If you didn't tie this to The Lord of the Rings and just made it a generic fantasy series...you'd have little to no backlash. But you decided to change Tolkien's lore...and the fans are furious.
They thought it would be easy money
That we would be as dumb as them and just love it because of a name.
It’s unfortunate that the people playing with these classic stories and billions of dollars could probably be outsmarted by a single 8 year old
They definitely should have made a new fantasy series. All their new characters could be interesting, and they could make it entirely new, and if they want a hook they could maybe say they were inspired by fantasy like LOTR. They're not adapting the story anymore, they're writing something new with some of the old characters, locations, and plot ideas.
They could care less about creating a fantasy series. That's giving them too much credit. Propaganda needs a huge audience if it's going to have any hope of succeeding. So, they must attach it to an established franchise like LOTR. They're parasites that need a host. Plus, they could never secure the kind of financial backing they need doing their own ideas, and they know whatever product they created would likely fail.
@@williamowens At the end of the day, we still have the og property to enjoy, and maybe in the future when the woke wave passess we'll get an adaptation we actually want.
They always use backwards logic.
- Product X is popular, so if we make another one like it, we will make a lot of money.
- To make even more money, we should make it different, and base it on what people who didn't even bother to watch the original would like to see.
- Oh no! Some who purchased the original product don't like that we are changing it. They must be hating the poor people we were trying to expand our audience to. What horrible people! Let's make sure we tell them to never come back if they can't be polite to new customers.
Expectations: Lots of new people, massive profits, and a few meanies being shown who's boss.
Reality: Lots of old people leaving, massive losses, and a few meanies jumping on the product so they can sit and insult people over twitter.
"We will mock all of this insanity into oblivion". Well said. We won't let anyone vandalize beloved pieces of art. We will prevail.
The normies won't see your mocking. They are going to read the mainstream articles and see the media presentations.
@@animejanai4657 I disagry. FUBAR with Rings of whatever is gonna add so much needed attention to the whole problem of woke activism turning every single thing it tuches into filth it's going to derail the entire industry. Can't wait! With Gary the Treebeard here, EFAP bois, Drinker, Disparu and any sentient being on this planet we will stop this nonsence from happening at least fo awile if not forever.
@@animejanai4657 By "normies" you mean the general public, trying to live their lives. Instead of obsessing over of a piece of media for months on end.
@@animejanai4657 nonsense. It all filters down to the normies, that's why the woke crowd fear us.
Christopher Lee would be rolling in his grave if he knew what they were doing to his character , just pathetic
Amazon wasted 1 billion dollars for the name of diversity
I need to know:
Has there ever been a SINGLE Woke adaption that came out and was regarded equally to its predecessor?
The Expanse TV series was well recieved and that was far more woke than the books. Admittedly it was cancelled after the fifth season.
You “need to know” this?
Hahahahahs
@@ClaytonStone895 shut up amazon
Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” was “woke”. Expanded parts for Arwen and Eowyn made dorks like yourself weep back in the day.
Five seasons is still pretty good for a show I guess ... ?
It is absolutely hilarious the mental gymnastics that these people are going through to try to convince themselves that J.R.R. Tolkien's work is some beacon of leftism. They so badly want him to have been one of them when he clearly wasn't. He just wanted to tell a good story and create a compelling mythology.
He was definitely not. He actually despised people, that lived like mindless drones, not being able to think for themselves. You can understand that, if you actually read his letters.
@@aahzmandiaz2767 "He actually despised people, that lived like mindless drones, not being able to think for themselves."
You mean like the MAGA Crowd who fell for No.45 hook, line and sinker?
@@Quotenwagnerianer Lol trust a leftard to try and spin something into modern day politics. I bet you voted for "Salute the marines & shit my pants" biden lol
@@Quotenwagnerianer As opposed to who? Hillary? Do you have any idea where we would be right now if that piece of garbage had won? Trump wasn't perfect, far from it, but he was BY FAR the superior choice. And look what's happening to this country now, now that he got cheated out of his 2020 win. That TDS "orange man bad" crap counts for absolutely NOTHING anymore, so don't expect to get anywhere with it.
Dude he had leftist views including being a big environmentalist.
July 14...Thanks for the birthday present, Amazon. I hate it. Is there a return receipt?
4:39 that headdress looks like it was commissioned last-minute from a 14-year-old cosplayer.
Who could have ever foreseen bad reviews coming for such a train wreck of a production? 🤔
not us for sure XD
Not the people living in the SJW bubbles. Now they have the usual and boring "HOW DARE YOU!!!" reaction.
It will make Game of Thrones season 8 look like a Masterpiece
@@CalebBerman ouch... I thought we were watching this vid because we're sick of political/religious views... nevermind then guess ill devote to satan coz at least he let's me have my own opinion.
Edit: Jesus ain't cannon in LOTR... so none of us care sorry
Reviews of what? The show isn’t out yet, dumdum.
Personally I like throwing the dwarven gernade into the room when I see sjws talking about lord of the rings. The grenade, "are you sure you aren't erasing the first example of non-binary fantasy cultures by trying to add a second gender norm to Tolkiens dwarves?" It's fun to watch the gears break.
Outstanding move sir.
Brilliant
But we know there are female dwarves. I don't think that follows.
@@bring-out Doesn't that still make them binary though?
@@sub7se7en It makes them 'non-hetero-normative', to use twitterspeak. Dwarves as a society do not conform to the societal norms of humans as far as book representation
This is why it's so funny... the forced inclusion of a happy couple of dwarves is actually Amazon forcing gender stereotypes into a narrative that didn't have them to begin with.
4:30 that Crown literally screams PLASTIC look at it !!
If corporations acted like corporations and cared more about profit than wokeness, these projects wouldn't get past the pilot
You know, I just want what Tolkien wrote. I don't want random scriptwiters, showrunners, corporate executives, and stakeholders to be able to come up with 5 seasons of material people will discuss in the same breath as Tolkien's actual Legendarium just because a corporation had money. This isn't Tolkien. I don't care if they keep their own material "internally consistent" with what Tolkien wrote because he "technically never said [insert thing]". It feels like a co-opting and a hijacking. A wholly original story utilizing a pre-established framework for name recognition only because of a corporation's desire to cash in on "franchise" and "content", two corporate and commercialized terms I've come to loathe as they cheapen and diminish what we should be trying to strive for, or what may already exist: art.
Also, condsider signing and sharing the Stop Selling "Rings of Power" Covers petition online! Make your voices heard.
Sounds like you don’t want a Second Age adaptation. Well, don’t watch it and leave the real fans like me to enjoy it.
@@ClaytonStone895 shut up amazon
@@ClaytonStone895 Hi, Andrew Gorman. How's that neckbeard coming along?
Haven't they hidden almost every trailer/teaser at some point?
Yup. Because they are so very proud of their work in "adaptating" Tolkiens works.
Yes. Because this rubbish is going to be detonated by Tolkien lovers upon release.
Yes. And isn't it hilarious? 😄
Let us hope they hide away the series as well...
I believe if you rewatch the Super Bowl that it’s still there
Black dwarves? Black Elves? Black Hobbits? Black Numenorians? I don't think the creators understood Tolkien's use of the word "black."
Thank you Amazon for preventing me to subscribe to Amazon Prime!
This is actually some Vought type sh*t at this point. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such blatant disregard, or disrespect from an international company in my life. At least not this OPENLY directed at their consumers. They’re retconning a dead persons work, which is already messed up enough, and now they’re trying to retcon his personality too? lmao. How depraved can you get, just let the man rest for f*ck sake lol.
If he were still living they would have kicked him out of the publishing industry and refused to acknowledge he existed like 8 years ago.
Chill, incel. Christopher Tolkien was alive and involved in the sale to Amazon and the Tolkien Estate (who know more about Tolkien than you or nerdrotic) has been involved with the scripts.
Lol they just did it to Wheel of Time they don’t care
Let me introduce you to L. Sprague DeCamp, perverter of Conan.
Why are people trying to ret-con books that are 50 years old?
They are talentless hacks that want to use it as a platform for “The Message”
A couple reasons.
First they can't make their own things that are worth anything.
Second, since they're completely inept, they want to take everything away from their perceived enemies.
Because money, creative bankruptcy, money, hubris, money....
nihilistic egoism demands it.
Because they know they can't match it on talent
I’m Mexican American and would die for my country. Love my Mexican culture but I wouldn’t want to see Pedro pascal as an elf just like I don’t want him in the last of us series. It’s cool keep things original and still have cultural integrity.
"Shakespeare can only be truly appreciated in it's original Klingon." - General Chang
This is terrible how they bastardized a good man’s legacy I will not watch this show in honor of J.R.R. Tolkien. the man went to a World war and saw the horrors and terrors of the field and came back and wrote something good and pure. That reminds us in the darkest times there is still some good in the world. That’s gives us hope.
For many people what he wrote was a right wing populist text.
@@ashleyfairway.540 to me it was one of the best fantasy world and story i’ve ever known to exist
@@BigTarb wasn't for me. I preferred Michael Moorcock.
How did the bastardize his legacy, Baldman?
@@ClaytonStone895 shut up amazon
It would make much more sense for one of the Istari to arrive by boat in the gray havens.
The Istari had their power diminishe and were made to resemble old men.
Presumably to hide their true nature and identities.
Having one of them arrive in middle earth in a comet racing through the sky seen by all would draw alot of attention
to his arrival.
I wonder what they call that mode of transport, the Flamer?
"Look, up in the sky, its absurd, its a shame ...girlfriend's such a showoff."
They were diminished mostly causen in case they were corrupted they did not have the same powers as Sauron, basically the valar sending them a dark lord lol thats why Saruman could have become a second Sauron if his powers werent diminished and his body trapped (even though Sauron was the most powerful Maia, at the same level as Eónwe.)
@@bring-out Oh my illuvatar that was actually pretty funny quip. Got a chuckle out of me.
@@Alejojojo6 yes b ut they were also forbidden from using their powers and instead only inspire the people for greater efforts. I think it was more of a moral lesson Tolkien tried to tell. That god cannot come to humanity's aid. It must be us who must go against evil and triumph in the end.
This is one of your best videos. Your passion is palpable. So glad you are on the side of reason and logic. Keep fighting!
I always enjoy watching your videos because it lets me know that I'm not the only one who finds what holywood is doing at the moment extremely annoying.
Since when is calling out the bastardization of Tolkien's works somehow alt-right machinations? That's some major gaslighting.
No you are wrong. Gaslighting is something the alt-right does to the left. Logic can't flow in both directions.
It's the great amorphous boogeyman for these people, and it's getting tired because they use it for everything now.
Because they're hypocrites. say one bad thing about woke and you're suddenly literally hitler.
"Disa?"
"Disa nuts!"
Also, Ga-Lad-Riel... very important where you put the emphasis.
the 1 billion production cost is either a lie for marketing or money laundry
Hey man, longtime Tolkien Society member here major (debating now)...major respect for this video honestly. I call to task some of your points in other videos based on Star Wars, but I must say all your LOTR stuff is on point.
It wonderful to see the Tolkien fans clap back at the insecurities of the activists with knowledgeable evidence and passion.
They picked the wrong fandom to try and conquer. The followers of middle Earth are wise to the actions of Sauron the deceiver.
I got banned from the Ardacraft minecraft server for simply pointing this garbage out. They're building Middle Earth in a 1:1 scale and it's incredible, but they're a bunch of leftists I found out. I simply said the show was breaking the lore and they banned me from their discord, website, and Minecraft server. So pathetic.
It’s just a bunch of nerds whining about something they haven’t seen five minutes of.
@@ClaytonStone895 And you're just a simp defending a trash show that goes against everything that Tolkien wrote. Doubt you've even read the Silmarillion.
@@ClaytonStone895 you are funny :D
That moment when you're so desensitized to seeing "diversity" represented in media that you are more focused on what the trailer is trying to convey about its story or draws, and you realize: There is literally nothing to these trailers other than "Look at me; I'm a hardcore badass masculine dude-woman elf! Look at me; I'm a girl hobbit! Look at me; I'm a (beardless) girl dwarf! Look at me; I'm a dweeby-looking short-haired elf! Look at me; I'm BLACK! Look at me; My SFX are worse than the OG trilogy from two decades ago! Look at me; My trailer music is completely unremarkable and unmemorable! Look at me; I'M MADE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND PRODUCED BY PROGRESSIVE PC-STORY-HIJACKERS SO I MUST BE GOOD; COME WATCH ME!!!!" smh
That's pretty much what it is. Galadriel should be married by now and the greatest sorceress. But instead of seeing her being awesome with her powers, it feels like she got demoted to warrior princess. While nothing wrong with warrior princess, we already have her, her name is Eowyn. Or, if they absolutely had to, could have given that role to Celebrian, and then have Elrond go all puppy dog eyes for her, lol.
And that is how you know you now have immunity to propaganda; it can no longer deceive you.
Serious projection there, bud.
I didn't not get this from watching this and has anyone played Shadow of Mordor Like the same female Elvin armor lol
Ha lol you had to add that BLACK didn't know people just hate to see black people like get over yourself they are looking for actors to fill rolls not appeal to your racism.... just like in starwars your all white era is over and its burning people like you all
Hobbits lived with Hobbits, wood elves with wood elves, dwarves with dwarves, men with men and orcs with orcs ,segregation is build into the Tolkien story. It’s the few stories of when there is intermingling that make them precious, if they are all ready multicultural it takes away from the power of their interaction and all the individual cultures as well.
My Grandfather, he served in WWII and was a massive Tolkien fan. He passed away before Peter Jacksons films. My mom often wondered what he'd think of them. I miss my Grandfather dearly, but Im so glad he never had to see Amazon butcher Tolkien's work.
I always hated the Hobbit films. Even Peter Jackson admitted they did tons of stuff on the fly and he didn't know what the hell he was doing half the time. He sold out to the production companies that wanted it dragged across 3 overstuffed CGI-fest films. Suddenly aside this Amazon shit show, the Hobbit films are starting to look good.
That’s why my definitive hobbit movie is still the Rankin/Bass cartoon from 1977
No Peter came in when they were a jumbled mess and had to salvage what he could.
The Why it's very simple: While doing the original LOTR he had barely any studio interference, whereas he had ALL the studio interference a director can fear to suffer while making The Hobbit trilogy
Thats honestly my biggest gripe with this whole situation. The Hobbit movies are gonna get rehabilitated when they definitely don't deserve it.
in fairness to Jackson they dicked him over heavily too. Basically he was told he either directed what at the time was two movies or they'd move the whole production to America and dump Weta. The movies were frankly terrible, but when it comes to Jackson it's not as cut and dried as it may seem, it wasn't just about money for him. Warner Brothers did a LOT of shady shit behind the scenes on that project.
They're really going scorched (middle) Earth on this aren't they? So desperate for this to be a success, they'll happily shit on Jackson's trilogy and completely undermine Tolkien. Never has one show needed to fail like this one.
Dude I love your new format. Ive watched your videos for a while and then kind of backed off because I got tired of staring at your face all the time but apparently you hired a decent editor so props to him and to you I’m on board.
I don't understand the business motivation of Amazon. Why? To increase subscribers? To keep subscribers? To charge in a pay per play structure? To sell merch? Like all the streaming services is there a profitable end game this is in service of or is it simply and ego trip? Or is it a group of social engineers spending company money to push propaganda supporting their new world and cultural goals.
Well said Gary. We may not be able to stop this series from being made, but we can certainly call it out for being the unfaithful, insulting garbage that it is. And we can refuse to blindly consume it. Keep fighting the good fight sir!
It WILL be relegated to the dust bin of history. Nobody will remember in 5 years after it runs its course.
@@davidford3115 It’ll be on for 8 seasons and be a global hit.
@@ClaytonStone895 Keep lying to yourself. Remember live action Cowboy Bebop? This is just as misguided as that aborted project.
@@ClaytonStone895 shut up amazon
Well it is easy do not see the show!
I was so happy after game of thrones ended for all the fantasy adaptations we were going to get. BIG STUDIOS would adapt wheel of time, the witcher, lord of the rings. Finally, something that every fantasy fan wanted to happen. Almost 4 years later and i wish hollywood had never realised that fantasy shows sell.
Atleast the witcher is watchable
Nothing good comes from going mainstream. It happened to video games, it's happening to fantasy and its going to happen to anime.
@@parthpurwar Season 1 is good. Season 2 is a miss.
@@GeraltofRivia22 This wouldn't be a problem if the creators had the balls to stand by their works. FromSoftware went mainstream with elden ring and weirdos online started crying because the game wasn't accessible for them. From couldn't care less and as a result their game sold more than 12 million copies and they are one of the most beloved video game studios today.
@@RespectTheSourceMaterial And on the other side of that coin we now have the creator of Friends apologising for the show not being diverse enough and having bought into institutional racism.
Putting diversity into TLOTR really is cultural appropriation.
Wow how is the CG that bad? That scene with the birds flying by literally makes me feel like I’m watching a PlayStation 3 cutscene. What the hell is going on? I get they don’t try in writing anymore. Who needs that in storytelling? Diversity is OBVIOUSLY more important. But why is the CG regressing? Is it because all the writing committee slots are already filled with Gender Studies and African American studies majors so they are giving them computer graphics and editing jobs now? Hmmmm…. Why would anyone not love equity?
Tolkien was a devout catholic. There is no debate on this topic. Now, I know people are extremely confused seeing as how the media portrays people such as Biden and Kamala as both being “devout Catholics”, but they aren’t. Tolkien was.
No one ever says Kamala is a Catholic, because she’s not. She’s a Baptist.
Same people ruined the Narnia series and a wrinkle in time. Methinks they hate religion
They like Satan,that's why Evil can't create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces that have invented or made, simple as that.
Biden IS a devout Catholic. I don't know about Harris, but Biden is indeed a devout Catholic, just like Tolkien was. What's the big deal about any of this? I respect people's faith (or lack thereof).
@@raminagrobis6112 because no one judges Catholics so harshly as other Catholics, and a ton of conservative Catholics are awful about Biden. And Stephen Colbert. And the Pope. Any Catholic that disagrees with them. Or thinks separation of church and state is important.
Also, Tolkien was a pre-Vatican II traditionalist. The super traditionalists can be very unpleasant to other Catholics.
There’s many reasons I’m no longer Catholic, but it is still vaguely fascinating to me to watch the way Catholics snipe at and judge each other. (And the progressive Catholics do judge the conservative ones, too.) I’m waiting for another church schism, frankly.
I wanna talk about something people never mentioned about Rings of Power and why it looks so cheap. It's the characters and their super clean and perfect makeup (and probably digitally beautified) faces. Only that alone makes the show look like a low budget Hallmark channel family series.
To me most of them are unattractive or made to look unkempt.
even tho the majority of the elves actors are with their own hair, they look so fake while Jackson’s elves in wigs looks more natural I don’t understand this lol the main dwarves are looking terrible and not dwarvish at all and men looking so boring and generic, whoever was in charge for this awful characters designs should never work again. The cast has many beautiful talented ppl but they just don’t fit in. Sorry. Only Lloyd seemed to look cool. Im only ok e the harfoots and orcs.
Totally agree
You’re either lying or have no clue what you’re talking about. The cinematography looks incredible, the landscapes (New Zealand) look lush, the costumes look spectacular, and the actors look gorgeous. Maybe your hatred has affected your eyesight?
@@honeyblade110 Actually, this is the first time we’ve seen dwarves look good - way better than the Jackson series where they were used for comedic purposes.
It is such a shame that they will spend millions just to end up in the $1 bin, but will constantly ignore the fans!
Amazon is guilty of Cultural Appropriation . As well as horrific lack of writing , directing & Producing skills.
I've heard that the people of Oxford and surrounding area are hearing a constant high pitched whine as if something is spinning at nearly 100,000,000 rpm.
It started at a low pitch when Amazon announced the plans for this "adaptation" and has been growing steadily louder ever since.
It seems to originate in a graveyard on Banbury Rd.
Is that what it is!? I thought I heard what sounded like a jet turbine spooling up as soon as this trailer was released and I thought, that's odd, and now it hasn't stopped!
If Tolkien was still alive he would probably invent a brand new language just to cuss out these rabid activists.
🤣😂😭☠️💀 🪦 💐
Looks like the Protectors of the Plot Continuum have their old power source back.
@@DivineFalcon "There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery"
I do not know if this is Tolkiens words (it was posted at amazon prime by user piotr jaworski) but it is fitting for what amazon is doing with his work.
It's a quote from the movies when Treebeard discovers what happened to Isengard.
@@05basTi Thx for the information.
@@aleph4926 To be precise, it's what Treebeard said when he found out what Saruman and his orcs did to Fangorn forest. They cut the trees, many of which were Treebeard's friends. This is in the movie.
I was just about to tell you about the quote in tolkein's books, spoken by Treebeard to the hobbits Merry and Pippen, but I see someone else already beat me to it. It's not quite right though. In the books, Treebeard says this after discovering a large patch of trees that had been cut down by Saruman and the orcs of Isengard, and is what convinces them to go to war against Isengard. As Treebeard put it, "A wizard should know better!"
@@mitasrb Yes, and it's also in the books. The movies didn't stay perfectly true to the books, but this part they got right.
Add this to the list of franchises destroyed by modern day identity politics and writers not knowing what they’re doing.
My grandpas had a colorful way of saying, “accuse your enemies of what you’re doing”
It was, “he who smelt it, dealt it.”
The funniest thing is they said that RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRY TO APPROPRIATE TOLKIEN. Friends of the tolkien society, Tolkien was a devout catholic. A deeply religious person and Gandalf is a christ like figure. The only one that tries to appropriate Tolkein is you.
Lol yup. As a fellow devout Catholic, Toliien technically "belongs" to me. I should get to decide what goes concerning his work. Not them. Especially not them, considering how they're blatantly going out of their way to destroy it.
@@RoseBaggins Tolkien doesn’t belong to you - you guys get “Spotlight” that chronicles the Boston Globe uncovering decades of sexual abuse of children by the Catholic Church.
You think Tolkien - who was vocal in his hatred for allegory - made Gandalf a stand-in for Christ? 😂 😆
Tolkien was a right wing conservative. He would have supported Trump.
@@ashleyfairway.540 Tolkien hated Nazis - he would’ve hated trump
They want to kill lord the rings and drag it's corpse around for profit just like star wars before it.
Simply pathetic.
“How to make shit out of flowers”
I hope we get to see the Entwives in Handmaid's Tale costumes. That's why the ran away...too much toxic masculinity from the Ent patriarchy.
Tolkien was a devout Catholic, even at his Sunday church meetings, he prayed in Latin while others prayed in English, and considered his work fundamentally religious and Catholic. Such a person will never introduce LGBT ideology in his works, in fact in countries that are mostly Catholic, such as Mexico, iIt is still very common for LGBTs to be harassed and even beaten, because their behavior is considered to be against God's standards.
This is actually true of ALL religions in their original forms before “reformation” aka changing God’s laws to suit your own sick desires.
@@NK-mn6zu The Woke movement is really a religion or rather a sect, because: it has its dogmas that cannot be questioned, they are the "good guys" who try to bring the truth to all humanity, they try to spread their ideology by all means possible (that's why so many productions Woke from hollywood), they are allies of the government in turn, they fiercely attack those who oppose their doctrine, they want to change society the way they like, they have their own demons and their leader well identified (the conservatives and the orange man), they have their theology in this case the¨¨ gender identity¨¨ and the ¨¨critical theory of race¨¨.... and like all sects, they focus their maximum effort on indoctrinating children from very early ages .. ..they are a dangerous sect.. 😒
It’s literally good vs evil: Narcissism vs Principled Morality
which is fuckin wrong. that doesnt mean im qgainst wokeness which i am but FUCK people who hate people who have romantic relationships with the same sex.
Based Mexico
"There are some ideas so stupid that only academics believe them." - George Orwell
What movie is that clip from at the beginning where the bald guy is in the office, and he’s like “really what the fu*k” ?
Maybe we look at this as Tolkien What If? Since they’re jumbling everything, that meteor was an Autobot coming to save Middle Earth from Sauron’s valet? Meh…
Two of my favorite YoungRippa quotes were in this video: “We are winning, we will win” and “These people are to be mocked, shamed, and ridiculed”.
Well done Gary!
3:32 Gary, you can call somebody else next time you get a speeding ticket.
lol
"amaz sucks...it stole and ruined my idea for profit...i hope it fails." -Tolkien
Galatron Prime is truly the essence of Amazon's Tolkin' time. I can't wait to hear her say "I'll be back".
Tolkien was such an integral part of my formative years, and it breaks my heart to see his legacy vandalized by those who have no respect for Tolkien as an author or for his work.
Peter Jackson's attitude was spot on where did his best to remain faithful to the genre. I just wish Amazon would do the same, but that ship has left the Gray Havens.
Amazon went completely off-script with their Cowboy Bebop live action. It should come as no surprise they would do the same here.
I hated the Lord of the Rings. The right wing traditional view of society run by a strong leader and the common folk supporting him was part of me becoming an anarchist.
@@ashleyfairway.540 and 0 fucks were given
@@ashleyfairway.540 Um, thank you for sharing, I guess.
@@ashleyfairway.540 "There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates." ~ George S. Patton
This is just another great reason to watch the extended LoTR movies again, with popcorn you made at home, and your favorite snack you bought for $1.24 at the dollar tree.
More like dollar 25 tree
I dont agree with the gandalf witchking scene tho. Gandalf would wreck him rightly.
they committed hubris by claiming this has anything to do with the lord of the rings world.
Tolkien and his son Christopher are spinning in their graves like beyblades at this point
If the show conflicts with the actual lore and canon, this show can officially, without any doubt be challed up as horrifying fan fiction.
Be careful. You will get comments deleted for calling anything from a Hollyweird production studio "Bad fan fiction".
I beg LOTR fans like you: Don’t let them do to LOTR what they did to Star Wars!!
Oh, holy crap. Do they HAVE to get everything wrong? It's as if they wanted to do something slightly resembling a Tokien inspired story and then lost their minds after 8 seasons of Game of Thrones. I can understand wanting to dig down to that last gold coin in the mine, but at some point you must admit to yourself that this is going to be a shit sandwich that you wash down with a urine shake. There's not a high pressure firehose big enough to wash the accumulated fecal layers from this testament to the idea that you can, indeed, have too damn much money. Somebody should have just given Jeff Bezos a LOTR Lego playset for him to ruin. Or just kept him at a wild party until this poison passed through his system.
They tried to do generic fantasy using popular universum and lots of modern ideas (don't lie to ourselves, every author is going to put his - or 'his' - ideology into his work), overdid, created a sh*tshow and cannot face a backlash. That's what happened.
All these clowns should be put in a time machine, sent back to Tolkien's "age" and see what the actual eff would have happened to them if they tried to force their ideas onto the people actually living in that time.
Simple as that.
“By Eru Ilúvatar’s fade”-! *wheezing*
Why is amazon obsessed with making the hobbits look like homeless children who just got done dumpster diving behind an olive garden?
Hobobits enter the show.
How can the work of a religious conservative author be appropriated by other religious conservatives? 😂 Good one "Tolkien" society
I suspect that Tolkien would quote the Nazarene by saying "I never knew you and you never knew me, begone from me you workers of evil!".
Thanks for your videos, man.
I loved what I heard!! Thank you, my friend!!!