That's some Warhammer 40k energy right there. Crazy powerful demi-gods with multiple centuries of active combat experience, instantly killed by a space fart.
Except the "effort" in the opening kinda sucks. You know why the opening battle in LOTR works, and this one doesn't? Because that one looks like a battle. A REAL battle. You have clear battle lines, and tactics being displayed, and this one is just a bunch of CGI slop thrown together that's supposed to "wow" the audience, without being thought through at all. There's no rhyme, or reason, to this opening battle sequence.
@@natedaniels3655 I agree, they did the battle scene like a street fight where there was 0 organisation, just elves and orcs individually 1on1ing each other
@@draglout Exactly! Even the most simple strategy would've completely decimated the opposition in that fight. "Hey guys, stay in a line and keep your shields up." *manages to win against overwhelming odds somehow*.
@@natedaniels3655 there is always a point in war where the lines will break, and the war become chaos, people killing each other individually. Do you actually think _real war_ is organized?
@@lyranth if you are a casual Tolkien fan, you may like it. The overall story contradicts the books in many ways. For that reason I’m not the biggest fan of the series. It has its moments tho.
@@lyranth yes. I read the books. Loved the pj films. If you aren’t a hard purist you’ll enjoy it. If you are the type to bemoan ANY changes to lore, you’ll have trouble. That said, PJ films made very big changes and overall they are loved. I hope RoP does the same, the visual fidelity is INSANE for a tv show. We are lucky we get an adaption with this budgey
The Teleri were not "stupid". They had everything they needed in Valinor. The ships were important to them and of great value. The Noldor cruelly slew the teleri just because Feanor believed Melkor's lies. None of this ever justified the clan murder of Alqualonde. The Noldor were blinded, desperate and ignorant because they did not accept the will of the teleri. In addition, the Noldor simply burnt the ships of the teleri. A people could not commit greater celibacy and cruelty.
@@aranha6285 Surely he should have done this. His charisma, his power of speech and his rhetoric would have caused less suffering than the swords of his soldiers. However, he would not have convinced the Teleri with words either, his speech described in the Silmarillion met with no response, the Teleri were sad and dismayed and they did not know Melkor (as he considered them too weak). They therefore continued to trust the Valar. That he wanted to pursue Melkor was his right, but not at the expense of his own kin.
@@Jayrage most armies in history fought in close formations, pressing into each other and just stabbing. Some armies would push together so tightly that the dead would be held upright and soldiers would be unable to raise or swing their weapons. It’s silly in a melee like this, but it did happen, and especially if your enemy is well armored, just trying to grapple them and knock them over would be a better strategy than hacking at them uselessly.
@@Jayrage except for in the pull away shot, it’s the elf’s own sword across his chest, and he was neck armor, so a slash like that wouldn’t be as effective. As I stated in my previous comment, these grapples often led to enemies being unable to swing or move their weapons, and given how that Orc is being crushed by friend a foe alike, I doubt he had any ability to move his blade and actually cut with any force while keeping his blade or not dislocating a limb.
0:59 Anyone else notice they had to use the map from the Lord of the Rings from the 2nd age onwards, and not the map of Beleriand since they don't have the rights to use or mention it?
Have you seen Tolkiens map of the first age? It looks like a 6yo child drew it. Its fking awful, they would never use such an ugly map. They also wouldnt show a map of just east of the misty mtns because the elf story takes place on the west side so that makes zero sense to use that map as well.
@@Buggabones that's incorrect, the elves woke up in the East in Cuivienen (Eastern side of sea of Helcar) first and the several factions of elves that existed migrated to Beleriand afterwards and travelled through Middle Earth to get there
@@shizachan8421 Still not an excuse to make garbage content. They could've just had the Elves be the main characters later on in the series and had the main character be Sauron and give tidbits of information regarding Halbrand's past throughout the season. They could've just had Halbrand living in Harad amassing power and influence over the Haradrim and Easterlings by making precious gifts and weapons for them to hold sway and do subtle manipulations. But nah we got this jumbled garbage lmao. There's a saying, "A character is only as smart as the people writing them." so in other words the writers are pretty stupid.
@@Vlakell4476 Tbh, the show had severe pacing issues, but wasn't that bad. Clearly far above most of Game of Thrones after season 5. I would say the biggest L was making the main character Galadriel. I think keeping her mostly the same but making her her daughter, Celebrían, who is more like a blank slate who could be expanded upon. It also would have left open the potential with a romantic subplot with Elrond, considering she is his wife in canon, so from a story perspective they could have introduced some interesting Sauron-Celebrian-Elrond love triangle. TV Audiences love triangles after all.
Nothing is ever going to beat the first Lord of The Rings opening scene, in almost any movie probably not just Tolkien's stuff. I remember I saw it in theater when I was 5 and couldn't take my eyes off the screen
Jackson much more used show, don't tell than this. So, much more involvement and epicness. Here, I feel that a "skip" button is missing. This prologue is totally average.
@@Buggabones Well, in this specific case, this TV show absolutely wanted to play with nostalgia and be a canonical prologue of the LotR trilogy. These films are amazing and globally acclaimed. Of course the comparison will be present. If the new TV series was amazing, smart, respectful, excatly like the beginning of GoT, everyone will praise it. The showrunners did it themselves. Not grumpy old timers ^^
Its fairly easy for elves. legolas eaz some mammoth type, many more extraordinary feats such as glorfindel during the Fall of gondolin were notable. even turin a mere human defeated the father of dragons: Glaurung
@@centurymemes1208 Not sure on super strength but they are definitely very good on stamina Also side note I hope I live long enough to see Glaurung adapted, that guy is like Smaug times ten in how much personality was written for him, imagine what he'd be like if someone voiced and animated him like the Hobbit movies did, I imagine something like Grigori from Dragon's Dogma.
@@centurymemes1208 turin wasn't some mere human my guy, and glorfindels feat of killing a balrog is one of the highest achievements by any elf, u can't just casually compared things like that
The part that starts at 0:43 is the only part of the Rings of Power that is 10/10 for me, the music alone carried so much that Bear McCreary and his entire Orchestra had to go to the hospital.
Yeah, the visuals and the soundtrack heavy carry this show. This is the only scene from the show I acc kinda like, I don’t even think I made it past episode 1 lol
if you look again you’ll notice there are two trees. the one that’s shining like the sun in that scene is Laurelin, the golden. the tree behind it is Telperion, the silver. they both shone, but not at the same time. basically when laurelin shone it was day and when telperion shone it was night ironically, it was the sun (made after the trees were destroyed) that was originally never going to set until that couple of valar whose names i always forget were like “dude. that thing’s always in the sky. no one can get any sleep. please fix it” and then there was day and night again. tho i don’t remember if that’s canon or earlier in the development
According to "The Silmarilions", The war against Dark Lord Melkor (Morgoth) did not held in Mordor but Beleriand, which has collapsed into the sea with Angband (Melkor's Kingdom) and many others Noldor Kingdom (except Lindon) after the War of Wraith.
@@cameronallison1199 that is a good point but that also doesn’t make sense cause great eagles can kill dragons the only reason why the great eagles didnt as manwe did not tell them to interfere they woudnt unless it was for the sake of a friend such as gandalf also the eagles coudnt just go to mordor was climate, millions of arrows, and the nazgul themselves as the nazgul where very powerful capable of killing scores of elves only incredibly powerful beings such as galadriel, elendil, gil galad, elrond, aragorn, glorfindel could face the nazgul, and win and by the point of pelenor fields the witch king was as powerful as gandalf the white so a great eagle would be nothing for him, without any help the eagles would be massacred by mordors forces as the fellbeasts normally would be no match for them but the nazgul riders with the sorceries balanced them out the witch king could cut down multiple eagles with a single spell and the hordes or orcs and evil men bellow would fill the eagles with arrows of various kinds including poison and with saurons eye essentially being a active radar a horde of eagles approaching would have been spotted immediately it would be painfully obvious what the plan was, its pretty much the same as to why glorfindel didnt join the fellowship it would be to obvious.
I always wonder why most directors always show armies intermixed with each other when fighting. Like, how did they get into each others’ back lines without being killed? At least in Jackson’s LotR, only the first few lines were intermixed, while the backlines are all allies.
“It began with the forging of the films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men who above all else desire quality. But they were all of them deceived. For another show was made. In the land of Amazon in the fires of Mount Prime, the dark lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop. And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film. One show to ruin them all. One show to hide them. One show to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.”
Awesome special effects. That scene with the eagle being killed by the dragon was super cool. I have no idea why Hollywood feels compelled to make every protagonist the underdog though. The elves weren't "resisting" Morgoth until the very end. Feanor roused the Noldor into a conquering expedition of vengeance and new kingdoms, out of the shadow of the gods. The elves were conquering badasses, not Disney cookie cutter #rebels™
The simarelion made it out to be worse as morgoths war of wrath was so terrible half of middle earh was completely destroyed this is the tame pg version of the first age .
That was a fallen beast not a winged dragon tho. I believe this is a battle (I honestly forgot the name) before the war of wrath which is where winged dragons were summoned.
Sauron was supposed to be the most beautiful, captivating, fair of all maiar that form he was taking only happens after he dies in numenor and loses his human body and thus recreating himself into a more terrifying existence
If anything the dragon was too small, they were giantic armored fire-breathing monsters, cunning and cruel and able to cast many types of magic and curses.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi bro it was a fell beast. I know there were dragons and Balrog in the battle of Morgoth. That's one of many things I hated about this show.
@@_Black_Lemonade To my knowledge Fell Beasts were breeded by Sauron and were unheard of before the third age, and we know that the cinematic version of Tolkien´s dragons have only 2 legs and two wings so they should look alike, but i concede that it may be one. After all Amazon was not keen in accuracy or veracity with their "Middle Eart" map on the middle of the first age.
Regardless of the show being what it is, I still admit that the first shot of Sauron and his legions was pretty awesome. And at the end, when he finally revealed himself, I might actually continue with the next season if Sauron is more involved as the Dark Lord. He is basically the character we all seemed to rooting for now.
@@MuhammedAasil Yes. Like in LORT nobody roots for Sauron or the fucking Orcs. We root for the good guys. They are flawed, but sympathetic, very human even the not human ones. Charismatic, or brooding, or cheerful, cunning or dumb. The Fellowship and the recurring characters were amazing. Tolkien setted the foundations and Peter Jackson & Co. took that to the big screen with great care. In the Amazon adaptations you encounter numerous fans rooting for the evil guys, a thing only seen in fucking Star Wars with the Sith (which is cool, its that type of series) but never in any Tolkien works. And this never happened in LOTR trilogy. FFS is so bad that some annoying incels and casuals didn't even get or forego the Tolkien ethos of fighting against evil and caring for the good in the world. It's sad and its certainly not the blame of Tolkien's world, or viewers, but the fucking producers and showrunners of this dumbster fire of a show. Sad sad adaptation...
Yeah, the second season and the series onward will focus on Sauron as the main character. The creators described him as the Walter White of the series, he's evil but complexly evil
@Gamer's Theater Mate that not f*cking sauron in my eyes, is damm ornstein from dark souls same armour same spear, and he even clear the sky so he could make his orcs suffer and die under sub light what a good guy is sauron couch couch, ornstein here he's literally the hero instead of the villain gg amazon.
@frankm9529 no kidding even worse is that poor peter jackson admitted that he Wang it with the hobbit with only a few months to work whereas the lord of the rings had something like 2 to 3 years to work with difference is night and day
When Galadriel chose Sauron over the guy she was engaged to, and they rode the Hogwarts express back to the future. That was the best scene. Powerful, powerful cinema.
People here seem to think that the elves' journey portrayed in the video is about the invasion of Feanor and his children and pointing out a lot of errors. Not that there can't be mistakes, but to me this moment clearly seems to be the invasion that the Valars themselves decided to send, the War of Wrath that definitively defeated Morgoth. In fact, it was only during this invasion that Morgoth used winged dragons (which appear in the video)
Lol what, its undoubtedly talking about the flight of the noldor, for one thats finrod in the battle, galadriels brother, who died before the war of wrath lmao. The 2 trees were destroyed ages before the war or wrath it wouldnt make any sense showing them, neither would the line 'we left our home' galadriel didnt leave valinor to fight in the war of wrath neither did most of the noldor they had already left. Those looked more like fell beasts than dragons, but either way you think that some minor technicality like that would stop them from including dragons in earlier battles, they butchered the lore in every other way.
*“Now, we learned many words for Death”* Words worthy of Tolkien’s work. Coming from a military family, I couldn’t help but tear up at that heap of Elvish Helmets. Each one belonging to somebody, someone who had a family.
Middle Earth is the continent containing Beleriand and what was left of it in the Third Age (of which we are more familiar). What's wrong with the map? My comment would be showing Valinor, an area of Aman the continent, instead of the entire Aman. But they may not have the rights to that. So far there are only two continents in Arda. Is there something missing? Maybe convert the sundering sea name to Belegaer? So it's more traditional? Although it's the same place.
@@mentaldetritus13 I made this comment before watching the whole show to get the full context of their "direction" of the show Beleriand was indeed part of middle earth. in the opening scene when they talk about the Noldor traveling to Middle earth to "chase down Morgoth". All of this would take place in the First age, so the map should show Beleriand still present However, whether it's due to book rights, or other decisions, the whole of Beleriand seems to have just been cut from their story. Choosing to instead have Morgoth's battle seemingly take place in the Third Age Middle earth instead. So wrong map in terms of the book, but in context of their show it would be right
However, interestingly enough, if memory serves the show mentions something in the lines of "The battle against Morgoth shattered continents". If that is the case did Beleriand exist in their Universe, or did it not, who knows
Beleriand fell into the ocean after the Valar destroyed it in the First Age. There is no Beleriad anymore, so the Middle-Earth map is the correct choice. Aman would still be visible but not able to be visited until Ar-Pharazon the Golden steps upon it and gets crushed into an undead army stuck in the deep earth. AND The world is still flat until Numenor falls at the end of the Second Age due to its corruption by Sauron.
@@VidsnStuff Yes? The whole opening sequence is talking about the first age and Fëanor journey to middle-earth. Which takes place in the First Age? So Beleriand should still be present, because it's destruction happens during the War of Wrath, which happens at the end of the First age So, inconclusion, the map should show Beleriand
I would have loved to see Ancalagon the Black in this fight. Honestly so much of and generally more of the 1st age and the fight with Morgoth and the elves, the dragons and Balrogs would have been SO cool to see in future shows.
@@jackwei22 At some point, they will most likely be able to purchase the rights. It may be easier now that Christopher Tolkien is dead (as bad as that sounds). From what I hear, his children seem to be a bit more open minded about the Peter Jackson films and the show itself.
The Two trees, the shadow Morgoth, the darkness of the Two Trees destruction, the sons of Feanor, the fleet of elves sailing east (though not under Feanors banner), an Eagle of Manwe dying, the chaos of the battle, Angband and it’s volcano’s erupting in the background, the desolation of the land after the battle, eagles and dragons fighting in the skies, fire and explosions from projectiles, the lack of cohesion and sense of “every warrior for themselves” within the two clashing armies, Sauron and the orcs, etc. This was the one time this show felt like Tolkien. Let alone a decent summary of what the First Age was like. Minus a few things… Such mayor events like all of Beren and Luthien, the Kinslaying, fall of Gondolin, the whole Silmaril situation, and sinking of Beleriand. As well as some important characters like Fingolfin, Thingol, the Valar, Feanor, Ungoliant, Ancalagon, Gothmog and the Balrogs, and Eol the Dark elf or at least his son.
Have you read Tolkien? (I assume so) Tolkien feels nothing like what you described. 90% of the time Tolkien feels like a detailed traveljournal. Elven singing songs for 10 pages, that feels like Tolkien.
So here we see giant Sauron in his armor, wearing the crown, and already ruling over the orcs. He killed Galadriel's brother who was searching for him and then Galadriel spends 1000 years of the 2nd age looking for Sauron. S2 ep1. Sauron is killed immediately after Morgoths defeat at the start of the 2nd age and was never even crowned the new dark lord. Fantastic writing!
Ehh .... it was so so, the visuals were cool but it was way too off from the lore, I thought some of the editing and the dialogue could have been better too.
When we get the glimpes of the Second Age in the movie, we we all amazed how epic it was Then ROP dropped this glimpses of the First Age and we still amazed by it Tolkein's World is amazing.
The initial eras before the first age and the first age itself was so epic. Though they barely showed it in this clip but they have a awesome glimpse The flowering of Arda (creation of trees, wildlife, oceans by the gods (Valar) while Melkor tries to mess up their work (Melkor creates ice, volcanos, storms) Age of the lamps (before the sun and moon) Melkor fighting the Valar (other gods)for millennia from his vast underground fortress of Utunmo artic / north pole then finally being defeated by the youngest god Tulkas and being dragged to Valinor and made to say he is sorry in front of his (Melkor) brother Manwe. Melkor being freed and then breaks the lamps and escapes to middle earth and takes up in fortress Angnand in the far north below the ruins of Angband The elves are created.thousands of years before the first age. The elves awaken under the stars in far eastern middle earth. They migrate west towards Valinor. Noldor, Sindar, etc... Are formed. Melkor corrupts the some of the elves and makes Orcs. Lesser Ainur have joined Melkor since before creation of Arda (Earth) Balrogs, fell beasts, Sauron etc...) Age of the trees comes afterwards. The stories of Feanor, Finwe I can't remember the others The age of the trees (another several thousand year's) Many elves went to Valinor and live there. Many stayed in middle earth. Some elves were badass and killed Melkors foulest beasts. The creation of the Simarils and Melkor steals the Simarils and destroys the trees of (light of sun and moon) (the destruction of the trees is shown in this clip) The elves (Noldor?) Feanor I believe goes on a rampage to get the Simarils back from Melkor (he has lost some of his power - spent it corrupting middle earth and the elves call him Morgoth) The elves fight for centuries against Morgoth. First age begins when Humans are created and are awakened in the far east of Middle Earth and the sun and the moon are created (no more lamps or trees of light) Morgoth corrupts some humans. Humans that are faithful to the Valar and fight alongside the Elves are later rewarded with the kingdom of Numenor(second age which is what this series is all about) The Elves fight the forces of Morgoth for centuries (against Orcs, Balrogs, fell beasts, later Dragons) Until it becomes so desperate that the elves plead to the Valar. At the end of the first age a great force of the gods (Valar) eagles and other Ainur (divine beings) attack Morgoth and destroy most of the dragons, most of the Balrogs, the orcs. The middle earth is so ravaged, the elvish kingdoms are sunk below the Sea. Morgoth os captured, chained and cast out of the door of night outside of Arda as permanent banishment. Morgoth probably gets admonished by his own creator the Eru Illuvator (the one God) The second age starts after the destruction of Morgoth and his forces and the devastation of Middle Earth that changes it's shape. Sauron escapes and hides in the middle earth since the fall of Morgoth. The Valar invite Sauron to come to Valinor and say hes sorry and repent. But Sauron has other intentions....
i mean, i guess this is a good gist of the first age. Could've been way better with little changes, but this was ok. Btw, i love Tolkien's legendarium and i get why the first season of this show got so much hate, although i also totally understand people who love the show, specially after season 2, which is way better imo. Also, it's ok to enjoy both things. This stuff exist for us to have fun... So maybe if you hate it, it's ok, but just chill a little bit, you don't have to be a douche to people who enjoy it 😉 Anyway, a little bit of lore references: 0:16 - 0:31 - Morgoth steals the Silmarills and together with Ungoliant kills Laurelin and Telperion (the trees that provided light to the world); 0:32 - 0:37 - i presume this is moments after Feanor (elf dude who made the Silmarills and lots of other stuff like the palantiri - the seeing stones) proclaims his oath to retrieve the Silmarills from Morgoth, basically bounding a large part of his kin, most of the Noldor, to a path of destruction, slaughter, vengeance and sorrow, that would end up killing most of his family, friends and hundreds of thousands of men, dwarves and elves in Middle Earth; 0:38 - 1:00 - the voyage of the Noldor to Middle-Earth after the first kinslaying (the map is bizarrely wrong. Seems like a map of the third age, since there's no Numenor and Beleriand is already sunken). Feanor and his sons killed a bunch of elves (the Teleri) in Valinor in order to steal their ships and cross the sea to pursue Morgoth. The light in the horizon i assume is because as soon as they landed in middle earth, Feanor bid his followers to burn their ships to make a statement. Something like: "there's no turning back and we will not get back to Valinor to ferry the ones that didn't come with us right away". They could see the fire burning in spite of the great distance because the earth was flat then. That's why Galadriel and her folk had to go to Middle Earth not by ship but by crossing the Helcaraxë, the giant glacier that surrounded the world back then. From now on stuff gets a little bit confusing, because they kinda represented the important conflicts of the first age as one single thing 1:00 - 1:44 - this actually looks like the War of Wrath, which is the conflict that effectively ended the first age and destroyed half the bloody continet. We know this because this battle/war was the only instance in the war of the jewels that Morgoth used winged dragons (plus there's shots of people underwater). The battle/war ended in an aerial conflict between the eagles and Earendil (dude on a flying magic boat made with mithril) on one side and the flying dragons on the other side. Earendil killed the biggest one of them, Ancalagon and it fell on Morgoth's fortress destroying it. Morgoth's fortress in this time, btw, was a freaking giant moutain range of volcanoes. Ancalagon was so huge that his fall destroyed it. 1:45 - 2:20 - this is clearly a reference to the battle of unnumbered tears, a major defeat for elves, men and dwarves. This battle happened way before the war of wrath and is considered to be one of the biggest defeats of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, together with the Fall of Gondolin. A huge tragedy in which the creatures of Morgoth made a pile of dead men, elves and dwarves so high that it literally became a feat of the landscape known as the "hill of the slain". This pile of helmets is a referece to that. 2:21 - to the end is the rise of Sauron as the new Dark Lord, after Morgoth is chained and cast into the void by the victors, never to be realeased again until the world is remade in another balls to the walls huge ass war.
@Belugamale8738 it is morgoth not sauron at 0:20 galdriel said "when the great foe morgoth destroyed the very light of our home" she's talking about the golden tree, in lore there are two trees of valinor one tree brings light & daytime and the other night time and darkness , the tree of light was extinguished by morgoth and it brought darkness over arda (LOTR's earth) you can see a big shadow of morgoth a form he has taken destorying the tree behind its already been confirmed to be him it happened in the books too
@welsh-cymru1588 My bad, i can notice it now. I didn't watched the whole scene.There are other videos on RUclips unintentionally Describing that shadow being Sauron's i also got a little confused due to how Melkor's Armor & Crown model (in the said scene) is designed Similarly to Sauron's own second age armor & since morgoth is mostly depicted as being way more bulky & Muscled than sauron in the fandom 😅. But it was never confirmed What he really looked like or only appeared on screen in Metaphorical ways
I really suggest this guys channel called Broken Sword if you haven't seen him already he's a popular lotr channel that has great videos about the lore of middle just type in Broken Sword Melkor (Morgoth) and he has a video about his lore
I've always pictured the trees would look like the size of a normal tree. I didn't realize they were actually gigantic. This depiction is amazing, I am excited to see more!
They were probably even bigger wince they ligthened the whole world... and then Ungolinat came and sucked them dry!! Oh wait!! No Ungoliant anywhere here!! Just missing the biggest eldritch abomination of all of Tolkien´s creation.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi the trees only lit Valinor. Middle earth was only lit by starlight until the coming of the moon and then the coming of the sun Even Tol Eressea was only lit on it's western side from the light coming through the Calqcirya
Heh, too bad we won't "see more". The Tolkien Estate barely let them even mention Valinor / The Two Trees and the producers completely skipped Beleriand. The next and last mention of Valinor will be when Sauron inadvertently destroys Numenor. And that's it. It's actually a good thing Amazon can't touch any more of the source material. Lol.
This was such an epic scene to watch, it made me realize that a Silmarillion adaptaion could actually be made someday!! It was so cool to see Valinor and the two trees, as well as one of the battles in the War of the Jewels/War of Wrath? actually on screen. They did a good job with this, just wish it was longer (or that the whole show was about the Silmarillion, but I get they didn't get the rights to that... hope someone does someday if this is a glimpse of what it could be!). Edit: too bad the rest of the show wasn't like this, this was the best part!
Are you a robot? This was just terrible. Look at Peter Jacksons battle scenes, and then look at this. No heart was on this, greed was it's only inspiration.
@@johnnymcblaze The battle was lackluster, but I meant the whole scene in general. It was cool to see events from the Silmarillan play out, even if they were brief. Have you read the Silmarillan?
@@HiHi-lt1cb I agree with you. The battle, what little we did see, looked epic. What made it lackluster is the length. It's pretty short, even for a recap. The battle of the Last Alliance was about as long as this video itself at least. The show definitely has problems, but trying to work in The Silmarillion when they legally couldn't, in my opinion, isn't one of them.
The elves ventured to beleriand, and there they fought morgoth over the span of a couple centuries, beleriand in the end sunk into tho sea, with only the sundered remains of the blue mountains that formed its eastern border remaining, and there the elves settled the elven domain of lindon and the grey havens under kierdan the shipwright, its apparent Amazon didnt get permision to go lore accurate and this is the result … I personaly dont care about actors not being white or any such nonsense, bit these details are ripping at my soul …
Im so itching to see Ungoliant and Glaurung one of these days, but those books are really long and play like a history I don't know how they can fit that into film its sure to be a long series eitherway
@@hogganknowsbest That battle took place in the First Age. Dragons were pretty much on par with the Eagles, though. Fortunately for the Eagles and all of Middle Earth, only one Dragon was known to have survived into the Third Age and that was Smaug.
Other dragons existed into the third age. In the north near the grey mountains there’s a region called the withered heath where drakes (lesser dragons) lived. For the great dragons, only two were known in the third age. Smaug the golden who was the last of the great dragons and scartha the worm who lived several hundred years before the hobbit. There have been five know great dragon’s in the history of arda. But there are lesser dragons that possibly continued to live into the fourth age after the fall of Sauron.
@@zico739second age* Beleriand doesn't exist on that map in the beginning which was a region attached to Middle Earth, with Lindon as it's far eastern region and only surviving part.
The war between Morgoth and the elven army was more insane. Morgoth created his godly servants, the dragons and the Balrog. Especially the dragons were considered to be more deadly than Smaug. Yes, multiple dragons bigger than Smaug covering the sky, throwing fire, Orcs whose numbers were incomparably bigger, and the Balrog the ultimate evil spirit commanding them. SO sad that we didn't get to see any of those.
But what about people who criticise scenes that are accurate to the books? I mean people here in the comments cry about elves losing the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
it's little overkill touches like that which only the keen will notice as the ruination of this show into something more mastrubatory for the Star Wars crowd
annoys me that battle lasted a total of 5 seconds, i feel we couldve truly known the antagonists better if a whole episode was dedicated to this prelude.
@@Buggabones my brother in Christ what you’ve said pretty much explains how shit this production is at budget allocation 😂. They’ve spent 60 million per episode and they can’t properly fund a battle longer than 5 seconds?? Jackson managed to produce two trilogies filled with A LOT of action with a smaller budget
@@ripsnorter185 With the technology they are using, no they cant. Jacksons battles are not CGI. They are relatively cheap by using practical effects and paying basically slave wage to the ones who built the sets compared to how much it cost for good CGI experts.
@@Buggabones mmmm no dude 😂. You do realise cgi was invented because it was a cheaper option compared to practical. What do you think is more expensive: blowing up an actual building or simulating blowing up a building? That’s why a lot of movies now overload their product with CG. Especially in this case since it’s cheaper to hire an artist to create a battle with a cg army instead of hiring hundreds and hundreds of extras, slapping costumes on them and shooting a battle sequence. So yeah Amazon had every option to do so and ofc they still fumbled it like they did with the rest of this shit show 😂
They can’t. They already abandoned the depth with this opening. They totally punted it. Zero mention of the Silmarils, the oath of faenor or Galadriel’s brother’s oath to Beren that resulted in his death and the burgeoning relationship between men and elves. This has all the visual beauty with absolutely none of the depth.
@@teddyjackson1902 they mentioned the silmarils, celebrimbor did..but yeah, a few world's..i Guess because they do not have the rights of the Silmarillion
The elf actor looks like a 21st century businessman during mid-life crisis. Guess some directors are too heartless and blind to pick the kinds of actors like Orlado Bloom or Lee Pace.
1:01 The War of Wrath was FAR more destructive and brutal in the book. But this is what happens when you adapt something when you weren’t given the rights to the material.
Yeah it sunk an entire continent, just Ancalagon going down wrecked an area close to the size of the Himalayas and the amount of dead orcs was likely in the tens of millions, if not more.
This was actually a great opening. As close as ever we have gotten to an adaptation of The Silmarillion. The show itself had lots of issues, but it weren’t the visuals or actors. I hope they can improve, there’s actually a good show buried here.
@@slayking2378 Not even the Amazon Corporate shit, just get better showrunners than J. D. Payne and Patrick (?) McKay. They have barely a noticeable writing credit. I actually thought this show was enjoyable in a glamorously generic fantasy show kind of way. But just rewatching the Peter Jackson films - even The Hobbit - and the care and immense attention to detail and the commitment that went into them…. The Rings of Power just never had a chance.
Second Age was a great risk to write with so Little source..the only way It could/could have worked Is if the writers were themselves Deep into the Tolkien lore of his mythology
@@Addahandle-q6t Yes but a fell beast can't kill an Eagle. Eagles are Maia just like Gandalf, they are heralds of the gods, fell beasts are just Saurons warped creations. There is no contest. You can clearly see the Eagle being killed by dragon fire anyway. I'd the eagles wanted to fly to mordor and beat the fell beasts during the third age they easily could. The reason they didn't take the ring is because the eagles are a powerful and noble race. They would simply be corrupted by the ring..
I dont, but then again I dont like LOTR too much, never was a diehard fan. Far too much exposition. You practically have to have a bachelors degree in LOTR lore to understand anything.. I only watched them for the battles when I was younger. Fell asleep during the 3rd movie.. But I enjoy this. Its a good show and easy to follow for the most part.
@@Buggabones I don´t feel like you have to know the lore to understand LOTR trilogy. I have not read The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales, my mother read the LOTR trilogy to me when I was very young so I don´t remember anything from the books. I still perfectly understand the movies, have seen them many times and for me they are the best movies ever made.
I can not imagine why they messed the simple thing. Finrod never sailed to Beleriand but walked through helcaraxe with Fingon, he is shown as simple soldier when he has King of Nargothrond, one of the most secure elven realms and showing him taking part in the last war against morgoth is damn stupid as Finrod Felagund was dead at this point for he helped steal Silmaril and died at the hands of Sauron at Minas Tirith
I had to look at this part again, as there are some speculating that The Stranger is Sauron. But, if the Stranger came to Middle Earth by meteor, it likely isn't Sauron, as Sauron is already in Middle Earth at this point. why would he come again? I wonder what maiar he could be? I was even contemplating what would be Saruman, but I sincerely hope not!
I like how the prologue presents Sauron as commanding legions of Orcs, and then in the first episode of the next season that isn't apparent seeing as he's stabbed to death by all of them for some reason
These scene was incredible. I actually thought the show was going to be good for a second
Scenes don't make sense even in these few clips.
All in for "cool" effect, no respect for story. GoT Season 8 fail all over again. ^^
Yeah, the scene with all the fallen soldiers seems to be inspired by the battle of unnumbered tears illustration.
@@elektrotehnik94 Still crying about that years after its over. Rent free, GOT wins in that sense kiddo
It was incredible until the fake Galadriel took over
I don't know, finrod looked really goofy to me. Maybe that's just me.
Imagine being an elven warrior, training centuries only to be slain in the first 5 minutes of combat
That's some Warhammer 40k energy right there. Crazy powerful demi-gods with multiple centuries of active combat experience, instantly killed by a space fart.
Yea the elves were way more ba in Jackson trilogy. The elven army in that opening incinerated the orcs in that one
To be fair, it was the nirnaeth arnoediad
Not even making a line , just running around hacking... >
@@darthjedi5420 Well, lines break in battle.
Amazon: we've spent 1 billion of dollars for this show
Audience: wow, and how much money did you spend for the opening sequence?
Amazon: 999 millions
💀😭
The producers put all their energy into the opening and decided that’s enough effort for this series
Except the "effort" in the opening kinda sucks. You know why the opening battle in LOTR works, and this one doesn't? Because that one looks like a battle. A REAL battle. You have clear battle lines, and tactics being displayed, and this one is just a bunch of CGI slop thrown together that's supposed to "wow" the audience, without being thought through at all. There's no rhyme, or reason, to this opening battle sequence.
@@natedaniels3655 Shut up goof. Ya'll just bitch and moan about everything. Pathetic smh
@@natedaniels3655 I agree, they did the battle scene like a street fight where there was 0 organisation, just elves and orcs individually 1on1ing each other
@@draglout Exactly! Even the most simple strategy would've completely decimated the opposition in that fight. "Hey guys, stay in a line and keep your shields up." *manages to win against overwhelming odds somehow*.
@@natedaniels3655 there is always a point in war where the lines will break, and the war become chaos, people killing each other individually. Do you actually think _real war_ is organized?
The orcs are not cgi only which is something I can appreciate
The show has negative and positive aspects. The cgi, practical effects and music are great
@@stupidmilkshake4887 I might be thinking of watching it, how’s the story overall?
@@lyranth if you are a casual Tolkien fan, you may like it. The overall story contradicts the books in many ways. For that reason I’m not the biggest fan of the series. It has its moments tho.
@@stupidmilkshake4887 lol casuals like good action and cool spells and shit. This show is a total bore fest for most casuals
@@lyranth yes. I read the books. Loved the pj films.
If you aren’t a hard purist you’ll enjoy it. If you are the type to bemoan ANY changes to lore, you’ll have trouble.
That said, PJ films made very big changes and overall they are loved. I hope RoP does the same, the visual fidelity is INSANE for a tv show. We are lucky we get an adaption with this budgey
Me in this scene: 😲
Me for the next 7 episodes: 😐
That’s a fact
Me for the next 7 episodes:
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@@aselliofacchio Lol I couldn't even finish the first
@@fritzy3057 "why do stones sink and boats float?"
I just love how they show the Noldor just going in the ships, without telling what they did to the real owners and keepers of the ships 👀
The Teleri are being stupid..they should have joined the Noldor.. its all their home which was ruined..
The Teleri were not "stupid". They had everything they needed in Valinor. The ships were important to them and of great value. The Noldor cruelly slew the teleri just because Feanor believed Melkor's lies. None of this ever justified the clan murder of Alqualonde. The Noldor were blinded, desperate and ignorant because they did not accept the will of the teleri. In addition, the Noldor simply burnt the ships of the teleri. A people could not commit greater celibacy and cruelty.
@@VinterixXFeänor was right in chasing Morgoth but he should have used his Charisma so that the Teleri joined him
@@aranha6285 Surely he should have done this. His charisma, his power of speech and his rhetoric would have caused less suffering than the swords of his soldiers. However, he would not have convinced the Teleri with words either, his speech described in the Silmarillion met with no response, the Teleri were sad and dismayed and they did not know Melkor (as he considered them too weak). They therefore continued to trust the Valar. That he wanted to pursue Melkor was his right, but not at the expense of his own kin.
@@gerrysabronHe was so mad that his rocks were stolen and his father slain that he slew a bunch more of his kin. Just evil begetting evil
I love the Orcs that are just hugging Finrod instead of attacking. Pushing for the shot.
That happened a lot in real blattles, almost like wrestling
@@giovannifontanetto9604 Lol, nonsense. You think a person with their sword against their enemies neck would just push them forward slowly? 🤔
@@Jayrage most armies in history fought in close formations, pressing into each other and just stabbing. Some armies would push together so tightly that the dead would be held upright and soldiers would be unable to raise or swing their weapons. It’s silly in a melee like this, but it did happen, and especially if your enemy is well armored, just trying to grapple them and knock them over would be a better strategy than hacking at them uselessly.
@@evankohne5053 Yeah, except for when you sword is against the throat of your enemy... as mentioned in my other comment...
@@Jayrage except for in the pull away shot, it’s the elf’s own sword across his chest, and he was neck armor, so a slash like that wouldn’t be as effective. As I stated in my previous comment, these grapples often led to enemies being unable to swing or move their weapons, and given how that Orc is being crushed by friend a foe alike, I doubt he had any ability to move his blade and actually cut with any force while keeping his blade or not dislocating a limb.
0:59 Anyone else notice they had to use the map from the Lord of the Rings from the 2nd age onwards, and not the map of Beleriand since they don't have the rights to use or mention it?
Kinda makes me appreciate the series more, just for being able to work with the nagging pain that is the Tolkien Estate.
Have you seen Tolkiens map of the first age? It looks like a 6yo child drew it. Its fking awful, they would never use such an ugly map. They also wouldnt show a map of just east of the misty mtns because the elf story takes place on the west side so that makes zero sense to use that map as well.
@@Buggabones that's incorrect, the elves woke up in the East in Cuivienen (Eastern side of sea of Helcar) first and the several factions of elves that existed migrated to Beleriand afterwards and travelled through Middle Earth to get there
@@shizachan8421 Still not an excuse to make garbage content. They could've just had the Elves be the main characters later on in the series and had the main character be Sauron and give tidbits of information regarding Halbrand's past throughout the season. They could've just had Halbrand living in Harad amassing power and influence over the Haradrim and Easterlings by making precious gifts and weapons for them to hold sway and do subtle manipulations. But nah we got this jumbled garbage lmao. There's a saying, "A character is only as smart as the people writing them." so in other words the writers are pretty stupid.
@@Vlakell4476 Tbh, the show had severe pacing issues, but wasn't that bad. Clearly far above most of Game of Thrones after season 5. I would say the biggest L was making the main character Galadriel. I think keeping her mostly the same but making her her daughter, Celebrían, who is more like a blank slate who could be expanded upon. It also would have left open the potential with a romantic subplot with Elrond, considering she is his wife in canon, so from a story perspective they could have introduced some interesting Sauron-Celebrian-Elrond love triangle. TV Audiences love triangles after all.
Nothing is ever going to beat the first Lord of The Rings opening scene, in almost any movie probably not just Tolkien's stuff. I remember I saw it in theater when I was 5 and couldn't take my eyes off the screen
Jackson much more used show, don't tell than this. So, much more involvement and epicness. Here, I feel that a "skip" button is missing. This prologue is totally average.
@@klug5916 All of you sound like old men complaining about the good ole days.
@@Buggabones Well, in this specific case, this TV show absolutely wanted to play with nostalgia and be a canonical prologue of the LotR trilogy. These films are amazing and globally acclaimed. Of course the comparison will be present. If the new TV series was amazing, smart, respectful, excatly like the beginning of GoT, everyone will praise it. The showrunners did it themselves. Not grumpy old timers ^^
@@Buggabones feels like in the old days we had epicness instead of this cheap made scripts
@@Buggabones
the music that ms radio promotes these days sucks even more.
0:48
I love how Galadriel just decided that she was going to swim that distance-
Its fairly easy for elves. legolas eaz some mammoth type, many more extraordinary feats such as glorfindel during the Fall of gondolin were notable. even turin a mere human defeated the father of dragons: Glaurung
@Aziri e AYOO NOW IM A WOMAANNNN AND I CANT SWIM THAT 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm dead ur reply was hilarious 💀💀
@Aziri e HAHA truth :c
@@centurymemes1208 Not sure on super strength but they are definitely very good on stamina
Also side note I hope I live long enough to see Glaurung adapted, that guy is like Smaug times ten in how much personality was written for him, imagine what he'd be like if someone voiced and animated him like the Hobbit movies did, I imagine something like Grigori from Dragon's Dogma.
@@centurymemes1208 turin wasn't some mere human my guy, and glorfindels feat of killing a balrog is one of the highest achievements by any elf, u can't just casually compared things like that
The part that starts at 0:43 is the only part of the Rings of Power that is 10/10 for me,
the music alone carried so much that Bear McCreary and his entire Orchestra had to go to the hospital.
and ironically it start with the showing of the wrong maps ^^
@@quintu5 they don't have the rights to a map of Beleriand. Amazon can't use stuff from the Silmarillion
@@quintu5 ????
@@Fegyo98 ?
Yeah, the visuals and the soundtrack heavy carry this show. This is the only scene from the show I acc kinda like, I don’t even think I made it past episode 1 lol
I'm starting to believe that morgoth was trying to help the elves cause how the hell do these elves sleep with that giant tree lamp.
There is 2 trees one for day one for night
Morgoth did nothing wrong
Wait, do Elves even need sleep?
if you look again you’ll notice there are two trees. the one that’s shining like the sun in that scene is Laurelin, the golden. the tree behind it is Telperion, the silver. they both shone, but not at the same time. basically when laurelin shone it was day and when telperion shone it was night
ironically, it was the sun (made after the trees were destroyed) that was originally never going to set until that couple of valar whose names i always forget were like “dude. that thing’s always in the sky. no one can get any sleep. please fix it” and then there was day and night again. tho i don’t remember if that’s canon or earlier in the development
@@SirToaster9330 He is evil incarnate. He did everything wrong.
1:01 Ever wondered why the eagles just didn't fly into Mordor? Well...
Maybe the only good thing the show has depicted
According to "The Silmarilions", The war against Dark Lord Melkor (Morgoth) did not held in Mordor but Beleriand, which has collapsed into the sea with Angband (Melkor's Kingdom) and many others Noldor Kingdom (except Lindon) after the War of Wraith.
@@basilisk1197 im pretty sure he knows it wasn't in mordor, he was saying fell beasts were killing eagles hence why they couldn't fly to mordor
@@cameronallison1199 that is a good point but that also doesn’t make sense cause great eagles can kill dragons the only reason why the great eagles didnt as manwe did not tell them to interfere they woudnt unless it was for the sake of a friend such as gandalf also the eagles coudnt just go to mordor was climate, millions of arrows, and the nazgul themselves as the nazgul where very powerful capable of killing scores of elves only incredibly powerful beings such as galadriel, elendil, gil galad, elrond, aragorn, glorfindel could face the nazgul, and win and by the point of pelenor fields the witch king was as powerful as gandalf the white so a great eagle would be nothing for him, without any help the eagles would be massacred by mordors forces as the fellbeasts normally would be no match for them but the nazgul riders with the sorceries balanced them out the witch king could cut down multiple eagles with a single spell and the hordes or orcs and evil men bellow would fill the eagles with arrows of various kinds including poison and with saurons eye essentially being a active radar a horde of eagles approaching would have been spotted immediately it would be painfully obvious what the plan was, its pretty much the same as to why glorfindel didnt join the fellowship it would be to obvious.
@@fayhlennokctra7344 I hope you know that was what I meant in my other comment I just put it in short😂, you literally are agreeing with me
I always wonder why most directors always show armies intermixed with each other when fighting. Like, how did they get into each others’ back lines without being killed?
At least in Jackson’s LotR, only the first few lines were intermixed, while the backlines are all allies.
what is more they show them in proper formation. Its only "mixed" because the orcs charge into their formation.
Cause it looks cool.
@@ragemonkey117 It really doesn't.
Bro, you see cavalry charge through walls of pikes and bodies, whereas they could never do that in real life. Don’t put lotr on a delusional pedestal.
maybe its cheaper, or maybe the people in charge dont know how to realistically portray battle formations. theyre generally not military experts.
“It began with the forging of the films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men who above all else desire quality. But they were all of them deceived. For another show was made. In the land of Amazon in the fires of Mount Prime, the dark lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop. And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film. One show to ruin them all. One show to hide them. One show to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.”
😁
Sadly, this is happened.
mount prime 😂
Awesome special effects. That scene with the eagle being killed by the dragon was super cool. I have no idea why Hollywood feels compelled to make every protagonist the underdog though. The elves weren't "resisting" Morgoth until the very end. Feanor roused the Noldor into a conquering expedition of vengeance and new kingdoms, out of the shadow of the gods. The elves were conquering badasses, not Disney cookie cutter #rebels™
Yeah more of that #WeResist 🙄
The simarelion made it out to be worse as morgoths war of wrath was so terrible half of middle earh was completely destroyed this is the tame pg version of the first age .
The problem is that those specifics are only in the Silmarillion means they don't have the rights.
They could have extended the eagle fight longer was like 2 seconds best part by far
That was a fallen beast not a winged dragon tho. I believe this is a battle (I honestly forgot the name) before the war of wrath which is where winged dragons were summoned.
Not a fan of their changing so much, but the part where sauron is introduced is pure bad ass
02:40
It's's the only thing i can give them credit for.
nah
What changing?
Yeah I hated all the lore changes but I visibly laughed out loud when Sauron reveals himself, second best part of the show
Sauron was supposed to be the most beautiful, captivating, fair of all maiar that form he was taking only happens after he dies in numenor and loses his human body and thus recreating himself into a more terrifying existence
1:00 this is exactly why you don't take the Eagles to Mordor
The eagles battered the fell beasts in return of the king though
Those were dragons... fucking dragons! So eagles are practically mcnuggets in that battle.
@@Kotkamusic looked like fellbeasts to me
This is not Mordor
@@donaldjohnson7893 fellbeasts weren't around then
1:01 finally, a scene where the eagles don't always solve the problem.
If anything the dragon was too small, they were giantic armored fire-breathing monsters, cunning and cruel and able to cast many types of magic and curses.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi bro it was a fell beast.
I know there were dragons and Balrog in the battle of Morgoth.
That's one of many things I hated about this show.
@@_Black_Lemonade To my knowledge Fell Beasts were breeded by Sauron and were unheard of before the third age, and we know that the cinematic version of Tolkien´s dragons have only 2 legs and two wings so they should look alike, but i concede that it may be one. After all Amazon was not keen in accuracy or veracity with their "Middle Eart" map on the middle of the first age.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi sir Tolkien made wyverns nor dragons dragons have six limbs Chinese dragons have four because they didn’t have wings
Bro went down so quick too😂😂😂 ain’t stand a chance
Probably the best sequence of the show
Agreed
sadly
*the only good sequence
There’s actually a lot more. It was pretty good
@@Zehahahaanah
Can't believe I didn't notice the Balrogs in the background of the battle until now.
Those aren’t balrogs they don’t have wings.
@@Vienershmakenthey do
@@Vienershmakenyes they do you fucking dumbass
@@Vienershmaken Please look closer. There are indeed balrogs in the background.
@@lighty5738 that was a joke
Regardless of the show being what it is, I still admit that the first shot of Sauron and his legions was pretty awesome. And at the end, when he finally revealed himself, I might actually continue with the next season if Sauron is more involved as the Dark Lord. He is basically the character we all seemed to rooting for now.
Here here!
@@maggiecruz2117 "You know somethings wrong when sauron is the hero"
@@MuhammedAasil Yes. Like in LORT nobody roots for Sauron or the fucking Orcs. We root for the good guys. They are flawed, but sympathetic, very human even the not human ones. Charismatic, or brooding, or cheerful, cunning or dumb. The Fellowship and the recurring characters were amazing. Tolkien setted the foundations and Peter Jackson & Co. took that to the big screen with great care.
In the Amazon adaptations you encounter numerous fans rooting for the evil guys, a thing only seen in fucking Star Wars with the Sith (which is cool, its that type of series) but never in any Tolkien works. And this never happened in LOTR trilogy. FFS is so bad that some annoying incels and casuals didn't even get or forego the Tolkien ethos of fighting against evil and caring for the good in the world.
It's sad and its certainly not the blame of Tolkien's world, or viewers, but the fucking producers and showrunners of this dumbster fire of a show.
Sad sad adaptation...
Yeah, the second season and the series onward will focus on Sauron as the main character. The creators described him as the Walter White of the series, he's evil but complexly evil
@Gamer's Theater Mate that not f*cking sauron in my eyes, is damm ornstein from dark souls same armour same spear, and he even clear the sky so he could make his orcs suffer and die under sub light what a good guy is sauron couch couch, ornstein here he's literally the hero instead of the villain gg amazon.
Imagine if Peter Jackson is the one that directed the Old Age
With this budget
Imagine if peter jackson had directed the rings of power instead of Amazon... (Sigh) what could have been 😢
Would probably been even more trash than the Hobbit
@frankm9529 no kidding even worse is that poor peter jackson admitted that he Wang it with the hobbit with only a few months to work whereas the lord of the rings had something like 2 to 3 years to work with difference is night and day
it would be like The Hobbit
When Galadriel chose Sauron over the guy she was engaged to, and they rode the Hogwarts express back to the future. That was the best scene. Powerful, powerful cinema.
I was happy when her fiancé Salahaddin took it calmly and returned his army to Damaskus without war.
Live long and prosper.
Even suggesting Sauron would take a fucking She-Elf as a wife, or any creature is fucking ludicrous.
Fucking showrunners man.
Truly one of the shows of all time
She was thinking that her husband was dead. That's why she authorised herself to maybe love Halbrand
0:27 probably the only live action version of Morgoth we will ever see.
is he THAT Tall?
@@amqru he leveled mountains and spilled seas
@@davidstone281 so yes? is he a shadow?
@@amqru yeah pretty much. He's basically the Satan/Devil of Tolkien's world
People here seem to think that the elves' journey portrayed in the video is about the invasion of Feanor and his children and pointing out a lot of errors. Not that there can't be mistakes, but to me this moment clearly seems to be the invasion that the Valars themselves decided to send, the War of Wrath that definitively defeated Morgoth. In fact, it was only during this invasion that Morgoth used winged dragons (which appear in the video)
Lol what, its undoubtedly talking about the flight of the noldor, for one thats finrod in the battle, galadriels brother, who died before the war of wrath lmao. The 2 trees were destroyed ages before the war or wrath it wouldnt make any sense showing them, neither would the line 'we left our home' galadriel didnt leave valinor to fight in the war of wrath neither did most of the noldor they had already left. Those looked more like fell beasts than dragons, but either way you think that some minor technicality like that would stop them from including dragons in earlier battles, they butchered the lore in every other way.
*“Now, we learned many words for Death”*
Words worthy of Tolkien’s work. Coming from a military family, I couldn’t help but tear up at that heap of Elvish Helmets. Each one belonging to somebody, someone who had a family.
Why has this cool intensity of the first 10 minutes completely left the show
well, because here the events of _centuries_ are shown concentrated in a few minutes...
The first ten minutes is from the first age. They didn’t have to right to that content
Aaah yes! You know what I love, when your opening to a scene from the "First age" and you show the WRONG fucking map on screen! Good job writers!
Middle Earth is the continent containing Beleriand and what was left of it in the Third Age (of which we are more familiar). What's wrong with the map?
My comment would be showing Valinor, an area of Aman the continent, instead of the entire Aman. But they may not have the rights to that.
So far there are only two continents in Arda. Is there something missing? Maybe convert the sundering sea name to Belegaer? So it's more traditional? Although it's the same place.
@@mentaldetritus13 I made this comment before watching the whole show to get the full context of their "direction" of the show
Beleriand was indeed part of middle earth. in the opening scene when they talk about the Noldor traveling to Middle earth to "chase down Morgoth". All of this would take place in the First age, so the map should show Beleriand still present
However, whether it's due to book rights, or other decisions, the whole of Beleriand seems to have just been cut from their story. Choosing to instead have Morgoth's battle seemingly take place in the Third Age Middle earth instead.
So wrong map in terms of the book, but in context of their show it would be right
However, interestingly enough, if memory serves the show mentions something in the lines of "The battle against Morgoth shattered continents". If that is the case did Beleriand exist in their Universe, or did it not, who knows
Beleriand fell into the ocean after the Valar destroyed it in the First Age. There is no Beleriad anymore, so the Middle-Earth map is the correct choice.
Aman would still be visible but not able to be visited until Ar-Pharazon the Golden steps upon it and gets crushed into an undead army stuck in the deep earth.
AND The world is still flat until Numenor falls at the end of the Second Age due to its corruption by Sauron.
@@VidsnStuff Yes? The whole opening sequence is talking about the first age and Fëanor journey to middle-earth. Which takes place in the First Age? So Beleriand should still be present, because it's destruction happens during the War of Wrath, which happens at the end of the First age
So, inconclusion, the map should show Beleriand
I would have loved to see Ancalagon the Black in this fight. Honestly so much of and generally more of the 1st age and the fight with Morgoth and the elves, the dragons and Balrogs would have been SO cool to see in future shows.
There are balrogs in this scene if you watch more closely but everything no due them not having the rights to The Silmarillion.
1:05 balrog spotted
@@ZEZZisHERE Good eye!
@@jackwei22 At some point, they will most likely be able to purchase the rights. It may be easier now that Christopher Tolkien is dead (as bad as that sounds). From what I hear, his children seem to be a bit more open minded about the Peter Jackson films and the show itself.
Man I had high expectations after this scene
1:05
Just to the right of the eagle you can see the outline of a Balrog going at it with some elves.
The Two trees, the shadow Morgoth, the darkness of the Two Trees destruction, the sons of Feanor, the fleet of elves sailing east (though not under Feanors banner), an Eagle of Manwe dying, the chaos of the battle, Angband and it’s volcano’s erupting in the background, the desolation of the land after the battle, eagles and dragons fighting in the skies, fire and explosions from projectiles, the lack of cohesion and sense of “every warrior for themselves” within the two clashing armies, Sauron and the orcs, etc. This was the one time this show felt like Tolkien.
Let alone a decent summary of what the First Age was like. Minus a few things…
Such mayor events like all of Beren and Luthien, the Kinslaying, fall of Gondolin, the whole Silmaril situation, and sinking of Beleriand.
As well as some important characters like Fingolfin, Thingol, the Valar, Feanor, Ungoliant, Ancalagon, Gothmog and the Balrogs, and Eol the Dark elf or at least his son.
These were not the sons of Feanor. Finrod is not one of them. This scene probably tried to duplicate something like the oath
They don’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, so that’s the most likely explanation.
My friend they don't have the rights to the Silmarillion so how can they even show events that happened in there?
@@rafaeltsad9326 It’s a nod to the Oath of Feanor. They probably couldn’t show the Sons of Feanor because of rights issues.
Have you read Tolkien? (I assume so) Tolkien feels nothing like what you described. 90% of the time Tolkien feels like a detailed traveljournal. Elven singing songs for 10 pages, that feels like Tolkien.
THAT sauron scene is EPIC.
Damn you are right cool as hell.
If only they shown his orcs in front of him in that scene too
I believe the shot at 1:39 is a reference to the sinking of Beleriand
Beleriand didn’t sink, Numenor did.
@@RyanGr33n Both Beleriand and Numenor sank
@@RyanGr33nDoes not have a knowledge, but correcting someone.Arrogant dumbass.
According to Amazon series both, Beleriand and Numenor never existed lol
So here we see giant Sauron in his armor, wearing the crown, and already ruling over the orcs. He killed Galadriel's brother who was searching for him and then Galadriel spends 1000 years of the 2nd age looking for Sauron.
S2 ep1. Sauron is killed immediately after Morgoths defeat at the start of the 2nd age and was never even crowned the new dark lord.
Fantastic writing!
i thought it was pretty epic
Ehh .... it was so so, the visuals were cool but it was way too off from the lore, I thought some of the editing and the dialogue could have been better too.
I just wish we knew wtf he was randomly yelling mid battle lmao
@TheT26E4SuperPershing yeah what a weak little bitch…and he wanted to kill souran 😂😂😂😂
I'm enjoying it so far
Yeah an epic disaster
those short-hair elves really piss me off, damn doesn't look like a high elves to me, more like a human with pointy ear...
I was trying to see if I was the only person wondering where the long hair was. They're sorta known for it even in the first age lmao.
A war that sank an entire continent, that makes the last alliance battle look like children fighting with spoons...
We all had such high hopes with this show, especially when you have an opening like this
No we didnt. Some did. All the bs that came out about the show before release told us all we needed to know. that it would be a fucking abomination
I demand whole part about this battle only ! Just looks at balrogs behind mg
When we get the glimpes of the Second Age in the movie, we we all amazed how epic it was
Then ROP dropped this glimpses of the First Age and we still amazed by it
Tolkein's World is amazing.
The initial eras before the first age and the first age itself was so epic. Though they barely showed it in this clip but they have a awesome glimpse
The flowering of Arda (creation of trees, wildlife, oceans by the gods (Valar) while Melkor tries to mess up their work (Melkor creates ice, volcanos, storms)
Age of the lamps (before the sun and moon)
Melkor fighting the Valar (other gods)for millennia from his vast underground fortress of Utunmo artic / north pole then finally being defeated by the youngest god Tulkas and being dragged to Valinor and made to say he is sorry in front of his (Melkor) brother Manwe.
Melkor being freed and then breaks the lamps and escapes to middle earth and takes up in fortress Angnand in the far north below the ruins of Angband
The elves are created.thousands of years before the first age. The elves awaken under the stars in far eastern middle earth. They migrate west towards Valinor. Noldor, Sindar, etc... Are formed. Melkor corrupts the some of the elves and makes Orcs.
Lesser Ainur have joined Melkor since before creation of Arda (Earth) Balrogs, fell beasts, Sauron etc...)
Age of the trees comes afterwards. The stories of Feanor, Finwe I can't remember the others
The age of the trees (another several thousand year's)
Many elves went to Valinor and live there. Many stayed in middle earth.
Some elves were badass and killed Melkors foulest beasts.
The creation of the Simarils and Melkor steals the Simarils and destroys the trees of (light of sun and moon) (the destruction of the trees is shown in this clip)
The elves (Noldor?) Feanor I believe goes on a rampage to get the Simarils back from Melkor (he has lost some of his power - spent it corrupting middle earth and the elves call him Morgoth)
The elves fight for centuries against Morgoth.
First age begins when Humans are created and are awakened in the far east of Middle Earth and the sun and the moon are created (no more lamps or trees of light)
Morgoth corrupts some humans. Humans that are faithful to the Valar and fight alongside the Elves are later rewarded with the kingdom of Numenor(second age which is what this series is all about)
The Elves fight the forces of Morgoth for centuries (against Orcs, Balrogs, fell beasts, later Dragons)
Until it becomes so desperate that the elves plead to the Valar. At the end of the first age a great force of the gods (Valar) eagles and other Ainur (divine beings) attack Morgoth and destroy most of the dragons, most of the Balrogs, the orcs. The middle earth is so ravaged, the elvish kingdoms are sunk below the Sea.
Morgoth os captured, chained and cast out of the door of night outside of Arda as permanent banishment. Morgoth probably gets admonished by his own creator the Eru Illuvator (the one God)
The second age starts after the destruction of Morgoth and his forces and the devastation of Middle Earth that changes it's shape.
Sauron escapes and hides in the middle earth since the fall of Morgoth. The Valar invite Sauron to come to Valinor and say hes sorry and repent. But Sauron has other intentions....
When the war of the jewels drops we will probably get flashbacks to Utumno or Tulkas suplexing Melkor
Amazing and beauty intro
Fun fact: morgoth didn’t destroy anything. He had Ungoliant suck the trees dry. Huge missed opportunity.
He stabbed the trees
Dumbass
@@jmad318 If I remember correctly you're both right, he stabbed the tree and then Ungoliant drained the light through the holes
i mean, i guess this is a good gist of the first age. Could've been way better with little changes, but this was ok. Btw, i love Tolkien's legendarium and i get why the first season of this show got so much hate, although i also totally understand people who love the show, specially after season 2, which is way better imo. Also, it's ok to enjoy both things. This stuff exist for us to have fun... So maybe if you hate it, it's ok, but just chill a little bit, you don't have to be a douche to people who enjoy it 😉
Anyway, a little bit of lore references:
0:16 - 0:31 - Morgoth steals the Silmarills and together with Ungoliant kills Laurelin and Telperion (the trees that provided light to the world);
0:32 - 0:37 - i presume this is moments after Feanor (elf dude who made the Silmarills and lots of other stuff like the palantiri - the seeing stones) proclaims his oath to retrieve the Silmarills from Morgoth, basically bounding a large part of his kin, most of the Noldor, to a path of destruction, slaughter, vengeance and sorrow, that would end up killing most of his family, friends and hundreds of thousands of men, dwarves and elves in Middle Earth;
0:38 - 1:00 - the voyage of the Noldor to Middle-Earth after the first kinslaying (the map is bizarrely wrong. Seems like a map of the third age, since there's no Numenor and Beleriand is already sunken). Feanor and his sons killed a bunch of elves (the Teleri) in Valinor in order to steal their ships and cross the sea to pursue Morgoth. The light in the horizon i assume is because as soon as they landed in middle earth, Feanor bid his followers to burn their ships to make a statement. Something like: "there's no turning back and we will not get back to Valinor to ferry the ones that didn't come with us right away". They could see the fire burning in spite of the great distance because the earth was flat then. That's why Galadriel and her folk had to go to Middle Earth not by ship but by crossing the Helcaraxë, the giant glacier that surrounded the world back then.
From now on stuff gets a little bit confusing, because they kinda represented the important conflicts of the first age as one single thing
1:00 - 1:44 - this actually looks like the War of Wrath, which is the conflict that effectively ended the first age and destroyed half the bloody continet. We know this because this battle/war was the only instance in the war of the jewels that Morgoth used winged dragons (plus there's shots of people underwater). The battle/war ended in an aerial conflict between the eagles and Earendil (dude on a flying magic boat made with mithril) on one side and the flying dragons on the other side. Earendil killed the biggest one of them, Ancalagon and it fell on Morgoth's fortress destroying it. Morgoth's fortress in this time, btw, was a freaking giant moutain range of volcanoes. Ancalagon was so huge that his fall destroyed it.
1:45 - 2:20 - this is clearly a reference to the battle of unnumbered tears, a major defeat for elves, men and dwarves. This battle happened way before the war of wrath and is considered to be one of the biggest defeats of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, together with the Fall of Gondolin. A huge tragedy in which the creatures of Morgoth made a pile of dead men, elves and dwarves so high that it literally became a feat of the landscape known as the "hill of the slain". This pile of helmets is a referece to that.
2:21 - to the end is the rise of Sauron as the new Dark Lord, after Morgoth is chained and cast into the void by the victors, never to be realeased again until the world is remade in another balls to the walls huge ass war.
I remember watching the opening scene and thinking this might not be bad and then reality kicked in
Opening map is totally wrong, doesn’t match the history and events of the legendarium
0:27 That shot of morgoth behind the tree thats the first time morgoth has appeared on movie/series
Thats sauron, not morgoth. its quite evident from the shape of his crown above
@Belugamale8738 it is morgoth not sauron at 0:20 galdriel said "when the great foe morgoth destroyed the very light of our home" she's talking about the golden tree, in lore there are two trees of valinor one tree brings light & daytime and the other night time and darkness , the tree of light was extinguished by morgoth and it brought darkness over arda (LOTR's earth) you can see a big shadow of morgoth a form he has taken destorying the tree behind its already been confirmed to be him it happened in the books too
@welsh-cymru1588 My bad, i can notice it now. I didn't watched the whole scene.There are other videos on RUclips unintentionally Describing that shadow being Sauron's
i also got a little confused due to how Melkor's Armor & Crown model (in the said scene) is designed Similarly to Sauron's own second age armor & since morgoth is mostly depicted as being way more bulky & Muscled than sauron in the fandom 😅. But it was never confirmed What he really looked like or only appeared on screen in Metaphorical ways
I really suggest this guys channel called Broken Sword if you haven't seen him already he's a popular lotr channel that has great videos about the lore of middle just type in Broken Sword Melkor (Morgoth) and he has a video about his lore
@@Belugamale8738 gee, where do you think sauron took his crown inspiration from? It should be known by now, since morgoth is the first dark lord.
Jeff Bozos... thank you for bringing us this master piece wow its so amazzzzzzing
The only problem I had with this is that it wasn't longer 🤷♀️
That's what she said.
1:01 the cgi ❤🔥❤🔥
I've always pictured the trees would look like the size of a normal tree. I didn't realize they were actually gigantic. This depiction is amazing, I am excited to see more!
They were probably even bigger wince they ligthened the whole world... and then Ungolinat came and sucked them dry!! Oh wait!! No Ungoliant anywhere here!! Just missing the biggest eldritch abomination of all of Tolkien´s creation.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi the trees only lit Valinor. Middle earth was only lit by starlight until the coming of the moon and then the coming of the sun
Even Tol Eressea was only lit on it's western side from the light coming through the Calqcirya
@@jmad318 I was of the idea that the Trees where erected after the rise of the First Sons of Illuvatar
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi Yavanna planted the trees long before the firstborn awoke .
Heh, too bad we won't "see more". The Tolkien Estate barely let them even mention Valinor / The Two Trees and the producers completely skipped Beleriand. The next and last mention of Valinor will be when Sauron inadvertently destroys Numenor. And that's it. It's actually a good thing Amazon can't touch any more of the source material. Lol.
This was such an epic scene to watch, it made me realize that a Silmarillion adaptaion could actually be made someday!! It was so cool to see Valinor and the two trees, as well as one of the battles in the War of the Jewels/War of Wrath? actually on screen. They did a good job with this, just wish it was longer (or that the whole show was about the Silmarillion, but I get they didn't get the rights to that... hope someone does someday if this is a glimpse of what it could be!).
Edit: too bad the rest of the show wasn't like this, this was the best part!
Are you a robot? This was just terrible. Look at Peter Jacksons battle scenes, and then look at this. No heart was on this, greed was it's only inspiration.
@@johnnymcblaze The battle was lackluster, but I meant the whole scene in general. It was cool to see events from the Silmarillan play out, even if they were brief. Have you read the Silmarillan?
@@HiHi-lt1cb I agree with you. The battle, what little we did see, looked epic. What made it lackluster is the length. It's pretty short, even for a recap. The battle of the Last Alliance was about as long as this video itself at least.
The show definitely has problems, but trying to work in The Silmarillion when they legally couldn't, in my opinion, isn't one of them.
The elves ventured to beleriand, and there they fought morgoth over the span of a couple centuries, beleriand in the end sunk into tho sea, with only the sundered remains of the blue mountains that formed its eastern border remaining, and there the elves settled the elven domain of lindon and the grey havens under kierdan the shipwright, its apparent Amazon didnt get permision to go lore accurate and this is the result … I personaly dont care about actors not being white or any such nonsense, bit these details are ripping at my soul …
Im so itching to see Ungoliant and Glaurung one of these days, but those books are really long and play like a history I don't know how they can fit that into film its sure to be a long series eitherway
This is the first time I've seen a great eagle being killed before. I thought those guys are invincible
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All I could think of when the eagle crashed in flames. Lmao!
Welcome to the second age, where there was lots of evil on par with and stronger than the eagles.
@@hogganknowsbest That battle took place in the First Age. Dragons were pretty much on par with the Eagles, though. Fortunately for the Eagles and all of Middle Earth, only one Dragon was known to have survived into the Third Age and that was Smaug.
Other dragons existed into the third age. In the north near the grey mountains there’s a region called the withered heath where drakes (lesser dragons) lived. For the great dragons, only two were known in the third age. Smaug the golden who was the last of the great dragons and scartha the worm who lived several hundred years before the hobbit. There have been five know great dragon’s in the history of arda. But there are lesser dragons that possibly continued to live into the fourth age after the fall of Sauron.
That 1st age battle scene is on the money
This series had so much potential
just proves a billion dollar company doesn't mean much.
0:39 But where did you get those ships, elves? WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE SHIPS?!?
All those elves were fighting 10 Orcs each. 😭 Respect
First Age Elves were built different.
@@zico739second age* Beleriand doesn't exist on that map in the beginning which was a region attached to Middle Earth, with Lindon as it's far eastern region and only surviving part.
I’d be a friendly Orc lol but still have evil look
The war between Morgoth and the elven army was more insane. Morgoth created his godly servants, the dragons and the Balrog. Especially the dragons were considered to be more deadly than Smaug. Yes, multiple dragons bigger than Smaug covering the sky, throwing fire, Orcs whose numbers were incomparably bigger, and the Balrog the ultimate evil spirit commanding them. SO sad that we didn't get to see any of those.
When i think of the 1st age i think of the movie Immortals. Gods of Valor just fighting insanely
that opening was literally:
dude named morgoth is evil
elves went to war
war was bad and long
morgoth is dead now... anyways here's sauron
People who praise this show are the ones who know nothing about Tolkien’s work
But what about people who criticise scenes that are accurate to the books? I mean people here in the comments cry about elves losing the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
That giant pile of helmets always makes me laugh like how did they pile them up like that? 😆
it's little overkill touches like that which only the keen will notice as the ruination of this show into something more mastrubatory for the Star Wars crowd
Metaphoric bro.
Lol
Carefully
@@OktayKus1993 not really
annoys me that battle lasted a total of 5 seconds, i feel we couldve truly known the antagonists better if a whole episode was dedicated to this prelude.
That 5 second battle scene cost more than your life salary my guy. They cant make it that long, far too much work. Would take along time too.
@@Buggabones my brother in Christ what you’ve said pretty much explains how shit this production is at budget allocation 😂. They’ve spent 60 million per episode and they can’t properly fund a battle longer than 5 seconds?? Jackson managed to produce two trilogies filled with A LOT of action with a smaller budget
@@ripsnorter185 With the technology they are using, no they cant. Jacksons battles are not CGI. They are relatively cheap by using practical effects and paying basically slave wage to the ones who built the sets compared to how much it cost for good CGI experts.
@@Buggabones mmmm no dude 😂. You do realise cgi was invented because it was a cheaper option compared to practical. What do you think is more expensive: blowing up an actual building or simulating blowing up a building? That’s why a lot of movies now overload their product with CG. Especially in this case since it’s cheaper to hire an artist to create a battle with a cg army instead of hiring hundreds and hundreds of extras, slapping costumes on them and shooting a battle sequence. So yeah Amazon had every option to do so and ofc they still fumbled it like they did with the rest of this shit show 😂
this looks so amazing, that battle sequence is enormous and feels so powerful.. please make this series better each episode and darker pleaasseeee
They can’t. They already abandoned the depth with this opening. They totally punted it. Zero mention of the Silmarils, the oath of faenor or Galadriel’s brother’s oath to Beren that resulted in his death and the burgeoning relationship between men and elves. This has all the visual beauty with absolutely none of the depth.
@@teddyjackson1902 they mentioned the silmarils, celebrimbor did..but yeah, a few world's..i Guess because they do not have the rights of the Silmarillion
@@alessandror6001 “petty gem craft” was the phrase I believe.
@@teddyjackson1902 Don't put the blame on the show runners, you gotta put it on the leaders who didn't get all the righst.
darker? This isn't game of thrones
The elf actor looks like a 21st century businessman during mid-life crisis. Guess some directors are too heartless and blind to pick the kinds of actors like Orlado Bloom or Lee Pace.
Ungoliant when the little guy not only takes your shiny lunch, but also takes credit for your shiny breakfast.
The only thing that bothers me about the elf armor is that It doesn’t feel complete without any Gloves or Gauntlets, everything else is fine to me.
I can literally smell the plastic of the armors and the starbuck coffee next to the green screen on this scene
no you can’t lol.
1:01 The War of Wrath was FAR more destructive and brutal in the book. But this is what happens when you adapt something when you weren’t given the rights to the material.
Yeah it sunk an entire continent, just Ancalagon going down wrecked an area close to the size of the Himalayas and the amount of dead orcs was likely in the tens of millions, if not more.
This was actually a great opening. As close as ever we have gotten to an adaptation of The Silmarillion. The show itself had lots of issues, but it weren’t the visuals or actors. I hope they can improve, there’s actually a good show buried here.
@@slayking2378 Not even the Amazon Corporate shit, just get better showrunners than J. D. Payne and Patrick (?) McKay. They have barely a noticeable writing credit. I actually thought this show was enjoyable in a glamorously generic fantasy show kind of way. But just rewatching the Peter Jackson films - even The Hobbit - and the care and immense attention to detail and the commitment that went into them…. The Rings of Power just never had a chance.
exactly
This show had so much potential.
It was great imo.
It was awesome tho
It was trash unfortunately
I remember being so excited when I first heard about it...what a letdown
I loved it, fuck the haters.
Lol they almost had me with this intro. I thought the show was gonna be good for a sec.
i don’t get the hate for the show. sure it’s not lotr but it’s not bad either
It breaks the lore too much, thats why hardcore fans are hating it
Second Age was a great risk to write with so Little source..the only way It could/could have worked Is if the writers were themselves Deep into the Tolkien lore of his mythology
Who says they’re not?
@@teencomment The show
@@aesir1ases64 Well hardcore fans also hated the Peter Jackson movies.
Ah yes, Tolkien's famous exploding eagles and hugging fights
Feelings for the show as a whole aside.... this intro was pretty badass
“Why didn’t they just fly the eagles to Mordor?” 1:01 that’s another reason why they didn’t.
Those eagles are being killed by dragons... Only smaug survived into the third age..
@@PAllen74 those are Fell beasts, the exact same creatures ridden by the Nazgûl not dragons.
@@Addahandle-q6t Yes but a fell beast can't kill an Eagle. Eagles are Maia just like Gandalf, they are heralds of the gods, fell beasts are just Saurons warped creations. There is no contest.
You can clearly see the Eagle being killed by dragon fire anyway. I'd the eagles wanted to fly to mordor and beat the fell beasts during the third age they easily could. The reason they didn't take the ring is because the eagles are a powerful and noble race. They would simply be corrupted by the ring..
@@PAllen74 true
Imagine a Series starting like this just to have 7 episodes of memes after
We thought our light would never dim... After five minutes it dimmed for the entire season.
1:03 mmm, fried chicken 🍗
Everything tastes like chicken, except the chicken.
Looking back after season 2 is done...wish I had only seen this intro and called it a day. I miss being hopeful for what this show could have been.
Only if the show was this good the entire time
Dem Teleri ships looking might clean and not covered in blood lol
Valaron Kalanel, FIRUVANTË !!! By the light of the Valar, THEY WILL DIE!!!
Is that what he said
@@aizen_world Yes
Jrr Tolkien is spinning in his grave
Constantly since 2001. He should be tired of spinning.
Awesome to see the trees. This was pretty awesome
This battle scene is where all the creative juices of the showrunners was spent. Then it all dried up.
0:18
For a moment I thought is this Elden Ring for a moment 🤣🤣
The trees appeared in Tolkien several decades ago, as well as art inspired in his work.
if only this show kept this level of quality
I can understand the hate this series got
But I honestly still enjoyed it
Me too lol 🫣
I dont, but then again I dont like LOTR too much, never was a diehard fan. Far too much exposition. You practically have to have a bachelors degree in LOTR lore to understand anything.. I only watched them for the battles when I was younger. Fell asleep during the 3rd movie.. But I enjoy this. Its a good show and easy to follow for the most part.
@@Buggabones I don´t feel like you have to know the lore to understand LOTR trilogy. I have not read The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales, my mother read the LOTR trilogy to me when I was very young so I don´t remember anything from the books. I still perfectly understand the movies, have seen them many times and for me they are the best movies ever made.
I can not imagine why they messed the simple thing. Finrod never sailed to Beleriand but walked through helcaraxe with Fingon, he is shown as simple soldier when he has King of Nargothrond, one of the most secure elven realms and showing him taking part in the last war against morgoth is damn stupid as Finrod Felagund was dead at this point for he helped steal Silmaril and died at the hands of Sauron at Minas Tirith
Who cares about all those?? Here you have a black elf and single mother human 'love story' be happy with it..
This was the only good scene in the whole series.
Galadriel: "Then we learned many words for death"....
Orcs: "Nampat...Nampat"
The best looking (fight) scene of the whole show. and it was so short
When Galadriel shouts they went from Valinor to Middle Earth while actually already living in Middle Earth for an age.
I had to look at this part again, as there are some speculating that The Stranger is Sauron. But, if the Stranger came to Middle Earth by meteor, it likely isn't Sauron, as Sauron is already in Middle Earth at this point. why would he come again? I wonder what maiar he could be? I was even contemplating what would be Saruman, but I sincerely hope not!
I really hope he's a composite of the Blue Wizards and not Gandalf, although the latter seems the most likely.
I was thinking Radagast or Gandalf, because the Istari were "sent" to Middle Earth to aid in the fight against Sauron, soo...
@@HiHi-lt1cb yes after sauron showd himself and had the ring
I like how the prologue presents Sauron as commanding legions of Orcs, and then in the first episode of the next season that isn't apparent seeing as he's stabbed to death by all of them for some reason
The Lord of the rings film adaptation is art. This is merely a product
1:01
Wait a second
WHERE ARE THE DRAGONS OF FIRST AGE AND MOST IMPORTANT WHERE IS ANCALAGON THE BLACK AND AERENDIL?!
Morrrrrrrrgoth valinorrrr saurrrrron middle earrrrth