This season was so fantastic! I can't understand the haters. The scenes between Charles Edwards and Charlie Vickers were so intense. They should get all the awards. Looking forward to season 3!
They were such perfect foils for each other. I have this bizarre mental image of the two of them drinking in a favorite pub after Sauron tortures Celebrimbor to death. They seem like they have that kind of friendship.
Fun fact Elendil isn't the founder of Gondor, Isildur and his brother Anarion founded that kingdom, whilst Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor in the north, around the lands that eventually made up the shire/bree land, their surrounding territories
I’m afraid of that. It’s such a terrible strike against the living elves’ morale-unless it backfires and pisses them off. It isn’t in any of the books, but I’d love to see Elrond and Galadriel massacre the “standard”-bearer and rescue Celebrimbor’s body. I’d also settle for Elrond and Gil-Galad, Elrond and Arondir, etc.
This season has been exceptional. The deliberate naysayers are a lot quieter lately too. One of the best things about this series is you guys enjoying it just as much as we do. Can't wait for more, along with your reactions.
I hated half of Season 1, but Season 2 fixed about 95 percent of what I didn’t like. I loved this season, and part of it is the choice to have Sauron the protagonist of his own story. The Second Age is his age; he’s at the apex of his power.
My favourite episode, everyone's acting was fantastic, the visuals were great, pacing brilliant... Still not keen on the Stranger being Gandalf, but hey, overall a 9/10
A note on the word Hobbit at the end: they should have the rights to it due to having the 4 main books. Concerning Hobbits, in the prologue of the LotR book, states Hobbits are comprised of Fallohides, Stoors and Harfoots, and we later learn that the term “Hobbit” stems from the Rohirrim word “Holbytla” which mean “hole-dweller.” And They aren’t one group of mostly hole-dwellers yet.
Thank you two for reacting to this series! I looked out every Tuesday waiting for it to drop, you guys are such fun! It was an amazing season! I can't wait for your reactions to return for season 3! ❤
Charlie Vickers (Sauron) said in an interview that there is a possibility that we will see Sauron using Celebrimbors body to inflict more pain on the elves in season 3. But he also said, he doesn't know yet ;)
@50:47 The highest any human has fallen without a parachute, or any help, and SURVIVED is a woman who fell over 33,000 ft. It took her a year and four months to recover. @58:00 Nori’s name is Eleanor. That is what the flowers of Loth Lorien are named. I can imagine the hobbits living as River folk at the end of the season - where Sméagol steals the one ring.
Really can't wait for season 3 This season was Amazing! The Balrog 🔥 The Actor who played Celebrimbor deserves an Award!!! As always enjoy your guys reaction 🤘
Be careful what you wish for re: Celebrimbor's body, they may stick with the written lore on that one. They've also got to find some Fallowhides before they can get combine to become Hobbits.
There have been speculations that Theo may end up betraying Isildur and become the King of the Dead and Kemen could possibly become The Mouth of Sauron.
"My old friend", hates hobbits. Yep that's Sour man, to antagonize, challenge his ideas of morality, but never appear as quite evil to our Grand Elf. And thus it was, in her last scene of Season 2, she became Galadriel - Lady of Light.
Overall loved the season but feel finale was a bit rushed in places. Bring back more episodes for seasons of tv for the love of all that is good. Let storylines breathe dammit Cried at Durins bane and Celebrimbors final scenes 😭 Really hate Adars death scene and hkw Galadriel just stood there Also season 2 only works as well because season 1 set up all the things it did
Great reaction and I'll miss the weekly shows, which I've really enjoyed. The valley is Rivendell. There's image comparisons of it versus the film and they're almost identical. The crown is Morgoth's and like you say, it's potentially going to be used to make the Nazgul morgul blades. Kemen is likely to become a Nazgul, the same with Balthazar and there's one other Numenorian who gets a ring. The mouth of Sauron is also a Numenorian. Theo i think will be the King of the Dead and maybe the guy with with the silly felt hat will be a nazgul as he's a leader of a lot of the men. As for the witch king, i think that will be the dark wizard, as that was apparently an idea that Tolkien once had. As for Arondir, i suspect he was healed by Gil Galad. There were apparently a bunch of scenes removed that we didn't see due to pacing. Anyway, terrific spending the time with you both. Thanks.
So sad, yet so happy to be here at the end (of season 2) with you all! Truly appreciated both of your thoughts and opinions on the show and loved you didn't sh*t on the show like it seemed most others did
I’m enjoying your reaction. I had a love/ hate relationship with Season 1, but Season 2 rocks! I still have more emotional investment in the balrog-Gandalf standoff, but this balrog is some of the best CG I’ve ever seen. I like that it’s less solid and more shadow and flame. I’ve wanted to smack King Durin for being an idiot over the ring, but he goes out like such a bad-ass: that shot where he leaps at the balrog gives me chills every time. I’m going to miss Celebrimbor and Adar. Adar was one of my favorite characters in Season 1, and, more even than Glug’s treachery, I hate that Adar’s last thoughts are probably on how he failed his orcs. I’m really glad they let Celembrimbor get the upper hand with Sauron. That “Shadow of Morgoth” insult is priceless. I want to see two things in Season 3: Celeborn coming back and Kemin’s ugly death. I wouldn’t mind if he got trampled by an Ent-wife, but I’d really like to see him taken out by Sauron. I’m really looking forward to seeing Sauron go after Pharazon, but that might not be until later in Season 3 or Season 4. I really like Celebrimbor and I felt sorry for him. I’m going to be cheering Sauron on when he goes after Pharazon and his flunkies. I hope we don’t have to wait too long for Season 3.
The Balrog scene was epic, and having Olorin/Gandalf arrive in the 2nd Age helps viewers understand that he's essentially a guardian Angel who has aided Elves since their beginning. But the Isildur/Estrid romance is VERY BAD. Her being betrothed to another man is serious, especially in Tolkien and in the ancient cultures his works borrow many of their aspects from. violation of an oath is deadly business, and betrothal & marital oaths recognized as among the most Sacred oaths possible. In courting Estrid, Isildur is showing a disposition to choose what pleases his flesh over what is right, as he will with the ring. The betrothed will probably be the dimmerburg dead king, cause turnabout.
Gil Galad was just a few meters away from Arondir, and he has a healing ring, there is probably a deleted scene of him saving Arondir, but the makers of the show probably thought that since there was already a scene of Galadriel healing the cartographer elf, and also, later, a scene of Gil Galad trying to heal her with his ring, there was no need to show the healing of Arondir... But there is a point to make that they may have been wrong to remove that scene (if it does exist), because not everybody is smart enough to play connect the dots.
If they have that scene, or however else he survived, it could’ve been also cut for other reasons. Maybe pacing, tightness of the episode with other stories, emotion, who knows. It helps that he wasn’t shown fully dead last episode, at least, so there is some wiggle room perhaps, and for now it’s just a possible continuity error. I do think they could’ve left something in there to actually indicate it though, even if not shown. Heck, maybe Adar didn’t even fully go for the kill with him due to their interactions in season 1 🤷🏻♂️ I would agree on it being a mistake between the two episodes, but I can see room to have it work.
@@davidbeer5015 oh, i totally think that if such a scene exists, it was removed for pacing, but you don't remove a scene for pacing if the scene is necessary to understand the story, which means that is such a scene was removed, that's because the director/editor/showrunner thought that other scenes were enough for the audience to understand that plot point. And as i said, there was already a scene in episode 4 where an elf was healed by one of the three elven rings, and there was a scene in episode 8 where Gil Galad and Elrond are healing a much worse wound with 2 of those rings. I think that the makers of the show thought something like "well, there's no need to show Arondir being healed, the episode is long enough and we are giving the audience enough to understand what happened". But there's a real question as wether they were right or not... this show tends to overestimate the intelligence of its viewers, and it may be a mistake.
Not necessarily overestimate the viewers’ intelligence. There are a lot of people, me included, who gritch about the continuity error. Shoot, they could have shown Gil-Galad bending over Arondir in episode 7 and that would have been enough for moat people.
Whether this changes or not, if it’s any comfort, the showrunners have said that it would be nigh impossible for the Dark Wizard to be Saruman. Man, I cannot get over how beautiful some of these moments were. The Durins, Celebrimbor’s death, the ending shot…So much good stuff, imo.
My phone won’t let me edit, but: No, we haven’t met Anarion, but he was named last season in the first conversation Isildur had with Elendil in ep 3 as having “deferred” from the Sea Guard and went West.
Really been enjoying your reactions, your enthusiasm and knowledge on all things tolkien :) I hope you'll react to season 3 when it comes, I'll be joining you again
@@bemasaberwyn55 theyre not using any material that tolkien wrote lol there are books about events that happened, amazon is severely altering, adding and/or not using those events - its fan fiction, get over it lol
@@nancyhayes9958 it is, because theyre presenting it as canon when it goes against almost everything tolkien worked his WHOLE LIFE for, its such an insult to a man who spent decades upon decades on his works, its an abortion of a 'lord of the rings' IP
Twisting the title of Lord of the Rings into a mockery of his dependence on their power is brilliant.
This season was so fantastic! I can't understand the haters. The scenes between Charles Edwards and Charlie Vickers were so intense. They should get all the awards. Looking forward to season 3!
That moment with the balrog is one of the most epic things I’ve ever seen
That specific Balrog is called durins bane
Charles Edwards and Charlie Vickers. Give them all the awards, their pick of any roles they want. Give them everything. Good Christ
They're amazing and I loved their interactions
They were such perfect foils for each other. I have this bizarre mental image of the two of them drinking in a favorite pub after Sauron tortures Celebrimbor to death. They seem like they have that kind of friendship.
I love the moment with Elendil and Narsil. It mirrors Aragorn's moment with Anduril.
Charles Edwards performance this season is fantastic, I'm truly gonna miss his Celebrimbor
RIP Celebrimbor. You went out as a bad-ass, and you have way more honor than your father and grandfather.
Well done indeed! , Hera spotting the Staff, thrown away by Nore.👍🏽👍🏽 This was by far the best episode!!
Fun fact Elendil isn't the founder of Gondor, Isildur and his brother Anarion founded that kingdom, whilst Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor in the north, around the lands that eventually made up the shire/bree land, their surrounding territories
14:40 what i love about this scene is that it shows that no amount of heroic courage is getting the elves out of this catastrophe
I really like the season 2. I especially really like this finale of season 2. I can't wait for season 3
"It's weird we never saw Celebrimbor's body..." (cue Celebrimbanner next season...)
I’m afraid of that. It’s such a terrible strike against the living elves’ morale-unless it backfires and pisses them off. It isn’t in any of the books, but I’d love to see Elrond and Galadriel massacre the “standard”-bearer and rescue Celebrimbor’s body. I’d also settle for Elrond and Gil-Galad, Elrond and Arondir, etc.
This season has been exceptional. The deliberate naysayers are a lot quieter lately too.
One of the best things about this series is you guys enjoying it just as much as we do.
Can't wait for more, along with your reactions.
I hated half of Season 1, but Season 2 fixed about 95 percent of what I didn’t like. I loved this season, and part of it is the choice to have Sauron the protagonist of his own story. The Second Age is his age; he’s at the apex of his power.
My favourite episode, everyone's acting was fantastic, the visuals were great, pacing brilliant... Still not keen on the Stranger being Gandalf, but hey, overall a 9/10
Sauron really going for the "CARL, YOU CAN'T JUST STAB PEOPLE" energy 😂😂😂😂
A note on the word Hobbit at the end: they should have the rights to it due to having the 4 main books. Concerning Hobbits, in the prologue of the LotR book, states Hobbits are comprised of Fallohides, Stoors and Harfoots, and we later learn that the term “Hobbit” stems from the Rohirrim word “Holbytla” which mean “hole-dweller.” And They aren’t one group of mostly hole-dwellers yet.
Thank you two for reacting to this series! I looked out every Tuesday waiting for it to drop, you guys are such fun!
It was an amazing season! I can't wait for your reactions to return for season 3! ❤
Charlie Vickers (Sauron) said in an interview that there is a possibility that we will see Sauron using Celebrimbors body to inflict more pain on the elves in season 3. But he also said, he doesn't know yet ;)
6:23 if this scene doesn’t get painted on the side of a sliding door van imma be really disappointed 😂😂🤣
@50:47 The highest any human has fallen without a parachute, or any help, and SURVIVED is a woman who fell over 33,000 ft. It took her a year and four months to recover.
@58:00 Nori’s name is Eleanor. That is what the flowers of Loth Lorien are named. I can imagine the hobbits living as River folk at the end of the season - where Sméagol steals the one ring.
Once you reach terminal velocity, the extra height doesn't really matter.
40:07 I loled at the idea of Sauron's shocked little "What do you mean, eww?!"
😂😂
that cold open was *chef's kiss*
Such a good episode concluding such a good season! I’ve been eagerly awaiting your reaction, and it didn’t disappoint.
This season was amazing
14:34 "after ALL that?! That's like me playing call of duty" literally made me laugh out loud 😂😂😂
Really can't wait for season 3 This season was Amazing! The Balrog 🔥 The Actor who played Celebrimbor deserves an Award!!! As always enjoy your guys reaction 🤘
I loved this season! By the way, the etymology of Hobbit is from holbytla, an old Rohirric word from when the halflings traveled the Vales of Anduin.
Be careful what you wish for re: Celebrimbor's body, they may stick with the written lore on that one.
They've also got to find some Fallowhides before they can get combine to become Hobbits.
Yes! This season was SO good! Really looking forward to the next one. Thanks for all the great reactions guys... You make my day every time ❤❤
So many epic moments in this finale. Goddamn I'm stoked for season 3
In the end pity does kill Sauron. Pity for Gollum
Yes individuals seeing the light in others and not the darkness 💪🏾 (as celebrimbor said)
sauron didnt die. he is immortal being.
@@mirceadacialorantbrescia4340He’s faded to a spirit of malice who cannot affect the world. That’s probably worse than death for him.
There have been speculations that Theo may end up betraying Isildur and become the King of the Dead and Kemen could possibly become The Mouth of Sauron.
I really loved seeing the founding of Rivendell *so* much.
I want to know where they filmed it. It’s gorgeous.
Celebrimbors body wasnt seen... because ... SPOILER : its taken as a war trophy and used as a banner for the army of sauron
Perfect thx both😁
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An absolutely phenomenal season finale!
"My old friend", hates hobbits. Yep that's Sour man, to antagonize, challenge his ideas of morality, but never appear as quite evil to our Grand Elf.
And thus it was, in her last scene of Season 2, she became Galadriel - Lady of Light.
He can't be saruman. Saruman was good. This must be one of the blue wizards.
Overall loved the season but feel finale was a bit rushed in places. Bring back more episodes for seasons of tv for the love of all that is good. Let storylines breathe dammit
Cried at Durins bane and Celebrimbors final scenes 😭
Really hate Adars death scene and hkw Galadriel just stood there
Also season 2 only works as well because season 1 set up all the things it did
Durin clashing with The Balrog....Whopper.
Great reaction and I'll miss the weekly shows, which I've really enjoyed.
The valley is Rivendell. There's image comparisons of it versus the film and they're almost identical.
The crown is Morgoth's and like you say, it's potentially going to be used to make the Nazgul morgul blades.
Kemen is likely to become a Nazgul, the same with Balthazar and there's one other Numenorian who gets a ring. The mouth of Sauron is also a Numenorian. Theo i think will be the King of the Dead and maybe the guy with with the silly felt hat will be a nazgul as he's a leader of a lot of the men. As for the witch king, i think that will be the dark wizard, as that was apparently an idea that Tolkien once had.
As for Arondir, i suspect he was healed by Gil Galad. There were apparently a bunch of scenes removed that we didn't see due to pacing.
Anyway, terrific spending the time with you both. Thanks.
The dark wizard is not a man. He must be one of the blue wizards. Angmar was a man.
So sad, yet so happy to be here at the end (of season 2) with you all! Truly appreciated both of your thoughts and opinions on the show and loved you didn't sh*t on the show like it seemed most others did
I’m enjoying your reaction. I had a love/ hate relationship with Season 1, but Season 2 rocks!
I still have more emotional investment in the balrog-Gandalf standoff, but this balrog is some of the best CG I’ve ever seen. I like that it’s less solid and more shadow and flame. I’ve wanted to smack King Durin for being an idiot over the ring, but he goes out like such a bad-ass: that shot where he leaps at the balrog gives me chills every time.
I’m going to miss Celebrimbor and Adar. Adar was one of my favorite characters in Season 1, and, more even than Glug’s treachery, I hate that Adar’s last thoughts are probably on how he failed his orcs. I’m really glad they let Celembrimbor get the upper hand with Sauron. That “Shadow of Morgoth” insult is priceless.
I want to see two things in Season 3: Celeborn coming back and Kemin’s ugly death. I wouldn’t mind if he got trampled by an Ent-wife, but I’d really like to see him taken out by Sauron. I’m really looking forward to seeing Sauron go after Pharazon, but that might not be until later in Season 3 or Season 4. I really like Celebrimbor and I felt sorry for him. I’m going to be cheering Sauron on when he goes after Pharazon and his flunkies.
I hope we don’t have to wait too long for Season 3.
Yeh - season 2&3 for Willow 🌱
The Balrog scene was epic, and having Olorin/Gandalf arrive in the 2nd Age helps viewers understand that he's essentially a guardian Angel who has aided Elves since their beginning. But the Isildur/Estrid romance is VERY BAD. Her being betrothed to another man is serious, especially in Tolkien and in the ancient cultures his works borrow many of their aspects from. violation of an oath is deadly business, and betrothal & marital oaths recognized as among the most Sacred oaths possible. In courting Estrid, Isildur is showing a disposition to choose what pleases his flesh over what is right, as he will with the ring. The betrothed will probably be the dimmerburg dead king, cause turnabout.
How did Arondir survive his very deadly stab wound? He was just fine when we saw him again. 😅
Let's just say that Eru Iluvatar did it...nothing else makes sense. 🤣
Gil Galad was just a few meters away from Arondir, and he has a healing ring, there is probably a deleted scene of him saving Arondir, but the makers of the show probably thought that since there was already a scene of Galadriel healing the cartographer elf, and also, later, a scene of Gil Galad trying to heal her with his ring, there was no need to show the healing of Arondir... But there is a point to make that they may have been wrong to remove that scene (if it does exist), because not everybody is smart enough to play connect the dots.
If they have that scene, or however else he survived, it could’ve been also cut for other reasons. Maybe pacing, tightness of the episode with other stories, emotion, who knows. It helps that he wasn’t shown fully dead last episode, at least, so there is some wiggle room perhaps, and for now it’s just a possible continuity error. I do think they could’ve left something in there to actually indicate it though, even if not shown. Heck, maybe Adar didn’t even fully go for the kill with him due to their interactions in season 1 🤷🏻♂️ I would agree on it being a mistake between the two episodes, but I can see room to have it work.
@@davidbeer5015 oh, i totally think that if such a scene exists, it was removed for pacing, but you don't remove a scene for pacing if the scene is necessary to understand the story, which means that is such a scene was removed, that's because the director/editor/showrunner thought that other scenes were enough for the audience to understand that plot point. And as i said, there was already a scene in episode 4 where an elf was healed by one of the three elven rings, and there was a scene in episode 8 where Gil Galad and Elrond are healing a much worse wound with 2 of those rings. I think that the makers of the show thought something like "well, there's no need to show Arondir being healed, the episode is long enough and we are giving the audience enough to understand what happened".
But there's a real question as wether they were right or not... this show tends to overestimate the intelligence of its viewers, and it may be a mistake.
Not necessarily overestimate the viewers’ intelligence. There are a lot of people, me included, who gritch about the continuity error. Shoot, they could have shown Gil-Galad bending over Arondir in episode 7 and that would have been enough for moat people.
Whether this changes or not, if it’s any comfort, the showrunners have said that it would be nigh impossible for the Dark Wizard to be Saruman.
Man, I cannot get over how beautiful some of these moments were. The Durins, Celebrimbor’s death, the ending shot…So much good stuff, imo.
My phone won’t let me edit, but: No, we haven’t met Anarion, but he was named last season in the first conversation Isildur had with Elendil in ep 3 as having “deferred” from the Sea Guard and went West.
I'm so mad they killed Adar
he was the most interesting character
Yeah. He was one of the things I actually loved about Season 1, along with anything to do with Elrond and Durin, Disa, and Khazad-dum.
What a great season and don't worry we'll see Celebrimbor's body but you're not gonna like it
Really been enjoying your reactions, your enthusiasm and knowledge on all things tolkien :) I hope you'll react to season 3 when it comes, I'll be joining you again
❤👍
its lord of the rings fan fiction, thats all it is
Incorrect
@@bemasaberwyn55 theyre not using any material that tolkien wrote lol there are books about events that happened, amazon is severely altering, adding and/or not using those events - its fan fiction, get over it lol
You say that like it’s an insult. I’ve read some damn good fan fiction over the years.
@@nancyhayes9958 it is, because theyre presenting it as canon when it goes against almost everything tolkien worked his WHOLE LIFE for, its such an insult to a man who spent decades upon decades on his works, its an abortion of a 'lord of the rings' IP
Indeed it's pretty bad.