Galadriel is the embodiment of wisdom, dignity, grace, poise, and feminine power. Rings of Power was like "but what if we made our version the exact opposite of all those things?" This is not in any way the same character from the books. It's sheer slander against Tolkien's Galadriel.
It still blows my mind that the "strong girlboss leader" would rather collapse a fortified stone fort and defend a village made of wood and straw than stay in the tower or flee North or West.
Look, a man had to teach her elementary skills in manners, a lesson that boiled down to “you catch more flies with honey.” She’s got the emotional intelligence of a toddler.
It's not just a fortified stone fort, it's also in an incredibly advantagous position. There's only one path leading up to it and that path goes winding up a steep hill that's overseen in it's entirety by the fortress and the enrance to the fortress is across a single narrow bridge. They had archers in the village defense battle. Had they put these archers on the fortress they would have been entirely unassailable until the fortress has actually been breached and have perfect cover while the orcs would be devoid of any cover. Hell even if the archers missed their intended target, with how the path is laid out it's not unlikely they'd still hit an orc somewhere further down the path. And again, with how the path is laid out any orc falling down would likely take several more orcs down with him. It's an incredibly strong defensive position. Or to be fair, it would be an incredibly strong defensive position if that tower weren't constructed in the most shoddy way possible so that it just barely is held together by a single rope.
People also make devils bargains because they're greedy, but if the writers wrote that, they might accidentally introspect for a moment and realize how empty they are. At which point, I assume, they would implode like the witch king.
I think if the writers had that amount of self awareness, they wouldn’t think that they could “write the book that Tolkien wanted to write.” Because that’s what fans want: a couple of spoiled kids brought on by JJ Abrams to write a prequel to lotr rather than the person who got them invested in the world in the first place.
Martin’s whole point of GoT was to turn Tolkien’s tropes on its head, so it’s quite bizarre to see RoT writers use GoT tropes to rewrite Tolkien, and not even realize what they are doing
Here is an example of how far elves can see. Feanor and his followers stole the Teleri ships to sail to middle earth. They were originally going to send them back for Fingolfin and his followers to sail over, but Feanor didn't trust his half-brother, so he ordered the ships to be burned. Back in Valinor, Fingolfin could see a red glow on the horizon, and he knew he had been betrayed. He was able to see a glow from across an ocean the width of the Atlantic!
Feanor is a cooler character than anything co-opted by Amazon's The Rangs of African Powuh. The Silmarillion source Amazon wouldn't cash-out money for is waaaaaay better than RoP.
When Aragorn asks Legolas to tell them what he could see, Legolas was seeing something that was beyond the curvature of the Earth. Elves have magical eyesight.
The beauty of lotr is how it combines simple concepts of “good vs evil” within such a complex universe. Men desiring the rings for “power” doesn’t need some bizarre ulterior motive because it falls in line with the entire theme of the novels being that the ring (power) could corrupt anyone into becoming like Sauron. I’d argue that the true “tension” of the lotr story lies within the constant dread that the ring’s influence is too great for anyone to resist. While Tolkein created an extremely complex world full of lore and history, the themes were always based upon simple, classical myths of good vs. evil. The RoP, on the other hand, completely flipped this- making it so the characters and world are extremely simplistic, while the plot is an absolute convoluted mess. It’s fine if they want to do their own thing, but you still have to keep within at least the same general themes of the source material. Why even make it set in the lotr universe if you’re not going to do that?
So... elrond broke an oath. An oath... broken. And that holds no impact whatsoever. Nice going JD payne and Mcain. Also, in 17:12 you're spot on about what's really wrong with everything in this shitshow. Couldn't have said it any better myself.
17:27 this right here is a fantastic point, that’s what make Tolkien Tolkien, and not Game of Thrones. You can’t do this to Tolkien. Black or white good or evil. You try to add grey into middle earth it doesn’t work especially with horrendous story telling that borders on incomprehensible. Your already shell shocked at how bad the story is that inconsistent character building puts you in a coma
There actually are shades of gray here and there in Tolkiens work, but how these creators treat that grayness is staunchly opposite. Gollum and Frodo for example are not wholly black and white. Gollum is mostly vile, but has the capacity to choose good. Which is why Gandalf lectures Frodo on not being too quick to deal out death to him. And Frodo, although being mostly good, succumbs to the ring at the very end. The difference is, Tolkien treats these moral gray shortcomings for what they are; ugly and regrettable. Moral grayness in Tolkiens world is nothing more than a regrettable and pitiful truth of this world. The Rings of Power writers, however, treat moral grayness as a means to create a pallette of diverse characters and thus believe moral grayness should be glorified and celebrated.
@@WolfGr33d very well put. I do agree black and white maybe the wrong word choice. But all the characters go about the situations in middle earth are either honorable and have integrity or not. The issue with the show Is the inconsistency in the characters, character no pun intended. lol you watch the show and you get like whiplash from people doing so many things out of character for no reason what so ever. You don’t see that in Tolkien
@@WolfGr33d being corrupted or tempted by the One Ring is not the same as being a morally grey character though. In fact it is made very clear that EVERY being in middle earth (with the exception of Tom Bombadil perhaps) would sooner or later succumb to the will of the Ring, no matter their own intentions. It is the Ring which is clearly evil and has great power that has that effect, not a question of morality. If anything, Bilbo, Frodo and even Sméagol have a remarkably strong ability to withstand the Ring compared to others.
Dude thanks for watching all of this, so I didn't have to. Couldn't make it thru 1st 2 episodes. Hands down best dissection of this travesty on RUclips. Your grammar and writing skills are top notch, enunciation is perfect, cadence just right, sound leveled well on my device... You will have tens of thousands of subscribers if you keep this level of production up imo
@@realistic_delinquent Literally NONE of those channels show a hint of logic. Ironically, the only other logical youtube channels are Disparu and ‘So Uncivilised’ and you fail to mention either one
My hat's off to you. I couldn't even make it through the first episode, let alone manage to rewatch it often enough to find all these clips. You have a stronger stomach than I.
Love how Guyladrial constantly butts in and gives her 2 cents as if anyone asked. And she's always out for her ego. Extremely immature and emotionally stunted for an immortal!!
The r/lotr subreddit is absolutely flooded with ROP simps. That have to be paid by Amazon, it’s so weird and cringy. They’re clearly not fans of the books or the films, and yet there they are, out in force, defending this steaming turd of a show with every ounce of strength they can muster. Like, why? I want to ask them “why are you even here?”
With all the intel she had, Galadriel’s best shot was to take the ride home, alert her own kin and crush the orcs in the southlands. Same with Arrondir (it’s only a quick ride isn’t it?). The tree of Numenor loosing leaves (again a plot point stolen from the original trilogy) makes no sense. There was no moral failure on Miriel’s part (as opposed to Denethor) and she even acted with a surprising level of magnanimity towards Galadriel’s reckless and vindictive behaviour. Also Numenor will end up destroyed even if they did in fact heed the warning and succeed in raiding the orc. Their failure with mount doom cannot be attributed to their deeds because it’s something they had 0 information about. They did the best they could do with what little they knew. What’s the implication of the omen from the Valar then? Are the Valar mistaken? Are they shortsighted? Do they want Numenor to fall? In the end, none of these questions matter because it’s not canon and we already know the real answers. The point is, they should’ve stick to the good story Tolkien wrote instead of creating this incoherent fan fiction instead.
@@dylancross1039 That's false information being thrown in the rumor mill. I can't even see a skeletal touch of the story. This is wholly new made up mess.
There is no words to describe my surprise when I found out that it is THE MOST expensive show ever, I was convinced from the first minute of this crap product that it was some fanfic made by some entusiasts who barely scraped some money in order to make their wierd fantasy into a movie. I thought they could not afford actors with a name and had to get their friends and students into the project, cause obviously none of them knew what they were doing but tryed their best. Man, I was wrong, people that were involved knew what they were doing but had no talent, no taste, no ambitions, no nothing and just treated it as a yet another one zero-standart shity project in a line.
ROP is actually a masterpiece. It perfectly depicts what happens when you take new age feminism to its logical conclusion. You just create a morally ambivalent female super villain.
27:20 - I thought they did. sent her away and then sold her Idea as their own, because I wasn’t fully paying attention. Only later found out it was this bad. 😂
Funny even weeks after the show wrapped up people are still making vids like these - and they are highly entertaining! Even though you're sure all faults have been found there are new oddities and errors left to review - it just never ends...
That Numenorians hating elves out of nothing is bizarre. Yes, Sauron convinces the numenorians to hate the elves and invade the immortal lands, which brings the downfall of their civilization, HOWEVER, the royal bloodline of Numenor HAS elven blood. Elros, brother of Elrond was the first king of Numenor and distant relative to Aragorn. Sauron plot to destroy Numenor was so much different in the Silmarilion. One thing, the orcs couldn't walk under sunlight in the books and the origianl trilogy, Saruman creates a new breed so they could walk during the day. BUT as in the shitty Hobbit Trilogy, the producers completely forget that fact and the orcs can roam around at will (making the whole trench plotline utterly pointless). Last but not least, the showrruners didn't write Galladriel, they wrote female Feanor into the show, blood hell!
col vid bro, but it seems like there is like 30 parts more to come to explain all the events that flopped in rings of power. And I really wished someone just pick an story thread and follow it thru all the episodes instead of just describing that happened in each episode :)
It is a necessary dissection, so that others can see how the tiniest inconsistences can destroy entire threads. Aspiring actors and writers can learn a lot from these types of videos, and it sometimes helps for us audience members zero in on exactly what it was about a particular scene that didn't sit well with us. There are many great breakdowns of this show, more concise (Little Platoon being an example, Mauler & Co being others) but I believe this thorough breakdown in these videos really gets to the meat of the issue...and he is giving it to us raw ;)
The script is a mess! She convinces everyone to go to the tower, only to convince them to leave the tower - WHAT WAS THE POINT OF WASTING SCREENTIME HAVING THEM GO THERE. The evil elf guy even said he was gonna attack that tower so why did they even go in the first place?!?!
I really hope they didn’t write that cringe-inducing “tempest” outburst in an attempt to repeat an iconic Cait Blanchett line from “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”
The showrunners _are_ evil, but view themselves as the honourable and just protagonists of their lives, and write what they know. Therefore every character they spawn has this error: they are supposed to be good and everyone views them as such, but every one of their actions betrays how wicked and corrupt they are to their core.
Morfydd Clark has given us the worst performance in my lifetime at least. I would be surprised if the walking shart got another acting gig after this disaster.
@@MD-md4th Not to mention she is probably following the director's inclination on how the character should be played. But Freshdougan probably isn't wrong about Clark being lucky to get a major acting gig again because of this fubar.
Hmm reminds me of a good book I was taught at church. . Funny how things in that book come to pass . What next .. maybe IL read the end of it again . As I get older seems less like fiction and more like a spoiler alert
For a while I thought you said "blind legless" and since I didn't want to watch the show I kept wondering what on earth happens to him for you to call him that, until I realised it was blind Legolas XD Anyway thanks for watching the show for us and going over it!!
Its a sad reality that We called this in Exsurge Tolkien, since 25 March, now its a full apostasy of power, The evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
The elves come across as leprechauns. I can't help but remember the overwhelming praise Peter Jackson's LOTR garnered because it so faithfully depicted the books. In particular, there was a lot said at the time about his casting-director's ability to find so many extras who looked like Tolkien's elves. I don't begrudged the attempt to bring some diversity to the tales of The Second Age, just the inadequate attempt. The Stranger should have been one of The Blue Wizards, he could have easily been a POC, both of them, and then made central to the plot as they gathered information across the land, interacting with all the different peoples. Instead of the elf being non-canonically black, the village healer could have been black. It's also insulting to have a High King of the elves who's not able to articulate his own speeches, but needs to have Galadriel's sidekick, Elrond, write words for him. And I have to mention the spindly armed high elven smith, who looks like he couldn't lift a five-pound hammer Galadriel shows that the writers were unable to create a woman character of great intelligence, insight, discipline, and power. So they settled on a subpar action figure. And how she'll transform from that into the central figure of The White Council we know in The Third Age, is obviously beyond their creative abilities. Unlike most of those who criticized the first-season, I actually enjoyed the majority of the Harfoots' subplot. But when the series culminates in the triad of the strong woman leaders, with every male character reduced to subordinates, villains, cowards, and incompetents, I had to finally admit that this particular collection of "studio creatives" simply weren't able to save the disaster they created out of Tolkien's legacy. Hopefully it will be like Game of Thrones, but in reverse.
So part 3 is currently in the works, but it's going to take some time since I'm planning on having it be the final installment for my review. But I do have other videos that are going to come out soon in the meantime!
We all know it's no longer possible to be "canonical" they already shit that bed on that one but if they make it into a parody there may be some redeeming value here. What's nice is if they don't even have to change their writing style at all. They can pull an all-nighter in the same boiler room they wrote season 1 and pump out all of their shitty ideas that they think are clever and nuanced for season 2. Yes, it will be embarrasing for Amazon to be responsible for making a billion dollar parody but it can't be any more embarrasing then the slop they put to film in S1. Dear Amazon - We promise to pretend you were trying to make the LOTR version of Spaceballs.
"The She is always right." This is all you need to remember when trying to analyze the Brick who another reviewer has aptly named Mighty Morfydd Power Elf.
“A tall mysterious, beautiful demi god named Annatar shows up and says ‘let me help you with all your problems by making some rings’ like who’s going to fall for that?” So I guess they’re just blatantly stating they think they’re better than Tolkien now? Because that was his narrative, and unlike rings of power, it actually made sense.
- yeah that guild crest thing was ridiculous. Its an isolated island community, you think u can just take a known families crest and what show up at blacksmith school and no one would ask questions....Though it also made no sense that after Guyladriel refused to join him that he just leaves without bashing her smug face in.
Saying that you "legitimately" didn't expect anyone to watch these videos makes you look like the showrunners that have been pawning their fanfiction as canon! You did expect people to watch these videos because you are NOT the only Tolkien-fan ranting or raving at the ignorance of the idiots that lied about using the source material to craft the "patently evil" media known as the "Rings of Power." Other than that bogus line, this review is still brilliant and deserves praise! Looking forward to part three.
My guy, Im saying I wasn’t expecting the amount of people that have watched these videos to have watched them because I’m still an insanely small channel. No one has a full grasp as to what the algo will and will not recommend. Yes, I expected some people to watch it. Just not nearly to this extent. But either way I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
that opening line from durin now has a permanent spot in my vocab because it's so incredibly stupid that the writers thought this was a good analogy for anything in a serious conversation. only place you'd hear that line is in a show with a different rating lmao
Would it be wrong if someone destroyed every trace of this show? Like every single inch of footage that could be used to copy or preserve what was filmed. Unironically, what would be lost? I wish some magical hacker man would make the effort to just yeet all of it into the recycle bin then empty it.
Ya know I'm just staring at that river and thinking how about you just yeet that sword into the river. If you can't be bothered to escape because REASONS (I'm ignoring the fact that zero reasons exist) than at least hide the thing in a place no-one can reach as you really don't want them to get. They'll find it on you when they eventually arrive and victory is heavily in their favour as they can easily starve you out seeing as how the food shortage isn't even close to being fixed. Hell if elf man doesn't want to go you can literally send a few villagers to do it. 5 or so villagers are not going to make a difference in a battle especially after half your troops abandoned you. Like there are several reasons why Helms Deep works both narratively and in world logic wise. One of those is that they're abandoning a wooden fortress for a stone one. It also works because they know they can't outrun an enemy army with women, children, old people etc especially when they have cavalry units like the wargs and Orcs aren't vampires in the trilogy so it's not they can sleep during the day when the enemy can't move. Helms deep was a rational decision that might have won them the day by itself if the walls weren't exploded. It also bought them a hell of a lot of time. (Spoilers) The fact they end up abandoned this stone tower with a chokepoint and go to a village REALLY REALLY pissed me off. It's such bad rational and logic that I want to slowly force the writers of ROP to read Isekai's as even the most average of them have more world building, character development, plot etc in a few chapters than they did in 8 hours of content. God dam Overlord, Re:Zero, Mushuko Tensei put this several hundred million project to shame.
There is only one conceivable explanation for why the supposedly "good" characters in RoP are such a bunch of vicious, callous, self-serving, duplicitous dirtbags. The writers MUST be sociopaths. They literally have no idea that these traits are commonly considered "bad." As near as I can tell,, for these writers "good" characters are simply the attractive ones and "evil" characters are unattractive. They could not have found worse people to give Tolkien's world to.
I went through what little of this series that I could stand, hoping that Galadriel (a truly horribly casted, acted and written character in this show's version) would be killed early, while lamenting that I knew she couldn't be. I couldn't stand more than 2 episodes because of that. Worst character in anything, ever? Gets my vote. Even now when I see a still of her or even just the actress, I get annoyed as hell for at least an hour and have to go cool off.
Further on your last point...the Elves have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of year by the point...none of this stuff, places, items, etc...should be lost or forgotten to them. Some of them must literally have been there when those places were built.
I've come to the inevitable conclusion that these irrational decisions, characters and senseless plots exist simply because the woke literally try to reason without logic, intellect or basic morality - an obvious display of their own ineptitude at assessing the most fundamental rules of personality and practicality.
A lot of people these days really do not understand what a good 'independent and strong' character should be. So much film and TV is clearly just pushing the message "Women can do anything, as they're fantastic.". As if some vague and ultimately meaningless feel-good platitude is of any actual value in the real world. Then they make programmes like Vikings to try and rewrite history to push the same message. As if somehow pretending that historical sexism against women wasn't universal somehow helps any kind of cause for equality. Lord of the Rings may be fantasy, but it's still based in traditional European culture (bad and good). Most people spectacularly fail to understand what fantasy is. They think it's all magic and elves so you can do anything you want, which is absolutely not the case. It is nearly always - and certainly with Tolkien's work - set in a realistic myhtologised version of reality, sometimes with sprinkings of supernatural elements.
I continue my quest to collect the best of the "I Loved The Part Where..." Memes. If you have any additions, know that your contribution may be added to the unfolding saga. I loved the part where Galadriel Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Targaryen (GEDDRWT) faced off against the german-orcs, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Incelron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing T-shirt that read, "Ask Me About My Translucent Agenda." Then all the N*zis got blown up when the Gay Engola dropped two nukes: Body-Positive Man and Little Transboy. All Game of Thrones scholars agree that the scene where Rhaenyra whispers in Celeborn's ear “I hate pee on the toilet seat when I go to use it.” and then disconnects the machine that keeps him alive, perfectly delivered George JRR Martin's message of hope and healing for all wahmankind. Then Galadriel jumped into the ocean with Dory and started singing, "Just keep swimming." I have to admit, I did not like the part where the authot race swapped the ents. Ents are clearly White Birch, but those ents were OAK. Remember, Arboreal Pollen is Tree ejaculation, so the Ent orgy counts as interracial and should have the appropriate tags. Although they redeemed themselves when Scott Bakula quantum leaped into T(reebeard)'Challa. I was taken off guard when GEDDRWT and Rey Palpatine arrived in Wakanda to fookin scissor, and a white man said "we don't do that in here" and Rey replied, "are you Shuri about that?" My favorate part would have to be when Gandalf said, "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Morgoth? I thought not. It's not a story the Valar would tell you. It's a Maiar legend. Melkor was a Dark Lord, so powerful and so wise he could use the Silmarils to influence the Great Music to create life... He had such a knowledge of the unseen world that he could even keep the ones he cared about from losing their Facebook accounts if they posted the N-word. The dark side of the unseen world is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice became the Dark Lord Incelron. Ironic, he could save others from living in their parent's basement, but not himself." I loved the ending where Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." And then Halbrand said, "YEW TUKE ARR JERBS!" and Kicked a Harfoot into a well while shouting, "THIS. IS. NUMENOR." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat." As Ursula died she croaked, "The Sea... Is always... Right..." Then perked up, "And the sea shops exclusively at Amazon. Use The 'IAmAllTheJedi' code to get a ten percent discount on all your Amazon purchased items for one order." THEN she finally died. I laughed, I cried, I kissed 18 bucks goodbye. 10/10 Would edge to it again. Much Stunning. Much Bravery.
The trench is to transport water to mount doom. Not to shield them from the sun even tough it help anyway to get some shadow when watching over elves slaves
I’m aware that’s the case. I’m saying it doesn’t make any sense for Adar and the Orcs to spend all this time digging this massive trench to turn the southlands into mordor, when orcs apparently aren’t weakened by daylight and can travel around in it unhindered.
This show makes me hate my fucking life. I ACTUALLY want to die when I see that someone Despises Tolkien so much they refuse to pay him any real homage. This show is so massively insulting. I fucking despise it. I actually wanted Sauron to win when I watched it I want him him to win and completely destroy the world.
I would love to see your commentary on Star Wars latest live action piece Andor. It's quite a divide when you look at some people saying that it's a boring slog Fest and some people thinking that it's the best thing to come out of Disney sequel trilogy.
I’ve had a couple of people recommend it to me. I might give it a watch, but the problem is Kenobi did a phenomenal job of nuking what little interest I had left in the SW universe into oblivion lmao
The RUclips reviews provided way more entertainment than than the show ever could.
Agreed.
Oh man, this comment totally hasn’t become cliche asf
Absolutely!
More truth in this one sentence than in all the episodes of RoP.
Yeah I mostly looked at my phone when watxching the show or slept but these have been nice
Galadriel is the embodiment of wisdom, dignity, grace, poise, and feminine power. Rings of Power was like "but what if we made our version the exact opposite of all those things?" This is not in any way the same character from the books. It's sheer slander against Tolkien's Galadriel.
Don't make Galadriel dump you at some freezing, snowy area. She don't have time for anyone who doesn't like her.
It still blows my mind that the "strong girlboss leader" would rather collapse a fortified stone fort and defend a village made of wood and straw than stay in the tower or flee North or West.
It's just junior/grade kevel school writing. Actually that's an insult. I'm sure they have much better and bigger and bolder ideas every day.
But she's a super strong and independent she elf 😸
Look, a man had to teach her elementary skills in manners, a lesson that boiled down to “you catch more flies with honey.” She’s got the emotional intelligence of a toddler.
It's not just a fortified stone fort, it's also in an incredibly advantagous position. There's only one path leading up to it and that path goes winding up a steep hill that's overseen in it's entirety by the fortress and the enrance to the fortress is across a single narrow bridge. They had archers in the village defense battle. Had they put these archers on the fortress they would have been entirely unassailable until the fortress has actually been breached and have perfect cover while the orcs would be devoid of any cover. Hell even if the archers missed their intended target, with how the path is laid out it's not unlikely they'd still hit an orc somewhere further down the path. And again, with how the path is laid out any orc falling down would likely take several more orcs down with him. It's an incredibly strong defensive position.
Or to be fair, it would be an incredibly strong defensive position if that tower weren't constructed in the most shoddy way possible so that it just barely is held together by a single rope.
People also make devils bargains because they're greedy, but if the writers wrote that, they might accidentally introspect for a moment and realize how empty they are. At which point, I assume, they would implode like the witch king.
I think if the writers had that amount of self awareness, they wouldn’t think that they could “write the book that Tolkien wanted to write.”
Because that’s what fans want: a couple of spoiled kids brought on by JJ Abrams to write a prequel to lotr rather than the person who got them invested in the world in the first place.
@@ethanglasgow7612no fucking way they said this right
They dealt with the Devil but didn't ask for talent? 🤣
Martin’s whole point of GoT was to turn Tolkien’s tropes on its head, so it’s quite bizarre to see RoT writers use GoT tropes to rewrite Tolkien, and not even realize what they are doing
Here is an example of how far elves can see. Feanor and his followers stole the Teleri ships to sail to middle earth. They were originally going to send them back for Fingolfin and his followers to sail over, but Feanor didn't trust his half-brother, so he ordered the ships to be burned. Back in Valinor, Fingolfin could see a red glow on the horizon, and he knew he had been betrayed. He was able to see a glow from across an ocean the width of the Atlantic!
Middle earth was flat then too. So he wasn’t looking over the curve😊
@@liamgardner527 Exactly 😊
Feanor is a cooler character than anything co-opted by Amazon's The Rangs of African Powuh. The Silmarillion source Amazon wouldn't cash-out money for is waaaaaay better than RoP.
When Aragorn asks Legolas to tell them what he could see, Legolas was seeing something that was beyond the curvature of the Earth.
Elves have magical eyesight.
Middle Earth is flat? :/
RoP is unwittingly showing us what a great job Peter Jackson and his team did with LotR.
At this point, RoP is unwittingly showing us what a great job the “Cats” movie’s team did.
After healerboobs says the tower symbolizes the strenght of the southlands her bf tears the whole thing down with 1 arrow.
The beauty of lotr is how it combines simple concepts of “good vs evil” within such a complex universe.
Men desiring the rings for “power” doesn’t need some bizarre ulterior motive because it falls in line with the entire theme of the novels being that the ring (power) could corrupt anyone into becoming like Sauron. I’d argue that the true “tension” of the lotr story lies within the constant dread that the ring’s influence is too great for anyone to resist.
While Tolkein created an extremely complex world full of lore and history, the themes were always based upon simple, classical myths of good vs. evil.
The RoP, on the other hand, completely flipped this- making it so the characters and world are extremely simplistic, while the plot is an absolute convoluted mess. It’s fine if they want to do their own thing, but you still have to keep within at least the same general themes of the source material. Why even make it set in the lotr universe if you’re not going to do that?
The funniest thing is when you discover that the Bible is canonical in middle earth making LotR "The Book of Frodo"
So... elrond broke an oath. An oath... broken. And that holds no impact whatsoever. Nice going JD payne and Mcain. Also, in 17:12 you're spot on about what's really wrong with everything in this shitshow. Couldn't have said it any better myself.
17:27 this right here is a fantastic point, that’s what make Tolkien Tolkien, and not Game of Thrones. You can’t do this to Tolkien. Black or white good or evil. You try to add grey into middle earth it doesn’t work especially with horrendous story telling that borders on incomprehensible. Your already shell shocked at how bad the story is that inconsistent character building puts you in a coma
This was my massive concern as the drip feed of info on this nightmare arrived. Utter travesty.
There actually are shades of gray here and there in Tolkiens work, but how these creators treat that grayness is staunchly opposite.
Gollum and Frodo for example are not wholly black and white. Gollum is mostly vile, but has the capacity to choose good. Which is why Gandalf lectures Frodo on not being too quick to deal out death to him. And Frodo, although being mostly good, succumbs to the ring at the very end.
The difference is, Tolkien treats these moral gray shortcomings for what they are; ugly and regrettable.
Moral grayness in Tolkiens world is nothing more than a regrettable and pitiful truth of this world. The Rings of Power writers, however, treat moral grayness as a means to create a pallette of diverse characters and thus believe moral grayness should be glorified and celebrated.
@@WolfGr33d very well put. I do agree black and white maybe the wrong word choice. But all the characters go about the situations in middle earth are either honorable and have integrity or not. The issue with the show Is the inconsistency in the characters, character no pun intended. lol you watch the show and you get like whiplash from people doing so many things out of character for no reason what so ever. You don’t see that in Tolkien
@@WolfGr33d being corrupted or tempted by the One Ring is not the same as being a morally grey character though. In fact it is made very clear that EVERY being in middle earth (with the exception of Tom Bombadil perhaps) would sooner or later succumb to the will of the Ring, no matter their own intentions. It is the Ring which is clearly evil and has great power that has that effect, not a question of morality. If anything, Bilbo, Frodo and even Sméagol have a remarkably strong ability to withstand the Ring compared to others.
@@nothingEvil101 amazingly put
Dude thanks for watching all of this, so I didn't have to. Couldn't make it thru 1st 2 episodes. Hands down best dissection of this travesty on RUclips. Your grammar and writing skills are top notch, enunciation is perfect, cadence just right, sound leveled well on my device... You will have tens of thousands of subscribers if you keep this level of production up imo
FWIW - Good casting and production. They have skimped on writing talent. What a waste.
Same here. Two eps and then skimmed the rest whilst face palming every two minutes!
I got through 20 minutes of episode one and then I couldn't even mock it anymore. So boring.
Funny how showrunners dont know the difference between good and evil
In that regard the showrunners are just proxies for Jeff Bezos.
@@mikeduplessis8069 exactly
I actually suspect they are trying to wipe out the concept of good and evil, not only in this show but in our culture.
@@nibornnyw3185 almost right, they want to invert good and evil
Every second of this show I see is PAIN! Thank you for enduring it on our behalf.
Wow.Just finished watching part 1. Coincidentally part 2 is online for just two hours. Nice!
curiously I had this same thing happen haha
Very entertaining, you are one of the few channels that clearly shows all of the logical flaws in this series. Keep it up!
Mauler, knights watch, little platoon, movie cynic, nerdrotic, critical drinker, and I know I left a considerable number out.
wtf is ‘EVERY’ entertaining mean
@@realistic_delinquent Literally NONE of those channels show a hint of logic.
Ironically, the only other logical youtube channels are Disparu and ‘So Uncivilised’ and you fail to mention either one
@@lingricen8077 oops thanks
@@shimadamada9929 too late the damage is done you should be every ashamed of yourself
Brick is without doubt my favourite of the many less than flattering nicknames Galadriel has earned herself after this show.
Haha how did she "earn" that nickname? :D
It's even better than Guyladriel.
I never thought I'd still be finding new things to hate about this Galadriel, but here I am
My hat's off to you. I couldn't even make it through the first episode, let alone manage to rewatch it often enough to find all these clips. You have a stronger stomach than I.
Love how Guyladrial constantly butts in and gives her 2 cents as if anyone asked. And she's always out for her ego. Extremely immature and emotionally stunted for an immortal!!
There is a tempest inside me!!
I'll take "Things said by a hormonal 20 year old woman on Tumblr that earn 1,000 upvotes" for 500$, Alex!
The r/lotr subreddit is absolutely flooded with ROP simps. That have to be paid by Amazon, it’s so weird and cringy. They’re clearly not fans of the books or the films, and yet there they are, out in force, defending this steaming turd of a show with every ounce of strength they can muster. Like, why? I want to ask them “why are you even here?”
Well, the 1 Billion Dollars must have gone somewhere
I am having so much fun watching the reviews for this "show". Yours is one of my favorites !
With all the intel she had, Galadriel’s best shot was to take the ride home, alert her own kin and crush the orcs in the southlands. Same with Arrondir (it’s only a quick ride isn’t it?).
The tree of Numenor loosing leaves (again a plot point stolen from the original trilogy) makes no sense. There was no moral failure on Miriel’s part (as opposed to Denethor) and she even acted with a surprising level of magnanimity towards Galadriel’s reckless and vindictive behaviour. Also Numenor will end up destroyed even if they did in fact heed the warning and succeed in raiding the orc. Their failure with mount doom cannot be attributed to their deeds because it’s something they had 0 information about. They did the best they could do with what little they knew.
What’s the implication of the omen from the Valar then? Are the Valar mistaken? Are they shortsighted? Do they want Numenor to fall?
In the end, none of these questions matter because it’s not canon and we already know the real answers. The point is, they should’ve stick to the good story Tolkien wrote instead of creating this incoherent fan fiction instead.
It boils down to this. They're trying to write the Silmarillion without having the rights to it
@@dylancross1039 That's false information being thrown in the rumor mill. I can't even see a skeletal touch of the story. This is wholly new made up mess.
This was certainly more thought out than the show. Keep up the great work on calling out this BS
I’m ready for part 3!
Finally!!! So much better than the show and it gives me hope that if these corporations were serious, they’d hire people like you.
Thanks to this Galadriel, I have discovered a new respect and genuine fondness for Admiral Holdo.
Slowmo during the chase is 100% for sure lifted from the flight of the Fellow ship after Gandalf fell.
Copyright Maguire is a better and more developed character than the entire show of RoP combined.
TLDR Rings of Power is the last season of GOT stretched across an entire show
There is no words to describe my surprise when I found out that it is THE MOST expensive show ever, I was convinced from the first minute of this crap product that it was some fanfic made by some entusiasts who barely scraped some money in order to make their wierd fantasy into a movie. I thought they could not afford actors with a name and had to get their friends and students into the project, cause obviously none of them knew what they were doing but tryed their best. Man, I was wrong, people that were involved knew what they were doing but had no talent, no taste, no ambitions, no nothing and just treated it as a yet another one zero-standart shity project in a line.
ROP is actually a masterpiece. It perfectly depicts what happens when you take new age feminism to its logical conclusion. You just create a morally ambivalent female super villain.
This is so well written. Great work ^.^v
can't wait for part 3!
27:20 - I thought they did. sent her away and then sold her Idea as their own, because I wasn’t fully paying attention. Only later found out it was this bad. 😂
Funny even weeks after the show wrapped up people are still making vids like these - and they are highly entertaining! Even though you're sure all faults have been found there are new oddities and errors left to review - it just never ends...
The white orcs have me rolling my eyes.
Evil whities.
Hasn't anyone noticed we never ever see the kid's ears. He is clearly Bronwyn and Elf dude's secret child !
you do good work!👏🥳
I love listening to ppl rip rings of power a new asshole.
This critique series is awesome! I only finished the show so I could appreciate RUclips videos like this one better!
That Numenorians hating elves out of nothing is bizarre. Yes, Sauron convinces the numenorians to hate the elves and invade the immortal lands, which brings the downfall of their civilization, HOWEVER, the royal bloodline of Numenor HAS elven blood. Elros, brother of Elrond was the first king of Numenor and distant relative to Aragorn. Sauron plot to destroy Numenor was so much different in the Silmarilion. One thing, the orcs couldn't walk under sunlight in the books and the origianl trilogy, Saruman creates a new breed so they could walk during the day. BUT as in the shitty Hobbit Trilogy, the producers completely forget that fact and the orcs can roam around at will (making the whole trench plotline utterly pointless). Last but not least, the showrruners didn't write Galladriel, they wrote female Feanor into the show, blood hell!
col vid bro, but it seems like there is like 30 parts more to come to explain all the events that flopped in rings of power. And I really wished someone just pick an story thread and follow it thru all the episodes instead of just describing that happened in each episode :)
If there was a thread perhaps they would but seeing as how many have talked and found none perhaps there is no thread to follow.
It is a necessary dissection, so that others can see how the tiniest inconsistences can destroy entire threads. Aspiring actors and writers can learn a lot from these types of videos, and it sometimes helps for us audience members zero in on exactly what it was about a particular scene that didn't sit well with us. There are many great breakdowns of this show, more concise (Little Platoon being an example, Mauler & Co being others) but I believe this thorough breakdown in these videos really gets to the meat of the issue...and he is giving it to us raw ;)
Wow... I'm inpresed!
These nex level un-septions of hidden intreegs, I could never have untangled my self. Good job 👍
The script is a mess! She convinces everyone to go to the tower, only to convince them to leave the tower - WHAT WAS THE POINT OF WASTING SCREENTIME HAVING THEM GO THERE. The evil elf guy even said he was gonna attack that tower so why did they even go in the first place?!?!
hey I just checked your Band's song and it is amazing! And I like your videos, keep it up man!
I really hope they didn’t write that cringe-inducing “tempest” outburst in an attempt to repeat an iconic Cait Blanchett line from “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”
Galadriel is Sauron in disguise.
Yr right but orcs in that period are prolly still extremely sensitive to
Light - bc ‘urichi’ haven’t been made yet I’m pretty sure
I didn't realize Elendil was also related to Fingolfin, that is a looooong legacy.
The showrunners _are_ evil, but view themselves as the honourable and just protagonists of their lives, and write what they know. Therefore every character they spawn has this error: they are supposed to be good and everyone views them as such, but every one of their actions betrays how wicked and corrupt they are to their core.
She's a Brick and I'm drowning slowly. 😂😂😂
"Brick". Oh fuck that's good stuff.
Phenomenal series
another great video. that jumping peter parker was such a perfect clip for the moment u slipped it in...
Mary sue powers activate! Form of a dumpster fire! 😂
Give me the meat, and give it to me raw.
Lmao
Omg, that podcast bit in the beginning pissed me off so much! The arrogance, the condescension, it's too much.
Morfydd Clark has given us the worst performance in my lifetime at least. I would be surprised if the walking shart got another acting gig after this disaster.
It’s not Clark, it’s the writers. She is playing the disgusting joke that is ROP Galadriel as well as it could be played.
@@MD-md4th Not to mention she is probably following the director's inclination on how the character should be played. But Freshdougan probably isn't wrong about Clark being lucky to get a major acting gig again because of this fubar.
enjoyed you going at Rings of power good luck with the band
Our society considers evil to be good, and good to be evil... Upside down...
Hmm reminds me of a good book I was taught at church. . Funny how things in that book come to pass . What next .. maybe IL read the end of it again . As I get older seems less like fiction and more like a spoiler alert
For a while I thought you said "blind legless" and since I didn't want to watch the show I kept wondering what on earth happens to him for you to call him that, until I realised it was blind Legolas XD Anyway thanks for watching the show for us and going over it!!
Its a sad reality that We called this in Exsurge Tolkien, since 25 March, now its a full apostasy of power, The evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
The elves come across as leprechauns. I can't help but remember the overwhelming praise Peter Jackson's LOTR garnered because it so faithfully depicted the books. In particular, there was a lot said at the time about his casting-director's ability to find so many extras who looked like Tolkien's elves. I don't begrudged the attempt to bring some diversity to the tales of The Second Age, just the inadequate attempt. The Stranger should have been one of The Blue Wizards, he could have easily been a POC, both of them, and then made central to the plot as they gathered information across the land, interacting with all the different peoples. Instead of the elf being non-canonically black, the village healer could have been black. It's also insulting to have a High King of the elves who's not able to articulate his own speeches, but needs to have Galadriel's sidekick, Elrond, write words for him. And I have to mention the spindly armed high elven smith, who looks like he couldn't lift a five-pound hammer
Galadriel shows that the writers were unable to create a woman character of great intelligence, insight, discipline, and power. So they settled on a subpar action figure. And how she'll transform from that into the central figure of The White Council we know in The Third Age, is obviously beyond their creative abilities.
Unlike most of those who criticized the first-season, I actually enjoyed the majority of the Harfoots' subplot. But when the series culminates in the triad of the strong woman leaders, with every male character reduced to subordinates, villains, cowards, and incompetents, I had to finally admit that this particular collection of "studio creatives" simply weren't able to save the disaster they created out of Tolkien's legacy. Hopefully it will be like Game of Thrones, but in reverse.
I cannot get over the arrogance of the showrunners. It’s absolutely baffling how they legitimately think they supersede Tolkien’s writing.
Did both of Elendil's wives drowned? I would start asking questions, but the sea is always right.
Any info on when to expect part three, please? Enjoyed the first two! :)
So part 3 is currently in the works, but it's going to take some time since I'm planning on having it be the final installment for my review.
But I do have other videos that are going to come out soon in the meantime!
@@MediaMana Sweet! Looking forward!
aRe yOu EvEr gOinG tO rElEaSE a PaRt 2 fOr aNyThInG?
We've had first part 2 yes, but what about 2nd part 2?
We all know it's no longer possible to be "canonical" they already shit that bed on that one but if they make it into a parody there may be some redeeming value here. What's nice is if they don't even have to change their writing style at all. They can pull an all-nighter in the same boiler room they wrote season 1 and pump out all of their shitty ideas that they think are clever and nuanced for season 2. Yes, it will be embarrasing for Amazon to be responsible for making a billion dollar parody but it can't be any more embarrasing then the slop they put to film in S1.
Dear Amazon - We promise to pretend you were trying to make the LOTR version of Spaceballs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This show is General Hospital tier writing posing as high art.
"The She is always right." This is all you need to remember when trying to analyze the Brick who another reviewer has aptly named Mighty Morfydd Power Elf.
Keep up the good work dude, we wanna see more vids of you ripping rings of power.
Completely agree.
“A tall mysterious, beautiful demi god named Annatar shows up and says ‘let me help you with all your problems by making some rings’ like who’s going to fall for that?” So I guess they’re just blatantly stating they think they’re better than Tolkien now? Because that was his narrative, and unlike rings of power, it actually made sense.
Forget about canon arguments... It's like the writers of this show's episodes didn't even bother reading the script of the episode before it.
- yeah that guild crest thing was ridiculous. Its an isolated island community, you think u can just take a known families crest and what show up at blacksmith school and no one would ask questions....Though it also made no sense that after Guyladriel refused to join him that he just leaves without bashing her smug face in.
Saying that you "legitimately" didn't expect anyone to watch these videos makes you look like the showrunners that have been pawning their fanfiction as canon! You did expect people to watch these videos because you are NOT the only Tolkien-fan ranting or raving at the ignorance of the idiots that lied about using the source material to craft the "patently evil" media known as the "Rings of Power." Other than that bogus line, this review is still brilliant and deserves praise! Looking forward to part three.
My guy, Im saying I wasn’t expecting the amount of people that have watched these videos to have watched them because I’m still an insanely small channel. No one has a full grasp as to what the algo will and will not recommend.
Yes, I expected some people to watch it. Just not nearly to this extent. But either way I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Any scene of Galadriel from this show is so toe curlingly awful that I have nail marks under my feet
Don’t forget “Fascist adjacent”! Anything but self reflection and taking responsibility for a massive failure.
that opening line from durin now has a permanent spot in my vocab because it's so incredibly stupid that the writers thought this was a good analogy for anything in a serious conversation. only place you'd hear that line is in a show with a different rating lmao
Would it be wrong if someone destroyed every trace of this show? Like every single inch of footage that could be used to copy or preserve what was filmed. Unironically, what would be lost? I wish some magical hacker man would make the effort to just yeet all of it into the recycle bin then empty it.
That amazon podcast clip gave me a headache
Ya know I'm just staring at that river and thinking how about you just yeet that sword into the river. If you can't be bothered to escape because REASONS (I'm ignoring the fact that zero reasons exist) than at least hide the thing in a place no-one can reach as you really don't want them to get. They'll find it on you when they eventually arrive and victory is heavily in their favour as they can easily starve you out seeing as how the food shortage isn't even close to being fixed. Hell if elf man doesn't want to go you can literally send a few villagers to do it. 5 or so villagers are not going to make a difference in a battle especially after half your troops abandoned you.
Like there are several reasons why Helms Deep works both narratively and in world logic wise. One of those is that they're abandoning a wooden fortress for a stone one. It also works because they know they can't outrun an enemy army with women, children, old people etc especially when they have cavalry units like the wargs and Orcs aren't vampires in the trilogy so it's not they can sleep during the day when the enemy can't move. Helms deep was a rational decision that might have won them the day by itself if the walls weren't exploded. It also bought them a hell of a lot of time. (Spoilers) The fact they end up abandoned this stone tower with a chokepoint and go to a village REALLY REALLY pissed me off. It's such bad rational and logic that I want to slowly force the writers of ROP to read Isekai's as even the most average of them have more world building, character development, plot etc in a few chapters than they did in 8 hours of content. God dam Overlord, Re:Zero, Mushuko Tensei put this several hundred million project to shame.
Dung rolled in sugar is still dung.
Now we're going to do it again. Sauron come back with more rings, but now he is black. No,. Not joking.
Give me the meat and give it to me raw (and wiggling) sounds like a gay love story.
There is only one conceivable explanation for why the supposedly "good" characters in RoP are such a bunch of vicious, callous, self-serving, duplicitous dirtbags. The writers MUST be sociopaths. They literally have no idea that these traits are commonly considered "bad." As near as I can tell,, for these writers "good" characters are simply the attractive ones and "evil" characters are unattractive. They could not have found worse people to give Tolkien's world to.
@0:03: ...and keep your nasty chips.
I went through what little of this series that I could stand, hoping that Galadriel (a truly horribly casted, acted and written character in this show's version) would be killed early, while lamenting that I knew she couldn't be. I couldn't stand more than 2 episodes because of that. Worst character in anything, ever? Gets my vote. Even now when I see a still of her or even just the actress, I get annoyed as hell for at least an hour and have to go cool off.
Further on your last point...the Elves have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of year by the point...none of this stuff, places, items, etc...should be lost or forgotten to them. Some of them must literally have been there when those places were built.
I've come to the inevitable conclusion that these irrational decisions, characters and senseless plots exist simply because the woke literally try to reason without logic, intellect or basic morality - an obvious display of their own ineptitude at assessing the most fundamental rules of personality and practicality.
A lot of people these days really do not understand what a good 'independent and strong' character should be. So much film and TV is clearly just pushing the message "Women can do anything, as they're fantastic.". As if some vague and ultimately meaningless feel-good platitude is of any actual value in the real world.
Then they make programmes like Vikings to try and rewrite history to push the same message. As if somehow pretending that historical sexism against women wasn't universal somehow helps any kind of cause for equality. Lord of the Rings may be fantasy, but it's still based in traditional European culture (bad and good).
Most people spectacularly fail to understand what fantasy is. They think it's all magic and elves so you can do anything you want, which is absolutely not the case. It is nearly always - and certainly with Tolkien's work - set in a realistic myhtologised version of reality, sometimes with sprinkings of supernatural elements.
I continue my quest to collect the best of the "I Loved The Part Where..." Memes.
If you have any additions, know that your contribution may be added to the unfolding saga.
I loved the part where Galadriel Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Targaryen (GEDDRWT) faced off against the german-orcs, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Incelron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing T-shirt that read, "Ask Me About My Translucent Agenda." Then all the N*zis got blown up when the Gay Engola dropped two nukes: Body-Positive Man and Little Transboy.
All Game of Thrones scholars agree that the scene where Rhaenyra whispers in Celeborn's ear “I hate pee on the toilet seat when I go to use it.” and then disconnects the machine that keeps him alive, perfectly delivered George JRR Martin's message of hope and healing for all wahmankind. Then Galadriel jumped into the ocean with Dory and started singing, "Just keep swimming."
I have to admit, I did not like the part where the authot race swapped the ents. Ents are clearly White Birch, but those ents were OAK. Remember, Arboreal Pollen is Tree ejaculation, so the Ent orgy counts as interracial and should have the appropriate tags. Although they redeemed themselves when Scott Bakula quantum leaped into T(reebeard)'Challa. I was taken off guard when GEDDRWT and Rey Palpatine arrived in Wakanda to fookin scissor, and a white man said "we don't do that in here" and Rey replied, "are you Shuri about that?"
My favorate part would have to be when Gandalf said, "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Morgoth? I thought not. It's not a story the Valar would tell you. It's a Maiar legend. Melkor was a Dark Lord, so powerful and so wise he could use the Silmarils to influence the Great Music to create life... He had such a knowledge of the unseen world that he could even keep the ones he cared about from losing their Facebook accounts if they posted the N-word. The dark side of the unseen world is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice became the Dark Lord Incelron. Ironic, he could save others from living in their parent's basement, but not himself."
I loved the ending where Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." And then Halbrand said, "YEW TUKE ARR JERBS!" and Kicked a Harfoot into a well while shouting, "THIS. IS. NUMENOR." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat."
As Ursula died she croaked, "The Sea... Is always... Right..."
Then perked up, "And the sea shops exclusively at Amazon. Use The 'IAmAllTheJedi' code to get a ten percent discount on all your Amazon purchased items for one order." THEN she finally died.
I laughed, I cried, I kissed 18 bucks goodbye.
10/10 Would edge to it again.
Much Stunning. Much Bravery.
the only thing that would make sense to me is that Galadriel turned out to be Sauron.
The did dig the trench for the water to reach the inactive mount doom ....
How come the sea is always right when Guyladriel is always right.
Great stuff.
The trench is to transport water to mount doom. Not to shield them from the sun even tough it help anyway to get some shadow when watching over elves slaves
I’m aware that’s the case. I’m saying it doesn’t make any sense for Adar and the Orcs to spend all this time digging this massive trench to turn the southlands into mordor, when orcs apparently aren’t weakened by daylight and can travel around in it unhindered.
This show makes me hate my fucking life. I ACTUALLY want to die when I see that someone Despises Tolkien so much they refuse to pay him any real homage. This show is so massively insulting. I fucking despise it. I actually wanted Sauron to win when I watched it I want him him to win and completely destroy the world.
I would love to see your commentary on Star Wars latest live action piece Andor. It's quite a divide when you look at some people saying that it's a boring slog Fest and some people thinking that it's the best thing to come out of Disney sequel trilogy.
I’ve had a couple of people recommend it to me. I might give it a watch, but the problem is Kenobi did a phenomenal job of nuking what little interest I had left in the SW universe into oblivion lmao