it is also very deceiving... like when you have a restaurant menue with "Beef Mignon" and when you order it, you get a basic burger... well you can certainly like both, but if i had ordered the former and got the latter i would have called for the chef to show him his errors, you can bet.
Prime Elrond jumps off a waterfall, no problems. Prime Nori and Poppy lifted into the air by a tornado and dropped, no problems. Prime Galadriel's hairstyle takes a volcano to the face and doesn't even get singed. Prime Celebrimbor pitches Mirdania or whatever her name is off the wall... ... JUSTICE FOR MIRDANIA!(*) (*) Nah, she got her justice, being off this crapshow, unless they jam one of those Topps Ring Pops into her skull to wake her up.
Ain't no way that they made Elrond kiss Galadriel that's actually so disgusting....what next? Arwen being the bastard daughter of both of them? One of the producers must have a hate boner for Celeborn...
@@yohan9101 Normally, I’d dismiss it as the old “kiss to draw attention away from handing something off”, BUT they had him caress her cheek first and it was blatantly obvious he was handing her something. Even if it was that over-used trope, that’s disgusting. 🤢 There are some characters you can do that with and you can pull it off, but Galadriel and Elrond are not two of those characters. Now the people who aren’t disgusted are going to be shipping them, and how do you explain that away in future episodes?
OMG! I died laughing at that! Like....siege engine, yes, I can hear people in battle saying that, but a TREBUCHET! They really just need to cancel this show already and take the L.
@@Galamoth06 reincarnation happens after you die . You die and then you are reborn in a new body . In the books there is never 2 durins alive at the same time . What happened here is someone who never read or payed attention to what happened in the books modeled it after how most kings are Charles 3rd names his son Charles which becomes Charles 4th .
@@sagethegreat4680 I get it, that's why I said "not before he dies." I thought you were making fun of the idea of Durin reincarnating in general and didn't know it was in the lore, sorta misread your comment. My bad.
welp 955 days ago... I start looking for Celeborn, now I still don't have a single clue of where is the elf... but i get that his son in Law Elrond kisses her wife... even worst the same elf its gonna wed his Daugther latter?! duuuuuuuuude!
here after spending hours and hours on social media arguing with people who were exalted by the "perfection" of this episode 🙃 i am finally at peace, thank you!! hahah
I seriously don't even know how to respond...Like, I cannot fathom how much worse it just keeps getting. All I can say is I am so glad I stopped watching in season 1 and that if I had watched this episode I absolutely would have smashed my screen. You deserve a medal for continuing to subject yourself to this torture and for upholding the truth of Tolkien!
I call it a money laundering scheme. Please - hear me out. Writing is incredibly imbecilic. I genuinely mean mid-double digits IQ - level at best. Solid mid 70-s. IRRESPECTIVE OF KNOWING ANY SOURCE MATERIAL. Just based on the quality of dialogue and story consistency. CGI and VFX for the most part look WAY WORSE than Jackson’s stuff from 20 years ago. Actors and acting is wooden. And again - forget staying true to the lore. Even if we take these weird characters bearing some familiar names for an unknown reason, at face value - the actors for the most part suck. Say whatever you want about Dumb and Dumber ruining GOT from season 6 onwards - the acting was SUPERB. Here it’s just the opposite. Costumes, music, design of creatures and places? Dog faecal matter, and a rather irregular one. Just try to compare it to the magic that Howard Shore and Weta created for both LotR and the Hobbit: there is nothing to compare. Moon armour, 1980s perm wigs and weapons& armour that look WAY WORSE then some larping on a dollar store budget. SUMMARY: All this garbage has in common with Prof Tolkien’s lore is a few vague names, references and some stolen and distorted concepts at best. Did that pile of poop cost a BILLION dollars?! C’mon now! 90% of it was embezzled, mark my words!
This is a combination of the celebrian badfic, the synod on synodality/amazon synod, monster girl encyclopedia, the Great Wall movie, and game of thrones seasons 6-8 while waiting for winds of winter, and this is NUTS! They're so dead on this!
7:54 they didn’t have any source of inspiration for the 7th ep so they’ve check their actual source this time, a corn site. Showrunners: “hey, let’s look up mother-in-law”. Ugh🤦🏽♂️were they smoking something more potent than old toby?
@@europeanlore Keep up the good fight! Hilariously, the *only* review of this episode that IMDb has allowed through (posted about 10+ hours ago and none since) is "Most Epic Spectacular Episode of the Series. Flawless. Start to finish. 10/10. Extremely well paced, great action and intriguing finale." Judging by the numbers vs. earlier, they've even *removed* individual downvotes on that "review" -- confirmed, as the system just now allowed me to downvote it a second time which should not be possible.
After reading the title of your video, to my mind came the words of Cardenal Aleander from the movie Luther: "Heresy is never a small matter, my lord."
I thought the kiss was so Elrond could slip a pin or lockpick into Galadriel's mouth. It would still be bad but at least you could say they were still platonic.
I had to stop drinking my coffee while I watched your review. After laughing and shooting coffee out of my nose twice, I decided that discretion was the better choice. Excellent review.
Oh wow, I don't know wether to laugh or cry.. this is not even LotR fan fiction since no one involved in making rings of prime are fans. They just want to destroy the source material - if anything this is foe fiction! Thanks for a great video, you suffer so that we don't have to watch the show. We appreciate your sacrifice 😂
what i always hear from the defenders of this "show i guess?" is: But you all put PJ and his trilogy on a pedestal and never called out any divergence of the source material. and i always reply: So very wrong. we called out in many voices, but since Social Media was not a thing back in 2000, it was only heard in the fandom itself and not by some hipster "today i am a fan of this show, tomorrow i will like another one" fans, who haven't read a single word written by Tolkien.
Well, I've been waiting eagerly for Simon Tolkien's wish to come true, that Sauron becomes Walter White. So far, the liars haven't even kept this promise.
When watching this episode (don't worry, not in a way that gives Amazon money or shows up in their statistics) I was caught completely off guard by that moment. It was so stupid and so insulting to Tolkien that my brain simply never imagined it as a possible thing that could happen.
Thank you E.L. 🤘 I’m over the shill channels. Amazon’s RoP isn’t an actual adaptation of Tolkien’s work. They had enough money to buy the rights to the names and places found in LotR & the Appendices from a jealous, bitter, failed writer of a man who also just happened to be the head of the Tolkien Estate (since Christopher’s death). I don’t think Amazon ever planned on making an actual, lore accurate story…they just wanted the rights so they could capitalize on a recognizable IP. Simon should be ashamed of himself.
Sorry, you're kind of late with the heresy comment. The heresy happened when Gandalf refused to let Nori give him a name and a professional linguist's character then proceeded to deny the process by which languages are formulated. The nameless things in the deep places of the world aren't nameless because no sentient speaker has discovered them yet. Oh, no, they just haven't realized and revealed their names and identities to anyone. *Everyone* knows they are there, they just haven't revealed their identities to us yet, so we respectfully leave them nameless. 🙄
They want to make it into Game of Thrones so we need Elf Incest, apparently. I love them denying there's anything romantic between her and Sauron/Elrond too. If its not romantic, where is Celeborn?
If I have learned anything from this type of show it's this. Trebuchets are basically artillery. They hurl explosive rocks whatever distance is needed (up to a couple miles).
I Love your Scottish accent, and yes both sides have gone into the crazies. The Raaangs of Poorer, is pure fan fiction. Wishing you a great weekend there, European Lore and all!
Even Exterminatus won't be enough to clean Amazon's foul stenche from the Professor's work. At this point, I'm rooting for The Dark Lord. Wig King of Mordor Sauron is trying to spare us from this travesty.
Hm, how did Adar know about the rings? Another Guyladriel stupidity? She told him? Elrond kisses Guyladriel who is married to Celeborn, and Elrond is married to Celebrian who is Guyladriels daughter. This sounds like plot they got from the hub.
I actually started re-watching The Hobbit the other day. While the two movies I have watched so far have their flaws, (especially the second movie ) I have enjoyed those movies better than I think I would enjoy ROP. Every recap of this stinking show I watch makes me mad as to what they are doing to Professor Tolkien and his work.
Actually yes, the battle of the 5 armies HAD armies and not just 20 extras running around. 1 Billion Dollars but not enogh money for like 100 dudes or a comupter simulation like in the movies 20(!!) years ago
@@travismoore7938 I really agree ,those movies with all their flaws feel really more Tolkien. And even if you don't consider the lore and Tolkien , this series fails even in it's own narrative and bulit up scenario 💀
@@Faktor13 it's' hilarious how they've spent so much money on this😂 and they did a false large marketing on how big this battle was gonna be for two years 💀
I had heard that Adar could maybe be Celeborn after centuries of being a prisoner and tortured, and that fake Galadriel would magically heal him with her ring. I would have preferred that
@@enoradesmots3544 It might still happen. There's one episode left. Most likely Adar just dies next episode, but they're REALLY playing him up for some reason. Perhaps he tries to use the ring against Sauron, but it ends up "healing" himself instead and he regains his memory as Celeborn? Otherwise, it'll probably just turn out that he dies, but it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Btw, got beers. We have to check out the fall of Cadia. That is the most epic stuff of modern 40k. Also an interesting thought about the Heresy. These primarchs were only legends in 40k lore, so for those who started reading it. It was amazing to meet Fulgrim, Horus, etc.
Oh yeah. I just discovered there are actual novels dedicated to origins of individual Primarchs… Imma get it, Imma read it, like….. ASAP. The Lion and Russ!!! Yo!
@@europeanlore That is apperently super epic as well. I guess that is what I like about 40k.- Everything is super epic. The fall of cadia. I am spoiled and might have been my first introduction to this lore, which made me want to read the novels. More about the Imperial guard, the everyman. Standing firm. "cadia might fall. We will not" Famous last words :)
@@europeanlore Going to tell you something that sounds a bit crazy. I studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Great place btw.- But, woke up one day with my roomate pointing a magnum in my face to my temple. And held me hostage at gunpoint for hours. I was not a space marine then. I just resigned to death, and thought, "Sorry mum, seems like I am dying now." It was a strange experience and I was not a hero. Just resigbned.
Thank you for keeping your reviews short, sweet, and to the point! I used to watch longer breakdowns too, but I honestly just can't stomach it anymore 🤮 European Lore is all I need!
At this point, they really just need to cancel this show. It is fodder each week for the nonsense writing, blasphemy against Tolkien in Tolkien's name, and just all around being an awful show. They had the idea, and had a chance to make it a great show, but blew it so bad. Just cancel it and let us all move on in peace.
A love triangle 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️: Clark, Vickers and Aramayo (I refuse to write the names of Tolkien's characters). Now, Clark's character has to choose: the cute light of Aramayo or the seductive darkness of Vickers 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. In the end, she will refuse both 😂😂 because she needs no man.
The part that made me angry was when Annatar complained to Celebrimbor about how badly Morgoth had treated him. Even Sauron gets to claim victimhood in this mangled jumble of scenes that masquerades as a TV show
Yes, it has nothing in common with Tolkien except for the names that they stole. I do not like when chanells pick on little details or lore that are wrong because the Rings of Power is show on it own. It does not have a lore that it needs to follow except for its own. And about Elrond and Galadriel kissing? That is a bad shipping written by 13 years old gilr in a funfiction.
I think its fine to criticize it for its lore breaking, but we need to also criticize it on its OWN merits to prove to normies why its bad without saying "the lore is bad". The constant criticism against people complaining about this show is "oh its just an adaptation, it doesn't need to follow the lore exactly!" That's why unless something is stated in the show, we don't assume its true. If, however, the show makes us assume something from the lore is true, we must take that as a negative and rightfully criticize it. Because it doesn't follow the lore as is, the show CANNOT expect us to assume anything is the same as the lore. For example, one of the big arguments in this episode: Elrond kissing Galadriel. In the lore of this show, as far as Galadriel is concerned Elrond is single, Galadriel's husband is dead and isn't coming back (if he does come back later its irrelevant because Galadriel thinks he's gone at this time), and Galadriel has no children that we are aware of. (Even if she doesn't it doesn't really matter that much, they're still elves). I don't think arguing about Elrond kissing Galadriel is good criticism because the show's lore has established no reason as to why that would be a problem. Even if he marries her daughter later, its irrelevant unless he first married Galadriel, said daughter became his stepdaughter, then he divorced her and married his stepdaughter (this is ironically exactly what happened with my grandfather, by the way, so whether its squick or not, it has happened in real life). We can, however, criticize the awful shipping throughout this show. In-universe right now, Galadriel being with Elrond does make the most logical sense (this show has established them as good long-term friends), but her shipping with Sauron in Season 1 was LUDICROUS. And the fact that it prioritizes pointless shipping so much is just over the top stupid and childish.
Notice how they had the Asian elf pierced by way more arrows than Boromir! They wanted a woman to do it better. They expect emotional pay offs with no character development. Well, she was a check box . The machine blows up like nitro! The only thing that pot could've had in it was grease or oil for the axles. This show has the weakest, smallest, unprepared armies ever! They just wait for a woman help them.
I’m not even watching RoP and I felt the kiss between Elrond and Guyladriel in order for him to pass the brooch is just damn lazy. There are other ways to do a handoff without resorting to that. I saw some clips of the siege of Eregion and it’s an eyesore since the writers never made an effort to look into how sieges are conducted. The Peter Jackson films showed two ways of conducting sieges, the siege of Hornburg (aka Battle of Helm’s Deep) has massed uruk infantry with ladders to climb the walls and overwhelm the defenders. The siege of Minas Tirith saw the use of trebuchets, siege towers and battering rams and one thing I can never forget is when the orcs loaded the heads of the dead Gondorian soldiers on the trebuchets and fired them to the defenders as a psychological scare tactic. The siege of Eregion is just a messy glob without a clear idea.
I only watched season 1 and it was painfull enough. All I know about S2 is from your and other honest content creators. And damn... Elrond and Galadriel kissing when she's supposed to be happily married to Celeborn and her daughter would come to marry Elrond. WTF was that kiss and WTF is this entire show ? This is beyond delusion, it's mutilation and destruction of the lore. Unbelievable.
You can start a second channel with just impersonations, the one of the drinker was hilarious. Jokes aside I agree with you, this is a deliberate mockery and desecration of Tolkien’s works. Pain and McOkay have no respect and are acting under the influence of Bezos, the dark lord, to turn RoP into the worst book adaptation ever.
Happy to see you are getting in deep with the 40k spirit. Heresy indeed.(though 9/10 gw uses the term wrong and should be saying apostasy but it doesn’t sound as cool)
For that, dam the river moment, by throwing some small rocks at the Misty Mountains. It was directed by a women. They generally do not get geology or physics. I actually considered going to the shops to get vodka after watching it. Anyhow, I think I agree with this entire video. My first comment was made before watching it. Heresy: I thought it was quite fun though. hehe. I have left the path of reason.
It's about as "Tolkien" as the local community theater troupe choosing to do the Galadriel and Sauron Follies for the end of term project. Some names, pompous dialogue, costumes, rings, bad orchestra played by 12-year olds, cardboard CGI. The people who made this show do not care. They are not deterred nor disturbed by criticism. This is their thing, and in their spite and supercilious regard they think a) it's ours b) who cares c) nerds are funny d) I'm getting paid. There is a special place in pop culture hell for them, and for the writers of The Acolyte. Same pool of slime.
Having the original books, PJ putting forth a damn good effort at a translation to the silver screen, and they still miss the mark so unbelievably far? I cannot compute. I want everyone to recognize this... Leonard Nemoy did more honor to Tolkiens work with a goofy song.
This show is just a bunch of ideas and shots stolen from other films. Like the mouse thing is just stolen from The Matrix for that Deja Vu concept. But they just changed it from a cat to a mouse to claim that they are creative.
Smoochie smoochie 😘 WTF are we watching???? I wonder how they are going to crucify Celebrimbor. That was pretty brutal in the lore. Im sure they will probably send him on a cruise or something.
I don't understand why all the hate. I'm really enjoying this Game of the Rings show. That kung fu she elf totally powered up after getting arrowed a bunch of time. Way better than that Sean Bean character. Then you have Elrond taking his shipping to the next level with his mother in law, that's some pretty hot stuff. I had no idea Annatar, was really Sauron, I didn't put all the signs together. Great writing.
I thought the creation of a false reality was perhaps the best part. That sort of Sauron's power. Well one of them. Remember Gorlim, in the Silmarillion? Also the trope of discovering your reality is not real is a fun trope.
Oh dear God, I had a horrifying thought ... are they turning Elrond into Jacob Black?? *immediately runs and and immerses myself in my own fanfic, which is trying to keep to the lore, Fellowship is heavily highlighted. Tom is still Tom* P. S. Kinda saw that "twist" with the rings for men coming.
🙄There’s only two Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron! The only two who could possibly fill the role of a third would be either Saruman because he bred his own army while pretending to be Sauron’s ally, he was planning to betray him once he got the ring or the Witch-King who started the Angmar Wars but unlike Saruman, he’s actually loyal to Sauron and is his deadliest servant.
The Witch-King is out of the question. He was only active while Sauron was and had loyally brought the One Ring back to his master. If Saruman got hold of the Ring, he would probably have to obey him instead. He may have appeared as a Dark Lord in the Angmar days, but he could never be the real top-dog.
You don't understand that is Elrond's master plan ! He's marrying Galadriel, then he will marry his own daughter to become his own grand-father in law, which mean he will be the new High-King of the elves as he will be higher than Gil-Galad in the line of succession, which will trigger the infamous Third Kinslaying, and all of this is the master plan of Sauron ! As this will give him time to learn how to make rings and to make the one ring(s) (pronom she/her or they/them). Ho I think I mixed up the Spanish Habsbourg history books and Tolkien's in my library.
@@europeanlore I love how they said that this was more "lore accurate" in their com... I don't know which lore they think it is accurate to, but none of my books contains the slightest hint of what is happening in this show but the names of the places and a couple of characters.
![The Complete History of the Rings of Power [COMPILATION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rsCaXGvMypM/mqdefault.jpg)
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You don't understand, the mountain collapsed because it didn't look up, like a ship does.
Rofl 🤣🤣🤣
@@frankvandorp2059 You win the internet today with this comment 💀
LMAO
Good point :D
@@frankvandorp2059
THAT is the best thing I'll read the entire month 🤣
So when bezos said he wanted the next game of thrones, he was just referring to the incest
pretty much :D
Apparently.
Cierto
Should have adapted Children of Hurin then
@@PrinceofRavens64 Very few people seemed to have gotten that.
S2 E7 reinforces the old saying,
“Never say things cannot get any worse”.
Absolutely.
Things can always get worse. Especially when it comes to Rings of Power.
in Germany we have the Proverb "Schlimmer geht immer" translating into "always a way to get worse"
@@belegur8108 I love you, my dear Germans 👍🏻
@@cassia-andor6445 Apparently so. If anyone is still brave enough to watch S2 E8, be sure to have your vomit bucket at your side.
Putting the name of Lord of the Rings on this show is a betrayal to lirature 👍 You're absolutely right❤️
Cheers!
@@europeanlore 🥂🥂🥂🌹
it is also very deceiving... like when you have a restaurant menue with "Beef Mignon" and when you order it, you get a basic burger... well you can certainly like both, but if i had ordered the former and got the latter i would have called for the chef to show him his errors, you can bet.
@@belegur8108 Bravo🫡 That's a very good simile 👏
Elrond stopped a full mass heavy cavalry charge by saying "stop" 😂 a few metres away from impact
What a boss, right? 🤣
I'm afraid to say but I actually laughed when the Mirdania made up character was thrown off by Celebrimbold. It looked ridiculous.
Yeah 🤣
I was surprised, I thought she and Sauron would had a ONS before he killed her
@@Faktor13 I kinda thought she was going to survive and simply he'd take her with him. I'm surprised she died so quickly.
Prime Elrond jumps off a waterfall, no problems.
Prime Nori and Poppy lifted into the air by a tornado and dropped, no problems.
Prime Galadriel's hairstyle takes a volcano to the face and doesn't even get singed.
Prime Celebrimbor pitches Mirdania or whatever her name is off the wall...
... JUSTICE FOR MIRDANIA!(*)
(*) Nah, she got her justice, being off this crapshow, unless they jam one of those Topps Ring Pops into her skull to wake her up.
@@troffleshe also got her head cut off so that’s what did it not the fall
Ain't no way that they made Elrond kiss Galadriel that's actually so disgusting....what next? Arwen being the bastard daughter of both of them?
One of the producers must have a hate boner for Celeborn...
I think both the showrunners must be extreme creeps 🤣
Maybe Prime Elrond was getting sick of all that raw ginger meat.
@@yohan9101 Normally, I’d dismiss it as the old “kiss to draw attention away from handing something off”, BUT they had him caress her cheek first and it was blatantly obvious he was handing her something. Even if it was that over-used trope, that’s disgusting. 🤢 There are some characters you can do that with and you can pull it off, but Galadriel and Elrond are not two of those characters. Now the people who aren’t disgusted are going to be shipping them, and how do you explain that away in future episodes?
@@yohan9101 who's next? Gandalf?
Arwens mother is now also her sister.
Who taught the orcs French? Trebuchet???
OMG! I died laughing at that! Like....siege engine, yes, I can hear people in battle saying that, but a TREBUCHET! They really just need to cancel this show already and take the L.
Durin is so great he can reincarnate himself into another body before he dies 😂
Lolll 🤣
it is unconfirmed but i assume if one of Durin IV's kids is male, he probably is named Durin V, so it makes a triple strike...
Isn't that essentially what Durin's deal is in the books? He keeps reincarnating. Though probably not right before he dies...
@@Galamoth06 reincarnation happens after you die . You die and then you are reborn in a new body . In the books there is never 2 durins alive at the same time . What happened here is someone who never read or payed attention to what happened in the books modeled it after how most kings are Charles 3rd names his son Charles which becomes Charles 4th .
@@sagethegreat4680 I get it, that's why I said "not before he dies." I thought you were making fun of the idea of Durin reincarnating in general and didn't know it was in the lore, sorta misread your comment. My bad.
Hey, I liked that Troll. He had more personality than a hundred Arondirs.
🤣
So when will they tell us why Guyladriel likes horses so much
🤔🤔🤔 That picture…. I will not get it out of my head now.
🧝♀️ ❤️ 🐎
The Scottish accent 😂😂😂
🤣👍🏻
welp 955 days ago... I start looking for Celeborn, now I still don't have a single clue of where is the elf... but i get that his son in Law Elrond kisses her wife... even worst the same elf its gonna wed his Daugther latter?! duuuuuuuuude!
:D
aaaaaand said mother in law is also his own great grandaunty... yikes
here after spending hours and hours on social media arguing with people who were exalted by the "perfection" of this episode 🙃 i am finally at peace, thank you!! hahah
My pleasure!!!
I seriously don't even know how to respond...Like, I cannot fathom how much worse it just keeps getting. All I can say is I am so glad I stopped watching in season 1 and that if I had watched this episode I absolutely would have smashed my screen. You deserve a medal for continuing to subject yourself to this torture and for upholding the truth of Tolkien!
I call it a money laundering scheme. Please - hear me out.
Writing is incredibly imbecilic. I genuinely mean mid-double digits IQ - level at best. Solid mid 70-s. IRRESPECTIVE OF KNOWING ANY SOURCE MATERIAL. Just based on the quality of dialogue and story consistency.
CGI and VFX for the most part look WAY WORSE than Jackson’s stuff from 20 years ago.
Actors and acting is wooden. And again - forget staying true to the lore. Even if we take these weird characters bearing some familiar names for an unknown reason, at face value - the actors for the most part suck. Say whatever you want about Dumb and Dumber ruining GOT from season 6 onwards - the acting was SUPERB. Here it’s just the opposite.
Costumes, music, design of creatures and places? Dog faecal matter, and a rather irregular one. Just try to compare it to the magic that Howard Shore and Weta created for both LotR and the Hobbit: there is nothing to compare. Moon armour, 1980s perm wigs and weapons& armour that look WAY WORSE then some larping on a dollar store budget.
SUMMARY: All this garbage has in common with Prof Tolkien’s lore is a few vague names, references and some stolen and distorted concepts at best.
Did that pile of poop cost a BILLION dollars?! C’mon now! 90% of it was embezzled, mark my words!
Probably. 😃
This is a combination of the celebrian badfic, the synod on synodality/amazon synod, monster girl encyclopedia, the Great Wall movie, and game of thrones seasons 6-8 while waiting for winds of winter, and this is NUTS!
They're so dead on this!
they really want to be "Game of Thrones" ;-)
yeah
but only achieved S8 E3+ 🥺
Smart man, the last thing you want to have to do is dust your figurine collection every 2 weeks. Cheers!
I wouldn’t keep my figs outside glass, man 🤣 The dust… oh the dust.
Spaceballs! 😂 Yup that helmet stood out like crazy
Right?!!! :D
Plot twist:
In the mental asylum, in the t.v. room they show The Rings of Power every day on loop.
THE definition of Hell.
You, my friend, deserve utmost respect. I know no sane person who's watched this shit and came out untouched.
My respect, mellon.
Must me my soul. It has long been doomed 🤣
Sorry you're getting insane so we/I don't have to. It's a great sacrifice you're making, and you're having my honor for it. 🙇 Namárië
Cheers!
Heresy? Bring me the flamer battle brother. The heavy flamer!
Haeresy 😂 that happened back when Simon got control . Way before now .
At least someone died of cringe after the kiss between Ren and Kylo. This kiss scene here didn't give one such mercy...
🤣
Now that Galadriel has the nine rings and she doesn't destroy them, it's probably her fault that the Nazgul exist. What a sick piece of logic crap
Lol
Heroes are evil in Amazon-world.
Have I mentioned that "Fuckerina" is my new favorite name?
You're welcome!
Mirdania for romance language speakers sounds like "shittania"
Agree with your points about the episode , it was beyond daft
And the troll shrunk in size btw
7:54 they didn’t have any source of inspiration for the 7th ep so they’ve check their actual source this time, a corn site. Showrunners: “hey, let’s look up mother-in-law”. Ugh🤦🏽♂️were they smoking something more potent than old toby?
It just keeps getting worse and worse, that's fur sure. It is way beyond even being a joke now.
Indeed
Unfortunatly normies think ROP is Tolkien and cannon
I will save them!
Not many of them thankfully as seen in viewer numbers. Show is so bad that people just don't care.
@@europeanlore Keep up the good fight!
Hilariously, the *only* review of this episode that IMDb has allowed through (posted about 10+ hours ago and none since) is "Most Epic Spectacular Episode of the Series. Flawless. Start to finish. 10/10. Extremely well paced, great action and intriguing finale."
Judging by the numbers vs. earlier, they've even *removed* individual downvotes on that "review" -- confirmed, as the system just now allowed me to downvote it a second time which should not be possible.
They'll be on to the next 'thing' soon anyway so who cares?
After reading the title of your video, to my mind came the words of Cardenal Aleander from the movie Luther:
"Heresy is never a small matter, my lord."
Aye!
I thought the kiss was so Elrond could slip a pin or lockpick into Galadriel's mouth. It would still be bad but at least you could say they were still platonic.
It was bleurrrgh 🤢🤢🤢🤮
he had the pin in his hand and handed it over
@@Chociewitka and no kiss was needed at all
Elrond passing the pin to Galadriel with his mouth would have been a clever touch. 😅
Wow, and I thought things couldn't get worse than earlier in the season.
I had to stop drinking my coffee while I watched your review. After laughing and shooting coffee out of my nose twice, I decided that discretion was the better choice.
Excellent review.
Thanks!!!
Oh wow, I don't know wether to laugh or cry.. this is not even LotR fan fiction since no one involved in making rings of prime are fans. They just want to destroy the source material - if anything this is foe fiction!
Thanks for a great video, you suffer so that we don't have to watch the show. We appreciate your sacrifice 😂
Cheers!
what i always hear from the defenders of this "show i guess?" is:
But you all put PJ and his trilogy on a pedestal and never called out any divergence of the source material.
and i always reply:
So very wrong. we called out in many voices, but since Social Media was not a thing back in 2000, it was only heard in the fandom itself and not by some hipster "today i am a fan of this show, tomorrow i will like another one" fans, who haven't read a single word written by Tolkien.
Anatar’s “Matrix” glitch with the mouse just reductive and stupid writing
Yes indeed
Well, I've been waiting eagerly for Simon Tolkien's wish to come true, that Sauron becomes Walter White. So far, the liars haven't even kept this promise.
Oh yes.
@@europeanlore Oh yaas, yaas.
Simon is already Saruman.
@@BinkyTheElf1 More like the Child from Grima and Gollum.
This show is not just awful, it's a crime. Saw the kiss on Disparu's channel ... they wanted another GoT ... 18:22
When watching this episode (don't worry, not in a way that gives Amazon money or shows up in their statistics) I was caught completely off guard by that moment. It was so stupid and so insulting to Tolkien that my brain simply never imagined it as a possible thing that could happen.
100% same here
Thank you E.L. 🤘 I’m over the shill channels. Amazon’s RoP isn’t an actual adaptation of Tolkien’s work. They had enough money to buy the rights to the names and places found in LotR & the Appendices from a jealous, bitter, failed writer of a man who also just happened to be the head of the Tolkien Estate (since Christopher’s death). I don’t think Amazon ever planned on making an actual, lore accurate story…they just wanted the rights so they could capitalize on a recognizable IP.
Simon should be ashamed of himself.
@@GreatGreebo Cheers!
I like the new format … you are very entertaining. Plus spot on in your commentary.
Much appreciated!
Whoa! You got a nice action figure collection. Very cool. I like how you have them displayed.
Thanks!
Galadriel and elrond kissed .. what more to say worst then that 🤢
Galadriel & Elrond kiss is too much for me... It did a lot of damage to my sense of logic.
Oh yes.
Sorry, you're kind of late with the heresy comment. The heresy happened when Gandalf refused to let Nori give him a name and a professional linguist's character then proceeded to deny the process by which languages are formulated. The nameless things in the deep places of the world aren't nameless because no sentient speaker has discovered them yet. Oh, no, they just haven't realized and revealed their names and identities to anyone. *Everyone* knows they are there, they just haven't revealed their identities to us yet, so we respectfully leave them nameless. 🙄
They want to make it into Game of Thrones so we need Elf Incest, apparently. I love them denying there's anything romantic between her and Sauron/Elrond too. If its not romantic, where is Celeborn?
Kill Guyladrial? Adar, bud, don't threaten us with a good time. (I swear, they are going to make Adar Celeborn)
If I have learned anything from this type of show it's this. Trebuchets are basically artillery. They hurl explosive rocks whatever distance is needed (up to a couple miles).
:D
Orc Tomahawk missiles😉
Ha 🤣
Galadriel is Elrond mother in law. What the hell is Amazon doing??
Heresy
@@europeanlore
celebrian badfic-tier of heresy.
They threw rocks on the mountains.
They damned the river.
Gods below!
I Love your Scottish accent, and yes both sides have gone into the crazies. The Raaangs of Poorer, is pure fan fiction. Wishing you a great weekend there, European Lore and all!
Oh thank you!
Even Exterminatus won't be enough to clean Amazon's foul stenche from the Professor's work. At this point, I'm rooting for The Dark Lord. Wig King of Mordor Sauron is trying to spare us from this travesty.
Agreed
Adar is celeborn.
Hm, how did Adar know about the rings? Another Guyladriel stupidity? She told him? Elrond kisses Guyladriel who is married to Celeborn, and Elrond is married to Celebrian who is Guyladriels daughter. This sounds like plot they got from the hub.
As I said, a show written by chimps 🤣
"Melian of the Valar" - Rings of Power.
Go get the "Token Professor" to cope with this!
This episode really made pointless battles of the Hobbit movie a masterpiece in comparison 💀😂
Yes
I actually started re-watching The Hobbit the other day. While the two movies I have watched so far have their flaws, (especially the second movie ) I have enjoyed those movies better than I think I would enjoy ROP. Every recap of this stinking show I watch makes me mad as to what they are doing to Professor Tolkien and his work.
Actually yes, the battle of the 5 armies HAD armies and not just 20 extras running around. 1 Billion Dollars but not enogh money for like 100 dudes or a comupter simulation like in the movies 20(!!) years ago
@@travismoore7938 I really agree ,those movies with all their flaws feel really more Tolkien. And even if you don't consider the lore and Tolkien , this series fails even in it's own narrative and bulit up scenario 💀
@@Faktor13 it's' hilarious how they've spent so much money on this😂 and they did a false large marketing on how big this battle was gonna be for two years 💀
“Burn the heretic, kill the mutant, purge the unclean” 😹 reading warhammer > rings of prime but I applaud your synopsis so I don’t have to watch
He protects!
@@europeanlore let no alien suffer to live!
I had heard that Adar could maybe be Celeborn after centuries of being a prisoner and tortured, and that fake Galadriel would magically heal him with her ring. I would have preferred that
Gods...
@@europeanlore yeah, you laugh to not cry watching that dumpster fire
@@enoradesmots3544 It might still happen. There's one episode left. Most likely Adar just dies next episode, but they're REALLY playing him up for some reason. Perhaps he tries to use the ring against Sauron, but it ends up "healing" himself instead and he regains his memory as Celeborn?
Otherwise, it'll probably just turn out that he dies, but it'll be interesting to see what happens.
What do I think?
I think we've fallen into an alternate reality where Amazon's story was written by the brothers Tolkien and Richard Heads... ;p~
Btw, got beers. We have to check out the fall of Cadia. That is the most epic stuff of modern 40k.
Also an interesting thought about the Heresy. These primarchs were only legends in 40k lore, so for those who started reading it. It was amazing to meet Fulgrim, Horus, etc.
Oh yeah. I just discovered there are actual novels dedicated to origins of individual Primarchs… Imma get it, Imma read it, like….. ASAP. The Lion and Russ!!! Yo!
@@europeanlore That is apperently super epic as well. I guess that is what I like about 40k.- Everything is super epic. The fall of cadia. I am spoiled and might have been my first introduction to this lore, which made me want to read the novels. More about the Imperial guard, the everyman. Standing firm. "cadia might fall. We will not" Famous last words :)
The planet broke, before the guard did. Last stands on cadia. Make that a movie. Caville?
@@europeanlore Going to tell you something that sounds a bit crazy. I studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Great place btw.- But, woke up one day with my roomate pointing a magnum in my face to my temple. And held me hostage at gunpoint for hours. I was not a space marine then. I just resigned to death, and thought, "Sorry mum, seems like I am dying now." It was a strange experience and I was not a hero. Just resigbned.
Thank you for keeping your reviews short, sweet, and to the point! I used to watch longer breakdowns too, but I honestly just can't stomach it anymore 🤮 European Lore is all I need!
18 minutes is short? 🤣
@@europeanlore Compared to some! 😂
@@europeanlore Compared to Disparu, Little Platoon, and Random Film Talk? You're the one we watch first because they take 1.5-3 hours :D
At this point, they really just need to cancel this show. It is fodder each week for the nonsense writing, blasphemy against Tolkien in Tolkien's name, and just all around being an awful show. They had the idea, and had a chance to make it a great show, but blew it so bad. Just cancel it and let us all move on in peace.
Indeed
Wow. I have no words. Thanks for taking the torture so we don’t have to!
Cheers!
Great video 👍
Thanks!
So Elrond Mrs. Robinsoned Galadriel?
10/10 IGN best pile of crud
For real? :D LOL
A love triangle 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️: Clark, Vickers and Aramayo (I refuse to write the names of Tolkien's characters).
Now, Clark's character has to choose: the cute light of Aramayo or the seductive darkness of Vickers 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮.
In the end, she will refuse both 😂😂 because she needs no man.
Oh gods 🤢
The part that made me angry was when Annatar complained to Celebrimbor about how badly Morgoth had treated him. Even Sauron gets to claim victimhood in this mangled jumble of scenes that masquerades as a TV show
It's Soy of the Rings,
Yes, it has nothing in common with Tolkien except for the names that they stole. I do not like when chanells pick on little details or lore that are wrong because the Rings of Power is show on it own. It does not have a lore that it needs to follow except for its own. And about Elrond and Galadriel kissing? That is a bad shipping written by 13 years old gilr in a funfiction.
I think its fine to criticize it for its lore breaking, but we need to also criticize it on its OWN merits to prove to normies why its bad without saying "the lore is bad". The constant criticism against people complaining about this show is "oh its just an adaptation, it doesn't need to follow the lore exactly!"
That's why unless something is stated in the show, we don't assume its true. If, however, the show makes us assume something from the lore is true, we must take that as a negative and rightfully criticize it. Because it doesn't follow the lore as is, the show CANNOT expect us to assume anything is the same as the lore.
For example, one of the big arguments in this episode: Elrond kissing Galadriel.
In the lore of this show, as far as Galadriel is concerned Elrond is single, Galadriel's husband is dead and isn't coming back (if he does come back later its irrelevant because Galadriel thinks he's gone at this time), and Galadriel has no children that we are aware of. (Even if she doesn't it doesn't really matter that much, they're still elves).
I don't think arguing about Elrond kissing Galadriel is good criticism because the show's lore has established no reason as to why that would be a problem. Even if he marries her daughter later, its irrelevant unless he first married Galadriel, said daughter became his stepdaughter, then he divorced her and married his stepdaughter (this is ironically exactly what happened with my grandfather, by the way, so whether its squick or not, it has happened in real life).
We can, however, criticize the awful shipping throughout this show. In-universe right now, Galadriel being with Elrond does make the most logical sense (this show has established them as good long-term friends), but her shipping with Sauron in Season 1 was LUDICROUS. And the fact that it prioritizes pointless shipping so much is just over the top stupid and childish.
Notice how they had the Asian elf pierced by way more arrows than Boromir!
They wanted a woman to do it better. They expect emotional pay offs with no character development.
Well, she was a check box .
The machine blows up like nitro!
The only thing that pot could've had in it was grease or oil for the axles.
This show has the weakest, smallest, unprepared armies ever!
They just wait for a woman help them.
haha you're so cute when angry. I don't force myself to watch any episode, the plot is killing me.
🤣🤣🤣
I’m not even watching RoP and I felt the kiss between Elrond and Guyladriel in order for him to pass the brooch is just damn lazy. There are other ways to do a handoff without resorting to that.
I saw some clips of the siege of Eregion and it’s an eyesore since the writers never made an effort to look into how sieges are conducted. The Peter Jackson films showed two ways of conducting sieges, the siege of Hornburg (aka Battle of Helm’s Deep) has massed uruk infantry with ladders to climb the walls and overwhelm the defenders. The siege of Minas Tirith saw the use of trebuchets, siege towers and battering rams and one thing I can never forget is when the orcs loaded the heads of the dead Gondorian soldiers on the trebuchets and fired them to the defenders as a psychological scare tactic. The siege of Eregion is just a messy glob without a clear idea.
I only watched season 1 and it was painfull enough. All I know about S2 is from your and other honest content creators. And damn... Elrond and Galadriel kissing when she's supposed to be happily married to Celeborn and her daughter would come to marry Elrond.
WTF was that kiss and WTF is this entire show ? This is beyond delusion, it's mutilation and destruction of the lore. Unbelievable.
Have we had a cheap "you bow to no one" yet? I'm sure they'll steal that one and clumsily put it in the trash...I mean show.
It will come eventually 🤣
You can start a second channel with just impersonations, the one of the drinker was hilarious. Jokes aside I agree with you, this is a deliberate mockery and desecration of Tolkien’s works. Pain and McOkay have no respect and are acting under the influence of Bezos, the dark lord, to turn RoP into the worst book adaptation ever.
Thank you!
Happy to see you are getting in deep with the 40k spirit. Heresy indeed.(though 9/10 gw uses the term wrong and should be saying apostasy but it doesn’t sound as cool)
Oh yeah! The Emperor PROTECTS!
For that, dam the river moment, by throwing some small rocks at the Misty Mountains. It was directed by a women. They generally do not get geology or physics. I actually considered going to the shops to get vodka after watching it. Anyhow, I think I agree with this entire video. My first comment was made before watching it. Heresy: I thought it was quite fun though. hehe. I have left the path of reason.
That moment is this season's volcanic eruption moment. "That's not how geology or physics work!"
Their are older and fouler things than orcs in Hollywood.
It's about as "Tolkien" as the local community theater troupe choosing to do the Galadriel and Sauron Follies for the end of term project. Some names, pompous dialogue, costumes, rings, bad orchestra played by 12-year olds, cardboard CGI.
The people who made this show do not care. They are not deterred nor disturbed by criticism. This is their thing, and in their spite and supercilious regard they think a) it's ours b) who cares c) nerds are funny d) I'm getting paid.
There is a special place in pop culture hell for them, and for the writers of The Acolyte. Same pool of slime.
Having the original books, PJ putting forth a damn good effort at a translation to the silver screen, and they still miss the mark so unbelievably far? I cannot compute. I want everyone to recognize this... Leonard Nemoy did more honor to Tolkiens work with a goofy song.
Bilbo Bilbo Bilbo Baggins!!!
@@europeanlore That's the jam Sir! 😆
Amazons version: Jimbo Jimmy Jimhelm Buggles!!!
This show is just a bunch of ideas and shots stolen from other films.
Like the mouse thing is just stolen from The Matrix for that Deja Vu concept. But they just changed it from a cat to a mouse to claim that they are creative.
At this point I m cheering for Sauron, Adar and Balrog.
Počul si tú teóriu, že Adar je v skutočnosti Celeborn?
Celeb… jesus 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@europeanlore alebo ho budeme volať Teleporno?
Smoochie smoochie 😘 WTF are we watching????
I wonder how they are going to crucify Celebrimbor. That was pretty brutal in the lore. Im sure they will probably send him on a cruise or something.
I don't understand why all the hate. I'm really enjoying this Game of the Rings show. That kung fu she elf totally powered up after getting arrowed a bunch of time. Way better than that Sean Bean character. Then you have Elrond taking his shipping to the next level with his mother in law, that's some pretty hot stuff. I had no idea Annatar, was really Sauron, I didn't put all the signs together. Great writing.
🤣🤣🤣
4:44 Father? Oh f the patriarchy.😂
Yes, Adar means father 🤣
@@europeanlore what the ?!🤣
I thought the creation of a false reality was perhaps the best part. That sort of Sauron's power. Well one of them. Remember Gorlim, in the Silmarillion? Also the trope of discovering your reality is not real is a fun trope.
Kahina, you know it is fine to ask for professional help. I believe in you 😉
Also better than "Fulgrim" :p
Oh dear God, I had a horrifying thought ... are they turning Elrond into Jacob Black??
*immediately runs and and immerses myself in my own fanfic, which is trying to keep to the lore, Fellowship is heavily highlighted. Tom is still Tom*
P. S. Kinda saw that "twist" with the rings for men coming.
The show is just awful.
100%
🙄There’s only two Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron! The only two who could possibly fill the role of a third would be either Saruman because he bred his own army while pretending to be Sauron’s ally, he was planning to betray him once he got the ring or the Witch-King who started the Angmar Wars but unlike Saruman, he’s actually loyal to Sauron and is his deadliest servant.
The Witch-King is out of the question. He was only active while Sauron was and had loyally brought the One Ring back to his master. If Saruman got hold of the Ring, he would probably have to obey him instead. He may have appeared as a Dark Lord in the Angmar days, but he could never be the real top-dog.
You don't understand that is Elrond's master plan ! He's marrying Galadriel, then he will marry his own daughter to become his own grand-father in law, which mean he will be the new High-King of the elves as he will be higher than Gil-Galad in the line of succession, which will trigger the infamous Third Kinslaying, and all of this is the master plan of Sauron ! As this will give him time to learn how to make rings and to make the one ring(s) (pronom she/her or they/them). Ho I think I mixed up the Spanish Habsbourg history books and Tolkien's in my library.
Lol
@@europeanlore I love how they said that this was more "lore accurate" in their com... I don't know which lore they think it is accurate to, but none of my books contains the slightest hint of what is happening in this show but the names of the places and a couple of characters.
Ever since GOT, fantasy shows have gotten way into the whole incest fetish crap. 🤢🤮
Heresy? Or hearsay?
Pretty good Scottish brogue for a Czech guy (my Dad grew up in Glasgow).
Thanks!
I wonder what the name of this "Tolkien scholar" they supposedly have on their payroll? That dude needs to get chatted up.
I checked him out. He's just some TV comedian.
@@europeanloreI cancelled my Prime membership after season one. Now the real travesty is watching other people give them their money
sebastian im sorry for making you watch S2 i wouldn't recommend to continue you can stop reviewing it honestly its too much!
Nah, it’s okay. Only one episode to go 🤣
Need more chlorine for your eyes?
Bucketloads
Well said!
Thanks!