It doesn't feel like LOTR because it isn't LOTR... they changed all the lore, they changed the story, the only thing they kept were the names they ruined...
None of these films or series feel particularly like Lord of the Rings, neither are they faithful to the lore. That includes Jackson's trilogy. You aren't going to get Tolkien's decidedly rural and Edwardian sensibilities in any of these productions. That's not even a reasonable expectation. There are far more useful things to critique about the show than its strict authenticity to the source material (or lack thereof). For one, it's just not written or directed very well.
@@SkyClearsyeah, the trilogy will be remembered and loved just like the books.. this will be a footnote in history.. maybe brought as an example what not to do🤪
It is just James O’Keeff with a wig and glasses getting government agents to tell him all the illegal things that they do Oh wait, he’s done that Twice Maybe Hollywood writers don’t realize that most of us are not as stupid as they are
I'm so sure his face reveal in an elf outfit here was just for the trailer. like, revealing him to viewers, though most of the time he had a different face. i can't believe they're so stupid to disguise him with just a wig... i just can't
@@Dukhevych Which is arguably just as bad/even worse, because then there's absolutely no subtlety or mystery or figuring out his identity, it's just unbelievably ham-handed and terrible all around.
R.I.P. to the legend, Bernard Hill, who portrayed king Theoden of Rohan in the original LotR movies and sadly passed away a week ago. Ride in peace, my King.
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!
@@director5193 "Amazon announced that The Rings of Power had been watched by 25 million viewers globally in the first 24 hours that the first two episodes were available on Prime Video, the service's biggest premiere ever." except they didn't have 100 million viewers...
@@zeed33r To the naysayers here, you think these people won’t one day sign off on Tolkien’s works being dramatically rewritten for modern audiences and only that version being reprinted or sold digitally? Nothing is sacred or off limits to them. They’ll do absolutely anything to everything until society loses whatever is holding it back from going berserk.
Tolkien was a devout Catholic. If you boil down the faith to its prime themes/values 2 things are always present. 1) Service to others and 2) Redemption through sacrifice. Every major character in LoTR hits both these themes. Everything else is just pretty backgrounds and costumes. It's why modern Hollywood doesn't understand and can't reproduce.
This is true. In a more generic sense, Tolkien’s work exuded moral virtues and values and dichotomies between good and evil, and modern writers can’t replicate the greatness of these works because they (in a general sense, probably some do) have no moral virtues or values and believe in neither good nor evil and instead live in a gray sea of ambiguity where nothing has divine meaning.
Lord of the Rings is just our own lost revised history. You could literally view it through the lens of ancient astronaut theory, and then everything makes sense. Numenor is literally Atlantis. Elves and everything OTHER than humans are ALIENS. And they check out and disappear from literally EARTH for some unknown/said reason Plus, the universe of lord of the rings takes place on actual earth. That’s revealed at the end of the story, when one of Aragorn’s descendants in the 17th century finds a way to make it to the undying lands. It’s a popular story, because it’s the same one that’s been told over and over because it’s just our history given to us on the silver screen or in a book. Tolkien also claimed that he based the Lord of the rings on old, lost and forgotten manuscripts, that he found in the basement of the University that he worked at that was supposedly our own LOST HISTORY. You can say it was for marketing, but I do not believe so. The same story is told over and over again. It’s told by every ancient culture around the world, as well as every favorite fantasy or sci-fi movie you have ever watched. I hope people will wake up to this and know that the world you live in is truly stranger than fiction and utterly amazing.
@criticalcog6363 George Martin is not religious and made one of the best if not the best pieces of fantasy, earning a name as renowned as Tolkien. I guess he just doesn't exist in your eyes? Religion is important to include in writing because so many people are religious and it is so intertwined with history, but to assume someone can't write a good story because they don't follow the exact same set of morals as yours is quite ridiculous
@@nickm.4274 The issue isn't that you can't have good writing without religion. The issue is you can't adapt Tolkien's work without his moral themes and modern day Hollywood seems to hate all the morals Tolkien wanted to express.
@@nickm.4274A lot of the dialogue in the LOTR movies and parts of the Hobbit was taken word for word from Tolkien's books. Tolkien was an expert in the ancient sagas and old english and the rhythm and rhyme of those old languages. Its almost impossible for a modern writer to match that dialogue. Martin's writing is uninspiring by contrast. Martin just doesnt have the majesty of Tolkien's words. And Martin's stuff is very derivative. There is no real comparison between the two writers. One is Mozart and the other is the woman who wrote 50 shades of Grey.
The problem is that Lord of the Rings is one of, if not the greatest fictional story ever written, and the fact that Amazon is using that property to make a show that is painfully mediocre if not really bad. It’s just insulting when you look at the source material. Tolkien was an absolute genius who spent his whole life perfecting the world of LOTR to be exactly the way he wanted it to be, and Amazon just comes in and does what they want with it, rather than paying respect to the man who made it.
My favorite part was when Borat grabbed the ring and said, "you will never get this!" right before Holdor closed up the Gringott's bank doors on Eleven. This is a must watch, I need to know who Vader picks as the next sith apprentice!
The music they are using in these trailers and behind the scenes is horrendously bombastic, it's so Avengers-esque. Then he puts on the ROTK trailer and it's just the haunting singing of the Elves. Something which conveys real emotion and is appropriate for what is being shown, even when it cuts to the epic battles, the music remains subtle.
THIS! I saw an article on my phone about the trailer, so the trailer played mutely as I read the article. And when it showed Galadriel & the others with the camera circling around them, I was like "oh no. It's the Avengers camera spin. why." I personally love the 1st Avengers film, but I despise how everything now has the 'Avengers team-up/camera circle' shot inserted into media for main characters. Not everything needs the same filming style. My mind just immediately goes: STOP. IT. Same for your comments on the trailers. I used to love trailers - even if the tv show or movie or whatever wasn't great, I loved the trailers & loved rewatching the trailers. I recently watched Miyazaki's "The Boy & the Heron" in the theatre with my aunt & uncle, so obviously there were trailers. All of us felt nothing with the trailers. The movie was incredible, but we all agreed the trailers didn't make us care at all about them or want to watch. It really makes you realize that while styles can change (2005 trailers aren't like 1970 trailers), there is an art & creativity to media & promoting media. Whether tv/film/videogames/etc. and that seems to be getting lost with so much material now. I don't get interested seeing stuff like this anymore. Some videogames still & Electric Entertainment (like Dean Devlin with "Almost Paradise", "Leverage Redemption" etc.) will draw me in. But the other stuff? I just don't care.
100% agree, I hope that this like trash music is just for the trailers. Cuz man that would truly ruin the mood for me. I have a fools hope that season 2 will redeem itself kind of like wheel of time did. But we'll see
LotR Elves: Very tall, graceful, mysterious, beautiful beings with long hair that talk calm, thoughtful in a sublime way with the wisdom of centuries of experience RoP Elves: Random people that are avarage hight, have short hair, talk either like impacient idiots that wanna see the manager, or try to fake appearing wise and thoughtful while saying utter nonsense, only differing to normal idiot human beings by glued on elve ears
@@blackdeath099 it does and its across the whole entertainment industry and you know it...trying to say otherwise is proof that youre part of it and push towards it also
If you knew about the second age you’d know that sauron is about to cause Hella turmoil in middle earth without having to do any fighting he hides among the ppl and corrupts them
HOOOOOOOOOOW the fuck is anyone asking for a remake of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's probably the best movie trilogy made by humans. You couldn't do it better. It's peak performance in every way.
“A rock sinks because it sees only down. A ship floats because it looks up to the stars that guide her.” I hope we get writing on this Shakespearean level again this season.
AI dialogues, it's plain as day and they can't hide it anymore, now that they shot principal photography during the writers strike. Hollywood productions mandate the presence of a senior writer on set at all times, yet they didn't follow that rule, unless of course the script came from an AI.
if you watch the making of the lotr trilogy you understand the depth and amount of passion put into making it. they didn't care too much about numbers, more about creating a good and authentic trilogy
I actually disagree with Asmon's take that having a black dwarf/elf isn't an issue. It shows that the creators fundementally don't understand or respect the world and rules of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The change wasn't made because it enhances the story - it was made for political reasons. The ironic thing is Disa was actually one of the more likeable characters because eveyone else was so fucking unlikeable or boring.
I watched this with my dad in the cinema. Fucking masterpiece. Over 20 years old and still mops the floor with any modern movie. The rings of power fanfiction is an absolute abomination.
@@summer7603 Same. I've watched all 3 movies with my dad also. I was 17 when Fellowship came out, so like a lot of teenage boys, I didn't have the greatest relationship with my dad at that time, but those movies sure helped us bonding. I'll always cherish those moments.
The triple feature when Return of the King came out will forever be my favorite cinema experience ever. The only thing in 21 years that came even remotely close was Dune.
You cannot convince me that season 1 was profitable. Which means they either changed a boat load banking on season 2 being profitable or that it was never about making it profitable, which is a scary thought.
It's a Jeff Bezos vanity project. He's a massive Tolkien fan and wanted a Game of Thrones of his own on Prime video. Profits are irrelevant in this case.
They don't care about profit. They care about pushing the narrative of diversity and inclusion, replacing all old original versions of any stories with newer "diverse" ones.
the only, solitary reason i can imaginje for this to make sense is if it turns out that sauron split himself in two or something. we met one part of him last season and the other part had been hiding amongst the elves all along preparing.
You’re right. This isn’t LOTR. It’s fan-fiction with a billion dollar budget. You don’t fire your Tolkien historian and expect to stay faithful to the source material.
I disagree that it’s fan fiction. Fans would do it better. These are people who obviously despise Tolkien and everything he made. They are certainly not fans.
Galadriel in Jacksons: Feels other worldly (cause shes a fucking elf), cold, powerful and intellegent. Galadriel in RoP: Karen mode, emotinal, human with elf ears.
At some point a little over a decade ago sound designers started to become obessed with having monsters make chittering noises. Even in sci-fi machines will chitter, the Transformers movies are full of it. It's weird to get so annoyed and jaded about something so trivial but here I am, wincing the moment I hear it.
Nailed it! Ever since Transformers won an Oscar for sound design in 2007 every friggin sound production took the samples. I’’m over done now & it’s not even done properly
They keep ruining Galadriel... She put the ring on and immediately knew it was bad news. She knew the 'gift giver' was sus and literally moved halfway across Middle Earth to put some space between them. And didnt know Sauron was beside her the whole time lol
To be fair, in the Silmarillion his return is just like that and the Numenor sink is basically "What is this Sauron dude? Let's beat his a$$" to "Wait... He is handsome. He is a Gigachad. Let's take him with us... Ohhh Nooo! The evil dude is evil".
@@FirewynnTV I can hope to only enjoy this piece of art in its own form. I know he shape shifts into images of his own creations, werewolves along with other beasts
Some have mocked the words of "This show looks Ugly" Which I myself don't entirely agree with. But I think what should be thought about is "Looking Pretty while doing bad" I think a few of the people who say this show is good should speak to about that
They still havent fixed the armor, just made the main cast not wear any to make it not obvious. The extras are still wearing 3d printed chainmail shirts made of cloth.
Anyone else think its weird they used 'darkness will bind them' when it should be more of the ring doing it, cause its 'one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them' so its not really just darkness doing the binding but the ring.
They should put guyladriel when they show that phrase cuz someone was definitely binding her chest up harder this season. She's flatter than s1. You could surf or iron your clothes on her.
Nothing beats the original, lotr trilogy is just pure magic, everything came together perfectly, it's very rare for something like that to happen both in movies and tv shows, unfortunately.
It was greenlit by the orc who run their HR department. The same orc who fire employees on medical leave, put employees on performance plans etc. That orc is a real Excel wizard so it was only natural that he would also make creative decisions for Prime.
I like how Sauron just came back amongst the elves, with the same exact face but a different hair style and pointy ears, and no one realized it was the same guy from the 1st season.
Great comparison. One thing that (among many) really jumps out is the quality of actors in the trilogy. Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee; all very distinguished actors even before the movies came out (well maybe not Viggo so much). Then there are the actors that got their start with the trilogy, like Andy Serkis, Sean Astin and Elijah Wood. Just in this aspect alone there is no comparison between the movies and the series.
Based on the downvotes on the trailers, it’s about to be a rough time at Amazon lol. I’m sure they’re getting the false-flag anti-black posts ready to go as we speak. “You racists!” and “You Misogynists!” were already used last season to try to deflect criticism, but I bet they’ll use those same tactics this time around.
7:45 "Some bad things might have happened" Immediately shows video of a horse. Then you remember that a horse died on the set of RoP Season 2. RIP that horse.
This, they did this just to use the comparison hype. They honestly just dropped the trailer at the same time to say "You just saw shit, now come here and see something good".
Knowing its worse than season 1 without seeing it, what are you nostradameus, no your just a hater nothing more. If you dont like it dont watch or talk about it watch something else and spare us your whining
@@ybtcpro960 it’s called Inference. He formed a conclusion based on previous evidence and facts. Just because you may have no clue of what that looks like it doesn’t mean others don’t (hint: it’s what helps most of us make decisions). Regarding the whining part it’s seems your even worst, you’re basically whining that he’s whining. Either let him vent his grief or move on, nothing worse than someone who thinks they know what should be important to others (and yes, you know you came here just to whine and make others feel inept)
Ur right about the elves trying to beat sauron, that being said an elf did square up and beat the shit out of Morgath. He did lose and die in the end. But the dude crippled a God for the rest of his existence.
She had 3 minutes of screen time in the first season, but they baited hate clicks by putting her on every poster. Shows as activism, it is Amazon Prime's strategy confirmed by production sources.
@@TheZapan99I mean, don't forget that the motion picture academy stated several years ago that they were implementing strict diversity quotas...you MUST have certain percentages of perceived minorities in your project.
Here some funny Movie titles from Lord of the Wig: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Bad Haircuts The Lord of the Wigs: The Blonde Fellowship The Lord of the Wigs: The Two Cowlicks Wig Wars: Revenge of the Hair Extensions Wig-end: The Search for the Perfect Toupee The Wigs of Middle-earth: An Unexpected Coiffure Wiggy Smalls: The Battle of the Bald Spots Bald Spots: An Unexpected Hair Loss The Bald Spot of Rohan: The Two Hairlines Wig: The Battle of the Five Hairdos ♥
15:00 the biggest problem is that Amazon could have done it. They had all the budget they could have asked for. They had Wheel of Time. And they felt the need to "fix" it.
honestly looks better than s1 did to me, I only made it to episode 5 or 6 but I didn't have a raging hate boner just fell flat for me much like season 2 of the witcher which I also dropped and much like season 8 of got which I finished but again did not like all in all fandoms suck donkey tits I would rather die than ever be apart of a fandom, which isn't to be confused with being a fan, two totally separate things it's the kind of people where they think you have to memorize every single song on an album released from 1992 till now to say and i quote "yeah they're pretty good I like them" how dare you only kind of like something a lot but not invest your soul into it and decide your entire identity upon this thing how DARE you
Lord of the rings is not a story about superheroes. Its a story about very regular mortal people managing to do a few heroic deeds knowning that they are will eventually be crushed by the unforgiving world they live in.
I agree with the hobbits, but the elves, Aaragorn and the wizards are super heroesque, like how demi gods from history have a super hero feel to them if only due to them having abilities far greater than normal humans having.
@@iguran6035 I'd argue that Gandalf gave off more of a angelic feeling rather then a heroic, with his actions of trying bring people to do good. Aragorn definitely gives off a more super human vibe though were introduced to him as strider and thus see him in a state of a distrusted lone man at a bar with a ragged appearance. His transformation and growth into becoming the superhuman figure he becomes is a result of his continued selflessness and good actions.
@@iguran6035 They're neither regular folks nor supeheroes. At some point Dungeons & Dragons got heavily influenced by comic books and pushed the power scale off the charts. Which isn't a bad thing if you want to offer your characters a way to progress from nobodies to heroes and eventually to superheroes or even gods, depending how far you want to push it and what kind of experience you're looking for. When most people think of fantasy they might have that style in mind. But this has nothing to do with Tolkien's heroes. Some are regular folks, some are immortal beings, but they're all bound to hard limits. Except for the wizards.
Apart from the landscape shots (which are usually rather nice), the rest of the show looks amazingly cheap from the costumes to the props. Even the dwarven ring of power looks misshapen and shitty, like something you'd get out of a vending machine.
Remember how powerful was Legolas in the movies? That's just a standard 3rd age Elf, strong Elves killed balrogs and even injured a valar (god) 1v1, so yeah, Sauron would be in big trouble if he had to fight for his life.
Yet the irony is that you can cut legless from the movies, and nothing changes... He couldn't even shoot down the berserker in the two towers... I don't even remember him having much to do in the books
@@Keln02 Come to think of it... Gimli was responsible for Moria. Aragorn was Aragorn. Merry and Pippin played their part in the fangorn forrest. Sam literally carried the whole thing. WTF did Legolas do that had any impact on the story? Edit: love the answers. Keep them coming 😂😂
@@bananasaur5209 He told Aragorn where they're taking the hobbits to. Also, he slid down stairs with a shield as he fire arrow on the way down like it's some tony hawk skater pro game.
This is for Bernard Hill, who played Théoden. RIP 😢 “Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Deeeeeeeath! Deeeeeeeeeeeaaaath! Forth Eorlingas!” -Théoden King, at Pelennor Fields (best pre-battle speech of all time).
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Season 2 of Galadriels quest to finally meet the manager...
_Was there a problem with your meal?_ - Nerwende Artanis
Searching for hr😂
Hey Amazon, I didn't hear no bell.
By coincidence, Sauron's looking to be promoted to Middle Manager of Middle Earth.
Galadrrrriel
The one Show to ruin them all.
They can never take my dvd's!
Collect physical media everyone!
Greed thru ideals it seems. That and the Tolkiens legality.
Don't read my name!
and in the darkness discard them
every minute an insult to middle earth. pure, unfiltered dogwater.
It doesn't feel like LOTR because it isn't LOTR... they changed all the lore, they changed the story, the only thing they kept were the names they ruined...
None of these films or series feel particularly like Lord of the Rings, neither are they faithful to the lore. That includes Jackson's trilogy. You aren't going to get Tolkien's decidedly rural and Edwardian sensibilities in any of these productions. That's not even a reasonable expectation.
There are far more useful things to critique about the show than its strict authenticity to the source material (or lack thereof). For one, it's just not written or directed very well.
@@g.lowenklee2268 The trilogy was at least respectfully trying to still capture the essence of Tolkien.
@@SkyClearsyeah, the trilogy will be remembered and loved just like the books.. this will be a footnote in history.. maybe brought as an example what not to do🤪
I grew up on this and i don't think you get it. Good luck on your new career as a citric
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This Shitshow doesn't exist for me.
And You should do it the same as me.
Saurons disguise is the equivalent of an FBI agent wearing a hat saying “Not FBI”.
if undercover feds were smart they'd wear one of those FBI "female body inspector" shirts.
It is just James O’Keeff with a wig and glasses getting government agents to tell him all the illegal things that they do
Oh wait, he’s done that
Twice
Maybe Hollywood writers don’t realize that most of us are not as stupid as they are
I'm so sure his face reveal in an elf outfit here was just for the trailer. like, revealing him to viewers, though most of the time he had a different face. i can't believe they're so stupid to disguise him with just a wig... i just can't
wait I haven't seen anything lotr related, but let me guess: it's the blond guy with long hair
@@Dukhevych Which is arguably just as bad/even worse, because then there's absolutely no subtlety or mystery or figuring out his identity, it's just unbelievably ham-handed and terrible all around.
despite being 13% of the population of middle earth, orcs commit 52% of all village burnings
Low key god tier comment
That's completely racist against Orcs. Orcist? Orcrist.
Now it all makes sense
Usual suspects 😂
Insane 😂
Racist!
R.I.P. to the legend, Bernard Hill, who portrayed king Theoden of Rohan in the original LotR movies and sadly passed away a week ago.
Ride in peace, my King.
This needs to be up there
He already knew this garbage of a show was getting a season 2 so he decided to peace out sooner.
For death and glory
Hail!
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!
I completely forgot that there was a Don Lemon elf.
lmao!! YES!!!.
Don Lemonless*
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jesus😂😂
They will be squeezing all the juice from that half of a Lemon.
“How are they going to beat Sauron?”
Black elves. Duh.
Don't forget the Dwarves also.
Woman power and girl bosses
Dark Elves?
@@Michael0663-qo4wx Women aren't the issue. Race swaps are.
My mother was in Mordor researching Orcs right before she died.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She was in Russia ?
Don't read my name!
Lmao
Joe Biden? I didn't know you had a yt account.
maybe its because im jaded already...but the cheap music buildup and attempts at rising the tension in the thriller felt so...artificial?
It's all very formulaic and played out
It reminds me of the parody trailer that The outer Worlds 2 made fun of.
It’s because it’s a trope, some time and time before this time.
All the brown noise made me feel like pooping, lol.
because it's the same sht music they use for all kind of movies like this
37% of viewers finished season 1, if 37% of the 37% finish season 2 Amazon will still claim it as successful.
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If their figure of 100 million viewers in the first 28 days is true, then 37% of that is still a huge number
@@director5193 "Amazon announced that The Rings of Power had been watched by 25 million viewers globally in the first 24 hours that the first two episodes were available on Prime Video, the service's biggest premiere ever."
except they didn't have 100 million viewers...
It is not possible to compare the Trilogy (the three films) with this series due to the following fact: the films respected the author.
It still amazes me how they've managed to make Tolkiens work soulless.
this is not tolkien's work, take it as an NSL sketch or cheap satire, they're making bad fanfic
RoP is NOT Tolkien. Its fan fiction based on Tolkien’s work
@@zeed33r
To the naysayers here, you think these people won’t one day sign off on Tolkien’s works being dramatically rewritten for modern audiences and only that version being reprinted or sold digitally?
Nothing is sacred or off limits to them. They’ll do absolutely anything to everything until society loses whatever is holding it back from going berserk.
@@Realdrlipschitz It's not fan fiction. It's hate fiction.
Lack of talent that's just what it is.
RIP Bernard Hill
Forth, and fear no darkness!
"I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed."
Perfect casting for Theoden. RIP Bernard Hill.
rip king
Hail Theoden King
May he find honor and peace in halls of his fathers
At least he didn't have to watch this pish
Tolkien was a devout Catholic. If you boil down the faith to its prime themes/values 2 things are always present. 1) Service to others and 2) Redemption through sacrifice. Every major character in LoTR hits both these themes. Everything else is just pretty backgrounds and costumes. It's why modern Hollywood doesn't understand and can't reproduce.
This is true. In a more generic sense, Tolkien’s work exuded moral virtues and values and dichotomies between good and evil, and modern writers can’t replicate the greatness of these works because they (in a general sense, probably some do) have no moral virtues or values and believe in neither good nor evil and instead live in a gray sea of ambiguity where nothing has divine meaning.
Lord of the Rings is just our own lost revised history.
You could literally view it through the lens of ancient astronaut theory, and then everything makes sense.
Numenor is literally Atlantis. Elves and everything OTHER than humans are ALIENS. And they check out and disappear from literally EARTH for some unknown/said reason
Plus, the universe of lord of the rings takes place on actual earth. That’s revealed at the end of the story, when one of Aragorn’s descendants in the 17th century finds a way to make it to the undying lands.
It’s a popular story, because it’s the same one that’s been told over and over because it’s just our history given to us on the silver screen or in a book.
Tolkien also claimed that he based the Lord of the rings on old, lost and forgotten manuscripts, that he found in the basement of the University that he worked at that was supposedly our own LOST HISTORY.
You can say it was for marketing, but I do not believe so.
The same story is told over and over again. It’s told by every ancient culture around the world, as well as every favorite fantasy or sci-fi movie you have ever watched.
I hope people will wake up to this and know that the world you live in is truly stranger than fiction and utterly amazing.
@criticalcog6363 George Martin is not religious and made one of the best if not the best pieces of fantasy, earning a name as renowned as Tolkien. I guess he just doesn't exist in your eyes? Religion is important to include in writing because so many people are religious and it is so intertwined with history, but to assume someone can't write a good story because they don't follow the exact same set of morals as yours is quite ridiculous
@@nickm.4274 The issue isn't that you can't have good writing without religion. The issue is you can't adapt Tolkien's work without his moral themes and modern day Hollywood seems to hate all the morals Tolkien wanted to express.
@@nickm.4274A lot of the dialogue in the LOTR movies and parts of the Hobbit was taken word for word from Tolkien's books. Tolkien was an expert in the ancient sagas and old english and the rhythm and rhyme of those old languages. Its almost impossible for a modern writer to match that dialogue.
Martin's writing is uninspiring by contrast. Martin just doesnt have the majesty of Tolkien's words. And Martin's stuff is very derivative. There is no real comparison between the two writers. One is Mozart and the other is the woman who wrote 50 shades of Grey.
The problem is that Lord of the Rings is one of, if not the greatest fictional story ever written, and the fact that Amazon is using that property to make a show that is painfully mediocre if not really bad. It’s just insulting when you look at the source material. Tolkien was an absolute genius who spent his whole life perfecting the world of LOTR to be exactly the way he wanted it to be, and Amazon just comes in and does what they want with it, rather than paying respect to the man who made it.
Oh, for fuck's sake, there's a season TWO!? Kill me.
I'll make it quick and then do myself 😆.
5 total
Ten years my dude, ten years 😂
@@timothymartensen9040 😱💀
Choose the form of the destructor!
anyone notice that the old LotR movie elves look actually like elves while the Ring of Power look like some elves that came out of a trash bin lol.
They just picked up some homeless people off the street and slapped pointy ears on them.
So true. ;P
You know what? At first I thought they were hobbits. Because they have pointy ears aswell.
Yup, I call them walmart elves. It's hilarious how bad Amazon's elves are
true!
My favorite part was when Borat grabbed the ring and said, "you will never get this!" right before Holdor closed up the Gringott's bank doors on Eleven. This is a must watch, I need to know who Vader picks as the next sith apprentice!
I didnt have a strength to finish the first season .... 60 milions per episode and they didnt spend any on story writing.
The music they are using in these trailers and behind the scenes is horrendously bombastic, it's so Avengers-esque.
Then he puts on the ROTK trailer and it's just the haunting singing of the Elves. Something which conveys real emotion and is appropriate for what is being shown, even when it cuts to the epic battles, the music remains subtle.
The Marvelization of Entertainment.
THIS! I saw an article on my phone about the trailer, so the trailer played mutely as I read the article. And when it showed Galadriel & the others with the camera circling around them, I was like "oh no. It's the Avengers camera spin. why." I personally love the 1st Avengers film, but I despise how everything now has the 'Avengers team-up/camera circle' shot inserted into media for main characters.
Not everything needs the same filming style. My mind just immediately goes: STOP. IT. Same for your comments on the trailers. I used to love trailers - even if the tv show or movie or whatever wasn't great, I loved the trailers & loved rewatching the trailers. I recently watched Miyazaki's "The Boy & the Heron" in the theatre with my aunt & uncle, so obviously there were trailers. All of us felt nothing with the trailers. The movie was incredible, but we all agreed the trailers didn't make us care at all about them or want to watch.
It really makes you realize that while styles can change (2005 trailers aren't like 1970 trailers), there is an art & creativity to media & promoting media. Whether tv/film/videogames/etc. and that seems to be getting lost with so much material now. I don't get interested seeing stuff like this anymore. Some videogames still & Electric Entertainment (like Dean Devlin with "Almost Paradise", "Leverage Redemption" etc.) will draw me in. But the other stuff? I just don't care.
100% agree, I hope that this like trash music is just for the trailers. Cuz man that would truly ruin the mood for me. I have a fools hope that season 2 will redeem itself kind of like wheel of time did. But we'll see
I think the two towers trailer is better and it was pretty heavy with the epic music, but they prolly just used it better
The horrible 'Transformer fart' sound they make at the beginning of every trailer now gets so old.
At this point story about group of hobos trying to sell stolen gold ring at local store would be more interesting than this
Lord of the Gypsies?
Well, they have the hobos in the form of their knockoff brand of hobbits.
In the land of detroit, in a happy Hobbo-Hole, lives a little lad named Blimblo of the nine-fingers!
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Oliver Twist: The Legend of Fagan
LotR Elves:
Very tall, graceful, mysterious, beautiful beings with long hair that talk calm, thoughtful in a sublime way with the wisdom of centuries of experience
RoP Elves:
Random people that are avarage hight, have short hair, talk either like impacient idiots that wanna see the manager, or try to fake appearing wise and thoughtful while saying utter nonsense, only differing to normal idiot human beings by glued on elve ears
This is why we have commercials now on Amazon Prime video.
Put more cg in it and hope they dont notice the shitty script or disrespectful story.
But look a balrog!
@@Senorbenignhillarity Waaaaah!
Get a grip people... just because something is bad/average doesn't make it disrespectful.
@@blackdeath099 it does and its across the whole entertainment industry and you know it...trying to say otherwise is proof that youre part of it and push towards it also
@@Senorbenignhillarity OMG! its FRODO in rings of power!! better keep my subscription, stg these are the type of people they are catering to.
"I think he has been here among us all along"
Maybe the real Sauron is the friends we made along the way?
Literally the plot of season 1
Amogus
@@summer7603 AMOGUS!
If you knew about the second age you’d know that sauron is about to cause Hella turmoil in middle earth without having to do any fighting he hides among the ppl and corrupts them
@@aziandomination16 This show doesnt even know which age its in...
"An evil, ancient and powerful has returned, Sauron, and he brings with him... toxic masculinity."
HOOOOOOOOOOW the fuck is anyone asking for a remake of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's probably the best movie trilogy made by humans.
You couldn't do it better. It's peak performance in every way.
Galadriel already stared down a volcano, have her stare down the wave and save Numenor.
Yeah if with volcano you mean her own snizz
The volcano dried her up and the wave will remoisten her.
Don't read my name!
@@whenpigsfly8178to funny 😂
@@whenpigsfly8178 BASED!! lol
“A rock sinks because it sees only down. A ship floats because it looks up to the stars that guide her.”
I hope we get writing on this Shakespearean level again this season.
THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
DO YOU WANT LUNCH?
AI dialogues, it's plain as day and they can't hide it anymore, now that they shot principal photography during the writers strike.
Hollywood productions mandate the presence of a senior writer on set at all times, yet they didn't follow that rule, unless of course the script came from an AI.
I AM GOOD!
There is a tempest in me!
FU!
if you watch the making of the lotr trilogy you understand the depth and amount of passion put into making it. they didn't care too much about numbers, more about creating a good and authentic trilogy
I actually disagree with Asmon's take that having a black dwarf/elf isn't an issue. It shows that the creators fundementally don't understand or respect the world and rules of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The change wasn't made because it enhances the story - it was made for political reasons. The ironic thing is Disa was actually one of the more likeable characters because eveyone else was so fucking unlikeable or boring.
I watched this with my dad in the cinema. Fucking masterpiece. Over 20 years old and still mops the floor with any modern movie. The rings of power fanfiction is an absolute abomination.
We had so good in 2003
@@summer7603 Same. I've watched all 3 movies with my dad also. I was 17 when Fellowship came out, so like a lot of teenage boys, I didn't have the greatest relationship with my dad at that time, but those movies sure helped us bonding. I'll always cherish those moments.
The triple feature when Return of the King came out will forever be my favorite cinema experience ever. The only thing in 21 years that came even remotely close was Dune.
Fan fiction is by fans. Does not apply, here.
People hate on this show too much. One good season can change everyone's mind.
Amazon really fucked this up good.
billion dollar project
understatement
I was there Gandalf.. at the premiers of all LOTRs, I was about 12-14... a true core memory.
You cannot convince me that season 1 was profitable. Which means they either changed a boat load banking on season 2 being profitable or that it was never about making it profitable, which is a scary thought.
It's a Jeff Bezos vanity project. He's a massive Tolkien fan and wanted a Game of Thrones of his own on Prime video. Profits are irrelevant in this case.
They don't care about profit. They care about pushing the narrative of diversity and inclusion, replacing all old original versions of any stories with newer "diverse" ones.
"I think he's been here among us all along"
YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH HIM LOL
That line makes no sense lol. This is closer to what it should be then season one but they are already painted into a corner.
@@richardwallis9374 Exactly mofos think we're dumb as rocks
Among us 🤣😁🤣😁🤣....
LOVE among us, great game with friends and fiends alike.
the only, solitary reason i can imaginje for this to make sense is if it turns out that sauron split himself in two or something. we met one part of him last season and the other part had been hiding amongst the elves all along preparing.
Sword drawn.. sword drawn... BOW DRAWN.. 4x sword drawn... sword drawn... (in the actors' heads = sword drawn = cool)
Avengers assemble!
No no. Just drawing your sword isn't cool.
You have to twirl it around so you can risk killing anyone next to or behind you.
and the BWAAAAHHH sound
You’re right. This isn’t LOTR. It’s fan-fiction with a billion dollar budget. You don’t fire your Tolkien historian and expect to stay faithful to the source material.
I disagree that it’s fan fiction. Fans would do it better. These are people who obviously despise Tolkien and everything he made. They are certainly not fans.
Galadriel in Jacksons: Feels other worldly (cause shes a fucking elf), cold, powerful and intellegent.
Galadriel in RoP: Karen mode, emotinal, human with elf ears.
Rest in peace Bernard Hill… May 5th 2024. Long he did live, the king of Rohan ❤
At some point a little over a decade ago sound designers started to become obessed with having monsters make chittering noises. Even in sci-fi machines will chitter, the Transformers movies are full of it. It's weird to get so annoyed and jaded about something so trivial but here I am, wincing the moment I hear it.
Nailed it! Ever since Transformers won an Oscar for sound design in 2007 every friggin sound production took the samples. I’’m over done now & it’s not even done properly
I reckon it started back in 1997 with Del Toro’s film Mimic
I cant wait to see more elves of the high fade barbershop
"Aragorn is the epitome of masculinity." Exactly, and to quote from the movie on why he is: "They follow you because they love you."
Rings of Power is the prime example of blowing the money on the aesthetics and not leaving anything for the story writing.
writing is for the women ..
'IP mining' a term coined unironically by Disney's Bob Iger.
He was a breath away from stating it more plainly;
IP raping
@@arbiter8246 no it's not. I am a woman and it's definitely not for me. We are women,not tasteless idiots.
doesn’t even look good imo. looks so bad compared to Jackson’s LotR trilogy.
Really it just mean that the special effects team are competent. Unlike the writers.
"I think he has been here all along"
Maybe the real Sauron is the friends we made along the way?
I mean, thats pretty much Boromirs character arc.
ah yes modern "music", outsourced CGI, and zero attention to detail, now I really am immersed
They keep ruining Galadriel... She put the ring on and immediately knew it was bad news. She knew the 'gift giver' was sus and literally moved halfway across Middle Earth to put some space between them. And didnt know Sauron was beside her the whole time lol
Somehow, Sauron returned...with pointy ears
To be fair, in the Silmarillion his return is just like that and the Numenor sink is basically "What is this Sauron dude? Let's beat his a$$" to "Wait... He is handsome. He is a Gigachad. Let's take him with us... Ohhh Nooo! The evil dude is evil".
This dude doesn’t know who annatar is lmao
@@rottingout6667 was Annatar in human form before his elvish form as written by Tolkien himself?
That's literally Tolkien's story. You guys are so obsessed with just being angry all the time lmao..
@@FirewynnTV I can hope to only enjoy this piece of art in its own form. I know he shape shifts into images of his own creations, werewolves along with other beasts
Suddenly Clark Kent's disguise is not looking so stupid, heh?
Some have mocked the words of "This show looks Ugly" Which I myself don't entirely agree with. But I think what should be thought about is "Looking Pretty while doing bad" I think a few of the people who say this show is good should speak to about that
Everyone looks like they are larping. Every scene had someone waving around a sword but looked so unnatural.
Rings of Power brought to you by Columbia University students
They still havent fixed the armor, just made the main cast not wear any to make it not obvious. The extras are still wearing 3d printed chainmail shirts made of cloth.
You mean you were not impressed when they Avengers assembled?
And the Galadriel fight scenes are a travesty. XD
My favourite part was when Prime rescued Tolkien's work from his own toxic masculinity and saved us all from a severe lack of DEI heroism.
I mean Aragorn exists, who is like the exact opposite of toxic masculinity, and he came from Tolkien’s works. So, maybe he wasn’t so bad after all.
@@brycevarcho8374nah nowadays if you sliped one time you sliped for eternity
All I know is that if we don't get enough genetics within our local half foot community then I will simply despair 😭
Nah, man. Aragorn is trans now.
@@banhammer3904 he always was trans, and so was Arwen, they were an interracial trans couple, didn't you know?
Goosebumps every time the music from the Lighting of the beacons (The Realm of Gondor) comes up
That lady as Princess Disa could not have been a worse casting.
Anyone else think its weird they used 'darkness will bind them' when it should be more of the ring doing it, cause its 'one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them' so its not really just darkness doing the binding but the ring.
Yeah, the Ring is to keep them in the darkness, the darkness is the destination.
They should put guyladriel when they show that phrase cuz someone was definitely binding her chest up harder this season. She's flatter than s1. You could surf or iron your clothes on her.
That would require more than the most passing knowledge or care about the source material, which its clear that the showrunners lack.
The darkness facilitates the binding, yesss
Nothing beats the original, lotr trilogy is just pure magic, everything came together perfectly, it's very rare for something like that to happen both in movies and tv shows, unfortunately.
If you told me this was a Baldur's Gate movie, I would believe it more than LOTR...
But Baldur's Gate 3 had good writing! It's way better than this drivel!
@@randompseudonym4519 Yep. Can't argue with that one
*Halbrand puts on wig* "They'll never see it coming"
Who the hell green lit this at Amazon😂
It was greenlit by the orc who run their HR department. The same orc who fire employees on medical leave, put employees on performance plans etc. That orc is a real Excel wizard so it was only natural that he would also make creative decisions for Prime.
Literally Bezos
@@fomobull4187we want the real second age akallabeth not this bullshit
Larry F1nk greenlit it
Nobody with merit
He fooled the Elves twice? Aren't they the wisest and fairest of all?
This is Sauron we’re talking about. Not making any excuses for the show, but if anybody could fool some of the Elves, it would be him.
Writers nerfed them lol
If can't write smart characters, you just make everyone around them stupid
You're talking about the species that doesn't know what alloys are, not even their most talented blacksmith.
with incredibly cheaply made face prosthetics too! They couldn't recognize him with a silly wig on! Omg...
They cannot remake LOTR, it's a timeless masterpiece
0:18 Elronds hair looking like he got just out of bed 😂
I don't know about every soul in middle earth being in peril but all those with a prime subscription potentially are.
That's a bit over over exaggeration... Most people have fish brain memories rage in the moment then they move on.
I like how Sauron just came back amongst the elves, with the same exact face but a different hair style and pointy ears, and no one realized it was the same guy from the 1st season.
Different actor
@@drtyprior r u trolling? its the same actor
Man that trailer watch got me. Instantly my brain went back to watching that on loop waiting for the movie to release.
Great comparison. One thing that (among many) really jumps out is the quality of actors in the trilogy. Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee; all very distinguished actors even before the movies came out (well maybe not Viggo so much). Then there are the actors that got their start with the trilogy, like Andy Serkis, Sean Astin and Elijah Wood. Just in this aspect alone there is no comparison between the movies and the series.
wake me when it flops.
it's already woken everyone up
Based on the downvotes on the trailers, it’s about to be a rough time at Amazon lol. I’m sure they’re getting the false-flag anti-black posts ready to go as we speak.
“You racists!” and “You Misogynists!” were already used last season to try to deflect criticism, but I bet they’ll use those same tactics this time around.
@@moonthekiller1564 *Made everyone fall asleep
@@tiestofalljays They'll be working on manipulating review and audience scores again
@@tiestofalljays Doctor who: hold my beer
An evil truly has returned. It's called Rings of Power.
There once was a time when we were excited about a new movie or game but that feeling has faded.
7:45 "Some bad things might have happened"
Immediately shows video of a horse.
Then you remember that a horse died on the set of RoP Season 2.
RIP that horse.
HBO dropped house of dragon season 2 trailer
rip rings of power
This, they did this just to use the comparison hype.
They honestly just dropped the trailer at the same time to say "You just saw shit, now come here and see something good".
It's what streaming services do instead of dropping diss tracks
Aint no way the second season looks worse than the first one....
Yet you'll still watch it just to keep b*tching about nothing....
@@maxKP51 Imagine bitching at a show worth bitching about, what a shocker.
@@maxKP51 it's literally worth watching for the memes, just like the Halo series
bet
I really thought it looked fine I really don't know how you can make TV look better than that visually and sounded great too
Every frame where characters are not shown from the front looks fine. The moment any character face is visible it makes it look like a fan base...
Like a YT movie
Lotr is art, Rings of Power is a product.
product of propaganda
If Amazon want to throw away money then my bank account is wide open
I an glad we finally have an answer to “can this piece of trash get even worse?”… sadly, it can!
Billy May's: But wait, there's more!
Knowing its worse than season 1 without seeing it, what are you nostradameus, no your just a hater nothing more. If you dont like it dont watch or talk about it watch something else and spare us your whining
@@ybtcpro960 it’s called Inference. He formed a conclusion based on previous evidence and facts. Just because you may have no clue of what that looks like it doesn’t mean others don’t (hint: it’s what helps most of us make decisions). Regarding the whining part it’s seems your even worst, you’re basically whining that he’s whining. Either let him vent his grief or move on, nothing worse than someone who thinks they know what should be important to others (and yes, you know you came here just to whine and make others feel inept)
@@Fynorios inference. No they had made there mind up they hated it when it was concieved nothing less
When Galadriel used the force to prevent the wagon from leaving, that was cool.
Ur right about the elves trying to beat sauron, that being said an elf did square up and beat the shit out of Morgath. He did lose and die in the end. But the dude crippled a God for the rest of his existence.
I feel bad for CGI artists who had to work on this
i must say, the Lizzo actor is quite glorious.
i laughed when i saw it. It's bad.
She doesn't belong their
She had 3 minutes of screen time in the first season, but they baited hate clicks by putting her on every poster.
Shows as activism, it is Amazon Prime's strategy confirmed by production sources.
They showed her leg the last season
I almost lost my lunch
@@TheZapan99I mean, don't forget that the motion picture academy stated several years ago that they were implementing strict diversity quotas...you MUST have certain percentages of perceived minorities in your project.
6:58 Asmon talking like it wasn't a Elf and a Man that stopped Sauron in the first place lmao
Here some funny Movie titles from Lord of the Wig:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Bad Haircuts
The Lord of the Wigs: The Blonde Fellowship
The Lord of the Wigs: The Two Cowlicks
Wig Wars: Revenge of the Hair Extensions
Wig-end: The Search for the Perfect Toupee
The Wigs of Middle-earth: An Unexpected Coiffure
Wiggy Smalls: The Battle of the Bald Spots
Bald Spots: An Unexpected Hair Loss
The Bald Spot of Rohan: The Two Hairlines
Wig: The Battle of the Five Hairdos
♥
Dont pay for it. Use the internet to try and guess its contents on random non US websites.
I wouldn't pollute my eyeballs and watch this thing. I'm happy to see clips while others rag on it.
This is not content worth sailing the seven seas, it's just thrash.
Bruh you'd have to pay me just to watch this rubbish
We need to make a DEI bingo card.
I will just watch the videos of people making fun of it.
"Forget everything you know about Lord of the Rings" vibe 🤣
15:00 the biggest problem is that Amazon could have done it. They had all the budget they could have asked for. They had Wheel of Time. And they felt the need to "fix" it.
honestly looks better than s1 did to me, I only made it to episode 5 or 6 but I didn't have a raging hate boner just fell flat for me much like season 2 of the witcher which I also dropped and much like season 8 of got which I finished but again did not like
all in all fandoms suck donkey tits I would rather die than ever be apart of a fandom, which isn't to be confused with being a fan, two totally separate things
it's the kind of people where they think you have to memorize every single song on an album released from 1992 till now to say and i quote "yeah they're pretty good I like them" how dare you only kind of like something a lot but not invest your soul into it and decide your entire identity upon this thing how DARE you
Should just be called “rings of power.” Without the Lord of the Rings.
No they'll do everything it takes to taint JJR Tolkien's work in the name of Diversity and Inclusion...but yeah I agree and it's insulting.
'we're back in Middle-earth'
Umm...
we're really not.
Lord of the rings is not a story about superheroes. Its a story about very regular mortal people managing to do a few heroic deeds knowning that they are will eventually be crushed by the unforgiving world they live in.
I agree with the hobbits, but the elves, Aaragorn and the wizards are super heroesque, like how demi gods from history have a super hero feel to them if only due to them having abilities far greater than normal humans having.
@@iguran6035 I'd argue that Gandalf gave off more of a angelic feeling rather then a heroic, with his actions of trying bring people to do good. Aragorn definitely gives off a more super human vibe though were introduced to him as strider and thus see him in a state of a distrusted lone man at a bar with a ragged appearance. His transformation and growth into becoming the superhuman figure he becomes is a result of his continued selflessness and good actions.
@brydonthunder well Gandolf is symbolic of Jesus so....
@@iguran6035 They're neither regular folks nor supeheroes. At some point Dungeons & Dragons got heavily influenced by comic books and pushed the power scale off the charts. Which isn't a bad thing if you want to offer your characters a way to progress from nobodies to heroes and eventually to superheroes or even gods, depending how far you want to push it and what kind of experience you're looking for. When most people think of fantasy they might have that style in mind. But this has nothing to do with Tolkien's heroes. Some are regular folks, some are immortal beings, but they're all bound to hard limits. Except for the wizards.
Funny how Sauron in disguise looks a lot more like an actual Elf than the Elves themselves.
Galadriel: "No man can fool me."
Sauron: Puts on wig* "I am no man."
Fuck this show. Don't let the pretty visuals fool you again.
Apart from the landscape shots (which are usually rather nice), the rest of the show looks amazingly cheap from the costumes to the props. Even the dwarven ring of power looks misshapen and shitty, like something you'd get out of a vending machine.
Don’t be concerned the first episode will do incredible with hate watches then the show will fall into an endless abyss
@@thetrashcanman7537 You're absolutely right. EVerybody gotta get paid on youtube too.
In much more important news, the Lego Barad’dûr set comes out next month.
The apathetic "great Thats nice" Is probably the worst thing a film maker can hear
Regarding 6:56, if you take into account the achievements of some elves, it really isn't unthinkable.
I'll just rewatch my real lotr extended edition dvd's and be happy!
Remember how powerful was Legolas in the movies? That's just a standard 3rd age Elf, strong Elves killed balrogs and even injured a valar (god) 1v1, so yeah, Sauron would be in big trouble if he had to fight for his life.
Yet the irony is that you can cut legless from the movies, and nothing changes...
He couldn't even shoot down the berserker in the two towers...
I don't even remember him having much to do in the books
@@Keln02 Come to think of it...
Gimli was responsible for Moria. Aragorn was Aragorn. Merry and Pippin played their part in the fangorn forrest. Sam literally carried the whole thing.
WTF did Legolas do that had any impact on the story?
Edit: love the answers. Keep them coming 😂😂
@@bananasaur5209 he was helpful in the pursuit for Merry and Pippin... kinda
@@Keln02 He saw stuff that was really far away and shit
@@bananasaur5209 He told Aragorn where they're taking the hobbits to.
Also, he slid down stairs with a shield as he fire arrow on the way down like it's some tony hawk skater pro game.
The witcher series writing team: "nobody can fuck up an existing opera more than us!!!"
RoP series writing team: "well there, hold our beers!"
This is for Bernard Hill, who played Théoden. RIP 😢
“Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!
Death! Deeeeeeeath! Deeeeeeeeeeeaaaath!
Forth Eorlingas!”
-Théoden King, at Pelennor Fields (best pre-battle speech of all time).
"This is not Lord of the Rings. This is some generic fantasy"
yep.