The Rings Of Power REVIEW (Episodes 1 & 2) Warrior Galadriel Is A DISASTER
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- čas přidán 1. 09. 2022
- Amazon's Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power is finally here! And as many of us suspected, it's a fully fledged disaster. In this review, we look at Galadriel's transformation into warrior queen, and whether the negative reaction & backlash to the character and series as a whole is warranted.
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# NOT MY MIDDLE EARTH!
Well duh, you didn't make the show.
Amazon thinks they've bought Tolkien and that our voices mean nothing when WE are the ones who've been studying and discussion JRRT for decades.
And they're serious about that, too, when all reviews on IMDb rated below 6/10 have now been removed. Such unsubtle manipulation... 🤣😆😂
@@travisspazz1624 neither did you, ya fecking muppet.
@@dw620 Disney has also been exposed for paying for positive reviews for his shows and movies, and lets not forget the famous, empty but somehow sold out movie theaters when captain marvel came out.
Haha I kinda love it's simplicity
Galadriel as written by Tolkien:
- sorceress;
- politician;
- head of state;
- taught by the Maia Melian (same angelic race as Gandalf).
That female elf was not strong enough for Amazon, so they demoted her to a boy who cried wolf... but one who can fight with a sword. Now that is a strong female character!
Not nearly as beautiful either 🤷🏽♂️
When I first watched lord of the rings in theaters, I was 5. Galadriel scared the hell out of me when she spoke to frodo. Power, beauty, mysticism.
Now she's a low budget Legolas with the sense of movie denethor.
@@clanmacmillan4483 That's an excellent description
also they seem to have given all the Elves super strength 🤷🏻♂️
the imaginary elf character picked up a sword!! Outrageous!! XD
I heard the very first dialog and turned it off.
“Do you know why a boat floats and a rock does not? Because a rock only sees the bottom”
The very first dialog 😂
Yes I should've included that in the video! As he was saying that I remember thinking it made no sense!
Yup... I saw the clip and was like I'm no script writer... but that was really bad 😂
Yeah I laughed at that! A rock sinks because its a rock!!!
Well, if the writer sees rocks as anal beads, it makes sense.
what does that line even mean? (Sanctuary Guardian Theme plays)
Modern writers just don't know how to create a good, strong female character without essentially making her a man. That's all they can come up with. Want a strong female character, make her act like and behave like a man. And in fact, not just a man, but a superman. Galadriel as written by Tolkien was the pinnacle of strong feminine beauty, dignity, and grace. In this show, she's just a hammer looking for rocks to smash. No beauty, no charm, no grace, no real hint of femininity.
"Modern writers just don't know how to create a good, strong female character without essentially making her a man."
Or undressing her or making her into a bisexual or lesbian.
The problem is that even if Galadriel would be a man - this character would be still insufferable! You still wouldn't like him, because this character is simply badly written.
Absolutely agree with you! I also think these woke writers make insufferable female characters who don't need anyone's help and everyone is dummer than her, which makes them unlikable! A better female leader, leads by example and does things to help others, they aren't selfish or driven by revenge. Its okay to start off a wrong path, and be humbled, yet these female characters are super humans and out fight, out climb full grown men.
No, I don't agree. The female roles in Game of thrones or now house of the dragon did a great job with portraying women seeking power in a world that despises women.
Another great example is Kim in Better call Saul.
In a different way, she's one of the strongest female characters in the last years.
They do. Just the ones who do don't get to be diversity or nepotism hires.
“It’s a dangerous business, Bezos, spitting on your customers. You step onto their hopes, and if you don’t censor their thoughts, there’s no satisfying your shareholders.” - Bilbo Baggins
Hobo Baggins*
Bilbo once said that the new show is such a garbage that even free version would be a waste of mbs.
*Tolkien fans* : "I wish Middle Earth had never come to Amazon. I wish none of this had happened."
*Gandalf* : "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the viewing choices that are given to us.”
Good!
Imagine creating a story beginning with the words, "In a hole in a ground, there lived a Hobbit..."
Only for your work to be snapped up by a greedy, money-hungry company immediately after your son's death, and they cannot even legally use the term of the creature that YOU created. All for them to release the show on the anniversary of your death.
I am beyond disgusted with Amazon, and refuse to believe that any good can come from this series.
Actually it was very well done. Talkien is dead leave it alone.
@@ahuachapan2 st*u bot! Give some respect and spell his name correctly!
@@ahuachapan2 it is literally CW tier garbage even if it was not called "Lord of the Rings" anything. It is baffling to me that this series is so expensive yet so bad. Cope harder.
It is very cruel. Takes a long time, lots of love, lots of imagination to world build and story write. They just urinated on Tolkien’s grave and life’s work. Very sad.
@@ahuachapan2 troll
They did THE ONE thing they could absolutely not do with Galadriel: send her back to Valinor. She's not allowed because she yearns for ruling her own realm in Middle Earth.
When she refuses the One Ring from Frodo, she finally renounces her thirst for power and is forgiven. She passes the test.
Very true. I was thinking the same thing. The elves in this show, doesn't even look or act like elves. They have put too much focuse on the woke part, that they forgot all about the universe and story that Tolkien created.
@@thebecs80 Many people make the excuse that Amazon didn't get the rights to portray much of Tolkien's works, making me wonder just what did they think they were buying for hundreds of millions of dollars upfront.
Whatever, by now the actors and writers have all made it crystal clear that not only do they know almost nothing about such things as Galadriel's background story, but that they simply do not care. They were going to do what they wanted to do and just stick Tolkien's name on it afterwards, making it seem like it was something vaguely related to The Lord of The Rings.
My favourite scene was when Galadriel finds Sauron and says: ‘Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die’.
sauron the 6 fingered man
Inconceivable.
and Sauron says 'I was washing my dog when I heard a scream,
I caught him in in bed with my sister, he ran through the front door and tripped..
he fell on a brown hobbit working on my lawn.
whats the chances of be castrated by a garden trowel?
after running into the street he was hit by a wagon.
the ale delivery was delayed that day.'
And then Sauron says it's saurin time and Galadriel gives up
@@fingolfin9086 you keep using that word
You make a really good point, which i haven't heard yet from other reviewers, as Tolkien wrote.
"The Elves were the fairest creatures in Arda, a far more beautiful race than Men"
I remember when i read the books during my late teens that as you say Elves are supposed to be beautiful move regally behave like a race above Man in every way. I didnt get that in this show at all. Everyone looks like Stephen the bricklayer and Emma the receptionist.
“May it be a light to you drab people, when Western stories are non-inclusive.” - Guyladriel
Actually if you read the Silmarillion the elves are VASTLY different than what we see in Peter Jackson's LOTR and they are much more human like in traits and personality. The elves we see in LOTR are written from the perspective of Hobbits who see them as a super regal race, but when really diving into their lore they really aren't as regal as initially thought.
@TheReTurnersFlips I disagree. They were more violent but there is also the difference between different groups of Elves with the more bloodthristy ones having died. The Elves are different from humans but share their emotions. The ones who chose to stay in Middle Earth are more friendly towards humans. I think The Children of Hurin are a good depiction of various types of Elves. They are always better looking. Some are bad but still look flawless
@@TheReTurnersFlips Remember that Amazon could care less what the book says, from the beginning they wanted to replicate Peter Jacksons vision and they failed
And they're also supposed to be ageless which makes me wonder why Celebrimbor looks like he's getting ready to saddle up to a 4PM dinner at the Country Kitchen Buffet.
Agree so much about the elves, they had that mystical fantasy feel in the movies, in this they look like cosplayers:0
Cosplayers would even use a wig or something. Cosplayers would still look more elvish than these characters.
yeahh i have so much problem with the elves bc they just look like humans with pointy ears. i didn't get an "other"ness vibes from them like how i got when watching the trilogy
The LARPers in Hawkeye Tv show look better than them
The ridiculous haircuts ruined the elves for me.
don't insult cosplayers... they would do a better job
I would like to express my thoughts as someone who has read the fellowship three times, the two towers twice and return of the king once, watched peter's movies on repeat, and watched numerous lore videos about the Silmarillion and middle earth in general. This show's real problem is this, its trying to be too many things at once while inevitably being nothing at all, which makes it a mess. Its not trying to stay true to the lore, nor is it trying to tell its own story using original characters, its trying to rely on nostalgic characters without producing anything worthy of invoking nostalgia. A disappointing mess and very boring. People want the real Tolkien, not this. And honestly I would encourage people to pick up the books more often than watching these tv shows or even the movies, as good as Peters movies were, the books are 100x better. And thats' saying something.
I read the books once and even read through the Simarilion, though I was confused half the time at who was who and what was going on over all but what amazed me despite that was the depth and care taken to writing the lore as if it was a real recording of the myths/history of middle earth as a real place. Peter Jackson put a lot of effort into trying to capture the age of middle earth at that time and not make it feel like a bunch of NPCs just spawned in because the characters wandered into a new area. It felt like the world existed outside of the scenes shown in the movies.
This Amazon show just feels shallow, lacking the depth and care it was supposed to be bring to the screen.
@@yottawatt Amazon is just trying to cash in on people who liked the Peter Jackson movies but didn't actually pay much attention to the actual lore, etc.
it's juts because the people don't really know what they are doing... they own the rights to work with LOTR only, so they have to make do with what they prolly didn't even read, but instead of trying to expand on the knowledge from the books and their overlap with the rest of tolkien's work, they just want to cash in on the nostalgia and hope that the stuff they make up won't get noticed by the people who watch it, with main focus on people unkissed by the books and non-fans and the rest who will just watch it because people say tolkien is popular.. and of course mix in the Message and more current politics that will never make it a timeless classic as the original works are
They had a golden opportunity to tell a story set in Harad or Rhûn or even further East or South, areas that were mostly spared the wars against Morgoth or Sauron, and mostly unexplored by Tolkien. Middle-Earth was Europe and the rest of the world is wide open. Imagine that! A brand new story and new parts of Arda never explored before! Would it have been good? Written by someone else maybe but the showrunners haven't impressed me so far. Writers nowadays are... well I don't know what they are really but it looks like talent has skipped a generation.
Absolutely agree with you well said!👏👏👏
The Rings of Power reviews massively DELETED from IMDB. Thats the plain truth about Amazon and this series
Even a porn parody would have been better than this. It looks great but a mortal woman cutting off the head of an orc was too much for me.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the negative reviews that are given to us.” - Jeff Bezos
@@botidobra6221 dude that didn't even seem like an orc, it seemed too powerful, a whole ass sword was in it and he was still going...
They fudge IMDb scores cuz they show up on Amazon prime video, and they stopped prime video reviews as well. On rotten tomatoes it’s like 30.
Harfoots (meaning "hairy-foot"; which fact the Amazon series seems not to have noticed), along with Fallohides and Stoors, were one of the three sub-variants of Third Age hobbits. But the first record of Harfoots entering Eriador (the region of Middle Earth where the events of the Second Age occurred) were from 1050 of the Third Age - thousands of years later.
Call them hobbits, call them Harfoots. But there weren’t any in Eriador in the Second Age.
Amazon fired their Tolkien scholars, no surprise they don't even know what they're making.
somehow the Harfeet are my favorite part… the only part that isn’t completely insufferable, even if it’s kinda silly and not from the canon at all.
What? Not noticed? The first thing they show of them is a really hairy foot!
Yeah harfoots are as much hobbits as the baggins and the other types are, they just can't call them Hobbits for obvious reasons.
This is the best written fan-fiction middle earth parody ever by the way or just called a leftist propaganda movie with middle earth wannabe settings, after all of course we have to have modern day politics in middle earth because it's not like we dont deal with the on every day basics anyways.
I don’t know how so many supposed lore experts miss the fact that Tolkien said that hobbits have been around since the Elder Days. It’s right there in the prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring. You don’t even need to read any secondary writings to get it. Tolkien said that their deeds were not recorded by elves and that they didn’t DO much, but that’s not the same thing as not existing. If someone wanted to include hobbits (which would not have been called hobbits at this time but perhaps something like their clan name) then they could do that with no lore discrepancies as long as the hobbits stay hidden and don’t interact much with other races. Oh wait. That’s exactly what the show is doing.
The way that they’ve included harfoots in the show actually demonstrates that the showrunners seem to understand the issue FAR better than the self professed nerds who complain “There were no hobbits in the 2nd age.”
It's a total car crash - an artless attempt cynically to cash in on Tolkien's legendarium, while simultaneously traducing his reputation. I see both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are gaming the reviews - doubtless at the behest of Amazon. Today's corporate world of naked greed is the personification of Sauron. Ironic, and depressing.
IMDB is owned by Amazon hahaha
@@rodrigo445678 How incestuous.
*"Speaking of Galadriel going back to Valinor"*
Another offense against canon. The elves who fled Valinor in the Flight of the Noldor were banished. They couldn’t simply jump on a ship and sail back whenever they fancied without the countenance of the Valar.
The Elves of Beleriand were pardoned by the Valar and the Teleri whom they’d wronged long ago, and the curse of Mandos was laid to rest. The newcomers dwelt upon the island Tol Eresseä. Some of the Elves remained in Middle-earth, though: Círdan, Galadriel and Celeborn, Gil-galad and Elrond with him, who had chosen to be counted among the Elves. His brother Elros chose to be counted among Men.
After the War of Wraith and the destruction of Beleriand in the first age, the Noldor that survived were allowed to return. Some left, others stayed longer in Middle Earth, and they left when they felt right to do so. Galadriel specifically was still banished though haha cause she was among the last surviving of those cursed by Mandos but after the help she provided in the third age, she was allowed to return.
@Alex
That's not true. With the end of the First Age, the curse of Mandos also came to an end.
@@elefant5772 that's true, but it doesn't apply to Galadriel. Tolkien specifically wrote she was not llowed to go back because she did not want to. She stil had a lesson to learn which she does when she refuses the One Ring. That's the whole point of her. Alone of all the elves, she remains banished because of her thirst fo power.
the intro of Galadriel (from her childhood to the ice troll fight) completely ruined the show for me: so Elven children are bullying other elves just like us, and while all other elven soldiers got toyed by the ice troll, Galadriel just disposed it with ease all by herself. so why she needs an army??? she alone is more powerful than an Elven squadron?
That opening origami thing was AWFUL. Very sloppy, trying to be like "oh she's special, she sees the world d i f f e r e n t l y" and then the heavy handed "look at how close she is with her brother, it would be a shame if something were to happen to him..."
My eyes hurt from rolling so hard.
Also it took the entire Fellowship a good amount of effort to take down a cave troll but Guyladriel takes an ice troll out in 3 slashes? Like no, just no.
@@tinyfreckle yeah, the current vulgar content producers simply force their "unique, misunderstood, under-appreciated, strong female characters" into any narrative space-time, Middle-Earth is the latest victim...sign~
to establish the awesomeness of this new breed of Galadriel, Elven youths have to behave like human school kids, and Elven soldiers must not know how to fight at all~~
@@teardrop-mx8dh can't wait for her to one shot Gothmog, who she runs into for reasons unknown
No slander to the current galadriel actress. Her overall energy, how she carries herself just isn't the right fit for Galadriel. I would have loved to see someone like Saoirse Ronan take the role .
I remember her from The Lively Bones
Oh also I'm so sad Will Poulter didn't get to play Elrond. He was literally perfect for that role . Honestly if they just replaced a few actors and had Jackson supervising the production and script . It would had been one of the best shows out right now.
@@colebertram8482 soo true! 👍…you have great eye to detail, very thorough! I want him to play Elrond now that I’ve seen his face 👍👍👍
@@MaluluKeleGuiSila Maybe i have great eye for detail or ...it's sad that a random person in a comment section has a better casting line up than the actual billion dollar show does . Ugh lol . I appreciate it though.
When I heard about this show 3 years ago I had many casting ideas for all the characters. But I think just those two a lone would have had dramatic positive effect for the show.
@@colebertram8482 totally agree, those guys have money backing them but they have zero concept of what people look for smh
If I remember correctly, Tolkien was quoted saying how much he despised allegory and refused to enshrine it in his writing. So that was a huge swing and a miss by the writers of this show. There was very little in his work designed to have hidden/ symbolic meaning that referenced unexposed qualities of his world or characters. There were plenty of references to lore, but they were on the nose, as if two individuals were speaking of commonly known history.
I got chills of epicness while listening back to Sam talking to Frodon, that music in the background/flute and so... SO GREAT, and then... when it came to Guyladriel, I felt quite cooled down and any form of nostalgia, loveness and litteraly hope, vanished instantly. I just got annoyed. There was no passion, just a Mary Sue womansplaining stuff to her incompetent male subordonate.
Haha that’s second hand embarrassment with her sword twirling!!! What a great laugh I had watching that little clip. Galadriel does not need to wield a sword to be powerful. She was already powerful and a leader.
Usually, sword twirling looks like a silly flex. But here, I could _almost_ see a point in the twirling, as she turns her back to the troll during the twirl. If the troll managed to swipe at her head in that split-second, her sword just might nick its hand.
@@hermanrobak1285 ofc thats what warriors do. Never seen a fight? Watch mma, they make a pretty spin kick, then stand with their back the enemy, without looking awaiting the next move. They use all their senses, so they can see the attack coming just by vibrations in the air, its how its done, real shit, no shit.
@@aaaagamedev3524 In days of yore, I would have been certain you were mocking and not praising these dramatic flourishes. But in these days, the needle of my irony detector deflects chaotically...
What a poor way to promote a strong female character by making her a poor copy of Legolas.... but with less grace.
@@hermanrobak1285 classic "not sure if troll or just an idiot", its irony your needle is alright.
Lmao, why would Galadriel need to use a sword to kill a troll, she can just wave her hand gracefully and blow the troll up like in the hobbits.
Pretty sure she never did that in The Hobbit.
She had a contest of wills with Sauron as Luthien did thousands of years earlier having been taught by the same mistress in Doriath (Luthien's mother Melian).
Recognizing he could not win against Galadriel he fled to Mordor where he was strong(er).
@@mnomadvfx She blowed an orc up before that by waving her hand in the hobbit. And I don't get why everybody hates that she has a sword. With what else should she fight? Even Valar and Sauron use weapons in actual battles even Gandalf the most powerfull wizzard uses a sword so why wouldn't she?
I'm not judging the rest of the show but thats the one point where I just have to say for me it makes completly sense that she is displayed as a warrior.
She isn't like that... even in the books lmao.
@@CIrAzYIX Galadriel never appeared in The Hobbit. Nor did she wear armor or wield a sword. She was not a warrior nor was Gandalf "the most powerful wizard".
This show portrays Galadriel as nothing more than a modern day truck driver with an English accent.
@@bobharritech8460 I'm not sure about the book but in the movie she definitely appeared and made an orc explode with "magic"
There are lots of hints that she was a warrior in her youth, it's never stated literally but still it's not far fetched that she did fight with a sword at specific times like everybody else, including Gandalf the whole time. How is Gandalf not a warrior, he is fighting the whole time in the movies.
Your review is fantastic.
Focused, factual, and unforced pointed humor.
I subscribed immediately.
I wish I could give multiple thumbs up.
Thank you so much! That's so nice of you to say!
The whole thing is constipated. The actors, the dialogue, there is no love in the characters, there is nothing but conflict everywhere, I felt my chest tightening during almost every scene. The whole show is a protracted fart.
I thought that the friendship between Elrond and the dwarf prince was endearing, and how harfoot girl takes care of the man was also sweet.
I guess you really want to hate the show though
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 The Elrond/Durin thing was just utterly cringeworthy.
The dialogue plays it like a betrayed bromance, but the tone of the scene plays it much more like a lovers quarrel after a long separation.
If they are making them gay then they should just say it instead of writing these chickens**t half measures.
All I can think is that maybe it was a woman writing these scenes after watching bromances or reading about them in media.
Men and women have very different friend relationships from each other and this honestly plays much more like I would expect from a woman moaning to a friend that she didn't stay in contact.
Men do not do this in my experience. Ever.
Edit: confirmed episode 2 was written by a woman - makes a whole lot more sense now.
@@mnomadvfx if you think Elrond/durin stuff was gay, then Frodo/Sam relationship must be porn to you.
I just saw it as two friends, I think you might be projecting.
Galadriel is quite literally a representation of the Holy Mother, who prays for our sins.
You know who told me this? JRR Fucking Tolkein!
Go read the Tolkein Letters - #320 he states specifically: "“I think it is true that I owe much of this character to Christian and Catholic teaching and imagination about Mary” and he goes on to say that the critical essence of the character is her penitence and her role as an object of holy veneration - the mother who prays for us now and at the hour of our death, or to put it in more Tolkeinian terms, the comforter who comes to us "in the moments of greatest peril when all other lights go out.”
In the second age, Galadriel declines the offer of forgiveness and a chance to return to Valinor, not because she wants to go search for Sauron, but because her deep sense of guilt (as well as a certain amount of pride) does not allow her to just forget about The Rebellion and go on with her life. Instead, she retreats to the deepest forests of Middle Earth to DO PENANCE ON BEHALF OF HER RACE (if you dont know what she is doing penance FOR, I recommend that you buy a little book called "The Silmarillion").
Penance is the exact moral opposite of revenge. Tolkien - a devout Catholic - loathed the concept of revenge, and in his books he punished every character who was motivated by revenge. Anyone who understands Tolkien understands the moral foundation of his universe. A character as pure and as powerful as Galadriel could not possibly act on motivations of revenge. Not in Tolkiens universe.
Beautiful analysis and comment.
Thank you for carrying on Tolkien's spirit. 🙏 It's worth mentioning, that Sauron seduced the Elves by making them believe that with his help they could make Middle-earth as beautiful a place as Valinor.
In regards to the elves they were fair, long beautiful silky hair and smooth glowing beautiful/handsome faces. Even in the hobbit trilogy m. Especially Galadriel my goodness Blanchett killed her voice was angelic, the way she would walk her very presence commanded respect not the feminist bs respect but the as a wise extremely powerful being type of respect m. She brought an ethereal beauty, regal and otherworldly respected as ‘my lady’ my literally everyone! Wizards men and elves alike. Even our dwarf friend of Legolas was entranced by her and asked only for a strand of her beautiful golden hair. My gosh this show is a piss on the grave of Tolkien and his works.
This Galadriel is a much younger version not the older wise powerful lady she becomes in the end of the third age.
@@akashicrecords9672 didn't know galadriel was a feminist at some point early in her life LOL stop it. This amazon version is never going to work.
@@akashicrecords9672 Elves are naturally wise. Arrogant in their wisdom, yes. But they are not stubborn fools. These aren't elves
@@akashicrecords9672 At that point she was supposed to be over 1,000 years old, not some little twit.
@@akashicrecords9672 Galadriel was already an all powerful being in the Second Age. She was not a young and willful girl.
Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made
Gas Chambers?..a bomb
I dont think they are evil just flat out stupid.
@@iankearns774 They're not stupid (Amazon). They have an agenda, just like Disney.
@@praetorian3902 They are stupid if they cant see they have ostracised a great number of people, yes I am aware of the agenda of all the elites. They all play their little roles in driving in the Great Reset. Bezos is a part of it all as well.
Best message is to give 1 on imdb.
Along with this dumpster fire, what's also cringe is reading those tweets and reviews from those massive shills about how amazing the show is, going as far to say that it's an "absolute masterpiece" and that it "redefines television". Such a joke.
It really goes to show that these people shouldn't even be reviewing movies and have no idea what tf they're talking about.
Media complaining about the negative review bombs, how about complain about the blatant propaganda reviews written by hacks.
It is a great show. You guys hating on it are rediculous. And I'm someone who don't like wokeism myself.
I really like the show tbf...but I've also not read the books or watched the movies so I'm coming into it blind
@@Tirolian Naw, its bad. Lauren already laid out why.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” - some famous author.
Not Tolkien tho
"Creatures of dull and lumpish nature that had no more language than beast" just some author
Jesus Christ if I see this quote again I’m going to smack someone, find something original
@@eris-bubble2173 They all want to seem like such Tolkien scholars yet they dont even know this isnt his quote. Pathetic. Climb out of your own ass.
@@eris-bubble2173 😁😁
I was struck by the (poorly executed) use of the Irish accent, for the Harfoots, presumably to reinforce their itinerant, dirty, rural nature. The Wheel of Time series did the same thing with the Tuatha’an. I guess some minorities are more protected than others against cheap stereotypes.
Good job Amazon for making a series "from" Tolkien's works look inferior to the Game of Thrones franchise.
I mean.. In fairness. GOT is pretty good too. The early parts anyway. The dialog, twists and lack of plot armor are refreshing.
But this is like. Worse than the dungeons and dragons movies..
Rings of Power is a billion dollars spent on sets and CGI. They had nothing left for the best writers, directors and actors.
I think the intent was to wreck Tolkien; everything else is window dressing.
I agree. Screenwriting is not what it used to be. I’m actually disappointed with some of the dialogue. They didn’t have any dialogue references from Tolkien’s second age and they didn’t have an expert while writing. Not surprised but still sad
I don't understand how than can even greenlight a billion dollar movie if it has a bad script. It costs nothing to write a script. Not a cent should be spent on production until they have that right.
And the sets and CGI look shite anyway!
Lady Galadriel was hundreds of years old by the time of the second age and the reason she didn't return to Valinor at the close of the first, was her desire to rule her own kingdom as her best friend Queen Melian had. She was not seeking retribution or adventure, and when she ruled, there was a great similarity between her style and Melian's of effecting change in the world from within her own realm ( vis a vis the girdle of Melian).
Harfoot is how one of the tribes that came to be known as "Hobbits" were called in the Second Age. They lived in the East and had little to no contact with the elfs nor humans until hundreds of years into the Third Age.
love your asuma sarutobi pfp
The worst things these people do is not stay true to any source material. Just like Star Wars.
Tolkien hated allegories. In almost every edition of Lord of the Rings there is an introduction where he specifically says he disliked them ever since he knew what they were, so no they probably didn't even read that.
Just finished an audio book of The Fellowship of the Ring and there is 2 mins dedicated to him saying how much he hates allegories at the end. The man was VERY clear on his opinions lol!
I think it is kind of weird why tolkien said that because in lord of the rings, there are tons of christian influences and allorgies.
@@Revan-eb1wb influences yes, inspirations undoubtedly, allegories? Not at all, he even explicitly said that people may and have ascribed (incorrectly) allegories to his work, most notably the Nazis being the force of Sauron. He explicitly said it was a fantastical story from a fantastical world unrelated to ours.
That's why it is so loved around the world no matter the culture, it is escapism in its purest form.
As of 6:30 (PST) Rings of Power has a 84% critic score, and a 34% audience score. Amazon proper has suspended comments because they were getting overwhelmed with negative reviews. The show is both a vandalism of the legendarium, and just bad writing.
"Vandalism of the legendarium" whoa whoa whoa
@@queenghidorah1777 Whoa indeed. So much wasted potential. Evidently this is the result when Amazon hires two non-entity resumes to helm the most expensive TV project ever, which is just shocking to consider.
I'm broken on the inside because of this. The books were my secret joy in HS back in the day. The first trilogy was good but it got destroyed after that.
Simply don't watch it, problem solved
Somehow you'll get over it.l
I saw the animated version at the cinema in the 70's. Read the book LOTR in 1983. Coincidentally caddied for Christopher Lee at Gleneagles Hotel the same year. We talked, film. books, golf and life. I still have the photo of us together, my smile is a mile wide. He and Tolkien would be appalled at this abomination of his work.
Wow you lucky bastard… I wish I could have meet him in person, may he rest in peace. What kind of person was he in your opinion?
@@danzansandeev6033 Over the two days on the golf course i knew i was with someone who'd lived a life. He wasn't keen to talk about Dracula though and in fact was more interested in me, my life. Unlike other famous people i'd met there he was very approachable, chatty and dare i say, normal.
@@johnbarrett4846 man actors of that generation just had class
Read the books and then read them again.
You will want to.
When you put them down, you will be blinking and wondering, because the world you return to seems less real than the one you left in the books.
That is how good Tolkien's actual work is.
Absolutely. Read the three books at age 12 and the experience profoundly affected my entire life.
@@andrewsarchus6036
Me too.
Life changing.
The scrimping on the costumes, actors, writers, directors, producers and stunt/wire work is all summed up with just how many elves have short hair to save money and in the very few characters they did give wigs to and the quality of them and how they look. The CGI looks really good but that was the bare minimum of requirements if they wanted to try to replicate the original GOT.
OMG I busted a gut laughing when they pulled out those insanely large plastic swords while wearing that plastic armor. I've seen better homemade costumes and armor on LARPers.
They need to save money so bozos gf can afford some much needed plastic surgery.
My favorite scene was when Guyladriel said “It’s Morbin’ time” and killed that ice troll with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back. Truly one of the shows ever
Absolutely no tension in this scene. Remember that it took the entire fellowship to bring down one cave troll. Gandalf, aragorn, boromir, and legolas are all bitches next to guy ladriel LMAO so bad
Did you just have a stroke?
Tbh, thats not out of her character shes a 3000 years old elf and a direct descendant form the noldor house of finwe, shes pretty OP even in elvish terms
My favorite scene will be when she stares right into the face of Sauron and says “Hasta la vista baby” before blowing him away with a 12 gauge shotgun
@@sekokhan5307 she was never a warrior in lore. Galadriel’s strength has always been her wisdom
My favorite scene from episode 2 was when Arondir came back to Bronwyn with two whoppers, french fries and a coke, saying "Na, we don't do Lembas here but this stuff is actually quite good." Angelic, otherworldly being these Elves are. Tolkien at his best.
When Galadriel returned from Nam and told Elrond "you have not seen what I've seen!" Couldn't stop crying
Oh but he has... He saw his kin getting slaughtered
Typical wamen comment, they have to work all day, clean the house and feed the kids. The reality is no one asked them to go off to work or go off in search of orcs. Life was better for all when they were the wife and homemaker.
The symbolism of a black elf overloarding (its a military occupation, not just "keeping an eye on") over a white village for the sins of their ancestors is not lost on me. Funny how there is so much diversity everywhere else...
Die Hautfarbe ist meiner Meinung nach nicht das primäre Problem, es ist die physische Präsenz, und das Auftreten. Dieser „Elf“ hat in meiner Vorstellung so gar nichts mit einem Elfen gemeinsam, eher mit einem Marine, viel zu bullig eher ein Rambo, dann noch der passende Haarschnitt, also das Gesamtbild hat mir die Serie absolut ruiniert, das hatte für mich wenig mit der Hautfarbe zu tun, generell ist das Design der Elben absolut unpassend, diese Barbie Ken artigen schöngefönten Frisuren, das billig wirkende Design der Kostüme.. gruselig, bei dem Budget hätte mehr drin sein können.
Im fine with black charecters, but the whole "lets teach the audience about white privledge and their racism with this" made me hate it. We get it already we dont need lord of the rings to beat us over the head too
@@jonathansoko1085 Besser kann man es nicht zusammenfassen vielen lieben Dank genau so sehe ich es auch
@@Haesin68 ich finde den Schauspieler des schwarzen Elben auch extremst unsympathisch.
Dont forget the 'you people' line. Damn that scene was atrocious and for me the final straw to forever ignore this show.
Of course Galadriel is the only elf who actually knows how to use a sword. Because she is so much better than everyone else.
I totally agree with the comparison with House of the Dragon. I just don't care about any of the characters in Rings of Power. Anyone saying "give it a chance" is just shilling for Amazon at this point. We've all watched two full episodes out of 8 in this season. That's 25% of the season. If we're bored with what is there now then we're going to be bored for the rest.
Fantastic television tv show!!
My breathtaking favorite was when Mrs. Glaladriel said watch this and jumped off the boat yelling "Cannon Ball!!" and whoosh up in the air and SPLASH into the water and then swim, swim and swim!
Very much a scene on the tv show!!
Stunning and brave lol
Or as our German friends say, Arschbombe! which means the exact suggestive thing it sounds like.
I was bored after 30 minutes and skipped through the rest of the episode 1 and 2
From what I saw, all 2 hour episodes should be trimmed down to 20-30 minutes, it would have been much better. Basically nothing happens in the show. In 2 hours there was a terrible fight with troll and a meteor falling, which was mildly interesting. Rock breaking scene was meh at best. The rest is close up dialog with the worst writing I’ve heard in years. Basically nothing actors say is important to the story. They are just saying words. 10/10 best show ever. Stunning and brave
Well said man. The dialogue is fu** painful.
I had the very different opinion, I really liked the first two episodes. The dialog was good, sometimes a little odd but not bad in any way. Yes it is slow but that is just LoTRs, I haven’t read the books myself but one close friend has and he really liked it even tho the small changes.
@@commer0117 The show is great and visually a feast for the eyes. It's just an adaptation catered towards a wide global audience. These people are fake fantasy fans and are just salty because of dark Hobbits and black elves. The show feels like middle earth in a much earlier age get over it.
@@akashicrecords9672 you clearly have no idea what you are talking about
@@akashicrecords9672 lol..you are sooo wrong! Holy crap! On every account! Unbelievable! Bezos would be proud!
Haven't read the books, but the first episode had me wanting to start re-watching the LOTR trilogy. Right from the get-go I was reminded of how much better Blanchett was than Clark at narrating.
The elves were climbing like humans, lacking in agility. They obviously didn't have a proper fight choreographer and action director from the way Galadriel took down the snow troll. Would've come across a lot better if they all worked together like a well oiled machine to take down the snow troll, while Galadriel was commanding them to show that they're an elite unit.
And they were lacking the flair and otherworldliness or majestic aspect they had in the LOTR trilogy, not to mention the short hair on the male elves.
Choosing the route of the veteran warrior who's still at war was a misfire, not just bcos of the lore contradictions that everyone's talking about, but bcos we've seen that one done so many times before and with a level of nuance that we didn't see in this episode.
The dialogue was pretty generic, but also lacking bcos it's very obvious that they could've change the writing to allow for the characters to express themselves as more nuanced.
For example, Galadriel was being a dbag to her comrades and they could've given her lines to show that she emphasized with them and could see things from their point of view, while also making a case for her own in order to push them forward.
They didn't do a good job of leaving me with a good first impression of the characters.
Aside from that, the dialogue was also lacking the poetic nature that the LOTR trilogy had. That was a work of art and beauty.
I do like most of the visuals, sets and costumes, but some of the Elven armors and costumes looked a bit like cosplay.
Not into how the Elves acted so much like what you'd expect from humans. With all their centuries/millennia of experience, they acted as if they had only been alive for a few decades. With age comes a certain level of perspective because of all the things you've experienced and changed you.
The LOTR trilogy set a high standard, but they chose to take a shot at living up to it and the first episode failed. I say the same about The Hobbit trilogy.
Cate Blanchett was amazing. Clark is ok, and she is pretty good actor, but the character is so bad. Also she kinda looks crazy at times 😁😅
But more important Jackson's Galadriel was so much better character and easier to like.
The Hobbit had its faults but I have a thing for Evangeline Lily so I didn’t mind. And it wasn’t totally cringe like the steaming pile of dog chit that ROP is. And yeah I know Azog was dead by the time of the battle of the five armies but Jackson did that for continuity and epic effect, not to shove activist politics down our throats.
TH trilogy have a pretty bad reputation but in terms of reviews, ROP is being obliterated by the audience's reviews.
It felt like all the characters dislike each other. It was really strange to watch. They clearly tried to develop ‘tension’ but it came off just weird.
Alas, Amazon has been caught with their pants down in regards to the backlash to this series. That the VAST majority of Everyday Joes and Janes have simply tired of these woke, feminist, grrrlll power, forced diversity, representation over story and character development series.
Amazon never saw it coming, certainly not at this level, but were too far invested to turn back, leaving them with little choice but to double down and dig in their heels.
This series and its subsequent promotional ads will be used in film study classes on how NOT to make a show and how NOT to promote it for decades to come.
Watching her slay that ice troll thing should be shown in writing and film classes to show the importance of struggle. Lawd, Dem Rangs.
Tolkein did not like allegory. Plus, there is a good reason why his work is so beautifully written - because he understood the historical myths and legends in great depth and was a deeply spiritual person. You can't fake this stuff.
Idk if this valid or not but ever since i read the silmarilion i've always visualized galadriel as a womam showers with light n divinity as how angel is potrayed in real life especially in her ealy out of valinor after years touched by the divinity of the trees. I can see it in galadriel of lotr but not in ring of power. Cause she looks way too ordinary in that representation.
Got my like just for calling her Guyladriel!
Please continue the good work of defending Tolkien’s legendarium against Amazon’s incompetence and greed.
Guyladriel, very clever indeed
The hobbits’ stage-Irish accents made it almost unwatchable for me sadly. I’ve no doubt it was simply ignorance on their part rather than intentional hibernophobia but still quite disappointing to see the Irish accent/people caricatured as bumbling, simple, grubby … I suppose only Irish viewers and those familiar with Irish history would fully appreciate the insensitivity there so maybe I’ll get over it. Beautiful cinematography though!
I was very surprised and disappointed at this use of a phony “Irish” accident.
Be assured, most of us do not believe this pathetic portrayal of what is a wonderful noble and incredible culture. Be proud of your ancestors.
No no, I quite understand. I'm not Irish myself but it's become somewhat of a trope to use an Irish accent for any fantasy universe's group of people who possess simple, down to earth nomadic lifestyles.
Yup..and the most high spoke on high English.. hmm
Edit: even though, by who the elves were inspired by, they should have spoken Irish
I agree and suggest the Scottish accents for the dwarves didn’t seem to grate so much, but maybe that’s because we’re used to Gimli from the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films.
Don’t hate watch, if you must pirate the rest. We need that watch completion percentage as low as possible so Amazon gives up before it gets really bad.
Amazon's The Rings of Power is connected to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings in the same way Ghostbusters 2016 is connected to Ghostbusters 1984.
😂😂😂👍
Thank you for juxtaposing scenes from the Amazon show and the PJ trilogy with actual Tolkien quotes. It just makes is so obvious how mediocre the Amazon show writing and dialogue is.
Also "naked hobo Santa", I love it! :)
You nailed it, it's like they ordered their characters from wish to fit into their 4 star setting
Thanks for the review. I think I'll wait until the final reviews are in before checking it out. On a side note, my latest book was release in June and people are always asking me who would play the parts in the movie. 🙂 The main hero was easy, Sam Corlett (from Valhalla), but I never found the heroine until now. You look just like what I pictured in my head. Keep up the good work.
I had the exact same reactions to the same scenes you mentioned..the bad acting in trying to sound like Jackson's, random boring story about don lemon and some girl, guyladriel being static and one-dimensional, and the fact in that one scene he just said "south" and I remembered she was way up North and apparently went everywhere around the planet looking for orcs but didn't go the exact opposite direction of North.?..?
I'm wondering at what point Galadriel is having her daughter so that Elrond can marry her
Spot on review!
Also, it's funny some people are saying these episodes look "great" - check the armor at 6:19 ...it looks like a *very* poor idea of what our own medieval armor looked like, there's nothing to suggest any sort of Elvish influence, and *it looks like it's made from plastic* (which I'm sure it is - but it *should not* look like it is). Seriously, is this just a giant money laundering operation?!
That's my theory..only explaination
finally someone is saying it. Great video and I fully agree with your review. Thank you for finally saying what most have been avoiding. That art on your wall is beautiful also it reminds me of the spring van Gogh piece which is similar.
I was fine with most of it till the ice troll scene, your telling me that you have an elite group of elven warriors and they all get their butts kicked easily and only guyladriel had the skill to defeat it? Lol why couldnt they have filmed it showing how elite that warrior group is and have them dispatch the troll together showing why such a small group can be hunting sauron, this scene showed that only guyladriel should be hunting him lol unless thats whst they were trying to convey
Watching the first 2 episodes made me realize I wish there was a history style documentary of middle earth
I’m glad you bought up the look of the elves. The pointy the ears they were reminding me of the kind you buy at a season Halloween shop. It almost has me thinking someone pulled a prank on them.
This past two weeks your videos keep showing up on my feeds, after watching a few of ur vids, I started to enjoy your content, keep up the good work, subscribed
I only watched the first episode and thought it was just ok. It has insane production value and is beautiful to look at but was lacking in writing and pacing IMO.
the second episode is better, but still not great. You know a show is bad when after 2 hours you don't like the main characters.
Yea... Elrond is damn badass in the lore. He is a warrior and capatin of the armies of Gild-galad. He is also his herald and an experienced politician. But yea. He also not being an elven lord. His brother is literelly a king...
That moment when Guyladriel says she knows and then Elrond said he kinda knows too but she proved only she knows...with her eyes. I couldn't stop not breathing.
I cant believe you dont even have a full 50k subs yet... Amazing content, amazing review, please keep posting more! :)))
You just got a sub, i agree with every bit of this review- and I know very little of the lore and the books- aside from the movies. This show is like a beautiful, polished turd
Fellowship of the ring came out when I was 12. I still remember going to the movie with my dad. There’s a before fellowship and after for me. For the next several years I became totally engrossed with middle earth to an embarrassing extent. I’m supposed to be an adult now but I still have Aragorns sword on my wall. Point is, this was a major pop culture moment for me. I’ve been dreading this show and after seeing it, it was just meh. I liked some things. I thought it looked good, the music is good, the sets and costumes are great and I love what I’ve seen of the Orcs. But Galadriel is just so one note. It’s like they took her couple scenes from all 6 movies and said do that instead of giving her a personality and why do all the elves have short hair? Cause it’s really bothering me. There were scenes in there that I really liked but the whole time I’m thinking, does this even need to exist? I would love a great ongoing middle earth series but I don’t think this is it. There are so many stories that you could focus in on and flesh out as opposed to condensing the entire 2nd age into a show. I’m gonna keep watching out of curiosity. It can’t be worse than She-Hulk
Keep watching is basically saying: 'Please give me more of this' and reducing yourself to a statistic. You can only use this approach for things you dont care about.
Dont cry if they ruin another property you like. You are part of the problem in that case.
@@jeroenschaafsma138 why are you taking things so seriously? Whether you watch or not is gonna bring down Amazon and end woke tv shows ruining our favorite IPs. It’s all artificially inflated. As long as the money is there and the people in charge want it, they’re gonna keep going. Viewership doesn’t matter especially not at the company run by the richest man. Also, I’ll watch what I want. I’m not one of those who’s gonna boycott something over their shitty politics. I like Star Wars, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones etc. Most of them have all been infiltrated by woke politics. I couldn’t watch anything if I sat there and said no way I’m only gonna watch things that I agree with 100% I’m a fan of middle earth. I want to see what ends up happening. I’ll watch these shows and enjoy what I can and roll my eyes at the rest
@@SirDenzington89 Sure you can watch what you want
"If you don't want spoilers..."
Yeah, I have no intention of watching that travesty, Lauren.
The show started just how I thought it would. A young girl being bullied by some boys, who then becomes a flawless and strong independent woman who needs no man, who is better at what men do and is determined to put men in their place. Typical Mary Sue that we saw over and over.
ROP is going to be for the Middle Earth films what “Answer the Call” was for the Ghostbusters films:
It puts a halt to the claim that The Hobbit films / Ghostbusters 2 were terrible
The part when Galadriel said "it's payback time", loaded the minigun and unleashed hell on the Uruk-hai horde!!!
Omg one of the best scenes ever 🔥🔥🔥
Galadriel was a bloody sorceress, a prophetic seer, and a Queen. She was born a royal elf to a King and Queen. Her daughter Celebrian was married to Elron and was the mother of Arwen. So, Galadriel was Elron's mother-in-law and the grandmother of Arwen. The idea that Galadriel carried a sword and subject to anyone, but her royal parents is laughable. She was a Princess - and by the time the second age occurred she was already very old- not a child - and was married to Celeborn her lifelong mate (since childhood) and husband. At the beginning of the second age, they both ruled as Lord and Lady over Gil-galad... This Amazon abomination is so far off of who Galadriel really was (in the Tolkien Universe), that it would have been better just to create entirely new character from scratch and NOT use the name Galadriel. GUYladriel is a good name and maybe that character was the very distant cousin of Galadriel or something.
Only thing I can say about the RoP is I really miss Cate Blanchett……….
i mean from the trailer i could see the elves don't look or sound like the elves from the book. they're otherworldly and beautiful and also slow. Galadriel is beautiful and strong and little scary since she's hella powerful but she's not like Eowyn who is more of a shield maiden but that's what the show turned Galadriel into.
But Miranda Otto made Eowyn a hottie. GuyLadriel is ugh!
Want an epic series with beautiful visuals, good acting and charismatic characters? Keep the House of Dragon
The costume design was horrible too. The discount Hobbits to the plastic elf armor
Galadriel: You started a massacre!!!!
Elrond: The means to an ends.
Galadriel: You betrayed the law!!!!!!
Elrond: Laaaaaaaawwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!
What? No comments yet.....UNACCEPTABLE! 😾Our boy, Jere-meme over at TheQuartering covered this today as well and let's just say... it is not looking good!
EDIT: Ummmm, hello. Am I seeing what I _think_ I am seeing when the camera pans away from her looking upon the helmet? She is wearing clothing that is sheer and cinematography seems to be a bit "revealing" in this shot!
Have you thought about to get in contact with the friday night tights? It's that live-stream where also the critical drinker takes part. They have more or less the same viewpoints and taste as you, you would fit perfectly there.
You definitely have the expertise, thats for sure.
I thank you kindly, you make it possible that I dont have to watch that hellfire of wokeness sparing me from frogastric ulcers! Thanks
I was on my phone by the time Galadriel yeeted elfself into the water during Naval Choir Practice.
Oh man, that bit about the cage by Eowyn, princess of Rohan, still hits hard to this day! She's such a bro, but also a woman. Contrast that to "I always thought I'd take my place among the elites." Who wants to help or be buddies with that bitch?
Lauren, I respect you and have been a fan of your channels for a long time (even before you worked for Blaze), so please don't take this the wrong way. I've read both The Silmarillion and the Trilogy upwards of 10 times in the last fifteen years ever since I was in high school, and I thought the first two episodes were very well done. Although Amazon doesn't have the rights the Silmarillion, they also can't contradict the Silmarillion. Morfydd Clark's Galadriel will be the Galadriel we know from the Third Age by the end of this series, that will be her journey as a character, but she's not that person yet. At this point she's still the young headstrong elf that Tolkien wrote her as in the early First and Second Ages. One of my favorite parts of the first episode was the exchange between Galadriel and Elrond in which Elrond is both firm with her yet as a friend, and he says that if there is a whisper of what she suspects, he will not rest until it is put right. Part of the series will be seeing Galadriel and Elrond help each other into becoming the Elves we know them to be from the Trilogy. However, they were not those characters in the 2nd Age. Also, you mentioned how the Elves in Peter Jackson's movies were "glowing" while these were not; I suggest you re-read the Silmarillion, because the Elves in especially the First Age but also the Second were nothing like they were by the Third Age. By the Third Age, the Elves time in Middle-Earth was coming to an end, and thus, they were much more ethereal, withdrawing themselves, so the Age of Men could dawn. I thought the these two episodes made good homages to Tolkien. Another of my favorite scenes in the series was when Celebrimbor told the story about how Feanor's art nearly turned the heart of Morgoth himself. That technically isn't in the canon story in the Silmarillion, but the line began with "They say," implying only a rumor that had been told, and I thought it conveyed Tolkien's ideas about Art and Creativity very well, especially as we read in Leaf by Niggle and the essay "On Fairy Stories". I've only seen Peter Jackson's movies a handful of times, but I've read the Trilogy, the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, the Three Great Tales, the entire History of Middle Earth, the Nature of Middle Earth, and Tales from the Perilous Realm, many times, and I thought the series did a good job. Yes, they made changes, but I didn't find those changes worse than the changes that Peter Jackson made. My biggest worry has to do with how they're going to adequately convey the mortality of Men with the condensed timeline. I would have loved to see a series in which Humans are re-casted every season because the characters we grew close to had simply grown old and died. The mortality of Men is one of the major elements that leads to the Breaking of the Ban of the Valar that leads to Illuvatar ultimately destroying Numenor and re-shaping the world. Hopefully, they find a way to adequately convey human mortality.
Great comment
I See You're a Man of Culture, most of ppl use PJ movies as the only source of Tolkien lore and that is sad.
Isn't the lore already being massively broken? Sauron has already been revealed to be evil and all the wars against him have been fought and yet they haven't started forging his rings?? Am I missing something or misremembering? I haven't read this stuff in years.
Regarding Guy-ladriel - I don't think it was ever implied that she went on some solo crusade against the forces of darkness. Honestly it reminds me of how the Rangers were said to have lived but she did it for 'centuries'...and then later when we catch up to her in the third age she is just ready to leave Sauron alone? Doesn't this set up some controversial motivations for her? I mean honestly, for her to be the ONLY ONE to correctly diagnose the threat of Sauron and for that just to be unmentioned in any books or Jackson's Trilogy...doesn't this seem off to you? Isn't this clearly the result of propaganda and not a naked desire to simply tell good stories? None of the legendary male elves that populate this age are jumping around like ninjas single handedly slaying trolls - no it's the female of course. Does knowing something is propagandizing you not give you some instinctual resentment?
@@Tartersauce101 You massively misremember. As for Galadriel, it is implied that she took arms, the show is expanding on that implication and that's just inevitable given the nature of Tolkien's posthumous works.
@@riccardo5281 Where am I wrong? And also yes ofc she was involved in the war, and they are simply overinflating her, I know that.
Were there no dwarves depicted in the war with Morgoth? Because if I remember right, the dwarves were created specifically to fight his forces and him. That's a poor thing to do to the dwarves in a show they wanted to have diversity and representation in over story.
No the dwarves were created because Aule, one of the gods wanted to create life by his own and was mercifully allowed to do so by Eru Iluvatar
They did fight Morgoth in at least one battle which was the Sudden Flame one that I believe was the first time Morgoth used Dragons. I don’t recall if they were present in any great number in any of the other battles of note.
@@archmageeldran2567 I didnt say the dwaves didnt fight Morgoth, I said that they werent created for that very purpose. They were created for the sake of creation.
@@guru7968 sorry didn’t mean to imply that you did say that. I was just pointing out battles where they did fight.
hahahaha, great video, i love your point of view entirely! , amazon give us the rings of SHT, a new world of bad dialog, bad actors (not all), bad scripts, and they pretend that this is the new way to see the lord of the rings, common!
I was 30 minutes into the first episode then I started watching Peaky Blinders.
Honestly, I wouldn't have minded if Galadriel became a warrior but certainly not a sword carrying one. I find Archery more elegant and ethereal.
It's just that she's supposed to be more of a compassionate character. Her mind is her main weapon and her presence alone is awe-inspiring. That's why Gimly becomes completely smitten when he first meets her. Granted this version is younger but when you envision Galadriel, you don't see a her fighting an orc in the mud.
She seems pretty young and hot headed here, not the calm wise galadriel we see later, so i think it fits her
Hahahahaha
@@heyy1829 she's a sorceress. Magic is her power and weapon. With just her stares and a slight release of her magic waves, even trolls don't have to be touched by blades to be defeated.
@@heyy1829 Galadriel is a philosopher queen.
It's not for defending this TV show, but there's no show or movie to this day that could compare to the books. You defend PJ's movies, and I like them a lot, even the Hobbit, but they changed a lot of very core things in the story: No scourge of the shire (maybe the most important chapter in all three books), Hollywood unbeatable Legolas (pretty far from Legolas from the books with stupid and insufferable action sequences, he is blond and skinny, so he is cool), Hollywood Buffon Gimli (extremely far from the books, completely ruin the character, you can tell reading the books that he is the most proficient warrior in the fellowship, even Aragorn was impressed by him, but to PJ's and Hollywood he is short and fat, so he is funny), the Oathbreakers killed everything in Pelannor fields, they might as well continue and kill all armies of Mordor and Sauron himself, and the list go on...and I'm not even covering the changes in the Hobbit, because actually it doesn't matter, still are enjoyable movies
So, considering the TV show owners only have rights for a very small part of the second age, if PJ changed a lot of things (some of them understandable and some of them completely stupid IMO), it is obvious that they will change a lot (A LOT!) of things to fill those holes.
The bottom line here is: Is just a god damn TV show, as the movies were just movies, and none of them will ever could be compared to the books
I consider myself a hardcore Tolkien's Legendarium fan, but if I had your attitude I couldn't even enjoy PJ's movies, which I do because, I understand that this is the best that real world productions can do for hardcore fanboys like me. (it's a very sad thing to say, but it's true)
PS: I didn't like the armors of some the characters, they look like made of plastic.
You identify two things that also really jarred, for me, in the films: the army of the dead’s cartoonish overrunning of the enemy, and Legolas defying the laws of physics. The rest I found forgivable, due to the limitations of adapting book to screen. I, too, would have liked to see the scouring of the Shire, and the hobbits in the Barrow Downs for that matter, but some sacrifices had to be made in what was already 10 hours of film.
When you played Guyladriel's voice over, that music in the background, I'm sure came from the old 1970's Milk Tray adverts.
And so we begin Guyladriel's quest to find the manager, Soyron.
Why u call her guyladriel? it's galadriel
@@oliyb Not this day, mellon. Not this day.
@@Dan-pt2tn You make no sense.
@@oliyb did you watch the video? 4:20
@@rpscorp9457 Yeah, not quite the same but she is Welsh. 🤪👌
the music made me think of those electronic pianos with the "choir" setting everytime they played the elfy elf music. in the original trilogy the singing had actual lyrics and meaning. I also noticed some of the actors seemed to have difficulty holding an accent a couple times in episode one. The elves are played too human to me, that's the vibe I was getting. They're just humans with pointy ears, they don't have that age old immortal wisdom vibe
( So many of the male elves have short hair and I really don't like it)
love the new name Guy-ladriel 🤣
Number one Tolkien never had Galadriel going after Sauron. Number two Tolkien never depicted Galadriel as having or using a sword or wearing armor and using her brawn or brute force in taking care of the enemy. She used her intelligence and magic. All of this is just flat out absent in Tolkien's legendarium. The Galadriel of rings of power doesn't exist but is an Amazon Prime's creation. She's never given the title by Tolkien commander of armies and leading them into battle. So you're really missing a lot here in your review. So back to the beginning, Tolkien never once in even just one sentence describes her as having a sword or using a sword.
"When I see Sauron, I'll say 'My name is Guyladriel. You killed my brother. Prepare to die. But it's been a few centuries now. I'm beginning to lose confidence."
8:00 "...she is sent back to Valinor..."
Wait, what? I didn't hear that correctly. I couldn't possibly have heard that correctly.