Rings of Power Finale is worse than you think

[@JonnyLawYT]

Thank you for joining me for Rangsss season 2 guys, I'm proud of you for making it out.

[@bonniemoon6790]

Nah man thank YOU. You funny as ill get out and turned a dooky poo poo show into enjoyable content to watch. Just subbed recently too, hope you do well in the upcoming days, and if/when you get big remember to stay you. Too many youtubers get big heads once they get a lot of subscribers. Anyway, i wish you the best my dude, God bless amd keep you.

[@ryanhitchin4029]

Looke like we will be seeing you for season 3 now 😅

[@randomthings1293]

Thank you for this amazing review, Small Dick McNuggets

[@mxvega1097]

Now your task has ended, get some vitamins, a dark room, plenty of water, and rest away this cruel season of cultural desecration. The fandom abideth. Actually, can you come in on the weekend??

[@randomthings1293]

Thank you for all these amazing reviews, Small D * ck McNugget

[@squoblat]

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Sonic turned up, got stabbed by Morgoth and shat out 9 rings of power .

[@Crazybirdlady23]

Gold mate 😂

[@thlis6582]

LMFAO

[@Atraeos]

Peak comment 😂

[@aldairgonzalez8876]

Isn't that basically what happened to Celebrimbor?

[@rbo3193]

Brilliant comment 🙏

[@ffelegal]

I'm so glad they hired the same Balrog as The Lord of the Rings. It's so hard for them to find jobs these days.

[@talyn7448]

You dropped this 👑.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Balrog lives matter

[@cristela4034]

Gotta have that Balrog representation.

[@JonnyTheRevelator]

Not the same this one has wings :D

[@DeleteExistence]

He's got the same moveset too

[@weekendatbidens8652]

I was waiting for Bombadil to say, “ur a wizard, Gandalf.”

[@originalsainthood]

grand wizard

[@weekendatbidens8652]

@@originalsainthood oh gross, that too.. “they’ll call me “Gandalf” won’t they?” 😬

[@guangdali1762]

Pretty sure season 3 gandalf starts with bombadil's wizard hat

[@weekendatbidens8652]

@@guangdali1762 RAVENCLAW!

[@drkushajagadeesh6347]

Or, the sea captain dude (who's name I do not know) say to Isildur, "I am your father" 🤣

[@scottmataga5907]

It keeps stunning me how JRR Tolkien got so many things wrong about the Second Age, overlooking the relationship between Sauron and Galadriel, getting the timing of the arrival of the Istari wrong by thousands of years, misidentifying the leader of the orcs in Mordor who invaded Eregion, ignoring the powers of the rings and so much more. Thank God for the determination of the showrunners to correct his errors.

[@takuid]

one lemon I came across online told me "JRR" was lazy in his characterization of orcs lmao. you know, the torturing, serial killing orcs needed story arcs and backgrounds. fascination with pure evil of modern men/women should be studied and researched at the graduate level at this point.

[@veronicadavanzo2064]

@@takuid I think it's because they identify more strongly with orcs than any other character.

[@randomchannel323]

Yeah guys the tolkien scholars looked over it, they are right they know more than the man himself of course

[@roryasrorri701]

​@@veronicadavanzo2064it's true. the showrunners cried when Sauron was defeated for all the wrong reasons.

[@Dirty_Hamble]

😂😂

[@allenwilhelm7799]

That they made Isildur an adulterer is beyond fucked

[@jrconway3]

"but they're only betrothed!" These people don't understand that betrothal in the past was a binding marriage, you just didn't consummate yet. This is not a modern engagement where you can break any time you want.

[@veronicadavanzo2064]

I know, I HATED that scene. Actually, I disliked Astrid or Estrid or EstrousCycle or whatever her name is from the moment she was on screen.

[@shadf7902]

Hes a commercial break, same as all the harfoots, gandalf, and numenor

[@AliceBowie]

It's people with a Game Of Thrones level of morality trying to infect Tolkien with that same level of depravity.

[@Eloquent444]

Or that he is indian or something. Like comon

[@stephenholbrook4391]

Gandalf’s staff looks like his staff from LOTR…..buuuut, shouldn’t it look like the staff from The Hobbit..???

[@ssoory6343]

If you start listing the inconsistencies and loopholes of this show, you will be there till the end of 4th age

[@brentmorris736]

Can't use logic or lore with this show. Amazon is on a mission to destroy Tolkiens work.

[@lesath7883]

No, because the staff from LOTR is more recognizable.

[@YeshwanthReddy]

He stashed it temporarily in his staff collection wardrobe for the Hobbit trilogy

[@weekendatbidens8652]

@@stephenholbrook4391 in the hobbit film he gets his staff from Radagast. 🤷 their timeline is so messed up. It’s embarrassing. 🙈

[@Pozorrogo]

When Galadriel stopped in her tracks because Sauron was hot again, When I say I HOWLED AT THE SCREEN OH MY GOD. I had to rewind it to make sure I was sure what I just saw. This show is like a fcking acid trip after you fell asleep watching the LOTR trilogy

[@creatrixZBD]

I was saying (to myself, alone with the screen lol), “ugh, this is like Degrassi, with everyone just having crushes on everyone like randy teenagers.” Ship, ship, ship it was ridiculous

[@adyajlp]

Lol I rewound like 6 moments in that episode to make sure it was what I thought I saw. Especially in the fight scene when Sauron 'cuts' Galadriel despite him missing her completely and there being no blood but if he missed why do they act like he didn't?! I kept thinking there's no way all this crap could get past the editing room, people who make TV can't be that bad at making TV but the way it's done it's like they're proud of all the nonsense. Or they noticed all the errors but thought "screw it it's half 5 on a Friday just send it"

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

ROP: "we're making Galadriel into a strong female character" Also ROP: *makes Galadriel forget all her power for a man because he's hot* Do they even understand the progressive ideas they want to embody?

[@alastairleith8612]

@@adyajlpTolkien as screwball comedy. they don’t call Bezos an evil (crypto-fascist) genius for nothing!

[@Arcessitor]

@@lordfreerealestate8302 Uh, yes? Progressivism is rife with internal contradictions, there's nothing wrong with their depiction here. Remember all those radfems who talked about their wet dreams about Trump on twitter?

[@TheSmashism]

She straight up said "I got the ick" as a justification for cheating on her dutiful husband lmaooo. That's not romance! Betting a twenty these writers are either chronically single or 'poly'

[@Auxius.]

The romance is my favorite cringe of the show, they never once accidentally did it correct. Isildur was great, but so was the harfoot one or Elrond/galadriel. It’s so awkward and distasteful.

[@ChrisGrahamkedzuel]

And once again they don’t know how elves work. Elves are big time monogamous and literally mate for life. There’s only one time when an elf remarried and he had to have permission from the Valar to do that.

[@supersuede6493]

@@ChrisGrahamkedzuel And even that was because his wife didn't want to return.

[@reallybig4868]

Poly? You mean slut

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@ChrisGrahamkedzuel that's because elves don't truly die, they get reborn with their memories on Valinor eventually.

[@brookpederson738]

the whole ignoring arrondir being stabbed is actually insane.

[@aldairgonzalez8876]

He got healed by the power of friendship

[@johnsullivan937]

I'm more dumbfounded by the fact that giladriel survived a 250ft sheer drop off a cliff. She should be a pile of bones/organs splattered across the ground.

[@shadf7902]

​@@aldairgonzalez8876hes wolverine, why not? We got batwoman dwarf a few episodes before that.

[@ph4kiew]

Why's no one talking about how clean Uruk's sword was after he'd stabbed Arrondir with it?

[@aldairgonzalez8876]

@@shadf7902 holy shit I'd forgotten that, next season we'll have the "he's behind me isn't he" with Sauron

[@duckyduck3375]

I could not imagine a world where I have to watch this show all by myself. These KZbin reviews are like counseling for me, I urgently needed someone to pat my back and tell me: "It's going to be fine it will all be over soon." What even is this show?

[@chefskengko184]

Same reason I recommend the show to everyone.

[@josephbassey1501]

​@@chefskengko184stop recommending this abomination to everyone Mocking it on KZbin is the way

[@annienglish4378]

@@duckyduck3375 same here!

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Arondir: 'Tis but a scratch! Audience: A scratch? Your arm's off! Arondir: No it isn't.

[@lancewalker2595]

So Numenor was corrupted WITHOUT Sauron’s influence? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? THAT IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THE SECOND AGE.

[@vincestapels2022]

A proper adaptation could have made Nemenor's corruption amazing. The Numenorians building the black alter of sacrifice due to Sauron's influence. Showing what was written in the lore: Numenor being technologically advanced like Atlantis from mythology.

[@randomperson-up5vt]

They couldn't write the show properly for it. They would need sauron to get stomped first by a massive human army. Along with show casing humans for at least time being the most powerful species in this world. Then over hundreds of years slowly and I mean slowly convincing people, they could attain immortality if they just in invaded the elf lands.

[@zatchbell5678]

Yeah now Numenor and everything else are basically two unrelated plot lines, not to mention desert wizard and the chucklebugs

[@VolkerWendt-vq8pi]

Of course it was. The Numenoreans fell "off the path" long before Pharazon. Roughly 400 years before

[@Vladimir_Fedorov27]

@@VolkerWendt-vq8pi not "raiding the faithful homes" though. That was definitely Sauron's idea.

[@carolyns99]

So Saurrrrron could yeet a bimbo off the battlements with a flick of his wrist but couldn't stop Galadrrrrrrriel from falling? And then didn't look over the cliff and see her bounce off the very convenient pine tree? And then didn't go and look for her to retrieve the ring? Did he have an urgent appointment with his hair-dresser?

[@quietspecialist487]

Best comment!

[@lukabaric-ud4ht]

I hit a moskito with fist...saw him faling down behind table and spend 3 minutes loking for his broken body so i can finish him...

[@oldaxehead655]

There is no logic in this show. She suicide dives with the ring when she simply could have tossed it. Literally jumps to her death for no reason. She does all this bad ass fighting(not really) in other episodes, slays trolls and holds the Middle Earth World Records for Orcs Slain(fun fact) but can't actually attempt to kill Sauron when given the oppurtunity?

[@weekendatbidens8652]

I said, “oh, fuck you” at least 13 times during the episode. Three minimum when Galadriel fell off the Empire State Building and somehow lived. Eol, is rolling in his crater.

[@veronicadavanzo2064]

Right, because no Elf ever dies from falling from a high place! :/

[@lukeellis758]

As soon as the stranger said they will call me gandalf, I turned it off ad gave up on the show, didn't watch the last few minuites and I won't be watching season 3, its a huge joke man :(

[@weekendatbidens8652]

@@lukeellis758 it’s a huge disappointment.

[@lukeellis758]

@@weekendatbidens8652 the billion dollar fuck up

[@weekendatbidens8652]

@@veronicadavanzo2064 cough* Cough* Saeros and Galdor

[@n0vitski]

Isildur wasn't really corrupted by the ring in the books. From what I understand, noone quite knew the danger the ring would pose after Sauron was defeated, and Isildur tried to tame it and use it for good. However, when he realized that he can't do that, he decided to destroy the ring. He was on his way carrying the ring to Elrond when the orcs attacked and killed him, and the ring was lost. So to the end he wasn't truly corrupted. His instant gollumofication is an invention of the movies.

[@jrconway3]

Yeah I've read the context about how Isildur was in the books and its really disappointing how the movie made him more evil and corrupted. The films did more things like this for tension, including with Boromir's character as well. He's a lot worse in the films, too.

[@veronicadavanzo2064]

You are right. Tolkien Untangled did an excellent video on this called Isildur Did Nothing Wrong. Worth a watch.

[@Dave.Weiss.]

Blame Jackson

[@vincestapels2022]

Love Jackson's Trilogy, but he did change many of the main characters personalities greatly. Movie Gimli is hilarious and quotable, but book Gimli was truly a dwarf with class and bravery!

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@vincestapels2022 Faramir got it the worst honestly. Torturing Gollum? That's not something the good guys in Tolkien do.

[@pabliux142]

When The Stranger grabbed the deus ex staff and looked to the camera and said "It's Grand Elfin' time" that really hit me

[@mckennaConfig]

I was fully expecting Adar's real name to be Celeborn.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Same. I guarantee Adar was gonna be Celeborn at some point.

[@rebel_diamonds]

​​@@GeraltofRivia22I would say that he can't be cause Adar is the "first orc' and Celeborn went missing fighting orcs, but this show doesn't really care about any continuity even its own or the linear progression of time so anything is possible.

[@ZackRekeSkjell]

I expected that reveal too for a second there!

[@cosmicmuffin322]

I wondered about that, but I suspected that would be too bold of a choice for writers who do the absolute minimum, spin the plot out as slowly as possible, and tease the audience with the promise of something interesting. And what do you know, I was right.

[@bonniemoon6790]

The warming their thoughts up in a microwave was GENIUS 🤣😆

[@cosmicmuffin322]

Somehow Temu Gandalf is a "grand elf" despite not claiming to be an elf or....you know, having pointy ears.

[@Neon002121]

Perhaps the real rings were the billion dollars we set on fire along the way.

[@arctain1]

It was absolutely bad. Evil bad. Like, purposely anti-Tolkien evil. Like Meslier missing that simple stop in the 7th minute of stoppage to squander the win against Sunderland. THAT kind of nasty, apparently purposeful evil.

[@ZugzugZugzugson]

"Gandalf, that's what they're going to call me isn't it?" Bro the audience quite literally referred to this guy as NOT-GANDALF for like 2 years straight. i cannot.

[@alexmmin]

Imagine in 10 years some teenagesr watching LOTR universe for their 1st time in a chronological order and be like: "lol Peter Jackson stole that from Rings of Power, what a dork." And by the time wikipedia is heavy edited and tells them they are right.

[@colbunkmust]

It wouldn't be chronological order because RoP isn't part of the LotR universe. My proof? I mean, have you watched the show...

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Worst part is you might be actually right

[@lucpelletier]

This show will be thoroughly forgotten in 10 years though, while the Jackson trilogy will still be a classic. No one outside of KZbinrs talk about this show

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

"Disinformation! Peter Jackson stole these ideas from The Rings Of Power!"

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

It's part of some deeper modern mindvirus.. it is shocking how many young people can't comprehend that Frodo and Sam aren't lovers..... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@giokun100]

It's because true friendship is a thing of the past

[@cosmicmuffin322]

Let's not exaggerate - the majority of people and fans don't give any time to that BS. It's always the most extreme minority that gets disproportionate attention. Yes shipping is cancer but its appeal to most fans is exaggerated.

[@cosmicmuffin322]

​​@@giokun100no it's not. The information age just gives the worst minorities a voice and suddenly we feel like it's everywhere. Then we feel cynical and the observation bias sets in. And the cycle continues. People are pretty much the same as we've always been. We just need to stop letting these cynical, destructive Hollyweirdos influence us and our cultures. Once we do that, the fog will clear.

[@UncensoredScion]

Gandalf's a Wizard, Harry. I can't believe they reference Harry Potter in this stinking pile, it's absolute insane levels of bad.

[@billbillinger2117]

I mean... They didn't buy the rights to The Silmarillion for a reason... They can make their own horrifyingly terrible fan fiction as cannon now. I'd be surprised if we didn't get an HP or whatever other IP crossover at some point..🤢

[@NewDawnRS2499]

I want to clarify something... Rings of Power Galadriel is stabbed with the so called "Crown of Morgoth," repeatedly slashed by Sauron, stabbed by Adar, cut on her neck, and then falls over 164 feet from a cliff and still survives? Are you serious? Elves are not invincible!

[@shadf7902]

Not a single wound on her, mutant healing factor? Hahahahhahaha shows dumb af.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

She survived the eruption of Mt Doom at ground point zero, too, being swamped by a pyroclastic blast.

[@NewDawnRS2499]

@@v1e1r1g1e1 yeah that was BS too

[@FantasyVisuals]

Galadriel was engulfed by an exploding volcano in season 1 and unscathed. Why are you surprised ?

[@NewDawnRS2499]

@@FantasyVisuals oh I didn’t agree with that either

[@marymaza2187]

20:36 "A wizard doesn't find his staff. IT finds him." This is basically the same line Ollivander said to Harry Potter when he got his wand: "A wizard doesn't choose the wand. The wand chooses the Wizard.""

[@shadf7902]

Gandalf you're a wizard harry.

[@felippogaglianoneneto621]

One does not simply quote Harry Potter in a Lord of the Rings show!

[@billbillinger2117]

I was half expecting him to walk into Olivanders and get his staff.

[@ssoory6343]

Morfyd Clarke's expressions in these *cough cough* "epic" scenes are comedy gold

[@toodlescae]

What expressions? The scowl, pinched lips or the nose wrinkle. Those are the sum of her expression s.😂

[@sourstuff]

17:10 I thought she was gonna say, “heal THIS” *grabs junk*

[@jaypeadieL611]

That is a way better ending then killing yourself just to inconvenience the darklord. He may regenerate but the pain will remain and will not be forgotten. Its like how Optimus Prime wanted to die with the cube but forgot that it would also mean leaving Megatron free to do anything without Optimus to stop him.

[@nonstopanimations101]

I died

[@kleindropper]

I can't believe Glug didn't make it. He was my favorite. Justice for Glug!

[@shadf7902]

He was my favorite goblin lol, there are no orcs in this show.

[@roryasrorri701]

gluglugluglugluglug

[@jaypeadieL611]

After the orczi burning of the books, i guess the elves are now jews?

[@iordanisfra]

who the fuck is glug

[@Cassandra112]

galadriel gets beaten by a 5ft fall. can barely move. then survives a 600ft one. lol. hadar doing a complete 180 on his plans. god this show. "im going to seige eregion for no reason! Im going to refuse to cooperate with galadriel to get sauron! die elves! give me your ring! I've won!" "you know what, now I've won, heres your ring back, also, Im leaving and taking my orcs back to modor, and making peace with elves." what even the hell.

[@AliceBowie]

The thing that blows my mind more than how horrible this show is, is how there are a bunch of people on YT who love RoP and think it's brilliant. If you watch any of the videos where they give it positive reviews, the comments are full of people praising the show as the best thing ever. It's completely insane. Maybe they're paid shills, that's a more comforting idea than the idea someone actually thinks it's good.

[@zatchbell5678]

​@@AliceBowiefor real, it genuinely frightens me to think that any significant number of sentient, critical thought endowed human beings think this is good, *especially* after having seen the Jackson trilogy.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

I honestly think that Amazon does not understand the lore on the elves. They heard that elves lived forever and assumed they couldn’t be killed even though the brother was killed in the first episode.

[@shadf7902]

Just the elves eh? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AliceBowie]

I kind of think the show runners never read any Tolkien, and only got a summary of the Peter Jackson films from a 10 year old who didn't pay attention at the time.

[@belegur8108]

@@AliceBowie my working theory: The show runners are the most knowledgeable Tolkien Loremasters since ever... it is the only reasonable explanation for them to missing almost 100% of the Lore... i can think of only Elendil getting Narsil as an example for accuracy.

[@targetround3739]

They also have Elves during ‘the battle’ dropping down apparently stone dead from being hit in a limb by an arrow, so….🤷🏻‍♂️

[@toadynamite8141]

They forgot about two towers when an Elf literally died in war😂

[@Adam-mo6gf]

Elves are taller than men and would not seem short compared to Gandalf so the “like an elf but taller thing to get the funny ‘grand elf’ is lame…

[@AliceBowie]

I'm convinced they never read any of the books, and only saw the movies 20 years ago, and didn't really pay attention.

[@belegur8108]

Numenoreans where even taller than elves... Elendil almost 8' ...

[@iMushu.]

I have a friend who loves Rings of Power. IT'S THE ONLY REASON she has an Amazon Prime subscription. It must be mentioned, she does not remember the movies (if she watched them) or the lore.

[@ЖудаМ]

Was she hit in the head with a heavy boulder?

[@SpaceMike3]

Unfriend /j

[@carlosamado7606]

I have 2 friends that love rings of power and both are lotr nerds. My friend has repeatedly said how good X new ep was and I'm just rolling my eyes waiting for him to shut up. We did talk about how I disliked how they destroyed the nature of orcs in this show and while he agrees he still likes this hot garbage.

[@Mcklazie]

I have friends that like this show as well… I don’t get it, each to their own I guess

[@narudan]

I`m a big cinephile who loves the technical and directorial side which goes into making a movie/tv-show etc. I`m also a pretty avid reader i would say. 9 out of 10 times i have to bite on my tongue when talking with people about movies etc cetera. It get`s a bit easier with time. it`s not even that i`m that entitled or high bro but i had people telling me how amazing the disney star wars sequel trilogy is or what a cinematic masterpiece Halloween Ends was. People like what they like even if it`s absolute low effort cashgrabs.

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

You know what I don't understand. How are they able to use the exact design of the Balrog, from the Jackson films? Doesn't New-Line Cinema own that design?

[@Auxius.]

You cannot own a design if you proof in court you remade the whole thing from scratch. It falls under fair use. We’d rip all kinds of design resources, send em to China, they’d painstakingly copy it and voila, artist impression fair use attained.

[@MajorSmurf]

From what I understand they got special rights for use of the Balrog. They had to pay a fee for it though which is just weird when they keep trying to say... no we're not copying PJ even though every piece of dialogue is just lifted from them and slightly altered. NO, this is a brand new totally different story that is separate from those films. Totally different!

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@MajorSmurfyeah, I heard they made some sort of deal with Warner Bros. Makes sense since they're so in debt and desperate for money.

[@ZugzugZugzugson]

i kinda laughed out loud when Durin clashed with the Balrog's blade and got fucking disintegrated hahaha

[@jeremieerikssonlefebvre2647]

Payne and Mckay took the notion of elves being immortal, literally.

[@NewDawnRS2499]

King Elendil used Narsil as a longsword during the War of the Last Alliance. His son, Isildur, used it to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand during the final battle of that war, shattering it in the process. As a result, Narsil became known as the "Sword That Was Broken." Later, Narsil was reforged into Andúril and became the sword of Aragorn II Elessar. The sword was originally forged during the First Age by the renowned Dwarven Smith Telchar of Nogrod, and its companion knife was Angrist. So... yes, The sword was presumably taken to Númenor, where it eventually became the property of the Lords of Andúnië. Nothing is known of Narsil's owners at this time, save that the sword eventually passed to Elendil of Andúnië. The show really decided to go in THIS direction?!

[@belegur8108]

i think you can't avoid the Lore 100% all the time... you are gonna hit sometimes by pure coincidence?

[@NewDawnRS2499]

@@belegur8108 It’s just a poor course of direction giving yet another moment to Tar Miriel which doesn’t work because she’s blind now so how did she know where the sword was?

[@oXRaptorzXo]

@@NewDawnRS2499she can just get someone to give it to her dude

[@oXRaptorzXo]

@@Heldarion hardly basic trivia but your point still stands. Doesn’t affect anything though.

[@belegur8108]

@@Heldarion damn, i missed it... probably, because i watched it in German.

[@Ruovikko]

24:11 General Kenobi!

[@rutessian]

When Sorryion started fighting Gladrrrriel he was parrying and deflecting her attacks as if she was a child with a wooden sword then all of a sudden she started dominating him..

[@creatrixZBD]

That fight scene was so bad. So slow, with elfgirl telegraphing every move with ridiculous facial expressions and massive sword windups. With her feet planted a mile apart like she was swinging an axe, it all looked so awkward and stage-y.

[@rutessian]

@@creatrixZBD maybe the fight choreographers are related to the actors instructing Prince George in Blackadder.

[@wardkamo2614]

@@rutessianah yes. The hero’s stance.

[@ΕρνέστοςΣμίθ]

@@wardkamo2614 and the roar

[@kingelessar9025]

17:10 You can see the real hair of saurons actor under his wig. 10/10 production value

[@victorcates9330]

Three different TV shows in the last 2ish months had a female protagonist confront herself. None of them managed to make it meaningful. And the Poppy advice about moving on, risks being Amazon telling fans to get over themselves.

[@belegur8108]

the fans already moved on... look at the numbers... the only ones, that stayed are YT reviewers making money of telling us the truth about the dumpster fire, the shills paid by access and people without any standarts to meet.

[@Ruffy112]

I have reached peak youtube. Not even watching/paying for any of these shows myself, but instead just watching you guys ripping into them and having a blast

[@Elven_Princess_13_Edits]

When I saw the shot of Galadriel falling off the cliff from the battlefield perspective all I could think of was that scene in actual LOTR where Denethor jumps off Minas Tirith 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@belegur8108]

nah... Denethor did it with far more style, the oil, setting himself on fire, then running about half a mile to the cliff... epic

[@Elven_Princess_13_Edits]

@@belegur8108 agreed… he has way more style and it was way more entertaining to watch him…it’s just funny to compare her with him since he’s such a terrible person lol!🤣

[@belegur8108]

@@Elven_Princess_13_Edits this destruction of tomatoes of Denethor gave me nightmares for weeks ... he really is evil 🤣😂

[@felippogaglianoneneto621]

​@@belegur8108and in the movie, it had a panning shot of the battle below as he was falling, so it was a better filmed scene, too.

[@michalman717]

Kind of Denethor's jump, true. But the fall into the pine tree reminded me of a scene from another famous movie... So I kind of half expected the next shot to have Guyladriel sewing up the laceration on her left arm with a fishing hook. Because the fall from the rock definitely didn't copy anything, not at all. ;-)

[@nikolaykatsarov4084]

Of course they will plagiarize from Peter Jackson, they know their 'fans' have never seen the original trilogy.. this show is a pure clown fiesta

[@Adam-mo6gf]

The “no one can give you a name, only you can give yourself a name” thing is their not so subtle way to introduce trans ideology into Tolkien.

[@chefref5027]

Right. Smells like “assigned gender.”

[@Lookaatthatt]

Exactly this

[@chefref5027]

Yes. It is a metaphor for “assigned genders.”

[@Heldarion]

I don't think it's even that deep. Just another line of terrible writing that was a result of a dumbass plotline that never had any potential to begin with but they had to tie it up somehow .

[@ettoreoddo]

Very true

[@moorebags1]

The light at the end of that tunnel is irreparably dimmer than it was before you went in.

[@belegur8108]

cause this tunnel ends dead...

[@FallenErWin]

At this point, the 90-second opening of "The Fellowship of the Ring" easily outshines the entire two-hour "battle" in episodes 7-8 of "ROP."

[@puddintaim261]

EAT ZE BUGS!!!!!!!!

[@Mephistolomaniac]

Somehow, Arondir returned

[@JohnMarshall-NI]

Norry found Gandalf’s staff in the scene where they were kind of cleaning up stuff after non-Saruman messed it all up. She casually picks it up and throws it onto the ground, where Gandalf stubs his toe on it a few scenes later…

[@railander]

Tbh after Orc daddy (RIP) just wanting to be home and not going to war, nothing surprises me anymore. I'm here for the ride, let's see how crazy this nonsense can get.

[@thehouseofoverthinking]

I've never watched a show where I could predict so many of the lines. "Something something darkness. Something something light."

[@billbillinger2117]

- "We ran out of something something...what do we do?" ~ "Take a section of the Peter Jackson Trilogy. It'll be fine..."

[@lemond2007]

Don't mis-race them, they're not Harfoots, they're Stools.

[@annienglish4378]

This made me laugh so much, thank you! 😂😂

[@AnimatedASMR]

They killed off Adar, my favorite character and one of the main reasons I watched the show.

[@JohnCompton1]

I love the way tree shook with impact before Galadriel even finished falling into it!

[@zatchbell5678]

The special effects are special in the same way that special education is

[@Diariel]

Charlotte Brändstrom confirmed in an interview that "Galadriel was very much in love with Halbrand. He really seduced her" It seems amazon is taking notes from Star Wars and not only by being a bad fanfiction. Well, you know what, calling it fanfiction is an insult to fanfiction. Atleast fanfiction is written by fans for fans.

[@CantyBloke]

I am gonna miss this show. So many fun youtubers to watch for hating on the show. Maybe amazon really wanted to bring Tolkien fans together by purposefully making a terrible show that we could all hate together.

[@randomchannel323]

Yeah that original balrog scream on a surround sound system with a subwoofer is intense

[@Cynndora]

"warm up their thoughts in the microwave" 🤣

[@nessa6248]

WHAT WAS THE POINT of Arondir getting stabbed in the previous episode only to be totally fine in this one? Why have him be stabbed in the first place? Why was that scene even there? WHYYYY????

[@GrimGrayve]

It was a trick by Amazon. I had to re-watch the previous episode to see if I’d missed something. That’s how devious they are!

[@Heldarion]

What was the point of inventing the whole sea beast thing for Miriel only to go "nah, fuck it" the very next episode???

[@gicousinjoe6199]

If clichés were currency, the ROP could bail out the national debt.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

When the working day is done. Orcs just wanna have fun.

[@belegur8108]

thank you for planting Cindy Lauper in my brain... "we just wanna... we just wannaaaaa... Orcs, we just wanna have fun!"

[@alberto9503]

Just mentioning that IMDb has deliberately censoring any negative reviews on Rings of Power I have tried to submit. I even tried to get in touch with them, but they failed to provide an explanation

[@Aemeres]

I was counting literal hours for the finale’s reaction video. Thank you for this. You have, as a matter of fact, fulfilled your task Jonny

[@profedelasmontanas9023]

My favorite part was when Durin showed up with the eagles and said “now this is pod racing”

[@nikolaykatsarov4084]

I was actually laughing out loud at those last scenes in the middle of the night, pure comedy..

[@artw3]

I wonder how much worse will this show get by the end of the fifth season, which is planned.

[@belegur8108]

in Germany we have a proverb "Schlimmer geht immer!" - " there always is a way to make it worse!"

[@guygadbois3010]

Fake Gandalf finding his staff is the best thing since Rey found Luke Skywalker's lightsaber.

[@fgf4973]

At 17:14 you can see the actor's real hair underneath the terrible wig. It's so embarrassing for a billion dollar show. WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO???

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

That staff looks like it's giving us the middle finger

[@damienruzco]

Arondir must have ate za bugz, no other explanation

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

Leave the grey rain curtains of this world behind and enjoy the far green country beyond silver glass ❤ You did the thing

[@Kalafinwë]

The eldest son of Isildur, Elendur was born in Númenor in S.A. 3299, and escaped the downfall of the island with his family. He was often said to be remarkably similar to Elendil, his grandfather. So adding some romance with some chick that followed the Dark One.

[@Jeremy-83]

8:15 It was at this moment I realized you were wearing a tinfoil hat and I just busted out laughing...😂

[@clouscrypto]

I love how at 17:14 you can literally see Charlies real hair under the wig

[@annareifer2249]

My Mother, Stepfather and Brother like the show, I absolutly hate it, my sepfather always told me, that Im not a "real" tolkien fan, because I never read the books (I got ADHD and reading a complete book is stressfull for me BUT I like audiobooks, so I use them, also read stuff Im interesting in, like the fall of gondolin, the war in the north etc, also I love watching lore videos about tolkiens work) I think I know a lot more about tolkien than him... Oh and my stepfather says, that peter jacksons movies are not so good and the rings of power is way better. Gosh I hate it, :(

[@wombatillo]

If you read the books, listened to them or heard a radio play of the lord of the rings you should be able to discern that this show is filth and patently not even related to Tolkien's work.

[@annareifer2249]

@@wombatillo yes exacly

[@karthick_gta]

20:36 This is exactly like " I don't read the script. The script reads me" from Kirk Lazarus 😂😂

[@medicmudkip2061]

I just about spat my food out in laughter when you brought up the whole girls mashing their Barbie's together making kissing sounds! My dude, you're interpretation is spot on!! 🤣🤣

[@TalosCreative]

20:55 Well to be fair Gand does sort of mean magic staff in the old Norse Tolkien got many names from. Which is the only defense of the show you will get from me. tune in next season to find out how he gets his pointy hat...season 4 for his pipe etc. What with Narsil being added to the accessories obtained, there is a focus on giving a backstory for the most utterly mundane.

[@ChrisisisB]

Yepp, was going to write that. Its in the Wikipedia for Gandalf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf search for ”staff”. The original Gandalf was a…a…dwarf in the norse sagas. And then there was two early history kings named Gandalf - thus bordering on mythical - in an area that currently lies in Sweden.

[@belegur8108]

Narsil being a heirloom of Elendils blood line is actually one of the very rare things, they did correctly... It was forged in the first age by a dwarf named Telcha of Nogrod. The sword was presumably taken to Númenor, where it eventually became the property of the Lords of Andúnië. Nothing is known of Narsil's owners in this time, save that the sword eventually passed to Elendil of Andúnië.

[@apuapustaja4444]

So this show already has two females cheating on their husbands. Classy.

[@andrewdaniels8496]

I think the people who actually enjoy this show and talk about how it's not that bad are actually trying to convince themselves.

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

I hope you recover soon from this disgusting rop-virus 🍀

[@GeekOwtLowd]

They made Galadriel say the expression, "Physician, heal thyself." And they thought it was so cool. Cringe.

[@doublep1980]

I recently watched Uwe Boll's crappy Dungeon Siege movie, "In the Name of the King" ( don't ask, it's complicated...) and even that was more coherent & entertaining than RoP! Seriously, it has Jason Statham brutalizing Orcs with roundhouse kicks, the late Ray Liotta chewing up every scene Nic Cage style and has Ninja Elves! Compared to Amazon's cringefest it's a masterpiece.

[@MajorSmurf]

We were also too harsh on Eragon... honestly thank god the east is keeping fantasy alive. I would watch any of the worst Isekai on repeat over ROP.

[@AliceBowie]

Uwe Boll is Stanley Kubrick compared to the hacks who made Rings of Power.

[@belegur8108]

also Burt Reynolds as the most incompetent king ever, till GoT showed us Joffrey

[@nicolasmoreno95]

I laughed hard at 15:56. Galadriel moving her head forward is exactly the same as dog when it sees something it doesn’t understand

[@marshiallaw]

To turn this show around in season 3, it would require the first two seasons to be a dream and start everything over. Although I would bet these hack showrunners would rather go Groundhog Day style and just make minor changes and make viewers suffer through the same crap.

[@LeeLeeBellePBJLee]

I believe that a season of the old show, Dallas, was so hated by fans of the show that they made that entire season a dream that one of the characters had. I could be wrong, I never watched the show, my parents did.

[@jaypeadieL611]

Just have it be Elrond writing a fanfic and this is the story he thought up. Yes it would be messed up he wrote about kissing his mother in law but lets retcon it as him not being married yet and fanning over the local milf

[@belegur8108]

@@LeeLeeBellePBJLee jup, Bobby Ewing shower scene... it was epic... i now havethe following picture in my mind: Celeborn, Galadriels husband is sitting in a pond enjoying a bath, when Galadriel comes around the corner looking confused at him. He then "Whats wrong my dear?" and she "I just had a weird dream about me being a warrior and falling for that bad boy Sauron because you where not in my life. also we had no daughter... i know, silly me!"

[@LeeLeeBellePBJLee]

@@belegur8108 "It was horrible, I am so thankful to have you by my side, and for our daughter." It sucks, they shot themselves in the foot trying to shoehorn the story into "Middle Earth" they should have just set it NOT in Tolkien's universe and, while the lead female character would still be horrifically obnoxious, it would have fixed a good deal of the problems with the show by just saying INSPIRED by the writings of Tolkien and not insisting that it was true to the work of Tolkien.

[@belegur8108]

@@LeeLeeBellePBJLee and they dare to call it a prequel to PJ's trilogy... also i really want to get my hands on that book the runners claim to always turn back to...

[@RydarkVoyager]

Looking forward to Season 3, where we learn how (discount) Gandalf gets his elf name Mithrandir, while he keeps trying to correct them (maybe with a sticker on his robe saying "Hello! My name is ..." . To be followed by the Rohirrim name in Season 4, maybe while Gandalf learns how to turn his staff into a flashlight....

[@silverscorpio24]

Someone should edit a Goofy scream when Galadrrriel falls off the cliff and a massive crater in the earth where she lands.

[@belegur8108]

or a Galadriel shaped hole, they then have to pull her out of

[@KeacePeeper]

GoT references are about the normiest thing you could do.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Let me guess the ending; Sauron marries Guyladriel and turns her into Shelob?

[@belegur8108]

i now can resonate with Denethor II, steward of Gondor in loosing all faith, then emptying a jug of oil on himself, setting himself on fire and then running to the highest cliff to jump, just to end this... just to have peace at last...

[@EvertfromNederland]

They already killed off most of the black cast members so the one remaining black elf couldn't possibly die as well

[@konradb.3010]

Don't forget that not only was Galadriel jumping off the cliff with her ring really cringe. It was literally exactly what they made Elrond do a few episodes back when he jumped off the cliff into the water with the same ring

[@justthinkingoutloud2538]

19:15 The showrunners' commentary on this scene, and that close-up shot in particular, is so funny. They are so proud of themselves for this crap, they legitimately think they're making cinematic gold.

[@rio20d]

so Mirdania died after falling from like 30ft high wall...while Girl Boss Guyladriel survived after falling from like more than 500ft high cliff..... bloody plot armor

[@artimusgarcia-cuellar8026]

I am so sorry Master Tolkien. It seems the Dark Side has seeped into your life's work through a monopolistic corporation.

[@swdev245]

One thing to add is the dwarves forgetting/ignoring the Balrog in their basement at the end.

[@belegur8108]

that and the racial cleansing of all the races till third age, because the show sees itself as a prequel to PJ's movies and boy do they have explaining to do...

[@Auxius.]

He forgot the crescendo with the elfs screaming like diots.

[@InfinityFishing]

Yeah, that was so cringe and annoying wasn’t it? The demonstration of elves in this show is beyond stupid.