Media Keeps Gaslighting The Fandom | S2 Rings of Power | The Acolyte | The Spice Lounge Podcast

[@ZehnWaters]

There's so much freaking lore. THOUSANDS of years of history. What's frustrating is Tolkien never really settled on a definitive version of most of it. There's a 12-VOLUME SET of just his notes and that's not even all of it.

[@aster4jaden]

The best thing about ROP is Amazon only owns a fraction of LOTR content so it's so easy to reject as its own thing. It isn't like Star Wars where Disney owned everything, ROP is nothing but glorified Fanfiction and nothing else. The Showrunners defending the Orcs show how much they know nothing about Tolkien or LOTR Lore, the Orcs CANNOT procreate because they are created from torture and corruption of flesh or as the Movies shown grown from mud/dirt with a single desire hurt/kill/conquer others and giving them families complete goes against what they are. The reason they want us to sympathise with Sauron actually stems from real life, if they can make us sympathise for that monster then they can trick us into sympathizing for the real monsters. It's actually the same with the Orcs, they commit horrible atrocities but they have families! So there is some good in them. You are absolutely right, they need to go back to making Games that Gamers want to play and not Games they want Gamers to play. What I find funny about Amandla's little meltdown was she admitted she lived in a bubble, in other words she has no idea about reality and if The Acolyte had a following it would never had been cancelled. These peo0ple have to gaslight themselves to believe their own lies.

[@ZehnWaters]

"...the Orcs CANNOT procreate because they are created from torture and corruption of flesh or as the Movies shown grown from mud/dirt..." This is untrue. Orcs can and do procreate. Tolkien has said they procreate just as Elves and Men do. This is how Bolg, in The Hobbit, can be the son of Azog. That they’d have LOVING families is out of the question. As Tolkien said, they are naturally bad. As far as the films are concerned, the grown in the mud was only the Uruk-Hai.