Rings of Power Finale NUKES Tolkiens Legacy

[@disparutoo]

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power season 2 finale is approaching as the media is desperately trying to come up with reasons why you should watch the series. At the same time as other journalists are doing in depth jewellery reviews, no seriously. In this last video before the last episode releases it's time to look at the finale advertising and the fallout of that disastrous episode 7 episode. Was it controversial deliberately, and was there a better mirdania ending filmed? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@haewymetal]

fix your teeth

[@jolinefields3460]

I did an actual spit take 😂omg - but yes exactly! I want to know❣️

[@MrDabomb647]

My brother in christ it's almost 2025 brush your teeth

[@gamedude412]

The best question is where the fuck did the wall come from in less then a week

[@itsaKindaMagik]

Disparu never disappoints 👍

[@thePsiMatrix]

Viggo refused to participate in The Hobbit because "Aragorn wasn't in The Hobbit". That's integrity.

[@StarWarsomania]

True. But TBH I would have loved him and Legolas just doing some weird side-quest away from the main action. If my memory serves, Aragorn would have been in his 20s or early 30s at the time? Canonically there’s no evidence he and Legolas knew each other, but canonically he also served abroad in lots of different human kingdoms, under pseudonyms, so he conceivably could have done the same in Mirkwood. And “fanon” loves to expand on the movie scene in the Council of Elrond because it implies they do actually know each other. And let’s be honest, what I’m suggesting would be less dumb than 95% of what they decided to do in those movies… Viggo personified Aragorn, tho, so I can feel his “disappointment face” in me from here…

[@Grivehn]

Aragorn.* Hate to be that guy, but Aragon was a medieval spanish kingdom. So it kinda matters in this case.

[@mewre2062]

mark hamill could have done something similar instead of destroying luke for whatever that was

[@SolarisKane]

@@mewre2062 Hamill is a liberal nutbag with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[@jolinefields3460]

😮😅❤🎉

[@GrabEmByThePlushie]

It infuriates me that Tolkien's name is on this.

[@MWhaleK]

Same. It wouldn't be half as infuriating if they weren't trying to pretend this was Tolkein/LotR.

[@NormanReaddis]

Guys it's not Tolkien Like it only have 6 Star Wars 3 Indiana Jones 2 Terminator 2 Ghostbusters Films

[@swizzamane8775]

They've only co-opted his family name. It is in NO way, Tolkienian. This crap goes against EVERYTHING Tolkien was for.

[@aurynwestwield1682]

@@NormanReaddis Yep that's my reality too, I did give Alien a trilogy though but only cos of isolation...that way it was perfect.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

@@NormanReaddisYESSS!

[@TheFattdragon]

At this point Im rooting for Morgoth to escape and end it all

[@Mith420420]

Well he has escaped, his crown was beaten into a collar and he was chained behind the door of night with collar and shackle to the end of days. They are not supposed to actually have his crown, It would have also been all cut up from where the silmarils were removed from it.

[@TimJapan]

@@Mith420420 Ooo I did not know that.

[@Bob.Roberts]

Indeed, when something is So stupidly evil that the origin of evil gets irritated.

[@Eron55555]

He will.. He will.. And you better hope Amazon does not make a movie about it. I'm sure Morgoth's hair would be way more dainty. In the back of course.

[@knotengajin7359]

@@Mith420420Morgoth’s crown being made into his shackles before he was thrust through the Door of Night out of Middle Earth means the one Sauron had in this series can not be the same one. Also, Morgoth was a giant, thus his crown would have also been huge.

[@alexandermccabe556]

maybe the real friends were the orcs we made along the way

[@GeneralPotatoSalad]

Glug invited me over for supper and a few rounds of parcheesi. Mrs. Glug apparently makes a pot roast to die for!

[@jonasRaymondl]

and the maggoty bread

[@Ghostface13]

😂🤣😂

[@samspurgeon4222]

And in the end, meat was back on the menu, and they all lived happily ever after....

[@Rynogrey88]

Oh and those friends…. I ship em

[@saladinbob]

No it doesn't, because Tolkien's Legacy is 250 million copies sold across 70 languages and that's just the two he published in his life time. His legacy is that 51 years after his death there are still books being written based upon his notes. This? This is just bad fan fiction.

[@takuid]

amen.

[@startrekker5888]

Sorry I think your wrong.😮 I doubt it even reaches the level of bad😂. Atrocious or self absorbed crap comes to mind for me.😊.

[@RogerS1978]

First proper books I ever read and I'll never forget them, the first episode I think I forgot it while I was watching it...only remember it from Disparu's review later.

[@bruce_just_]

Based

[@HelloRando]

@@startrekker5888 Thank you! As a former (awful - forgot to add) teenage fanfic writer of random questionable manga stories, I must defend the genre….ROP is definitely worse lol

[@michaelkeller530]

To even compare that chick to Boromir is insanity. Boromirs sacrifice/redemption meant something. Rop female elf sacrifice means nothing and was completely stupid. She didn't even look like an elf she looked like a Vulcan lol

[@CD-Gaming]

Plus they're trying to take away... from SEAN BEAN! Yeah, good luck with that! He can get away with anything, he's Sean Bean! They reckon he has a real sword, which he can do, he's Sean Bean! He can do an induction for Yorkshire Tea like they're about to ride into battle, he's Sean Bean! He can die in practically everything he stars in, even as an illusion, he's Sean Bean! He can then get back up again in same said illusion, he's Sean Bean! He can have a discount version from London who tries to emulate his Sheffield accent, he's Sean Bean!

[@Grivehn]

@@CD-Gaming Sean Bean is the new Chuck Norris? Id be down for that, they kinda look similar anyhow. Now the only question I have is, which of them created the universe, and consequently, the other with it?

[@jaycarlson5868]

You can't prove that she isn't a Vulcan, so therefore, she could be. Could it be that the Federation has visited middle earth? It is possible and perhaps Tom Bombadil is a Q.

[@Yugemos]

@@jaycarlson5868 Maybe we should consult Kyle of Devry institute of technology.

[@TheBigGSN5]

They were ripping off the scene of the sapper orc and they don't even know it.

[@Knowbody42]

It doesn't nuke Tolkein's legacy, because it is not part of it.

[@princejohn8245]

Guess you never even read Tolkien. Most of you hater sheep have no clue about his works.

[@Knowbody42]

@@princejohn8245 Pathetic gaslighting attempt.

[@carried9130]

​@@princejohn8245 I don't understand. He said RoP isn't part of Tolkein's Legacy. How is that hating on Tolkein's work?

[@diatomicdoyen5282]

This guy obviously loves pissing off real fans for no reason. He has a small diccc prolly and cant do anything but shit on people over youtube lol. ​@princejohn8245

[@goransekulic3671]

@@princejohn8245 Oh, enlighten us. What do we "hater sheep" do not understand?

[@MrMirageCaster]

2 seasons down, and we don't have one second of Tolkien in this show.

[@Xurelbes]

They can make one hundred seasons and we still won't have a single second as well

[@unclephillymya]

Gil galad singing about leaving middle earth for 2 minutes in ep1 We have one In 20 hours 😂😂😂

[@TheGoldenDragon_]

That was the point.

[@Creameggs42]

I’m an S Tier ROP shitter but you gotta admit celebrimbor is fire

[@thecpt6265]

well, gil galad singing was one such moment. but yeah the rest not at all.

[@kaeli3952]

The Elrond kissing his future mother in law is giving Jacob vibes from Twilight.... oh yeah I guess that's the only audience they want now

[@Lobomon2k20]

DO NOT remind me of that pile of GARBAGE Twilight series

[@MsSwthrt102]

im still processing what they did to Jacob by the end of the series

[@MMCUSN]

Lucas had Leia kissing her brother.

[@jolinefields3460]

Twilight fans chew you up and spit you out lol 🎉

[@joshuapratt3593]

I’m both disgusted and LMMFAO at this comment, it’s so hilarious because it’s so ACCURATE. 😂🤮😂🤮😂😂🤮

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Now we know why Arwen stayed behind on Middle-Earth. Once she learned her father once shagged her grandmother she could never stand to be near either of them - especially after she also found out about how grandma dated Sauron.

[@User-grtewxkvpj]

Her grandma probably sleep with the Orcs after this season.

[@MemoristCed]

@@User-grtewxkvpj Ironically...there is a disgusting "fan" fiction about the time of Arwen's mother in captivity. It is absolutely vile, and I am willing to wager that at least some of the showrunners have read it.

[@kedb621]

@@MemoristCedugh yeah I’ve heard of this

[@cassie.m.0723]

"I'd rather die a mortal than live forever with this knowledge." - Arwen, probably

[@damiancwiok858]

How can you make a fantasy show and have not a single battle/swordfight expert on the set... because it's obvious thre weren't any

[@crazyralph6386]

Probably cause it would inevitably be a white man who trains them, and you just cannot have that in 2024? 😂

[@MemoristCed]

You'd first have to convince the showrunners that THEY aren't experts, and that's a wall all the reviewers on KZbin combined haven't been able to breach.

[@georgeprchal3924]

Game of Thrones made it work for a few seasons.

[@MemoristCed]

@@georgeprchal3924 They had you distracted with nudity and edge.

[@georgeprchal3924]

@@MemoristCed flashy but not good technique.

[@batmanuel9669]

If you ever wondered what a big budget LOTR series on the CW would be like, now you know.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

Interviewer: What more from the lore would you like to create? Creator: There’s lore ?

[@jeffsmith5436]

Writer: “What is this “lore” you speak of?”

[@DragonKing-te9wy]

I don't even know how to respond. This is such an iconic comment... how is there not more likes on it?

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

@@jeffsmith5436 Is that a new pronoun lore/lores ? What is this lores.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

lol

[@jespernielsen8549]

Writer: "Who is this Tolkien?".

[@jeniferclemente1252]

“An elf of my kind fighting next to an elf of his kind”? Highest form of delusion at its finest…. Still enjoy all of these reviews 😆

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

That has somehow got to be some of the stupidest sounding dialogue I've heard from these actors involved with this show and it's going up against some heavy competition both figuratively and literally when the rest of the delusional ravings comes from the actress playing the first female hippo of colour shown on screen.

[@bdleo300]

Imagine if the other actor/white dude said that...

Also, racist much?

[@jeniferclemente1252]

@@bdleo300 it would be crazy considering they’re only playing elves.

[@jeniferclemente1252]

I’m not the one that said that. Also, I quoted it in the sense that he’s talking as though they’re actual elves. That’s the delusional part.

[@Skegfromcraigslist]

Chops her arm and shoulder off, holds it up and drinks the blood “But glug just want to tend to his maggot farm and raise his abomination orcling with his slag orc wife”

[@Astolat.]

Glugling needs a stable family environment

[@TheL0ngbeard]

Glug just wanted to grill... elves...

[@JM-mh1pp]

Hey Glug's death was the only emotional moment in this episode. Okay second... Adar's death was great... why do I like the bad guys

[@theendersmirk5851]

In fairness to them, Tolkien did kinda regret not giving the orcs better scenes showing them as people too. At the same time if I recall right Tolkien described Orcs as the most logical species in Middle Earth, being ruthlessly utilitarian in their thinking, which makes me wonder if Amazon realized that begs the question "why did they burn all the stuff about forging better weapons and objects without a second thought?" Like, the correct response for the orcs when Elrond was begging for the works to be spared would have been for at least one of them to go up, threateningly, and ask him what use the orcs would have for that. That leads into a character dilemma for Elrond, give the Orcs better forging skills to make armor that might make them a nigh unstoppable fighting force, or let those works that he finds priceless burn. (Of course, Amazon doesn't think in those terms, so they just wanted a random act of cruelty.)

[@mack7170]

I dont want this show to end, ever. Same with Robyn Hood, etc. The youtube commentary is some of the funniest stuff ive watched in recent years, since apparently Hollywood doesnt know how to make comedy anymore.

[@HelloRando]

This is one of the reasons I think film/TV is on it's way out…there are just so many awesome independent content creators out there that we kind of don't need them anymore 😅….I haven't watched TV for over 7 years now and haven't been to a cinema/used a streaming platform since about 2019…and there are so many people like that lol.

[@A5tr0101]

@@HelloRando Huge disagree. Looking for negativity online as a replacement for entertainment and actors sounds miserable to me. I low key hate the KZbin and Reddit hivemind and like to have my own opinions on things

[@web3d124]

@@A5tr0101 It's not a hivemind. I disagree with what these guys say all the time.

[@Karthig1987]

Is Robyn good continuing

[@HelloRando]

@@A5tr0101 Welp I'm not necessarily talking about these kinds of content creators; reviews etc….I was talking about content creators that y'know…create content….not comment on someone else's lol. (That's why I didn't say "content creators *like this*) 😁 As entertaining as these kinds of vids are, there are soooooooo many awesome and underrated independent comedians, singers, podcasters, game modders/speedrunners etc etc etc making their own content on YT and the like, that it has replaced more traditional media for many. 🙌

[@Bob.Roberts]

Saying that random elf archer emulated Boromir's last stand is another example of how these people do not understand the characters in the original LOTR story. Boromir sacrificed himself not just as an act of bravery, but as an attempt at redemption because he had behaved so darkly towards the hobbits, since he had previously coveted The One Ring so much that it completely clouded his judgement towards evil. The showrunners just see 'person pierced with several arrows' and think OMG she's just like Boromir! I mean, Boromir wasn't even trying to make some difficult shot with a bow as he fought to the last?

Exactly, Boromir basically did what this warhammer 40K quote says the guard do best: "To each of us falls a task, and all the Emperor requires of us Guardsmen is that we stand the line, and we die fighting. It is what we do best: We die standing."

[@MemoristCed]

Boromir's last stand is a cinematic masterpiece, too. He inspires and emboldens Merry and Pippin to take up arms themselves. Hit with the second arrow, he turns to see the hobbits who need him, and finds another wellspring of strength he never even realized he had, because he MUST. He fights until his body will no longer answer his spirit. And even as he trembles in his last agonies, he lives long enough to inspire Aragorn, and find peace. The captain of Gondor showed his quality: the very highest.

[@sigmacademy]

@@MemoristCed There is a "final fight" scene clip between the Monkey King and a being called Primordium, where both he and his fellow disciples have been beaten by this being, who is on its way to absorb "Fruity". She sacrifices her spirit in the end to give the Monkey King a power boost to take Primordium on in a second round, and the entire scene 100% reminded me of the Boromir scene.

[@Oblithian]

Someone who loves the show told me, "The rings of power is good, they only stray slightly from tolkien". Someone who is clearly deluded, and also has no idea what the source material actually was.

[@wrongthinker843]

It isn't even good as a standalone work of fiction.

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV]

Is that person "highly regarded"? Like, he's so "highly regarded" that he needs a 24 hour nurse and a helmet when he walks?

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Sounds like someone who have *NEVER* read anything written by Tolkien.

[@samspurgeon4222]

That "slightly" would be like releasing a Jaws remake and it was Finding Nemo....

[@HelloRando]

I'm not even a hardcore LOTR fan or anything, but I'm offended on behalf of the brilliant linguist and intellectual that Tolkein was - that someone would think that flaming hot dumpster fire of a script or plot had anything to do with his writings 😶

[@Howtobeahuman101]

ah, yes. the elves who only mate once in life and their souls are literally intertwined with the person they have intimacy with, casually throw around kisses! def in canon! I like to think of the showrunners as little kids with dolls that just smash them together over and over again without rhyme or reason.

[@anthonymiles1446]

Hahahahahaha

[@dani__-zz8tl]

finwë would like to disagree

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

Don't listen to anything Alyssa Mercante has to say. She lied about the Gamer Gate 2 situation multiple times, doubled and tripled down on anti-white racism, and sided with Sweet Baby Inc. when they were harassing a Brazilian gamer for simply pointing out the games SBI was involved in. She is one of the most toxic, vitriolic journalists still at work right now.

[@justinmartin845]

@@LegendaryDorkKnight worse than Paul Tassi? Lol

[@User-grtewxkvpj]

My grandmother said, "No matter what they told you in schools, Alyssa Mercante is Jar Jar in Star Wars."

[@glebtsoy4139]

​@@justinmartin845she is trying to sue SmashJT for essentially calling her what she is - a 304.

[@sigmacademy]

@@glebtsoy4139 Ironically, she broadcasted her previous professions for the entire Internet to see, and then wanted to sue someone for calling attention to information SHE HERSELF made public. That's such a bizarre move?

[@daveeyes]

Smash JT simply said Alyssa Mercunte used to suck dicks for money. Whores always hate men.

[@haku8135]

Elrond gave Guyladriel the lockpick AFTER kissing her, so the kiss did NOTHING to cover anything. Like he very deliberately hands it to her AFTER the kiss ENDS so there's not even remotely a reason for the kiss. Holding her hands would've been plenty and probably way more subtle.

[@Yugemos]

It's like the kool-aid man bursting through my wall to give me a thumbs up .... secretly.

[@User-grtewxkvpj]

Don't trust any of those wokes reasons. They have an IQ of Cows with nose rings.

[@bdleo300]

I'm only surprised Elrond kissed Galadriel instead of his bf Durin

[@iscaria3337]

Time for that will come when Eldrond meets Durin and is like bro you didn't come? And he goes like I will now and they start kissing.

[@haku8135]

@@bdleo300 I assume since Durin wasn't around, Elrond just naturally gravitated towards the highest level of testosterone in the area.

[@GafferPerkele]

Infinite energy discovered in UK. Seems to be a new form of energy called "pure rage" that is entirely emanating from J.R.R. Tolkien's grave.

[@takuid]

perpetual motion machine beyblade located at the grave to replace cold fusion as "the energy of the future" according to scientists.

[@jcorbett9620]

If he spins much more, he's going to start affecting the Earths rotation!

[@HelloRando]

You laugh now, but it's dangerously close to overloading our power grid 😬

[@Rpgreat]

@@jcorbett9620 Earth isn't rotating lol.

[@CD-Gaming]

I can only imagine what it'd be like when you learn about our natural cynicism...

[@couldnotbereachedforfurthe2647]

Gary was right. No one involved in this should ever work again, in any capacity, in entertainment.

[@MMCUSN]

Torture would be a lateral career change for them.

[@harbl99]

Gandalf: "Be not so quick to deal out death and destruction." [sees _ROP_ ] "Change of plan. We send them back to the abyss."

[@hamishlindsay8865]

Storywise agreed, visually maybe disagree. They also do not have full rights in which is the reason they call elronds mother a valar when she is actually a Maiar. Season 2 far eclipses the shit show that was season one and attempts to fix a lot of broken things. The storyline is also sped up for obvious continuation reasons. Do not agree with all the hate season 2 has got and I’m someone who detested season 1. Think people need to come into the show with no expectations and realising they are doing the best with what they have. Casting, set design etc is actually far better than the majority of trash that comes out these days. People jump on the bandwagon of hate without even trying to watch the show and it really shows. Not defending it simply saying that it really isn’t as bad as the gimps who hate shows without even watching them. E.g ign giving the new penguin series 5/10

[@User-grtewxkvpj]

Except in Circus.

[@ValGursky]

Some of the actors are doing great with the bad script they're given

[@Aikurisu]

I'm still trying to decide whether this is a worse affront to Tolkien's legacy or George Martin pretending he's anything like him by adding the R.R to his own name.

[@PurrfectBlinky]

You can't be spoiled about something if you didn't want to know about it in the first place... yay

[@IronWithin-4th]

"this orc chop her and hold up her shoulder and arm and starts to drink her blood" don't you know they just want a peaceful land of their own and just have a loving family and grill bruh

[@JM-mh1pp]

They want to grill... question is... what do they grill?

[@rafaelgustavo7786]

This series is a disaster. A missed opportunity. Sauron was supposed to be a pseudo Promethean figure generating religious engineering in Harad and Rhûn with the metallurgical revolution he made in the east and south. He was like Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust or Azazel from the book of Enoch. Galadriel was supposed to be a sage and a political opponent of Annatar's reformist ideas. She could be like a philosopher-queen archetype.

[@MemoristCed]

I feel like I've seen this comment before.

[@theendersmirk5851]

In fairness, her being shown as a warrior isn't bad, but the real missed opportunity of the series is the mere fact one of the main perspectives is about elves, yet everything happens so fast. This series by rights should spread out these events over decades, showing the non elves in the background doing great things but then withering of old age, while the elves remain eternal. It should show Sauron's manipulations not in weeks, but over the span of decades. Heck, Elrond should really care more about his brother's descendants, and have correspondences with the kings of Numenor that slowly dry up as the kings' lifespans get shorter over the age. This was a chance to tell an epic. Instead they made slop.

[@drewhalcro6082]

IN Black Book, Bill Bailey does a song where he lists all the books he sells and says "we don't have Lord of the Rings" which would have been a much better fit because neither does Amazon.

[@jonathanfornwalt4919]

I'm surprised that shareholders haven't asked "where did the money go", and call for an audit.

[@ahoramazda6864]

I kinda understand this logic, they say, “Since childhood I dreamed of becoming part of a fantasy world, but you will deprive me of this because of a different pigment?” But if you think about it from a non-racial angle, it turns out that plank of wood should play the beautiful princess for whom the knights fought to the death? Or bland guy to play a charismatic Devil in disguise? Or should the old actor play the young squire? Or... Or... There could be hundreds of examples. Yes, maybe you will "make one personal dream come true", but destroy the big, collective one. Nowadays fantasy is so inclusive that bland and now stills from different films and franchises are no different. Total "diversity" has led to impoverishment, loss of individuality and creative spark. People simply consume some substance made and approved by a committee. This is reminiscent of Soviet censorship, only in the USSR creators tried to circumvent party censorship, not enforce it, like champagne socialists from Hollywood.

[@cgrado]

Men of the East are generally considered "Arabic" or "Persian'. He could have easily played one of them, and they could have been included in the plot.

[@ahoramazda6864]

@@cgrado, I'm not talking about the color of people so much as I'm talking about emotional blackmail. The creators always try to asheme and gaslight the viewers in order to try less and not answer uncomfortable questions. It would be strange to avoid an entire group of people, but it would also be very strange to have to always have it on screen. I mean, the world is full of children, but not every film has to have them. Same goes to real peoples or nationalities... Or their fantasy analogues. In my opinion, Star Wars got worse when they added space buddist monk to Rebel One. If people remembered this character, it would actually be floodgate. After it, almost any nationality would begin to demand that its analogue be added to SW. Then the distant galaxy would turn into our boring Earth.

[@jakeviolet2195]

Except its a lie. They were not Tolkein fans and they did not dream of being part of it since childhood. They are woke Hollywood activists who will take whatever job they can get and inject their politics into it. A real Tolkein fan would care more about preserving and promoting the work than self-inserting themselves where they don't belong. I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurasawa's work. Doesn't mean I want to make or see a Samurai film starring a bunch of white guys from the burbs.

[@MemoristCed]

@@cgrado I'd have watched a show about the Blue Wizards assisting the friends of the west in a civil war in Harad.

[@maxmiller5619]

I mean, that's just it. They're not appealing to Tolkien fans. They're appealing to modern audiences. That's the key difference. They're appeasing the activist mob that's perpetually on twitter talking about the next great offense and sycophantically obsessed with superficiality, sexuality, and utter shallowness. The audience they've cultivated likely hasn't even read a book since High School...if they're even out of HS. This audience isn't even Peter Jackson's LOTR fans. They're the people that think both Tolkien and Jackson are racists and sexists. They're the people who preach about cultural appropriation...but think it's fine to appropriate something intended to be British mythology and inspired by very real Euro-centric cultures. They're the people who don't care about a script so long as it's got a checklist of diversity quotas. ROP is your average Twitter poster. And here's the rub. They've learned the hard way...there's not that many insufferable Twitter activists that ALSO have a vague interest in fantasy. The only thing I'll be watching...is the rating drop further and further.

[@shadowchaser3836]

The audience they’ve cultivated likely hasn’t read a book that wasn’t assigned to them and probably hate reading.

[@justinmartin845]

@@maxmiller5619 it’s because they think white people don’t have a culture.

[@inagaddadavidahoney]

For all the canonical flaws of Jackson's LotR, the movies were made for fans AND general audiences. Movies always differ from source materials, but unlike RoP, they don't usually use the souce material as a template.

[@User-grtewxkvpj]

They appease to Reylo shippers, who also part of Acolyte shippers, who also wrote love letters to Serial killer in prison.

[@MemoristCed]

The funny thing is, they call Tolkien a sexist, but let's look at what they did to their own female characters: - Tolkien's Galadriel is gracious, loved by all (except the evil), so wise Sauron couldn't fool her, and powerful enough to level cities solo. RoP's Galadriel is abrasive, viewed as a nuisance by all, ruled by her ovaries, and her power extends no farther than the point of her sword. - Bronwyn dies of medical malpractice. They straight-up fridged her so Arondir could have a motivation in this season. Same with the jewelsmith, just had her seduced and then die for drama. - They blinded Tar-Miriel, had Pharazon just take the throne from her as easy as ordering from Prime, and made her a weepy helpless wretch. - Disa went from a charming but devious woman (I actually liked her) to an aimless meddler who needs her husband to back her up. She had the most potential and they squandered it. - Earien turned on her remaining family and the other elf-friends for no discernable reason I can figure out. If this is feminism, give me the patriarchy of the WW1 generation; I might have a chance at interesting female characters.

[@ChaniElkin]

I actually saw a video by Critical Drinker that pointed out how stupid the battle of the Fall of Eregion was. And he brilliantly pointed out how & why it's a cheap rip-off of Boromir's death and ends up meaning absolutely nothing where you simply have total apathy. (Boromir is one of my favorite characters - that whole scene had me ranting quite a bit at the laptop screen. And I only see it through Disparu's reviews). Johnny Law's video is where I discovered the whole 'death metal' end credits song existed. Is it a cool sounding song? Yes. Does it belong anywhere near Tolkien and his creation? DEFINITELY NOT. It's one thing for hard rock/metal artists & songs to be inspired from Tolkien - very different to insert scream metal as a 'Isn't this modern & fun?' travesty.

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

A better use of the $130 million, would have been acquiring the rights to Christopher Lee's heavy metal albums, & playing them on a loop...

[@JM-mh1pp]

Honestly this guy was so epic that his shopping list could probably the basis of action movie. If you would make a movie which consists of nothing but christopher lee sitting next to the fireplace and talking about his day I would buy it on blue ray

[@DragonKing-te9wy]

2:59 Holy crap! You can actually see how uncertain and nervous they are - look at those anxious glances and smiles! Good gracious, that practically made my day!

[@nastiasav3501]

New word unlocked! Disparu on Elrond kissing Gal: "He's Sauromantic!"

[@redfoxninja3173]

Why create, honor, and enhance when you can destroy, defile, and desecrate someone else's grand legacy and stand in the ashes claiming to have done better... because when everything is ruined nothing will be!

[@thistles]

"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."

[@cappy2282]

"an elf of my kind, fighting next to an elf of his kind" like what is wrong with these people 😂

[@SubtleStair]

You know what's wrong with them.

[@TheMasterpiecePD]

The fact that they're only talking about a kiss that happened, really shows who this shite is aimed at

[@markenetube]

Bloody hell Disparu! I love your sarcasm, but what have you got against London? They don't use swords . It's machetes they attack you with here. It is entirely different.

[@georgehouliaras7239]

I'm going to miss Galadriel's moaning sound and of course let's not forget the one and only Gilga-Daddy.

[@TheMaleRei]

I will make a prediction that there will be more of that in Season 3. Unironically.

[@annareifer2249]

I think, Saurrrron thinks, that Gilga-Daddy is... very VERY hot... when he gets his hands on him XD

[@Adelina-293]

Elrond's had his turn, why not Gilga-daddy?

[@WeOnlyEatSoup]

Galadriels moaning I want for my phone when I get a txt

[@cristela4034]

I live for the memes.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

3:00 *"NO MORE DRUGS TO THAT MAN!"*

[@professional_cynic98]

Bro is fucking wiredddddd 😂😂😂

[@BillPeschel]

That mean is seeing bats diving down and thinking, "Don't react dont react dontreactdontreact"

[@ankuriboh]

Face/Off reference?

[@CD-Gaming]

I don't know, I was too busy distracted by the look of terror on his face, like somert weird was coming at him slowly and he didn't know what it was and whether he should get out of the way!

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Just admiring the shape of your skull.

[@E3Ops]

I'm incredibly uneducated in The Lord of Rings universe but, I think I may know more than than anyone on this set.

You do, you really do.

[@Rizzo2185]

This show has so many unintentional hilarious moments! Loving Orc families, Celebrimbor throwing that elf lady off the wall randomly, the Asian elf no one cared about or even knew about dying randomly in a dramatic fashion, Celebrimbor crying hysterically, some guy bitch-slapping a Harfoot lady… the jokes are endless

[@loshobittos959]

I'm going to see nightmares about your "I'll ship them" clip 😭

[@AyanneCZ]

Believe it or not, I do know a few idiots in real life who not only think RoP is good, they genuinely ship characters. No, they're not 13, they're well over 30. MEN over 30. Granted, they are normies who will "watch" just about anything that lands on their TV while dozing off or being glued to Tiktok. As far as I can tell, usually not of the brightest.

[@AyanneCZ]

Whenever I try to talk to them about it they say some sh*t like "yeah but like Gala-whatever spun on the horse and it looked cool how she sliced that orc, no? It was so freaking cool!"

[@CATAZTR0PHE]

They're not normies, they're weird 🤨

[@AyanneCZ]

@@MemoristCed No, not at all, just really really dumb. Never finished high school sort of dumb.

[@BetaRayBill32]

I've wondered who these people are. I'd like to assume they aren't all morons but their comments usually suggest otherwise.

[@AngelofPaz]

3:14 they have that man's whole family captured and at gunpoint behind the camera with a huge sign saying "SMILE OR ELSE"

[@jeffhickerson6450]

They really did X-ray girl wrong. 😅

Just more Asian hate, what did X-Ray girl do to them?

[@kenrides]

Can't wait for 2 weeks from now when they write reviews saying how they really feel about the show after they stop being paid for praise.

[@sigmacademy]

Not to mention the stream of "toxic fandom" articles they will start dumping on slow news days.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

If there is one thing I associate with Tolkien it’s Metal music. Howard Shore’s scores were horribly misplaced! /s

[@GafferPerkele]

To be fair, Blind Guardian has an excellent album based on the first age.

[@baldurgunnarsson2578]

​@GafferPerkele there are tons of metal albums inspired by LOTR, but the closing song is such an abrupt departure from the rest of shows already mediocre soundtrack.

@@baldurgunnarsson2578 100% as a metalhead myself I absolutely loathe what they used, so many great power, symphonic, melodic bands to hire. Blind Guardian would be my number 1, but there is also Iced Earth, Demons and Wizards, Elvenking, and Hammerfall. FFS it is not that hard to find a band who has the right TONE for the THEMES of LOTR! Oh wait I forgot these writers/directors and music department are posers in every sense, they know nothing about what they do and yet act like they are experts on everything. As I said in my own comment, "FFS just hire Blind Guardian and let them do the entire shows score" and at least they would of had ONE good thing in this show.

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

The vocalist was Jens Kidman and the drummer was Gene Hoglan. Say what you like about the result, but they got some legitimate Metal talent.

[@blairinferno4675]

None of those would be fitting for an orc based song though now would they

[@The_Great_Escapist]

I love that Arondir reappeared in the finale with no sign or suggestion that he was seemingly fatally stabbed in the last episode.

[@CrazyCousin404]

I knew that they'd copy Boromir's death for the show, but they did it so badly I LITERALLY DIDN'T NOTICE IT, despite keeping an eye out for it.

[@adyajlp]

Celebrimbor's speech rips off Martin Luther King's quote in 1963 "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that"

[@KnightGeneral]

How dare them put JRR Tolkien’s Name in the end credits. The show has ZERO Tolkien in it not even His Spirit.

[@rjshadow4321]

I always took the rings to be simple bands with etchings based on what each race valued because this was a world where people actually had to do hard work to survive like mining by hand.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

You mean, not cheap, flashy garbage that looks like it was designed by an eight year old girl. I’m astonished.

[@takuid]

the three elven rings had their gems, this is accurate, as was shown in the Peter Jackson's LOTR in a tasteful manner. the ring props in this shitshow look like exaggerated caricatures lacking any kind of elegance or grace. Awful but fitting to the overall travesty.

[@EbenezerEibenhardt]

If men had made them I'm sure they would have been primarily practical designs, but elves have to make everything they craft extra-beautiful. It's kind of their curse, that and watching it get ruined after they make it.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

The 16 and the 3 all had gems. But Jackson's films show more what depiction of them from Tolkien show. Small and understated. The 'try pieces' (never actually seen 'on screen') and of course the One were simple bands with etchings.

[@ShakaCthulu]

Best use of metal music since Disney's Willow series.

[@somedandy7694]

"Never thought I'd die side by side with an elf" "What about side by side with...an elf of my kind?" "Nope. I defect to the enemy. Nothing is beautiful anymore."

[@Laonathan]

These elves don't feel like an immortal, don't think the wisest, don't look the fairest of all beings.

[@bobberto3399]

You know they wanna do the whole. Guyladreil took out Sauron and escidlore(spelt wrong I'm sure) just took the credit and the men covered it up.

[@GafferPerkele]

Escidlore? Is that supposed to be A) Gil-galad B) Elendil C) Isildur?

[@Danimeows]

​@@GafferPerkelec probably! I'm used to reading my dyslexic friends spelling so it's normally easy to sound out and then figure out!

[@benalo13]

​@southerndiscomfort171 he didn't complain about not knowing source material. He talked about a way they want to change it... "Girl Boss harder" he heard them whisper in his nightmares!😂

[@sethkaicer319]

Disparu and I adopted an orc and named him mork 👹

[@janeenschultz8502]

Nanu nanu?

[@Unit-kp8wm]

Why not Gork?

[@heldaneurbanus5135]

@@Unit-kp8wm I see we are people of culture :) Although, in the end who could tell Gork and Mork apart?

[@P.Sotirov]

Heresy!

[@Romczy]

​@@heldaneurbanus5135 one is brutally cunning, the other is cunningly brutal duh 😂

[@Rynogrey88]

Mirdania and the ground… i ship em

[@Romczy]

Quite solid relation ngl. She hugged the ground so hard she turned into favourite orc meal, the pavement pizza

[@harbl99]

Mundania and gravity is OTP. No girl can resist that 9.8m/sec^2

[@MemoristCed]

Most impactful pairing of 2024.

[@georgeray1906]

Mirdania gave the ground one heck of a kiss.

[@samspurgeon4222]

I'm still hoping that one Elf clan that lives in a tree and bakes cookies all day shows up.

[@MemoristCed]

I am now reminded that Veggie Tales' "Lord of the Beans" is literally closer to Tolkien's canon than this show.

[@samspurgeon4222]

@@MemoristCed 😂👍

[@mechaman7818]

1:11 They traded their crossbow spike thing to the orcs for their battering ram. Durin tried to tell Durin it was a bad idea, but you know how Durin is.

[@shadf7902]

Those orc war machines are HUGE, no way to get them down into a tunnel and mine with lmfao, the show was shot since s1 ep1.

[@SwedishSinologyNerd]

Only true Tolkien fans know that the professor was forced by his editor to delete the bit at the end of Return of the King where Galadriel had a train run on her all the way from the Grey Havens to Tol Eresseä. Apparently Tolkien was very bummed out about it, said it negated the whole point of the trilogy. /s

[@Laarye]

Elrond should have started to walk away, put his hand to his mouth like he was having an internal crisis, then turned around and kissed her before finally leaving... and then cut to Galadriel moving the piece of metal her from her mouth to her hands as everyone looks at Elrond leave. That's how you make them kiss, but leave enough information to show that it was for her escape, and can make it less awkward when he's with her daughter.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

That makes far more sense. You need to be writing this.

[@EvilExcalibur]

The problem here is that you have clearly put some thought into this. Your braincells are functional and engaged. They don't do that in Hollywood anymore.

[@skatemetrix]

I have seen the finale and it shreds lore and Tolkien's intricate legendarium with a gusto greater than anything seen before: the Balrog awakens and kills Durin III, Gandalf gets betrayed by Saruman, Nenya changes Adar back into a full Elf pristine, healed and untainted, the Orcs magically obey Sauron and kill Adar, the Faithful are all declared traitors by Pharazon and the King's Men and all get rounded up, Sauron pinches the nine of rings of Men after duelling Galadriel, and we find it was Tom Bombadil who made Gandalf discover his purpose and remember the instructions of the Valar. And even the Peter Jackson films are insulted too as a healed Galadriel awakens in Rivendell as the Elves enter the valley for the first time- she is dressed in white and there is a bandage across her shoulder. Just like Frodo waking up in Rivendell in the Fellowship of the Ring. But hey! Sauron utterly defeats Galadriel. And in the last scene Gilga-daddy stands on top of a cliff with sword drawn to the cheers of the Elves. I could almost have sworn the Elves were shouting Gilga-daddy...

[@1Plebeian]

That kiss. Hey Alexa: what is "jumping the shark?"

[@The13thRonin]

This is what 10 years of not fighting back looks like. -2014 GG.

[@TheBelieveit1]

Here's the difference between the Twink Elrond and Guyladriel kiss and the Leia and Luke kiss. In the Canon, it wasn't decided that Luke and Leia were siblings. They were literally making it up as they went. They are on record stating that even the whole "I am your father" bit was decided last minute as Lucas, who made the series, wanted the twist to be that Obi-Wan killed Luke's father. We can look in retrospect and see this as weird even though Luke didn't know and Leia claimed to have had a hunch. But this is because, again, they made it up as they went. This is not the same. The relationship between the characters has been established for decades and even if Elrond wasn't her son in law at the time (because they fucked the timeline) it still would have been extremely weird.

[@glerp10000000000]

I'm convinced that the pause face at 1.42 is him saying 'Our Elrond is crap - he's 'sposed to look like this !' and that's him doing his best Hugo Weaving impression.

[@lompeos7388]

I can't even be bothered to hate-watch this.

[@keiichi8191]

2:54 "So tell me, what's your favorite Michael Bolton song?" "I, um...hmm, I, uh, I dunno. I guess I sorta like them all."

[@dangrimes388]

Jack Sparrow

[@danielh5583]

That interview 3:30 about bringing in a moment from Tolkien. They seemed so lost I thought they were gonna ask who Tolkien was. Don’t think they’ve read a single word of his works

[@katgirl3000]

When you see the dissolution of society in the audiences LoTR spoke to compared to this in such a short time it's depressing. Unimaginable to picture Tolkien reacting to Elrond bussing his future mother in law (and how they characterize Galadriel now) and for f sake metal in the soundtrack. Jeezus. Great review as always!

[@Sticky7000]

Its not nuking his legacy his legacy is the books nothing will ever get rid of that legacy

[@kurtmackiewicz179]

It's comforting to know there are still many true fans out here:) ❤ you guys

[@gigim.9742]

2:54 Dude looks like he's on the wrong end of a hostage situation. BLINK TWICE IF YOU NEED AN ADULT!

[@alphax4785]

RoP 'Elrond': Celebrian's mom has got it going on.

[@Adelina-293]

But since Celeborn gotten written out your mom could use an elf like me!!!!

[@sarkastodon30]

She's all that he wants, and he's waited so long. 🎶 Cele can't you see, you're just not the Elf for he... He knows it might be wrong, but Elronds in love with Cele's mum.

[@alihorda]

So instead of milf hunter he is a daughter hunter? Or both? Idk

[@josepmiquel3765]

Doesn't matter how many media they pay off to get appraisal, they lost 80% of the fandom on day 1, and progressively lost the rest along the way. All they have left now are tourists.

[@Lucillium]

RoP is a shitshow and I cant even care less about the characters

[@Zoruagalaxy]

I had to go and check myself to see if the metal song was actually in the credits, and I couldn't believe it when it was. 😭It doesn't match the show at all!

[@MrDamnLag]

I don't even know why we call it shipping anymore, it's all Poly now.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

i think this series really points to a problem with copyright law. JRR and Christopher are gone now, and they were the only ones with any sort of claim on this world. But because copyright lasts so long, Amazon can make this drivel but driven fans can't make their own works. Yeah most would be crap, but you'd get a few good ones, and even the bad ones would generally be better than whatever this is. And at the very least that fan project to re-cobble together a better Silmarillion from JRR's writings could be released.

[@uvicjames]

Absolutely, I agree completely. The time for copyright protection is ridiculous, there's no need for such long terms. Witness what happened with Conan... copyright ended recently and now there are novels, board games, and other items being released, some of which are quite good.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

@@uvicjames Tolkien is a nice edge case actually. The last of his significant narrative writings were only published in 2021, but that's less than 50 years after his death. I think this shows life + 50 is more than adequate. Heck they probably would have been published earlier had their been a looming deadline. Rolling back the Mickey Mouse Protection Act would then be a good, easy first step. I personally think given the increasing lifespan of people that we need to go with a fixed term for published works (whether work for hire or not) and life+ only for non-work-for-hire, unpublished-in-their-lifetime works. Also we need a renewal requirement for work-for-hire works. It works for patents. Yeah we'd have to renegotiate a lot of copyright treaties, but renegotiating treaties is a thing we can do.

[@MysteryBounty]

The "I SHIP EM" thing got funnier everytime 🤣🤣

[@bry756]

Well, nuking Tolkien's legacy involves actually damaging the originals. Most of the fans acknowledge that this pile of dung is not in any way associated with the Professor's work.

[@RemnTheteth]

"The staff chooses the wizard, Harry. I mean, Grand Elf. I mean Gan...dalf?" Fore the record, Gandalf means "staff-elf" or "staff-man" - given that he didn't have a staff for the entire season, the idea that his name came from the similar sounding "grand elf" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The finale was bar none the worst episode from a writing standpoint, with disjointed scenes that start with things that happened off-screen. Every character was perfectly in the place where the plot happens. The dialogue is like bad poetry, which is worse than just saying what you mean. If you watch the show, think of it as written by middle-schoolers, and then it's just funny. The reason this is not a dig on middle-schoolers is that we expect fully developed adults who have the capacity to call themselves professional writers, with a billion dollar budget, to churn out something even remotely decent. This show fails because it should be better, is too self-serious, and destroys the lore which is quintessence to using an IP. It is shallow. This isn't an adaption with minor tweaks. It's a bastardization, through and through. A shill company buying up an IP and absolutely taking a Morgoth-sized dump on it. A cheap sounding, self-indulgent void, a Zach Snyder Re-telling of Lord of the Rings. This show should make like Sauron and not return.

[@TalosCreative]

A King arrives precisely when he means to

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

2:00 Jens Kidman (Meshuggah) is probably the best thing about this whole show.

[@opalhensley7566]

Your editing is so smooth, appreciated it!

[@ViolentMessiah666]

"Look how they massacred my boy!" 😟

[@mhc706]

3:13 so that guy was the motion capture for all the faces in that "press x to doubt" meme detective game. i always wondered where they found a human to look that fake and awkward, and there he is

[@misiopuchatek152]

0:23 what? No, seriously. WHAT?! 🤨

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

I have no clue what he meant. Maybe about differing elf cultures having different fighting styles, but... Knowing these people and their infinite entitlement and obsession to race and identity, I think the guy just shot himself in the foot. Probably has a fetish for it.

[@kennyg1358]

Who?

[@InfernalPasquale]

He simply stating the obvious fact that the *Black* people are a different species to hwites. Why are you being so intolerant??

[@Rpgreat]

Talk to 100 western black people. 99 of them are complete ass mega racists that get everything for free, yet still complain and have no morals. Sadly.

[@jamesdonoughue4557]

Look at crime statistics in London and you'll see exactly what he means

[@justinmartin845]

I’m so glad yall are doing the lords work and watching this for us because seriously, I would hate for this to have any impact on my love for Lord of The Rings, so this way I get to hate watch it with you but also pretend it doesn’t exist in cannon :)

[@MemoristCed]

It doesn't exist in canon. This is a bad fanfiction that should have been quarantined in AO3.

[@justinmartin845]

@@MemoristCed meant more the cannon in my head not being tainted by a bad product if that makes sense.

[@dirdib69]

They watched the Rankin-Bass Return of the King, where Frodo dreams of a time where even the Orcs were peaceful and friendly. There, it was a moving moment, as Frodo was trying to fight off the despair of his situation. Of course RoP managed to eff that up and make it something preachy and annoying.

[@vermis8344]

Mirdania's forehead is almost as wide as Sauron's is tall.

[@bloodrunsclear]

I like that the Elrond actor said the kiss was stupid. He may look like a prat, but the actor seems like one of the few smart people in the cast.

[@aaronbaron3155]

14:59 that dude was thinking "Who the f*** is Tolkein?"😂😂😂😂

[@shamrockdragon7634]

I like how every time you show the kiss scene your mouse cursor circles their hands to point out the orc can see Elrond passing the pin to Galadriel.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

I’m so glad Ryan George had the brains and talent to distance himself from ScreenRant They’ve become the very thing he mocks

[@Japaneseanimeguy]

He's still part of them with most pitch meetings showing an article at the end. Remember, he may be a talented comedic writer, but he's also Canadian and a KZbinr. Unfortunately that combination often leads to liberal views that he is only just going to be breaking away from over the next decade or so as his child grows up (caring about his child will inevitably put him at odds with Trudeau).

[@gck9237]

Gil-garmel

[@takuid]

lmao so true