Rings of Power keeps getting worse

[@JonnyLawYT]

Greetings bug eaters! You can watch previous episodes here: Episode 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioPSdKiCfdV7n5I Episode 2&3 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIKsfH-doKakrc0

[@ArticulateArena]

I gaurantee all you "hate reviewers" grab a bag of popcorn and get in your jammies and cuddle your galadriel pillows while watching these ( and every other show). you're literally the biggest fans of these shows and movies and are the reason they even get enough views to make more. stop... why can't you all just stop. we get it, already. you're all just free ads at this point. just narrating their show .

[@Praise_Senu]

​@ArticulateArena , if it's free advertising, that's fine. I would make videos on it as well to express my hatred for what they've done to Tolkiens work.

[@GardenArcher7625]

11:03 WHY would an Elben-Ring work like THE ONE Ring? It would not..

[@CurtisDofMontana]

😂 hmmm 🤔🤔 Was Poppy doing...,................Black Foot 🦶 haha made you look..😂😂😂

[@Praise_Senu]

@@GardenArcher7625, concealment from evil, not invisibility. LISTEN.

[@ZombossLordOfDoom]

As someone with no real connection or emotional bond to the Lord of the Rings, I am deeply shocked and offended by how poorly Amazon has treated this IP. It has left me devastated.

[@hangoutwithme346]

I wouldn’t let other ppls creative failures devastate you. Just focus on what you do like and ignore the rest. An amazon show is not worth being miserable over.

[@gamersresidence6040]

Hmm, maybe it is time to make that first connection to Lord of the Rings ;) Online watch party?

[@emhu2594]

Wheel of time fans warned you about Amazon

[@thanos6643]

I feel your pain my fren

[@AlisaMarie]

@@hangoutwithme346I agree. It really depressed me when it first came out. Now I just laugh at it, it’s nothing to do with Tolkien

[@delluge7274]

"Homeless, South Asian Rod Stewart," is possibly the greatest roast i will now apply everywhere 😅

[@jobe5514]

Bugs of Power: The Eater of Bugz

[@IchNachtLiebe]

Lord of the bugs: the colonyship of the bugs.

[@coffeebean_tamer]

Was that a Rensfield reference? 😂

[@CurtisDofMontana]

😂😂 hmmm 🤔🤔 Was Poppy doing...,................Black Foot 🦶 haha made you look..😂😂😂

[@JasonJackson-dk4yp]

I’m utterly amazed at just how perfectly awful this show is in every aspect, especially the dialogue. I can’t decide what is worse, the dialogue, the story telling, the DEI casting that fails the actual characters, the music, the choreography, the costumes, it’s all bad, really, really bad 😂 how can you have this much money and not hire the people that know what they’re doing 🤣???

[@pedropaz4379]

Because you hire not by merit but by race, which in itself ends up being the same thing they so adamantly are against in the first place 😂

[@TaoScribble]

You mean you _can't_ fix problems and make great things just by throwing money at it??

[@LyubomirIko]

What makes you think this is not by design? It's still entertaining. Even for those who rate it 1 star, they come back and watch it again, even for the hi-paid cringe alone.

[@aavavertu229]

​@@LyubomirIko I personally could watch 3 episodes of S1. That was all I could take. Felt like a torture.

[@rooroo8767]

I’m a SW fan. Welcome to the party pal.

[@janette2422]

so I just had a massive family loss yesterday and I just wanted to drop in and say thanks for making me laugh, Johnny. You really helped me get through yesterday, between you and Disparu. You're a great guy. Greetings from F-d up California and a straight-headed person in the Land of Confusion from across the Pond, Johnny

[@rrgale55]

Sorry for your loss, Janette. I wish you and your family well.

[@JacobStJules]

I'm sorry for your loss. Hoping the best for you and yours.

[@Peace-Weaver]

My sincerest condolences, Janette ❤

[@Praise_Senu]

@janette2422 , my condolences. I hope you're doing well.

[@EasyEight3674]

Soooo broken. Start to end. The Barrowights didn't exist in the 2nd Age, they grew in the tombs of fallen Numenorians AFTER the War of Elves and Sauron when the hosts of Numenor saved the Elves of Eriador from being defeated. And...the name "Brandybuck' comes from the Branduin River, which Hobbits of the Shire called the Brandywine...such a broken fan fic tale...

[@gracacostagamadecarvalho4306]

This has to do with the rights they got for the show .

[@giornogiovanna3079]

​@@gracacostagamadecarvalho4306 they had to do is not including it

[@giornogiovanna3079]

All*

[@mary_syl]

They spent 250'000'000 on the rights. The other are production costs and whatnot. Quite a good deal for the Tolkien estate considering all they sold them is appendices where they even can't say "Hobbit" on the show 😂 What a disaster.

[@OttoGrainer27]

@@moon-moth1 Absolutely genius. This momentary growth in subscribers is what will last forever in Amazon's legacy. Parents and grandparents will read this story of subscribers to their children at night, new generations will be inspired by the unbelievable profit margins.

[@gottesurteil3201]

The Tolkeins are geniuses.

[@flabbergast_se]

Actually they have the rights to say hobbit but since this is before hobbits were known they escaped criticism by not using it. I think it is more a myth that they cant use it. Since they have the rights to the hobbit book

[@gambrinus330116]

@@flabbergast_se Tolkien came up with the word “hobbit” so it's his and its use is not approved of by the Tolkien estate. Orc is part of European mythology so it's fair game. google it. also, the hobbit enters public domain in 8 years.

[@Arcessitor]

@@gottesurteil3201 Nah, the last remaining Tolkien is an unhinged lunatic who likes money and gives no shit about his family.

[@danielh5583]

It’s so amazingly wonderful that all these isolated tribes and nomads who don’t take in outsiders have managed to become so multiracial….

[@marcussinclaire4890]

I just can't get over how bad all the makeup, costumes and sets look. There's no way this cost as much as it did.

[@erincdale]

A huge portion of the budget goes to the campaign to promote eating bugs

[@marcussinclaire4890]

@@erincdale and money laundering I'm sure.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Same. The show does not live up to its budget aside from a few beautiful CGI landscape shots. The Numenorian 3D printed plastic moob armour is particularly horrific.

[@guilhermebeyrodt6362]

After watching this episode, I was overwhelmed by despair. I felt an ancient and subtle evil stirring in the shadows, moving with cunning and patience. An overwhelming sense of imminent danger hung in the air, as if something terrible was about to unfold. This evil, still hidden from our sight, grows in power, and the time of its revelation is near. None of us could have foreseen its true form. And the name of this horror, which will soon walk among us, is... Merimack, the Jar Jar Binks Hobbit!

[@harveybarvey5080]

Do you have Amazon? Is that how you watched it?

[@sajjadalhachami7574]

He's melkor hobbit form

[@CurtisDofMontana]

😂 hmmm 🤔🤔 Was Poppy doing...,................Black Foot 🦶 haha made you look..😂😂😂

[@FastNCurious88]

Evil cannot create anything itself and can only copy, counterfeit and then corrupt what was already GOOD 😢

[@hypersleepdialogues8889]

This is horrendous. Ive been a hardcore Tolkien fan since i was 13, a long long time ago, and i first read the Hobbit. I went on to read Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, history of Middle-Earth, Unfinished Tales, and over the years basically anything Tolkien ever wrote or anything Christopher ever edited. Peter Jacksons LotR was and is my favorite film series of all time. I even thoroughly enjoyed the Hobbit movies. When i first heard of Rings of Power i thought it had potential. It has turned out to be the most disrespectful, laughable, ingenious effort to adapt Tolkien's work that i could ever imagine. Such a waste.

[@thekingdomjester]

I think you mean disengenuous

[@celticdusk]

I have run a bit of a test and had multiple people including myself leave reviews(which were all 1 stars). All of them were deleted.

[@Laleolie]

Same.

[@chillguy9971]

The "There are nameless things in the deep places of this earth" line hit so jarringly flat and stolen it was like slamming a Ferrari into a brick wall with the pedal to the floor

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Deep places = random mud puddle in a swamp.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Deep places = random mud puddle in a swamp.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

This is getting nightmarish. I hate watched the first season but this is too horrible- like watching a school shooting where JRR is a victim. What a travesty.

[@LyubomirIko]

Yet you come back to enjoy the high-budget cringe. I think Amazon is on something. It's almost a new genre, just like people are enjoying B-movies that comes in low-budget cringe, people come back to see this one for the high-budget cringe.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

@@LyubomirIko I’m not watching the actual show. I’m having a hard time even watching these reviews. I enjoyed the acolyte reviews (didn’t watch that show either) but this crap is simply too evil. Its a cruel desecration. Simon Tolkien knows how to write the exact opposite of what JRR loved. It’s like watching him dig up grandpa’s grave and desecrating the corpse.

[@specialmag7]

@@SonOfTheOne111 If you haven't seen it, then you don't get to criticize it. How dumb.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

@@specialmag7 All i have to see is an overview of the story to know its shit. I saw season 1. Look at what they did to Tom Bombadil & Galadriel- do you know how Tolkien felt about those characters? Do you have to witness a school shooting to know it’s a travesty? Are you actually watching & enjoying this crap?

[@Maybeabandaid9]

​@@specialmag7That take is the only dumb thing I saw in this thread.

[@Paxicara]

Why do the scenes with Gandalf and Tom feel like an 80s era Jesus film

[@africaisacontinent2149]

😂😂I was thinking the same thing.

[@knusper279]

They’re going to do the GRAND ELF = GANDALF thing and I hate it

[@kaykutcher2103]

Probably because the rest of the show made you go "Jesus..."

[@tapiolautavaara9532]

Well tell me then, where the Hell is Willem Dafoe?

[@zartic4life]

This show reminds of Hercules from the 90's.

[@robertgabrielmocanu7235]

Eat the bugs!

[@JonnyLawYT]

LOOKS LIKE BUGS ARE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

[@ZombossLordOfDoom]

@@JonnyLawYT They always were

[@willburnett8129]

Smath the beetleths! kuhh kuhh

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

_"it puts the bug in it's mouth"_

[@limitlesssoul2882]

Simba would thank you not to insult the teaching of his family. Timon and Pumbaa raised him on "Slimly yet satisfying' 🐛

[@RamblesBrambles]

Is no British(Irish) accent safe from amazon's stereotypes? I'm surprised they didn't make all the orcs speak in a geordie accent!

[@kagyubeef]

There needs to be a musical episode where the orcs rap

[@scadian9]

Aussie here, I’m a bit devastated that we didn’t get a guernsey in the accent bollocks. Uruk hai maybe?

[@harbl99]

I'd watch an Orcish version of _Auf Wiedersehen Pet_ so hard. "Wai man, why's it weez gorrah dee alla this? Ye dein see nee Nazgul puttin in thu hoord work, ye kna?" "Aaaaw Grishnak man, haddaway an' shite. Ye moanin on 'n' on is nee helping nowt!"

[@mireadur]

Orcs come from Liverpool

[@mxvega1097]

@@scadian9 kiwi here, Lawrence Makoare bagsed the Uruks back in 2001, and you could ask for it back but I dunno man, maybe leave sleeping dogs on the barbie..

[@samaritan_sys]

This show still suffers from the late-season GOT problem where characters just travel all around the world far faster than possible because plot.

[@kagyubeef]

That's just one tiny thing it suffers from. There are twenty million other tiny things it is suffering from as well. And when you combine them all, well, Tolkien and his fans suffer.

[@Donatello40973]

Honestly , the ENTIRE Gandalf storyline is utter garbage . I mean , it's just AWFUL..... embarrassingly awful .

[@bellaschnella1602]

There hasn't been a single moment in it that felt even a bit suspenseful or interesting. They keep giving him the most trite mystery story lines (but is he Sauron? but what is his name then? but how will he find his name? and his staff? and what is it about those stars?) that are just so bland. Like they have literally no idea how to use him in the plot until Season 4 or something and so he keeps getting these ridiculous, meaningless mini side-quests

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Its literally just there for member berries because how can you have a Lord of the Rings story without Hobbits and wizards? That's why it's so awful, it has absolutely zero reason to exist.

[@tapiolautavaara9532]

@@bellaschnella1602 Writers have played some shitty iPhony adventuring games and been utterly enamored how somebody ever (AI) can create anything so magical and patted each other on the back after realizing THIS is the way we scribble together something far greater that Tolkien-dudeguy ever could. Dunning-Krueger in effect.

[@YesYou-]

i haven’t even watched the show yet why is gandalf here? Saruman is supposed to be the lead wizard of middle earth…gandalf wasn’t even that important until the story of the dwarves. A prequel would mean SARUMAN is the main and first wizard.

[@Gerbuho]

10:14 We just witnessed the moment Isildur turned into Inceldur. 💔

[@asarishepard8171]

All the hobbit types having wind swept, crazy and hobo looking hair cracks me up. Do they not realize there's a difference between unkempt and rolled in the dirt before the take 😂

[@dontmindme9323]

Looks like a bunch of Skid row residents

[@GeraltofRivia22]

The LA homeless population needs representation too.

[@Herobox-ju4zd]

I was born in the late 70's. So I saw a lot of shows from the 70's and 80's, which were often low budget half hour episodes, so those were expected to be just dumb entertainment, even at that time. So how can it be, that a show costing millions per episode, with all those fancy special effects still have worse dialog, story progression and acting as those shows In watched back in the 80's? It's embarrassing to watch. We reached a peak around the 2010's with shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones (until season 6) but everything has gone to shit.

[@joshuatealeaves]

Someone hasn’t watched Shōgun or House of Dragon. That’s just two shows off the dome. Everything has gone to 💩?

[@Herobox-ju4zd]

@@joshuatealeaves Guess I'm afraid to commit after being disappointed so many times. House of Dragon still seems to be semi-woke with those black targaryans though.

[@joshuatealeaves]

@@Herobox-ju4zd It’s not in your face. They’re black. After 5 seconds it never crosses your mind again 👍🏻

[@germanxmascookie]

So as a fellow Gen X'er, do you get strong Xena: Warrior Princess vibes from the Rings of Power? 😅

[@Herobox-ju4zd]

@@germanxmascookie Yup, but without the fun.

[@madebymonkeys5641]

Imagine if game of thrones was remade, and Tyrion was 8ft tall and shot bolts of lightening from his arse. That's what rings of power have done to Tolkien's work.😢

[@danielh5583]

Well…. Seeing Dinklage’s stance on dwarves getting work in movies like Snow White, he wouldn’t mind seeing as he’s pulled that ladder up behind him.

[@asellandrofacchio7263]

Nice reference to a terrible movie

[@stevenahlberg1542]

I thought Tom Bombadil lived in a forest😊

[@miliesmith2036]

I’d bet 3 bugs Amazon is going to do some “gotcha” moment and reveal the wizard is Saruman

[@NefariousKoel]

I'm not sure the typical modern Hollywood writer is that adroit at their craft. I was expecting such a twist in others like the Acolyte, but no. No sleight of hand came. Just long and painfully obvious telegraphing of what is supposed to be a mysterious stranger. No surprises other than how bad the writing is. Both sad and comical. 😆

[@gokuwufei99]

THE BUGS HAVE FAMILIES TOO!! LET MY INSECTS GO!!! 😅

[@onionhead1308]

the music choice for the closing credits is just bizarre ...

[@Pe-S]

Yeah, wtf was that??

[@paulzrimsek9013]

My blood runs cold, My trilogy has just been sold, Goldberry is the centerfold, Goldberry is the centerfold.

[@adde27]

it's Goldberry's washing song, iirc. Horribly misused here.

[@iamrubenmes]

I thought so too at first, but then realized it was Tom Bombadil's song, and I turned out loving it.

[@dismaspickman773]

IMO, Bombadil is the closest thing to a fairy of folk lore and myth (as from legends and fairy tales that Tolkien would have been very familiar with) in Middle-earth. To put it in some sort of context, Gandalf is an "angel", Sauron is a "demon", and Tom is a "fairy"--a third type of celestial/spiritual being more closely associated with nature and creation. Tom, in a very real way, makes a guest appearance in LOTR (as he preexisted it in the chronology of Tolkien's creations--making him "oldest"). He is outside of creation (in the literal-literal sense), but in a strange way bound to it... much like the paradox of being "all powerful but... apathetic" and "everything but... unimportant."

[@germanxmascookie]

That's so interesting! I always thought of him as a manifestation of the universe at large: Oblivious and apathetic. The universe doesn't care what happens, it'll go on just fine.

[@towelgirl21]

And he has a hot elf wife named Goldberry

[@grantmiller6570]

Show should be renamed “Mighty Morfyyd Power Ranger”

[@illyrusemperor9278]

Xena Warrior Princess

[@sargonixofur1234]

“It’s whining and pouting time”

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@illyrusemperor9278at least Xena was actually likeable.

[@tapiolautavaara9532]

@@GeraltofRivia22 Lucy Lawless smiles and cracks jokes while kicking ass, and has the body to do so.

[@danvelez5838]

Tom lives in the old forest..forest, not desert.old,indeed ancient...where are the frickin trees!!??

[@kevinroche3334]

In the third age.

[@Tier1GearEDCReviews]

I can’t believe how bad they’ve butchered this story. Wokeness is murdering everything we hold dear…

[@zartic4life]

Petition for Dennis Villeneuve or even Peter to come back.

[@MajorSmurf]

Why the hell does ROP think that Galadriel suddenly has elven abilities because she's wearing the ring. She and all those elves would have sensed the evil, those are all just natural abilities of being an elf. Like yes the rings had power, but it was more to slow the decay of the natural world... not like in ROP where it seems to suck up Sauron goop from leaves or bring a tree back to life. Nenya in particular was adept at preservation, protection and concealment. Honestly that whole point with the elves going oh no we got to leave because DA TREE! No, during the second age the elves were pretty happy to stay, and there was no summons from the gods to do leave. They weren't yet fading.

[@juliemaiifanai8365]

The same way they think the rings of power were made 3-7-9-1 😂 They seem to think the "three rings for elvenkind, seven for dwarves, nine for men"(not in those words exactly) are the order in which the rings were made😅😂

[@rezarfar]

Well technically Eonwe the Herald of Manwe and the leader of the armies of Aman during the War of Wrath, did in fact, summon all elves to pass into the West and go to Aman. Now he didn't actually give a specific timeframe for this move but it was just after the War of Wrath ended, at the very start of the second age. But otherwise i agree this show is dogshit.

[@Marjax]

How is Tom singing the song he made up for inviting the Hobbits get to his house?! Im so glad these guys go through this awfulness and spare me the aneurysm. Here's the full song Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle! Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle. Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping. When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open, Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow. Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow! Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you. Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you! 8:01

[@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast]

When the Indian hobbit showed up, I thought to myself "oh, now we are setting up Slumdog Millionare." That kid reminded me of the lead from that movie

[@vincentadultman6226]

Dev Patel is a good actor, but he's not a rural English farmer

[@unitron2005]

I'm looking forward to the scene where Blackolas explains to an ent, that actually, he's wearing wooden armour with ent faces carved on it, as a sign of respect for the ents... Y... You know... the beings who are obsessed with protecting trees?

[@11grim123]

I'm pretty sure the elves can manipulate wood magically. Look at how they live in Mirkwood and Lothlorien. Probably found some scraps, don't always assume the worst.

[@unitron2005]

@@11grim123 You're not getting the point, are you? "I killed your daughter. But do not worry, I killed her with magic, not a knife!" "Oh, then it's alrighty then".

[@tapiolautavaara9532]

@@11grim123 He's black so we know he obviously stole it. With this shitshow: Always assume the Worst

[@SubatomicPlanets]

"Eat the bugs" Frodo facing Shelob: 💀

[@JJ_6036]

om nom nom

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

*_"Meat is back on the menu Sam!"_*

[@badistbrother8384]

Eat the bug Peasant, will your betters supp on Steak

[@IStealButterdToast]

@@DEATH-THE-GOAT*Gollum watching in horror as Frodo and Sam consume the child of Ungoliant*

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

@@IStealButterdToast 😳

[@LaitoChen]

There are more people rushing to watch the reviews of this show than the show itself 😂😂

[@aunch3]

I blame the Tolkien Estate for selling it to Amazon we all saw this coming they betrayed Tolkien and the fans

[@jeffsmith5436]

Money talks, canon walks

[@aunch3]

True, but regardless of the canon, if the show is good and enjoyable people will watch. The causal fan doesn’t know or even care about the canon. What matters is that the quality of the show , and Amazon completely blew it, canon or not

[@IchNachtLiebe]

For 50k, I'll write Amazon a script twice as good as this that's completely original so that they don't have to continue this slow burn of a beloved IP.

[@rossmackay-williams4583]

Yes I beleive there are ready made storys out there of the second age

[@TheFlyingDogFish]

They could get better scripts for free if they wanted to.

[@andrescastro5520]

I said same thing to my wife over dinner. They set the bar extremely low, of course.

[@IchNachtLiebe]

The worst part of my original post is that I'm not claiming that I'd wrote something good, just that I'd write something better than this.

[@frea2191]

I simply watch this show to feed my morbid curiosity of how deep this rabbithole goes...

[@jamesspanglet6702]

The Harfoots survived because they obviously got some of the healing properties from Godzilla.

[@UncensoredScion]

they jumped off a cliff and didn't get a scrape to them, methinks that the RoP has taken the immortality curse from Lucasfilm with their characters not dying from lightsabres, it's just fall damage this time lol

[@roosterfu231]

I can't believe how badly amazon has butchered Tolkiens lore. It should be criminal.

[@marekpavlik8715]

The books are almost a century old. There is no reason to not do some adaptation to modern audiences.

[@TheDragiix3]

@@marekpavlik8715 Fuck your modern audiences. Sincerely, anyone with a brain.

[@gracacostagamadecarvalho4306]

​@@marekpavlik8715I know this is supposed to be an well thought comment but I can't stop thinking why you can't tell they just badly stitched up every piece of lore with zero to no appeal or sense.

[@stephenjohnston7630]

It's really not about crimes against "lore". Jackson's LotR brutalised chronology, characters and events, but it was in the service of making a fun & spectacular big-screen adventure which at the same time captured *something* recognisably of Tolkien's story, themes and world. If RoP managed to do the same thing for the small screen, no-one would care about the liberties it takes - or the budget.

[@KennyMcGavin]

The song at the end credits sounds exactly like a song someone who've never seen a single Lotr movie would've picked because he thought it sounded "Lord of the Ring'isch"...

[@andresbarriganicholls9853]

Thank you jonny, I was dying of boredom until I saw the notification

[@GeraltofRivia22]

What they did to the Hobbits is utterly unforgivable. Tolkien based them on the common english folk of the countryside and Amazon turned them into petty, unlikeable, moronic, bug eating weirdos who leave their own to die horrifying deaths and then laugh about it.

[@jeffsmith5436]

Just like leftists

[@Mossy179]

To be fair, this is a previous "age" of the Hobbits, before they became more civilized. It's intended to be their ancestors. Not saying it's great, just clarifying.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Mossy179 nomadic people existed and still exist in real life. They aren't anything like these hobbits.

[@Mossy179]

@@GeraltofRivia22 And LOTR Hobbits aren't like anything in real life either. Stop the whining. I have NEVER seen such senseless complaints and whining as I have seen with this show.

[@SHelob31]

@@Mossy179these hobbits lived by the river (Sméagol was a stoor) changing the story entirely is unforgivable and should be taken off air! Worst tv show in history!

[@scottmataga5907]

In the first episode of season 1 Galadriel is leading a group of about 8 soldiers. A contingent of this size would be led by a corporal in the British Army.

[@cpdreyer]

Eat the bugs in the trees, and then let the trees eat you. "Circle of Life" starts to play in the background.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

Whoever that guy is, he isn't Tom Bombadil. And where, pray tell is Goldberry?

[@Savage_Viking]

Goldberry is occupied with her OnlyRings account.

[@jeffsmith5436]

A heterosexual relationship is just too restrictive for Amazon’s writers…Tom is now a Sylvanophile or Tree Lover

[@dimitris_kleisiaris]

How can it get worse??

[@Alx56]

just you wait

[@N2theLAS]

Find out next time, on Rings of Power.

[@arensa]

At this point there has to be some kind of fund that has billions to pour into projects like these. Every company that want's to make money should have realized by now that this 'the message' strategy doesn't work but somehow they keep doing it and i just simply can't believe that it is without a reason. Because god damn what a pain in the lore this show is.

[@colonelblars9126]

Bezos is from a communist country.

[@johnjohnson9073]

Said fund exists, it's name is Blackrock

[@AlisaMarie]

How can anyone take this show seriously?? 😂 what a pile

[@jaymea8907]

Only the ones paid. lmao

[@sebastianp4023]

Still taking bets on Tom Bombadil being depicted as gay.

[@Alx56]

hahahaha

[@montezleamonte1445]

Oh most definitely… he’s completely white.. and a guy….. it’s a no brainer we all know there is no way they can allow him to be straight… especially if he’s a white guy… lol… if they have no choice but to add a white guy… they almost always make him gay… a villain… or a full on simp

[@gabriellecunningham7196]

😹🇦🇺

[@jeffsmith5436]

He’s a Tree Attracted Person

[@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp]

He’s going to click his ruby slippers and send the Harfoots to Munchkinland. The end.😂

[@davidandrews2972]

While Arondir and Isildur found themselves in an episode of the Witcher, Galadriel was fighting orcs whose tactics came from the original version of Monkey.

[@dwaynethefrog]

i love the consistent IT crowd references i will be staying for them

[@ffelegal]

6:26 this part was terrible. Thanks for the Homeless Southasian Rod Stewart hahahahah

[@christianbusch5499]

They did my man Tom so nefariously filthy, I cannot believe it. Jonny, you’re a soldier. Thank you once again for being the vanguard and diving into this cancerous mess.

[@MSpotatoes]

I keep getting the RoP ad where Tom tells not-Gandalf to save the world in the most awful wooden delivery ever. Especially on videos like this.

[@danielh5583]

I think the worst is they made Tom evil. Remember his is the eldest and all powerful. In the books he’s oblivious to the goings on of the world he’s in his own thoughts and separate. But in the show they’ve made him acutely aware of the evil and Sauron rising. This is an evil he has the power to stop. By making him aware and choosing to not do anything, what does that make him

[@DKyle327]

If she was the Commander of the Northern Armies, she would have been a General. So she went from the very top to rock bottom.

[@AdirondackRuby]

I don't at all doubt that they delete bad reviews...but I'm also not surprised by the ratio of good to bad...because we all forget to leave reviews...we just make or watch videos. The people who have Prime need to speak up on Amazon itself, not just elsewhere on social media.

[@MasterEggroll]

looks like they filmed this on a hiking trail I go on in California, haha

[@markkettlewell7441]

Everything seems to be random according to this show.

[@vladyakubets]

They cast Hagrid as Tom Bombadill

[@valerievanwyk6122]

I love Jonny's style of video, and his humour. I mean he can make a video about something I know nothing about and I'd watch it.

[@TheDeadCritic]

"I for one welcome our new insect overlords" 🖤

[@maxbazhenov3405]

I have a beautiful theory - Tom Bombadil is the Word itself (or Language). It can do magic, but it can't defeat evil. It just is. He knows the names of every thing or creature and his poetry influences the reality. Probably, Tom was the first being of Arda. Using him as an instrument, Eru Iluvatar created all the rest of the world) Probably not what Tolkien exactly meant... But i find this idea a good suggestion about Tom's nature, knowing how important was the Word in Christian ontology.

[@danascully1248]

7:07 missed opportunity to do "Hi, I'm Poppy. I'm Poppy. I am Poppy. Hello, I am Poppy *I* am Poppy . . . I'm poppy"

[@HyJyncks]

I like how completely unrelated channels come to similar conclusion. But, yeah Amazon, your shows doing great.

[@janette2422]

I call it 'the unification from stupidity'.

[@aleksoctop]

It was a huge surprise they cast JD Vance as Tom Bombadil.

[@TheVisitors44]

😂

[@Maybeabandaid9]

underrated comment

[@nationlessnationalist]

Not enough makeup for JD.

[@aleksoctop]

@@Maybeabandaid9 whatever makes sense 🤷‍♂️

[@robertpaul50n]

congrats on being featured on Disparu's review of this episode

[@theophrastus3.056]

I'm pretty sure that Tolkien was about to reveal that Wakanda was actually the original Shire. 🤪

[@FlawedCoil82]

Nerdrotic just gave a shoutout to Johnny in his newest video. Nice! 👍🏻

[@slimbombur7922]

Elrond never heard of a barrow wight before but then he knows all about the lore and how to kill them. Amazing writing right there.

[@wavetactics13]

Jonny how can you have not mentioned this brave, diverse and inclusive piece of media decided to pull the horror movie cliche with the barrow wights and the one black elf in Galadriel's party?

[@StonersRadio]

How to blow $1 billion. Crap writing, crap directing, crap acting, crap costuming, crap fight choreography, crap weapons handling, crap sets, crap plot, crap characters, over-reliance on CGI , throw in some non-Tolkien tokenism and total lack of understanding of the source material and Bingo, $1 billion down the drain.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

"How to embezzle 1 billion $ us dollars ".

[@LifenowafterOH]

I don't think I can survive watching excerpts of the Rangs of Pitifulness on your videos, it's killing me. I mean I can feel myself die on the inside as I see things like Galadriel fighting those orcs. I can't remember anything like this in my 60+ years on Earth, that is equivalent to the butchering of a loved story like the Lord of the Rings by the Rangs of Putridness. Stoors? More like Stools, Stools of p..

[@Crazyboe]

Eat the bugs part 2

[@BBCEmily]

lmaoooo you sir, are brilliant. Thanks for making us laugh amidst the tragedy of this series existing

[@nickcharles1284]

Though you might be using it for comedic effect, Tom indeed sang a song with groping in the stanza. He meant of course "groping (for your way) in the dark if you don't hurry along". "Groping in the dark" is a very old and very well known phrase.

[@solange1093]

It's just cause Gandalf was taking a bath, I think 😅

[@ktw_yt]

Jonny, you're the only thing getting me through these truly dark days, extremely cathartic watching these...much love ❤ 😂

[@dapablo2]

Introduce a laughter track and it's perfect parody.

[@frankieb9444]

Your comedic timing for the credits was gold, a muffled laugh before bed...great as always

[@GardenArcher7625]

In Germoney "Poppy" is called Mäxi... oh boy..

[@BananaPh0ne]

I’ve never been more excited about Rings of Power commentary then when I see you have posted a new video.

[@Gorbz]

Didn't you know? The environment in Middle-Earth is soft as bedding. That is why the two Harfoots survived being hurled by a tornado, Elrond canmlead off a waterfall, a d Galadriel can survive a volcanic eruption.

[@leahmusunga8808]

I just had to comment. Your reviews are hilarious 😂😂... enjoying them here in Gaborone Botswana 🇧🇼 Am actually watching Smallville on Amazon Prime, thank you for watching ROP on our behalf, stay strong.

[@sonofliberty78]

Tom Bombadil is the embodiment of the music of creation. Though he’ll assist good people in an emergency, he’s still absolutely “above” the endless conflicts of Middle Earth. That silly, useless dervish from RoP is obviously NOT Tom.

[@ilijas3041]

Mr Bombadil 😂😂😂 Give this man a silmaril please...

[@BeatenTrackUK]

Last few years I thought they were digging a tunnel under my town, new subway? new pipes? fibre optic?... oh wait, no, is Tolkiens body turning since ROP started. (I live in Bournemouth, where Tolkien died)

[@DerHerrMitR]

That "Grand elf" pun will start another war somewhere soon, mark my words.

[@TalosCreative]

'When in doubt, always follow your goat' - GrandElf

[@sanehatter7646]

The hobbits not having a scratch after being launched into the sky from a tornado and landing on solid ground was so fkn dumb

[@OGfellowfriend]

man this takes me back. Nice to see nothing changed at amazon since then.

[@troillmainn]

I gave up after 20+ minutes into the very first episode of this show, but I've watched a lot of videos criticizing it and the moment they meet that Stoor (or whatever they're called) dude, I laughed so hard, there were tears😂 Then I got a look at the matriarch (or whatever) of their community😂 Do the show runners actually think we're supposed to be able to look at this show with a straight face? And be in awe of their brilliance and creative genius? Then, on top of that, they give us a Tom Bombadil who looks more like Mike Myers in the Love Guru movie😂😂😂

[@rickybobby6605]

Keep cranking videos man. I enjoy the channel and wanna see ya grow.

[@MadnessInLivingColor]

Isildur learning that simpin’ ain’t easy

[@jamiek1714]

Seriously Jonny, one of the funniest things ever was when you said ROP was so bad it gave you a KZbin channel.

[@goodputin4324]

Why are there black and Asian Elves

[@kagyubeef]

Duh! Because there are black and Asian people in the real world, and this show is all about the real world, not the fantasy world of Middle Earth, duh!

[@ilijas3041]

Because elfdom is the fortress of inclusivity and representation

[@MoriMemento117]

I swear, there are cosplay LARP groups in my neighborhood that look more convincing as elves than that band of weirdos. They dont even have similar body or facial types. Yet, they come from the same house of elves. Whatever.

[@montezleamonte1445]

Bro im blacker than black, my daddy is so black he turns dark blue in the sun… I got that violet hue with dark licorice BLACK lolol… and all me and the wife see is an endless pandering of nonsense… black elves, yep that makes sense… and middle eastern not-stoors/DEI creatures… with aunt Jenima as there momma??….why are the writers low key trying to tell audience that orcs are basically oppressed black people from our world, it’s obvious af… Bruh how does Amazon think anyone let alone any black folks who enjoy LOTR fantasy would watch this hot dumpster fire. The only exception I feel could make sense logically is black dwarves… they live under ground I mean it makes sense that they will have a big chunk of their race mutating into darker skin tones over generations living in darkness??… yeah… I’m sure we would all look beyond black dwarves, it kind of makes some sense… But no… apparently this is like some alternate weird middle earth reality where the real middle earth and this horrid disaster are bleeding into each other… or that’s what the writers are trying to do… slowly bleed concepts here and there into a bucket of garbage inclusion nonsense. Disgusting 🤢

[@MultiVeeta]

It's a play on screen about a mythical World. Nothing here is factual. Why you gotta be so negative and pathetic..

[@Orofino1]

The idea that Gandalf would get eaten by old man willow is ridiculous

[@SuperMewKittyKatGaming]

weird that they didnt make Galadriel a black asian woman trans demisexual that identifies itself as a monocycle