Rings of Power Season 2 Looks AWFUL - One RATIO To Rule Them All

The Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer gets DESTROYED by Fans.
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[@MisterSinisterReviews]

This show was so bad, Critical Drinker is now sober.

[@Lionstar16]

Get him some Jack Daniels ASAP

[@77explorer]

@MisterSinisterReviews Nah, he became a ghost. Alcohol literally goes straight through him now.

[@idkanymore3382]

Critical drinker is for woke propaganda in films, he has stated this numerous times

[@William5849]

He sold out

[@och70]

That’s better fantasy writing than this show has. Well done!

[@genebaker511]

You're wrong Gary, it wasn't the first episode when we knew Helbrand was Sauron, we knew he was Sauron from the very first trailer we saw. Because he was the only handsome white guy.

[@MillennialForChrist]

🤭🤭🤭

[@josepnebotrius872]

Yes and the only one that seemed to have a positive iq number while being straight.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

That is the main flaw of DEI writing for the normies,plots become extremely predictable.

[@cheeseburgersuperior1874]

...AND STRAIGHT.

[@alexander_marvelon]

Don't forget "straight " coz all the bad men are straight 😅

[@JamesBourgerie]

In Mordor's dark and fiery lair, Sauron's up to something rare. Not plotting doom or stirring dread, But fussing with his brand new head! "Enough of helmets, harsh and grim, It's time to show my stylish whim." He rummaged through his ancient chest, To find the wig he liked the best. A flowing mane of golden curls, He twirled and danced, gave it a whirl. "Now this," he said, with evil glee, "Will surely fool old Galadriel's tree!" With locks so lush, and quite divine, He thought, "This look, it will be mine." No more the Eye, with fiery blaze, But Sauron, in his fashion phase. Orcs and goblins stared in shock, As Sauron strutted 'round the block. "Is that our lord, so fierce, so big? Or did he steal a princess' wig?" He posed and preened, a sight to see, In Middle-earth's wild, new spree. Yet in the shadows, whispers spread, "Has Sauron lost his mighty head?" But Sauron, in his wig of gold, Felt fabulous, and oh so bold. "Let them laugh, let them jeer, I'm the chicest Dark Lord here!" In Rivendell, the elves did snicker, "Has Sauron joined the trendier ticker?" But even they could not deny, That wig gave him a certain...high. So if you see a shadowed king, Wearing curls like springtime's fling, Don't be fooled, and don't be big, It's Sauron, rocking his new wig!

[@ObserveOnly1]

Epic ❤

[@waltergold3457]

Remarkable - a poem Sam would want to memorize! Who the hell are you? 🙂

[@shadowking9739]

Outstanding, Sir!

[@deckofmoments]

Wow! Well done for the effort. It's a wonderful perspective :D

[@tnuqui3468]

Here, my good sir, have my like!

[@lukaarsovski2995]

Elves in lotr: "The dwarf breathes so loud we could've shot him in the dark" *As literally the entire party is ambushed by 15 wood elves out of nowhere, combat ready and all* Elves here: ".....he's sus, I feel like I've met this guy....hmmmmm"

[@paranoyd70]

I personally hate being reminded that this garbage even exists.

[@Peter-uy3ti]

May I just remind you that...

[@dennisdouglas5941]

Just think of it as the way I do. It is a bad parody. Not that I watch it... The only bits of it I have seen is from here. LOL

[@TheSilverGate]

You were able to translate that feeling I had

[@breakshot7451]

@@dennisdouglas5941 but isn t it nice that they produced such bs that a complete yt genre had to be created

[@Confessor555]

And I hate to thumbs up your comment because it reminds me this sheet exists. Yet I did.

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

Cate Blanchet is Galadriel and Hugo Weaving is Elrond. The End.

[@Cespar997]

Will Poulter would have been perfect he looks exactly like a younger Elrond. Glad he bailed out though.

[@brettloo7588]

+1

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

@@brettloo7588 👍

[@sparkyblazeup1]

And Miles Morales is Miles Morales.

[@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp]

LOTR will always have the perfect casting. Still find it crazy that Nicolas Cage as Aragorn and Sean Connery as Gandalf was a possibility. I’m a huge Connery fan too, but he would’ve played such an awkward Gandalf imo. Haha Sir Ian McKellen perfected the role, and will always be Gandalf. Viggo will always be Aragorn. Same with the rest of the cast and their roles. John Rhys Davies as Gimli makes me smile everytime.

[@adamdresch]

I genuinely don't understand why or how companies like Amazon and Disney keep releasing shit TV series' and movies and seemingly keep making them shit on purpose. Whenever there's criticism from anyone, it's because all critics, whether professional or not, are racists or some nonsense.

[@wesb123]

99.99% of their audience doesn’t read books 📚

[@grog3514]

It's because we are the target of a color revolution to destroy the West. One of the pillars of society that communists target is the cultural mythologies. That is all of our favorite IPs. It's easy for them since they are all owned by 3 companies. Companies can be bought.

[@KoFu.]

You need to research about who is pushing the woke agenda. Blackrock. If they don't push this sh*** they will cancel them by cutting the money, yes, even gigants tremble before blackrock. They own the planet.

[@Vince26010]

The only plausible answer that, imho, makes a little bit of sense : Money laundering

[@nyarlathotepkingofoblivion9916]

its because when you only critique the show based on said characters being gay/colored or whatever, that kinda poisons the whole arguement, you're not upset at the media, you're upset that people in it you don't like are in said media. If I wrote a show about a christian dude and used ever stereotype in the book people would complain about it, the same way you can critique it without just basing it off the people.

[@matthius1692]

Disney going through their check list. "What other beloved franchises have we not ruined yet?"

[@ivofixzone6410]

Rambo 🤣

[@CaptnJones1]

@@ivofixzone6410 Sshhh! Or they will do Rambette soon!

[@dominicp9296]

It's Amazon but Disney is trash to

[@Beard_Hood]

Rings of Power feels like a pretend game a bunch of 8 year olds play after watching Lord of the Rings.

[@giningmos2338]

Those 8 year olds are way more creative than the rings of power staff

[@mathewmoore1476]

Yeah but South Park did it better

[@SunnyLovetts]

Well it is fan fiction soooo you nerds need to stop treating it like it some how messes up the canon lol, that is Star Wars' problem.

[@patrickhenry8425]

@@SunnyLovetts you trying soo hard! lol you got a lot of comments to cry on. Better get busy

[@green_of_grey]

Looks like cosplay that confused D&D with Lord of the Rings...

[@robadamson1]

One wig to confuse them all, One wig to hide him. One wig to fool them all, And now they cannot find him.

[@BruderSenf]

😂😂😂👏👏👏 im going to steal that xD

[@uruuruis]

Just like he stole it.? Yes please, this comment is gold

[@michaeldpa1333]

Laughs!

[@Arthur_Revan]

🤣🤣🤣

[@lukewalken1316]

😅😅😅😅. That's Excellent

[@user-gq1rf5yg9z]

A disgrace to LOTR and its fans.

[@GeoffInfield]

I bailed in S01E01 after realising her nose was twitching "I hate men" in morse code. The almost audible "ahhhhh..." after wiping the floor with a snow troll with less effort than opening a letter with a scalpel didn't add to the immersion or believability 🤬

[@andrewalba5289]

It’s not the fact she dispatched the troll so easily (I feel it makes sense, during this “time” Galadriel was older than Legolas and had garnered much experience dealing with such creatures since then.) it’s that she fought in a way that was unconventional to her actual character in the books. She used no words or talismans to defeat the troll and her “elite guard” might as well have been green horn low born men.

[@maxvandoorn3799]

OK I´m not saying you made that up, because it would fit really good in the rest of the story, but I do need a bit more background for that. What scene? And how can one twitch in morse code?

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Aragorn: "The trailer has dropped! Amazon calls for mockery." Theoden: "... and the fandom will answer."

[@Sapphire_Jack]

They are lucky the fandom still cares enough to mock them unlike star wars where apathy has set in a long long time ago and not even a good movie will bring the fans back

[@lukewalken1316]

Good one😅😅

[@johnhughes2124]

@@Sapphire_Jack LOTR (no offence) has a far greater cultural impact that SW ever will

[@billybadass3056]

@@Sapphire_Jack ???Good Movie???

[@iz9744]

Mockirrim!!!!!

[@Yuh_zhimmy]

RIP to Bernard. An amazing actor who helped define one of the greatest trilogies in film history.

[@Arcexey]

@Yuh_zhimmy the greatest*

[@dekatko]

Bernard will live on for ages to come.

[@danwhite77]

Titanic, too.

[@shadowking9739]

Truly a great actor and a real class act from what I've heard. He's done many projects yet too few people know who he was. RIP

[@frederickdelius1106]

R.I.P

[@AllenKey19]

Shitting on Rings of Power is my favourite Nerdrotic series. There is so much unbridled revulsion for this show, far more entertaining than the actual product

[@TheEggroll4321]

BlackRock, Vanguard, JP Morgan, and State Street are some of the top shareholders and they invest based on ESG and DEI. That is the problem, plain and simple!!!

[@merlynfereira9631]

whats ESG and DEI?

[@TheEggroll4321]

@merlynfereira9631 environmental social and governance. It is a score investors give companies for being green, inclusive to cultures to their standards, that is why you see things like Black cleopatra and random characters in games being gay

[@Likexner]

@@merlynfereira9631 Its social credit for companies. Soon to be expanded to people. The more you shit on men, h00w!te people, Christians and people with normal seggsuality, the better ESG score you get and the more money you get.

[@Armory_4]

This thing is cancer on the eyes.

[@MiaogisTeas]

Honestly the sets and cinematography look great for a generic fantasy show. Absolutely beautiful in some spots. The fight choreography and writing are trash though.

[@JoakimOtamaa]

​@@MiaogisTeas cheaplooking green screen, really "beautiful".

[@kendiamond7852]

I think i have more respect for Cancer than this atrocity.

[@lunagrace2872]

@@MiaogisTeas Except for the costume which so far looks like the 1 season which was trash.

[@harrydavey9884]

Did they purposely pick the ugliest actors in history? It's genuinely insane.

[@NickNapoli]

The only good thing about season 2 will be the memes.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

It will be another glorious destruction of epic proportions

[@MillennialForChrist]

Agreed 🤭

[@rogermazuca4582]

Gimme the meat 🍖

[@arminxvs3372]

And YT-critics 😂

[@craig_z]

...and the amount of cash Amazon burned.

[@garysmith2983]

Oh man, didn’t know Bernard Hill had passed. Very sad. He was an icon in the U.K. for playing an out of work hardnut called Yosser Hughes back in the eighties. RIP.

[@Nolzei]

Ah yes, I nearly forgot about Femminem and the Nazgurls

[@heybro6105]

"If you don't like what we tell you to like, then YOU'RE the problem!"

[@M-S_4321]

Personally, I've never felt more satisfied about not watching a show.

[@Korschtal]

The definition of "Tolerance" by the Woke.

[@baahcusegamer4530]

I for one am proud to be a part of the problem: one of the many services I provide. 😂

[@Degarth]

Be the problem you want to see in the world!

[@lukewalken1316]

​@@KorschtalBINGO!

[@exnihiloism]

Remember the days when a diverse cast was just a cast without queer propaganda and without lecturing? We had a black Vulcan, a female Starfleet Captain, a gay time traveller, all colours, all races all over and no one cared, because the writing was great, the acting was great and no one told us how to live our lives.

[@cdaffern4707]

The only reason they mentioned diversity is because the journalist baited them with the question and they answered it, the journalist ran with it and made it about the diversity essentially taking the whole interviews out of context.

[@lukewalken1316]

Star Trek of old

[@liamphibia]

Yeah, we remember. And I myself feel depressed.

[@carlb5558]

The diversity being shoehorned into EVERYTHING, really takes me out of the moment. If it's organic or done well, no problem but everything has become so hamfisted and extremely preachy. Can't I escape a bit?

[@Tallorian]

But but LotR was all-white and male-driven, that's sooooo rrrrrracist and so yesterday. Good thing we have Amazon rushing to our aid, fixing problematic Tolkien with the first elf of color, the first dwarf of color, and warrior-Barfladriel. DEI is the quality of current day!

[@theunknowncommenter725]

7:00 MAD RESPECT for using a Van Helsing clip when talking about werewolves. Let's not forget that Van Helsing 20 years ago was done by the same computers, technician team, and David Wenham as Lord of the Rings was. Maybe that's why the clip was used. Much appreciated by the way.

[@christopherbravo1813]

oh hey, it's you!

[@theunknowncommenter725]

​@@christopherbravo1813and it's you!

[@christopherbravo1813]

@@theunknowncommenter725 fancy meeting you here

[@theunknowncommenter725]

​@@christopherbravo1813 I've been here for a while.

[@christopherbravo1813]

@@theunknowncommenter725 neat

[@OptimusSublyme]

The Rings of Power is the reason I personally boycotted Amazon Prime video content. They wasted so much money on this failure, they charged members extra money to remove ads that were never there in the first place under the constantly rising Prime membership fee so they could recoup their losses. I didn’t finish season 1 and I only plan to find out what happens from Gary’s hilarious reviews.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

You're literally missing out on nothing over there.

[@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp]

From “The Force is Female” to “The Fellowship is Female”😂🤣🥴

[@lukewalken1316]

Blatant Misandry

[@shaunpatrick8345]

@@lukewalken1316 there was a link to translate your comment to English. I just had to know... It means "blatant lying".

[@morothane]

Keep in mind these are the same people who will harass you for referring to a woman as female.

[@lukewalken1316]

@@shaunpatrick8345 agree....that too

[@Bandersnatch41]

The passing of Bernard Hill and the reaction to his death is a reminder of the biggest difference in quality between the trilogy and rings of power. When one of the cast of rings of power dies, no one is going to know or care

[@shaunpatrick8345]

I'm sure the death of the first black woman to play a dwarf will have a huge impact on black female Tolkien fans.

[@Tundra.]

@@shaunpatrick8345 They'll add her name to their increasingly long list of "Who?" placards and go enrich a Target again.

[@michellestr8998]

@@shaunpatrick8345 Not on all of them.

[@josepnebotrius872]

It was just 2 years ago and I forgot the cast names except for Morfydd Clark

[@josepnebotrius872]

@@shaunpatrick8345 maybe not for normal stature black female fans. You know to feel represented the actor must be literally you.

[@kaunas88]

Tolken's books were set in a mystical world reflecting the high middle ages of northern Europe. But these adaptations have betrayed that legacy by putting in non-white characters who would never have fit into Tolken's world. Are we now going to make a version of Mulan or the Monkey King with lots of non Chinese (black) actors just to be PC? Or how about a movie of the Zulus 150 years ago peppered with random white characters completely out of place in such a setting? I see a double standard.

[@Kiyoone]

02:28 more than 15 years old joke "They took our jerbs!!" and it is still funny, iconic and memorable... I can almost remember every episode from South Park... Rings Of Power? I can't even remember what happens in the season 2 trailers that I watched minutes ago... (I was there to read the funny comments tho)

[@murgeous]

“Give me the meat and give it to me raw” all i need to know about this show.

[@kickinrocks6055]

As an actor, how do you say that line? "You know what? Fix the script, or I'm outy"

[@Perktube1]

The only meat ROP will give you is those Impossible veggie-soy patties.

[@Raximus3000]

No condoms were used during the making of this show.

[@bl8388]

Not enough lesbians. That Wonder Woman movie knew how to hire them.

[@josephnjuguna1986]

​@@Raximus3000😅

[@newalchemy9742]

Imagine time travelling back 20 years and trying to convince people that every production of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Doctor Who, Aliens, and more would be complete trash focused on identity and the only enjoyment people got out of them was endlessly mocking their shittiness.

[@Thunderalpacka223]

I agree except the Star wars thing, the prequels came out which weren't so bad but the reboots were AWFUL. The 2010's age is what killed every famous IP

[@randomchannel323]

And that trans would be mainstream with people even saying they are not any gender or multiple genders at once

[@ser-Ike]

I think they'd lament the end of the cold war! All of this has only come about because we've had it too good for too long! Imminent nuclear vaporisation kept us all on the straight and narrow! Since war could break out anytime, [Real] Men were actually in demand! They only want to get rid of men because they forget there are enemies out there that you can't fight with pronouns, there is no SAFE SPACE that can protect you from immolation at the hands of a Russian or Chinese nuke.

[@Valarien777]

These are dark days indeed...

[@thugtrippin]

@@Thunderalpacka223 the prequels are so hard to watch man and I love Star Wars

[@anomonyous]

I'm expecting Sauron to remove his wig and say to an orc: "It is I, Sauron." In his most French-sounding accent possible.

[@luthien3565]

allo' allo' 🤣

[@UltraViolettaPlays]

I said this on the trailer and I was say it here. When August 29 comes with the next chapter of poorly written, delusional and insulting fanfiction, all true Tolkien fans should stream the LotR trilogy. I would love to see the numbers of LotR stream vs RoP Season 2 on that date.

[@TallisKeeton]

🤣👍👍👍👏

[@janminglee3004]

As the Joker once said "Its not about the money, its about sending the message. Everything burns."

[@DennisHeikki]

good point! anytime they self insert their garbage rather than let characters be well written, they turn everything to dust

[@claudianreyn4529]

Worst plot, worst actors, worst lines, worst scenography. Worst writing and story. The worst movie series ever.

[@Ellis_Hugh]

It turns my stomach that I have to disagree but what Amazon did to Wheel of Time was actually worse...

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

Everything is ghey. The actors, the writers, the story, the plot ...

[@Zonaskiosk1]

Not according to Jeff Bezos

[@andydudley1775]

@@Zonaskiosk1 well he banked at least 999 .999 million out of it .

[@claudianreyn4529]

@@Zonaskiosk1 I don't think he gives a damn anymore. He is a business man. In what terms would a business think? Money. So what kind of money a woke series would produce? What is the purpose of it? Political propaganda? Would you compromise the audience? But it's not like people pay an amazon sub, in order to watch this attrocity. They already have the subscription, so the movie's revenue is not based on a genuine audience. It's just a corporate production shoved down the throat of the subscribers.

[@MrMacavity]

The show looks so awful, it's likely they're actively TRYING to lose money to sink their own brand.

[@Neyalaia]

I still love the unsolved mysteries reveal of Celeborn. Makes me chuckle every time. Also rest well, Bernard Hill.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

*Scans Rings of Power with a tricorder* “It’s dead, Jim”

[@skroowi8105]

"Bones.... you have to .... fix it" "Dammit, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a screenwriter!"

[@cairsahrstjoseph996]

"It was never alive, Bones."

[@Draconisrex1]

The worst part of Gladiriel was she just looks like a reasonably young, okay-looking soccer-mom doing cosplay. There is not any 'tall, elven ethereal beauty' in her. Yet there she is...

[@Ken-fh4jc]

She’s much better looking in interviews and stuff.

[@zeppelinboys]

agreed. Gary mentioned some actress I'd never seen before and holy shit SHE would have been a perfect Gladiriel. but with such shitty scripts, no actor could save ROP.

[@MMAVoodoo]

Some makeup, costuming, and attitude adjustments would have made a big difference. It's mostly the woman doing her best impression of a man act that ruins it because it reflects a common trend with single women today

[@janmarek971]

I kinda feel bad for her. Imagine being cast as Galadriel, a symbol of femininity and feminine power only to end up tangled in this shitshow of a show. You can clearly see that she wasn't very happy when she had to anounce, that there is a tempest in her.

[@jonnysongs]

She could still carry it off despite her stature if she were a better actress and carried herself with confidence, strength and dignity. She is badly miscast, and the poor girl knows it.

[@omnipop4936]

2:55 "...with Female Frodo and Female Sam, who run into Totally Not Gandalf..." 😂

[@luecifer1150]

T:What can men do against such reckless hate. A: Ride out with us, ride out and meet them T: For death, for glory A: For our people T: Yes, YEsss. The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time

[@Absolute_Goblin]

I'm okay with women not being involved in writing and directing. I am totally okay with the best person for the job getting the job.

[@hiflyer000]

Women writers aren't trying to make good stories, they are trying to push an agenda. It's bad when the agenda is original content, but exponentially worse when it's existing, well written content they are bastardizing.

[@simontoppin6844]

Whoah there slow down Adolf

[@CleverGirlAAH]

I'm okay with Amy Hennig writing anything. She has a pedigree of writing behind her. She's actually qualified.

[@The_Brickster]

My favorite part was when Guyladriel called the emergency meeting and all the other elves sussed out the imposter, after she found a wig on the forge floor.

[@Launchpad05]

And the part where Guyladriel said she was 'kenough' brought chills down my spine.

[@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp]

Guyladriel, played by Dylan Mulvaney.

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

@@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp Galvandriel?

[@lukewalken1316]

​@@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp😅😅😅

[@The_Brickster]

@@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp 🤣oh my gosh

[@TheDisruptiveOne]

i can't believe they made a second season. literally everyone hated this show.

[@MemoirsofaGamer1982]

Id love to know how much Hollywood, Disney, Amazon and Netflix all lost from 2016 to 2024....got to be over quarter of a trillion in total....

[@thefenrisianssweatshop]

We owe it to the memory of JRR Tolkien, Ian Holme, Christopher Lee and Bernard Hill, to phucking DESTROY this atrocity of a series.

[@lukewalken1316]

Oh Christopher Lee must be spinning in his grave. He would been the most hardened critic if he was still alive

[@koreancowboy42]

​@@lukewalken1316 Christopher Lee would be the greatest influence to destroy these idiots at Amazon

[@TallisKeeton]

@@lukewalken1316 Oh my, I just imagined Christopher Lee in his glorious Dracula makeup haunting the Amazon script writers :D

[@hanham963]

@@TallisKeeton I hope he doesn't bite them. Might get food poisoning.

[@ironhead2008]

@@lukewalken1316 Imagine him getting into streaming specifically to dissect and destroy this atrocity to the fullest extent. I wouldn't put it past him if he were still with us. And you just know he'd have some bitchin bumper music.

[@ooKn1GhToo]

The hobos that lived in my neighborhood had better storytelling capabilities than the writers on these millions of dollar projects. Sad.

[@banhammer3904]

We've got the best stories.

[@M4GG0TK1NG]

Swap that M for a B. Amazon spent a *billion* dollars to make this show when you factor in the cost of acquiring rights and all that stuff

[@maguffintop2596]

THAT was funny!!!😂😂😂 and true. Best comment today!

[@maguffintop2596]

When I look at Diza I see the “sittin” on da toilet…” song singer…. 🚽

[@fernandofaria2872]

Billions*

[@brandongaines213]

HAHA! The Rangs of Pa'r was the ad in this. I was just listening and thought 'wow, he's playing a long ass clip." I looked over and saw the skip button. 🤦‍♂️

[@tokyo_taxi7835]

The Annatar character is so mid-looking. He's supposed to be so dazzlingly beautiful that he's able to easily fool the Elves, aka "The Wisest and Fairest of All Beings." This dude, though? He looks like a copy and paste version of a LOTR extra.

[@maryokeeffe3528]

The trailer makes me wish they *had* cast that British-Indian actor as Annatar. At least that way there would be some excuse for "we had no idea this mysterious stranger was Sauron" instead of "Halbrand in a wig fooled us yet again, yes we are all literally too stupid to live".

[@TallisKeeton]

🤣👍👍

[@paj-bn8pe]

I wonder what you look like. You must be sooo good-looking if you are this bold talking about someone's apppearance.

[@maryokeeffe3528]

@@paj-bn8pe Charlie Vickers is okay looking. I don't consider him particularly handsome, but tastes differ. He is not, however, the kind of ethereal elegant looks that one of the Maiar, in their fair form, should have. And given that it's just "same actor in a wig" then the plot is all confused; if Sauron was there before as Annatar, then how did Galadriel not recognise him as Halbrand? If Sauron has come back now as Annatar, same problem: Celebrimbor saw Halbrand up close, how can he not recognise "Huh - this guy looks exactly like Halbrand"?

[@dantebzs]

Reporting from Brazil: It's ratio'd here too. I did my part!

[@AkiTerry]

😂👍

[@catfoodmillionaire7838]

👍

[@DreamingDarlin]

Thank you! We must all do our part!

[@robw7676]

Magical. Latino elves & dwarves incoming for season 3.

[@BulletMagnetMan]

For Managed Democracy! 💪

[@rob4eva]

Turning Gayladieal into a Mary Sue was too much cringe for me.

[@lukewalken1316]

" The Commander of the Northern Armies"...🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@MikeJohnson-qy4wq]

@@lukewalken1316cringgggggge gladiator wannabe ripoff

[@TBoNAtl]

They have no idea what true female strength looks like so they just made her act like a man. Fucking disgrace.

[@brockdavid]

Guy-Lad-f’real the Gurl-barian

[@mkeogh76]

@@lukewalken1316 Plus, Warrior of the Wastelands (and probably also "the Ayatollah of RocknRolla!") And all played by a 5 ft/100lb nothing of a woman with ZERO command presence. Who would follow her Guy-ladriel into a pillow fight, let alone a real battle? It's obvious that no one who worked on this show ever served a day in the military. (You have to laugh at the delusions they had about this character. They thought they were making the ultimate badass, girlboss/Yass Queen Slay, She-Elf/warrior-woman, but instead they created arguably the most unlikeable and ridiculous combo of a Mary Sue and a Karen.)

[@gediminaskucinskas6952]

The biggest wakness of the elves is the wig. "Not the wig! Not the wig! Anything but the wig!" Elves are long lived race , adept at magic and archery, even has uncorrupted rings but one wig rules them all.

[@michellestr8998]

My favorite comment.; Gandalf; YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Balrog puts on wig. Gandalf; Oh, my apology. You may certainly pass, Madam!

[@joedredd1168]

The three Elven rings were forged AFTER the 16 lesser rings, bloody amazon couldn't even get that right!

[@caseytatum5837]

They dont care to

[@guibox3]

That is the least atrocious bastardizing of the 2nd Age time line. Sauron was already established in Middle Earth 600 years before he took Elvish form and forged the rings of power (and his presence was well known to be there by its inhabitants. It was no secret). Then he was defeated a 100 years later, took refuge and finished Bar-radur, then another 1700 years passed before he was defeated and taken to Numenor as a prisoner and THEN we see Isildur and Elendil on the scene. The ROP series mushes it altogether and completely out of order in events, and throws in Gandalf and a Balrog (who didn't even show up until the 3rd Age) for good measure.

[@albislopez]

How could they. They didn't even read past the cover of the first book or even one wiki page

[@BearPawSwipe]

Probably had to do it out of order to avoid the copyright stuff.

[@jaymea8907]

@@BearPawSwipe oh shut up

[@m4anow]

RIP BERNARD HILL😢

[@smokeit4ever]

almost made me cry

[@djokealtena2538]

We must hold the line for him, the only Lotr Actor that truly spoke out about this travesty. He shall forever be our King.

[@doublep1980]

His response to this garbage show was based af. RIP Theoden king.

[@fernandofaria2872]

@@doublep1980what did he say?

[@doublep1980]

@@fernandofaria2872 They asked him if he watched it and he replied: "No and I don't plan to. " They asked him then: "Why? " and he replied: "I watched the trailer and it's very obvious that this is made by people who don't really care about Tolkien's work, so I'm not gonna bother with it. "

[@waynesworld1957]

I think people not recognizing Sauron with his new wig and ears is quite plausible. I mean if Clark Kent can get away with just wearing glasses, Bruce Wayne by only changing the tone of his voice and Hal Jordan with the little eye mask then why not. The Rings of Power writers stole from South Park (remember "they took our jobs,") and ripped off scenes from the Peter Jackson films. People are mostly stupid and couldn't possibly see through the costume change. So lets be quiet and not spoil it for the audience Amazon so desperately needs.

[@MegamanZero410]

My favorite part is when Sauron told Guyladrial that they needed 1.21 gigawatts of electricity so we could go back in time and make this show not exist.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Great Scott!

[@ProtoNecron]

"evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" These words have become reality in this day and age sadly.

[@blade_of_peace_tls7658]

Those words have always been reality.

[@user-hm7sv3vn1d]

“Maybe you have heard of Trolls? They are mighty strong. But Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness." I like this quote by Treebeard.

[@dogstick12]

No story can stand it the characters aren't working towards uniting with each other and doing good to each other

[@robertbrown3413]

The concept comes from Morgoth unable to create 'life' like elves and men as children of Iluvatar. It's in Ainulindale the 1st chapter of the Silmarillion.

[@taqresu5865]

​@@robertbrown3413And that concept is thematically present throughout all of Tolkien's works.

[@Cadence733]

Ratioed out everywhere: Amazon repeating the mantra 'it's only a minority, it's only a minority'

[@shaunpatrick8345]

They made the series for minorities, they should revel in being one in the ratio.

[@Cadence733]

@@shaunpatrick8345 women aren't a minority.

[@mr.brightside7496]

@@Cadence733 Normal women are kekw

[@melanimatejak6821]

​@@Cadence733Normal women aren't minority, but deranged women are. And only the later watchbthis show

[@Cadence733]

@@mr.brightside7496 that contradicts the original point.

[@Kyermemehtar]

I can't believe young Galadriel thought being with Sauron could make her MORE of a tyrant! She's already more tyrannical than anyone on Arda 🤷‍♀️

[@ChopSueyyy]

The trailer beautifully shows what has been wrong with the show and is going to be wrong again. They treat and think of LotR as the same as some generic fantasy action popcorn cinema blockbuster. They grasp for their formulas and they are failing gloriously.

[@christophergillette7167]

I genuinely wish that every single writer and decision-maker attached to Rings of Power had to scrub toilets for the rest of their lives.

[@PeyoteCoyote97]

Ironically this would never happen because the writers come from actually privileged backgrounds lmao

[@christophergillette7167]

@@PeyoteCoyote97 Which makes their preaching so much worse. They imagine themselves as some sort of progressive champions but they have nothing in common with normal people with actual struggles.

[@AnarchyThirtySeven]

Extremely shitty ones

[@seekingclarity3600]

With their individual unpowered, unautomated toothbrushes.

[@hanham963]

Won't work. Toilet maintenance is much too complicated for these peopel who get their jobs based on quotas.

[@dimitrijetucovic1307]

Jesus, they're still doing this shit? 😂

[@solarflaredragoon]

Sadly, and I believe they already have a 3rd season confirmed. Lol Amazon is going to go bankrupt producing this crap. 🤣

[@caseytatum5837]

I said at the start, this shit will have atleast 3 seasons

[@annunakim525]

-The Story of Galahadriel and Tyrone and so Gondomir spoke towards the Beast of Red Skull: "by the power invested in me by the ring of greyskull, i say, back, back you foul minion of Gru! I shall cast you out, for you cannot handle the truth!" whip cracks "fly you, fools, Use the Eagles and be smart, so do not walk for ages while the dark lord totally raids our lands and almost wins this war!" he explained on his long way down using the project-voice spell. "And so it came to pass that the Rock, who once bathed in the rejuvinating blood of a thousand caterpillars, was buried alive with the ancient aliens that roamed Tristram..."

[@johnhermann7498]

How Amazon could take something so epic and destroy it is amazing...

[@thetruthseeker3198]

I will always have the Peter Jackson movies and the books. That's all I'll ever need.

[@Shifo_47]

same ❤

[@Professor_Internet_PhD]

The Hobbit trilogy was a pile of crap though.

[@hanham963]

@@Professor_Internet_PhD Maybe, but still better than dem rangz of pawah.

[@ineedmoneysp]

I can’t believe Amazon has just completely fucked up Lord of the Rings and it’s even crazier that a family member of the creator allowed it

[@fomobull4187]

In a year you will hear people say they do not like LOTR because they watched it and this Tolkien stuff is poorly written. It is vandalism.

[@lukewalken1316]

No one should be surprised. Jennifer Salke: Graduate of the Kathleen Kennedy School of subversion

[@PeyoteCoyote97]

Money money money

[@Phyx1u5]

money... it's a helluva drug

[@ArbiterofTruth]

The family member did not know that they were going to go this far to assassinate JRR. Tolkien’s legacy. The two guys who produced this garbage lied to him. In elvish of all things.

[@davids2977]

The most ironic thing just happened. Half way through your video testing the RoP season 2 trailer apart, KZbin decided to give them the trailer as an advertisement. KZbin is just as out of touch as Amazon. 😂😂😂😂

[@Justan669]

The best part of this show is that Galadriel was searching for Sauron for 1000 years, but couldn't recognize him when he was literally hanging out with her for a few weeks- the question becomes, how many times has he shown up and she not recognize him? Has he been stalking her for a thousand years? That is a series I would watch... also that poor search party who clearly just want to go home- and have no idea who they are looking for

[@Didymus20X6]

And all it took was a wig. Man, if he'd had some Clark Kent glasses or a Groucho Schnoz, they'd have been SCREWED!

[@Fiestacat12345]

I’m starting to think these people derive some sick twisted joy from destroying beloved IP that people enjoy.

[@Peter-uy3ti]

I think maybe your right.

[@fomobull4187]

Besos can afford a good trolling. It was that or another yacht and he already had enough yachts.

[@jonnysongs]

Definitely they do. They hate civilization and you don't get much more civilized than Tolkien and his values

[@Apollo890]

Can't wait for the scene where Guyladrial and the Elves chase after Sauron with the Benny Hill music playing.

[@Peter-uy3ti]

Ha😊 He was the fastest milkman in the west

[@deckofmoments]

Love it. You're on point and funny, with class. At some point you really delivered something deep. I particularly like the zoom shot of an actor who plays Durin, while Disa was giving her speech. The expressions on that guy's face were showing some real emotions and they said it all right there. I have quit Rings of Power after episode 4 and my head hurts from everything I've seen. Meanwhile, the real Lord of the Rings remains among the best works of literature and cinema, and it's my favourite story ever. Watching the lighting of beacons at the end of your video reminded me why. There is so much greatness conveyed in the scene. The sense of honour, courage and glory that portrays gave me the rush! It's pure art. It's pure beauty. And we will always have that.

[@em0_tion]

1:37 Wow, Gordon Ramsay's an actor now? Idiot sandwiches all around! 🤣

[@robertcooper4935]

Don't worry Amazon, i won't be watching this

[@dadocta5168]

I do not say this lightly to Amazon: Take note from Warner Bros and scrap the season for a tax write off, ya dummies!

[@centurion8446]

Oh no of course not, the IP HAS to be used to push woke bs or self inserts or whatever this crap is

[@magistersolis.3750]

Yeah I don’t get it Amazon the experts at business who run a billion dollar delivery enterprise. Can’t understand when a product is not selling well? Or what to do when it doesn’t… Come on guys you if all people should know better.

[@ashuradevilborngaming9924]

I smell money laundering

[@lukewalken1316]

​@@ashuradevilborngaming9924via Blackrock and Vanguard

[@ashuradevilborngaming9924]

@@lukewalken1316 yeah

[@dream-bits]

Why do they keep embarrassing themselfs over and over again?

[@abdulmohsin23]

Business dude... Cause they got rights to the former story. Jeff bezos buy the rights

[@cinibas]

How? Just how can something fall this far? I literally got chills from the last clip from a movie i have seen countless times. Every single thing i see about rings of power just makes me cringe.

[@RetroPages]

- You have not seen what I have seen. - I have seen my share, and choose to watch no more.

[@PeyoteCoyote97]

I HAVE TEMPEST IN MEH

[@karahughes7074]

Oh I stopped watching when they showed Finrod Felagund dying in battle, because he actually dies saving his friend Beren in the dungeons of Angband.

[@joshuapatrick682]

Rest in peace Bernard Hill…. Hail the victorious dead!!!

[@saylosrelyks8645]

We needed Celebrimbor from Shadow of Mordor, Alistair Duncan was freaking perfect as Celebrimbor, "Nan iChir Gelair, Ochedin Valannor!" rings of power version looks like a squishy faced Kryptonian and what's with the elves having SHORT HAIR!

[@sackuchiha1941]

i dispise 'rings of power' as the next guy, but i don't think it's the fault of the actress playing gladrial, from the interviews that she has given both for this show and other projects that she was part of it seems as tho she is one of the few normal actress in this series, its just she was given a bad hand, she is just doing a job

[@lockoutslayer]

Who knew?! Making a show set in an era you didn't buy the rights for (The Silmarillion) for the sole purpose of making up your own story and inserting your own politics, then slapping LOTR on the title and expecting the audience you disrespected to support it was an awful idea! This surprised no one; only Amazon.

[@didierfavre2356]

And they haven't learned anything from it.

[@inczekrisztian2648]

The rights problem doesn't realy add up either, concidering that the Appendices has the entire timeline of the second age, and a handy summary about Numenor and it's people, and some more stuff.

[@doublep1980]

Apparently, Jeff Bezos son is a huge Tolkien fan and told his father when they announced this show: "Do NOT let them screw this up!" I´m curious what he said to his dad, after season 1 came out.

[@edrosa3485]

"Essentially prison raped Tolkien lore..." - 😆😆😆😆

[@shadowking9739]

I'd like to say that the Tolkien Estate fought the good fight and kept hack TV producers from destroying the Professor's legacy...but Hollywood is no fairy tale.

[@jonathanfornwalt4919]

RoP is s what happens when the show runners and writers are so arrogant that they can't keep themselves from inserting their real world personal hangups into a fantasy world that already has been established.

[@rmerrida]

Thank you for the moment paying respect at the end regarding the passing of Bernard Hill. My condolences to his family and friends.

[@LexLudendi]

My favourite part was when Morfydd Clark scowled and said "It's Morfyin time."

[@jeffersonadams8711]

Meh, at least she's cute and has a nice cake--which she shows us in _Saint Maude._

[@Lyle-fv9mm]

Go go power rangers

[@mr.awesome6011]

People that still make Morbius jokes like kids

[@SSJ4Vegiito]

Over used joke.

[@yazzzlet3549]

@@mr.awesome6011 they're too funny, get's me everytime out of nowhere XD

[@BeforeMoviesSucked]

Thanks for the Bernard Hill tribute. Class act for a classic man.

[@toxictony4230]

Theoden. King.

[@drekwilliamton5830]

This show can be summarised with "ooohh I 'member... but why the fuck is there a black elf and dwarf'

[@L0ne_Phoenix]

"Never ask a dwarf supremacist the race of his boyfriend." I choked on my water when i first saw this.

[@encod3123]

The RIP to Bernard Hill at the end was pure class.

[@irisjanemay1903]

Hail to my mother and my father, hail to my brother and my sister, hail to all that have gone before me who dwell in Valhalla where the brave never die. God speed to the golden halls Mr. Hill.

[@Valarien777]

Gandalf: "He was strong in life. His spirit will find its way to the halls of your fathers." RIP Theoden / Bernard Hill

[@CaptShriver]

This season 2 of Lord of the rings is not going to care anything about caliborn galadriel's husband because this is woke. This is intersectional feminism as part of wokism

[@Deletirium]

Right? I don't attend church- I certainly don't want that experience replicated by a droning, vapid social sermon in every new rebooted retread of a previously good property.

[@Sereneh468]

Feminism? Let’s not stop there! We get black hobbits now. That did it, I’m out.

[@fantasywind3923]

I mean at this point in time Galadriel is supposed to be a MOTHER...her daughter Celebrian was born in the Second Age! And Celebrian is future wife of Elrond and mother of Arwen and her brothers Elladan and Elrohir...so yeah...Galadriel at this point in time is a happily married and mother...and a leader with her own following of people....sharing time between family life and her leadership and poltiics basically, being a ruler, leader busy establishing and managing the elven realms! Not some solider girl...but a proper noble woman and 'queen' except bearing no title of one...she technically is under the High King of the Noldor anyway, but since she is also a member of royalty she is family with Gil-galad with high position.

[@guibox3]

Who gives a crap whether it is 'woke' or not? If you think that is the biggest problem with ROP, you can't be much of a Tolkien fan. The horror of this show is the complete disregard for the events, characters and chronology of the 2nd Age and taking events of the 3rd Age and throwing them in to boot. Everyone whining about feminism, black elves and hobbits, girl power and woke-ism are totally missing the major issue of the show completely disregarding the written source material, twisting it and destroying it.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Yep. He's just gonna be a politically convenient marriage or something. What's the girlboss equivalent of a Beard?

[@markojovicic757]

R.I.P Bernard Hill Théoden son of Thengel King of Rohan Tonight we remember those who gave their blood to defend this country. Hail the victorious dead!

[@quanlinglingdingle6122]

this series makes me wanna shout "ROCK AND STONE!" instead, the elves are so dumb

[@Zenocrate]

A note from Tolkien: "The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected." "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14

[@Valarien777]

In the context of the abomination that is Rings of Power, so refreshing to hear Professor Tolkien in his own words...

[@buggerlugz6753]

Aint no poets writing or producing this BS. Just millennials who think they know best.

[@Keverember]

I treat every new piece of Rings of Power marketing as a great reminder to rewatch the Peter Jackson trilogy and reread the books.

[@Sergeant_Fury]

Words fail me. They had a golden opportunity to write a really terrific show. They didn't even read the source material. I doubt they even like the source material. They certainly don't like us.

[@mixalisnaf1]

11:41...."Hello Darkness my old friend..." You killed me right there 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CormacTunstead]

Remember folks... don't be hate watching! It'll only serve Amazons interest

[@BishopBrown-ng2ns]

When Guyladriel squints her face, she looks like a badger.

[@Peter-uy3ti]

Apparently, Badger, is one of his/ her preferred pronoun's.

[@SecondBreakfastAndThreeH-zo3jp]

Chick is as flat as Dylan Mulvaney too. Not my Galadriel! This is Guyladriel! Is that you Dylan?

[@casualcausalityy]

Eh, badgers can be cute

[@fantasywind3923]

Oh my goodness she is the evil lord of badger-folk from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil!!!! "Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways" as was mentioned in the Fellowship book...but it's the Adventures of Tom Bombadil poems that really show their evil ;) " Then Tom hurried on. Rain began to shiver, round rings spattering in the running river; a wind blew, shaken leaves chilly drops were dripping; into a sheltering hole Old Tom went skipping. Out came Badger-brock with his snowy forehead and his dark blinking eyes. In the hill he quarried with his wife and many sons. By the coat they caught him, pulled him inside their earth, down their tunnels brought him. Inside their secret house, there they sat a-mumbling: ‘Ho, Tom Bombadil! Where have you come tumbling, bursting in the front-door? Badger-folk have caught you. You’ll never find it out, the way that we have brought you!’ ‘Now, old Badger-brock, do you hear me talking? You show me out at once! I must be a-walking. Show me to your backdoor under briar-roses; then clean grimy paws, wipe your earthy noses! Go back to sleep again on your straw pillow, like fair Goldberry and Old Man Willow!’"

[@Xbow61]

Harsh on badgers I think...

[@bizill1984]

That last clip of LOTR showed how excellent it used to be. How far we've fallen.

[@MisterDanger01]

''Do not grieve for those whose time has come. You shall live to see these days renewed. No more despair.'' -King Theoden of Rohan. RIP Bernard.