The Rings of Power is Historically BAD | Amazon is 'Patently Evil'

Amazon is in full Rings of Power Damage Control as we reach the penultimate episode of what may go down as the most expensive flop in history. The Rings of Power is still bad, boring, forgettable, and a desecration of Tolkien's work.
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[@scotthollas3816]

It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, wisest and fairest of them all. The rights were then given to Jackson, a great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desired quality But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film One show to ruin them all.

[@grandfaultimperceptor]

lmao

[@orcpeon4520]

😂😂😂

[@jrjefferson01]

🤟

[@習近平-x5y]

a master flop 😂

[@rmmj7james293]

Bruhhhhhh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@atalcot1]

The irony of Amazon calling anyone else patently evil is just too much 😂

[@jackjohn4156]

The irony they say “where it is written that we can’t write this” lol

[@rmmj7james293]

Iron law of Woke projection never fails

[@HerculesBallsInc]

@@jackjohn4156 Tolkien never wrote that Galadriel didn't have a lightsaber! OMG!

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

I guess they forgot their workers have to piss in bottles and shit in bags while on the job lmao. Oh, wait, they totally don't do that since Amazon made a tweet saying that it is false. They tweeted, saying, "You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one." Crazy how so many people don't go after Amazon and even shill for them plus defend them, and this show when they treat the workers like trash. Big corps got so many free shills doing the work for them now.

[@Manco65]

Amazon: The Soy is always right.,😛🙄

[@JapanJuan]

I thought it was funny how Adar showed more care and compassion for his Orcs than Galadriel did for her former squad members.

[@stephenblack5425]

For real

[@marinawolf]

I read LOTR when I was a teenager, and then again in my 20s, and then again, and again. As a woman, I never once felt this epic needed more female representation. The characters, lore, lessons, conflicts, morals, reversals etc., are meaningful and relevant to all human beings, regardless of plumbing and varnish.

[@MonoKrohm_2020]

Beautifully put

[@milliewoo337]

Plumbing & varnish lol well put

[@colinclement2752]

Plumbing and varnish...that's great

[@fdosufsachsen1727]

you should try the original sometime

[@NickNapoli]

The scene where Guyladriel revealed herself to be Maximus in front of Caesar sent chills down my spine.

[@masamune2984]

When she said “There is entertainment in me. Are you not entertained?,” I cried soy tears.

[@primmakinsofis614]

Rings of Power show runners: "Are you not entertained?" Audience: "No, we are not."

[@jackjohn4156]

@@primmakinsofis614 The funny thing is that they proved their logic is “it isn’t written that we can’t write that” lol

[@stagalgiz1097]

I nearly cried as they carried Guyladriel on their shoulders while female Frodo shouted, "she was hero of Rome! Honor her!" Tears of soy.

[@RmDIrSudoSu]

I did prefer the scene where Guyladriel started jogging all round middle earth without purposes. That was intense.

[@Evil-Shenanigans]

Gigantic global corporations calling people "fascists" to silence them is the epitome of irony.

[@matthillard9363]

What about being a racist for not liking it

[@adamt.7376]

Yup, you're right.

[@tyrelladkins5200]

@@matthillard9363 how was this relevant, at all?

[@guitarmanatee8528]

@@tyrelladkins5200 because it's also something they screech at fans. Dude says it in the video too.

[@raiden5176]

The irony of begging the fascist to support their 2nd season 😂

[@Shadowhunterbg]

I find it truly disturbing that they didn't include Celeborn because they saw him as an obstacle to her. Just imagine, a woman is in love with a man, he completes her and she him, makes her happy and those SJWs just cut him off like a parasite who in their eyes was in Galadriel's way. This is how they view marriage and family. My god... their hearts are the blackest of poison. And they talk about love and understanding? They are the anathema to it!

[@Parasmunt]

How could lesbians see themselves in her if she was with a man? The show must reflect the world as it is today and everyone must see themselves in it.

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

I find Gary's Nazism disturbing. I'm glad we're focused on the real enemy - anti-racists the real enemies of the lore lolol

[@BasedNeptune]

Well said

[@nickthebold]

this is easily one of the dumbest comments i've ever read

[@joshyaash]

uh they're clearly going to bring him into the story later

[@BKOLewis]

This morning, 10/10/2022, I watched My Little Pony S1 E9 with my daughter before driving her to school. It was delightful. Clever dialogue, interesting story, charming characters, funny, great voice acting, effective pacing. NOTE: I am a 50+ retired veteran and a long time Tolkien fan. My Little Pony is superior to Rings of Power in every way except visuals. I am not joking. I swear on my life I am telling the truth. This should not be possible! I want to rant some more but simply stated,: more talent, thought, and care was applied to a 22 minute episode of a My Little Pony than I have seen in the tragedy titled the Rings of Power. I'm saddened by the missed potential of this show.

[@redmercurylondon]

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thelittlemoonling]

No honestly rings of power visuals are pretty horribly fake. Im sure my little pony is more creative visually given what they have to do to make cartoons and how absolutely fake and atrocious rings of power is compared to what peter jackson/weta did for instance.. with actual care..

[@doge-pal]

I didn't think MLP was anything special, at all. Still better than the insult that is Rings of Power.

[@KororaPenguin]

And Derpy Hooves would have some VERY harsh words for Not Galadriel.

[@dougkimzey4518]

Tolkien spent many years of his life crafting Middle Earth. He read and reviewed his work to an informal literary group called "The Inklings". Members included C.S. Lewis, Hugo Dyson, and other literary scholars. The only mistake that can be made with source material of this quality is to ignore it. This is exactly what the writers of "Rings of Power" have done. Tolkien's works are widely considered to be masterpieces of literature. Rings of Power was released to a large population who have read and re-read Tolkien's work. The writers of Rings of Power changed the biography of Galadriel, one of the most respected characters in Tolkien's written work. Rings of Power subordinates Tolkien to current race and gender politics to "reflect the world we live in". This is like taking the Mona Lisa and handing it to a grade-school class with instructions to give her a new wardrobe, paint a smartphone in her hand, and don't forget the earbuds. Jackson's trilogy was well received because it respected Tolkien's work. There were omissions in the films that the audience would love to see. Still, the Jackson trilogy is a solid favorite with a large number of people. If Rings of Power had been developed as episodes describing the significant events in the second age and remained close to Tolkien's work, it would have been well received. The maturity and grace in Tolkien's work is absent in The Rings of Power. Galadriel in Tolkien's work is respected for her wisdom, maturity and grace. Galadriel in Rings of Power is simply insufferable. The misandric scripts that take every opportunity to portray men as idiots is tiresome. Most audiences dislike mysogany and misandry equally. There is a very real quality problem with the writing of Rings of Power. It does not take a deep dive to see the many, many issues with the writing. Most of the issues with Rings of Power are floating on the surface in plain sight . There were many bad decisions and wasted opportunities in the development of this show. People who point this out are not automatically racists, facists, or mysogonists. They are your clients and audience responding to a poorly made and insulting adaptation of a work that they hold in high regard.

[@pasalasaga]

My mind: your comment My mouth: this is sh¡t

[@jeffagain7516]

I'm confident that Payne and McKay were selected because they are young, naive, easily manipulated and untested. With these aspects, the true "Showrunners' could get them to write whatever type story they envision and it most assuredly would have nothing to do with Tolkien, for they despise the Author and simply want to cultivate his Fanbase. That, is 2022 era Sauron proudly on display.

[@davidcatlett4052]

Excellently put!

[@NuTfielDRobErT]

Very well said

[@Dadolphinsmakemecry]

Well said,just next time read your post as others would and make paragraphs. Otherwise you just drone on,and ik in rl you dont talk like that. No offense just sayin.

[@heraldofwar]

I'm still rooting for Sauron this season as he is the one who is less evil so far.

[@clogs4956]

I like Adar. He seems a sweet man damaged by a great evil and driven by circumstances, obeying impulses that he would rather not have but cannot deny. He’s a great tragic hero!

[@jacksimpson8529]

@@clogs4956 Potential memes and/or jokes aside, he is literally a torture victim since the first Orcs were created from some of the first Elves that Morgoth managed to steal away and corrupt via brutal mental and physical torture. Adar even confirms when he's captured that Sauron's experiments forced him to breed and then murder his own kids repeatedly for who knows how long. The worst part is that, for Adar, the torture and 'evil' programming hasn't quite taken all the way, since he looks more Elvish than any of the Orcs under his command and is still in touch with that Elf side of him, what with planting the seeds before the fight. He's also fighting for a home for him and his followers, rather than just out of a desire for violence or at the behest of a dark lord, even if he's using incredibly violent means and doesn't care about anyone else other than his Orcs. There are still pieces of light in him that Morgoth and Sauron's torment didn't manage to drive out. I genuinely think that Galadriel as written in LOTR, described having compassion and kindness enough that only Faenor didn't get any from her, would show this poor man a bit of sympathy and try to reach out to him. At the very least, she wouldn't gloat about emotionally torturing him by murdering every single Orc out there to make him suffer before killing him.

[@marychocolatefairy]

Indeed, Team Sauron! ::shakes cheerleader pompoms::

[@rubenlopezusa]

Because he hasn't appear. Maybe he grants some land to the orcs and gives them a free rent, so they can raise their children, and be happy, not having to loot other kingdoms, lol.

[@rubenlopezusa]

@@clogs4956 he said he "killed Sauron", lol.

[@Vorian_96]

The thought of Halbrand pumping Guyladriel when he's secretly Sauron is disturbing to me. Imagine having to explain to Celeborn you cheated on him with Sauron lmao.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Cheaters should never be depicted as heroes or even sympathetic characters tbh

[@Apollo890]

In professor Tolkien's eyes Galadrial is like the Virgin Mary. So to have Sauron shagging her is like the scene in The Exorcist where the statue of the Virgin Mary is obscenely desecrated.

[@Gorbz]

With Guyladriel as a strong independant girl-boss of agency, you know it will be her pumping him.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

@Naru the narcissist No... they have not had a sex scene. Yet. But they are clearly laying the groundwork for a relationship, with Sauron saying that the only time he felt comfortable is fighting with Galdriel, and Amazon did hire an 'intimacy coordinator', and there are literally no other teased relationships.

[@captbuckyohare]

Imagine if he does and turns oit in this timeline Sauron is Celebrians dad and Arwen's Pop-pop. That confrontation with Aragorn at the Black Gates... that's awkward as fuck now.

[@vernonmodglin5502]

The part where Galadriel was a hotshot banker wrongly imprisoned for murder and said, "Get busy living, or get busy dying" truly changed my outlook on life.

[@sewaprolo]

The scene in which Guyladriel said: "Get those nuts away from my face!", was a masterpiece. Literally shaking, right now.

[@MelbourneArchviz]

She's into fruit, not nuts.

[@esquilax5563]

@@Muck006 sounds like the same breed of lawmaker as those who wanted to declare pi equal to 3

[@jaychimera372]

what nuts? Disa Nuts!

[@logansfury]

"Again, this is all meant to silence our criticism, so without further ado, let's get to the criticism." This statement absolutely made me feel warm inside! Don't stop doing what you do.

[@alanvitullo]

Seconded.

[@stephenreed5091]

This is what happens when you put people in charge who don't care about the source material. Amazon made this show for a cash grab, but abandoned everything that made Tolkiens work great. Now we are left with this really expensive terrible show.

[@wolfman7284]

The way she says "my husband" with a blank, emotionless stare and no warmth in her voice like she had for her brother...you know they are going down the whole "no love, marriage of convenience, required betrothal," route.

[@canaldecasta]

Cerseiladriel

[@ardisgreenwater857]

I read "required brothel" 😅

[@wolfman7284]

@@ardisgreenwater857 they are prostituting Tolkien's work so.. you're not wrong haha

[@ethansnyder3401]

This is going to go over some heads but in the meta they deliberately make the relationships between "white" people passionless unless it's some aberration like incest then demonstrate something like the coupling of the white human female and black elf as sexy and avante garde.

[@clogs4956]

@@ethansnyder3401 realistic, stunning and brave.

[@davesilkstone6912]

I empathise with Elendil, I too cried when I realised that there will be a second season.

[@Ackalan]

Just do what I do, focus on the image of Guyladriel swallowed up by a pyroclastic cloud and convince yourself that it's the ending of the show.

[@djokealtena2538]

I am rooting for the Balrog at this point and I am expecting them to make Sauron fuck Guyladriel cause you know dramaaaa. I can't wait for the reveal on that one. As for the Balrog, I hope it eats Disa first.

[@jlpowell51]

He probably cries every time he reads the next script.

[@gilbertwalker3222]

Shame he’s such a terrible, terrible actor.

[@jennyjustjenny7634]

I think Miriel got blind on purpose cause she just can't stand this sht anymore.

[@nejcsila4196]

when queen regent says " i see " and elendil says " do you " i totally lost it, i couldn t stop laughing

[@kasimirdenhertog3516]

Elendil was pretty much the only character I could relate to. And perhaps Adar.

[@jimbubbatube]

Gary, why is it that your reviews of this show are infinitely more entertaining than the show itself? I’m so glad you are doing this.

[@Ck-zk3we]

Because weak minded people thrive on negativity

[@bolsa3136]

Reeeeee

[@True_777]

@@Ck-zk3we Does that explain your comment?

[@FrancistheBrave]

You damn right 🤣🤣🤣

[@jonathanmatthews825]

@@Ck-zk3we the show is poop 🤷‍♂️

[@CCCCC40]

The Balrog was woken up because of the greed of the dwarves. Not by dwarves being selfless and digging up mithril to save the elves.

[@benthornhill7903]

I thought it was woken up by the leaf

[@coolstorybro6076]

Haha my thoughts exactly... it ruins the point of the Fall of Moria.

[@joeuser637]

The Balrog was woken by the greed of Bezos.

[@SavAgeOfAquarius]

The Fall of the One Leaf

[@clogs4956]

Third Age Dwarfish greed driven by one of the Seven rings but, as there’s no rings yet, I guess the Balrog might just have a leaf allergy.

[@lloron6]

I truly hope those bastards just directly cancel the serie. That while seeing all their results of the first season, they just say "you know what? Screw it. Better to suck our current looses than risk it more"

[@pariah87]

The worst part of this show is how they keep saying it's a Tolkien Epic

[@dmtaboo_truth7052]

It's like spilling paint on the Mona Lisa and calling your contribution "a da Vinci epic"

[@termy_3926]

Even worse, according to those jackass showrunners this story is on the same level as Tolkien 🤣

[@nottolkienculturalvandalis6451]

More like ectopic.

[@SilvaF0X]

"We didn't like Celeborn depriving Galadriel of her agency......so we instead chose to deprive the mythos of its important lore and structure" -Amazon This show has been an utter joke 😂

[@mitchellpolinop7650]

Celeborn is literally in the FoTR. How is he possibly dead/missing ??????

[@nurityalieva3852]

Celeborn lore is complex, sometimes is a Teleri sometimes a Sindar

[@nurityalieva3852]

@@mitchellpolinop7650 in the movie

[@mrmittenns5728]

@@nurityalieva3852 in my knowledge you can be "both", since sindar is a division of teleri. Every sindar could be considered teleri, but not every teleri would be considered sindar. However I could be wrong, my lore understanding is quite wide but I'm no scholar

[@gianna526]

@@nurityalieva3852 he's also in the book....?

[@Incalor]

While it's true Galadriel was called Nerwen because she was a bit feisty in her youth, there are 2 ways of showing it. One would be to subtly show her as a young, enthusiastic adventurer who sometimes commits mistakes due to her desire for exploring new lands -- finally mellowing down as the Galadriel we know. The other one would be to go full girl power with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Guess which path the 2 Amazon hacks took.

[@justanotherviewer7117]

I'm going to miss ROP when it is over... but only because I have really enjoyed watching the Tolkien Fandom take it down. It's ironic that the showrunners could only dream of being this entertaining!

[@faervas1234]

One hour a week gets me 10+ hours a week of shitting ROP entertainment. ROP writers have made the most entertaining show in history.

[@justanotherviewer7117]

@@faervas1234 Ha ha ha! That's so true! Who could have known...?! 😀

[@treasurehunter3369]

Got 5...5...5...5...5 whollle seasons!

[@matthewstone1362]

It took itself down. All the fans had to do was watch the shitfest.

[@lucbauer]

After this disastrous season, Galadriel will be fired and will have to create an OnlyElfans page to survive financially

[@MelbourneArchviz]

Honestly the actress doesn't have the curves for it.

[@airstorulthuan3702]

@@MelbourneArchviz Call the Fire Department!

[@PepitoBasado]

The scene of the queen talking about the Numenoreans returning was quite poetic. She was essentially breaking the fourth wall to tell the audience a second season will happen and then they zoom over to a guy crying which represents the audience.

[@saladinbob]

I'd just like to correct you on one thing, Gary. This is not the most expensive show of all time. It's the most expensive _failure_ of all time.

[@faervas1234]

correct "friends was 1 million an episode for each of the main cast members. that is for 22 minutes a week for 20 weeks. There are others shows where the members of the cast got the same or more.

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

@@faervas1234 huh? I'm confused. What does this have to do with Friends, and how much money they got per episode? Rings of Power cost around 462 million for the production budget alone for the first season. They spent 250 million on the rights to make this show, and marketing brings it close to 1 billion spent in total so far, and only 1 season has been made. The main cast of friends all got 1 million an episode for the final 2 seasons, but the show itself was pretty damn cheap to shoot and film/edit compared to Rings of Power. The OP is saying that this isn't even considered the most expensive show because it sucks, so it's better to call it the most expensive failure since it doesn't meet the bar even to be called a show. (but RoP is the most expensive show ever made if you were confused by what the OP said)

[@steffanyschwartz7801]

@@faervas1234 except friends was at least funny, with some times a good story

[@3characterhandlerequired]

@@PineappleBaconPizza It feels like they spend less than a million / episode to shoot things. Besides CGI, acting sucks, actors are nobodies, scenes are poorly made, clothing is something they have spent practically no money at all... Where did they manage to spend that much money? Like someone said it feels like some sort of money laundering project. Maybe 454 million of that 462 million is used to forge and pay for positive reviews and get MSM create positive articles about the show. Show is stupid, illogical and boring.

[@davidransom4703]

he says it enough times i forgot

[@robg1151]

The scene where Galadriel had both her arms and legs chopped off and said “tis but a scratch” was brilliant, having them grow back again for the next episode was pure Tolkien.

[@josephbassey1501]

The scene where Guyladriel has to fight her clone was really epic Clone dressed in leather suits n sunshades. Fighting at night in a heavy rain. Tolkien's ghost had an erection from the scene

[@adelabendova2912]

I love this fandom 🤣

[@lordmaur180]

To me the part when she says: what is so funny about the name Biggus Diccus? I have an elf friend called Biggus Diccus, its a common elf name! And all the humans and darfs laughted their a** out and she got all pissed: I WILL KILL WHO LAUGHT AT MY GOOD FRIEND'S NAME, BIGGUS DICCUS! damn that is a classic, Tolkien would love it

[@garypipe1770]

The moment Guyladriel returned from the bog declaring 'The tempest inside me has been quelled for now,' just hit me. I felt I could really relate to her struggle.'

[@mineduck3050]

Was working one hot summer afternoon, driving a portable toilet pump truck on an army base. I pulled down the range and there was a mock assault on a fake little town going on. I parked on the road in that towns street of the buildings and pumped toilets while all around me feet away soldiers were throwing grenades, shooting machine guns, assaulting the buildings while I worked. It was the most Monty python real life moment I've ever seen.

[@shanegooseman1060]

Love your videos, you missed out the most brutal attack that made me jump the TV, when I saw it. Professor Tolkien dedicated his whole life to create this mythology, so rich, so full of details, it moved generations of readers, including me.... so much spent on it by the brilliant mind and when all things have to pass, it is the last and eternal reference to it, inscripted on J.R.R. and Ediths Tokiens grave, Beren and Lúthien. It brings tears to my eyes when I write this right now, it so fucking moves me... "Beren first saw her from a distance in the evening under a full moon, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside lake Esgalduin." And these people did this? Galadriel to Theo, boy she just met: "And my husband." "Husband?" "Celeborn. Celeborn was his name. We met in a glade of flowers. I was dancing and he saw me there." "You? Were dancing?" Yeah right, McKay and Payne, true lovers of Tolkien... What would the late Christopher Tolkien have said to this? Stealing the Beren and Lúthien tale that was so important to him that he immortilized it and referenced it even beyond death on their gravestones, the tale of the love of J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, and they shoved it over in some insiginficent setting, a from PJ stolen scene to this perversion of what Galadriel is supposed to be telling about her husband for the first time? I hope their career wont survive this fiasco and that they never again touch something that means so much to others.

[@awereal]

Well said. The writers are ...no not children, even children are better than that-- no, these people are demons, torching all that is good and right. I truly wish the Tolkien estate had gone with some random normies for a production rather than any of these big media companies.

[@SinnMaschine]

Amen.

[@dime_with_a_mind]

This is almost the lowest they can go, at least it can't get much worse. Right...? It won't get worse than sullying Tolkien's own personal love story??

[@tonycezar1645]

if this is not a clear case that they are trying actively to shit on JRR work, idk what it is

[@thelonelydragon8768]

Well, to my knowledge Tolkien never said that Galadriel _specifically_ *wasn't* a superpowered man-destroying soulless psychopathic driven by bloodthirst and revenge who likes flirting with Sauron and slaughtering orcs and doesn't give a dang about her allegedly dead husband, so.... yeah, 10/10 show guys

[@Ackalan]

That's true, I've also never read the books, so I too can confirm and join the writing staff on those credentials. I can even do a slightly different show for the cheap cheap price of 700 000 000 dollars, I have some sock puppets laying around somewhere, I'm sure.

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

This was also the concept for my pantsless, Donald Duck iteration of Lord of the Rings until someone pointed out to me that Bombadil does in fact mention pants at one point. My show got cancelled shortly thereafter. I still haven't gotten over it.

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

He also didn't specifically Gary was a racist Nazi but he is

[@MikeDchy25]

I feel the same way about joy riding and robbery. Nobody mentioned these things so I guess it's OK. 👍🏼

[@Mister_Clean]

"She wants to subvert Harfoot tradition" Well, that describes the entire show, doesn't it

[@grdoreza]

It is obvious, the writer of this show is Sauron, laughing as he rewrites the works of Tolkien.

[@gabrielescaringi9444]

He would write better

[@KororaPenguin]

@@gabrielescaringi9444 And with the Ring melted, he doesn't even have the strength to steer a Ouija board.

[@goidogoi]

Wait... did Guyladriel just said the Elves did not know how to forge an armour properly? The Elves whom study smithing and crafting directly from Aule himself. The Elves whom crafted the Silmarils. The Elves whom, Mairon (Sauron) arguably the greatest of Aule's Maiars himself went to fashioned the 19 Rings of Power? Those Elves? Don't know how to fashion an armour proper for Celeborn? "Word will spread. Before long, every soul in Middle-earth will know..."

[@strongsuccessfulweeb1400]

Haha yeah Elves also made a talking sword. Smh Amazon..

[@Hunpecked]

Maybe Celeborn lost weight after the armor was fitted? 🤔

[@fabien9765]

Yeah, it's not like Feanor is considered the greatest smith ever :D

[@lelouchlives8930]

Oops, looks like the writers forgot to read that part of Tolkien's works.

[@MMCUSN]

You can't expect a bunch of woke slumber party rejects high on ice cream and chocolate to actually read any of Tolkien's works. They would have to subject themselves to the designs of a toxic male who fought in WWI (at the Somme), survived the blitz, married his sweetheart his "Luthien" (which lasted 55 years at her death), Fathered four children, was an orphan (his Father died when he was three and his mother when he was 12) and loved stories about Native Americans. That would be too much.

[@liamdenise246]

List of fuck ups they've done so far: -Compress the timeline of thousands of years into literally a year at most -Make Numenoreans hate elves because they might take their jobs -Add a sister to Isildur despite her doing nothing and you know she will not make it off Numenor, -Make Celebrimbor into a lazy old man, completely forgetting his friendship with dwarves - Make Gil Galad into a slimy person, completely shitting on him when in lore he fought alongside Elendil against Sauron, was not fooled by him even in his fair disguise, and was a great and beloved king, often said to be one of the best rulers ever -Make a completely farcical story of mithril being essentially a needed vitamin for elves, despite Mithril being just a very rare metal the dwarves used to achieve their greatest triumphs during the second age, and because it was able to create incredibly durable weapons and armour. -Make everyone morally grey, not Tolkein who stressed good vs evil, there is no room for morally grey actions' -Try and make orcs sympathetic, yeah no, they are evil corrupted beings who desire to destroy other races and hate the light, they literally gave a bit of water to a elf prisoner only to slit his throat for a laugh while he drank. -Make all elves look dumb, stupid, and just like people, you can't tell they are elves at all, and there is no uniqueness to them, Arondir is probably the only elf who acts like one, even though he doesn't look elvish with his shaved 2010's haircut and his odd armour(Seriously who put the green man symbol you find in pubs in the uk on his armour?) -Make Disa actually alright, until she becomes Lady Macbeth which is also wrong, again dwarves are good guys, they don't go killing their own. -Make Galadriel suddenly anti violence and sympathetic to orcs, saying how vengeance against orcs is wrong?(WTF) -Having the Balrog awaken, despite it canonically being asleep until late in the 3rd age, where it kills Durin and his son, so are they gonna go all retard and say it happened in the second age now, which makes you question how anyone wouldn't know about the Balrog not even Thorins grandfather who led the attempt to retake Moria. -Making the hobbits full irish stereotype hobos who are so cutthroat and cruel they make me want them all to die, despite them never appearing in 2nd age nor doing anything big before Bilbo -Having the bullshit to try and say Celeborn might be dead, so essentially she's cheating on him and also doing this with Isildur despite everyone knowing they are alive, but acting like it's a big suspense.

[@butkusaurelius3419]

God bless ya for this list.

[@tomfox6219]

Couldn’t right it better myself

[@sarbnitrof4663]

Don't forget Disa the Invented confirming that female dwarves have beards while she simply doesn't.

[@wheelmanstan]

orcs used to be pure evil, scary pig-faced foes..that needed to die, but this show has me thinking about their children and feeling bad for them having to live in the shadows while elves live in wonderland, here's some questions I have: What's with the Dwarf Princesses eyes? Why does he ride when his injury is so bad that he needs elf medicine? Why doesn't the queen get Elf medicine? Why are chairs and tables burning while Galadriel doesn't even have red cheeks? Why was the hippie pushing that tree over on top of those hobbits? Why do hobbits keep standing on top of hot embers? How does a white woman have a black mother? What's with that dwarf princess's eyes? Why didn't Elrond calculate how much mineral is needed, why no amount asked? Who's giant boot print was that and why did she leave her bucket for Slim Shady people to see? If someone did things only a God could do like put out a torch with their bare hand and blow the embers to your homes to set them on fire, wouldn't you drop to your knees to worship them? Evil or not, you would drop to your knees and do their bidding. Why do I still don't give a damn about these characters, even when they die or cry or saddle up or receive a sword?

[@gandalf8216]

You're forgetting the cross-wiring of foreshadows and red herrings, as a feeble attempt to insult the intelligence of the viewer by making the better foreshadows red herrings, and the shitty red herrings the actual foreshadowing. "Haha, you didn't expect that!" when we did, we just dismissed their foreshadowing as red herrings because they are the only predictions that makes sense. The writing is so aweful, I laugh at it, as if it's The Room by Tommy Wiseau or a movie by Neil Breen.

[@PeterDB90]

Tolkien takes his time because he uses it to develop the locations, the setting, and MOST importantly THE CHARACTERS. This show has done ZERO of that! I'm sorry, but changing "Southlands" text into "Mordor" IS NOT A DEVELOPMENT OF A LOCATION! Honestly, the thing that probably pissed me off the most was the daft Harfoot leader telling his wife "why you gotta be right, like, ALL the time" AFTER SHE TOLD HIM TO TAKE THE WHEELS OFF NORI'S CARAVAN TO LEAVE THEM TO DIE!!! Guess she was right then too.

[@armandblake]

I loved the scene when Galadriel puts her finger in Halbrand’s mouth and says: “if you don’t lick the Cheetos dust, you miss half of the pleasure”.

[@xycap8351]

Guyladriel sounds like a ventriloquist , her lips ( if you can call the edges of the dry hole that) NEVER MOVE..

[@LuisSierra42]

Truly one of the scenes ever

[@captbuckyohare]

The bit where Galadriel tanked the fires of Mount Doom right in the face and realised her scowl was the greater force, then hopped in the DeLorean, crashed the Council of Elrond and screamed "IT'S TEMPESTIN' TIME!!" before slamming her face into the One Ring and blowing it into a million pieces was such an epic subversion of expectations I near shit my pants.

[@kevlarandchrome]

Nearly? I needed a hose down afterward, my couch will never recover.

[@samblack5313]

“Tempestin’ time” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ackalan]

I mean... The math checks out.

[@Turgon92]

Her scowl was the greater force 😂

[@tripplordofinconvenience9953]

E

[@gianna526]

They literally had no reason to delete Celeborn. They could have simply introduced him, and then he stays behind and she'll see him again later. Healthy, loving relationships only add more depth to your character. Like Aragorn in the movies, I love book Aragorn as well and think he's very well written, but we don't get to know the different sides to him. Movie Aragorn, we get to see more which I really like. Maybe we could see Galadriel actually being kind and caring to her husband, that might make us not hate her as much?? Just a weird writing decision.

[@clipartstudio_baerlin]

I think this Celeborn stuff is just preparation for that: Guyladriel and Sauron/Halbrand are about to kiss, then the not-dead husband shows up - and she is forever guilty of almost-forever cheating with the most evil of all evil.

[@rubix4195]

@@clipartstudio_baerlin If they actually write this - and I truly believe they might - they truly hired the most fringest of CW writers to write this show.

[@clipartstudio_baerlin]

@@rubix4195 I bet it will come to this. Look at Ep. 6. After Guyladriel had this little torture talk with Adar, Halbrand and Guyladriel are sitting together talking about what? He tells us 1:1 the ring theme. But she? She had this "Uhhh I feel for him"- mood. And we should think, too, its a "twinkle-twinkle little heart"- scene, but its just him preparing her for the following "I want rings!" stuff. And at last, 2 rich, privileged white boys runs the show, so in the end the woman will have dirty hands and mouth. No matter how much diversity they are hanging on the christmas tree. If I am wrong I will write 100 times: There is no school but Yale. 😉

[@kobaianvagabond1344]

I love when Galadriel explains how they made it from Numenor to the Southlands in less than 12 parsecs.

[@starimadari4031]

Yes, the Milennium Galadricon

[@IThinkICare]

I thought parsecs was distance not speed. I did wonder how they got there so fast.

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

@@IThinkICare I thought so too. The distance between Vagina Rings and quality, maybe?

[@Yemeth42pis]

@@IThinkICare It is in our world, not in Star Wars though.

[@anon_y_mousse]

I haven't seen the show and it feels like it's taking a lightyear! /s

[@barondavisiscool]

LOTR Fans: "So how much could Amazon mess it up?" Amazon: "Yes.... Oh and all of you LOTR fans are evil."

[@3vilSid3]

Assuming that everything in this series is predictable, the eminem trio are on a mission to help non-gandalf on his mission, but they see Froda and the rest of hoobots as an obstacle to be removed, causing hilarious misunderstandings until they all become friends.

[@SockPuppet80]

Did anyone catch how Durin explains to Elrond what the word "family" means? He goes, "We dwarves reveal our secret names only to family: wives, parents, sisters, brothers..." Thanks for that, big D, I'd always wondered what that word meant. Also, "parents"? You reveal your names to... your own mom and dad? It's almost as if the word "parents" was jammed in there to replace the word "husbands".

[@rubenlopezusa]

Lol, and a dwarf, strong like a rock, crying like a baby.

[@dissent6494]

The "secret name" sound like a gender reveal party lol

[@compostsmurf5519]

​@@rubenlopezusa begging for the meat also

[@kneau]

Parents can mean the in-laws, parents of the wives. Durin does not have a husband, nor does Durin have experience talking about husbands being husbands.

[@beekah992]

I mean the character doesn't have a husband so that probably is why he didn't say it.

[@the_littles7928]

I love the way how Galadriel when she's talking to Miriel, Bronwyn has half her armour missing, then when she see Halbrand in the tent it has all reappeared.

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

my guess is the scene in the tent was a reshoot and the outdoor/horseback scenes were originally shot scenes pasted together without a keen eye to continuity and that the original story didn't have Halbrand injured

[@mattblack118]

Boy Amazon is trying real hard on Facebook to gaslight people into believing this was a quality show.

[@burn89]

Im noticing that instead of waiting excitedly for a new ROP episode each week(which is usually the case when a show is good), I'm actually looking more forward to the upload from Nerdrotic that comes aftwards, so much more entertaining.

[@lpsoldin3162]

Pretty much how I've felt about everything coming out of Hollywood for the last decade or so.

[@shaow1789]

for me is angry joe show. it all needs a better writing ffs

[@mfmcycledesigns1961]

Same here. I really didn´t feel like watching this slog after watching the teasers, the trailers, the "Superfans" and all that dross that came aforehand. But I am having a blast watching Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, Disparu, Little Platoon et. al. tearing Amazon another one.

[@BuddahMafia]

I’m pretty much just watching to better laugh with this channel haha.

[@bensutherland5209]

Could name half a dozen KZbin channels here, but the sentiment is accurate. The reaction videos are far more entertaining than the show itself.

[@Ranger_of_Dragons]

So happy I can know what happens in this show without having to watch it. I couldn't even hate watch after the first episode. The level of cope they need to pretend this abomination is good is the highest I've ever seen. Hail the Fellowship!!!

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

I'm glad you broke the habit.

[@evilchaperone]

Ahhh... "hate watch". I knew there had to be a name for what I'm doing to myself. Lol.

[@Dookie6891]

@@evilchaperone Please don't do that... Wash your hands of it. They had to have known what they made was garbage, so they also had to have known that people will still watch it, boosting their metrics. Capitalistic entities don't make garbage without reason.

[@TheLateBoyScout]

I want to go back an episode and pretend like this one didn’t happen. When the volcano erupted last episode, we all got it… that’s Mount Doom, and the Southland is turning into Mordor. But they still made a whole follow up episode just to “reveal” it to us. And honestly, the best they could do was put text on the screen? Adar could have just said “This is now Mordor”, and it would have worked better.

[@alexshahverdian3353]

Of course the first episode where Celeborn is referenced, he is ridiculed and belittled by not Galadriel…

[@couldnotbereachedforfurthe2647]

I'd like to see hashtag "patently evil" trending on Twitter to see just how many people hate that damn show.

[@jneumy566]

The Mordor reveal is even stupider than the Sauron one because they literally told us straight up in the episode when they look through the Numenorean archives to find out what Sauron's symbol was. They find out it's a map and literally anyone who has seen a map of Middle-earth would've instantly known that it was a map of Mordor. And there you go, you just ruined your entire big reveal. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This show is literally only for people who have no knowledge of anything regarding Lord of the Rings, maybe not even the movies. That's how ridiculously dumbed down it is.

[@DaBigArmyDude]

Tolkien believed an obsession with origin stories turns one into a Gollum: “The most inquisitive and curious-minded of that family was called Smeagol. _He was interested in roots and beginnings;_ he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunnelled into green mounds; and _he ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and his eyes were downward.”_

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

Golem was a CRT follower confirmed?

[@jangolub8240]

What are you implying with that?

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

@@jangolub8240 obviousely that Smeagol is a rock

[@skaarlet1449]

He also delved into peoples secrets and brought them to light, using them against some, blackmailing others in his family and clan/village, if I'm not mistaken. This, in the end, got him banished by the matriarch of his people who also happened to be his grandmother. So maybe that's it. Maybe we need to start banishing these Gollums. No. We definitely need to. Definitely.

[@AnnaMarianne]

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 God damn it, I was about to make that joke and you beat me by a literal minute.

[@hexenhammer483]

I'd love to see someone do a break down of all the contradictions in Season 1. Or how evil Guyladriel really is.

[@CorePathway]

Celeborn figured that out a thousand years ago, went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Swam to Valinor, I think.

[@markmathisen3908]

Would take about 5 seasons to just cover season one's contradictions and instances of Galadriel's inherent evilness. 😂

[@Losantiville]

Wait til she beds Halbrand/Sauron.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

@@Losantiville I know you are joking but ...

[@chriswood1054]

I STRONGLY recommend @Disparu channel... He's excellent. And covers just those things.

[@WhatHistoryShorts]

I really wanted Rings to be good. I wanted Amazon to succeed. I don't go into a series looking to hate it. They chose that. Lazy writing. Race/gender pandering. Lore breaking/retconning. They're the ones attacking us, we're just standing our ground.

[@hanesbarbosa]

I stopped watching the show in the second episode. However, I found this channel and I’m now enjoying Rings Of Power! 😂

[@WaxTheDolphin]

Weaponize your anger and make a yt channel dunking on ROP. I believe in you.

[@tctyt]

Suffering for 6 episodes straight should be awarded for dedication and sheer will.

[@KellysAdventures305]

ME TOO! Did the same for Picard. SciFy Fantacy is dead.

[@maryamtaherpour3946]

Same here😄

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

@@WaxTheDolphin Thanks for confirming Gary and you are encouraging things Tolkien despised - please show me where he thought encouraging hatred was actually good I believe in your lying. Please cite evidence

[@heraldofwar]

Amateur writers, no star names, average CGI and small sets so you have to ask ...where has the money gone? Im guessing most of the budget was spent paying for fluff pieces and views.

[@CircusOfFur]

I, actually, admire the writers. Tolkien wrote TLOTR on a typewriter using only two fingers. The current writers wrote this by banging their heads onto an iMac keyboard covered in jam. And sh*t. Then their printer vomited out all the scripts and jumped out the window. I salute them..

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

Mystery box? It's more of a misery box. The only tradition the Harfoots seem to live by is screwing each other over at the first sign of weakness. I'm amazed they don't eat their dead, the grubby little monsters. Show me one heroic character in this entire shit show.

[@TimeBandit99]

The scene where the old man asked Adar about the new name of the land and Adar said: "just Look at the damn screen" was so epic!

[@jsimmers2374]

Last night I took the time to start reading the Appendices to Lord of the Rings. I am so confused how they are going to achieve what the Appendices lay out with Sauron, sorry, Halbrand, as he is in this show. As I read I could not help but think, what if Amazon hired competent people, who said the hell with THE MESSAGE, and focused only on one thing: Making a show that fits with Lord of the Rings that people would want to watch it before watching Lord of the Rings because it was the PERFECT lead into those movies. Instead we got a SERIES, nothing more and nothing less, using established lore, story, and language and twisting it so achieve an AGENDA driven goal. Not set to make greatness, but to put out content. If I were Bezos, I would fire everyone right now, put out a message of apology to the fans, and announce they are going back to the drawing board. I know this would never happen, but man, the respect he would get from the fans would pay off in the end.

[@Rogue428]

Three were forced upon the Trekkers, who went where none had gone before, Three were forced upon the Star Warriors, who had come a long, long time ago. The Bad Robot turned its Eye aside and sought other franchises to destroy, And the passionate breathed a sigh of relief. But they were all of them deceived, for a Ring of Power was made, directly attacking the Greatest which all had thought secure. And though the Dark Lord was not directly involved, he chose those who would craft the perverted Work, And into them, he tutored all of his mediocrity, mystery devices, and derision for the Source and its Fellowship.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

All these copy pastas are infinitely more entertaining and well written than this garbage show.

[@johnny102ful]

Tolkien would be rolling in his grave if he saw any of this absolute crap. Which it is. Utter crap .

[@rockencook]

I lasted 4 episodes and now admittedly watch the reviews for schadenfreude. This show is a gold mine for KZbinrs.

[@haleyschreiter9746]

Exactly, Gary! If Tolkien intended a character as important as Galadriel to be anything like she's portrayed in this abysmal show, he would have told us in very clear terms. I mean, the man was only the greatest fantasy writer who ever lived; clarity in written communication is kind of his specialty. Meanwhile, the show runners blatantly ignore what he actually did say about her.

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

He did. Her being a warrior is in the canon And why are we pretending Gary "knows" Tolkien. He's just a moronic white racist nothing more

[@Crydus]

Because the Tolkien Estate who sold the rights to Amazon did sell the television rights for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Which means that everything Amazon can use for the second age has to come from these two.

[@didierfavre2356]

Creating boredom is expensive. Paying one billion dollars to make it happens tells me so. I never ever wrote a story but I doubt I'll be able to be that boring. Mr Nerdrotic, you made a great job at showing how painful it is to watch the "Rings of Power". I could feel it in my bones and it's painful.

[@Pleiades1955]

Amazon's approach to Tolkien's masterpiece of fantasy was to hire people who had no real love or knowledge of the Middle Earth lore or canon, glom together pieces of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and the Appendices ignoring timelines and storylines, add made up characters that have no place in the tale and throw a billion dollars worth of CGI at it hoping no one would notice. When everyone who knew anything about Middle Earth noticed, the untalented, PC and woke cast and crew went on the offensive deflecting the justified criticism by attacking the fan base as racist, sexist and bigoted. This was the second clear sign that this project was an abject failure by any standard applied, the first being their own admission that their aim was to "modernize" the tale to appeal to a new audience. In true Hollywood fashion the directors put all of their political baggage and wokeness into a tale about a fantasy pre-history of England that was created by a scholar who devoted a lifetime to develop it in detail greater than any other work of fiction that existed before and certainly since. It was a disastrous formula from the first day. Add to that the bad casting, high school drama club level writing and dialogue, horribly bad editing, confusing timeline compression, complete mish-mash of character development and utter disregard for the canon and lore and you end up with a show that has cutting edge CGI.......and nothing else worthy of mention. They would have been better off making this series 100% CGI and saving three quarters of a billion dollars. TROP is absolute garbage from the first episode. It is not a show that immerses you into the fantasy world of Middle Earth because the characters are so uninspiring and the pace of the story is boring to the point where you simply don't care what's happening you just want it to keep moving in the hope that something good might be coming. So far that has not been the case and we're almost to the end of the first season. This is a clear case of a rich guy thinking his money makes him as much of a literary genius as the true literary genius of Tolkien made Middle Earth. TROP is Bezos' ego on full display destroying the greatest fictional literary work of the 20th century through his complete lack of understanding and love for the tales. The "ner do wells" he hired to help him destroy this masterpiece are all too eager to take his money, stroke his ego and produce a show that has been universally panned by the diehard Tolkien fan base. The reviews have been edited by sites like Rotten Tomatoes to "adjust the numbers" in favor of the show but cannot explain the cavernous gap between their "Tomatometer" rating of 84% (383 critics) and the audience score of 38% (30,393 users). Rotten Tomatoes, and their critic ilk, have lost all credibility here. They have shown themselves to be little more than Amazon shills. In summation, Bezos and his bone-top production cast and crew are a fine example of how money ruins everything it touches. Having money does not make you smarter, more talented or right. They need to cut their losses and do something far less challenging, more in line with their collective lack of talent like commercials for Wendy's hamburgers or something.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

I wouldn't be surprised if Lex Luthor thought that his Lieutenant Jennifer Sulke and the two highly recommended by Bad Robot henchmen hired to run the show would do well. Thus allowing him to retire to his floating pleasure palace. That's the problem with woke companies. It is often not so much upper management that is woke but middle management. And upper management relies on middle management to tell them what is going on in the company and in the world. Jeff hired poorly and now has to fix things. Unless Jennifer and the Bobsy Twins spun him a sweet tale of spin that everything is going fine and that he can go back to his floating pleasure palace.

[@MrCovi2955]

Things we wanted to see in a series named "The Rings of Power": The forging of the rings of power Things we couldn't care less about in a series named "The Rings of Power": The origin story for Mordor's volcano

[@karmelomarin9592]

Even that is wrong since Morgoth made Mount Doom in First age 😁

[@gabriele3665]

And the volcano is activated by Sauron's will not some magic key and engineering shananigans

[@englishlady9797]

@@gabriele3665 Yup, since Sauron is a fallen angel. They seem to have forgotten that these lazy inconsistencies make the later story illogical. If Sauron was just some mortal wizard who could be killed with a blade and could not even do magic, why did Frodo have to throw the Ring into the mountain? Elrond could have just sent a crack team into Mordor to take him out.

[@bengoacher4455]

@@englishlady9797 stop doing the thinking thing. You are meant to consume product, not think. You just hate the show because you're racist/sexist/homophobic (delete as appropriate). If I gave you a billion dollars you couldn't make something as bad as this! It takes real skill to take the single greatest work of fiction ever created and turn it into a forgettable mess.

[@frocat5163]

@@karmelomarin9592 Uh...wut. Is that sarcasm?

[@Noodles.Doodles]

Galadriel: When he went to it, I chided him. His armour didn't fit properly. I called him a silver clam. I never saw him again after that. ---- Celeborn: Oh hey, fancy seeing you here. Party's over girls, this is my wife. Galadriel: You're alive! Why did you let me believe you were dead? Celeborn: All you ever did is chide, nag, insult, and disrespect me. Would YOU have come back to that?

[@wisdumb47]

LOL, seriously. Galadriel is the least likable character in a show since Joffrey Baratheon and I'm supposed to be rooting for her? Oh, and we are supposed to believe that Celeborn is dead? Then where the fuck did Celebrian come from? Without Celebrian how do we get Arwen? Its just cheap cliffhangers and shit characters. WE KNOW CELEBORN IS ALIVE, AND NO ELF WOULD EVER HAVE MALFITTING ARMOR, especially one as revered as Celeborn. How about the Isildur cliffhanger in the burning building? WE FUCKING KNOW ISILDUR LIVES HE CUTS THE RING OFF OF SAURON'S HAND. I hate RoP so much.

[@meal_team_six]

@@wisdumb47 She liked by a lot of Karens I know. But if it helps, no one likes them either.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

LMAO!

[@richardneufeld545]

I love the cloth fencing around the Numenorian camp and how close the tents were to each other. One archer with fire arrows could take out the entire group. When the Stygian witches burned the Harfoot camp, is that an origin story for the creation of the hobbit hole? These evil Harfoots will discover that dirt doesn't burn, so they dig into hillsides. Then they discover tracking dirt into the home and that leads them to discover the art of washing.

[@coolstorybro6076]

LOL

[@clogs4956]

You see, you have far better comprehension of soldiery field encampments than the writers.

[@debanydoombringer1385]

Some channels have pointed out the lack of guards for the Queen. That a guard was outside when she went into a burning building and didn't try to stop her. There's so much of that just so she doesn't have to listen to men it's ridiculous given the situation.

[@magnusrex579]

@@debanydoombringer1385 A man trying to stop a woman from doing something and robbing her of her agency, what, we can't have that in 2022.

[@Ackalan]

I was just hoping for some orcs with some boulders to roll down the slope since they were also cleaver enough to build their tent castle in a valley, right next to a forest.

[@grzegorzorowski4382]

Destroying Star Wars? Check. Destroying Star Trek? Check. A**f***ing Lord of the Rings? Yes sir. What's next?

[@greymark420]

Tell you what Gary, every time you say " Totally not Gandalf" i just start laughing. If only Rings of Perverseness had this level of writing.🤣🤣

[@aumatomos7811]

Totally not Gandalf is Sauron

[@hapticgaming]

I wonder if the writers at least ever heard about what happened in *Pompeii* ... because aside from few burns, mutilated legs and burned retina, everybody was fine from being hit by the volcanic ashes... I bet they will kill During next season.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

Science matters not to the extreme Left, unless it conveniently fits their narrative, upon which they call their detractors science deniers.

[@knotengajin7359]

Definitely not and they were too full of themselves to do a quick Google search. Which, if that had done, they would have discovered that the pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius traveled 6 miles to Pompeii before the people could flee and killed them where they stood or fell and the overall eruption buried the city in around 20’ of ash and debris. And we know people were instantly killed because their bodies were captured in various mostly normal poses leaving voids in the volcanic deposition that archeologists discovered and filled with concrete/plaster to create scary real statues.

[@tunkwanko3518]

This latest series confirms Lady Disa is none other than Sauron. Forget Halbrand and the other potential Sauron. That Lady Disa, I want to rule, we are the true ruler speech is pure evil in heart and mind.

[@rexhutchinson7763]

The scene where Kirk Douglas stands in his chains and says " I'm sauron " then everyone around him stands and says " I'm Sauron" apart from helbrand for some reason! brought a tear to my eye !

[@samblack5313]

A real ‘I guess we’ll never know’ moment.

[@bboyandi82]

what I found amazing is how much inspiration they took out of the movies: - Elven - human lovestory like Aragon - Arwen - Funny friendship of elf and dwarf - sorcerer is friend of the hobbits or hafoots - horses riding in slow motion - flowers for leaving soldiers (Minas Thirit) - the "only elven magic can heal the wound" phrase - a big ass dam breaking (without magic key but with brute force) ...and much more. They kinda tell the same stories🤔

[@dominantwolf4593]

In a shit and terrible way. It looks like a fucking b list porn parody.

[@truesoulghost2777]

But badly

[@jennyjustjenny7634]

They rip off the story from LotR, yes. But they do it so poorly and dumb.. it's literally like the Star Wars Sequels. 😂

[@ryuuronin9852]

Evil cannot create, only destroy and corrupt what good has made.

[@MikeDchy25]

Just in an incredibly shit way.

[@TheBelieveit1]

That's the beauty of canon. If the creator (Tolkien) didn't say something happened, then it didn't happen. Tolkien never stated that Galadriel went to Numenor, therefore she never went to Numenor. Dude is demanding we prove a negative because he knows he can't prove the positive

[@TheCasualAsian]

I don’t even watch the TV anymore I literally just like to listen to this guy roast it.

[@thelittlemoonling]

Same

[@IronGin201]

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud)[1] is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 100 km/h (30 m/s) but is capable of reaching speeds up to 700 km/h (190 m/s).[2] The gases and tephra can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F). Some fire resistant people and elves there.

[@mrc4912]

Trying to resurrect and redeem this dumpster fire would be as daunting a task as re-assembling Humpty Dumpty, restoring the Titanic to 'ship shape' and getting the Hindenburg to fly again....

[@VSO_Gun_Channel]

I watched the first 2 episodes. I was done after that. We knew what it was going to be. They did exactly what we thought they would. I’m a thorough fantasy consumer. Tolkien is the one. Amazon had it handed to them. They screwed it up.

[@PeggyR70]

Her blindness is some straight up soap opera stuff. If the sparks or dust damaged her eyes so badly that she is blind now, she wouldn't look normal just a few hours later. Its just so retarded.

[@colinhughes2246]

I'm a Brit. You know, Tolkien's country. Amazon are a delivery company. I used them that way for a while. Now, I look everywhere I can rather than use Amazon. I would rather go without than use Amazon.

[@shaneryan9076]

house of dragon had a scene of a dying king walking to a throne, it was better than the entire season of rings of power

[@boobrancher9941]

Amazed by Amazon's lack of quality control on such a big and expensive production, really disappointing show.

[@WillieBloom]

A magical silvery metal which only has the bestest of properties and is also radioactive, but only the kinder, gentler form of radiation. Hmm, where have I seen this before?

[@paulf763]

and right on cue, Prime has removed the dislikes from the Season finale trailer......

[@TyrionCypher]

What is your opinion on them butchering the dwarves? The second age should be a great age of trade and friendship between elves and dwarves. As you pointed out, Celebrimbor being one of the key players, being involved in great shared projects like building the western gate of Khazad Dum with Narvi. The dwarves are being dumbed down to a painful level and barely recognizable, where it not for the beards. If Tolkiens dwarves wanted to keep Mithril a secret, no elf would have learned of it's existence. Though rare, Mithril was traded frequently between the two folks. And of course there was no existential thread to the elves, only redeemable by Mithril. Throughout the second age, that friendship thrived, as did Khazad Dum. Durin IV never saw his realm fall. The Balrog did not wake until the year 1980 of the third age, during the reign of Durin VI. Yet, Amazon thought, we need that cool Balrog. And woke him up with a leaf. A leaf... Not the dwarves driven by greed, digging too deep. No. A leaf. More than 2000 years too early. The downfall of Khazad Dum had simply nothing to do with the creation of the rings. Yet, we have to watch it's beginnings. Amazon shreds the history of middle-earth's dwarves to pieces, cutting most ties into what the dwarves are during Hobbit and LOTR... Yeah... that.

[@AstraLuna-o9i]

The ROP showrunners remind me so much of David Benioff and DB Weiss of Game of Thrones, especially during seasons 7-8 when they were the sole writers. Amazon got themselves D&D 2.0 for their Game of Rings show 😂😂

[@andreasgoransson]

I got goosebumps when Galadriel were put in the smoldering fire so that Skynet couldn't win the war. She was brave and strong for humanity's sake.

[@josephbassey1501]

Loved the part where Guyladriel's husband said he was going to get a pack of cigarettes and was never seen again

[@13Eviljoker13]

These days being called "evil" by the hacks that write the constant garbage we see pushed out is a compliment.

[@jimjammers2453]

The only good thing that came out of this dumpster fire of a show is the KZbin reviews. I stopped watching the Rings of Power after episode 2 but continue to watch your videos. Much more entertaining. When I was a kid I watched the lord of rings trilogy in my room after school on a weekly basis. I wasn't excited for Amazons take, but they casted it into oblivion and I feel offended.

[@brickgarden]

God, imagine what we could have had if the right people were running this show. IMAGINE WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN.

[@timerover4633]

I would rather not, as if makes me sick to my stomach as to the atrocity that Amazon is putting out.

[@christophjunger2594]

But then i start crying and my boss said i can`t cry while handeling chemicals

[@Daralyndk]

As someone who went to study Linguistics BECAUSE of Tolkien... I feel sort of satisfaction. Fans should be proud of not backing out.

[@Arsha136]

The scene where Disa try to convince Durin. That scene screaming "she's evil". The voice and dialogue so villainy.

[@legatedrengr]

Aye, Disa just goes full on Lady Macbeth there - and I bet the writers don't even realise the comparison they're making

[@MushookieMan]

Her yellow eyes are creepy

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

The scene where Halbrand reveals himself as Morbius and the Mighty Morbin Power Rangers theme starts playing in the background gave me chills. Truly a Tolkienian moment

[@amadman8149]

Don't compare this shit to Tolkien! This show is an insult to Tolkien and everything that he wrote! Tolkien built (in my opinion) the greatest world in the fantasy genre! Then Amazon did this to it!

[@greggeiger7532]

I think they missed a great opportunity to keep the queens blindness a secret. It could have been used in all kinds of ways later or in season 2. These writers man…

[@MrPurpleEYE]

All Sauron needs to do to rule all of middle earth is include one-day shipping to all those who submit under his rule.

[@Beardshire]

Galadriel- "I've never seen an Orc til now, they didn't exist" Also Galadriel "Skourge of the Orcs."

[@alexanderaflalo4128]

I thank G-d every day that Peter Jackson directed the LOTR trilogy when he did. It was the greatest trilogy ever made, and the most epic films put to the silver screen. I recently had to sell my replica of Anduril when I moved to France...sucks..

[@notreal4565]

"I would love to see where it says Galadriel never went to Numenor" Pretty sure it also never said that she didn't jump to the moon and back and how she didn't fart a forest of ents to death. Are those gonna be in season 2?

[@clogs4956]

Personally, I like the fact that it doesn’t say in the text that Galadriel had a lightsaber. She’s going to need one now she’s given her sword away to Theo… Dear Aule! Please let that not end up being Narsil.