The Rings of Power Is a Barrage of Cliches (So Far)

I knew that I could not dine at the table of Tolkien discourse if I did not bring a hot dish of book-learnin’. So about a week ago, I decided to careen stupidly through Middle-Earth.
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This video is a funny "review" of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This channel, Nativebirds, specializes in offbeat and high-effort videos about movies. I hope you’re excited for my extremely middle-of-the-road takes to continue for the next few weeks. It’s all a means to prop up whatever weird visuals I can conjure on short notice.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien. Developed for the Prime Video, the series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It is produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate.

[@SentryDog22]

Dispassionately declaring a piece of media as "mediocre" and "just a little disappointing" is so much more scathing than the all-too-tempting internet content trope of going full James-Rolfe-Mode.

[@ElvenSonic]

Oh also no obligatory “wHy DiDnT tHeY jUsT rIdE tHe BiRdIeS??” joke. Very tame for a video discussing anything Tolkien related.

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The editing in these videos keeps getting better and better, without sacrificing that Nativebirds feel. Love 'em!

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[@agking50]

this video says more about the LOTR show than many 40-minute videos on the subject do

[@xavisonline]

You did in 7 days what I haven't managed to do in 7 years

[@RyanwAdams]

The writing and pacing of the rings of power gives me very strong uncanny valley vibes. Like the whole thing was written by one of those art mash-up AI’s.

[@raminybhatti5740]

It's written by people who've binged medieval-esque TV shows and movies, and taken aboard every single trope and cliche without discernment.

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The bird is always right

[@BenMoranFilms]

There’s no fucking way “The sea is always right” is a real line from the show.

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[@nuparah]

The Lord of the Rings Which rings? The Rings of Power what power? the power of voodoo who do? you do! do what? remind me of The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition Blu-ray)

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[@JadenSmithEyes]

Concerning Jaden: The Hobbit book in an afternoon. The Lord of the Rings books in a week. The Silmarillion book in 8 years. The Lord of the Rings movies any time. The Hobbit movie killed my parents. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power exists. And he lived happily ever after

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[@BrandonSchabes]

The Lord of the Rings. Which rings? The rings of power. What power? The power of voodoo!

[@DanXmas]

nobody does it better (again)

[@tdog6742]

Flawless editing and Irish accent

[@CalTask]

u read every lord of the rings book, watched the show, and made this vid in a week?? im worried that might be more than ive done cumulatively in the last 6 months

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He don’t miss

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[@evanshier8893]

More like The Rings of Wowza-this show is pretty good. I don't know I haven't seen it.

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[@juhfreak]

What power? The power of voodoo

[@darkandarkson]

I knew I could look to you, your wisdom and deep insight into entertainingly bad films, to know if this was a series worth my time. I will take your resounding meh, as a maybe? Guess I will tune in next week to know for sure!

[@VictoryWorld]

holy shit man

[@AwsomeALEC72]

no seriously its actually a really good movie that handles adult themes with child like whimsy

[@ElvenSonic]

admit it. you only made this video to brag about reading the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillion (a book literally no tolkien fan i’ve met has ever bothered to read) and dressed it up so the algorithm could show it to as many people as possible to prove you’re better than them.

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Why don't you have 100 million subs?