Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Gavinmad
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Khalan
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So the forging of the elven rings was kinda bunk? Like wasn’t Sauron supposed to teach the elves about ringcraft and all sorts of magic as Anatar? But instead he like shows up for like 30 seconds and gives a small suggestion then bounces?
other than that episode was ok. The harfoot goodbye was way too drawn out and wasn’t earned. Like I literally didn’t care about them and they tried to play it super dramatic when secretly I was happy we wouldn’t have to see them all outside the 1 girl again.
i assume the old dude is def Gandalf at this point or Saruman which I think would be a cooler reveal.
other than that episode was ok. The harfoot goodbye was way too drawn out and wasn’t earned. Like I literally didn’t care about them and they tried to play it super dramatic when secretly I was happy we wouldn’t have to see them all outside the 1 girl again.
i assume the old dude is def Gandalf at this point or Saruman which I think would be a cooler reveal.
Gavinmad
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Oldbased
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Khalan
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Gavinmad
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It's such profound stupidity to try and make a show about the second age without all the rights to the major events of that time period, including the major event that your show is fucking named after.
"“There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to. As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”"
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Chris
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Lol "best stories" when Second Age is basically just filler to have some establishing backstory and time pass between 1st and 3rd Ages where he was writing all the real stories.
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Yeah, I mean some awesome stuff happens in the 2nd age. Last alliance of elves and men, rise and fall of numenor, founding of Gondor, and... You know... The rings being made... Shame it seems that they didn't actually pick up the rights for ANY of that...
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not a Tolkien nerd but yeah, the whole epic forging of the rings doesn't sync with what a casual viewer learned from LOTR.
Galadriel knew he was Sauron but went ahead with their creation anyway? Do they have the rights to him making the rings for the other races?
Galadriel knew he was Sauron but went ahead with their creation anyway? Do they have the rights to him making the rings for the other races?
jayrebb
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Qhue
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Daniel Weyman got 20x more dialogue in this episode than he had in the previous 7 combined. The motivation for Galadriel seemed a bit off, but she seemed to be trying to link to a greater good and the whole astral dream sequence ties in nicely with her chat with Frodo a few thousand years later. Sort of a 'well we can't do shit if we are all dead...so I guess we try and make the best of it...'
Personally I think it would have made a ton more sense to have no idea and to craft a story where the elves naively accept the assistance and lord knows they hamfisted the whole 'gift giver' business but at least they got the rings into the hands of the people they needed to.
Not quite sure how they are gonna tackle the dwarf lords. I'm guessing preying on Durin's whole daddy issues schtick?
Personally I think it would have made a ton more sense to have no idea and to craft a story where the elves naively accept the assistance and lord knows they hamfisted the whole 'gift giver' business but at least they got the rings into the hands of the people they needed to.
Not quite sure how they are gonna tackle the dwarf lords. I'm guessing preying on Durin's whole daddy issues schtick?
As master of deception Charlie Vickers is doing a good job. Try Googling the man's height (since he's supposed to be "greater than any of the race of Numenor in stature") and you get anything between 5'10" and 6'2". They did make him look tall in all the Numenor scenes, however, so that tracks at least.
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Oldbased
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This is the part where I go back and watch it all again undisturbed to take it all in and catch the things I missed.
I did it with Wheel of Time even, 1883 several times ( best part of that for me was all the life lessons spoken by Elsa ), GoT and more.
I didn't hate this show but I have no interest in sitting through 8-9 hours of it again, especially since they would focus on some relationships hard an episode then barely show it again or just move on. Starting to think the producers got into my opiate pills.
I did it with Wheel of Time even, 1883 several times ( best part of that for me was all the life lessons spoken by Elsa ), GoT and more.
I didn't hate this show but I have no interest in sitting through 8-9 hours of it again, especially since they would focus on some relationships hard an episode then barely show it again or just move on. Starting to think the producers got into my opiate pills.
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