Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

Chris said:

Sauron would have looked at the eagles and broken their will.

Really they are just metaphors for divine intervention from Manwe anyway, last time Manwe fully got involved the entire west coast of Middle Earth sank, so not sure you want the Valar turning up again.

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They could trail a mission accomplished banner behind them as they sky galloped in to the furnace of mount doom and gandolf dunked it from the sky through all the nazguls. It woulda been so COOL.

Just finished this. Overall sort of a boring story. Part of that was that I already knew how some big plot points had to wind up. So it was an uphill climb.

I did enjoy tom bombadil. At least they didn't completely fuck him up like they did old grand elf and the other istar.

I thought for sure the stranger was going to be one of the blue wizards who came before gandalf. It was obvious the dark wizard was one of the blues. They were in the right part of the world and just like in the source material the blue wizards were opposed to sauron but got corrupted and tried to take his place. Oh and he was wearing blue. Big tip off.

Lotr has always done a good job depicting the fog of war. Lots of battles with multiple armies and sometimes you wonder why they're fighting against each other. Anytime a character is sure an ally will arrive at a given time, they do not. Its a rule. We could probably call it Tolkien's law if there's not already one.

Did anyone else notice at all the characters that looked kinda like a more famous actor? At first I thought the high king looked like liam neeson. Elrond looked like Neil Patrick harris sometimes. Tom bombadil looked like jack black. Durin's wife looked like lizzo. Even galadriel looked like someone, but I couldn't remember her name. Blelf looked like Don Lemon too.

Seems like the story is wrapped up. Do we know yet if they're planning on a 3rd season? The only thing left is to craft the 1 ring, and it looked like the was about to get busy with that in the last episode.

spronk said:

the show is planned as 5 seasons. they still need to craft the rings of men too i think, and also the dwarf rings need to be distributed i think, i'm really unclear on what their status is. the story makes little to no sense if you try to think about it too much - durin knows the rings corrupt, he knows there is a balrog now, and yet seems to completely ignore both points based on what happens in the movies? - but whatever, who gives a shit this is really, really expensive shitty mormon fan fiction.

it still was doing decent on ratings, at least when i last saw on Nielsen ratings it was in like top 5 for weeks but i have never heard anyone IRL talk about this show while people are still talking about The Boys, anime shows, Penguin, Fallout, etc.

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The rings of men were crafted and sauron has them. They were clear about that. It was sort of a big plot point. I admit it was a little unclear about whether the dwarven rings were distributed. I thought they were because the king had demanded half their profits and I just assumed the other dwarves accepted. But at the end, they talked about the other dwarven lords being angry on account of having paid tribute to durin. Sounded to me like old Durin had not given up the rings yet. So new durin will probably be forced to to avoid the other dwarves wiping them out.

As for the balrog, we know that they abandon kazad dun because of the balrog (They delved too deep too fast and awakened an ancient evil) sometime before the original books. All that remains to be seen is whether that happens right now or in another century.