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That's Penistra the Black. Taught Gandalf everything he knew before the Emperor sent Zim/Zur to the Dark Side.
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Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit
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That's Penistra the Black. Taught Gandalf everything he knew before the Emperor sent Zim/Zur to the Dark Side.
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Episode #3 was tolerable. Too many storylines for me to see where they are going. And yes, they are compressing time (it seems) a lot. But what's the alternative? Take 10 years to tell a portion of the story?
I wish they would improve the dialogue. The cinematography and the music are good. I like Galadriel; she has tremendous potential, but I don't understand the human / elf issue(s) yet. I also think that they downplay elves to the point where they are not much different from humans.
Still in.
I wish they would improve the dialogue. The cinematography and the music are good. I like Galadriel; she has tremendous potential, but I don't understand the human / elf issue(s) yet. I also think that they downplay elves to the point where they are not much different from humans.
Still in.
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Kirun
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Gotta admit, if they make a tranny the ultimate evil, that's a pretty good fucking self-own.
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Hoss
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Literally she is fucking everything that moves.
The only thing that bothered me about her was the lack of a beard. Am I mixing up my mythology? Don't the female dwarves in tolkien's world have beards?
Talk to me about race swapping when they have a fucking dwarf playing an elf. Till then STFU.
holy shit American Inventor wolves!
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jayrebb
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Remove his makeup and slap Sauron's wig on him from LOTR trilogy. There are similarities between the casting.
I just hope they don't lean too hard into depicting Sauron as androgynous in the Rings of Power.
But yeah, no meme guessing from me. The smart money has to bank on it being Sauron.
It had a lot of support for "sexy" Sauron. When I see articles like that from before the show was filmed, it makes me think Amazon fluffed up the idea to warm people up to it.
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Chris
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The shot isn't the issue really, before the clip I posted it pans over Numenor and is a good way to show off the place.
it's the concept of Galadriel loving riding horses so much out of nowhere and the actress having that retarded look on her face.
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Chris
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It's 5 seasons and they have 4 events to cover - Ring Forging, Sauron's initial defeat, Sauron corrupting Numenor, The Last Alliance and LotR prologue.
So it may be that nothing happens in Season 1 other than introducing characters and Season 3 and 5 and just going to be repetitive.
This is why I think they have so many mystery boxes, Season 1 is just going to be leading up to us discovering who Sauron is - the books say he disguises as an elf or maiar named Annatar...
Yeah I don't see how they can stretch this out.
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all these people get paid a salary to sit around talking about this
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(it does take place in England for those wondering, but i'm sure there is an equivalent shit show in America)
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Humans are jealous that the elves don't die. They feel its not fair that God made it so, and take it out on the elves.
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all these people get paid a salary to sit around talking about this
Seminar speakers announced – Tolkien and Diversity
We are pleased to announce the sixteen speakers who will be presenting their papers at the The Tolkien Society Seminar 2021, which will be held online on Saturday and Sunday 3rd - 4th July. The…
(it does take place in England for those wondering, but i'm sure there is an equivalent shit show in America)
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spronk
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I was basing the 1600 on when Numenor saved the Elves from being slaughtered by Sauron, around 1600-ish (if including build up) SA and when Tar Miriel / Ar Pharazon we're ruling, around 3100-ish SA.
No idea if they intend to show the Last Alliance at all now, if they do then they really need to get shit started. I really think having Galadriel be such a focus was the wrong call here, but I understand that they wanted a recognizable and strong female main character. Sad that she is only being used to introduce other characters.
In regards to the comment about an overthrown Numenor king, afaik, there was never such an occurrence, but there was a breaking with tradition with the later kings taking the "Ar" title instead of "Tar" to show their breaking with the Valar. Most of those kings also subjugated many lands in ME, which causes Sauron to keep a very low profile after he got smacked.
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That is why it was so jarring to me that the show introduced the whole "former king was overthrown" bullshit. Its specifically mentioned in the books that Elendil and the other "elf friends" dared not even rebel against Ar-Pharazon himself and took offense to people who accused them as being rebels because they had such a very deep loyalty to the House of Elros.
I believe they will do a switcharoo/fake-out with Qwang Miriel because a) they want to show a black Qwang as the good guy and b) Queen Miriel was her father's daughter and that father was the last of the elf friendly line of kings.
So are they keeping Pharazon as some sort of prime minister in the show?? lol, I guess that way they can side step the whole "its my 1st cousin but one is white and the other black as the ace of spades". If so, then that is a EXTREEM example of changing the story so they can shoe horn a black queen in.
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Yes, but this is a TV show not based on it, it shouldn't be all about some dumb family real housewives drama. Also the silmarillion is boring and has god battles.