Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

Heriotze said:

Jesus, if the Doomcock leaked viewer numbers are right about this they're completely fucked. Apparently they had less total viewership over the first two (possibly three) episodes than House of the Dragon had for its premiere and viewers are just about dropping in half each episode (6m -> 3m -> 1.5/2m)

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It's the mystery box shit I think.

House of the Dragon is driven by characters acting in their own self interest and coming into conflict. There is no mystery, just the next chess move or fuckup. Game of Thrones really only had one mystery with R+L=J which was obvious and ultimately irrelevent.

Lord of the Rings was similar, we know everyone's motives and watch the journey play out with characters we come to love taking part in or causing epic events.

Rings of Power... there are so many mysteries that we don't know what the fuck the point of half the scenes are and major characters are already disappearing 3 episodes in. Episode 3 dropped THE FORGING OF THE RINGS STORY THREAD. WHAT THE FUCK.

Normal people don't care enough about the deep lore to be able to speculate who meteor man is, or what the sword is, or what the dwarves found, or what Celebrimbor wants, or who raft man is, or what the royal family are plotting, or who/where Sauron is. Unlikeable characters like Galadriel don't help keep them watching until they learned enough to speculate.

This has probably been the most wholesome dialogue this board has ever had

Knock it the fuck off you faggots

Reviewer keeps the kid gloves on the whole time and it's still pretty brutal.



Was it someone here that said the token Elf was the only one who genuinely seemed like one of Tolkien's Elves?

Gavinmad said:

Reviewer keeps the kid gloves on the whole time and it's still pretty brutal.

‘The Rings Of Power’ Has A Galadriel Problem

In the third episode of Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, Galadriel finally smiles.

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Was it someone here that said the token Elf was the only one who genuinely seemed like one of Tolkien's Elves?

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Yep, forced diversity is the least of this shows problems so far.

Izo said:

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Ykesha?

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Might be,

regardless still a pussy unless dual Ykesha's

reavor said:

it's just so difficult to write a mythical demi-god like character as a protagonist. I mean look at when galadriel meets the fellowship, she more or less reads their minds and telepathically communicates with them, instantly surmising their intents. if this show was at all faithful, she would have just needed to gaze down that queen and her entire court without saying a word, and they would have given her all the ships she needed to go home. there would have been no need for petty arguments and drama surround her staying there, her trying to sneak around the city.

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wouldnt that also mean she would know Sauron from a mile away and not have to Sherlock Holmes clues about him?

reavor said:

I guess you can argue that since he is more powerful than the elves he can disguise/cloak himself

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Yeah I guess. It's only written into the source material.

jayrebb said:

Yeah I guess. It's only written into the source material.

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amazon doesn't pay any attention to the source material, so why should we?

reavor said:

I guess you can argue that since he is more powerful than the elves he can disguise/cloak himself. In some of the notes/unfinished tales they talk about him infiltrating the elven hold where they made the rings, although Galadriel supposedly is instantly suspicious of him.

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wouldnt they at least be able to sense his immense power when right next to it? how can Galadriel have a gut feeling about Sauron and not even recognize a powerful necro when she sees one?

j00t said:

amazon doesn't pay any attention to the source material, so why should we?

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That's actually not true.

There's a fair amount of deep reverence to the source material on display within the show, and not just in surface level Easter egg-like references (of which there are many). It's clear that at least someone with a hand in writing this knows the mythology in extreme detail, and in some cases it's actually woven into the show in a clever fashion and is done well.

Which makes it all the more jarring and irritating that they botched Galadriel so badly. I sort of get why they decided to make her a protagonist. She's a familiar character, she's old, wise, and powerful, lived in the Age of the Trees, and was very active during the First Age. All of that should help her to anchor the show to the past while connecting it to the present story. Not only that, Tolkien wrote about her activities in Second Age only minimally, providing the writers with essentially a clean slate with which to craft some stuff for her to do. And to this point, they've totally failed to execute. They even threw in that bit with the horse to finally give the audience a glimpse that deep down she's actually capable of the warmth and gentleness that she's shown to have in the books and movies, and they turned it into a meme.

I don't even blame the actress, in fact I think she's fairly talented. She's just wasted with the writing and direction on display so far.

Chukzombi said:

wouldnt that also mean she would know Sauron from a mile away and not have to Sherlock Holmes clues about him?

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galadriel can only read minds in LOTR because sauron fucked her in rings of power and, to quote Fellowship of the Ring, "I know his mind" (and dick). She got a STD from him.

just wait till episode 7 where galadriel starts wasting numenoreans with a glock

spronk said:

galadriel can only read minds in LOTR because sauron fucked her in rings of power and, to quote Fellowship of the Ring, "I know his mind" (and dick). She got a STD from him.

just wait till episode 7 where galadriel starts wasting numenoreans with a glock

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err ok. i guess what i was saying is Galadriel can read minds, but if she runs across someone's mind she cant read, that means they must be as powerful or more so than she. would be super easy to tell who the baddie is.