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  1. Absolutely LOVE the Bugatti analogy. LOL!! That is Exactly what has happened here!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH Honestly.. F this show. I honestly dont care if this ruins Amazon Prime or if I dont get another Lord of the Rings adaptation for 10 years. This show Freaking SUX AZZ.

  2. Remember the fight the fellowship had with the first troll they ran in to? It was a massive struggle, thats what made it so good and that was the first taste we got of what the fellowship is up against.

    How could the creators of that show watch that, then think "you know what would have made that fight better? If Aragorn just one shot the troll! Yea, lets have Galadriel one shot this troll then do some ridicolus sword twirl!".

  3. I liked this video… left it to go to work… came back and it "magically" turned into a dislike…. Fixed it now but figured I'd let you know.

  4. The great irony is that the female front stars are now portraying/replacing the smug, do-no-wrong male characters they hate.
    But, I guess, female assholes are welcome and honored when males possessing the same personalities are loathed.

  5. 100% of elves were preternaturally pale, thin, tall and clear skinned. Those were the morphological choices Tolkein made, based on the legends of the Sidhe. An Irish native myth.

    Zero elves would even tan in the Sun, let alone be dark skinned.

    Put in the Southrons if you want that!

    Dwarves weren't any particular color…although they were based on Nordic myth. Hobbits could be all over the place, as could humans.

    But no. They had to destroy the mythology symbolically.

  6. Typical Woke. When they fail at something they always double down because they "feel" their ideology is flawless (and they can't stand to be wrong). So now here we are with "The Rings of Doubling Down". Life is like a poker game. If you play poorly and you keep doubling down… what's that word that rhymes with Woke?!

  7. a black elf would be like making a fantasy movie about african tribe warriors and making then white. amazing how the woke came up with terms like "whitewashing" yet they hypocritically pull this crap snd they do it to push a anti white agenda

  8. Chris, here's an experiment for you. If you haven't read the source novels for "Altered Carbon", do so. You'll probably like them. Then, if you haven't watched them, watch the adaptation of those novels done by Netflix.

    These grubber studios are taking wonderful, complex stories, some beloved by millions, and are turning them into unwatchable crap — unless you haven't read the books.

    Check them out. These studios are probably trying to kill off the original works so all that will be left is their "reimaginings".

  9. I'm going to have to disagree with on black actors being in fantasy medieval settings. There two universes that I know of where there are black people in them, D&D and The Elder Scrolls series (if they decide to make a movie or show in that series). I don't know about all the countries and lands in D&D, but in the elder scrolls series the Red Guard (the black people in that universe) are key player in that universe, and trust me in that universe the kick alot of human and elven ass in their history, and even the orcs nod in respect to them for how strong and skilled they are in battle.

  10. Why do the woke want to culturally appropriate from a Judeo Christian CATHOLIC… Even Tolkien May not have enough genius to spill over enough to make the LEFT Original and Creative…they are all about destruction…NOT Creation…

  11. The problem with the Rings of Power is not really the problem you think it is. The first problem is that people are expecting it to be based on Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or Silmarillion. Until it was explained to me that it could not legally be based on any of those, but the extant works by Tolkien collected by his late son Christopher, I assumed it would be based on the Silmarillion. So your expectations have to be lowered (if you bothered reading any of the books, let alone Silmarillion). Hollywood has a long history of not hiring the best actors for the parts, either for political reasons or familiar (Andrew Lloyd Webber's wife being cast as the lead in Phantom of the Opera over the much better skilled understudy or Dorthy Gale being cast with a more popular but inferior singer in The WIz – yes, I like musicals and I am quite straight). If the actors being picked are picked for reasons that have nothing to do with skill or historicity, then the story better be very true to the source material.

    With only two episodes out (3 I guess as of tonight) one can hope the characters develop further by the time the series end.

    Will Nori be a victim of a young Smeagol? Will Galadriel realize she was smug and overconfident who happened to be right about Sauron but not because she was virtuous in her rationale – vengeance does make people blind. Galadriel being a bit power hungry does fit with the Silmarillion and will lend more impact to when, int he LotR, she turns down power. We'll see.

    But man, that scene with the Ice Troll was… best way to put it: badly done. The resistance of her fellow warriors was more due to their lack of confidence in her assertion that Sauron was alive. They viewed her as looking for vengeance against a ghost.
    Elrond gay? Eh, doubtful, but possible they were influenced by the late founder of the Mythopoeic Society who portrayed Elrond at conferences and later came out as gay. It would be an interesting nod, but pointless if so since Galadriel is Elrond's mother in law.

    The Tolkien estate should have made the important stipulation that the writers of the series read all the published works of Tolkien before being allowed to write for the show.

    Valinor is not exactly heaven, even for Elves, as it was a physical place West of Middle Earth. The elves lived lived in Valinor for quite some time before returning to Middle Earth. It is where the two trees from which the light of the Silmarills was taken and where Galadriel and many of her kin, the Noldor were exiled from and eventually sought to return to.

    Yeah, the writers who discount Tolkien's religious beliefs are foolish (its been a problem in the Mythopoeic Society as well – the continued attempts to adopt Tolkien's mythology into Paganism has been going on since the books were published). There is also a certain irony that the Hobbits are depicted with Irish culture when Tolkien did not care for the Irish nor their culture. The world of Middle Earth was written as a mythology for Britain.

    Mr Reagan, I would encourage you to read the Silmarillion sometime.

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