Pretty they were a black fem non-binary but ok

deserves 700 likes this comment^

A lesbian transgender black woman

He was definitely a strong, female leader

😂😂 a black trans gay woman... triple shields 🛡 lol

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Gone but not forgotten. Robert Paulson forever

Cut down in his prime while defending his home from a violent bloodthirsty warlord lusting after power and vengeance. RIP King.

HER NAME IS ROBERT PULSON!!

First rule of troll club... you never talk about troll club.

REST IN PEACE 😢😢😭😭

His name was Robert Paulson

Oh no, the enemy shot our leader in the back!!! Anyways...

Well they did show that she was a horrible leader in the show, her man protested against her 20 mins in

@@dag1704hahahaha. “Platoon, our leader has fallen. Let’s just bury her under the latrine pit. Move on.”

She did get her team killed, still she killed the ice troll in under 10 seconds. Something she later braggs about and shows no remorse over losing her comrades. It's very very very poorly written, it is a shame that Tolkiens name is associated with this "TV series". They could have simply created their own IP, then Tolkien fans wouldn't have cared or known about this sewage.

@@ilovepeoplebro yeah, but Tolkien's Galadriel was not like that, was quite the oposite, she was an admired, feared figure, a God-like being, that's why this show is so wrong.

PJ's twin towers still exists

​@@reek4062Ok

​@@reek4062nice bait

@reek5062 did you say twin towers? 🎣

Say what you want about the Hobbit Trilogy but it's a masterpiece compared to everything Hollywood has pumped out in the last 20 Years.

Another great sin by the Academy was not granting him the Oscar for that role.

His tone for that line always made me feel like he's thinking "Well, shit." Like, if somebody had been dumb enough to say "it can't get any worse", you could hear the troll roar, have Sean Bean say that line, and you wouldn't need to change a single inflection.

I mean I think Boromir was rather annoyed after all he's fought cave trolls or mountain trolls before during Osgiliath when Mordor attacked.

Yep. Fantastic acting from bean there. I absolutely love the way he says that line. Almost defeated akready

Reading those lines gave me goose bumps. 👌

I think they might have been able to ride the Maeras but those are pretty unique creatures

Also, if they're an island nation, what use would they really have for cavalry? You'd think they'd prioritize their navy and marines over anything else

There is a level of respect there for sure, but you could not pay for the level of loyalty Sam has

@@pestilentsleeper9152 the poiint is that its not simply social status. Their relationship was based on like a knight squire one if i recall and its important to note sam has reason to elevate frodo specificallly

also frodo is like 80 in the books

@@edouardlorge4059 If i remember correctly he was 33 yo when we first meet him and 50 yo when he left Shire. Hobbits have a longer lifespan than humans, about 100 yo, though he was still considered as what we'd call a young adult in hobbit society

oh i never knew that. i always found it a bit odd that he called him “mr frodo”

And then Isildur cuts the Ring from Sauron's hand.

Utter stupidity if you know anything about bows and arrows or medieval warfare. The battle scenes in the Lord of the Ring trilogy ruined the movie for me. I don't hate it, I just can't take it seriously. In my country we had many interesting battle during the medieval, probably more than anyone else in Europe because we fought against the most powerful armies, we fought against both Roman Empire, we fought against the german tribes and The Holy Roman Empire, we fought against the Mongol and the Turk and all of our major battle is really interesting. I noticed people are not able to produce more intersting stuff than real life itself. This is the situation both with Tolkien and Jackson too. Of course I understand in the case of the books the catholic theme is the point, not the fantasy battles. Which is good because the battles are suck.

@@Zodroo_Tintas a historian, I get picking apart battles. Basically every depiction of warfare from the past is BS. But the movies are so insanely good. It’s just peak cinema. Everything about it is great. Even the dumb parts of battles were used to bolster the fantasy spectacle. Horses also don’t charge spear lines, but you can’t catch me with dry eyes during the ride of the rohiram. Impossible scene, no basis in warfare or history. One of the best scenes in cinema.

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@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 No. The movies degrade the characters and butcher the tone of the books

"But most it was their wont to sail in their swift ships upon the waters of the Bay of Elvenhome, or to walk in the waves upon the shore with their long hair gleaming like foam in the light beyond the hill." Amazon: Sooooo buzzcut, yeah?

Which also makes Gimili’s ask of Galadriel even more bold and why this rough, sturdy, strong dwarf was so meek to ask for a couple strands of her hair in The Fellowship of the Ring.

It gets worse when you realize they gave *everyone* short hair because a certain single cast member could not grow long hair naturally. Because yes, putting a black wig on him was too much effort.

@@willbournerv2259this criticism doesn’t stand, as you know, scissors exist? It’s not like every single elf must have long hair. I don’t remember any rule prohibiting elves from cutting their hair

@kingdelledroghe1957 Managed to type all that with Amazon filling you to the balls, eh? Impressive.

He doesn't need your forgiveness.

@@kinkkong28 But he has it nonetheless

Most changes are very understandable. Elrond leading the army gives a quick introduction and summary of his character. Same for Arwen, and its understandable why they didn't want to introduce another Elven character. While the scouring of the shire fits very well thematically in the book, it doesn't mesh well with the typical 3 act structure of a movie, especially one already infamous for its drawn out endings.

I wouldn't say that Elrond was depicted as the commander of the whole elven army, Gil-galad was the supreme leader ad he is shown in the introduction while he fights with his spear Aeglos. I always seen Elrond there as a sort of liutenant or something. The elven army was huge, you cannot reasonably direct such a large force all by yourself, you need some kind of lesser officers to assist you. Such was the role of Elrond during the battle, IMHO. As for Arwen rescuing Frodo, i think that was done for "cinematic flluidity", to say so: introducing Glorfindel would have meant adding a character that would had been there just for a few scenes, without appearing again enough to justify its introduction in the first place. It would have been too dispersive for the viewer, that's the same reason they have completely omitted the character of Tom Bombadil. Viceversa, Arwen was not a character that could be omitted, since she's so connected to Aragorn, one of the main characters, and it fitted well to put her in place of Glorfindel, to add needed screen time for her character and impress her more in the viewer mind. A similar point can be made for Saruman being killed in the Shire, except in this case the change is not in regards of a character, but of a piece of plot: the main story had ended, the Ring was destroyed, Sauron was defeated and peace restored in Middle-Earth. Imagine watching the movie for the first time and reaching the point of Aragorns coronation, breathing a sigh of relief after all you have seen in the three movies of the trilogy and then BAM, there is still Saruman to be dealt with. Not very fitting in a movie, isn't it?

@@GeraltofRivia22 Removing the Scouring of the Shire was an abomination. It made Frodo and company's return home utterly pointless. The avenging of the evil done by Saruman was, as Gandalf told the hobbits, "what you have been trained for."

Theres no rings in it though...

Neither of us wants these people to destroy that story. To quote Gandalf, "keep it hidden, keep it safe."😂

Justice for Robert Palson.

Bob had b*tch t*ts

His name is Robert Paulson, His name is Robert Paulson, His name is Robert Paulson! ;D Haha

How dare you misgender she/her??

+ how could anyone Like ‘Guy ladriel ‘ ,,,

Too fucking true

daymmm...

I am guilty of that guys wouldn’t feed me or just share their weed with me unless I sucked dick. I receive money so I do the same if they wanna smoke with me you gotta eat it from the back before and after

It’s all about blurring the lines between the genders.

😂

Fan fiction sounds accurate.

"Negrolas" 😭🤣

People following this narrative take the most powerful, successful, talented and noteworthy men of REAL LIFE history and turn them into crying babies. It's no surprise that if they would have such little respect for the achievements, skills and struggles of real history's finest, they would have no respect for the fictional either.

Omg this. Gil-galad is one of my favourite character from the Lengendarium. I’ve always loathed the Hobbit movies for giving some dwarves who had little to no line in the book more screen time than the great High King of Noldor, fucks sake! Now that he’s depicted by this shitshow as a fugly superfluous impression of a king. I can’t even.

@@alexw1698 overall the feel of the show doesn't feel lotr, it feels like a high budget disney fantasy film imo

The writers of Rings of Power kept the names, and ditched the rest. Utterly conceited and contemptible.

@@alexw1698 blame Peter Jackson. He ignored Gil-Galad in his failed attempt to adapt the Lord of the Rings.

I remember one of the first times I watched Two Towers when Sam, Frodo and Gollum are at the Black Gate trying to get in. When the human army approaches, the gate is opened to let them in and the sweeping shot of the gate shows several trolls literally chained to the gate mechanism which they are made to turn in order to open the gates. It was pretty clear to me then that the trolls are an enslaved race.

Yup. Even Shadow of War, as much as it threw canon away, had more respect for the trolls, giving them all names and personalities just like it die the orcs.

Tolkien makes you feel that trolls are somewhat stupid and if they just had some good role models they might turn over a new leaf. I'm not sure if he was going for that but it's what he does.

Yes, the cave troll was tortured. But that's not why it doesn't talk. It doesn't talk because it's a baby. They talk about it in one of the behind the scenes. You can also compare it's size to that of the three adult cave trolls in the first Hobbit movie.

​@@rebeccavaughn8897Oh geez, I didn't know that; now I feel REALLY bad for the poor thing in FOTR!

Yup. I felt it when Adar came for one wounded orc, treated him with respect, mercy killed him, and then he and his orcs grieved. Adar has more love and respect for his orcs than Guyladriel for her soldiers, or for the humans she came to save. Also, she took the villager's child with her, without looking for the mom first...

When your real life ideology is as evil and disgusting as the writers you tend to get confused trying to write good characters.

the true definition of inclusion

That's what these people are doing in real life, also. It's not on accident. They know exactly what they're doing and they're doing it on purpose. They want to ruin everything any of us felt near and dear; anything that is good and wholesome. It's part of their Marxist worldview. I'm sure they think Tolkien is an outdated, racist, misogynistic homophobe whose work should be castrated, gutted, and destroyed. Why else would anyone want to base a movie or show on source material that they absolutely HATE? Fortunately, a lot of people are beginning to wake up to this insidious plot. It's not like it's secret, they openly talk about it but usually in euphemisms... "Oh, sure I think Lord of the Rings is an interesting universe, but I find many parts of it PROBLEMATIC. I think it needs to be UPDATED for our CURRENT SOCIETY." In other words, if they were honest, they would say, "I hate this famous story and I want to destroy it and eternally ruin it for everyone who ever liked it. We can't usher in our new utopia if stories like this are still around."

That shot of Sauron standing before his orcs was even shot as heroic with the light behind him and he standing before them imposing and strong.

Lmao

Do you know why a lightsaber glows Rey? It's because the plasma always looks down Rey... While a blaster looks up.

​@@The13thRonin its like in "space balls" movie thing 😂

penny for the guy!

Name one _Star Wars_ character who can be described as "a deep character with realistic flaws."

For real

long hair is for women

Agreed! In the trilogy, Elves were obviously Elves! In this crap series... Humans and Elves look pretty much the same...

The showrunners didn't care about staying true to the source material all that much; if at all.

​@@danhutchins3237They don't want elves to be special, or else it will be racist for they are white and majestic.

Speaking of which, there was a film that came out recently based on the ancient Hindu epic “Ramayana”. It’s called “Adipurush” and was heavily panned in India because of its poor handling of the source material (which is a religious text btw, and the hero Rama is worshipped as a god) and atrocious vfx. One criticism that was raised was that none of the characters look right, especially the antagonist- the evil demon king Ravana (called Lankesh in the film). Ravana in the epic is an upper caste demon who wears a heavy moustache and traditional long hair. In the film, the character has a full beard and a fade, which resulted in immense backlash. His only good look in the film is when he disguises as a mendicant in order to kidnap Rama’s wife Sita.

During the 'hippy crisis' of the 60s the US government commissioned a historical study which found that historically, men have worn their hair long for 90% of history.

​@@DespotofAntrim The appearance of the characters in this act of spitting in the face of the fantasy genre is doubly painful for me, because I read Tolkien's works (also The Silmarillion and all kinds of supplements / Unfinished Tales etc), quite thoroughly and with great pleasure. Someone whose ideas about this world and characters were shaped by book descriptions and phenomenal illustrations by Alan Lee and Ted Nasmith will feel especially strongly such a terrible interpretation of the presented world (especially that Jackson's LoTR showed that you can also make a film that is visually faithful to the spirit of these descriptions and classic illustrations ...).

@@aericabison23 Man I feel bad that they did that to the epic Ramayana. In my high school religious education back 17 years ago this was one of my favourite stories. It brought a pang of nostalgia until I read the rest of the comment. I kind of want to watch the advert because this modern era of movies has done nothing but turn me into a glutton for pain.

The "elves" in this show are just pointy-eared humans. They bear no resemblance to Tolkien's elves.

Isn't this meme supposed to emphasize things that *aren't* true?

You had me until the end Representation is just a buzzword meaning white replacement and white erasure, it's supremacy plain and simple and artificial replacement

We don't need nor should we want representation it literally doesn't matter and will never improve a story

It's the same with Halbrand/Sauron having his hands all over the 3 Elven Rings which in the books it was stated several times emphatically that Sauron never touched or sullied them and likely never even saw them being crafted in his absence. This was an important aspect with the Rings of Power. The Nine and Seven were more controlled by Sauron due to his presence in their making and his capture of them. This is why even without the One Ring, Sauron was able to control the Nazgul and apparently any mortal possessing one of the seven would fade away according to Gandalf but the 3 were different. While bound to the fate of the One Ring due to the magic and knowledge of their making, they could be used during the Third Age without Sauron able to control them or even discover them when he had gathered much of his strength at the end of the age. But ROP had an immortal being pawing the raw materials and tools in their making, in a world where powerful beings can infuse their power and will into things and places for good or evil. It shows that the showrunners really don't understand the source material.

RoP Galadriel is just a female Feanor with everything that made Feanor interesting and multidimensional tossed out (and still somehow intended as a hero rather than a tragic villain). It's not intentional, it's just that modern "strong female character" isn't much different in terms of personality than the prideful, arrogant, angry (and dare I say "toxic") male archetype that usually either gets taken down several pegs or falls to villainy and faces a justly tragic end (neither of which ever happens to the female protags) 100% unintentionally, the Feanorian star is incredibly accurate

@@RoninDave Yes, precisely. Sauron didn't touch the 3: they were made by Celebrimbor without his knowledge. Which also means they weren;t corrupted and by turn didn't have the same corrupting influence as the ones Sauron had touched. That's important because not only did Galadriel have one of the Elven Rings, Gandalf also had one: it was given to him by Cirdan the shipwright. In the RIngs of Power timeline, those are now corrupted and Galadriel and Gandalf can't use them or else Sauron will be able to control or corrupt them.

@@BroadwayRonMexico Agree with you 100%. I actually made a meme showing that she espouses most of the traits of toxic masculinity. Modern screenwriters seem to think if you give a female that traits of toxic masculinity they somehow become good and admirable. Also, yes the Feanorian star is accurate: at one point she threatens to murder Elendil over a boat. Exactly like Feanor.

@@englishlady9797 Even Feanor had better reasons for what he did. He didn't start out wanting to commit the First Kinslayins. He wanted to avenge his father and get the Simarils back but the Teleri would not give him the ships he needed so he seized them which led to violence. Galadriel wanted to get back to Middle Earth because of a vague notion that Sauron might be there based on the words of a questionable character who (gasp!) turned out to be Sauron. Elendil had saved her and she was willing to murder him. And you're right about the giving toxic masculinity traits to female characters. It begs the question was it really about disliking those traits or wanting them for themselves for a sense of empowerment. They don't realize men with those traits aren't well liked either in fiction or real life.

Peaceful? You don't know trolls!

​@MaskedMan66 dude was inside his fortress minding his business, only yo get jumped by a narcissist, sociopath elf

@@mathew6116 He was jumped by her rubbish "forces" first, but that doesn't mean he's not a rotten creature., like all trolls in Middle-earth. Or at least, most versions of Middle-earth.

that shows how this guy doesn't know how Tolkien's world works, be it by ignorance or bad faith.

@@julienamand4472 Word!

The wrong message …. He is the „problem“ in our moDErn SOcIety 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Because he's a conservative unneccessarily bringing politics into everything and parroting insanely ignorant talking points of the right.

He is fun to watch, also me and my nephew literally argued on how good the show was so its nice for me to get some validation from a dude on the internet 🤣

Sacrifice and responsibility are concepts the narcissistic left does not understand.

Are you saying Galadriel riding her horse in slow motion whilst looking like a field mouse on speed wasn’t epic ?? 😂

Alas, it lacks the dwarf-throwing jokes of Peter Jackson’s works.

It's definitely the complete bollockry of the twat explaining why rocks sink and a ship floats. That was epic in its stupidity! Or Galadriel diving into the middle of the goddam ocean to swim 3000 odd miles back. I imagine she did backstroke for a bit of it at least to conserve energy, at least for the first mile or so before she was overwhelmed by 40ft waves and drowned. That is genius in its idiocy! (She should've just used the eagles (the giant mythical creatures, not the band)).

​@@F00kbluepillwell, it was certainly something 😆

kids usually can see thru fakery

‘Wokeness’?

@@zengjiachen7878 I dont really know at this point. Im all about social deconstruction and stuff but i also hate how corporations use a surface interpretation about progressiveness but when people use the "Woke" its impossible to know if they are talking about corporations or normal people too

@@1lukarioz Woke Cult was created by corporations. Artificial ideology and fake narrative created to replace the real leftism and liberalism (and anti-globalism). Back in late '90s/early 2000s young people were fighting against the system. Then the establishment created Woke ideology. Today, young people are fanatically defending the system without even realizing it.

To be honest, you failed as a father to have let her seen Rings of Power at all. Why your daughter has access to Amazon is beyond me. Have you not been paying attention to the past 8 years? Everything is propaganda, everything is woke, and it’s all made to subvert gender roles and frankly discourage traditional families. Lord help you if your daughter has a Netflix or instagram account. She’ll have an OF and pink hair by 10th grade.

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The lineage of Aragon also goes way back to Beren and Luthien. The union between elves and humans works almost like full circle in this case. Because from Beren and Luthien was born the greatest of the human race, and at the time of the lord of the rings story human's strenght was fading. Arwen's and Aragon union "fixed" that. Rings of Power having a elf human romance is too fucking cheap, it just shows how the writers understand nothing about Tolkien.

Part of what makes Aragorn and Arwen's story so fascinating is the whole conflict about her being immortal and him not being so. In the books---specifically the end of Appendix A in "The Return if the King"---Elrond compares a twenty-year-old Aragorn to a yearling shoot next to Arwen's "birch of many summers". So there's already an age-difference issue, even though both Aragorn and Arwen are adults. And if they marry, and Arwen chooses to forsake her immortality, they will both die. But Arwen is willing to take that chance if it means she can have Aragorn's love, and even though he loves her, he is willing to let her sail West so that she won't have endure the pain of widowhood. Casual treatment of Elf-Human relationships really hurts the issue more than helps.

@@dimasgirl2749 Technically she didn't forsake immortality to be with Aragorn, she simply knew that his death would have broken her heart, thus killing her. That's why in the LOTR when it's shown Arwen destiny if she choose to be with Aragorn they show him dying of old age and she is still young looking by his side to mourn him.

I don't quite understand the elven immortality, but it doesn't have specifically to do with whose dick was riden and what womb spat someone out. Elrond and Elrohir were half elven brothers from the same breeding couple, and Tolkien wrote Elrond chose immortality, and the other chose to die as a human. it's sort of a gift from somw level of gods you can earn or ne granted at birth or denounce.

@@codinghusky5196 Correction, is Elrond and Elros.

More effort went into shilling this shit than actually making a good show.

They did? Wow.

Well, Tolkien wasn't perfect and it shows in his stories.

@@sumanadasawijayapala5372no one is perfect, but his stories are close to perfection

@@rideroftheweek Yeah that Tom Bombadil bit was exquisite wasn't it. Boggles the mind why PJ didn't include it in the movies.

and the original galadriel is pretty badass too, but the showrunners have a severe case of blindness. Although i think they didnt't have all the rights to adapt the full story of the silmarilion..

That last bit is not from the books.

Youve been watching the films to much. stick to the source material. most of what you wrote didn't happen.

@@rickb.4168 doesn't matter, his point stands. The themes that made the first lotr movies exciting and good are antithetical to post-2012 modern society.

​@@rickb.4168 That's not his point. It's to do with the themes within the films. Most of which came from Tolkien and a few of which came from the writers.

So modern culture is actually evil?

After Fellowship PJs films become a teenage CGI fest about battles. Tolkien hated that nonsense

@@adamjames2332 you'd prefer them to adapt the multiple pages spent on characters talking things out knowing that the world was at the risk of being conquered, maybe they should've made the scene with the ents 30 minutes long to match tolkiens multiple pages spent on talking in detail about their days worth of negotiation with the fellowship, if you wanna consume media that goes into world building and lore go read a book and stop bashing movies for going for the more visually entretaining part of the story, it's called Tele VISION for a reason.

@@adamjames2332 Agree, but I don't think anyone could have adapted ROTK better. That's the last arc and it's all about claiming Middle-Earth's freedom.

@@adamjames2332 Movies are not books. Books are not movies.

@@adamjames2332 he hated CGI? Was he psychic? Tolkien himself wrote the Battles of Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields. The difference is Jackson ended Pelonnor Fields sooner with the Army of the Dead whereas the battle went on for hours in the book.

Wow exactly 💯 speceally last part of your written should be more spread on internet...not parents should be allowed this show is poison for kids 😞

I mean, wasn't Saurons motivation starting out that he wanted to create order to make up for his past deeds as Morgoths Lieutenant? The show wasn't good, but them making the antagonist more than just pure evil isn't one of the reasons to me. I'm not saying they did a good job, but the attempt was to make him more compelling than a character that is just the bad guy because they're evil.

@@snerdtergusonhumanizing the villain wasn’t the problem. Making the villain a better person than the “heroes” is the problem.

Trying so hard to be GOT. lol. Like why do you want to imitate an inferior piece of literature? You already have in your hands the greatest fantasy story and you still want to be like GOT. lol

Amazon's Galadriel is a reflection of the modern independent women: Leave anyone, especially husbands, if they ran out of money.

Ikr😂😂

The only silver lining for the likes of Rings, Wheel of Time, Obi-Wan, Halo, etc

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+1

And you set me off laughing again.

LMAO!

Bad family huh? How they can't respect his work?

That's just what they do. Abuse systems. I'll watch it again

What are you doing next? Spideyverse was c*** and they're piling onto the reviewers who say so, so that one will stir up some good ol' controversy. The Flash is actually quite good, but those same reviewers are pumping out what looks mostly like a lot of bad-faith reviews because, I suppose, it's click season. 🤔

Flash is just member berries..

@@saschaberger3212 Thanks!

@@Melvin-Deeply I am working on a video essay about female characters.

Bring this energy for Jackson's.

@@N7_Jedi For what? What's "Jackson's"? Sorry, I genuinely don't know what you're talking about.

@@noneofyourbusiness2437 Peter Jackson's LoTR?

@@N7_Jedi Ah, sorry about that. I don’t keep up with the names of the directors and I've kinda given up on movies and tv lately. Haven't heard the news about that on UKposts either, it might have just slipped by me while I was scrolling through or something. But, yeah, what I said here applies there too. Melkor wins, Tolkien's work is currupted, Eru Illuvitar's music is poisoned with Melkor's discordant evil, and the fans suffer because of it.

@@noneofyourbusiness2437 you've never watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Agree. Why would they be wandering alone with no retinue. As for why would they be black? Makes no odds really as Dwarves are not "evolved" beings. They were created as they are by Aule. They didn't evolve at all.

I mean, without making any judgement on the show, good or bad, it takes place thousands of years prior to what you're talking about. So perhaps she changed as a result of her experiences. I will be honest, I read the Hobbit and LOTR, plus the Silmarilon (pretty sure I spelled that wrong) and a couple of the histories, can't recall the titles. So perhaps there are things written about Galadriel during that period that I've not read.

@@snerdterguson You do realize that Galadriel was around since the first age, right...? That means that by the time the second age begun: with Numenor and all that, Galadriel was already thousands of years old at that point. So no, the show doesn't take place thousands of years prior to what I was talking about, I was talking about her life as a whole which both precedes and succeeds Numenor(its rise and its fall). Speaking of time lines, the show doesn't even follow Tolkien's time line properly, it's all over the place. Thus your comment makes even less sense considering that's one of the key aspects this show utterly butchered.

@@snerdterguson Uhh, no. Galadriel is already thousands of years old in the Second Age. You wanna tell us that Galadriel matured only after 5,000 years?

@@snerdterguson What makes Galadriel unique even by the 2nd Age is she is the last of the Elven nobility of her generation that went to Middle Earth. She was born before the rising of the Sun and during the Bliss of Valinor when Melkor was chained so she had a unique perception over the elves who stayed in Middle Earth during the Second Age. To be really pedantic she was already around 700 years old when Melkor started sowing strife amongst the Noldor. She was already over 1200 years old when she left Valinor. It was the Kinslaying that turned her against the Wars of Beleriand and after spending time with Melian she eventually left to her brother Finrod's kingdom and left there as well to go beyond the mountains.

@@snerdterguson At least reply saying you werw wrong.

I assume this is Sauron's fanfic.

Rooting for Adar and Sauron made this exciting. Halbrand makes absolutely no sense though.

It's insane. Sauron just wanted to be left alone later and later he seemed quite happy to help Celibrimbor until Galadriel exposed him (but didn't tell anyone). Adar was trying to find a home for his people. Meanwhile the humans in the Southlands were dirty racists. Numenoreans were xenophobes. The Elves were manipulative of their allies and they occupied humans for a thousand years. Only the dwarves had the right idea - at least the king did who wanted them to stay out of the whole thing. And of course the Harfoots were grubby little cultist vermin who need to be wiped out. Was this the writers' intention to make the good guys reprehensible and the bad guys somewhat noble?

I also think lack of literacy has to do with it; the writers don't read books, and the few books they have read are trash.

@@DespotofAntrim Yeah. Harry Potter. That's all they've read. Maybe also Twilight and YA crap like Hunger Games and Divergent.

Feels like PTSD but it’s not addressed. And if it is PTSD it should be. Not enough with their backstory or her and Finrod to strengthen their kinship. The darkness line he says does not help either unless re-edited and almost thought she was going to be Sauron.

@@InvertedWIng definitely Twilight and Shades of Grey as they tried to ship Galadriel and Sauron

They had no desire to understand it. That much is obvious. After Jackson's LOTR, Amazon wanted a Middle Earth cash cow. They gambled that whatever they threw at us would be an instant hit because, Tolkien. They bet poorly.

​@@Spluckedgood thing they fail, and now all they products will be automatically bad and lose money, as we now know true color of amazon.

@@Splucked”They chose… poorly.”

What a sad existence that must be lol

@@jessegiroux6521 Not when the series sucks lol

@@bennyreda9415 God the delusion is incessant

@@jessegiroux6521 Guys get in here! We found the only fan of RoP Its an endangered species

@@jessegiroux6521One of the worst TV series ever based on one of the best series of novels ever. By the way, looks like your (Woke?) sensibilities just got tweaked. LOL!

Much appreciated.

Absolutely same here. This is one of the best. 😂

This was the first of the Despot's videos I watched.

It was better than the entire Rings of Pyre series. Better writing and presentation, at a fraction of the price.

On my second watch myself

40% of the budget went into the graphics and visuals, which where the only part where the Woke brainrot couldnt infest as easily. 60% went into "consulting" and prolly buying mansions for the writers

Agreed. I added it to my Favourites to watch from time to time when I need a laugh

Glad I didn't bother.

​​@@honkhonk8009more like in pocket to amazon.

@@honkhonk8009 ENGINEER GAMING!

My only problem is that she had no beard. All dwarves are supposed to have beards, including women.

No in the Silmarillion there was this one Human Elf romance between a guy Elf and a human Woman but he had to leave her and it was very sad.

Also Aragorn doesn't become King of all of humankind. There are other kingdoms in middle earth other than Gondor and Arnor, such as Rhun and Harad, and I guess Umbar as well, I have no idea the status of Umbar after the Corsairs were driven out, but previously it was independent. The Oliphant riders at the battle of Pelenor fields were men from Harad. They're generally not thought of as much because Tolkien doesn't flesh them out at all in LotR and only vaguely fleshes out their history in the Silmarillion and Legendarium, which I think is a shame. It would also be a great opportunity for these diversity toting retards to do a series about dark people in middle earth, and have it make sense, AND flesh out on something Tolkien didn't. They could have created something pretty cool. But they didn't. Instead, they made black dwarves. No race. In the entirety of fiction. Needs Melanin less. Than Tolkien's dwarves. It serves, ZERO function to them.

lmao little crybaby

He sounded so pitiful before he fell dead. I thought that when I first saw the movie, and I feel it every time I rewatch it.

@@blueskysummit6153 He sounds so sad, confused, completely lost. It hurts me so much every time because he sounds like a little child or a faithful dog. Doing what he was told to do and suffering for it. Just thinking of that moment and typing this makes me tear up.

In "The Silmarilion", Tolkien explains that Trolls were bred when Melkor (a.k.a. Morgoth) tortured and mutilated Ents.

Those trolls were so different from the Trolls in The Hobbit.

Milking fast as can,credo of corrupted company

I actually forgot about it all together

Marxist? They’re not. Just twats.

Marxists? They're SJWs, what would Marxists have to do with them?

wtf is s post modern marxist?

@@tejasgreen1717 Here's a video that can explain: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kqdiqZmRfKeCmGw.html

@@tejasgreen1717what’s commonly known as woke is actually rebranded identity Marxism

"I'll have your tongue for that".

Viserys had me so hype in that scene, it's crazy how much better he is that his books counterpart

@@champ1159 crazy isn't it, who knew following the source material and tweaking little bits here and there can be good! Amazon should've taken note.

@@basedelon he can keep his tongue

@@basedelon Viserys' last climb to the Iron Throne was entirely an invention of the show. In fact, there's very little of HOTD that is a lifted directly. They had about as much book material as the ROP did. It's all in the quality of the writing.

The movies are not the Lord of the Rings; they're dumb action movies made for general movie audiences. ''it stole his characters and turned them into unrecognizable, cheap imitations of their former selves.'' Ironic, that is precisely what the Peter Jackson movies do.

@@reek4062 the trilogy done by Peter Jackson, yes they are.

@@shamrockdragon7634 The Lord of the Rings are books. You know what a book is?

@@reek4062 If all you saw were "dumb action movies" then you weren't paying attention. And yes, not only do I know what a book is, I happen to have them in my possession, and have reread them a thousand times since I was ten. Jackson's trilogy was closer to the Lord of the Rings than Rings of Power is to anything written by Tolkien. What's more, Amazon is desperate to legitimize RoP by tying it in with the Jackson films that you oh so despise, which is why so many scenes are direct callbacks to those films. However, in writing Galadriel the way they did, RoP's showrunners have created a massive continuity error, which I will spell out for your clueless ass: Galadriel and Celeborn have a daughter together, Celebrian. Celebrian grows up to marry Elrond, and together they have three children: Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen. In Tolkien's work, Celebrian was born early in the Second Age; but in RoP, Celeborn has been MIA since the conclusion of the First Age, and there has been no indication that Celebrian even exists. The showrunners deliberately excluded both characters because they didn't want their super badass girlboss feminist icon tied down with anything so mundane as a family (never mind that she's four thousand years old, functionally immortal, and that her daughter is a grown woman), and because they didn't want anything to get in the way of their Galadriel/Sauron ship. By making this choice, they have effectively written Arwen out of existence.

​@@shamrockdragon7634lol this is how we know you're a fake fan if you think the PJ movies are accurate depictions of the books and were true to Tolkien lore as well. Those movies are just as inaccurate as this series

I need for you to explain to me how, canon or not, making a fictional character on a TV show Black is erasing European HISTORY. I was under the impression that Disa had been invented for the show and the show itself doesn’t claim to be canon or a faithful adaptation of the works, so she doesn’t even erase or retcon Tolkien’s works. His works, while amazing and absolutely deserving of respectful adaptation, which RoP falls very short on, Tolkien is not a representational monolith of even British culture and history, let alone the UK, or Europe as a whole.

Father Enrico Pucci was Modern Hollywood before even being a thing

​Did not expect to see a Jojo reference here

But in John Wick the are only three women who fight, one of which is a friend of John. The two female antagonists get treated the exact same as males in that they're quickly disposed once they go toe to toe with John

@@champ1159 it's not a reference, Part 6 anime's last portion Reflects a lot of Hollywood and visual media these days, especially his main villain with the closer he gets to achieve his goal.

I'll be talking about the issues you raised on my next video. The Hollywood double standards for women are glaring.

This has nothing to do with galadriel we grew up with

​@@druidofscosglen2868not including Tom Bombadil was a great decision, always hated that nonsensical character... LOTR was not just a perfect adaptation, it was even better than books (even if it's 'heretical' to say so)

@@albogypsy2842 I agree in some regards, though. I prefer movie-Aragorn over book-Aragorn.

The whole reason that Galadriel is even around in Tolkien's LotR is because it took millennia for grief to wear her down into the character we see in Fellowship. The beginning of her character arc is that her people rebel against the angels that rule Middle Earth and basically walk out of heaven because they want revenge on Sauron's old boss. She goes along not because she agrees with that, but because she wants to make a name for herself in Middle Earth. All the Noldor go through hell and by the end of the First Age are either dead or broken in spirit, and all the leadership of the Noldor that weren't born in Middle Earth return to Valinor *except Galadriel* because she's *still* proud and headstrong. It takes until the end of the Third Age, when she's been in Middle Earth longer than the Pyramids have been around IRL, before she's questioning what she really gained from all of this (the temptation of the Ring for her is that everything she built over millennia with her ambition is crumbling, and she only need take the ring to salvage her ambition and Make Lorien Great Again). If she were any less headstrong, she'd already have gone home. So it's *entirely* believable that the Galadriel in this story develops into the character in Tolkien's LotR. Any other Galadriel would develop into that character sooner and would tap out before LotR, so in fact *only* this Galadriel is believable, or consistent with Tolkien. PJLotR doesn't engage with any of this, so the character played by Cate Blanchett is effectively a blank slate, making the question of whether RoP's Galadriel is consistent with her a moot point; practically anything could be consistent. Meanwhile, PJLotR presents us with an angsty Aragorn that's deeply conflicted about whether he can handle being king, and expects us to believe that he has the fortitude to follow the path of Tolkien's Aragorn, while this show gives us an Elendil that has the confidence we'd expect of Aragorn. Criticize RoP if you want, it certainly has a lot of flaws, but don't pretend that Jackson respected Tolkien *more*.

@@JonBrase *"So it's entirely believable that the Galadriel in this story develops into the character in Tolkien's LotR."* No. Being a child, a bad leader (when you're actually canonically already a great leader) and absolutely despicable as a person and being headstrong are two different things. But hey, it's okay. We can't all be right about things ;)

Listen here Galadriel, when you come at Sauron, you best not miss 🤴

That's Sauron the Great, you pleb! 😂

“Good is a point of view, Anakin.”

*Guyladriel

All hail sauron

fix your eyes, the sets and costumes are trash as well

@@henkhenkste6076 I'm not talking about the overall vision & the people making the big decisions, but about the person painting a little detail, the craftsman creating one drape, the video intern rendering the lighting in a scene, all of them not knowing the overall picture but being excited to be part of the next Lord Of The Rings and doing their very best. Their freedom in what they do is limited, but they trusted the briefing of the show runners in their little aspect and did their best to make that one detail great. Little did they know that the overall vision was crooked from the start.

@@luikanamithe sad part a few things you’ve listed here were as shit as the script and show itself. And actually the actors themselves at least half of them are abominations as well, they are completely horrible as characters and both as humans. Watch some of their interviews for example the actor for black Legolas. He is awful to say the least

“Breaks my heart”, they never really cared about all those things you mentioned. It was nothing but like minded people coming together to destroy a masterpiece by injecting their BS propaganda.

@@AkWar9 you clearly don't know how movies/shows are made. making such a big project includes thousands of people contributing each just a little part without knowing the big picture, trusting in whatever the crew of decision makers and show runners planned. Of course the deciding group was big and maybe equally flawed like minded, but that little artist contributing that one little part of that one fabric did their best because they probably thought they'd be part of the next amazing journey to middle earth and writing history. And when you are an actor and love Tolkien, and there's a chance you get to play a little part in a new movie project, you'll do it... and chances are you don't know any lines other than yours until release.

I don't remember Gimli being a cluck.

Also don't forget that Peter Jacksons Gimli was somewhat flanderised compared to book Gimli. Not horribly distorted, but definitely exaggerated.