Anyone know if this show is still going to be about Annatar?
I still have my nitpicks, but nothing that actually prevents me from enjoying it so far.
I did roll my eyes a couple of times, which prevents it from being actually great for me, but it's by far not as bad as I thought it would be.
Anyone know if this show is still going to be about Annatar?
I’m part of that audience. I don’t know anything about the books and this age.Hate, no…
But love?
Nope.
I guess I’m the perfect audience for this because I know nothing about the books from that specific age other than it was called Silmarillion with other appendices so I got no stakes in the game with the butchering they’re doing to the age.
At times it feels big maybe even epic but if i’m being honest the first hour was just downright boring and meandering and not riveting and captivating I don’t feel there is a proper narrative moral compass 2 hours in.
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I did enjoy the Orc reveal being more “Alien” solo like than the “Aliens” hive orcs from LOTR that was nice world building.
The show looks great it’s big, better than I was expecting.
Galadriel was ok.
Onward to episode 3.
I wish Galadriel looked like this:
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For me personally, without picking it apart for every detail at how the production fails Tolkien and/or set, acting, costume details, so far, it lacks the spark that both the Hobbit and LOTR have for me - which will always keep them on the collection shelf, and I don't view many films that way. Even tho there are elements of the Hobbit and LOTR that I would have changed.
So far, I don't find any of the ROP cast particularly charismatic; don't have a better word for it. It's not like watching Bilbo and Gandalf interact on the steps of Bag End, and seeing this well known interaction from the Hobbit come to life, with two amazing actors.
Absolutely 100%Anyone know if this show is still going to be about Annatar?
Good! I always thought distributing the rings would make for an interesting story, and give Sauron something to do instead of just being a symbol.Absolutely 100%
He is essential - and when he turns up things will be on a relatively quick spiral downwards into war, ruin and desolation.
Celebrimbor!Good! I like that... in my adventure/fantasy worlds.
I noticed they've got a smith character in place.
Celebrimbor!
Fantastic character and they are already hinting to his higher ambitions....
Look to his storyline for where Annatar will turn up.
Yeah, he's already talking about order, and altering nature to perfect it. I see his flaws already.
I'm more excited about this show now.
2nd much better than the 1st at least for me hopefully the stakes amp up.I enjoyed the 2nd episode. Eager for #3. Unbelievable budget on this show. Worth the price of admission alone. It should be fun to understand fully this first season and then look back to these early episodes and find much more to them.
Even if it turns out to be predictable as long as the journey is enjoyable i’m good.Oh yes - that whole conversation with Elrond, though pleasant on the surface level, was full of subtle red flags for those in the know.
“An age ago our kind brought war to these shores, I want to fill them with beauty, to grow beyond petty works of jewel craft and devise something of real power.”
This is especially telling, in Tolkien's works the word power is never positive, when people forge something or perform a magical feat (or both as they are often one and the same in Tolkien's world - with all forms of creation being a divinely inspired form of magic in one degree or another) they usually refer to it as "art" - "by my art i wish to inspire", "with this art I will heal" etc. Only those with less pure motivations tend to use the language of power.
Theres also the rather horrid fact that in describing the beauty and power of the Simarils, Celebrimbor basically said that the slaughter of Elrond's people and the fate of his parents were somewhat necessary sacrifices in the pursuit of true creation.... subtly of course, but still there....
Yes, Celebrimbor certainly has a lot of his grandfather in him.
i’m good not seeing naked elves and dwarves lol
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