Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power [Amazon] *Spoilers*

I kinda liked it. Your man with Galadriel is defo Sauron though

Decent start that has interest piqued. Looking forward to see how it plays out.

They're not Irish accents. They're Harfoots 😋

Watched the two episodes last night. I'm interested, I want to see more. The acting is a bit hammy and I kept finding logical inconsistencies.

The Elves have no word for death? They can die, they have weapons and anger. Surely someone has killed someone else.

What was Galadriel doing with the rope on the raft? She was pulling some rope for no reason.

Why do the dwarf guards have a funny bobbing walk? Maybe they got children to play them.

What did the orc do with all the dirt in the tunnel he was digging? Haven't they watched The Great Escape?

Why does the smith elf need the tower built so quickly? He's immortal, surely time means less to him.

I'm just being pedantic.

Hope the first episodes are a slow burn.

It makes sense as he was very much steeped in the older epics. The longer rhotic /r/ came to us from Old English via Greek. It started to go out of fashion in London and the south of Britain in the 18th century where it became identified as a sound of the regions and a sign of a lack of education. That eventually became the non-rhotic /ah/ sound in RP. Parts of the US linked to Britain at that time also picked it up as did Commonwealth countries in time. Ireland, some parts of Britain and most of the North America today continue with the rhotic /r/.

Yes I agree but that in no way "destroyed" Tolkien or any enjoyment of what came before.

I'm sick to death of whingebags talking about how Trek/SW or whatever is ruined or destroyed. It's so over the top.

Whatever about Tolkien who built a really deep universe Gene and George were winging it.

Star Trek has absolutely zero lore, backstory or world building. The Jedi rules were made up as Lucas went along.

So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”

https://lrmonline.com/news/what-material-does-amazon-have-the-rights-to-for-the-rings-of-power-answered/

Hes a great amusing joke for books but would be a disaster on screen (tv or film) as too many general audience fans would just get completely stuck on him.

Yousa thinking bout goin to Mordor

Thats why this isn't canon. I thought that was accepted by everyone by now?

It's not just that though, if you weren't already familiar with the lore, are these elements sufficiently explained on screen to register with the 'casual' viewer?

I'm going to say no.

Oh yeah the bait and switch is a massive own goal that has put the show on a uphill struggle with its own target audience.

God no. But it pretty clear that the writers grasp on the lore themselves could barely be called "casual".

So they are children at some stage.