Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power

[BigRedChief]

Premieres Sept. 2nd

[Bowser]

I mean damn, just ask to be banned from the thread next time.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

BWillie thinks Johnson County Mexican food is spicy.

OK I laughed pretty hard at that.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

It's crazy to me that people wouldn't enjoy origin stories for Gandalf, Sauron, Galadriel, Elrond and ****ing MORDOR. And I'd guess by the end, The Shire and Hobbits.

This show is fascinating.

Agreed, after having caught up on S2, I’m liking it. It’s not perfect and some storylines are better/more interesting than others (Numenor has gotten nowhere near enough attention in S2 so far) but it’s an improvement on S1.

Getting depictions of both Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights was also pretty great.

[dlphg9]

This whole thing is beyond ridiculous

Celebrimbor doesn't want anything to do with making rings for men, because they are easy to corrupt, but realizes the rings for the dwarves are ****ed and corrupting them, so then he decides to make them for men.

Sauron tells elf bitch that making the rings took a ton away from Celebrimbor, but she sees him constantly trying to get Celebrimbor to make more rings?

This shit is ridiculous.

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Agreed, after having caught up on S2, I’m liking it. It’s not perfect and some storylines are better/more interesting than others (Numenor has gotten nowhere near enough attention in S2 so far) but it’s an improvement on S1.

Getting depictions of both Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights was also pretty great.

I just couldn't watch season 1.

Can I jump right into season 2?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

I just couldn't watch season 1.

Can I jump right into season 2?

I wouldn’t, S1 gets better at the end. I also wished I rewatched S1 again beforehand like I did with House of Dragon because I struggled in the first episode of E2 remembering exactly where they left off. I may do that again over the next few weeks.

[Bowser]

Bezos: "Take the greatest works of fiction and fantasy, make them into a TV series, and absolutely shit all over it! I want people to be outright PISSED at how bad this is"

Production crew: "Mr. Bezos, we're thinking.......I mean, should we really do it like that?"

Bezos: "I've got extra hundreds of millions of dollars the more fake and gay you make it!"

Crew: "Say no more, we're on it!"

Spoiler!

I am definitely NOT a Tolkien purist but come on with this. Even I knew that much of the lore, and there is just no ****ing way, lmao.

[Fish]

Tolkien would be so disappointed in this massive waste of money. It makes no ****ing sense what they are doing with these characters.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Bezos: "Take the greatest works of fiction and fantasy, make them into a TV series, and absolutely shit all over it! I want people to be outright PISSED at how bad this is"

Production crew: "Mr. Bezos, we're thinking.......I mean, should we really do it like that?"

Bezos: "I've got extra hundreds of millions of dollars the more fake and gay you make it!"

Crew: "Say no more, we're on it!"

Spoiler!

I am definitely NOT a Tolkien purist but come on with this. Even I knew that much of the lore, and there is just no ****ing way, lmao.

Im not a huge fan of the show (I will say these last couple of episodes have been much better)

Spoiler!

but I don't think that kiss was more than a distraction so he could put that pick in her hand

[SAGA45]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Im not a huge fan of the show (I will say these last couple of episodes have been much better)

Spoiler!

but I don't think that kiss was more than a distraction so he could put that pick in her hand

Spoiler!

In her mouth

[Bowser]

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by Bowser

The Hobbit trilogy was ****ing awful lol.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

The Hobbit trilogy was ****ing awful lol.

This right here. No way that should have been a trilogy.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by tredadda

This right here. No way that should have been a trilogy.

Hell I like Rings of Power way more than I liked the ****ing Hobbit trilogy lol

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by tredadda

This right here. No way that should have been a trilogy.

I think even Peter Jackson has said that. Basically, the studio wanted it stretched out into a trilogy to maximize profits when the story could have been told in a (long) single movie.