Rings of Power

[galadhir]

I have to admit that I stopped watching Amazon's Rings of Power half way through the first episode, because I didn't really recognize any of the characters or the world as recognizably the Middle-earth I loved, and also because by that time I was bored. But every scene I have seen of it has made me want to go 'Oh, God, No. You don't understand this world at all.' So I was delighted to read this article from A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry and find out that a proper historian agreed with me :)

Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat

I can't wait for the next article which deals with things he thinks probably only niggle him and no one else - I suspect those will be the things that I also can't bear.

Comments

[sunshine304]

I didn’t even start watching. XD I didn’t like the promo pics and the trailer, it just didn’t look like LotR but rather some generic fantasy show.

[galadhir]

I don't think you missed anything. Some of it is quite pretty, I think, but you've only got to look at the elf men's short hair cuts and the dwarf ladies lack of beards to see that they didn't really care about the source. I still can't believe they thought they should write a whole series about the Second Age when they had no rights to any of the stories about the Second Age. It's so grieving because it could have been so much better! I know hundreds of fanfics that did it better

[sunshine304]

Yeah, the short hair for the elves was where I noped out of it when I saw the promo pics. XD And then not going for bearded lady dwarves, I’m sorry, why are you putting the Tolkien name on it again? Ah yes, money. XD