galadhir

You're viewing

galadhir's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: site light

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I gave it up after the first episode because I kept cocking my head and looking at it like a dog, going, "Um, whut?" But I had dinner out with my best friend last night and she urged me to keep going. She assured me that it got better. I dunno if I can, though.

I know what you mean! I feel like I would probably have liked it a lot better if it had not advertised itself as Tolkien. I'm sure as a generic high fantasy it's probably pretty good, but if we're talking Tolkien's elves, there are things that I would want to see from the Second Age and this is not it.

(Specifically, I would have loved to see the court intrigue and drama in Eregion where Celeborn and Galadriel as rulers had to contend with Celebrimbor, the Gwaith i Mirdain and Sauron in disguise as Annatar, Lord of Gifts. All of which intrigue would wind up through an epic scene where Celebrimbor forged the rings and then realized it was all a ploy by Annatar to enslave the world, and ending in Celebrimbor being killed, Galadriel fleeing to Lorien and Celeborn and Elrond fighting to evacuate the people of Eregion to Rivendell.)

Celeborn is my blorbo from Tolkien fandom, so the fact that he's been absent all season while Galadriel got it on with Sauron has been enough to put me off