[+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

[doctorbadwolf]

I wonder how FR books' sales figures match up with Tolkien's. Not very well I'd imagine.

By orders of magnitude.

In comparison to Middle Earth, no one has ever heard of Faerun.

 

[Nikosandros]

Trolls gonna troll, bots gonna bot.

Yep. Obviously, I don't know if I'll like the series or not, but the level of toxicity around it is already through the roof. I'm not surprised by this one bit, though.

 

[Morrus]

Yep. Obviously, I don't know if I'll like the series or not, but the level of toxicity around it is already through the roof. I'm not surprised by this one bit, though.

It's just S.O.P. at this point.

 

[Mannahnin]

By orders of magnitude.

In comparison to Middle Earth, no one has ever heard of Faerun.

I mean, a roughly 1/6 ratio (probably a bit better than that, for FR) isn't quite an order of magnitude.

 

[billd91]

Given that Galadriel bore one of the Elven Rings, I thought that the way she was portrayed when exhibiting her power was pretty good.

Sure, it's very powerful. But I also always like the version of the scene in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings animated movie. There, she is a lot more gentle as if she dispensed with the temptation long ago and is just relating to Frodo what she could have been, had she taken the ring.

 

[Nikosandros]

Sure, it's very powerful. But I also always like the version of the scene in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings animated movie. There, she is a lot more gentle as if she dispensed with the temptation long ago and is just relating to Frodo what she could have been, had she taken the ring.

OTOH, in the book Galadriel is tested in that moment, when Frodo offers her the ring and thus atones her sins from when she was with Feanor.

I pass the test, I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel

 

[Ryujin]

OTOH, in the book Galadriel is tested in that moment, when Frodo offers her the ring and thus atones her sins from when she was with Feanor.

Exactly. It's meant to be a powerful moment in that character's life and the movie depicts it quite well.

 

[billd91]

OTOH, in the book Galadriel is tested in that moment, when Frodo offers her the ring and thus atones her sins from when she was with Feanor.

There's no OTOH. The passage in the book lends itself to either interpretation easily.

Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. "Wise the Lady Galadriel may be," she said, "yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting."
...
Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad."

It's entirely within the envisioning of the reader whether she's really tested and fights it off or she's engaging in a little bit of theatrics to underscore how serious the implications of Frodo's offer could have been while gently rebuffing it as a long-decided issue.

 

[Nikosandros]

I disagree. She wouldn't have mentioned the possibility of going back to the West if the issue had been long decided. This is also mentioned by Tolkien in some letters.

 

[Mannahnin]

Exactly. It's meant to be a powerful moment in that character's life and the movie depicts it quite well.

I think the special effects are a bit overdone. Blanchett's performance alone I think would have brought 90%+ of the drama and power it needed. Maybe just some mild light and audio processing to get some extra oomph, magic and emphasis on it. I don't know if she even needed as much post processing as McKellan got in the scene where Galdalf confronts Bilbo over the ring, but they gave her more.