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

[Morrus]

I'm defintly thinking the 'it's not the same as the book' discussion needs to be spun off to its own thread.

 

[Zardnaar]

Are 6&8 generally regarded as the best episodes? I liked the last 3 more than first three. Battle episode and Sauron reveal.

 

[Parmandur]

True I've only ever managed to finish the Hobbit. Peter Jackson seemed to have made most people happy so it's not impossible.

Lol, I was active on Tolkien forums when those movies were coming out. Jackson made a lot of people deeply, deeply angry.

 

[Stalker0]

Yeah, like I said when she jumped off a ship in the middle of the ocean and just started swimming toward Middle-Earth, hundreds of miles away, she is a mythic character, doing mythic things, including having the kind of failings only heroes of Greek myth, Beowulf and the like can have.

I feel like that was reinforced when Elrond was talking to Durin and strongly implied that he let him win the test of endurance. Basically if Elrond can outhammer a dwarf, its reasonable that Galadriel could swim across the sea. Elves are just nuts, its not Galadriel specifically.

People talk the "Mary Sue" label with Galadriel but I really don't see it. To me, a Mary Sue acts perfect and generally has perfect things happen to them. But in Galadriel's case, her anger and bloodlust continues to tip over the apple cart. Her men betrayed her and mutinied, she got rebuked and thrown in jail in Numenor, she was so obsessed with using Halbrand to unite the people against the orcs that she didn't see him for what he is...etc. The irony is the one time Galadriel finally calmed down and spoke to the Queen Regent as a person, rather than spitting fire, she got her desire....and she calmed down due to Halbrand's council.

Halbrand sees her weakness, and has been manipulating it for his own ends. That's far from a mary sue.

 

[Bolares]

Elves are just nuts, its not Galadriel specifically.

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that yes, elves are just nuts but Galadriel is REALLY powerfull, even for an elf.

 

[Zaukrie]

It's not just the hard core though. Quite a few negative reviews in mainstream publications (Forbes, Guardian, Rolling Stone iirc), not much online buzz.

HotD is cleaning up there. It was a rough start for RoP and the 3rd or 4th episode was bad imho.

I think one of the executive types at Amazon fell asleep watching it.

Show has issues.

nm. Not worth it.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm defintly thinking the 'it's not the same as the book' discussion needs to be spun off to its own thread.

Please, please, please enforce this next season. Please.

 

[Zaukrie]

True I've only ever managed to finish the Hobbit. Peter Jackson seemed to have made most people happy so it's not impossible.

You must not have been online then. "True" fans were angry all the way.

 

[Bolares]

You must not have been online then. "True" fans were angry all the way.

So much so that there is a need to come to a (+) where people are explicitly not interested in discussing that topic.

 

[Zaukrie]

So much so that there is a need to come to a (+) where people are explicitly not interested in discussing that topic.

apologies.