Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

[Zaukrie]

That last episode kind of bored me. Not totally, but kind of. It felt....samey? Like I'd seen it this year already? I don't care about the Numenarions at all apparently, that's me. I get others likely do.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That last episode kind of bored me. Not totally, but kind of. It felt....samey? Like I'd seen it this year already? I don't care about the Numenarions at all apparently, that's me. I get others likely do.

I hear you. I viewed it as them setting up why this future Ringwraith is going to be so easily tempted by the ring offered to him. But yeah, other than having a very impressive beard, he's not very interesting. And they just killed off the last Numenorian that I found compelling.

 

[Zaukrie]

I hear you. I viewed it as them setting up why this future Ringwraith is going to be so easily tempted by the ring offered to him. But yeah, other than having a very impressive beard, he's not very interesting. And they just killed off the last Numenorian that I found compelling.

Right! He was the one Numenorian I cared about.

Look in real life? No. In a fantasy movie/tv show? You have to kill the bad guy when you can. Or you die. (most of the time, not always).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Right! He was the one Numenorian I cared about.

Also, I know they got a ton of hate for making Middle Earth diverse, but what a cool swing it would have been if Numenor had been completely populated by Polynesian actors like him.

 

[Zaukrie]

Also, I know they got a ton of hate for making Middle Earth diverse, but what a cool swing it would have been if Numenor had been completely populated by Polynesian actors like him.

People suck.

 

[MarkB]

Okay, this one was better. More sensible people taking a stand and being effective at it, yet without diminishing that sense of inevitable doom.

Still an insufficiency of harfoots, though.

 

[ART!]

Right! He was the one Numenorian I cared about.

Look in real life? No. In a fantasy movie/tv show? You have to kill the bad guy when you can. Or you die. (most of the time, not always).

I was thinking about this idea, that to be one of The Faithful of Numenor - to follow the Valar - is to be nonviolent. That seems to be what the writers are telling us.

This didn't make any sense to me until I thought about Earendil having to beseech the Valar to get involved in defeating Morgoth.

I'm not a Tolkien expert, so does this actually make sense?

 

[TheSword]

I was thinking about this idea that to be one of The Faithful of Numenor - to follow the Valar - is to be nonviolent. That seems to be what the writers are telling us.

This didn't make any sense to me until I thought about Earendil having to beseech the Valar to get involved in defeating Morgoth.

I'm not a Tolkien expert, so does this actually make sense?

Yeah I enjoyed it.

Nice encounter with a D&D style kraken.

 

[John R Davis]

When did they first mention that was Morgoths Crown, as this episode is the first I recall!!
Understand now why it turned Sauron into a puddle of mush!

 

[MarkB]

When did they first mention that was Morgoths Crown, as this episode is the first I recall!!
Understand now why it turned Sauron into a puddle of mush!

Yeah, this does seem to be the first mention, and it's easy to be taken by surprise by it, since it does look like something a couple of orcs could hammer together in half an hour.