re: Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power trailers (updated with new comic con trailer)

So according to Kaiju you shouldn't be posting and everything you say is pointless.

I guess you're just a fake fan that doesn't respect Tolkiens work.

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Seriously, everyone is going to be saying “Well at least they got Bilbo meeting Smaug and Riddles in the Dark right.”

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Those two scenes were very well done which is why the rest is such a disappointment.

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Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides. The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Prologue
Concerning Hobbits

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How brown is browner? It's subjective. Some people reading that will say, yes there are dark-skinned hobbits.

This thread is hysterical.

About a year ago, OML was throwing an absolute shitfit, because then he swore up and down that it was going to be "Chinese-friendly" due to some marketing comment.
Utter disaster, the Chinese have different (and bad) points of emphasis on shows, etc.

Now, the disaster is some black actors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Chinese aren't a fan of blacks in movies and shows, they tend to get minimized etc. So, this is another direction.

And now, the focus is on a single line Elendil says, that some negative reviewer is linking to The Last Jedi. Absolute blasphemy, no possible reason to link it to, say, the Numenorean apocalypse... which btw, considering we're looking at Ar Pharazon, Elendil, and Isildur, could likely show up this season.

I will watch the show with a sense of anticipation, because I like the source material. If it sucks, I will simply quit watching. If it doesn't, I will be entertained.

A year or so ago, I was worried that Top Gun Maverick was a bad idea, I didn't want to see "modern woke elements" infecting that. I didn't want to see Tom Cruise destroy a movie I grew up loving. I waited a couple weeks on release to see it, just to make sure it wouldn't disappoint me. As it turns out, that was the most entertaining movie I've seen in a couple of years, and I absolutely loved it. I'm glad I didn't whine preemptively.

I don't like to tell others how to live their lives, but there's a couple posters here, who if they show up in the live episode threads, I'll want to call out and say shut the frick up. Because they have fricking napalmed this thread for 20+_pages with speculative whining, to where nobody can discuss anything other than their own rants.

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I don't like to tell others how to live their lives, but there's a couple posters here, who if they show up in the live episode threads, I'll want to call out and say shut the frick up. Because they have fricking napalmed this thread for 20+_pages with speculative whining, to where nobody can discuss anything other than their own rants.

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I’m just not sure what it is exactly that you’re committed to??

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This is difficult to understand in todays society, but I actually wanted a tv series about Tolkien’s work from the Second Age and not some woke adaptation.

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refuse to believe a real person or persons is this emotionally involved in a cartoon world.

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I refuse to believe a real person would take time and someone’s work and source material and change it to fit their propaganda. This is some serious mentally ill shite.



I feel like you’re mocking authors like Tolkien who took half of their life to come up with a “cartoon world”

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Chinese aren't a fan of blacks in movies and shows, they tend to get minimized etc. So, this is another direction.

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A year or so ago, I was worried that Top Gun Maverick was a bad idea, I didn't want to see "modern woke elements" infecting that. I didn't want to see Tom Cruise destroy a movie I grew up loving. I waited a couple weeks on release to see it, just to make sure it wouldn't disappoint me. As it turns out, that was the most entertaining movie I've seen in a couple of years, and I absolutely loved it. I'm glad I didn't whine preemptively.

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LOL WHAT.
Because top gun 1 was a woke movie?
This is the dumbest comparison on this thread.

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You having reading comprehension issues?

My concern, just like people are doing here, is that the NEW movie would be woke.

Why the frick would I care if they made a woke sequel to a woke movie? I wouldn't have liked the first, I wouldn't care what they followed it with.

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And now, the focus is on a single line Elendil says, that some negative reviewer is linking to The Last Jedi. Absolute blasphemy, no possible reason to link it to, say, the Numenorean apocalypse... which btw, considering we're looking at Ar Pharazon, Elendil, and Isildur, could likely show up this season.

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The Fall of Numenor isn’t going to happen at least until Season 3 if this dumpster fire doesn’t flop as hard as I think it will. They’re shortening the events of like 2,000 years to a generation, which is a major reason this is going to suck and shouldn’t be done.

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We're guessing here. We have no idea when this show actually starts, other than they show Tar Miriel and Ar Pharazon. If they're alive, then Numenor is on it's last legs (a generation instead of 2 millenia).

Maybe we get "a history of Numenor" in the first episode, bringing us up to speed.
Season 1 could well be Ar Pharazon's rise to power, capture of Sauron, and subsequent assault on the Undying Lands, with the destruction of Numenor as the season finale. That hated line from Elendil could be basically the last line of dialogue from the season, as they are washed up on the shores of Middle Earth.

I don't know the actual timeline of the show, any more than you do. We might be assuming more time spent in Numenor, the show might spend more time in the early years of Arnor and Gondor. Celebrimbor might be around 1 season, might be a couple episodes... Gil Galad, Elrond and Galadriel could be any point in the Second Age. Elendil and Isildur are the last few years. You're compressing a generation, not a millenium, if that's the case.

And you bitching about time compression is a bit hypocritical, don't ya think? You have kept defending The Hobbit for the parts you like. Where's your righteous indignation about the Nazgul timeline? Them arising from tombs during the White Council's attack on Dol Guldur... they took and occupied Minas Ithil (turned it into Minas Morgul) a thousand years before. Them being entombed instead, shits on the timeline as much as anything this show could do.