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re: Rings Of Power 3 casts Simon Pegg as voice of Balrog
Posted on 7/25/26 at 6:50 am to Little Wooden Box
Posted on 7/25/26 at 6:50 am to Little Wooden Box
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...help Sauron forge the One Ring.
That can't be right. Sauron was the greatest craftsman of rings in the universe matched by no other being - except Celebrimbor (who exchanged knowledge of the skill with Sauron to improve each other's abilities). How the heck is some brooding henchman Balrog going to help with that?
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Posted on 7/25/26 at 8:03 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Trying to replicate the Benedict Cumberbatch success in playing Smaug The Dragon with a cut & paste insert of a far less intimidating Simon Pegg is beyond awful. .
Except... Smaug spoke in The Hobbit
Posted on 7/25/26 at 8:25 am to udtiger
Exactly. Dragons speak, Balrogs don't.
But RoP doesn't give 2 flips about Tolkien's work so who cares?
But RoP doesn't give 2 flips about Tolkien's work so who cares?
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:36 pm to Little Wooden Box
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During the “RIngs of Power” Season 3 presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, it was revealed that Simon Pegg will voice the Balrog, a hulking magma monster that will help Sauron forge the One Ring.
Oh man. This is horrendous.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:39 pm to Scruffy
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I think this is more of a “watch our show, we have Simon Pegg” move than anything else.
Simon Pegg? Guy seems alright but he's not going to turn around ROP. Henry Cavill couldn't resurrect that shite-show.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:40 pm to imjustafatkid
Notice all the liberal woke posters are staying out of this thread. They can’t admit defeat and how they were wrong.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 7:11 pm to Little Wooden Box
Does the Balrog get a wig to wear so he can fool the elves?
Posted on 7/26/26 at 10:59 am to rebelrouser
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Does the Balrog get a wig to wear so he can fool the elves?
Just think they spent the most money ever in this history of a tv show on this pile of shite. It could have been game of thrones good. This is what happens when woke/dei ruins tv shows. Amazon lost its arse of with this.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 11:53 am to Little Wooden Box
So Lord of the Rings, tick.
FFS.
Who wants to tell him that he still hasn’t been in Lord of the rings.
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If tweet fails to load, click here. FFS.
Who wants to tell him that he still hasn’t been in Lord of the rings.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 1:29 pm to ouflak
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That can't be right. Sauron was the greatest craftsman of rings in the universe matched by no other being - except Celebrimbor (who exchanged knowledge of the skill with Sauron to improve each other's abilities). How the heck is some brooding henchman Balrog going to help with that?
This show does one good thing then follows it up with 10 awful things. Of of the few good things they did out of two seasons was Annatar learning under Celebrimbor. Now they are throwing that away with this plot.
Nothing is worse than changing the lore with having two people battle (can’t remember who they had fighting) and having lightening strike one of the trees and it ran down the trees roots and that’s what created mithril
Just unbelievably bad writing. Posted on 7/26/26 at 1:38 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Trying to replicate the Benedict Cumberbatch success in playing Smaug The Dragon with a cut & paste insert of a far less intimidating Simon Pegg is beyond awful. .
Probably more just that the Balrog was bad arse in the movie and they want it in their story. But of course they add one and make it completely unfaithful to the source. I am going to laugh my arse off if they make this thing talk in English instead of something like black tongue. Laughing just thinking about a Balrog teaching a ring forging lesson
Posted on 7/26/26 at 2:43 pm to Little Wooden Box
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Friday, it was revealed that Simon Pegg will voice the Balrog, a hulking magma monster that will help Sauron forge the One Ring.
Your expectations have been subverted.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 3:04 pm to Little Wooden Box
Me: Jamie Campbell Bower would make a great elf. Would love to see that.
*gets cast in Rings of Power*
Sigh.
*gets cast in Rings of Power*
Sigh.
This post was edited on 7/26/26 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 7/26/26 at 9:49 pm to Little Wooden Box
Some of yall are getting worked up over the wrong things...
So the balrogs dont have any dialog in the books. So what, that doesn't mean they are mute or unintelligent. They are Maiar, per the legendarium. Same as the Istari, Melian, and Sauron. They were Morgoth's field generals in the First Age, so they can clearly communicate. How do you command armies without communication?
The issue is, they weren't skilled craftsmen. Sauron was.
Oppenheimer doesn't need Patton or MacArthur to help build the bomb.
I have reservations on whether Pegg can convey the cold malice and power required for a balrog, and it would have been far more interesting to explore Sauron possibly recruiting the balrog to lead his army, and maybe be rebuffed;
1) I knew Morgoth. You aren't Morgoth, you're a wannabe desk jockey.
2) No thanks, the Valar kicked our asses and blew Thangorodrim (and everything within 500 miles of it) off the map. Have fun with that, I'm staying under the mountain and off their radar
So the balrogs dont have any dialog in the books. So what, that doesn't mean they are mute or unintelligent. They are Maiar, per the legendarium. Same as the Istari, Melian, and Sauron. They were Morgoth's field generals in the First Age, so they can clearly communicate. How do you command armies without communication?
The issue is, they weren't skilled craftsmen. Sauron was.
Oppenheimer doesn't need Patton or MacArthur to help build the bomb.
I have reservations on whether Pegg can convey the cold malice and power required for a balrog, and it would have been far more interesting to explore Sauron possibly recruiting the balrog to lead his army, and maybe be rebuffed;
1) I knew Morgoth. You aren't Morgoth, you're a wannabe desk jockey.
2) No thanks, the Valar kicked our asses and blew Thangorodrim (and everything within 500 miles of it) off the map. Have fun with that, I'm staying under the mountain and off their radar
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