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- Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:49 am
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 8 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 79
- Views: 24724
Re: Episode 8 (Spoilers)
Sad that the long wait now begins. :( Spoiler thoughts: They really sped through the making of the Rings and I'm not sure how we're going to get to the other 16 Rings that are yet to be made. There's even a good possibility now that we're not even going to get Annatar. That said, I really loved the ...
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 20583
Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Found this nice review of Episode 7 (which sums up a lot of my thoughts) :
https://ravingsanity.wordpress.com/2022 ... 7-the-eye/
https://ravingsanity.wordpress.com/2022 ... 7-the-eye/
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:44 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: The Tolkien Translation Game!
- Replies: 7921
- Views: 1626090
Re: The Tolkien Translation Game!
Was it spoken by one of the Hobbits?
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:36 am
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 20583
Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
As someone who dislikes melodrama (and just how melodramatic the films were) I really appreciate the understated nature of some important moments, including Míriel’s blindness. I think there's a fair bit of difference between melodrama and drama, although we clearly disagree on where that line lies...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Rings of Power musical score
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12508
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
- Replies: 124
- Views: 50905
Re: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
My latest thoughts are that I very firmly believe they are NOT going for Gandalf. The one thing that has been consistent about The Stranger through all the episodes is that while he probably has a good heart, his powers have a more sinister side and even if he may not be fully aware of that, he stil...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 20583
Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
I’m a little confused. Apart from the Mordor reveal at the end (which was bad, but easily remedied by just turning off the episode a few second early) :), and the balrog roar (I really don’t understand why they had it roar), what issue did you have with the director? I'm sure that it will come off ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 20583
Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
For once the writing actually worked for me on most levels. But the directing was quite a bit of a letdown. Both the Balrog reveal and the closing transition from Southlands to Mordor came off as incredibly clunky and campy in not a good way. But I loved most of the actual interactions between the c...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: New interview with showrunners
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9682
Re: New interview with showrunners
A new detailed interview with Payne & McKay at THR: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-rings-of-power-showrunners-interview-season-2-1235233124/ Sources say HBO pitched the estate on retelling Middle-earth’s “Third Age” — essentially remaking Peter Jackson’s beloved Lord of the...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22352
Re: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
I think the possibility of Orkish redemption is nonetheless a logically inevitable consequence of the stories he wrote. I tend to approach the legendarium from a, for lack of a better term, "heretical" viewpoint. You just made me consider a new and unorthodox way to approach these texts. ...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:53 am
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22352
Re: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
At the end of the day, Tolkien depicted Orcs as having individual wills and preferences, and the fact that they are violent and sadistic no more implies that they are inherently evil than the existence of violent and sadistic humans implies the same about us. It should be noted that we only ever se...
- Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22352
Re: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
I mean, Tolkien did not write Orcs as impersonal symbols of evil in LOTR . They are clearly individuals, with their own personalities and preferences. They have multiple distinct cultures, and given the clear resentment that some (not all) of them have for their non-Orkish bosses (to the point of o...
- Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
- Replies: 119
- Views: 54368
Re: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
What do you mean by Eastern countries? Asian, or Eastern European? Or both, I guess. I come from a South Asian country so specifically had that in mind, where racism very much exists but is of a much different nature than the discourse I'm used to having in online circles where it skews mostly to w...
- Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:54 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22352
Re: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
I'm conflicted about Orcs Rights being a thing. I think it's best to leave Orcs as just a completely symbolic representation of evil, just like Balrogs or Ungoliant's spawn, because if you try to give the Orcs any kind of distinguished personhood and "humanity" then you're actually making ...
- Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 5 (Spoilers, including discussion of the preview)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19857
Re: Episode 5 (Spoilers, including discussion of the preview)
To be fair the Arwen's-fate nonsense was as randomly inserted as it was forgotten so it never became a big deal.
I hope it's eventually the same for SMiLe too :/
I hope it's eventually the same for SMiLe too :/
- Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
- Replies: 119
- Views: 54368
Re: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
The problem is that this institutionalised racism is predominantly an American problem yet the rest of us are expected to abide by American reactions to an American problem and apply them globally. I agree on this as I don't really know how it is outside of it and it does get annoying when Eastern ...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22352
Re: Episode 6 (Spoilers)
The battle scenes had some really weird editing so the overall effect didn't land as impressively to me. And the Orodruin explosion had some choppy visual effects. But I enjoyed the episode. A lot of fan-fiction. And Galadriel continues to stray further and further away from canon. But this is the o...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
- Replies: 119
- Views: 54368
Re: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
Sigh. I can tell this is going to be a pointless conversation if we can't even agree that equality means equality. If everyone agreed on what equality actually means then there wouldn't be any discussions on "reverse oppression" in modern context. On an individual level, of course it's po...
- Mon Sep 26, 2022 3:48 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
- Replies: 119
- Views: 54368
Re: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
Sorry, but I don't agree with the logic that "Hollywood did it for years, so being equally discriminatory now is somehow equality" It is not even a fraction of it being equally discriminatory. Hollywood didn't just switch POC characters for white, it actively had white actors with painted...
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 11:16 am
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
- Replies: 124
- Views: 50905
Re: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
For what it's worth, among the given suspects I think the Stranger is the least likely to be Sauron. I just can't imagine any writer and Tolkien fan ever conceiving Sauron to be the guy helping Hobbits move their carts. I think it is actually Sauron who's been wearing Celebrimbor's skin as a costume...