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by Stranger Wings
Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:20 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 8 (Spoilers)
Replies: 79
Views: 11727

Re: Episode 8 (Spoilers)

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:09 pm I can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to make Gil-Gilad so unlikeable!
I imagine he'll have an arc across the seasons. From unlikable to likable to...Grill-galad. :)
by Stranger Wings
Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:16 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 8 (Spoilers)
Replies: 79
Views: 11727

Re: Episode 8 (Spoilers)

Cinematography is gorgeous in that clip. Pre-apocalyptic. The lighting is too beautiful for it to not precede something bad happening!
by Stranger Wings
Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:59 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 8 (Spoilers)
Replies: 79
Views: 11727

Re: Episode 8 (Spoilers)

Spoilery clip: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-clip Next scene: Gil-galad: Why don’t we try forging…what are those super small strips of metal that are bent to form a circle and can fit on the end of a knife or a twig or a necklace, and also possibly...
by Stranger Wings
Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:51 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)

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by Stranger Wings
Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:21 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)

To me it's become blisteringly obvious that Halbrand is Sauron, AND that the elves will find out he is Sauron, but will work with him anyway due to both their desperation to avoid fading/ death and a belief that Sauron may have repented. This knowing collaboration with Sauron, I think, is consistent...
by Stranger Wings
Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:12 am
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)

Inanna wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:07 am Really liked this episode. I had actually skipped parts of episode 6 (I don’t enjoy action scenes), but this one gripped me.

Who are those scary tall people stalking the Stranger supposed to be?
Sauron/ Morgoth cultists from Rhun, according to a producer.
by Stranger Wings
Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:12 am
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

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. Her thin shield of stoicism that prevents her from breaking down in that moment was so well done, and then her conversation...
by Stranger Wings
Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:31 am
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Lord of the Rings series!?
Replies: 850
Views: 351209

Re: Lord of the Rings series!?

When Númenor is destroyed there’s going to be a scene with a mariner husband and wife. Husband: “The sea is always right...” Wife: “Yeah, yeah, that’s what you always say when you’ve done something wrong.” Husband: “No, I mean the sea is always right there by the cliffside, and now it’s…right here.”...
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:41 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

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 ...
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:34 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Lord of the Rings series!?
Replies: 850
Views: 351209

Re: Lord of the Rings series!?

Alatar wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:50 pm The mobile version of the site is pretty good now.
Yeah, that’s the way for me now.
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:34 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)

Once I realized that the mithril plot was simply going to be an excuse for why they felt they needed to make the Rings of Power, it bothered me a lot less. My biggest worry continues to be how they introduce Sauron into the equation, whether he is Halbrand or not. As for the downfall of Khazâd-dûm,...
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:24 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Lord of the Rings series!?
Replies: 850
Views: 351209

Re: Lord of the Rings series!?

Inanna wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:48 pm SW, I use Tapatalk on my phone to post on HoF. Just FYI.
I also used to use Tapatalk. But now it freezes constantly for me and it takes ten minutes just to type once sentence. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail.
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:15 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Media previews
Replies: 354
Views: 46161

Re: Media previews

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:01 pm
Stranger Wings wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 10:44 pm A great clip of Gil-Galad and Elrond.



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So now that we know what that clip was actually about, do you still consider it a great clip, SW?
Yes. :)
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:09 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 7 (Spoilers)
Replies: 57
Views: 8206

Re: Episode 7 (Spoilers)

Unbelievably great episode on a written, acting, visual and Tolkienian level. After episode 1, it’s my favorite thus far. Durin and Durin, Galadriel and Theo, Míriel and Galadriel So many great conversations that say so much about character, and set the table so well for the collective desire for de...
by Stranger Wings
Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:05 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Lord of the Rings series!?
Replies: 850
Views: 351209

Re: Lord of the Rings series!?

Hi all, I intend to write a long review of the entire season of the show once it’s over, but as someone who feels this is the most Tolkienesque adaptation I could have possibly hoped for (and one that dips its pen into Tolkien’s thematic well much more deeply for me than the films), I wanted to quic...
by Stranger Wings
Tue Sep 20, 2022 12:09 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
Replies: 124
Views: 29957

The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man

I think Annatar has already visited Celebrimbor, and set the forge project in motion (complete with spring deadline). Then he got on a ship for some reason (perhaps bound for Númenor), but Ulmo was aware of him, and sent Ossë to take him out (perhaps in sea wyrm form). Galadriel then stumbles upon h...
by Stranger Wings
Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:07 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
Replies: 124
Views: 29957

Re: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man

I would not be shocked if it turns out Sauron hasn't appeared onscreen yet in any guise, but that he's been in contact with Celebrimbor behind the scenes and is the impetus behind the giant forge thing being constructed. I'm not convinced of this, but I think it's more likely than some other theori...
by Stranger Wings
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:38 pm
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
Replies: 124
Views: 29957

Re: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man

It’s increasingly seeming clear to me that Halbrand is a pre-Annatar Sauron. A poster at TORN called UtumnoSkirmish wrote this: When considering the identity of Sauron I've been thinking not only about what we've seen so far, but "what has to happen" for the story to unfold. Sauron will e...
by Stranger Wings
Sun Sep 18, 2022 9:58 am
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: Episode 3 (Spoilers)
Replies: 79
Views: 10135

Re: Episode 3 (Spoilers)

I strongly suspect that the line in one of the trailers, “You have been told many lies of Middle Earth” is the opening of an alternative First Age narrative of the the Noldor, full of greed, of Kinslaying and Silmarils. Told either by this Adar Or? Sauron. Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk
by Stranger Wings
Sun Sep 18, 2022 9:56 am
Forum: The Rings of Power
Topic: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man
Replies: 124
Views: 29957

Re: The Stranger of Udûn? - New Info and the Identity of Meteor Man

It’s increasingly seeming clear to me that Halbrand is a pre-Annatar Sauron.


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