Talk these island humans into helping out mainland humans and reunite with the elves, although they despise elves, because elves live longer and work harder than we do, despicable!
I've only reached somewhere into ep2 as it doesn't spark anything in me.I’m completed Episode 5, I watched this episode twice and nodded off briefly in the same place both times.
It seems to be mostly operating on barely above a dull level, the scenery is beautiful, there are story elements that should be more interesting, but I’m having trouble putting my finger on the exact issue.
Stand and fight or run away from orcs, a brief prisoner of the orcs and the bad elf, some impressive but brief fight encounters. I like it when meteor man flexes his magic.
What is missing here? Is the story not grand enough or just too slow? Big fights should not be necessary to make a story interesting. 🤔
I should have put spoiler tags in my recent post as I just noticed you only made it to 5.I’ve completed Episode 5, I watched this episode twice and nodded off briefly in the same place both times.
It seems to be mostly operating on barely above a dull level, the scenery is beautiful, there are story elements that should be more interesting, but I’m having trouble putting my finger on the exact issue.
Stand and fight or run away from orcs, a brief prisoner of the orcs and the bad elf, some impressive but brief fight encounters. I like it when meteor man flexes his magic.
What is missing here? Is the story not grand enough or just too slow? Big fights should not be necessary to make a story interesting. 🤔
Same here but I was puzzled that they singled out Galadriel as one of the good parts of the show. I thought her part was only topped by the Hobbit-knockoffs in how insufferable it was. They don't call her Fast-Forward-Galadriel for no reason! 😂The Guardian article touched on the big problem for me - the uneven acting. I don't know the cast well enough to know if it was just the director not giving them a consistent vision or what, but it was pretty terrible at times. That said, I *did* enjoy moments of the show and I'm certainly nerdy enough to see what they do in season 2.
I have one episode to go, I really do not like Galadriel’s portrayal as compared to the LOTR movie trilogy. Is it possible high production values can hurt a story? Or is it just the writing, and/or it’s pacing? When the creation of something big is rushed to fit it in the time slot, then it‘s not going to be as good, or maybe it’s too big a story to tell in 10 hours?
I'd hardly use the word imagination but yes, that oozed out of the writer's head onto the screen. That had nothing to do with Tolkien.
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Ok, finished Season 1, actually this is a decent episode.This seems like an appropriate critique as in, I question the elf’s draining light that requires them being close to mithril to save them, a magic sword Bad Elf requires to turn a switch that mechanically opens a damn to flood a volcano and cause it to erupt, trashing a geographic area permanently. And when the volcano goes off, by the depiction of a pyroclastic flow, of hot gases and debris, maybe an elf can handle this, without injury, but no human could.
Anyway, I’ll watch the season final today, I remember the story of the rings, crafted and handed out like candy, with one secret ring to rule them all. That ring was crafted at Mt. Doom. What did these rings do for those that received them? Rings of power, what kind of power? Exactly what did they expect to get as compared to what they actually got?
I’ve always held the Elves in greater esteem for having more wisdom, than human beings so it seems puzzling to me that they would hand out a bunch of magic rings to men, and dwarves seem almost as bad. Except that is how the original story was crafted and I can accept that as such.
Possibly the last part a spoiler background:
LOTR: All 20 Rings Of Power Explained (Creation, Owners & What Happened)
LOTR's Rings Of Power are crucial.
A brief history behind the Rings of Power was included in The Fellowship of the Ring - rendered in live-action by Peter Jackson's 2001 movie adaptation. As many Lord of the Rings fans will know, Sauron helped craft 20 Rings of Power, which he gifted to the various races of Middle-earth not from the kindness of his cold, black heart, but to dominate and control them. Sauron gave nine to men, seven to dwarves, the Elves had three, and the Dark Lord kept for himself (say it with us) one ring to rule them all.
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Whereas Sauron crafted the One Ring in secret from his Mordor stronghold, the other 19 were made openly by the elves - albeit not without a dark guiding hand. After the fall of Morgoth (Middle-earth's original villain) at the end of the First Age, Sauron - Morgoth's greatest lieutenant - spent 1500 years recovering his magical strength and military might, turning Mordor into a fortress of evil. As part of his grand plan to dominate all species, Sauron infiltrated the Elves of Eregion, adopting a "fair" disguise and renaming himself Annatar. Operating in the shadows and sowing dissent among the already-fractured elven houses, Sauron offered Eregion magical knowledge and pushed them toward crafting the Rings of Power.
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