Elves do age with the world, and Cirdan is positively ancient.
He’s Mesopotamia old to Elrond’s medieval/practically renaissance. Young whippersnapper.
Named elves running around Middle-earth during the First Age that are still there in the Second, let alone Third are kinda special. Most of them either die or go to Valinor.
But Cirdan was in Middle-earth EVEN before the First Age began. Was there for ALL for all the wars. All of them. Give that elf a fucking beard!
The show making him lose his beard because of Narya is the incredibly retarded. That’s not how it works, but whatever!
I haven’t watched any of S2, but the Nazanin Boniadi fans self character is not in Season 2 is she? She played the mother of the kid who found the secret knife key that unleashed the volcanic apocalypse at the end of last season, right?
She dies. Turns out the orc arrow that hit her last season was poisoned. Her kid is now a teenager. He grew up real fast. And there’s this “you’re not my daddy!” energy. So “let’s be evil”.
Orcs also now want to live peacefully with their families, but Adar and Sauron have other plans…“the orcs are my expendable army mwahaha.” -Sauron
I finished Episode 4 and thought it was really good! Very engaging almost throughout.
I thought the Barrow Downs was very well done! Perfect design on it and the wights. Tom Bombadil was also good, though I should have liked to have seen a bit more of that story line in this episode. I assume episode 5 will have a lot more of Sauron / Celebrimbor since this one had none (or anything from the dwarves). The ents and entwives were perfect. They spent a fuck ton of money on this show, and the CGI shows it (along with the great costumes and makeup).
Worst depiction of the Barrow-downs I have ever seen. A very tiny “combat arena” in the middle of a dark wood with some barely visible mounds?
It’s supposed to be grassy rolling hills (Like actual downs) with tombs and monuments of stone…an ancient location of Middle-earth not unlike say, the Pyramids of Giza. Both made by ancient people in their respected worlds.
Like, did they not know what downs were? Or did they just not give a shit? Okay, just use horror movie woods #45 so the company can fight some Barrow-wights here. You know, the evil spirits sent by the Witch-King to inhabit the ancient dead bones that lie there…(anarchronism)
This is terrible. The first episode was just okay and the ones after progressively worse.
The writing is terrible. It’s just checking boxes drawing on things from the books and movie that literally seem randomly inserted. Oh look, the barrow downs, oh look Tom B, oh look a Jacksonesque helicopter shot of people walking, oh look Ents.
The way the elves roll their R’s (Saurrrrrron) makes me laugh. I just couldn’t care less about any of the characters.
Desert-hermit Tom Bombadil is a bold choice. As the spirit of nature itself in Arda, to put him in a place mostly devoid of it except for a facsimile of Old Man Willow by another name…
So they are just doing LotR scenes not featured in the P.J. films, only completely out-of-whack. It’s weird.
I am nowhere near the Tolkien enthusiast a lot of you are. I think I mentioned that while I did read The Silmarillion, I disliked it and wound up not retaining much of it. So, this next bit may entirely be the result of not understanding what I read, but I always thought the races of Middle Earth accepted the magic rings because the elves made them to be pure but Sauron made the one ring in secret to control those other rings and their bearers.
Am I mistaken?
Because it’s really undercutting my enjoyment of the series now. To have some of the elves outright know that Sauron made all the rings, or at least helped make them, means they wear the rings knowing there likely is some evil plan going on with them. Which kinda makes them seem dumb as fuck. Like, if you knew the magic fiddle was made by the devil, you wouldn’t just shrug and play it, right? Even if it produced perfect notes and gained you riches and fame, you’d know there’s going to be some fucked up payment required later.
No, that’s pretty much true. Having most of the elves know Sauron is Anatar basically breaks the story. In the books the elves realize what’s going on when Sauron dons the One Ring, they all perceive him immediately and take their rings off.
Okay, thanks. Makes me feel a little better that I’m not just imagining a story that makes more sense to me. If Tolkien had written it this way, where half the elves are like “We know these rings are the product the most evil being in the universe, but we’re wearing them anyway because reasons” I would just have to suck it up and give the showrunners props for making the best of a shit sandwich. As it stands, I guess I can add this to my list of gripes.
