In all honesty, your criticisms are fair. I'm surprised New Line fans don't like it. Also, the way the Rings are presented in the PJ films is embarrassing.
@@DarkHourYT ...let's discuss this. In-depth, because I'd love someone like you make an editorial on it. Firstly, meta: we were once adults who could understand that casting a different actor as the same character is completely OK. So we had Keaton, Clooney, Kilmer, Bale, Affleck and about 20 other people perform as Batman and no one was confused. Only recently have we childified to the point we started CGIraising the dead because apparently no one would have recognised Tarkin as Tarkin in Rogue One should it have been a different actor. ANd we have 70yos playing superheroes because apparently audiences today cannot be trusted to understand the actor is NOT the character. And we have actors unable to tell the difference as the brown actress of The Wicked saw what's been done to the poster of the green character and mistook herself FOR THE CHARACTER. Secondly, in-werse; let us stick with Tarkin: no one had any problems recognising Richard Grant as Tarkin in "The Rise of Skywalker" even if they hilariously named him "General Pryde" because first names are just impossible to handle for Disney. As well as writing original new characters. My point is, if the character and the person are the same; even if in-werse they changed shape; other characters should not have huge problems recognising them unless they also take care to instruct the actor change the character's behaviour and diction and everything else that makes us unique as people. Have you ever been pranked by a friend texting from a different number or account and experienced going "hey... Jimmy, is that you?" after three texts? Yeah, that's what I mean. Takes a BIT MORE WORK to write "he disguised himself and wasn't recognised".
Gotta dim the lights so we don't see the bad CGI 😂
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The timeline is presumably 2000 years from the destruction of Melkor, which means sauron sat around as a puddle of goo for 2000 years before he decided to eat a rat and crawl down the mountain. Nice catch on the ice volcano that destroyed the countryside but didn't harm any orcs. This show has the weakest volcanoes ever.
It should be something like that. But none of it makes sense. The forging of the rings is supposed to happen about 1.5k years in. Yet we already have Elendil and Isildur in play and they are clearly botching the fall of Numenor, which would suggest around 3.2k onwards. OK, so maybe they just delayed the forging of the rings by over 1.5k years and Sauron was chilling as a puddle of goop for about 3k years? Except that in season 1 the villagers suggest that the elves have been watching over them for siding with Morgoth, about 1k years ago. So as far as I can tell they shrunk the entirely second age into about a thousand years and shoehorned many of the major events into a few weeks/months/years (who the hell even knows?) right at the end.
Everything in this show is totally filler. The first episode is the length of a movie, yet in spite of moments that seem consequential, all that really happens worth noting is that the elves put on the rings and Sauron gets to Eregion. That's LITERALLY IT! Elrond jumping off a cliff to keep the rings from Gil Galad and Galadriel is totally pointless in the end, Sauron spends most of the episode being tortured for some reason and making a deal to save a people he has no reason to care about, and the Stranger and Harfoots literally just wander in circles. And somehow that takes almost an hour and a half! I swear the writers just started putting whatever came into their heads onto paperwithout a second thought or any direction whatsoever.
I'm starting to believe that sound mixing is a lost art. They insist on making the score and sound effects the star while ignoring the thing that we need to hear most ... the dialog. It's not just a Rings of Power problem and I refuse to believe that I'm going deaf.
@@alexmuenster2102 well, no one actually WANTS to actually hear Rings of Power. lol I could write better, more impactful dialog as a teenager. "Why does a boat float but a stone sinks?" has to be one of the dumbest conversations I have ever heard on a show. Buoyancy... not freaking hopes and dreams. lol
I've designed over 9000 sounds (yes, "it's over nine-thhhooouuusaaand"). Sound is as much an integral component to storytelling as are things like dramatic structure, character arcs, color palettes, costuming, lighting, music, makeup, etc. But when one aspect is poorly executed, sometimes, you'll see it ripple into others. Think of it like Wiseau's "The Room" or that wacky "Rœbíπ Høœd" project by "The Director" (lol). 🙄 Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Book: "So here's three rings from Celebrimbor. He made them in secret and sent them to us, the Elven High royalty of Cirdan, Gil-Galad and Galadriel. Wonder how they work. Wait, I can sense that Sauron tricked Celebrimbor and made a master Ring over the lesser 16. We should use these powers sparingly to try and stop him" Amazon: "herpaderp Sauron made three rings. Lets use them like the deranged mental illnesses we are!" Edit: teh beard is important to his character. From 'Return of the King': "As they came to the gates Cirdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars" This would be the equivalent of making a Kratos but take away his Mark and 'Ghost of Sparta' Skin (the ashes of his dead family latched on to his skin)
Welcome to the torment of excrement that has been thus far been RoP. I will from now on only watch videos like yours to find out how much further this shite travels toward the Foul Sewer of the Doom of Film Imagination. Last week's sickly-sweet invention of the Orc Daddy and Orc Mommy and their little Orc-ling was the final steaming pile that drove me away. Thanks for heroically watching the whole sewerage system back up so I don't have to.
DARKHOUR'S ROP COVERAGE ORIGIN STORY: He missed the Season 1 boat, but then accidentally got on the boat with the old dude and Sauron in the 22 min exposition. Someone should totally make a ROP Cringe Bingo Bracket card and we'll bet on it by the end of the season.
As I understand it, the point with Cirdan is that he is the only elf known to have facial hair. So whilst having him shave may not seem like a big deal, taking away a distinctive characteristic for no real reason does feel a little bit like a slap in the face for the fans who are dedicated enough to know this stuff. That's not really me though. I've mostly just been reading the lotr fandom wiki since the show came out, as I've only read Hobbit and LoTR. But I kind of get where they are coming from.
Lol I can just imagine the chibi Dark Hour standing at the docks, "Oh well guess I missed the boat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what a sha-" *WHAM* Boat smashes into the dock partially covering him in debris. A snobbishly dressed person steps off, "Ticket?" grabs your ticket you dropped, picks you up and yeets you onto the ship while you're still dazed.
Cirdan was one of the oldest elves and elves can grow beards, they just tend not to until great age. It's a choice, whether from age or preference nobody knows. There's no reason why he shouldn't shave, but there's no overriding reason why he SHOULD do it either.
I just didn't get why he had a beard then didn't have a beard. Did the director allow that on purpose? If so, why? That's really one of the issues I have with this show in general. Things happen for reason that the writers never feel compelled to explain in context. It's the strangest, and worst writing I've ever experienced on a tv show. I beta read for a few writers, and I'd never let something like this go unaddressed.
@@JulieMoran1832 I don't know for sure, but I suspect that Cirdan shaving his beard off is meant to show that he is being affected by the ring. The sad thing is that Gil-galad kept the three Elven rings which Celebrimbor made without help from Annatar. They were untouched by him altogether. Celebrimbor saw who Annatar was, so he sent all three rings to the High King for safekeeping. Gil-galad gave. Nenya, the ring of adamant, to Galadriel because by that time Galadriel had left Ost in Edhil in Eregion and was residing in Lothlorien with her daughter Celebrian. Celeborn had remained in the city. Eventually with Last Alliance of Elves and Men (including the Numenorean King Elendil and his sons) approaching Gil-galad may have had foresight that he would not survive the Battle if the Last Alliance and Sauron. He sent Narya, the ring of fire, to Cirdan, and Vilya the ring of water was given to Elrond before he headed to Eregion with an army to try and save Celebrimbor and Ost in Edhil which attempt failed. Celebrimbor was tortured by Sauron, because Sauron wanted to know who had the nine rings for mortal men and the seven for the Dwarves. Celebrimbor eventually gave up that information but wouldn't tell him where the three Elven rings were. Sauron killed him and used Celebrimbor's body as a banner. Also by the time, all three elves had realised that once Sauron had made the one Ring, he knew where the other ringbearers were, so they all decided to not wear their rings. There's so much to this story, but Cirdan never at any time shaved his beard off. Elves had no beards, at least until their "third cycle of life", like Círdan. Mahtan, father of Nerdanel who was married to Feanor, was an exception, and had a beard in his early "second cycle". The Elvish beardlessness could also be observed in Mannish lines with an Elvish strain (as in the princely house of Dol Amroth), which lacked beards.
Círdan has a beard and long hair in the third age - literally thousands of years later. So he looked wrong in the first episode, and the writers course-corrected by having him literally shave. :D
I am embarrassed to admit I allowed this progrum to fail to entertain until… the forced empathy for the orc and his orc wife and orcling …. I died laughing and gave up.
12:49 the reason for this is that elves dont mature like us humans. they have a very long youth, and only develop a beard when really fucking old. and it just comes to be that cirdan was one of the first 200 elves to wake up, so hes pretty old. and btw, after elves have grown theyr beard, they become depressed and then need to go to the holy lands or theyll fade away.
That saying, the review is better then watching the actual show is so true! It’s just sad that you have to do it so we don’t have to smh Your sacrifice is appreciated 😂
12:55 I believe, if he was beadless in the first place fans would argue, that not only he didn't behave like his character, he didn't look like his character. But showing him with the beard , but later in a show without one, would be a perfect argument to shame fans. The question of why he shaved it off still remains, and my only argument is that elves couldn't be depicted masculine, and since the show is sbout Saurons journey and his " corruption " of elves, I fear that not only Galadriel 's virtue is in danger . I also, belive Sauron likes them without facial hair.
Elves are so long-lived, you have to be (searching around) something like ten thousand years old to be an Elf with a beard. Cirdan is that old. You can count the number of bearded Elves on, like, one finger? So him having a beard would be something that fits the lore. So why in the ffff they gave it to this fake Cirdan AND THEN HAD HIM REMOVE IT, deliberately breaking the lore...?
@troffle If he was bearless from the start, it would strike contradictions and arguments within the community from the very start. But since he had a beard earlier in the show, some people will be less prone to cretises his appearance. Still , if some point out his lack of beard ,which is his distinctive feature, that shows his age and wisdom and the fact that he outlived all high kings in Middle-earth , showrunners will point out that he indeed had one and the fact that Tolkien never mentioned that he didn't shave it off at some point.
@@marda0maranwe Tolkien never mentioned that he sprouted wings and started flying giant banners over Lothlorien advertising discount bloody cruises around Valinor either while squirting semi-digested lembas out his butt EITHER.
@@DarkHourYT Tolkien does not mention him shaving. That is about the most 'lore-related' answer I can give. Cirdan is one of two elves Tolkien describes as bearded.
Theres so many stup1d things in ROP its boring to mention them all. One of the most stup1d things is why Galadriel got obsessed with Halbrand in the first place... She saw one symbol in Halbrand's pouch and then she made her life's goal to make him king of the southlands for some ret@rted reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why why and again whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
@@DarkHourYT lol The mind of the directors works like this.... We want Galadriel to be deeply involved with Sauron. How we will do it ? hmmm Its simple make galadriel meet Sauron (They met out of the blue in the middle of the ocean). What next ? hmmm For Galadriel to be involved with this random guy Galadriel should see something special about him. OH YEAH !!! Put a random symbol that means something in him !! OH YEAH !!! And this symbol should mean something !! You are right !! The symbol would be the symbol of the lost king of the southlands !!! ΥΕΑΗ !!! For some reason Galadriel is always searching for someone to make him a king !!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL --- Directors are like kids out the kinder garden...
Sound design... I didn't see the show, just the online reviews and... I honestly thought the sound I heard was dumb home editors enhanced by YT compression algorithm. Holy it, is it LOUSY. And to go off on a tangent; yeah; I'm all for inclusion - but using people with a disability IN EXACT PLACE where they need to perform is just dumb. My pet peeve are TV anchors with speech impediments (as in... WEALLY? Did I WEALLY spend over 20 years perfecting my Engwish to now be wost in the mowass of youw speech impediment?!) but seriously; I would NOT be surprised they had people hard of hearing doing the sound design.
Damn. My sides hurt 😂. You so get it. I still remember when I was proud of having Prime when they announced this series. So ridiculously heartbreaking. Like what happened to the MCU and Star Wars...😢😢😢😢
I'm just gonna warn you there is a point as you go back on my videos they won't be quite as good. But I really appreciate that you're checking out the back log
I’m actually not completely opposed to the story of Sauron. The guy was conflicted from the start and doubtless coerced in part by morgoth. Trying to represent that in godworld would look stupid. If only the rest of the story was even barely entertaining
Perhaps everyone should try something exemplary in lieu of continuously complaining about what has been consistently crappy for *years*. Same with SW, HP, The Witcher ("which" is why Cavill left), Madame Webb, etc. When storytelling foundations are absent, they AIN'T gonna repair themselves, suckahz. 💪😎✌️ 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
@@DarkHourYT the hate is too much, the ROP is not to be compared with the movies but as far as tv series go, it’s not bad. Y’all watch vampire diaries and the useless house of dragon which I consider a soft porn and y’all don’t complain. I don’t see you shitting on House of dragons but the number of videos I see on people talking trash about the rings of power is overwhelming. If you don’t like it then leave it alone
After see many video like this i can assume that Tolkien fans are worse than Twilight or 50 Shades. Ffs, major studios should not touch any of those fantasy "holy books" because of these ultra sensitive religious fans.
@@roboticspirits3584 let me ask you how many reviews have you gotten paid for? Cause I can tell you I've been paid for over a year so wannabe doesn't apply here buddy.
Celebrimbor could be called "Cele'dim'bore". Also, it'd be pronounced "Kee’Lee'Brim'Bore", not "Keh'Leh'Brim'Bore". As if anyone cares. Liked, subbed. Good looks. :-)
In all honesty, your criticisms are fair. I'm surprised New Line fans don't like it.
Also, the way the Rings are presented in the PJ films is embarrassing.
Every episode in this train wreck has cost the same as the entire Peter Jackson trilogy. Let that sink in.
It didn't clog my toilet it upper decked my toilet
Eeek
Now everyone can enjoy it.
Hahahaha
We need a bigger toilet.
@@Hlbkomer commercial idea...
I think an outhouse is more like it. This shit has got to be as far away as possible.
"We're gonna need a bigger toilet!"
So close!
"KARENdriel wants to speak to the manager, my Lord"...
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Random Ork
Ooooo i like that mind if I steal it?
@@DarkHourYT be my guest! 😎😋
@@DarkHourYT of course man. Have at it 😎😋
Elrond Hubbard has been rolling around in my head for weeks. Thank you
It's all I can think of when I hear his name going back to Fellowship
The reviews of this trash heap are so much more entertaining than the trash heap itself. Kudos.
This is the way. :)
I take great pleasure in these teardowns
Damn DarkHour, you gotta roll those Rs! It's "Mor-r-r-r-ron" for God's sake... what are you, a filthy casual?
Next video I'll do it just for you
Adar should recognize that this is his second time meeting Halbrand.
Well technically it's a different actor
Well, new actor, so he couldn't recall, nor did the writers.
@@DarkHourYT ...let's discuss this. In-depth, because I'd love someone like you make an editorial on it.
Firstly, meta: we were once adults who could understand that casting a different actor as the same character is completely OK. So we had Keaton, Clooney, Kilmer, Bale, Affleck and about 20 other people perform as Batman and no one was confused. Only recently have we childified to the point we started CGIraising the dead because apparently no one would have recognised Tarkin as Tarkin in Rogue One should it have been a different actor. ANd we have 70yos playing superheroes because apparently audiences today cannot be trusted to understand the actor is NOT the character. And we have actors unable to tell the difference as the brown actress of The Wicked saw what's been done to the poster of the green character and mistook herself FOR THE CHARACTER.
Secondly, in-werse; let us stick with Tarkin: no one had any problems recognising Richard Grant as Tarkin in "The Rise of Skywalker" even if they hilariously named him "General Pryde" because first names are just impossible to handle for Disney. As well as writing original new characters. My point is, if the character and the person are the same; even if in-werse they changed shape; other characters should not have huge problems recognising them unless they also take care to instruct the actor change the character's behaviour and diction and everything else that makes us unique as people.
Have you ever been pranked by a friend texting from a different number or account and experienced going "hey... Jimmy, is that you?" after three texts? Yeah, that's what I mean. Takes a BIT MORE WORK to write "he disguised himself and wasn't recognised".
I’m surprised you didn’t point out how dim the writi-I mean the lighting is. I couldn’t see SHIT the entire time!
There's gonna be more videos gotta save some things
Gotta dim the lights so we don't see the bad CGI 😂
The timeline is presumably 2000 years from the destruction of Melkor, which means sauron sat around as a puddle of goo for 2000 years before he decided to eat a rat and crawl down the mountain. Nice catch on the ice volcano that destroyed the countryside but didn't harm any orcs. This show has the weakest volcanoes ever.
I'll need to take your word on it as I'm not crazy into the lore outside of the original trilogy
@@DarkHourYTCan always ask me, bro. I'm a Tolkien nerd.
@@DarkHourYTwe actually see the stalagmites grow if you look carefully
It's hilarious to think the biggest treat to Middle-Earth can so easily be killed. Just stab him and he turns into goo and/or explodes???
It should be something like that. But none of it makes sense. The forging of the rings is supposed to happen about 1.5k years in. Yet we already have Elendil and Isildur in play and they are clearly botching the fall of Numenor, which would suggest around 3.2k onwards. OK, so maybe they just delayed the forging of the rings by over 1.5k years and Sauron was chilling as a puddle of goop for about 3k years? Except that in season 1 the villagers suggest that the elves have been watching over them for siding with Morgoth, about 1k years ago. So as far as I can tell they shrunk the entirely second age into about a thousand years and shoehorned many of the major events into a few weeks/months/years (who the hell even knows?) right at the end.
Everything in this show is totally filler. The first episode is the length of a movie, yet in spite of moments that seem consequential, all that really happens worth noting is that the elves put on the rings and Sauron gets to Eregion. That's LITERALLY IT! Elrond jumping off a cliff to keep the rings from Gil Galad and Galadriel is totally pointless in the end, Sauron spends most of the episode being tortured for some reason and making a deal to save a people he has no reason to care about, and the Stranger and Harfoots literally just wander in circles. And somehow that takes almost an hour and a half! I swear the writers just started putting whatever came into their heads onto paperwithout a second thought or any direction whatsoever.
I'm starting to believe that sound mixing is a lost art. They insist on making the score and sound effects the star while ignoring the thing that we need to hear most ... the dialog. It's not just a Rings of Power problem and I refuse to believe that I'm going deaf.
So in other words, every movie wants to be Michael Bay? (Except Dune 2-that actually played around with things)
Dialog is an afterthought
>>we need to hear most ... the dialog
@@alexmuenster2102 well, no one actually WANTS to actually hear Rings of Power. lol I could write better, more impactful dialog as a teenager. "Why does a boat float but a stone sinks?" has to be one of the dumbest conversations I have ever heard on a show. Buoyancy... not freaking hopes and dreams. lol
I've designed over 9000 sounds (yes, "it's over nine-thhhooouuusaaand"). Sound is as much an integral component to storytelling as are things like dramatic structure, character arcs, color palettes, costuming, lighting, music, makeup, etc. But when one aspect is poorly executed, sometimes, you'll see it ripple into others. Think of it like Wiseau's "The Room" or that wacky "Rœbíπ Høœd" project by "The Director" (lol). 🙄 Where there's smoke, there's fire.
At least galadriel is occasionally nice to look at in this season
As long as she's not riding a horse
Horse is a better actor
That Yord clip is still funny. Nice work as usual DH.
That's gonna be a staple I think. It improves my day each time and thank you
Book: "So here's three rings from Celebrimbor. He made them in secret and sent them to us, the Elven High royalty of Cirdan, Gil-Galad and Galadriel. Wonder how they work. Wait, I can sense that Sauron tricked Celebrimbor and made a master Ring over the lesser 16. We should use these powers sparingly to try and stop him"
Amazon: "herpaderp Sauron made three rings. Lets use them like the deranged mental illnesses we are!"
Edit: teh beard is important to his character. From 'Return of the King':
"As they came to the gates Cirdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars"
This would be the equivalent of making a Kratos but take away his Mark and 'Ghost of Sparta' Skin (the ashes of his dead family latched on to his skin)
They are writing fan fiction so they take huge liberties. Basically non-canon nonsense
Basically Círdan should look that old at the end of the third age. Which is like a 1000 years later than this.
please finish this whole thing i love to hear you rip them a new one! These movies are crimes and an attack on the public's art!
@@michaels1109 don't worry I plan to. I'm pot committed now
These aren’t movies, they are episodes of shows. Learn the difference between those words, or “Sludgeron” will be plopping under your bed tonight.
Welcome to the torment of excrement that has been thus far been RoP. I will from now on only watch videos like yours to find out how much further this shite travels toward the Foul Sewer of the Doom of Film Imagination. Last week's sickly-sweet invention of the Orc Daddy and Orc Mommy and their little Orc-ling was the final steaming pile that drove me away. Thanks for heroically watching the whole sewerage system back up so I don't have to.
Nice work darkhour
My mate was an extra in it and even he didn’t want to watch it.
Instead of watching that turd of a series, this is so much better. Thank you, sir.
Plan to do the whole series with more commercials
Almost skipped the ad. Goddamn reflexes!
Not bad. :)
If there was an actual skip ad button... Hmm I wonder if that's something I can put there myself for fun
Somehow Yord made it here too…. AND MY JOY WAS COMPLETE!!!
Stupid is not able to create anything new, it can only dumb down and rot what has been invented or made by the forces of smart...
I see what you did there 👉😉👉
Glad u kept the Black Cauldron reference in!
Hey, I like the DarkHour spoil-o-meter!
Yeah let people decide their own level of spoiler
The rings are for sale on Amazon (I didn’t look) just like everything they used for this show.
Like the actual props? Or replicas
@@DarkHourYT actually props, fabric that made the costumes, even some of the costumes
At 0:50 It's a reference to Random Film Talk 😅😢
That's my guy! He's great
Excellent analysis and review 🖖
Thank you, awesome profile picture
Why is anyone watching season 2? The 1st season didn't insult enough?
For the lolz
at least the actors are getting paid
Is that a silver lining though
DARKHOUR'S ROP COVERAGE ORIGIN STORY:
He missed the Season 1 boat, but then accidentally got on the boat with the old dude and Sauron in the 22 min exposition.
Someone should totally make a ROP Cringe Bingo Bracket card and we'll bet on it by the end of the season.
Ringo? Honestly as much as I sound angry I find this shit hilarious cause it's so terrible.
As I understand it, the point with Cirdan is that he is the only elf known to have facial hair. So whilst having him shave may not seem like a big deal, taking away a distinctive characteristic for no real reason does feel a little bit like a slap in the face for the fans who are dedicated enough to know this stuff. That's not really me though. I've mostly just been reading the lotr fandom wiki since the show came out, as I've only read Hobbit and LoTR. But I kind of get where they are coming from.
I was on BSUP today and subscribed... now youre over 10k!
@@matthewhelmers1426 thank you. Hopefully my sappy thank you wasn't too much
@DarkHourYT happy to help, brother! Watching your older videos and giving thumbs up as I type. Goddess stuff!
Lol I can just imagine the chibi Dark Hour standing at the docks, "Oh well guess I missed the boat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what a sha-"
*WHAM*
Boat smashes into the dock partially covering him in debris. A snobbishly dressed person steps off, "Ticket?" grabs your ticket you dropped, picks you up and yeets you onto the ship while you're still dazed.
@@Jacob-WD40 that's basically what it feels like
Awesomeness
@@Tarquin2718 totally
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I can't, I just can't.
Cirdan was one of the oldest elves and elves can grow beards, they just tend not to until great age. It's a choice, whether from age or preference nobody knows. There's no reason why he shouldn't shave, but there's no overriding reason why he SHOULD do it either.
I just didn't get why he had a beard then didn't have a beard. Did the director allow that on purpose? If so, why? That's really one of the issues I have with this show in general. Things happen for reason that the writers never feel compelled to explain in context. It's the strangest, and worst writing I've ever experienced on a tv show.
I beta read for a few writers, and I'd never let something like this go unaddressed.
@@JulieMoran1832 I don't know for sure, but I suspect that Cirdan shaving his beard off is meant to show that he is being affected by the ring. The sad thing is that Gil-galad kept the three Elven rings which Celebrimbor made without help from Annatar. They were untouched by him altogether. Celebrimbor saw who Annatar was, so he sent all three rings to the High King for safekeeping. Gil-galad gave. Nenya, the ring of adamant, to Galadriel because by that time Galadriel had left Ost in Edhil in Eregion and was residing in Lothlorien with her daughter Celebrian. Celeborn had remained in the city.
Eventually with Last Alliance of Elves and Men (including the Numenorean King Elendil and his sons) approaching Gil-galad may have had foresight that he would not survive the Battle if the Last Alliance and Sauron. He sent Narya, the ring of fire, to Cirdan, and Vilya the ring of water was given to Elrond before he headed to Eregion with an army to try and save Celebrimbor and Ost in Edhil which attempt failed. Celebrimbor was tortured by Sauron, because Sauron wanted to know who had the nine rings for mortal men and the seven for the Dwarves. Celebrimbor eventually gave up that information but wouldn't tell him where the three Elven rings were. Sauron killed him and used Celebrimbor's body as a banner.
Also by the time, all three elves had realised that once Sauron had made the one Ring, he knew where the other ringbearers were, so they all decided to not wear their rings.
There's so much to this story, but Cirdan never at any time shaved his beard off.
Elves had no beards, at least until their "third cycle of life", like Círdan. Mahtan, father of Nerdanel who was married to Feanor, was an exception, and had a beard in his early "second cycle". The Elvish beardlessness could also be observed in Mannish lines with an Elvish strain (as in the princely house of Dol Amroth), which lacked beards.
Círdan has a beard and long hair in the third age - literally thousands of years later. So he looked wrong in the first episode, and the writers course-corrected by having him literally shave. :D
Finally catching up with this. Loved the Monty Python and black girl magic bits.
I am embarrassed to admit I allowed this progrum to fail to entertain until… the forced empathy for the orc and his orc wife and orcling …. I died laughing and gave up.
Loved the sponsor ad. 👍
They are fun to do
LMAO best video title ever.
@@somebody9762 there was a definite theme of boats and poop in my writing so I went with the latter
title killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Glad to see another fellow enjoyer of grumpy cat
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the reason for this is that elves dont mature like us humans. they have a very long youth, and only develop a beard when really fucking old. and it just comes to be that cirdan was one of the first 200 elves to wake up, so hes pretty old. and btw, after elves have grown theyr beard, they become depressed and then need to go to the holy lands or theyll fade away.
C.R.A.P
I have to start using that in my lingo :D
Honestly these reviews are just an excuse to pad my ad writing resume
@@DarkHourYT Well your doing a good job at it bro.
I've been looking forward to new videos from you, so you must be doing something right.
That saying, the review is better then watching the actual show is so true!
It’s just sad that you have to do it so we don’t have to smh
Your sacrifice is appreciated 😂
12:55 I believe, if he was beadless in the first place fans would argue, that not only he didn't behave like his character, he didn't look like his character. But showing him with the beard , but later in a show without one, would be a perfect argument to shame fans. The question of why he shaved it off still remains, and my only argument is that elves couldn't be depicted masculine, and since the show is sbout Saurons journey and his " corruption " of elves, I fear that not only Galadriel 's virtue is in danger . I also, belive Sauron likes them without facial hair.
Ok this is a great explanation. Especially considering you're trying to make sense of fan fiction
... "to shame fans"?
I'm not criticising, I genuinely don't get what you mean here.
Elves are so long-lived, you have to be (searching around) something like ten thousand years old to be an Elf with a beard. Cirdan is that old. You can count the number of bearded Elves on, like, one finger? So him having a beard would be something that fits the lore.
So why in the ffff they gave it to this fake Cirdan AND THEN HAD HIM REMOVE IT, deliberately breaking the lore...?
@troffle If he was bearless from the start, it would strike contradictions and arguments within the community from the very start. But since he had a beard earlier in the show, some people will be less prone to cretises his appearance. Still , if some point out his lack of beard ,which is his distinctive feature, that shows his age and wisdom and the fact that he outlived all high kings in Middle-earth , showrunners will point out that he indeed had one and the fact that Tolkien never mentioned that he didn't shave it off at some point.
@@marda0maranwe Tolkien never mentioned that he sprouted wings and started flying giant banners over Lothlorien advertising discount bloody cruises around Valinor either while squirting semi-digested lembas out his butt EITHER.
You used my hampster!!!! :)
I love how Sauron got stuck to a wheel like a piece of gum.
Many 'die-hard Tolkien fans' are upset about *Cirdan shaving his beard, because Tolkien described Cirdan as having a beard.
I'm not a super up on the Lore but is he never allowed to shave?
@@DarkHourYT Tolkien does not mention him shaving.
That is about the most 'lore-related' answer I can give.
Cirdan is one of two elves Tolkien describes as bearded.
They are laundry money
It's so obvious
Tatuin landscape plus Rasputin were the end of me 😂😂😂💀
@@Amira_Phoenix it's all I could see
Theres so many stup1d things in ROP its boring to mention them all. One of the most stup1d things is why Galadriel got obsessed with Halbrand in the first place... She saw one symbol in Halbrand's pouch and then she made her life's goal to make him king of the southlands for some ret@rted reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why why and again whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
And I mean what guy doesn't have some weird symbol on his sack?
@@DarkHourYT lol The mind of the directors works like this.... We want Galadriel to be deeply involved with Sauron. How we will do it ? hmmm Its simple make galadriel meet Sauron (They met out of the blue in the middle of the ocean). What next ? hmmm For Galadriel to be involved with this random guy Galadriel should see something special about him. OH YEAH !!! Put a random symbol that means something in him !! OH YEAH !!! And this symbol should mean something !! You are right !! The symbol would be the symbol of the lost king of the southlands !!! ΥΕΑΗ !!! For some reason Galadriel is always searching for someone to make him a king !!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL --- Directors are like kids out the kinder garden...
Sound design... I didn't see the show, just the online reviews and... I honestly thought the sound I heard was dumb home editors enhanced by YT compression algorithm. Holy it, is it LOUSY.
And to go off on a tangent; yeah; I'm all for inclusion - but using people with a disability IN EXACT PLACE where they need to perform is just dumb. My pet peeve are TV anchors with speech impediments (as in... WEALLY? Did I WEALLY spend over 20 years perfecting my Engwish to now be wost in the mowass of youw speech impediment?!) but seriously; I would NOT be surprised they had people hard of hearing doing the sound design.
Nope it was terrible asking design
9:22- Not to mention they acted like “all openings” are now closed!?! So where the hell are they getting oxygen from?!? Lol
Damn. My sides hurt 😂. You so get it. I still remember when I was proud of having Prime when they announced this series. So ridiculously heartbreaking. Like what happened to the MCU and Star Wars...😢😢😢😢
I'm just gonna warn you there is a point as you go back on my videos they won't be quite as good. But I really appreciate that you're checking out the back log
Oh! No worries or judging here. What you have going on now is golden! I'm hooked.
@@AN-ri6nc that's awesome. You'll still find fun moments in older ones but I didn't really know what I was doing yet
I like your sarcastic hot takes. keem em coming!
Part 2 Will be out hopefully Tuesday
Got through 5 minutes. My brain hurts
Please. PLEASE dp everu episode!
Plan to do them all in blocks of two like this
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The ads just keep getting better
This time they were better planned
I’m actually not completely opposed to the story of Sauron. The guy was conflicted from the start and doubtless coerced in part by morgoth. Trying to represent that in godworld would look stupid. If only the rest of the story was even barely entertaining
Dont agree. It is actually quite good.
You're allowed to like bad things
Sauron had more power than a Balrog he was a chief and to be killed is some worst writing and craping on source material as orc baby WTF
First time visiting your channel, as it just appeared in my feed. I tried to watch, but the profanity wore me down. Vaya con Dios.
Sorry my style wasn't for you. No hard feelings I appreciate you giving me a chance though
THIS 🎉🎉🎉 10/10/10 🎉🎉🎉😮
@@FastNCurious88 your user name is fantastic
@@DarkHourYT thank you 😇❤️
sorry but children have more Fantasy than that
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Howdy.
*tips hat*
Stop rage watching Rings of Power, you're giving Amazon viewers.
They are locked into 5 sessions no matter what
Perhaps everyone should try something exemplary in lieu of continuously complaining about what has been consistently crappy for *years*. Same with SW, HP, The Witcher ("which" is why Cavill left), Madame Webb, etc. When storytelling foundations are absent, they AIN'T gonna repair themselves, suckahz. 💪😎✌️
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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Haha, CRAP
It just came to me
Sometimes if you can do something.. maybe just maybe you shouldn't do it.
Eregion like in A Region? Wow, the creativity is...💩
Ah yes disconnect the art from the artists.. a great argument.. hang some early paintings created by the famous artist Hitler on the wall.
Omg this is hilarious 😂
They are terrible rings that epitomise this whole show
Another very funny review. Thank goodness there’s only 5 more episodes to go. Then you’ll get a two year reprieve.
@@Darthviewer I have 6 to cover in doing it in twos
I hate 😒 what they did ring of power it awful 😖 😱
A disgrace
That's probably not even a string enough word
C.R.A.P hahaha... Inspired
I'm already working on the next 3 commercials
Love you🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂😂😂so fucking funny!
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This was funny AF, subbed 😂
Thank you I'll have part two out this week it's a bit longer so taking more time
If you don’t like it why talk about it ? HBO is paying TH-camrs to trash the series and we all know it.
@@tonymuller01789 I'm not being paid by HBO I assure you that. I just enjoy shitty on terrible films and shows
@@DarkHourYT the hate is too much, the ROP is not to be compared with the movies but as far as tv series go, it’s not bad. Y’all watch vampire diaries and the useless house of dragon which I consider a soft porn and y’all don’t complain. I don’t see you shitting on House of dragons but the number of videos I see on people talking trash about the rings of power is overwhelming. If you don’t like it then leave it alone
@@tonymuller01789 i have never once watched a single minute of Vampire Diaries
Ugh Mein Kampf trope is played out.·
+1 sub
+1 appreciative content creator
After see many video like this i can assume that Tolkien fans are worse than Twilight or 50 Shades. Ffs, major studios should not touch any of those fantasy "holy books" because of these ultra sensitive religious fans.
I'm not a huge Tolkien fan I just like to make fun of terrible shows.
@@DarkHourYT No, you are just a sad wannabe critic who tries to copy the big hate-channels like Nerdrotic.
@@roboticspirits3584 let me ask you how many reviews have you gotten paid for? Cause I can tell you I've been paid for over a year so wannabe doesn't apply here buddy.
Both Tolkien fans and movie fans don't like incompetent vapid trash, hence why both despise the Rings of Power.
It looks worse.
this video is more entertaining then the show
New one comes out tomorrow
You my good sir, make great content! I couldn't agree more with you!
@@codycoffman2932 thank you so much. Next video will be very soon
This TH-camr is a nerd that doesn't like nerd stuff 😂
Hardly nerd stuff - that requires at least a smidgin of research and knowledge, let alone competence. 🤪
Great commentary on this shit show...lol.
@@Jiraiyashouse666 it's a CRAP Production 😂
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Celebrimbor could be called "Cele'dim'bore".
Also, it'd be pronounced "Kee’Lee'Brim'Bore", not "Keh'Leh'Brim'Bore". As if anyone cares.
Liked, subbed. Good looks. :-)