Mithril can do anything and is so magical that the raw ore can heal a leaf when it is close. Except when you have a whole mountain full of it which does nothing to protect that mountain from the inexplicable Creeping Darkness that suddenly has everything going bad.
Celebrimbor only had weeks to create the rings to save his race, but somehow he created those rings to grant the wearers visions, healing, and who knows other powers. They introduced Celebrimbor as the best Smith but never showed the audience what he could do. Suddenly he created rings with all those magical powers.
Show Celebrimbor never looked like a smith or jewel smith, let alone a smith with magical power. He's just as unconvincing a character as others in the show.
@@eugene8498Yeah, we’re meant to believe that they work hard on the rings, right? Trial and error (like we see with Merdania, suddenly the ring makes her see the unseen world by render her invisible-even to Celebrimbor) so we must asume that they have at least an ideea about what the hell they are doing… is more Mythril damaging, is it good to have a glimpse of the unseen? … we don’t get any explanation, no theory, no actual labour of “making” the rings, just Sauron that has to rub every piece of Mythril before he throws it in to be melted 🫠
@@eugene8498 it's show, don't tell, but amazon's bad writers don't know, how to do that
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@@eugene8498 The plot depends on Celly being a complete moron AND behaving erratically and unethically. Remember when G told Celly not to trust Halbrand? And Celly didn't trust Halbrand until there was a rainstorm, then Celly let Halbrand take control of his entire operation.
A word on the rings. The way I've always understood it is that the Elven smiths through teachings from Aule himself handed down through the ages, were able to craft intricate and beautiful items and imbue them with magic. Feanor was obviously chief amongst them and Celebrimbor is most widely recognised as one of the next greatest. They were able to not only make jewellery but weapons and garments containing this same power. For instance swords like Bilbo's Sting that glowed when Orcs were near or Fingolfin's sword Ringil that 'bit with a chilling cold'. The power put into the rings seem almost like a multiplier, making their wearers stronger, wiser and with heightened senses. Basically increasing traits already within the user. Galadriel's use of magic, her foresight, wisdom and perception were expanded whereas men and dwarves increased in physical prowess and leadership. The difference between the Elven rings and the others were that Sauron had no hand in their making so his malice and deception were not present in them. The men's bad traits were therefore increased, eventually corrupting them and bending them to Sauron's will. The Dwarves were immune from this but their own negative aspects were increased due to the corruption, making them greedy and selfish. The show runners don't seem to recognise this AT ALL. Firstly the make the Elven rings before any others and with Sauron's help which now makes them immediately known to him and should contain his influence. Secondly the magic part of the rings and what gives them their power seems to be Mithril. A metal known to be extremely light and strong but with no 'magic' contained within it. Why did they think this was a good idea? One decision has now spawned a whole load of other questions they can't answer. If the Mithril is mined by the Dwarves why do they need the Elves for anything? They can make their own rings and weapons and with the monopoly on Mithril can dominate all of Middle Earth as they please. I am shocked that this show is now in its second season and nothing has been learned from the disaster that was the first. Stupid decisions that have miraculously made it through writers rooms and editors without anyone saying that this decision affects this and this and so on. It's almost like they are having to constantly go back and say this doesn't work now because we said this earlier so now we'll have to think of a way to get around it. If it ever gets to a season 5 they will be so many layers deep into their corrupted story I can only guess at what state the world is going to be in, probably time travel or a multiverse. Thank you for your videos Jonathan. I don't and will never give Amazon the viewing figure by watching this but I do enjoy watching all the breakdowns pointing out their stupidity.
To be fair, as half-Elven he was counted under the race of Men. It was only when his Elven credentials were brought up to get around the "no mortal is to set foot on Valinor" rule that it was even questioned. Even then he would have chosen Men had Elwing not chosen Elves to avoid her grandmother's fate. Somehow, I doubt any of that was a consideration when they picked their memberberry names. I'm only disappointed they didn't make the mistake of picking Túrin, that would have been hilarious.
@@Atanalcar mentioning Túrin would have been hilarious. I'm legit surprised they didn't because he is mentioned in the LOTR during the Council of Elrond
that whole scene with them arguing about how much mithril to put into the rings came across to me like a really bad spin off of Breaking Bad. It reminded me of that funny scene with Jesse and Walter arguing in the RV over how to cook meth lol.
Amongst many errors in this show, I think their choice to make Galadriel and Elrond main characters was a serious error. Like a fine spice these powerful characters should be used sparingly because their immense grace and gravitas is hard to capture and sustain on screen. They don't have to be on screen to be present in a story.
If they had ANY imagination they would have used Galadriel's daughter as the warrior girl, and keep Galadriel as a super powered matriarch. Then we can actually see Elrond and her meet and they can have a 'baby Arwen' later on for fan service. But no... Way too complicated for these douchebags.
@@JackChurchill101 No, that would be just as bad as the actual show. Celebrian is not a warrior, Elrond, her husband, is a commander in the army and should have been portrayed ad such. Galadriel et Celeborn should've been portrayed as the rulers they are... As for Elrond and Celebrian, it would've been very nice to have them as the love interest of the show, their twin sons and Arwen could've also been a great addition, in time. Annatar could've been better introduced and should've never been Halbrand in the first place, his relationship with Celebrimbor could've been completely different than the actual one... So many missed opportunities. We didn't need Hobbits or Numeroreans to have a good show, just good and experienced writers, that's all it took.
This show has 84-85% on Rotten Tomatoes. 80+ percent. Almost 10/10... Its... its utterly puzzling. Look, I confess I like LOST and have rewatched it many times and have no stress over its story oddness. So, anything is possible. But in my heart, there is something crass and dross about this shows production (and its not the diversity or this and that politics), its just so... glossily awful.
Given Celebrimbor sent his message while Elrond was still in Lindon, there is a fair chance the two parties should have met up en route. There are only a couple of places where they might have completely missed each other. I often find myself attempting to steelman this show, possibly because my brain yearns for rationality where none is to be found (it doesn't work, but I just can't help myself). My only explanation for the visions is that their connection to Sauron also gives them insight into parts of himself he did not intend (and lets face it, this Sauron seems incompetent enough). Given canon Celebrimbor is aware of who Sauron is when he first puts on the One, there is precedent. But even with this steelman the visions given to them make no sense whatsoever because they are future events that require an awful lot that has nothing to do with Sauron to play out in a certain way to get to that point. It doesn't work.
Any book thats 80 years ood needs jazzing up. Maybe a few musical numbers. The harfoots irish dancing or Numinoriens singing sea shantys might make it better.
It seems like the script that was given to the cast was a first draft and not proof-read by anyone. I would believe that considering S2 was produced during the writer strike but S1 was also like this so we know the writers are just bad at what they do
Yeah, it was quite strange to craft the doors off site. And they should have said these signs WILL BE visible only in the light of the moon. However, did you miss the shot of one of the doors with tools and things on it and the tracery partially filled in with Ithildin and moonlight shining through the window? Their view of mithril being magical in this show is way off, from the ridiculous legend of the creation of mithril out of the combination of a balrog, a Silmaril, and some lightning, up to these latest rings being crafted with Sauron doing this add "MORE MITHRIL COWBELL!!!" kind of thing.
The floating tools were a bit daft. If I'm invisible and I have a bag on, does the bag float? What if I'm wearing gloves? Her clothes are invisible with her, but the tools in her hand are not?
On the balance of three: If I remember my James Bond lore correctly, Ian Flemming wrote (somewhere) that Russian agents always worked in cells of three because that was (from the point of view of the Russian Secret Police) the most secure. One agent could defect, two agents could conspire, but three agents would keep an eye on one another. Maybe this applies to the Rings of Plastic? 🤷♂ Just saying...
The whole point of the book I took was that it didn’t fkn matter how they were made or exactly what they did or whether it shot laser beams or not, but they had to go and move on the past is the past. Gollum is the living example of holding onto the past However, I still like the pacing of it the darkness and I felt uncomfortable at certain times I feel bad for that blond elf for falling for that line She is way finer and got the wrong part lol why does Sauron care how long a cocktail party is especially w all that blond tail he’s known to like
The Dumbest thing ive seen is the way they Forge in this show like WTF is happening 😂 thats not forging they don't forge at all they just throw stuff into a melting pot and out comes the ring lol whaaat 😂. The least thing they could do is watch Jackson's film The Return of the King when they forge Andúril which was forged from the Sword Narsil. They show them With Anvil and hammer they show the Quenching 😂 even the Hobbit films with Thorin had better mining and forging scenes 😂.
That's how jewellery is made silly. That's why there is no reality show about jewellery making. They don't want you to see its so easy. Everybody would be cooking their own engagement rings on the stove, using forks and granmas old costume Ruby's.
Guyladriel is such a girl-boss that she can't be held prisoner by an army of orcs for more than five minutes before almost shanking Adar and becoming their new leader.
Eregeon is only a few hundred yards from moria , so why not make the doors there . Even if they do weigh hundreds of tonnes. It also looks like the same granite from moria. So just bring it the few hundred yards to Eregeon, make the doors , then carry it back. Easy
Crazy me for always thinking that the doors were carved out of stone from the mountain side. Seeing as the original entrance was always on the East side and the west side was only used to trade with Eregion. Turns out it was made a hundred miles away and carried by donkeys to be installed in a neat hole in the wall.
Hello, could you please provide a reference from the texts that the rings were not created specific for races? Do you mean that the nineteen rings were created and then randomly distributed? Thanks.
It’s strange for me that the writers of Rings Of Power seem unable to understand that what draws Lotr fans is Tolkien’s legendarium. That’s what elevates Tolkien’s writing about mere fan fiction into genius. It’s a universe of lore and language all by itself. If the writers want to abandon that, then essentially what they’re creating is a Mona Lisa without the divinity of Leonardo da Vinci or writing Macbeth without the greatness of Shakespeare.
I think I understand the whole "with three there is balance" thing, and it is still kind of dumb because there is no balance. All power in one risks complete corruption, but if there are three then two can overpower one and thus keep the others in check. But that is not counting for two turning evil, what with them having been influenced by Sauron.
The comment of Galadriel on the "balance" between the three rings is stupid. I think the writers might have stolen the notion from Cicero, who once commented on the triumverate between Crassus, Pompey and Caesar that it was only balanced between three people, but collapsed after Crassus' death, after which Caesar and Pompey started fighting each other. This, of course, makes no sense in the context of the three rings.
This show makes me appreciate Miyazaki more so much and his writing and how it’s more “modern” than ROP writing. It seems like there has to be a romantic interest with every woman( how antiquated) whereas your typical Miyazaki and Ghibli always strove to have the sexes in situations where they are friends working for a common goal complimenting each other. ROP is actually very old fashioned
FYI: You are very, very quiet... I have to have everything turned up to 'max' to hear you normally. When some other app makes a noise my eardrums explode...
Celebrimbor - "Let's celebrate Elven and Dwarven friendship and unity, by standing in our separate and respective groups at opposite ends of the room." (Easier and quicker to film this way from front on, rather than show individual perspectives of the height differences between the two groups, less FX Shots needed.) Very poor cinematography and direction in most of the staged studio shots in fact.
this guy seems confused... the Doors of Durin crafted by Narvi literally open directly to Eregion... of the many problems w/ this show,,, that's not one of them.
Jonathan. I will say this once only. $4 a month to subscribe. To this?. Are... you ... crazy? It's the North American model I suppose. Recognition is all. I'm a loyal follower of your channel. I love the chemistry between you and Michael. I'd like to see Dan again. But I'm a UK state pensioner on a very limited income. My entertainment budget is nothing, nada, zero, carry the zero. So (1) Dial down the politics (2) Stop calling me a freeloader.
Freeloaders is all Michael. Sorry about that. 🤷♂️ I've run free communities in the past, and it's a huge clusterfudge. Takes a ton of management, and the vitriolic trolls do everything they can to kill it. So, in order to keep it clean, we ask for just a little. Our members help us cover the hosting and streaming bills. TH-cam covers the cigars we need ;) Appreciate you listening still. And I wish we could get Dan back on, but it sounds like The Bee is taking up too much of his time.
Anvil hanging on the ceiling is a memberberry to Tom & Jerry
It is absolutely hilarious how little the writers/showrunners understand logistics and distance and time. The only consistency is it's inconsistency.
“its” instead of “it’s.” tolkien would have thoroughly disapproved of bad orthography.
yes, they teleport their characters all the time. Shame on them!
Mithril can do anything and is so magical that the raw ore can heal a leaf when it is close. Except when you have a whole mountain full of it which does nothing to protect that mountain from the inexplicable Creeping Darkness that suddenly has everything going bad.
Celebrimbor only had weeks to create the rings to save his race, but somehow he created those rings to grant the wearers visions, healing, and who knows other powers.
They introduced Celebrimbor as the best Smith but never showed the audience what he could do. Suddenly he created rings with all those magical powers.
Show Celebrimbor never looked like a smith or jewel smith, let alone a smith with magical power. He's just as unconvincing a character as others in the show.
@@eugene8498Yeah, we’re meant to believe that they work hard on the rings, right? Trial and error (like we see with Merdania, suddenly the ring makes her see the unseen world by render her invisible-even to Celebrimbor) so we must asume that they have at least an ideea about what the hell they are doing… is more Mythril damaging, is it good to have a glimpse of the unseen? … we don’t get any explanation, no theory, no actual labour of “making” the rings, just Sauron that has to rub every piece of Mythril before he throws it in to be melted 🫠
@@eugene8498 it's show, don't tell, but amazon's bad writers don't know, how to do that
@@eugene8498 The plot depends on Celly being a complete moron AND behaving erratically and unethically. Remember when G told Celly not to trust Halbrand? And Celly didn't trust Halbrand until there was a rainstorm, then Celly let Halbrand take control of his entire operation.
May the Mithril be with you!
If there was someone left hoping this would get better: it will not get any better. And there are still three seasons to come.
Makes it good to watch the youtubers critiquing it though, I watch all of them ripping it out of rope and it gives me endless entertainment
The power of mithrilllllllllll
Jennifer Rush ? Rings of Power ballad.
A word on the rings. The way I've always understood it is that the Elven smiths through teachings from Aule himself handed down through the ages, were able to craft intricate and beautiful items and imbue them with magic. Feanor was obviously chief amongst them and Celebrimbor is most widely recognised as one of the next greatest.
They were able to not only make jewellery but weapons and garments containing this same power. For instance swords like Bilbo's Sting that glowed when Orcs were near or Fingolfin's sword Ringil that 'bit with a chilling cold'.
The power put into the rings seem almost like a multiplier, making their wearers stronger, wiser and with heightened senses. Basically increasing traits already within the user. Galadriel's use of magic, her foresight, wisdom and perception were expanded whereas men and dwarves increased in physical prowess and leadership. The difference between the Elven rings and the others were that Sauron had no hand in their making so his malice and deception were not present in them. The men's bad traits were therefore increased, eventually corrupting them and bending them to Sauron's will. The Dwarves were immune from this but their own negative aspects were increased due to the corruption, making them greedy and selfish.
The show runners don't seem to recognise this AT ALL. Firstly the make the Elven rings before any others and with Sauron's help which now makes them immediately known to him and should contain his influence. Secondly the magic part of the rings and what gives them their power seems to be Mithril. A metal known to be extremely light and strong but with no 'magic' contained within it. Why did they think this was a good idea? One decision has now spawned a whole load of other questions they can't answer.
If the Mithril is mined by the Dwarves why do they need the Elves for anything? They can make their own rings and weapons and with the monopoly on Mithril can dominate all of Middle Earth as they please. I am shocked that this show is now in its second season and nothing has been learned from the disaster that was the first. Stupid decisions that have miraculously made it through writers rooms and editors without anyone saying that this decision affects this and this and so on. It's almost like they are having to constantly go back and say this doesn't work now because we said this earlier so now we'll have to think of a way to get around it. If it ever gets to a season 5 they will be so many layers deep into their corrupted story I can only guess at what state the world is going to be in, probably time travel or a multiverse.
Thank you for your videos Jonathan. I don't and will never give Amazon the viewing figure by watching this but I do enjoy watching all the breakdowns pointing out their stupidity.
Wearing wet socks and walking around is more entertaining than RoP.
Wearing wet socks keeps you awake. Rings of power is a sleeping tablet.
Wearing a wet sock as a balaclava would be more entertaining than RoP
Hope Michael can join you soon. Your chemistry is great! :)
Pretty sure he'll be on the next one--might be a day late, though!
Is he moving across country. We miss his dry desert humour.
Rings of power reminds me of a daytime melodrama. All it's missing is some "smell the fart" acting.
Ah, Earendil. A famous man.
He is no mere man! He is Earendil, son of Tuor
To be fair, as half-Elven he was counted under the race of Men. It was only when his Elven credentials were brought up to get around the "no mortal is to set foot on Valinor" rule that it was even questioned. Even then he would have chosen Men had Elwing not chosen Elves to avoid her grandmother's fate.
Somehow, I doubt any of that was a consideration when they picked their memberberry names. I'm only disappointed they didn't make the mistake of picking Túrin, that would have been hilarious.
@@Atanalcar mentioning Túrin would have been hilarious. I'm legit surprised they didn't because he is mentioned in the LOTR during the Council of Elrond
Clearly Celebrimbor’s forge is the proto Acme factory. That’s why the anvil is in the air so Bugs Bunny can drop it on Elmer Fudd
Where are the ethereal Noldor? Where!!!!
that whole scene with them arguing about how much mithril to put into the rings came across to me like a really bad spin off of Breaking Bad. It reminded me of that funny scene with Jesse and Walter arguing in the RV over how to cook meth lol.
wouldn't the mithril armor literally warp Frodo out of the universe then
😹😹😹
Gosh, why do I love the bashing of this show so much? 😅
Because Season 1 hurt us so much.
@@triciacarr5019 must be, because I did not watch any of Season 2 - only the reviews 😂
Im baffeled by rhe Elrond baywatch shot.
Just imagine the magical powers a few pounds of refined mithril could have if it were to be made into a tunic or something...
The horses were smart enough to not be in the show this week
Probably onto their agents, asking can they go back onto Valhalla.
Amongst many errors in this show, I think their choice to make Galadriel and Elrond main characters was a serious error. Like a fine spice these powerful characters should be used sparingly because their immense grace and gravitas is hard to capture and sustain on screen. They don't have to be on screen to be present in a story.
If they had ANY imagination they would have used Galadriel's daughter as the warrior girl, and keep Galadriel as a super powered matriarch.
Then we can actually see Elrond and her meet and they can have a 'baby Arwen' later on for fan service.
But no... Way too complicated for these douchebags.
@@JackChurchill101 No, that would be just as bad as the actual show. Celebrian is not a warrior, Elrond, her husband, is a commander in the army and should have been portrayed ad such. Galadriel et Celeborn should've been portrayed as the rulers they are...
As for Elrond and Celebrian, it would've been very nice to have them as the love interest of the show, their twin sons and Arwen could've also been a great addition, in time.
Annatar could've been better introduced and should've never been Halbrand in the first place, his relationship with Celebrimbor could've been completely different than the actual one... So many missed opportunities.
We didn't need Hobbits or Numeroreans to have a good show, just good and experienced writers, that's all it took.
The power of many...
Rings.
Never forget, that these hacks fired Tim Shippey
How much you want to bet that was Sauron making the One Ring and pretending it was a failure.
This show has 84-85% on Rotten Tomatoes. 80+ percent. Almost 10/10... Its... its utterly puzzling.
Look, I confess I like LOST and have rewatched it many times and have no stress over its story oddness. So, anything is possible.
But in my heart, there is something crass and dross about this shows production (and its not the diversity or this and that politics), its just so... glossily awful.
Rotten tomatoes is a dumb rating system.
80% of unaccountable reviews say it's at least 2.5 / 5.
20% say not even that.
Not a high bar.
Obviously they’ve skewed the numbers like they always do to make it seem as if people actually like their pull-it-tick-lee co-wrecked garbage.
Given Celebrimbor sent his message while Elrond was still in Lindon, there is a fair chance the two parties should have met up en route. There are only a couple of places where they might have completely missed each other.
I often find myself attempting to steelman this show, possibly because my brain yearns for rationality where none is to be found (it doesn't work, but I just can't help myself). My only explanation for the visions is that their connection to Sauron also gives them insight into parts of himself he did not intend (and lets face it, this Sauron seems incompetent enough). Given canon Celebrimbor is aware of who Sauron is when he first puts on the One, there is precedent. But even with this steelman the visions given to them make no sense whatsoever because they are future events that require an awful lot that has nothing to do with Sauron to play out in a certain way to get to that point. It doesn't work.
To put it simple. It's Garbage. But people ( me included are buy stuff off Amazon) so it's a hit.
Any book thats 80 years ood needs jazzing up. Maybe a few musical numbers. The harfoots irish dancing or Numinoriens singing sea shantys might make it better.
That Ring caught Celebrimbor’s lying vibes
😂
It seems like the script that was given to the cast was a first draft and not proof-read by anyone. I would believe that considering S2 was produced during the writer strike but S1 was also like this so we know the writers are just bad at what they do
Yeah, it was quite strange to craft the doors off site. And they should have said these signs WILL BE visible only in the light of the moon. However, did you miss the shot of one of the doors with tools and things on it and the tracery partially filled in with Ithildin and moonlight shining through the window? Their view of mithril being magical in this show is way off, from the ridiculous legend of the creation of mithril out of the combination of a balrog, a Silmaril, and some lightning, up to these latest rings being crafted with Sauron doing this add "MORE MITHRIL COWBELL!!!" kind of thing.
I'm into blondes too, but she's definitely prettier than Galadriel.
The floating tools were a bit daft.
If I'm invisible and I have a bag on, does the bag float? What if I'm wearing gloves?
Her clothes are invisible with her, but the tools in her hand are not?
On the balance of three: If I remember my James Bond lore correctly, Ian Flemming wrote (somewhere) that Russian agents always worked in cells of three because that was (from the point of view of the Russian Secret Police) the most secure. One agent could defect, two agents could conspire, but three agents would keep an eye on one another. Maybe this applies to the Rings of Plastic? 🤷♂ Just saying...
Why would craft such gigantic doors hundreds of miles from where they were needed? Who cares they have Amazon shipping.
The whole point of the book I took was that it didn’t fkn matter how they were made or exactly what they did or whether it shot laser beams or not, but they had to go and move on the past is the past.
Gollum is the living example of holding onto the past
However, I still like the pacing of it the darkness and I felt uncomfortable at certain times
I feel bad for that blond elf for falling for that line
She is way finer and got the wrong part
lol why does Sauron care how long a cocktail party is especially w all that blond tail he’s known to like
The Dumbest thing ive seen is the way they Forge in this show like WTF is happening 😂 thats not forging they don't forge at all they just throw stuff into a melting pot and out comes the ring lol whaaat 😂. The least thing they could do is watch Jackson's film The Return of the King when they forge Andúril which was forged from the Sword Narsil. They show them With Anvil and hammer they show the Quenching 😂 even the Hobbit films with Thorin had better mining and forging scenes 😂.
That's how jewellery is made silly. That's why there is no reality show about jewellery making.
They don't want you to see its so easy. Everybody would be cooking their own engagement rings on the stove, using forks and granmas old costume Ruby's.
Guyladriel is such a girl-boss that she can't be held prisoner by an army of orcs for more than five minutes before almost shanking Adar and becoming their new leader.
Mithrilchlorians!
They have an anvil suspended from the ceiling so it can drop down when the plot requires it to.
Wait until you discover the piano hanging next to it.
Or the sword
Eregeon is only a few hundred yards from moria , so why not make the doors there . Even if they do weigh hundreds of tonnes.
It also looks like the same granite from moria. So just bring it the few hundred yards to Eregeon, make the doors , then carry it back. Easy
Crazy me for always thinking that the doors were carved out of stone from the mountain side. Seeing as the original entrance was always on the East side and the west side was only used to trade with Eregion.
Turns out it was made a hundred miles away and carried by donkeys to be installed in a neat hole in the wall.
Hello, could you please provide a reference from the texts that the rings were not created specific for races? Do you mean that the nineteen rings were created and then randomly distributed? Thanks.
It’s strange for me that the writers of Rings Of Power seem unable
to understand that what draws Lotr fans is Tolkien’s legendarium. That’s what elevates Tolkien’s writing about mere fan fiction into genius. It’s a universe of lore and language all by itself. If the writers want to abandon that, then essentially what they’re creating is a Mona Lisa without the divinity of Leonardo da Vinci or writing Macbeth without the greatness of Shakespeare.
We need more LGBT dwarves. Maybe the first gay kiss in middle earth. Even pink hair on some elves wouod modernise this old book.
You didn't even address the lack of wheelchair dwarves in the show. Bigot 🤦♂️
They/them pronouns too
Is there no people in this show? No trade no merchants?
I thought only a shadow duel or millennium item could send one to the shadow realm.
I think I understand the whole "with three there is balance" thing, and it is still kind of dumb because there is no balance.
All power in one risks complete corruption, but if there are three then two can overpower one and thus keep the others in check. But that is not counting for two turning evil, what with them having been influenced by Sauron.
Mithril is like marijuana… it cures insomnia but also gives you focus and energy.
The comment of Galadriel on the "balance" between the three rings is stupid. I think the writers might have stolen the notion from Cicero, who once commented on the triumverate between Crassus, Pompey and Caesar that it was only balanced between three people, but collapsed after Crassus' death, after which Caesar and Pompey started fighting each other.
This, of course, makes no sense in the context of the three rings.
This show makes me appreciate Miyazaki more so much and his writing and how it’s more “modern” than ROP writing. It seems like there has to be a romantic interest with every woman( how antiquated) whereas your typical Miyazaki and Ghibli always strove to have the sexes in situations where they are friends working for a common goal complimenting each other. ROP is actually very old fashioned
FYI: You are very, very quiet... I have to have everything turned up to 'max' to hear you normally. When some other app makes a noise my eardrums explode...
It's inconsistent, because the writers aren't that smart, and don't know the source material. So they just make things up.
I just realized the writers are using mithril, like lyrium is used in the Dragon Age franchise. Plagiarists gonna plagiarize.
Celebrimbor - "Let's celebrate Elven and Dwarven friendship and unity, by standing in our separate and respective groups at opposite ends of the room." (Easier and quicker to film this way from front on, rather than show individual perspectives of the height differences between the two groups, less FX Shots needed.) Very poor cinematography and direction in most of the staged studio shots in fact.
this guy seems confused... the Doors of Durin crafted by Narvi literally open directly to Eregion... of the many problems w/ this show,,, that's not one of them.
Jonathan. I will say this once only. $4 a month to subscribe. To this?. Are... you ... crazy?
It's the North American model I suppose. Recognition is all. I'm a loyal follower of your channel. I love the chemistry between you and Michael. I'd like to see Dan again. But I'm a UK state pensioner on a very limited income. My entertainment budget is nothing, nada, zero, carry the zero.
So (1) Dial down the politics (2) Stop calling me a freeloader.
How's brexit working out for you guys ? Has the UK turned into Arda yet ?
Did you get your 5 trillion a year for the NHS ?
Freeloaders is all Michael. Sorry about that. 🤷♂️
I've run free communities in the past, and it's a huge clusterfudge. Takes a ton of management, and the vitriolic trolls do everything they can to kill it. So, in order to keep it clean, we ask for just a little.
Our members help us cover the hosting and streaming bills. TH-cam covers the cigars we need ;)
Appreciate you listening still. And I wish we could get Dan back on, but it sounds like The Bee is taking up too much of his time.
This show is so dumb.
The dialogue may not be that great, but you may be a little to literal! Wow is kinda right. It's not the books. People need to relax a little.
This show is an abomination..,its crap ..