The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime)

EP 4 was so boring, Rory Kinnear is a fine actor but his accent was all over the place and he looked totally disinterested in this (and who can blame him). The Stranger storyline has been dragged out to ridiculous levels and hasn't been in any way entertaining, although not-Gandalf isn't Gandalf yet his portrayal should be more intruiging than this. Every scene CW Soysildur is in is absolute cringe, ditto Arundull the mumbling cure for insomnia, and now added to the dismal duo is this Estrid character...thanks Aamazon now triple the boredom!

And what the hell was that Galadriel fight scene? - Terrible choreography and Midget Clarke just can't convince in this type of role.
 
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doodah said:
On episode 3. I didn't mind episode 1 but it's starting to get silly.....

Sauron has had time to get to Kelembrimbor, stay a few nights and the dwarves have also had time to ride over. All while Gladis and the king are workshopping the team to go investigate their most dangerous enemy. Right.
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I mean we have to take things with a pinch of salt, because these events take 100s, if not 1000s of years in the books.

But in the shows timeline:

The journey from the Southlands to Eregion (where Celebrimbor is) took 6 days in season 1.

So Khazad-dûm is pretty close to both the dwarven mines and Eregion.

Lindon, where the Gil-Galad is, is genuinely far away.
 
doodah said:
On episode 3. I didn't mind episode 1 but it's starting to get silly.....

Sauron has had time to get to Kelembrimbor, stay a few nights and the dwarves have also had time to ride over. All while Gladis and the king are workshopping the team to go investigate their most dangerous enemy. Right.
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You have to throw out any sort of semblance of time/distance with any modern show, tbh its not as bad as TLJ and crossing the galaxy in a few hours..
 
It really didn't make much sense imho for


Sauron to go all the way back to the southlands and then all the way back to Eregion just for one scene with Adar


Galadriel to find out he is Sauron - maybe find out he isnt really a king and so dont trust him anymore would still work? but knowing the full truth its a bit much?
 
gettothechopper said:
It really didn't make much sense imho for


Sauron to go all the way back to the southlands and then all the way back to Eregion just for one scene with Adar


Galadriel to find out he is Sauron - maybe find out he isnt really a king and so dont trust him anymore would still work? but knowing the full truth its a bit much?
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Why are we spoilering even the events of season 1?

I sort of agree on point 1, however he probably wanted to get a feel for what was actually going on there? He's powerful but not psychic.

Point 2 - Well all she discovered was he was lying about who he was. It was Sauron who then revealed his true nature to her and genuinely wanted her to rule alongside him I think?
 
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kakarott said:
Found ep 4 boring compared to the others. Does galadriel fancy sauron?
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God I hope that's not what they're going with, because that goes against everything about her character, that she mistrusted Annatar from the beginning and Celebrimbor sieges control of Eregion - one of her big character arcs from the beginning is that she could perceive people's character - she even denied Fëanor.

From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none save only Fëanor. In him she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared ~ Unfinished Tales

Put some bits in spoilers despite them not necessarily spoiling the show, and being from the books but just in case the show decides to go with a canonical approach.
 
Throrik said:
God I hope that's not what they're going with, because that goes against everything about her character, that she mistrusted Annatar from the beginning and Celebrimbor sieges control of Eregion - one of her big character arcs from the beginning is that she could perceive people's character - she even denied Fëanor.

From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none save only Fëanor. In him she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared ~ Unfinished Tales

Put some bits in spoilers despite them not necessarily spoiling the show, and being from the books but just in case the show decides to go with a canonical approach.
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I thought her gift of foresight comes from the ring?
 
VincentHanna said:
I thought her gift of foresight comes from the ring?
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She has the ability to perceive the darkness in Fëanor, and that was pre-ring. The only actual power confirmed for Nenya was preservation and concealment. I think the power of foresight was different than it was presented in the films too. Except for maybe Cirdan who foresaw about who the third ring should go to.
 
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