good point, writings describe heimdal as the whitest god out of all the gods and teutonics did not have a word that means white=pure of heart
yet they made hiemdal a Black person and said "he got a pure heart!"
If I had to guess it would be that the white family and non-white family of hobbits find each other on their nomadic journeys and end up staying together for whatever reason.
you're still giving them mindshare you pathetic cuck. theres hundreds of pro white Japanese video games you havent played but your going to sit around watching this anti white shit because "it's free"? Your mother is a prostitute
boy, he was right bang in the middle of puberty when filming (14 years old)
Don't be surprised if in future seasons a bunch of twitter roasties scream about his 'glow up' or whatever
I may give it a glance just to see / confirm how terrible it is but I will NEVER give it a full watch or even a chance. Amazon made this, a company that is literally the diametric opposite of everything Tolkien was about. You can literally just see in the designs that these ghouls don't *get* him
Guess they forced him to draw garbage or just threw away his designs when it suited them. I am sure they have as little respect for his creative authority as they have for Tolkien.
Multi-culti hobbit nomads make no sense. They're a divergent race of humans. Which means they would be less diverse than the people they descended from. Only after they diverged and established themselves as a people the different tribes of hobbits would then develop further down the line.
It's shit world building simple as that. It's shit world building in a series about the most meticulous world builder in history. It just magnifies how inept the writers of this series are.
Dragons are established in the world of Tolkien. Multi-culti hobbits are not. It's that simple. If you don't like it, find another fantasy world or make your own.
Leddit figured out what the deal is with the Maiar that falls from the sky as a meteor and meets the Hobbits
They are using the poem from the Adventures of Tom Bombadil called "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon," >And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair, and like a meteor, >A star in flight, ere Yule one night flickering down he fell
In LOTR Bilbo composes a different version of the poem but the same tale, which Frodo recites in Bree.
It implies that the man in the moon poem Bilbo composed is part of story passed down among hobbits whose ancestors actually came into contact with a Maiar
I may give it a glance just to see / confirm how terrible it is but I will NEVER give it a full watch or even a chance. Amazon made this, a company that is literally the diametric opposite of everything Tolkien was about. You can literally just see in the designs that these ghouls don't *get* him
>the superior homie elf can do what the regular cracka elves cant even imagine.
This, including making millions of American women wet in a way Legolas could only dream of
The pic is from a cover of a magazine journal. The first few dozen issues had pretty cool artwork.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vinyar_Tengwar_31
>'Sihe halpbruder
QRD of the story
I think(') it's older German. Means "See half-brother".
It's from a passage of the Silmarillion, where Fëanor points a sword to Fingolfin and says "See Half-brother! This is sharper than thy tongue".
These are noggits. They're distantly related to Shire folk.
Like hobbits, they also cannot swim and they loves pipe weed. They've even developed a more potent version of it called pipe crack.
But unlike Hobbits, the Noggits do not love peace and quiet and good tilled earth. They love gibs and rioting and sexual assault.
In this version of LOTR, the Noggits jump Bilbo one night outside the Green Dragon and rob him, taking the ring to Noggit Town. Unlike the Shire, Noggit Town is not safe. It's like an above ground Orc Lair. The ring stays there for hundreds of years without being noticed because Noggit Town is already so vile, one more layer of evil makes no real difference.
I'll watch it to laugh at it and discuss it with friends. But I'll absolutely make sure to watch it illegally. Even though it's going to be garbage it will likely be seen by many people and be a success simply based on name recognition alone. I won't be a part of that.
As in a physical entity? doubt it
He does sink Numenor but whether they portray that as a direct intervention by Eru of just imply it is another matter
The song at the start of the silmarillion isn’t really a physical event but aside from numenor and pushing gollum into a volcano that’s the most active he ever is in the plot
The guy who arrives via meteor is confirmed to be a maiar, but it's probably Tilion (guardian of the Moon) rather than a blue wizard or Sauron.
There is a poem that Bilbo writes about a man who comes from the moon and Frodo recites it in Bree. Originally this poem appears in 'The adventures of Tom Bombadil' called "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon,"
A couple of the lines >And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair, and like a meteor, >A star in flight, ere Yule one night flickering down he fell
They are using Tolkien's Man in the Moon story to create an event where this Maiar meets some hobbits and the story of this passes into hobbit folklore/legend all the way down to Bilbo/Frodo
What else do you expect them to show 3 months from release? Might get another teaser this month but if not they will just save the proper stuff until San Diego Comicon
>What else do you expect them to show 3 months from release?
more Black folk honestly. I'm always expecting them to show even more Black folk where they don't belong
No it's true, only Cynthia Addai-Robinson's character left which will get confirmed when they do their big Numenor reveal, probably at Comicon
2 years ago
Anonymous
apart from all the black extras that will be spread everywhere they're most visually jarring
2 years ago
Anonymous
>all the black extras that will be spread everywhere
Not seen a single one in any of the images of the high elves
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah definitely not falling for this cope again lmao. morons were doubting there would be black elves at all to begin wtih
2 years ago
Anonymous
Okay but bare in mind you can make out ~50 high elf characters and extras between various pictures and 100% of them are white
2 years ago
Anonymous
thanks amazon shill, I will bare that in mind. However I still am going to assume there will be Black person elves based on the fact amazon has in fact already made Black person elves
2 years ago
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>the fact amazon has in fact already made Black person elves
Yes and where does he live? and how far is that from Lindon, or even Eregion?
Right I'm sure it's only a few main characters
Which main high elf characters are black? Show me even 1 non-white extra
2 years ago
Anonymous
there are Black person elves, not watching your disgraceful show lol, just going to continue enjoying actual tolkien works
2 years ago
Anonymous
>"there won't be any Black person elves!" >turns out there is indeed Black person elves >"y-yeah well there won't be any Black person high elves!"
You homosexuals were wrong before so why the frick would anyone believe you now, lying scum?
>The show is about "different variety of good"
never stood a chance lmao. Imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to think fundamentalist catholic tolkien believed in "different varieties of good"
>Tolkien was a fundamentalist catholic
No he wasn't, he had multiple gay friends and was big supporter of feminist and Marxist writers.
You are a foreigner anyway so your opinion is literally worthless when talking about English literature
Go find your own books, stop trying to appropriate literature never intended for you
irrelevant parasite
2 years ago
Anonymous
Tolkien was extremely catholic and this is not disputed by anyone but you troony
2 years ago
Anonymous
Go find your own books, from your own country and stay there. These books were never intended for you and never will be.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Tolkien was catholic
who fricking cares what tolkien was.
the troony that seethes with rage whenever confronted with undisputed truth
2 years ago
Anonymous
lmao it can't even dispute the main point anymore and just shrieks in pain as it lashes out at you
2 years ago
Anonymous
who fricking cares what tolkien was.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the writers should care. you don't have to be catholic to enjoy lord of the rings at all, but to understand tolkien and write something faithful to him it's extremely important. Tolkien himself described lord of the rings as a fundamentally catholic work, and moral relativism is completely at odds with catholicism. catholicism and moral relativism are not compatible at all, so to see signs that moral relativism is a central theme of the show is proof the writers and creators fundamentally don't understand tolkien or LOTR
2 years ago
Anonymous
>see signs that moral relativism is a central theme of the show
Literally nowhere is that said
"different varieties of good" is just another way of saying "heroes can come from the most unlikely of places"
dumb ESL
2 years ago
Anonymous
>"different varieties of good" >"even our villain is the hero of his own story" >You'll learn how everyone views the world fundamentally different"
absolutely moral relativism
2 years ago
Anonymous
You are a literal brainlet who failed to understand two simple sentences
There really should be some basic English comprehension test for you ESLs to use English language boards
2 years ago
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not an argument
2 years ago
Anonymous
I really hope I meet you in person so I can brutally murder you, you parasite
tolkien didnt live in england he lived in africa, and his catholicism was intricately tied to keeping his mothers memory alive >Mabel Tolkien was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1900 despite vehement protests by her Baptist family,[19] which stopped all financial assistance to her. In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting. She was then about 34 years of age, about as old as a person with diabetes mellitus type 1 could survive without treatment—insulin would not be discovered until 1921, two decades later. Nine years after her death, Tolkien wrote, "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
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lol Tolkien was pissed that when his former atheist friend C.S. Lewis converted to christianity, he didn't chose to become catholic
lol Tolkien who to his dying day rejected the second Vatican council and obnoxiously prayed in Latin during mass
>read feminist literature
Kek he wrote a whole essay about how if we allowed feminists and Americans to spread their ideals they will homogenized the world, ruining genuine diversity, and making it feel much smaller than it is, destroying any reason for travel as you will never be exposed to a different world view and cultural outlook. He was also a traditionalist catholic, and while revisionists love to point to the fact that Tolkein did not like Nazis or Hitler, they always ignore that he was a life long public supporter of Caudillo Francisco Franco, noted Fascist dictator. So go frick yourself while J.R.R and Christopher look down upon me and smile.
>different varieties of good
If it that hard to understand this simple comment?
They are saying that different types of people can be good, not just your traditional 'hero' types, you know like the hobbits in LOTR
Fricking brainlet
>when you watch it years from now you shouldn’t be able to pinpoint when it was filmed
Everyone will be able to pinpoint exactly when it was filmed based on the casting
Remember how the showrunner of the Witcher said she would not randomly raceswap established characters?
Anyway, they already admitted that they are going to compress 1000s of years into one human lifespan, so the lore is fricked from the start and that is something that Tolkien would have definitely hated.
It's no surprise they waited for him to die. And they quickly got rid of the Tolkien scholar who was supposed to keep an eye on their faithfullness to the lore. I don't trust these homosexuals at all.
Both, while great artists, have done a lot of damage to the visual aspects of LOTR. Tolkien would have never envisioned it as the pulp fantasy garbage we are used to these days. Just check Pauline Baynes, she was Tolkien's friend and, according to him, the one who got the closest to whathe had in mind when imagining his world
Soulless as frick
I always imagined Númenor in terms of Byzantine golden domes, mosaics and such, not that shitty grey stone slum copypasted from Artstation
Using John Howe’s designs and a lot of the sets looks really good. Unfortunately I just don’t have any faith they will pull it off. There’s no source material just the setting and a few sketches of events so most will have to be made up.
Jackson had mountains of material and managed to frick up Hobbit royally.
Let's be honest the brazilian elf guy doesn't look Black, he has could facial symetically. The dwarf queen also has a big middle eastern looking nose, she could pass as one of the blackbeard rhun dwarfs.
At least they are trying to match the nose, face features even if the skin colours are off.
The show might be fun but I'll sabotage the shit out of it, i hate Black folk and every movie or tv show they have a lead in i just review bomb it on my channel and my 1million subscribers eat it and parrot it all over social media, it kinda feels nice israeliteing the israelites.
Frick Black folk, minorities, women in leading roles.
Bring back classic Hollywood
Looks unironically kino
oh cool just having the old Black person have pretty little white girls dance for him
everyone who made this has a name and address
Looks more like he's dancing for them des.
How do they make basic linen clothes when they can't even build a proper house
Whats LOTR about this?
look at his feet dumb CHUD
Its off brand witcher
I'll admit that this looks comfy
Who are they supposed to be?
Harfoots. Tolkien said they were slightly darker than other hobbits so of course to Amazon that means jungle Black folk
That's ridiculous. Since when does Amazon, or anybody making media, give a shit about the descriptions used in books?
When they're an excuse to puke in more diversity.
good point, writings describe heimdal as the whitest god out of all the gods and teutonics did not have a word that means white=pure of heart
yet they made hiemdal a Black person and said "he got a pure heart!"
Looks like a stage
Did the cheap meadow give it away?
Just look at that schlocky design. Holy shit
Doesn't have the spirit of Tolkien AT ALL lol
Do the kids live with the black hobbit-adjacent? I don't' think they're safe
No the girls are the daughters of this hobbit
If I had to guess it would be that the white family and non-white family of hobbits find each other on their nomadic journeys and end up staying together for whatever reason.
These unironically look good. I like the sets and costumes. Too bad about the nignogs...
DEY HEA
Why are they so dirty and unkempt? They're like ghetto hobbits, a pretty racist portrayal no cap.
They are basically gypsy hobbits
THIEVESSSS THIEVESSSS DIRTY HIBBITSESSSS
I can't believe they found a way to push the racewashing agenda and the pedo agenda at the same time.
Gollum was right all along
>It will also be an immigrant story
Why do they have to look so dirty? Do they rub their faces in dirt in the morning? It's so fricking stupid.
Gollum was right about everything
Didn't you know? Before we invented the shower everyone just rubbed dirt on their faces every morning, I learned this from hollywood.
I don't hate it I won't lie
>somebody saw this and thought "eh good enough"
wow none of the weight is actually on the wheel at any point
impressive
i'm guessing this is supposed to be the story of how hobbits arrived at the shire and their immigration period or w/e. still looks like shit.
not diverse enough
lmao dark magic and shiet
I WILL watch this (on illegal streaming sites)
you're still giving them mindshare you pathetic cuck. theres hundreds of pro white Japanese video games you havent played but your going to sit around watching this anti white shit because "it's free"? Your mother is a prostitute
lol
kino
amazing how the cgi looks worse than in the movie trilogy
more amazing is your inability to identify a set with a matte painting background
That's not a matte painting moron
now do the apollo missions
LOTR films were filmed on location, every movie nowadays is filmed on a greens or LED screen.
30% of the show is shot on location, which is quite alot
>Those pauldrons
Please no.
Unacceptable, where is the diversity?
They're all kneeling to a woman.
So does the UK... And Finland... And New Zealand
>where is the diversity?
plenty of brown people in the southlands
You can tell what gender 99% of them identify as.
Not diverse enough, try again.
Is the one on the right a boy or a girl I can't tell anymore.
Bio-girl identifying as trans-demi-poly-asexual boy.
boy, he was right bang in the middle of puberty when filming (14 years old)
Don't be surprised if in future seasons a bunch of twitter roasties scream about his 'glow up' or whatever
look into your toilet
horrible green screen
zero greenscreen you muppet
How would you know?
where my Black folk at tbh
Pretty decent video game cutscene I guess, but why post it in a thread about live action filmmaking?
Look I know Gil-galad looks glorious but i can assure you he is real
The nose knows
Strong Noldorean snoz
That's an aryan profile you moron
Short ROMAN haircuts? Fricking hell these creative designers were worthless
The lead concept artist for the show is John Howe
Guess they forced him to draw garbage or just threw away his designs when it suited them. I am sure they have as little respect for his creative authority as they have for Tolkien.
awful armor aesthetics, completely at odds with the books.
>modern tv show with billion dollar budget
>has worse sets than a 1940s film
truly amazing
will not watch one second or talk about it with any other person
DEY HEA
Multi-culti hobbit nomads make no sense. They're a divergent race of humans. Which means they would be less diverse than the people they descended from. Only after they diverged and established themselves as a people the different tribes of hobbits would then develop further down the line.
It's shit world building simple as that. It's shit world building in a series about the most meticulous world builder in history. It just magnifies how inept the writers of this series are.
>Multi-culti hobbit nomads make no sense
Neither do dragons the size of mountains being able to fly
look forward to your blog on that point next
based
dragons are real, israelite
>shilling for BLM Lord of the Rings
Do zoomers really?
I love when you use this pretend faux argument when you dont even believe in it.
Dragons are established in the world of Tolkien. Multi-culti hobbits are not. It's that simple. If you don't like it, find another fantasy world or make your own.
Ancalagon wasnt the size of a mountain
Cringe
or ending segregation
Tolkien already wrote an essay called "On Fairy Stories" that essentially counters this stupid statement. This is nothing but far left posturing.
Dumbest low IQ argument only disingenuous morons use
I’ll never watch The Brown Knight
I’ll never watch Wheel of Mutts
I’ll never watch Kang of tha Rangz
Simple as
Leddit figured out what the deal is with the Maiar that falls from the sky as a meteor and meets the Hobbits
They are using the poem from the Adventures of Tom Bombadil called "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon,"
>And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair, and like a meteor,
>A star in flight, ere Yule one night flickering down he fell
In LOTR Bilbo composes a different version of the poem but the same tale, which Frodo recites in Bree.
It implies that the man in the moon poem Bilbo composed is part of story passed down among hobbits whose ancestors actually came into contact with a Maiar
>Tom Bombadil
was he some sort of godhead figure or something?
so the hobbits were Black folk until they come into contact with a God who's divine aura turns them into normal people
nah, Joseph Smith already wrote that fantasy
N
>all because some thug overdosed on Fentanyl on the sidewalk, we have to see Black folk in fricking everything
This isn't diversity
>We have to see Black folk in everything
>We
You got a mouse in your pocket, anon?
I just dont watch shit with nogs in it
i will simply NEVER watch it
You will though, everybody will
nah, still haven't watched a single piece of nuwars media other than webms on here
gonna enjoy shitting on it
>Young Ned Stark as an elf
I knew I recognised that homosexual
He also plays a literal homosexual in Behind Her Eyes
nowitendz himself
Why would I waste my time watching it when I can simply laugh at the memes
Why does that elf look so fricking old?
I may give it a glance just to see / confirm how terrible it is but I will NEVER give it a full watch or even a chance. Amazon made this, a company that is literally the diametric opposite of everything Tolkien was about. You can literally just see in the designs that these ghouls don't *get* him
Based and samepilled.
I will binge watch the extended cut of the LotR trilogy instead after I've binge watched the extended cut of the Hobbit trilogy first.
>european fantasy
>blacks everywhere
When will it end
What makes you think it will
Unintentionally hilarious
its going to suck, doesnt it my friends?
Mordor on the right
How does this look endlessly worse than something that came 20 years before it. Literally looks worse than an Unreal Engine demo.
They fly now??
the superior homie elf can do what the regular cracka elves cant even imagine.
>the superior homie elf can do what the regular cracka elves cant even imagine.
This, including making millions of American women wet in a way Legolas could only dream of
>buzzcut short hair Black person elf
Absolutely disgusting
Why are all asian dudes like this?
Regular elves also fly, get out of here normie
so legolas being the best elf is no longer going to be a thing is it
turns out elves were WAY better just long ago
He's a Silvan elf of unknown lineage where Legolas was a Sindar, son of King Thranduil
So Legolas should be at least a grade above him but let's see
A lot of Elves were better than Legolas
>"Ok Quotalas, you've just spotted Sauron's bike leaning against a big tree untended across the meadow. Action!"
>see tv show getting advertised
>it starts Blacks and other minorities
>into the shitter it goes
Yet another show I'll be ignoring. Such is life.
I've been colouring this pic.
Kino. Where's it from?
The pic is from a cover of a magazine journal. The first few dozen issues had pretty cool artwork.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vinyar_Tengwar_31
I think(') it's older German. Means "See half-brother".
It's from a passage of the Silmarillion, where Fëanor points a sword to Fingolfin and says "See Half-brother! This is sharper than thy tongue".
Germanon here. Can confirm that's what it says (the entire sentence).
Yeah, I wasn't certain at first but the scene gave context.
Ich lerne noch Deutsch.
Sehr gut, mein Freund.
Danke. 😀
>'Sihe halpbruder
QRD of the story
sneed
These are noggits. They're distantly related to Shire folk.
Like hobbits, they also cannot swim and they loves pipe weed. They've even developed a more potent version of it called pipe crack.
But unlike Hobbits, the Noggits do not love peace and quiet and good tilled earth. They love gibs and rioting and sexual assault.
In this version of LOTR, the Noggits jump Bilbo one night outside the Green Dragon and rob him, taking the ring to Noggit Town. Unlike the Shire, Noggit Town is not safe. It's like an above ground Orc Lair. The ring stays there for hundreds of years without being noticed because Noggit Town is already so vile, one more layer of evil makes no real difference.
just putting the final blackwashes
>COME ON JUST WATCH THE SHOW, EVEN ONE EPISODE, YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT A CHANCE, YOU CAN'T SAY IT'S BAD UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN IT
I'll watch it to laugh at it and discuss it with friends. But I'll absolutely make sure to watch it illegally. Even though it's going to be garbage it will likely be seen by many people and be a success simply based on name recognition alone. I won't be a part of that.
Oh, god, I can almost hear him saying 'N'...
haha are they fricking serious oh my god
This picture with the lighting is unironically giving me Silmarillion vibes
lmao good bait, have a (you)
the part of the silmarillion where morgoth rages against all that is beautiful and pure and seeks to twist, subvert and destroy it?
Fookin hell that schnozz
>ONE NOSE TO RULE THEM ALL
>ONE NOSE TO SMELL THEM
Do you think eru is going to be part of the show at all?
Yeah, as the bad guy.
>do you think current year amazon show will have God show up or unambiguously exist
No.
As in a physical entity? doubt it
He does sink Numenor but whether they portray that as a direct intervention by Eru of just imply it is another matter
I doubt we will even see the Valar (and hope we don't).
we will and more than one of them will be black
>implying a black Tulkas wouldn't be kino
>one of them will be black
I hope it's Melkor. Melkor being the only black one would be funny as frick.
But you just know if they do show him they'll depict him as blonde hair and blue eyed.
>blonde hair and blue eyed
does eru ever physically show up in the books at all?
The song at the start of the silmarillion isn’t really a physical event but aside from numenor and pushing gollum into a volcano that’s the most active he ever is in the plot
Well they certainly have the skills to steal the ring from Smeagol, and sneaking into some big place for the sake of robbing it
I shan't be watching this piece of shit because I'm an actual lord of the rings fan
The guy who arrives via meteor is confirmed to be a maiar, but it's probably Tilion (guardian of the Moon) rather than a blue wizard or Sauron.
There is a poem that Bilbo writes about a man who comes from the moon and Frodo recites it in Bree. Originally this poem appears in 'The adventures of Tom Bombadil' called "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon,"
A couple of the lines
>And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair, and like a meteor,
>A star in flight, ere Yule one night flickering down he fell
They are using Tolkien's Man in the Moon story to create an event where this Maiar meets some hobbits and the story of this passes into hobbit folklore/legend all the way down to Bilbo/Frodo
I got all of this from leddit btw
Wow! An Apple! I just want to watch it now. Seriously, don't they have something more to show?
What else do you expect them to show 3 months from release? Might get another teaser this month but if not they will just save the proper stuff until San Diego Comicon
>What else do you expect them to show 3 months from release?
more Black folk honestly. I'm always expecting them to show even more Black folk where they don't belong
>Lord of the Black folk: Ovendodgers of Power
There is only 1 more black character that hasn't been revealed yet
I absolutely doubt that
No it's true, only Cynthia Addai-Robinson's character left which will get confirmed when they do their big Numenor reveal, probably at Comicon
apart from all the black extras that will be spread everywhere they're most visually jarring
>all the black extras that will be spread everywhere
Not seen a single one in any of the images of the high elves
yeah definitely not falling for this cope again lmao. morons were doubting there would be black elves at all to begin wtih
Okay but bare in mind you can make out ~50 high elf characters and extras between various pictures and 100% of them are white
thanks amazon shill, I will bare that in mind. However I still am going to assume there will be Black person elves based on the fact amazon has in fact already made Black person elves
>the fact amazon has in fact already made Black person elves
Yes and where does he live? and how far is that from Lindon, or even Eregion?
Which main high elf characters are black? Show me even 1 non-white extra
there are Black person elves, not watching your disgraceful show lol, just going to continue enjoying actual tolkien works
>"there won't be any Black person elves!"
>turns out there is indeed Black person elves
>"y-yeah well there won't be any Black person high elves!"
You homosexuals were wrong before so why the frick would anyone believe you now, lying scum?
Right I'm sure it's only a few main characters
Those fingernails aren't even properly dirty.
I won't watch it
>make the black characters a bunch of filthy, unkempt weirdos in rags
Why would the totally anti-racist allies do this?
even in Middle Earth, while the high Elves build giant cities, Black person Elves wear Rags and have shitty lanterns
what did they mean by this?
Balrog on the right
>AHHH SAVE ME BARAHIR
>virtue signal casting Black folk as proto-hobbits, primitives that will eventually evolve into civilized proper white hobbitfolk
Showrunner comments, just dropped
Oh they said it will be good so it obviously will. The soulless corporation would never lie to us, right?
Lies and deceit.
Also moral relativism.
>From my point of view Gondor is evil!
>The show is about "different variety of good"
never stood a chance lmao. Imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to think fundamentalist catholic tolkien believed in "different varieties of good"
>fundamentalist catholic tolkien
The guy who had gay friends and read feminist literature? yeah im sure he was completely black/white, dumb chud
Tolkien was a fundamentalist catholic and lord of the rings is a spiritually catholic work, seethe about it
>Tolkien was a fundamentalist catholic
No he wasn't, he had multiple gay friends and was big supporter of feminist and Marxist writers.
You are a foreigner anyway so your opinion is literally worthless when talking about English literature
yes he was, dilate over it
Go find your own books, stop trying to appropriate literature never intended for you
irrelevant parasite
Tolkien was extremely catholic and this is not disputed by anyone but you troony
Go find your own books, from your own country and stay there. These books were never intended for you and never will be.
Tolkien was catholic
the troony that seethes with rage whenever confronted with undisputed truth
lmao it can't even dispute the main point anymore and just shrieks in pain as it lashes out at you
who fricking cares what tolkien was.
the writers should care. you don't have to be catholic to enjoy lord of the rings at all, but to understand tolkien and write something faithful to him it's extremely important. Tolkien himself described lord of the rings as a fundamentally catholic work, and moral relativism is completely at odds with catholicism. catholicism and moral relativism are not compatible at all, so to see signs that moral relativism is a central theme of the show is proof the writers and creators fundamentally don't understand tolkien or LOTR
>see signs that moral relativism is a central theme of the show
Literally nowhere is that said
"different varieties of good" is just another way of saying "heroes can come from the most unlikely of places"
dumb ESL
>"different varieties of good"
>"even our villain is the hero of his own story"
>You'll learn how everyone views the world fundamentally different"
absolutely moral relativism
You are a literal brainlet who failed to understand two simple sentences
There really should be some basic English comprehension test for you ESLs to use English language boards
not an argument
I really hope I meet you in person so I can brutally murder you, you parasite
People who want to understand his work more
>akshually Tolkien was a Marxist 🙂
You just can’t help yourselves can you
tolkien didnt live in england he lived in africa, and his catholicism was intricately tied to keeping his mothers memory alive
>Mabel Tolkien was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1900 despite vehement protests by her Baptist family,[19] which stopped all financial assistance to her. In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting. She was then about 34 years of age, about as old as a person with diabetes mellitus type 1 could survive without treatment—insulin would not be discovered until 1921, two decades later. Nine years after her death, Tolkien wrote, "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
lol Tolkien was pissed that when his former atheist friend C.S. Lewis converted to christianity, he didn't chose to become catholic
lol Tolkien who to his dying day rejected the second Vatican council and obnoxiously prayed in Latin during mass
>big supporter of feminist and Marxist writers
sounds catholic tbh
>read feminist literature
Kek he wrote a whole essay about how if we allowed feminists and Americans to spread their ideals they will homogenized the world, ruining genuine diversity, and making it feel much smaller than it is, destroying any reason for travel as you will never be exposed to a different world view and cultural outlook. He was also a traditionalist catholic, and while revisionists love to point to the fact that Tolkein did not like Nazis or Hitler, they always ignore that he was a life long public supporter of Caudillo Francisco Franco, noted Fascist dictator. So go frick yourself while J.R.R and Christopher look down upon me and smile.
>different varieties of good
If it that hard to understand this simple comment?
They are saying that different types of people can be good, not just your traditional 'hero' types, you know like the hobbits in LOTR
Fricking brainlet
right I'm sure that's what the people who put in Black person elves and hobbits and dwarves meant
>when you watch it years from now you shouldn’t be able to pinpoint when it was filmed
Everyone will be able to pinpoint exactly when it was filmed based on the casting
>"Even our villain is the hero of his own story"
the bad guy thinks he is... LE GOOD GUY
so deep, wow
>"we didn't want the show to be political"
>fills it will blacks and browns
These people are so dishonest.
Remember how the showrunner of the Witcher said she would not randomly raceswap established characters?
Anyway, they already admitted that they are going to compress 1000s of years into one human lifespan, so the lore is fricked from the start and that is something that Tolkien would have definitely hated.
It's the first rule Christopher set up and they immediately stepped on it. I'm sure the other two rules will be stepped on, too.
It's no surprise they waited for him to die. And they quickly got rid of the Tolkien scholar who was supposed to keep an eye on their faithfullness to the lore. I don't trust these homosexuals at all.
can I get a QRD on Nogbits?
>it’s time for my 2nd malt liquor
>I don't think he knows about menthol cigarettes
Statue at this port in Numenor is Eärendil
Silmaril on brow
What if that hand breaks and falls over some church?
Why does this show look both expensive and cheap at the same time? How does one achieve this aesthetic?
>How does one achieve this aesthetic?
a green screen
This may sound like cope but they haven't even finished post production yet, so stuff like CG has been worked on for the 4 months since the teaser
Looks more like World of Warcraft than anything I envision when reading the books. This show will hurt me more than the recent Star Treks.
Ted Naismith art is quite different to John Howe tbh, they are using his designs
Both, while great artists, have done a lot of damage to the visual aspects of LOTR. Tolkien would have never envisioned it as the pulp fantasy garbage we are used to these days. Just check Pauline Baynes, she was Tolkien's friend and, according to him, the one who got the closest to whathe had in mind when imagining his world
This reminds me of some city in Heroes of Might & Magic.
Soulless as frick
I always imagined Númenor in terms of Byzantine golden domes, mosaics and such, not that shitty grey stone slum copypasted from Artstation
"There are 40 sketchbooks full of drawings for this show." - John Howe
"They threw most of them away."
Using John Howe’s designs and a lot of the sets looks really good. Unfortunately I just don’t have any faith they will pull it off. There’s no source material just the setting and a few sketches of events so most will have to be made up.
Jackson had mountains of material and managed to frick up Hobbit royally.
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tolkien never said the shire didn't have batman and superman in it, so that means they DO exist there
They were so "excited" to have that Lenny Henry dude just to dress him like a fricking circus monkey.
>east farthing 4 life homie
I really hope this show tanks.
Let's be honest the brazilian elf guy doesn't look Black, he has could facial symetically. The dwarf queen also has a big middle eastern looking nose, she could pass as one of the blackbeard rhun dwarfs.
At least they are trying to match the nose, face features even if the skin colours are off.
>at least they're applying lube before pushing it in
This is set thousands of years before LOTR
A lot of the humans and Hobbits who are browner here could easily evolve total white skin from now until the third age due to climate.
Just think of it like that.
The show might be fun but I'll sabotage the shit out of it, i hate Black folk and every movie or tv show they have a lead in i just review bomb it on my channel and my 1million subscribers eat it and parrot it all over social media, it kinda feels nice israeliteing the israelites.
Frick Black folk, minorities, women in leading roles.
Bring back classic Hollywood
Did they really have to make Galadriel so fricking hot, jesus
Got to pander to the coomers.
Galadriel is supposed to be pretty hot
Which is why it's surprising that they didn't cast her with the ugliest dyke shitskin they could find.
Jesus fricking Christ.
Frick off shill, not going to watch you Black person show.
eh i'll hatewatch it (for free)
dey hea…
i unironically looking forward to shitpost about it with you guys. maybe we even get a livethread going.
It unironically looks really good
You're not fooling anyone.
Twittergays loved all the recent images
Of course did. Bunch of brainlets, the lot of them.
Damn so did the LOTR hobbits kill all the nignogs? I failed to find any nignog hobbits during those films.
So where are the brown elves or the asian elves?? the lack of representation sickens me