>AHHHHH SAURON IS SCARY AND I'M JUST A WEAK WHITE MALE, GALADRIEL PLEASE LEAD MY SOLDIERS FOR ME
Did Amazon go too far?
>AHHHHH SAURON IS SCARY AND I'M JUST A WEAK WHITE MALE, GALADRIEL PLEASE LEAD MY SOLDIERS FOR ME
>AHHHHH SAURON IS SCARY AND I'M JUST A WEAK WHITE MALE, GALADRIEL PLEASE LEAD MY SOLDIERS FOR ME
Did Amazon go too far?
why does he look like a deep fake?
It's fake you moron, elfs doesn't exists. I knew Cinemaphile was autistic but come on
>elfs
>You're Austistic for liking Tolkien work!
>Wait, what you mean Ironman's a black woman now?! NO HECKIN WAY!!!
Go back to watching reality TV c**t, Tolkien's work isn't for the likes of you pleb.
They had to de-age him because he's an elf, I guess.
I'M STILL ALIVE
underrated
they tried their hardest to cast similar actor
This dude looked like an actual badass despite essentially being relegated to an extra in the final cut.
>Come at me, Mordor scum.
I think extras have more screentime than him. (2seconds)
>that glave bounce
how awful
Bad casting for the Elven king by Jackson, actor doesn’t look life the Elf at all. Too human and masculine. Amazon should’ve cast somebody better looking rather than slavishly aping Jackson.
This tbh. They probably said frick it because he only shows up for 3 seconds, but he really doesn't look like an elf, not to mention a king. He seems to be a fun guy though.
>They probably said frick it because he only shows up for 3 seconds
Agreed.
NOBODY who watch that Amazon shit will remember him from the 3 seconds he was in the first movie where it's not even told that he's Gil Galad.
Yeah it's odd they'd do that for a character who got two seconds of screentime in Jackson's movies while scraping the bottom of the barrel finding actors for Galadriel and Elrond who casuals actually might remember
>Galadriel and Elrond
The cast for these two in particular is egregious. Isn't the actor who plays Elrond from GoT, his face looks familiar. Not to mention the actress getting brutally mogged by a 53yr olf Cate Blanchett
wasn't a spear his weapon of choice?
His face is, like, 15% too small for his head.
wypipo on the screen will be impossible without deepfake in 10 years
You know in the future someone on /misc/ is going to use deepfake to deBlack person these movies.
I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom. If you read The Lord of the Rings, or any of his works - like really read, beyond the fact that he once points out an elf has pale skin or whatever - these are stories about people of different races overcoming their differences and working together for a common cause.
You are showing absolutely zero appreciation of the fact that there is actually something substantial being done with the Legendarium and that now more than ever will people watch LOTR content that isn't just the original trilogy. You need to stop watching sensationalist YouTube channels that make it their full-time job to bash Rings of Power. They don't care about Tolkien, they only care about you angrily clicking on their video so they can make ad money.
Finally, you have perverted Tolkien's work by gatekeeping it. The Legendarium is about good triumphing over hate, about all free people working together as a force of good to defeat the ultimate bad. And most importantly, how overcoming this evil is by being able to change and adapt. You people have only demonstrated you ability to hate while also your inability to change.
oh sweet summer child they don't give a frick about tolkien or his works. they just wanted something they could turn into the new GoT. it's gonna be generic and predictable
> these are stories about people of different races overcoming their differences and working together for a common cause.
Exactly. So why would you want to slap black face on top of an elf who is already a distinct race in itself?
It's not DnD where you can make your demon-spawn whatever color you want.
>Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow!
>Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!
>Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.
Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight,
>Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,
There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter,
>Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water.
Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing
>Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?
Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o!
>Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!
Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!
>Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day.
Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing.
>Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?
Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle!
>Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle.
Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping.
>When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open,
Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow.
>Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow!
Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you.
>Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you!
Hey! Come derry dol! Hop along, my hearties!
>Hobbits! Ponies all! We are fond of parties.
Now let the fun begin! Let us sing together!
>Now let the song begin! Let us sing together!
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather,
>Light on the budding leaf, dew on the feather,
Wind on the open hill, bells on the heather,
>Reeds by the shady pool, lilies on the water:
Old Tom Bombadil and the River-daughter!
The only good casting available.
Is that Eric Bana?
It’s Eric Banal
Everything in this show looks like it's made of plastic, even the characters
That looks so cheap.
Yeah, so cheap 🙂
Yes, troony, it does look cheap. Thank you for repeating it.
>troony
I fricking love this. Dude, I'm 6'3, 230 lbs, with a wife, 2 kids and a 6.5 inches dick.
Your fricking incel kind wouldn't dare to call me a troony or any other braindead slure irl because I would frick your chubby fat ass up.
Calling me a troony is straight up calling yourself a woman 🙂 and not a frickable kind, but a sharty assed Karen kind 🙂
You are a troony, and you need to dilate. After that, you need to stick your neck in the noose and kick the chair.
Shut the frick up you ugly fat r*ddit spacing troony piece of shit.
Holy frick what a homosexual. If i met you in real life i would kill you with my bare hands
>incel
>frickable
>karen
Mate get a grip and frick off back to twatter, reddit or where ever it is you hail from. gay kek
Remarkable how the attempted machismo of the first two sentences is completely undermined by the b***hy smiley faces at the end
kek'ing at the replies to this post thinking its serious
Fake and gay
Troon
>and a 6.5 inches dick.
Small dick for a big guy.
>Dude, I'm 6'3, 230 lbs, with a wife, 2 kids and a 6.5 inches dick.
Dude, I'm 6'3, 210 lbs, no wife, no kids, but I also have a 6.5 inch dick.
You wouldn't do shit Black person. I'd call you a troony and then what? What the frick are you going to do about it, you fricking delusional troony? Are you gonna beat my ass? You could try. But I would still laugh at your fragility.
Yeah? Well I'm 6'4", 235lbs, with two wives (inshalla), 3 kids and a 7" dick
You got that pissed off about it, but I actually believe you. You're probably an associate of the show who came here to shill and got triggered instantly by Cinemaphile banter. Go take care of your pozzed kids and quit worrying, your trash ass show will succeed. There's a multitude of normies and third world Black folk who'll watch it regardless of this pre-"backlash".
yup, cheap as frick.
yeah that looks nothing like middle earth/aman
absolute trash art direction
>that looks nothing like middle earth/aman
You autists are something else
>turning everything into blurry mess to hide the cgi
>not cheap
>blurry mess
Because its a low res screencap
>still blurry mess
You can get all those fake leaves from hobby lobby.
Cheap CGI looks cheap.
Eat a dick shill
It's really easy to tell composite CGI backdrops if you're not a fricking moron who hates cinema.
I honestly don't get why they are trying to portray Galadriel like this. Her portrayal is perfect. She doesn't need to be a warrior to display power. Also the girl who plays her is not tall enough. Galadriel is as tall as elven males, which means she is very tall. That chick from Tenet would be a much better choice though not sure if she can act.
Also this dude looks like dogshit btw.
>Oversaturated piece of dogshit.
That's what happens when you let activists and hacks run a franchise.
You mean Debicki? Because she would have been perfect, she has both the stature and the gravitas Galadriel needs.
Yes her. Or find a tall model who can act, but you can't sell her as a 5'6 girl.
no she would be terrible just put her as some random elf but not Galadriel. all she does is make fashion model faces
You see that would have been impressive...
21 years ago
bright overlit mess
featureless path on the edge of the cliff. where is it coming from, where is it going? is this entire scene just to set up a walk and talk?
why is there arches on this otherwise featureless path? to show us this is elf terriotry? is this the only tool they have to do this?
>so cheap 🙂
yes; this is the peak of cheap. cheap costumes. cheap scenery. cheap lighting. this is not a screengrab i would use to brag about a billion dollar series. if this is a still they are using to promote the show i would be worried since it shows they are creatively bankrupt.
actual depth in shadow, focus, color.
multiple buildings of varying size and shape. repeated style features informs the viewer of the scale and scope of the elements in the background.
theres a lot of time and effort that went into setting up all the details and layout of this shot, and it all informs the viewer on the nature of the elves and rivendell.
Yes, that looks cheap. Those arches scattered around make me feel like I'm watching a tour of the LotR section of a theme park or something.
Yeah that looks pretty cheap. Pic related looks better despite being 20+ years older.
Man I was so bummed when they said they actually built a full scale Edoras but then demolished it all at the end.
Looks like the piss filter from the ps3 era is back
is this the plot? GilGalad the guy who solos a Balrog?
>GilGalad the guy who solos a Balrog?
You are thinking of Glorfindel
Gil-galad 2vs1s Sauron with Elendil
The plot revolves around Galadriel being neurotic about evil returning and Gil-galad wanting to enjoy their peace.
She's off taking armies out to hunt shit down and people die/get hurt as a result.
Then they have some conflict and he puts her in her place, because he's her king after all regardless of her being arguably of higher tier status
Ah yes, elves and their plate mail.
>no helmets
>just doing a cool pose for no reason on a boat
Why though?
Armour looks ceremonial, not sure what for though
>because he's her king after all regardless of her being arguably of higher tier status
If we are going by whats the "most" official accounts say, he is her nephew a few generations down. Having him boss her around, while not unprecedented, is also extremely un-elflike. Its true that someone like Thingol turned up his nose at the sons of feanor and other high rankers but that was mostly done by people at least on each others general level. Gil Galad the Elven Chad was by all means a Noldorin king of stature but Galadriel being that much older than him shouldnt be a fricking rambunctious child in comparison that ever needs to be corrected or reigned in. It would be like if Thranduil started mouthing off against Finrod
So Celeborn was sloppy seconds after Gil-Galad?
Celeborn was going balls deep in her before Gil-Galad was even in his father's ballsack. But in terms of status, he gets cucked by Gil-Galad.
The only Sindar worth a shit was Thingol, but he was among the first elves to awaken.
>Glorfindel
He got his shit pushed in by the Balrog and had to be re-embodied by the Valar kek. Balrog's are fricking Maia, the only one who could've walked away from it alive was Fingolfin.
Also Feanor. He survived fighting multiple balrgos and got owned when Gothmog joined the fray and he was technically alive when he was rescued from them but died shortly after from his wounds.
I don't know what it is about that armor but I fricking hate it. I can't put my finger on it but there is something incredibly fake about it.
>I can't put my finger on it but there is something incredibly fake about it.
It's perfectly clean. Compare to Elrond and the elves' armor in the first ten minutes of Fellowship. They're dirty, their armor has dings and dents on it, their shields have clearly been used. The armor even if not dirty shows varying stages of oxidation, which makes it look like REAL METAL. This ultra-clean pure silver / white shit looks fake because it looks like it's never been used in battle and is perfectly uniform in a way that only plastic is. It looks at absolute best like performative ceremonial armor used by artistocrats in the 1700s that have never actually used a weapon, but we're supposed to accept that these are battle-hardened warrior elves?
There's a harsh disconnect from what we're told we're seeing (centuries-old warriors) and what we're actually seeing (twinks in costumes), which makes it look stupid.
it subtly implies that Galadriel and her twink squad don't actually fight
>it subtly implies that Galadriel and her twink squad don't actually fight
Which would be fine. If Galadriel and her crew were mages or used magic to fight without ever getting physical it would at least make sense in the story.
>Galadriel and her battle mages were so adept at overwhelming the powers of darkness with their magic their armor was spotless, free from even rust as Eru's light flowed around them
But nooo, gotta make Galadriel into Brienne of Tarth for Game of Thrones: Middle Earth.
>But nooo, gotta make Galadriel into Brienne of Tarth for Game of Thrones: Middle Earth.
Both Brienne and Tywin Lannister as she's a warrior and a commander of the Elven armies. Amazon morons.
Hackson fricked up some things but whoever was responsible for the art direction and set design and costumes really nailed it. The world looks lived in but still magical, the clothes and armors and weapons all look like they belong to the world and have seen wear and tear. Everything in Rings of Power looks like it didn't exist three seconds before filming started, like it was just bought from IKEA.
You are comparing battle worn armour to ceremonial garb you fricking div
Didn't really need a blog now did it
>to ceremonial garb
Okay Shilly McShillington, let's compare it to ceremonial garb from the Jackson movies. Oh look, it also doesn't look like a Party City knight costume because the people making those movies weren't hack frauds from fricking Amazon.
>people making those movies weren't hack frauds
It's the same people
20 fricking years ago. Now they are greedy lazy uninspired frickwits who are so lacking in imagination that they are ripping off their own work and doing it badly.
Just because company has same name doesnt mean its the same people.
>It's the same people
Name five of said same people.
There are loads, at all levels of the production
Weta Workshop employs hundreds of people, many still work there that worked on the movies
IMDB lists alot of them and it's way more than five
Shot callers aren't the same people.
Get bodied shill lmao
well to be fair one is at the start of the campaign and one is at the final battle
Nah, Gil-galad was the guy who ruled well throughout the entire 2E and got smoked by Sauron.
You are either referring to Glorfindel or Echtelion(who fights Gothmog, the leader of ballrogs in Gondolin leading to a mutual death). Gil Galad is honestly not a very important character. Not through first age at least. Also Galadriel is his superior in stature despite the latter being the king.
>Gil Galad is honestly not a very important character.
He's important enough that the showrunners have stolen everything he does to prepare men and elves for war with Sauron and given it to Galadriel
Fanfiction from hack writers.
>Creating stories is LeBad
Why is Cinemaphile so anti-art?
raping existing properties to make a penny and virtue signal? Seems okay to me
Create your own new, original story and you can write whatever you want.
If you adapt someone else's story and put their name on it to sell it to their existing fans, then you have no fricking business getting "creative."
Create your own shit, don't change somebody else's.
>Create your own shit
It's not yours to decide who gets to do what with it, you have zero ownership over it, zero
Tolkien would have hated commies like you
>you have zero ownership over it, zero
I have just as much ownership over it as amazon does. the fact that some bald pedo c**t payed a bunch of money to some israelites long after Tolkien's death means nothing to me.
Tolkien would have burn you to death for desecrating his legacy, you filthy liberal israelite
> The merely time-filling scrawl of a participation-trophy AA childless 30+ roastie/D&D-playing pink-haired trans goblin
Yes, anon, "art"
i genuinely hope and pray she gets fricked by sauron
Gil-galad is going to be gay, isn't he?
Making him gay would be the most based thing Amazon could do. The ultimate goal of all elves is to be sexually dominated by non-Elvish males
Why else did Glorfindel and Aragorn hang out together?
Your inability to comprehend male friendship without sexual overtones gives off a very unsettling vibe.
I think it says more about Elven predilections, but I confess I'm a sick fudanshi thanks to pic related.
He's a millennial or zoomer with a degenerate mindset who doesn't understand a concept of male friendship.
In some countries, degenerates like you get thrown off buildings before they can corrupt the minds of others.
and that's a good thing.
Turn off the weeb coomer part of your brain for one second.
Why did Amazon cast Adam Schiff in their movie?
is that really what they cast as Gil-Galad the handsomest lad in all of history?
ffs
>handsomest lad in all of history
He's not bad looking tbh
Kaya Scodelario's husband
He has a fat face.
Whipped husband of a feminist, he even took her surname, LMAO.
He looks like fricking Seth McFarlane HAHAHAHAHAHA
He looks like a melted wax sculpture of Seth McFarlane
>Kaya Scodelario's husband
lucky bastard, good for him
the comments are worth the show
So it's all women, blacks and black women?
>So it's all women, blacks and black women?
Not the villains.
>GODDAMN WYPIPO!!
I miss the evil cannot create in cyrilic line, but these are good substitutes.
>When Gandalf shouted at the Ents "Run, Forest, Run!!"
Kek
I didnt think it would come the day i would say this,but...
BASED NORMIES
heh, you're alright YouTube
You know a hollywood exec is absolutely seething looking at these comments.
>11 million views
>81 thousand likes
HUEHUEHUEHUE
>That part where Gollum says "Crashing this tower... with no survivors!" and then tackles Frodo off the ledge in Mt Doom, truly iconic
normies are alright sometimes
>normies are spending their time organising ebin raids on YouTube comments sections via discord
lol
things have to be in a very bad state when even normies are not letting corporations force feeding this crap on them.
>ESL
lol, every time
>braindead troony shill
lmao it's so clear
source:my ass
still not watching it
I mean the company is called Amazon so I guess strong female warriors was inevitable.
Shame Frank Frazetta couldn't design the costumes.
Yoooooo
Kino incoming
How gay and embarrassing are you irl
Is it me or is there not a single casting that looks remotely standout, impressive or intimidating. They all look like high schoolers or something, just completely unrelateable.
It’s the new thing, everyone is either ugly or so plain they don’t offend any of the uglies.
>The Hobbit
>The Fellowship of the Ring
>The Two Towers
>The Return of the King
>The Silmarillion
>Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
>The Children of Húrin
>Beren and Lúthien
>The Fall of Gondolin
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Could you possibly elaborate?
As someone who is just finishing the books (final 50 pages or so of ROTK) I don't get why Jackson and (probably) Amazon decided to make the elves into wood ninjas whenever there's a fight scene.
It’s hard to depict them as a “superior” race otherwise. Jackson took it way too far with Legolas but I see the point.
Tolkien and Galadriel 🙂
Nice tie homie
who is the liberace guy?
supposed to be Celebrimbor, but they cast him as an old man who looks like he sells hair products
this probably one of the worst casting choices
Celebrimbor being beautiful young looking talented elf-crafter supposed to convey him being passionate and easily deceived by another beautiful looking elf (Sauron).
I dont know how this old dude can convey the same idea.
He looks like he just want to lay on the rooftop and watch at the stars till death. There is no passion or young naivity and innocense in his look.
I'm looking forward to seeing him impaled on a pole carried around like a standard by Sauron's army.
>Old Dirty Bastard
hahahahahahahahah
>Doc Brown
>Blacklas
The Liberace guy is the single person in this video that has any kind of charisma, or makes me want to learn more about him. Everybody else just looks so horribly, horribly dull.
What in the world is up with that webm, who thought that video (?) was a good idea?
A Fat Niggres
Racist
Yes
WOW SO BRAVE SHE MADE AN INSTA POST. Goddamn I hate this Morf b***h. Such a downgrade from Cate.
Black person
Bookgays explain please.
I thought Galadriel was basically a demigod of sorts and seen as being basically the highest authority. Why is she subservient to someone else in this show?
Gil-Galad is High King of the Noldor because he is a penis haver. Galadriel is his great aunt.
Gil Galad was king because he actually did shit to reorganize the elves when their cities were all getting destroyed by Morgoths armies while Galadriel was a loser who just mooched off of her husband's family for thousands of years while contributing nothing.
What did she actually do for the majority of the 1st age? Wasn't she at Doriath begging Thingol not to kick her out kek
There are so many other women like Luthein, Melian and Morwen who completely and utterly shit all over her, I don't know why the show creators are so obessed with her.
>What did she actually do for the majority of the 1st age
Split her time between Doriath and living with Finrod in Nargothrond
>I don't know why the show creators are so obessed with her.
You could ask the same thing about Tolkien. She was clearly one of his favourite characters, he said she was the top 3 most important/greatest elves ever.
I think the dead lad who's body she's crying over in the trailer was Finrod, the real VMP, after he got mauled by Sauron's werewolves kek
I think all things considered Thingol probably would've let it slip seeing as they're relatives. Did she actually take part in the kinslaying?
>oldest living elf in Arda
Another anon mentioned it but that shot of her kneeling before Gil-Galad is so fricking moronic. I hate those c**t's for turning her into some angsty teenager.
>angsty teenager
She isn't, she has never been described as such. This is from somebody that has seen episodes when asked who ROPs Galadriel is similar to
What the frick is she doing riding into battle if she's meant to be "regal"? And what the frick is she grieving about? Finrod died in the 1st age, she got to chill with Angrod's grandson and Aegnor was too busy chasing human pussy. Besides, wasn't she happily married to Celeborn in period of the time the show is set in?
>what the frick is she grieving about
All her family died anon, Sauron killed her favourite brother. She also lost her home (twice) and hasn't had contact with her parents for thousands of years. She lost pretty much everything by this point and this won't be the end of her losses
Not that I would expect the sociopaths of Cinemaphile to understand this
>She lost pretty much everything by this point and this won't be the end of her losses
Sounds like most elves to be honest and she could have returned to her parents after the First Age, so that's on her.
>she could have returned to her parents after the First Age
Not in all versions, in some she had a personal ban placed on her because she was one of the key leaders in the rebellion. This only gets lifted once she rejects the ring from Frodo
But yet she was too stubborn to return to Valinor? Besides, wouldn't 2nd age Galadriel resemble 3rd age Galadriel after being Melian's student?
Feanor was in a league of his own, still doesn't change the fact that he was a complete and utter c**t. I wonder how long he'll be kept in Mandos lol
Not to mention the source material they're working with. I doubt it would be so heavily focused on her if they had the rights to the Silmarillion.
I'm childrent he children of Húrin at the moment and his wife Morwen seems based as frick. Female "empowerment" wise, she shits all over Galadriel.
Yeah he was a notorious c**t. Which is sad, he was an interesting character and had hype beyond any other elf in Tokien's work.
As hyped as he was, Feanor proved to be moron in the end. Why didn't he just wait for the rest of the Noldor before going ape-shit at Morgoth lol?
Alright bro, you're 100% right, all the other anons who read Tolkien's work are clueless morons. She was only powerful because of a **magic** ring.
Hubris. He was an arrogant prick, thought he was unbeatable.
>She only had powerful *"magic** due to her **magic** ring
ftfy
Everything else is entirely headcanon, zero support in the text. I mean why did the elves create magic rings of they can already do magic, huh? Your headcanon makes little sense even for fanfic
There's elven "magic" before the rings. The rings themselves are are result of this native power.
Ah yes this is how normal people discuss things and isn't just a list of buzzwords and talking points handed to a marketing firm
>Finrod
His singing alone made the first men to awaken wiser, not to mention he luckily got to them before Morgoth. And then gave up his life so Beren could get laid. Without a shadow of a doubt one of the most fricking solid blokes in Arda. A true bro through and through.
>Nargothrond
Not to mention being one of the few Noldor, apart from his cousin, to be bros witht he dawrves. But instead of Finrod we get a mullato with a dindu haricut catching arrows and blacking some random village prostitute.
the contest of Finrod and Sauron us unironically my favourite bit in The Silmarillion
>and Finrod fell before the throne
grrrr, get chills just thinking about it
I think she just learned magic from Melian while fricking Thingols cousin. All I can actually remember is that she was too ashamed to admit to Melian that her and her family were elf killers
This. Galadriel's strength comes from her wisdom, both inherent(coming from his father Finarfin the Wise) and through the teachings of Melian.
>Galadriel's strength comes from the teachings of Melian
Source in that?... oh yeah right it's just your headcanon
It's in Silmarillion. Read the part about how Finrod got the nickname "Felagund" around page 140 and it also mentions Galadriel living in Doriath, in Thingol's hidden kingdom and learning great lore and wisdom from Melian.
All Galadriel is known for is having pretty hair and using magic to keep Sauron out of Lothlorien.
Whether she learnt how to do that from Melian or required a ring of power is up to you I guess
Lorien is protected in the same manner as Doriath. It's clear she learned the magic from Melian.
Yes is it the **magic** ring that protects Lorian and whose power deminishes after the one ring is destroyed
Or is it my entirely nonsensical headcanon?
Do you think we could break this one down and figure it out?
moron, the girdle of Melian kept Doriath hidden from Morgoth himself. Wouldn't it make sense for her to pick up a thing or two being Melian's student?
Fricking casual.
Entirely headcanon, zero support from the text
You imagine so much fanfic you should apply to be a writer for ROP s2
Because she made the Crossing, is all. The Silmarillion is almost totally devoid of any information about her or what she was doing for all that time. All we really know is that she had to make the Helcaraxe march after Feanor stole the ships, and then she isn't mentioned again until the Second Age is basically over and she's like the oldest Elf still standing on Arda.
You know, I was so surprised when I read The Silmarillion the first time and Galadriel barely showed up. I can't even remember whether Feanor wanting her hair was from this or Unfinished Tales or something else. The most vivid thing I remember about her is the mention she's in Doriath as Melian's pupil where she hooks up with Celeborn.
I didn't miss her though, The Silm had much more interesting female characters anyway.
They're obsessed with her because she's the only recognisable female figure for the casual Tolkien "fan" around during the Second Age, so they needed a hook so people can say "ooooh yeah Galadriel! I know her!". In the history of Middle-earth though she only became one of the most important by process of elimination, since everyone else was either dead or had departed for Aman. Of course, you also had Cirdan or Elrond, who were either older or more of a celebrity than her.
I never understood Tolkien's obession with her tbh, I think he ended up projecting on her towards the end of his life, and even then she was still a work in progress.
>she only became one of the most important by process of elimination,
Fricking lol
Tolkien said her and Feanor were the greatest of the Eldar when they were living in Valinor
Her greatness was not a late development
>I never understood Tolkien's obession with her
Mariolatrist gonna hyperbondage.
She's the only notable female Elf, yes. Arwen was born much later.
autism
The king is the king
She thinks she is right (she usually is) so acts in a way she think is best.
Sometimes this goes against what Gil-galad thinks is best so there is your conflict.
I don't think there will be any true conflict between them, probably a clash of egos.
Definitely sounds like they respect each other but Gil-galad has grown tired of Galadriel girlbossing the place
Which woman is going to solo the Balrog
Ok why does it HAVE to be diverse?
Why do there HAVE to be non whites?
Why cant the show just be white people?
Why does the most expensive show ever look like a video game? It's baffling.
Amazon studios is a mess. The Wheel of Time had the same issue. Compare some of the footage to House of the Dragon and it's night and day
>The insecure GOTgay is back
Every thread, kek
I have no idea if HotD will be any good, just saying from an aesthetic/lighting standpoint, HBO is leagues ahead of Amazon
HBO writing is a bit better too. Notice how the channel actually show a coherent story of a brewing civil war in the HoD trailers. I don't think it will be good but certainly better than RoP.
She oddly looks like a 45 years old who got plastic surgery while also looking in her mid twenties. These people are barely human at this point, they are more like demons, they already did a bunch of ritual satanic sacrifices to lock themselves on a dark path.
Racist here. Yes, I came in 2016 because I like Trump AND movies and I wanted a place I could safely say the Black person word.
Now I don't like Lord of the rings, fantasy shit is as gay as tranime, but I come to every one of these threads to point out rightfully that black "people" ARE NOT human. They're chimps!
Every time blacks are cast in a movie or show I will be there, I do MY part for the white race. I will come to your thread and say stuff like Black person, or homosexual, or Democrat. Get fricking used to it b***h
I cant wait till the sassy black dwarf puts a While Male Elf in his place.
WILL HAPPEN, BANK ON IT
Cheap CGI
wrong, that's a miniature
Fellowship of the Ring really is the best fantasy kino in the history of man
> elf city
> has hobbit-height railings
the elves built a hobbit sized lodge just for Bilbo when he moved there, it's in the book.
That was kino and it looks like a miniature, the buildings at least..
>Cirdan confirmed for S2
Based
Beard confirmed?
>New ring. What do you think?
Whoa-ho. Very nice. Look at that.
>Picked it up from the smith’s yesterday.
Good coloring.
>That's brass. And the lettering is something called Sildar Elvish.
It's very cool, Khamûl, but that's nothing. Look at this.
-That is really nice.
Platinum with Dwarven type. What do you think?
>Nice.
Eru. That is really super. How'd a nitwit like you get so tasteful?
>I can't believe that Elros prefers Tar-Meneldur’s ring to mine.
But wait. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Raised lettering, pale Noldor. White gold.
>Impressive. Very nice.
Hmm.
>Let's see Annatar’s ring.
>>Look at that subtle off-gold coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a firemark.
Is something wrong, Khamûl? You're sweating.
Quality shitpost.
Nai kotumo ar nilmo, kalima Vala
thauza ar poika, Moringothonna,
Elda ar Maiya ar Apanóna,
Endóressë Atan sin únóna,
ilar thanyë, ilar melmë, ilar malkazon sammë,
osta ilar harwë, lau Ambar tana,
só-thauruvá Fëanárollo, ar Fëanáró nossello,
iman askalyá ar charyá, ar mi kambë mapá,
herá hirala ar haiya hatá
Silmarillë. Sí vandalmë ilyai:
unqualé son antávalme mennai Aurë-mettá,
qualmé ten' Ambar-mettá! Quettalman lasta,
Eru Ilúvatar! Oiyámórenna
mé-quetamartya íre queluvá tyardalma.
Ainorontessë tirtassë lasta
ar lma-vandá enyalaz, Varda Manwë!
why is every other character i see in this shit show a fat black woman
>every other character i see in this shit show a fat black woman
There is literally just the one
and this one?
She's not fat
subjective
Fricking Naevia. I'd be annoyed except the show will undoubtedly be ass anyway.
Oh shit is it that slag from Spartacus?
She occupies the whole screen.
Whenever a fat black woman not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's fat black woman?"
jews
it's the new thing, like in Peacemaker they had 300lb black woman who was supposed to be a badass secret agent, like are we supposed to belief secret facilities don't use stairs?
Peacemaker is a comedy and you know what to expect from the intro. Tolkien invented high fantasy genre and it's always played straight without irony. So the diversity squad in RoP will be a source of unintentional comedy.
Is this show set before or after the rings of power were forged? If it is before then how is Ar-Pharazon in the show, he was born a thousand years after the rings were made. If it is after, then why is Galadriel searching for Sauron as if he is missing or hiding, they were in open war against him after the forging. Can someone explain?
172710084
>fukken commies
youre not fooling anyone
Did it ever occur to you that SOME of us actually want to talk about television on the goddamn television board? Literally everyone is looking forward to this show and we want to gather here to talk about how awesome it looks and how cute Morf is. We can't do that because you pieces of shit keep derailing every single thread about RoP™. Seriously, just stick to another thread if this huge epic tv show bothers you so much. It's going to be the biggest thing since Game of Thrones.
No I want ti complain of woke shit
You need to stop watching sensationalist YouTube channels that make it their full-time job to bash Rings of Power. They don't care about Tolkien, they only care about you angrily clicking on their video so they can make ad money.
And how that worked out for the female Ghostbusters?
reminder disguised sauron is gonna frick galadriel
This
Celeborno bros?????????????
I would be surprised if the writers of this shit even know who Celeborn is at all
It's actually kind of awkward to include Celeborn since he's a giant racist who hates Dwarves so much he literally ditches his family and refuses to go home with them because it would involve being in the presence of a dwarf
>Celeborn when he sees the black dwarf
his racism will be what causes them to separate in Rings of Power
Oh god please don't give them ideas
I don't remember that part, is it in HoMe?
Unfinished Tales
In this version, Galadriel is ruler of Eregion and Sauron/Annatar turn up and orchestrate a revolt against her rule so she is deposed by the people, forced to flee and move to Lothlórien.
Celeborn refuses to go with her and the kids via Khazad-dum so he stays behind in Eregion like some pariah
The guy hates dwarves more than he loves his own family
Sindar elves are racist af against dwarves in general, they used to hunt them for sport in first age
Is that a white male
You just know its Sauron.
When Sauron said "The ring is literal perfection.", then Galadriel said "It will be. When it fits a woman."... I got goosebumps.
Kek some of these comments are gold
wtf you only got goosebumps? Are you a Bigot Sandwich?
Are your literally 13? This are cringe af, not even leddit tier
Stay mad
>not even leddit tier
Of course because ledditors aren't funny and would say these things unironically
oh no guys the marketing department intern is mad lmao
Cinemaphile - Cinemaphile xposting is kino
based
I understood that reference.
>When Samweis said: "One more step, we'll be the farthest away from Tolkien we've ever been", I felt that.
Some of the comments are alright, don't watch the show tomorrow..
It looks so inauthentic. Not even the same universe we saw in the movies.
Is Maglor dead? He was the only son of Feanor that didn´t explicity die in the Silmarillion
the continent he was last seen on sank
He's still rocking power ballads walking the shores of Middle Earth
Disguised Human Sauron is gonna frick Galadriel, so he's there pretty much just to be bait for Reylo type shippers and the like. Which is really strange to me because Galadriel is the last woman I would ever think off as a Rey or any othere type of blank self insert girl YA protagonist type. She's old and she's regal as frick, she wouldn't be falling head over heels for abadboy fangirl bait. And Sauron himself is already shipped all the time but with Melkor and shit. He's gay as hell as far as the fandom's concerned. This is the least sensical pairing they coulda think of.
Sauron is also shipped with Celebrimbor who appears in the series
>mfw only selfinserting roasties will be fed Sauron kino and us silvergifting chads are left to starve
Sauron is also shipped with Ar-Pharazon as a seductive elf-prisoner
I have no fricking idea where the frick they are coming in the show
By what was shown the premise for S1 is fricking weird and cant lead to what was written in Silmarillion in the ways other than moronic.
he is also shipped with the nazgul (all of them) and there are rape fanfiction with Maedhros but absolutely no b***hes
There is also this weird homosexual shit With him and Melkor.
that was the first ship mentioned
Your face when you lose to a talking Spanish dog.
>Spanish dog
Kek, took me a while
Oh frick you, I laughed.
>not also drawing him as a spaniel
>Sauron is also shipped with Ar-Pharazon as a seductive elf-prisoner
The best t b h
>Could have make kino actor the great Sauron in disguise who seduce Ar-Pharazon and Celebrimbor
>Instead turned him into some OC S1 villain and make Sauron some football player looking dude
>Gay as all frick Sauron disguised as a rugged, handsome BADBOY human for Galadriel to fall for
>Galadriel, the literal thousands years old elf who's far, far above being a blushing young woman that is just so angered with this RUDE and crass HUMAN man yet attracted to his savagery
Yeah this is gonna be stupid as frick. Galadriel and Sauron are the last two characters I'd ever put together. Especially the way Amazon's doing it. They probably think they're being clever too the fricks.
You don't understand, the writers need to cathartically vent their frustration that the tatted-up dude with a rap sheet as big as his dating history somehow inexplicably decided to cheat and leave her. Write what you know, that's what my $100,000 meme degree told me to do.
They coulda done that with their own OC or some shit but no, they had to drag Sauron into it. Sauron, who's not even so much at looked at a woman, he's gonna be trying to seduce Galadriel, and he's gonna be doing by disguising himself as knockoff Aragorn no less. And I know exactly what they're doing with that, it's like oh Galadriel hates Sauron so much and she just thinks he's pure evil and her drive is to find him and kill him but oh, turns out the man you've been falling for IS Sauron, what a twist! It's so stupid.
Sauron had her brother fed to a werewolf, he's the reason she's adventuring about in the first place. She's probably gonna save him from that sea-monster attacking their raft for the added irony.
Wow it's like an ancient Greek tragedy woohoo.
TALION THE PALANTÍR
Why did they hire so many ugly people as elves? Tolkien said they weren't ugly.
Copying Jackson again
>Copying Jackson again
That's true. There were a few uggos cast as elves in that. But not ALL of them.