the store front has always been designed to break even. Streaming is probably a loss right now because entertainment isn't so easy to predict.
amazon really is capitalisms bastard child
What's more buffling is why can't streaming services penetrate all markets simultaneously. What if I want to watch and pay for your goyslop but I can't because I'm not in the select few countries that get all the content.
Fricking globohomos not doing their fricking job.
with Amazon, it shouldn't be a huge deal, but most companies don't want the logistical and bugetary nightmare of building the infrastructure necessary for a worldwide launch all at once, especially for a product they're not sure will succeed
What's more buffling is why can't streaming services penetrate all markets simultaneously. What if I want to watch and pay for your goyslop but I can't because I'm not in the select few countries that get all the content.
Fricking globohomos not doing their fricking job.
>globohomos
Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017. And even now their margins are in the small %
AWS literally carries the entire company and is the primary reason Jeff Bezos retired and gave CEO role to Andy Jassy who managed AWS since 2003. Today AWS is their most profitable and impactful division BY FAR
sorry i meant to say evil mr bezos is enslaving the poor warehouse workers forcing them to sell chinese dildos and their 40% profit margin goes straight into his $200b checking account so he can hand pick more kino to stream on prime
>the store front has always been designed to break even.
Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017. And even now their margins are in the small %
AWS literally carries the entire company and is the primary reason Jeff Bezos retired and gave CEO role to Andy Jassy who managed AWS since 2003. Today AWS is their most profitable and impactful division BY FAR
most le commie normies don't even know AWS exists
>Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017.
Amazon intentionally looses money or has small margins on the store front. First, it allowed them to continue to take subsidies for year and avoid any taxes. The "losses" were often also just re-investment into the company itself that can be written off as such. They could have started making money on the store front years ago but chose not to.
Not only that but the small margins let them drive everyone else out of business or force them to play by Amazon's rules. Look at Uber and Lyft, seven years ago a ride on either of those was dirt cheap but now that then crushed the traditional taxi industry with licensed and unionized drivers the prices of Uber and Lyft are as much if not more as then what a taxi was.
not to mention they broow against the stock
so basically the bankroll never ends and will never end and the *losses* are basically tax breaks so it just pumps the profits even higher
>also not shitting on them to much decent product's and or services alot of the time
Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017. And even now their margins are in the small %
AWS literally carries the entire company and is the primary reason Jeff Bezos retired and gave CEO role to Andy Jassy who managed AWS since 2003. Today AWS is their most profitable and impactful division BY FAR
Yes and no. The constant overhead cost of continuously expanding is why the retail store doesn't technically profit. That's all included in their attempt to get out of the red. A lot of their items are listed to make a profit.
I don't know for sure, I haven't read any leaks or otherwise about it
Could be a range of options really, maybe a specific 1st age event (destruction of the two trees for eg), a vision, maybe something she saw while troll hunting or whatever the hell shes doing in the frozen wastelands
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What I enjoy is how average they all look but the clothes, hairstyles, and makeup go a long way to give them an ethereal, angelic mystique
Amazon were too lazy to do that with their fricking main character
2 years ago
Anonymous
I wonder if the show will be worse than The Hobbit trilogy.
>turning the entire weight of his sword with his wrist
???
2 years ago
Anonymous
magic swords
2 years ago
Anonymous
There is no magic in LotR, it is based on European history and 100% historically accurate.
2 years ago
Anonymous
those are special elven blades that have been folded 1000 times
2 years ago
Anonymous
to be fair elves are pretty much demigods
2 years ago
Anonymous
sure but they dont have superman level strength lol. this is fricking ridiculous
2 years ago
Anonymous
one elf fought melkor and wounded him
2 years ago
Anonymous
sure but he wasnt able to articulate his limbs in unfathomable ways. hes not mr fantastic
2 years ago
Anonymous
the sowrds are like 5feet long? and elven? lets say they weigh 2kg/foot 10kg wrist curls are acheavable for most humans
lets double the weight
20kg wrist curls are acheavable natty after training
lets double it
40kg wrist curls are roid monkey turf but probably aproaching a high upper limmit
ur just weak bro
2 years ago
Anonymous
yes they do, elves are persistently described as having superhuman abilities - Legolas is able to run over an avalanche at Caradhras without disturbing the snow with imprints of his feet, to run great distances without tiring, to sleep while running, to lift great weights that Gimli and Aragorn and Boromir and Gandalf are unable to, to descry vistas beyond the curvature of the earth ("beneath" the horizon, so to speak), and so on, and that's just some of the stuff in LOTR, disregarding stuff from the Silmarillion and for that matter the Hobbit
2 years ago
Anonymous
sure but they dont have 360 degree rotating wrists.
2 years ago
Anonymous
keep moving the goalposts, chudlet
2 years ago
Anonymous
and what does that have to do with anything?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Chuds neither know about the lore nor do they care for it. Their headcanon is made up on the spot to suit whichever whiney complaint they want to post about the Amazon show.
That's why Elendil is the only decent looking character
He looks like he could have been a levy soldier for Gondor in the Jackson films
Wigs just work.
>7/10
I will refute from arguing too much because it is subjective.
My thing is that she's so lacking in any regal, queenly quality. I'm not even minding that they made her fight, but she comes across way more like a petulant teenage girl, rolling around in 14th century Gothic armor.
>7/10? Her? She's a hard 5
Soft focus, lighting and makeup did wonders for Cate Blanchett playing Galadriel. My concern is that they're too lazy to bother this time.
Pharazon isn't wearing a wig, it's his real hair and beard
2 years ago
Anonymous
Don't forget wigs, a makeup department, and beautifully outstanding costumes, which we already know none of those are going to be in Amazon's shit
> Don't forget wigs ... which we already know none of those are going to be in Amazon's shit
Yeah that's why he looks like he sits around and drinks beer with the boys instead of the king of Numenor
2 years ago
Anonymous
Pharazon isn't the king of Numenor, fricking lorelet
Young Cate Blanchett was a real fricking 7 if not 8. She also had a great body, great acting skills, and demanded a powerful presence. This girl is nothing to Cate.
>Young Cate Blanchett was a real fricking 7 if not 8.
I agree. But it's the extra work that took her to being an 11+ unearthly elven beauty.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I don't actually think she looked like an 11+ in LotR, it's just the special effects made the role. But if we were to put young Cate Blanchett on Rings of Power even with the low quality makeup here, she'd be the real 7-8/10. I'm just trying to say that the current actress is painfully average with/without makeup and in every aspect.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>7
get out of here with that shit homosexual she's a solid 8
2 years ago
Anonymous
I don't actually think she looked like an 11+ in LotR, it's just the special effects made the role. But if we were to put young Cate Blanchett on Rings of Power even with the low quality makeup here, she'd be the real 7-8/10. I'm just trying to say that the current actress is painfully average with/without makeup and in every aspect.
Pretty sure she was picked for her androgyny scale factor.
2 years ago
Anonymous
She clearly looks like a woman and not androgynous like Tilda Swinton. Now please don't ever use that word ever again.
2 years ago
Anonymous
She was picked because she looks like a Queen and has an interesting face.
2 years ago
Anonymous
She was picked because actual stars fled from this project, and her name sounds Tolkienish.
Blanchette,with the art department and peter jacksons directing commanded respect and admiration, resulting in a strong angelic aura evoking power, grace and wisdom. During this period, she is still supposed to evoke that while only being a bit more temperamental. Shes already like 1500+ years old here.
I get none of those vibes from this dour faced average girl.
>I get none of those vibes from this dour faced average girl.
I know, I know, I'm coping by hoping they can 'fix it in post' -- still quietly raging about what they've done to my favourite character.
The problem is the uggos
Random side characters who happened to be nonwhites were attractive years ago, but now they want to shove deformed motherfrickers down our throats
>The problem is the uggos
We're going to get so many forced 'Harfoot' scenes, it's going to be agonising.
Her chin and nose makes her look like a plain farmers girl rather than an ethereal elven queen only surpassed in beauty by like Two people ever, Arwen and Luthien.
Not only will i not watch it, but i will create and contribute to threads saying how shit it is
the only reason these shows got greenlit and pushed through production is as a direct reaction to the success of GoT, which probably made a lot of dosh
same with Witcher and that other one I can't remember
eat the slop of capitalism you mindless fricking drones
There is an entire continent of them, Harad is basically Africa. We could have had any number of them and stayed true to lore but amazon had to add them into unfitting places.
Harad is more Africa + the Middle-East + Constantinople
the Haradwaith includes the coastal regions of Umbar, where the Black Numenoreans (antagonistic white people) reside, as well as Near Harad, which is more equivalent to the Saracens or Mamelukes, and Far Harad which contains the actual coal-black Black folk with their elephants and rhinos and giraffes
I'm not quite sure whether Khand (which is actually east of Far Harad, and southeast of Mordor) is supposed to be a direct analogue to Vikings or more broadly allegorical for the Russians
Rhun/Easterlings however appear to be quite thoroughly asiatic, in a Turkic sense, the way Mongolians or Manchurians are
What is this shit even about? Isn't the trailer meant to give people an idea of what the show will be like. This shit is just random clips with bullshit lines of gibberish. I think I will give this a miss.
It's about Sauron coming out of hiding and fricking over all of middle earth with his trickery. Although that might not happen properly until s2 onwards
I guess they will release a more plot details with the first proper trailer, which looks likely to come this Friday
Not much is greenscreen really, they shot ~30% on location which isn't a small amount.
Most of the rest would be filmed on the various sets, which is where alot of the money went
It's a time of peace when they think evil has largely be vanquished from middle earth
They are not building their kingdoms with defense in mind which will probably come back to bite them later on
You've clearly never read any of Tolkien's works. The scale of his world is fricking huge. Trees the size of large monuments are pretty common in the elven domains.
are we doing the star wars thing where every single thing you know has to be in there somewhere? frick you we'll have ents and hobbits and southrons and probably another army of the dead and mumaks and there'll be a balrog in there somewhere but it's actually a bigger one than any we've seen so far. actually scratch that 4 balrogs
This looks pretty fricking bad lmao. It's wild how these streaming services occasionally produce something original, but all the marketing just forces it back to generic shit.
i really don't understand why they thought this was necessary, why not just have linens under the armor? she could still be the badass they want her to be, this is just fricking stupid
They're quasi-spurning a fantasy aesthetic for "realistic" armors (somehow they gave her a helmet that is both visually hideous and totally impractical) and they're still missing the mark by doing shit like printing a scale design on a shirt for photography shots that will be obviously heavily scrutinized.
>They're quasi-spurning a fantasy aesthetic for "realistic" armors
You say that but then everything there is vacuum sealed to their pecs and breasts. >somehow they gave her a helmet that is both visually hideous and totally impractical
Maybe no-one said anything because they want her to die in battle because she's one of the only foreigners there.
Do they at least have some armour under those trouser legs so I can stop thinking I don't even have to go for their throat to disable them? Their horses don't look like anything more than a means to get to battle, let alone something that would take part.
i dont care for the OC diversity shit but I gotta admit im looking forward to seeing flashbacks about first age events
wont pay for it obviously but will watch
wow is that an average looking 5'7" white woman with dyed hair
im going insane ive never seen anything like this before i love amazon i love bad robot i love jeff bozo i want to spam the internet with average white woman from corporate product
the idea of first generation, royal family elves having these down to earth lives of drama and adventure completely misses the point
it's like having the pope actually shitting in the woods
galadriel should not be a "relatable" figure, and she doesnt get less mystical by going to when she was "young", in fact it would be the opposite- when she appears in LOTR, that's when she would be the most accessible. First / second age Galadriel should be as mysterious and ethereal as a goddess
Kek
You're completely correct, by the time she's seen in the Lord of the Rings she's humbling herself to overcome the curse of the Noldor so she can return to Valinor
And they turn her into some sassy teenage badass with childface
>An immortal nobility taught sorcery by the Angels but defying them due to ambition and want of land
So where do your Amazon get a 15 year old high school capeshit from?
>sassy teenage badass with childface
Yeah. She was well into being 1000+ years old before the sun and moon were created. She might have been a tireless rebel, but she's no teenage kid with a knife.
>they turn her into some sassy teenage badass
So let her be a rebel but with dignity. Like Princess Leia or something. She can fight, but she's not a fighter, she has higher callings in politics and so on.
I don't even mind her fighting (though I think putting her into 14th century gothic armor is fricking tacky as shit), but as you said, some dignity was nice.
Her being a "rebel" has nothing to do with teenage power fantasies, and it's baffling because well-done, unconventional, power-hungry women is a trope that has been done well before.
>Here goyim, remember the Lord of the Rings? Check out our new goyslop we're plopping down in the trough.
I will never watch this shit you slimy israelites. Black person elves and Black person hobbits is a bridge too fricking far.
She's a Noldor so they have them use swords, sometimes zweihander sized, while wearing mail and plate
The lowly Silvan elves use bows and shitty leather armour
chuds try every possible cope. they all know that she is very beautiful and the perfect cast for the role, but they have to cry and seethe because that is what their life is all about.
that's an interesting thing actually, the actors and actresses who play the elves are going to age significantly over the course of a 5 season show. this could be a big problem.
>Black personfied a white story meant to adapt European mythology into an easily digestible novel series.
Yeah no, frick off. If you homosexuals so much as hate watch this you are part of the fricking problem. Let this shit flop like it deserves.
Once you start digging you find pretty much all of his stuff was taken wholesale from history, myth and religion. Often even stolen; none of the dwarven names are original, for example.
>nobody gives a frick about your people's mythology,
Then why adapt it? If you obviously do not respect or care about the source at all why not just create your own story and that way skip all the shit from the fanbase?
Not in your employer's show they're not. So it's a problem even under your narrative.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Chick in the middle would have made a decent Elf
Why are the hobbits nappy-headed and with shit in their hair but the Elves look completely visually indistinct from the races of Men?
no. but harfoots are rustic english, just like all hobbits. the difference in skin colour would be negligible. "darker" does not mean "dark" as we would think of it today
2 years ago
Anonymous
>harfoots have brown skin because they are rustic >all Hobbits are rustic
Why are only the harfoots described as brown skinned then? >umm.. brown meant white back then
cope, chuddie
I was the person who originally took and posted this photo and I'm ashamed that some cringy gay cropped it out and put soijaks around it for some shitty meme
The difference is akin to Mediterranean European vs Gemanic/Slavic/Scandinavian European. Italians are browner of skin compared to a Polack but Italians arent black, unless you count Sicily
Wow... not only have incels not read any of the books, they also are so uneducated that they think Lord of the Rings is literally European history... this is the state of US education.
We've had good location CGI since the 2000's since the film trilogy came out, what are your answers for the shitty costumes and ugly actors which we're going to be looking at 98% of the time?
The problem is the uggos
Random side characters who happened to be nonwhites were attractive years ago, but now they want to shove deformed motherfrickers down our throats
>Why are celtic girls so attractive, and why are anglo girls so ugly?
Both are ugly in my experience. Irish women are 5'0 goblins most of the time and anglos look inbred. Every other euro moggs the uk
>"An Elf of the east!" Gandalf exclaimed as he looked upon the peculiar looking elf. Frodo had seen many elves since leaving the shire but even this one was strange. Long dark hair and skin that wasn't fair as he was now used to, but dark and golden, and reminded him of the wheat fields back in the shire."
2 years ago
Anonymous
this is almost well-written enough to be mistaken for an actual quote
2 years ago
Anonymous
>remember frodo, around those kinds of elves, you can never relax
I remember these exact type of threads showing up before wheel of time >"organic" waifuposters trying to make the show seem watchable by simping for one actress >show comes out >its shit >they hard cope for two weeks before losing their payroll and moving to another mediocre show
They all talk like moronic teens, at least degenerates are funny. Waifugays are just obnoxious and probably have had less sex than the people they make fun of.
Here's the mentality that the marketers have about shilling this shit right now. >"Our PR alarms went off from negative criticisms on Cinemaphile!" >"Our market research shows that the primary concerns are caused by our diversity model which changes organic behavior into the same box of M&Ms every time, with an equal and exact amount of each color in the box and on the packaging.!" >"Here, Cinemaphile! Don't worry about representation! We know representation matters. That's why we made this one character to represent you. Here's a picture of the character. Don't you feel represented?"
I'm glad more people on this board are becoming aware of the new shill meta. Inb4 they call you schizos
Companies use shill campaigns like this because it breaks people down over time and they slowly get more people who decide "I've heard enough about this, I just need to watch it to make up my own mind". Other forms of cope are possible as well. At the end of the day it takes a true chad to resist peer pressure, media hype and astroturfing to stand by your principles.
It's really quite heavy when you begin to consider how our whole society is just a tangled web of will-to-power manifestations.
Here's the mentality that the marketers have about shilling this shit right now. >"Our PR alarms went off from negative criticisms on Cinemaphile!" >"Our market research shows that the primary concerns are caused by our diversity model which changes organic behavior into the same box of M&Ms every time, with an equal and exact amount of each color in the box and on the packaging.!" >"Here, Cinemaphile! Don't worry about representation! We know representation matters. That's why we made this one character to represent you. Here's a picture of the character. Don't you feel represented?"
ive been a lord of the rings fan since i was like 10 years old and went to see the fellowship in theaters. after that i read the books every year since. ive seen the jackson trilogy countless times. and the hobbit movies maybe 2 or 3 times each. Jesus, i thought those were trash. I cant even begin to imagine how shit this show is gonna be. Reminds me of the new trilogy of star wars movies. This is gonna make the hobbit look like fricking gold. Mark my words and screencap this.
>brown hobbit =/= black homosexual errectus missing link groid hobbit >reads 'browner of skins' immediately goes off grasping at straws as justification for his sick Blackphilia fetish
don't you think tolkien would actually described the darkest swarthy black jungle apes as such and not just 'browner'?
Is it true Amazon loses money on the storefront and streaming but makes money through the fact that AWS run half the internet(or more)?
the store front has always been designed to break even. Streaming is probably a loss right now because entertainment isn't so easy to predict.
amazon really is capitalisms bastard child
What's more buffling is why can't streaming services penetrate all markets simultaneously. What if I want to watch and pay for your goyslop but I can't because I'm not in the select few countries that get all the content.
Fricking globohomos not doing their fricking job.
with Amazon, it shouldn't be a huge deal, but most companies don't want the logistical and bugetary nightmare of building the infrastructure necessary for a worldwide launch all at once, especially for a product they're not sure will succeed
>shills
>capitalisms bastard child
>globohomos
>le commie normies
for fricks sake, shut up
>for fricks sake, shut up
sorry i meant to say evil mr bezos is enslaving the poor warehouse workers forcing them to sell chinese dildos and their 40% profit margin goes straight into his $200b checking account so he can hand pick more kino to stream on prime
>the store front has always been designed to break even.
>Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017.
Amazon intentionally looses money or has small margins on the store front. First, it allowed them to continue to take subsidies for year and avoid any taxes. The "losses" were often also just re-investment into the company itself that can be written off as such. They could have started making money on the store front years ago but chose not to.
Not only that but the small margins let them drive everyone else out of business or force them to play by Amazon's rules. Look at Uber and Lyft, seven years ago a ride on either of those was dirt cheap but now that then crushed the traditional taxi industry with licensed and unionized drivers the prices of Uber and Lyft are as much if not more as then what a taxi was.
what do you mean by loose money
let;s break down a hypothetical business model that amazon may or may not be running
>run """store front""" for massive market share *at a loss or even who cares*
>run streaming service ect to expand store front market share
write off everything in tax losses
>market share directly correlates to stock price
amazong (*((loooses(*~~) 2bn a year while makeing 15bn a year in stock valuations
looseing money isnt really whats going on when we look at it like that
not to mention they broow against the stock
so basically the bankroll never ends and will never end and the *losses* are basically tax breaks so it just pumps the profits even higher
>also not shitting on them to much decent product's and or services alot of the time
Amazon literally lost money on their retail until like 2017. And even now their margins are in the small %
AWS literally carries the entire company and is the primary reason Jeff Bezos retired and gave CEO role to Andy Jassy who managed AWS since 2003. Today AWS is their most profitable and impactful division BY FAR
most le commie normies don't even know AWS exists
>most le commie normies don't even know AWS exists
i see aws commercials every time i watch sports
Yes and no. The constant overhead cost of continuously expanding is why the retail store doesn't technically profit. That's all included in their attempt to get out of the red. A lot of their items are listed to make a profit.
yeah
Pay no attention to this. It is more than a show and entertainment is not the goal
I want her to kick me in the balls so bad bros
After reading your post, I wanna kick you in the balls as well. homosexual
I'm not watching it you shill. Don't care if every other person in planet watched this I won't watch it.
hang all shills
You haven't seen what I've seen, OP.
what did she see though?
Have you seen used tampons and pads and stuff? That shit's disgusting.
Used to all the time in unisex restrooms at work.
I don't know for sure, I haven't read any leaks or otherwise about it
Could be a range of options really, maybe a specific 1st age event (destruction of the two trees for eg), a vision, maybe something she saw while troll hunting or whatever the hell shes doing in the frozen wastelands
I've seen stuff, straight while male!
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because traffic?
chudbitches btfo
you just know
Did she see a buffoon? Because that's what I'm looking at! A buffoon!
to many groid orcs, that why all of them were purged later
Yeah, well haven't seen this dick. No woman has.
Morf is so kino she didn't even need to wear any wigs for the role, all her own hair
They did.
I WILL watch it for her
All sorts, they traded with the Numenoreans and the Dwarves nearby so would have been a thriving city
Depends if Galadriel or Celebrimbor is the ruler at this point in the show
What would Galadriel's tax policy be?
>closeup of Morf's piercing blue eyes
kino
perfect choice for an elf
I will pirate for she.
Agree, been saying that since she was announced in 2019
Her face and voice are kino plus she can actually act aswell
Nah
You fricking blind? Shes bland as frick.
These random background elvs mogg her.
What I enjoy is how average they all look but the clothes, hairstyles, and makeup go a long way to give them an ethereal, angelic mystique
Amazon were too lazy to do that with their fricking main character
I wonder if the show will be worse than The Hobbit trilogy.
stop lying, incel.
>guys if we just blur them they'll look good
At least they're not ugly CGI Elves
what it that vomitous motion blur
>turning the entire weight of his sword with his wrist
???
magic swords
There is no magic in LotR, it is based on European history and 100% historically accurate.
those are special elven blades that have been folded 1000 times
to be fair elves are pretty much demigods
sure but they dont have superman level strength lol. this is fricking ridiculous
one elf fought melkor and wounded him
sure but he wasnt able to articulate his limbs in unfathomable ways. hes not mr fantastic
the sowrds are like 5feet long? and elven? lets say they weigh 2kg/foot 10kg wrist curls are acheavable for most humans
lets double the weight
20kg wrist curls are acheavable natty after training
lets double it
40kg wrist curls are roid monkey turf but probably aproaching a high upper limmit
ur just weak bro
yes they do, elves are persistently described as having superhuman abilities - Legolas is able to run over an avalanche at Caradhras without disturbing the snow with imprints of his feet, to run great distances without tiring, to sleep while running, to lift great weights that Gimli and Aragorn and Boromir and Gandalf are unable to, to descry vistas beyond the curvature of the earth ("beneath" the horizon, so to speak), and so on, and that's just some of the stuff in LOTR, disregarding stuff from the Silmarillion and for that matter the Hobbit
sure but they dont have 360 degree rotating wrists.
keep moving the goalposts, chudlet
and what does that have to do with anything?
Chuds neither know about the lore nor do they care for it. Their headcanon is made up on the spot to suit whichever whiney complaint they want to post about the Amazon show.
someone post the chad-elf, the CHELF
I'd prefer a wig, her hair sucks. Wigs are not hard to make look good in a production environment.
That's why Elendil is the only decent looking character
He looks like he could have been a levy soldier for Gondor in the Jackson films
Wigs just work.
She's canonically supposed to be the most beautiful elf woman in Arda. The actress is a plain 7/10 at best.
7/10 is extremely generous.
rating the beauty of women on a scale is problematic.
>supposed to be the most beautiful elf woman in Arda
Wasn't that Lúthien?
>7/10
I will refute from arguing too much because it is subjective.
My thing is that she's so lacking in any regal, queenly quality. I'm not even minding that they made her fight, but she comes across way more like a petulant teenage girl, rolling around in 14th century Gothic armor.
7/10? Her? She's a hard 5
>7/10? Her? She's a hard 5
>7/10? Her? She's a hard 5
Soft focus, lighting and makeup did wonders for Cate Blanchett playing Galadriel. My concern is that they're too lazy to bother this time.
Don't forget wigs, a makeup department, and beautifully outstanding costumes, which we already know none of those are going to be in Amazon's shit
>supposed to be atlantis/hyperborea
>everybody's wearing pullover middle ages peasant clothes like it's King's Landing
Inb4 late era Numenor is full of poverty while President Tru- errr, I mean Ar Pharazon hoards all the wealth.
Yeah, that too. Plus a special rig to add more light to her eyes.
>a special rig to add more light to her eyes.
you mean a fricking led board, lmao so special.
Pharazon isn't wearing a wig, it's his real hair and beard
> Don't forget wigs ... which we already know none of those are going to be in Amazon's shit
Yeah that's why he looks like he sits around and drinks beer with the boys instead of the king of Numenor
Pharazon isn't the king of Numenor, fricking lorelet
>Ar-Pharazon is just Rasputin
Young Cate Blanchett was a real fricking 7 if not 8. She also had a great body, great acting skills, and demanded a powerful presence. This girl is nothing to Cate.
Holy frick, I didn't know she was that pretty in her youth
>Young Cate Blanchett was a real fricking 7 if not 8.
I agree. But it's the extra work that took her to being an 11+ unearthly elven beauty.
I don't actually think she looked like an 11+ in LotR, it's just the special effects made the role. But if we were to put young Cate Blanchett on Rings of Power even with the low quality makeup here, she'd be the real 7-8/10. I'm just trying to say that the current actress is painfully average with/without makeup and in every aspect.
>7
get out of here with that shit homosexual she's a solid 8
Pretty sure she was picked for her androgyny scale factor.
She clearly looks like a woman and not androgynous like Tilda Swinton. Now please don't ever use that word ever again.
She was picked because she looks like a Queen and has an interesting face.
She was picked because actual stars fled from this project, and her name sounds Tolkienish.
cate blanchett is hot and regal, this bawd looks like a peasant
Blanchette,with the art department and peter jacksons directing commanded respect and admiration, resulting in a strong angelic aura evoking power, grace and wisdom. During this period, she is still supposed to evoke that while only being a bit more temperamental. Shes already like 1500+ years old here.
I get none of those vibes from this dour faced average girl.
Sorry, I don't see it in Blanchet. Always thought she was a bit too old.
>I get none of those vibes from this dour faced average girl.
I know, I know, I'm coping by hoping they can 'fix it in post' -- still quietly raging about what they've done to my favourite character.
>The problem is the uggos
We're going to get so many forced 'Harfoot' scenes, it's going to be agonising.
very 6/10ian
Her chin and nose makes her look like a plain farmers girl rather than an ethereal elven queen only surpassed in beauty by like Two people ever, Arwen and Luthien.
Most average looking chick in hollywood. Not pretty not ugly, completely forgettable face. The question is, which amazon exec is fricking her?
>Most average looking chick in hollywood. Not pretty not ugly, completely forgettable face. The question is, which amazon exec is fricking her?
the only reason these shows got greenlit and pushed through production is as a direct reaction to the success of GoT, which probably made a lot of dosh
same with Witcher and that other one I can't remember
eat the slop of capitalism you mindless fricking drones
>that other one I can't remember
Wheel of Time?
There is an entire continent of them, Harad is basically Africa. We could have had any number of them and stayed true to lore but amazon had to add them into unfitting places.
Harad is more Africa + the Middle-East + Constantinople
the Haradwaith includes the coastal regions of Umbar, where the Black Numenoreans (antagonistic white people) reside, as well as Near Harad, which is more equivalent to the Saracens or Mamelukes, and Far Harad which contains the actual coal-black Black folk with their elephants and rhinos and giraffes
I'm not quite sure whether Khand (which is actually east of Far Harad, and southeast of Mordor) is supposed to be a direct analogue to Vikings or more broadly allegorical for the Russians
Rhun/Easterlings however appear to be quite thoroughly asiatic, in a Turkic sense, the way Mongolians or Manchurians are
What is this shit even about? Isn't the trailer meant to give people an idea of what the show will be like. This shit is just random clips with bullshit lines of gibberish. I think I will give this a miss.
It's about Sauron coming out of hiding and fricking over all of middle earth with his trickery. Although that might not happen properly until s2 onwards
I guess they will release a more plot details with the first proper trailer, which looks likely to come this Friday
IF everything is done in front of a green screen like a marvel movie, where the frick is all the budget going?
Not much is greenscreen really, they shot ~30% on location which isn't a small amount.
Most of the rest would be filmed on the various sets, which is where alot of the money went
This looks like 100% CGI, bruh.
The eagle CG is but everything else is real
Alternative here, obviously this whole city is CG but the actual river and forests are real
prove it
>swim towards city
>stop
>loudly exclaim AH THE CITY OF PRIME VIDEO
>resume swimming
and its twin city Video Secundus
What do they eat?
fish and chips
6% food 19% non food
What's their tax policy?
what happens if the enemy attacks them from the cliff
that would be extremely painful for the enemy
It's a time of peace when they think evil has largely be vanquished from middle earth
They are not building their kingdoms with defense in mind which will probably come back to bite them later on
their main defense is being hidden from the enemy
Why do Korean computer animators have so much SOVL?
The scale of this doesn't make any sense, unless we're supposed to believe the trees outside of the city are all frickhuge sequoias
You've clearly never read any of Tolkien's works. The scale of his world is fricking huge. Trees the size of large monuments are pretty common in the elven domains.
reporting and filing huge costs for the tax and marketing purposes
meanwhile all the money stays home anyway cause you pay yourself
its amazon, money is being spent to prevent generating profit
For me it's Baby Treeb
female Ents hype
>no fruits on the female ents
Sad! (my headcannon)
You put more thought into world building than the people who made the show did.
I want to see young hippie Treebeard. Treegoatie.
are we doing the star wars thing where every single thing you know has to be in there somewhere? frick you we'll have ents and hobbits and southrons and probably another army of the dead and mumaks and there'll be a balrog in there somewhere but it's actually a bigger one than any we've seen so far. actually scratch that 4 balrogs
Dang she is such an upgrade compared to the old potato nose hag
This looks pretty fricking bad lmao. It's wild how these streaming services occasionally produce something original, but all the marketing just forces it back to generic shit.
im elfing
oh no no no no
AH HA HA HA
i really don't understand why they thought this was necessary, why not just have linens under the armor? she could still be the badass they want her to be, this is just fricking stupid
Because they're HACKS
don't know shit about armor, can someone explain what's so dumb here?
everything but the worst thing is the polyester fabric shirt with printed scale pattern
They're quasi-spurning a fantasy aesthetic for "realistic" armors (somehow they gave her a helmet that is both visually hideous and totally impractical) and they're still missing the mark by doing shit like printing a scale design on a shirt for photography shots that will be obviously heavily scrutinized.
AHAHAHAHAHA
F I V E H UN D R E D M I L L IO N
looks like the shitty painted on textures they have in WoW lol
I can't tell from what show is that pic
Why can't any showrunner for these fantasy series into realistic-looking armor like LotR and early season GoT?
>female rider in the back on the left
Its all so tiresome
The more I see the worse it looks
>They're quasi-spurning a fantasy aesthetic for "realistic" armors
You say that but then everything there is vacuum sealed to their pecs and breasts.
>somehow they gave her a helmet that is both visually hideous and totally impractical
Maybe no-one said anything because they want her to die in battle because she's one of the only foreigners there.
Do they at least have some armour under those trouser legs so I can stop thinking I don't even have to go for their throat to disable them? Their horses don't look like anything more than a means to get to battle, let alone something that would take part.
its a t shirt with scale armor print
A woman of color is wearing it so incels had to find something to nitpick
Did they actually think that real armor covered every inch of the body or what the frick possessed them to do that?
one billion dollars!
underrated
And the best one yet, in an effort to expand English folklore Tolkien still basically retold King Arthur's story.
Whoever made this doesn't have the IQ to comprehend the IQ needed to "make up" an almost entirely self-consistent language including grammar
>In Quenya, female gender is marked by the ending -a and male gender by -o
THIS IS SO HECKIN GENIUS, MY GOD, HE MUST HAVE AN IQ OF 300!!!
What about the other 53 genders tho?
No matter how hard you try, I'm not going to watch your owners' show.
Not only will i not watch it, but i will create and contribute to threads saying how shit it is
Yes, chud. you will watch every single episode.
YOU VILL WATCH IT AND YOU VILL LIKE IT CHUD
you haven't won anything, shill-kun
I sure can't wait to see her get BLACKED
TeleriBlack person extermination imminent
i dont care for the OC diversity shit but I gotta admit im looking forward to seeing flashbacks about first age events
wont pay for it obviously but will watch
Word is there is “9 minute prologue” to begin the first episode. If I had to guess, that’s probably the Trees/First Age stuff.
>they green-lit the "how do you do fellow whiteys" shilling MO
>Perfect opportunity to pander to Tumblrinas and fujoshis
>Missed opportunity
Sad!
I'll watch it if she gets railed by a black elf
not watching your Black person elves
nigmenoreans
They haven't won shit, homosexual.
>mfw I think about tha haters malding
>malding
Go back you fricking homosexual
I was born here
>*malds in Cinemaphilearian*
I love her I love her I love her
>that fricking tummy
dear god
She will 100% frick the black elf
wow is that an average looking 5'7" white woman with dyed hair
im going insane ive never seen anything like this before i love amazon i love bad robot i love jeff bozo i want to spam the internet with average white woman from corporate product
the idea of first generation, royal family elves having these down to earth lives of drama and adventure completely misses the point
it's like having the pope actually shitting in the woods
galadriel should not be a "relatable" figure, and she doesnt get less mystical by going to when she was "young", in fact it would be the opposite- when she appears in LOTR, that's when she would be the most accessible. First / second age Galadriel should be as mysterious and ethereal as a goddess
Kek
You're completely correct, by the time she's seen in the Lord of the Rings she's humbling herself to overcome the curse of the Noldor so she can return to Valinor
And they turn her into some sassy teenage badass with childface
>they turn her into some sassy teenage badass
>An immortal nobility taught sorcery by the Angels but defying them due to ambition and want of land
So where do your Amazon get a 15 year old high school capeshit from?
Chuds BTFO AGAIN!!!
i'm glad Tolkien's works are being adapted by Amazon
>sassy teenage badass with childface
Yeah. She was well into being 1000+ years old before the sun and moon were created. She might have been a tireless rebel, but she's no teenage kid with a knife.
So let her be a rebel but with dignity. Like Princess Leia or something. She can fight, but she's not a fighter, she has higher callings in politics and so on.
I don't even mind her fighting (though I think putting her into 14th century gothic armor is fricking tacky as shit), but as you said, some dignity was nice.
Her being a "rebel" has nothing to do with teenage power fantasies, and it's baffling because well-done, unconventional, power-hungry women is a trope that has been done well before.
Why are elves talking to each other instead of using telepathy
>Here goyim, remember the Lord of the Rings? Check out our new goyslop we're plopping down in the trough.
I will never watch this shit you slimy israelites. Black person elves and Black person hobbits is a bridge too fricking far.
She seen dragons
they could both use me as a toilet any day of the week
I can't wait to see all the seething once this show flops hard.
Her outfits have been pretty good so far, also beautiful horse
you just know she takes good care of that horse...
Kek this b***h is so fricking wide
Was this pudgy rural girl hired as a handmaiden to the man-at-arms riding behind her to escape a life of peasantry?
Ah yes here's Ar-Pharazon
>mogged by a horse
A Horse!
that horse is fricking majestic, damn.
It has better hair than she does! Do they do wigs for horses?
That horse is certainly not fricking anything majestic
Look at the state of her
>Elendil makes it with Galadriel
HUMANBROS WE JUST CAN'T STOP WINNING!
whoa they casted one attractive white person?
The real question is why didn't she spec into bows like any other normal Elf?
She's a Noldor so they have them use swords, sometimes zweihander sized, while wearing mail and plate
The lowly Silvan elves use bows and shitty leather armour
She looks like my hot cousin.
i will never watch this pozzed trash or any capeshit flicks and you will never convince otherwise indian subhuman
The queen of Frump
>you will never be the wind that got under her dress
Why live?
Channelling her Teleri side
I want to kiss her feet
yeah you'd never know that she was 1/3 Vanyar which were unparalleled in beauty, almost divine, which gave her her famous silver hair
>Frump
Why are incels so obsessed with this word?
>elf
>stubby little leggies
it hasn't even begun and it's already ogre
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I love her
>I don't actually think she looked like an 11+ in LotR
I admit I have a specific thing for her.
The ears they're using are so stubby and chunky, it's awful.
>hair isnt platinum blonde and shiny
>its fricking dyed and dirty blonde when wet.
frick this trash.
it's fricking HOT
>hair isn't blonde and shiny
Yes it is
Why does she look like she's in her mid 40s?
>she looks like a teenage girl!
>she looks like she is in her 40s!
make up your mind, incels.
t. person who has never seen a 40 year old woman
But you gays were saying she looked like a child earlier in the thread?
chuds try every possible cope. they all know that she is very beautiful and the perfect cast for the role, but they have to cry and seethe because that is what their life is all about.
she looks like an alcoholic
that's an interesting thing actually, the actors and actresses who play the elves are going to age significantly over the course of a 5 season show. this could be a big problem.
>the line of numenorean kings before Ar-Pharazon usurps the thrones was full of kangs, as denoted by Tar-Miriel being black
Frick this gay Earth, Frick Amazon
what, you don't like the idea that the greatest race of men on the planet were full of nogs in a book about europe?
It is not a book about Europe, incel. It is set in a fictional world
Its literally meant to be ancient Poland.
What would Celeborn say if he say this?
No wonder every agent in Hollywood kept their people away from this shit show.
Thic
Based Welsh women enjoyers in this thread
t. Anglo near the border
>Black personfied a white story meant to adapt European mythology into an easily digestible novel series.
Yeah no, frick off. If you homosexuals so much as hate watch this you are part of the fricking problem. Let this shit flop like it deserves.
Its not an adaptation of european mythology, chud.
It is, was, and always will be about European mythology. Sorry nobody gives a frick whatever dirt nation you come from.
No, chud. It is a story invented by Tolkien.
Once you start digging you find pretty much all of his stuff was taken wholesale from history, myth and religion. Often even stolen; none of the dwarven names are original, for example.
see
moron. Again, sorry nobody gives a frick about your people's mythology, Black person.
>nobody gives a frick about your people's mythology,
Then why adapt it? If you obviously do not respect or care about the source at all why not just create your own story and that way skip all the shit from the fanbase?
rent free commie homosexual
Perfect Galadriel, chuds are just being contrarian incels as usual
>cast ugly b***h to appeal to uggos
>even uggos don't like looking at ugly people
all are punish'd
>o-only right wingers h-hate uggos!
You're funny!
funny shirt
I look like this and wear that shirt. Not watching Black personfied LOTR. Sorry troony.
They didn't cast your mom tho
The dialogues are as banal as they come:
"put up your sword"
"You haven't seen what I've seen" (x2)
"The enemy is out there, the question is where?"
zzzzzzzzz
Samwise was Harfoot. A little more brown, not much.
He is consistently described as dark skinned in the books (which you have not read)
yeah that means everybody was a Black person is that it
All harfoots are dark skinned, yes.
so anybody that's not pale is a Black person
Not in your employer's show they're not. So it's a problem even under your narrative.
Chick in the middle would have made a decent Elf
Why are the hobbits nappy-headed and with shit in their hair but the Elves look completely visually indistinct from the races of Men?
hobbits are rustic english, dark skin and brown hands means tanned from working in the sun....as a gardener
All harfoots are gardeners?
no. but harfoots are rustic english, just like all hobbits. the difference in skin colour would be negligible. "darker" does not mean "dark" as we would think of it today
>harfoots have brown skin because they are rustic
>all Hobbits are rustic
Why are only the harfoots described as brown skinned then?
>umm.. brown meant white back then
cope, chuddie
by the standards of Anglo protestants, the Irish were unambiguously jigaboo apes
forgot my picture
I was the person who originally took and posted this photo and I'm ashamed that some cringy gay cropped it out and put soijaks around it for some shitty meme
browner of skin not the color and stench of turd on which flies land
cope more, chudlet. you have been btfo and you have no arguments, you can only seethe and squeal.
The difference is akin to Mediterranean European vs Gemanic/Slavic/Scandinavian European. Italians are browner of skin compared to a Polack but Italians arent black, unless you count Sicily
Wow... not only have incels not read any of the books, they also are so uneducated that they think Lord of the Rings is literally European history... this is the state of US education.
Go back to prepping your wife's boyfriend, city dwelling cuck.
High-res Tirion + trees image
elden ring tree, very cool
>Tirion
lmao they are really trying to rip off GoT. the first teaser even had the "climbing the wall" scene.
We've had good location CGI since the 2000's since the film trilogy came out, what are your answers for the shitty costumes and ugly actors which we're going to be looking at 98% of the time?
>elden tree
where are all the black people?
we reached a point where black actors=woke for rightards
society is collapsing
>black people in lord of the rings
do you want white people in ancient japanese lore? or black people? or white people in some african thing?
yes, who cares?
LotR is not ancient European lore, you stupid American. It is a set of fantasy novels written in the 20th century.
i know when it was written homosexual
no, chud. you thought it was ancient lore.
The problem is the uggos
Random side characters who happened to be nonwhites were attractive years ago, but now they want to shove deformed motherfrickers down our throats
Why are celtic girls so attractive, and why are anglo girls so ugly?
>Why are celtic girls so attractive, and why are anglo girls so ugly?
Both are ugly in my experience. Irish women are 5'0 goblins most of the time and anglos look inbred. Every other euro moggs the uk
Wow, she's just like a quirky, shy high school student!
Which moron cast this cow?
have sex, incel.
There's a chud like you in the show, stop crying
What Elven House does he conceivably come from?
House Wewuzos
da hood elves
Bloods clan, west side of Gondolin
>"An Elf of the east!" Gandalf exclaimed as he looked upon the peculiar looking elf. Frodo had seen many elves since leaving the shire but even this one was strange. Long dark hair and skin that wasn't fair as he was now used to, but dark and golden, and reminded him of the wheat fields back in the shire."
this is almost well-written enough to be mistaken for an actual quote
>remember frodo, around those kinds of elves, you can never relax
definitely a Peredhil between a Telerin and a Mahud
whats he looking at, and why do so many enriched colored people have eyes that dont look in the same direction?
>whats he looking at
the last unraped white woman
cope
what the probability of having 3 in the same room?
cute cute cute
I find it hilarious that C and D list actors use the controversial shows to gain "fame"
I find it hilarious that you never had sex and never will
[chair clattering]
She looks like Melody Marks
I remember these exact type of threads showing up before wheel of time
>"organic" waifuposters trying to make the show seem watchable by simping for one actress
>show comes out
>its shit
>they hard cope for two weeks before losing their payroll and moving to another mediocre show
waifuposters are almost invariably the only genuinely organic part of any hype train
>"organic" waifuposters
Check the archive, homosexual
perfection.
Oy vey they're noticing it
They all talk like moronic teens, at least degenerates are funny. Waifugays are just obnoxious and probably have had less sex than the people they make fun of.
I'm glad more people on this board are becoming aware of the new shill meta. Inb4 they call you schizos
Companies use shill campaigns like this because it breaks people down over time and they slowly get more people who decide "I've heard enough about this, I just need to watch it to make up my own mind". Other forms of cope are possible as well. At the end of the day it takes a true chad to resist peer pressure, media hype and astroturfing to stand by your principles.
It's really quite heavy when you begin to consider how our whole society is just a tangled web of will-to-power manifestations.
>Lord of Racism
Yeah no.
How do you think Elrond feels about his brother's descendants race mixing?
permanent, eternal, and foreverial coping and seething
Here's the mentality that the marketers have about shilling this shit right now.
>"Our PR alarms went off from negative criticisms on Cinemaphile!"
>"Our market research shows that the primary concerns are caused by our diversity model which changes organic behavior into the same box of M&Ms every time, with an equal and exact amount of each color in the box and on the packaging.!"
>"Here, Cinemaphile! Don't worry about representation! We know representation matters. That's why we made this one character to represent you. Here's a picture of the character. Don't you feel represented?"
ive been a lord of the rings fan since i was like 10 years old and went to see the fellowship in theaters. after that i read the books every year since. ive seen the jackson trilogy countless times. and the hobbit movies maybe 2 or 3 times each. Jesus, i thought those were trash. I cant even begin to imagine how shit this show is gonna be. Reminds me of the new trilogy of star wars movies. This is gonna make the hobbit look like fricking gold. Mark my words and screencap this.
we all know this, it's not a controversial point of view
>lotr fan
>likes the capeshit films of jackson
ok moron
>brown hobbit =/= black homosexual errectus missing link groid hobbit
>reads 'browner of skins' immediately goes off grasping at straws as justification for his sick Blackphilia fetish
don't you think tolkien would actually described the darkest swarthy black jungle apes as such and not just 'browner'?
have sex, incel.