Absolutely underrated comment.

It's the same with every single hobby we had. Anime, games, films, even tcg and tabletop. They've infested and destroyed everything like a fucking cancer.

Well, let's be honest - old fans can be harsh or even prejudiced towards new fans. For example, fans of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 overestimate their favorite games and underestimate Fallout 3, although some of its not-so-great ideas were taken from classic developers. But at least Bethesda had an explanation for why they changed the game and its style so radically. They needed a new and young audience that was not used to complex 2D games. In the case of Amazon - I do not understand their intention. Minorities in the main roles will not cause contentment of wokies and the minorities themselves, for the average viewer, such an inaccurate casting for a fan-made movie. If you don't believe me and think I'm a racist, google the Dungeons & Dragons adaptation. Then for some reason the viewer was not impressed by the black elves, but now it's "stunning and brave" for some reasons.

Chill, nerd. The point is that a bunch of dorky crybabies are angry that nonwhite actors and women are part of this series.

@@ahoramazda6864 Your example of Fallout is silly, fans of the old games are entirely entitled to their preferences. Let's say that again *preference* not prejudice. They fell in love with the style of the original (very fair given that they chose to play them as they were) and it's reasonable for them to dislike the change. Furthermore, Fallout 3 is generally one of the weakest in the Fallout series, and I say that as an overall fan of the new style of game (Fallout: New Vegas is one of the best games ever written). It's quite reasonable for people to dislike 3 for that reason alone, let alone the fact it's made in a style they don't connect with. Your whole point is flawed as it takes entirely reasonable personal taste and tries to twist that into something bad. I suspect that you're a butthurt fan of Fallout 3 that can't accept it's the worst game of the whole franchise

Its not fanfiction if they hate the series, is there a word for that?

There is no doubt at all this series will fail.

Key word being ill-conceived. Fanfic writers usually respect the lore and canon, and can create amazing content…unlike the makers of this show.

Doesn't matter if they lose money. It will become a business write off. If they make money that's a positive for them. They had such a bad quarter that they probably would welcome it.

@M1ddleBroth3r They will. They've spent almost a billion dollars on 'The Rings of Power' (Almost four times what the Peter Jackson trilogy cost to make), and it's pretty much guaranteed to flop, so yeah, they're going to take a MAJOR loss over it.

The Fellowship Rings was first published in 1954 with Return of the King published a year later -- making it 67 or 68 years old. The Hobbit was released in 1937 -- making it 85 years old.

The geniuses of Amazon never heard of that. So they bought the name of Tolkien and put their ghostwriters of wokies.

Write their won best sellers 🤣 Nothing these people do are good

Brilliant fantasy stories such as LOTR don’t deserve to die at the hands of these weirdos. If LOTR falls, there'll be few left, such as the western-inspired Xenoblade (a brilliant story & game if I might say, you should check it out if you haven’t already).

Sound the horn, Gondor rides once more.

They aren't LotR experts, they are Amazon shills. Real experts like Peter Jackson would defend Tolkien and not say it can be adapted to insert modern political activist beliefs.

damn right my friend

"Expert" and "TikTok" in general.

THANK YOU!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@@undefinedvariable8085 based

Bruh.

Reality as in it's real in their pointy heads.

@@luisnunes3863 Coneheads is a masterpiece.

I was thinking the exact same thing. There is no equality in todays armed forces, plumbers, construction workers, etc etc... this is real fantasy.

@@josephnolan8217 Wahmen demanding equal pay/respect as a firefighter for sitting at a desk. Laughable. I don't ever see a garbagewoman, either. I would actually love to see a world where more women are willing to sign up for these dangerous/dirty jobs and get themselves up to standard, just to make this 4th wave feminism scheiße be irrelevant once and for all. But I'm afraid we are a mite too far for that to be common sensibility.

Yes, but since they're calcium deficient and riddled with soy it's also unsurprising.

They can twist their sad little minds through even greater contortions in order to serve The Message.

Love how people are declaring it awful before they have even seen the fucking thing yet. Something about book covers

@@SirKanti1 It’s not a book. It’s a tv series. We’ve seen images of it. We’ve listened to the stated sociopolitical goals of the people making it.

@@JP-vj7fp yea and it retarded to judge what going to be 40 hours of tv on a 1 minute trailer.

ignore the rhetoric-focus on the actions. hypocrites say one thing and do another.

They are so open minded that their brains fell out

@@TaddiestMason they should start a KZfaq channel they would fit right in.

They are so open-minded that they couldn't possibly be a bunch of narcissists.

Something nice to read: The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. The Cold War opposition between the West and the Communist World is explicitly discussed as a backdrop to the educational issues. Screwtape and other demons are portrayed as consciously using the subversion of education and intellectual thought in the West to bring about its overthrow by the communist enemy from without and within. Oooooh, the wokies won't like it at all when their useful idiot consoomers realize that Tolkien and Lewis were against their woke antics. Lewis perfectly described the symptoms of what we now are seeing today with the woke radicals in the education system.

With nary a modicum of creativity in the lot - they are creatively and morally bankrupt husks.

I'm an artist myself and I totally agree with you. This series is an attempt of hijack one of the most famous works of literature.

I really really wish laws protected other people's art after the creator passes. No adaptations are needed most of the time anyway. I feel horrible for anyone who creates anything original nowadays.

Ditto, and I agree absolutely about what the reaction would be if this belonged to any other culture. For some reason, British culture has become not just a legitimate but even an approved target for destruction. Wasn't it Marx who said that the first step towards wiping out a nation was to wipe out its history? Tolkien's work is a part of our literary inheritance. It does not need updating or "improving", it should be respected and portrayed as the stunning creation it is. But, the way the world is going, I suppose there was never any chance of that!

Should be charges for the entire English speaking world. Tolkien is one of the most influential authors ever.

Not to mention the fact that Tolkien’s work is heavily inspired by Anglo-Saxon legends and beliefs, so not only is this corruption of a more modern piece of literary culture but from another perspective the hijacking of ancient English traditions and culture by a soulless foreign mega corporation and a bunch of wet wipes.

There is no group more oppressed historically than british persons.

I guess that's karma what goes around comes around , you destroyed the world now they are destroying your world .

I feel you.

Didn't believe cultural appropriation was a real think until I heard smug Californians saying "chuffed" and bloviating about Tolkien. Sudden outbreak of "That ain't yours to say. That's _our_ word."

Totally agree.

@@harbl99 As a Yank I've appropriated your c#@t word, and I use it exclusively for the commiefornia - hollywad crowd. Signed Florida man.

No different than Disney calling any fan that thought Reva was a shit character a bigot before the show even dropped.

I hope they do go bankrupt and erased from this world. This could be the beginning of a much needed reality check and a wake up call.

@@HexenStar Amazon is an absolute behemoth. People don't often know this - but their consumer side is literally funded by their AWS server side that powers major companies + US government in many areas - that's what makes all those deals really possible. This will be a VERY painful lesson for them and hopefully the rest of hollywood is watching to see what happens - but they'll get right back on the horse.

it is delicious.

As a woman, I have absolutely no desire to see representation in orcs.

Accepting the necessity of female orcs, I don't see the possibility of love or loyalty between orc parents. I don't imagine orcs pair-bonding. I imagine the female orcs have the temperament of Miss Trunchbull. I imagine that orc mating is lustful but not tender, that orc babies are born somewhat self-sufficient, to minimize the infanticides that orc mothers would naturally commit. In short, I imagine that orc culture should properly be imagined as violent and misogynistic, and that feminists should not look for any redeeming features therein, not even just because the species happens to be sexed. Human women would get no better treatment from female orcs than from males. Maybe some people want to believe that as a human woman, you'd be able to duck into an orc-harem and all the poor oppressed orc women would take pity on you and show you the beautiful hidden side of their culture that might prevail if only the male orcs would go away or all get killed off and then the race of orcs would become a matriarchy and be peaceful and happy. That's totally wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if some people want to write it in. Or, even more shallow, that we should be able to cheer the presence of female orcs fighting because that's badass, and so evil characters get reduced to something purely aesthetic, with little moral meaning left in the story, except for the inclusiveness of representation. The meaning shifts from the story to the meta-story. That's totally wrong too, but that seems to be the moral calculus of these goons.

@@lilacfantasy4 No one cares

@@charlesstanford1310 I think generally, the geniuses at Amazon like to take every opportunity to gray out any possible definition of good or evil. One of the things I have always loved (and seek to emulate in my own story-telling) is the stark contrast between good and evil that Tolkien expressed. This black-and-white juxtaposition of morals allows characters like Boromir, Frodo, and even Aragorn (to an extent) to have very observable (and relatable) struggles between right and wrong, duty and desire. When everything is gray, and anyone can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ based on no discernible moral criteria whatsoever, it cheapens what it means to take the high road and to sacrifice for that greater good. It also allows ‘bad’ characters to more easily slip away from the inconveniences of the realities of their sins. This allows woke society to justify themselves in the mirror of the worlds they create through art. Rome fell for similar reasons. So, sure! Make Orcs a simply ‘misunderstood’ equally-moral people. In the name of equity make everyone equally good regardless of their choices and actions. Forget the sinful, evil and utterly corrupting powers that spawned them, Orcs are just like you and me. It’s not like they were specifically written as a literary representation of everything repulsive, vile and coarse in the human soul. Making objectively immoral people and decisions equal to their moral counterparts certainly fits the narrative the Woke crowd favor. Bit of a tangent. Sorry. But I like what you said! ;)

Not only will they have orc women soldiers but I'll bet they'll have some female orc general that commands all the orcs, probably making all the male orcs look like pathetic losers.

It cannot be both set in a quasi-medieval world (with swords and castles) and relate to 2022 (Ukraine, BLM, Wokery, etc etc). It's like painting a picture of the underworld but featuring the sky and sunshine so that we surface folk can relate to it.

The funny thing was they quoted female dwarves look like males and then whine about a misconcieved notion that fans are mad about that. Like no. We're mad because Amazon made them look like oprah Barbi dolls. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

Their arrogance and self-indulgence won’t allow them to view life from any other vantage. They focus the brunt of their retort on buzzwords and deconstructing them. So much that the actual point of the criticism goes right over their heads.

I hate this argument so much because, yes. I have memorabilia of these franchises all over my house because these properties connected to me in some way. It just amazes me to see people that call themselves "fans" and don't seem to care when something they claim to love is getting disemboweled before them. They think this is an own to us fans, but really they end up just outing themselves as frauds.

She openly stated what all progressives believe: they are the enlightened and they must educated the sullied masses who believe in tradition, mythos, canonical works, and objective reality.

@@rammisalami not to mention that anything even remotely critical of their agenda is immediately disregarded as being put forward by trolls

I still can’t get over that ‘scene’. How do you managed to grab a dagger with two hands bulkily covered by gauntlets? its not possible

@@lingricen8077 Not only that but the the weight of the armor would yank you straight off.

naaa, they're trying to re-market something massively popular and important to so many people to the current generation, thus offering them more money and fame away from the original writer. This has nothing to do with fixing something and everything to do with appropriating media for the masses of plebs who get offended by the smallest things. It's as if everyone never got bullied in their lives, never developed a sense of strength and self-will and never accepted that some people differ in opinion and differ in expectations and that doesn't make them an "enemy" it just makes them an individual who finds something important. "Ohh women need to exist as something that never did up until the 1980s and black people have to take part because it makes sense during a world based on anglo-saxon england" A man who fought in WW1 amongst men and only men now has to look down and see the story he developed to replicate his own experiences tarnished because the mass populace "wont like it".

All of this was beyond predictable. Best way to give them the finger is to not watch it!

They dont need to accuse me, Ill gladly own gatekeeping for Tolkein. If its worth defending its worth gatekeeping.

If these people had any kind of imagination, they would make up their own stories, and try to convey their message through them. History tells us that creative people did a very good job with that sort of thing. These people are not creative. Otherwise, why would they continue to try and plunder stuff that has already been made? All they know how to do is subvert that which they already know about. Because that doesn't require a creative imagination. In fact, it barely requires any creativity at all. "The message" is all that matters to them. Why would they understand what is truly precious to any fanbase, if they themselves have never been a fan of anything?? Only the most bitter types of individuals take such sadistic pleasure in ruining other peoples' favorite things, just to teach some kind of lesson those fans never wanted to be taught in the first place!

Did the Tolkien estate sell the rights to Amazon? If they did , why? They refused to sell The Silmarillion rights to Jackson but they sold it to Amazon?

@@JZ-gx8tb I think because Christopher Tolkien died. His sons (or whoever's of Tolkien's grandkids is now in control?) apparently doesn't care enough to stop the vandalization.

Remember if they don't have a character exactly like you, both physically and mentally you can't enjoy something any more.

Here, a theological work, written for Tolkien: The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. The Cold War opposition between the West and the Communist World is explicitly discussed as a backdrop to the educational issues. Screwtape and other demons are portrayed as consciously using the subversion of education and intellectual thought in the West to bring about its overthrow by the communist enemy from without and within. Oooooh, the wokies won't like it at all when their useful idiot consoomers realize that Tolkien and Lewis were against their woke antics. Lewis perfectly described the symptoms of what we now are seeing today with the woke radicals in the education system. Tolkien and his gang of intellectual nerds are but fervent enemies of the woke. No wonder the woke wants to deconstruct and subvert their works to their own twisted image.

Trans Vigo the Carpathian*

@@JustaGuy_Gaming thank God no one told 8 year old white kid me that about Michael Jordan.... would have sucked to know I'm not allowed to admire that man's work ethic.

@@JustaGuy_Gaming It seems like a lot of incels (no offense) can’t enjoy this series because there are (nonwhite) people that don’t look like them.

Are you also "suck-psychic"?

Yeah thor is gonna be thors stupid yay women...

Hawkeye and Loki was great

Yeah most movies that have come out sucks so I watch other people react to it before I watch it so I know if it's even worth the thought of seeing it my self

Deeper than that, we know most everyone in this world is hired based on their idiology, not their talent and work ethic. Everything is going to shyte, not just entertainment, it's just most obvious there. The levers of power have been subverted by smarmy do nothings, and they are gatekeeping us from making things better.

It's ironic that this quote is not anything new and has only been distorted and destroyed for me by the numerous people who overuse it ad nauseam

Nah it's a good quote, but it is a bit differently written I think. Still no need to rag on those using it as they are right.

@@jamesmandahl444 exactly. whats ironic about it is it is literally what is happening to Tolkiens work

Everything humans create is based of previous things. ... So, the quote is quite accurate.

I saw someone quote that in russian and someone quote it in Spanish and both translated perfectly.

And left the path of wisdom

Gibbering lunatics so desperate for female representation they'll misgender a villain to pretend they have a point.

Rationalism.... lol.

Tell me, Mono Nonny, when did Amazon abandon reason for madness?????

Those sort of orcs didn't really exist yet. Most of them were small stunted things that died in droves. Only a small elite were good fighters. It wasn't till the later part of the third age that Uruks showed up.

Don't you think she sounded like geeky sparkles lol, even though she wouldn't say this shite.

Ironic that a "psychologist" cannot even see the hypocrisy in their own statements.

@@Duncangafney1 or she could be what I call "enlightened hypocrisy", she's aware of being hypocrite.

Same bro

Woman☕️

as if they could ever understand Tolkien with their superficial and limited thinking.. none of them really cares about Tolkien and his legacy, all they love and care about is money money money.

Sadly, that’s the world we live in!

Wicked. Tricksy. False.

The talk of there being some sort of necessity to "update" Tolkien is the evidence of their deceitful agenda.

@@Vera0723 It’s not just about money. “The MESSAGE” is much more important.

Sensibility isn't very common.

A woman is also physically weaker than a man. It doesn't matter in video games, but when ape A hits ape B with a rock, better be built to hurt and get hurt. Those traits do not matter in a civilisation at peace, but very much do in one at war.

Today still, even in modern armies, men are the ones on the frontline. They're 98% of combat casualties. It's frankly insulting to pretend they aren't.

BOOYAH! Common sense 👏🏾

Adult males have more overall muscle mass and less body fat than females, even in trained samples. Male athletes average 4% to 12% body fat compared to 12% to 23% in female athletes. Males develop larger skeletal muscles, as well as larger hearts and lungs and a greater number of red blood cells (which absorb oxygen for an aerobic advantage). Hell, they even have better reflexes and vision for combat (they're better at spotting fine details and rapid movement, but fall behind when it comes to distinguishing colors.)

kek 🤣

HOW DARE YOU GATE KEEP PURE EVIL, MUH PATRIARCHY!

Mirrors do exist.

for someone who hates women this guy likes to look like one

@@theMyouknow You got there before me lol

Correct. There used to be comedy shows where children were asked the difference between males and females. Now adults (particularly those in the public) either cannot identify these differences or pretend not to be able to do so. It doesn't get any more absurd than that. Or at least I hope it doesn't.

we essentially live in a South Park Episode.

America in a nutshell

Maybe they tried to read it. And i'm pretty shure they didn't like it. But now they are the experts and want to change everything. They truly disgust me.

Its a generation of "creatives" suffering from next-level Dunning-Kruger Effect.

They prove their fake "fandom" upon immediately opening their mouths and spewing forth current-day politics instead of Tolkien facts. It's easy to spot a pretender when you love something.

They're pedowood, they don't read. Period.

First time I read them was almost a half a century ago (!) Apparently my opinion is of no account to these ignorant whipper-snappers.

This is the left, they constantly play themselves.

I fuxkin hate wokist. Life long Tolkien fan since I moved from Iraq as a child. My first book was the Fellowship if the Ring. I’ve read most of Tolkiens and his sons work. How pathetic.

It's always about narcissistic ego and the insecurity lying under its surface.

Well, done! This is exactly what I was thinking but in less detail. Learning to think like the enemy and you will experience a thousand victories. - Sun Tzu.

Exactly! Thank you for typing up this response! I couldn't have said it better myself! These Narcissistic fucks will burn for what they've done to our media!

because thats how you brainwash children.

The fact you could be taking about both side of the fake ideology divided is very concerning.

@@SpottedHares As if that would ever apply to both sides. One side is a cult where no one can step an inch over the narrative line or risk being cancelled, and the other is a collection of different beliefs all driven together by force by the cult on the other side.

What's worse is she first said fans gatekeep, then later says how gatekeeping should be done, then that fans do it wrong, then that being wrong is ok. All the bases for pointless conversation covered.

@@COMMANDandConquer199 Exactly, both herded into pens like cattle, both in victimised consciousness, waaahhhh. P.s. nerdorotic is part of their plan

Personally I don’t understand how anyone listens to that podcast. Her verbal uptick after every sentence was driving me up a wall in the short clips here, I can’t imagine listening to an hour of that. And that’s before we get into the sanctimonious, sophomore grade psychoanalysis.

It reminds me of the Darkspawn, I do think that it was where BioWare got their inspiration.

Tolkien mentions that, there is female orcs, but they are permanently kept in the breeding pits to give birth to more orcs.

They're stupid, they could've retconed female orcs into a matriarchy because they're the ones who bring new warriors to the world... that's probably how Humans started (the oldest deities are generally women)... it's more intelligent than female warriors.

@@TheGary108 well at least dragon ages brood mothers lose themselves to the darkspawn hivemind and are forget what was done to them. Tolkien orcs are proably straight up Goblin slayer so the slaves are perfectly aware of what's being done

Yep. Basically females would be treated as in the movie Bone Tomahawk: just breeding machines. 🤮 But seeing orcs as twisted, corrupted evil creatures doesn't fit the woke narrative where good is never entirely good and evil is not entirely evil. They call it "nuance", I call it not understanding source material.

Except maybe Haleth? But your point still stands. Militant women in Tolkien are VERY rare.

Indeed, it's even pointed out in the books that she's an exception when they comment on her presence on the battlefield after she's brought to the house of healing.

​@@SGABlencathra Also a maybe on Aredhel, who carried a sword and maybe sometime killed a thing.

So... this Amazon trash will be diminishing one of the most important women in the lore? Fullfilling a prophecy and killing Sauron's most powerful servant is... well... I can't even describe it.

@@mrgoober6320 Aredhel was more of a huntress than a warrior, though.

I'm still laughing over the whole "some people refuse to acknowledge that they're wrong" bit. The same idea can be applied to Rings of Power - it was Amazon's belief that Tolkien fans wanted current year crap in their Tolkien show. The whole PR smearing of fans that they've been doing is their refusal to acknowledge that they were wrong. So instead of people seeing it for themselves, fighting amongst themselves and judging whether to like or hate it, Amazon stacked the deck against them. Reap what they sow.

I'm glad that they think they've got the upper hand, they've become so bold in that we'll just take whatever they give. I hope it ends here, LOTR will be the end of the tyrannical rule the woke has on our nerd culture. It's like classic bullys vs nerds again and we all know who always comes out on top.

@@zionharris9432 We're lucky they picked on 'the big one'. The multi decades old, world wide, every country loves, owns copies of etc phenomena & Hollywood does not have the clout to barrel over all of us. What's interesting is they've filmed S1 in NZ (got NZ govt incentives & undertook to film it all there). Yet they packed up, lost monetary incentives, moved to the UK to sound stages that aren't built yet & won't be completed for 12 months. Netflix booked all existing spare Shepparton studios stages. Rumour is Amazon won't film S2 till S1 releases & fan reaction is gauged. Are they finally listening?

They will need to whip their shills harder! It isn't working!

They have infinite money and no accountability. This isn’t about money. Its about Oligarchy ideology.

Exactly, they made galadriel so much weaker by making her a legolas level warrior instead of one of the single most powerful beiggs I. The continent.

What about Frodo? He had the one ring at home for decades and never touched it, until Gandalf told him to do. He took the ring all the way to mordor and resisted the evil. Frodo isn't physically strong or a good fighter but he is mentally strong.

Until Gandalf the white, Galadriel was one of (if not) the most powerful beings on middle earth. Not by the arms but though Sorcery and will. She was feared by Sauron himself. To make her a fighter is just plain stupid.

God I Love you guys 😭 🖐😂 🤣👌 Seriously though, it's nice to actually See, how many people are out there that REALLY Know Professor Tolkien's written word and intentions. In spite of the fact that it's one of the Largest literary communities in the world, We don't get chances to see our Fellowship until something comes up that forces us to defend his work.

Excuse me, bigot? We’ve completely changed Galadriel into Xena Warrior Princess and you will fucking LIKE IT. SHE (or he, they AND ONLY THEY are allowed to choose their gender) IS A STRONG WOMXN AND CAN BEAT ANY MUHSOGUHNISTIC MAN IN A PHYSICAL CHALLENGE. This is what progress looks like.

They’re here to destroy it just like they’ve destroyed everything else. You’re supposed to be pissed off and demoralized. Do you get it now?

Pepperidge farm remembers 😂

When I heard them talk about how old works of fiction should be updated to better reflect current day, I actually had to think about the 1984 ministry of truth where all old newspapers and books are changed to be in line with the government believes.

I'm fairly sure that most culture comes from the left, to be fair. If there is even a single Hollywood film that you like then it was probably made by a leftist.

They are like Morgoth, they cannot create, only twist and corrupt.

They freaked out when the new Ms frizzle for magic school bus wasn't g.ay enough. Many of them are hypocrits

“Corrupt”? Dork, you haven’t even seen the series.

@@ClaytonStone895 lmao. I think people have seen enough 🤣

Don't forget the Halo series. I'm a long time fan that has played all the games, I have almost all the books etc. The moment I saw the trailer and DIDN'T hear Steven Downes' voice as the Master Chief, I knew it was going to be bad. What an absolute insult that series was! I'm glad I never bothered to actually watch it, the reviews were more than enough of a deterrent for me.

Witcher, Asoiaf, wheel of time, marvel, dc, fire and blood...

Doctor Who went woke as well.

They actually ruined any iconic franchise they could put their hands on, fortunately for us there is practically no one left to be destroyed now, and from now on they will have to "be creative" to push their agenda, and they are not, only thing they can do is subvert what existed, this will be their downfall, like parasites without hosts.

Lord of the rings has fallen? Says you and amazon. The original is still written down, so what you cry about. You intimidated and admitting defeat... Pathetic

Um it’s the right that is triggered here

@@MrC-55 The right is annoyed at the woke nonsense ruining Tolkien's legacy but the left is unable to logically and coherently defend their worldview and when questioned on it will become angry, defensive and resort to the race, gender or sexualiity cards together with ad hominems.

@@aaronbarlow4376 I just responded with the Lore itself. Which is based in the limited knowledge that Hobbits knew about the world. Passed them others added, but it was never complete or closed.

@@MrC-55 I'm not sure what you're referring to.

And the fact that Amazons female dwarf women don't look anything like how they were described to look as well, so she realises she's walked herself into multiple contradictions

I thought the same things she starting talk in bout dwarves and I thought they didnt even give the dwarven woman a beard?

The left generally corner themselves using weak arguments, they can even attack other leftists if their argument needs it.

We were nerds before it was cool and popular, fuck these populist pretenders.

They are fools of Took

@@TheWatcherxx99 don't insult the Tooks.

Not even the Sackville-Baggins would stoop to this treachery.

@@GryphonIndustrial thats because the Sackville-Baggins have principles and morals. These foul creatures have none

Bunch of barrow wights and trolls I do say

her comment perfectly sums up why Tolkien fans are upset with the amazon show. they don't want current day politics within the Tolkien stories. Tolkien wrote his stuff a certain way, and readers grew to enjoy that way, that's why Peter Jackson dilibertly made the movies like that, because he even said he could have used current day politics or just current day styles, but that wouldn't be true to the Tolkien story.

It's lazy writing too. Here, I can give you an actual 2-seconds-of-creative-though reason orcs would be non-binary. (Though it's still not exactly story-relevant.) Emotional, and mental trauma. They all have it. Every single orc, is an elf, that no longer self-identifies as elvish, because they've been selectively bred, mutilated, and gaslit from birth. They certainly would NOT use modern terminology, and you wouldn't see any PROUD orcs the way you see LGBT humans.🚫🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧ Anyhoo; plus, Tolkien being a stickler for language (That's half the fun!) if he'd wanted to go that way would have had a cultural thing where Black Speech doesn't include genders, because it lacks words for describing beauty - that and regular orcs might be raised to despise all things feminine, on account of being a culture of nothing but workers and soldiers.⚔⚒ That's how you could do it in-story. Orc women don't think of themselves as women in the manner of the other races because orc culture and language has no place for femininity. 🚫♀ I'll bet you though, that that's not how they do it, and instead we get gay orcs that sound like Starbucks baristas. 🙄

@@EgoEroTergum Cool explanation for it. Adds depth to the Orcs, meets the objective without ruining them. 👍

I can't wait to see the wheelchair bound afro/asian-American neurodivergent amputee transgender asexual lesbian elf who is going to impregnate Saruman so that Gandalf can be born in season two. If they don't cast whoever it is that deadpan does the tablecloth trick with his asscheeks on tiktok, they are making a huge mistake.

They have already lost with The Rings of Power, they just don't realize it yet. The very fact that their podcast revolves around gender- and cultural issues shows that Amazon's public relations agents see the writing on the wall: overwhelming rejection by the fans. Why else focus on supposed 'toxic' minorities on the internet?

They can't string a sentence together because they know how bad their arguments will sound if they speak plainly.

It seems to me that even a person who has not read the original story guesses that elves in armor did not climb rocks with knives, in the style of Prince of Persia.

Indeed. It looks terrible

I hope so

it already is

She takes after Kamala Harris.

Leftist women are a threat to America

That's some narcissistic, controlling sheet right there. Everyone who's been in an abusive relationship is having flashbacks.

Agreed. they aren't coming across as having a carefully thought out viewpoint. Just shooting from the hip in an echo chamber. I also notice the constant use of "we". Who are these "we" they refer to. Do they actually mean "I". Lacking self awareness and so arrogant they can't doubt for a second that their world view is the only possible correct one? Or it is just about the self validation?

_"Like, like, um-like you know, like. Um, like..."_ Were they doing one another's hair at the time?

It's because psychology doesn't apply to you if you ascribe it to someone else. By doing that you get to claim status as an objective observer.

I believe they know exactly what they're doing. A few flopped movies and dead franchises could be brushed off as incompetence, but it is clear beyond any doubt that destruction IS their only goal.

@@TheRenofox Maybe so, but to want that, one would have to be a zealous "true believer" in the cult of intersectionality.

Yup, anything with a hint of wokism, I won’t bother. I’ll stick to the books and Peter Jacksons movies. Amazon will not be receiving my attention.

"when something is wrong, we just double down on what we this is right" they just expose the woke industry on that single statement.

How can they be self aware when they don't even know what male and female means?

Very well said. Tolkien was a genius, surely some modern gender theory marketing person has the right to “update it…”

@@B0redom13 if they were good enough to "update it", they'd be good enough to create an equivalent world and story, and wouldn't need to corrupt existing works

Much like the chick that smeared cake on the Mona Lisa; they don’t even know the product they are attempting to destroy is just a lame reproduction. Their actions have no weight or influence outside of their cult of sycophants and that revelation is scaring them.

What's next The Bible? Hey maybe Jesus Christ was a woman? Maybe he was trans or non binary

If there is one genre that isn’t dependent on “modern sensibilities” it’s medieval fantasy. Sure, attitudes might change but fantasy epics are timeless.

My thoughts exactly.

Exactly. If the likes of those people call me an ist/phobe, I'll wear it with pride. It has no bearing on my life whatsoever. But it grinds their gears that I don't care.

The sheer hubris of thinking you could improve Tolkiens work... I'm half Asian and I never thought "oh, there should be more Asian representation in LOTR". I just love the story the way it is. And now some woke person is trying to tell me I should feel outraged? F*** off.

"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer."

Thats exactly where the term "snowflake" comes from. As soon as SJW's are confronted with FACTS, they completely melt. All hope of having a rational conversation is out the window and they start with the childish and personal attacks that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. Still to this day have I seen a single one of these people be able to either debate their views, or explain their beliefs without going into some hysterical temper tantrum. They will pretend that you are "attacking them" or "becoming violent" when they are the ones raising their voice and threatening people with violence? The is no group of people who project more than SJW's.

I think at least some of them (especially most of their leaders) are pathological liars and machiavellian psychopaths who know full well they are lying to the public and corrupting the social fabric of society, but they keep doing it because cultural terrorism is their conscious goal, and they intentionally use the tactics of false accusations, DARVO, and projecting their faults onto others because they know those tactics work when you have the backing of the power of billionaires, their Old Money foundations, millionaire-operatebd and billionaire-owned mainstream media, and the Deep State behind them. They are intentional bullies using classic bully tactics because they know they can get away with it all thanks to the superior financial and political power behind them. They're basically a coalition of sadists, narcissists, opportunist grifters, and calculating psychopaths at the top with a mob of mindless followers, NPCs, and useful idiots at the bottom.

That’s almost always how it goes down.

It's the same crowd that state men can be women and women can be men, I grew up reading the Hobbit and LOTR before I knew anything about politics and I think that most of the audience can say the same, that's why there's a huge backlash from the left and right on the adaptation that is needlessly politicised by elements of the far left.

A Brazilian professor named Olavo de Carvalho calls this "Cognitive Parallax". The person does not live by his own beliefs or rules that he says govern the universe.

ReeeEEEeeee Bigot!

Morgoth sent Elven females to College. There He/They/Them corrupted their minds. Colours of the rainbow seeped from malformed heads and into their hair. Waddling forth from the black gates they screeched their battle cry, 'REEEEEEEEEEEEE'

to be clear, there are female orcs just as tolkien said, and to be clear if u pour some thought into this u will realise that this will be set before sauron took over from morgoth so orcs are modtly scattered and unorganized.

Tolkien's letter says as much. "They must exist, but you only see the orc warriors so you'd never see the females."

My thoughts exactly

Yea but it stills anger me that alot of kids will think this is what LOTR is.

@@littleDainolf that's true. Hopefully it will draw them deeper so that they will read the books.

Even the movies aren't that spiritually loyal. The most loyal adaptation is the BBC Radio version from the 80s.

The Tolkien Estate signed off on all of this - since they know Tolkien better than Nerdrotic or you, I’ll go with their take.

@@ClaytonStone895 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wokeism hates women. They may complain about sexism, but at the end of the day, they hate the feminine and want women to be weaker men and men handicapped to their level.

She has husband!! Not a strong career focused woman. Kill the Celeborn and make Galadriel pro abortion. That will show us.

because, ironically, they're the sexists who doesn't see strength in femininity and elegance. they only see strength in becoming more like a dude, macho and swinging a sword. that's why their definition of making galadriel "strong" by their standards is shoving her in metal plate and having her brandish a blade, like all the dudes do.

That was my question!

Because in this world and age you can't have a strong feminine woman that loves her husband. They all have to be independent women that don't need no man and are all masculine.