LOTR elves are elegant and refined. They wouldn't be caught dead in a pose like this, let alone a female elf.

I could only imagine the horror on Tolkien's face if he could see how an American corporation mutilated his lifework

"Don't expect the same Galadriel." They probably think Tolkien's Galadriel was just a weak wallflower, instead of an immensely powerful being who simply had self control and so didn't use her powers. She literally had a scene demonstrating that she could've taken the ring from Frodo and been even more powerful than Sauron, but she didn't

Me: "I don't think Celeborn is even appearing in the Amazon Series" My friend: "Good for him, they spared him the indignity"

Don’t buy into “watch it before judging.” It is THEIR job to entice you to watch the show and right now, no one is remotely enticed to look in Amazon’s direction

"Dont expect the same Galadriel." See, now THAT right there is the problem.

1. Not only would Galadriel never sit like that, male elves wouldn’t either. 2. Why do the Hobbits look like they are from the slums of London? The Hobbits as a race have never been dirt poor. They have always been able to do well for themselves and are incredibly neat and tidy. 3. We all know what the issue is with the Dwarf cover.

You know , even Lenny Henry himself, in a stand-up skit in the 90s, spoke about attending an all-black-cast production of HAMLET alongside an African ambassador (Nigerian possibly, can't remember the exact country) , and the ambassador says, " What the f*** are all these black people doing in Denmark?" Is nobody considering how ridiculous this pandering is to people outside their box?

"Nah, it will be fine." I'm sure they'll just insult the fandom and call us all toxic women hating man babies. They'll do great.

For $1 billion, Amazon could’ve spent that money paying its warehouse workers more and treating them better rather than on this show.

The marketing strategy for these companies is to say “if you don’t like this stuff, there’s something wrong with you”, which is never a successful strategy.

Galadriel is feminine. Strong, intelligent. Deterrmined. But feminine. "Don't expect the same Galadriel!" Yeah. She's gone masculine. Instead of showing how feminine traits are equally heroic as masculine, she's showing how you have to become masculine to compete. An unpaid but positive critique is valuable and comes over as honest. But a paid-for positive critique is automatically suspect and a paid-for but negative critique can be absolutely genuine. Even if - in the unlikely event - the series turns out good or great, it'll be forever tarnished by this lousy promotion disaster.

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

Galadriel’s hair is god damn sacred. Here it looks like she tongued a wall socket.

The first 2 questions you ask of someone you're hiring to repaint the Mona Lisa are: 1-Are you a good painter? 2-Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa? Apparently, they forgot to ask those questions of these creators.

Galadriel. Graceful, Poised, Respected, influential, feminine. "Let's have her dressed up like a dude and squatting like a Slav"

She IS the villain. She's attempting to murder Tolkien's legacy.

3 words come to mind...."Out of Touch." And I'm so sick of multi-Billion dollar companies telling me what I should like & what I shouldn't.

“Watch it before judging”.. “Just eat that manure, don’t judge it before you try some.” 😂

1:30 Galadriel was intimidating in the Lord of the rings, a very powerful and stern yet very feminine woman. This portrayal of Galadriel as some swashbuckling Barbarian borders on farcical

We could spent days talking about how bad this is but it's simple. Tolkien would not have written young Galadriel to be like an 2022 tiktok activist. And that's where this ends for me

The writers don’t understand the character of Galadriel. Her story is quite intriguing - leaving home with her brothers, learning magic from an angel/god, and learning the hard lessons that allowed her to outlive her family. But OK: make her a man.

"I didn't like Rand's personality so I wrote him a new one." Cool! That's another show I can add to the "never watch this shit" list, along with the rings of power, the daredevil reboot, Halo, and anything Star Wars.

_But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of Ilúvatar, for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself._

Its not just LOTR, every show nowadays is indistinguishable from fan fiction. The 'creatives' seem to have all been simultaneously brain-damaged into incompetence.

Galadriel is sitting like the male character on the cover of the CoD Black Ops games.

I'm surprised that Galadriel doesn't have the sides of her head shaved.

I remember... long ago... before Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson's) came out. My friends and I were terrified of what havoc he might bring on our beloved world. They showed that first little teaser trailer, just the simple shot of the fellowship walking along the path over the pass around a large rock. It was a beautiful shot of beautiful mountains. It showed clearly different heights and statures of the various fellowship members. Even more than that, in that very short clip, the characters were CLEARLY recognizable for who they were. The fellowship members, the look, the outfit, the swagger (or lack thereof) was immediately apparent. My friends and I were still afraid, but we were less afraid. The more promotional material I see for Rings of Power, the MORE afraid I become.

I remember Galadriel from the Lord of the Rings movies and the scene where she reveals her true power just for a moment when Frodo reveals the ring to her. That Galadriel would eat the new “Galadriel” for lunch, look disappointed, and ask for something more satisfying.

Remember: paying for this shitshow makes you part of the problem.

I thought Galadriel was supposed to be the antithesis of dwarves, men and orks and their warring ways, the epitome of beauty, grace, kindness, a motherly character with the hidden strength of a mother. This was a direct parallel to the world of the early 1900s where men (and Tolkien himself) went to war and witnessed all its horror and brutally where the memories of the kindness and care of their mother, sisters, wives and muses were angelic in comparison. He was never afraid to show the strength of women, who killed the Witch King? That must have been a wild piece of writing when he wrote it.

theres a reason they waited for tolkiens kid to die before making this. he was the last gatekeeper

This new generation of woke “filmmakers” are systematically hacking up our classic favorites to spread “the message.” This is why hard copies of such classics are important. If they control the digital space, they can manipulate or even delete/block the streaming of the originals we cherish.

The most outrageous thing is, Galadriel in books is a badass! But not sword wielding, mountain climbing ninja... she is a powerful mage and wise leader, is it not enough? As a woman I hate this modern Hollywood notion, I should be intrigued only by physically strong girlboss emotionless female characters... You know Hollywood, my simple lady brain is able to connect to a character for many reasons, not only for having a vagina. I hate it's everywhere sold to me, as if I should be grateful for this amazing feminist service... I'm tired. Keep up your amazing work Drinker! Your videos always made my day.

"It felt only natural (to us) that an adaptation of the author's work would reflect what the world actually looks like. "- The creators of "The Rings of Power" That's an actual quote. Felt natural did it? I have a hard time believing these corporate zombies have had a natural feeling in their lives. I imagine any actual thoughts and emotions they might feel have to be heavily edited in post-production before they are allowed to experience them.

If I hear the words "Strong female character" one more time, I don't know what I'll do. This is why I love the Studio Ghibli movies and their variety of female characters. There are the young girls, like Kiki and the two sisters from My Neighbor Totoro who are out and exploring the world around them. There are the wise, older, and gentle mothers and mother figures. And there are tough fighters such as San from Princess Mononoke and Dola from Castle in the Sky. I miss the more feminine ladies who knew that kindness, hard work, wisdom, and gentleness are all strengths, not weaknesses.

I still find it hilarious how these people say how much men are awful and women are the bestest, then completely 180 and desperately ape male physiology and traits when creating their female characters. You see it constantly in fiction, where they just make men and try and slap a woman's face on the body then calling it a "strong woman", but even in live-action it's starting to happen more and more. Like Black Widow where they try to broaden everyone's shoulders, or having Task Manager played by a man.

Amazon will 100% look us straight in the eye and tell us this crap will be a success.

This right here truly cements for the fandom that we don’t owe these bastards even the benefit of the doubt for one single episode. Each one of those covers is blatant lore and cannon breaking. It shows us that they don’t give a damn about Tolkien’s work beyond using the name to draw people in. I say not watching this crap isn’t good enough to send a message. No we need to do more than that. Those of us that still have Amazon Prime need to stream the Fellowship of the Ring at the exact same time this piece of garbage is set to air in the fall. We’ll show them what the fandom really wants.

I had read a proper response to the "Don't expect the same Galadriel" quote on the magazine, that being "Then don't expect the same LOTR fan support."

Worse case scenario is that they turn Galadriel into Micheal Burnham; and basically make her utterly insufferable.

Just finished my annual re-reading of _The Lord of the Rings_ and it makes me hate this mockery that Amazon has created, all the more. If I could with the wave of a hand erase every server containing every frame of this and cause every backup storage device spontaneously combust, and every setpiece and costume crumble into dust, I would do so. This is a heinous mockery, and there's not an artistic Hell hot enough for these people and their disgusting, nauseous "vision" to burn in.

Brilliant summary gents. Really enjoying Disparu's observations and delivery. Not a huge Tolkien fan, but hell will freeze over before I watch two minutes of this tosh.

If Amazon was putting out an original fantasy series without the Lord of the Rings franchise tag attached to it there wouldn't be any controversy. This is the problem with entertainment today, they don't believe they create anything new that can stand on its own merit, they cling to established characters and franchises and then don't understand why fans get upset when they twist them to fit a political agenda.

When you have people that live their entire lives in a social media built echo-chamber of their own thoughts and ideas it becomes completely incomprehensible that ANY other thought or idea or opinion could be even conceivable let alone legitimate. That's who is kicking these things out, they are not doing it to make money or put out a show or give tribute to something great, they are doing it to tick a few boxes that their social media circle will give them praise for.

Galadriel can be a strong female character without trying to be some warrior. There are plenty of other traits that make a woman strong other than fighting and brawn. Beauty, wisdom, compassion, and lest we forget her actual elven magical powers. Hell, her HAIR is SACRED. And look at it in these pictures!

"Don't expect the same Galadriel".....but we LOVED the original Galadriel. She was a VERY strong, memorable character. These people are mental and I'm going to love seeing this bomb spectacularly

Once again I'm reminded that the Middle Earth games while not canon, actually respected the material they diverged from.

I'm almost pleasantly surprised they didn't race swap Galadriel. Not that it matters, anyway, they still destroyed her.

I’m a simple man, when drinker said “Galadriel taking a shit” I laughed.

Agree with Disparu, espicilly about "appealing to influencers". I don't like the word "influencers" either. In ways to win arguments, this is called "appeal to authority". It's not an accident that this is the last strategy for your ex-gf to win an argument (ie., "oh yea, well your mom agrees with me!") and the first strategy for corporations. Corporations are BUILT on appeals to authority. I would argue that my generation's affirmitive action debates and this generation's diversity hires are nothing more than extensions of the appeal to authority. Here believe me, because I am educated and your boss has become: Here believe me because this person has your skin color (or at least a skin color our culture says you can't doubt).

Again, what's so frustrating about this, is that's there's literally thousands of modern fantasy novels which feature diversity and current era themes which they could have adapted. Hell I've written a series myself!

A quote from the cover, "Don't expect the same Galadriel." First of all, only shills and acolytes of the 'diversity and inclusion' cult believe that, and even that's debatable. I have no doubts many shills know it's not the same, but so long as they get their thirty pieces of silver, they'll tell themselves they're fine. Second and more importantly, that is _not_ Galadriel, and I am so tired of the worn-out dogmatic excuses used. "But a character changes! They're not robots!' "Oh, but thus-and-so OWN the series now! IT'S CANON!" No, that's not character change. Yes, characters change, but you have to SHOW the steps made. There's nothing shown, only declarations. With so many changes, they're not the same characters, and it's not the same story. And, no, just because some buys a label doesn't make it the same product, and those who know will point out the lack of quality. Do a search on the history of Zenith televisions, for a prime example. And as for stories, the same has happened in history. You have to do the work (gasp!) and the research (double-gasp), but there have been plenty of series which were bought out, changed, then even sometimes bought again and the alterations in between nullified Frankly, while I'm disgusted and I am outraged, I don't feel the dread I do with what's happened with Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Marvel, DC, and so on. Genuine Tolkien fans know the true, and they are multitude. And that's really the core issue going on here. These cultist aren't devoted to rewriting all history and stories as they are trying to rewrite us. They've gone too far. The 'plebes' are uprising. So no, I am not expecting 'the same Galadriel.' I'm expecting another pile of malicious, intentional, cultist shit which they think we're going to consume. To which I say it's time to dump out the shit, and the source from which it came.

"They put in Hobbits because people wanted Hobbits. But then don't make them look like Hobbits so what's the point?" This is something that shouldn't make sense but for some reason they keep doing shit like this like it's normal and make sense.

Look: can we just be brutally honest? There are no Black Hobbits or Elves or Dwarves in Tolkien's Middle-earth. None whatsoever.

I just hear that these pre-hobbits from the series will be nomadic tribe. Ok, lets find out if this makes sense ok? :) I know pre-Shire hobbits lived in 3 different parts of Middle-Earth. One clan, Fallohides was from the south borders of Mirkwood (Legolas forest) they were the most brave of the clans and most skilled in archery, and friends with elves, the second clan - Stoors, ancestors of Gollum - was living in the area of Anduin (big river the Fellowship travels in the film). They were fishermen like Jackson's presented it and mostly friends with men of east borders of Gondor. The least important clan were Harfoots and they AFAIR got their settlements close to Dwarven kingdom. But not Moria, AFAIR other realm in Misty Mountains. They were most skilled as craftsmen and farmers. Not a one of these clans ever lived in tropical clime btw. The most south these clans lived was the land with clime similar to north Italy. But all of those clans got their long time settlements, in different regions of MiddleEarth - they were settle people, not nomadic. They knew agriculture so they could not be nomadic. Agriculture require settlement for long time! They started to travel west BECOUSE they were in fear of Darkeness spreading from Dol Guldur, thats how they ended in lands of previously demolished kingdom of Arnor under the rule of king Argeleb II who gave them their land - future Shire. So they never were nomadic tribe, they BECOME one for a time becouse of sauronic Darkness.

They delved too greedily and too deep into Tolkien, and have hit a vein of mithril that marked their doom. This foe is beyond any of them. You might get away with messing with the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, but once you hit the Silmarillion, you reach something beyond ''fandom'' entirely.

Wheel of Time is the saddest victim of modern cinema. As a diehard fan, I wish they never even tried rather than use it as a platform for their political agenda and garbage writing.

what's really sad, I live in germany and I watched lotr when I was a little kid around 6 or 7 and it made my childhood sooo much more interesting it made me alot more creative, but the more people I meet now through school and college I realize how little people here in germany seem to have seen it. Like they heard about it but they are all like: I don't like fantasy so I probably don't like that.... I'm just happy that my mother loves traveling and was able to speak english and read the book so also showed us the movies.... my childhood wouldn't have been the same without it

Funny: In my business I'd call a 'PR disaster' having someone crap all over my examining couch after sticking my finger up their bottom! (thank God I'm retired) I guess in a way this 'PR disaster' is much the same thing, just as unpleasant but on a far larger scale - Amazon has sh1t the bed with this one!

I love that at the time this show takes place Galadriel would be "fully matured" and look like Cate Blanchett.

I saw the toilet pose on the shelf and it put me right off even flipping through the magazine.

I'm glad the one guy brought in comparisons to the Wheel of Time. As a longtime reader of that series (I read the first book when it was published, and bought every book as soon as it was released after that), the TV series just took a huge shit on the story. I was seriously disappointed in the fact that I had given it the benefit of the doubt only because Brandon Sanderson said he'd accepted the changes under the idea that he felt they represented a different iteration of the turning of the Wheel rather than the one presented in the books. After learning more about the storyline, there was just no justification for many of the changes under that idea. Rafe Judkins bastardized the story, and should be banned from ruining the story further. I only hope that Harriet (Robert Jordan's widow) authorizes another telling of the story more in keeping with the actual novels. Or at least, allow other authors to keep on the storyline similar to the way Robert E. Howard's estate authorized other authors to continue Conan books. I'd love to see books written about the Age of Legends, or even ones set in the 4th Age, or maybe even how we got from our current age to the next one.

I remember seeing the beginning of the trailer in a movie theater, and I was like "Silmarillion movie! YES PLEASE!" The more I watched, the more I realized how far my assumption was from the truth. Also the female dwarf is not accurate to the book, as they are supposed to be hardly distinguishable from their male counterparts.

Remember Galadriel's speech in the first movie: "Instead of a king you would have a queen! Terrible like the dawn, treaserous like the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth! All men would love me, and despair." That was one of the best scenes in the trilogy. Powerful in a feminine queen-like way. Today it would be sexist: That she talks about enticing men by making them love her. "That's a sexist trope!" Instead she must look masculine and ugly now.

When a company is promoting the "creators" and not the product, you know it's bad.

Gimli was overjoyed to get three strands of hair as a gift from Galadriel...this faux elf would have been attacked for trying to gift the split-end ridden mop on her head.

Totally agree. If Tolkien were the first fanbase that totally got pissed on, the reaction may not have been so bad. However, we (collective nerd-dom) have been watching as Marvel...DC...Ghostbusters...Star Wars...Cowboy Bebop...Star Trek...Dr Who...WoT...etc. ad infinitum have been abused, so we all know what's coming.

If only the vast amount of money wasted on Rings of Power had been put into making the last three seasons of The Expanse.

Don't expect a wise and powerful immortal being. Expect a pathetic radical feminist.

"She looks computer generated in a PS2." Almost spit out my tea on that one!

Disparu!!!! I can't wait for you to upload this open bar eposide!

"PR Disaster" is an understatement.

My 19 year old daughter saw the picture of Galadriel and asked me if she is trans. 😳

Does anyone know how much of the series the teaser covers? Is it scenes from the first episode or multiple episodes?

That "hobbit" with the funny hair reminds me of Uncle Remus from Disney's _Song Of The South._

"Don't expect the same Galadriel." Oh don't worry, I don't expect anything from this show.

It's also kind of telling that the Hobbits cover shows two females and one 'hobbit of color'... It reminds me of Sniper Elite 5, when in between mission 1 and 2 you're in a French Resistance camp for a brief intermission, and the 6 people there consist of 3 women, one of them black, and 3 men, two of them black. One out of 6 is actually a white male - in the Normandy, France, in 1944... In the beginning of mission 4 they're doing the same thing again, so it's not coincidence. This might be subtle, but it is directed at subconsciously manipulating us into changing our historical reality into something else that fits 'the Message'.

Love to see you guys do Wheel of Time which you mentioned several times. The show is SUCH an abomination. Love to hear your thoughts on how they could they take such great source material and well developed character arcs, throw it all out the window, and replace it with a completely different woke diverse sexual bonk fest with no story line, trashed magic rules, and boring characters.

Different Galadriel. There is only one. And that one was great in the movie. She was badass. She was just not a warrior, which is fine because she doesn`t need that. They just never understand. And I agree, if the product is good you don`t need premature damage control. This show needs it, propably because they know real fans won`t like it. Just like the last few Star Wars things. Just like Doctor Who, just like Star Trek. I remember Doom 2016. Yes thats a game, but similar thinking: people were not sure about it before it came out because they basically didn`t release anything about the single player. But they didn`t panic. They`ve been confident in the product and when it came out? It spoke for itself. Everyone loved it, so it sold itself.

"In Wheel of Time season 2 ... they just wrote Rand a new personality" It makes me feel so sad that they're completely destroying this great series

I cancelled my Amazon Prime a few months ago. That is how we all need to react to this mess. There are other places to shop and prime video is pretty shit anyways.

Many months ago I canceled my Amazon Prime and stopped all purchases from them. I haven't missed them at all.

Hadn't heard of Disparu before this but I just subscribed! I really like the way he made his points.

I'm currently rewatching the whole series of _Star Trek: Voyager._ The ship's capitain - the person at the top of command and responsible for the most important decisions - is a woman. The chief of engineering is a mixed race human-klingon female. The chief of security is a black vulcan man. The first oficer and second in command is Native American. One prominent ensign who is part of the main crew is Asian. There are too, of course, people of other species. However, none of these characters feel forced and they do not give me the vibes of tokenism. The stories come first. To be fair, the show also has a human/borg female who was clearly conceived for being "pleasing on the eyes for you," as someone might say. But her character is also extremely intelligent, has a strong personality and is very resourceful, adding much more to the series than just her looks. The diversity is there. The difference is that it is not pounded in your head at every second. It is not the main focus of anything - it is just there, on the background, helping the world to seem believable and sending messages, sure, but in a quiet, passive way. The conflict in almost every episode revolves around some ethical dilemma - a staple of good science fiction and of (old) _Star Trek,_ in particular. I love the show. It's great. That's how you do diversity properly. But the ideologues in charge of these franchises, today, have no interest in building anything of worth. They only seek to sew divisiveness and to destroy. I fully accept and embrace Janeway as an excellent starship captain, alongside Kirk and Picard. But, no, that's not good enough for these people - in fact, they costumarily pretend that a strong female character like her never existed. They can't admit that, because their goal is not to empower anyone, but to spread a sense of helplessness and distrust. And then we get Supergirl whining that she isn't respected because she is a woman. Supergirl, whining. It's dumb and would be funny, if it weren't tragic. Anyway, if you want to see a show with a good representation of strong women, throw _Supergirl_ in the garbage and watch _Voyager._ As for this LotR spin-off thing, I couldn't care less (even though I love fantasy, in general).

As someone who’s not a LOTR fan, the Empire covers didn’t look that bad, and the first one looked kind of cool. If I didn’t know the little bit I do about the franchise, I wouldn’t see anything wrong, besides the “not your grandma’s Galadriel” text box, which just oozes crappy writing trying to be “revolutionary.” However, from what others have said, this Amazon series has already committed some lore heresies, and the writers are proud of it. When fans say “we want lore-accurate fantasy races” the producers reply “what? You want only white people?!? Racists.” To me, this indicates that they aren’t listening to their fans’ actual concerns and are going to tear up the lore because it’s “rooted in white supremacy” in their minds. They’re probably going to do mass-produced for TV level writing too, which is the antithesis to everything I’ve heard about Tolkien’s top-shelf, deliberate, quality storytelling.

This reminds me so much of what was done to The Watch series based on Pratchett's books. People who aren't very good writers have an idea of a story they want to tell, and force it into an already known series. They convince a company to fund it because "huge fan base", and proceed to piss off the majority of said fan base.

My qualm is just that this ISN'T Tolkien. Art nowadays is reduced to what we have in our current vernacular: "content" almost inevitably part of "franchises" etc. Tolkien's body of work is already laid in stone. Whatever this thing is that Amazon is doing exists (of course) outside of it. While it won't take away or change what he did I'll copy and paste my comment and another users comments in these regards to expound on this: "....I disagree with their approach to creating volumes of their own original material and putting it forward with money, platform, and involvement with specific Tolkien entities, and putting it forward in a way that makes the cultural consciousness accept this as part of Tolkien's body of works. Creating their own story in the large gaps between the connect-the-dots and all because a studio wanted to acquire a name that would make them the big bucks. That's why this all started. Amazon reached out to people for that and no matter how passionate anyone on this project is, that's how it started, and it goes forward with a huge company with lots of shareholders and stakeholders and producers and corporate executives to enforce that. And to anyone who might counter-argue that The Lord of the Rings was born from a similar request by Tolkien's publisher, a comparison of both situations will immediately expose the VERY wide gap that exists between those two situations. [This show] is going to be far easier to digest for the general public than taking the time to go through The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales so I just hope whatever happens it doesn't subplant the general cultural consciousness of the source material." From Anthony: "How much can you change Tolkien's work before it becomes something else? They may have created a wonderfully produced story. However, the rewrites and additions have made it something other than Tolkien. They should own that and give it another name. I consider it expensive fan fiction." So those are some comments I've made on another video and here's a summation of all of that: I think some people are confused as to how someone can respond so adversely with only "a teaser trailer" etc. But the thing here is that the main problem isn't that "this could be good" (and what do you mean by that? That the story as an entity unto itself might be internally consistent and execute the theoretical and technical aspects of storytelling well?) Some (arguably most) people respond so adversely because they disagree with the fundamental philosophy and approach of this show. This ISN'T Tolkien's original material. Tolkien's world is Tolkien's world; written and done already, and can't be franchised in the same way Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter (franchised into "The Wizarding World"), and even Star Trek, etc. have been. Who is Disa, Halbrand, Arondir, Bronwyn, Theo, Eleanor Brandyfoot, Adar, and more? Off the top of my head that's 7 original characters that are completely made up doing things that were never written. And then, whether you agree with it or not, existing characters get divisive interpretations. And other elements get divisive decisions. This is not Tolkien. With what we know already we know it's a far cry from Tolkien.

It’s interesting. Those in the business try to label the guys in this video as toxic bigot fans interfering with progressive “ideas”. Where as we see them as shields protecting the stories we hold dear. Keep it up fellas, you’re doing the lords work.

They can make this kind of trash as much as they want. It'll never stop the original source material from existing, no matter how much it enrages them.

To finish the image, they might as well have handed her a six-pack and had her belching the Elvish alphabet. I worked as a gardener for years, so we're talking about as manual a class of profession as it gets, often taking breaks in the field, where my colleagues and I would find a seat on anything like a rock, tree trunk, in a wheelbarrow, etc. I remember well male colleagues sitting like that, but never female colleagues - no matter how 'earthy' they were. We just don't do it, because to do so would be considered a blatant 'invitation' (you know what I mean). Women have more self-respect than that, and Galadriel is showing none here. I just don't understand Amazon at all, and I'm glad I'm no customer of theirs.

The crazy thing is as bad as the PR is for Rings of Power, it's not really any different than most movies/games PR blitz. A trailer or two, tons of critics and insiders praising something you can't see and they can't talk about. This is insanely popular with video games. Select people play a closed beta but are forbidden from showing footage or covering any points not listed by the company. We notice how blatantly bad it is with Rings of Power, but honestly this is the garbage coverage we have been getting from companies for years when it comes to advertising new products.

For the sake of y’all’s sanity, avoid the show at all costs. We need to avoid Disney Star Wars at all costs too. The reason these fucking things are being made is because people keep paying for them. These people don’t care about writing a good story with compelling characters, delivering breathtaking action sequences, or pleasing the fans. All they care about is money and that’s what they’ve been getting. The sequel trilogy made money, The Mandalorian made money, and these other shows are gonna make money. Stop paying for this shit. Pay for stuff like Top Gun: Maverick, The Northman, Arcane, and Invincible. The more people realize this, the more good stuff we get out of it.

Hobbits were rare also not in the early stories. Tree beard and the dragon had never encountered one for a reason

10:20 There's also the fact that we see one of these rings *directly in the films* and it's called out as one. Galadriel's specifically.

Absolutely love your videos, Drinker. I mean no disrespect at all, but how are you treating your room? Disparu’s voice comes in so crystal clear, while I can hear a lot of reflections/room reverb on your end. Maybe time to invest in some soundproofing panels?

The hobbits look like extras from an 80’s Cyndi Lauper video.

Each image of this series somehow makes it worse. Just those 3 images alone you have a hobbit with a dead sheep on his head, two dwarves who look like their heads are photoshopped on there badly, and Galadriel looking like a dude because they are just really really trying to sell this warrior Galadriel so hard and destroy any sense of femininity she had.

I don't know what's funnier you guys's reaction o r the actual photographs either way this had me laughing pretty hard

The galadriel pose from the beginning reminds me of a certain meme with a certain giant dude showing off a certain giant appendage.