Orc: How will you infiltrate the elves this time Sauron? Sauron: think I’ll just wig it!

Galadriel: "There is an imposter Among Us!" Sauron with blonde wig and elf ears: "Oh dear, what shall we do? That is terrible!"

"Why does a boat float and a rock sink?" "Buoyancy. Next question."

Everyone to Hobbit Trilogy: "Perhaps we treated you too harshly."

Lord of the Rings cosplay is more authentic than the costumes from Rings of Power.

‘That hairline was broken!’ ‘It has been remade!’

My favorite quote so far was "One Wig to fool them all and in plain sight hide him."

The writers in the comments for that video are infinitely more creative than the show writers.

God, the comment section of the trailer has to be saved for posterity.

"You have not seen the wigs I have seen"

I'm still slowly processing that in this canon, GALADRIEL is the one who corrupted SAURON.

‘Oh, my old hairpiece. I should very much like to wear it again. One last time.’

75k bots must be costly for a flop

Sauron's disguise is the equivalent of people trying to trick their dogs into thinking they disappeared by holding up a sheet, then ducking around a corner when the sheet falls.

Elves: "We will smite Sauron!" Sauron: "It's wiggin' time!"

I just imagined King Shark from Suicide Squad saying he'll put on a fake mustache

I find it so odd that so many of the writers/cast of the Rings of Power openly admit they didn't like Tolkein or his writing. Imagine a bunch of men directing the next Barbie movie, where they openly admit they hated barbies and never played with them. It would be such an odd thing to do. Yet here we are, with Amazon giving us more "content" that nobody wants, written and acted by people who don't like the source material, who don't understand the source material, and where they have a disdain of the man who created it all. Surely we are living in an episode of the Twilight Zone now. How could billion dollar companies be so braindead about all of this.

I love when people universally hate bad shows, you get a new show in of itself of just watching people crap on it with really funny comments

The tragedy of the show's creators is that they have obviously seen good TV but have absolutely no idea what made it good. So they put together all kinds of random stuff hoping it would work.

Hans Jensen: Do you wear wigs? Sauron: No I do not. Hans Jensen: Have you worn wigs? Sauron: No I have not. Hans Jensen: Will you wear wigs? Sauron: Maybe. Hans Jensen: When will you wear wigs? Sauron: …

Wigs of power

The more you think about Tucker Carlson's quote, "The marriage of ineptitude and high self esteem is the hallmark of our times" the more you realize how much it applies to everything new now. _Especially_ the team responsible for RoP.

Never forget that the first season aired on the anniversary of Tolkien’s death

0:00 Takeaway from the video : If your Clark Kent disguise fails, use the Sauran one.

Drinker hit the point: "They really think they are smart".

Amazon is gonna dig themselves deeper than usual.

‘Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!’ *Isildur puts on wig - ‘No!’ ‘ISILDUR!’

They literally did the Phineas and Ferb bit of Doofenshmirtz not being able to recognise Perry the Platypus without his fedora 😂

Bro put on a Party City wig and pushed his hairline back so far Vegeta is dying of laughter.😂

Little platoon made note of one of my favorite things about rings of power season one. There’s a clip where guyladrial is being bullied as a child and the kids astutely say to her and her “paper” boat that it’s not going to float. She says: “it’s not going to float it’s going to sail.” Little platoon noticing that the boat has no sails: idk how it’s going to do that because it doesn’t have any sails. It quite literally can only float.

No matter how hard Amazon tries, they'll never replicate Tolkien's legacy. 💯🎉

Just to remind people. Boats float because of buoyancy and the displacement of water..

The Ringworms of girl Powah

"Everyone really liked Daemon and Aemond. Let's make Sauron Targaryen and everyone will think we're cool too."

I like it when sauron screams 'Mordor Kombat' and the music kicks in

One wig to rule them all. One wig to fool them. One wig to elude them all. And now they can not find him.

‘The age of men is over. The time of the toupée has come!’

"One trailer to piss them off and on the internet, bind them; In the digital space where the trolls lie" - Famous Guy

I love the part where one of the nazgirls says “the wig of Sauron shall fool middle earth one last time”!

When you absolutely have to hire every wrong person for every aspect.

The sad part about the whole "alloy" thing is that there was an easy fix for it: Have Celebrimbor suggesting alloying first and then show him trying different metals in different combinations. And make him nervous and frustrated about millions of possible variants to comb through and not enough mithril to brute-force his way. And then get Sauron (who is canonically only two steps away from the god himself and thus is orders of magnitude smarter than Celebrimbor) wander into the forge, "accidentally" arrange correct metals in correct proportions on the table and then "clumsily" drop those into a crucible. Sauron gets kicked out by Celebrimbor, but leaves enough clues for him to proceed as if on his own.

Just a single image from the show is enough to tell you that they don't know what they are doing

The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the wig, and the wig survived!

Rings of Power made me root for Sauron over any of the protagonists. Can't wait for the same thing to happen here.

More a general Hollywood comment, rather than something specific to RoP. I watch 12 Angry Men last night and realized just how uninspired modern Hollywood is when it comes to dialogue. This was a great movie that was just 12 guys in a room talking. It was full of drama, suspense, emotion, etc. It's notable that most of the actors in the movie were people you saw in TV and movies all the time from the 50's to the 80's. I think of movies I grew up with from the 70's to the 90's and there's so much great dialogue I can quote. There's very little from the past two decades that's memorable. For all the Marvel success, how much has entered the popular consciousness? Where are lines like "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.", "We're gonna need a bigger boat.", or "I am your father." Hell, I remember more for low budget horror/scifi/comedy "Night of the Creeps" than anything from this century.

Harbrand: I can not have Galadriel for my own, so I shall become Galadriel.🙄

"Rocks are sinky." 😂😂😂

The Rings of Power is a joke

"The sea is always right!!!" - Epic poetry Tolkien would be proud of.

A last alliance of men and trolls marched against the armies of Amazon, and on the very slopes of Mount Prime, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth.

9:09 "Memes, uh, find a way!" - Not Jeff Goldblum

"Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?" "I'll tell you what they don't see, any hope for Rings of Power"

*Sauron attempts to posses Theoden Theoden: Mhaha hahaahaa! You have no power here. *Sauron puts on wig Theoden:🫨!

"But they were all deceived, for another wig was made"

Amazon assistant: Even if it is breached, it would take a number beyond reckoning, thousands to film the show. Amazon boss: Tens of thousands! Assistant: But my Lord there is no such force. *Shows the 10,000 wigs in the Amazon storage vault Assistant: 🤯😢

Amazon deserves to go bankrupt for RoP decisions

My favorite part of the new trailer was when Sauron said, "It's-a me, Sauron." then pulled the Rancor out of his wig and led the forces of Narnia to have a dance-off against Venom for control of Eternia. This will truly be a TV show of all time.

This is the continuation of the Dave Filoni school of Dire-log, instead of dialog. Who knows maybe they've added Filoni's 20 second gap before reply.🤣🤣

I'm not a huge Tolkien fan. I got to watch all of my friends who were have an absolute blast going to see the films in the theaters. I was kind of jealous. After everything that's happened with this show, I'm no longer jealous. Quite the opposite. It has to be the worst time to be a Tolkien fan. In 2024, thanks to corporations, we've all cried over the corpse of some IP we adored as kids. My wife gets frustrated by the fact I typically shy away from any new movies or TV shows. 🤷

You know what I want? A horror show about all the poor people the Harfoots left behind and the brutal stories of their attempts to survive

Wigs are the friends we made along the way.

War of the Rohirrim is our only hope at this stage

”You cannot wear it! None of us can. The One wig fits Sauron alone. It has no other master.” - Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt.

Someone should tell these people about the concrete canoe competitions that engineering schools have.

"The beacons are Lit! Ratio calls for aid!! " "And the people will answer.. Prepare for collectivism"

Boats are Floatty!

Rings of Power is the final product of decades of participation medals. Decidedly unexceptional people handed credits, like so much candy on Halloween, rolling up on Amazon Studios with a reem of vocational studies certificates in hand to justify why they're the Right Person For The Job of leading this project. And the criteria for selecting the winner was which one had the most gold stars affixed, like magpies salivating at the baubles festooned across the chests of N Korean generals. I'm almost disgusted to the point of canceling my membership and paying for the shipping on my 6-pack Fruit of The Loom boxer-briefs. Grrrrrr!

Will Guyladriel win against an entire army of cave trolls just by looking at them smugly this time?

the thing that pissed me off the most is how old as hell celebrimbor looks like, dude is literally younger than galadriel in lore(to be fair i am pissed off about every character in this show)

When I was reading the Silmarillion many years ago, I was imagining all these tall, noble warriors like Gil-Gallad and Elendil and Elrond and the others, some uplifting music that made me want to jump on a horse and charge the bad guys and Sauron as a slimy trickster oozing and shmoozing his way around so that everyone loved him be we knew he was a creep. Then Amazon turned into a YA novel....

Dunning-Kruger at it's best. Not that there aren't enough excellent examples already around....

Tolkien was by far masterful when it comes to the high sounding dialogue! Let's take the example of the conversation of Finrod and Andreth: "All ye Elves deem that we die swiftly by our true kind. That we are brittle and brief, and ye are strong and lasting. We may be "Children of Eru," as ye say in your lore; but we are children to you also: to be loved a little maybe, and yet creatures of less worth, upon whom ye may look down from the height of your power and your knowledge, with a smile, or with pity, or with a shaking of heads.' 'Alas, you speak near the truth,' said Finrod. 'At least of many of my people; but not of all, and certainly not of me. But consider this well, Andreth, when we name you "Children of Eru" we do not speak lightly; for that name we do not utter ever in jest or without full intent. When we speak so, we speak out of knowledge, not out of mere Elvish lore; and we proclaim that ye are our kin, in a kinship far closer (both of hröa and fëa) than that which binds together all other creatures of Arda, and ourselves to them. 'Other creatures also in Middle-earth we love in their measure and kind: the beasts and birds who are our friends, the trees, and even the fair flowers that pass more swiftly than Men. Their passing we regret; but believe it to be a part of their nature, as much as are their shapes or their hues. 'But for you, who are our nearer kin, our regret is far greater. Yet, if we consider the briefness of life in all Middle-earth, must we not believe that your brevity is also part of your nature? Do not your own people believe this too? And yet from your words and their bitterness I guess that you think that we err.' 'I think that you err, and all who think likewise,' said Andreth; 'and that that error itself comes of the Shadow. But to speak of Men. Some will say this and some that; but most, thinking little, will ever hold that what is in their brief span in the world has ever been so, and shall so ever remain," ... "Then Finrod was silent; but after a while he said: 'These words are strange and terrible. And you speak with the bitterness of one whose pride has been humiliated, and seeks therefore to wound those to whom she speaks. If all the Wise among Men speak so, then well I can believe that ye have suffered some great hurt. But not by my people, Andreth, nor by any of the Quendi. If we are as we are, and ye are as we find you, that is not by any deed of ours, nor of our desire; and your sorrow does not rejoice us nor feed our pride. One only would say otherwise: that Enemy whom you do not name. 'Beware of the chaff with your corn, Andreth! For it may be deadly: lies of the Enemy that out of envy will breed hate. Not all the voices that come out of the darkness speak truth to those minds that listen for strange news. Yeah there is a lot of great almost philsophical sounding dialogue of Tolkien's authorship! But these morons at amazon don't have the rights to use any of it! This also brings in mind the conversation of Amandil and Elendil in the Akallabeth: "And Amandil ... was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed. Therefore he called his son, Elendil, and he said to him: 'The days are dark, and there is no hope for Men, for the Faithful are few. Therefore I am minded to try that counsel which our forefather Eärendil took of old, to sail into the West..., and to speak to the Valar, even to Manwë himself, if may be, and beseech his aid ere all is lost.' 'Would you then betray the King?' said Elendil. 'For you know well the charge that they make against us, that we are traitors and spies, and that until this day it has been false.' 'If I thought that Manwë needed such a messenger,' said Amandil, 'I would betray the King. For there is but one loyalty from which no man can be absolved in heart for any cause. But it is for mercy upon Men and their deliverance from Sauron the Deceiver that I would plead, since some at least have remained faithful. And as for the Ban, I will suffer in myself the penalty, lest all my people should become guilty.'" The Silmarillion, Akallabêth This is the example of Tolkien's dialogue!

Gary, "We need a goo."🤣🤣🤣 I bet that's exactly what they really said.🤣🤣

The Rings of Power: The Wig Returns 🤣🤣🤣

I love that RK is on the stream!

"Its going to be darker this year." "The show is going to explore more disturbing adult themes?" "No, they cut our budget so we don't have as much lighting."

If the black darkness thing is concentrated evil, I'll die of laughter. That's like Willow TV show with the liquid evil.

"Clark! Where did you go?! You just missed Superman!"

Read Ursula K. LeGuin's essay on fantasy dialogue and prose, "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie". It's an amazing study of why fantasy dialogue (and prose) is different from modern dialogue (and prose), and whenever a writer who doesn't understand this attempts to write fantasy, it rings hollow. This is why so many writers give up and simply use modern diction and idioms, which often sound hopelessly dull (and can be transplanted right back into a police procedure novel, or an episode of Law and Order.) The writers of this show clearly did not do the assignment. This is how I know they're not real writers; they're just "winging it" and hoping no one notices. It's laughable.

One wig to rule them all

I never imagined that The Lesbian Hobbit will be the least worst of the Middle Earth films

One wig to rule them all…

THE MONEY THIS COSTS IS A SCANDAL IN ITSELF

Sauron actor was pretty good though, he would have nailed it with a good script

❤ An Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman, an Aussie, and a couple of Yankees walk into a podcast...

Can't believe, that they made Shadow of War more lore accurate.

And the saddest thing about this is that women directing is not a bad thing, but their reputation is going down because bad directors are in charge. That has nothing to do with the gender but only with the competence/talent of the director or producer. In fact there are very competent and very good screen writers/directors/producers and actors of women out there.

Ring of power writers are like the tiktok philosophers wearing thick frame glasses to appear intelligent.

There is one thing about this boats-and-stones-metaphor: when Gollum plummeted into the volcano, he was looking up, yet he sunk into the lava (which, by the way, is physically impossible because of the higher specific weight of molten stone): why? Was the lava even looking upper?

Wasn't expecting Lord Shad to be there! Good to see him in the Pod!

Lord of the Rings: peak cinema The Hobbit: BOOOOO these suck!!! Rings of Power: You know, maybe the Hobbit wasn’t so bad (I know I enjoyed those movies despite their flaws)

"Those are rookie numbers in this racket." - Amazon to Gary on blocking him for his ROP content

It’s amazing how bad the writing is. This generation has very little talent. They just think they do.

everyone in the show has dr doofenshmurts levels of object permanence

Speaking of boats: the Numenorean sailors having to HOLD the ship's lines taught every second was unspeakably stupid. That and a few other things was why I gave up.

I just passed out getting bloodwork and you made me feel better

"Everything bad that happens is Galadriel's fault" - Amazon LOTR

Do you know why boats float and rocks sink? Boats have superior displacement properties over rocks. Oh...uhm, er...yeah.

I was amused by “Prepare yourselves for battle”. Why when super girlboss is just going to destroy everything without even working up a sweat? Everyone else can just watch and have a light snack.

I fear the show is going to be so bad that the Critical Drinker will give up booze