Oh yeah, absolutely hyped! Least favourite moment: mystery goo. Most favourites: the Sacking of Eregion, Annatar, a dwarven ring of power, and the elven rings of power on Galadriel’s, Círdan’s and Gil-Galad’s hands! I also loved seeing a Great Eagle, fingers crossed it’s featured wisely 🤞🏼

THE FLICK OF THE WRIST AND THAT FINAL SHOT 😫😫😫😫 WE ARE SO BACKKKKK

Looking forward to it! I was surprised as I thought we’d only see this next year.

It increased my hype to start the Andy serkis read LotR series again.

Listening to Andy Serkis reading the Battle of Unnumbered Tears and its aftermath only make me weep for what we could have got if only the Tolkien Estate weren't such curmudgeons.

😂😂😂

He is a shapesifter

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Are they not going to recognize him??!!?! It’s the blonde hair. They’ll be mesmerized by it.

Sauron puts on a cheap wig 😂

@@dg7523 Outside of Galadriel and Celebrimbor, nobody knows Halbrand, he's a nobody in season 1

Do you wear Wigs?

Go comment that crap on the original teaser, this video is for serious discussion.

@@Utaeru the creator of this video clearly disagrees with you considering how many joke comments and comments about wigs he's liked. I would tell you to go suck a lemon but you're clearly sour enough already.

In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a Master Wig to control all others. And into this Wig he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Wig to rule them all.

@@Utaeru I take it you missed the let it go joke in the video....

Gil Galad and Elrond, though: !

😂😂😂😂

glad you can see one pic and know the whole story.

I thought for sure there would be more butt hurt replies. I'm disappointed

Reminds me of the Hobbit 2003 videogame where we're sneaking through the elven king's halls as Bilbo

I love how one of the biggest superficial gripes with ROP was short haired elves so right away Amazon was like HERE LOOK, A LONG WIG. HAPPY NOW???

😂 The deep lore returns

@@AmyBrueckman i dont think that was the main issue

It’s almost as if you people are mad that he didn’t grow is hair himself… or maybe you’ve never seen a wig before…

Lmao 😂😂😂

And wigs.

😭😭

Rings were already made and the ‘gift’ was given in season 1.

And introduces wearing your hair long to elvendom.

​@@Vondarkstar in the 1st season they did only the 3 rings for the elves...

haha one wig to rule them all, one wig to bind them.

Maybe they sacrifice Miriel

@@kongspeaks4778Hopefully not, since she lives until Numenor’s destruction.

Given there will be a siege of eregion, I think this will become much better in this season.

@@Niekvw They will call it a "siege" with only 100 people and the rest cgi...

Wish they'd start over with decent writers and a better cast...

@@martinksk88 gosh you people are all full of bad faith aren't you.

@@Thescott16 keep wishing harder, it won't get you anywhere, I'd suggest you start spending that energy wishing for things that aren't going to happen on something useful instead

I couldn't remember if that was a new name or not as it's been so long since season 1!

@@robbiedobbles pretty sure it was used to describe them last season...

I think because they all are galls😂

NO STOP! 😂

There's Nazguys, so to be equitable, we need Nazgals.

The wigs never bothered me anyway

@@Dantick09 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Orcs aren’t bad guys they are just misunderstood as with all bad guys in current media.

Amazing comments 😂

Don't forget about Venom also!

Have people only started watching movies in 2010? The revolving surrounding heroes shot has been around for decades. Even the Lord of the rings trilogy used it. It's not a Marvel creation.

​@@isaacm2374you can always tell when people are under the age of 30 on the internet.

@@isaacm2374 It's... a joke. :)

John Steed never said that.

Revenge plots are ultimately unsatisfying.

@@gunkulator1 Speak for yourself lol

Ok I'm a casual fan of lotr and I'm curious as to why this can't be part of her arc? Can't there be a time in her life where she was like this and then certain things change her?

​​@@xer1000, well, considering that Amazon's Galadriel is an adult woman who is supposed to be married at the time and will eventually become Elrond's mother-in-law, the beginning of her arc isn't exactly credible. But I think the main problem with Galadriel is, that the writing was so terrible. It wasn't done skillfully at all. Just try to remember her sudden suicidal jump from her ship to into the ocean, where she met just by chance this really cute guy called Halbrand who saved her life, and because there is a mutual attraction, they kind of stay together during the first season. But when they did this really neat arts-and-crafts project with Celebrimbor in the final episode, the cute guy who had saved Galadriel's life, turns out to be HalRon instead of Halbrand - and he is actually the second most evil being of the Tolkien universe. The most evil guy is HalRon's former boss Morgoth. But instead of telling her elven pals ASAP that HalRon who had walked around freely in the forge, might've been engaged in industrial espionage and maybe doing tjings a lot worse than this, Galadriel decides to keep her mouth shut and hopes that everybody will just forget about the guy who called himself Halbrand. This doesn't really make a lot of sense! If you want to toss the lore aside in order to try something new and unexpected, it needs to make sense, and it should be done skillfully. But unfortunately that wasn't the case at all! For me this pretty much ruined the foundations of the show. This cannot be undone anymore!

@@sabineb.5616 thank you for a reasonable answer!

HAHAHA facts dude just deleted that section

And I’m here for it lol.

Harfoots got left behind.

Don't read my name!

The stranger is a Blue Wizard.

They know how a Fantasy show should be done.

@@bentlohse1715 Not really

Okay but I was kind of underwhelmed by season 1 of House of the Dragon..

@@travisspazz1624 Well its a lot of setup before we can get into the Civil war. But some Performances where really fantastic. I understand what you mean tho. I know where it is going so i was just intetested to see how they setup that entire plot.

​@@bentlohse1715despite the internet telling me I'm wrong, I actually kind of had more fun with rings of power, warts and all. 🤷‍♂️ HOTD time jumps really through me off, along with many of the plots just feeling like Game of Thrones going through the motions. I thought the episode when the King dies was the best one.

This had me laughing. Ty

"It will spread to every corner of the land"

Very edgy

Somehow... Rings of Power returned.

He never went anywhere. 🔥👁️🔥

Its feminism at its finest ,go to have some wokism in the the story.

​@@aramisone7198 or you know, character development. Because how else does she become that wise? What she just knows everything from the start? No. Gotta have her learn and grow as a character. Otherwise galadriel is one dimensional. And makes her a better character

@@rocknroll1973well said dumb people can’t understand that

​@@rocknroll1973 you know it wouldn't happen you know: Girl bosses have no flaws so they needn't to improve.

@@josepnebotrius872 you need to get out more. Stop listening to rubbish like nerdrotic

Will you wear wigs?

When will you wear wigs ?

Have you worn wigs?

It's been a meme for 50 years. Just ignore it lol

So the wider population won’t know about their king being dead?

@@TheJmlew11 To be fair, back in Fellowship of the Ring, no one knows Balin is dead and where are the dwarfs that moves to Kazah-Dum for the past 5 years until Gimli returns to Moria

@@starrynight6268 That’s not the same at all. Of course those outside of Kazadum would not know about Balin’s death. But the above comment suggests that there would be two separate groups WITHIN Kazadum. One with the king and one that is somewhat cut off for whatever reason. And that this second group would have no way of knowing about the other. That’s insanity.

That sounds like the stuff they would make but please no.

@TheJmlew11 Of course they would know their king was dead, but it would be assumed to be because of a mining accident/natural disaster, not because of a Balrog. Also, it's not like Dwarves don't have a habit of just having their leaders wander off and disappear. Thrain pretty much vanished off the face of the earth prior to the Hobbit, even Thorin had no idea where he was until Gandalf found him in Dol Guldor.

((Shudder)) Please, bruh. Dont do it...😖😂

I never saw it coming😅

To be fair, that does happen alot in the silmarillion.

Returned? He never left?

*orcs come flying in from Catapults* "THEY FLY NOW?!" "They fly now"

i was just disappointed

I'd rather not have them butcher good ol' Tom aswell

Perhaps a future trailer will have a close up shot of yellow boots skipping towards the beleaguered Elves fighting the Wights? One can always dream. 😊

Justice for Tom Bombadil

Honestly, if they put Tom Bombadil in this I'd forgive them all of Season 1. Maybe.

Are you talking about the balrog or this show?

@@jorssu13 lmao

shadow and trash...

when my grandpa (am old fan of lotr) finished rings of power, he stood up, laughed for 2 minutes nonstop, then said "evil cannot create, it can only corrupt" and then went to bed

@@TbV-st8ef 💀💀

This would be a great opportunity for him to finally be seen on screen.

​@Cloofinder please Eru no 😂

lmao Galadriel and Elron don't need saving from some puny Barrow Wights

That could produce an arguably better series ngl

That would be pretty dope, ngl

Thought it was Matt Smith for a second.

One wig to find them

Don't read my name!

@@Capt_Sporkand in the blondeness bind them

Sam - I wish I had a wig. Gollum - Wigses? What's a wigses precious? Sam - W-I-G-S. Style them, perm them, stick it on your head. Wigs.

Elrond with Durin is the only bright spot in the show. Annoyingly, Elrond has little to do among his own people.

Yes, but I think they aren't gonna do the exact same thing. I think season 2 will just include some shots of Annatar doing Annatar things but I don't think it's gonna be represented as a storyline which is sad given they also represented 'Annatar' storyline in season 1 very superficially.

I'm also VERY confused. Best guess is that Sauron won't be going into Eregion in that form as they already know him there, so he'll use his fair visage to infiltrate and corrupt other kingdoms.

I won't watch it to guess it myself. Is a mystery box I won't open myself.

I agree, Halbrand being the witch king instead would have made much more sense

There could have been so many stories that would have been better than what we got in the first season :/. I almost feel like one of the issues is that they've got all these stories beats they know they need to hit, but only have about, what 60ish hours in which to tell them over 8-10 seasons? If they had done the Witch King route, which you're right, probably would have been a better story, it would have given the actors more room to breathe and also not given fans too high of expectations of characters we already know.

@@robertabblebaum7813 exactly. It would’ve been an original spin on the lore that we know while also introducing another perspective of a pivotal character in LOTR. They still could’ve done the war of the elves and Sauron, fall of Khazdum, numenors fall (they allied with Halbrand to attack and retake Mordor and capture Sauron and then everything that happens on numenor happens, and then finally the war of the last alliance with the ring being cut from Sauron’s hand as it flips up into the air in slow motion roll credits

Just shut the show down. Cut their losses and ended it now.

I was really hoping for that - or for Halbrand to at least become one of the other Nazgul. I suspect we will see a prominent human character this season that will ultimately become the Witch King before the show is done, once the rings have been taken by Sauron. Since the Stranger is headed east... I also suspect we might meet Kamul on that journey. Perhaps even a tragedy where the Stranger (who I am confident is a blue wizard) befriends a lord of the East only for that hero to be corrupted by a ring of power.

Oh snap! I totally forgot about him! Great catch!

Annatar using the force to kill the elves guarding him is so lame

Even JRR might have made a mistake. Too much beer when writing maybe. Facial hair simply looks wrong on Elves.

ur cope so hard, it's trash series.

There will be no changes same writers and producers with same mindset. "Lets put our own spin on the forefront", feminism, inclusivity, and all the other trendy topics in media (not among fans and not in source material) that when it takes precedence over good relatable story where all characters are human and "flawed", and precedence over source material, it ruins franchises.

​@@BridgeTROLL777 Inculsivity isn't the issue. It's bad writing, nonsensical plot devices, and a lack of respect for the source material.

@@elib7502 that culture and those adjacent concepts intersectional feminism, inclusivity, pandering are the issue when they take PRESEDENCE OVER the source material and story, which they generally do in popular franchises nowadays. The failure of rings of power season 1 is definitely created by that culture. If you want inclusivity thats fine, as long as it isnt the main point and comes after the story in priority, which it usually doesnt do since this "woke" feminist culture insists that its propaganda is the priority. A good example of "inclusivity" is the new Hellraiser, superb movie, everyone loved it. It had a lead trans actor, wouldnt even know when watching the movie. No pandering, and real life virtue signaling, story came first and it was great..

​@@BridgeTROLL777I don't really get all of the "woke" people keep yelling about. What was woke here, exactly? I remember someone telling me there was a black lesbian scene in season 1, and unless I missed that episode when I watched it 2 months ago, I didn't see it anywhere? I guess they were mad about there being a black elf?

There will be absolutely zero change. Look at what the writers have said. They already went against anything Tolkien with season 1, they are doubling down with season 1. I’m amazed with how they are war speeding through the timeline with events. Nothing of this show feels like Tolkien or even the PJ films. I’m glad they aren’t connected at all to those films or the real Tolkien lore. They can be their own non canon fan fiction

Galadriel finding out his real identity seems hard to undo though. Her keeping it secret would only make her even less sympathetic to viewers, and many already dislike her version of Galadriel

@@rand0m508 i feel like he'd probably appear less 'Halbrand' to the elves, but obviously the same actor is portraying the character. Idk, I'm not all that mad that they're not drastically changing the appearance - though i do expect a drastic change when he gifts a ring to Durin, as i assume he'd show up as a dwarf. Remember, the elves are on alert for a man, the vast majority wouldn't bat an eye at a fellow elf. I also expect that he's there during the siege of Eregion to do some absolutely insane violence to Celebrimbor.

I'm in the same boat. But I just don't know how they pivot successfully after the Halbrand reveal. IMO making the audience aware of something so obvious yet watching the characters get duped is just a frustrating watch, because you're above the story being told at that point. I think the Halbrand character not being a Witch King kinda fucked them in the long run. But I am hoping they are cooking up something.

THIS

This is a theory that the internet created all by itself. The writers never ever mentioned which rights they had or didn't have. Telephone game.

And there is a video on this channel (I think it was the review of season 1 by NOTR) where he plays a video of some high-level producers for the show saying they didn't include Annatar because they considered it a bad story... yes, they actually said that. So the rights were NEVER the problem; it was arrogance. They thought they could write something better than Tolkien... guess that turned out very badly, which is why they changed course now.

@@vbm4780 thank you for the correction. Specifically I remember from the official podcast, the show runners admitting they wished they could've been closer to the source material but we're hamstrung by rights issues, they did promise that Season 2 would be far closer to source material. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if a producer made the call to axe Anator. At least they learned the error of their ways.

It’s harder to believe they continued it.

Yeah they should wait another 2 years and spare us.

Did you miss it?

It's hard to believe the original

hard to believe how utterly hideous it was.

It feels like the writers are just wig in it

I didn't understand one thing that if Halbrand was there in season 1 among the elves and he forged the rings, galadriel came to know about his true name and he fled to mordor, now Halbrand in elven wig will come back to forge more rings? Or is it in the past or flashbacks? I'm so confused

If only you knew what you were missing. What we could’ve had is is just so much cooler

Agreed. Charlie Vickers is carrying the show hard. Though it’s not exactly a good thing that I want the villain to win 😂

@@tombombadil1262thanks for the condescending reply, Tom, but I was just saying how much I like an actor. You Tolkien fans are unforgiving. This is exactly how Star Wars died.

@@Mets4Barth68 Star Wars died with bad films dog. Don't be mad at fans who don't like bad films. Lol

@@ryansaintz2575 no, it died from juvenile adult fans, and you kinda just proved that, lil buddy

As far as I can remember, Ar-Pharazon knew he was capturing Sauron and on Númenor they knew who their prisoner was. But yes, it is written in the history of Middle-earth that he looked like a man taller than any other man on Númenor

Don't read my name!

Well it might be now 🤣

Same. I can’t not watch it, but I’ll probably be screaming at the screen the whole time. Even if I liked all their weird choices to the cannon, they just aren’t good storytellers imo. So disappointing.

Yes, the show is largely rubbish, but it does unite people to discuss real Tolkien more often, and it does unite people to debate competent film making. So, not all bad Shame Amazon don't know that half the people who finished season 1 were hate watching for the debates.

Don't read my name!

If y’all don’t like it don’t fuking watch but don’t go spamming your crap on other people’s channels I swear I got the first season of folks not liking it but S2 it’s getting ridiculous

@@krow5099 I said I had huge problems with the show but also enjoy watching it. I also said that I like the positivity on this channel (as I am also not a guy who blindly hates EVERYTHING about the show just because I have huge problems with it) You can relax.

That was my impression, too

Same feeling. So probably intended....but is it what's gonna happen or a just a blatant red herring?

It would be shocking if he did - perhaps to both casual fans and the die-hards, but effective. I’m assuming Pharazon will have more screen time this season as they build the Numenor power struggle narrative. I can’t wait to see how they tackle it!

Maybe they course corrected and are going with the Blue's, but I guarantee you in the first season that was meant to be Saruman.

@@robertabblebaum7813 interesting, it was my understanding that Gandalf was the only wizard to have really interacted and commingled with Hobbits. Saruman only became aware of them after Gandalf’s unusual interest in the small folk. That’s when Saruman began to spy on the Shire before he sent his goons to overtake them. The Stranger has a very Gandalf-like admiration of the Harfoots whereas Saruman has a rather dismissive and disinterest altogether of the Hobbit race.

I think he is Saruman

@@GerardHammond that would be the final nail in the coffin for me and kill any interest I had left in this series 😄

And there are presumably others, who are not named as having beards. If we assume that the only elves ever to die in Valinor were Feanor's parents (his mother shortly after giving birth to him, his father at the hands of Melkor), then by the time of the Lord of the Rings story, many of the elves of Valinor would have been at the same age as Cirdan and Mahtan were. Even Finarfin by then perhaps would have been old enough to be in the Third Circle of Life.

Oh and I think Pharazon will kill that eagle.

Don't read my name!

Sameeee

Yeah. Just not told by these writers.

There is already a witch king origin story. It's in the silmarillion. You should read it. It's by an author called JRR Tolkien. I don't think Amazon cares much for his work. Or that's the impression a lot of us fans get.

@@mikekram2199 there are huge gaps in the the witch kings origin and lore that I would love to be explored more in depth, similar to HBO filling in gaps during house of Dragon … I too know how to read and know Mr. J.R.R. Tolkien’s works.

@@Gragnash sadly I agree , I have what seems like forever wished for Tolkien to get a long running series that allows for fully fleshed out characters and storylines like Tom Bombadil , the scouring of the shire etc by someone like HBO. Idk why Hollywood over complicates things Tolkien did most of the work for them.

Yeah I also ditched the video when he mentioned them lol

lol. Please don’t

That's what I was thinking

Don't read my name!

I guess it could be a flashback but it better not be a second age reference

I was thinking it was Ungoliant as well!

I also thought of Ungoliant. I think it would be great if they did show more of Valinor and the Two Trees. That one shot in S1 of the dimming of the Trees was just a morsel of history we all wanted to see more of.

Possibly 😮

na bro im pretty sure thats venom

@@zyazahr2808 Venom is one of the nameless things created by Morgoth

Not the watcher in the Water but a creature among the nameless things

@@starrynight6268 Morgoth is not the creator of the nameless things.