Yes, an open mind is a good idea. I don't think they have much option to move faster seeing how the were slated for five seasons from the very beginning. Already it looks like we will be getting the fall of eregion this year which seems a little fast to me, but it all depends on how much story we get with the stranger over the next four seasons because in Rhun they could pretty much do whatever they want.

I think the first season showed Galadriel as an antagonist with only revenge on her mind

You would like to see a Galadriel with no character development from the second age to the end of the third age? I don't get this argument at all, she is thousands of years younger and less experienced in this series than she is in the Lord of the Rings, it would have been ridiculous if they tried to show her as the LOTR Galadriel at the beginning of this show.

@@TheLibrarianoftheRings i didnt say that at all and in my opinion my thoughts dont suggest this either. And also is she already thousands of years old and one of the oldest and wisest elves that have remained in Middle earth... so in my opinion she should definately be more LotR like, i.e. trying to get her revange in a more intelligent way.

Tolkien generally didn't give exact heights of characters in his published works, I believe the passage you are referring to is in unfinished tales, it was not published during Tolkien's lifetime and is not something the RoP creators have legal access too, that wouldn't of course stop them from casting a tall actress, but it doesn't seem like the most important character aspect to me. However if it is to you then you should be really upset about Elendil who should be really tall (of course their probably isn't a huge pool of 7+ ft actors), and you must have hated Viggo as Aragorn in the Jackson movies.

Glad you liked it. I’ve been waiting for someone to notice the shirt, but it’s a pretty deep cut so most people don’t get it, well done!

Really, that's the thing people are worried about? That's pretty minor.

@@TheLibrarianoftheRings well, no necessary in a story where this is singled out as one of the few known characteristics of a character - as tall people do behave differently than small ones, as their stature makes others treat them with some subliminal respect as default and as such they tend to be calmer... They are less prone to start a fight just to win respect.

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I’d like to hear examples, and have the things they’ve done been worse than what Jackson and his team did? How so? Or do you also feel the Jackson trilogy is a betrayal?

"Inaccurate and often not true"? Like what?

@@TheLibrarianoftheRings Jackson respected the heck out of the books. He didn't add any of his views or ideas. He took Tolkiens work, made some compromises for the big screen, and laid it out as it is without extra flavor. Rings of Power is full of agenda. They take Tolkiens work and twist it and force it into their message. All the wiggle room that they have in the second age, which is a lot, they take it and add something that is not Tolkien. Why not do it from scratch? Well it wouldn't sell as much. Galadriel is protrayed blatantly wrong in the series, she should be wise beyond measure, just as much as in the movies, by that time. GilGalad is absolutely underwhelming. Celebrimbor is underwhelming. The making of the rings is underwhelming. Characters that should be there aren't. Events happen that should not yet have happened. Events that should happen do not. Plot holes everywhere. Time and space don't matter, characters arrive when they should how they should. Numenor people is underwhelming big time. I can go on.

​@@MsRakuen I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your opinion of the Jackson films, they really aren't that accurate at all. Especially if you take actual characters, there is a lot that is not just left out but downright changed. I would use Aragorn's entire character arc as an example, he is extremely different in the movies (not to mention he is missing his sword for almost the entire thing). All artists have agenda's and Jackson and his team are no different. I'm not sure what you mean by it is not Tolkien, it is certainly set in Tolkien's world, uses his characters, his languages, his places. If your point is that it tells stories he never told then yes you are right, but also that is kind of the whole point in which case if you don't want to see that then you just shouldn't watch it. Galadriel is not portrayed blatantly wrong, as I say in the video Galadriel's history is the most inconsistent and problematic of all Tolkien's Middle earth history. It is impossible to make a character that lesions with everything that Tolkien wrote about her. I agree that Gil-galad's character seems off, but for character we know very little about that is not nearly as egregious as Faramir's character being completely out of character in the Jackson films. The making of the rings is not over, so maybe hold your judgement on that one until we see what happens this season. Characters that were missing in season one are likely to show up in this or future seasons, so that isn't a judgement we can make yet. The timeline of Jackson's trilogy is also all messed up and he was dealing with a need for far less time compression than this show is. If there are specific events with text sources you are worried about I would love to hear about that. Plot holes are present in pretty much all fiction, and you can't actually know if it is a plot hole until the work is finished, which we are only 20% of the way through so sit tight for another 8 or so years. Time and space are more messed up in the Jackson films than the rings of power. I agree that there is a lot of that in Rings of Power, but is there anything worse than Gandalf arriving in Minas Tirith in a day of riding? I'm a librarian so I would love to see your actual text sources for your complaints, bearing in mind of course that they can't use all the text that has been published since the professor's death.

@@TheLibrarianoftheRings Yeah I'm no librarian. So forget the sources. You're speaking to a youtube watcher :) I think that the compromises made with Aragorn were fair in the sense that the character remained loyal to what it is in the books. Yes, missing the sword from the begining is a big change, but it works very well for the movies and his role and purpose on the story is not changed, he acomplishes the same goals, represents the same ideals and fulfills everything he does in the books. It works for me and stomach the change. Faramir is a shame I agree, granted his impact on the whole is not so big, and in the books it's a long story that simply has no room to fit in the 3 movies. But a shame nontheless. They had to compromise and they butchered our boy. I think that RoP being a series, having huge room to wiggle, is a golden oportunity to NOT have to compromise. To take the characters just as Tolkien said, and lay it extensively to the utmost detail. Another point about characters. The elves in RoP don't feel like elves at all, they are bare humans with pointy ears. In the movies and books they feel like they are on another plane, timeless, ethereal, hard to grasp, wise, calm. That's a big point that is very hard to not see while watching the series. I don't think that space and time is messed in the movies at all. Your example of Gandalf I don't recall it to be true. In the series it is messed up big time: - Galadriel being exiled to the undyinglands by GilGalad (lol really? way off character), getting on a ship, then by the time they arrive, she drops in the water (lol really?), then a wrecked ship with non other than Sauron rescues her (really!). This is beyoned coincidence, simply fabricated bad storytelling. Somehow I understand what the writters wanted from all of this mess, yeah it's very poetic to drop in the water just when you are about to reach the undying lands, but come one, do something real. Galadriel wouldn't do that, she wouldn't even be in that situation. She is way beyond being put in a situation that she doesn't want. - Galadriel and Sauron convincing Numenor to go to war in the southlands, they take the ships, arrive in land, ride the horses, and arrive Rohirrim style to save the day. Beyond coincidence. Again, Numenor is like humans to the next level, they should be very wise, organised, insightful, clever and intelligent. But they are toyed with. - Elrond and Celebrimbor walking to Moria. I don't know how to say it, it's just off. They arrive with their tunics intact, no horse, no food. They knock on the door and the dwarves say no. I think Celebrimbor should be a big friend to the dwarves but I'm rusty on that. Anyway, it's just a cheap scene as a whole and it says a lot about the writters. They don't care about little things like these. - The Tunnel/Volcano/Mordor-building thing. Part of me says, ok, it's a series, why not. But you're talking about Mordor, something legendary, you have to do better than that. You have to be better than the Tunnel, and the "dark sword" (wtf is that, what is that sword, who made it, why is it special, why people obsess over it) being put in a keyhole (wtf is that, who built it) that happens to found right in time and a dam opens so that water goes into a tunnel that leads to a Volcano that goes nuclear bomb and hooray you got yourself Mordor. Damnit! Like how is even half of this real. - When the Southlanders are attacked by Adar, they have a fortified tower to defend themselves. Their plan is to abandon such post, move to an undefended village (which they fleed previously because obviously it was a vulnerable spot), and destroy the tower (by cutting nonother than a little wire which holds the whole tower) to kill a few orcs. So they are back to making a defense in the village. Don't try to understand how the villagers moved from the tower to the village, when the orcs were moving from the village to the tower. That's going too much into detail for the writters. - Just about the whole series is based on huge coincidence. Basically they have an end goal to reach, and just make the pieces move forcefully toward that. Instead of a story being built and developed. I'm no writter but I see that and I just don't buy it. I will watch when I want to, and I can respectfully lay my opinion. I overextended saying "betrayal". One can hope next seasons will be good.

seems to be the case, unfortunately

Please share your time machine with the rest of the world

ha ha, true, I guess it would be hard to know how bad it is until it is done

Ironically this I'd a pretty anti-Tolkien statement, given we're talking about a guy that was all about inclusivity. Liking or not liking an adaptation doesn't make you any more or less of a fan. People who say the show is "ruining Tolkien" or "isn't for Tolkien fans" are labouring under a cognitive fallacy called Dusciunting the Positive. This is when people focus on only the negative things that confirm their own argument, and ignore anything that is contrary to it. There are, of course, plenty of examples where ROP does not adhere to the lore, but there are also a large number of examples that demonstrate a deep knowledge of the lore, which detractors conveniently ignore. Similarly, there are obviously a few examples of bad writing, acting, and CGI, but there are also a large number of examples of this being good. To ignore that, and to suggest that you're not a Tolkien fan unless you agree with your own option on the show is the height of intellectual dishonesty.

Wow you found me out! I’m clearly not a Tolkien fan, that’s why I’m making a Tolkien KZfaq channel. You are a clever one.