I don't think the hype was high, shortly before launch we all knew the series was doomed.

This was one of the cases where i thought that "re-imagining of" should be corrected with more accurate term "plagiarized from". purchasing rights to a name should NOT give rights to slap said name on any random shait

The bad visual effects and obvious poor scripting in the promo shorts were sufficient to convince me to not even start watching this show.

I only watched the first two episodes and it was enough to put me off. It felt like bad fan-cation or a DnD campaign turned into a movie.

I'm glad they had rights issues and couldn't massacre the actual stories. Expect someone with appreciation for Tolkien to ignore ROP and tell the real stories in ten-twenty years time.

I don't understand how they could spend a billion basing their "story" on 150 pages of Appendices. Since LOTR and The Hobbit had already been adapted, all they could do was perhaps a 2-hour film using the Appendices, and present it as a prequel (although we have had enough of those lately, and the adaptation of the Hobbit was already a prequel, not the book). I don't see any hope for another 4 seasons, unless of course the Tolkien estate change their mind and sell the rights to the Silmarillion. And even then, goodness knows what that adaptation would be like. Good video, thanks.

I don't think these showrunners are very talented. A better writer could've done something spectacular with this material.

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The people involved would have messed it up either way...

The first season was deeply disappointing. I will not watch the 2nd season but will monitor the reviews

There was plenty of content in the appendices to write a series around. Amazon just blew it. The SA alone had a number of key events that could have made for some interesting stories for a series, not the least of which would have been the establishment of the kingdom of Numenor and Elros as king (imagine all the intrigue that might have arisen with a half-elven king), Moria, Sauron's machinations during that early period (perhaps to lay some seeds for Numenor's destruction), Glorfindel's return, relationships between elves and dwarves in Eregion and on and on - but nope. They were more interested in creating a girl boss along with diversity-hire elves and dwarves and hobbits than a decent series. And don't get me started on all the great material from the TA.

I have first read Silmarillion 30 years ago (admittedly in Polish translation), and I don't think this is the main issue here. Sure, not being able to use the story of Galadrierl and her valiant crossing of Helcaraxe (which is a feat worthy of the bravest warrior) was a problem, but one of the biggest companies in the world could and should have money for a good story. I have read mangas with much much more production value (Frieren comes to mind), with great emotional value, gripping story, touching off themes that appeared in the first written human piece (mortality the centerpiece of the Epic of Gilgamesh). Still, they gave us this. They are intellectually and creatively bankrupt people. Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, everything modern Hollywood touches is garbage. Just look at the Netflix adaptation of Death Note. Star Wars was an especially egregious case, as they've announced officially that they didn't have any source material to work with, while they retconned all the books and comics from Expanded Universe out of existence. I have read Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. It was excellent. It is better that they didn't get the rights for Silmarillion.

The problem is that they filled the blanks with modern feminism and other social engineering attempts. That is even worse than ineptitude. Because it is blatantly anti-Tolkien.

The dutch accent is strong in this one.

Evrey one knew it was a disaster from the start. From paying influencers that never opened a tolkien book to pretend to know anything. From a guy dude thinking he can change sauron. Then theu choose not to fallow lore at all just using the names like galadrial and so on..From ignoring Evrey thing that made elfs elfs dwarfs dwarfs. Then you have the woke politics Evrey thing about it was doomed to fail months before. And the tv show is probably already dead. And No I am not watching season 2 i rather watch rewives on the Internet about the show because it's more entertaining. Not even if amazon payed me money would i watch the garbage of a show that has nothing to do with the second age.

It was 100% bad writing

They didn’t get the rights to all the books only the appendices

This is a very silly, confused argument. The Silmarillion does not tell the stories of the main characters of the Second Age except for the brief Numenor story set forth in the Akallabeth and a few following pages. The show was always based on the Appendices, and if you read Appendix B, you see that all of the main events listed in the brief summary are or will be in the show, along with other material from Tolkien's letters and unpublished work (for example, Galadriel being "of Amazon disposition" in her younger days as well as her suspicion that Sauron was again becoming active). Given the very small amount of available source material, the writers needed to flesh out the story by making additions for dramatic effect. This is why the show is an adaptation. The 38% RT thing meant nothing (professional reviewers = 85%), as this merely reflected the review bombing that occurred after the announcement of a multiracial cast. If you check ROP's Amazon Prime page now, you see that of more than 32,000 confirmed subscribers, 54% rate the series five stars out of five, and it was the most-watched Amazon Prime television show in 2022. If you personally didn't like it, fine, but saying that it was "bad" because it didn't follow The Silmarillion is a cheap shot.

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I cant believe Azamoron is going through with season two. If they keep up with the sloppy writing 38% wil be generous. Not to mention they veer further and further away from the lore. Its not about being woke, its about disrespect to the Tolkien estate, the showrunners might as well be urinating and defecating on Tolkiens grave. the bad writing and dialogue is my mai criticism, but flinging the canon out the window was lazy and unintelligent.

It sucked harder than Linda Lovelace.

The only thing I’ll say is just because a show has casted minority races in rolls doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad. And just because no one was mentioned to be of a different race in the story doesn’t really justify the hate that people get for playing a character who people think is white.

I loved it

I liked it. And i know a dude who has spent his whole life obsessed with lord of the rings, to the point where his house Isn't just filled with it, but he has literally gone throw every scrap of writing j.r.r. Tolkien did that he could possibly find, and memorized every piece of literature about that world (if you've ever seen the youtuber nerd of the rings, hes basically that in real life). He said even though he would have gone a different direction at some points he did thoroughly enjoyed it, considering that time the author didn't actually specify much of what happened. So as much as people bash it, i feel like unless they are that dude, or have as much love for it to know the full characters and are at least wiling to delve more into the world, there wouldn't be a way really to give it a proper assessment. Especially considering there is so much more people barely read about or even know.

The Rings of Power was not bad at all. It got review bombed by fans who can't deal with any kind of deviation from the source material. It was good, and I'm just glad we have some material that explores the Second Age. We could've had nothing at all. Bunch of whiney babies.

Thanks for giving a logical and not so hateful explanation for why that show was such a piece of shit. The copy-write stuff makes a lot of sense. It’s essentially a fanfic.