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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2 Review: TV’s Most Expensive Series Remains Stunningly Boring (www.thewrap.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I really liked it as well, although it doesn't quite reach the quality of the movies, it's leagues better than the Hobbit movies.

My only gripe is that the story would work better if the main female elf wasn't Galadriel. At this point she is already supposed to be one of the eldest beings in Middle Earth and her relationship with her stepson Elrond felt more like he's her older brother.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To truly enjoy this show, you have to somewhat ignore the weight of the eons depicted in the source material. This is a weighty and ponderous mystical story, but the show has made the decision to compact thousands of years into mere decades for the sake of urgency and coherence in its visual format.

I do agree that another she-elf would be welcome, though. Galadriel needs a friend who isn't burdened by the weight of the audience knowing he'll someday be one of the last great elf-lords bearing the burden of his ancestors. She is fundamentally a lonely character, but it wouldn't hurt for her to have some relationships that weren't pure tragedy and conflict.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You nailed it, the silmarillion (even this chapter which is basically the Akallabeth) is an epic, and trying to compress it to a weekly drama strips much of the underlying atmosphere.

This isn't house of the dragon, this is an allegory about man and his mortality under the light of his hubris, and it's not going to have the same script bite as something from grrm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I really like her somehow, she seems like an interesting elf, hot-blooded, basically what Treebeard would call "hasty".

I like seeing an elf that powerful who doesn't just sit around and say "well Sauron is putting thousands of babies into woodchippers, but that doesn't mean we should risk doing anything".

She's probably my favorite character, because she's a noldor who burns with the passion of feanor.