Rings of Power SEASON 2 will be a DISASTER!

Lets not forget: she searches sauron all over the world for hundreds of years but never once for her Husband?!

It doesn’t matter what they do, they can’t “fix” season 1 - not because of the writing, but because they don’t deserve to succeed. they tried to gaslight everyone and defame fans, literally calling us “patently Evil” racisssit. They can’t just come back from that. They deserve this.

Sauron was not always evil. At heart, he is a craftsman. He wanted to perfect the world, forge it to be perfect, but perfection required control, and control required dominion. The means for his goal most lined up with Morgoth, who wanted complete annihilation. It was in this way that Sauron became evil.

I am fully expecting Celeborn to be a damsel in distress, needing to be rescued by the strong brave warrior Guyladriel.

...I wonder how much being a father of five prepared Shad for being this bunch's boss.

To answer about the Three Rings and their Bearers… Originally all three are in Celebrimbor’s possession. When Sauron marches on Eregion, he sends them away to the people he can trust most. (Celebrimbor is killed by Sauron under torture and his body is mounted on several pikes to be used as a banner.) One goes to Galadriel, and two go to Gil-Galad. Both keep the three secret and do not wield them while Sauron wears the One. Gil-Galad, before his battle with Sauron during the Last Alliance, bequeathed his rings to his advisors, Elrond and Cirdan. (Gil-Galad gets burnt to death by Sauron’s hand.) Cirdan will hold onto his until Gandalf arrives in Middle Earth by boat, and Gandalf carries it until the Three Rings go into the West at the end of the Third Age.

Cirdan is one of the original elves predating the crossing of the sea into the west, at the start of the elven race. He lead one of the original tribes of the elves, established the Grey Havens, raised Gil-Galid, and welcomed Gandalf into Middle Earth upon his canon arrival on a ship from Valinor and upon recognizing Gandalfs true nature and intent gifted him with one of the 3 elven rings. He also was one of the very last to leave for Valinor at the end of the 3rd age, accompanying Frodo, Bilbo, and the other remaining ring bearers on the last ship to leave Middle Earth for the Undying Lands He is a MASSIVE deal in Tolkien canon, though not directly addressed much in Tolkien's writings.

The whole “Villains aren’t evil, they are misunderstood,” became most apparent in the ABC (Disney) series Once Upon a Time, where half of the “villains” became good after finding love or experiencing compassion.

Having the whole crew is awesome

That's not Galadriel, that's Failadriel...

Sauron is an easy character to explain. He is a smith, a master craftsman bar two, and all you have to do is show him worrying over his craft, everything he makes is just slightly off, beautiful beyond words but flawed. When he tries to fix it, he fails, when he tries harder his master Aule stops him. He keeps trying with what he can do, fails, over and over, until Melkor comes to him. With a single word, the flawed piece is made perfect, and Sauron is damned.

14:58 “And the show was run by one called Payne, the name of which had (by design or chance) a twofold meaning; for in the Middle English speech payne signifies *heathen*, but in the language of the Modern Man, the suffering of one dying in agony as a beloved story was ruined.” - The Two Showrunners, by J. J. Abrams

"Why does the boat guy need the ring of fire?" Maybe Cirdan asked himself the same question and that's exactly why he decided to give his ring to Gandalf, rather than keep it around all those nicely flammable ships. :P

I once decided to give thought to make a better analogy with why a boat floats, and a rock sinks. It took me about a minute to come up with this. "Why does a boat float, and a rock sinks? Because the boat's buoyancy allows it to carry its burdens, while a rock is dragged down by its own weight."

In the LotR lore, the making of the Rings of Power was a long, complex process involving complex enchantments. There are a LOT of lesser rings out there that the elves made for practice before starting on the real Rings of Power (in fact, Gandalf long thought the ring Bilbo found in the depths of the goblin caves was one of these lesser rings). Then Sauron was directly involved in the process of creating the rings for the man and the dwarves. It was only after that when Galadriel and the others figured out Annatar was Sauron. Sauron's ability to influence all the Rings of Power was hard-baked into the creation process that he taught the elves, so even with the elves trying to make the three rings after cutting Sauron off and trying to keep any of his influence out of it, that backdoor was still there. The elves didn't dare use their rings until Sauron was defeated by the Last Alliance. In Rings of Power, the rings are literally just mithril alloy. We saw no tampering from Sauron or anything (nor any sort of complex enchantment process that even could be tampered with). Literally all he did was suggest alloys and one new alloy-making trick to the best and most experienced blacksmith in the world. The rings themselves are so botched in the Rings of Power. How the hell are they going to salvage any other canon? I don't see it being possible.

I continue my quest to collect the best of the "I Loved The Part Where..." Memes. If you have any additions, know that your contribution may be added to the unfolding saga. I loved the part where Galadriel Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Targaryen (GEDDRWT) faced off against the german-orcs, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Incelron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing T-shirt that read, "Ask Me About My Translucent Agenda." Then all the N*zis got blown up when the Gay Engola dropped two nukes: Body-Positive Man and Little Transboy. All Game of Thrones scholars agree that the scene where Rhaenyra whispers in Celeborn's ear “I hate pee on the toilet seat when I go to use it.” and then disconnects the machine that keeps him alive, perfectly delivered George JRR Martin's message of hope and healing for all wahmankind. Then Galadriel jumped into the ocean with Dory and started singing, "Just keep swimming." I have to admit, I did not like the part where the authot race swapped the ents. Ents are clearly White Birch, but those ents were OAK. Remember, Arboreal Pollen is Tree ejaculation, so the Ent orgy counts as interracial and should have the appropriate tags. Although they redeemed themselves when Scott Bakula quantum leaped into T(reebeard)'Challa. I was taken off guard when GEDDRWT and Rey Palpatine arrived in Wakanda to fookin scissor, and a white man said "we don't do that in here" and Rey replied, "are you Shuri about that?" My favorate part would have to be when Gandalf said, "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Morgoth? I thought not. It's not a story the Valar would tell you. It's a Maiar legend. Melkor was a Dark Lord, so powerful and so wise he could use the Silmarils to influence the Great Music to create life... He had such a knowledge of the unseen world that he could even keep the ones he cared about from losing their Facebook accounts if they posted the N-word. The dark side of the unseen world is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice became the Dark Lord Incelron. Ironic, he could save others from living in their parent's basement, but not himself." I loved the ending where Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." And then Halbrand said, "YEW TUKE ARR JERBS!" and Kicked a Harfoot into a well while shouting, "THIS. IS. NUMENOR." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat." As Ursula died she croaked, "The Sea... Is always... Right..." Then perked up, "And the sea shops exclusively at Amazon. Use The 'IAmAllTheJedi' code to get a ten percent discount on all your Amazon purchased items for one order." THEN she finally died. I laughed, I cried, I kissed 18 bucks goodbye. 10/10 Would edge to it again. Much Stunning. Much Bravery.

I don't recall there being a big battle between Sauron and the forces of Numenor. They raise a huge army and have some skirmishes on the way to Mordor, but when they approach his fortress Sauron himself comes out and immediately surrenders without a fight. He is taken to Numenor in chains but is very polite and cooperative, enough that he soon rises to the position of the king's chief advisor.

Amazon's plot twist: Sauron is the sane one.

What do they think the Three were used for?! Elrond and Galadriel hid them and MAYBE drew on them to preserve their realms. Cirdan doesn't appear to have used his, and once Gandalf has it he uses it EXTREMELY subtly. The Three are tools of preservation, not weapons.

20:10 I think that what actually started the "sympathetic villain" trend was the Maleficent movie back in 2014. If anything, Joker is one of the few movies made chasing that trend that actually work