LIES AND COPE! Rings of power is NOT Tolkien
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Published 2022-07-28
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All Comments (21)
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If I want Tolkien, I'll get Tolkien. If I wanted current-day US politics, I'd get a lobotomy.
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Imagine if Rosa parks said ”I’m the first black female to refuse to get off a buss” or Martin Luther king “I’m the first black man to have a dream”, the narcissism is rampant.
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"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author." -JRR Tolkien
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Rings of Power can’t accept the fact that they’ve already been defeated by the fans before this series has even begun. Lol
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The more I learn about Rings of Power, the more it feels like Tolkien fan fiction by people who aren't fans.
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I just realized that if you fuse Nathan and Oz you get Shad.
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"All shall love me and despair." Seems to be Tolkienesque inspiration for this series, they got the despair part right.
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Both Galadriel and Elrond have been severely downgraded. Their roles have been flip-flopped but Galadriel has little of Elrond’s sophistication or eloquence and Elrond has little of Galadriel’s wisdom or charisma. They both seem to have received most of each other’s negative aspects but few of each other’s positive aspects, other than Galadriel seems to have retained a certain amount of Elrond’s intelligence.
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I've recently watched "The Wire", great show, based in Baltimore in the early 2000s. Note how the population of that city is like 65% African American, making the casting understandably not very white, and due to the logic of location the show is very good without feeling forced, weird how that works
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The hilarious thing is that their efforts at "diversity" are tired and lazy. How is making a heavy-set black woman a gospel singer edgy or innovative? Or making all the female characters essentially men? Can't strong women, like maybe Galadriel, command respect by being you know, women?
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I'm Asian and I was quite capable of enjoying the Lord of the Rings movies without being "represented". In fact, I connected quite well with Samwise Gamgee. He was the true hero.
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I love how Oz is the audience's insert character so that he can get Shad to break down his points into digestible pieces for us!
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My dad is the biggest Tolkien nerd and he's not even interested in watching rings of power.
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Yeah. One actor already confirmed this, saying that will modernized Tolkien work to this "new" era!
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If I may...Allegory is very common on medieval traditions and writings. It can be found on many works such as Dante's and Christine de Pizan's, they loved to present you with people and places and objects that represented other ideas, values or even something that should be avoided and despised. Tolkien knew very well this kind of literature, but didn't like to use allegory. In his opinion the reader was the one who could find new meanings and connection, not the writer
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Can't wait for the series to come out. Because we will have so many uploads from Knights Watch.
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I’ve said for a while and in multiple videos: They picked a fight with the wrong fandom. Because this fandom existed before the term existed and because they read books, they aren’t as stupid as other fandoms.
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20:19 Agreed. In LOTR, I related most to Boromir, Faramir and Samwise and I'm not white, and it shouldn't matter.
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Honestly? This show doesn't even deserve a hate-watch. It deserves nothing. It's not LotR. It's not Tolkien. It's pure garbage and any second of time spent thinking about it is wasted. Screw this, move on and act like this doesn't exist. Because that's all this deserves.
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At this point "Diggy diggy hole" by Wind Rose has more Tolkien vibes than this show
