Detailed Breakdown of the Season 2 Teaser for LotR: The Rings of Power

At the end I did not really like the first season of Rings of Power. Too many plots were just absolutely nonsensical, to the point that I get angry thinking about them. Some others were actually decent, but it has still far too many problems and on top of that they too often go out of the way of to adapt what Tolkien actually wrote. I'm a book fan, but I also understand you might need som changes here there. But when the changes make no sense and generate too many plot holes, I feel at the end disappointed.

For season 2 they at last already got the plot going, so I expect an improvement over season 1, but I still think they will continue with strange changes and writing decisions. Here is what I observed so far from watching the teaser and what I can conclude from knowing the books quite well. I could be wrong though.

PS: I still hope the big season 2 reveal is, that Celebrimbor's dog dreamed everything so far and now we see how it actually happened 🤞

► Disclaimer:
I have permission of the artists to use their art works.

► Artwork and special thanks to:

► Sources:
The Lord of The Rings (1954-1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion (1977)
The Hobbit (1937; 1951)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
The War of The Jewels (1994)
The Book of Lost Tales Part Two (1984)
The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
Morgoth's Ring (1993)
The Road Goes Ever On (1967) by J. R. R. Tolkien & Donald Swann
History of the Hobbit (2007)
The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)

Maps:
Amazon (John Howe)
Edited by: Murdo
Aman map by ThePhilosophersGames

► Mistakes:
- Círdan's actual name is Nowë in the lore. The text layer moved to the wrong text element and shows on every art work from Kimberly now. It should only show up left of the Círdan art work.

► Playlists:
If you are interested in Tolkien's legendary fantasy Epic The Lord of the Rings and his related works, here some recommendations:

► Time Codes:
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[ThePhilosophersGames]

Keep it civil in the comments, I need to sleep 😅 How did you like the trailer/teaser?
Shout-outs to the artists (Kimberly80 and Ted Nasmith; links in the description)

[otwk]

When I saw the scene at 21:43, with Annatar in Eregion and Celebrimbor with his guards, my first thought was that it is during the siege, when Sauron came back to Eregion (so it would be Celebrimbor's last stand). After all, at the time, Sauron still personally led his armies, and Celebrimbor potentially fought him directly: "Celebrimbor, desperate, himself withstood Sauron on the steps of the great door of the Mírdain; but he was grappled and taken captive, and the house was ransacked."

[xUncleSamx]

02:30 the show doesn't say he was killed, Adar says so.. he could be lying. In fact Galadriel tells him he didn't kill Sauron.... Also, iirc the lore doesn't specify whether Sauron was heavily injured and then rematerialized himself in the early second age. A show will obviously have to add some stuff, doesn't make it necessarily break with lore

[kevinfelix]

I have to admit, the visuals, locations like the design of numenor and some of the character acting like durin and elrond were the highlights. However, the writing was pretty terrible in places. Rewriting lore like the whole origin of mithril is never a good sign.

[swright]

The tower depicted in the trailer was I believe the same tower Galadriel and Co visited in Episode 1 of season 1 called Durnost so no, it isn't Angmar. Also, this is an adaptation much like LotR and The Hobbit movies deviated from lore.

[evangelospaschopoulos]

It looks like there are some black clad forms in the background in the scene where the elves prepare to fight, are those the Nazgul?

[Crafty_Spirit]

2:16 Sauron is also known as Nowë? I thought that's Círdan's first name 😅😅

[geir]

I really like to watch your videos about rings of power. No matter how good or bad you analyse great in the context of the original works and I hope you give season 2 a real chance. I also struggled with season 1, but look forward to season 2 still.

[reflectiverambling]

I'm sorry you feel pressured to cover something you don't enjoy :( *hugs* Bless you for doing such a coverage the other day. Sadly, I wasn't around to join in.

[martkraaam]

Any streams conserning this topic planned? 🙂

[Kulturjunky]

To me the elf at 28:40 looks like the "new" Adar at 18:40.

[mattcoles]

I'm a Tolkien superfan but by no means an expert. I'm slightly optimistic that something said by Galadriel in the trailer indicates that at least some of season 2 will be set before (or at least at the same time as) season 1. This might be able to undo some of the more obvious lore breaks in season 2. Possible that the other rings were created before the 3 we saw in season 1?

I wonder if the Dwarfs may fight and push back the Balrog, and have a long term stand-off with it. Or they have their own areas. Then the rings inflame their greediness and they later become too greedy, and delve too deep. And reawaken the now rightfully annoyed Balrog. I personally dont think that would be a hideous lore breach.

[geir]

Trailer dropping soon. Hope for a new live stream🤞

[Enerdhil]

Hobbits, "maybe they play a smaller part in Season 2." No pun intended?😂

[xUncleSamx]

23:20 does it really matter whether they realize who he is when he is about to leave Eregion vs when he had left?no ..

[kosarnikcheh]

Seriously 😃 3 episodes at 29th of August 😍 if it's ture then that's awesome ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much 😇🙏🌹

[lyannastark]

Alright, I am buying Tales of the Shire as soon as it comes out. What if they release it in September for my birthday? Bilbo would be happy too. Looks cute and cozy as heck.

[ChtistianeFiorito-qchh]

Looking forward to long discussions after the review. Even if the show is bad we will have fun discussing

[Enerdhil]

I think Celebrimbor's dog 🐶 was barking up the wrong tree.

[esecarolus]

This is just like the show foundation at apple tv: the show runners took the characters and a very general idea of what the story is about: everything else they just invented or changed drastically. You can already tell by looking at the trailer that that’s how is going to be like. I will watch the first episode. Will I actually enjoy it? I sincerely doubt it. If by the end of episode one this show is not correcting its flaws I recommend simply boycotting it by not watching or talking about it anymore