Rings of Power Season 2 is AWFUL - A Crime Against Tolkien

Amazon destroys Tolkien again - The Rings of Power Season 2 Review

“The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies.” - JRR Tolkien

Edited by @QTRBlackGarrett
Special thanks to @PierryChan
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[retroverdrive]

I'm so glad I haven't seen a single episode of this show.

[stegura]

Lord of the Rings orcs "Looks like meats back on the menu boys!" Rings of Power orcs "Are there any vegan options available?"

[ilyasharin]

Thanos was right all along, this is the half of the universe he was trying to destroy.

[MyaB]

Elves never grow old. The oldest elves look like men and women in their thirties. They're the noblest fairest of creatures.

[tsevgamesalot]

Peter Jackson did such a great job casting elves. None of these rings of power people look elves. They look like humans cosplaying.

[SoldierSpiderx]

Dude, the scene with the loving Orc father not wanting to leave his family and go off to war, was legit the most cringe fucking thing I have seen in my life that seriously, it was like an attempting to build sympathy for Ted Bundy.
After he's like, 30 kills in.

[tolkienist]

Elendil - "The sea is always right."
Also Elendil - "My wife drowned."

[bloodrunsclear]

ROP Season 1: I'm the worst crime against Tolkien ever!
ROP Season 2: Hold my baby Shelob and child orcs...

[lordpax]

Everyone: Cast it into the fire
Amazon: No

[TedvonKloggeren-hf]

This expensive cosplay wasn't mean to be entertaining, it was mean for being demoralizing, it's just social engineering

[pseudomonas]

So we have the Orcs being anti-war family people, Sauron being a misunderstood, sympathetic, and democratic leader who asked being chosen by the Orcs as their commander, Galadriel and Celebribor being sexually attracted by Sauron (what Rings of Power, this is the 50 Shades of Mordor), the Elven Rings being created BEFORE the other Rings of Power, and the Elves being completely morons, since thanks to Galadriel's vision of the future, they knew a priori Sauron's plans to make the Rings of Power, (so the Elves were not deceived by Sauron like in Tolkien's story), but let anyway Sauron to proceed with the creation of the other Rings, not because of Sauron's manipulations, but because their own incompetence... At this point we are talking about a complete vandalization of Tolkien's work by Amazon...

[moontreecollective]

0:17 what the hell are these outfits? Did the costume designer forget to show up that day? Looks like a bad commercial for H&M

[NewDawnRS]

3, 441 Years of canon, discarded and ignored... I hate this show so much!

Galadriel should not even be in this show or just shouldn't be the main character! Galadriel is married to Celeborn! She has a daughter! Galadriel has been in Lothlorien since 1350 and should not have been involved in the forging of the Rings of Power and anything beyond 1350 up until the Third Age when the Fellowship arrives!
Thirst trapping Sauron?
What the actual...

I HATE THIS SHOW!

[eros]

Somewhere in Heaven Tolkien is trying to convince God to do another great flood.

[Boatfisherz]

What a TERRIBLE SHOW! Orcs having a family is the dumbest thing ever. "For all that race were bred by Melkor of the subterranean heats and slime. Their hearts were of granite and their bodies deformed; foul their faces which smiled not, but their laugh that of the clash of metal, and to nothing were they more fain than to aid in the basest of the purposes of Melkor." —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin. "Orcs were cruel, sadistic, black-hearted, vicious, and hateful of most things, particularly of those who were orderly and prosperous"

[ivorius]

Rings of Power is not entertainment. It is demoralization.

[samlee]

Ah, the first question an audience member asks is, 'how can this thing be all about ME!'

Perfectly summing up our modern society.

[JoelAdamson]

Elrond looks like Gordon Ramsay had a baby with Neil Patrick Harris.

[benwatt]

Galadriel's ring looks like it was pulled from a 25¢ machine at the dollar store.

[Harbringe]

The problem with these people is they dont treat Tolkien as a wonderful creation. They treat it as a nerd joke, because to them it is a joke. These are people who dont have a love for the genre.