Gonna start calling my flareups ” getting cast into gay baby jail” now.

Meme format comes from the inimitable @haladrielnation.bsky.social on Bluesky!

-Allēna

#NEISvoid #ringsofpower #meme #galadriel #spoonie #queer #cripplepunk

Per my last post:

I feel this text applies to my beloved Galadriel. Yes, I’m a huge LOTR fan. She’s my tiny stress inducing beautiful fireball 112/10 would let her ruin my life, just saying.

-Allēna

#LOTR #ringsofpower #meme #galadriel #shitposting #relationships #ocmeme

Prime Video has renewed "The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power" for a third season.

I qualified as a "Tolkien Purist" when I said Jeff Bezos's "Rings of Power" tv series was garbage.

Turns out there is some overlap between appreciating RoP and being prepared to sell the US of A down the river.

(The racist and homophobe haters were always MAGAtty too.)

s/
So billionaires who play you for suckers, selling you trash storlines, might not really have your best interests at heart?
Who'da have thunk that?
/s

#TolkienPurist
#JeffBezos
#RingsOfPower
#Tolkien

Just finished S2 of #RingsOfPower. Look, even if you ignore the many and heinous crimes against Tolkien and chronology, just from a basic storytelling point of view, this is just fucking awful. Cargo cult Tolkien. An embarrassment. Nonsensical, zombie dog shit. Bezos is better off funding cock-shaped rockets than this monstrosity.

There may well be a S3, but I won’t be watching.

Watching the season finale of The Rings of Power. The 2nd season has been so much better than the 1st. #tv #RingsOfPower

I think the #RingsOfPower has been pretty good. Some really great moments. Some things I've found a bit flat. But overall, it's like talking to a fellow Tolkien nerd about the appendices to Lord of the Rings, speculating on what might have happened way-back-when.

The chilling portayal of coercive control in #RingsOfPower has been a brilliant but hard watch

http://counsellinginnorthumberland.com/2024/10/04/look-what-you-have-done-to-yourself-coercive-control-and-the-rings-of-power/

#RingsOfPower S2 Episode 7 finally doing the "What if a fantasy series filmed a battle at night that's actually visible on TV?"

9/10. -1 for forgetting Orcs can't fight in direct sunlight in Tolkein

Ok, Tolkien folks, what's the actual verdict on Rings of Power? Are the haters just mad because they can't handle a multiracial cast? Is it actually good? Should I give it a shot?

My house is watching #RingsOfPower and this latest episode made the little voice in the back of my head go "Adar Comin" like he is on #TheWire and now I have the giggles.
I'm also testing a theory that I can't possibly be the only person who lives at that intersection. So enjoy.

#RingsOfPower #tvseries
I didn't notice how Byzantine costumes were in Númenor last season.
Now I did

Why does the king of the elves have such terrible hair?! That's what I want to know! #RingsOfPower

An English teacher watches #RingsOfPower and comes away unimpressed. https://theoddestinkling.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/rings-of-power-was-written-by-aliens/

I was thinking about why the #Netflix #Witcher series had crashed so badly, and why the #Amazon #RingsOfPower is going the same way, and I found this:

"Hollywood had become a winner-takes-all economy. As of 2021, CEOs at the majority of the largest companies and conglomerates in the industry drew salaries between two hundred and three thousand times greater than those of median employees..."

#Capitalism is eating itself

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

I'm not sure why this is the case but there is an astonishingly large number of openly racist people among the Tolkein/LOTR/Hobbit fan base. To the point that it rivals other places where I usually see the red hat brigade mouthing off (Facebook, YouTube comments, TikTok, etc).

It's really something how many Tolkein "fans" are up in arms because #RingsOfPower had the apparent audacity to cast black actors and actresses for some roles. For one thing, who's to say Tolkein didn't intend for some characters to be dark-skinned? We don't know because Tolkein didn't fixate on a characters' skin tone. And neither should you. Rather arrogant to presume all his characters were white.

You'd think that people who lost the Civil War and lost the 2020 election handily would learn at some point to keep their opinions to themselves.

“The struggle to remain good in a fallen and complicated world is compelling enough on its own; they don’t need extra arguments for evil or the prestige TV insistence that there’s no such thing as good and bad. By trying to turn The Lord of the Rings into great TV, all Payne and McKay managed was to rob Tolkien’s universe of what makes it special.”

https://www.polygon.com/lotr-rings-of-power/446640/rings-power-trop-morality-lord-rings

"maga numenor is the worst numenor" - datguySC2 on YouTube #TheRingsOfPower #RingsOfPower

Trying to watch this middle earth romcom but the cats keep interrupting the show