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“Rings of Power” - "Lord of the Rings" television adaptation

The review are mostly very positive, though only the first two episodes have been made available:

www.theguardian.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review – so astounding it makes House of the Dragon look amateur

The visual splendour of this rich, gorgeous Tolkien drama will make you gawp throughout. Watch it on the largest TV you can
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www.rottentomatoes.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will...
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www.metacritic.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 Reviews

The series is set several millennia before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when the rings of power were forged by Sauron.
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Reno said:
The review are mostly very positive, though only the first two episodes have been made available:

www.theguardian.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review – so astounding it makes House of the Dragon look amateur

The visual splendour of this rich, gorgeous Tolkien drama will make you gawp throughout. Watch it on the largest TV you can
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

www.rottentomatoes.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will...
www.rottentomatoes.com www.rottentomatoes.com

www.metacritic.com

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 Reviews

The series is set several millennia before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when the rings of power were forged by Sauron.
www.metacritic.com www.metacritic.com
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Wow, wasn’t expecting that. I know trailers don’t mean anything at all, but apart from the decisively underwhelming feeling after watching the rather uninspiring trailer for this, I just had the gut feeling it was always going to be very difficult for anyone to produce a TV series of something as big as as LOTR that was going to any good. This is encouraging.
 
T & P said:
Wow, wasn’t expecting that. I know trailers don’t mean anything at all, but apart from the decisively underwhelming feeling after watching the rather uninspiring trailer for this, I just had the gut feeling it was always going to be very difficult for anyone to produce a TV series of something as big as as LOTR that was going to any good. This is encouraging.
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Amazon have spent ridiculous amounts of money on it. (A billion dollars i read somewhere).

To be honest i can't remember the LOTR films that well now. I never saw the hobbit films. I'll wait and see what viewers think online before i decide if i'm watching this.
 
moochedit said:
It's the mail though. They've probably upset it's "woke" :rolleyes:
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From the first ten :D

  • Lenny Henry... what the actual
  • Note how it's always the same mendacious, MarX iSt, freedom hating, virtue signalling reviewers that big up woke S h!t like this.
  • Great. Ruined by Wo ke dom .. !
  • Its not Tolkien, its an attempt to steal and destroy a beautiful story and white art and culture.

No one mentioned JRR Token, so I'm disappointed
 
OK, my game just crashed, so I'm gonna look at some more. These are the top-rated comments :cool:

  • I read as far as "Lenny Henry".......and then I lost the will to live.
  • You need to go on an Elfality & Dwarversity course mate.
  • Wouldn't you just love to see a few movies and so called TV programs that had a good story and wasnt loaded with neurotic women, snowflake actors, woke propaganda and include some straight white actors! You know what I mean, just like the good old days! I suppose trump was right when he said everything woke turns to crap.
  • No one can seem to make anything good anymore. That's because everything is done by committee to ensure w 0ke "awareness & sensitivity" to every single person that might be offended at something so you end up with drivel.
  • Tolkien epic? Whatever Tolkien is in there is buried under an avalanche of modern wokery. I'm a big fan of Tolkien, but this isn't Tolkien.
  • @oscarbravotango Most big media are in the hand of the money elite pushing the woke agenda. DM is one of the very few not following this crap.
 
Nine Bob Note said:
OK, my game just crashed, so I'm gonna look at some more. These are the top-rated comments :cool:

  • I read as far as "Lenny Henry".......and then I lost the will to live.
  • You need to go on an Elfality & Dwarversity course mate.
  • Wouldn't you just love to see a few movies and so called TV programs that had a good story and wasnt loaded with neurotic women, snowflake actors, woke propaganda and include some straight white actors! You know what I mean, just like the good old days! I suppose trump was right when he said everything woke turns to crap.
  • No one can seem to make anything good anymore. That's because everything is done by committee to ensure w 0ke "awareness & sensitivity" to every single person that might be offended at something so you end up with drivel.
  • Tolkien epic? Whatever Tolkien is in there is buried under an avalanche of modern wokery. I'm a big fan of Tolkien, but this isn't Tolkien.
  • @oscarbravotango Most big media are in the hand of the money elite pushing the woke agenda. DM is one of the very few not following this crap.
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I'm more minded to watch it now :thumbs: :D
 
I've actually just listened to the Lenny Henry episode of Off Menu, and I think it's one of the best they'd ever done :thumbs:
 
Nine Bob Note said:
OK, my game just crashed, so I'm gonna look at some more. These are the top-rated comments :cool:

  • I read as far as "Lenny Henry".......and then I lost the will to live.
  • You need to go on an Elfality & Dwarversity course mate.
  • Wouldn't you just love to see a few movies and so called TV programs that had a good story and wasnt loaded with neurotic women, snowflake actors, woke propaganda and include some straight white actors! You know what I mean, just like the good old days! I suppose trump was right when he said everything woke turns to crap.
  • No one can seem to make anything good anymore. That's because everything is done by committee to ensure w 0ke "awareness & sensitivity" to every single person that might be offended at something so you end up with drivel.
  • Tolkien epic? Whatever Tolkien is in there is buried under an avalanche of modern wokery. I'm a big fan of Tolkien, but this isn't Tolkien.
  • @oscarbravotango Most big media are in the hand of the money elite pushing the woke agenda. DM is one of the very few not following this crap.
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"We fed 10,000 Daily Mail comments into an algorithm and this is what it had to say about the Lord of the Rings series."
 
For some reason the Mail has chose all orc pics for its article! And the Orc looks really great
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"Go woke, go broke!"

Is this the key soundbyte with the DM/Express Trump cult fucks now? I'm sure the corporation tax-destroying anti-union leftist Jeff Bezos will be going broke any minute now.
 
Karl Masks said:
Is this based on the stories or just some rubbish Amazon made up with the names attached?
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It's based on Tolkien's appendix, or something like it. :hmm:

www.cultureslate.com

What Is In The Appendices Of ‘The Lord Of The Rings’? — Culture Slate

When The Lord of the Rings Amazon series was first announced to be in the works, there were many speculations about where the series would take place in the lore and timeline of Middle Earth. The most obvious answer that fans came to was that the series would be taking place earlier in the narrati
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apparently it's Galadriel hunting down Sauron from back in the day of him forging the rings.

sounds like something more akin to Liam Neeson and Tolkien
 
Orcs are the best thing in Tolkien universe. Wizards and other magical creatures good too, but especially in the films dwarves are a mixed bag and elven bits might as well fast forward <just boring - as are all the female characters - blame Tolkien for that. I wonder if that might change in this new show
 
Never read the books and only saw the films but the Ents were my favorite creatures. The most heart wrenching moment for me was the sight of an Ent on fire during a battle. I hope this show features Ents.
 
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