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This show only holds the rights to the LoTR appendices, which covers the Second Age in a scant 10 or so pages. The fullest account of the Second Age (which is still fairly short) is in The Silmarillion. Some things are fleshed out in more detail in Unfinished Tales. The show can't really touch...

Both are essentially happening at the same time. Tar-Palantir just died in the finale and Pharazon is (apparently) prepping to wrest the lordship of Numenor from Miriel. Sauron is now on his happy way to Mordor to build Barad Dur and forge his ring. The timeline compression is massive.

If viewed in a vacuum as a standalone series and not as a Tolkien adaptation, the finale was surprisingly...not terrible. It was easily the best episode not containing Dwarves. As a Tolkien adaptation...lol. The writing all season was insanely uneven. There were certainly nuggets of goodness...

Excellent episode. The show does a great job of character building and generating tension, so when the TIEs finally show up it's actually compelling and engaging and not simply space_chase_pew_pew_CGI_34. I also thought Skeen was rolling out a final loyalty test for Andor at the end, and...

Only $250M for ~10 pages of text. What a bargain!

I was in no way on board with Halbrand as Sauron, as there are multiple reasons why it wouldn't make sense and they've been going so heavy handed with the hints it seems like it couldn't possibly be anything but misdirection, but since they decided to go with that Southlands Mordor shot last...

That was great, but sadly it's clips stitched together from other shows / movies.

RoP has more (and deeper) problems than this does. I'm sure Andor will be fantastic once the entire season's uploaded and it can be binged straight through, at which time this complaint will be irrelevant, but for now the rollercoaster feels like it's going to keep breaking down mid-ride.

No, it ended at a jarring point. Where a typical show would have established the dangerous objective of the week, taken a few minutes to plan it, rallied the troops, and then taken a commercial break, this show did that and then...stopped. I like a good, savory slow burn as much as anyone, but...

Yeah, I was enjoying episode 4 until its first commercial break was literally a week long.

Season five will allegedly end with The Last Alliance, so even if they suddenly started following the actual timeline of the Second Age they would be somewhere around 3250 now (given the state of Numenor), and Sauron loses the ring in 3441, so while not exactly "hundreds" of years, it's still a...

Did you guys not watch the third one? It's certainly not boring. The second episode could have easily been 20 minutes shorter and merged with the first. Beyond that, I'm absolutely enjoying the vibe. We've gotten a mountain of stuff that looks, sounds, and feels like Star Wars over the past...

Nope, he’s just referred to as Sauron. The name is not in the LoTR books at all.

The mystery box stuff isn't even one of the bad aspects of the show. They are turning less than 10 pages of source text into five seasons of teevee, and anyone who watched LoTR already knows rings of power get made, Sauron makes the ruling ring, and then loses it (along with some fingers). It's...

We didn't just "finally" meet him, he's been in two episodes now.

The person he thinks is Sauron is a female. What are you having trouble with here?

Well that's just it...that probably wasn't the idea. The original plan was likely to have had Arwen adventuring with Aragorn in RoTK, but they scrapped that because some behind-the-scenes pictures of her swashbuckling at Helm's Deep had leaked and nerds lost their minds. They then had to rewrite...

All of that was completely concocted for the show. There's no direct connection with mithril and silmarils in the lore, never mind mithril having anything at all to do with Elvish lifespan in Middle Earth, except perhaps in the barest of connections. At least one of the great rings was made of...

I haven't watched RoTK in a few years, and with it laid out as you did it sounds plausible, but aren't you forgetting that it also tied into Arwen collapsing into some sort of mystery sickness, and then boom, ring destroyed, all better? It just seemed invented for no good reason, as if those...

It really does seem like they hired a couple talented writers who eat, drink, and sleep Tolkien and dropped them into the middle of a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters. They're trying their best but are simply outnumbered. For fuck's sake, the Harfoots are more interesting than...

Elves are immortal (unless killed). Dwarves are just long-lived, probably 200-300 years for the older ones.

I only had time to watch the first one, but I love the aesthetic. I hope they spend more time on the Blade Runner planet. The writing and direction seem solid but it's too early to really render judgement. So far it seems like they came up with a plotline that could stand on its own and then...

Nearly all of this was clearly explained. The building of the forge was described in the second episode and even shown again in the recap. Durin covered mithril...it's lighter than silk, harder than iron, and more precious than gold. Gee I wonder how such a thing could connect with the big giant...

He mentioned the mouth of the river, and that he traveled down it once (to rob Elwing of the Silmaril?). Elrond talked a good deal about his lineage in this episode which would tie directly into that. It's a huge miss so far. It's not entirely too late to correct it but my confidence levels are...

Just finished it. This would have easily been the best episode so far...if the Galadriel / Numenor stuff wasn't hot steaming trash. Superficially, it's spectacular to see it in 4K on a 77" TV. It's absolutely gorgeous. Palantir also keeps some interesting things in his tower. But, it's all...

Haven't watched it.

I think most people understand that, but it doesn't excuse poor writing. Grogu in The Mandalorian is 70-80 years old or something but still childlike because of how long-lived his species is and that's fine. And as much as I may be in the minority here in largely liking this show, a thoroughly...

Blanchett also had the opportunity to endear herself to the audience in the LoTR films and the earlier Hobbit movie, so she generally earned that Dol Guldur scene, which helped give it some depth and context as well. Had she just popped up as the weird Sauron banishing swamp monster from the...

I rewatched Rogue One recently and really enjoyed it. It's definitely a highlight amongst the jagged, uneven mess that is modern Star Wars. It's just a shame that the protagonist had all the charisma of a flea. Fix that (and the janky Tarkin deep fake) and it could easily rank favorably...

That's actually not true. There's a fair amount of deep reverence to the source material on display within the show, and not just in surface level Easter egg-like references (of which there are many). It's clear that at least someone with a hand in writing this knows the mythology in extreme...

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That's from a movie called Splice. And the Slim Shady he/she/whatever the fuck it is isn't Sauron/Annatar, it's probably a priest from a Morgoth cult.

Tolkien is a bit flakey and extremely vague on this himself. The show only maintains adaptorial rights to the LoTR appendices (presumably), and all they say of this is "Tar-Palantir attempted to amend the evil; but it was too late, and there was rebellion and strife in Numenor. When he died, his...

They even made the horse look derpy.

They've cut more than that. I don't know what year of the Second Age the show is supposed to have started in, but it seems like they're compressing more like 3000 years into basically a couple of weeks so far. For no reason whatsoever I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that Tar-Miriel is...

Just give it a little time. It'll be in the preview image of all your rage bait buddies' videos soon enough.

Holy shit how did that make it into the final cut? That's going to be parodied all over the place but I don't know how it gets more goofy and weird than it already is. And despite the on-the-nose misdirections, what's his name isn't Sauron. He's going to be given a bad Aragorn reluctant leader...

She looks sufficiently Persian to me (and sufficiently...many other things). And I'm pretty sure Tolkien was going for a Middle Eastern aesthetic for the Easterlings who populated the areas east and northeast of Mordor.