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i think it was somewhat ambiguous. the face value of it was that if frodo didn't destroy the ring, sauron's evil would extend even to the shire; i.e., no one is safe. but i think showing frodo the scouring of the shire could also be showing him that no matter WHAT happens, he can't go back to...

You guys are talking about centrists like they can't be fanatics. Centrists just cherry pick which views they feel comfortable with, but no where does it say they have to be sane about those views.

yeah there are some goofy bugs with quests. i played for about an hour or so waiting for one of my friends to get home and then install the game. i messed around just waiting for her, and you know that first gathering profession quest? i had done that but as she picked her profession it bugged...

i mean... to some degree, yes. tolkien didn't give much information to what a lot of these characters where doing in the 2nd age. he gave information about specific events, but not much more. and that comment about filling in the blanks is specifically from tolkien. that's what he wanted. i'm...

I was watching a video of Matt colvilles... He was talking about rings of power and coming from the perspective of a HUGE Tolkien fan, but also someone who generally hates TV as it's basically disposable by design. With a movie you can spend significant time tuning the script but with a TV show...

victim blaming is universally bad, unless the victims are cops or white men. there is a REASON why george floyd had a knee on his neck...

yeah, you're right.. i mean it's obvious they don't care at all about tolkien's literary legacy... so that makes perfect sense that they would come to this conclusion

according to the wiki, and i have no idea how accurate it is... but in 2017 the estate starting offering the rights to amazon, netflix and hbo. but that lines up with what i've seen. that first comment on the linked reddit thread suggests that they didn't sell the rights to the other stuff...

the nonsense about amazon not having the rights just... doesn't make sense to me. from what i understand, tolkien's estate approached amazon (well, netflix first, but they said no), not the other way around. so how can amazon NOT have the rights? did they say, sure we're going to agree to make a...

i think there are a few ladies in that bracket that i rated probably a little higher because of how good they are at what they do. mackenzie davis and samara weaving being the two best examples. samara weaving KILLED IT in ready or not and i've been a huge fan of hers since and terminator dark...

i think there are two expectations with pretty much every character in this show. the expectations of people who are even at least fairly familiar with tolkien's work and the expectations of people who have at most only ever seen the movies. the expectation of those people are that, yes, the...

SOME of the visuals in the show were really good, i pointed out a few. but even half the ones you pointed out are... meh...

with the exception of a few specific scenes, like the reveal of Eregion in the first episode... and the slow motion shots showing the fallout of the war of wrath... i wasn't really impressed with the visuals. especially the design decisions for pretty much everything. the stuff at khazad dum is...

ha. oh man...i forgot all about that nonsens... "Are you playing Khan?" "No, absolutely not." and then in the movie he's all "My name... (pause for overly dramatic reveal) Khan!" NONE of those people have ANY idea who khan is or why this should be some dramatic reveal. kirk should have been...

Showrunner JD Payne "When Sauron shows up, it might be in a way that people don't expect." Everyone during episode one "Halbrand is Sauron."

i just mean that what you were saying is common criticisms and it makes it pretty clear that wb doesn't know how to handle their property. they are listening to the audience but their take away completely misses the actual criticism.

yeah, sauron and celebrimbor worked together to make 16 rings (they were all meant initially for the elves) but at some point during that process, celebrimbor started to become distrustful of sauron, so like a 100 years or so later celebrimbor made the 3 rings separately and in secret. he gave...

it's not really super clear, but the elven rings give mastery over water, fire and air (gandalf's ring is fire, galadriel's ring is water and elrond's ring is air... though i may have those last two mixed up). they also, from what i understand, everything that you can do, with the rings you can...

i like the idea that it's saruman, a pre-asshole saruman, though he was always a bit too high on himself... but one of the sorcerer chicks says "he's not sauron, he's the other!" and gandalf wasn't the leader of the istari. he's also a lot more aggressive than gandalf really ever was, even as...

it's sort of spread out through a bunch of stuff. a lot of it is in the silmarillion, but a huge chunk of it is from tolkien's personal writings that his son released after he died. he would talk about a bunch of ideas he had (most of it was stuff that he was just musing over, so he'd phrase it...

seriously. this is exactly why oddjob is banned in goldeneye edit: forgot a pic, whoops. good LORD i forgot how monstrous baron samedi was

yeah, the first... oh... 1000 years or so of the second age not much happens. or rather, stuff happened but tolkien didn't document most of it. the next 2000+ years of the second age this show has compressed into just a few months.

Yeah, I mean some awesome stuff happens in the 2nd age. Last alliance of elves and men, rise and fall of numenor, founding of Gondor, and... You know... The rings being made... Shame it seems that they didn't actually pick up the rights for ANY of that...

Bruce banner has anger management problems, even before he was hulk. Jen doesn't. But I stead of making it a gender issue and having jenn tell Bruce that she manages her emotions infinitely more than him (which is EXTREMELY silly and insulting), the conversation SHOULD have been similar to that...

This post screams of "damned if you do..." After the mcu started rolling, wb starts making justice league and it didn't work because no one was attached to the characters. We barely had any individual focus for those characters and the number 1 criticism was that wb needed to take it's time...

couterpoint: the movie is good, full of excitement that draws you in, as well as acknowledging that henry cavil is a great superman despite WB not knowing what to do with him. i mean, i doubt it, but could be!

I THINK the wizards came separately, otherwise gandalf probably would have told cirdan to give the ring to saruman since he was the head of the istari. Cirdan gave his ring to gandalf because he instantly recognized gandalf as a maiar (or at the very least, recognized him as someone of...

i'm no tolkien scholar, but i don't remember there being any discussion on HOW they showed up, just that they did. initially tolkien said all the wizards showed up in the third age, somewhere around the year 2000 if i remember correctly, though probably not. but later on in some of his letters...

tom isn't illuvatar. he's functionally the same type of creature as ungoliant, in that he has immense power, but isn't undefeatable. gandalf in the council of elrond specifically warns against giving tom the ring since even with all his power, he would eventually succumb to sauron, and that's if...

i'm not watching it, care to explain in a spoiler?

i've never watched any hellraiser movies, it's not really my bag... but i understand the what the stories are about i've seen a lot of mixed feelings on the main character of this, you either 100% hate her or think she's great, with very little feelings in between. so here's my question... from...

tj miller just said that ryan reynolds contacted him the day after he did the adam corola show and they "hashed it out" and now everything's fine. i wouldn't be surprised IN THE SLIGHTEST if this was all some play by tj to get some notoriety and use ryan in order to get into deadpool 3. by all...

listen i get your point but we are SOOOOO far past people getting hired based on their skill. if they could have gotten away with a black elrond and a chinese galadriel i'm pretty sure they would have.

if they are willing to put black dwarves and elves on screen in the name of diversity, what do you think they are doing in the writing room? and just like how the black dwarf is actually killing it, i imagine that that ISN'T why she was hired, it's just a happy accident. there are people in the...

allegedly during deadpool 2, while they were filming one of those scenes where wade and weasel are going back and forth ribbing each other, ryan asked to do one more take and then basically said those exact things to tj... ahem, weasel. it sounds like that's when tj got super butt hurt and...

TJ Miller is making the rounds about how he'll never work with Ryan Reynolds again and it's funny because in his own mind you can tell he's trying to come off as "polite" about it and how it's not REALLY that big of a deal, but the very fact he's talking about it and HOW he's talking about it...

"you need to keep you are dog's quiet" is such a mind bending statement i can't even get into the insanity of "meashure's"

no, they exist to be nice on the eyes for travis and matt, and i get to enjoy looking at them by proxy.

vince gets a lot of crap for a lot of valid reasons, but that man knew how to run a wrestling company. wrestlers are a VERY different breed of people and need a very specific set of skills in order to manage. i think a huge part of it is that he was around wrestlers since birth, so presumably...