i'm keeping my LOTR/EQ nostalgia intact by not watching this. both would be destroyed if i saw a bunch of jackoffs mumble bad dialogue from writers who never even sold a story to Weekly Reader Magazine.
Then you won't mind walking me through how a scene created for a TV show, which is depicted in a reasonably accurate fashion to Tolkien's description of decades ago, could have been slipped into said show ostensibly for the purposes of wooing over nerds playing a game that...they weren't actually playing because it was still months away from releasing. Please help, I want to be smarter.
The bit where he saves Galadriel's life is super in character for Sauron lmao.
Games are in development for a good few years though, so either one of the teams had a leak or they came up with the same idea simultaneously which is very unlikely!!
The two trees are canon Tolkien, straight out of the Silmarillion and The LoTR appendices. When I played Elden Ring for the first time and popped up into the overworld where the giant tree is, they were immediately what I thought of. If anything, Elden Ring did the ripping off.
spronk
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Chukzombi
- you can ignore anything those two say, or just presume the opposite is true). You might be able to identify posters with similar tastes to your own and only look for their reviews. And of course, the big trend in the last few years is foh big brains labelling everything woke and dismissing on the basis of that.
Yeah and to be fair, the intro and dwarven music are much better than the Harfoot's. This will obviously be compared to the Trilogy and that score was phenomenal. I don't expect it to be at that level. So the main theme and Dwarven music, possibly the elves music too I'd have to find it, is fine. I'd argue even those are way below the trilogy and not even as good as say Skyrim, Divinity 2 or other fantasy games.
I mean... OBVIOUSLY.
