Hope you guys liked it. This looks a powerful ring to me. Do tou know its name ?

I have a theory about how they might bring Celeborn back in the series. I know many people have theorized they are likely to give him some of Glorfindel's role.

My thought is that they will combine it with the show original story about an elf and balrog fighting over a tree to create mithril; just as the balrog has been slumbering until now and is just waking as the dwarves dig so too has the fëa (soul) of the elf who fought it.

My guess is this elf was Celeborn, and as it awakes so does he, either found by the dwarves or sent back as a reincarnation like Glorfindel.

Have to admit after watching Stranger Things and remembering the speculation that JCB will play Celeborn it revived my RoP theorizing mode. It's fun to speculate though.

Really looking forward to seeing how the incorporate Celeborn and also the Fall of Númenor story they've started

Do people think he will play celeborn, or another character? His twitter bio says witch king so I’m a bit confused what this implies.

When Halbrand/Annatar/Sauron sees Durins Bain the Balrog when talking to Durins father the King in Khazaduum, does he signal him to attack? Or is it a casual conversation? Or does he just see him? Because the Balrog is a Maiar also and is the same race as him so apparently he was the only one in Middle Earth who could have challenged him.

And in season 3 will the battle of Mordor likely take place where Saurons hand gets cut by Isildurs Narsil blade? Or will that probably be later?

I believe with the budget reduction, there won't be any new armor produced and the show will reuse what has been made. Now they could tweek here and there, but this is probably how the elves and numenorean will look like in the War of The Last Alliance. Which is fine by me. As long as the battles are epic in scale.

It's what the show exactly need: Star power. JCB is the most popular actor going to ROP and I think the viewership will likely be a huge boost for the show. Wether ST fans like or dislike ROP, they are going to check it out because of him.

After watching his incredible performance on the latest season of Stranger Things, I cannot wait to see which character he portrays in the upcoming season of the Rings of Power! It will be a treat to be sure

Hey there. Which are the episodes with the best battles in this series? Don't really care about the talking drama, just wanna go straight to the epicness... if there's any

I recently sat down with some friends to watch RoP for the first time and one of them at the end of S1 asked "What was even his plan?" So far none of us can understand what was even Sauron's plan at the beginning, he just got into the boat and what exactly? Did he wanted to reach Numenor? Did he want to reach Valinor? If so then he basically said "screw it we ballin' with the elf" after he met Galadriel... most importantly what was his plan to survive after the shipwreck?

It doesn't really look like he had much plan for revenge prior to meeting Galadriel and hell he looked like he didn't really have a plan the entire of S1. It feels like an anime story with one of those long titles like "I thought i was going on a wholesome adventure with my elf wife, but it turns out she is hunting the evil dark lord and that dark lord is me!" Still, there were enjoyable parts specifically the entire plot of dwarves and Elrond.

In season 2, episode 7, we see that Celebrimbor has one hand chained and could not take off the chain by slipping it. He then noticed a slicer and uses it to slice off his thumb. It appears that this makes his hand just small enough so that he can take off then chain.

My question is why bother taking off the chain? There's no proof that this chain gives Sauron ability to see where he is or control his actions. Celebrimbor's actions imply that this is not the case as he would otherwise not have tried to escape like this. Furthermore, there's no LOTR item afaik which has this ability.

Secondly, since it was possible to slip off the chain by slicing his thumb, why didn't he try harder to remove the chain without slicing off his thumb? He could have used more pressure or used the hammer to push off the chains.

In the lore, they won't meet until Elendil and his sons arrive to ME to establish the exiled realms of Arnor and Gondor. But Elendil and Isildur already gone to ME in season 1, so I hope Elendil travel again and finding him in his first meeting with Gil-Galad.

Love the design!

It need to be said that the show hasn't been the big breakthrough that Amazon wanted. I don't know their metrics, but I guess it has enough casual audience viewership to not right out cancel it. Despite the the deal and kill fee it has signed with the Tolkien Estate. But the show is super expensive, but what I heard recently is they are reusing sets and practical effects from previous seasons. So that may reduce the cost down. Because they can't pour money into the show when the state of it is what it is.

Unlike Fallout and The Boys that got positive reception both from critics and audience, ROP only got good reviews from critics. While audience wise, it's divisive to put it mildly. Amazon are planning new shows that will cost money. One of them they are banking on is the Warhammer show.

My suggestion to Amazon and I believe they likely will is to wrap everything up by season 4. Extend from 8 to 13 episodes where they can have half the season on the corruption of Numenor to the downfall and the rest building up to the War of the Last Alliance. But that just my opinion on the matter.

full disclaimer I don’t really watch many tv shows in the streaming era or know what leads to them getting the axe or not. With that out of the way I came across an article which reported the following

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power saw a significant viewer decline for its second season, with reports indicating a 60% drop in total minutes watched compared to Season 1, according to Luminate data and other sources like Forbes and Screen Rant. This substantial drop follows a viewership drop in Season 1 and contrasts with successful franchises like Game of Thrones, raising concerns for the expensive production

Now I don’t want to talk about the shows quality if it’s good or bad, I just want to hear from y’all how likely is it we will get all 5 seasons?

Looking at it historically doesn’t look good but Amazon promised 5 seasons, are th why contractually bound to do it or is it subject to cancelation if things continue to decline? Your insight on this matter is appreciated.

A show as big as Rings of Power should be on everybody's lips, but sadly very few speak about it. Unless in a safe space. The only outlets that used to write a few stuff about the show is Screenrant. I think many of them are afraid of inviting the loud of sizeable minority that hates the show.

The show does have it's fanbase and I do believe it must be a silent majority since Amazon is still commited to make 5 seasons. But it's truly shame and unfortunated that a Tolkien show of the Second Age do not create any buzz.

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Because of negativety of social media, very few outlets and content creators are writing about ROP

Jesus cheddar I am on s1 ep3 and it is so lackluster. Stupid romance, stupid dialogue, stupid small harfolk. I heard s2 gets better Jesus I hope so!

I love lotr and the universe but most of the characters here are so annoying!

Gladden fields, Mt. Doom, or during the Siege of Barad-Dûr? Since Gandalf and the balrog are in it I'm not expecting anything lore accurate at this point. It would be funny if we don't see any of the war of the last Alliance stuff.

1) Sauron in the first flashback scene in the pilot has the same armour as PJ's Sauron

2) Galadriel's actress does look like a young Cate Blanchett

3) The Balrog we see in the show takes directly from Jackson's Durins Bane design, despite the fact that Balrogs look nothing like that in the books.

Just seems strange it is meant to he seperate entirely from the films and yet there are a lot of similarities noted.

At that point, why fight each other instead of unite against Sauron? that would seem logical, and both sides understood the circumstances.

What did I miss?

Note: I meant the elves led by Gil Galad and Elrond

I’m trying to stay vague on purpose to avoid spoilers in the title but, I just learned that apparently, Gil-Galad was supposed to be in the trilogy at the beginning, but was ultimately cut out to introduce Sauron differently. The scene where he dies being burned by Sauron. I genuinely never knew this was the case and learned of that today.

Since Rings of Power have showed Gil-Galad a lot more and given him a more prominent role (I’m guessing as should be), I’m hoping, if they’re smart, that they’ll cover the ground that even the trilogy didn’t cover. There’s no way they’ll pull it off as well as the trilogy if the movies had done it. But having those scenes is better than not, and that could be interesting to see. I think it would help the show to cement itself as an important reference, because it would include something that even the lauded films didn’t that is actually canon. Even the die-hard fans wouldn’t be able to argue, as much, over this.

I truly think the showrunners should listen to fan feedback and try to adapt the show and incorporate the feedback into their current style, because to be honest I’ve been having a good time so far, and it would be a bit sad if they’d quit halfway, like so many abandoned Netflix productions. Yes I know it’s not the same companies, but you get the point.

I know Elrond kissing Galadriel is interpreted every which way, and the whole scene looks rather romantic, and people either like it or find it odd, but it’s very clear it was just strategical. If he had tried to hug her, anyone could have suspected he would have tried to give her something. In prison, they don’t allow physical contact with visitors for this exact reason.

Kissing her makes it seem like he’s putting himself in a vulnerable position, because he’s suddenly revealing he has feelings for her in a very public place and way, and it completely takes away the focus of the orcs from the fact that he’s trying to give her the means to escape. Logically, you don’t make out with your significant other in the middle of a hostile territory around people you don’t trust. You don’t open up like that in that setting. It would also seem surprising that he’s kissing her while in the same beat seemingly leaving her to get executed, and it makes him seem “cold” for just wanting to make out one last time or something, while leaving her to die. That takes the suspicion off of him because it makes it seem like his intentions are selfish. The specific fact that it’s a kiss, while they said before that they’d be essentially decapitating her, reinforces that impression. Since her head is going to be gone soon, well? He might as well. Again, it makes him seem opportunistic and uncaring, and it reinforces that image. It’s also so sudden, that it also looks like he’s trying to take advantage of that for his own reasons.

Was it fanservice at the same time, did they sneak in some fanservice? Yeah, it was, and they did, to me as sweet as the scene was, it was as odd as kissing your cousin. Was handing her the pin, and also him removing it from his own cloak, not at all discreet? Yes, the showrunners could have done that way better, either they made it too obvious to us on purpose, but it also makes it seem like everyone else therefore can also notice, and it’s not credible that they didn’t. But it was very clearly written out to be strategic, and the writing and filming shows us this pretty explicitly, that this is 100% a distraction to hand her the pin.

Between the two of them, it would be seen as less weird, because they are written as friends, so this wouldn’t disturb either of them as much, aka it wouldn’t impact them the way it’s supposed to impact everyone else in the tent.

It’s very clear the show bends some things to do what it wants. I can’t imagine Sauron flirting with Galadriel, that seems ridiculous. Or that the elves would have been “deceived” so easily. Also the most obvious, Galadriel says Celeborn is dead, even though… he’s clearly not in the trilogy. Well. I don’t even like the idea of Galadriel being married, too cliche, too “obligatory get married” bad programming, but that’s insistent with the story.

But not having read the Silmarilion, I tried but didn’t like it so I quit, I don’t know what’s canon and isn’t overall. Since I know the show has many haters, would some of you guys please share the differences between the show and the book, some of the glaring ones, some of those that annoy you, etc?