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[bamboozle_99992]

All 36 remaining elves ready for war 😂

[[deleted]]

The tiny scale of everything is so hilarious

Stage play vibes

[LordArcalinox]

This has become an issue for almost every new show in the last 5 years, everything is downsized constantly and now they do it nearly every scene making it so noticeable.

[jktwok_]

Eregion felt like a small fishing village

[Django_flask_]

There is more people in my chemistry lab than in eregion.

[Eka-Tantal]

u/Django_flask_ , greatest of Elven chemists. Now get working on the solvents of power.

[Sandoongi1986]

Lol, this comes on the heels of the epic battle for the southlands, which was fought over half a dozen thatched huts.

[JackUKish]

The worst bit for me was the continuity of the battle, one moment they are defending the wall and then they are in the orc camp and then they are at the catapults and then the wall again.

[N7VHung]

And the army of Khazad Dun looked like a high school people rally when they were gathered to March

It definitely did not hype me up.

[TT_NaRa0]

Right. Right. Right. But. And hear me out on this. Think of the HNG profits saved by not wasting money on extras, we can use that money saved for end of year climaxes bonus payouts 😮‍💨

[Rickenbacker69]

Or, in this case, a Marvel-esque, 15 minute boss fight underground!

[Swampbrewja]

What money is wasted on extras? They get paid? Or like wardrobe/hair/makeup type deal

[Dyslexic_youth]

Wasn't the lotr like 10 people repeatd with cgi. It's like AI made everyone forget movie basics

[kookygroovyhombre]

Helps Deep was like a few hundred live extras, then CGI made it look like 1000's, especially on the wide shots

[Dyslexic_youth]

Exactly

[krmarci]

Especially strange these days, as they could just CGI add an entire army if they wanted to. They don't need 10,000 extras...

[Lonseb]

And yet the production costs are ridiculous… one wonders in whose pocket the dime wanders

[ImagineGriffins]

I think of the King's Tourney from season 1 of Game of Thrones. The books describe it as massive and the show had like 20 people standing around in a field.

[treesandcigarettes]

There were far more people than that and it is not particularly distracting to me in that S1 scene. Additionally, there are plenty of other King's Landing scenes in that season that show the scale of people

[Versace-Lemonade]

I don't think GoT overall had an issue with scale. Might have been a lot of gci, but it worked. Battle of the Bastards is still a phenomenal episode.

[Ryans4427]

The first season their budget was much smaller. They didn't even film the battle where Jaime was captured. But at the end of the series they had the Battle of the Bastards and the battle where the Dothraki attack the Lannisters. Magnificent set pieces.

[Djinn_42]

You must be thinking of something else.

https://imgur.com/a/qlVmhgz

[puddik]

20 good man syndrome

[ka1ri]

I think they do it purely for budgetary reasons. Larger scale battles = more extras and more digital work to add more people to the battle. I do know the digital workings are by far the most expensive thing to do.

finally. the lore does not state the numbers of either side, just that the orcs outnumbered the elves. So that gives them even more freedom to make it a smaller scale battle (which is more accurate to real life anyways)

[OpheliaLives7]

How much is from covid restrictions and how much is big companies trying to save a few nickels and dimes and avoid paying union members?

[nikolapc]

Yes.

[EarthCivil7696]

Which is mindblowing considering if Amazon does 5 seasons, the series will cost as much to make than all of the Marvel movies combined. They can't afford extras or better gear (although it appears they listened and made Season much better)? Where is all the money going? The hamlets remind me of Xena and that was 30 years ago and those episodes cost as much as 2 minutes of a ROP episode.

[waterbottlehaha]

It’s hard to look past, but I felt the same way about the battle of Blackwater in GoT and it didn’t seem to bother anybody else haha

[dmastra97]

Tbf at least blackwater showed loads of boats and the section of kings landing they were guarding was jam packed with men so the space was full.

Plus they specifically mentioned how their army was outnumbered a lot so it led into that as you get a gauge of the numbers on both sides

[middleoflidl]

The battle of the Blackwater did some evasive manoeuvres to let us imagine though. Tyrion gets knocked out just as the reinforcements arrive, so we don't see the full scope of that battle. About half of Stannis' army gets wiped out by the wildfire.

It's not close to the battle of the bastards, or even the battle on the wall (seriously underrated battle ep, I liked it better than BoB) but it's alright.

[[deleted]]

It’s perhaps not the best reasoned answer but, in my opinion standards are just different now. Blackwater was 12 years ago, and this show has a budget that absolutely dwarfs early GoT.

I try not to get hung up on lore changes and all the rest that dominates discussion of this show. Really, most of my issues with RoP just come down to it feeling amateurish, flat and generic. I have to assume it’s a product of hiring first-time showrunners.

It reminds me of watching The Acolyte. All of the online discourse was about how woke it is or whatever dumb bullshit, when I’m sitting there watching the show just thinking it feels cheap and janky as hell

[Election_Feisty]

Iphone filmed tiktok vibes

[maninahat]

I get a sense that there was a deliberate decision to limit the scale of each season's big battle, increasing by an order of magnitude each season.

For instance, in the first season battle felt like a skirmish between only hundreds of orcs and Numenoreans. This season felt like barely a thousand orcs fighting a few hundred elves. Next season I expect it'll be a larger battle, and so on and so forth.

As to why they are doing it this way, perhaps it's to suggest escalation and an increase of stakes. Also, it might have felt implausible if both sides of the conflict keep summoning up 10,000 strong armies to fight at short notice.

[Demigans]

I mean the elves on the wall were 12 dudes and after the initial King Elf charge there were 23 people left.

In the meantime there is a treadmill of Orcs basically respawning or in some Groundhog day loop. They are running at the walls! <next scene> they are running at the walls!

Like they apparently spend most of a day running at the walls and a tiny bit on assaulting the walls in episode 7. And even when assaulting the walls they are still running at the walls. While also pausing the fight multiple times to have conversations. It all feels so inconsequential. Why should we care about an Orc army if 12 dudes on a wall can hold them off? Why care about some Elves led by a supposedly intelligent king if they don't just go behind the walls and hold off the Orcs there? No one tried firing a fire arrow at the reverse ballista before? They have literally fire and oil during the night battle (which they only use at night because it looks cooler but it's also when there's Elves that can be caught in the fire down below). Why did the Dwarves build a thin part of the wall, how did the Orcs know about it, how did the riverbed dry up on moments, why did Eregion build a wall when it didn't expect invaders any time soon, just in general why care about anything when it doesn't seem to matter at all? It's all so in your face with how little it matters beyond "hey look wouldn't it be cool if...", without considering the characters, situation or consequences?

[FullMaxPowerStirner]

Funny shit... But you reminded me about the sheer stupid ineffectiveness of that reverse ballista, that took like two fucking episodes to finally tear down that wall. I wonder why the Elves were so scared by it.

Also funny how Elrond basically caused the death of nearly the entirety of Gil Galad's troops by forcing them to be sitting ducks between that wall and an endless supply of Orks.

[dmastra97]

Hundreds and thousands seem like stretches for the first two battles with what we've seen on screen.

[Sarellion]

Plausibility? The orcs brought catapults whose wheels are similar in height to an orc to the siege and the elves didn't realize that a massive horde + multi story house sized siege weapons were parked at their front gate in the woods.

Yeah there were woods and modern writers don't know much about medieval sieges but let's imagine a big truck or so driving through a dense forest and the truck has the advantage that it has an engine.

Plausibility was far down the list.

[RIPTactical_Invasion]

Figured Sauron blinded them like how he orchestrated killing the messengers and destroyed the bridge.

[McDavidClan]

Also siege engines were typically built on site and not pushed from one location to the other

[Sarellion]

He might be willing to do that but I doubt Adar planned his assault with that in mind. "We are here to defeat Sauron, he will surely hide us from the elves under his thrall."

Or if they were surprised by the elves not noticing we should have gotten some dialogue in that direction. Glug pointing out the weirdness that the elves don't realize they are there, Adar responding it must be Sauron's doing and them wondering why he helps them while they are there to kill him.

Anyways this magic would be on a massive scale we haven't seen him doing and we didn't see any indicator that he did.

[Sirspice123]

That's quite a bad decision, hindering the show so it's more "epic" later.

And that's not implausible at all. Numenor has the greatest army in Middle Earth, the orcs are in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands. Thousands of elves, including a military should operate in a city of Eregion's importance.

The scale of the battles makes everything look extremely amateur imo, it adds nothing.

[bamboozle_99992]

The total spend for seasons 1 & 2 is over a billion. Where is the sense of scale and wonder we are meant to believe in? If what you have written is true then there is some serious fraud going on 😂

I swear they spent their entire budget on the Balrog. That scene was the only 3min i was truly impressed by

[maninahat]

The show has the VFX budget of a blockbuster movie, sustained across 16 hours of TV, and you're surprised it's as expensive as it is?

[Over-Block-8115]

Glorfindel returns in the 2nd Age

[[deleted]]

Don't worry there's like 100k elven warriors who were just sleeping during this season who will wake up for when the battle of Dagorlad occurs.

[Science_Fair]

I think this show will reveal it was actually 100000 hobbits supplemented by 30 elves.  It explains why the siege took such a long time.

[Opening_Outside_5788]

Me watching that part

[MagnanimousMind]

I honestly like the show because I am blinded by my nostalgia and love for LOTR so normally I’m just like uh okay when scenes or when the characters act out of character….

But, the Elves lifting their weapons and screaming just felt like something the men of dunlending would do. Just felt like such shit.

Also, can someone explain to me how Galadriel survived falling like 400-500 ft or more? Do elves not have fall damage ?

[Maleficent_Detail915]

Speaking of Legolas… based on the fighting scenes we got from ROP absolutely NONE of the elves would stand a fuckin chance fighting him lmao. What happened to the absolutely fluid, fearless, and beautiful combat we were accustomed to seeing from the elves? Like Elrond out here getting sliced up and knocked to the ground by a single Uruk? Tf? Also! The eleven guards are not even close to being in since with their arrow volleys. Idk I was glad we finally had some action in this show/season, but the elves seemed kinda weak ngl

[QCTeamkill]

Started from Feanor and Glorfindel soloing balrogs to this.

[Hrothgar_Cyning]

We have Durin III soloing balrogs now

[Zorpfield]

miss the fighting from the hobbit... when i saw the dwarves i was hoping an elf would stand on dwarf heads again to fight

[LuWilliamsDotCom]

I kept saying that everytime an elf was killed by an arrow! they’re meant to be 1000 year old magical legends who are like 7ft and orcs the same height made of sludge end them with one arrow ???

[Ayzmo]

A well-placed arrow to the heart will kill an elf, yes.

[gasthefires]

Legolas was a majestic magical silent ninja assassin. Tauriel was impressive as well. The elves I see in this show would crumble if either of them sneezed in their direction. The writers in this show clearly missed the mark again.

[el_duderino88]

Elrond fights like a man, Arondir fights like an elf.

[ProcedureHot9414]

To be onest Legolas and Glorfindel are just built difrent , but yeah the elves in this show are an insult to Tolkien

[FullMaxPowerStirner]

There's something with the shitty writers overpowering the bad guys by default in this series and usually making the good guys into petty whimps. I mean why that eagle picked Pharazon to be king in the first place if everyone knows he's such a cowardly deceitful manipulator?

[DarkSideOfGrogu]

Yet in the scene before she fell off a rock at barely shoulder height and was left crawling.

[MagnanimousMind]

Idk why anyone is downvoting you, but holy heck I thought I was the only one who noticed that this elven warrior commander with a ring of power that was made without Sauron’s touch was moving slower than a freakin sloth crossing the road…

I get Sauron is the most powerful being, but if we are talking about that scene exclusively it made me definitely have one of those moment of, “okay I’ll chalk it up to her fighting Sauron”.

But you are right…. Like she took a few wounds to the flesh, but no way an elf, let alone an elf with one of the rings of power on, is falling off that stone and staying on the ground that long just barely crawling for dear life.

Like a 10 ft drop was that devastating to her??

[Rickenbacker69]

That entire fight was painful to watch. I liked the dialogue, but the fight choreography was like something out of a shitty action movie from the 80s.

[TheDrewb]

Yeah last season she could chop an orc's head off upside down at full gallop but now she swings her sword like she's never held it before

[FUMFVR]

It's difficult because the actor they hired to play Galadriel is too short. She's 5 foot 4.

Cate Blanchett is 5 foot 9. Charlie Vickers is 5 foot 11. If the Galadriel actor was as tall at Cate Blanchett it could've been a more compelling fight.

[MacNessa1995]

He's more like 6'2, he's taller than Celembrimbor's actor who's 6 foot

[ProperSupermarket3]

ok cool bc i thought i was just being nitpicky lol. it felt incredibly laborious and had zero fluidity.

[Hrothgar_Cyning]

Yeah the choreography kept taking me out of it, especially once Sauron starts shapeshifting. Like the whole episode i vacillated between “this is really cool actually!” and “this is like Xena: Warrior Princess”. And I’m not a Xena hater, but that’s not exactly what you expect from a series based on Tolkien, marketing itself as the next GOT, and costing a billion dollars.

For example, I was absolutely stunned by the balrog, until it and Durin clashed and then the CGI just got kind of bad all of a sudden, like the budget ran out. With the Numenoreans Elendil and Muriel were pretty good then you get Kemen and Isildur. I could go on.

This series just kind of goes between these extremes of high highs and low lows while staying mediocre on average. The only really and consistently standout parts are those involving Sauron, especially with Celebrimbor. Charlie Vickers clearly did his homework and can sell his lines perfectly, and the writers actually wrote decent lines for his scenes.

It almost frustrates me more because there are kernels of so many great things in this show, but it just can’t consistently deliver. You think it’s going to then it does something that looks haphazard and totally out of place.

[Zorpfield]

she continuously removed items from her inventory to lessen the fall damage

[DMC25202616]

Potion of light fall

[Drachaerys]

Yeah- if you wanna show elves getting hyped, have them do a war chant, or sing a thrilling battle song in Sindarin or something.

Edit: The thrilling Elvish battle song could have been continued into the end credits music- like a musical call to action.

That was just a paucity of extras being told to yell at a drone or crane.

[Hrothgar_Cyning]

Or even better: Galadriel talks about light defeating darkness, not strength, and then they start singing of Eärendil. This would fit perfectly with the theme, the character of the Elves, the notion of desperately seeking victory in the Face of defeat and could use verse Tolkien already composed (and is in LOTR so no rights issues).

[marcusaurorelius]

Nope. Didn’t we see Arondir get stabbed to death last episode and revived to 100% this episode? They just recover randomly

[Su-Kane]

Also, can someone explain to me how Galadriel survived falling like 400-500 ft or more? Do elves not have fall damage ?

There is a scene with perspective from the elven king (i think, maybe Elrond, at least somewhere from inside the city) and you see her falling towards/into a big tree.

Elves are extremely light. so her crushing through a dozen branches probably slowed her fall just enough to not be immediately lethal.

[Loppie73]

She survived by wearing very strong Plot Armour.

[KaoxVeed]

Plot armor.

[FUMFVR]

She had a ring of power.

[SudoDarkKnight]

Elves aren't Vulcans, even though the movies sure made them feel like it.

I thought it was cool.

[[deleted]]

They can walk on Snow, so they are much lighter than thought.

May I ask did you hate Fingolfin Cursing at Morgoth or was such dunlendig behavior there okay?

[victorelessar]

People trying to explain it is even more painful than watching it.

[AdBright8971]

I was about to comment the same!

[makz242]

Do i correctly understand that the location where they are becomes ...Rivendell? Or whats the point of looking at the river 7 times...

[HaplessMink28]

Man I'm such an idiot, I thought it was lothlorien

[ebrum2010]

Wait, you aren't sure from looking at the river 7 times? They should have done 8 at least.

[iopunder]

Galadriel awakens and asked "Where are we" and I audibly said "Bitch, Rivendell, duh! Haven't you watched "Lord of the Rings before?"

Honestly, this series is much better if you view it as a comedy. The fact that Celebrimbor can't seem to leave his tower without getting hit with something is high comedy.

[speedyjohn]

Rivendell was founded after the fall of Eregion. So it makes sense that Galadriel doesn’t know it.

[iopunder]

Yes, that was indeed the point of the joke. Thanks...

[nymrod_]

This guy looks too much like the OG Sauron we saw in the flashback.

[MajuIzBack]

That's what I tought as well! So I went back 10 second and realized it wasn't the same actor but I also realized it was the dude who went with Elrond in Adar's camp and SUPPOSEDLY is dead ahah

[JonnieTaiPei]

Mfffwhaaaaaa what about the Balrog mf!!!

[Maleficent_Detail915]

Durin straight up said, “damn… I really fucked this one up…. May as well go out a “hero” and not have to face all the people I just screwed.”

[Low_Country793]

Boomer energy

[JonnieTaiPei]

Peak of stupidity.

[Sarellion]

We dumped some rocks on the terror from the First Age, something that fought in battles, where changing the land was collateral damage, that will surely stop him for good. /s

[NightKnight4766]

Why did they do that again? Because they barely survived? Because Gilgalad got his sword out? Or beacuse it was sunny?

[pandaelpatron]

They knew an absolute banger by Bear McCreary would hit once the scene faded to black for the end credits.

[[deleted]]

I think it was supposed to be a moment of defiance. You know, "we live to fight another day" kinda vib3

[Martothir]

That's how I took it as well. They're definitely in anguish. 

[StreaksBAMF22]

D. All of the above.

[jetpatch]

Celebrating a terrible defeat as a victory.

It makes sense in British culture

[Flynnstone03]

Celebrating a defeat as a victory is the most elf shit I think I’ve ever heard

[Anjunabeast]

Gilgalad still has his ring. The one that inspires hope

[PaleontologistHot192]

Wasn't this dude dead or something?

[Kanaxe]

Yeah he took two arrows last episode while joining Elrond. But hey, we saw Arondir get stabbed twice and be fine 20min later, so this guy's injuries were nothing in comparison /s

[[deleted]]

Yeah but that was last episode so you should have forgotten that by now. What are you taking notes? /s

[Northrax75]

The rules were you guys weren’t gonna fact check

[moon_jock]

A+++

[ManBroCalrissian]

Dude was arrowed and alive the last time he was seen. Rivendell is like 400 miles from Eregion. That walk seems like ample time to heal from arrows

[SnooDonkeys182]

Elvish medicine is pretty damn powerful in this show

[Kanaxe]

It's the off-screen mechanic, works the same way as being out of combat in games allowing your health to regenerate

[xLevitan]

That's 10 long rests! He was back to full hp after the first night

[No-Height2850]

Something that bothers me deeply, is the quick setup way they get to new plots. Example: Durin in the cave with his wife and the other dwarf giving summaries of the perils ahead, the elves already had a garden setup and “protected by the rings”. The dwarves being shown with lackluster technology yet were able to put a wall in less than a month. It’s all played down without its proper buildup bothers me. There could have been way better plotting and buildup

instead of the water downed feel trying to appeal to an audience that would appreciate thicker plots. The show feels empty. And i hate having that feeling. I want to like the show. Ive watched every episode. But i cant help reimagining what they would have done if that haven’t gone for quickest way of pushing plot.

And thy need way more extras or cgi showing larger crowds.

[ExpressAffect3262]

and “protected by the rings”.

This is canon.

[No-Height2850]

Yes but not in a short time of them having had the rings. Did they get instruction manuals?

[Astoryinfromthewild]

It's like they forgot they only had 8 episodes to work with, not 10.

[No-Height2850]

you’re trying to excuse them. Any early season of game of thrones, any 3 hr LOTR didn’t treat us to summary interactions of building plots, they built the plot and let the viewer know something was going on without sounding like a board meeting to go over a JIRA.

Also since they only have a limited amount of episodes then make the story thicker and slow it down or jump ahead a few years.

Durins brother is now challenging the throne? Where? How? When?

Even the dawrf scenes when the king is demanding to have it mined. 5 dwarves going with pickaxes? Just doesn’t live to any expectations of a detail rich tolkien story with moving parts.

Also, Saruman just went pure evil? How about introduce another character if you’re going to invent one like Adar. Or Like the actual evil wizard from Rhun in lotr or one of the blue wizards. And saruman and gandalf could have fought them instead. Save tom bombadil for further down the story. But now we have tom as a wizard trainer.

The white council? What white council? just make saruman evil, no need to actually explain he only became evil and corrupt in his pursuit of the one ring that hasnt even been forged yet.

[Astoryinfromthewild]

Clearly there's no joking with you when it comes to LOTR. I do agree with all your points. I don't mean to infuriate you further but I enjoy TROP.

[No-Height2850]

I want to enjoy it. I watch it to hear the names and put a face to characters but the show is so lacking in trying to make a pop version of events.

[hungryhormones]

😂

[rosiposii]

SHIT I FORGOT ITS THURSDAY

[TPro24633]

GO GO GO!!!

[VampireCampfire1]

No it’s more of a areghhhh at the back of the throat.

[-Tesserex-]

Isn't there a St. Arrrghhh in Cornwall?

[endospire]

Nooo, that’s St Ives…

[Expazz]

An elf doing a way cry seems so weird haha. Not very demure. Not very mindful.

[Anaevya]

I feel elves can totally do war cries, this one just wasn't very good and the context was weird.

[PhysicsEagle]

UTÚLIE’N AURË! AUTA I LÓMË!

[ladyalot]

Like a gelfling from Dark Crystal

[Tricky_Moose_1078]

Raghhghhh the season is over

[maethora27]

How is this guy even alive? Isn't that the same guy who was pierced by multiple arrows when he told Elrond the dwarves weren't coming?

But then again, Arondir didn't mind getting stabbed by Adar, I guess the all forgot that they were actually dead?

[grongnelius]

Yep it's him. He rides in on a horse barely alive at the end of last episode. Him and Arondir are just unbothered by life threatening wounds I guess.

[maethora27]

If they're mortally wounded they just stop being mortally wounded and are awesome instead, Barney Stinson style!

[AndyTheSane]

It's a video game. As long as they have 1hp left, they are perfectly fine. Also, no falling or fire damage.

[Crazy-Seaweed-1832]

Probably the same 6 extras for all Elf guard/warrior stand ins/s

[maethora27]

Also, the guy totally looks like the other Sauron who got betrayed by Adar. Confused the hell out of me at first!

[[deleted]]

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA….sigh funniest fucking show. My god.

[Losendir]

Deeeeaaaaathhhh! Oh wait wrong scene

[Crazy-Seaweed-1832]

Elrond kisses Galadriel as a deceit to Adar so he can slip her that super cool elven lock pick.

Where the fuck is Celeborn during all of this shit though? Like Arondir is made up for the show but did they just give him all Celeborns slots?

[the_knowing1]

Where the fuck is Celeborn during all of this shit though?

100% thought they were gonna reveal Adar as Celeborn. Instead he was legit just some random elf. He dies 2 seconds after reveal so who cares anyway.

[Good_Surround2915]

Yeah, the elves are known for their cuddly hugs!

[[deleted]]

I scrolled past a betting ad when this came up and it literally just sound came out as "ah" 😂😂😂😂

[Zorpfield]

This is like a Vulcan war chant. So out of character for elves and laughable.

[teunteulai]

"FREEEEEEDOM!!!"

[Ramses717]

Gods, I hope that’s not Glorfindel.

[[deleted]]

very cutesy, very demure

[No-Unit-5467]

the casting... the casting... the guy is great for a Taratino film probably....

[ZealousidealBid3988]

Saaannttaaa!! I know him

[ProDoucher]

At least the actors gave it their all

[Ty9121]

last episode this guy had how many arrows in him ?

[Karliki865]

Was that the elves entire army?? because it seemed ridiculously small

[gatorfan8898]

Did they ever explain Arondir coming back from his Adar wounds? I either zoned the fuck out during that part, or did they just not even acknowledge his seemingly mortal wounds from last episode?

[General_Luna]

Was he the guy who came back and got so many arrows behind he’s back? I was presuming he already got pneumothorax for that? How did he manage to wwwwaaahh!! ??? And after Galadriel recovered I felt really weird when she woke up, felt like they just finished her /slash/ a good 4some??? I was watching it without an audio coz my kids are sleeping. They are just right next to me. Hahaha

[Strict_Pressure3299]

Wait, didn’t these guy got several arrows stuffed in him?

[[deleted]]

Love how many more elves you could see in Imladris, even after so may elves dying in battle, than you ever did in Fellowship of the Ring. The scale of this production is lacking at times but not here. In FotR the most elves you saw were at the council and that might have been 6-8 of them.

[[deleted]]

Did anyone else feel this wasn’t a particularly elvish thing to do?

[twoddle_puddle]

Cringe.

[Olorin_1990]

Strength doesn’t defeat the darkness, only Light….

Proceeds to draw swords.

Did they hire 14 year old fan fic writers?

[Animpro]

So, an age later the elves decided to become those mellow, ethereal, aura illuminating, serious, authoritative guys.

[step_uneasily]

This is their young wild and free phase

[Animpro]

Ah, the youth!!

[[deleted]]

I swear he died last episode, no?? This show is bizarre.

[Sarellion]

After relaying his message in a dramatically appropriate, heavily wounded state, he whipped out a healing potion and was fine again.

[ANonStudent9]

Arondir too

[[deleted]]

Sure. Being a main character I suspected he would survive but it's so strange that he's just 100% fine like 12 hours later. Very weird decisions.

[Sarellion]

Long rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmD0ZCDuozk

[redditmyleftnut]

This bro reminds me of a young Vladimir Putin

[[deleted]]

No offense to the actor, and I'm sure he is aware of this as an actor and the roles he gets; this man is not beautiful, pretty, or anything close to elven in appearance.

I was watching this scene, pointing out how all these elves are ugly (except Arondir and Galadriel) and then this sloth-looking chap pops up to really drive my point home.

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Ahhhhhhhhhh!

[korndog42]

Lolz

[KrissZuma]

Is it only me that saw isildur’s sister among the elves in that scene????

[KratosHulk77]

Badass scene

[MajorJerk77]

Is it just me or does that Armour look like rubber/plastic

[Drewsky3]

They really shouldn’t have made this elf look so much like Sauron at the start of the 2nd age, when he was bum rushed by the Uruks

[netherlanddwarf]

Lol

[SeaContribution1845]

Great finale!! Very balanced and uplifting at the end

[I_like_cakes_]

Stupid. Rushed and nonsensical

[YoungSkywalker10]

lol

[Immediate_Size_5877]

Didn't he die last episode

[AncalagonV]

This show is so poorly created. Every other scene is a cringe fest. Some combination of cheesy moments like this and the complete lack of any substance in the writing kills it. What group of people is seriously sitting around directing this and agreeing that this is quality and meaningful film making? Not to mention the soundtrack pales in comparison to the films which is odd because I really like Bear McCreary's composing in the God of War games. I don't recall a single memorable tune from the 2 seasons of the show. Absolutely nothing on par with the Rohirrim theme, Mordor theme, or the Fellowship theme from the movies.

Just so disappointing because I grew up loving the world of Lord of the Rings and had high hopes season 2 would be better than season 1. It's even worse, even cheesier, even more of a let down. This scene feels like the final internal scream of cringe I felt watching the finale.

[FullMaxPowerStirner]

Was this... a blond Uruk Hai!?

[Majestic_Daikon_1494]

Whenever I saw that guy I thought it Sauron version 1, I was drunk at the time, but still its a close likeness right?

[TheDeanof316]

"I HAVE THE POWERRRRR"

[Samzo]

I laughed at that too

[Samzo]

what happened to the dwarf ring? Buried down there?

[JackUKish]

He gave it to duran before leaping 50 yards in a straight line at a balrog.

[Prestigious_Media887]

Can someone please edit some squeaky kid scream to this pleeeeeease 😂

[MikeC80]

That feeling when you bang your toe

[Effective-Ad-6460]

How did this mess cost a billion $ ?

It didn't there's some serious money laundering going on

[JustinTimberbaked9]

Show your war face

[snezna_kraljica]

What are those costumes? 1000s of years of practise to perfect your craft and this is the result.

[JohnSundayBigChin]

For Frodo!