you will never know Galadriel like I do | “undisputed reigning monarch of Celebrían” | former literacy specialist, current celtic studies major | artist/writer
How media illiterate are you that you witness a man going through unimaginable psychological torture & abuse giving a performance lauded by all and call it “slapstick comedy”
Okay but I wanna TALK about merry. The PJ films do him so dirty he was the most clever and perceptive hobbit among them he figured out that Bilbo had the ring and started the conspiracy of hobbits and he eventually becomes a botanist, entomologist, and historian!!!
I thought it was a joke, but the new Middle Earth series had ORC FAMILIES and the orcs are portrayed as sympathetic characters
Tolkien wrote the Orcs as an malevolent goblin race, males only, wholly evil
Woke shitlib writers in 2024 want you to feel bad for them though
@illsingyourname
Do they realize actions have consequences and theirs could be a lawsuit if they don’t tread carefully here lmao parents aren’t scared enough of teachers
@crazytoqether
I think to me what vecna DOES is so much more scary than he himself. The way he preys on mental health, stalking his victims, terrorizing them, driving them to madness, that’s more terrifying than his actual character design
Who is a character that someone hating is an instant red flag for you?
Frodo. If you hate Frodo, not only does that mean you do not understand the story or Tolkien, but you probably do not care about mentally ill ppl, and don’t view mental illness as a real struggle.
who is a character that someone hating is an instant red flag for you?
any lotr women really, but hating eowyn specifically tells me everything about a man
@aplusk
@Airbnb
Yknow if I was caught defending a rapist who’d already been convicted on two counts after sitting through a gruesome testimony from his victims I would simply not be posting about my Airbnb online
@moonlarking
“No longer even attempting to convince you” — good, I wish more shows and movies would stop catering to or trying to appease people who are just gonna hate it anyways, make what you wanna make and your audience will find you
I didnt haul the silm, unfinished tales, the trilogy AND the hobbit across the atlantic ocean only to be told by some dudebro that Galadriel “wasn’t a warrior”
@myelessar
Yeah and the incel’s point was that “women only like the bad guys dur hur hur they don’t know how to recognize a REAL man of quality like Sam (or myself)”
#TROPspoilers
I really like how they’re not going with “the dwarves got greedy and delved too deep” as an indictment of the species and their capacity for greed. They’re putting the fall of khazad-dum on one dwarf, one king, they are tying it directly to the rings,
The funniest fucking thing about being both a Tolkien fan and an Irish mythology girlie is that whenever someone goes “uhmmm Tolkien said there wasn’t any Celtic influence” I get to tell them that Tolkien was a bitch-ass liar
@IKE_DEVJI
@RexChapman
My brother in christ the POINT is that despite participating in a male league, where YALL would assume the boys have the “biological advantage”, they STILL WON, yet were denied the trophy.
Idk why people are acting like this is a bad thing or some kind of w for the haters when these numbers are WAY ahead of projection & outdo season 1’s by miles, not to mention it’s been number 1 on prime in like every country since s2 started airing and even outdid the Boys
Amazon Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” had a soft start for Season 2 and couldn’t fend off Netflix’s “Worst Ex Ever” for the No. 1 spot among streaming original TV series for the Aug. 30-Sept. 5 period.
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And what’s so heartbreaking about this is that he didn’t have to be helping people like an actual king would… if this was him at the start of the season he’d have only saved himself but he’d been choosing good one day at a time for long enough that his instincts kicked in
So true king I’ll get Tolkien on the line and tell him to cut Arwen & Aragorn. And elrond & celebrian. And melkor & Varda. And Arien & tilion. And eowyn & faramir. And Sam & Rosie. And tuor & Idril. And beren & Luthien. And Elwing & Earendil.
sorry how do you watch episode 5 and not come away seeing Annatar and celebrimbor as a couple in an abusive relationship cause those manipulation tactics were STRAIGHT out of the abusive bf/husband playbook
God poor elrond literally all of his closest friends have betrayed his trust. Gil-galad and celebrimbor used him to get to durin, then galadriel brought sauron into the trust of the elves, then Cirdan gave the rings to Gil-galad, and now all 3 of them wear them against his advice
@ValliantRenegad
They switched between two scenes that could not be more different in one continuous shot when it would have been very easy to simply use a greenscreen, filters, and cgi
@robertjoscribe
Tolkeinian/catholic themes would be the sacrifice of the self, the triumph of good over evil (with no moral relativism/areas of grey), fate vs free will, the corruption nature of power, hope in spite of hopelessness, sacrificing for others, etc
Ngl I detect none of this in TROP
I love how adar has always seemed the reasonable one and Galadriel unstable when it comes to Sauron but it’s flipped and we realize it’s now adar who’s being consumed with an obsession to kill Sauron… my my my how the turn tables have turned
@CoreyBrickley
@Aidan_Wolf
Not only that but this is so insulting to disabled artists and artists who didn’t grow up with many resources and had to teach themselves how to create art. It’s infantilizing and disrespectful.
Some people would rather WB use ai than let go of the childlike nostalgia they’re so desperately clinging to and move on and that’s really what disgusts me most about this
Orlando Bloom says he spoke to Andy Serkis about the upcoming
#LordOfTheRings
films:
“I did speak to Andy [Serkis] and he did say they were thinking about how to do things. I was like, ‘How would that even work?’ And he was like, ‘Well, AI!’ and I was like, ‘Oh, OK!’”
#TROPspoilers
GOD the way he’s so hopeless and defeated here…. I hope to god he and Durin can talk it out because this could be a death blow in their friendship. He’s been betrayed/turned on by all his closest friends this season and is utterly alone bby can I give you a hug
I love these chucklefucks acting like their personal opinion is fact. Not only are most of those costumes inspired by art (mostly preraphaelite) and cultures other than PJ’s western european + east Asian influences, notably Roman and byzantine, but I think they look cool as shit
@RaptureVelvet
@FellowshipFans
Comparison is night and day. RoP costumes for Numenor looked trash. None of them look regal, god blessed, opulent etc etc etc
@siyyaninaas
It’s actually because she had been neglecting him as a friend and only viewing him as an accessory BUT the movie made it clear that he was an overgrown manchild and she was coddling him w that apology and didn’t have to do it cause it wasn’t her responsibility, she just chose to
So Warner bros is releasing the lotr movies as NFTs… I genuinely don’t have words for this what the actual fuck??? If anyone is gonna talk about disrespecting the professor’s legacy, it had better be now. I wanna see y’all give this the same energy that you gave TROP
#TROPspoilers
OKAY SO. When Galadriel speaks elvish in the first ep the subtitles say it’s Sindarin. That means they’re speaking Quenya otherwise, and that Lindon is a Quenya speaking kingdom, which is important.
@Ryahhhluv
@nonbinarybooty
Palestine has been forcefully and violently occupied by Israel since the 40s, and turned into an apartheid state where Palestinians are abused and oppressed as second class citizens. It’s been on/off war since Israel came in.
Probably PJ’s characterization of Isildur. Honestly there are so many things I’d like to change about those movies but Isildur bugs me the most. He never truly fell prey to the ring!!! The scene in mt doom never happened! They couldn’t have known the ring would keep Sauron alive!
Lest we forget, Tolkien wrote that they reproduced, that there were orc women, that they hated and despised and even laughed at Sauron, that they were essentially exploited grunt workers, and he himself regretted the implication that they were inherently evil
@evergreenqveen
Tbh I wouldn’t even put watching porn on occasion on the same level as PAYING TO SUBSCRIBE TO AN ONLYFANS????? And guys think this is okay for some reason???
@julesuniiverse
@aliyahInterlude
@ everyone in the comments saying this is impossible THAT IS THE POINT. These are designed to make you give up and lose hope. Use the BDS list
@LilySimpson1312
There’s something so evil about knowing that a creator is a hateful person whose hatefulness leaked into their work, who’s been cited in hateful legislation, who wrote a manifesto about how much they hate a group of people, and still giving money to that franchise.
I still remember the dude that tried to tell me Sauron wasn’t afraid of anything (least of all Galadriel) WELL I’M A MONTH LATE BUT BY GOD I HAVE THE RECEIPTS
Btw if you claim to be a Tolkien fan and use ai art, you actually do not support or understand Tolkien’s themes and Tolkien would dropkick you from the afterlife if he could!