Oooh lawd dem rangz of powah!

Tolkien's storytelling is very straightforward. You look at the Silmarillion, you look at Unfinished Tales, you look at Lord of the Rings, you look at The Hobbit, and the stories all work very simply, and very plainly. He is not hiding or withholding things in terms of the characters, their nature, or their intention. He is signposting IMMEDIATELY what a character is, what they're like, and what they want. The story is then about how these characters are changed by those pursuits. That's it. The resonance is all in how their characters change, how their goals change, and how their outlook on life and their surroundings change. And those changes drive the story forward. That's how he tells stories, that's how all his stories work.

The showrunners took that storytelling engine and completely broke it for the sake of making a show that is completely, slavishly adherent to episode-to-episode, week-to-week cliffhanger/mystery storytelling. Nobody speaks plainly, someone's always hiding something, intentions are obfuscated, personalities are muddled, and instead of the plotting being a result of the characterization naturally leading to an event, the events are forcibly pressed against the characters to "reveal" something about them that we didn't "know" was there.

Poor turbosperg can't understand ulterior motives or innuendos. L

!bookworms and !kino whoever has watched this shitfest and read silmarillion (and B&L, Children of Hurin, Gondolin and Unfinished tales) too, how close is the series to the actual books? If I discard all the color swapping and shitty dialogues? Because if they just made shit up, there is no point in watching fan fiction

That trailer seemed like a summary of the whole season lol

Zoomer elves are twink !kino

Ringshit was never a thing for me, so I don't know nerd-depth lore or whether they're raping it. For this one, I get to be a normie.

It looks mid. Great visuals, but really bloated. The trailer has like 3x as many characters as it ought to. Elrond has a face that should make incels feel good about themselves. The black dwarf chick is in the uncanny valley because she looks like she was made on a PC for a PS3 game.

But it's got all of the stuff we all want, like orcs and elves and ents and fireballs flying through the air, so that's pretty cool. I look forward to people posting lore complants all season.

what the frick did they do to Elrond

Did my Welsh queen get work done? Her face looks puffy.

This is very upsetting

You honestly think you're just going to walk away from this? You all are in deep shit now. You think they care about "free speech"? THINK AGAIN. The law is theirs to bend, and they'll stop at nothing. Think they'll buy "it was just a prank, bro?" Think they'll stop going after you because the judge didn't believe it? You thought WRONG, BUCKO. Never underestimate the ability of the feds to try and drum out obstruction/tampering charges. They know this case is high profile and they're going to send out a message to make sure this kind of online behavior never happens again. Even if they can't put in prison, they'll use all their private connections and assets to make your life a living heck. In fact, you're already in the fire pit. They have all the evidence they need. You're living in the illusion of safety, hiding behind all the supposedly locked doors and masks of anonymity. The paper trail points right to you, and they hold all the keys. They have unlimited resources, and they will use them at the drop of a hat. It's over. Finished. Finito. There's nothing you can do now. I would start praying to Yahweh if I were you. Because God only knows what awaits you...

Snapshots:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)