Season 2 begins with a flashback. After Morgoth's defeat Sauron is running for President and delivers a low energy speech to the orcs. Adar starts an insurrection by stabbing the Dark Lord with his crown followed by the orcs killing him. Years later Sauron becomes a symbiote like goo feeding from maggots and mice until he crawls outside the Mountain, kills a woman and becomes "Halbrand". Then Halbrand boards a ship with an old man, a big fish destroys the ship and Saubrand steals the man's sigil, later he finds Galadriel and season 1 events ensue.
Now Saubrand goes back to Mordor where Adar tortures him, and later lets him go because he promises Adar to find Sauron. I hace no idea of what was the point of Saubrand in Mordor. Then he goes to Eregion to meet Celebrimbor and convinces him he's a messenger of the Valar, finally we have an Annatar reveal.
This should have been in season 2 and is probably the only scene so far I thought it was kind of cool, but is sad they casted an old man as Celebrimbor, the elves are ageless god Darnit! After that they resume their work.
The moronic and gullible she-elf Galadriel tells Gil-Galad and Elrond that Halbrand is Sauron. There's a ridiculous scene with Elrond stealing the 3 elvish rings. He takes to them to Cirdan but it turns out Cirdan doesn't want to destroy them, he puts the rings and gives the other two to Gil-Galad and Galadriel which leaves Elrond pissed.
The dwarves of Khazad Dum are worried about the mountain not responding to the dwarven kween's singing so Durin and Disa go to Eregion where Celebrimbor and Annatar begin forging the 7 rings.
There's the totally not-Gandalf wizard and fem-Frodo along fem-Sam wandering through the desert where they meet Tusken raiders sent by totally not-Saruman (I swear if the Dark Wizard is Saruman than they will outdumb every other dumb change made before)
Not-Gandalf has visions with a staff, he's looking for it. The Tusken Raiders attack him and he summons a dust-devil with a provisory staff, it doesn't work well as the Hobbits as taken away like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
The Numenor shit continues to be boring. Donald Trump Ar-Pharazon coups Kween Tar-Miriel by EXPOSING her as an elvish lover. Isildur's sister shows up at Miriel's coronation displaying the Palantir and calls out Miriel, then an Eagle shows up for a photo-op and Trump goes toward the Eagle and becomes King after the crowd shouts and goes bananas!
As a Tolkien adaptation this slop is 2/10, it is very loosely based on the Legendarium. As its own thing it's like 4/10, very mediocre show, boring with few interesting moments and dumb plotlines.
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The Annatar/Celebrimbor storyline is not-terrible, which for this show is a miracle. Floomp-monster Sauron sliding down the mountainside only to be run over by a cart was funny, though, and gave me a much-needed laugh. The "Sauron becomes Halbrand" story was so dumb, however, and wasted so much time of the first episode. Forodwaith (as was) is not a democracy, Sauron does not need to win the plebiscite of the Orcs to govern them, and frankly he got Ides of Marched so easily it was a disgrace.
In episode four they do kill off one of the Diverse Elves, which is good going and not something I expected. Tom Bombadil is only moderately terrible, but they couldn't stop themselves doing a version of Old Man Willow, except this one is Old Man Ironwood. Also some very unfortunate rhyming in a fragment of song Tom is singing while Not-Gandalf is having a bath; as we get to see (from the waist up) naked wizard washing, Tom is singing "Down west sinks the sun/Soon you will be gropin'".... uh, show, what are you trying to tell us? S*x pest Bombadil?
Dark Wizard is gonna be Saruman, I feel it in my bones, because I can't trust them not to do something as monumentally dumb as that.
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what is bro yapping about
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Saruman being not only present during the Second Age but being evil as well would be so incredibly stupid. His betrayal of the White Council and alliance with Sauron in LOTR was something that came out as a shock to everyone in Middle-earth, before that everyone ranging from Gandalf to all Elvish Lords and human Kings trusted him and saw him as a wise wizard and friend. And more importantly, he only became evil because he coveted the One Ring and thought they had no military chance against Sauron, so his logic was "I'll join the winning side and then get the One Ring for myself".
But the showrunners are taking so many idiotic decisions I can see that happening because "the audience will remember LOTR wizard villain".
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It's going to be one of the brown or yellow wizards Tolkien described as sketchily fricking off to the east. They had their sauron reveal, so they probably want to keep up some mystery boxes for normies.
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