#anti Rings of Power

[youmisguidedmartyr]

What if you were born during a WAR and your dad became a STAR and your mum became a BIRD and your people were KILLED and then you and your twin were KIDNAPPED and then your kidnappers either DIED or fucked off to the BEACH and then your twin chose a MORTAL LIFE and then you became a HERALD and then your King got given a really cool RING but there was ANOTHER WAR because SAURON WAS ACTUALLY the RING GUY and then your King DIES and then your cousin/wife gets ATTACKED and then she SAILS and then your Foster son falls in LOVE with your DAUGHTER and then there's ANOTHER FUCKING WAR because SAURON IS BACK and then your daughter also chooses a MORTAL fucking LIFE and then you just FUCK OFF TOO but your twin sons didn't make up their MINDS

[madame-helen]

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

I go into the LOTR tag to look at pretty LOTR gifs. Please stop putting Amazon Rings of Power shit in there. It's literally not LOTR.

[punchitmrsulu]

Just saw a post babyfying Sauron and saying shit like “Oh he’s just misunderstood, he just needs to remember who he is, he just needs a hug, bla bla bla”

This isn’t some YA, you know? This is Tolkien. Do people know why he wrote LOTR? Do people know what Sauron is supposed to represent?

This is what rings of power has done. This is the world we live in now. The way it has been able to reduce such a monumental story, universe and message to fucking crumbs, I just…

Never ending sigh……

Now we get motherfucking Sauron of all characters being treated like he was written by freaking rian johnson or jj abrams or something.

Not to mention all the Sauron/Galadriel that keeps showing up for me no matter how much I block it. I just wanna gouge out my own eyes.

I thought it couldn’t get any worse than reylo and all that disney star wars crap but the universe decided to prove me wrong.

[remusjohnslupin]

To all my actual Tolkien fans out there: Here we go.

I compiled all the 'arguments' (lmao) that I heard from pro-Rings of Power folks. Of course, they are all ridiculous because... I mean, come on.

[hedgehogoftime]

Hi, I'm still angry about Amazon trying to turn Galadriel into a shitty YA romantasy protagonist by making her generic sword girl and taking away her entire backstory as one of the most powerful and revered of the Noldor and Queen of the Sindar and giving her a shitty enemies to lovers relationship with fucking Sauron.

[nerdylibertarian928]

JRRT 🤝 Jane Austen

Spinning in their graves over their work being butchered by people with no respect & understanding of the source material

[morianar]

[red-raven-reading]

Not trying to be rude, but if everyone who writes Rings of Power fanfiction can make sure that's clearly marked so I can filter it out super easily when I want to read Silmarillion fics, that would be lovely.

[saiyakova]

You must feel so edgy and smart hating on Rings of Power. Loooooook at meeeee, I'm muuuuuch better than all of you dumb people who enjoy things!

Typical ugly American. Keep your hate for yourself, you halfwit.

You say, going out of your way to be insulting and hateful. Lol! Also, it isn't edgy to hate the Rings of Power. I'm fairly certain it's the general concensus at this point. Just look at the viewing figures. You really just have to have eyeballs, braincells, and standards. I like to think that's more people than not. Although, more and more I am made to wonder about that. So, not cool or edgy or especially smart. Just common sense, really. If you are allowed to "like what you like" then I am allowed to hate what I hate. You know, equality and all that. You stand by your beliefs, and I'll stand my mine. And I believe this show isn't just bad. It is heatful, disrespectful, and malicious. A perversion of a beautiful mythos without which storytelling today would be totally changed and greatly diminished. They take the works of greater men and twist them into unrecognizable sludge to push agendas rooted in vanity and greed. It's the antithesis of Tolkien. I will never stop pointing that out. This is my line in the sand. I'm happy to die on the hill that is the great works of J. R.R. Tolkien and his son. It is invaluable, and it's worth fighting for.

[youmisguidedmartyr]

Someone once told me that RoP is a better adaption than HoTD for the reason that HoTD relies on faux feminism whereas RoP doesn't...

Oh dear, have i got news for you.

Turning Galadriel into an annoying, "girlboss" warrior and completely taking away from what originally made her character powerful in the first place is NOT feminism. Having her be under Sauron's "evil spell" or whatever the fuck you idiots are calling it even tho she canonically was not effected by Sauron in the slightest is NOT feminism.

If you think that the writing of a feminist character is when a woman is disrespectful and rude for NO REASON then I think you need to re-evaluate your definition of feminism.

[pod-nomerom-westb]

I don't care about plot in RoP, I don't care how lore accurate it is (I know it isn't and never will), I don't even care that it is so often cheap looking despite costing billions of usa dollars... BUT, I saw that flashback of Sauron in the first episode in season 2... The fact he gives a fucking "politician speach" to orcs - ok, whatever... But the actor!

Yep, that is "Sauron"... Look at how they massacred my boy... 😲

That Sauron. The Tolkien's Sauron.

"Well done", Amazon, so well. Fucking. Done.

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Me: Rings of Power is a bad adaptation and I wish people wouldn’t support it, or Amazon.

The ROP fan throwing a tantrum in my notes: No, it’s not! Tolkien was a hack anyway! He was racist! Don’t you know he was racist?

Me: Yes, I am fully aware of Tolkien’s racism and I think analyzing the various forms of racism and prejudice in his works is important. I also think it’s worth analyzing how ROP has been used to sanitize Amazon’s image. The company has faced multiple lawsuits for racial discrimination against employees and they also literally sell Nazi propaganda, and I think that’s horrifying. They shouldn’t get kudos for a diverse cast when they do stuff like this. What I find odd is that you’re expressing more anger over the racism of a dead white guy than the ongoing racism of an existing company that is destroying the earth.

The ROP fan: You’re a cultist who refuses to criticize Tolkien! You’re a Nazi!

Me: Hmm, okay, you’re just fully unhinged. Cool.

[punchitmrsulu]

JFC I’m having to see Emily Brontë’s famous “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” quote in posts about fucking Sauron and Galadriel.

This is what rings of power has done. That’s the world we live in now.

[madame-helen]