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darkfrog24 · 2 months ago

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Overall, I find Rings of Power not that great, but I have to give them the next to last Adar scene in the S2 finale. He's leaning against a rock and we don't know why, and then he takes Nenya off his finger and gives it back because he's all, "I earned my name" and he knows who he is and who he wants to be and he's choosing Orc-kind because he's all "my sons deserve a $#@%ing future" and we know the orcs are strong and brave and smart and they could make something of themselves and we all know it doesn't happen.

#rings of power #adar #nenya #it's from a word that means foolhardy courage #it's the dialogue mostly #it takes more to sound Tolkienesque than just adding old-timey words here and there #in the movies when they had to invent a line they dug through the books until they found something good #transplanting rather than recreating #if they'd given their heroine any name but 'Galadriel' like 80% of my problem with S1 would go away #BUT S2 could explain why book-Galadriel never took the name 'Queen of Lothlorien' only ever 'Lady'#original posts

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