#amazons lotr

[therealharbingerofdevastation]

Do you ever think about how Tolkien’s vision of the greatest evil in the universe was something he referred to as “The Machine” which was his way of talking about accelerated industrialism and mass surveillance and he wrote multiple books where the main villains were a dragon who sits on a huge pile of treasure that he never intends to use but incinerates anyone who comes near it, a man in a giant tower who’s wrecking the environment with his factories, and an evil being who uses what’s essentially a listening device to control the citizens of middle earth. And now Amazon is making a Tolkien show. Do you ever think about that.

#lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #tolkien #the rings of power #amazon #fuck amazon #capitalism #like are they oblivious or do they know and they just don’t care #knowing amazon I’m willing to bet it’s the latter

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon's Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

#hey there Blaze victim! check the notes for extra context #tl;dr: egregious disrespect for the source material and -more importantly- workers rights abuses #also theres a chance that we could kill amazon streaming if this flops so #happy morbing! #rings of power #its morbin time #every single 'ooh new first look' fille me with unbridled rage #anti rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien #lotr #it's morbin time

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

me after reanimating the corpse of tolkien: so later on in the show, galadriel’s new bestie, halbrand, is revealed to be sauron, which kind of erases celebrimbor as a character and his contribution to the main conflict

tolkien: that’s what you’re worried about when two of the beatles are still living? go finish the job

#i love his undying hate for them #halbrand #galadriel #tolkien #lotr #lotr memes #the lord of the rings #lotr fandom #silmarillion #silmarillion memes #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #lotr amazon #rings of power #the rings of power #celebrimbor #trop spoilers

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

#anti rings of power #rings of power #Bernard Hill #LOTR cast #anti rop #and before anyone says something about how Peter Jackson's movies made money too - yes they did #but at least they were based on books Tolkien actually wrote #the Amazon show is not based on any story Tolkien actually wrote #it's just the haphazard and low quality imitation of a greedy and corrupt company #Bernard Hill is right and he should say it #IT'S NOT THE REAL THING #and also #I think he's saying that the Amazon show is PURELY a money-making venture - which is true #the LOTR films were not purely a money-making venture - in fact they didn't even know if they'd be successful at all #and then they were - but no one predicted it

[potato-dragons]

You know... I really thought I was crazy about how ROP's costumes look so shitty until I came across pic below of this character and saw she's actually wearing a long-sleeved shirt underneath her chestplate with the exact same gold scale design printed on.

Remember folks, the budget of this show is half a billion dollars compared to Peter's Jackson Lord of the Rings 250 million budget released twenty years ago and still looking beautiful.

#lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fandom #rings of power #amazon #i cant believe people are excited about this shit show #i hope this show crashes and burns so that amazon never agains touches anything JRR Tolkien related again #im honestly to angery to post anything right now cause of this #what a bunch of fucking liars and snakes #cant believe im actually trigger by this

[aleksikesa]

Me making fun of short hair elves and then realizing Amazon is making a Fallout tv show

#lotr #fallout #anyone want to hear my predictions about Nate and Nora Bethesda-Amazon? #talking

[madame-helen]

#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #humor #funny #lol #satire #funny memes #funny meme #funny humor #adaptations #lotr #lord of the rings #the rings of power #game of thrones #amazon #the witcher #hbo #netflix #one piece #dragon ball #dragon ball evolution #irony #joke

[anti-rop]

#Rings of Power #Amazon LotR #Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power #Lord of the Rings #i hate everything I’ve seen about this show so far #House of the Dragon be lookin fire tho #meme #mine

[elrondslefteyebrow]

legolas’ only job is to be hot and say mysterious things and honestly i respect that

#i relate to him so much #lord of the rings #lotr elves #lotr #lotr fellowship #legolas #aragorn #gimli #amazon rings of power #amazon lotr #tolkien #tolkien memes #middle earth

[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.

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #Amazon #Galadriel #Sauron #Lore #Tolkien #Noldor #Sindar #Mairon #anti rings of power

[valeprati]

#amazon prime video #amazon prime #the ring of power #lord of the rings #lotr #elrond #rings of power #prince durin #Disa #durin iv

[fishfingersandscarves]

disa and one of her dwarflings

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #lotrrop #amazon lotr #rings of power #disa (lotrrop) #doodle #i missed drawing hot dwarrowdams

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

#has this one been done #the rings of power #rings of power #lotr amazon #lotr on prime #tolkien #lotr #lotr memes #the lord of the rings #lotr fandom #silmarillion #silmarillion memes #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #john mulaney quotes #john mulaney

[livinginithilien]

I guess my problem with The Rings of Power is that at its core, the series seems fundamentally dissatisfied with its source material. All the things, from costumes looking like a high-end fashion show and "edgier" than more immersive ones, the characters being completely rewritten to be more "interesting", inserting generic themes instead of highlighting the original ones - all this shows, just like in the case of Netflix's infamous Persuasion, a very misguided notion that whatever Tolkien wrote, in and of itself, is not enough to impress the modern viewer.

#amazon #tolkien #lotr #rings of power #im not against making the story more screen-friendly #i just think there are different ways to be both creative and faithful to the lore #ROP

[fukutomichi]

Don't let this splinter your spirit, it'll be all right.

#ep7 the pain edition enjoy :') #the rings of power #rings of power #trop #rop #tropedit #ropedit #ringsofpowersource #the stranger #durin #nori brandyfoot #elendil #elrond #galadriel #my gifs #a subterranean gif #lotr amazon #lotr on prime

[overthinkinglotr]

People keep insulting the Amazon Lord of the Rings show by comparing it to fanfiction when really it's the EXACT opposite of fanfiction! It's so interesting/awful because it's like the ultimate ANTI-fanfiction! I was talking to someone the other day and wasn't aware that lots of people don't know about the insane complicated rights issues happening behind the scenes of the Amazon Show but it's wild. To give a quick summary of the Battle of the Five Rights Issues, as I currently understand it: 1. Amazon only has the rights to make a show about the pre-LOTR era as described in the Lord of the Rings books-- primarily in the appendices of Return the King, where a handful of pages give a brief timeline of some events that happened before the stories. In practice this means they are unable to use nearly all of the characters, places, and events people are familiar with when they think about Middle Earth. They have to make up everything out of whole cloth-- from characters to events to settings. This is either because of timeline reasons or for legal reasons or for both. Whenever they do manage to scrounge up the rights to something you might even vaguely remember (like Mithril) they announce it with enormous fanfare like they're a marvel movie introducing an avenger.

(Parenthetical: Another weird thing I noticed is that the series features practically zero quotes from Tolkien. I only counted about like 4 lines that were edited versions of lines from the books? While this is just a wild tinfoil hat theory, It does feel to me like there might've been some kind of limitation on the amount of Tolkien's words they were allowed to use, as well as the obvious limitations on characters and plot points and etc. The show has the rights to so few things and always REALLY wants you to know when it has the rights to something. It's desperate to remind you of the original books. You would think that, when it's unable to rely on familiar characters or places or events or plot points or music or etc, they would rely instead on Tolkien's really recognizable prose/poetry/language to form an emotional connection to the original stories. After all, language is the heart of Middle Earth, the author's love of language is the reason the world was created, and the unique prose of the story is kinda the soul of why it's memorable. And again, they theoretically have the rights to everything mentioned in the original trilogy right? Theoretically? So it's really odd that they don't use almost any of the language, unlike basically every other adaptation. It might just be a weird writing decision, but it's so strange that it really makes me feel like they were limited or at least dissuaded from including lines from the books.)

2. Amazon is legally Not Allowed to feature things that were mentioned in the Unfinished Tales or the Silmarillion, despite the fact that those are the books that contain most of the stuff about the era they're theoretically adapting. This leads to a bunch of really weird stuff where they introduce things you'd only care about if you read the Silmarillion, but can't include any of the things that would actually make you care about it. Like people who Aren't deep into the lore have literally zero emotional investment in Celebrimbor, but people who ARE deep into the lore know that you can't reference any of the reasons they care about it. 3. Amazon's series is NOT part of the same canon as the Peter Jackson/New Line Cinema films. They're not. However they obviously want to trick people into thinking they are because those movies are popular and a prequel to them would make money even if it sucked (see the Hobbit films.) But again, New Line Cinema still wants to make its own LOTR content based on the slivers of rights they've managed to grab onto, and don't want Amazon to step on their toes. So IIRC Amazon actually made a deal with New Line Cinema that they were allowed to imitate their movie franchise's aesthetic (to keep the brand popular and in the public eye)........ BUT if New Line Cinema ever felt like Amazon was infringing too much on their territory, they could step in and stop it. So the show just sorta looks and sounds like a bland knockoff of the New Line films, because that's all they're legally allowed to be XD. Like they're supposed to look/sound just enough like them to trick you, but they're not legally allowed to include the specific things from the PJ films that would actually make you feel nostalgic for them (like the famous musical leitmotifs.) 4. Part of the deal was that the Tolkien Estate could step in and change anything in the show if they felt it wasn't true to the lore-- which is ridiculous because again, Amazon basically doesn't own the rights to any of the lore so they're just making stuff up anyway. From what I can tell it seems like this basically means the Tolkien Estate can arbitrarily veto any creative decisions based on whatever they've decided “Tolkien would've wanted,” which obviously limits what Amazon is able to do (and likely prevents them from actually criticizing the awful problematic elements of Tolkien's worldbuilding)

5. Ok I don't have a fifth one. SO BASICALLY: Yes, the Amazon series is about a bunch of original characters in almost completely original settings featuring original events and original plot points that (for the most part) doesn't even include any of Tolkien's actual words, and also isn't affiliated with and doesn't include the recognizable things like musical motifs from the New Line Cinema films. But that doesn't make it fanfic. Because fanfiction is when you take another's person's characters and stories and write your own weird personal take on them, even if you don't legally own it. Who legally owns the copyright is irrelevant in fanfiction. Fanfic it's about writing a story with the characters and world you love, about transforming a story you're passionate about even if you don't legally own the rights. Amazon Rings of Power is what happens when an entire show is completely written around what you legally own the rights to. Every aspect of it only exists as an elaborate tap dance around copyright infringement. Again, I think the Amazon series is more interesting as "a study of how corporations/megafranchises can do massive harm and also weaken our ability to create good art" than it is as a tv show, alskdjfsdlf.

If fanfiction is "writing something you love regardless of whether you own the rights" then Rings of Power is "writing whatever fits within the extremely narrow box of the rights you happen to own." And that makes it....a very strange thing to exist! It’s kinda a shining example of how giant media monopolies and copyright laws designed to benefit them end up hamstringing everyone’s ability to create meaningful art, even the corporations themselves.

#anti rop #amazon #lotr #the was written under incoherent cold brain don’t @ me