LOTR: The Rings of Power

[Davidson Deac II]

On 11/5/2022 at 4:02 PM, jayboogieman said:

I really need to give this show a try. I was holding off so I could binge it, which led me to just forgetting about it.

It starts off a little slow, but gets better as it goes along.

[d-dave]

10 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

It starts off a little slow, but gets better as it goes along.

That's been an issue with most new fantasy shows that have these HUGE worlds and plots.  I just am in love with Middle Earth, and the show helped me really scratch that itch.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the follow up seasons, and the fall of Numenor.  It would be kind of nice if there was a bit of a time jump that allowed the rebuilding of Peligar and re-establishment of the Numenorian colonies that would later allow Elendil to found Gondor and Arnor with something better than those magical ships they use.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

I mean, to be fair, GoT started it super slow too. People ended up loving it (until the end). Hopefully more people give RoP a chance.

[Zaximus]

Yeah people seem to forget it took a while to get GoT off the ground too.  Season 1 ended with a bang/chop but before the finale it was a lot of world building and setting up the chessboard.  It didn't stop there we kept getting new characters from different areas in Westeros etc.  But people are quick to lose their mind about RoP building up the story.  People need to give some slack, they don't have access to all the source material and are trying to create new things while staying close to the lore as possible.

 

[Cullenator]

Too often people need to be reminded what adaptation means

[d-dave]

29 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

Too often people need to be reminded what adaptation means

A perfect transformation that every neckbearded internet nerd wrote 100x on their Tumblr page?

[Varking]

For those that don’t know I am doing a giveaway of new LOTR book covers on the subreddit for the show:

Just need to leave a comment by Monday to be entered in to win. 

 

[SOJA]

I absolutely loved this show 

[Varking]

On 11/25/2022 at 11:43 PM, SOJA said:

I absolutely loved this show 

Glad to hear it. Since the offseason started we did have some decent news, but some of it wasn’t … spectacular? 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rings-power-season-2-adds-171449380.html

7 new actors is awesome but replacing Adar, Joseph Mawle , hurts a little bit. 

[Varking]

And after those 7, here is 8 more. 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rings-power-season-2-adds-204225517.html

[SOJA]

varking are you like associated with the making of the show?

[Varking]

28 minutes ago, SOJA said:

varking are you like associated with the making of the show?

I’m not personally a part of Prime Video or Amazon Studios. I run the shows subreddit at r/LOTR_on_Prime and I’m a part of FellowshipofFans which was the main group of leakers for season 1. 
 

Amazon took note of what I was doing and made me, the subreddit and our team a part of their marketing campaign. They flew me to London in July and took me around Oxford to see Tolkiens local school, pub, grave. Then they took us to meet the showrunners, John Howe and Ramsay Avery and watch 20 minutes of footage well before anyone had seen anything. 
 

After that they started sending me exclusive information about the show to share on the sub before their official social media channels posted them. 
 

Then they flew me out to San Diego for SDCC where we sat down with the main cast and showrunners and had lunch and a party after SDCC. From there I made friendships with a few of the actors and actually daily text two of them via iMessages. We also got to see the trailer before anyone else who’s there. Oh and they signed a limited print print art piece for us, gave us Rings of Power mugs, phone chargers, rain jackets and a bunch of other merch. 
 

Then me and my gf got flown to NY to see the first two episodes about two weeks before the show went live. 
 

During the show coming out each week I got to interview:

Princess Disa, Isildur, Earien, Miriel, Durin IV, Marigold and Nori. When the show ended I got to interview Jamie Wilson the Head of Prosthetics. These were all on Reddit via Reddit Talks which were audio interviews like Radio.
 

There’s a lot coming up for season 2 marketing and I will be a part of all of that as well. 
 

I am under NDA but my NDA is simply I can’t talk about anything they haven’t given me the green light to talk about, but once I get the green light I can be as honest as I want. 
 

Durin season 1 I was one of eight people who got a feedback form sent specifically to them to fill out for feedback about each episode as they aired and it required us to watch the show twice as soon as it aired at midnight for me. 
 

It’s been wild. 

[Zaximus]

On 12/11/2022 at 9:07 AM, Varking said:

 

It’s been wild. 

Dude that's living the dream.  That's awesome.  

[Shocker]

So it sounds like this show might be worth the time.  Heavy LOTRs fatigue after those last 3 though.