"Lord Sauron" Huh. I'll believe THAT if it still stands at the end of the episode.
SUNFRUIT CALLOUT
"Six days ago. We rode wihout rest. Can you help him?"
"Well not
anymore!!!"
"The master I apprenticed to" yeah yeah yeah everyone was apprenticed to Aule, you aren't special
"His hand never touched or sullied them"
Pardon me while I lay on the floor and groan for a while at Halbrannatarwurst inventing the elven rings to Celebrimbor's face.
"Call it.....a gift" EFFFFFFFF YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both 'hope is never mere' and 'it is a fool's hope'
Gil-Galad is cynical and doom-besotten as all get-out in this but I really like the actor's face. So you know, I'm perfectly balanced between two points and all that.
Galadriel's green dress is pretty.
"He weights all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice"
THE LANDS OF
RUNE????? (I'm glad I get to hear one of my favorite lines "where the stars are strange")
Sadoc : (
Mothrandir strikes again!
Just
tell them Galadriel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poppy
"Nobody goes off trail" Except for Nori we're running her off the road byeeeee! (I know her name is "Brandy"foot but will she be the progenitors of Tooks or Baggins? Or will she meet them in season 2?)
Poppy
"Just follow your nose" Okay she is a proto-Brandybuck. Is it Tolkien? Not quite. Is it endearing? Yeah. (Also The Strangedalf lapsing into slightly more formal language - almost too much? Have they been using all of that
terrible dialogue on purpose all this time?)
Celebrimbor: :}
So I'm not a metalsmith but I (used to be? will be again?) am a glass-smith, and that is my not-at-all professional opinion that that's a needlessly complicated apparatus.
Elven riiiiiiiiinggssssss (the jewels aren't cut???? those are some
really small tanning beds. what will Sauron make the Seven and the Nine out of?)
Okay. I'mma say it since no-0ne else has yet. Elendil is a a little bit delectable even without the Helmendil. Thanks for coming to my T.E.D.talk. (The Elendil D.......emeanor)
So I agree with
B88 that they revealed the Halbrand/Sauron not too terribly - I like the idea of Sauron thinking he's redeeming himself but still greedy and not quite able to grasp what "healing" actually is, still grasping for
power over and not power to
heal or
preserve, looking forredemption in all the wrong places
- he did try to repent out of guilt several times as I recall, not out of desire to do good in itself - and really, who could be considered his equal in Middle-earth if not Galadriel?
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Originally Posted by B88
Well, I think to Jackson's credit, he put better people around him, and more qualified experts from the Tolkien community that at times he listened to.
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Jackson's greatest feat was the artisans he brought in - Howe & Lee, the craftsmen who wrought the armor, clothing, sets, jewelry and special effects/Weta workshop - as well as the the land that shaped him. I hear that future seasons will not be filmed in New Zealand for budgetary reasons (eff you and your budget amazon) which is incredibly sad, as nature and the preservation thereof is a core of Tolkien's beliefs and work. Not sure which thread to put that thought but there it is.