So, about Rings of Power...
THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE
I’ve watched Rings of Power yesterday, or rather, I tried to watch it.
My expectations were really low from the beginning, from the first trailer, based also on the fact that Amazon doesn’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, which was, in my opinion, very problematic already. But still, I said to myself: “Just watch it. Maybe it’s not going to be as bad as you fear it might be.” Well, after the first 20 minutes of the first episode I realised that my expectations were not low ENOUGH.
Here’s a list of the horrors my eyes had to watch and my ears had to hear until my soul decided to leave my mortal body:
- a very poor intro that didn’t explain anything about the past events: it was focused on building a cliché background of Galadriel.
- FINROD: I know, they don’t have the rights to the Silmarillion. But you can’t CHANGE Finrod’s life like that, saying that he decided to hunt Sauron and was killed by him, just to give Galadriel her motivation for her actions. Finrod was more than that, and it saddens me to see him oversimplified like this.
- GALADRIEL: their intention was to show her as a powerful warrior. Now, lore-wise she fought sometimes, when necessary, but she wasn’t an elvish version of Xena, she was more than that, especially during the Second and Third Age. But still, I was very interested about their Galadriel: sadly, all that I’ve seen is an incompetent commander who watches her men being killed/wounded by the Troll and can’t guide and give orders to her men like a true leader.
Also, where is her husband Celeborn? (maybe it’s too early for her daughter Celebrian...but at least Celeborn, come on). And her actress is too young in my opinion, because she looks like the same age as Elrond and younger than Gil-Galad.
- ELROND: he’s not allowed to participate in the Council because is not an “Elf Lord”. The son of Earendil and Elwing, so the descendant of Turgon, King of Gondolin and of a MAIA, Melian. Mmh, sure thing.
- GIL - GALAD: and now, we have come to the final abomination that terminated my soul’s will to live on this planet.
Gil - galad, High King of the Noldor, I know, but still he’s Galadriel’s NEPHEW so to see him older than her makes my skin disintegrate.
So, Gil - Galad is awarding Galadriel and others for their heroic merits obtained during the war. And until this moment, I was still willing to continue to watch this messed up thing.
Then, he does THE THING: he grants ACCESS TO VALINOR to GALADRIEL as a “prize” (in reality to stop her from searching for Sauron, I think) for her heroic deeds.
Gil-Galad couldn’t do shit because the Valar’s ban still wasn’t lifted on Galadriel. The ban was lifted on Galadriel during the Third Age, when she turned down the One Ring Frodo was offering to her, letting him to destroy it.
After this abomination I turned off my tablet to purify my eyes and my ears from this messed up fan fiction.
