168. Orcs Writing Poetry and Galadriel’s Love Triangle – The Rings of Power News

This show kind of just copies things.

So let me show you this tweet that I put up.

earlier this week, that essentially points out that The Rings of Power is built in one of two ways.

It just copies Peter Jackson's films by sacrificing the same scenes at the Altra fan service.

And essentially what we have here is this is Gandalf.

Yeah, Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.

and he holds up his sword and then the the fire sort of splashes out from everywhere everywhere well then we have the same thing here where Sauron holds up the crown of Morgoth which was originally beaten into a collar to take Morgoth but apparently somehow he's got it that's what they're referring to as the crown of Morgoth and he holds it up and he stops the Balrog's flaming sword with the crown because that's not a new scene it's something they're just copying from Peter Jackson's The Rings of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films And then the other thing it only does, it will simply grab a character, a place, or event.

And then it changes what Tolkien wrote about it by putting them in a different place, changing the timeline, changing the character himself, herself.

And because they have a desire to write the story Tolkien never wrote.

So I made the point that this show is really, like, Tolkien penned the word sub-creation, essentially.

He penned the idea that we are here to sub-create in the image of our maker.

But The Rings of Power is just destroying everything.

It doesn't create anything new.

It just copies and picks and chooses and has people who don't really understand this term of sub-creation because they've never really experienced anything that allows them to get into that mindset.

So it's just a dim shade of the original.

Right.

Now, I might push back a little bit.

I do think they create new things.

I just think all the new things they make suck.

Well, but the new things they create are all inspired by what Tolkien had and they tear it apart.

They don't take what he had.

And so instead of trying to take his creation and making it greater, they tear it to make it smaller.

They posited all sorts of economic travails for the Numenoreans where the elves were going to come take their jobs.

That never happened in Tolkien.

Is that new or is that just a riff on the political realities that they're dealing with?

This show kind of just copies things.

So let me show you this tweet that I put up.

earlier this week, that essentially points out that The Rings of Power is built in one of two ways.

It just copies Peter Jackson's films by sacrificing the same scenes at the Altra fan service.

And essentially what we have here is this is Gandalf.

Yeah, Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.

and he holds up his sword and then the the fire sort of splashes out from everywhere everywhere well then we have the same thing here where Sauron holds up the crown of Morgoth which was originally beaten into a collar to take Morgoth but apparently somehow he's got it that's what they're referring to as the crown of Morgoth and he holds it up and he stops the Balrog's flaming sword with the crown because that's not a new scene it's something they're just copying from Peter Jackson's The Rings of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films And then the other thing it only does, it will simply grab a character, a place, or event.

And then it changes what Tolkien wrote about it by putting them in a different place, changing the timeline, changing the character himself, herself.

And because they have a desire to write the story Tolkien never wrote.

So I made the point that this show is really, like, Tolkien penned the word sub-creation, essentially.

He penned the idea that we are here to sub-create in the image of our maker.

But The Rings of Power is just destroying everything.

It doesn't create anything new.

It just copies and picks and chooses and has people who don't really understand this term of sub-creation because they've never really experienced anything that allows them to get into that mindset.

So it's just a dim shade of the original.

Right.

Now, I might push back a little bit.

I do think they create new things.

I just think all the new things they make suck.

Well, but the new things they create are all inspired by what Tolkien had and they tear it apart.

They don't take what he had.

And so instead of trying to take his creation and making it greater, they tear it to make it smaller.

They posited all sorts of economic travails for the Numenoreans where the elves were going to come take their jobs.

That never happened in Tolkien.

Is that new or is that just a riff on the political realities that they're dealing with?