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Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (TEASER #2) | Full Trailer drops July 14th
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Given the state of the LOTR subreddits, this show is going to be the next culture war.
I just want to give it a chance!
I just want to give it a chance!
It's looking a bit too clean for my tastes, moreso like the Hobbit than the Lord of the Rings did.
Not feeling the overly clean digital aesthetic they seem to have gone with. Will give it a shot though.
Come play my Lord.
No really it looks fine. The ominous comet bit that connects all the characters is a bit of a cliche though.
No really it looks fine. The ominous comet bit that connects all the characters is a bit of a cliche though.
I have not followed the production that much - are you sure it's Sauron? From the timeframe, couldn't it also be Melkor?
It's set in the Second Age and Melkor was expelled at the end of the First.
Lore wise, Sauron coming in a form of meteor is well.. a weird idea to say the least.
It seems that the most lasting legacy of GoT was to cause a whole generation of people to equate high fantasy with a gritty, drab aesthetic. I swear every post-GoT fantasy show that dares to depart from that gets the "looks too clean!" -comments.
The style worked for GoT for the kind of story it has, but it wasn't without problems. All the indoor sets in the North looked like shite for instance.
Teaser looks great btw. The next half a year or so is looking to be stacked for high-budget fantasy TV, with LOTR, House of the dragon, Wheel of Time S2 and maybe Witcher S3 as well.
The style worked for GoT for the kind of story it has, but it wasn't without problems. All the indoor sets in the North looked like shite for instance.
Teaser looks great btw. The next half a year or so is looking to be stacked for high-budget fantasy TV, with LOTR, House of the dragon, Wheel of Time S2 and maybe Witcher S3 as well.
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This looks heaps and bounds better than Wheel of Time imo, but well have to see i guess
This could be how Annatar arrives. I don't think it's written anywhere just how he turns up, but this isn't a bad idea to introduce him.
Ah, I see! It's been a while since I dabbled with the Silmarillion
Well if Gil Galad and Elrond are watching him arrive it's not Melkor unless they do something insane with the lore.
This is the most logical explanation. There is a pretty big gap in Tolkiens story about Annatar just showing up and being accepted. Granted not everyone accepts him but it would have to be something pretty impressive to gain peoples trust like that.
Could be a wizard/Istari too. The show runners have said they're going to condense a lot of the plot to fit into 5 seasons. Maybe the Blue Wizards show up in the 2nd Age long before Gandalf, Saruman and Radagast in this story?
Watching it on the Amazon Prime app the lighting and colour grading and shit look significantly better than the first trailer did
Son that Numenorean armour in the shot of the Queen looking up is HARD looks almost exactly like this painting of Numenoreans I've seen before that I really like
The "meteor" is most likely Sauron's fiery Fea which is basically Tolkien's fancy word for their spirit/soul, even the way the meteor passes behind that hill with a hole in it makes me think the eye of Sauron
ENTS BRO YES
Son that Numenorean armour in the shot of the Queen looking up is HARD looks almost exactly like this painting of Numenoreans I've seen before that I really like
The "meteor" is most likely Sauron's fiery Fea which is basically Tolkien's fancy word for their spirit/soul, even the way the meteor passes behind that hill with a hole in it makes me think the eye of Sauron
ENTS BRO YES
It looks amazing to me so far, and I'm the biggest Middle Earth fan I know.
Also in terms of this being a series Annatar is better written than Sauron and gives the actor more to work with
They've become unreadable. Short-haired elves and black actors just send a lot of lotr fans in to a frenzy apparently.
Especially because historically...people weren't really dirty. Do people honestly believe that up until last century everyone was walking around covered in grime?
A mixture of wide shots and close-ups make it vacillate between grandiose and obvious they're filming on a studio set rather than a lived-in location. Like, the shot of the Ents looking towards the sky? Looks awesome. The close-up of the woman walking through the city staring behind her? Clearly constructed film set.
I straight up don't know what people are referring to when they say digital clean aesthetic lol.
From a 1-2 second shot with a blurry background you're saying it looks like a poorly constructed set?
I think it's one of the Istari. We see an old man get out of a crater in flames in the last trailer
Only thing I can think is that they want it to be darker and duller? I thought this trailer definitely stepped it up lighting wise so I don't know what else it could be
Where did I say it was poorly constructed? 🙄
I'm saying that these film sets sometimes struggle to look lived-in especially when it's so clean. The Hobbit, which had massive budgets, had moments where it was obvious that the cast was on a smallish film set. Doesn't mean that it wasn't decorated or designed well from a set-design standpoint, but that it looks like a film set.
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I don't remember them confirming that meteor man isn't Sauron, I mean summa them have speculated or theorised but I haven't seen any confirmations of that? Do you remember where you saw/heard this?
It's possible but how would that be a major plot point as to be a focus in the trailers? Im not saying you are wrong but I can't wrap my head around where that leads.
100% agreed.
Watch 10 minutes of The Wheel of Time and you'll say the same thing. Amazon doesn't have the greatest record.
I'm also not feeling the music choice of the trailer. Its generic action movie trailer music.
I really want this show to do well. I want more quality Rings content on my TV but if I was a betting person, I think my money would be going on the opposite
Possibly 5000+ years before the film trilogy, if I'm not mistaken.
And we're not sure exactly who or what is in the meteor. But we have some guesses for sure.
Y'all are nuts the production value looks A1 to me, the armour looks great, there's that beautiful shot of the boat on the water with the birds swirling down
This shit is gorgeous
This shit is gorgeous
Thousands of years before