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‘The Rings Of Power’ Season 2, Episode 4 Review: ‘Eldest’ Is Another Atrocious Disaster (www.forbes.com)
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The Rings Of Power continues to substitute good storytelling with an endless, inane parade of callbacks to Lord of the Rings.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't watched the second season, but I remember more than one sigh during the first one. I really liked the costumes and decoration, but I just kept thinking, "Why did they need to tell this story?" I didn't hate it, but I thought the entire exercise was pointless and unnecessary: apathy is worse than hate.

The question is rhetorical, of course. They couldn't get ahold of the rights to the Silmarillion, and the machine hungers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They did not get the rights to Silmarillion? This explains a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's based entirely on the appendices from The Lord of the Rings, so for legal reasons anything that was in The Silmarillion but not the appendices had to be altered.