Bilbo

Don't know what season 1 was an introduction to, but certainly not Tolkien.
 
 

It was pretty pathetic from Hans.

It sounds like they’ve done to Indy what so many fans hated about the ST.

I try not to 

It sounds like they’ve done to Indy what so many fans hated about the ST.

It sounds like they’ve done to Indy what so many fans hated about the ST.

Bernard Hill 😂

Bernard Hill 😂

Bernard Hill 😂

Me too, it's so shitty

Yeah, major Rise of Skywalker vibes here.
 
 

It wouldn’t have happened if Christopher was still alive.
 
I think Simon is very keen on this stuff but his father or grandfather he is not.

Mystery box ☑️ 
Style over substance ☑️ 
Bad writing ☑️ 
Talking a good game to try and fool your audience ☑️ 
 
I’d say they were grown from the leftovers of one of JJ’s tissues or something.

Christopher was still alive at the very early stages of development, I'm told. He made his distaste for the project known, but didn't try to stop it. 

Mystery box ☑️ 
Style over substance ☑️ 
Bad writing ☑️ 
Talking a good game to try and fool your audience ☑️ 
 
I’d say they were grown from the leftovers of one of JJ’s tissues or something.

Mystery box ☑️ 
Style over substance ☑️ 
Bad writing ☑️ 
Talking a good game to try and fool your audience ☑️ 
 
I’d say they were grown from the leftovers of one of JJ’s tissues or something.

Gil-Galad is an awful w⚓️
 
The writing is the show’s biggest flaw (aside from the costumes). The show runners and writers… you would wonder how these people with limited experience or success got these jobs in the first place. I’m still not willing to rule out the whole thing being a money laundering exercise!
 

Gil-Galad is an awful w⚓️
 
The writing is the show’s biggest flaw (aside from the costumes). The show runners and writers… you would wonder how these people with limited experience or success got these jobs in the first place. I’m still not willing to rule out the whole thing being a money laundering exercise!
 

To a certain extent every major character in ROP has the same template...i.e. the "misunderstood outsider" who is smarter and more courageous than the rest of their people, who thinks differently and transcends their culture's “limited” thinking, whose notions draw deep scepticism, only to be ultimately proven correct.  
 
Galadriel...misunderstood outsider.
Nori...misunderstood outsider.
Elrond...misunderstood outsider.
Arondir...misunderstood outsider.
Durin IV...misunderstood outsider.
Bronwyn...misunderstood outsider.
 
Did I miss anyone? Every one of these individuals is at some point rejected, separated or ostracised from their own people because of their supposedly rebellious or unconventional nature. I think in some ways you could apply this to Isildur and his smarter-than-everyone-else sister as well.
 
It's embarrassing...lazy writers who haven't experienced any of life projecting their own sense of self onto their characters. These characters reflect the sensibilities of the writers and "creators" of this show more than they do anything Tolkien ever wrote.  I wonder if they even realize the degree to which they've done this.

I love it!  What's the Leaves of Lorien brooch from again?

Nice!

Yeah. I think that’s why he’s so cheap! 
 
I got the DVDs as they came out but the gift sets were too expensive for 11/12/13 years old so it’s nice to get them now. Tracked down still sealed sets too. 
 
This is how I’m displaying them 

The TTT:SE OST is the only one that actually has different music.  Not only does it include the "Farewell to Lorien" track, but it also shortens two tracks ("The Uruk-Hai" and "The Black Gate Is Closed") to make room for it.

It's a combo track that starts with the EE version of the gift-giving music, circles back to repeat a portion of that again, then ends with the "Gilraen's Memorial" cue.
 
None of this music was on the FOTR OST album and couldn't have been; None of this music was recorded until 2002, to go into the EE cut of the film.
 
And yes, all of it appears on the Complete Recordings set:
0:00-3:07 = TCR 3-04 "The Fighting Uruk-hai" [2:28-6:06] 0:00-3:07 = tracked repeat of TCR 3-04 "The Fighting Uruk-hai" [4:15-4:34] 0:00-3:07 = TCR 2-09 "Gilraen's Memorial" [0:00-1:09]  
 
 
The theatrical version of the gift-giving scene is on the original FOTR OST album, in the track "The Great River" from 0:00-0:50
 
 
 
The whole point of the bonus track they put on the TTT:SE album was to put music that wasn't on the FOTR OST album.  The FOTR OST album had the gift-giving music that was in the film, so for a bonus track for this new special album, they likely were motivated to pick a big standout cue that was recorded in 2002 for the EE cut of the film.  So for that purpose, the gift giving scene sure makes sense to me!  It's very different from the theatrical version, over 3 times longer, and full of choir.   And it was probably Shore's idea to include "Gilraen's Memorial" cue in the same track, since it has a similar sound (more choir!), and fixes the issue of the ending;  The EE gift-giving music was written to segue into a cue that was already on the FOTR OST, so segueing to "Gilraen's Memorial" instead concludes things nicely without repeating anything already released.

as is all the Harfoot stuff, from their Harry Potter-ish names (nary a Deagol in sight!) to their adorbs derpiness, to the fact that basically nothing happens in their storylines until the last 90 minutes of the season and how its in a bubble all by itself compared to the other storylines. Also, its by far the storyline that relies most on magic - The Stranger cast more spells this season than all the magic in all the six Jackson films combined - and the one most intent on bottling the "LOTR-feels" in terms of the outdoors-iness of it, and the "look, four Hobbits setting out on a quest!"
 
And while I actually think its very well performed, the degree to which Nori is wide-eyed and curious adds to the cloying nature of the Harfoot storyline. I've never seen a reluctant hero who spent more time talking about how she's a reluctant hero (I could swear Nori said something to the effect of "I'm just a little Harfoot" a good five times).
 
These Harfoots are basically Middle Earth Ewoks, in a way that the Hobbits of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were not.