Bilbo

I knew. 

Indeed! If it’s too heavy it might cause my shelf to warp! Or it mightn’t fool customs and they might decide to charge me 😶

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.