"And as I always say, since it sent most of J.R.R. Tolkien fans back to the legendary The Lord of the Rings books, the arrival of The Rings of Power can only be seen as a good thing".

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Love it.

No, that's not my opinion on, it's an order. You have to love it. It is mandated by the people in charge.

They changed the race of the Hobbits and then stopped calling them hobbits.

LOVE IT

Please, Love it, before they work camps in the Dakotas, herd us into them and start forcing us to watch the Rings of Power on repeat every night while working us to death in the day for the betterment of an equitable society.

And they made the clear message, which is the only message that you need to know, that all white people are absolute evil because of the color of their skin.

LOVE IT

Seriously, you have to, it's an order from big tech.

Unless they are white women. If they are white women than they can be the meh Strong Female Lead and that makes them the bestiest of the bestest and no one can be bestier than they are because bestest and Strong Female Lead so she can't have a character arch because that she wasn't absolutely perfect from the start, which she was.

LOVE IT

Or else

And they changed the races of the Dwarfs and took the beards off of the women. I mean that was like freeing the slaves, wasn't it? It was such a monumental move that one can only say that it was more groundbreaking than freeing the slaves, stopping apartheid. It was sort of like bringing benevolent overlords like Idi Amin, Foday Sankoh, and Jonas Savimbi into power and asking them to push the right message.

LOVE IT

Because you have to.

And then they took the modern era and shoehorned it into a Tolkien show, because you are supposed to do that now, and fired the Tolkien scholars that objected to it.

LOVE IT.

Seriously love it or they will call the Cheka and report you for having the wrong views.

Anyway, none of that makes it good. It really doesn't, but all of those changes mean that you do have to love it. Because you have to conform, and that is the most important thing. You don't have to think this is a good film, you just have to praise it and verbally and maybe physically if its a riot attack the people that haven't conformed to the right view.

Because we don't have Gulags and camps to reprogram people yet, so you have to just conform, for the greater good.

What is this supposed to be? Superficially, it looks like Tolkien's work but for me, that's where the similarities end.

Visually this is an impressive series.There are some genuinely talented actors in the cast, too. That said, for me, Tolkien's work is in every respect that truly matter's, absent. Really that's because this isn't Tolkien. Its a pretty but ultimately hollow,facsimile. Largely absent is the underlying message about courage,the battle between good and evil and the endless horror of war.

What we have instead, to my mind, is a rudderless, unsurprisingly slow show, that seems intent on pushing messages of social justice. All of which, is, of course, no substitute for a compelling story of the kind found in Tolkien's heartfelt epic work.

Woke and horrible. When the woke crowd steals ideas from those they profess to hate, as they did here, they are in essence admitting that they have no good ideas of their own.

If you loved the final season of Game of Thrones, you'll probably love this trash. It has some impressive environmental scenery, but the story is terrible and the characters are rubbish.

It's a soulless money-grab with Tolkien's name pasted on it to try to give it some legitimacy. At best, it's a forgetable waste of time. At worst, it's a disgusting slap in the face to Tolkien, his fans, and his legacy.