Comic Con trailer for The Rings of Power S2

[kjesta]

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Hot off Comic Con, here's the first proper trailer for the second season of Rings of Power!

In it, we get glimpses of what seems to be[spoiler]Sauron as Annatar, the sack of Eregion? AN ENTWIFE??? The Balrog, Durin's Bane! Tom Bombadil!! All sorts of batshit stuff

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[helyanwe89]

I don't think anything will ever be as good as the movies for me, but I'll still watch. I am wondering if I should try to re-watch Season 1 after the Olympics though because I feel like I watched it so long ago.

[kjesta]

Honestly the movies were just such a MOMENT unto themselves, idk that that could ever be recaptured, the stars just aligned perfectly. I do have more gripes with them as time goes on, they certainly made some dumb decisions at times, but the love and care that went into them is just so palpable, from everyone involved.

[helyanwe89]

They also hold up really great 20+ years better and are better than some of what they're doing now tbh. They did such a fantastic job with them. You can also see the Battle of Helm's Deep, it isn't too dark unlike more recently filmed night battles.

I have The Silmarillion but I've never made it through the book because it's just so hard for me to get through and keep track of everything. I know some basics, but I just don't feel like I know the backstory as well as I should - it's just so dense & I know the show is doing it's own thing and not really adapting it.

[kjesta]

FOTR is absolute peak cinema, i think ROTK does start to show some of the tendencies that i don't enjoy abt stuff like the hobbit films, but it's still an excellent film. i love the films a ton, grew up on them and all. i just wish that ppl would acknowledge just how much they change around book material in ways that isn't rly necessary, like denethor f.ex., who's such a straight up villain in the films. it works perfectly within the movie, so i'm not mad. but the hateful energy ppl bring for ROP makes me sad when there's plenty of changes in the trilogy, and those are fine too

[kjesta]

forgot to add, the 2nd age (aka ROP age) doesn't have much written about it, it's only like 40 pages called the akallabeth, and "of the rings of power and the third age". having the context of the silmarillion (which deals w the first age) before it helps, but if you want mainly show context, that's what'll have most of it.

[lydzi]

The first ten minutes of the trilogy with Cate Blanchett's voice narrating the story of the ring is forever iconic

[skeetertuskin]

My favourite part of the whole trilogy. I get goosebumps every time especially when she whispers it in elf language at the start. She should have gotten an Oscar nom for that alone.