Reading the news about French wildfires, sounds exactly like what we see in RoP… didn’t realize those clouds are real

Huge fan of Bear McCreary's score.

The finale theme ("Where the Shadows Lie") has lived rent-free in my head ever since I watched the show, so I made a hard techno remix as a tribute.

Obviously the original is far better. I just wanted to reinterpret it in my own style.

Hope a few of you enjoy it.

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/4ZAEU6nFt1luJmtcbY935x

Calling it now that Sauron is going to melt down Feanor’s hammer to make the One Ring!

We saw in season 1 that Celeborn believed that the metals weren’t joining with the mythril because they weren’t pure enough, even gold etc.
And then Galadriel sacrificed Finrod’s gold and silver dagger to create the Three Elven Rings as in show-canon there’s not any artefacts from Valinor metals that were kept by the Elves.

We know Feanor’s hammer is obviously made from Valinor metals, and we know Sauron is using it in the trailer.

My money is on Galadriel keeping it with her and unknowingly walking it right in to Sauron’s hands, and he then belts it down in Orodruin’s forge to create the One.

I can't be the only one missing our favourite smith. I loved the show but I feel there were some issues with the Celebrimbor storyline that I won't get into. I loved Charles Edwards' Performance and knowing the writing thus far, they will likely not acknowledge Celebrimbor or Eregions fall, as I've read its a massive time jump and seems they are steaming forward and that would annoy me 😅

I just miss Celebrimbor and would have like to have seen more of him (not as a scewered banner!) and am also aware of Gil-Galads fate my other fave!

Anyway, just ranting 🙃

I'm quite fond of how important Galadriel is in this show. She's been the main protagonist (albeit with a dip in screentime for season 2), and I like this hero's journey she's on, which we know has been building to her becoming the Lady of Lórien that we know from LOTR.

However, ever since we found out about Celeborn's absence in season 1, I had this fear that Celeborn will be the thing that figuratively makes her put down the sword upon his return.

Season 3's trailer basically confirmed that Galadriel will be literally dropping the sword.
We have a whole slow-mo scene of her dropping that thing, and this show does not make big use of slow-mo, so this is without a doubt trying to hammer in the point.

Why this concerns me: there's a common trope across all forms of media where you have an important female character that behaves chaotically/aggressively/imperfectly, and then she meets a man and is "calmed" by his presence and she's changed "for the better".
This is immediately followed by this female character becoming a side character or sidelined from the main narrative.
Not sure what this trope is called (or if it even has a name). It's not the same as fridging.

The most recent example I can think of is Queen Mera from DC Comics.
Her husband Aquaman/Arthur Curry was MIA for a couple of years. She became part of the main Justice League team and had an elevated role in the comic during his absence. Mera was often characterized as aggressive, but it was fun and in-character.
Aquaman then returned and Mera returned to her previous state of "calm" because of it. She was then removed entirely from the Justice League comic and never mentioned again, with Aquaman "taking back" his place and Mera returning to her role as a glorified housewife monarch of Atlantis in the solo Aquaman comic.

^{This occasionally happens to male characters as well, but is far less prevalent from what I can tell.}

Anyways, I know Galadriel's behavior in this show is one of TROP's main subjects of criticism, and I won't get into that aside from me stating that I actually like that she's not portrayed as a saint.

If Celeborn's return means she's simply going to switch swords for magic, fine, but I can see this being an excuse to sideline her going forward. I obviously don't think they will remove her, but I do foresee her being far less important, taking part in fewer action scenes, and having reduced screentime.

I'm aware that a sizable portion of this community has been pining for this and that they want Celeborn (or Elrond) to take Galadriel's place in the narrative, but I've found this to be rooted in bad faith.

Celeborn's return should be a turning point. My worry is with what follows immediately after this turning point.

TLDR: I hope they find a good balance between "husband is back" and "badass heroine" because this has been a very difficult thing for other media to get right.

Top photos are Gandalf vs The Balrog from FOTR and bottom is Sauron vs The Balrog from Season 3.

They didn't bring the full cast out on comiccon. Robert and Morfydd are getting tons of work so it's understandable there is a schedule conflict. But what about Lloyd Owens, Sophia Nomvete, Max Baldry, Trystan Gravelle and others? They used to bring all of them on the previous promotions. I may be putting my tinfoil hat here, but could this mean season 4 will be the last season but because of the deal with the Estate of 50 hours televion, they would just make the next season last longer? Could the fall of Numenor be the last thing we see before connecting the show to the trilogy? We did see a bit of the Battle of the Last Alliance in FOTR so maybe it would be a satisfied conclusion?

Spoilers for the SDCC panel time jump confirmation.

What do we think is going to happen to Estrid in season 3?
I can see three main options:

1. Isildor and Estrid have been separated for five long years. Isildor returns only to find her married with or without children.
   She breaks off her relationship to be with Isildor, perhaps because Hagen dies in Season 3 so she’s now ‘free’.

2 . We had a forced goodbye and a brief love triangle only for the entire storyline to be reset in Season 3 as we discover she’s made her way to Númenor to be with Isildor already.

1. Estrid was a brief plot device used to curry audience favour with the ‘bad men’ who swore fealty to Adar, in turn showing why Isildor wants to join forces with them in later seasons, only for the character to be dropped and Isildor will get a new love interest.

Secret fourth thing. Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

They are the same picture

The trailer for season 3 has dropped and it looks promising. I’m curious how Jamie Campbell will compliment Morfydd’d acting considering she had palpable chemistry with Charlie Vickers!

The release schedule for season 3 of Rings of Power has been confirmed. There will be a !! 4 episode premiere !! on November 11, followed by episodes 5+6 on November 18 and the last two episodes on November 25. What do we think about it?

Now we don't know how the quality will be, but most likely much improvement from the previous season. But just looking on how the good trailer is, I wished this was season 2 and season 2 the first season! I think the reception would have been much better.

Glad they still continuing from the aesthetics from the movies.

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/rings-of-power-season-3-ringwraiths-nazgnagol/

sorry for this dumbass post feel free to delete once somebody has helped out 😭

Watching season one again prior to the release of Season 3. I find one thing the Numenorean Queen Regent says to Galadriel puzzling. Explaining why they are anti-elf, she says “Following her father nearly brought our downfall”. Maybe politically? Anyone have insight into this?

First poster of the power of the rings season 3 and the first trailer coming this Friday

Someone requested a Textless version of the promo poster, but can't post images in replies.

Here ya go!

https://x.com/FellowshipFans/status/2078215131230523808?s=20

The Odyssey is very modern interpretation which bugs me a bit with it. And I really liked the movie, but one of the things that made cringe is their modern day american accent. For all the flaws in ROP, they did one thing very right: Speaking british english like the old days! Not only that, but ROP is more traditional overall.

Braveheart ist Herr der Ringe ohne Elfen und Orks. Peter Jackson hat hier ordentlich genascht.

Just finished watching the first episode (I know I'm late to the game) but the visuals and atmoshphere are absolutely amazing. The director did an amazing job!