remember to do your part by giving Amazon’s Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

this is one post i actually wouldn’t be mad about it blowing up. i want as many people in on this Morb as possible. i’ll suffer the notes.

in response to your tags, basically, a while back, Amazon the soulless megacorp acquired the rights to some portion of Tolkien’s Middle Earth lore. As someone more heavily in the LotR online fan circles, we all immediately knew it would be terrible and hold no respect for the source material, by dint of it being Amazon.

And true tof form, they decided to do the worst possible low effort job of making a show out of it. Grave mistakes include adding sexual content (very not-Tolkien), rewriting characters just cause they feel like it (turning an elegant, powerful sorceress into a warrior and a wise leader into an “ambitious” go getter), none of the male elves have long hair (and hair is a HUGE part of Elvish culture), party city looking costumes, general low effort all around, and egregious inaccuracies a la Amazon the Soulless Corporation essentially just trying to make Tolkien’s work more palatable for Game of Thrones fans rather than putting effort into just letting it be what LotR fans actually like about it.

Each new promo material makes it worse and worse, and more obvious that no one making it cares at all, hence why we want the Morb treatment to make it flop and show Amazon the fans won’t stand for them trying to just GoT-ify other beloved properties and stray so far from the source material when they could make something original instead

Holy crap, that sounds awful! Also just like something Amazon would do. I’m so sorry. I will happily spread your message to my followers. 

There’s also the part about how they started filming it in New Zealand because, you know, Middle Earth is kinda a cottage industry there thanks to the films? A major driver of jobs, tourism, and popular culture which New Zealanders have proudly embraced as a little piece of their national identity?

But then extremely seasoned stunt actors kept complaining about unsafe work practices during the filming of Rings, which they considered particularly egregious on that kind of budget. Their complaints were ignored. There were multiple serious injuries, some requiring surgery. Amazon failed to report these incidents to New Zealand’s WorkSafe program as required by law.

Finally, it pulled out of filming in New Zealand altogether, a costly move for both Amazon and New Zealand, and relocated the production to the UK where worker safety rules are far more lax.

If you ever thought they were taking it seriously as Tolkien work, the fact they punted their Tolkien consultant and specialist says a great deal. They want to have a new GoT. They don’t care what that means.

Holy shit I hope the Tolkien esate goes for their throat

unfortunately since we lost Christopher, I don’t think there’s anyone left who cares. Amazon had to get the rights from someone after all…. and they announced RoP almost immediately after he died

Never forget Tolkien’s own words regarding poor adaptations/bastardizations of his work:

And never forget they fired Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey because he told them they were “polluting the lore” and it didn’t set well with them.

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Thank you for this, it’s a very good breakdown of other things I hadn’t covered.

also remember that there was that leak of how the future of amazon prime hinges entirely on how well rop does.

the best lord of the rings thing ive seen is the headcanon that gimli is like Prince Tier of beauty for dwarves and is absolutely stunning and legolas is like, for an elf, absolute butt ugly like relatively and everyones always like gimli how could you marry such a shit tier ugly ass elf and gimli is like ach.. nae…i love him

This shit is too dope

Dont watch lord of the rings high off your tits. This shit will blow your mind away. God look at those little guys go

is there a way to queue a post directly into your mind because i want to remember this post at least once every hour for the rest of my life

Gimli & Legolas sketch that went too far

even now at the end of the world

babygirl.. dont be dead. be alive

legolas has no sex appeal to me i dont get straight women hes like a chihauha to me. i want to put him in my purse on public transport

How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?

#where's the fic where bilbo returns with thorin in tow and no one bats an eye#like#'he married a dwarf did he? well he always was an odd fellow'#'good day to you master dwarf how's your husband?'#and thorin is just ?????#'how do they know i'm courting him? did he show them the mithril shirt?'#just give me all the hilarious culture clashes ok

@finegoddamnit​ how dare you hide this in the tags

so that whole time merry, pippin, sam, and frodo are gone the whole shire is losing their minds arguing over who married who.

changing pronouns role on discord to microdose on transitioning

Argonath... the gate of kings.

Part 2/2 of my lotr marathon sketchdump! Happy new year everyone

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the fangorn forest! > the glittering caves

the glittering caves! > the fangorn forest

christian furries call those evanjellicle cats