WATCH: The Rings of Prime – Sound and fury, signifying nothing
J R Leach
As the global machine steamrolls through entertainment at the same relentless pace as it does everything else, we invite you to explore the pitfalls of storytelling to today’s ‘modern audience’ and its impact, or lack thereof, on our cultural landscape.
Here is a breakdown of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Adapted from an article by the same author, published back in September 2022, this video delves into the series’ missteps and poor artistry, its politically charged, race-baiting marketing campaign and the broader implications of what it means for ‘modern entertainment’.
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JR Leach is a fantasy author and graphic designer whose debut novel The Farmer and the Fald is available here. You can follow him on Twitter or Substack and see more of his work on his website
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Much ado about nothing.
Oh man are you lot still banging on about Rings of Power 😆😆😆
It’s the first time anyone mentioned rings of power.
About twenty years ago, a friend of mine who doesn’t normally rave about fantasy films told me that Peter Jackson’s newly released adaptation of The Lord Of The Rings was absolutely stunning and that I should go and see it.
However, I’d never read The Lord Of The Rings, and decided that watching these films would be a poor substitute for doing so, irrespective of how spectacular the films might be. I did not want someone’s interpretation of Tolkien’s work — I wanted to read it for myself. And so I picked up a copy of The Hobbit in a local charity shop and began reading that, since I knew that it was an easier introduction to Middle Earth.
Fast-forward to this year, when I finally finished The Lord Of The Rings — I don’t know exactly how many years it took me to do so (I guess about ten). It’s not that I read slowly: I deliberately read it sparingly in order to savour the experience. And I am glad that I did: it is a masterpiece. No doubt Peter Jackson’s epic deserved the accolades it received, but now that I’ve read the books themselves I do not wish to watch it.
…And I certainly won’t be wasting my time on inane modern spin-offs of Tolkien’s work. The poor fellow must be turning in his grave at what they’re doing.
No, should I feel like plunging again into Middle Earth, I’ll buy a copy of The Silmarillion…
Your point being?
Terry Pratchett claims to have read the entire trilogy in about 26 hours, falling asleep with the book on his lap and then waking up to finish it.
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Lest we forget..
A parallel Olympic medal list for our beloved politicians.
Pretty thorough critique I thought. Woke political ideology ruins any suspended disbelief and emotionally irritates as does all crappy predictable formulaic script. I’ll give this a miss.
Absolutely amateurish, lousy, incompetent, full of historical and factual errors and failures, both the 3-4 books and also ALL the films.
If only they had asked me in person BEFORE they made all their own bs, both the books and the films could have had much much more professionalism,
autismArt’ism, intelligent, and historical correct content and therefore much more value for our little global village.I was personally chocked by the low quality when the “Lord of the Rings” came out.
The Lord of the Rings:
from what I recall the Tolkien family estate including Tolkien son where also very upset by the The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
critique of a critique when the 1st critique was shit according to his own family.
The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London riots, were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011. Thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, which saw looting and arson, as well as mass deployment of police and the deaths of five people.
Most peaceful though – unlike this last weekend which was somewhere between the March on Rome and Kristallnacht if the corporate media are to be believed.
With regards to the latest unrest in Britain the UK regime is going to call an emergency COBRA meeting.
They are milking this for all its worth, it seems the old mantra of ‘never let a good opportunity go to waste’ applies. A few rioters and isolated civil unrest is hardly an ’emergency’.
If that was not enough, Humza Useless sniffing the chance to up his points score in the totalitarian sweepstakes calls for the army to be mobilised. A man who cannot stay upright on a child’s scooter without falling off it, thinks that would be a good idea. He clearly has not received the memo that states the ‘totalitarian tip toe’ is the name of the game. To end up with a police state perhaps but not a military coup d’etat, at least not yet.
Even the most hard of thinking would surely have a Eureka moment if the controllers ordered their minions to jump the gun by skipping the usual steps en-route to the totalitarian ‘utopia’.
Maybe they hired Nostradamus to tell them to empty the prisons ?
OT There goes my dinner !
https://news.sky.com/story/greece-bans-movement-of-goats-and-sheep-to-combat-spread-of-goat-plague-13187161
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13709131/British-farming-African-swine-fever-UK-Dover-pigs.html
All countries to impose a ban on all food products due to deadly food plague!
All countries to impose a ban on water due to recent scientific discovery that drinking is bad for you.
All countries to impose a ban on breathing since it threatens the planet.
To secure the quality control of safe food and water, it will all be made in laboratories in the future. Bad food and bad water, never again!
The holy circular economy and Soylent Green. After crushing any scope for the historically proven small-scale economy.
Probably better than the water in Paris.
OT but the Southport matter becomes ever clearer. Allow mass immigration, stage an outrage, feed the flames, provoke riots. The bit about whether the perpetrator was a Muslim might even be irrelevant. He was black and that’s enough. And the connection with “Children in need” is also handy since it provides a delicious juxtaposition between killer and kids.
I predict a podium:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13708405/Rioters-reckoning-far-right-mobs-Home-Secretary-online.html
“Britain teetering on the brink of nationwide chaos”
They’re loving this. Indeed that headline is so clearly what they would like to be true that, just like the covid crap, it’s their own construct.
It’s always the same: there’s got to be a war, a plague, a breakdown, whatever – that serves as a pretext for whatever bully boy tactics they then enact.
I’m a bit nervous about this.
The crisis must now be continued to its conclusion.
Army as a back up or full martial law ?
Have they read the room or are they really as dogmatic as they pretend ?
My fear is escalation without the skills from government necessary to manage it.
Your fear should be, government managing anything.
The fiat scheme is sold out. Only a nice little WWIII can resolve it.
Thats the way it is. Nobody can do anything other than running around in the streets, looting, burning, killing before getting killed yourself.
We read a few early reviews and, since there is a very low tolerance for bad movies in our household, gave the series a wide miss. What I gained from video review here is that it seems script writing is a lost art. Like everything else in the entertainment industry, you do not have to have talent to get a gig. You just have to be connected. These two script writers were simply out of their depth. To top it off, when the execrable script is hammering away at gratuitous woke themes, there simply is no room for anything approaching the quality of their model. Life’s too short to waste time with bad movies.
Videos are a waste of time too. Is someone has a point, he should just spit it out. Unless it is just “hints and allegations”.
More turd polishing oh boy. Don’t subscribe to Hellywierd or Pedowood, don’t feed those vile animals…
According to ourhead spooks, Australia is ‘probable’ for a terrorist attack.
SICK PRICKS.
Sounds like they are telling you what they are about to do to you,
I think they call that “Spook foreplay”…
The Christchurch (NZ) terrorist attack produced a novel response: a global ban, at least among the allied governments, of any video of the incident. Somebody had messed up.
Same model as the UK. Airdrop many different cultures onto the same post code and provide them with different levels of privileges, this rubs them up against each other.
Next, perform a false flag event and get one of their minions to incite it. For example, tommy robinson, or in Australia’s case his partner in crime avi yemini. Another buff head with too much to say about Israel and forever holding out his begging bowl.
Finally, government (not the real one, the corporate one.) comes in mob handed to put out the flames and implement new legislation to limit your freedoms further.
They really are trying their upmost to shut us up. Trying to contain us in forums such as this one. However, the information is spilling out to the point that even the thickest amongst us knows enough not to trust them. They now have resort to force and force alone, that’s what is has now come to and they know it.
Bit like the jab. Have the jab, but be quick there is not enough to go around. Have the jab, and we will give you time off work. Have the jab, and we will give you a pizza voucher. Look, have the jab or you will not be able to shop here. You better have the jab or you will loose you job. Listen you little prick, have the fucking jab else we will label you a domestic terrorist.
Have the jab or you will be one of the most irresponsible.
‘Every newborn hoomin comes equipped with the ability
to fully communicate, without words – but, to get a hearing
they must learn a language (artefact).’ … (anon) …
“We have forgotten everything, yet we still sense it in all of us.”
(Gustav Landauer)…
Internet doesn’t work now
https://x.com/YouFuckingIdio9/status/1742137941776904324
opmoc doesn’t work now
The re-rendering of mythic archetypes of power struggle that corrupts & lays waste to a mythic renunciation of the will to power runs subversive to the world that operates as power by coercion and deceit. So of course it will be subverted!
Just as any witness for or agency of truth is denied, subverted or killed.
However- the choice as to see or discern truth is alive within us in the same way as sketched out in story. Story can carry deeper levels of communication with which the freedom of the reader can open facets of their own insight & awareness.
Tolkien did not engage in allegory, but in true fairy stories.
That a story cannot replace or define living truth does not mean the ability to tell stories cannot be dedicated to serve the dis-spelling of ideological capture by which a technologism of fear-defined & grievance based thought becomes the means to enslave under systems capture masking as (inevitable & unstoppable) progress.
Fascinating video. I never had the “pleasure” of seeing this turd but I think the key lies in that comment about the chasm between the gargantuan sums of dosh invested and the final result. The suspicion arises: did that comedy team entrusted with the funds pocket 90% of it for a round-the-world cruise whilst leaving a few corporate woke nerds in charge of actually directing it? Or maybe the dosh was invested in multiple covid/climate/trans scams?
I recall picking up on one of the Pullman Dark Materials film outings and noting how his Gyptians – who were obviously based on “Gyspies” i.e. a Romani people – had somehow been transformed into the usual nondescript multi-cultural soup. And I wonder if at some point down the line, someone will object to the Orcs being ugly and therefore prejudice against Orcs and then we will be subjected to Orcs of all shapes and sizes with a few beauties thrown in?
Is there not also shades of J J Abrams and Star Trek? Abrams knew nothing of ST and didn’t give a fuck. So he had his original outing conveniently slide into a parallel universe where he could basically make up shit of his own.
The point is the same for the Rings and Trek: that all the investors want is to use the names of a fictional juggernaut to rope in the punters who, once roped in, can be dumped with any old bollocks. And even the screams of rage from the punters when they have realised they’ve been duped can be used to generate more dosh.
https://www.facebook.com/dailygondor/
In reality the Orcs are the good guys because they are fighting for something, while the hobbit, the clans and the elvish are only pretenders who dont really mean it! Hypocrites!!
One of the few remaining ‘freedoms’ I notice in the UK is the freedom NOT to expose oneself to ‘global machine entertainment’. It’s perfectly possible NOT to watch Gogglebox, Eastenders, any of the frankly tedious ‘game shows’ etc etc. It’s perfectly possible ot continue to read classical literature from previous centuries, to enjoy ‘classical’ music written in the 16th-20th centuries, to NOT listen to ‘pop music’ channels etc etc.
Plenty of cultures have existed that separated themselves from ‘mainstream’ cultures they deemed incompatible with their own value system.
Simply withdrawing from ‘globalist imposed nonsense’ is very, very easy. As easy as not taking vaccines, not paying for Amazon Prime, boycotting supermarkets, not going on holiday to Torremolinos or the like.
Some works of art, music and literature are perfect unto themselves, expressing as they do a part of the soul of their creator. There is no way we will accept this bowdlerisation and bastardisation as anything other than what it is. A travesty. Pathetic.
My enlightened primary school headmistress turned me on to the Hobbit at 8 years old. I badgered Lord of the Rings out of my parents the following year. I have written published articles for Tolkien magazines. 67 years of returning periodically to the feet of the Master.
Words like ‘lowest common denominator’ spring to mind.
‘You can’t touch this.’
You are describing my life! Tips for anxiety reduction:
Just think, if you got rid of your telly you’d be spared all those detestable big-heads on talk shows and panel discussions, spouting the orthodoxy du jour. Also of course the lies and pabulum spewed out by the broadcasters to keep the peasants docile. My advice, therefore is as follows:
Get rid of your telly!
I remember being mesmerised by that awe inspiring trilogy more than fifty years ago.
I’m now inspired to read them again.
Thanks JR.
Haha Member berries…. “I remember.” Great review. I haven’t watched the show. Nor would I. However, I am glad Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars making it if only because it spawned this humorous review. Money well spent.
Amazon needs a rebrand:
Turdathon?
Poxathon?
Sludgathon?
Arsendathon?
(Yours here).
Amazon embody an old con: they pull out the stops to provide an initial impressive service with decent search engine an space for customer reviews with comment threads permitted …. and then after a couple of decades when they have eliminated the competition (and destroyed God knows how many local businesses) they axe their own services.
Thus their search engine is so shitty that you’d be better just using another such engine with “Amazon” as one of the terms, Their customer reviews are harder to find and the enormous (and enormously helpful) comment threads were all axed in one fell blow – resulting in decades of enjoyable back-and-forth discussion being instantaneously disappeared.
Damnazon