Drinker's Chasers - The Rings of Power Is a PR Disaster

LOTR elves are elegant and refined. They wouldn't be caught dead in a pose like this, let alone a female elf.

Don’t buy into “watch it before judging.” It is THEIR job to entice you to watch the show and right now, no one is remotely enticed to look in Amazon’s direction

"Don't expect the same Galadriel." They probably think Tolkien's Galadriel was just a weak wallflower, instead of an immensely powerful being who simply had self control and so didn't use her powers. She literally had a scene demonstrating that she could've taken the ring from Frodo and been even more powerful than Sauron, but she didn't

1. Not only would Galadriel never sit like that, male elves wouldn’t either. 2. Why do the Hobbits look like they are from the slums of London? The Hobbits as a race have never been dirt poor. They have always been able to do well for themselves and are incredibly neat and tidy. 3. We all know what the issue is with the Dwarf cover.

I could only imagine the horror on Tolkien's face if he could see how an American corporation mutilated his lifework

"Dont expect the same Galadriel." See, now THAT right there is the problem.

Me: "I don't think Celeborn is even appearing in the Amazon Series" My friend: "Good for him, they spared him the indignity"

The marketing strategy for these companies is to say “if you don’t like this stuff, there’s something wrong with you”, which is never a successful strategy.

"Nah, it will be fine." I'm sure they'll just insult the fandom and call us all toxic women hating man babies. They'll do great.

We could spent days talking about how bad this is but it's simple. Tolkien would not have written young Galadriel to be like an 2022 tiktok activist. And that's where this ends for me

You know , even Lenny Henry himself, in a stand-up skit in the 90s, spoke about attending an all-black-cast production of HAMLET alongside an African ambassador (Nigerian possibly, can't remember the exact country) , and the ambassador says, " What the f*** are all these black people doing in Denmark?" Is nobody considering how ridiculous this pandering is to people outside their box?

Galadriel is feminine. Strong, intelligent. Deterrmined. But feminine. "Don't expect the same Galadriel!" Yeah. She's gone masculine. Instead of showing how feminine traits are equally heroic as masculine, she's showing how you have to become masculine to compete. An unpaid but positive critique is valuable and comes over as honest. But a paid-for positive critique is automatically suspect and a paid-for but negative critique can be absolutely genuine. Even if - in the unlikely event - the series turns out good or great, it'll be forever tarnished by this lousy promotion disaster.

3 words come to mind...."Out of Touch." And I'm so sick of multi-Billion dollar companies telling me what I should like & what I shouldn't.

The writers don’t understand the character of Galadriel. Her story is quite intriguing - leaving home with her brothers, learning magic from an angel/god, and learning the hard lessons that allowed her to outlive her family. But OK: make her a man.

The first 2 questions you ask of someone you're hiring to repaint the Mona Lisa are: 1-Are you a good painter? 2-Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa? Apparently, they forgot to ask those questions of these creators.

1:30 Galadriel was intimidating in the Lord of the rings, a very powerful and stern yet very feminine woman. This portrayal of Galadriel as some swashbuckling Barbarian borders on farcical

For $1 billion, Amazon could’ve spent that money paying its warehouse workers more and treating them better rather than on this show.

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

Galadriel. Graceful, Poised, Respected, influential, feminine. "Let's have her dressed up like a dude and squatting like a Slav"

“Watch it before judging”.. “Just eat that manure, don’t judge it before you try some.” 😂