Episode 40: Rings of Power Nerd Review

The Good, Bad, and the Idiocy -- another Good ol' fashioned
Catholic Nerd-Out about the newest cinematic offering from the
Tolkien Universe: Amazon's The Rings of Power. So many things to
love. Alas, so many more things to grunt and grumble about. Here
are our Top 5 Love & Top 5 Hate of the Rings of Power. Here
are some of the many topics we dive into: 


[SPOILER ALERT!!]


When we figured out which character was Sauron 

The ret-conning catastrophe of the Silmarils and mithril,
"The Song of the Roots of Hithaeglir," based on Amazon not having
copyright to any of The Silmarillion  

The weird Rube-Goldberg machine creation of Mount Doom and
Mordor and how pyroclastic flow works or doesn't work ...

Howard Shore returns! sort of ... the God of War composer,
Bear McCreary

What's next? Charlie Vickers' accidentally lays out the
entire plotline of the next 4 ROP seasons in a Vanity Fair
interview, plus Pharazon and the rise of Sauron/Satan worship in
Numenor (how will they make this anti-Christian?) 

The screenwriters, J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay, and their
unfortunate "mystery-box" J. J. Abrams style of writing

The non-Catholic paganism/animism mutation of the Tolkien
mythos  

"One does not merely ..." try to mimic Tolkien's writing;
stupid lines abound   



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