Episode 40: Rings of Power Nerd Review

About this episode

The episode reviews Amazon's The Rings of Power, discussing both its strengths and weaknesses.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

• Rings of Power
• Tolkien Universe
• Sauron
• Silmarils
• Mount Doom
• Howard Shore
• Bear McCreary

Keywords

• cinematic review
• Tolkien
• ret-conning
• Mordor
• pyroclastic flow

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Rings of Power Nerd Review, The Rings of Power, The Song of the Roots of Hithaeglir, The Silmarillion, Pharazon, The Consecration to St. Joseph for Children and Families, Bible

Places: Mount Doom, Mordor, Numenor

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