s02e04 — Eldest

I just watched the new episode of Eldest. This time the series is a bit chaotic, maybe because it is very full of different events and new characters. And someone is just not here : and new halflings :) and the wives of the Ents, and the dead, and the amazing Tom Bombadil! I am so glad that the creators of the series showed him as I recognize him from the Professor's books. He is both a funny man and a songwriter, and mysterious and wise.

I am increasingly sticking to the version that Istar and the Evil Wizard are Blue Magicians who appeared back in Middle-earth in the 2nd epoch (according to Tolkien). The creators of the series decided to make them a kind of prototype of the relationship between Gandalf and Saruman.

There is a lot of dark memory of the past in this series, which awakens and tightens around one center. The gloom, the horror intensifies, pumping up a heavy premonition. It is sad to see the ongoing conflict between Elrond and Galadriel.

In general, the series keeps in suspense, although a little chaotic.

I didn't understand how the elf managed to persuade the trees to let people go. I just told the trees unrelated phrases and they were like, "let them go."

So he's a great big Grand-Efl...

The first film incarnation of Tom Bombadil... For once 😂😂😂

"Have you ever touched a green tree with an axe?"
- No, Of course not! (he didn't ask about the saw...)

The picture is always on top!
The plot is gaining momentum! And then it seemed that the first 3 episodes were being handed over to the first season
Did you really not understand how the elves got away from the dead?
And just thought that Galadriel was a bit of a rag this season, as the ending shook her up)

Over time, the series is still a mess. While Elrond, Galya and their squad are winding hundreds of kilometers on foot through the forests, a couple of days pass in other lines.
Most of all in the series I liked the interaction of the Wanderer and Tom Bombadil. I was surprised to realize that the role of the latter, it turns out, was taken by Rory Kinnear, and he is an excellent actor. Interest in this character immediately grew))
The scene with the ents was also not bad. Otherwise, it's neither shaky nor loose. Action, maybe, would have diluted the atmosphere, but the elves walked with painfully lean faces, there was no desire to worry about them. Although the scene where Arondir and Isildur were sucked into the mud was normal.

of course, the actress grace Orlando Bloom is missing, the scene with the orcs looks somehow clumsy and unnatural

- Hey, did two half-breeds run through here?
- Nope!
- Well, lan, we'll go then

The logic has left the chat, but at least because of the atmosphere it's nice to watch)

The deaths came out quite at the level, except that these burials in Tirn Gortad will arise in about fifteen hundred years.

Bombadil at first glance is not bad, there is a necessary and inherent eccentricity in it.

It's a shame that one elf from the squad died, but it was understandable even when they had to go through the forest (But I thought that the ring would save someone. At first, Galadriel was very pleased with the sincere conversation with Elrond in the middle of the series, but in the end he was offended at her again at the end, eh (Well, don't make up, you don't, you like their friendship so much (
In the end, I thought that Halbrand would appear, but then Adar drove up, it's funny who will be against whom now that everything is in contention, I hope Galadriel will still get to Celebrimbor
While season 2 has sunk into my soul more than the first, but not by events, but by some kind of sincerity, I've been waiting for a new series all week, it hasn't been like this for a long time
And there was a very touching scene between a tree with flowers and an elf, it just took my soul away

Soooo, what the hell! The burial grounds, which were quiet throughout the Second Epoch and the Numenorians buried their kings here after the Exodus, too, and only the Angmar sorcerer raised the Dead strongly in the Third Epoch, suddenly came to life??? What's with the out-of-phase timeline? Otherwise, it was interesting, although the same problems remain).

As for the series, there is no plot movement. A set of individual investigative situations is no more.

Only the very last scene can have any effect on the plot. And maybe the creators will follow the path, the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Adar will form an alliance with Galadriel against Sauron. Like my orcs don't want to take over the land, they just want to live in Mordor and that's it, and Sauron will interfere with both ours and yours, as they say.

Why do they put Saruman (if that's him) on the dark side so directly. Why Bombed so head-on immediately says that he is the oldest being. Can't it be served in a more delicate way? Or the creators consider the audience of the series to be completely stupid.

Из хорошего: новая укладка Элронда.

Деревня стуров понравилась в целом и тема с Землёй обетованной тоже.

Том Бомбадил - делатель волшебников. активно тусящий в политической гуще событий? Сомнительно, но ладно.
Внешне он прям канонический, но я не верю этому актёру. У него глаза неприятного человека, высокомерного и совсем уж невесёлого.

Эпизод с энтицей... вау... лепесточки вместо ресничек, ага, понятно... эльф из Белерианда разговаривает с существом, пробуждённным эльфами же на заре времён - на Синдарине... ладно... никакой логики в её действиях, а ну да. она же девочка.
Нет, просто нет

Человеческие умертвия, на изи мочканувшие эльфа?

И Галадриэль собрала себе всех мало-мальски эльфоподобных мальчиков Средиземья, отлично, пусть у них в финальной серии будет дуэль XD

Why did the elves run on foot? 😅 this question has been tormenting me all series 🤣

It's a beautiful picture, after all, I really like it, even some plot downtime gets away with it.

"We don't have a home" 🤧😢😭

The scene with the trees is insanely touching♥

For me, the further into the forest, the more firewood there is: a terrible action movie at the level of films of the 90s, the absence of racially faithful dead (do you have a 100% agenda or what?!), very strange ents that outwardly, that according to the logic of the narrative, etc.D. Of the advantages, only Tom Bombadil is not a Negro, and thanks a lot from the distant Russian Federation for that . 😏

I liked the dead, the beautiful guys. in their atmosphere, I wanted to call the Winchesters, they know exactly what to do with these handsome men.

so while a group of elves were sitting in ambush and whispering, one was shot by an orc? but what about the famous elven hearing/smell/what else is there? Have the Orcs become so quiet?

and Sauron's zero in the series ((
the episode seemed hectic and aimless, as if everyone got lost at once and walked the whole series. dialogues about nothing. Tom Bombadil only made me happy.

Elrrrrrrrronod, Kelimbrbrbrbrrrrrrrrrr
Why does everyone else talk normally, but she can't do it))

Do they specifically cover themselves with mud?

"You're wrong, she's saving the ring."
Well, cool, cool. That was a really good quote.

I like the chemistry between Isildur and this girl, and in general Isildur has matured this season, I even see something Aragoronian in him. Not like in Elendil, of course)

"You're wrong, she's saving the ring."
Well, cool, cool. That was a really good quote.

I like the chemistry between Isildur and this girl, and in general Isildur has matured this season, I even see something Aragoronian in him. Not like in Elendil, of course)

I did not expect to hear a joke here about "1-B-4" straight from "Home Alone" (alas, the joke did not survive any of the famous translations of the film into Russian). 🤔

The elves in the forest are just gene Z, from whom the drunkard took away the iPhones 🤣🤣🤣

Can't sleep? Watch Merry Harfoot Adventures, that will knock you right off your feet with its striking boredom. 😴

And Galadriel is well done, they noticed how she chose elves to join her squad in a modern way, a negro elf and an Asian elf. I hope she chose based on useful skills, and not for racial diversity. She will definitely be hired at Netflix part-time =)

А вот и первый обзор на 2-й сезон 😏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNzi9wqeuc

How nice to see Tom, the Ents, the Wildling from Game of Thrones, if Elrond had played Wandering in Middle-Earth, he would have known that the stolen elf could have been saved 😿

This series suffers from scenes that look very cropped. The guys with the skulls came to the local hobbits, asked a question, got an affirmative No, turned around and left. Well, at least they would have searched the village for decency.
The Afro-Elf got along with the local ents very quickly. I can't think of a better way to make this scene. Probably just to explain that we are not enemies. Captured people too, and all the troubles were brought to you by the orcs. We also have questions for them. And again, the Afro-Elf would have a reason to leave the camp and go for revenge. His woman was killed, and Adar was on a hike, which means it will be easier to get him than in a fortified camp. But no, it's some kind of stupid oath. What for? Why so much pathos? But the plot of Sauron elves pleases. The villain set traps so that it would not be so easy for the heroes to get to the blacksmith. The only thing that confuses the luck of the heroes. They found the murdered messenger as if Middle-Earth was not huge, but literally a backyard of 6 acres. In such a vast territory, to go out to the cemetery and find problems there is a super-enlightenment. To find a dead messenger is already... not bad luck, but pianos in the bushes.
It's with such little things that the relationship is built. Apparently the screenwriters are still so-so. The global plot is good (because it was not invented by them), but there are questions about their work. I'm still silent about the canon. You can see right here that people are burning with local porridge, inaccuracies and alterations.

Before that, it was tolerable. But there was trouble for me, of course. Fuck it, we need female bad copies of Frodo and Sam. Fuck this settlement at all. And where does this fucking desert come from, which has never been shown in 6 films. Are elves elves? Who is this anyway? Wildly stupid people wearing headphones. The history of people is a mess and this black elf is also stupid. Tom Bombadil saved the series for me. He even talks really cool, he says, but your insides are warming up. The new Gandalf is not yet clear, he does not understand himself and I do not understand him. We are waiting for him to understand and I will understand.

When Nori talks about the Wanderer, the dark-skinned leader calls him great big Grand-Elf. I don't know if this consonance was chosen on purpose or not, but I appreciated it!

Am I the only one confused by the devaluation of the characters in this series? Sometimes Sauron makes a speech so that the orcs will follow him, then Galadriel is treated like a simple elf, although she is superior in origin to almost all the elves shown earlier.

The person who came up with the scene with the monster from the swamp obviously played the witcher from the bottom of his heart

Boring. I rewind it periodically. The arch with these two hobbits is already tiring. Their dialogues are not interesting at all

Against the Orcs Leo Tolstoy, against the elves ... simple 🙈

Such a shameful greenscreen in the bridge scene. There's so much of him here, and he's still as conspicuous as he was in the first season.
Galadriel with dark hair roots and shatush coloring is such a Spanish shame... The casting of elves is almost all bad (I still like Elrond as an image, a great elf), but it's just a combo: it doesn't fit the role outwardly, and it plays disgustingly, and also the main character. It's just impossible to watch.

Is Rory Kinnear playing Tom? Well, wow. I barely recognized him in that beard.

It seems that Tom is God himself in this universe.

I don't know about you, but I just get high from watching, diving back into the 2000s, when I ran to movie premieres in packed cinemas. Especially when the music in the credits is in the last seconds, well, it just gets so warm in my soul. I don't give a damn about all these "non-canon", please continue the story.

And at the end Rufus Wainwright sings about Tom 😑

How terrible the Elves look in this series, they spoil the whole picture. Shaggy, dirty, clumsy… Remembering Legolaza, who for a months-long campaign with the brotherhood of the ring always looked perfect, shone all the way, ran ahead as if he barely touched the ground ... this should be an elf, an almost unearthly deity, and not that's all

I only came in because I found it on the most viewed lists. Are you people serious? This is how undemanding you need to be in order not to throw such a boring dull action back in the first season. The question is rhetorical.

So far, it's going better than the first season (I was just trying to force it). But I agree, the casting is quite unsuccessful, many actors did not get into the roles, and just some unpleasant ones (for example, a wildling girl who has sympathies with Isildur)

Wow, an extremely intense series! Mentioning Saruman, Shira, enta, Mortification, Bombadil, very cool!

Elves are not elves, which is sickening. Where is their sophistication and angelicness 😭😭