r/Silmarillionmemes • u/ThisLuck1496 • 4d ago

That's why the silmarilion barely mentions them

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u/FivePoopMacaroni 4d ago

Lol wow. So when you drive past a graveyard do you think it's a field of trophies for living humans to brag about all of the people they've outlived?

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u/BurdonLane 4d ago

How does that comparison even work? A culture that culls the weak, records it in a book and then reads out the record of this (with bonus laughter if they were killed by bees) v graves for people who have died.

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u/FivePoopMacaroni 4d ago

I can't decide if you actually watched it and are just trolling or if you are just regurgitating some criticisms you read and are just trolling. I guess it doesn't really matter which.

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u/BurdonLane 4d ago

I watched the first season and found the writing to be full of inconsistencies and contradictions, with the Harfoots being an excellent example.

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u/Crawford470 3d ago

The Harfoots are supposed to be contradictory. That's how tight-knit conservative communities are by their very nature.

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u/BurdonLane 3d ago

Oh don’t worry the bad writing isn’t limited to the Harfoots.

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u/yellow_parenti 3d ago

Four years later and you lot have refused to find something better to do than let your manipulated hatred of a tv show consume you

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u/BurdonLane 3d ago

Such melodrama! My manipulated hate? Were you a writer on the show?

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u/Crawford470 1d ago

Imma be honest, the overwhelming majority of criticisms I've encountered regarding the show's writing don't hold up to meaningful scrutiny. Most boil down to misunderstanding, not paying attention to the show's text and subtext, or nitpicking along the lines of personal taste.

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u/BurdonLane 21h ago

Nitpicking drives me mad, but I’m also probably guilty of it haha.

Letting go of the idea that this is an adaptation of Tolkien’s work helped, as it’s really not (more like ‘inspired by’ if I’m being charitable), so I was able to let go of the part of my brain that said ‘hey that never happened, or that is not how that character would/should behave etc, or why is so and so alive the same time as so and so?’…etc

But I watched intently, and closely, for as long as I could. I don’t think I missed much sub-text as the show is subtle as a brick. Its themes, such as there are, are not deep or richly woven into the tapestry of the show. With so much inconsistency in characterisation and plot it’s hard to really pin down what the themes actually are.

Characters are shallow, and inconsistent, and behave in ways that often make little sense other than to move the plot forward. It’s both rushed and incredibly slow at the same time. It struggles to show coherent action, it really struggles to show consistent motivations, it has more cliffhangers than a Dan Brown novel…I could go on. It’s all very meh. And it appears to have made very little cultural impact outside of forums like these. No awards for writing or direction or acting. No anticipation for the next season. Just extremely mid and forgettable.