"There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world." 👇
It's so bad.
I know Elrond has plot armor, but dang that fall looked bad!!
Beyond the bad acting and the poor dialogue, you can already see where Amazon wants to take the story here.
Even if you aren't a Tolkien nerd, it's important to understand how the wokies twist all good stories to fit their own cultish religion.
Before we get to that, the elves in Tolkien's story crafted their rings of power - Vilya, Narya, and Nenya - to protect against decay and the ravages of time ("to preserve all things unstained").
Sauron had no part in making them, but in Amazon's show, Sauron actually gave them the freaking idea.
In Tolkien's writings, Galadriel and Elrond were secondary characters who weren't involved in the making of the rings (Galadriel had moved to Lorien by then). The Dark Lord Sauron, appearing like an angel of light, had come to teach the elves the art of smithing, and worked with them for centuries to hone their craft without anyone knowing who he was.
And yet in the first season of the show, Galadriel learns who he is almost immediately ... then lets him go and doesn't report him to anyone.
In Amazon's universe, she knows that Sauron directly helped to make the elvish rings of power, lets Sauron go, then tells Elrond that they shouldn't destroy them??
Remind me who the villain of this show is again?
(Oh, but I forgot, in this season, Sauron is basically unrecognizable as a blonde!)
In Tolkien's lore, the elves never wanted to use the rings to defeat Sauron. They had made them to heal and preserve. It was only after Sauron put on his One Ring that they realized they had been fooled, and were forced to hide their rings because no one could defeat the Lord of the Rings with his own craft.
And perhaps that's where Amazon wants to go - the idea that you can't use evil to overcome evil - but it falls flat on its face.
It's important to remember that Amazon is woke.
WOKE woke.
So when I tell you that wokeness has infiltrated the writing of their shows, especially a pet project from Jeff Bezos himself, believe me.
In the eyes of the woke, all power is oppressive. There is no tangible evil except for oppression and the systems that enable it. These systems must be dismantled by "doing the work," which will free the oppressed.
I imagine this is what our intersectional elf friend is doing in this scene:
Then, in true Marxist fashion, the commies will make everyone equal in a perfect world where everyone shares and has the same amount of power as anyone else.
But Tolkien didn't believe that hogwash. Tolkien was a Christian, and a Catholic to boot - a man who believed deeply in the importance of hierarchy and tradition and the right of divine authority.
Tolkien knew that people, like his fictional elves, wish they could slow the decay of our own world. He knew well the words of the Apostle Paul in the 8th chapter of his letter to the church in Rome:
...all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
The world groans under the passage of time and the spread of decay. We have eternity in our hearts, but we are cursed to understand the entropy around us (what Kamala Harris might call "the significance of the passage of time").
Our hands grow older and more feeble. What is beautiful fades and dies.
The hubris of the elves was that they thought they could renew the world through their own craft. Their desire to protect and beautify the world was twisted by Sauron for his own ends.
But only the King can make the world new.
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