I’ve been studiously avoiding looking at it because all new evidence suggests that it is going to be Completely Disappointing

sadly, i can't stop looking. failure of the palantir test, that's me

I looked at it and had to look away because TYELPE THEY DID YOU DIRTY

there's a weird star wars prequels vibe, though maybe it doesn't help that alderaan apparently looks like sci-fi gondolin

lol

anyway, i don't know what the hell they're going for with celebrimbor. the man looks as though he's never set foot in a forge in his life

I mean the worst part for me is knowing I will still probably watch it

I plan to pirate it

So I will also fail the palantir test

just to spite amazon

I don’t think they know what they’re going for with any of it tbh

delatour: tmw shadow of mordor knows how to make an elf look properly forge worth

one day i will get through more than ten minutes of that game.

last time i tried it did not sit well with my computer

I strongly dislike the characterisation of Celebrimbor in that game, but the character DESIGN on the other hand...

I will say I also never played more than a few minutes, so most of what I know is from Lets Plays

Last time I tried I ended up leveling up an orc to like a level 21 boss because I was on playstation (which I don’t own) and the custom controller didn’t have the buttons marked

LOL

So basically I died an hour into playing

it happens

Honestly if they wanted to make a realistic smith, they need a dude who has one strong arm and one chicken wing arm

lol

anything is better than 'time displaced phantom menace extra'

Time displaced phantom menace extra fits right in with Finrod played by Steve the guy who slices my ham at the deli department

i always thought he looked like the main character of a nineties shakespeare high school au at a renfaire

a dime-store young heath ledger

I can’t take credit for random meat slicing guy alas, someone else pointed it out and I can’t unsee it

It’s going to be like Halo “we didn’t read the source material”

gil-galad... almost works. like, he escaped from a much more interesting version where the writing staff were big labrynth fans and were also high while writing everything

got a bit dinged along the way, alas, but it's almost absurd enough to work on its own

it's actually very jarring to see Gil vs El & Tylpe

This makes sense because jrrt was also probably high while writing Gil galad

that would certainly explain that one moment where he ended up on the feanorian family tree

it allows for lots of fun Gil Galad Son of ?????? fics tho

I still think the Time Travelling Elladan is up there in my faves

as is the "He's Just Some Guy"

random dude gil-galad is best gil-galad

you confirm my decision to never, ever look at this travesty, not even once

bitweaver: no no join us in looking at the train wreck. at the least, you need to see BoyBand Elrond

I've seen young promising galactic senate candidate elrond .... and it was totally enough for me

(not mentioning game of thrones galadriel)

XD

and not mentioning "we're not giving you production budget, you ingrates! this is amazon, you're supposed to pee into a bottle and be happy you can work for us. why would you want money?"

someone on the OneRing comment section described the Celebrimbor promo pic as "someone cast an accountant and put him in LARP robes"

they're.... not wrong

nope

I've seen cosplays a 1000 times better than whatever rags they had to digout from some provincial theatre basement and second hand shops

also let's give all the men short hair because wigs are expensive

and Jeff wants us to earn money not spend it

(i know the look because I've been raiding second hand shops for stuff to dress orcs in for my provincial theatre play ages ago)

loooooooooool

bitweaver: the only one with sense
which is weird since you play Fëanor XD

i will not say I AM NOT tempted by this trashfire.... I AM

but my hatred towards all things amazon might yet save me

but surely i know a lot about costume and set design failure for someone so clearly NOT interested

But they are spending tons of money. That’s the baffling thing. A huge budget and it still looks bad.

why don't they just hire WETA smh

like. I had ISSUES with the Hobbit movies, but the costumes were On Point

they even had a Galadriel armor design I remember salivating over

I don’t even feel they needed to copy the Jackson designs exactly, but...when something is that beloved because they nailed the flavor, you can’t just entirely ignore it

dying on the long hair hill

or at least feel somewhat enthusiastic about what you're choosing instead. belief in your own work can carry you a long way

maybe that's part of why i'm more positive about the gil-galad. i think it's garish, but at least when they went for a lot, they stuck to it. there's some commitment there

Maybe they’re implying the son of Finrod version

Double the weirdly young aunt vibes for Galadriel, then

they might have a budget, but the question is where that budget is going to? marketing or production

considering everything it looks like marketing

Honestly I wish it was that simple but unfortunately I think there’s a lot more than just it’s all marketing. I think they genuinely have no clue what makes Tolkien Tolkien.

that's for sure, I'm not even questioning this part

plus cg is expensive