Finished Rings of Power season 2. I enjoyed it as long as I don’t hold it to the high standard of how a perfect adaptation looks in my mind. Hobbits and dwarves were the strongest this season for me. Elves dialogue is always overly dramatic. Still all the money on screen, some stunning sequences. 📺
@manton what annoys me most about the portrayal of the elves in Rings of Power is that their use of Sindarin is inconsistent. Why are they speaking common amongst each other and only when they want to say something with gravitas they switch to Sindarin. Makes no sense. It is just lazy on the part of the filmmakers.
@AlexKucera They brought that up on the podcast. It would have been too much (not to mention hard on the actors) to film all the elven dialogue in Quenya and show subtitles for the whole thing, but since language is so important in Tolkien they didn’t want to ignore it altogether. What they tried to do was use it for emphasis in a way analogous to how classic stage drama would sometimes include key lines in verse in a play that was mainly written in prose. As you noted, it doesn’t really work, but I’m not sure all-Elvish or all-English would either.
@eurobubba it worked well in Lord of the Rings. I get that subtitles are more work for the audience, but I don’t buy the excuse that it is more work for the production team.
