I think the issue about the casting separating the metals from the dagger is not one of the biggest issues with the series... It seems that they tried to give an explanation of the process. If you look at the series they have done some sort of centrifuge style spin casting and the molten metal has been separated into strips as separated by the different masses of the metals... and then they have collected them with a "spoon" in the style of the needle of a vinyl record player... Although that same explanation, if it really worked, it should also repair the mithril of the other metals, spoiling the alloy...
For the record, I am not defending the series, which has seemed visually spectacular, but a real disaster in everything else, a real offense to Tolkien and in some scenes it seemed to me a real insult to my intelligence (for example, It will be that assomeone who lives in the land of volcanoes, that he had an eruption just a year ago, that he always has a little worry in mind that something like this could happen and is aware of how destructive and dangerous volcanoes are, without the need to reach the explosiveness shown in ROP ...seeing that pyroclastic flow that does not harm anyone, seemed really stupid to me... a stupidity of gigantic proportions).
Valkrist wrote: Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:38 pm
Well, to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, "Sometimes a crap show is just a crap show".
This article below makes clear these are only rumours at this point, but so much of it rings true to what I've heard, read, seen, and experienced, that I find it hard to not believe that most of that will come to pass. It's just that when I read things like Amazon deliberately censoring unfavourable reviews that it sets my teeth on edge, and yes, they have admitted to doing it. The communist Chinese government would be proud of such tactics.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/10/ ... ticipated/
Honestly, I hope that article you've put is right, that they're not just rumors, and they throw the showrunners far far away from the show... with a trebuchet if it were up to me.
I hope that if they don't want to fire them, even if they deserve it, to avoid controversy, they'll at least sit them in a corner of the writers' room with a box of coloring pencils and completely ignore them.
BladeCollector wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:35 am
I mean, we are also talking about a world that was flat and then was magically around, dragons and balrogs exist, along with immortal elves, taking the essence of the trees of valinor and making jewels out of them... not that far fetched that someone could melt down a dagger and separate the gold and silver.
The excuse of "whatever can happen no matter, there are Dragons..." I think is not valid to justify all the mistakes of this show, much less in Tolkien's world, because as Levidas has commented, Tolkien created very credible foundations and detailed and an logic explanation (within their world and rules) for everything... like the magic, for example, it's not like in other fantasy worlds, where anyone by saying a few words out loud can cast a spell, but In Eä it's something deeper where only supernatural beings can do, and for what they are, not for what they say.
LOTR it's not Harry Potter, D&D or Willow... only to give some examples.
There is a logical construction behind everything that gives it a realism that other stories do not have and that it is obvious that the showrunners cannot understand. Like breaking physical laws, like fire or magma not hurts and many other things, are things definitely doesn't fit in that world.
It is true that a certain point of suspension of belief is necessary to enjoy any fantasy story, but in every fantasy world, some basic rules are established, some laws that you must then respect in order to be consistent and not destroy the immersion you have created. And ROP not only does not respect the history created by Tolkien, it does not even respect those most basic rules of the world.