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Why the Big Reveal in The Rings of Power Didn't Work

Sign up for CuriosityStream and Nebula at: https://www.curiositystream.com/likestoriesofold Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: An analysis of mystery boxes, plot twists and big reveals in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Chapters: 00:00 Mystery Boxes in the Rings of Power 02:18 Why Gandalf shouldn't have been a mystery box 07:26 Rewriting the Harfoots storyline 11:04 The problem with Halbrand 13:15 Rewriting Sauron 19:11 Final thoughts Listen to my podcast, Cinema of Meaning: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-of-meaning/id1611352831 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b Nebula: https://nebula.app/cinemaofmeaning Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Music: Tony Anderson – Oyarsa (feat. Timbre) Jesse Brown and Katharine Petkovski – Embers at Dawn Alicia Enstrom – Reflections Hannah Parrott – Sacred Rhythm Inola – Glacier feat. Young Collective Take your projects to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252 Additional Music: Naski – Fall

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nycebo

Your revised suggestion for "Gandalf's" character arc is brilliant. You precisely gave words to why the "Is he Sauron?" narrative was such a letdown and why the Harfoots were not a popular storyline. They never really advance the plot. They are just filler. Instead, with your suggestion of Gandalf choosing to enter the light or darkness, the Harfoots now serve to drive the conflict embedded within Gandalf...and his eventual "resolution." What a great video essay. It's one of your better ones. Thx.