The Golden One - Amazon's Rings of Power – I Cannot Endorse This Barbarism With My Silence

00:00:00.000 Greetings, my esteemed subscribers. Glorfindel here, checking in with a few insights regarding

00:00:20.400 Amazon's new Rings of Power series. Now, to explain what this entire endeavor is all about,

00:00:28.220 one could argue, one could say that it is a very expensive display of dominance, so similar as to

00:00:36.020 how a schoolyard bully would go up to some younger children to take their toys, one, to display

00:00:43.080 dominance, and two, to ventilate his own frustration at not having such nice toys himself. So that is

00:00:51.180 how you could summarize the entire series, if you would like. So if you view this in the context of

00:00:58.820 other ongoings in the Western world with subversion of history, I'm looking at you, BBC, you are

00:01:05.440 subverting British history. You see burning of churches in France, you see the tearing down of

00:01:11.160 monuments in all of the West. So you see this attack on European identity. This is just another

00:01:18.700 attack on said identity. So Tolkien, of course, an English patriot, an appreciator of Germanic folklore,

00:01:27.900 mythology, culture, language. He would be very upset, I can only surmise, if he saw what Amazon has done to

00:01:34.900 his work. And something else, if we want to psychoanalyze the reasons behind desecrating

00:01:43.620 Tolkien's world like this, you have such a thing as the provocateur archetype who gets a kick out of

00:01:50.960 provoking others. So they, of course, they see guys like me getting angry. And this is also why I debated

00:01:57.300 with myself whether I should make this video or not, because I know also that they are getting a kick

00:02:03.320 when they see guys like me getting sad, getting upset. That is why they are desecrating things such as

00:02:09.020 our stories, our mythology, everything like this. So they do it to provoke a reaction. And this also

00:02:16.380 conveniently enough, then they can say, you know, all of these critiques we've gotten of our series, it's

00:02:23.100 actually from intolerant right-wing extremists. It's absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the series

00:02:29.500 is absolutely horrible in every way. So it's a convenient scapegoat to just say that, you know, these

00:02:36.540 guys, they don't like it because of these other reasons. They know full well that the series is bad.

00:02:42.860 No one will like the series. If you think you like the series, you are deluding yourself just as someone

00:02:49.120 who likes modern art is deluding himself into believing it's good. If you have to convince yourself

00:02:54.760 that something is good, which you do with modern art, by the way, you say to yourself, oh, but if I can

00:03:00.400 rationalize why I like this painting, you don't like it. You don't need to convince yourself that

00:03:07.920 something that is beautiful is beautiful. If you see a beautiful painting, it is beautiful. If you see a

00:03:13.300 beautiful story, Lord of the Rings, it is beautiful. You don't need to convince yourself. So if you think you

00:03:19.740 like the series, you are wrong and you should admit it to yourself. And speaking of which, we can say

00:03:25.500 that we have two different perspectives. One perspective, the correct perspective, is of course

00:03:31.420 guys like me saying that this is a subversion of Tolkien's work. Then you have the other camp who only

00:03:39.140 will pretend to like Amazon's series to spite guys like me. They pretend to like it to spite guys like

00:03:47.620 me. Now, here is something. As an art critic, as I am, I have learned throughout my many years of

00:03:54.260 admiring art, that good art comes from a position of passion, love, creativity. You can't buy these

00:04:03.920 things. Money is great for many things. If you want to make something great, yes, money is important.

00:04:11.100 But if you don't have, if you don't come from a position of love, which Tolkien did, he came from a

00:04:16.300 position of love for all things Germanic. Germanic myth primarily, of course, and a sense of patriotism.

00:04:23.580 He wanted to give England a myth, which he did. This is an English myth. He came from a position of 0.66

00:04:30.060 love. He had great creativity and he created a beautiful story. This is the starting point and

00:04:36.400 this is why everyone likes Lord of the Rings. Now, this Amazon production team, its members, they come

00:04:42.980 from a position of resentment, hate, and destruction. And you can't build anything of beauty from this.

00:04:50.740 Same thing as I've said, that you should never base any identity on hate because it's not something that

00:04:55.920 you can build a solid foundation upon because it will only ever be bad. So, love comes first.

00:05:02.820 I'm not going to go into a religious discussion here, but if you are religious, you can say that God

00:05:06.980 comes first and then everything else can come after. So, you need to have an appreciation for the beautiful,

00:05:13.540 the good, and love. Then you can start building. Otherwise, you can't expect to create good art.

00:05:20.340 So, this is also why this Amazon series, it will not be well received. Because it's based on a desire for

00:05:28.820 revenge against imaginary slights. It's based on a desire to desecrate the story of someone else.

00:05:37.140 It's based on a desire to take something from someone else to say, this is ours now. This is what

00:05:44.580 we can do with your story that is sacred to you. So, basically, as you probably have surmised by now,

00:05:52.660 I don't recommend you to watch it. I don't recommend you to hate watch it either. I don't recommend you to

00:05:58.260 watch it with a critical eye. I recommend you to not watch it at all. Do not give these people your

00:06:05.060 money. Just as you shouldn't watch porn. Just as I've said in a great many videos that if you watch porn,

00:06:12.420 if there is a demand for porn, there will be a supply for porn. It doesn't matter why you watch porn,

00:06:19.140 you do it. As long as people are watching porn, there will be a porn production. As long as people

00:06:25.860 are watching Amazon's filth, there will be a continuous supply of said filth. So, don't hate

00:06:32.740 watch it. Don't watch it for fun or anything like that. Don't watch it at all. If you do, it's degrading

00:06:39.860 to yourself. It's undignified. It's similar as to watching porn. So, anyway, I just wanted to explain

00:06:46.580 that. I wanted to rant a bit. Of course, I am a bit angry. I don't let this anger get to me. I don't

00:06:54.420 let it influence my mental landscape. I don't let it make me have a bad day. I simply make this video

00:07:03.940 to explain to you why they are doing it, what it is, and the psychology behind it. So, hopefully,

00:07:11.860 this will help you resist watching it if you have the temptation of doing so. So, anyway,

00:07:18.580 thank you for watching, and thank you for your support to XXO. Boom!

The Golden One - September 04, 2022

Amazon's Rings of Power – I Cannot Endorse This Barbarism With My Silence

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