Welcome to Dug 2 Deep, the officially unofficial podcast for the Lord of the Rings, the rings

of power on Amazon Prime, I'm Jim, I'm Aaron, and today we're talking about season

1 episode 3, Adar, Aaron, how do you feel about the second week?

Big Papa, Adar means father, as far as I as best I can tell, in L this.

I thought this was a little bit of a creek year episode, especially the parts in New

Menor, like I felt like it was just reaching a little too hard, like maybe I started to

feel the eight episode compression, that like they just quiet, now I got a lot of pleasure

out of that because I got my whole fucking Ellen Dill the tall here, ooh, oh, and there's

the ulcer door, oh, a winner of an Aryan's far behind, because I'm really interested

in the lore and, you know, the appendixes of Lord of the Rings, but if you're not that

person who just gets a thrill of pleasure of like, oh, these are going to be some big

players later on, I don't know what you made out of a lot of Numenorian stuff, because

it made both factions just seem like assholes, Galadriel was a very unpleasant person this

episode, and quick to take offense and impetuous, and the men of Numenor were just like world-class

stinkies, you know, like they're mad, that peerless mad dogging going on the entire episode,

I really like the harfoot stuff, and I'm kind of like somewhere in between the Aryan

deal stuff, but last, still beautiful, but like this, I felt like they were like, oh,

we haven't done a scene of soaring beauty for five, so let's like inject Galadriel losing

her shit on this white horse. Yeah, that felt forward, very weird. Yeah, like I'm not

not into it, but it did feel indulgent in the way that some of the other lavish scenes

didn't in the first two episodes. This is, again, it's not a bad episode, it's just a

come down from what I was, would describe as an almost sheer delight of the first two,

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