Love to hear your perspective, Nev! Speaking of the characters’ ways of speaking, I recall reading an interview regarding Rings of Power that basically claimed that the writers attempted to write dialogue for each race in distinctive meters. To be honest I haven’t been able to tell if that translated into the final product. Have you guys noticed anything like that?
I haven’t picked up on if elves speak in a different meter than dwarves, no, though it could well be true. I mostly just notice when the characters try to speak with that stilted profundity which falls flat for me as much as it works.
Now that Season One has ended, I think Poppasketti can take a bow 😉
Overall thoughts about the season: I liked it. Didn’t love it, but the effort is there and I appreciate parts of every storyline. I’ll certainly tune in for season two and see what Sauron is up to with his new volcano.