I see that the file has been replaced but that the new one still has subtitles. Is it another final workprint?

Hey, could I get a link please? I am very interested in a digestible version of the Rings of Power.

May I also have a link to this edit at your earliest convenience?

Hey! I created an account just for this. Could I get a link too? 😃

Could I get a link, please? Thanks!

been a month searching for someone to do a fan edit of the Rings of Power ,there is some way to get the link for looking at it?

Anjohan said:

PMs sent.

Would it be possible to get a link too, please and thank you?

Could I get a link to this many thanks

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OP was rather quick at responding for request for a link. I thought it would take weeks, but was sent within 24 hours, if I remember correctly. Much appreciated for that. The challenge for me was getting my friends together to watch this, but the stars aligned and we watched it last night. The group was me, one friend that watched the original show with me, and one friend who had seen the online fallout, but never actually watched the show.

First off, I want to say this is very watchable. I know of a few other fan edits that exist of The Rings of Power and most of them are unwatchable. They’re either put together by crazy people, or by people who should be never let near a video editing tool again other than MS Clipchamp. This version is by far the best fan edit I’ve watched. I didn’t plan on making it through the entire film, but OP looks like they knew what they were doing, more or less.

At time of writing, Rings of Power Season 1, on Metacritic, has a user score of 3.0. Which I believe an accurate rating for the original show. I would give this fan edited film a 6.0 out of 10 based on all other films I’ve watched. Still not good, but literally double that of the original, and I think it could be made better.

My friend who had not seen the show thought this film was mediocre, at best. Which is good, considering the Metacritic score mentioned above. The friend who has seen the show, found a new distain for the show, after hating it already, because this fan edit proves that if someone competent was at the helm, Rings of Power could have been good.

I absolutely love the fact that this film, cuts out, basically, all the cringe from the show. The harfoots are basically non-existent, other than the necessary scenes with the man who falls from the sky. The cringe dialogue between The Queen and Galadriel is gone. Same with the dwarves. Basically, everything bad and unnecessary is gone. It’s so refreshing to be told a story and not laughing at the screen because you can’t believe a professional, half a billion dollar show actually put that in their show.

That being said, I do have a couple gripes. I don’t like that the subtitle font changes based on when OP overlays audio from a different scene on top of what’s being shown. When you realize that’s what’s happening, it ruins the immersion. Which I honestly didn’t expect I’ll get out of this fan edit, so good job, but could not the subtitle track been separated from the original and spliced in to the existing on the films?

Another major area for improvement would be the ending. The ending felt rushed. Pacing was very good, pretty much all the way up to where the villagers defend themselves. After that, it sort of falls apart. The show also kind of falls apart from that point too, so I don’t know how much was from the compressed time frame compounding issues from the original. Also, the reason Galadriel and Halbrand ride off to the forge is kind totally skipped over. It shows Halbrand injured, then on a horse, then riding away with no explanation of what is going on. Would be, and was, very confusing for people who have never seen the show. Also the voice over during the second to last scene is not tonally consistent with the rest of the film. Seems almost lazy, although I know it was probably a lot of work to get it the way it was.

Other than those things, I have no real problems with the edit. But with those improvements I think it could be a 7/10. Which, based on the original, is amazing OP was able to do.

TL;DR: I think the ending needs a revisit, but twice as good as the original and very appreciated.

Yes. My Workprint can be available. It’s mostly just missing some VFX stuff I’m hoping to learn how to create and apply to enhance a few scenes and address some minor continuity/common sense issues.

The ending seems to be a universal struggle for this content. I “solved” it by cutting off the main story at the eruption, then letting the Stranger and Nori give a bit of a happier finale. I’m hoping that season 2 will provide some material to pad out the forging of the rings.

I would love to see it, if you can send me the link?

hey man, can you please share a link?

Anjohan, I’d love to receive a link too, interested to revisit the series and see your adaptation of it!

Thanks for sending the link Anjohan, I enjoyed the watch and I really appreciate the effort that must have gone into editing such a big (and rather messy!) series.

You’ve done a good job at removing extraneous scenes and clunky moments, and for me - you’ve definitely improved it and made a decent Rings Of Power ‘the movie’ part one. On a quality level it’s never going to be up there competing with Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy but with your edit it becomes way more watchable and enjoyable than it was. It’s got great visuals and costumes, clearly a lot of money and attention to detail went into the series, and now with the faster pace of your edit… it does feel more of a companion piece to Jacksons movies.

On the whole, the scenes all flowed really nicely. There were just some small nitpicks that felt a bit ‘off’. When Galadriel and Halbrand get on the boat and ask Elendil where they are heading, we get a big dramatic pause and the answer “home”… I was expecting that to seque into the Numenor establishing shots, but instead the next scene jarringly follows the map to Khazad Dum. As audiences if we get a big dramatic “were going to Numenor…” then we expect the next shot to be of Numenor.

The other small nitpick was cutting that epic shot of the Numenor cavalry charge with Galadriel in the middle. It was arguably the ‘money shot’ of the entire series, and certainly the most grandly cinematic. If the aim is to make the series feel like a movie then could there perhaps be a way to keep that shot in?

But really they are small nitpicks, you’ve done a fine job with this, well done chap!

Could I get a link too?

Thank you!

This brief review is by no means an insult to the editor (Andreas or Anjohan). The actual show itself was unwatchable. I could not watch it all the way through. I thought it was an extreme b*sdtardization of the Lord of the Rings franchise. Truly horrible.

With this edit, I was able to comfortably watch it all the way through. I still thought the content was awful, but that is not the fault of the editor - he did not write nor direct the show. There is only so much one can do to clean up this mess. In fact, I commend Andreas for being able to make this show at least watchable one time through in this movie edit. I would not have even thought that was possible. If someone really needs to watch this, please bypass the actual show and go with this edit rather than the full Amazon version.