Rings of Power: Making Dwarves & Hobbits Lame
The dwarf prince needs to fight back!
In The Rings of Power, the King of the Dwarves disowns one of the main characters, his son, and so now his son has to work for a living to earn money to feed his family. While working, another dwarf man bullies the disowned Prince Durin. Even after Prince Durin warns the bully that the bully had better not touch Prince Durin again, the bully pushes Prince Durin down the tunnel!
And then Prince Durin does nothing to the bully! After getting pushed, the show cuts right to him with his dwarf wife Disa at home, and he does not mention what happened to her at all!
This scene reinforces the fact that The Rings of Power show makes no sense in some major ways.
You cannot take one of the main male characters, who is supposed to be a prince, and shame him that way.
Shaming Prince Durin like this not only is a terrible decision if a show wants to engage an audience, but it does not fit the in-world culture of the character either, and is not consistent with the show itself! Tolkien shaped dwarvish culture to be similar to that of the Gaelic Scots and Irish, in real life they are infamous for their toxic honor culture, and if you have read/seen the books/movies, you know that Tolkien intended for his dwarves to have that honor culture as…
