Sort of. In the books Sauron, hidden as Anatar, teaches Celebrimbor how to make the rings. Together they make the rings for the men and dwarves. Sauron then secretly makes the one ring himself while Celebrimbor also secretly makes the 3 elven rings without help from Suaron. But presumably the forge they are trying to build now is where those rings will come from so the presumption is its too early for any of the rings to be in existence yet. With the adjusted timeline of the show though we just really dont know.
As for the dwarf treasure, right at the end of the episode where prince durin was talking to the king there was a pulp fiction like moment where after discussing the coincidence of elrond showing up now after this many years they opened a jewelry box like thing and a blue glow emanated from it. The insinuation is they have recently come into possession of something they know the elves would have interest in and they want to keep it secret.
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Saruman? That was my less obvious guess, but i donāt know back story like you
Very much enjoying House of Matt Smith. The Wrongs of Power is tougher going than taking the rabbits to the vets. Let me get this right, the travelling not-hobbits are all Irish. Nobody has issue with this?
And fuck off you stand like that on a boat.
Ā£10 says itās Gandalf, thrown in early for normies who donāt care.
Regarding a black elf, who cares? But then can I play a dwarf? Can a man play Queen Victoria? Can a woke leftie play Boris? Tempura mutantor. Or maybe notā¦.
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A ship floats because the upthrust is proportional to the mass of the water it displaces.
Watching this again and building my ire. Tell me sheās about to leap off the boat and swim 400 milesā¦ā¦
Spend a billion on producing this did they? I challenge any of you to hum the title tune without re-watching. Seems they got pretty much everything wrong. Camera work is awful, buy a fucking tripod. Editing is jerky and annoying. CGI ranges from jaw dropingly glorious to bloody awful. If Bezoās memo was to make another GOTs and they had license to reimagine the story, why go half arsed with butchering JRR? Why not go full tits and gore and make it plain theyāre āinterpretingā the appendices? Instead theyāre pissing off the fans, creating something dull, boring and forgettable and seemingly not making something entertaining. Donāt get the angle on this, donāt get it at all. Oh and Lord Elrond was a lot of things. Gay wasnāt one of them. It doesnāt matter, so why make it a point?
Maybe they misunderstood what a dark elf meant 
But then again the Sun and moon have been long established
Anyone got round to watching Echoes on Netflix?
So it seems everyone like Rings of Power apart from the people who were determined not to like it from the start?
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I started re watching āthe night managerā last night. I still find it a gripping show.
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I feel asleep halfway through the first episode (Iād been up since 4 so my fault not the show).
The little bit Iāve seen so far was surprisingly not shit. Didnāt look as CGIād as Iād worried it would. The lighting looks super bright but I think thatās meant to represent that there is no evil left in the world - or at least it is hiding - and it will get darker when Sauron is found.
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@Klopptimist @Limiescouse i always found it strange that Melkor and Ungoliant had all the time in Arda to drain Telperion and Laurelin while the Valar didnāt notice. Especially being that they were the only two light source and presumably the perpetrators had thrown off the invisible cloak when they were attacking the poor trees
Plot hole 
I always interpreted it that Ungoliant was a fucking beast and could close down a golden corral in 5 minutes so it was all over as quickly as it started.
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We shouldāve signed up Ungoliant as our DM
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Alright Iām not as illiterate as I pretended to be earlier when it comes to Lord of the Rings but seriously, what the fuck does any of this say?
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Jeez thatās gonna take a long time to explain.
This might help (only 10 minutes long)
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Nope, didnāt help. It made me smile though, so cheers for that.
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