Today in NFTs and Pop Culture: this thread from @JaimeZ888 about LOTR: The Rings of Power. 🪡🧵👇🏼
"What can LOTR: The Rings of Power teach us about crypto and NFTs?
Lessons from Episode 1: A Shadow of the Past (Slight spoilers ahead!)."
Here are key lessons I’ve learnt so far:
💎 Learning from Failure
💎 Keeping Patient
💎 Sacrifice
💎 Finding Meaning
"In the opening of the series, a young Galadriel sails her paper boat along a stream. The other kids bully her and sink her ship with a rock. This sets up the stage for timely advice from her older brother, Finrod.
How do we know light from darkness?"
"To which he responds 'Sometimes we cannot know until we have touched the darkness.'
In our NFT and crypto journey, how do we tell which project is likely to moon? How do we determine if we’re buying a shitcoin? It is difficult, so we make the wrong move and get burnt."
"It’s necessary to pay our tuition in the market and by learning through experience, we come out much better."
"Evil does not sleep, it waits.
The series takes place after Middle-Earth has defeated the great evil Morgoth. But he isn’t really dead.
He silently grows his power and waits for the Elves to become complacent. In the shadows, he is waiting for the right moment to strike."
"The good guys are chasing action every day.
NFT traders ask, 'GM! What’s the play today?'
Learn a thing or two from these bad guys. They are extremely patient and wait for the right conditions before executing their plan. Sounds like the best investors and traders."
"Riding from the last point: Galadriel, now an Elven commander, is highly convinced that evil still exists.
She receives hints and her conviction has led her to chase Sauron to the northern wastelands and ultimately reject the greatest reward for Elves—to cross the sea."
"Success is painted beautifully, but the journey and process leading up to it is filled with sacrifice.
I often read of people missing out on mints because of the early morning schedule. I, too, have forgotten a few.
It begs the question, how bad do you really want it?"
"'Without my sword, what am I?'
It’s a question Galadriel throws to Elrond as she contemplates crossing the sea. To which he replies that she is his friend."
"Many of us have spent the majority of the crypto and NFT bull run glued to our computers, grinding away at the charts or on Twitter and Discord. Without this, what are we?
Make sure you don’t lose yourself on this journey."
"We watch series and movies mostly to relax and pass the time. Every now and then you watch a movie and get nuggets of wisdom.
What other series and movies have you learnt from?"