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Tolkien wanted his orcs to be people of the Mongoloid race. In the first version of his novel, the orcs are essentially Genghisids in the vastness of Middle-earth. Could you make a video about Tolkien's Orcs and Mongols? Please

Wanted to put in a good word for the Ted Nasmith jacket with Maglor hurling the Silmaril into the sea. Breathtaking.

Tom is Adam. Simple as that.

Please continue!

No thank you, i'll stick to Tolkien.

Complete vid please

Don't forget Turgon made Glamdring, Orcrist and Sting. Homie knew how to make a sharp piece of metal.

Boromir is literally the BEST character, and his arc is truly tragic. It was Denethor's choice that Boromir ended up in Rivendell to begin with, as it was Faramir's dreams that sent one of the two brothers to Rivendell to begin with. He has been burdened with being the only hope for a society that has none to find. During the Council, he truly accepts Elrond's council about the Ring's properties that cannot be used for good. Aragorn is reasonably disappointing to Boromir, as Aragorn does not become kingly until well after Boromir's death. When he suggests someone use the Ring, he suggests Aragorn despite his disappointments with him, and only suggests himself after. When he splits the Fellowship, he truly redeems himself through Merry, Pippin, and Frodo and Samwise, and through his disclosure to Aragorn as to what really happened at the High Seat at Amon Hen. Fun fact, Gandalf the White plays a major part at this point too, as Frodo almost succumbs to the Eye of Sauron while using the Ring and Gandalf has a mental battle of sorts with Sauron to help keep Frodo out of his view, which is about a week or so prior to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli meeting Gandalf the White for the first time since Moria in Fangorn.

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How did he EVER reach their shores?? The veil would never open for Numenor

Thanks for the info Ar-Pharazon..

Glad to see you still posting and love you content! I hope to see you really back!

Only valars and Feanor Fingolfin can difft with malkor

Watch "Pink Flamingos", I think you will think that it wasn't THAT bad too.

The illustrations are impressive!

Wow thank you!

He also made Orcs (somewhat) relateable. I think the truth lies in that the Orcs technically weren't created, but perverted men/elves. This means that there IS good in them, but the evil is ramped up to 200%. This leaves room for possible redemption, althought it is unlikely. The Orcs weren't "created" at all, they were always there, in form of those ugly enotions of wrath, pride etc etc The evil inside their hearts wasnt made, for everyonr has a dark side, but the light was made so dim that, by comparison, they were entirely "different" beings. I think this allows for the explanation that Orcs were not created, but corrupted, and also leaves room for his Christian beliefs of redemption abd forgiveness. I think that Orcs **COULD** be good, but it would take a looooong time.

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I’d say his age is incalculable as we are still dealing with those ages of Valinoran time where we can only make the roughest assumptions of how long they were. I may have missed data available in letters, but most estimates are pretty rough. Add to that the changes JRRT made to calculating time and it’s possible to get answers that are an order of magnitude apart. Just my 2 pence!

Im wondering if the phrase ‘tree to tree’ means something else. Maybe something to do with Will O Wisps. They’re more associated with bogs and such and better associated with the Dead Marshes scene, but not unheard of in woodlands too.

Thank you!! Eye-opening! I'd always enjoyed the weapon-word "argument" but never tied their uses together as you did.

Wow great video, I am reading through atvthe moment and this was really insightful for me

Another thing I never noticed was that word "argument." Thank you for that!

Eru would not have to protect Gandalf from Legolas's arrow. Gandalf said that none of them have any weapons that could hurt him.

You never remarked on what is one of my favorite quotes from LOTR: 'Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped....' I'm not sure why, but it is perhaps my favorite line in all the books. It calls to mind how long the world has existed, and how short a time we live in it and are able to appreciate it. And of how dismissive we are of such things. Earlier, Treebeard appreciates the "hill," but we don't. We dismiss it with such a short word: hill. Treebeard uses almost a paragraph to describe the hill. "you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world...." etc. (Notice that he thinks of the horses, which undoubtedly are the horses of Rohan, which are generally far from Fangorn.) But all this actually belongs in the previous chapter, not here.

I have read the entire Lord of the Rings dozens of times, yet when you read it here I uncover new things each time. I don't know how you do it, but I appreciate it. Great video, as usual!

Or was it?

Aragorn may have been aware that the secret of where the Ring was would have been seriously placed in jeopardy were Merry and Pippin captured by Sauruman. Better to die making sure the secret didn't get out, thereby maintaining the secrecy of Frodo's mission.

It's confusing, is bombadil older??

I love their chant lol and you did it really well. Something really primal about it, you know exactly what it means without even knowing what the ‘words’ are

That was a great and refreshing video! Thank you for all you do! Please, please, don't stop until you finish all the books!

Frodo later tells Sam that Morgoth can't create and can only mock, like with trolls and orcs. I have always wondered how Frodo knew that.

Just so you know, when a predator is stalking its prey in the wild, all of nature silences. The birds stop singing, and so on. All of nature becomes tense. Or so I have read.

"Dangerous" seems to be an active and prevalent concept in Tolkien's work. As Gandalf later points out, to Gimli, he keeps meeting dangerous folk because he himself is dangerous, in a way. That seems to be at the root of every confrontation that takes place. In fact, it seems to me that in each confrontation, Tolkien has the two evenly matched, in a way. The Balrog and Galdalf. Eomer and that Orc whose name escapes me. Even Eowyn and the Witch king of Angmar. The Nazgul Lord stood quietly in doubt when confronted by a woman. Though I must admit, Eowyn and Merry were no match for the Witch king, yet they did him in anyway. And Sauron's forces way overmatched Aragorn's forces at the Black Gate. Yet they lost anyway. Well, it's food for thought.

"This meeting could have been an email." Hilarious.