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The Ruins of Osgiliath - Alan Lee
Minas Tirith at Dawn - Ted Nasmith
Young Denethor - Anna Kulisz
Battle of the Pelennor Fields - Lída Holubová
Grond - John Howe
Mindolluin - Alan Lee
strider - CK Goksoy
denethor - kuliszu
Young Denethor - Anna Kulisz
Denethor and Finduilas - Catherine Chmiel
The Gift - Catherine Chmiel
Boromir and Lothiriel - Catherine Chmiel
Faramir - Anke Eissmann
Gandalf and Faramir - Catherine Chmiel
Heir of Denethor - Catherine Chmiel
Tower Hall of Denethor - Peet
Finduilas - Lída Holubová
Finduilas - Catherine Chmiel
Denethor - aegeri
Eye of Sauron - John Howe
Minas Morgul - John Howe
Minas Tirith - Rafael Damiani
Watchful peace - John Howe
minas tirith - aegeri
Aragorn - Daniel Dougherty
Looking into the Stone - Anna Kulisz
Bitter Farewell - Anke Eißmann
The Palantir - Olanda Fong-Surdenas
Eye of Saurons - John Howe
Father (Denethor) - Catherine Chmiel
Denethor - John Howe
sauron army - weta
Lord Denethor - Peet
Nazgul - Felix Englund
defending osgiliath - Anke Eißmann
Escape from Osgiliath - Anke Eißmann
Boromir and Faramir - Soni Alcorn-Hender
frodo - Jenny Dolfen
Shard of Narsil Aragorn - Matthew Stewart
Rivendell - Alan_Lee
Boromir sets out - Anke Eißmann
Boromir - YidanYuan
boromir - CK Goksoy
First Sight of Ithilien - Ted Nasmith
Faramir in Ithilien - Anke Eißmann
An Oliphaunt - Alan Lee
The Horn of Boromir - Matthew Stewart
Boromir - John Howe
The Funeral Boat of Boromir - Peter Xavier Price
Funeral Boat of Boromir - Anke Eissmann
Gandalf Rides to Minas Tirith - Ted Nasmith
beacons of gondor - aegeri
the beacons of gondor - kuliszu
The Red Arrow - Paula DiSante
Pelennor - Lída Holubová
Dark valley - Felix Englund
Minas Morgul - John Howe
The Witch-king - Alan Lee
Minas Tirith - Alan Lee
Ramparts of Minas Tirith - John Howe
Bergil and company defenders of gondor - Catherine Chmiel
Prince Imrahil of Dol-Amroth - Abe Papakhian
His Lord's will - Anke Eißmann
Imrahil - Abe Papakhian
Imrahil tends to his nephew - Anke Eißmann
Prince Imrahil and Faramir - Elrodimus Flash
Your son has returned - Anke Eißmann
Denethor Grieves for His Son - Anke Eissmann
Imrahil - Andrea Piparo
Attack on Minas Tirith - Olanda Fong-Surdenas
Easterling - Olanda Fong-Surdenas
Battle of the Pelennor Fields - Lída Holubová
Grond - John Howe
Grond - RalphDamiani
Gandalf and the Witch King - Ted Nasmith
In Rode the Lord of the Nazgul - Anna Kulisz
Gandalf facing Witch-king - Angus McBride
Rohirrim in Battle of Pelennor Fields - Ivan Cavini
Battle of Pelennor Fields - magdalena katanska
The Crossing of the Anduin - Alan Lee
The Black Serpent founders - Anke Eißmann
Theoden's Bane - John Howe
The Witch King before Eowyn - Peter Xavier Price
Éowyn and the Witch - Alan Lee
Gothmog - John Howe
Haradrim - John Howe
Eomer - John Howe
denethor - Turner Mohan
The Pyre of Denethor - Anke Eissmann
Rath Dinen - Lída_Holubová
Eomer - Catherine Chmiel
Corsairs - John Howe
Departure from Dunharrow - Anke Eißmann
Oathbreakers, Why Have Ye Come - Abe Papakhian
Aragorn and King of the Dead - Jerry Vanderstelt
Thus Came Aragorn - Ted Nasmith
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields - Alan Lee
The Last Debate - Alan Lee
Healing Faramir - Anke Eißmann
Athelas - Anke Eißmann
aragorn houses of healing - aegeri
Frodo Sam Mordor - Andrea Piparo
Battle of the Black Gate - Ted Nasmith
The End of All Things - John Howe
The Shadow of Sauron - Ted Nasmith
Rangers Scout the Ruins of Barad-dur - Ted Nasmith
at the gates of minas tirith - Matej Cadil
Coronation - Anke Eißmann
The Steward and the King - Anke Eißmann
Prickly - Lída Holubová
Forest edge - Felix Englund
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Ithilien - Ted Nasmith
The White Sapling - Darrell Sweet
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Alright, you know what time it is Sir. I love your Channel, but it's overdue. You know what it is. Dol Amroth. We need a History of Dol Amroth videos. I love Dol Amroth despite it not being in the Movies. A half man half elf Princedom of Gondor, oh yes, that is the coolness. We need you, we need this video.
The fact that a mortal man was able to oppose Sauron's will, yet a maia failed, is amazing.
Plot armor is a powerful thing.
Denethor was a descendant of Numenor and the rightful leader of Gondor, while Saruman had no rightful claim on the Palantir.
To be fair saruman was a servant of aule, same as sauron and aule as a valar done what he wanted aswell. Aule created the dwarves against erus wishe
I thought Denethor succumbed to Sauron’s influence when he sent Faramir on a pointless suicide attack outside the city and then lit himself on fire while trying and failing to burn Faramir as well?
@@HolyBlowhole He did not send Faramir on a suicide mission, he had him reinforce the Rammas Echor. He did not succumb to Sauron like Saruman did either, he drove him to despair
It always amazes me that Tolkien tied up all the threads of Middle Earth stretching back from the First Age to the end of the Third Age and it would all come together at the end of the LOTR. Thank you NERD of the Rings for bringing that story to us here on TH-cam.
Truly a degree of quality to one's Lore, that all Writers strive for..
I'd love a breakdown of the Kingdom of Arnor. From Elendil's founding to the collapse of Arthedain.
I might be mistaken but I'm pretty sure there is one! At least, there's one about its wars with Angmar, and that includes much of its overall history to provide context
@@SamA-gh3kq That was a Hobbit Day video, yes. But it doesn't cover much of what Arnor did before its wars with the Witch King aside from becoming splintered into three separate realms.
Denethor is a tragic character. Truely a tragic character.
His view of both Boromir and Faramir is beyond what meets the eye. His constant dismissal of Faramir is basically His denial of his past self : Compassionate , kind and good to heart. He hated his old self that he saw in Faramir.
My Byzantine brother, do you think Emperor Heraclius or Denethor in LotR has a more tragic story? Both certainly are sad
We need a complete Arnor history video and Eomer Character as well, these videos of middle earth are simply amazing!
Hit me right in the feels as soon as the part came where Aragorn died. 😢
8:30 Tolkien is the first to have a "Why do I hear boss music?" moment.
Idk why but when you said Gandalf and Pippin entering Gondor 13 days after Boromir’s took me by surprise. I didn’t realize that was such a short time frame
The fact that perhaps the greatest movie of all time depicts all of this and yet still the book is more epic days a lot
Seeing a new NOTR is like waking up to a Saturday Morning cartoon for me, especially in this case as the first two parts of Gondor have been great and Im eager to see the conclusion.
As for a future subjects for location videos, since Erebor was already done, would Dale & Esgeroth be good ones to do?
Where I am from, it's evening, so I can enjoy every episode with a mug of beer.🍺
Elessar has to be one of the coolest names of all time for a King! Tolkien is the GOAT!
Really good series! Gondor really deserved a 3 part series, such a rich history!
Denethor's end will always make me cry, I think.
Great video, as always -
Nerd of the Rings, on behalf of people(myself included) who can't read the source material I thank you for your channel and your work, I've been a massive fan of the Tolkien middle earth since the fellowship of the ring was made, but I'm not able to read the books, so your channel is a MAJOR help for people like me. Again Thank you
Same here! I read the main trilogy a few years ago and couldn't read the others(but I will someday;), and this channel has been great for me.
Every time I listen your videos, I feel like grabbing a notebook and start making notes, because the content is that good! Thank you.
The Movies really did Denethor dirty because they made him seem like a complete madman for seemingly no reason, I feel like a scene of Denethor using the Palantir should definitely have been included and would have explained a lot.
The Girl Next Gondor did a really good character study on Denethor.
I am not sure if such an additional would have suited the films ideally. Of course Denethor seems pretty unreasonable to viewers, that aren't very familiar with the contextual background of it all. His antipathy for Aragorn and how he treated Boromir and Faramir is rooted in his own experiences with his father Ecthelion and Thorongil (aka Aragorn in disguise). And his despair comes from battleling Sauron for too long with the Palantiri as a medium. I think, the movies did, what was possible, given, that they had only a limited time and that all that background info wouldn't have been able to be integrated into the rest of the plot. When making a screen adaptation, not everything can be 1 to 1 taken from the source material and portrayed exactly how it was in the original format. For example Gandalf left Frodo for actually 17 years, when he went to Minas Tirith to do library work. In the films this time period was drastically shortened. Tom Bombadil was completely excluded, although he serves an important service to the overall story. And so on.
I don't know, people always say "the movies did him dirty", but he is justly depicted as the madman he was in the books as well. He freaking lit HIMSELF on fire 😂 He certainly was accurately portrayed in the movies. It's just they portrayed Denethor's being during his final days, it doesn't go into showing you Denethor at his greatest -- that is irrelevant to the story in Return of the King!
@@Checkmate1138 True, Denethor eventually succumbed to madness. The difference is that in the books it was after Faramir was wounded, in the movies it was far earlier.
@davidhimmelfahrt3732 Nah, a very short scene of him using the palantir would have provided more than enough context, especially after Gandalf yells at Pippin for his use of the Stone of Orthanc. A 30 second scene would easily work as enough context has already been provided and nothing would have to be spelled out.
The best character story by far of TLotR is Aragorn's. It has everything a good archetypical story should have. Truly the best character of the books.
Amazing 3 part series you did here!!! Loved it.
Its cool to see characters from the movie and the "artistic interpretation" combined :D
Thanks so much for this. It was the most moving and exciting series you've done.
Just love this!! Brings all the books to life.
You are the best at story telling... just amazing...!
Another fantastic video, great job. Tolkien's attention to detail and depth are incredible.
Amazing content, keep up the good work
You should do about The Life of Prince Imrahil
Thank you for the work TH-cam on yourself, it is always astonishing, when you think you know everything important or interesting about a part of the lots story line and yet there are always small new things to be discovered
Great series, well done NotR, glad i tuned in for it, thank you :)
Prince Imrahil was one of the biggest slips of the movies.
Amazing series! Thank you!
I saved my comment for when the last and final episode on Gondor had posted. I really enjoy your in depth of Tolkien's middle earth. This has been an excellent series I always wanted to know more about Gondor, just as much as Rohan which you had done some months ago. It is a shame that all the characters that are in the LOTR novels are not in the movies. Then I guess each movie would have had been a trilogy. Any way I digress. Excellent series! GO AVS!!!
Man, I wish we had gotten to see the part where Eomer raged on the enemy. To paraphrase Doctor Who, "Balrogs run when a good man goes to war." Like, he's no pacifist in the books or movies, but he's definitely a good, honorable man, and to see that man pushed to the edge by the loss (as he thinks) of everyone close to him and going into the most righteous of furies would be beautiful in a very chilling way.
Epic three-parter 👍 So was the one about Morgoth
I have been waiting for this!🥳
Nice work dude thanks
Another great video from nerd of the rings appreciate your time and knowledge you put into these incredible middle earth stories 👍
Another excellent video! :D
Awesome video bro!!
Hi, I love your videos, you have an awesome talent for storytelling and such a relaxing voice!
Also, could you put the links to the musics you use in the video description? I love them but I never manage to find them
great series!
Thank you for this!
He must be butter because he's on a roll! Great video!
Another great job...
Amazing story!
Video idea! Review all the High Kings of the Noldor from Feanor until Gil Galad and the challenges and personalities of each.
Just finished binging your channel. Excellent work. The question now is: can I defeat Stephen Colbert in LotR Trivia?
Love your videos
Well done
Definitely enjoyed this 3 part series! It was like watching a movie lol
Maybe next, do a series of all the history of other major Regions, especially Eriador and Rhovanion. Much stuff happened there
just on time! I just watched the return of the king in cinema for it's 20th anniversary!
Recently watched a video on Middle Earth from another TH-cam channel(Middle Earth Tales - go figure?!) and it couldn't have been a more onerous task, as the pronunciation of names and places was so abhorent as to cause pain to the ears and really makes me appreciate your adherence to a higher quality of presentation. It reminded me of listening to a foreigner speak another language - just . . . bad.
Good timing as I’m currently watching LOTR Return of The King Extended Edition
I had a cool idea of one thing Aragorn does once rebuilding is complete is plans are drawn up to have expansions of Minus Tirith where all the races of middle earth would live. Having builders from Gondor Erabor and Mirkwood. With even the Ents invited to come renew bonds with the people. Also It really sucks we will never get the return of Morgoth
i really love it thankss
Really love your content! Here is a episode suggestion: what would happen if the Maiar never sent help to defeat Morgoth in the battle where he was defeated. Love Ben, aged 11, and Matt, aged 44 🐼🐶🐲
Will there ever be a video about just Arnor and the divided kingdoms of Arnor? In details obviously!! Making it much vaster!! Also the FULL History of the Eothed kingdom/lands before Rohan and after their period by and around the brown lands!
An Aragorn and Eomer video game taking place after Sauron’s destruction would be so cool. It can be co-op or solo. Perhaps there’s not a huge threat but you can kinda make one up. They have to take down the leader of some last bastion and this leader is like a “Wildman” or formerly of the Rohirim or something like that. Keep the scope of it all low but insert good writing and acting and it could still be really intriguing.
Writing in a letter about an impending trip in 1955, Tolkien identified Gondor as Italy.
I think the whole reason Eru allowed the people of Gondor to go through all the events that they experienced is because He figured since He gave those Men an island the last time they did the right thing and it went bad for the entire planet. Now those same Men, who call themselves the Faithful, have this one chance not just to have the full of Middle Earth, but they could be done with evil forever. So with this being before their eyes, they have to truly see it within themselves as to why this is worth giving their all for, instead of being handed to them. As well as really having faith, hence why Gandalf is with them showing a display of endorsement and support from the Vala themselves that they see Men as the rightful heirs of Middle-Earth. Plus, there is the whole situation with the first children of Eru (Elves), where the Vala offered a home to them in Valinor and not only did their king get killed, they with went through centuries of internal strife and civil war, they were forever cursed by their own king, and slowy forced into extinction in the very land that they were originally from. That's just the theory, though.
Do you have any content on technological advancement in Middle Earth? I was always struck by the lack of tech advances over the many thousands of years.
I second this motion of inquiry.
Well told. 🙏🙏
It’s so strange. The movies at first glance seem to go faster than the books: mainly around the travel time and immediately heading for Rivendell Vs 14 years. But the books are longer in time but also more compact. The fact that Amon hen, helms deep, pelennor fields, and the black gate happen in within a few weeks of each other is nutty. The movies made it seem like months had pass
Yeah I was caught by surprise when he said Gandalf and Pippin enter Gondor 14 days after Boromir’s death and I was just like wait what? I would of thought at least a month had passed and even that seemed to short.
I said the same thing! I had to go back and look at the dates just to make sure I was understanding correctly.
"Causing the destruction of Sauron, The Nazgul, Barad-dur, the Black Gate, and most of Sauron's forces" The one ring really is the reason why Sauron exists.
He aged prematurely but at least in the movie he looks good for being almost 90. He has numenorian blood after all.
Love your videos but question what would happen if morgoth had returned in the fellowship
Can you add this in the playlist?
The film puts more emphasis on Eowyn's stroke at the Witch--King !! In the book it is more the spells on Merry's sword which he stabs behind the King's knee that do the most damage !!!
Can you clarify what you mean when you say Finduilas "fell under the shadow of Mordor?" I do not understand that term except as a vague, abstract concept "the rule of Mordor" or the "power of Mordor," but it sounds like you mean something specific here?
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Tolkien creativity was beyond imagination.
14:02 Hell yeah! Memes into Fantasy
4:47--- "sees or envisions " There is no question that Faramir's sight of Boromir in the boat is real as he finds the broken horn and gives it to his father!!!
You should make a video covering the Scouring of the shire! Great work !!
Already got you covered! th-cam.com/video/3LrmFTFzdyM/w-d-xo.html
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I was just thinking about how Legolas and a community of Elves came to live in Ithilien. I know there aren't truly details about such things, but I was wondering about the law of Elves residing in the borders of a kingdom of Men. Who was their king? Aragorn? Thranduin? Whose realm would they answer to? Defend? Did they join Aragorn and Eomer's forces during their campaigns?
Looking forward to the chapter of the fourth age of gondor and Aragorn's son! The pre and post LOTR stories are as fascinating as the main story.
There isn't too much detail about the fourth Age unfortunately. Some key events in the Appendices but not much beyond that.
The first time I read the appendices it was like finding secret writings or something. The amount of information there made it unlike any other book I'd read.
Hail and well done!
Where would I be able to find the thumbnail image? I'd love to use it as a wallpaper!
I have a question what music is in the background??
Shoutout to Debbie!
I wonder if Eru Illuvatar had something to do with the dram of Faramir and Boromir...🤔
I wouldn’t doubt it.
I thought the dreams were controlled by one of the Valar, I don't remember who thought.
@@valentinkambushev4968 Lorien, also known as Irmo.
@@olthadir thank you!
@@olthadir I would suspect Ulmo. He sent dreams to Finrod and Turgon back in the 1st Age that led to the establishment of the hidden cities of Nargothrond and Gondolin. Being the Vala most closely associated with water and that the mighty Anduin was running through that part of Gondor, I think he was able to reach the two brothers.
I'm currently rereading the lotr books and it's surprising just how much is in The Two Towers compared to movies
Of course, the movies don't include the scouring of the shire but its still surprising
Is David days book on the dark powers of middle earth accurate?
Could anyone please tell me who the artist is for the art at 08:35? Many thanks!
make video about Khand's Variags
A New Shadow would be so awesome...
Strange repeated wording regarding the demise of the The King Breaker throughout your stellar videos. Merry Brandybuck did not kill the Witch-King, nor does he deserve primary credit. Eowyn killed the Witch-King's fell beast and then landed the death blow herself (after Merry saved her).
Would love to see a history of the orcs series!
Is it known who or what has induced the dreams of Boromir and Faramir about The One Ring and the Halflings?
Anyone else curious what he means when he says that Denathors wife died to “the shadow of Mordor?” Is that reference to poison? Disease? A town being sacked? Makes me really wonder how she actually died ya know?
Who is the artwork from on the thumbnail?
I have a question, what happened to the orcs, trolls and goblins who had escaped when the ring was destroyed?
Gondor, a pseudonym for Constaninople. Arnor, Rome ? Aragorn is Charlamagne, who reunified the Kingdoms of the West.
I have always seen Minas Tirith as Vienna and Minas Ithil as Constantinople. One has fallen under the shadow (the Ottomans/Muslims), and the other - still holding. (Don't forget Tolkien was a catholic).
@@valentinkambushev4968 Yeah, I agree. Lets not speculate on who Sauron may be then, to a catholic.
@@valentinkambushev4968 Yea and Rohan riding to Gondor’s aid was like the Polish Winged Hussars coming to the Siege of Vienna in 1683.
Just watched Rings of Power, i didn't know Isildur had a sister
He didn't and he doesn't.
It isn't canon.
A question I always asked myself is how Arnor is resettled in the fourth age. Not much is said about the population of Eriador in "The Lord of the Rings", but it seems to me that not many people live there, apart from the men of Bree, the Hobbits in the Shire and several elven settlements like the Grey Havens and Rivendell. However, the last northern Dúnedain have to live somewhere, perhaps they are nomads or live in several secret villages, but their number can't be that high, perhaps several hundred people? And there seem to be more men who live in isolated settlements along the rivers of Eriador, since Aragorn mentions "people in the villages" and later there is talk of refugees from southern Eriador. But I think there are only a few thousand people at maximum who live in Eriador at the end of the Third Age, so I guess colonists from Gondor might be sent to the North to help repopulate Annúminas, Tharbad and other places.
Pretty sure the Dunedain live just outside the Shire in order to ensure that Aragorn's protection of the halflings. I'm pretty sure Fornost was rebuilt and that became the Dunedain's stronghold, although that is probably just my headcanon.
I'm sure it took some time but just the establishment of a government that established law and order and provided protection would have set the stage for population growth and attract people from other areas. Gondor and Rohan fought a number of wars during Aragorn's reign so there were undoubtedly refugees looking for places to live. I also think the numbers of bandits, marauding orcs, and the like would have dwindled significantly.
@@jatkinson85 According to Tolkien (LotR appendix), King Elessar rebuild Annúminas as the northern capital/residence, not Fornost. I guess it was too much corrupted by evil spirits like Minas Morgul/Ithil or just less suitable in its location. Annúminas had been the capital of Elendil, so perhaps it was a symbolic connection to the ancient tradition of Arnor and Fornost was just resettled later.
@@untruelie2640 Ah cool it's been a long time since i read the Appendices
Wooo!
Men of the west! We are here!
am I the only one who started to hype "grond grond grond"? 🔥
The War of the Rings achieves the quest and vanquishes evil. But, where do the surviving Orcs, Uruk-hai and Easterlings go, after the fall of Mordor?
I've not read the myriad works available, but maybe a scholar has ideas 📖🤔
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What if AULË destroyed the dwarves
Would he turn Evil like his servants Sauron and Saruman
Or would he stay faithful tho Eru ilúvatar
Stay faithful. He was willing to destroy them out of repentance.
@@bobo577 Agreed. Aulë's actions were not done with malicious intent.
Fine I am going to rewatch LOTR for the hundred time