The History of Mirkwood, Greenwood the Great - Region Spotlight
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- Mirkwood, once called Greenwood the Great and later named Eryn Lasgalen, was a great forest of Middle-earth, mightiest of all in the later days of the world. Today, we explore that region and its history! Please let me know your thoughts on the history of Mirkwood in the comments below! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!
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I do imagine a silly scenario, the Silvan Elves really didn't have much to do in the Years of the Trees and First Age, so thinking of a Silvan Elf. You live under a never changing night for an age and then all of a sudden BOOM, the Sun just appears, you have no idea what it is, why it is there or what it does only it makes everything brighter and it hurts to look at it, then after a few hours it sets, and you a back to night and you are very confused, but then the next few hours, the Sun rises again and it burns and confuses you more, you wonder if it's here to stay this time. The poor Silvan Elves, they probably spent the first months if not Years just screaming in fear of this great big Sun showing up.
No i think they had other things to worry about. Sauron, spiders, balrogs,
lol, I've considered that idea before too. First the moon showing up, then a SUN? Had to have been, disconcerting, to say the least.
That’s so funny and I love your thought process! “Ugh..why won’t it just go away? Oh it did? Cool… OH SHIT ITS BACK WTF WHAT DOES IT WANT???” Hahah
"This is not the Greenwood of old...no matter what may happen stay on the path!"
Not as old as Fangorn
Not as beautiful as Lorien
But still just as important to the world and stories therin
I always like to think that the darkness lifted from the forest and it returned to as it was
And somewhere Radagast the brown walks with a smile on his face ☺
You know the story is good when it has inspired so much beautiful artwork
“Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood “. Tolkien
Saruman: look at all those trees I could use more wood for my iron industry
Tolkien: NO no no
Saruman:what
Tolkien: no more industrial production
Saruman: but..
Tolkien: I said no
Saruman: oh ok ... 🤣
As a kid, I started with the hobbit. Mirkwood has a special place in my heart
In my opinnion Mirkwood beolongs among the creepeiest places in Middleearth! But in the end once again it was a beautiful Greenwood of old!!!!! Another great video just keep going Yoystan!!!!!!!!!!
@@Enerdhil Lol
If it's creepy saruman and his iron industry can help you get rid of it we need wood and you want a creepy Forest gone it's a win win lol 😂
If it's creepy saruman and his iron industry can help you get rid of it we need wood and you want a creepy Forest gone it's a win win lol 😂
If it's creepy saruman and his iron industry can help you get rid of it we need wood and you want a creepy Forest gone it's a win win lol 😂
I’d love a video about the old forest as well! No one seems to have covered it yet, great content!!
How much wood would a Mirkwood mirk if a Mirkwood would mirk wood?
Hey, no. This is a SERIOUS video. You knock that humor off!
@@Spartan-Of-Truth What? No Mirkwood Knock-Knock Jokes??? 😮
@@penelopegreene Okay, okay. I actually liked it!
@@Spartan-Of-Truth 😁
Just in time! Is it just me, or does Mirkwood look like a face?
Gandalf was the chief architect of the attack on Dol Guldur.
"Well, here is Mirkwood! [...] Greatest of the forests of the Northern world. I hope you like the look of it." -- Gandalf
Nothing like a forest full of massive spiders
Ah, a fine video for a day when I'm feeling a bit sick. Always enjoy your videos.
Correction, Legolas would become the most renowned elf ever. Like every super hero is based off the mythology of Superman, Legolas has defined what we think elf is. So much so he has an emoji🧝🏻♂️. I’m cherry picking yes, but I think too many people sleep on Legolas’s impact on the world of fantasy, and it’s just like Tolkien to slip in that the most famous elf, is also the least impressive in his elven hierarchy. Message…I think so.
Definitely cuz I feel he defined this elves are amazing archers trope that has become standard. I can't think of an earlier written story in which that was a common trait of elves before legolas
A balrog of morgoth
I think Mirkwood is like the real old, dense and mysterious forest in our earth. We never know what kind of creature lived inside the forest. It is eerily beautiful, a place of raw nature but yet dangerous if we underestimate its power.
What if Gandalf didn't fall with Durin's Bane in Moria but continued on with the rest of the Fellowship?
I always thought Mirkwood was inspired by The Black Forest in Germany.
That’s pretty understandable! But it is believed that Tolkien was inspired by a real place actually called Mirkwood in history but it was east of the Carpathian Mountains. But some scholars think it might have also been a generic name given to big scary forests back then so it’s possible some Germanic peoples could have also called the Black Forest by a similar name!
I never understood what the Elves traded with. Yeah, they buy wine but what do they sell?
That is an amazing question since the wine comes from Dorwinion 😂
@@MenoftheWest I would also like to wonder how the wine gets _to_ the elves, since it's difficult to float barrels upstream.
I suspect fruit, wood, and other products that can be gathered in the forest. I do remember one of the Dwarves' barrels was full of apples.
Such a joy to watch this video - and "Mayhaps" is such an underutilized word, put to good use by one of TH-cam's finest wordsmiths.
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I always wonder how many soldiers thranduil was able to muster during the war of the ring
Does anyone else occasionally ponder whether Ents and Huorns ever lived in Mirkwood?
I wish (like to most things in the 3rd age) we saw more of Mirkwood (in Love Action) from the events of LOTR, I know we got the 2nd Hobbit movie...But I want more!!!
Thanks Mellon for a history on Mirkwood, Until an ECH (another?!!! So soon...) on Thorin Oakenshield....Marion Baggins Out!!!
My forest, I love the Greenwood once again . I wander it's many glen's.
Good Journey 🍀
Perfect for a Sunday afternoon relaxing in the garden with pipe weed, thanks as always
He missed one in the end i would add.
"From the story of Mirkwood we see that no matter how dark and corrupted something can be,there is always hope for recovery"
Great video! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time! Thanks for finally covering this Yoystan!
Yoystan, I hope I'm spelling your name right. I love your videos. Please keep them coming. Take care!
Great coverage as always. Only thing that wasn’t made as clear was how the silvan came to be. The Nandor mating and mixing with the Avari is how we get Silvan. It is always interesting to me that the Avari never came west, but there is a forest in Beleriand that houses Avari. Maybe these were escapees from Angband or perhaps servants of Morgoth. Look up Taur-im-Duinath to know what I am talking about.
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I always think of what Bilbo says about wanting to go on another adventure. "I meant to go back… wander the paths of Mirkwood…". In my mind, Mirkwood represents an idea of almost infinite escapism, you could go in and get lost just wandering for the remainder of your days.
As someone who loves forests deeply, thank you for this video. It feeds my imagination incredibly. I love your channel.
Awesome video I forgot about how cool the green wood was
Wood Elves are probably my favorites.The scene with the two getting drunk and allowing Bilbo to steal the keys and the banter over the heavy barrels makes them more like the merry people Tolkien wrote about rather than the washed out shadows of the movies.I am not sure they would all leave,perhaps they went wandering and found new woods in distant places after Sauron's influence was gone.After all Tolkien hints that there were lands unknown to the people we hear about in LOTR.Were there distant woods like the Russian taiga, perhaps?Places where few Men had ever set foot?
Another awesome video thank you
Great vid! Slight correction on the Enchanted River. It flows out of the Mirkwood mountains (not into) joining the Forest R.
There is certainly something awe-inspiring about vast and ancient forests.
"Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood" --- J.R.R Tolkien Just to pay homage to a legendary author. And thank you for posting this since I've been waiting for this topic to be covered for some time now. If it's not too much to ask, please never stop posting videos since you, Nerd of the Rings, In Deep Geek, and several other Tolkien related channels are truly a blessing for doing what you do.
I never understood how the Elves could have such a stronghold in Mirkwood, but it was also so filled with evil things, including Sauron, who was literally right under their thumb in Dol Goldur for hundreds of years.
Ever played war in the north? They absolutly nailed places like mirkwood and the ettenmoors in that game. The barrow donws too! I play it once a year..
I think Yoystan is one of the best people to speak on the topic of Mirkwood. In the world.
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I've been waiting for so long to see this video come out. Thank you so much for making it Yoystan!💗
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Been waiting for this. Thank you
Another Men of the West video. Good. Good.
I'm just saying that Thranduil is probably the eldest Elvin King that was in Middle earth since he has been around since some of the other Elven rulers and that Mirkwood is a place of hard work and dedication to keep their forest safe amazing video as always 💓can't wait for the next one
I’m surprised Sauron didn’t recruit the spiders to his side like Voldemort did in battle of Hogwarts
would they have followed? Ungoliant saw Morgoth as more of a temporay ally of convenience, I'd imagine her descendants would be much the same toward Sauron
Thank you for a nicely told and fine edited resumé of the nature of mirkwood/greenwood with its inhabitants; good and evil.
Legolas be like: bitch comeback when your daddy name the greatest Forest of the world after you
Not to mention the unholy spawn of Shelob and Ungoliant dwell there.
But he _did_ mention them! Lol
I'm replaying the 2003 Hobbit game. Ah memories...
I love that game
The broken one? On the Game Boy?
@@Orangefan77 No, the PC version. It seems to crash every level unless I save at every opportunity. I guess it really doesn't like temporary files. It's actually really challenging and fun. I can see why I wasn't able to get past the Roast Mutton level as a kid, and I feel less like a bad player for having failed.
@@johnycoho7830 The music was always a lot of fun, and I liked talking to the dwarves and hobbits as a kid.
@@AA-dn8dj it never crashed on Game Cube. Just saying
Have you done anything on the Woodsmen of Mirkwood?
Just reached Mirkwood in the Book-Club Podcast! This video is so well-timed! I'm going to have to share it a second time, and add the link in the description when the time comes, as much of this lore was stuff I was ignorant of or had forgotten, so thanks so much for sharing this lore Yoystan!
Men of the West, did Tolkien ever expand on what he meant by "living stone" ? How did Thranduil build his underground fortress?
I always figured "living stone" refers to a structure built into existing hills and mountains, as opposed to a stone tower that is entirely a work of craft.
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@@TJDious yeah, that's mostly likely what Tolkien meant. But considering what a colossal engineering feat Thranduil's halls of living stone is, I like to think Tolkien intended it as a placeholder for beings similar to the Ents , except they're made of stone
I'll have to check but it'd be interesting to see a video on the Woodman of Mirkwood/Greenwood
Wow! Your last few sentences talking about a few of the elves remaining in the forest of their ancient past took me somewhere. Great history lesson!
Thanks Yoystan!! Can’t wait until you speak on Thorin Oakenshield; he’s our “house favorite”.
YAY! Thorin next week!!! he's my second favorite character from all Middle Earth! (Bilbo being my favorite!)
The deep woods, mysterious, spooky and wild. Just as your biceps. Strong and tall as the woods, your stature
Boy you so deep, why do I always see you commenting on men of the west posts? Such a loyal fan I suppose
Most of the silvan elves are Avari and nandor?
So when do the Brazilian cattle farmers show up and clear-cut the whole thing for pastureland?
In the Fifth Age probably smh
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Great Video
I hope if they do show *A home for the Silvan elves in the Rings of Power series, I hope it looks like the home in the thumbnail. That's how I imagine Mirkwood would look like. A giant kingdom inside an even bigger tree. PJ's Mirkwood was vast and beautiful in its own right, but it didn't exceed my expectations like Rivendell and Loth-lorien did. I hope the show can give us great Silvan kingdom to makeup for it!
Ahh Mirkwood where trespass will get you indefinitely detained by xenophobes.
i will be 50 next year, The woods behind my childhood home are gone. *sniffs*. how its a strip mall. I guess Sauron won that one. hehee
Lol the word queer used in this context is weird…by okay..💅🏽 dem lil gay spiders
im with firestarten, i was a child in the early 80s, i read the hobbit, i think it may have been my first book. I u sed to pretend the woods behind my home was mirkwood, get out before dark!! hehehe
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Ungoliant and shelob are two different spiders
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Thanks, good video.
Great Video. However is it confirmed that Thranduril went West, I thought he stayed.
Very interesting stuff. Love the mirkwood, and all of its history!!!
Thanks