It's the same fair elf form he wore when he came to the elves of Eregion as "Annatar", the Lord of Gifts, claiming to be an emissary sent by the Valar.
Sauron is a shapeshifter. He once transformed into a wolf, a giant bat and other monstrosities when he's screaming for his dear life being chewed off by a giant dog.
@@whitelampmrz I always felt like given the rest of the people who bore the rings Celebrimbor and Sauron created, in this Talion was never an actual servant. He was a man who was good and for a time was finally corrupted like Frodo. What was the Ring of Isildur, he took and knew as a burden to save Middle Eath. Perhaps his spirit went to the Valinor, and straight to the Halls of Mandos for a short rest. There he would meet other Elven hero's that saw his bravery and sacrifice and honor him for it was the Will of Eru that he heal, like the other Ringbearers. And for a time, he would finally go where Men sleep. I believe fully, that he rested in Valinor for a time and finally went to see his wife and child again. Tolkien always left the resting place for humanities souls an unknown. But knowing him it was different than the Halls of Mandos but still beautiful. A pleasant dream that isn't a dream, where the memories of Life are softened and given a more open view, unobtainable in those Moments. Where ones feelings of regret, hatred and evil and met by those that arrived before you with understanding, forgiveness and love.
That moment when a five minute cut scene from a video game you've never played makes you feel more invested than the hours of a billion dollar streaming series you pay an annual subscription to watch. I don't know whether to be impressed or depressed. Actually, I'm probably both.
@@Horrorcrusher8312 well actually when I was younger I started to read them but back then I didn't speak english very well so it was a really short experience
@@DarthNoshitam absolutely it’s an amazing game especially if you like lord of the rings. It’s one continuing story so you have to play them both to see the full story. Great mechanics like assassins creed and Batman fighting style with great RPS elements and very cool maps to explore. One of my fav games to date
@@hassanawdi3793 Morgoth is like... Lucifer of Arda. The most powerful Ainur, first who rebelled against Eru and started corrupting Arda. Basically, Morgoth is the original Dark Lord and Sauron was his servant at first. It's too long to write, but I'd say this - he probably could do to Sauron what Gandalf or Saruman could do to a human, if they used their full potential. Morgoth is a Valar, while Sauron is a Maia. If you watched Supernatural it's like Archangel vs Angel.
1. If Talion becamo a Ringwraith, he could not find peace in death. 2. If Sauron and Celebrimbor became one in a prison, Sauron could not conduct the LoTR book villain activities.
Not only that, but the destruction of the One Ring undid everything made from it and ended the power of the other rings. So while we're not told exactly what happens to the Nine Riders (well, save The Witch King,) it is most likely that they were released from Sauron's power and faded, or died immediately.
@@slackolantern actually in the movies the Nazguls don't wear the ring, as we don't see them and it's not told. It's likely that Sauron keeps them in his tower
There is no question that Morgoth at his greatest, in the Years of the Trees, was much more powerful than Sauron ever was. Tolkien said that Sauron at his greatest (the end of the Second Age) was greater than Morgoth at his weakest (the end of the First Age), and that the reason for this was that Sauron was more clever in the use of his power.
@@8911145533 i mean theres alot of different kinds of power, sauron was physically powerfull aswell as knowledgeable but i think his biggest power was militarily, he knew how to build, maintain and lead an almost innumerable army, where as melkor/morgoth always struck me as someone who's main power came from himself as in he did have subordinates but he didnt trust them to get shit done, he allways had to do almost everything himself
Sauron taking form of Annatar Lord of Gifts was taking form of an Amanyar Elf sent as an emissary of the Valar. It says exactly this in "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
He _is_ in the form of an elf. Saying he is disguised as a fair Maiar doesn't even make sense, because Maiar do not have any innate physical forms to speak of. A fair Maiar does not "look like" anything.
i only wish there was a slightly different ending where Talion embraces his wife and son again, that would have been the cherry on top, wonderful game!
I love Lord of the rings and will forever be fan ,its like loving a football club no matter how bad they become I am still going to support and watch them
Even the nazgul they might be once good kings before PS I haven't read the books in case they told their origins except for the witch king which I know his origin is unknown
I've never played this game, but this small clip had me at the edge of my seat and moved me in a way that all the Rings of Power footage I've seen could not. Excellent direction and quality, all around. Loved the tie-in to LOTR proper.
Yeah sauron was a shape shifter. And of the Maiar. He had many forms a wearwolf, vampire, a elf, and of course his form that he took when his body was destroyed
But I am pretty sure Tolkien referenced Sauron as having lost that ability when his physical presence was destroyed together with the fall of Numenor. Still it was a creative and well thought out approach that really felt like characters in middle earth.
Celebrimbor: get down your knees and serve me Sauron: I don't think so Celebrimbor: you mistaken if you think you got a god damn choice boy Sauron: your mistake, abandoning the Ranger, you're all the way unprotected. GOTCH YA BITCH
the thing that doesnt make sense with elf sauron is if i recall correctly during the war with morgoth he literally lost the ability to take Beautiful forms. So elf sauron here cant exist technically i could be wrong ....
@@lauraportillo7575 We are literally eons now after the fall of Numenor in the game , his points still stands, it's another of the writers ignoring the lore moments.
They took a lot of liberties with the lore, like severely compressing the timelines. This is evident when Gollum shows up during the Siege of Minas Ithil (and he was in the first game as well). This happened about a thousand years before LOTR, so roughly 500 before Smeagol was born. He's also the post-losing his "precious" version of Gollum, making it only a few decades before LOTR. Eh, I still enjoyed his story arc and take this whole game story for what it is.
But he does take physical form either human, elf, or creature. Since maiar/maia are spirits Maiar can wander the world unseen or shape themselves in fashion of Elves or other creatures; these "veils", called fanar in Quenya, could be destroyed, but their true-being could not. Its funny how people dont know this 🤣🤣
@@slackolantern haha can you explain that again but differently for me im sorry i didnt quit get what you mean by fancy i got lost when you said that for it could mean anything
@@SteelWolf89 pretty sure literally everyone here knows it already. but as was said above, he always takes on some physical form and used to shapeshift a lot. it's canon that he appeared in the form of an elf in the past.
The elves in this look far more elven. in RoP they just look like normal people with pointed ears, there's nothing about the face or eyes or the way they move or talk that sets them apart. Here and in the Peter Jackson movies they have that ethereal otherworldliness.
No not really the game is considered non Canon in areas but I'd like to believe that this story is Canon since it actually has intertwined with the series in a way but it does mix some things
Unfortunately it wasn't true to the LOTR books like I heard that Minas Ithil fell way before the events of the hobbit where the games took place after the hobbit
It actually goes out of its way to tear apart established lore from the lotr story to make way for its own fanfic and completely destroys parts of the lore to avoid the plot holes the games would otherwise create
The scenario is so stupid... We are shown Gollum during the siege of Minas Ithil (which took place about 3000 years before the events of the War of the Ring), while Gollum was only born 500 years before the War of the Ring
That's book canon. This is movie universe canon. They delayed the fall as to coincide with this game. People need to look past the lore of the book and enjoy the game for what it is. If you don't like the gameplay than don't like the gameplay but don't dismiss it because it goes against what you purists think.
Yeah...not really. The fall of Adam was really all god's fault. God deliberately made a fucked up universe, then created a pair of beings that didn't know anything, but had free will. Then got mad when the female one exerted that free will in ignorance to tell him and Adam to go stuff it...so he made a NEW female one out of Adam, explicitly so that she would serve, rather than rebel...but then gave her free will anyway, and then told them not to eat a certain tree's fruit...after putting it in the most prominent place in the garden, KNOWING they had no concept of what obedience even was. . The guy had perfect knowledge, ultimate power...and still fucked up. He already knew the future, and had the power to fix it before even making the universe at all...and CHOSE not to. That's just...hopelessly stupid.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 I think Eru Ilúvatar has the same problem. He would have known Melkor would fuck everything up but let him interfere with the Song and enter Arda anyway.
@@Cyrus-rodn45 this game, unlike the series, never said it would be faithful. Man you fans. Shush, shush, it's alright go back to your escapism little one
@@joshward8395 Agreed. I think I met Gollum, as Gollum not as Smeagol, maybe 500 years before he was due to be born. Never mind acquire the ring and become Gollum. That was the point I switched off, and seeing videos like this prove I did the right thing.
@@alexscott6031 Wut? This game is between Hobbit and LoTR. I know that this might come as a HUGE shock...... But...... Gollum was actually IN the Hobbit, Crazy I know, but it's actually the truth.
@@nugget6820 No, Minas Ithil the main city in the game falls in Second age 3429. Gollum is born Third Age 2430. That's QUITE a discrepancy. The game is entirely fan fiction, it's not even close to accurate. They can say whenever the game is set but if that goes against events that have been set in the books for decades, it doesn't matter and is entirely non canon.
@@alexscott6031 Yeh, but the game developers wanted to do something epic and pushed the fall of minis ithil up to the third age, I don't really get why people think that some horrible evil thing. The game is stated to be non canon, it's all about the rule of cool.
@@TheTrulsroey in the ending of "Blade of Galadriel" DLC they made a huge fat hint that Celebrimbor is still here, bound to his own Ring, and basically took Sauron's place.
Elf Sauron = Fair Form. I thought after the fall of Numenor, he lost the ability to the form of Annatar. Hence the... Necromancer bit. Yeh, I know the games are different but ... yeh. I think it makes sense for them to use it for this purpose.
I wish this was canon, wasnt there a nazgul at the end of the movies that ended up dying when the ring was destroyed? Would be cool to have a whole fucking game based on him, only to find out it was Talion
@@secretagenttau2233 some fans if not most use their preferred works of fiction to escape from reality and get upset when something takes them out of that subconsciously created reality.
They only had a limited amount of lore to work with since the estate owns most of it. Besides this game never intended to be lore accurate. They only had what the movie universe could give them. If you don't like it than I feel sorry that you can't look past it.
@@enchantedlimestone373 as for me even though there was some truth in my feelings in the comment (I'm a sucker for the little guy and this game within the comments was the little guy) I was mostly just trying to be a troll.
I will drop some knowledge Sauron did not die cause he cannot die. He can be destroyed if his ring is destroyed. Wthat on earth are you talking about him dying
His spirit cannot die, but his body was destroyed beyond chances of returning ever again, meaning he will inevitably die as a spirit during Dagor Dagorath. You're right that he cannot die. I think the game just tried to tie an end to it by saying he is dead to assure the viewer he has no chance of coming back.
No longer Banished From Death. Shame a sequel never happened. 😞 Seem's like every company out there is too afraid to move past The Return Of The King. -_- And a Sequel to Shadow Of War would've done just that.
Well, there are no more rings of power after that, and not even any orcs. All of the supernatural forces of darkness are obliterated with Sauron's fall so the world is lacking the whole focus of those games.
These games does not fallow the book at all, but even if that is true they did far more better job on depicting the lore and fuse with the Peter Jackson’s movies better that that disaster of a woke show Amazon created
Agree. They werent that good games but they stayed more true to Tolkiens lore and were able to create deeper athmosphere than this billion dollar show. Its strange but this really showcases how bad Rings of Power really is. When they made xenophobic racists out of Numenorians I gave up. No creativity, pure political hate agenda and even the design like armors etc lacks often like its a trashy budget movie.
Middle Earth:Shadow of War. Sequel to Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Warning for if you want to play it: If you can't look past it not conforming to Tolkien's lore than don't play it, but if you can than it has objectively good gameplay mechanics.
he's a Maiar, just like Ishtari (Gandalf/Radagast/Saruman) n Balrogs of Morgoth. he can take any forms he wanted including elf, or at least what we know as his "fair form".
![The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug - The Enemy Revealed - Gandalf vs. Sauron [ HDR - 4K - 5.1 ]](/img/n.gif)
Sauron: I serve no one.
Morgoth: Sauron?? I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAAAAL!!
Well, he's correct tho, cause Morgoth is not around any more, so essentially Sauron serves no one but himself now!
so good XD
@@Astroviking_ orhe imbued melkor in the ring and when sauron puts the ring he's both at the same time ?
@@sum1337 Nah Melkor is way too powerful to be compared to Sauron even with the ring on!
Morgoth=Darth Plagueis=Grindelwald
Video description: "Elf Sauron"
the entire Tolkien Fandom: "So you have chosen... death"
Very true
Amazon:
Gondor HAS no Amazon TV show.
Gondor NEEDS no Amazon TV show!
This is Sauron in his Annatar form, so yes, he is appearing as an elf
Sauron: "I serve no one!"
Morgoth: "What's that lieutenant?"
Sauron: I serve no one!
Morgoth: Keep telling yourself that, boy
Sauron: Oh hubbie, if you came back I'd so suck that big Morgoth of yours!
Morgoth: That's right.
'I serve no one!'- Sauron
*Morgoth is laughing somewhere beyond the Doors of Night.*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eru Ilúvatar is so confident of his part in creating all life that he doesn't even stoop to laughing.
Good man knows his lore
Was Morgoth and Melkor one and the same?
Lol
@@juliie007 yes, same entity, different names.
So… there is no “Elf Sauron” he’s not an elf. He’s a Maia/Maiar named Mairon. This is his fair form.
His fair form is an elf though, just as Gandalf takes the form of a man.
It's the same fair elf form he wore when he came to the elves of Eregion as "Annatar", the Lord of Gifts, claiming to be an emissary sent by the Valar.
Sauron is a shapeshifter.
He once transformed into a wolf, a giant bat and other monstrosities when he's screaming for his dear life being chewed off by a giant dog.
he cannot take on his 'fair' form anymore, not after his disembodiment when Numenor sunk. The story in these games is very fan-fic-esque
@@SunburnCity I don’t think they ever denied it, and honestly it was at least a fanfic by somewhat quite well versed in the material.
I just love how Sauron wins they way he lost: by cutting off the ring finger with a small blade
The interesting thing though is that, what ever happened to that ring?
That leaves an opening for a future middle earth game.. 😶
@@screwupalt more like dlc
It's so sad when Talión dies and doesn't see his family again but the flower that grows in the grass indicates that he will see them in the afterlife
Reminds me of the ending of Gladiator!
Just a little bit...
What is the place he is walking in during the ending?
@@whitelampmrz Fields of honey
@@whitelampmrz I always felt like given the rest of the people who bore the rings Celebrimbor and Sauron created, in this Talion was never an actual servant. He was a man who was good and for a time was finally corrupted like Frodo. What was the Ring of Isildur, he took and knew as a burden to save Middle Eath. Perhaps his spirit went to the Valinor, and straight to the Halls of Mandos for a short rest. There he would meet other Elven hero's that saw his bravery and sacrifice and honor him for it was the Will of Eru that he heal, like the other Ringbearers. And for a time, he would finally go where Men sleep. I believe fully, that he rested in Valinor for a time and finally went to see his wife and child again. Tolkien always left the resting place for humanities souls an unknown. But knowing him it was different than the Halls of Mandos but still beautiful. A pleasant dream that isn't a dream, where the memories of Life are softened and given a more open view, unobtainable in those Moments. Where ones feelings of regret, hatred and evil and met by those that arrived before you with understanding, forgiveness and love.
By logic he could not be alive at the end without isildur's ring
Sauron: I serve no one!
Morgoth: ACHOO! How am I getting sick this side of the midnight door?
That moment when a five minute cut scene from a video game you've never played makes you feel more invested than the hours of a billion dollar streaming series you pay an annual subscription to watch. I don't know whether to be impressed or depressed. Actually, I'm probably both.
stop crying
Oh you're so woke
Haters are so sad. Like why make an effort just to be negative?
That one isn't canon. It's a bad fanfic, one riddled with money laundering involved behind the company that allows the mediocrity to exist.
Funny thing is this game isn’t even cannon and it’s better than rings of power loool films are the top tier tho
Sauron: I serve no one.
Anyone who's read the books knows this is a lie.
P.S.- Please no more replies I've had enough to last me several lifetimes.
Why
@@h.o.2953 Because he does serve someone, a demon named Morgoth.
P.S.- I'm guessing you didn't read the books or the wiki.
@@Horrorcrusher8312 well actually when I was younger I started to read them but back then I didn't speak english very well so it was a really short experience
@@h.o.2953 I see. Thanks for the insight.
Sauron: I serve no one.
Morgoth: Um, excuse me??
Ι will never forget ho BLOWN AWAY I was when I first saw the twist on Talion's true fate joining the Nazgul..this game has a beautiful plot
what game is this?
@@DarthNoshitam shadow of War for ps4. It’s the sequel to shadow of Mordor
@@MechanicRaptorJesus worth playing both? These clips are all super cool
@@DarthNoshitam absolutely it’s an amazing game especially if you like lord of the rings.
It’s one continuing story so you have to play them both to see the full story. Great mechanics like assassins creed and Batman fighting style with great RPS elements and very cool maps to explore. One of my fav games to date
@@DarthNoshitamif you do (both on steam on PC) I highly recommend shadow of Mordor first before shadow of war. Runs better
Sauron: I serve no one!
Morgoth: I MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE!
Sauron: Yes... your superior replacement.
Sksksksksks
Morgoth would own Sauron
@@cedricbauman9537 I haven't read the books how much strong is morgoth as strength or powers
@@hassanawdi3793 Morgoth is like... Lucifer of Arda. The most powerful Ainur, first who rebelled against Eru and started corrupting Arda. Basically, Morgoth is the original Dark Lord and Sauron was his servant at first.
It's too long to write, but I'd say this - he probably could do to Sauron what Gandalf or Saruman could do to a human, if they used their full potential. Morgoth is a Valar, while Sauron is a Maia. If you watched Supernatural it's like Archangel vs Angel.
@@michacieslak2346 thanks cause in general don't like reading any books but checked TH-cam videos and was surprised morgoth tamed 5 Balrogs too
1. If Talion becamo a Ringwraith, he could not find peace in death.
2. If Sauron and Celebrimbor became one in a prison, Sauron could not conduct the LoTR book villain activities.
Not only that, but the destruction of the One Ring undid everything made from it and ended the power of the other rings. So while we're not told exactly what happens to the Nine Riders (well, save The Witch King,) it is most likely that they were released from Sauron's power and faded, or died immediately.
@@slackolantern hopefully their rings removed from any darkness too if found
From what I saw just from this cinematic (never played the game), it kinda looks like Sauron won
@@slackolantern actually in the movies the Nazguls don't wear the ring, as we don't see them and it's not told.
It's likely that Sauron keeps them in his tower
sauron: "i serve no one!"
melkor: "am i a joke to you?"
There is no question that Morgoth at his greatest, in the Years of the Trees, was much more powerful than Sauron ever was. Tolkien said that Sauron at his greatest (the end of the Second Age) was greater than Morgoth at his weakest (the end of the First Age), and that the reason for this was that Sauron was more clever in the use of his power.
@@8911145533 i mean theres alot of different kinds of power, sauron was physically powerfull aswell as knowledgeable but i think his biggest power was militarily, he knew how to build, maintain and lead an almost innumerable army, where as melkor/morgoth always struck me as someone who's main power came from himself as in he did have subordinates but he didnt trust them to get shit done, he allways had to do almost everything himself
It still makes me happy to see Talion finally at peace.
I would love to play sauron like how you did in lotr conquest dude was a walking black airforce
Sauron "I serve no one!"
Melkor "Da fug did he say?!"
Clarification, Sauron was NEVER an elf, he was a Maiar and even in disguise as Annatar he was disguised as a fair Maiar, not as an elf.
That's why Celebrimbor couldn't dominate him
Sauron taking form of Annatar Lord of Gifts was taking form of an Amanyar Elf sent as an emissary of the Valar. It says exactly this in "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
He _is_ in the form of an elf. Saying he is disguised as a fair Maiar doesn't even make sense, because Maiar do not have any innate physical forms to speak of. A fair Maiar does not "look like" anything.
This game looks pretty damned good actually
It's alright. Can get pretty repetitive though.
It's pretty Damm bad, actually
It is like assasins creed but in lotr.
"I serve no one"
**sed Morgoth noises**
Sauron:i serve no one.
Morgoth:just wait until i get out of this void,boy...
Sauron: I serve no one
Morgoth: …babe? 🥺
i only wish there was a slightly different ending where Talion embraces his wife and son again, that would have been the cherry on top, wonderful game!
I call this game Cousin of the Rings cuz of how different the lore is
I love Lord of the rings and will forever be fan ,its like loving a football club no matter how bad they become I am still going to support and watch them
The end still makes me crying
Talion in the first ending he was looking at Minas Tirith symbolizing as good but when he fell he looked at Minas Morgul symbolizing evil
Sauron: I serve no one
Morgoth: keep on yapping boy
the heros from the movie destroyed the darkness but freed Talion
You mean celebrimbor?
@@corj8543 oh snap yea my bad 🤣
@@truegamer2819 nah nah you right it was basically freeing them both
@@corj8543 freed Talion too
Even the nazgul they might be once good kings before
PS I haven't read the books in case they told their origins except for the witch king which I know his origin is unknown
I've never played this game, but this small clip had me at the edge of my seat and moved me in a way that all the Rings of Power footage I've seen could not. Excellent direction and quality, all around. Loved the tie-in to LOTR proper.
I highly recommend u play both shadow of mordor games
Either play or just watch all cutscenes on yt.. a great story
Its not lore accurate, but goddamn its as exciting as what if story compared to ROP what if.
Sauron "I serve no-one!"
Uhm... buddy... have you told Melkor that?
Worst part for me is that she acting like she did nothing wrong
Yeah sauron was a shape shifter. And of the Maiar. He had many forms a wearwolf, vampire, a elf, and of course his form that he took when his body was destroyed
But I am pretty sure Tolkien referenced Sauron as having lost that ability when his physical presence was destroyed together with the fall of Numenor. Still it was a creative and well thought out approach that really felt like characters in middle earth.
Celebrimbor: get down your knees and serve me
Sauron: I don't think so
Celebrimbor: you mistaken if you think you got a god damn choice boy
Sauron: your mistake, abandoning the Ranger, you're all the way unprotected. GOTCH YA BITCH
the thing that doesnt make sense with elf sauron is if i recall correctly during the war with morgoth he literally lost the ability to take Beautiful forms. So elf sauron here cant exist technically i could be wrong ....
No after the fall of Numenor is when Sauron lost the ability to take a beautiful form.
@@lauraportillo7575 ahh thanks for the info.
@@lauraportillo7575 We are literally eons now after the fall of Numenor in the game , his points still stands, it's another of the writers ignoring the lore moments.
@@thehermit8723 oh I'm not arguing his point. I just wanted to clarify when he lost the ability.
They took a lot of liberties with the lore, like severely compressing the timelines. This is evident when Gollum shows up during the Siege of Minas Ithil (and he was in the first game as well). This happened about a thousand years before LOTR, so roughly 500 before Smeagol was born. He's also the post-losing his "precious" version of Gollum, making it only a few decades before LOTR. Eh, I still enjoyed his story arc and take this whole game story for what it is.
funny how sauron says i serve no one while he was one of melkors greatest servants
True but you could argue he no longer serves Melkor since his banishment, but happy to be overridden by some throwaway line in lore
@@jameshetherington1 true
He isn't an elf, he's the same species of lesser spirit as gandelf.
sauron’s voice in these game is epic
Way better than the rings of power television series
Cap
And it didn't even cost them a billion dollars to make it.
One of the greatest game endings I've ever seen
1:17 That look that Sauron served. lol "Bitch, I'm a maiar!" *slice*
I remember playing this for the first time and that ending still hits me in the feels like it did the first
Nice Shadow of War i love that Game
The Dark Lord Sauron he is not a man
& not even a Elf
He is a Maiar/Maia.
Thank you!!! Finally someone who knows it!!!!
But he does take physical form either human, elf, or creature. Since maiar/maia are spirits Maiar can wander the world unseen or shape themselves in fashion of Elves or other creatures; these "veils", called fanar in Quenya, could be destroyed, but their true-being could not. Its funny how people dont know this 🤣🤣
@@tucson_batmancosplay5202 After the fall of Numenor, Sauron couldn't take his fancy form anymore, so no more prop hunt for him.
@@slackolantern haha can you explain that again but differently for me im sorry i didnt quit get what you mean by fancy i got lost when you said that for it could mean anything
@@SteelWolf89 pretty sure literally everyone here knows it already. but as was said above, he always takes on some physical form and used to shapeshift a lot. it's canon that he appeared in the form of an elf in the past.
Elf sauron is badass.
Maiar not elf
That song at the end still hits hard
well, this fan fiction is levels above that one on Amazon, at least it's intriguing. I've never played the game but I've seen many clips from it.
The elves in this look far more elven. in RoP they just look like normal people with pointed ears, there's nothing about the face or eyes or the way they move or talk that sets them apart. Here and in the Peter Jackson movies they have that ethereal otherworldliness.
still better than that Amazon Rings of Power mess
How this game is worst
How naive of Celembrimbor trying to go against a Maiar lol
Who does he think he is, Glorfindel?
@@Amigo21189 exactly lol 😂, it the books we know that Sauron demolished him and used Celebrimbor’s body as a banner
This is after Celebrimbor died, dude has nothing to lose as a ghost
So that was Talion in the ending of return of the king when the Nazgul gets it with the volcanic
No not really the game is considered non Canon in areas but I'd like to believe that this story is Canon since it actually has intertwined with the series in a way but it does mix some things
@@warfighter2888 one day you can show the movies to ur kids and when yall see a nazgul you can tell them "that one is Talion from the games"
@@h.o.2953 like ayo Jimmy look that's talion the goat
@@warfighter2888 exactly
No
I wish we got a solo game on my mans Sauron. But NOPE
Nothing is impossible so be patient and hopefully we get we want and also sauron is my favorite too
@@hassanawdi3793 Lets hope so. ☺
@@InfiniteDarkness7756 if u don't know there is rts game called the rise of the witch king during the time he attacked fornost
@@hassanawdi3793 ok. I'll check it out thanks. ^_^
@@InfiniteDarkness7756 it was made by EA but it was good
I knew the Morgoth comments would pop up!
LOTR the story is just so epic, and this game manages to connect the pieces beautifully
Unfortunately it wasn't true to the LOTR books like I heard that Minas Ithil fell way before the events of the hobbit where the games took place after the hobbit
It actually goes out of its way to tear apart established lore from the lotr story to make way for its own fanfic and completely destroys parts of the lore to avoid the plot holes the games would otherwise create
Nah it tramples all over the lore
@@ethanquirk28 at least the games were great
You guys are fucking retarded as shit, like actually lol. It's non Canon. Fucktard
The scenario is so stupid... We are shown Gollum during the siege of Minas Ithil (which took place about 3000 years before the events of the War of the Ring), while Gollum was only born 500 years before the War of the Ring
That's book canon. This is movie universe canon. They delayed the fall as to coincide with this game. People need to look past the lore of the book and enjoy the game for what it is. If you don't like the gameplay than don't like the gameplay but don't dismiss it because it goes against what you purists think.
I would love another Shadow game
The fall of numenor is like the fall of Adam in the garden of eden
if Adam had built a fleet of boats to invade the shores of Heaven.
More like the fall of Atlantis, although the fall of numenor changed the topological shape of Arda forever
Yeah...not really. The fall of Adam was really all god's fault. God deliberately made a fucked up universe, then created a pair of beings that didn't know anything, but had free will. Then got mad when the female one exerted that free will in ignorance to tell him and Adam to go stuff it...so he made a NEW female one out of Adam, explicitly so that she would serve, rather than rebel...but then gave her free will anyway, and then told them not to eat a certain tree's fruit...after putting it in the most prominent place in the garden, KNOWING they had no concept of what obedience even was.
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The guy had perfect knowledge, ultimate power...and still fucked up. He already knew the future, and had the power to fix it before even making the universe at all...and CHOSE not to. That's just...hopelessly stupid.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 I think Eru Ilúvatar has the same problem. He would have known Melkor would fuck everything up but let him interfere with the Song and enter Arda anyway.
@@pearltheboomkin1247 no
Still better fan fiction the Rings of Power
It's worst
@@Cyrus-rodn45 this game, unlike the series, never said it would be faithful. Man you fans. Shush, shush, it's alright go back to your escapism little one
As good as the gameplay in this game was, I couldn't play past a few hours. So much lore-breaking in this game, it had such potential.
I know. This games story just spat on the actual lore in favor of it's protagonists.
@@joshward8395 Agreed.
I think I met Gollum, as Gollum not as Smeagol, maybe 500 years before he was due to be born. Never mind acquire the ring and become Gollum.
That was the point I switched off, and seeing videos like this prove I did the right thing.
@@alexscott6031
Wut? This game is between Hobbit and LoTR. I know that this might come as a HUGE shock...... But...... Gollum was actually IN the Hobbit, Crazy I know, but it's actually the truth.
@@nugget6820 No, Minas Ithil the main city in the game falls in Second age 3429. Gollum is born Third Age 2430.
That's QUITE a discrepancy.
The game is entirely fan fiction, it's not even close to accurate. They can say whenever the game is set but if that goes against events that have been set in the books for decades, it doesn't matter and is entirely non canon.
@@alexscott6031
Yeh, but the game developers wanted to do something epic and pushed the fall of minis ithil up to the third age, I don't really get why people think that some horrible evil thing. The game is stated to be non canon, it's all about the rule of cool.
I really got to beat this game one day…great vid man!
AWESOME🔥
Are they ever gonna make a story to show what happens to Celebrimbor after Sauron’s death?
I assume Celebrimbor goes to the Halls of Mandos, with Sauron gone, his spirit is no longer bound to Mordor.
Sauron is not death. After destruction of the ring he's a formless weak shadow
@@TheTrulsroey in the ending of "Blade of Galadriel" DLC they made a huge fat hint that Celebrimbor is still here, bound to his own Ring, and basically took Sauron's place.
Way better than that tv show
That no-one has seen yet? Sure, I'll take your word for it.
@@khymaaren good because that show is trash before it even starts
No about the same but for different reasons
Well, the show is out... and the video game is 100x better storyline. And it's a freaking silly video game.
Esto es mas cannon que los anillos de poder.
He learner the trick that killed himself X) to cut off fingers with the Ring
Elf Sauron = Fair Form. I thought after the fall of Numenor, he lost the ability to the form of Annatar. Hence the... Necromancer bit. Yeh, I know the games are different but ... yeh. I think it makes sense for them to use it for this purpose.
I wish this was canon, wasnt there a nazgul at the end of the movies that ended up dying when the ring was destroyed? Would be cool to have a whole fucking game based on him, only to find out it was Talion
All of them died upon the destruction of the one ring
Man they really just tossed the canon of the books in a fire, didn't they?
They said from the start the games weren't going to be canon.
@@secretagenttau2233 these fans are just butthurt because they can't see past their escapist reality.
@@cosesu8929 ???
@@secretagenttau2233 some fans if not most use their preferred works of fiction to escape from reality and get upset when something takes them out of that subconsciously created reality.
They did . But they at least came up with mildly interesting stuff.
The TV show Amazon pooped out... that gives shit a bad name.
I never liked the movies but I loved this game so much, especially Talion's bittersweet storyline.
Every story has its own Angelic Lucifer turned into a Darklord Satan
The gift of men
Boy got them sith eyes
"I serve no one"
*cough cough* Morgoth *cougj*
I don't think the creators know what lord of the rings is
They only had a limited amount of lore to work with since the estate owns most of it. Besides this game never intended to be lore accurate. They only had what the movie universe could give them. If you don't like it than I feel sorry that you can't look past it.
@@cosesu8929 i didn't mean to sound annoyed in this comment, i was just pointing out how inaccurate it is
@@enchantedlimestone373 as for me even though there was some truth in my feelings in the comment (I'm a sucker for the little guy and this game within the comments was the little guy) I was mostly just trying to be a troll.
@@cosesu8929 that's fair. Have a good one bro
I didn't know it was souron or ring linked to souron, I did clear my future pathways to choke. So took in and let out later it cleanses everyone
Sauron was no elf and he took this form just to fool people.
This is considered the true ending of Shadow of War
I will drop some knowledge Sauron did not die cause he cannot die. He can be destroyed if his ring is destroyed. Wthat on earth are you talking about him dying
His spirit cannot die, but his body was destroyed beyond chances of returning ever again, meaning he will inevitably die as a spirit during Dagor Dagorath.
You're right that he cannot die. I think the game just tried to tie an end to it by saying he is dead to assure the viewer he has no chance of coming back.
@@frikandelbroodje6491 the game did not say he died. He became one with Celebrimbor.
@@youthberktempest Then the game also mentioned that Celebrimbor managed to escape Barad-Dûr once it tore apart.
I love this scene
The game is mostly movie canon and not Book canon.
It's neither, this is like a what if
talion is one of the nazgul?
Its not canon but yes the last to join
no
Free at last. Nice
This game is more lore accurate than rings of power. This tells volumes.
This game is more accurate than RoP and the LOTR trilogy.
Fixed.
I'm so confused by these games. Like is Shelob a "good character" Isn't she a giant blood sucking spider?
They changed a lot of things from the books like Shelob isn't a shapeshifter and Minas Ithil fell way before the events of the hobbit
@@hassanawdi3793
She COULD be. She is the daughter of Ungoliant after all, who chose the form of a spider.
@@hassanawdi3793 In the books Minas Ithil falls about 3000 years before the events of The Hobbit…
No longer Banished From Death.
Shame a sequel never happened. 😞
Seem's like every company out there is too afraid to move past The Return Of The King. -_-
And a Sequel to Shadow Of War would've done just that.
Well, there are no more rings of power after that, and not even any orcs. All of the supernatural forces of darkness are obliterated with Sauron's fall so the world is lacking the whole focus of those games.
Sorry I might be late, but, which game is this one?
Ok i keep seing clips of this game but what’s this game called ? I wanna watch the walkthroughs …
They almost made the games a huge waste of time having Talion join the Nine, but they fixed it at the end.
I am confuzzled
These games does not fallow the book at all, but even if that is true they did far more better job on depicting the lore and fuse with the Peter Jackson’s movies better that that disaster of a woke show Amazon created
Agree. They werent that good games but they stayed more true to Tolkiens lore and were able to create deeper athmosphere than this billion dollar show. Its strange but this really showcases how bad Rings of Power really is. When they made xenophobic racists out of Numenorians I gave up. No creativity, pure political hate agenda and even the design like armors etc lacks often like its a trashy budget movie.
Great game
You mean Annatar, not elf Sauron.
Hail the One...
unlikely hero, gollum
sauron was maia not elf
This game needs a sequel lo
this game IS a sequel
@@travelwell8098 This game is non-canon
I just saw this..what game is it?
Middle Earth:Shadow of War. Sequel to Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
Warning for if you want to play it: If you can't look past it not conforming to Tolkien's lore than don't play it, but if you can than it has objectively good gameplay mechanics.
Sauron is elf? I thought he is Maiar.
It was a form he chose to take. Maiar are spirits that can transform to whatever they want.
he's a Maiar, just like Ishtari (Gandalf/Radagast/Saruman) n Balrogs of Morgoth. he can take any forms he wanted including elf, or at least what we know as his "fair form".
Thats not what happens in this video
Apparently there's going to be a 3rd game but how will it even be possible with Talion finally at rest 🤔
They could retcon that.
The game they're currently making is about wonder woman not middle earth
@@flatmat2844 which is stupid.
@@Eclipse-1-z40 yeah, I'm disappointed too