I liked that too. I think it’s pretty important to understand the mind and experiences of an author/artist to really understand the work they create. This channel especially is a favorite of mine. I’m getting educated on Tolkien’s stories and having a great time doing so. You really put your all into this and it shows. Thank you!
Creepiest places in Middle Earth: 5. Barrow Downs 4. Dol Guldur 3. Khazad-Dum 2. Minas Morgul 1. The Dead Marshes. The description in the book is so great. I actually got nightmares as a kid after reading the chapter on the Dead Marshes.
Shelob is strong. Utter oppressive darkness with constant webs, unfathomable foul stench, and dozens of hidden passages. Just sheer terror and unyielding doom
Oh, dear. I hope that poor man received some love and support after all the horrors he must have seen and endured. God bless his soul and his legacy through you. Best wishes for you and your family.
I think it would be a bit creepy if we could use scuba gear and explore underwater Beleriand. Just imagine being down there and realising you just discovered what's left of the gates of Angband.
It's worth noting that the floating lights or "candles of corpses" may be inspired by the concept of Will o' the Wisps - floating lights that lead travelers astray in European folklore. Will o' the wisps are also called corpse-candles. They're sometimes thought to be lost souls or mischievous fairies but more likely, they're caused by the ignition of gases in swamps and marshlands.
I always figured and this is more from the movies than the book, that the corpses gave fule to the body like methane gas. Though even if that is the case each of the candles certainly have a grievous, magical influence on them.
I figured they can't be literal paraffin wick candles, not just for how short they last but also where they'd even have come from in the first place. Methane gases being ignited by some fell magic seems to be the best answer for the corpse-candles, and Peter Jackson's film seems to take that route.
Too add another layer to Tolkien’s personification off the pools in the dead marsh the idea off “not being able to touch them” in reference to the bodies Is because the pools of water that coalesced in the shell craters would also be tainted by the chemical agents such a chlorine or mustard gas. Because the chemicals involved were so heavy they would stick low to the ground and contaminate the water and make it undrinkable as well as causing chemical burns to those that touched it. The old black and white photos don’t do it justice because of how yellow the mustard gas was. The marshes were the scariest place in Tolkien’s world to me because you could see his own trauma bleed through into the pages
With all the beautiful and lovely places in Middle Earth, I love that Tolkien also provided us with plenty of horrifying places as well. The world feels so real that way.
On top of the Somme battlefields, I think it is interesting to mention what could have been another inspiration. In Brittany, northwestern France is located the Yeun Elez, a big marshy region that fits the description of Tolkien's dead marshes. A lot of local legends (youdig gates to hell, deepless ponds and tricking lights) are associated to it. Tolkien was familiar with these legends via the recollection done by people such as Anatole Le Bras. Nowadays, parts of the marshes are submerged under an artificial lake. But the rest is preserved and still gives a creepy and earie feeling (I have camped in it by night and trust me the noises in the mist were freaking us out). I highly recommend the hikes around it from saint Michel de braspart to roc'j trevezel.
You should do the Barrow Downs/Barrow Wights. I know you Have covered them in other episodes but I was thinking of a dedicated episode of you have not already done one.
That drawing of Gollum (at 08:15)... wow, it gives me the creeps. That's so much more terrifying than any image from the movie. Your perfect Gollum impression alongside it makes it so chilling.
Scariest places in Middle Earth according to me: 5) Mirkwood(book version particularly).It’s a vast forest, with dimmed light due to the thick canopy, a place where the water is enchanted to make you fall asleep or drown, where animals become shadows and the flesh can’t be eaten, where people can go insane and never find their way out.Adding to that, the giant spiders exist, able to snap and devour anyone who comes through.Then the mirkwood elves, who don’t like outsiders and can sneak around you without a sound.And then Dol Guldur where orcs and Sauron as the necromancer live.It’s one giant forest of death. 4)Moria.It’s a giant underground realm, long since abandoned.Not only is it dark, eerily empty, and maze like with numerous tunnels and passages, but it’s filled with orcs, trolls, and even a balrog.Not to mention littered with the corpses of the dwarves who attempted to settle there before the fellowship came.Lastly, there is the lake that laps right up to the door, where the watcher in the water lives, and there are tunnels down to the base of the mountains where the nameless things, essentially lovecraftian beings live. 3) The Barrow downs.A selection of hills inhabited by evil and dangerous spirits or wrights, who have the ability of magic to make people their captives, and only by Tom Bombadil can people escape. 2) The dead marshes, as explained in this video. 1) Mordor.Enough said.
Two questions: What are the 'Watchers' Frodo and Sam find in Cirith Ungol? Is there another secreted mountain path into Mordor other than the Morgul Vale?
They were probably evil spirits that Sauron got to work for him. I am sure they thought it was cake job because, after all, who would dare try to enter with Sauron and the Witch King in complete control of the Valley. Little did they know.....
There's a main path up from Morgul... That they Don't Take, The Cirith Ungol path is a side path. I could quote chapter and verse PROVING this, because i spent a LONG many rereads checking this out. I won't bother you with it, but; it's true. Meanwhile; i have NO IDEA how the Watchers worked.. Some sort of spooky magic
This is an absolute gem of a channel. Thank you so much for these deep dives, some of the art work used is phenomenal and the map depictions is brilliant.
They Dead Marshes are more horror inducing to me than any book or movie. It makes sense that they are reflections of the Battle of the Somme. Your reading (which was excellent) of Tolkien's lines made me remember just how well written the LotR is.
This was amazinggggggggg perfect video! You`re the best tolkien channel, my friend. From start to end and all within it: the pictures, the voices, the music, how long the quates are, even the number of ads during the video.. You`re the best! thanks!
Great video Matt! Whilst I love all of your videos, I especially love when we get to see the travels of our Heroes and Villains, using the maps! You always put it together so well! As we say in Ireland, Maith Thú! Well done!
That Gollum impression is absolutely spot on holy moly. I though I could do a really good Gollum impression but I bow to you because that blows me out of the water so awesome
Wow! One of your best videos yet! Unfortunate it’s so short! But I loved the voice acting, the Tolkien personal experience connection, and a topic I always wanted to know about in detail! Keep up the great work!!
Only just passed this part of the book in my annual reading. The depiction in the movie is superbly creepy and a testament to Jackson's talent for horror elements.
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Trully creapy place! The way to Mordor is trully full of darkness, either to go through Black Gate, or through this graveyeard! Nerd, another great video, I wanted to ask you, I playing Shadow of Mordor once more, and I'm wondering did Celembrimbor had a family, or that was just for the games? Al always great video!
I'd love to see you do a video on Celeborn, Galadrial's husband. I can't really find much information on him myself but I know he and Galadriel have been married since the first age.
I feel as if Matt is doing a series on the scariest places in Middle Earth without saying it… I also love the connection between WW2 and Middle Earth. That one was cool! I’m gonna say either Mirkwood or Barrow Downs might be next…maybe even Fangorn, the Old Forest…many possibilities.
If you didn't already, a video on gollum would be awesome, just for the opportunity to do the impression. It's just like Andy serkis. Do you also do the mannerisms? We need a live stream reading gollum quotes maybe.
You should invite John Garth to speak on this channel. A part of me wants to go to northern France, or just the Somme, to retrace Tolkien's steps. I think it is fitting that Peter Jackson is also passionate about the Great War, given its connection to Middle Earth.
The Dead Marshes is (IMHO), in terms of visuals, climate and concept, the place that most externalizes such a reference to what Tolkien experienced in World War 1. I believe the place becomes a concept of "No man's lands" - "No man lands" from the Great War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man's_land "No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms.[1] In modern times, it is associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, which neither side wished to cross or seize due to fear of being commonly attacked by the enemy in the process."
More specifically it almost has to be influenced by the Somme. Large craters from mortar shells would fill with water and there would be actual pools of dead around you.
@@kingetzel2755 This is very true. It is very interesting to look at LOTR and its themes and places and the inspiration from the horrors of WWI. Even the sickness from the wraiths closely resemble 'shell shock'.
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the Dead Marshes are shown foggy ponds with jets of fire rather than the misty candle-flames described in the book. Frodo actually falls into a marsh, in which ghostly figures surround and reach for him before Gollum pulls him out.
Very nice video. Would be nice if you could make a video when you go over what passages from the books you think will make it to the fall of numenor. Even if they say ”every writing about second age” do you think that covers passages from lotr. For example the poem Sam sings near weathertop about gil-galad.
I'm super pumped for the new book and am very curious (as you are) what all is included. It sounds like they're attempting to make it as close to a single narrative as they can, which makes me wonder what they'll pick in terms of bits that may have multiple versions. I'm guessing they'll go with whatever Christopher thought was his father's latest word on the topic.
Well,for the past few months I've been abducted on study of the lore of LoTR,so I want to say thank you for helping me with this) And also,you did AWESOME voice of Gollum,when I heard that,for a second,I thought,that it was Andy's voice....!👏👏👏
I'm impressed by not just your storytelling, but your impression of Gollum. Seriously. That's something. You sound close to the original. Well done. Love your videos. They're awesome. 👍👍👍🙂
I always thought there was something weird in the water of those marshes, something that preserved the faces of the dead and prevent them from completely rotting. Because those faces looked extremely well preserved for soldiers who died hundreds of years ago.
@@abbieb8130 Haunted water basically. Memories of the past reflected outwards, showing things which once were but have long since left this world. Even the souls no longer remain, just the imprint of agonizing, insurmountably intense emotion. Shades of memory - spiteful at the world which still draws breath.
Wonderful video, as usual. ❤ I want to put in my request for a video on the Song. I want to hear you tell me about the Music of the Ainur and connections and lore surrounding it and what we learn during the Ainulindalë of the Silmarillion and beyond. Please and thank you either way. I love you content. I was attempting to describe it to a friend, then went to your channel hoping you had a video on it and either I can't find it or it hasn't been covered yet.
Is there a theory or can u do a theory on if Bilbo never found the Ring in Gollum's cave? But like if the free peoples still attempted to make war on Mordor without knowing where the Ring is.
But Bilbo never found the Ring, the Ring found him. The Ring was sentient and as such it was always going to be found by either a human or dwarf who would be tempted by it and the Ring could sense it. At least that is what I get from reading about the ring, its not just an inanimate object. Its endgame was to go back to Sauron.
Prior to the explanation of the inspiration of the Dead Marches I was already piecing it together with the immense bombing of shells blowing deep holes into the ground. Seeing how dark and how the fires may just be burning ordinance from explosives. Too see someone survive such a gruesome war like that and to use his experience to tell a tale from what is a Fantasy of his life. It always amazes me to know there was one person in history who used their experience of trauma to tell a tell of a whole world from their imagination. Truly a work of art that many can appreciate. Though if humans had longer lives who knows what could've been done by Him to expand this further.
My dude your channel is amazing, I love the effort (and voices) you put into these videos. I’ve watched a bunch then went back to watch the LOTR movies. It really enhanced my movie watch!! So much lore and background now
...very well abstracted and done as a clip! ...and you are the best Andy Serkis double, I've come across :) PS. I wonder if you ever found out more about the brown lands right down the eastern shores of the Anduin beyond Lothlorien... not even Aragorn could remember what devastation that land had suffered... maybe there is more evidence in the Silmarillion, or in Tolkien's letters?!
Your vocal tones are just on point sir, it was like someone reciting soft poetry lol and I know everyone is saying it but the Gollum voice was damn impressive...always great content.. thanks for all the hard work
5:31 Great Gollum voice, as always. Great sketch choice too: looks the most like him (six teeth included? tough to tell). And a great Frodo! Sounded as intelligent, aware and collected as Frodo almost always is.
I can't help but imagine Gollum when he tried to touch the dead on his first journey through the marshes. "Bless us and splash us, my precious! Free lunch! Smeagol has never had Elveses before. Are they tasty? Are they crunchable?"
Your Gollum impression is brilliant! I could imagine you doing audiobooks for the Silmarillion and LOTR.
Hobbit too
I came here to like this comment.
Andy Serkis himself should come and be a guest star on one of his pod casts. They could do a Gollum vs Smegol argument together.
oh yes very professional
good impressions overall
You do one of the best Gollum impressions I've heard.
Thanks so much!
He really does! I was convinced for a minute that it was from the film!
100% agree,best Gollum. Andy Serkis would be proud
It was mandu pandu jk lol
Yes he does!! Nice!
Love it when you include Tolkien's real life experiences and how it influenced his work. Such an interesting dude
I liked that too. I think it’s pretty important to understand the mind and experiences of an author/artist to really understand the work they create.
This channel especially is a favorite of mine. I’m getting educated on Tolkien’s stories and having a great time doing so. You really put your all into this and it shows. Thank you!
Exactly he fought IN BOTH World War 1 and 2 with this Marsh being based on the battles of World War ONE.
This, His and Edith's love became many great Love Stories, and many more became impactful moments in this Epic Lore!!!
I feel like Tolkien was a big Tolkien nerd, lol. Sometimes his writings seem like fan theories on his own works.
@Fone could anyone alive today give so much of themselves to their creative endeavours?
Creepiest places in Middle Earth:
5. Barrow Downs
4. Dol Guldur
3. Khazad-Dum
2. Minas Morgul
1. The Dead Marshes.
The description in the book is so great. I actually got nightmares as a kid after reading the chapter on the Dead Marshes.
Every gigantic place is creepy prove me wrong
You forgot to mention the dead men of dun harrow
Fangorn forest, the old forest and mirkwood was creepy, as well as the two Watchers guarding the entrance into Mordor and also Shelob's Lair
You forget the forests!
Shelob is strong. Utter oppressive darkness with constant webs, unfathomable foul stench, and dozens of hidden passages. Just sheer terror and unyielding doom
My grandfather survived the Somme and I always think of him and the horrors he faced when I'm reading the dead marshes.
All respect for your grandfather
Thank you.
Wasn't Tolkien also at the Somme? Or was it one of his close friend?🤔🤔
One thing for sure is that the Shelby brothers were theredigging tunnels.😉😉
@@Zhoshyn yes, Tolkien fought at the Somme.
Oh, dear. I hope that poor man received some love and support after all the horrors he must have seen and endured. God bless his soul and his legacy through you. Best wishes for you and your family.
I think it would be a bit creepy if we could use scuba gear and explore underwater Beleriand. Just imagine being down there and realising you just discovered what's left of the gates of Angband.
Could be worse you could find the entirety of Numenor with all those bodies below the waters.
@@ollyravenhill7341 or finding the biggest hill that was made by the corpses of men and elves during the battle of unnumbered tears
@@QuincyVollstandigThe pits of Tol in Gaurhoth must be pretty bad
How about diving for Smaug gold?😱
For the truly fearless it might be a good entrepreneurial opportunity XD though I think this venture would be a little out of scope for even Nori
These stories make the Battle of Dagorlad feel so immense, like a throwback to the Wars of Beleriand
It's worth noting that the floating lights or "candles of corpses" may be inspired by the concept of Will o' the Wisps - floating lights that lead travelers astray in European folklore. Will o' the wisps are also called corpse-candles. They're sometimes thought to be lost souls or mischievous fairies but more likely, they're caused by the ignition of gases in swamps and marshlands.
I always figured and this is more from the movies than the book, that the corpses gave fule to the body like methane gas. Though even if that is the case each of the candles certainly have a grievous, magical influence on them.
I figured they can't be literal paraffin wick candles, not just for how short they last but also where they'd even have come from in the first place. Methane gases being ignited by some fell magic seems to be the best answer for the corpse-candles, and Peter Jackson's film seems to take that route.
Gollum Impression = spot on friend, well done! I like the Sam voice as well
Thanks so much my friend!
Too add another layer to Tolkien’s personification off the pools in the dead marsh the idea off “not being able to touch them” in reference to the bodies Is because the pools of water that coalesced in the shell craters would also be tainted by the chemical agents such a chlorine or mustard gas. Because the chemicals involved were so heavy they would stick low to the ground and contaminate the water and make it undrinkable as well as causing chemical burns to those that touched it. The old black and white photos don’t do it justice because of how yellow the mustard gas was. The marshes were the scariest place in Tolkien’s world to me because you could see his own trauma bleed through into the pages
Bro what!?!? The Sméagol impression ON POINT!!
With all the beautiful and lovely places in Middle Earth, I love that Tolkien also provided us with plenty of horrifying places as well. The world feels so real that way.
On top of the Somme battlefields, I think it is interesting to mention what could have been another inspiration.
In Brittany, northwestern France is located the Yeun Elez, a big marshy region that fits the description of Tolkien's dead marshes. A lot of local legends (youdig gates to hell, deepless ponds and tricking lights) are associated to it.
Tolkien was familiar with these legends via the recollection done by people such as Anatole Le Bras.
Nowadays, parts of the marshes are submerged under an artificial lake. But the rest is preserved and still gives a creepy and earie feeling (I have camped in it by night and trust me the noises in the mist were freaking us out).
I highly recommend the hikes around it from saint Michel de braspart to roc'j trevezel.
Pourquoi pas les deux?
-ahem-
It’s not just the history that keeps me coming back, but your audio. It’s soothing and well balanced. So pleasant to listen to. Good job, mate.
The drawing on gollum was so creepy but perfect at the same time
IMO better than the movie's at this specific scene. Captures the tone of Gollum 's words better.
Once again, masterpiece of a video, fueling my love of Tolkien's work! Thank you!
You should do the Barrow Downs/Barrow Wights. I know you Have covered them in other episodes but I was thinking of a dedicated episode of you have not already done one.
That drawing of Gollum (at 08:15)... wow, it gives me the creeps. That's so much more terrifying than any image from the movie. Your perfect Gollum impression alongside it makes it so chilling.
Scariest places in Middle Earth according to me:
5) Mirkwood(book version particularly).It’s a vast forest, with dimmed light due to the thick canopy, a place where the water is enchanted to make you fall asleep or drown, where animals become shadows and the flesh can’t be eaten, where people can go insane and never find their way out.Adding to that, the giant spiders exist, able to snap and devour anyone who comes through.Then the mirkwood elves, who don’t like outsiders and can sneak around you without a sound.And then Dol Guldur where orcs and Sauron as the necromancer live.It’s one giant forest of death.
4)Moria.It’s a giant underground realm, long since abandoned.Not only is it dark, eerily empty, and maze like with numerous tunnels and passages, but it’s filled with orcs, trolls, and even a balrog.Not to mention littered with the corpses of the dwarves who attempted to settle there before the fellowship came.Lastly, there is the lake that laps right up to the door, where the watcher in the water lives, and there are tunnels down to the base of the mountains where the nameless things, essentially lovecraftian beings live.
3) The Barrow downs.A selection of hills inhabited by evil and dangerous spirits or wrights, who have the ability of magic to make people their captives, and only by Tom Bombadil can people escape.
2) The dead marshes, as explained in this video.
1) Mordor.Enough said.
Love how you tied it in with The Battle of the Somme.
Ah man! I wish you would do Audiobooks for Middle Earth. You do such a great job! You make it very immersive!
Two questions:
What are the 'Watchers' Frodo and Sam find in Cirith Ungol?
Is there another secreted mountain path into Mordor other than the Morgul Vale?
They were probably evil spirits that Sauron got to work for him. I am sure they thought it was cake job because, after all, who would dare try to enter with Sauron and the Witch King in complete control of the Valley. Little did they know.....
There's a main path up from Morgul... That they Don't Take, The Cirith Ungol path is a side path.
I could quote chapter and verse PROVING this, because i spent a LONG many rereads checking this out. I won't bother you with it, but; it's true. Meanwhile; i have NO IDEA how the Watchers worked.. Some sort of spooky magic
I love your Gollum voice, well done video.
Wow! I’ve become more invested in Tolkien’s work because of your exemplary story telling.
That Gollum voice is flipping amazing!! Unbelievably great!!!
This is an absolute gem of a channel. Thank you so much for these deep dives, some of the art work used is phenomenal and the map depictions is brilliant.
Oh man I was waiting for a Dead Marshes video by you. I'll watch this when I'm shaving later. Thank you!!
They Dead Marshes are more horror inducing to me than any book or movie. It makes sense that they are reflections of the Battle of the Somme.
Your reading (which was excellent) of Tolkien's lines made me remember just how well written the LotR is.
This was amazinggggggggg
perfect video!
You`re the best tolkien channel, my friend.
From start to end and all within it: the pictures, the voices, the music, how long the quates are, even the number of ads during the video..
You`re the best! thanks!
I love wake up Saturday, make some coffee and having breakfast watching your videos. Great job Matt, best channel on TH-cam :D
Thanks so much for spending your Saturday with me! 😁
Another opportunity to show off that stellar Gollum impression. I love the extra lore about the history of the Dead Marshes we get in the appendices
Great video Matt! Whilst I love all of your videos, I especially love when we get to see the travels of our Heroes and Villains, using the maps! You always put it together so well! As we say in Ireland, Maith Thú! Well done!
That Gollum impression is absolutely spot on holy moly. I though I could do a really good Gollum impression but I bow to you because that blows me out of the water so awesome
Your voicework is top notch. I would listen to you reading audiobooks any day.
I really like these videos ! The sound, speed and pronunciation is very good and its like listening to a story rather than listening to a lecture!
Wow! One of your best videos yet! Unfortunate it’s so short! But I loved the voice acting, the Tolkien personal experience connection, and a topic I always wanted to know about in detail! Keep up the great work!!
This episode showed me once more how thrilling it would be if you read the books to us! Keep up the good work
One of the best Gollum voices I heard. That’s a subscription from me.
Good video. Scene with frodo falling in scarred me as a kid
Dude, your Gollum voice is so good!
Thanks! 😊
Only just passed this part of the book in my annual reading. The depiction in the movie is superbly creepy and a testament to Jackson's talent for horror elements.
I'm going to announce this on Tuesday, but as a special heads-up for those commenting here - we've got a couple special guests returning to NOTR for a LIVE interview on July 5! th-cam.com/video/qmphKZCSghs/w-d-xo.html
That is super cool! Love Dom and Billy!
Dude your Gollum voice is absolutely top notch. You do excellent voice dialogue, and great content too.
Your Gollum impression is incredible.
Trully creapy place! The way to Mordor is trully full of darkness, either to go through Black Gate, or through this graveyeard!
Nerd, another great video, I wanted to ask you, I playing Shadow of Mordor once more, and I'm wondering did Celembrimbor had a family, or that was just for the games?
Al always great video!
That was a creation of the games. In one version of the story, he actually has an unrequited love for Galadriel.
Oh wow I was just watching the two towers yesterday and wondered if you had already made a video on the dead marshes
I'd love to see you do a video on Celeborn, Galadrial's husband. I can't really find much information on him myself but I know he and Galadriel have been married since the first age.
Gotta say I've watched all your videos at this point and none disappoint. Thanks so much for the great content!
So awesome to see that you have 604k subscribers! I remember when you had 100k, time is going so fast!
I feel as if Matt is doing a series on the scariest places in Middle Earth without saying it…
I also love the connection between WW2 and Middle Earth. That one was cool!
I’m gonna say either Mirkwood or Barrow Downs might be next…maybe even Fangorn, the Old Forest…many possibilities.
WW1, not 2.
@@Duiker36 My bad, meant WW1
If you didn't already, a video on gollum would be awesome, just for the opportunity to do the impression. It's just like Andy serkis. Do you also do the mannerisms? We need a live stream reading gollum quotes maybe.
I really enjoy all your videos about LotR lore/history. Thank you!
Wow that reference of no man land. never though about it. This is why i love this channel.
You should invite John Garth to speak on this channel.
A part of me wants to go to northern France, or just the Somme, to retrace Tolkien's steps.
I think it is fitting that Peter Jackson is also passionate about the Great War, given its connection to Middle Earth.
The Dead Marshes is (IMHO), in terms of visuals, climate and concept, the place that most externalizes such a reference to what Tolkien experienced in World War 1.
I believe the place becomes a concept of "No man's lands" - "No man lands" from the Great War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man's_land
"No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms.[1] In modern times, it is associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, which neither side wished to cross or seize due to fear of being commonly attacked by the enemy in the process."
More specifically it almost has to be influenced by the Somme. Large craters from mortar shells would fill with water and there would be actual pools of dead around you.
@@kingetzel2755 This is very true. It is very interesting to look at LOTR and its themes and places and the inspiration from the horrors of WWI. Even the sickness from the wraiths closely resemble 'shell shock'.
Your Gollum impression is sick man
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the Dead Marshes are shown foggy ponds with jets of fire rather than the misty candle-flames described in the book. Frodo actually falls into a marsh, in which ghostly figures surround and reach for him before Gollum pulls him out.
Your gollum impression is really spot on
Very nice video. Would be nice if you could make a video when you go over what passages from the books you think will make it to the fall of numenor. Even if they say ”every writing about second age” do you think that covers passages from lotr. For example the poem Sam sings near weathertop about gil-galad.
I'm super pumped for the new book and am very curious (as you are) what all is included. It sounds like they're attempting to make it as close to a single narrative as they can, which makes me wonder what they'll pick in terms of bits that may have multiple versions. I'm guessing they'll go with whatever Christopher thought was his father's latest word on the topic.
@@NerdoftheRings I hope it’s gonna be something like Silmarillion: Second age. Or then it would be ”The Númenorillion”
Well,for the past few months I've been abducted on study of the lore of LoTR,so I want to say thank you for helping me with this) And also,you did AWESOME voice of Gollum,when I heard that,for a second,I thought,that it was Andy's voice....!👏👏👏
I'm just in awe with your Gollum impression. Amazing work!
Amazing Gollum impression there! and yeah, the Dead Marshes are probably one of the creepiest places in Middle-earth
I love the lore this channel has taught me. I hope it matters in in the future….
I'm impressed by not just your storytelling, but your impression of Gollum. Seriously. That's something. You sound close to the original. Well done.
Love your videos. They're awesome. 👍👍👍🙂
Love the channel, especially the episode recaps and watch parties.
What a good video idea. I’ve always wondered
i dunno if that is the first time you have ever done Gollum in a video but it is the first time ever saw a video that you did him in. Excellent job!
That Golllum impression was S tier
This is the first time I’ve heard you do an impression of Gollum. It was bone-chillingly awesome!
great to see the channel gaining subs well deserved
I always thought there was something weird in the water of those marshes, something that preserved the faces of the dead and prevent them from completely rotting. Because those faces looked extremely well preserved for soldiers who died hundreds of years ago.
From what Gollum says though, the bodies are apparently not even down there - just the image, like a reflection of the past.
@@abbieb8130 Haunted water basically. Memories of the past reflected outwards, showing things which once were but have long since left this world. Even the souls no longer remain, just the imprint of agonizing, insurmountably intense emotion.
Shades of memory - spiteful at the world which still draws breath.
When Gollum tells them its name he looks and sounds like he just came up with it off the top of this head and is very proud of it.
your gandalf and smeagol impressions are spot on!
Wonderful video, as usual. ❤ I want to put in my request for a video on the Song. I want to hear you tell me about the Music of the Ainur and connections and lore surrounding it and what we learn during the Ainulindalë of the Silmarillion and beyond. Please and thank you either way. I love you content. I was attempting to describe it to a friend, then went to your channel hoping you had a video on it and either I can't find it or it hasn't been covered yet.
Can u make a video on the Kinstrife of Gondor?
Is there a theory or can u do a theory on if Bilbo never found the Ring in Gollum's cave? But like if the free peoples still attempted to make war on Mordor without knowing where the Ring is.
But Bilbo never found the Ring, the Ring found him. The Ring was sentient and as such it was always going to be found by either a human or dwarf who would be tempted by it and the Ring could sense it. At least that is what I get from reading about the ring, its not just an inanimate object. Its endgame was to go back to Sauron.
@@indianmota yeah i know. But the point of the theory is to think about other possibilities.
“Don’t follow the lights!”
-Gollum
Prior to the explanation of the inspiration of the Dead Marches I was already piecing it together with the immense bombing of shells blowing deep holes into the ground. Seeing how dark and how the fires may just be burning ordinance from explosives.
Too see someone survive such a gruesome war like that and to use his experience to tell a tale from what is a Fantasy of his life. It always amazes me to know there was one person in history who used their experience of trauma to tell a tell of a whole world from their imagination. Truly a work of art that many can appreciate. Though if humans had longer lives who knows what could've been done by Him to expand this further.
Do a video about everything east of rhun
The south and east, more unknown areas of middle Earth
My dude your channel is amazing, I love the effort (and voices) you put into these videos. I’ve watched a bunch then went back to watch the LOTR movies. It really enhanced my movie watch!! So much lore and background now
...very well abstracted and done as a clip! ...and you are the best Andy Serkis double, I've come across :) PS. I wonder if you ever found out more about the brown lands right down the eastern shores of the Anduin beyond Lothlorien... not even Aragorn could remember what devastation that land had suffered... maybe there is more evidence in the Silmarillion, or in Tolkien's letters?!
Your vocal tones are just on point sir, it was like someone reciting soft poetry lol and I know everyone is saying it but the Gollum voice was damn impressive...always great content.. thanks for all the hard work
Your Gollum impression is spot on 😎💖
What a great gollum impression
Well done!!! This video deserves a gold star!!!
You definitely should do some LOTR related audiobooks, but with artwork your storytelling provides perfect experience!
I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the great work
Don't tell him what to do.
5:31 Great Gollum voice, as always. Great sketch choice too: looks the most like him (six teeth included? tough to tell).
And a great Frodo! Sounded as intelligent, aware and collected as Frodo almost always is.
Yes thanks for doing this. I always loved the Dead Marshes and wanted to leanr more.
For a sec, I thought Andy Serkis did a collaboration 😂 That was an epic Gollum impression! 👏👏
That Gollum voice is amazing!
By far the scariest scene in a non-horror movie.
I just found out your channel exists and I love it
I can't help but imagine Gollum when he tried to touch the dead on his first journey through the marshes. "Bless us and splash us, my precious! Free lunch! Smeagol has never had Elveses before. Are they tasty? Are they crunchable?"
Love your videos, thanks for doing these for Tolkien Fans!!
Gollum impression is so spot on ,it's chilling.
When is someone going to hire this guy as a voice actor. He’s absolutely amazing with his impersonations.
I laughed out loud when you did the gollum voice!! impressive. very nice
Your best episode yet, outstanding.
Your narration of LOTR text is really awesome (especially Gollum is incredible).
Btw. may I ask what music do you use in this video?