The 8 Most POWERFUL Artifacts in Middle-earth
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- The 8 Most POWERFUL Artifacts in Middle-earth
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Join me as we explore eight of its most powerful and significant artifacts of Tolkien's Legendarium. Each item is not just known for its immense power or magical properties but also for the deep symbolism and history it carries. From the legendary sword Andúril, reforged from the shards of Narsil, to the ethereal Phial of Galadriel, we will uncover the epic stories behind these iconic relics. As you will notice in this video, these artifacts have played pivotal roles in the fate of Arda, shaping the destinies of its heroes and villains alike. I would really appreciate it if you share your thoughts in the comments: which artifact do you believe is the most powerful? Or did you perhaps miss an artifact?
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Chapters:
0:29 Andúril
2:09 Glamdring
3:49 The Palantíri
5:24 The Silmarils
6:39 The Nauglamír
8:37 Phial of Galadriel
10:37 The One Ring
11:54 The Three Elven Rings
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The Arkenstone
Legolas quiver with infinite arrows :)
It's the Silmarils and it's not even close.
@@wtrrobson738of course it’s the silmarili. They are like three pieces of the sun on earth
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We can’t forget Samwise Gamgee’s Cast Iron pan… the beater of Orcs
Ah yes Golem's bane
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Part of me wants to believe he swung it at the troll at some point when it was focused on someone else
You said that Gondolin was built in a valley near where later Gondor would be. That is wrong. Gondolin was located in the valley of Tumladen in the encircling mountains in central Beleriand. The greater part of Beleriand alongside this valley and all of the surrounding area would later sink beneath the sea, and it is nowhere near Gondor.
I was going to make this comment the moment I heard it in the video. Glad someone else is keeping people honest 🙏
I made the same comment before reading yours, of course you are right and I am surprised they made such a huge mistake.
Thanks for this comment lol, immediately came to the comment section after hearing this :D
Legit stopped the video and came to the comments to write exactly this
Relatively speaking it's close to gondor
The valley of Gondolin was near the future location of Gondor??
You do know the entire subcontinent of Beleriand (where Gondolin is) was sunk beneath the western ocean after the war of wrath??
Like, its further away from Gondor than nearly anywhere else in Middle Earth. You couldnt have picked a further spot from Gondor, unless Valinor was on the table.
@@portlandjosh Who is Telgar? Where is Eraigian?
Umbar, Harad, Khand, Hildorien, Cuivienen, these would all be further travels from Gondolin that Gondolin to Gondor, but they are certainly not close together.
I assume he's mixing up his Minas Tirith's like an idiot. Finrod's Minas Tirith was super close to Gondolin.
You missed Gurthang, the black sword. So powerful that it actually spoke. No other artifact of Middle Earth ever spoke.
That one definitely got slept on.
He'd mispronounce it.
@@thorgrimgrudgebearer who cares about pronunciation lmao
Is the ring speaking just in the movies? Can't recall
@@Cicero7217 None of the rings ever speak in the books.
Aragorn carried the two pieces of the sword with him at all times. The splinters shown in the movie is just because PJ wanted a dramatic effect.
Idk why stupid misinformation spread in these youtube vids are done. Should say its based on the films at least.
I would have made it a top 10 and added these 2:
- Ringil, the sword of Fingolfin that injured Morgoth himself so badly he limped for the rest of his life;
- Gurthang (Anglachel), the sword that Túrin Turambar used to kill Glaurung, the father of all dragons.
Good suggestions.
I'll be a creating a video about the weapons from Tolkiens Legendarium too.
I would also add Belthronding, the bow of Beleg, Aranruth, the sword of Thingol (and later, of the Kings of Numenor), and the Dragon Helm of Dor-Lomin.
@@jopay142 The Dragon Helm is way badass!
I most definitely agree about Ringil.
@@The.Lore.Seekermake sure to double check yourself so you don't make anymore basic mistakes
The constant switching between different pronunciations of "Silmaril" and "Feanor" is really weird and distracting.
Definitely done on purpose
Very
You can be sure that the Balrog of Moria wasn't the first Balrog that got slain with Glamdring. First age elven kings were like anime characters. Fingon went through several Balrogs during the Siege that's for sure.
I believe you're taking your assumption from a much earlier version of the Fall of Gondolin where Balrogs were a dime a dozen and everyone and their granny slayed 12 at once. Later on Tolkien decided the Balrogs were MUCH rarer and harder to kill. He seemed to land on the idea of 7 total Balrogs, and each slaying of one was a massive achievement.... sung into legend...... so, no, Fingon didn't kill several.
The version of balrog that we have today is basically a gandalf-level entity focusing entirely on power. You'd have to be one strong elf to defeat even one of those and live
@@KS-xk2so 7 or 3. If it was only 3 then all are dead with Durin's Bane.
Tbh a host of balrogs would even bring Morgoth to tremble if they were not in his side, remember Morgoth who was bullied by Ungoliant demanding the silmarils, was scared away by them into hiding forever 😂
The Silmarils dwarf everything else here.
Galadriel was a daughter of the house of Finarfin, part Noldor and part Vanyar, but only an elf, though great among those people.
Gandalf was a Maiar, as were the other Istari.
No Elf was as great as a Maiar.
Melian, Sauron, Saruman, these were all of the same order of creation.
Celebrimbor was a fine Smith, but you could add the value of everything he ever made and double it: it would still not be the value of a single Silmaril.
Morgoth could not reproduce it, twist it, and he jealously desired them unto his own overthrowing.
They burned the wicked, pierced the veil of the Blessed Realm, and held within them the light necessary to rekindle the 2 trees.
Compared to them, everything else here is Dollar General.
although through Celebrian + Elrond we get Arwen Undomiel, who was Vanyar, Noldor, Telerri, and Dunedain (Elrond being half Dunedain, so many forget)
Even Eonwe bowed to Feanor. Several elves beat Balrogs - I’d say they were more powerful than those maiar.
Remember Luthien subdued Morgoth on his own turf.
@@derekmiller6091, she made him rest with the weight of the Silmarils upon his brow, she did not defeat him.
Luthien was awesome though.
Tbh Feanor was greater than most of the Maiar, did things they couldn't even dream of , Terrible guy but Great
The istari were weakened maiar. The valar took power from them so they couldnt become dark lords like sauron. Means they are much closer to elves than actual maiar. Gandalf is probably not bigger in strenght than galadriel. But i guess we will never know. He definitely is not on a sauron full power maiar strenght tho
Gondolin built in a valley near what would be Gondor??? Seriously??? Belariand was blasted into the sea! The whole continent! Get your facts straight!
Later known Gondor what a load of crap hahah😂
They were probably referring to Minas Tirith, the First Age fortress built on Tol Sirion, which was relatively near Gondolin. I guess its an easy enough mistale if they were going off memory and got the names mixed up though.
You sounds real worked up over a mistake in a lore video 😂
Obviously just reading off a wiki page to get views
@@Thetruepianomana huge mistake… means the author needs to seek lore out of the silmarillion not off the internet
The pronunciation could be better sometimes, but all in all this is a great video! Also great music choices.
Yea, I'm not a native English speaker I sometimes find it difficult to know how the voice artist should pronounce it, sorry 🙏🏻
I cringed when you said: "the sil marils" hahaha. Great video tho
@@The.Lore.Seeker it doesn't help that your also trying to speak elvish in some cases. But because Tolkien was Tolkien both elvish and dwarf are actual fully fleshed out speakable languages with full written alphabets.
Your pronunciation of most things Middle Earth is way off.
The guy’s American, dude, cut him some slack…
Yes! Honestly, it’s like he’s doing it on purpose… it’s like he never heard any of these words….
The lore seeker is doing more for keeping middle earth alive than anything your lazy ass has done. Judge away but I can look past minute details to enjoy the shit out of his videos
@jeffreygreen8668 so what ? I'm an American too, but I can pronounce them right
Wished I could reply to all of y’all but in another comment he addressed that he wasn’t a native English speaker so when he had the one who did the voice over he wasn’t 100% sure which pronunciation was correct which is why the they’ll get the pronunciation right a time or two in the same thought as a handful of bad pronunciations
I was always drawn towards the arkenstone. Not too any thoughts that it might be a replacement for a Silmqril: but just for it being an interesting artifact in an of itself.
Half the pronunciations were wrong, Galadriel didn't start Lorien, Gondolin wasn't in Gondor.
I know!! What's this guy talking about!! 🤔
More than half the pronunciations lol. That’s what Tolkien would care about the most
And he said sauraman was with Sauron but he was actually more of his own party against Sauron and the rest of middle earth
meh very fine parsing here.. Laurelindorinan(spelling?) existed before she and Celeborn moved there and THEN elevated it into Lothlorien, a newer bigger, better stronghold.
I wanted to know where Aigolos the spear of Gil Galad ended up after helping to slay Sauron
The ring of Barahir, for it signified the one true king of men.
No it didn’t, the ring of Barahir was gifted by Finrod to show eternal friendship for his life being saved. It had nothing to do with a sign of kingship. The fact that it was recovered by Beren and passed down eventually to Elendil, who was only a king after he arrived in Middle Earth is coincidental.
Let's be honest, the most powerful artifact in Middle Earth has always been Tolkien's Typewriter.
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
No argument here 👍
Oddly enough, I think Tolkien did most of his development longhand.
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Appreciate it man, thanks!
Thank you for this video 🤗 it gave me joy
The Gondolin that was built by King Turgon it not located anywhere near what was known as Gondor in the Third Age or the time that The Hobbit and LotR take place, Gondolin was built in the First Age in lands known as Beleriand, specifically in the mountains called Taur-na-Fuin. Most everything in the land of Beleriand was sunk and covered over by water up to what the call the Blue Mountains in the Third Age. The land that was known as Gondor wasn’t even on the map of the lands of Beleriand. If you want to learn more about the First Age check out The Silmarillion.
I think he's got his Minas Tirith's mixed up....
I wonder if someone writing that got confused by the fist city Called Minas Tirith, which WAS relatively close to the Echoriath Ring of mountains.
Nice touch that you used the same artworks as are on the magic cards :)
Thank you!
Missed out Grond, the warhammer of Morgoth.. but i guess its more as a weapon than an artifact
using the mtg art for mirari as the palantir is a great touch
Talking purse would be very useful even nowadays.
Movies don't count.
This is literature, not cinema.
Wonderful commentary and observations. Thank you. I would add that the Morgorne Blades were terribly powerful, Spiritually warping weapons that when used converted the victim into a wraith. The wounds inflicted would never heal and if grasp by the hand of the good, would dissolve into foul dust.
Meriodac's Anronian sword deserves mention here. It seems to be one of the few human artifacts with any genuine magic.
FFS, right or wrong, there be some consistency in the pronunciation of names, places, and items thought these videos?
That's intentional.
Mispronouncing things generates engagement as people feel a desire to leave a comment about it.
Yours is proof that it works.
Wdym? I thought the pronunciation was flawless
If you want to go by the books, Aragorn was carrying the shards of Narsil with him until they were reforged in Rivendell.
One of the few things I think the PJ trilogy flubbed was giving those who hadn't read the Silmarilion a sense of WHY Galadriel was so very powerful, how much more potent her time in Valinor soaking in the light of the trees had made her. She was the one non-maiar who could have contended will to will with them, and had she accepted the ring would have been virtually unassailable in her might. How very terrifying a prospect that is, how quickly she would fall into her shadow-self is communicated well enough, but I certainly didn't understand just what had been at stake until I had read the "entire story" of the ring. I had Sam's level of understanding, I believed her words in the text, but I'm surely not the only one who originally thought "she couldn't be as bad as sauron, right?". Fair enough, I was 12 when I read it, but now, understanding that she hadn't split her "soul" to make the ring, and therefore would become FAR more powerful than the broken Sauron of the third age.
Maybe the Arkenstone. Although it did not posesed any real powers it was of great symbolism. It attracted even the Elves and of course Smaug.
I'm working on a video about artifacts, it will feature the arkenstone
I was always fascinated with the one ring. Mainly for its beauty. And mythril for its value. Can you do a video on what mythril is and why it’s so valuable now?
I've been thinking about a Mithril video, not sure on what story though. And my list of possible stories is so long!
@@The.Lore.Seekermithril lore is pretty specific within Tolkien lore.
Methinks you're BSing.
Gandalfs pipe,I've wanted that daggum thing for yrs!!!!
Aeglos, Ringil, and Anglachel.
All anyone needs.
Sam's frying pan!! The Cast Iron Castrater, THE DEEP FRYER FROM THE SHIRE!!!🍳🤨🔪
With that frying pan, you could probably fry an entire dragon-just make sure to season it first!
The one ring is by far the most powerful. I was hoping to see the ring of Barahir though. It didn’t have magical powers but it was the most ancient ring in middle earth and it’s power was its influence that was passed down to many different characters which compelled them to fulfill oaths and created alot of great stories.
I think the most powerful objects were without a doubt the silmarils.
they contained the light of the trees and they were hallowed by Varda. Evil creatures, or even those who weren't evil but committed evil acts couldn't even touch them. Morgoth got his hands burned and they never healed.
Another set of items ported directly into D&D. The elven rings became the Rings of Elemental Command.
Nice work! Thank you!
That coat of Mithril was worth more than the Shire.
A princely gift.
Sure Gimli thought it was worth more than the Foe Hammer.
Skipping over the greatest ones directly, like: Morgoth's ring, Varda's tree's, and although you mention it - Earendil's ship. The powers of which you seem to overlook. Your most significant mention was the Silmarils. And ofc, everyone knows about the rings of power. The Palentir are interesting, but it's dubious to them amongst the most powerful artifacts. But one thing they showed might in, something you dispute: Gandalf diretly stated that Sauron could not truly corrupt the Palentir, only use it to latch onto the ppl using them. "The seeing stones do not lie, not even Sauron can make them do that."
Sting is the only sword we know that alerts one to orcs, it can cut shelob's webs, it pierces rhe troll's foot where Boromir's fine Gondoran blade bounces off.
Magnificent Video
If I recall Narsil’s shards were carried by Aragorn, not stored in Rivendell as was presented in the movies.
The finding of the swords in the troll cave , to be later powerful swords with providence is a week point of the story.
Tolkien combined multiple stories as they developed. Lots of storyline week points.
Well, there is also the Arkenstone, Bilbo's Mithril Shirt which saved the ring bearer, the Orthanc Tower, Grong, the battering ram which open Minas Tirith, the Ring of Barahir, and the Rods of the Five Wizards.
Can a living being or the spirit of a what once was a living being, qualify as an Artifact? The Watchers outside the entrance of Minas Morgul were such. You could also argue that Gollum was an Artifact, a evil Hobbit from long ago, preserved by the One-Ring. Gollum was powerful, in that, the One-Ring could not have been destroyed without him.
I “love” how Narsil was reforged in the movie into Anduril by just super-glueing the pieces together. I’m not a metal smith but that is not how you reforge a sword.
I don't think it was simply reforged, I don't think that's possible, there was a reason why the elven smiths were the only ones they could do it, they used magic. Most of the elven weapons have some sort of magic in them (think of sting glowing blue when orcs were near), even weapons made by the dwarves, or even the Dunedain have magic embedded, think the dagger that Merry used to stab the witch king.
As a bladesmith, I can honestly say that there is nothing more irritating than watching swords being forged in movie
The magic in them is put there by the singing of spells during the making. I aways ask when some other smith shows me a sword they have made, "did you sing to it? How is it gunna slay a Balrog if you didn't sing to it?"
Most times they just look at me weirdly but a few get it
"The dwarves of yore made mighty spell, while hammers fell like ringing bells, in places deep where dark things sleep in hollow halls beneath the fells"
13:50 looks like wow tbc blood elf starting zone
The Stone of Erech. I don't think Tolkien, in any of his writings, ever said much about it. We know a few things about it: It was valued enough that even though it must weigh tons it was brought out of Numenor as a treasured heirloom, alongside the Palantir. The Doom of Men cannot be changed by anything or anyone, I only know of 3 times it was delayed and one of those was the Oathbreakers - it was the Stone of Erech which finally freed them. So while I don't know exactly how powerful it is, I think it's in the top 8.
It depends on how loose your definition of artifact is. By far the most "powerful artifact" in Middle Earth / Arda / Ea is the flame imperishable. It burns at the heart of the world (and universe) and can only be wielded by Eru himself. It's power creates all reality and being within Ea (including the Ainur).
That is nothing comparable to an artifact. The universe is an artifact in that case
Sheesh Amazon would do well to hire you for their Lord of The Rings series. Good Job
Mate, that compliment is way to big. Thanks though
I'd like to think there is some subtle skill or blessing within the Ring of Barahir. It's plausible though Tolkien never states it has any power.
I always figured Narya ended up being the most powerful and influential ring at the end, it bolstered Gandalf's ability to inspire the quest and that ended up being th singular event of the age.
Looking into a Palantir stone was what caused Denethor to go mad.
Gondolin valley wasn't place any near that Gondor would appear in 3rd age.
Gondolin was someware in north Beleriand.
Gondor was in the middle of west part of Middle earth, in east part of "war of the ring" map.
As well as the Gondor Gondolin thing been way off, Galadriel being the most powerful ring bearer is debatable, well probably wrong.
Gandalf is on a whole different level as a maiar, even though that power is restrained within middle earth in the body of an elderly man.
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I don't know which artifact was the most powerful in Middle Earth - but in Westeros - it was no doubt the Starbucks coffee mug that Emilia Clarke drank from and was shot in one of the scenes in the last season of Game of Thrones.
Beautiful video
The palantir is way more important, I would like one
Uhm...cell phone?
Wait so you are telling me that there is an elf riding a spaceship out there in space? Never knew about that one.
Thank you
You're welcome!
The good old rock thrown at the head from merry or pippen is surely the most deadly weapon
According to Gandalf, both things were true. Thingol DID try to refuse them payment(not directly, but he wasn't paying them either), though not really for the jewelry as I recall, but everything else. Though he did so after they started to show some of their desire for his jewelry. Going by the lore on both sides, and his statements, it seems in truth a story of simultaneous betrayal, born from mistrust and greed.
But it does seem true that the dwarves here would have betrayed him either way, and it was just a convenient excuse.
The Arkenstone sounds even more like a Silmaril at this point the way people lusted over them.
The rings aside, the only things here that seem to have actual power or abilities are the vial and the stones. The rest are just weapons and basically the silmarils which, unless you've not talked about powers they had, seem to just be things people fought over. I know very little about the lore but this video just seems to be backstory and little about what powers these supposedly powerful artifacts held.
Potatoes. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
The Arkenstone.
The Arkenstone just looks good more to a dwarf than anyone else. If it had any powers none was ever written of it that I've ever read.
One of the greatest achievements of the dunedain😭
Doom Guy: Someone hold my beer.... Now where did I put that BFG
You forgot the dongo dongo, the machine of death. One gaze and it was instant obesity
One of the images you used for the palantir was actually the original art for mirari from magic the gathering, i'm sure the artist was influenced by lord of the rings anyway.
A sword made of mithril would be sick
If you could o ly have just one though, i think id take "foehammer" i used to have a replica of it actually really well done when i was a kid so yeah thatd be my choice.
What is the name of the music used in this video especially in the part about the three elven rings it suits the tone of the dialog and the nature of the topic. Fantastic work.
Thank you.
The music is "emotional music" by SergePavkinMusic
*Phial* of Galadriel!
The Sword of Elendel? Weilded by Waxilium Dawnshot who brought justice to the Basin during the second era, after the War of Ash & the Catasandre! 😆
Gondolin was nowhere fucking near gondor haha. Its at the bottom of the ocean thousands and thousands of years before gondor!
Yea.. honest (stupid) mistake. Sorry :) I do proper fact checking nowadays
Lol that is the Mirari at 3:58 from the Magic the Gathering universe, not a Palantíri from LOTR
"None could resist the ring"
False, though they were few. Tom Bombadil could resist, and in fact was totally unaffected while wearing, but was so detached that he could not be trusted with guarding it. This suggests that certain beings, basically gods, were above the power of the ring, which makes sense because Sauron was essentially a fallen angel, not a god, in Middle Earth's mythology.
I would say that to an extend, both Bilbo and Sam resisted it. Bilbo left it behind by his own will, and Sam, although struggling, give it back to Frodo.
@@rjb639 There 'resisted' and 'unaffected'. They probably could have said 'No one could resist it for long'.
@@rjb639 So did Isildur, for the most part. By thee time he headed to Rivendell, he realized he could never wear it and the danger it represented. The account in the books was completely different than the movies.
how do you get the art for all of this? Its nuts
I create most of them myself through Midjourney.
The more i learn about middle earth lore the more i hate the rings of power knowing there's so many cool things that could've been put in the show...
The only thing they used from the lore was the names.
Also, Fingolfin was never known for his wisdom. Not saying he wasn't wise but he was known for his bravery and leadership. I don't think wisdom is ever mentioned related to him. Neither was Turgon btw.
I always thought that wizards were not to use swords.
Amazing video! Just need to refine some pronunciations 🎉
Working on it!
I've hired a voice artist who knows how to pronounce. He'll do all videos in the future.
Gondolin was not in a Valley that was later gondor. It was in the North of Beleriand. It wasnt even near Arnor, wich is in the middle between Gondor and Gondolin and all the land around gondolin was lost to the Sea in the war of wrath
surprised you did not mention the Wizard's Staves.
How would Sauron, the lord of pure evil, make rings to resist evil and tyranny, and heal people?
Did it ever occur to you to *credit the many artists* whose works you used?
Bombadil is immune to the effects of the ring.
It was Elrond not Aragorn who renamed Narsil to Anduril, uttered the name of the reforged sword, before handing it to Aragorn
“Silk -A -rills”
I'm slightly confused with a comment made with the three rings. Wasn't Gandalf technically stronger than Galadriel?
theoretically yes. Gandalf was Olorin, a Maia. Maiar are above the elves, however, Galadries was at her full power but Gandalf was not. The Valar didn't want the Maiar to manifest their full power because they were afraid they could cause more destruction. They didn't even remember who they were before. Perhaps Gandalf the white was, but why he was more in his pure form than Gandalf the grey, I don't think he was totally himself, not until he returned to Valinor.
@@rjb639 I had actually forgotten that that Maiar were restricted when they were sent to Middle Earth. Now it makes sense.
Did you really just mispronounce silmarils...brooo
Anglachel or Gurthang the sword forged out of a metal from a falling star (meteor)
What map shows Gondolin anywhere near where Gondor would be? Beleriand was broken and swallowed by the sea.
What about Turin’s sword? It was sentient!
Anduril and Glamdrig were not powerful per se, they were renowned thanks to the people that used them
Says you...
@@drewastolfi6840 Says Tolkien, really: for Glamdring, the only display of power is glowing when orcs are near (a power that shares at least with all the weapons forged in Gondolin for the war) and cleaving the chains restricting the dwarves when they were taken by goblins under the Misty Mountains.
For Narsil and Anduril we have no display of power whatsoever.
@Beregorn88 Actually, Tolkien says a lot about the Goblins fears of Orcist and Glamdring...I think you are not following the text(s).
Um... in the Palantir section you had a picture of Mirari. A Magic the Gathering card.
You found my easteregg!
Beside the wrong pronunciations several facts are in fact wrong... do better man all the information is available online.
The One Ring! Probably the most powerful! Tom Bombadil didn't seem to be affected by the ring's power!? It was probably rather that the ring had no power over Bombadil!
Surely any wizards staff is more powerful than a sword? 🧐