The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies [ strategies and tactics in the book ]
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Would you like to see more content like this? If you would, I'd *really appreciate you sharing it with someone who might enjoy it!* It involved 45 video layers, a dozen audio layers, and a whole week worth of 8-12 hour days. I didn't realise it would take this long, but if enough people want to see more, then maybe you'll see the Helm's Deep or the Seige of Minas Tirith on here sometime. Stay nerdy!
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I would loved to. You put a lot of effort in to this one.
Yes, more strategy videos! This was more accurate than the movie, and explained things so much better.
I would love to see more videos like this
PD: awesome video
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Goblins: *are about to win*
Eagles:im about to end this armys whole career
Goblins: *still have a chance of winning*
Beorn:im about to end what remains of there career
*their
@@mefrym6393
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Tolkiens description of Beorn coming in out of nowhere and blasting through the goblin armies like a lightning blast and literally crushing Bolg like he was nothing always gives me goosebumps.
Huh. Forty-five years after reading the account of this battle, and I finally understand what happened.
Beorn is such an awesome character. He singlehandedly turned one of the largest battles of the third age (excluding the war of the ring)
Really?? It isn't that much described in the book how Bard killed Smaug so I don't see why you are whining about it.
Yeah you are right about the part where he uses Bain, that's unrealistic and odd but hey, it's fantasy. Besides, that is not any big problem when it comes to other troubles the film has so I don't see why anyone wants to waste their time on something like that. But I must agree, I'd preferred the version you described.
Indeed Beorn is a great character, hehe it's a shame that Tolkien didn't described how his son Grimbeorn the Old was doing in time of War of the Ring (Beorn was already dead by that point), all we know is that the land of Beornings was attacked (Frodo saw vision of Orcs coming out of the mountains to burn and pillage at Amon Hen). From Th Hobbit we learn how Beorn's descendants all inherited his powers of shapeshifting and other such gifts.
@@fantasywind3923 in scandinavian folklore manbjörn excists though not always at the side of good more for their own feeding and benefit i mean men that can transfom into bear
If Beorn had more screen time the movie would be far far far far far better
I love this. Any Total War player worth their salt would love this.
It would probably take a lot of salt to be worth something
@@TheNowerianRaven because you didn't live during the XIII - XIV centuries, when a box of salt was very well worth a life.
@@edoardoprevelato6577 I was more hoping it was a reference to the recent epizode of Critical Role. Thats why i replied with what i did. Its a part of a conversation from that epizode
@@TheNowerianRaven no, i was literal, as "worth their salt" comes from the astronomic cost of salt during those times, along with the modern term "salary"
TheNowerianRaven critrole reference!
"What a perfectly structured, dramatic, and realistic battle sequence for us to ignore in favor of legolas killing everything" -Peter Jackson
I never heard people complain of legolas killing a hundred uruk hai in the ladders or a giant mumakil and all the easterlings on top of it.
@@brianweyne5723 because the writing in lord of the rings wasn’t awful
Legolas was the 5th. Army
Jackson wasn't at fault, it was all corporate stuff that screwed the movies over
@@brianweyne5723 Well Legolas was actually IN the LotR books; he was never mentioned in The Hobbit, so there's that. And if you've never heard anyone complaining about his portrayal in the LotR movies, let me be the first. It makes me groan every time he hogs the spotlight for some "cool" cinematic stunt that trivializes the enemies they're fighting.
Wish the movie had done the battle with this amount of clarity.
The extended version did. Shame they did cut crucial parts :(
العربية No it didn't, the battle is messy as fuck
@@Hasharin14 The extended version makes 0 sense. There's suddenly "Twirly-Wurlies" which fire two shots then disappear for the entire fight. The dwarves and elves are all fighting each other then perfectly in form when the orcs/goblins arrive with no death. The only thing that vaguely made sense was the goat and goat chariots for when Thorin magically gets up to Ravenhill.
But even that was done poorly.
The battle in the unextended vaguely makes sense even if it's awful CGI fest. The extended just is a clusterfuck of 0 continuity
Hugo G when the dwarfs charge and then made a shield wall didn’t they have like 500 people or more in the back round doing nothing then the goat riders not all of them died in the charge but I still love dwarfs in fantasy and lord of the rings.
every scene of the battle in the movie is a butchery of tactical logics imho.
I love Tolkien to death but I just realized how much of this battle is just people showing up late
That's basically every single wars in history. It's often forgotten how incredibly difficult it is to manage a large army, especially in those ages where there wasn't any forms of wireless communications between the forces.
Walder Frey and his armies haven't even arrived yet...
Just look at the battle of Antietam...it was the late arrival of A.P. Hill that saved Lee's army from total destruction. It happened all the time in the past so don't go thinking that this battle was too simple.
@@johnstamos4186 Gettysburg as well, was marked by the slow arrival of both union and confederate forces
Basically every war, especially medieval ones. Or people not showing up or too late but the word of them coming pushing the enemy to a ferocious last attacks that success.
One thing I would quickly like to point out: Thorin was overcome with greed, and never had any intent on giving the men or the elves any of the treasure; he merely said he would to buy time, while sending letters for Dain to hurry there. When Dain arrived, the elves and the men tried once again to ask for gold, but they were met with arrows from Thorin's bow before they could even get close enough to say anything.
Also, Bilbo did not return "incredibly wealthy"; believing that others deserved the treasure more, and not knowing how he would cart all that treasure home, he decided instead to take two small chests: one filled with gold, one filled with silver; such that a strong pony could carry. He then collected the troll hoard on his way home, but he had to spend a lot of his reward buying back his possessions, as the Hobbits assumed he had died and auctioned his belongings.
Matthew St. Cyr I mean, a chest of gold sounds like incredible wealth to me.
Perhaps, but he did have to spend much of it buying back his belongings after the Hobbits auctioned it all off; having assumed he had died. Plus, the book specified "two small chests; such that a strong pony could carry".
@@matthewmuir8884 Bilbo was independently wealthy prior to the events of the Hobbit, and also I do seem to recall he collected the troll hoard on the return journey in addition to his two chests of gold. Bilbo employed at least a gardener, and unless I am mistaken collected rents from Bagshot Row. Additionally, the epilogue notes that his waistcoat has gold buttons opposed to brass. I would say that going from wealthy enough to not have a day job to wealthy enough to get a reputation for gift giving and some degree of extravagance would be incredibly wealthy, even if his contemporaries exaggerated his wealth in rumor.
"The wealth of Moria was not in gold or jewels, but mithril.
Bilbo had a shirt of mithril rings that Thorin gave him.
I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the Shire."
Incredibly wealthy can be taken literally in this case....
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@Sivart343 True that he was independently wealthy beforehand, he did collect the troll hoard on the return journey, and he did replace the brass buttons that had fallen off with gold buttons. I'm just pointing out that he returned only with enough that a strong pony could carry, and he had to spend quite a bit of it, in very sharp contrast to the originally agreed 1/14th share of the treasure and Dain having wanted it that Bilbo be the most richly rewarded of all of them.
Please do more battle strategy videos! I absolutely love the analysis of militaristic strategies - The Battle of Helm’s deep and The siege of Minas Tirith would be outstanding! :)
check out BazBattle, that is where he got this from, they do real historical battles and a few game of thrones battles aswell.
Karston James cool thx
Seconded
would love to see this as well. u get like and a comment lol
Samuel Haffey 🙏
Someones been watching BazBattles. But please give me more. I want every large scale conflict in LotR!
BazBattles is incredible!
~ Tim
Hello Future Me
There's also great battles in the Left Behind books also like the battle of Israel in Glorious Appealing, Armageddon, and Remnant.
You should do a colab with BazB!!
Bazbattles and general something (I forget) are great.
@@HelloFutureMe I actually began watching the video thinking it was BazBattles until I recognized you're voice.. Keep doing these with fictional battles please! How bout something from Dragonlance or ASOIAF battles, huh? :)
This was much better than the movie. I hope you make more videos like this.
The 1970s movie awesome. The junk that came out a few years ago is well junk
Did you see the extended version? It's far superior than the battle depicted in this video
@@Hasharin14 Nice joke, mate.
@@daveski7 I know. He had me ROFLing good.
@@Hasharin14 I'd still like, choose, and say the 1977 Hobbit cartoon is far superior to the Hobbit crap that came out a few years ago. Tolkien would roll over in his grave if he saw the movie they just did.
This is what I wanted the movie to feature. The tactics and strategies is what made the battle seem so real. The movie didn't provide them, so the battle became a mess. The clash between the dwarves and elves work, but after that it all goes downhill. The worms, elves jumping over the dwarven shield wall, the messy battle in Dale and, the biggest offender, Thorin's charge from the mountain. In the book it makes some sense. Yes there is only 13 of them, but they are armed and armored with the finest dwarven weapons and armor, they have complete surprise and come at the goblins on their flank. This panics them, and Thorin is swiftly reinforced by his kin and allies, leading a do or die, all or nothing, charge at Bolg himself. It has a logic to it, Thorin has the (edit) moment*um*, the goblins are in disarray, if he can kill Bolg... But he doesn't manage it. He can't break through Bolg's guard. His attack is bogged down, the goblins rally, and he's surrounded and cut down, his two cousins falling defending his body.
That's what I wanted in the movie. Not necessarily every detail, but the spirit of it, more sense less flash.
I think that if they're going to force it into 3 movies, then the 3rd movie (named after the battle) should include all the cool details of the battle!
Andreas Widham the elves jumping over the dwarves was the only thing I couldn’t accept being artistic license, it was stupid you have a wall of pikes the single best weapon for stopping a charge and a giant mass of bodies running at the said wall, you can either shoot the charging army or jump to your death so that the goblins push you onto the dwarven spears what sane person would jump over
Kili and Fili are his nephews, not cousins
Yes.The film, both theatrical and extended veryion, were such rubbish, especially the battle was unreListic and dumb. I like how this video explains and shows how well thought through Tolkien had devised this important battle.The man was well versed in history and had been an officer in ww1, he knew a bit about such things.Peter Jackson - zero!
They wanted a quick action at the end. Realistic battle tactics, most of the audience won't give a shit about. The only people who would give a shit about it are the hardass I-wanted-it-exactly-as-the-book fuckers like you and me. However, it's still a movie that needs to appeal to the masses who may or may not have read the book (and even if they did they wouldn't care about realism of battle tactics.) The battle looked cool, and that was enough for them. That was the best the team could do to compromise accuracy with general cinematography. Same with every other book adaptations. The lotr movies were better done, but many things were added/ modified to suit the environment of the film. If the book had been copy and pasted into the movie, it would have been an undoubtedly shit movie altogether, to book readers or not.
That was way more clear than either movie or book; thank you.
You looks like a orc are you azog cousin?
Nothing is better than the books.
He had added a few things in here that are not in the book ... very good video however
Play of The Game: Beorn
(Insert Overwatch music as Beorn smashes the goblin army)
Nerf beorn lol
This is awesome! Lovely stuff man. Helms Deep would be incredible to see!!
I don't know though. While it is quite an epic seige, I think the explanation could only last a few minutes.
You wanna kiss me?
@@spyhippo2736 lol
I never knew I needed a fantasy video in the style of Historia Civilis. Thank you for making this.
Man.... This video was so awesome! I definitely see that it took a lot of hard work to make it, but it all truly paid off in the end! The Battle of Five Armies is so facinating to me in terms of it's tactics and strategy, and still to this day it is one of my most favorite battles in the entire Legendarium! I cannot wait to see more! :)
gondolin siege!
You kidding! That movie sucked as hell and the battle was the lamest Ive ever seen, a movie for retards and 6 y/old kids
Aww man, you totally could've just quoted the passage about Beorn when he takes down Bolg. "Swiftly he returned, and his wrath was redoubled so that none could withstand him and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. He scattered the bodyguard and pulled Bolg himself and crushed him." I get an ASMR reaction whenever I hear Robert Ingless read that passage.
Instantly recognized the Inkarnate artwork. Such an awesome program. If anyone is even remotely interested in making fantasy maps, I really recommend them!
Irondil
Thank you!
I heard they can claim your maps
@@Jackb290 Yep, they have the legal right to do so. Also some content is blocked behind the paywall. I am looking forward to Wonderdraft instead (also coastlines are way easier there) th-cam.com/video/AHh6ofAMUJk/w-d-xo.html
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 I already bought wonderdraft its pretty cool
Yep, wonderdraft is, in fact, great.
This was as suspensful as actually reading/watching this battle. You did an amazing job on this video! Keep up the good work!
Also, if it possible, cover some of the battles in the silmarillion
I will probably cry of they do the Nirnaeth Arnoediad
@@TheAchilles26 is that the battle under the stars or one of the many seiges of the Thongorodrim?
@@construtordemundos3420, it was when they tried to restore the Siege of Angband and the Elves got wiped out instead
@@TheAchilles26 oh, as I suspected
Probably the best Middle Earth battle. It's such a shame that the movies were crap. Beorn was neglected as a character when he was probably the most instrumental person for the defeat of the Goblins.
Agreed, especially about the movies being crap. Peter Jackson is great with cinematography and emotional music, but completely useless with battles. There's almost no sense of a chain of command or greater tactical planning, and the battle lines always get abandoned after the first three seconds because he thinks hundreds of individual duels look cool.
The 1970s movie was good. The movies that came out a few years ago was junk.
Hollywood collectively prefers the stupid multitude of individual duels over actual formation fighting. And it's a real shame, because proper formation combat can still be epic and even entertaining.
@@TheAchilles26 and Hollywood wants take something awesome and adding a bunch of CGI computer junk, change characters, change storylines, and slap a remake/reboot on the cover.
@@thomassaldana2465 I don't agree, he directed the siege of Hellms deep, that was one of the best sieges put on film ever.
The exact second you mentioned the treasure an ad popped up about gold rings. How appropriate.
That was really cool. Would be amazing to see some of the other legendary battles done this way
Love how the animations support the narrative and give a clear overview of multiple aspects of the story at the same time. Keep up the good work!
This video is incredibly well made with awesome production values, very professional overall, well done!
I'm glad things like this exist and that so many people have watched it.
I thought dragons have a sixth sense to wealth and treasure that forcibly draws them to it like moths to a flame
GIVE ME WEÄLTH BRÖTHER
Is treasure like a lämp?
BRÖTHER DO YOU HAVE HÖARD
Are you a DnD player?
Because in Faerun, Ebberon and the Forgotten Realms it is that way.
This was so intense from start to finish, even though I've already got the whole battle memorized. Great Job Tim!!
Loved this video I’ve always loved fantasy medical battles played out from a strategic viewpoint and you showcased it brilliantly, well done and please do more of these.
Really puts into perspective how incredibly brutal the battle was, the men elves and dwarves all lost over half their forces
I've only seen the movies and was so confused. You explained it so simply thanks.
Yes! Another one! Keep up the good work. I'd love to see more.
This is exactly the kind of content I wish was more common on TH-cam. It would be awesome as a series like the one you did for Elder Scrolls. The War of the Ring and the War of the Jewels are both full of fascinating battles.
Unpopular opinion, despite the hobbit trilogy’s shortcomings. I still enjoyed them
They’re definitely entertaining but I prefer the book more
Yup, unpopular. Lol
I actually like the hobbit more than Lord of the rings.
@@John-ir4id the Lord of the rings had many changes too. Personally, I like the hobbit more than lotr. I still lioe lord of the rings but I just love the slow build up to the massive battle at the end. I dont see any issues with cgi, acting was great, and the over all movie was fun. Plus, its not as boring was the book was. Yes, I understand the complaint for making up a new character and bringing in another character from Lord of the rings, but I really feel like the movie would be lacking without it. The only compaint I really have about the hobbit is maybe that forced romantic feelings between the dwarf and elf.
@@wint3rki11 it's a shame the battle of the five armies was a mess. Look at the battles in the lord of the rings, they where executed so great compared to the last hobbit
3:54 this is where I see the biggest flaw in tolkiens entire saga. He totally seems to forget about logistics. What would those 500 armored men eat, while fighting of the besiegers?
That is a good question. Generally speaking Dwarves don't seem to produce their own food, but aquire it through trade. So how did they historically survive in similar situations, which must have been at least reasonably reoccuring to require preplanning. They must usually have been stocked up well with unperishing food.
In this situation there would have been nothing in Erebor, but Dain probably would have brought provisions. How much could he have brought? And how could they have gotten them inside Erebor? Let's assume they had carts laden with food with them when they journeyd from the Iron Hills. They could have left those carts guarded in the hills. The plan was that once the reinforcements had breached the lines of Elves and Men and gotten inside Erebor, they would have reopened some of the side entrances to flank the enemy. They knew the enemy couldn't besiege the entire mountain. So if those theoretical guarded provisions existed somewhere reasonably nearby, they could have brought them in through some opened side entrance, hopefully before it was found out by the enemy scouts.
And if they survived long enough in the mountain, they could probably hope for even more Dwarvish allies to arrive and force the enemy to give up. I think they would have been in far better position convincing other Dwarves to help them than the Mirkwood Elves or the Lakemen would have been in finding allies. The Dwarves of the Blue Mountains surely would have sent help - many of them were refugees of Erebor themselves. But why would Elrond or Galadriel get involved in this mess? Or what help the scattered Woodsmen could or would give to their relatives?
Just my theory.
@@AnnaMarianne I like the way you think and all the details you consider. You seem to be a true historian xD
Thank you! I feel like I can never get enough of this battle
This video helped me find your channel, I would regularly watch and enjoy this type of content!
The battle would have been awesome in the movie if they built up that same anticipationthey built for the Hornburg in the Two Towers. Imagine if the orc army marched through the valley while the men, dwarves and elves waited for the right time to ambush. The battle at the movies was an abomination instead...
I think the movies were still good, far from a masterpiece but still they were really enjoyable
It should be renamed to hobbit we use Eagles for every thing
The same did Morgoth during the first age with dragons and balrogs when the battle seemed lost xD
"SCREEMEN EEGLEEEEE!"
_BWAAAGH BWAGH!! _*_BRWAAAAGH!_*
It happened in canon and was explained well. Do your research, or if you are aware of it; you make yourself look ignorant.
@@Sipu97 They aren't saying it didn't happen and it wasn't explained well, they were just joking about how the eagles do often easily solve many problems.
Well done! Such an amazing story. Thanks for posting.
I literally watched all your Tolkien content late last night and wished for more. Thanks!
The battle of five armies is done, the battle for middle earth has just begun......
This eleven minute video was more interesting than all of the movie of the same name.
This is brilliant. Amazing work, and I'd love to see more videos like that.
I gotta say, this was really cool. Wouldn't mind seeing more like this in the future!
If only the goblins had waited a little so that the elves and dwarves would have killed each other...
This video reminds me of another youtube channel named Bazbattles.
I just got to this part in my re-reading of The Hobbit and this helps so much to visualize what happened! Thank you for this
Thank you for this kind of video. It’s just the sort of content I enjoy. Battles and strategies is a hobby of mine and I have studied the battles of the Lord of the Rings extensively with books and maps from different authors. This is the first time I’ve seen this type of troop movement animated and I really appreciated it. Very well done and thank you so much. I would definitely enjoy further such videos.
What is your source for this? As I remember it the battle was never shown in the book because Bilbo was unconscious after the first few seconds. I would very much like to see other big battles and hopefully one that make more sense than this one.
Chapters 15,16 and 17 in the hobbit book as well as the Atlas of middle earth
Is the Atlas of Middle Earth by Tolkien? It sounds interesting though I feel this battle has quite a few logic holes @@cristianbernal8009
It isnt, but is entirely and solely based on the works of tolkien and has been revised with Tolkiens son releasing all of his fathers original works. This is tolkien full and full.
Actually, he was awake until the eagles arrived, and a rock fell on his head. Bilbo (and the audience) was later filled in on the rest of what happened in the next two chapters.
"Rudimentary but simple?" You do know those are synonyms, right?
They may be synonyms, but they do mean the same thing.
@@bredrick. In which case, there is no need for the 'but as you not contrasting anything. The more common phrasing here would be "rudimentary but effective", as in "these are basic and unrefined tactics, BUT they still work despite that."
@@arandombard1197 Simple tactics are very important on the battlefield, complicated tactics fall apart very easily. Bombarding the enemy with trebuchet would be a tactic that's simple but not rudimentary given the mechanics involved. Charging the enemy from 5 side with 5 different armies would be a rudimentary tactic but not simple. There is an important contrast there. Advanced tactics are good, complicated tactics are bad.
@@madeking4 Lol, no. He made a grammatical mistake. No need to bend over backwards to try and justify it. Especially considering none of your examples apply to the video that his comment was about.
@@arandombard1197 I'm sorry if you can't see the distinction between the simple rudimentary tactic of having a line of archers fire from a hill compared to the mess of over complicated but rudimentary tactics used elsewhere in this battle, and the importance of it.
This was awesome! Hope to see more of these.
That was dope nice visual queues
Great video, as always ! Thank you very much. But I have one question, which are the five armies ? I have been struggling with that for years, can anyone help ? I
The Men of Dale,
The Mirkwood Elves,
The Dwarves of Iron Hills, The Gundabad Horde,
and the Beorn with Eagles
Vukasin Popovic hm...
The Humans of Laketown
The Elves
The dwarves in the mountain
Dales dwarves
The Goblins
1. Men of Dale
2. Mirkwood Elves
3. Goblins
4. Iron Hills Dwarves
5. Thorin's company or wargs & bats or eagles & Beorn or the movie orcs. No one really knows
@@7OwlsWithALaptop I don't think that an army consists of 13 members...
men of dale,
mirkwood elves
dwarves
bolg's army
another goblin army
That's military history visualized
More like italian or greek military tactics
I love strategy videos soooo much, this is awesome!
Excellent presentation, thanks.
BEORN MVP!!!
This is very different from the movie.
The Hobbit movies might as well be a different story compared to the book.
Really Nice work Dude
Damn it dude. Your stuff is always so great I'll drop what I'm watching for it.
cheat code to LOTR: send in the EAGLES
Why they couldnt move into Erebor and defend using its fortifications?
Thorin was being a bitchly, if I remember correctly.
@@In.Gy. as soon as the news of goblins was heard, they should've convinced him to open the gate, let them in and then rebuild the barricade
@@devan6935 I think they tried, actually! But Thorin locked himself in his treasure room, being a bitchly, and the others were too loyal to their king and company leader to sally out without him. It wasn't until the battle was joined that Thorin realized how much of a bitchly he was being by letting Dain and the dwarves he had called to help him, die for him outside and on their own, that he finally decided to go help them.
because of dragon sickness plot drama ;-)
Because there wasn't anywhere even remotely near enough time for any such thing. Once the goblin army arrived (and in Tolkien's books, there is none of the difference between goblins and Orcs that DnD introduced and the movies clung to), the only option was to stand and fight.
Well done. I love the use of the Incarnate map making tool it fits the overall atmosphere
Just subbed to your channel after watching this video. I really enjoyed it and would love it if you made more. Thanks for producing it!
So were Beorn and the Eagles the 5th army or was the 5th army the Goblin reinforcements?
1.mens of lake town 2.elves of mirkwood 3. dwarves 4. orcs of moria and dol guldur 5. orcs of gundabad (that orc reinforcements)
Actually in the book the 5th army was Wargs (evil wolves). While Goblins often used them as mounts, Wargs were actually an intelligent race of creatures with their own language. The relationship between Goblins and Wargs described in the book is alliance, not master and servant. The movies screwed up and downgraded them to generic CGI monsters. Instead they added a second Goblin army. Lame.
On the other hand, for some reason Tolkien didn't include the Eagles as one of the armies, despite being highly intelligent creatures. My guess is they were left out because they're basically air force and didn't participate in the ground battles. Likewise the bats on the Goblins' side didn't count. But that's just my guess.
@@won1853 wow iam huuge LOTR fun but i didnt know that about wargs .. i thought they are just tamed wolves used by orcs
Try to get a channel that does the strategy army stuff like Kings and Generals to do this
Your narration is good but the army needs a bit of work
well done. thank you for the video!
Great use of inkarnet for the maps
Love the video hope you do more like this
Wait this was such an incredibly well done video. So enjoyable to watch and listen to. I commend you on an incredibly well done video once again.
This is amazing work!!
This is my favorite video you have yet to make, I love videos like this, Keep it up please!, i know its a lot to ask, but il ask it noone the less
Make more of these. You already know bout ES lore and these are really enjoyable.
Finally, I understand this battle! It has always been so confusing for me. I think that more videos like this would be great, especially for the battles that were never covered on film, such as pivotal ones from the Silmarillion.
Just discovered your channel, really cool!
Excellent video. Seeing the strategy and tactics of this pivotal battle was amazing. Perhaps do the Battle of Dale in 3019 TA next? Or the Battle of Amon Sûl during the Arnorian Wars?
I cannot tell you how much Goblins riding wolves/wargs blew my little child mind.
I need to reread Hobbit now..
Also, Battle of the 5.1 Armies - go Beorn!!
This was fairly entertaining. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this.
Loved this vid! You should make some for the Battles of Helms Deep, Pelennor Fields and the Black Gate
Yes more of this army stuff please!!
I really like this kind of content, hope to see more soon
more of these battle overviews please!
I figured it out. You're the *oversimplified* of fantasy.
Amazing work as usual
Yes!!!!!!!!!! Please, I’ve been trying to find a good summarization of the battle of the pelenor fields
This is incredible!!
Kudos. This make so much more sense than the movie.
Brilliant! Well done. 👍😊♥️
I like the Baz Battles Style you applied to this
This was a really cool video I would really love to see more
Hey Tim, not sure if you had any plans to do another one of these battle style videos, but I think it would be very interesting to see your thoughts on the Angmar War between the Kingdoms of Arnor and the Witch-King of Angmar (LotR). Thanks again for the awesome videos!
We need more videos like this pls!!!!!
This was great 👏🏻👏🏻
Nice use of inkarnate! I use it all the time, I never thought about using it for videos. You should look into the pro version, especially if you are going to do more videos like this :). Great job, love it!
Did this get enough support for more? I absolutely loved it.
now this is the content i love
Excellent! If only the movie was as well executed as this video. Great job
Love it, thanks to YOU that I finally figured out what exactly went on between Tolkien's lines... This reminds me so much of Total War and Ultimate General, and Beron of course, much like Kira and Athrun from Gundam SEED, turning the battlefield single-handedly...