Sure, the Shire may seem like a nice place to live on. But you only need to leave on vacation or on a business travel for a relatively long time, and next thing you know, when you come back, you will find all your neighbours sacking your house and subasting your belongings, because they assumed you were dead. I still want my silverware back, miss Hoggings!
And you have to consider that it'd be pretty hard work for most people. The books only familiarise us with the wealthy elite, with Farmer Magot being a very well off agricultural hobbit. Someone has to work for all those commodities though
@@tada-kun982 I always thought of the Hobbits as having a barter economy of sorts, trading the goods themselves or trading foreign-minted coins not for the value of the coin but of the value of the precious metal it was minted of. As far as the wealth of the wealthy families is concerned, it seems their wealth is largely based on the ownership of land, and only occasionally from a family stockpile of precious metals or gemstones, most notable of the latter being the Baggins family due to Bilbo's acquisition of his share of the trolls' hoard and a small portion of the treasure of Erebor. With this in mind, I think the Hobbit aristocrats owned large farms and rented the usage of their lands to smaller farmers or hired laborers with the written contract of a portion of the harvest/animal product, a practice that lead to widespread exploitation in real life by the human peoples but relatively rare among Hobbits due to their unambitious nature and sense of common decency, a cheeky little criticism of humanity by Tolkien. With all this said, the common laborer was able to acquire all he needed to feed his family while still having some surplus to trade with his fellow laborers and traders for goods that cannot or are not produced in the Shire, while the wealthy aristocrats are able to sell their excess goods, especially wine and pipe weed, to nearby human settlements for foreign coinage.
@@tada-kun982 Yeah, he had 1 Chest of Silver, and 1 of Gold. And, by the time Bilbo took over Bag End, it was bassically all gone. Bilbo spent it all on gifts for the other hobbits, parties, etc.
@@TheWhiteDragon3I Think that the shire does have a money-based economy, as how Else could they have auctions, like they one they held for bilbos stuff at the end of the hobbit, due to Bilbo being presumed dead after having been gone for too Long!
"A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk. Little do they know of our long labor for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not"- Halbarad, Dunedain ranger. I imagine the rangers are just grateful there's a place of order and goodness in a mostly ruined Kingdom.
@@thescarletpumpernel3305 and I guess it also gave the rangers some more purpose. Just fighting all the time and seeing no merits to it would suck. This way at least the hobbits are somewhat safe and I guess some pipe weed is nice after shooting some Orks ;) Also getting food is probably a lot easier if they can trade at Bree and I doubt the rangers have their own brewery. Just remember where the hobbits met Aragon...
I love your economics and politics videos. The older I get the more I appreciate a good deep dive into the economics of a nation and how that shapes them rather then hearing about "flanking maneuver" for the 77th time
It is safe to assume that the Hobbit economy was not at all self sufficient and that trade must have played a massive role. The Hobbits had a big range of items in use like glass, brass, bronze, lead, iron and steel, precious metals, several kinds of textiles and a lot more. Many of these thins require quite a lot of energy to make which in a preindustrial society would be based on wood and charcoal. Yet the shire being rather small in size and devoid of mountains or big forests doesn't seem to provide opportunities for logging, mining and other related things. Also the productive part of the population seems to be very focused on food production so is not likely that the considerable amount of people that is needed to run a mine and the related facilities, like ore washing, smelting, etc. was available. and just think of all the non-food-production-related crafts they'd still need, even given raw materials: weavers, taylors, tanners, cobblers, bookbinders, smiths/toolmakers, the whole variety of woodworking professions from carpenter to cooper, potters, builders and so on. Trade can be the only answer to explain the bucolic existence of that small people. And that trade can only hinge on either preserved food and, well the pipeweed. It is a classic consumption/luxury good, probably comparably valuable to other goods, doesn't weigh a lot and can be well transported over long distances. It it is most likely that the export of pipeweed gave the hobbit economy the trade surplus it needed to provide itself anything that domestic production lacked. In a way Tolkien is a bit of a hypocrite here. he knew likely very well that the little paradise he spent his childhood in was far from being self sufficient and had not been for a long time. The pipeweed trade kinda fixes the whole thing and helps it make sense and it is definitely not unheard of that societies like these, hinging on trade of a certain valuable agricultural good did well. None did ever avoid strak poverty and a very inequal distribution of the land and capital ownership.
I think idealizing one type of society or another and demonizing a contrasting type of society is sort of inevitable in tales with primarily straight heroes and villains. Incidentally, this black and white morality is what I blame for this channel's battle breakdowns so far being so disappointing.
I'm gonna call BS on the economy. Tolkien wasn't an economist or investor (tmk) - it's a fantasy story, so the hobbits have lots of stuff 'just because' it serves the setting which he created.
@@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin that is definitely not the worst explanation. The question is indeed, whether we need that in a fantasy story. But I guess that there are many fans who want the lore to make sense on that level.
Same can be said for the dwarves, their economy was mianly based on basicly crafrmansihp of all sort from a range of ıronsmithing, building, mining coal and precious metals and crafting jeweleries and all sorts of tools with things that they have mined, they don't seem to grow their own food, they are dependent on people for food which means theey have to sustain a friendly policy towards whom around them.
Tolkien is not exatly a hypocrite, the thing is he idealized a almost perfect or ORGANIC society, as he know that perfection only exists in god and his paradise, as he is christian, in the case a catholic, in general he idealize a society or civilization where honor and others importants thinks like oaths are take very seriously and you can get harshly punished by god if you don't follow, by the way, he idealize a society where you take from the nature but in the same time you respect and even try to improve or restore it, basically a mutual contract between man and god, as nature is god itself or creation, the problem is that you and your people in general don't understand much of traditionalism and rural societies, not urban or industrial ones, who played a important role in LOTR, but not as a speculative and money sharks class of merchants or artisans but as honests and diligent people, and yes, that the primary reason why the primary economyc of the population are rural, live from the land or nature, the use of basics, without much luxury who tends to brings hedonism and others, you see, Tolkien is a very traditionalism man, not a Liberal Conservative as today people tends to think, he is more close to the Carlists of Spain or Manuelists from Portugal, also, he never try to hide the fact that the world that he lives is not the same one, as you see that materialism, relativism and atheism are dominating, by the way AGAIN, you people don't really understand Tolkien and even a basic and obviously think of ancient and medieval economics, even creating a random strawman to attack him or criticize him, honestly, you people can do better than this, so, overall, he idealizes a ORGANIC or TRADITIONALIST society or civilization, not a modern one, who of course, existed.
With this video, my hope for seeing societies like the Mandalorians and the Geonosians and how the organizations like the Republic, the Separatists, the Jedi and the Sith functioned are being made by this channel is quite... looking nicely!
I love videos like this. While I know the story pretty well which reduced my attraction to some other LOTR videos, stuff like economics is rarely talked about and feels very fresh and interesting.
In the films it seemed to me that society had collapsed across middle earth, no trade, scattered armies everyone fending for themselves outside the walls of minas tirith or edoras and low population density
I never tought about Biblo and Frodo being rich, i've read all the books and watched the movies but by now i get it... strange :S Thank you for the video and enlightening me
Me: "Ah.. the idyllic nature of the country life in the Shire..." Kings and Generals: "SO, the Shire is an extractive plantation economy where a landed aristocracy lived off the back of what are basically poor tobacco farmers, in an enviroment with rigidly enforced classe norms and expectations" Awesome video by the way!
>read the hobbit and lord of the rings in the 90's >me: "Man, I want to be a Hobbit." >27 years later watching the movies with people >them: "Man, I want to be a Hobbit." Some things never change.
Ok now THIS is a dream!!! I can't believe you're going to cover economic, social, political etc aspects of Middle Earth too besides battles! Whenever I think you guys can never surprise me again you always prove me wrong. I think that that agrarian, pre-industrial, local, homogenous, and stable society with almost no government while under supervision of a distant ruler is seriously and objectively the best way to live. After all my experiences and studies in life I only know that we humans aren't made to enjoy much more than "good tilled earth", good company and food. The only business that should worry us should be the one of "growing and eating food".
It's a myth, It's what we want okay, but we cannot get it. Except if we freeze the birthrates, the technology and the culture. And that's both utopian (as in impossible to pull off) and dystopian, it would need tremendous amounts of political power and trampling of individual liberty and creative endeavor. It would also be very fragile to changes in nature, pandemics, climatic events and that sort of things. Nah, with extremely advanced technologies giving us basically superabundance then yes, we might get close to that, but not before we get there. Definitely.
Today on Wizards and Warriors, we will be discussing the the economy of Warhammer 40,000's Orks... They use their own teeth as currency and aquire more by smashing smaller Orks in the face. Thats...thats about it...er...sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS...catch you on the next one?
@@baybarsedturner2 According to the Lexicanum: "Despite these properties, if not purposefully crushed, Ork teef will eventually disintegrate and fall apart, making sure that even the richest Ork’s hoard will never last him forever."
3:33 Ah, a perfect menu for a comfortable christmas gathering ❤ A little red wine, raspberry jam & apple tart, mincemeat (chopped lamb, berries & nuts, & cheese) pies and cheese, pork (pork belly & carrots & onions & turnips) pie and salad, fruitcakes and coffee and ale, a few eggs (fried, of course), and cold chicken and pickles! YUM ❤❤❤
shire one of the beautiful places in lotr universe . it also influenced by i think jrr s home village . brilliant video. keep up your work ,. it s amazing.
Simply amazing work. Loving your series here as much or possibly more than the movies, in some aspects =p Very fun to see what we can infer from simple knowledge given by Tolkien in the books laid out in such an informative and simple way. A+ good sirs.
I'd love to see some more series on Warhammer, and possibly Infinity and Warmachine! But this video shows there's plenty of content yet in the Legendarium of Tolkien
@@matebalazs1575 ??? what about them? i want THIS channel to cover it, hence why im commentating here. This place will go stale quick if its nothing but more star wars and LOTR. Not that the LOTR videos havent been great, but it needs more variety.
The best real world correlations to Hobbit society, politics, and economics would be Tolkien’s Catholic influences. Catholic Social Teaching has a view of society being built on Subsidiarity. This means affairs bring handled by the lowest social unit possible. It’s a decentralist political and social structure. And economically Distributism seems to be Tolkien’s ideal system. Distributism is a Catholic economic ideal for a proper economy built on Christian principles of family, human dignity, and community. Distributism means that property be as widely distributed into the hands of families and communities as possible.
This would make a very interesting open-world micromanagement decision-making Lord of the rings game if it ever came to be and Bilbo and frodo being the richest guys around holy frak I guess that's why they opened a Bilbo's Pizza down here in Michigan
Tolkien’s utter contempt for industry reminds me of Dahl’s utter contempt for televison. They’re both correct in how these are not good in excess but it was only after their lifetime when some sort of balance and weighing of the pros and cons was considered.
The barren hellscape we see around Barad-Dur and Mt. Doom only makes up a fracture of Mordor and the orcs there where bred for war exclusively. Huge parts to the southeast where fertile plains surrounding the massive lake Nurn and was home to a vast population of enslaved humans producing the food needed for the orcs. Not to mention all the tribute and bribes coming from Harad in the south and Rhun to the east, both great kingdoms with more land and people than the west. With all these human slaves the Orcs could basically just exist and breed solely for the purpose of war. Kinda like the Spartans of ancient Greece.
In general they are created by black magic, and also, they just pillaged the countryside and especially in the fertily places of Mordor they have a rural economy with slaves.
Sam didn't marry Rosie because of class! He married her because he loved her from the beginning. Them being from the same class is probably coincidental to them running in the same circles, with the same interests and the same capital. People with more hang out together, people with less hang out together; that's usually the way of things
Thank goodness you dropped the subject of industrialization when you did...I was half-expecting you to declare LOTR as an allegory to the evils of the industrial revolution and the World Wars...
"Hey, can we go settle this land on the other side of the river?" "Sure. Just follow the law and make sure these bridges are maintained." "...that's all we have to do?" "I still get to hunt there a few times a year." "... is that seriously it?" "Just make sure the bridges don't fall down and don't do anything crazy."
@@robertoleary5470 A Noble is generally from of a specific landlord family line with political status, a aristocrat is a general term for any rich family who usually have business activities ... That said it varies from country to country and period ...
@@robertoleary5470 By the way, in the kingdom of France a aristocrat was often called a "Bourgeois" and those were indeed not form old Knights families like the Noble ... Unfortunately the term is often used as a general term for every rich family even in modern France ...
And at one point in his life, said humble servant carried not only the one ring, but also it's bearer literally on his shoulders, the greatest burden imaginable. True poetry!
The issue is that with the latter, there's little tactical detail. How do you contextualise "Billions of people stood around a fuckoff massive mountain range fighting gigantic supersoldiers for a hundred years"?
I sure do like my pipe-weed. And here in the Blue Ridge mountains of VA, I can purchase it at the corner store. 😁👵 ** I'm trying to coin the phrase "cannabis flower"
If possible you should do one of these videos but on like the cultures of Far Harad I know there isnt much information about those cultures so you could lump all of them into one video
The presence of wine in The Shire does not indicate the existence of either cork or glassblowing. Also they probably traded for metal goods rather than mined and metal-bashed.
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Loved every single one of your videos and am truly looking forward to the first age, Turins story must be told.
Please make a video about the Battle for Doldrey from Berserk!!!
*Me already knowing that there is a underground cartel for the pipeweed trade*
Can u plsase do more elder scroll
Sure, the Shire may seem like a nice place to live on. But you only need to leave on vacation or on a business travel for a relatively long time, and next thing you know, when you come back, you will find all your neighbours sacking your house and subasting your belongings, because they assumed you were dead.
I still want my silverware back, miss Hoggings!
And you have to consider that it'd be pretty hard work for most people. The books only familiarise us with the wealthy elite, with Farmer Magot being a very well off agricultural hobbit. Someone has to work for all those commodities though
@@tada-kun982 I always thought of the Hobbits as having a barter economy of sorts, trading the goods themselves or trading foreign-minted coins not for the value of the coin but of the value of the precious metal it was minted of. As far as the wealth of the wealthy families is concerned, it seems their wealth is largely based on the ownership of land, and only occasionally from a family stockpile of precious metals or gemstones, most notable of the latter being the Baggins family due to Bilbo's acquisition of his share of the trolls' hoard and a small portion of the treasure of Erebor. With this in mind, I think the Hobbit aristocrats owned large farms and rented the usage of their lands to smaller farmers or hired laborers with the written contract of a portion of the harvest/animal product, a practice that lead to widespread exploitation in real life by the human peoples but relatively rare among Hobbits due to their unambitious nature and sense of common decency, a cheeky little criticism of humanity by Tolkien. With all this said, the common laborer was able to acquire all he needed to feed his family while still having some surplus to trade with his fellow laborers and traders for goods that cannot or are not produced in the Shire, while the wealthy aristocrats are able to sell their excess goods, especially wine and pipe weed, to nearby human settlements for foreign coinage.
@@TheWhiteDragon3 the Bagginses were already wealthy, just not *ridiculously* wealthy. But yeah you make a good point
@@tada-kun982 Yeah, he had 1 Chest of Silver, and 1 of Gold.
And, by the time Bilbo took over Bag End, it was bassically all gone. Bilbo spent it all on gifts for the other hobbits, parties, etc.
@@TheWhiteDragon3I Think that the shire does have a money-based economy, as how Else could they have auctions, like they one they held for bilbos stuff at the end of the hobbit, due to Bilbo being presumed dead after having been gone for too Long!
Off topic: It's interesting that the rangers kept protecting the Hobbits and the Shire even after the fall of their kingdom.
Gotta keep their slave/supplier safe
@@huanquocmanh416 what
Isn’t it because Gandalf told them to do it?
"A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk. Little do they know of our long labor for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not"- Halbarad, Dunedain ranger. I imagine the rangers are just grateful there's a place of order and goodness in a mostly ruined Kingdom.
@@thescarletpumpernel3305 and I guess it also gave the rangers some more purpose. Just fighting all the time and seeing no merits to it would suck. This way at least the hobbits are somewhat safe and I guess some pipe weed is nice after shooting some Orks ;)
Also getting food is probably a lot easier if they can trade at Bree and I doubt the rangers have their own brewery. Just remember where the hobbits met Aragon...
Finally! An economic analysis of LOTR. GRRM will be so happy.
But what's their tax policy?
So are we going to talk about the magnanimous economy of the Orcs of Gundabadul and their almost steampunk age ?
Oh you know its coming.
@@ThePacificWarChannel I wish!
I love your economics and politics videos. The older I get the more I appreciate a good deep dive into the economics of a nation and how that shapes them rather then hearing about "flanking maneuver" for the 77th time
Well, now I want OfficiallyDevin to narrate the Hobbit! If you're up to it, maybe even the Lord of the rings!! Take my money!!!!
Hear hear!
Here I'm sitting, watching the ins and outs of Hobbit economy, while WW3 is brewing. What a glorious time to be alive! :D
I'm dreaming. Am I dreaming? This must be my favorite video in this channel so far.
Amazing job from the team!
i just discovered your channel recently, and this economic film is my favorite. im listening to it playing my city builders or castle builders :)
It is safe to assume that the Hobbit economy was not at all self sufficient and that trade must have played a massive role. The Hobbits had a big range of items in use like glass, brass, bronze, lead, iron and steel, precious metals, several kinds of textiles and a lot more. Many of these thins require quite a lot of energy to make which in a preindustrial society would be based on wood and charcoal. Yet the shire being rather small in size and devoid of mountains or big forests doesn't seem to provide opportunities for logging, mining and other related things.
Also the productive part of the population seems to be very focused on food production so is not likely that the considerable amount of people that is needed to run a mine and the related facilities, like ore washing, smelting, etc. was available.
and just think of all the non-food-production-related crafts they'd still need, even given raw materials: weavers, taylors, tanners, cobblers, bookbinders, smiths/toolmakers, the whole variety of woodworking professions from carpenter to cooper, potters, builders and so on.
Trade can be the only answer to explain the bucolic existence of that small people. And that trade can only hinge on either preserved food and, well the pipeweed. It is a classic consumption/luxury good, probably comparably valuable to other goods, doesn't weigh a lot and can be well transported over long distances. It it is most likely that the export of pipeweed gave the hobbit economy the trade surplus it needed to provide itself anything that domestic production lacked.
In a way Tolkien is a bit of a hypocrite here. he knew likely very well that the little paradise he spent his childhood in was far from being self sufficient and had not been for a long time. The pipeweed trade kinda fixes the whole thing and helps it make sense and it is definitely not unheard of that societies like these, hinging on trade of a certain valuable agricultural good did well. None did ever avoid strak poverty and a very inequal distribution of the land and capital ownership.
I think idealizing one type of society or another and demonizing a contrasting type of society is sort of inevitable in tales with primarily straight heroes and villains. Incidentally, this black and white morality is what I blame for this channel's battle breakdowns so far being so disappointing.
I'm gonna call BS on the economy. Tolkien wasn't an economist or investor (tmk) - it's a fantasy story, so the hobbits have lots of stuff 'just because' it serves the setting which he created.
@@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin that is definitely not the worst explanation. The question is indeed, whether we need that in a fantasy story.
But I guess that there are many fans who want the lore to make sense on that level.
Same can be said for the dwarves, their economy was mianly based on basicly crafrmansihp of all sort from a range of ıronsmithing, building, mining coal and precious metals and crafting jeweleries and all sorts of tools with things that they have mined, they don't seem to grow their own food, they are dependent on people for food which means theey have to sustain a friendly policy towards whom around them.
Tolkien is not exatly a hypocrite, the thing is he idealized a almost perfect or ORGANIC society, as he know that perfection only exists in god and his paradise, as he is christian, in the case a catholic, in general he idealize a society or civilization where honor and others importants thinks like oaths are take very seriously and you can get harshly punished by god if you don't follow, by the way, he idealize a society where you take from the nature but in the same time you respect and even try to improve or restore it, basically a mutual contract between man and god, as nature is god itself or creation, the problem is that you and your people in general don't understand much of traditionalism and rural societies, not urban or industrial ones, who played a important role in LOTR, but not as a speculative and money sharks class of merchants or artisans but as honests and diligent people, and yes, that the primary reason why the primary economyc of the population are rural, live from the land or nature, the use of basics, without much luxury who tends to brings hedonism and others, you see, Tolkien is a very traditionalism man, not a Liberal Conservative as today people tends to think, he is more close to the Carlists of Spain or Manuelists from Portugal, also, he never try to hide the fact that the world that he lives is not the same one, as you see that materialism, relativism and atheism are dominating, by the way AGAIN, you people don't really understand Tolkien and even a basic and obviously think of ancient and medieval economics, even creating a random strawman to attack him or criticize him, honestly, you people can do better than this, so, overall, he idealizes a ORGANIC or TRADITIONALIST society or civilization, not a modern one, who of course, existed.
With this video, my hope for seeing societies like the Mandalorians and the Geonosians and how the organizations like the Republic, the Separatists, the Jedi and the Sith functioned are being made by this channel is quite... looking nicely!
Yes mandalorian. This is the way .
@@nathanmoore101 The way indeed.
I love videos like this. While I know the story pretty well which reduced my attraction to some other LOTR videos, stuff like economics is rarely talked about and feels very fresh and interesting.
Really insightful, most of this stuff about the hobbits I never knew
This was surprisingly interesting... Do not judge a video by its title, I suppose.
Keep up the good work, both channels doing good
Since the _Kings and Generals_ branding is still fairly front and center, I'm guessing you've missed (or passed) on _The Cold War?_
Just randomly picked up my phone and saw this pop up just now, now it truly will be a glorious day. Thanks wizards
This video mostly confirmed what I suspected about the Shire. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
This is a great idea. I hope you’ll go into all the fictional cultures of the franchises you cover. Star Wars, LotR etc…
In the films it seemed to me that society had collapsed across middle earth, no trade, scattered armies everyone fending for themselves outside the walls of minas tirith or edoras and low population density
I never tought about Biblo and Frodo being rich, i've read all the books and watched the movies but by now i get it... strange :S Thank you for the video and enlightening me
The Bagginses are landlords. Bagshot Row is their land, literally on the lower parts of the hill Bag End is built into.
@@epicazeroth yeah they literally have servants and silver spoons lmao
"LOUIS-SENPAIIII!!!!!
@@jamiemcintosh3030 Always the star... :P
@@epicazeroth Thank you, now i feel better than just thinking they're filthy rich because of Bilbo's parting gifts on The Hobbit
Me: "Ah.. the idyllic nature of the country life in the Shire..."
Kings and Generals: "SO, the Shire is an extractive plantation economy where a landed aristocracy lived off the back of what are basically poor tobacco farmers, in an enviroment with rigidly enforced classe norms and expectations"
Awesome video by the way!
Listening to the wind as the camera pans Isengard made me shiver...BrRrRr
>read the hobbit and lord of the rings in the 90's
>me: "Man, I want to be a Hobbit."
>27 years later watching the movies with people
>them: "Man, I want to be a Hobbit."
Some things never change.
Ok now THIS is a dream!!! I can't believe you're going to cover economic, social, political etc aspects of Middle Earth too besides battles! Whenever I think you guys can never surprise me again you always prove me wrong.
I think that that agrarian, pre-industrial, local, homogenous, and stable society with almost no government while under supervision of a distant ruler is seriously and objectively the best way to live. After all my experiences and studies in life I only know that we humans aren't made to enjoy much more than "good tilled earth", good company and food. The only business that should worry us should be the one of "growing and eating food".
In real life the place you talking about would be full of blood feuds from the lack of government
It's a myth, It's what we want okay, but we cannot get it.
Except if we freeze the birthrates, the technology and the culture. And that's both utopian (as in impossible to pull off) and dystopian, it would need tremendous amounts of political power and trampling of individual liberty and creative endeavor.
It would also be very fragile to changes in nature, pandemics, climatic events and that sort of things.
Nah, with extremely advanced technologies giving us basically superabundance then yes, we might get close to that, but not before we get there. Definitely.
I feel if I lived in the shire, I wouldn't care if the wider world's economy was stagnating... I'd be happy and content.
Brillaint video. We always appreciate your hard work to make these videos. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴
I'm a simple man. I see a wizards and warriors video, I watch it
Hell yeah! Economics!
~me a logistics nerd.
Today on Wizards and Warriors, we will be discussing the the economy of Warhammer 40,000's Orks...
They use their own teeth as currency and aquire more by smashing smaller Orks in the face. Thats...thats about it...er...sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS...catch you on the next one?
How do Warhammer Orks deal with the problem of inflation with all those teeth circulating about?
@@baybarsedturner2 they basically have a Klan that only exists to abuse that inflation to get filthy rich
@@baybarsedturner2 According to the Lexicanum: "Despite these properties, if not purposefully crushed, Ork teef will eventually disintegrate and fall apart, making sure that even the richest Ork’s hoard will never last him forever."
@@the_corvid97 Further proof that orks are the heros of 40k. They have an economy that is immune to inflation.
Love these docs, thanks so much ☺️
3:33 Ah, a perfect menu for a comfortable christmas gathering ❤
A little red wine, raspberry jam & apple tart, mincemeat (chopped lamb, berries & nuts, & cheese) pies and cheese, pork (pork belly & carrots & onions & turnips) pie and salad, fruitcakes and coffee and ale, a few eggs (fried, of course), and cold chicken and pickles!
YUM ❤❤❤
shire one of the beautiful places in lotr universe . it also influenced by i think jrr s home village . brilliant video. keep up your work ,. it s amazing.
Simply amazing work. Loving your series here as much or possibly more than the movies, in some aspects =p Very fun to see what we can infer from simple knowledge given by Tolkien in the books laid out in such an informative and simple way. A+ good sirs.
Nice that you upload in different time than kings and generals. good move
Now this is the content I am looking for on this channel!
The Shire seems like the perfect place to live.
You should do a video about the battle the hobbits fought in like the battle of greenfields
Nice work dude thanks
This is an excellent idea for the topic of a video
I'd love to see some more series on Warhammer, and possibly Infinity and Warmachine!
But this video shows there's plenty of content yet in the Legendarium of Tolkien
do battletlech plz. its a neofudal franchise with a rich history, its older than 40K, and there's just so much stuff there for you to work with.
Black Pants Legion videos
@@matebalazs1575 ??? what about them? i want THIS channel to cover it, hence why im commentating here. This place will go stale quick if its nothing but more star wars and LOTR. Not that the LOTR videos havent been great, but it needs more variety.
@@oriffel They did a couple of BT lore videos and technical stuff.
@@matebalazs1575 no shit.
The best real world correlations to Hobbit society, politics, and economics would be Tolkien’s Catholic influences. Catholic Social Teaching has a view of society being built on Subsidiarity. This means affairs bring handled by the lowest social unit possible. It’s a decentralist political and social structure. And economically Distributism seems to be Tolkien’s ideal system. Distributism is a Catholic economic ideal for a proper economy built on Christian principles of family, human dignity, and community. Distributism means that property be as widely distributed into the hands of families and communities as possible.
1 min in and already have to comment how i love this series on the basic idea great work!!
fascinating stuff adds so much to the lore
Brilliant!
I love these videos.
Beautiful pictures :-)
This would make a very interesting open-world micromanagement decision-making Lord of the rings game if it ever came to be and Bilbo and frodo being the richest guys around holy frak I guess that's why they opened a Bilbo's Pizza down here in Michigan
This was great! I think an interesting topic for a future video would be how Dwarves acquire their food.
Its everyone's dream to live in a place like the Shire , just a little security and life acknowledgement issues .
The Shire with running water and electricity is my ideal society.
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
far better then what the rings of power will be
Yes yes yes, more vids like this
Thanks excellent.
I’m just curious how the Hobbits never developed more cultural products considering an abundance of food they have…
You should get more subscribers, because your a good story teller
Tolkien’s utter contempt for industry reminds me of Dahl’s utter contempt for televison. They’re both correct in how these are not good in excess but it was only after their lifetime when some sort of balance and weighing of the pros and cons was considered.
Most excellent and satisfying.
I think the older you get the more you want to have a small house in the Shire and enjoy the peaceful little things of life.
I wanted it when I was 18, just didn’t have the money.
Never understood how orcs could multiply faster than humans or elves and sustain large armies without large-scale agriculture or animal husbandry.
The barren hellscape we see around Barad-Dur and Mt. Doom only makes up a fracture of Mordor and the orcs there where bred for war exclusively. Huge parts to the southeast where fertile plains surrounding the massive lake Nurn and was home to a vast population of enslaved humans producing the food needed for the orcs. Not to mention all the tribute and bribes coming from Harad in the south and Rhun to the east, both great kingdoms with more land and people than the west. With all these human slaves the Orcs could basically just exist and breed solely for the purpose of war. Kinda like the Spartans of ancient Greece.
In general they are created by black magic, and also, they just pillaged the countryside and especially in the fertily places of Mordor they have a rural economy with slaves.
Very interesting
Last time I was this early, Numenor still existed.
Wizards & Warriors: Concerning Hobbits
Battles are cool, but economics is far less talked about and far more interesting.
I'm up for Mordor for the next LOTR lore video.
Can you make series about shinobi war and lore of Konohagakure
Sam didn't marry Rosie because of class! He married her because he loved her from the beginning. Them being from the same class is probably coincidental to them running in the same circles, with the same interests and the same capital. People with more hang out together, people with less hang out together; that's usually the way of things
Thank goodness you dropped the subject of industrialization when you did...I was half-expecting you to declare LOTR as an allegory to the evils of the industrial revolution and the World Wars...
"Hey, can we go settle this land on the other side of the river?"
"Sure. Just follow the law and make sure these bridges are maintained."
"...that's all we have to do?"
"I still get to hunt there a few times a year."
"... is that seriously it?"
"Just make sure the bridges don't fall down and don't do anything crazy."
So the 4 hobbits were 2 nobles, 1 aristocrat and his servant
What’s the difference between a noble and an aristocrat?
@@robertoleary5470 A Noble is generally from of a specific landlord family line with political status, a aristocrat is a general term for any rich family who usually have business activities ...
That said it varies from country to country and period ...
@@lhemnenn4713 right thanks
@@robertoleary5470 By the way, in the kingdom of France a aristocrat was often called a "Bourgeois" and those were indeed not form old Knights families like the Noble ... Unfortunately the term is often used as a general term for every rich family even in modern France ...
And at one point in his life, said humble servant carried not only the one ring, but also it's bearer literally on his shoulders, the greatest burden imaginable. True poetry!
Fire channel
Do one about battle of trident
Wow what a true and happy way to live!
(Continues over-thinking things that makes him sad)
Do you guys do video games to? If so could I request Mass Effect? Also Warhammer 40K love to see the siege of the Imperial palace
The issue is that with the latter, there's little tactical detail. How do you contextualise "Billions of people stood around a fuckoff massive mountain range fighting gigantic supersoldiers for a hundred years"?
@@tada-kun982 fair point, but my main ask is if they can do a warhammer 40k battle, I'd love to see how they explain and show a battle like that
Halo would be interesting to see as well
Could you do a video on the 30 year siege of Orsinium?
Please make a video about the Battle for Doldrey from Berserk!!!
I sure do like my pipe-weed. And here in the Blue Ridge mountains of VA, I can purchase it at the corner store. 😁👵
** I'm trying to coin the phrase "cannabis flower"
Hobbits had it all figured out.
If possible you should do one of these videos but on like the cultures of Far Harad
I know there isnt much information about those cultures so you could lump all of them into one video
The presence of wine in The Shire does not indicate the existence of either cork or glassblowing. Also they probably traded for metal goods rather than mined and metal-bashed.
"hardly any goverment, families for the most part managed their own affairs"
Hobbits were the Sicillian Mafia of Middle Earth
What do you mean Bilbo is an aristocrat? I thought all the heroes from LotR were all working class folk! How outrageous! Harumph! lol
@Wizards and Warriors: Have you forgotten that Bilbo's own mother was Belladonna Took...?
I believe it is implied that a good deal of manufactured goods were obtained through trade with dwarves.
So we’re the Hobbits like middle earths grocery store?
Haha nice one
Hah! And George R.R Martin said Tolkien didn't wrote about Aragorn's tax policy!
nice
1:38 Baithically
Am I correct in thinking that the Tooks & The Bagginses were related
Things got a little too dramatic with the music at 9:20 lol.
Please cover the Exosquad
Tolkien's rose bud was nature huh
Hahahahahahahaha “weed” 😂 🤣
Getting into the societies of these worlds as well as the historical events? Hell yeah.
Can you do videos about The Expanse
But what about Aragon's tax policy?
Wonder what of Umbar and the lands of Harad and Khand?
Next video on Chandragupta Maurya rise to power and battle from Magadha 🙏🙏🙏