It would probably eventually turn into a middle earth that will have a world war over a One Clock To Rule Them All or a Compass That Can Rule All instead of The Rings Of Power and The One Ring That Will Rule Them All. What they are not about is giving up.

The numbers of 20k seem accurate to the sources. But Gondor seemed to be constantly at War and shows the flashback with Boromir to hint at it. A generation before they probably had a lot more.

So disappointed in Corey Olsen... You're right, Olsen absolutely knows his stuff. He's the preeminent Tolkien scholar of our time. So, to see him selling out to Amazon, and hear him saying things which he KNOWS aren't true, is truly disappointing. He has no integrity.

You still alive bruh come back from the shadow realm.

Dude is relaxing to listen to though. I really could care less about this deep lore but just relaxing to hear him talk explain it.

Logistics. A modern army has 10-20 support people for every combat soldier....think of just feeding a hundreds of thousands...even if they ate only lembas. :)

also the seven starts are runes for aragons kinglyship as is stated in counsil of elrond, 7 stars were located on aragons sword. and i absalutely adore your videos

Maybe since the Mountain was raised by Melkor, it is smart enough to prevent the power of Sauron (the ring) from getting near it.

No one is "an original". There are only a few stories in the world, retold again and again and again in different forms. Also there are deeply routed ideas what elves and dwarves are and how they look. Those ideas might differ between cultures, but we immediatly know if someone doesn't fit our culure's standards of those mythical and/or folklore beings. What amazon studios made didn't fit most of the audience's ideas about what Tolkien's work is. Tolkien didn't have to describe everything, because he used the middle european ideas of myth we all know and share. He did write lengthy descriptions everywhere he thought it to be neccessary - to distinguish his elves from the fairy tale sprites of french origin for instance. Here in Germany those little winged things never really extisted. We have gnomes and dwarves and "fairies" - called "Fee" that are a lot closer to the old norcid ideas. But I digress. Thing is there don't have to descriptions if the author and the reader (or audience) draw from the same cultural backrounds - be that a very old one like tales and myths or a more modern one like a 60 year old book.

It's only a problem when you have more officers than Infantry😂

There can be lots of captains

I'm pretty sure Gondor has multiple different military garrisons throughout the Kingdom stationed in the multiple cities within Gondor they couldn't send age because of pirate raids😢

All myths influence all the great stories, so nothing new there. Who read Hobbit, then LoTR, then later Silmarillion, plus 'Bored of the Rings' (hilarious parody BTW), then saw the films... [raises hand]. When I saw the films I thought, "yea, the lore is all there, so near as dammit". Where is this inconsistency that makes everything not canon and open to interpretation? Genuinely I want to know. I saw the posts about "we don't know about Orc origins", but we very clearly do- so where is this great inconsistency that allows show-runners to be fast & loose with the lore... when know when Gandalf (and the Istari) arrived in middle earth. Anyhoo, the canon is all there, literally in print to read, so anyone saying there is no canon is being wilfully blind. Our good Professor seems to be playing "strawman" with his assertions. Also people seem to forget that Amazon didn't go to him first for endorsement, the other people they tried said "that's not canon, you can't do that" and were passed over.

I'm among those "over 35" people who aren't threatened by Rings of Power, because I never attached to the Jackson films as the standard, because I read the books before (numerous times, including all 12 volumes of The History of Middle Earth, which are the different drafts of the Silmarillion, and a stitched together draft of Lord of the Rings). But I enjoy all Middle Earth media, including the earlier PC games and such. None of them are as good as the experience of the books, not even close. But I still like them quite a lot for what they are. I'm not even a fan of blockbuster films, but enjoy Lord of the Rings - which is more or less a blockbuster film remake style adaptation (I do not believe in perfection, so don't see them as such, either). I think a similar thing happens to many adaptations, and it's a shame. There is a massive difference between young and older Asimov fans on the Foundation adaption as well. If you go to the "Book and TV Show" community, largely populated by people who have not just read the original Foundation, or even the trilogy, but all the Foundation and Robot universe books, and the show is almost universally loved, while the other forum (TV Show only) is much hated. The irony is the anti-show people believe they are doing it in service to the book fans, many of them claiming to have read "Foundation" but seem unaware of most of the plot - not saying they didn't read it and lied, but obviously didn't read it closely, or perhaps audio booked it which probably means they didn't take the time to contemplate any of the words.

I understood it more Tolkien wanted to create a unifying mythos

0:28 wasn’t Celegorm’s hair blond-ish though

I honestly agree with you. Like, fully. I’m so sick of people calling everything woke. It’s really draining, and I hardly go on any social media because of the sheer amount of hate everything gets. Now, I do think this show could have been better, and everyone has the right to dislike or like this show, and their opinions are valid… but when you start throwing the words “feminism” and “diversity” in to make it look bad by saying it’s woke is quite immature, and you’ve lost me. Feminism and diversity are a good thing to have, unfortunately the media has perverted the word and other films and shows also haven’t portrayed it very well feeding the negative connotations of it (*cough* she-hulk *cough*). But other than that, I am a huge Tolkien Fan, and I’ve read LOTR, Hobbit, Fall of Numenor, and the Silmarillion, but I don’t think this show is garbage. Sure, I would change things, but it does separate itself from the source material, and to be fair, LOTR and Hobbit weren’t exactly 100% accurate either (and those films are very dear to me). Overall, I’m relatively indifferent about the show, and there are aspects that I do like a lot, and some I don’t. Anyway, I think s2 is much better, and I look forward to the finale. Have a nice day to anyone who may read this. 😊

@Kai47 tu que opinas? hay mas anillos magicos? y es posible que sigan teniendo poder en la cuarta edad porque son independientes de los anillos de poder? quizas creados por elfos o hasta por humanos en la primera edad?

The man is truly unlikeable..people don't just dislike things..if its good if its a good story and looks good. It dose not matter if it breaks laws kind of like a criminal...if it is good people will respect it they will like it and they will stick up for it..its got nothing to do with race or sex. we are not animals we like cool stuff..that why pop culture is pop culture guys!

DUDE… WHERE HAVE YOU GONE… THIS IS A GREAT CHANNEL?!,! WHERE IS THE REST OF YOUR REVIEWS?

Very good video. New subscriber.

Or if sauron were to wear any of the captured ones?

What would happen if a human wore a dwarven ring?

Now we all know ur initial instincts on Corey Olsen were right. Ave Tolkien and Secundum Tolkien.

Rip this video got ratio'd as well.

Get to the point, man! Please.

Great video!!!

Perhaps the Uruk’s Grog was concocted by Saruman, who would have surely known the ways of the High Elves and familiar with such things.

The archers guild should give you dunedain rangers imo, since the bowguard are so atrocious. Bree is stated as an archer faction, but it's top tier archer is worse than many first level archers. Watchmen units in general are that way, compare them to the high elves first tier units.

behind the times here, but Gil-Galad built the towers for Elendil in token of their friendship. Lindon was much more powerful at that time than it later became, and the elves helped the Numenorean refugees out a ton.

You look quite Finnish, but there's nearly no accent! Surprising. Finns are so special as a people. I've got some from my Grammy.

The story of Balin's colony was based on the Darien scheme the bankrupted Scotland and forced him into a union with England

Okay because the doors are really grown enough mushrooms 🍄🍄🍄 to keep themselves fed for 2O year's? After all in your scenario that can no longer make it out to Eastgate.

Late to the party here, but thanks for having interesting thoughtful stuff to say about this instead of clickbait hyperbolic soundbytes. :D

It's tobacco.

What if you tried to take Faenobel?

Tolkien explicitly stated that the Noldor and the Teleri have long hair - and those are all elves we ever see in story. We never see any Vanyar not Avari in RoP. So all elves hat we do see there should be long-heire. PJ had nothing to do with beyond being able to read what Tolkien wrote.

How its mod work? I need the original rome total war?

Build an economy system and just spam units

Corey got a nice check from amazon to stfu and say nice things

To say that Tolkien himself never stated that Dwarves didnt have beards simply didn't read Tolkiens works. For in The Hobbit, when the reader is introduced to Dwalin (the first Dwarf that enters Bilbos home, The Hill) the book specifically says that Dwalin had a blue beard. Solves that mystery.

I call all pipe tobacco pipe weed.

So nicotiana rustica?

"...the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings" (simile) "...the wings were spread from wall to wall" (metaphor) *THIS* is why "Tolkien didn't like allegory".

Just ask Corey and believe the opposite.

I recomend the fanfic Saurman of Many Devices. It explores the themes the books/movies mentioned and depicted and expands upon as well showing an industrial revolution used against Sauron.

You could not defend a city the size of minas tirith with less than 10k garrison. Not including the forces or Rohan

I wonder how much Amazon paid him

Hands down my favourite Dol Amroth campaign, plenty of struggle happened and I find it very entertaining when theres lategadme units fighting against each other.

Man u probably never look at this channel anymore but this series is one of the best tw ones I've ever watched