I don't think this applies to the "woke" mentality now, it would be hard to write Glorfindel in as such a powerful character noting that he suddenly just dissapears when the fellowship is sent out and shows up at the end of the war against sauron, amazing as he is it would not be good for the flow of the movie as people would wonder where this immense powerful being suddenly went.

That was the biggest mistake changing Glorfindel with Arwen

Um, Melkor did not rename himself, the Elves gave hime the name Morgoth (Black Enemy) after witnessing his treachery and dark intent. smh

do the wizards have a clear memory of their lives before appearing in middle earth? they knew saruman was boss and their purpose…

So they took out the greatest elf in history for toxic feminism great

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Their gonna say this is woke lol

Question was he able to go back and forth to valor ? Or he was stuck in the body of man forever as Gandalf ?

I think that Glorfindel was actually shown/ listed in the films. However, I do believe the first Elf next to Elrond in the clip you showed would have been a better cast as Glorf. Also, as fantastic as a part Liv Tyler played, I think I can speak for all Tolkien fans when I say we wished Ol’ Glorfnuts was shown intimidating/ driving away the Nazgul in his light form.

See Melkor really wasn't a bad guy. He just looked around and saw all the other Valar had hot wives and he's like WTF dad! Well I'm just going to be a hater now

Tolkien didn't make a big deal out of it but Tom Bombadil was a registered Middle Earth sex offender...

Thangorodrim: an iconic trio of hollow funnels - unnatural "volcanos" that Morgoth raised to discharge slag from Angband.

and he caused incest. very evil.

I put this together in between lore projects. Let me know if this is something you'd like to see a bit more of!

I like that intelligent Dragons has come to be the norm in modern fantasy.

My favorite Tolkien character by far ❤

Do you think Glaurung was the most evil dragon? Should I cover the others?

I haven’t heard anyone else talk about Beorn and the Vale in this way and its how I’ve always thought of them - as protectors. He leaves his isolation and becomes the leader that men need. Its such an amazing story. Thank you for this video!

Glorfindel was a badass, nuff said.

You need to do better research, several things were wrong

Chad of the Rings

wow new channel with high quality production? new sub. however, Arwen did not only replace Glorfindel in the movie for plot streamlining and female representation purposes, but also as a plot device and reward for the male hero, Aragorn. ps. are you using AI images? there's a lot of artwork i've never seen before. just curious.

He killed what is essentially a Fallen Angel, a.k.a a Balrog.

Killed a Balrog .Nuff said .

Are there any other Elves that match or surpass Glorfindel in your eyes? Let us know!

Glorfindel was such a BA character

Beorn is another one of those interesting characters that point to a whole world of magic and mysteries that never get directly mentioned in Tolkiens work.

Do you think Beorn would have been on par with a Balrog? Or am I way off?

That rendition got you a Sub 😎 🧊🧊 👦

One thing that might explain Sauron and Saruman coming from Aule's stable so to speak is that, aside from Melkor himself, Aule is the only one of the Valar known to have _significantly_ erred according to what he was supposed to have done. Namely, he made the Dwarves in secret, knowing full well the plans of Eru in terms of the Firstborn (the Elves) and Men that followed. Of course, Eru discovered this and may not have been pleased initially, hence Aule offered to destroy the Dwarves before Eru forgave him and gave them true life, but it perhaps hints to something in Tolkien's writing about the pridefulness that comes from crafting things of power. Which brings us naturally to Sauron, as perhaps the second (or third, depending on where you put Feanor) most powerful crafter of things after Aule, and to a lesser degree Saruman. The latter was also a forger of magical rings, although far less powerful than the ones Sauron and Celebrimbor forged. Perhaps the urge to craft is but one step away from the desire to control and dominate...as opposed to I imagine the more free and libertarian vibe of someone like Yavanna.

Excellent video overall, thank you! Only a couple of points to clarify: - 1. _Technically_ all the Valar set foot on (early) Middle Earth, as their first home was on the Isle of Almaren in the Great Lake in the first version of Middle Earth (during the time of the Lamps) before it was remade. It was only after this was destroyed by Melkor that the Valar moved to Valinor on Aman. 2. Melkor (meaning "the Mighty One" or perhaps more accurately "He Who Arises in Might") never to my knowledge called _himself_ "Morgoth". "Morgoth" was a name given to him by Fëanor when Melkor destroyed the Trees of Valinaor, killed his father and took the Silmarils, meaning "Dark Enemy" or "Black Foe" and was was essentially a curse. He was also known as Morgoth Bauglir, which added the word for Tyrant/Oppressor onto an already foul name.

Nice work!

So, from what I’ve gathered from a lot of art and imagery of Arda is that it is a flat plane right? So a creature like Ungoliant must have come into Arda from above it. Maybe creatures came from underneath as well? As there were no powers to control them like there was for creatures like Ungoliant, these creatures were able to reproduce and spread rapidly covering the entire underside of Arda. Here, they eat tunnels through the stone over millennia trying to make their way up towards where the life essence is strongest, on the surface.

I was recently thinking about this...because how Tolkien wrote about them made me curious and i can imagine it can be horryfing to be down there. So yeah there should be a fananimation about this fleeing and fighting in the depths of Arda...maybe an offspring of Ungoliant could be there too, an offspring who is much more terrible than Shelob. The fananimation would be like a sick horror video...maybe i will work on something like this in the future. I always missed fananimations about Silmarilion and Lotr...i mean just imagine an animation about the alliance of Melkor and Ungoliant, their escape and their fight

I smell ChatGBT influence in this script

Please never rap again.

That rap was like a bad local furniture store commercial in 1992... i think i'm out lol

I view this as the Balrog flying up through what is essentially a hollow earth to escape the clutches of the nameless things. Gandalf grabs him and has to periodically fight to stay on.

"pursued him, clutching at his heel" sounds like the Balrog was booking it out of there as fast as he could with Gandalf literally hanging onto him for dear life. The team up idea is cool but I think is reading too much out of the few words we have, which are simple but clear.

I picture what under zeds shack in pulp fiction where Marcellus Wallace and butch team up

Tolkien to the end of his life refused to explain much about Tom. He said "Even in a fantasy world, some things must remain a mystery".

Varda created the stars after the shaping of Arda, not before. They were created after the toppling of Illuin and Ormal to give some light for the awakening of the elves

Share your thoughts!! Does the “rap” work? 😂 Did Gandalf and Durin’s Bane team up against the Nameless Things?

It for sure sounds like something out of a Lovecraft story. And that make sense, Lovecraft's works were popular by the time Tolkien wrote LOTR.

So the best explanation is that he is an anomaly that was born in the creation of the world and does not fit into any category.

Sauron and saruman served Aule, then Gandelf served Manwe

Just to share, I made representations of 4 blades from your video here during one of my plays of Skyrim: 1. A Glass Dagger for Sting 2. A Nordic sword for Orcrist 3. An Iron Greatsword for Glamdring 4. A Dragonbone Greatsword for Narsil/Anduril I used anti-daedra and anti-undead enchantments to work around the warning ones from Tolkien's work