After this event, Eru Iluvatar says, "All according to plan."

dwarven women don't makeup only 1/3, this is just a mistake of some female dwarves being falsely characterised as men

I was genuinely interested in watching this and learning some lore. But then I had to watch 45 seconds of adverts. Which gave me enough time to think of this statement. Less adverts. More lore please 😢

It can’t.

The ending should have been "And remember if you're a multibillionaire company owner you can afford to buy the Silmarillion"

You don't watch movies or tv shows then what do you do read?

4:05 does the name really portray Sindarin influence? Or was it just named as such from its contact with the elves of Mirkwood. Because “Dorwinion” can also just be the name the elves gave to this land/country. It in no way HAS to be the name the inhabitants use for themselves. Our window into Dorwinion is from the viewpoint of the elves and those in relation to them, not from the folk living in the land themselves.

Excellent video.

i would like to point out two things: 1. no corpse no kill 2. seeing as Thingol spent 200 years staring at a hot girl i can easily imagine an elf walking off in a hissy fit in the first age and casually returning somewhere in the fourth age, wondering where the hell everyone went.

my guess is as follows: Bladorthin was a king of Dorwinion. he attained legendary status by leading his kingdom to prosperity. at some point late in his reign he decided to upgrade his armies by providing them with dwarvish equipment, most notably the spears. he made the order and some time later died for some reason. his successor saw the bill, called BS and called off the deal. my reasoning is as follows: 1. Bladorthin is referred to as "Great King" so the dwarves probably held him in high regard. whatever cut off the deal was probably not ill will on either side. 2. the text specifically mentions thrice-forged heads and golden decorations so it's safe to assume the weapons were expensive. they were, however, meant for "the armies", not something like a royal guard or other position that would logically be associated with powerful yet highly decorated weaponry. this means that Bladorthin had both massive financial power and equally massive citizen support. i'd assume this would mean a big kingdom but it's more logical to assume a smaller, mercantile kingdom as that would mean smaller, well-equipped armies explaining the usage of such expensive weaponry. Depending on Dorwinion's population and size this may or may not match their profile. there is no mention of another kingdom with sufficient economic power in the area, nor is there mention of a kingdom being lost. 3. "but they were never delivered or paid for" suggests the involvement of time. the deal went bust because by the time the weapons were ready, they were no longer necessary. this suggests either a shift in the political landscape or some other major event. say, Bladorthin dying and his successor deeming the investment unnecessary, also explaining why him being "long since dead" is explicitly mentioned as related to the situation being discussed.

My understanding is that one of the major overarching themes of the Lord of the Rings books is the self-defeating, self-destructive nature of evil. Sauron's pride and arrogance as well as his failure to understand the desire of the forces of good to destroy the one ring is a perfect example of this theme in action. Being evil, he assumed and expected evil from his enemies as well, never comprehending that a person would want to willingly give up and destroy the power offered by the One Ring, and never believing that any sane man would be willing to march against the horrors of Mordor with such a tiny force.

Happy New Year Darth G.

Morgoth was a minigod throwing a world shattering temper tantrum. Sauron was an even minier angel trying to take over the world. With the lord of the rings shtick of everything being grander back in the day.

Idiocy, arrogance, or, my own personal favourite, so the book/film could happen.

1:21 😂😂😂😂

It wasn’t a trap. It was a distraction. It was a hope that he could buy time for Frodo and Sam if the ring hadn’t been dropped, they all would’ve died

He only got one eyeball and no depth perception :(

Great video, loved this so much

Although Morgoth is the origin of lies, he's not sophisticated with them. His schemes blow up in his face on a (cosmologically) regular basis, reflecting just how crude a force he is. He is less of a being at most times and more of just a natural disaster. Sauron is much more talented at exploiting others with precision. Sort of like a "diamond of evil." Whereas Morgoth would just be a raging wildfire.

Suggestions for the next video: * Carach Angren or Isenmouthe. What do you think, was it a fortress of Sauron or yet another Gondorian fortress they abandoned? * Size of the Gondorian army sent to Arthedain, and Arthedain and Angmar's final armies. As you said before, the fact that a small force from a decadent kingdom was seen as one for a war of great kings speaks badly about the state of the northerners. Happy new year.

Saugoth and Moron 🙉 I apologize

So why does the witch king have a flaming sword if he hates fire?

a lot of new content is in the one ring 2nd edition for this region. did you ever play that?

Your volume is 30% quieter than the ads that run during your video. Please turn up your master volume. Thanks!

I’m glad Julian Assange has been able to find a new hobby after his ordeal with the US justice system

I believe this Simpsons quote from "Bart Gets an Elephant" describes Melkor best; "Well, Valar are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks. Stop that Melkor."

Aragorn's trap? Err no it was Gandalf who set thst plan in motion

I havent seen the video yet, but knowing Aragorn, Kingsfoil is involved somehow

He saw Aragorn with the Palantir after Pippin held it. Naturally he assumed Isildur’s heir had the One Ring so went straight for him!

Simple. The whole point of a war is to bring the enemy to battle on your terms. It was too good a chance to resist. What did he have to fear? I would have done it as well.

Why didn't Aragorn show Sauron Merry or Pippin -- in chains, at his feet? Then Sauron would have had no doubt at all that Aragorn had captured them and taken the ring from them? That's what I would have done.

I have the strength and ambition to repopulate eriador

How could aragorn and his soldiers know that Sam had Sting last? He first grabbed it in shelobs cave

Gandalfs idea

It was near the end of the movie

Sauron is like Putin in Russia Saruman is like Assad in Syria Technically “allies” but once he outlived his usefulness the big guy in the power dynamic couldn’t care less about the the subservient figure.

"neither living nor dead" is the exact, perfect way to describe them. You say it's half wrong because they never died, but Aragorn says they are not dead. They are halfway between death and life, with one foot in each world. When the one ring is destroyed, they will also immediately be destroyed. They never died and are being artificially kept in the world of the living through Sauron. We assume them kings or lords because the other rings were made for kings or lords

Wonderful, I literally did not know this and I pride myself on much reading and watching of Tolkien content. At least I did not know to such an extent the area was so inhabited, I knew it had inhabitants for a long period, at least mid-second age or so but not as long as early elf communities. I thought 'maybe ancient for men folk but for elves? ha!' and was proven wrong. This channel needs far more viewership from Tolkien lovers.

Sauron was far from a fool, but he was prideful and had an innate inability to think as an unselfish being. Aragorn's motives make zero sense to him as some kind of red herring to distract because it's so wildly risky, so wildly SELFLESS of a play he's literally incapable of conceiving of it. It kind of mirrors how ages before Manwe let Melkor go when he swore repentance and promised he was on the straight and narrow. Manwe was a being that was exceedingly innocent and could only understand the concept of 'justice.' Self-centred falsehoods were as alien to him as breathing gaseous chlorine would be to us lmao.

I really liked the way Lotro handled angmar and felt like at least in broad strokes, it could fit within tolkiens world. Though obviously that game is not cannon and very often breaks the lore in more harmful ways.

simple it didn't if it kept longer and longer evey single one watned to have it

The same reasons they do now.

Sauron was a narcissist who could only see others as reflections of himself. He would NEVER risk his own miserable life for the greater good, so he couldnt imagine anyone else doing so either.

What trap are you talking about? This was Gandalf's idea, not Aragorn.

Hurt pride.

Plot armor… always the answer

Have you read the book? Or are you just following Peter Jackson? I am a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien, and it’s clearly written in the chapter “the last debate“ that it was Gandalf, whose plan it was to march on the black gate. In addition, Aragorn was prepared to defer to Kendall, acknowledging that the struggle against our own was primarily Gandalf’s. I don’t understand why you make videos with such a misleading title.

In 300 miles? Coombe Archet and Staddle are equal sized towns on the other side of its hills

Mouth of Sauron boasted of having only one prisoner which means the other was still free and so too was the ring. Gandalf understood the significance right away. Sauron was too proud and didn't think that anyone would actually seek to physically hurt the ring such was it's power. Such a thing never crossed his mind. His own greed also led to his undoing as he thought that Aragorn had the Ring with him at the Black Gates.

The important point to note here is that we never get a wholly Avarin perspective. The closest we get are the Nandor of the Woodland Realm and Lothlórien who mixed with Nelyarin Avari. Our perspective through the legendarium is wholly Eldar, or Eldar-influenced human lore. Is being a Lingerer that bad? It sounds bad from the perspective of the Eldar, who's focus was wholly on craft and the creation of great works. But if you rephrased it as 'at-will invisibility' it suddenly doesn't sound that bad. Generations of Avarin culture could grow and embrace this identity, surrounded by the ethereal spirits of one's still-living ancestors (of which would have the very first elves around, the Unbegotten, since none of them took the trip to Valinor). Galadriel hates the dell and cave, but dell and cave wouldn't be a far-off descriptor of the Shire itself, and the hobbits too were reclusive folk. The Avari choose a life away from the history books, away from the grand battles and grand sufferings of their Eldarin cousins. Never would they know the Light, but never would they have known the disaster of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad or the fall of Eregion either. So it's probably not so bad. They continued onward, becoming the fair folk of human myth and legend, appearing kind to those who trusted and believed in their goodness and perhaps less so to those who came with ill intent. And in that way they're 'our elves', the elves that stayed home instead of making sail for paradise. Which is why it's not so bad that they weren't elaborated on in the end. The elaboration is our real world mythology which talks greatly of elves for good and for ill.