This is so fun, i am pleased to watch this. thanks for uploading .

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The Brothers Hildebrandt artwork is phenomenal

They forgot to mention the world was flat in the first age until the destruction of Numenor in the 2nd age when Eru turned it into a globe. Numenor was not near the equator because there was no equator until after Numenor's destruction.

Excellent documentary, but the opening theme music sounds way more JRPG than JRRT :)

Really enjoyed this. I feel I would really enjoy an Audio Book of the Rings Trilogy read by McTavish

Maybe Americans would have had better editing and music choices

3:45 what the hell? Ambulance sound? I love some aspects of these documentaries but on other aspects they are completely amateurish

Was this captured by pointing a camera at a tv?

Here's the real secret - imgur.com/gallery/Qakrqda It is real. I have found it.

Nope...It isn't England... I found Middle Earth - imgur.com/gallery/Qakrqda

Imagine all the Great books never written by authors who died in war

I question the observations that emphasize the tragedy of life which Tolkein was very aware of, as if safety, security and comfort in life are entitled norms. imo, they are NOT. It's the predominant mindset of contemporary entitlement culture which is as odds with reality.

If anyone in the current era has any hope to come anywhere close to producing an epic in the same class as Tolkein's works, such a person would have to live a life unplugged from the degrading effects of contemporary online culture.

Graham Mctavish!

The ring was just too strong in that place for anyone to willingly be able to throw it in.

18:15...Orcs...Grishnack lives..

Awful childhood he had. Amazing how he persevered through it all. Must have been guided. Epic life he lived. People helping him out. Making a difference forever through his education. Fun fact. He could read at the age of 4.

Can someone please help me understand who read the lotr or hobbit and deeply disliked what it stood for and was against the series ? I just don't get it. You can not like it if get it. But be against what it stood for??? Makes no sense...

J. R. R. Tolkien's son reminds me of a character from lotr. Lol too funny. Wait no he is the grumpy neighbor hobbit of frodo yes! That's is. He also sounds like a character in the movies too. I know it. He has to be.

Well I know plenty of wooden characters in real life. Why people complain about them in books baffles me. It's just realistic in that some people are very simple with very simple goals.

This is almost as entertaining as the movies because it goes over all the details in Tolkien's masterpiece.

This is almost as entertaining as the movies because it goes over all the details in Tolkien's masterpiece.

This is almost as entertaining as the movies because it goes over all the details in Tolkien's masterpiece.

Six years later, still watching

Graham Mctavish is in the Hobbit movies!!

So Gandalf is Dwight Eisenhower?

Love this art. It's a real shame in my opinion that the majority of Tolkien fans will have the imagery of Peter Jackson's antique space marine, and cheesy renaissance fair middle earth in their heads.

in which the sounds of modern rock music are shown to be far more repulsive than black riders...

My guy Dwalin 👌 cool to see Peter casts guys who love Tolkien.

Dreadful lighting! Patrick Curry is a real nice guy btw, I've met him - scholar and teacher

48:40, "as easy to influence as a Bandersnatch" -- CSL. Then we are back to Beowulf, fascists, atom bomb, etc. Actually influences are there to find e.g. Keats, Milton, Bunyan, Robert Browning. Elbereth=Athene, Nazgul=Furies (both from Aeschylus' Eumenidae). It doesn't diminish the work IMHO

"I found Middle Earth!" Tolkien's stories were based on real places. Here's how I found it- imgur.com/gallery/9la21bh imgur.com/gallery/Qakrqda Here's Bag End today- imgur.com/gallery/g0zsqx0 Helm's Deep- imgur.com/gallery/EpD0Ddn

What a gem

Wtf is up with this soundtrack

Fascinating

Although this isn't one of the most professional productions out there, there are some great insights that enlighten the viewer to some key themes in LOTR (the book, not the movies) as well as their possible origins within the mind of the writer. A Middle-earth fan will find this enjoyable. Thanks for posting this!

Not bad, but there are better analyses on KZbin.

A game of thrones ad popped up on this

Mordor = Islam. Arm yourselves, Men of the West.

Today we learn that Tolkien was very interested in different ways of Talking. By people who have learned how to talk in a manner designed to send you to sleep.

I love this artwork in this documentary.

Two weeks ago, I discovered that J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is real! He encoded the fist map of Middle Earth with this cipher- imgur.com/gallery/Qakrqda I was researching initial French and Spanish incursions into the Western Territories, looking for evidence of Amerindian land division, when I found this- imgur.com/gallery/9la21bh A first, I thought Tolkien had stolen the quote from Coronado, and just used the event in his tale. Then I considered how Minas Tirith is indeed a "shinning city on a hill" which is what Ciloba what was described as. What if Coronado was invading Rohan or Gondor? LOL, he was... Helm's Deep is today called "Laguna"- imgur.com/gallery/EpD0Ddn Minas Tirith is "Castle Mountain"- imgur.com/gallery/AbieNCU I've found everything where it should be, just renamed, all but the entry to Moria...I think it's buried. Oh, in a completely different pursuit, I also found the Labyrinth- imgur.com/gallery/c7v1tta -King of the Americas, Lord of the West

Two weeks ago, I discovered that J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is real! He encoded the fist map of Middle Earth with this cipher- imgur.com/gallery/Qakrqda I was researching initial French and Spanish incursions into the Western Territories, looking for evidence of Amerindian land division, when I found this- imgur.com/gallery/9la21bh A first, I thought Tolkien had stolen the quote from Coronado, and just used the event in his tale. Then I considered how Minas Tirith is indeed a "shinning city on a hill" which is what Ciloba what was described as. What if Coronado was invading Rohan or Gondor? LOL, he was... Helm's Deep is today called "Laguna"- imgur.com/gallery/EpD0Ddn Minas Tirith is "Castle Mountain"- imgur.com/gallery/AbieNCU I've found everything where it should be, just renamed, all but the entry to Moria...I think it's buried. Oh, in a completely different pursuit, I also found the Labyrinth- imgur.com/gallery/c7v1tta -King of the Americas, Lord of the West

Frodo: I wish Bilbo had killed Gollum when he had the chance! Sauron: ikr, lol.

I’m very tired of these ‘experts’ mispronouncing names. They’re all explained in the appendices.

The radio adaptation (audio book) version seem to retain the proper pronunciation of most of the language of the books.

You know a book is special when it has appendices...

Toilken was born in south Africa!

I don't know how many times over the years I've gone back and read The Hobbit and the 3 books of the trilogy. I've read the Silmarillion but I lost my copy of it. The story has never grown old and I keep finding myself returning to reread the entire series.