Can't understand a word he is saying.

You made a mistake talking about Tolkien, the Moriquendi is an umbrella term that cover the Avar, Silvan and Sindarin, but lots of people get confused and think it's just the Avari. The fact that Leogolas is actually a Dark Elf throws people for a loop. Dark Elves in Anime have a very different history however, starting with Record of Lodos War and going down to War on Geminar and then Gate. They are more similar to the Avar then the Drow and their literary descendants.

What a grand and intoxicating innocence.

3:26 Hmmm so he would hate LoTR movies?

give me a break Miyazaki can't even use asian characters without mutating them into demonic stereotypes and Japanese culture is avoided like the plague while setting in medieval eurocentrism aesthetics.

I don't think Tolkien hated Shakespeare, he just didn't like how he was cheating the audience by promising that Burnam Wood would march upon Dunsinane Hill, but eventually delivering only blokes with branches in their helmets! Pfft. Tolkien just thought that if you're promising the audience something, the very least you can do as an author is to deliver it without using a groan inducing cheat to get out of it. If you're going to resort to that, you might as well have been a scriptwriter on 'Dallas', erasing an entire season by saying "It was all just a dream! He's not dead, he's in the shower!", or on 'Lost' where the question the audience was asking from the start was "Are they in Purgatory or something?" "No, they're not in Purgatory." After 121 episodes, it turned out that they bloody WERE in Purgatory after all, and that's 121 hours that the cheated audience'll never get back. Wrong footing the audience can be a great plot device if handled with some aplomb but done because of sheer laziness, it's a time wasting insult.

It can change if the valar changes it Tolkien left it for you and your own imagination at the End

Polanski's Macbeth is a great film.

Snow white was my least liked animation. I completely agree with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis about the dwarfs. I disliked how foolish they were. Having seen other adaptations of Snow White, the Disney one failed to make a good impact on me.

Treebeard in the movie literally says that he isn't a tree though and explains the difference between a tree and an Ent.

Honestly, I appreciate the work that Miyazaki has taken the lead in many of the famous movies from Studio Ghibli and all that, but his hating of the Lord of the Rings makes him sound like a complete hypocrite who doesn't want to admit to the truth of what his own people did and try to pretend that it's all just the mean old westerners who are always the bad guys. Because let's be freaking real guys. The Japanese *were* incredibly barbaric during WW2, especially toward the Chinese, and people like Miyazaki should just be willing to acknowledge that fact and not try to pretend that their people at the time were all just innocent. If you stop and think about it, the people of Japan and Germany in the 1920s through 1940s in particular were much like the Easterlings and Haradrim from Middle Earth, in that they were corrupted for a time by evil men who pushed things like racial superiority and all that crap, but the beauty was that there were examples of people within those nations that showed that not all of them believed in all that garbage. But the point is that it feels like Miyazaki is trying to criticize the west and only doesn't like Tolkien's work because he's from the west, while not fully admitting to the the bad things his own people did back in his youth. He needs to not have double standards and actually sit down and read not only the LotR trilogy, but also the Hobbit book as well.

Disney was a Mason. . . the entire company is evil and subversive. Which is much more visible with their modern wokeness.

Great video! As a follow up, I would also mention the more amoral Elves in Poul Anderson’s “The Broken Sword” (which was published at the same time as “Lord of the Rings” and, inspired by many of the same Norse Myths as Tolkien, it can be read as a mirror image to “The Children of Hurin” in “The Silmarillion”) and the Malniboneans in Michael Moorcock’s “Elric” stories, both of which appears on Gygax’s “Appendix N” resource for inspiration for “D&D” players. 😃

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The guy in many places said he would like to be a Pig... so there is that lol, I like some of his works and that's about it. Thankfully, I never lean favor or be a fan of people, rather their work only and I stop at that.

Or elves from God of war

Don't forget elves from thor

I feel similarly about the balrog. It is represented as this irrational beast, when in fact they are Ainur, full of knowledge and very cunning

Enlightenment Journey

Miyazaki can go f himself. Tolkien is the GOAT

Amazing how Miyazaki misinterpreted Tolkien.

"Because, it was real." 🤢 🤣

10:36 not malekith the accursed from marvels thor

One of the grimm brothers described the dark elves as being dingy, pale, gloomy, not necessarily blacker than pitch in favor of three types of elves

The most well-known elf in the norse sagas is wayland the smith

1:42 dwarves

1:22 dwarves

Freyr was a vanir god

If you ever decide to remake this, I would advice to change the sentence at around 3:47. I don't know how it is in the other countries, but among the "germanic" ones, I can guarantee you that elves barely appear in any traditional folk or fairy tales of Germany, even actual fairies are far more common. I hard scholars talk about the Alb or Alf, but those cause nightmares and even those, I have not yet seen in folk or fairy tales here. The times that I have encountered elves I can still count on one hand, even fairies are more common and both only occur the closer you get to france or denmark respectively, just like the nachzehrer becomes more common the closer you get to the slavic countries. Now dwarves, no matter what names, on the other hand, they are all over the place, there is no shortage of them or other short humanoid beings whether they live underground, in woods or in houses.

Oh man glad someone finally said it.

Melniboneans are described by fans as dark elves. Worth mentioning as another precursor.

Avari No gods no master

He got so many things wrong. What about page 56?

I believe his quotes are directed more towards the movies and not the books or the author. In a list of children books Miyazaki loves among them is J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, so if that book is one of his favorites why does it seem he disdains Lord of the Rings or the author. The answer is he doesn't, I think. So why do people assume Miyazaki dislikes Tolkien could be a mistranslated quote or there's not enough information about his views on Tolkien.

Aragon is pf elf blood too no?

I don't think Tolkien is racist or anything but Miyazaki is %100 correct that LOTR is basically West vs East. Uruk-hai's are Turks, Saruman is Suleiman, Battle of Helm's Deep is Battle of Vienna, Rohirim is the Polish Winged Hussars :)

Because its in the Book. 10 minutes saved.

Faramir and Denethor’s relationship was tragic. Denethor was a strange and bitter man who was prideful and arrogant thinking that the Orthanc stones would provide the truth of the future but he was misled because he misinterpreted the visions and fell to despair and self destruction. Crazy and disturbing, it was one of the ugliest and most compelling incidents in the entire story. That family and the complex humanity of their relationships and actions kept the stories from being too otherworldly as it would have been if everyone was faultless and perfect.

Seriously, you try to somehow invent a dnd inspiration for WHF delfs? And not a word about the 75% Elric and 25% 80s hair metal that actually went into their creation?

The oldest thing in LOTR are the nameless things like that octopus thing that attacked Frodo.

I love the art style of the image at 13:40 (an actually pretty good blending of Warhammer Dark Elf garb with more believable historical European fashions). Where did you find it? Just subscribed, btw. You do some awesome commentary on this channel!

Miyazaki gets some things right and others, dead wrong. 1. Pacifism is down right brain dead. 2. Tradition is peer pressure from dead people, so both old farts are not worth debating on that issue. 3. Tech = tools, it's a matter of how they are used... This "Tech Bad, Very Bad" mentality both these men have had is so mind numbingly reactionary and just brain dead, it boggles my mind how people can take either of them seriously at times. Miyazaki at least gets more right than the Moldy Overrated Professor ever did.

The guy (Miyazaki not the narrator) was, simply put: a total moron.

seen any elves?

Lord of the Rings was heavily inspired not by World War 2, but in fact humanity in general and God. Tolkien was religious and put forth many aspects of Christianity within his books, meant to represent that even though evil triumphs at times that hope will always prevail.

Jackson's LOTR isn't Tolkien's LOTR, it's a Hollywood action comic book movie.

Can we stop pretending this was anything more than rivals being rivals? One had a one hit wonder and was angry the other was way more successful and business savvy. It's a tale as old as time and it plays out in every job across the world.

”ents just being living trees" …as opposed to all the other trees which are all dead. 👍