Chapter 20 - Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad - J.R.R. Tolkien

[@taylormagnant4927]

The University of Vermont (USA) has a literature class on Tolkien that I'm taking right now, and I would have died without this playlist. I actually haven't made it to this video yet (I'm still on the earlier chapters), but I wanted to share my gratitude so I don't forget by the time I get here for real. Before this year, I'd only ever read the original Lord of the Rings, so I was dreading reading the Silmarillion for this class, especially since I only had a week and a half to read the whole thing (I only started three days ago and I have to have it finished by next Wednesday lol). Your videos have been invaluable, since I can listen to them while taking notes on my physical copy. Your voice is beautiful reading a story like this, and your careful diction is perfect for understanding an older, more formal writing style I'm not used to. I read the first chapter of the Quenta Silmarillion without your videos, and I was so lost, so when I found the playlist I went back and listened to your videos for the Ainulindale and the Valaquenta, even though I had already read them, and was beyond impressed with how much easier it was to understand. Using pictures of characters is genius - by tying a name to a face I was able to memorize who was who much faster than I was expecting, which was invaluable in later chapters. My favorite part of these videos is how you add maps and charts!! Keeping track of where people are moving is much easier with images than with only foreign words on a page. Finally, listening to you say the words/names Tolkien has made stopped me from humiliating myself in front of my professor during class, since I didn't have to blindly guess at how they sounded. Anyway, this comment is kind of long, but this playlist is criminally underappreciated. I wanted to let you know how much your work impressed me and helped me through a pretty stressful class. I know you haven't finished the whole Silmarillion yet, and if you do it will probably be after my class has ended, but I have subscribed! I can't wait to hear the rest in my own time. Thank you for the hard work!!!

[@PamkoElessar]

You’re welcome 🙂 Sorry, I don’t have first chapter. I got copyright strike 😩

[@gironda11]

It doesn't matter how many times I read this, the betrayal of the Easterlings kills me. Huor and Hurin covering the rear guard for Turgon's retreat makes me tear up. The strength and bravery of the dwarves always pumps me up.

[@PamkoElessar]

🙂🙂

[@RockTheBass]

I can't thank you enough for reading this aloud by chapter like this. I'm reading the Silmarillion now and your reading juxtaposed with the maps and pictures makes the stories much easier to follow!

[@PamkoElessar]

Enjoy 😉

[@LaineyBug2020]

Day shall come again... I didn't expect to cry...🥺

[@PamkoElessar]

:D

[@thaqefalkhasawneh8850]

I can't believe that this story still not adapted in movies its amazing.

[@PamkoElessar]

Unfortunately no :(

[@thaqefalkhasawneh8850]

@@PamkoElessar thank you for the videos i am really enjoying it, especially after the disappointment of rings of power i lost all hope of getting any good fantasy show so maybe i well get the books

[@PamkoElessar]

I know what are you talking about and I agree with you. you’re welcome 😊

[@naturallawprinciples]

I suspect, it would be a great disappointment compared to the one which is manifested in one's imagination from the words.

[@mtnbean_gaming]

Keep it that way

[@JTChanceA1]

Definitely a lot of work, but this so far is the best sounding read. Would like to hear more. Got the hardback in '78. Haven't read it since. The illustrations are very good. Reminds me of the Tim Kirk's calendar. Thanks. Anticipating more. Excellent job.

[@PamkoElessar]

Tnx

[@LeonardoPolichuth]

Awesome, thanks!

[@PamkoElessar]

You’re welcome

[@nastynick7425]

Very well done, maps and pictures are great way of additional storytelling

[@PamkoElessar]

Thank you 😊

[@loopsad8826]

Next chapter please! I'm thoroughly enjoying these videos and can't wait for the next! Please!🙏

[@PamkoElessar]

🤣 thank you.

[@Ghost-oy2ly]

@@PamkoElessar When will the next chapter be coming out?🤤

[@PamkoElessar]

@@Ghost-oy2ly It is tough to say. As this is not my primary job, free time that I have, I am trying to make videos. I hope, this month :)

[@PleaseNThankYou]

Wow. I wonder what it must have been like in ancient days, that the young men would sit and listen to the stories that mattered. By candle or fire, they would listen to the old men. It must have been difficult to fall asleep.

[@PamkoElessar]

Sooo true 😊😊

[@ZephLodwick]

The sons of Fëanor have some thick plotarmor.

[@PamkoElessar]

:)

[@zoeymon]

Fr

[@lukasegovic9478]

thank you

[@PamkoElessar]

You’re welcome

[@rtSfe67]

Omg another chapter! Yaaay

[@PamkoElessar]

😁🙃😁

[@paulgalligan1916]

Thus it came to pass 😆 Love it man thanks 😊

[@PamkoElessar]

Thank you 😊

[@stetsonstarkey]

Hurin's stand is the most epic tale in the legendarium

[@PamkoElessar]

🙂

[@jmad318]

Such a gruesome end to Fingon

[@PamkoElessar]

True 😩

[@metademetra]

Maeglin has been doing a whole lotta "saying nothing"

[@PamkoElessar]

😂

[@kingivar702]

Crazy how the Noldor line of High Kings all fell in gruesome detahs

[@PamkoElessar]

🙃

[@rtSfe67]

I know it's a big chapter, but any idea on when this will be released?

[@PamkoElessar]

I am so angry at myself because it takes so long to publish a new video. And the reason for that is, I had one copyright strike and I searched for the cause and I didn't find it :( I am planning to put a video this month :)

[@rtSfe67]

​@@PamkoElessar youtube mods ruin everything

[@naturallawprinciples]

An adaptation to film would, like EVERY other adaptation of a book with depth to film, be a disappointment yet due to the depth & span of this book that disappointment would be greater than is generally the case...

[@PamkoElessar]

True

[@richardmaier28]

Isn't it so,Jackson came close but how would it be done in my minds eye at 17 when I first started Tolkien and now at 70!

[@seanmoran2743]

@@richardmaier28John Boorman the director of Excalibur would have made The Lord of The Rings closer to the book than Jackson

[@naturallawprinciples]

Film negates or removes the one thing that allows the written word to be far superior...the human imagination.

[@gratefulguy4130]

​@@seanmoran2743 Absolutely true. I watched those movies many, many times.. but I was still also horrified on many levels by the most basic elements. Character & set design.. all kinds of things. It was the beginning of the trend of making everything dark and kind of.. soulless.

[@coreycanham2330]

Please please by all the gods they need to make a tv series all about the silmarillion 🙏

[@PamkoElessar]

😇

[@bartoszrebelski8571]

Aurë entuluva!

[@PamkoElessar]

😂

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Wow

[@PamkoElessar]

😇

[@ENIGMATIC77788]

I need Chapter 21 Injected into my bloodstream 💉🩸

[@PamkoElessar]

I’m working on it, but man, it’s so Long chapter 😱

[@ENIGMATIC77788]

I await you patiently, G

[@rtSfe67]

@Dorian Elessar keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to it!

[@PamkoElessar]

Tnx