Most writers: Maybe I should make some mythology for my story. Tolkien: Maybe I should make some story for my mythology.
@TheSeeking2know4 жыл бұрын
Exactly. To make his mythology and language writing compelling, memorable, and to outlive him.
@Slashplite4 жыл бұрын
@Dzsamila # there are infinite number of realities so there is a world with middle earth story
@simmonslucas4 жыл бұрын
I think that is more common than you think.
@perendinatorian4 жыл бұрын
@@Slashplite you have an infinite amount of numbers after 1 without ever reaching 2. infinite isn't always infinite.
@c7047104 жыл бұрын
I love how you show Tolkien created a monotheistic world, and there was a Pantheon. I know a number of Christians who are very upset by this refuse to believe it about Tolkien's writings (of course, they feel the same way about the Bible). It is even more hilarious when non-Christians insist it can't be both (and also about the Bible). As I undterstand it, Ilúvatar personlly intervened to resurrect Gandolf. And this was absolutely the only way anyone could be resurrected in Tolkien's mythology. Gandolf inspires hope? Eh. More like it was Gandolf job to meddle (for good). Perhaps Gandolf the White had a new job description? And I'll risk having a common theme now. Tolkien's change of faith definitely played a role in his mythology. Two examples in paticular are that all 'evil' races could only be perversions of 'good' one or must be adopted. And also that none of the 'evil' races are doomed to serve evil. Also, he made sure that the Uruk-hai showed a number of redeeming qualities including loyalty, selflessness, and thier own brand of honor.
@BMarie7743 жыл бұрын
I hope this guy know how well he did with this. I genuinely didn’t realize I sat here for 40 minutes. And that’s entirely due to this guy being such a story teller that I become terribly engaged in what he’s saying.
@F3dd3 жыл бұрын
makes sense, he is an actual professor regarding this subject it is his job to tell these stories. His lectures are available on youtube if you want to listen more
@user-rt6rb2tr4g3 жыл бұрын
@@F3dd well my professor can’t keep my attention for 5min and this dude did it for 40min
@Jonnell013 жыл бұрын
@@F3dd He'd be a great professor
@nonachyourbusiness11643 жыл бұрын
He's talking about something he knows well and is passionate about
@lodevijk3 жыл бұрын
Whoa, same here. I thought this was a 10 minute video
@terciodeflandes973 жыл бұрын
"in the hobbit, Gandalf is a dude who's a professional wizard" *Gandalf, professional street wizard*
@sternis13 жыл бұрын
Do not take him for a conjurer of cheap tricks!
@MrSmithers3 жыл бұрын
@@sternis1 but do take him for a conjuror of cheap drinks, amirite boyys!?
@nickolausafon54583 жыл бұрын
I think you’re talking about my homie, Rad. He knows the path to the mushrooms.
@Nyagee3 жыл бұрын
@@MrSmithers 😆
@ciamciaramcia993 жыл бұрын
So kinda like Harry Dresden.
@Max2ds3 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine just how much, time, effort, and creativity it would take to write a book series expansive and deep enough that you revolutionize an entire genre of media? Or how such writings warrant professorial studies of them? Tolkien was one of a kind, that’s for sure
@ericmm68223 жыл бұрын
Revolutionize a genre and / or create entire genres. I can't imagine there would be a dungeons and dragons with LotR. Fantasy w/out Tolkien feels sparse.
@rokeYouuer2 жыл бұрын
Two of a kind. You can't forget William Shakespeare.
@lucasholmberg57082 жыл бұрын
I thought he was just a conjurer of cheap tricks :O
@FormulaVase-kp3dc2 жыл бұрын
Feels like he did it on accident
@davideberhardt61502 жыл бұрын
The man dedicated most of this life to this mythology and all the books & stories. And when he died, his son Christopher took it on him to edit & release all the unreleased texts including all the letters. He also drew all the maps for his father's books. That's how much time and effort it took.
@sarahwalker4194 жыл бұрын
I know it was just released, but could this please become a series? This is absolutely phenomenal and he did a brilliant job discussing the intricate mythology Tolkien created.
@asmith10224 жыл бұрын
He has a podcast that's just as good.
@dirtypure20234 жыл бұрын
Second this.
@nickpalazzo65854 жыл бұрын
Search for the Signum University KZbin channel. You'll find a ton of his stuff.
@asmith10224 жыл бұрын
@The foam Farmer The Tolkien Professor pretty much on every platform or has its own website. Or you can try searching signum University
@laurahill96434 жыл бұрын
@The foam Farmer The Tolkien Professor is easily in my top 10 favorite podcasts ever.
@sindre.4 жыл бұрын
Me at the beginning: Almost 40min? PAH! Yeah right. Me at the end: Wait...why is it so short??
@laurahill96434 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the glory that is the Tolkien Professor. His podcast is amazing.
@ceezb56294 жыл бұрын
Facts
@fie974 жыл бұрын
We need more. There alot of things in my head that i want to ask
@PieterAdriaanvanderWalt3 жыл бұрын
But for real though.
@leonstrand3293 жыл бұрын
Hes in the middle of analyzing Lotr paragraph to paragraph and gives an hour and a half lecture about each paragraph
@user-kx1le7yn1k3 жыл бұрын
"Sauron has an airforce too" I like that explanation the best
@RantingThespian3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, people seem to forget that. Also, if a fire breathing dragon could be killed by one man, a flock of eagles would be nothing to Sauron. Plus, the Eagles would have most likely been corrupted and weighed down by the ring the closer they got to Mordor. They probably would have started fighting each other, just like every other creature did.
@ludvig32423 жыл бұрын
@@RantingThespian Would they? I mean they're more than just birds; they're spirits that serve the god of the air, or more specifically, Manwë. It also depends on which kind of dragons you mean, they can easily take down fell-beasts (as seen in the battle at the black gate) but I'm not sure if you would consider those dragons or not.
@RantingThespian3 жыл бұрын
@@ludvig3242 Fellbeasts are not considered dragons, both by J RR Tolkien or Christopher Tolkien. Plus, Smaug was considered the last of the real great dragons. By the end of the third age, the dragons of the Elder Days were over. The lesser ones like Cold Drakes, and other Worms may have survived, but Fellbeasts are not included even in their ranks. They do not have scales, can't talk, had low intelligence,and were more like a bat and featherless bird hybrid. They were raised by Sauron in Mordor just for the Nazgul. Now, as for the ring corrupting the Eagles, keep in mind there is only 1 creature known not to be affected by the ring, Tom Bombadil (and no one knows why). Gandalf wouldn't even touch it because he knew it would corrupt him, and Sarumon was even passively corrupted. It's safe to assume that the Valar were also able to be corrupted. If so, their servants were definitely able to be corrupted. Even Sam was tempted slightly by the ring. Maybe the kindest creature to ever walk Arda was tempted! Lastly, yes the Eagles were servants of Manwe, but like the Valar and Maiar, they were individual creatures and could say no or refuse orders. Gwaihir was reluctant to even take Gandalf in FOTF any further than Rohan. They were even a little annoyed in the Hobbit. Also, a massive volley of arrows, many fellbeasts, trebuchets, and more would hinder the Eagles. They had no protection like Scales or Armor, so a well shot volley of arrows is a massive issue. Yes they were mighty servants of Manwe and were highly intelligent, but their bodies were still flesh and blood, so they could be slain like any other creature in Middle-Earth.
@malcolmmacinnis2473 жыл бұрын
sauron has black air force energy
@ludvig32423 жыл бұрын
@@RantingThespian Ah, okay, cool, Thanks for the in-depth response. :D
@RyuuNoSenshi2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the lord of the rings but all of the mythology and history and things that happen in the silmarillion have been difficult for me to really grasp and memorize, but the way this man brings it, I can just feel myself beginning to finally grasp it. The way he talks and explains is amazing
@mmathulosejake2 жыл бұрын
Same.
@DangeHD2 жыл бұрын
He has the gift of telling complex storys in a way that most people can understand it. Especially Tolkiens universe is complex and full of names and hard to explain, so much that i think Tolkien wouldn´t be able to explain these stories as understandable as Cory does because he has to be really deep in the lore to come up with all that.
@connormccool35962 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/emrVe3uYYtepj9E
@johns1625 Жыл бұрын
Listening to the audiobook rather than reading the Silmarillion really helps a lot with that.
@greengoblinhunter6 ай бұрын
felt like i was back in english class taking notes on important points and lore lol
@spencer62074 жыл бұрын
Forty minutes of nerding out on LOTR? Yes please!
@TheIgisas4 жыл бұрын
Heck yeah dude!
@thewarrior47244 жыл бұрын
Its not nerding out, its simple information, backed up with canon proof and reasoning in relation to real world historic mythology. Its the same way you would explain science based R and D.
@thewarrior47244 жыл бұрын
@Юлия Карпенко stop.
@kirmegaming89504 жыл бұрын
The Warrior محارب thats nerding out
@dsmdgold4 жыл бұрын
You should look up Corey Olsen's podcasts. He's probably over 1000 hours of nerding out about Tolkien. One of his ongoing projects is an in depth reading of the LotR. He's on Session 148, and has made it to the middle of The Council of Elrond. Each session is about 2 hours long.
@jackiechan54864 жыл бұрын
so basically Gandalf just carrying the world on his shoulders while the other four wizards do God knows what
@alexwillis23814 жыл бұрын
Saruman was the one carrying the world until he fell to the Shadow.
@neg88994 жыл бұрын
and the other two wizards found a funny mushroom and went im blue dabadee
@Axle-F4 жыл бұрын
What’s a man to a god?
@squeaky19634 жыл бұрын
@@Axle-F what is a god to a non believer
@evenstar40764 жыл бұрын
@@squeaky1963 What is a man without God? Nothing. In fact, that's exactly what Nihilism means.
@NorthernRidesYaBoi3 жыл бұрын
Saruman the White: A powerful wizard who took a great fall to become one of Sauron's ultimate forces Gandalf the Grey: An embodiment of hope and morality for the people, who finds himself as the angel of that which is good Radagast the Brown: shrooms 👁👄👁
@IveGotToast3 жыл бұрын
The Blue Wizards: ...
@uvindukulathunga38602 жыл бұрын
Blue wizards be like ________________ Actually Radagast is more senior than those blue ones
@matthewmoore47782 жыл бұрын
Tom: enternal immortal stoned out his mind hippie
@matheussanthiago96852 жыл бұрын
@@matthewmoore4778 that is my version of heavenly afterlife
@annaa17732 жыл бұрын
Lol Gandalf also "took a fall" in the mines of Moria which lead to him becoming an even greater wizard...
@uroghai34392 жыл бұрын
Tolkien never did settle on the Orcs' origin, though. He kept revising it because it was theologically problematic for him to have a race that was wholly evil by nature. Also, the Oathbreakers' ghosts didn't fight at the battle of the Pelennor fields, that's a movie-only thing. In the books, they don't really fight at all, but they terrify the Corsairs of Umbar into abandoning their ships, so that Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and the Grey Company can sail them up the Anduin to save the day.
@eirikkvalbein1568 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Was looking for this comment:)
@dunhamb4 жыл бұрын
Get this man back to talk about specific characters in the books.
@laurahill96434 жыл бұрын
The Tolkien Professor podcast, and Signum University/Mythgard University podcasts and YT channels are glorious. He does have a series that goes a couple chapters at a time through the Hobbit, and a podcast that chapter by chapter goes through the Silmarillion.
@jnsedillo4 жыл бұрын
@@laurahill9643 Thank you for sharing! I'm gonna check it out
@swara47043 ай бұрын
i NEED an episode on the feanorions
@longjohnlongdong46922 жыл бұрын
This fella needs his own channel I could listen to him talk about life for hours.
@StoneBlack102 жыл бұрын
Look up Signum University channel, there are literally hundreds of hours of this guy talking about Tolkien
@EzeK5 Жыл бұрын
@@StoneBlack10 thank you🙏🏽
@EzeK5 Жыл бұрын
@@StoneBlack10 thank you🙏🏽
@clinetalbo3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Tolkien's spiders may have been inspired by an encounter he had with a large spider as a boy in South Africa.
@FartBox_BeatBox3 жыл бұрын
South Africa has some beautiful tarantula species. Look up Harpactira pulchripes, it's my favorite tarantula that I own.
@NorokVokun3 жыл бұрын
@@FartBox_BeatBox Same. Mine is only a tiny 2cm bodylenght (3.7cm diagonal legspan) sling (baby spider basically), and she (I hope) is already such a beautifull specimen.
@loriburnip3 жыл бұрын
@@FartBox_BeatBox Nope. Nope. Nope. I love all other animals, bugs etc.. but spiders? Soooo much nope. I got bit by a jumping spider on the tip of my finger as a kid (I was trying to pet it cuz it was fuzzy like a Caterpillar) & it hurt so much that it gave me lifelong arachnophobia. Especially with black or dark grey spiders like jumping spiders & wolf spiders. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. Any thoughts on how someone could combat their arachnophobia?
@twiggy12532 жыл бұрын
@@loriburnip I have to say I hate centipedes more than spiders
@ham73572 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: oh he saw a spider and that inspired the thought of it??!!! Wow! I wonder what inspired him to write about eagles or horses!Stfu you sound like an idiot
@D.S.handle4 жыл бұрын
This is much more than every race in Middle-Earth explained. This is history of Middle-Earth.
@JohnnyZenith4 жыл бұрын
There is a lot more than mentioned here.
@Divinemakyr4 жыл бұрын
@@JohnnyZenith Okay captain obvious.
@sumanadasawijayapala53724 жыл бұрын
@The Central Scrutinizer Even more glaringly, he left out the Haradrim and Easterlings- the Men of Darkness. Was this because of the racist tropes involved?
@yaemiko85714 жыл бұрын
@@sumanadasawijayapala5372 coz they are essentially human
@sumanadasawijayapala53724 жыл бұрын
@@yaemiko8571 But at virtually no time did they fight against Morgoth or Sauron. At the end of the Third Age they were Sauron's principal allies and nearly brought down Gondor.
@EslamAbdo19194 жыл бұрын
the richness, the complexity, the completeness .. just WOW
@JohnnyZenith4 жыл бұрын
There's loads more than this.
@kotarojujo27373 жыл бұрын
and this is only the surface
@gestaltdude3 жыл бұрын
If memory serves, in The Silmarillion, the creation of the Ent are in fact tied to the creation of the Dwarves. After Eru confronts Aule about his dwarves and, as was pointed out in the video, makes them part of the song, Aule tells Yavanna (I think) what happened. While initially pleased her husband's new toys weren't destroyed, Yavanna becomes worried about what effect they were going to have on her own creations, as she created all the trees and plants, etc. She can only see everything she made being destroyed by Dwarves and Men, and goes to Eru to plead for her creation to have some protection. She comes back all smug, and tells Aule that his children will have to watch for the guardians of her creation, which I have always taken to mean the Ents. I could be wrong, of course.
@SantomPh3 жыл бұрын
Yavanna is afraid for the trees, which cannot defend themselves against all the children of Illuvatar. She begs Manwe for help and is told that Manwe has granted the Eagles, but that her trees are not high enough for them. In the forests will walk the Shepherds of the Trees instead (the Ents). Yavanna initially celebrates the Eagles' arrival but is put in her place by Manwe.
@adityabhalekar35063 жыл бұрын
you're right. She goes to Manwe as Olvar cannot defend themselves
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
Then Yavanna returned to Aulë; and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. 'Eru is bountiful,' she said. 'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.' She’s so badass!
@MrChickennugget3603 жыл бұрын
@@incanusolorin2607 and Aulë replies: my children will still need firewood and continues working.
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
@@MrChickennugget360 Yeah, his response is pretty badass too. They are a very cool couple.
@vicc192 жыл бұрын
I love the development of dwarves. Galadriel giving her hair to Gimli is one of my favourite scenes specially because of the backstory.
@thesylance6 ай бұрын
Legolas smirk when Gimli tells him that he got three strands.... Absolutely fantastic!
@nick_trains_dogs4 ай бұрын
I doubt this holds any significance and that galadriel gives strands of hair to anyone that asks
@vicc194 ай бұрын
@@nick_trains_dogs uh. You're wrong.
@thesylance4 ай бұрын
@@vicc19 dont feed the troll!
@nick_trains_dogs4 ай бұрын
@@vicc19 that's why it's funny🤣
@getreal29774 жыл бұрын
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:33 Elves 6:02 The Ainur (Valar, Ainur and Maiar) 12:13 Men (Numenor) 15:57 Eagles 17:59 Balrog 18:58 Dwarves 22:09 Orcs (Uruk-hai and Goblins) 25:15 Dragons 26:11 Werevolves & Wargs 27:22 Hobbits 29:27 Trolls 30:32 Giants & Ents 33:03 Giant Spiders 34:02 Sauron & Evil Spirits 38:23 Summary BTW: A doctor in what?
@SNWWRNNG3 жыл бұрын
He has a PhD (doctorate) in medieval literature, as far as I know.
@jaguar_83443 жыл бұрын
SnowWarning history, and a lower degree in mythology. Pretty sure he also worked as a journalist too, so he’s like mega smart
@Ardyotha3 жыл бұрын
he's a tolkien professor, he teach tolkien literature in a real university
@Nyagee3 жыл бұрын
This is great! Thanks 🤗
@AntonAdelson3 жыл бұрын
He explained in his other video that Tolkien was very specific in calling them Dwarfs, not Dwarves. FAIL, Wired!
@TomWylde4 жыл бұрын
The coolest thing, that made me see how much language inspired Tolkein, is that, because I'm a Welsh speaker, when I heard Legolas and Aragorn talking in Elvish to each other, it SOUNDED like I should understand it, almost like the sounds were sounds I understood, but the sentences were all mixed up and made no sense. Very cool stuff
@snakehunter2.0724 жыл бұрын
I'm not Welsh but I speak 6 different languages and I have to agree. It is allmost like the languages have a familliarity to them. It just sounds right.
@deaguirrrock4 жыл бұрын
back when i read these, i was in middle school and read somewhere that the elvish language was based on Welsh and Finnish? i think? I've always wanted to learn Welsh since then!
@nathenbosher10674 жыл бұрын
Theres only so many noises you can make with your mouth
@JesusFriedChrist4 жыл бұрын
Havo dad, Legolas
@SantomPh4 жыл бұрын
Sindarin, the language of the Sindarin Elves (Legolas' people) was based on Welsh. Quenya, the language of High Elves like Galadriel is based on Finnish.
@evanb14703 жыл бұрын
Gandalf straight up stole the parties XP in the mines of Moria....
@luciferfn3 жыл бұрын
"Tom Bombadil is a strange character, he's clearly one of the ainur" wellll... let's not open up that can of worms. XD
@calebklingerman79023 жыл бұрын
Yeah… I don’t think we can say he is “clearly” anything
@realitynowassigned3 жыл бұрын
Yes it would be difficult to argue with an expert
@luciferfn3 жыл бұрын
@@realitynowassigned I’m not saying he is wrong. But this is a topic that Tolkien scholars have been debating for a long time and over long articles and essays, so it is definitely not a ‘clear’ answer.
@ExtraVictory3 жыл бұрын
@@calebklingerman7902 this might shock you. But the expert was definitely right lol. There's no way bombadil can be anything else based on how he's described. He just can't be. He predates everything everyting else.
@redxriotyt91643 жыл бұрын
He is eru iluvatar that is why he does not intervene
@r01d24 жыл бұрын
when you think Tolkien is the peak of a storywriter, a superhuman among writers, he see the whole Middle Earth in day one, he actually writing all his book like a normal person, he also struggle and progressively perfecting his world. keep writing
@odoggow81574 жыл бұрын
ur an idiot
@jrpipik3 жыл бұрын
If only he'd had a word processor! He wouldn't have had to write everything out long hand over and over, cut up manuscripts to create edited versions, and then type (or hire someone to type) it all out. Maybe then he'd have published The Silmarillion in his lifetime as he envisioned it.
@prcervi3 жыл бұрын
I'd say prachett is a writer more to aspire to be, tolkien has lore burying you up to the neck but prachett has world and people that live and breath far easier and have more accessible depth
@johanna72544 жыл бұрын
I'll never understand people who don't respect the fantasy genre. It's okay not to like it, but to dismiss it is ridiculous, especially when you find out how much time, effort and imagination go into creating such a story. Great video!
@rosyidharyadi78714 жыл бұрын
Especially for Tolkien's. He was really serious about building his imaginary world. Its history, geography, languages, writing system... just awesome.
@meeds74734 жыл бұрын
I agree completely, but there is a lot of awful fantasy out there which I think is what taints people's perceptions of it.
@Christopher-md7tf4 жыл бұрын
I think that's exactly what many people find ridiculous, putting that much time and thought into elves, dwarves, orcs etc.
@harbl994 жыл бұрын
Because of Sturgeon's Law. The inevitable '90% of trash' is misunderstood as being all there is to the form. The sublime highlights become lost in the background noise of imitators, also-rans, and never-weres.
@avenderiel4 жыл бұрын
Well, Tolkien isn´t the norm. So much trash in the fantasy genre. A lot of the most popular fantasy series are incredibly bad. Lot of low-effort copypaste out there.
@112steinway3 жыл бұрын
Cirdan the Shipwright when seeing Gandalf for the first time: "Congratulations, you're the only one capable of actually doing your job."
@TrulyMadlyShallowly3 жыл бұрын
The fact that in order to create his languages, Tolkien needed to give them a history - when I first read this, in his Letters, it hit me like a brick. It's a beautiful insight and truth that has been crucially important to my understanding of both history and language.
@Madmij3 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of Melkor getting fed up with this beautiful choir of creation and deciding to interrupt with a vuvuzela. 😂
@lorenzobellachioma81603 жыл бұрын
let's face it: Melkor is to the middle earth what rock and roll was to the '60s
@alexanderbenkendorf6883 жыл бұрын
His music is actually described in Simlarillion much like rock/pop/electronic beats in a middle of a classical concert. He was a DJ! :)
@valkeakirahvi3 жыл бұрын
I've always liked to imagine Melkor as the guy who wanted to create his own thing and not just listen to the orders. One interesting thing is that we never actually hear what the orcs, or the men serving Melkor and Sauron think about them. Maybe they were actually supporting diversity in other things as well, and they followed them because they thought they were actually the better choise?
@zisforziggens3 жыл бұрын
....a didgeridoo.
@zachallan75453 жыл бұрын
Bet he was a French supporter... his 2010 introduction to the vuvuzela gave his idea to stop the creation.
@Plekhanov20004 жыл бұрын
When I see the Ents attack, I always think, "Run Forest, run."
@blcollier4 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment.
@starcke90714 жыл бұрын
I tree what you did there.
@wirly-4 жыл бұрын
@@starcke9071 bad pun, please leaf
@wirly-4 жыл бұрын
Just kidding we should stick to making puns and grow a tree-pun community.
@wirly-4 жыл бұрын
It will be very fruitful.
@eduleal3 жыл бұрын
This is great in so many levels. Great summary, level of detail is just right, images are awesome, music is nice. If you’ve read everything and just wants a bit of an all encompassing recap, this is incredible.
@Mothyave4 жыл бұрын
"Morgoth's research and development department", I-
@hunnitbaehunnitbae88044 жыл бұрын
ngl, I died at that part
@pinkywinky9114 жыл бұрын
Yep same 🤣
@lindawest54033 жыл бұрын
Man I’m tryna cook some chicken thighs for dinner and this dude has got me INTO this story
@gear68813 жыл бұрын
I'm imagining a group of orcs with white lab coats and nerd glasses holding clipboards
@AmazingJayB513 жыл бұрын
That was one of the best things he said. In the Two Towers movie, Suramon says it's a era of industrialization.
@bradyweed41244 жыл бұрын
The mythology of Middle-earth is Gorgeous. “The Music of the Ainur”, “The Valar”, “Eru Illuvatar” god I love it
@JesusFriedChrist4 жыл бұрын
It’s really something eh.
@XSilver_WaterX3 жыл бұрын
Its basically Christianity but on less corrupt themes.
@BBBrasil3 жыл бұрын
I like the philology, Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Akalabêth e Quenta Silmarillion.
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
@@XSilver_WaterX And without anyone actually believing it’s real, which is the biggest turn-off of real life religions lol
@CGoody56423 жыл бұрын
Frankly, the mythology behind middle earth and the untold stories are far more interesting than any of the stories that were actually written taking place in middle earth, which is a shame really.
@elimoody96263 жыл бұрын
“So the are a really important part of Tolkien’s mythology.”
@MrSmithers3 жыл бұрын
"Yeah, you never really think about how much impact the world around them."
@Alizudo3 жыл бұрын
Except the Dwarves. They have no lore, no art, no culture, and no history to speak of. They were created, then thousands of years of silence, then Gimli. That's it.
@wtrmute3 жыл бұрын
@@Alizudo Except for Nogrod, which traded with the Noldor in Beleriand, and whose dwarves eventually went on to kill Thingol; Zirak Zigil and Telchar, who forged Nauglamír (Thingol's necklace) and Narsil (Isildur's sword, later reforged into Aragorn's Andúril); Belegost, which was also famous for its craftsmanship and whose lord, Azaghâl, wounded Glaurung, the First Dragon, during the War of the Jewels. Also, the tales about the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain and in Khazad-dûm. The thing is that the Dwarves ended up being something of an analogue of the Jews in Middle-Earth; and like the Jews during most of our history, suffered a lot of prejudice and became insular and clannish as a result. The Dwarves did not even like speaking their own language in front of strangers, and took up nicknames for themselves so as not to reveal their true Khuzdul names to the other races. So naturally comparatively little gets recorded about them compared to Men and Elves, but hardly "thousands of years of silence."
@Alizudo3 жыл бұрын
@@wtrmute Between the forging of Narsil and the loss of Khazad-dûm, there is nearly 3,000 years of no word. Yee, they do have SOME history, but you could list every single known achievement of the dwarves on a bulleted list. The elves quite literally required Tolkien to write an entire book just to talk about how awesome and perfect they are.
@wtrmute3 жыл бұрын
@@Alizudo Not at all; between the forging of Narsil andthe loss of Khazad-dûm, there is the war between Nargrond and Doriath, then its abandonment, the abandonment of Belegost, then indeed very little before the abandonment of Khazad-dûm. I am not sure whether the Lonely Mountain was colonized before or after the fall of Moria, which might make into this period, or not. But anyway we have very little news of the Second Age in general. Of course, I am ready to agree that we have far more written about the Elves than about the Dwarves; the former are the Firstborn of Ilúvatar, while the latter are merely the children of Aulë. It is impossible to compare the two. That being said, "there is no news of them between the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves and Gimli" is quite the hyperbole, and that is all I am objecting to.
@thereslikenoway2 жыл бұрын
whoever edited this beautiful video is a wonderful person and i love them
@skeptale4 жыл бұрын
I wish I was as passionate about anything as this guy is about Tolkein.
@chris1z1424 жыл бұрын
The Rambunctious Riolu no way, gotta dox urself to prove it
@kerzariz87174 жыл бұрын
@@riol2_ your dad is amazing.
@dirtypure20234 жыл бұрын
@@riol2_ Exposing personal information online. It usually occurs with malicious intent unfortunately.
@chris1z1424 жыл бұрын
dirty pure FYI not in this case lol, genuinely curious but you probably shouldn’t do it lol
@nickpalazzo65854 жыл бұрын
@skeptile He is actually the president of a university that focuses on Tolkien scholarship.
@Aristaeuss4 жыл бұрын
This is like the friendly version of the Silmarillion, which I love but it's definitely hard to read
@monsieurcondottiero26853 жыл бұрын
Silmarillion was like the most disappointing book ever. I remember reading LOTR as a youngster and was feenin for more, and it did like nothing to inspire me and make me feel and enrapture me. I guess that’s what happens when you just publish a bunch of crib notes after the author dies, but honestly idk why that book is so hyped up.
@Sea-qv4sd3 жыл бұрын
@@monsieurcondottiero2685 it’s the Middle Earth bible essentially. I personally would never read it, I loved the world, the not enough to become an Ardaologist
@valkeakirahvi3 жыл бұрын
Silmarillon was my favourite book as a kid lol
@mercyjinn3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I had to power through it for a bit. I learned to read it like a history book instead of a fairytale. I ended up really enjoying it by the time I finished.
@VincentTamer3 жыл бұрын
I believe the point of that book was for others to read and refer to if they were to make stories within Arda themselves. A Story Masters guide so to speak.
@PrashantSingh-nd8vu2 жыл бұрын
Professor Cory Olsen is such a great storyteller himself. I have been watching his various videos on Tolkien’s mythology & time just passes away. Thinking about Tolkien, I can only assume the kind of awe he must have generated on the budding writers and fantasy enthusiasts of his time. He was a revolutionary & his ideas perhaps makes him one of the most influential people of all time.
@robertbeecroft55703 жыл бұрын
I love your passion for telling the story! I don’t feel like I’m listening to a lecture, but somebody telling me stories by a fire. Excellent presentation!
@ABuffaloDub4 жыл бұрын
Man I’m tryna cook some chicken thighs for dinner and this dude has got me INTO this story
@ajadomonique4 жыл бұрын
Dave how’d the chicken thighs come out??
@melanieszelong46644 жыл бұрын
I am also cooking chicken and caught up in his presentation
@ABuffaloDub4 жыл бұрын
Ája Domonique I mean, I crushed em.
@ajadomonique4 жыл бұрын
@@ABuffaloDub 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽 im happy they weren't ruined.. the video was very engaging
@aayushivasnik3 жыл бұрын
Same with me now
@haydenolberding19254 жыл бұрын
Cory Olsen has a podcast "class" on spotify (and elsewhere) going through the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It has more than 140 episodes. His series is called 'Exploring the Lord of the Rings'. It is on KZbin as well. Please look it up if you're a lotr nerd.
@Coolcoolcoolcoolcool73 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! I'm huge Lotr nerd 😊.
@aesir1ases643 жыл бұрын
Colbert said recently that he listen to every episode, now thats a real fan!
@warhawkjah3 жыл бұрын
“The breeding of orcs and men does not bear thinking about...”
@mrbacchus61273 жыл бұрын
Unless you are into some weird and kinky stuff
@butchjohnson97363 жыл бұрын
Rule 34
@turnereddie3 жыл бұрын
@@butchjohnson9736 The only rule is that you don't talk about fight club.
@GalaxyPedlar3 жыл бұрын
The internet has already thought about it.
@africanchick233 жыл бұрын
mpreg
@mp7scarh2 жыл бұрын
As I’m reading the Silmarillion now, I’m finding it extremely helpful to constantly refer to the maps and family trees as much as possible! Every other page I’ll flip back to make sure my understanding is correct
@Stiggandr13 жыл бұрын
I wish Wired had included more of Ungoliant. Her story is brutally awesome.
@kevinba66333 жыл бұрын
Exactly! I do realize over half an hour of video on KZbin is already quite the risky bet, but there's so much more to say about Ungoliant 🥰
@RantingThespian3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite characters ... and one of my most feared (arachnophobic here). I love how she (most likely) came to her end. Traveling south to the Far Harad desserts, and became so hungry that she ate herself.
@elizabethclover22303 жыл бұрын
Also missed opportunity for Melkor, the original Spider rider.
@ConvictedFelon20242 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and he should've at least mentioned Shelob by name, considering she was Ungoliant's greatest (and most well-known) offspring...
@ericstoverink65794 жыл бұрын
One error. In the book, the dead men of Dunharrow don't fight at Pellenor fields. They help Aragorn and the Grey Company fight the Corsairs in the south. They are released then. Aragorn is then able to bring Gondor's Southern armies to Minas Tirith.
@nathanliteroy98354 жыл бұрын
There's another one. Orcs being corrupted Elves - it mentioned either as a rumor, or was an early version. In final version of the myths they were corrupted humans, or orc-human hybrids. So Saruman's mixing up of Orcs with humans is the second or third mixing up done
@asmith10224 жыл бұрын
He definitely just misspoke, he obviously meant Pelargir. Suprised it made it through editing.
@mariolovo32094 жыл бұрын
I think he meant Pelargir, but also he could have said it so people who have only seen the movies would understand a little bit more
@samhunt71134 жыл бұрын
That’s not an error. Corrupted elves is the published origins story. Other versions of the story, including orc origins as Maiar are up for debate of course.
@joekerr91974 жыл бұрын
@@samhunt7113 It is an error. Silmarillion was published by JRR's son Christopher who later admitted he should've never done that. This is the reason why years later he published almost all of the material in the History of ME in 12-13 volumes.
@thedick0093 жыл бұрын
"Morgoth cannot create a sentient species" "So Morgoth created dragons..."
@markmiranda94613 жыл бұрын
My thought exactly. I’m guessing he took already existing creatures and cross breaded them to make dragons?
@paulraines96353 жыл бұрын
So, what disturbed part of Eru's mind did Ungoliant crawl out of?
@skynyrdjesus3 жыл бұрын
@@paulraines9635 Well, it's fairly clear, or at least as clear as the Silmarillion ever gets, that Ungoliant was a part of Arda before the Ainur descended. Ungoliant is very much the personification of primal hunger in the world, so the most likely explanation would be that it was a product of the original song being twisted by Melkor and his splinter choir. Not exactly intended, but still the product of Eru
@rockenrollern3 жыл бұрын
The most likely thing imo is that Morgoth created the bodies of the dragons and put powerful spirits (ainur) into those bodies. We know that ainur in incarnate form can reproduce.
@esotericbrain26893 жыл бұрын
@Sasuke pizza Kitten almost, but not quite. The barrow wights were kings of ancient times that fell in the wars of the north when the witch king destroyed Arnor and founded Angmar, and it is the witch king who gave their ghosts power. Watch the Geek Zone video on this. He does a really good job.
@phillise13 жыл бұрын
I've got a question: I've got an old edition of the Hobbit. On the map of Mirkwood, it shows two villages of Woodmen. As a child, I thought that the woodmen were lumberjacks. Then I thought Beorn was one of them, but he lived on the edge of Mirkwood, not in it. So who were the woodmen and what were they doing in Mirkwood?
@calebcrook58753 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'm just trying to wrap my head around Tolkein's stories and how amazing they all are.
@Erik-um1zn3 жыл бұрын
I can't say definitively, but the Woodmen on your map may have been some of the people the goblins were planning to attack when met the wargs and almost captured Bilbo, the dwarves, & Gandalf. Beorn may have been related to the these woodmen, though he was a special case being a were-bear. His descendants ruled over a group of men in the area called Beornings.
@phillise13 жыл бұрын
@@Erik-um1zn There was a line in there about the goblins thinking that there was "a battle with the woodmen" when the wargs had Bilbo and the dwarves treed.
@Thelaretus2 жыл бұрын
They were descendants of Gondor's attempted colonisation of Rhovanion.
@ZemplinTemplar2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien implies the Woodmen are just another people of the overall Northmen that live in the northern and central parts of Rhovanion. The One Ring RPG actually elaborated on them as a smaller but pretty important local culture.
@angieliang84754 жыл бұрын
I don’t know why but just hearing the word “hobbits” and hearing about them just puts a smile on everyone’s faces
@AlisonBryen3 жыл бұрын
Same. If I were to belong to a race of Middle Earth, I would most certainly be a Hobbit.
@zachallan75453 жыл бұрын
They are the jolliest of fellows... “hobbit” among many has a modern meaning of complete peace and ignorant bliss. Everyone talks about Valinor but, the shire is where it’s at.
@AlisonBryen3 жыл бұрын
@@zachallan7545 Here's to peace and quiet and good tilled earth 🌻
@margauxf43213 жыл бұрын
Gollum would like a word...
@fofofoey4 жыл бұрын
For the next 1000 years, Tolkien would be talked about alongside Homer.
@grapefantagd72683 жыл бұрын
What has he got to do with the Simpson?
@user-ix1rp9ff3p3 жыл бұрын
@@grapefantagd7268 the Greek poet you idiot
@chainmbl42573 жыл бұрын
@@grapefantagd7268 can't tell if you are being sarcastic
@WillGrayCoopcontrol3 жыл бұрын
That was a major r/woosh
@daddyclaus15173 жыл бұрын
@@user-ix1rp9ff3p You sure he's the idiot?
@robertesensee34943 жыл бұрын
The best video I have ever seen about the history the races in Middle Earth. WELL DONE!
@Sam-rb1sj3 жыл бұрын
This dude’s passion makes listening to him so easy. 40 minutes went by in a flash!
@-laurel4 жыл бұрын
Excuse me as I watch this 50 more times to have it cemented in my memory. This is a video I didn't know I needed!! So fascinating!
@dirtypure20234 жыл бұрын
ThePhilosophersGames is a fantastic channel for deep Tolkien lore. Check out his playlist where he goes in depth into all the lore surrounding every scene in the movies (in meticulous detail). He's up to 20 of those videos about half an hour each, and he's only made it to the Weathertop scene in Fellowship of the Ring lol. Good stuff.
@-laurel4 жыл бұрын
@@dirtypure2023 Wow, thanks so much for sharing that!!
@dirtypure20234 жыл бұрын
@@-laurel Welcome! :)
@bookworm41744 жыл бұрын
If you enjoyed this, you've got to check out Professor Olsen's ongoing "Exploring The Lord of the Rings" series. You can catch it live almost every Tuesday on Signum University's twitter, Discord, and Twitch.
@phiology19834 жыл бұрын
Nerding out to LOTR history during the pandemic, yes please!
@PleaseNThankYou4 жыл бұрын
I've become a scholar in just 6 months myself, thank you very much.
@HiaimKat2 жыл бұрын
The fact that Tolkien wrote a whole fantastical story for his children will always make me smile. Taking bed time stories to a whole new level. ❤
@TheMockAgenda3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Very comprehensive!
@datsushi94044 жыл бұрын
I would have liked a bit on Easterlings, haradrims, mûmakil, corsairs, but come to think of it I feel like these missed out races are more a testament to the expansiveness of Tolkien’s universe than they are to any incompetencies in the video. Nonetheless, great video ! !
@hazanaimon64584 жыл бұрын
Too bad they are all made to be evil worshippers of Malkor
@countiblis12463 жыл бұрын
@@hazanaimon6458 Chanting Melkoru Akbah in their little mosques is a bit of a giveaway.
@umbrellashotgunman3 жыл бұрын
@@hazanaimon6458 Actually, by the end, Tolkien had actually decided that the Blue Wizards were actually successful in convincing the Men of the East and South to rebel against Sauron, enough so that only a part of the full Easterling/Haradrim armies were able to sent West.
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
But they are all Men (except the Mumakil, of course).
@angieliang84754 жыл бұрын
You can tell how enthusiastic Mr. Olsen is during this video, I love it!!
@aleanapineda8823 жыл бұрын
“Tolkien almost always gives everybody two names.” True
@ravendon3 жыл бұрын
Nice video, which covered every race. Only thing really missing is Beorn and his race.
@SantomPh3 жыл бұрын
Beorn is human.
@Neenerella3334 жыл бұрын
Having read the Silmarillion, this guy really helped clear up the time of the wars between Numenor and the Elves. I got a little battle fatigue, trying to keep everyone clear.
@melanieszelong46644 жыл бұрын
I did too, so I took notes for myself to keep everyone straight (it didn't help one family had names that started with the same letter or syllable). It's also why I only read The Silmarillion every other year. Give the noggin a rest.
@factbeaglesarebest4 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely a harder book to follow. I tend to reread it every now and then. It’s so much fun as things clear up more and more.
@MySerpentine4 жыл бұрын
'And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery.'
@factbeaglesarebest4 жыл бұрын
The foam Farmer no. Their masters. Their corrupters... Morgoth could not create only corrupt; only Eru Illuvitar can create. Therefore they despise morgoth and later Sauron but are corrupted with a darkness that prevents their disobeying.
@sdramw3 жыл бұрын
This is such a well structured video, I’ve come to have an even deeper appreciation for Tolkine I think I’m going to end up re-reading all the books now because this video makes it all so much better Bless u professor!!!!!!!
@pusheenbuttercup83192 жыл бұрын
This is a great video! I just wanted to say, for the sake of those that can not hear; the CC says "ring raids"- I believe he might be saying "ring wraiths" :)
@sydmoore63 жыл бұрын
Interesting that Tolkien's world was created by song, and so was C.S. Lewis' -when Aslan sang to create Narnia.
@caroline74203 жыл бұрын
Tolkien and Lewis were best friends and frequently went on walks brainstorming and discussing their stories, so it makes sense that there are lots off scenes and details that mirror each other. (I love finding the little similarities sprinkled throughout the stories) Also another fun thing I've heard is that the only reason Lewis put the iconic lamp post in his story was because Tolkien told Lewis that a fictional story can't have a lamp post in it. Lewis also based The Professor on Tolkien and Tolkien based Treebeard on Lewis.
@Spzmeador3 жыл бұрын
It may alludes to how they suppose God created the earth, through song.
@adityabhalekar35063 жыл бұрын
@@caroline7420 wait so tolkien's character brought evil in Narnia?
@caroline74203 жыл бұрын
@@adityabhalekar3506 no, not as far as I know. I really don't know enough about middle-earth to know the answer yet.
@educationalporpoises95923 жыл бұрын
You may be thinking of Uncle Andrew
@SarahMacDonald19914 жыл бұрын
Missed the guy that would turn into a bear.
@unluckyseabird28884 жыл бұрын
Beorn the skin changer. I was thinking the same thing!
@samsunguser31484 жыл бұрын
the beornings
@ladyalaina424 жыл бұрын
Beorn
@raernian60264 жыл бұрын
I think that would be included in the "variants of men" thing but yeah would have been nice to be mentioned specifically I think.
@smccosby4 жыл бұрын
Came looking for this comment to make sure I wasn't crazy/missed it
@chantaldespres29173 жыл бұрын
I watched the movies countless time but I havent read The books so I really appreciated this video because it gave me a better understanding ouf The universe of Tolkien. Thanks !
@MonarchsFactory2 жыл бұрын
I understand that this is 40 minutes long, but I can still tell they've edited you down in some places, and boy how I wish they wouldn't have
@ElPsicoProfeta09934 жыл бұрын
One thing I like a lot that wasn't mentioned is that Ents were created by Yavanna, after Aulë created the Dwarves.
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
Actually, they were created by Eru, after Yavanna complained that the Dwarves would mess up her creations.
@Flash4ML3 жыл бұрын
Yep, she was worried about her own creations and asked Manwë if the trees could speak for all of the plants and things that grow, and so the Ents were born when the Elves arrived in Arda. In one of my favorite passages in the Silmarillion, she comes up to Aulë and basically goes, ha, now when your dwarves and all the other races cut down my trees they’ll have the wrath of the Ents to deal with! And Aulë answers, “Nonetheless they will have need of wood.” Basically he’s just like, yeah but they’re gonna need wood tho
@nevealexa4224 жыл бұрын
this seriously made me cry multiple times : ) I cANT. I don't even know whyyyy I cried. just a mixture of the grandeur of the history of middle-earth and Tolkien's mythology. But also how well it was all explained. WOW. Tolkien's imagination and depth of thought is seriously unparalleled. How could anyone watch this and know the huge amount of complexities in his books and not agree?
@martavdz49724 жыл бұрын
Totally, this video is brilliant. And the Inklings basically changed the world by the combination of having fought in WW1, great imagination, intelligence, Christian faith, fascination with languages and mythology and most of all, the ability to be genuinely in awe of something.
@amatsu-ryu40672 жыл бұрын
Tolkien's world is just so amazing. We'll really never have another story quite like it.
@juletaurus3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this VERY much! Thank you for many explanations and clarifications!
@AnthonyBerkshire4 жыл бұрын
I hope Corey Olsen or any other respected Tolkien Prof is consulted by amazon for the new tLotR series.
@D-A-K4 жыл бұрын
I heard Tom Shippey is on the case
@AnthonyBerkshire4 жыл бұрын
Derek A. Kamal I hope so really bad
@georgeharrison15594 жыл бұрын
Apparently Tom shippy walked out. We dont know details but my gut is telling me that amazon will not do justice to Tolkien
@martavdz49724 жыл бұрын
@@biggy-t Totally agree.
@SnailHatan3 жыл бұрын
@@biggy-t No. it’s not even going to be a remake like your “leave it alone” suggests. It’s a completely different era of middle earth that hasn’t been onscreen for more than a couple of minutes.
@justkadeeja4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen these movies but his storytelling made it seem like a must watch/read.
@imjooking77724 жыл бұрын
Honestly one of my favorite stories ever. It is a must watch/read. But watch Lord of The Rings First
@matthewreese77104 жыл бұрын
I’m jooking no, read the hobbit first
@Lemmywinks19894 жыл бұрын
I am jealous you get to expierence it all for the first time!
@illumin87484 жыл бұрын
Why are you watching this video tho
@wirly-4 жыл бұрын
@@matthewreese7710 he is jooking
@Krejstrup2 жыл бұрын
Good content. Had a problem with the sound though, it was very low for most of the bit and when the ads got on they where SCREAMING! Well, I liked this video quite much, thank you.
@blablabubles3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the inclusion of a drawing of aenies fleeing troy when mentioning the fall of numinor. Good reference
@dadudidedo4 жыл бұрын
I love how he refers bad creatures in middle earth as morgoth's products of research and development department it sounds like morgoth is a crazy scientist
@aesir1ases643 жыл бұрын
Yeah though that was what Morgoth was pretty much lol
@ckpn47712 жыл бұрын
YEP morgoth bad >:(
@jeweltorkelson2 жыл бұрын
Lmao right
@ImplodedAtom4 жыл бұрын
"Last night I dreamt I'd written The Lord of the Rings. Turns out I was just Tolkien in my sleep."
@istvansipos99404 жыл бұрын
once you've seen 1 shopping center, you've seen a mall
@Ardyotha3 жыл бұрын
dude...
@AlisonBryen3 жыл бұрын
I'd be lying if I said this didn't make me smile. 🙂
@hisoka94783 жыл бұрын
Love the story of Tom Bomabdill that got left out of the movies. The power of the ring had no effect on him. Great insight into Tolkien's mythology. Get this guy back!! And please add some graphs/maps or infographics here and there to help us visualize certain things.
@jrsimeon023 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video! Very thorough and helpful!
@someonedifferent1984 жыл бұрын
Beorn last of his line, was really hoping for a few words on that very interesting charter?! Loved the vid!! Thanks!!!
@SantomPh3 жыл бұрын
Beorn was NOT the last of his line. His descendants the Beornings guard the Carrock which leads to the High Pass or to Erebor.
@incanusolorin26073 жыл бұрын
Beorn doesn’t really fit with the rest of the Legendarium. It’s one of the many inconsistencies found in The Hobbit, because Bilbo’s journey wasn’t originally part mythology.
@legoman7164 жыл бұрын
I loved the inclusion of John Bauer's artwork in this video. The artist is actually born in my hometown of Jönköping, Sweden
@aloron11743 жыл бұрын
That was an amazing vid, absolutely loved it. Someone give this guy a medal.
@AverytheCubanAmerican4 жыл бұрын
One WIRED to rule them all. New Zealand is so beautiful
@derheadbanger90394 жыл бұрын
I have watched several videos about this topic - but never has it been explained better!
@Memu_ Жыл бұрын
This is without a doubt one of if not the best Lotr lore video. I have heard almost all of this before but never in a way where I could fully understand and remember it. This video made me finally understand the world.
@anthony99900 Жыл бұрын
Honestly this is brilliant, Love the Mirkwood elves the most
@zammyr68074 жыл бұрын
I already like this and the video hasn't even started.
@somerandomperson81354 жыл бұрын
Same dude
@SuperBC19754 жыл бұрын
Concerning Hobbits and other races of Middle Earth: An overview.
@TheIgisas4 жыл бұрын
Ayyyy
@tahirakinci4 жыл бұрын
Concerning Hobbits and other races of Middle Earth: An overview of an overview :D
@TheIgisas4 жыл бұрын
@@tahirakinci You got deep
@tahirakinci4 жыл бұрын
@@TheIgisas I can go even deeper
@TheIgisas4 жыл бұрын
@@tahirakinci Go on then. We are waiting.
@DjordjeZutic3 жыл бұрын
keep in mind that when you read (or even watch) Lord of the Rings you are staring into one mans soul Its overwhelming
@MotherAce4 жыл бұрын
I need to see this guy and Stephen Colbert talk together on a stage for 3-4 hours straight please. Make it happen!
@masukuma3 жыл бұрын
That would be quite the treat
@ChristofRomould3 жыл бұрын
colbert is too egotistical and arrogant, he wants all the attention on him like the coke head he is. he always interrupts his guests.
@Sajirah4 жыл бұрын
I already knew all of this but I watched it anyway because I love anything Tolkien related.
@alexandrasimon71914 жыл бұрын
Same
@el67004 жыл бұрын
Yup same
@EcceJack4 жыл бұрын
Same here. And honestly, I don't watch _much_ Wired stuff, and what I do watch is generally... fine, but with some gems in there, so I didn't quite know what to expect. Turns out, this was _definitely_ a gem!!
@alexandermilner42484 жыл бұрын
Ariel Hunt just about all in the Silmarillion. Still nice to hear again.
@julwiezdeghorz50894 жыл бұрын
You said it right
@duygumdakiler Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video. You forgot Beorns, whom I dearly love :) And the mythology is mostly based on Turkish mythology and Turkish ancient civilizations actually, wish you could be aware of this fact.
@GleeChan3 жыл бұрын
It'd interesting to see a video explaining how C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien aped off each other to create their masterpieces. Like how they inspired this or that. I sort of feel their friendship is rather underplayed these days.
@archiew14807 ай бұрын
As well as Roger Lancelyn Green with C.S .Lewis. who came up with the title the Chronicles of Narnia and convinced Lewis to write the lion, the witch and the wardrobe after Tolkien was less impressed by it
@D-A-K4 жыл бұрын
“The Eagles are coming!” Me: 😭 😭😭
@MrSmithers3 жыл бұрын
Me: 😏😏😏
@bluecollar53843 жыл бұрын
Me: Oh that looks like a cool video, I love Lord of the Rings! 38 minutes though.. That might be a bit long. I wish there was a 3 min version. Me 38 minutes later: Is there a 38 hour version of this 38 minute video? I'm asking for a friend.
@williamnelson55493 жыл бұрын
Wow this is an incredible video thank you for doing this.
@Annatar_Lord_of_Gifts3 жыл бұрын
This is so well done Wired. Please keep this up with Dr. Olsen!
@benlongwell53953 жыл бұрын
I was at Washington College as a student with Dr. Olsen. His passion for literature is only matched by his hilariousness and just pure intelligence (he majored in literature and astrophysics at Williams...because why not?)
@yalug34784 жыл бұрын
Wow! The lore's so rich! Tolkien is so inspiring!
@JohnnyZenith4 жыл бұрын
This only scratches the surface.
@picardplays Жыл бұрын
Lol i loved the random profile cuts! Really boosts production value! Seriously though, amazing content and very fluently explained
@michellestewart47882 жыл бұрын
There is a forward in one of the printings of Tolkien's other works (I forget which one) that talks about the "World Beyond the Tree". An artist creates a painting of a tree and loves it, but he has to go away and paint other things, then later in his life he realizes that he never abandoned the tree. He was, in fact, painting the world around the tree. It's such a beautiful thought about how things come together. And as a fellow creator who has to often leave my "tree" it's a comforting reminder that I have never abandoned it.