Gratitude and future plans for the channel!

[@jeycii6143]

No bro, WE thank YOU for sharing so much content with us❤

[@bigmikebeebee]

The personal thank-you video for my merch purchase was so thoughtful -- what a unique gesture!

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Awesome, glad you liked it 😀

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

Congratulations! I've really enjoyed watching your videos. ❤

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Thank you, glad to hear :)

[@zzorken7153]

Congrats guys, well deserved ❤

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Thanks man, glad to see you on this channel too!

[@ajgreanescobido5308]

congratulations!!! your LOTR and Hobbit contents brought joy and nostalgia into our fantasy lover life. More blessings for you and your channel. Your channel will be big for sure.

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Thanks for the kind words :)

[@HerohammerStudios]

Can't believe you have a friend named Sam helping you out while being a silent hero

[@saladinbob]

According to Peter Jackson there is a "Ben Hur" length of cut material from the LoTR trilogy. Ben Hur is over 3 hours long. Or to put it another way, we could have the much coveted 12 hour super cut of the trilogy and there's still be enough material to keep this channel going for years.

[@pipleehk]

I’m always looking forward to new videos every day from this channel I ve been attached to the voice already now I can relate it to a real face. thank you very much

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Happy to hear, we're hoping to be able to keep up with uploads daily, or at least every 2 days for a foreseeable future!

[@random22026]

Keep going--you're doing great! 🥳🥳

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Thank you :)

[@zanyatta1]

Thank you, I really enjoy your content ❤

[@rpandaplayz]

I subscribed around 30k.

[@ohnoitisnt666]

Love your channel! Note on the merch store. If you click through the links via KZbin on your iPhone when you want to zoom in on a shirt it changes the image to the back of the shirt on every one. Means you can’t see the logo unless you click into each one. Might just want to pass that on to the shop devs.

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Hmm strange, we'll look into that! Thanks for letting us know :)

[@lorenzzacher]

WE have to thank YOU, so thank you 4 great videos

[@Char10tti3]

So happy your videos came up in my Shorts feed 😊 I'm not really a massive massive LOTR fan (never read the books) but these films and videos are amazing and well done and definitely break down the behind the scenes amazingly well

[@AdenaKaiba]

Congratulations 🎉! and thank you very much for including The Hobbit trilogy in your videos. I adore LOTR just as much but it saddens when people exclude The Hobbit.

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Of course, we really enjoy that trilogy too and we were happily surprised to see how well our Hobbit content has done too!

[@AdenaKaiba]

@@MiddleEarthUpdates Oh, I'm so happy to hear that 👏🏻 🥰 🙏🏻 !!

[@RichardT2112]

Congrats on the milestone!! Well deserved.

[@merickful]

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for!!! **Smashes like button with an axe** My lord, there is no such following. **Turns around to us here in the comments. Horns trumpet and war chants are heard.**

[@pat_c]

I'm so happy you're doing these videos and shorts. I love all the new information and BTS clips and tidbits you are teaching us about the movies and the cast. I'm eating it all up, thank you for your amazing work. 🙏

[@Lord_Raymund]

May the orcs be with you XD

[@WeesloYT]

Love seeing the new channel having so much success Elliot! Especially as a huge LOTR fan

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Thanks man, happy to see you here on the channel

[@magiegainey5036]

Thank You for the personal thank you for me buying a cup. So nice! I love your channel!

[@BattlewarPenguin]

Thank you for the awesome content! Because you mentioned Star Wars you can check the new Insurgency Sandstorm SW mod! It's truly epic!

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Nice, I haven't seen that one yet!

[@Theboogieman-mi3he]

Sam and Elliot, or Sam and Elijah, No Sam and Frodo😭 I just changed bros name lol

[@janettong5676]

Thank you for making all those videos !! 😍😍😍It’s so nice to rewatch all behind the scenes when I don’t have a DVD player right now to replay the extended version BTS 😂

[@MuffinKat-ve2qe]

Looking forward to season review - easier to digest the content that way perhaps

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Glad to hear, I've heard good things about the final episodes too!

[@The_Boss420]

I used to watch you back in 2016 now you update my two fav series

[@deborahdufel1664]

When you run out... start from the beginning for the new subscribers. Congratulations on your channel success

[@nickvolkert3450]

I really appreciate you sharing uplifting content from The Hobbit, instead of the usual bashing people do. Makes me like these films a lot, which is what they deserve I think.

[@MrEduardomonge]

What an intro! 🤣

[@shanrackham3387]

Congratulations!! Enjoy your videos very much. I'm a huge LoTR fan

[@magpieow]

BattlefrontUpdates?? No way, I love it!

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Hello there!

[@Harrison.DuRant]

BF updates!! I remember the hayday of the BF games when I couldn't wait for your videos. Love LotR too. Good to see you branching out.

[@Michal235]

I very much appreciate your channel and thank you for your work. Two words from me: - The Hobbit films are awful. Let's be serious. Not worth anyone's time. Not interesting. It's just sad, it's deeply saddening that we could've gone back to the Middle-Earth and instead we got a boring cinematic from a computer game for kids with short attention spans. - I will not spend any time describing RoP and you should neither. Don't look for positives, abandon all hope ye who enter here.

[@JamieKotekar]

Thank you for the videos

[@MrRosebeing]

You're very welcome. I've never watched your channel before, but kudos.

[@thomasv.1374]

I would recommend comparing differences in the books and movies in some way- you could possibly describe the thought process or changes and just relate the books more

[@kaylaadams465]

are you excited for the new Lord of the rings movie called The Hunt for Gollum

[@gavin3780]

I think lore videos would be awesome. I’ve been watching you since battlefront 2015 almost 10 years. Got into lord of the rings about a year ago never knew you had this channel.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Well deserved my guy!

[@samtaylor7762]

Hey Elliot. Maybe you can show more of the production processes through every stage and every facet of the movies. There is so much available from Weta.

[@PD-ix6iv]

Great content! Love Lotr movies! Congrats !!✅ Please, no rings of power ❌

[@Relics_of_Arda]

Congrats! 🎉

[@trishugnish]

did you read the Wall Street journal ian mckellen interview? :-)

[@kmgenius]

Do you also have a channel that has videos about heroforge? Your voice sounds the same, I think his channel is Derf

[@AI-Wire]

Technical question: Do you license your clip material? Or is it fair use? Have you encountered any copyright issues?

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

It's all fair use! So far, we haven’t had any copyright issues.

[@The_StairTool]

So are you guys just doing shorts now?

[@MiddleEarthUpdates]

Mostly, yes! But we just released a long video. 😊 Longer videos take much more time to make. I (Sam) study full-time, and Elliot works full-time at a disc golf shop, but we pour as much time as we can into the channel!

[@fandyllic1975]

Congrats! I was very critical of The Rings of Power, but it is still worth covering, so I hope you don’t give up on it. TBH, I prefer TRoP coverage over Hobbit trilogy stuff. You could also consider doing background on the 1978 Hobbit animated feature and the awful Bakshi LotR stuff.