Lore of Middle-earth - Isengard

[@VendErre]

.... i just realized this... Saruman was obsessed with the one ring... and lived in a ring... and, whats more, if you wanna go further... Orthanc looks like a finger... so Saruman lives in a tiny, tiny finger thats wearing a very, very big ring.

[@samuelcox30]

Vend Erre so your saying essentially, he was sexually frustrated... ; )

[@dragonchr15]

It looks like a giant dark phallus

[@StarfishPatrick231]

It's so insane the amount of lore/worldbuilding went into that universe. I can't get enough of it! Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@Wolfeson28]

32:12 I think the Ents did lose one of their own to the fires that Saruman triggered from the shafts in the plain. Pippin tells Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas that, "Several of the Ents got scorched and blistered. One of them, Beechbone I think he was called, a very tall handsome Ent, got caught in a spray of some liquid fire and burned like a torch; a horrible sight." He doesn't explicitly say Beechbone was killed, but the contrast with his previous mention of the Ents that merely suffered superficial burns seems to indicate that he was killed. Great video, as always.

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

‘A very tall *handsome* Ent’ alright Legolas, stay in your lane

[@SergeantJWhite]

A fantastic lore video, as always. Very informative. I've been using your lore videos to prepare for an Adventures in Middle Earth 5e Campaign I'm running. Thank you for making these lore bites so pleasantly digestable.

[@cryohellinc]

Thank you Galu, fantastic work.

[@joshsomerville6048]

I am incredibly glad you are still doing these!

[@rachelhuntley6214]

I love the way you deliver your lore casts, your so easy to listen to, please keep doing these..❤️❤️

[@goodman4966]

"Beneath the mountain's arm within the Wizard's Vale through years uncounted had stood that ancient place that Men called Isengard. Partly it was shaped in the making of the mountains, but mighty works the Men of Westernesse had wrought there of old; and Saruman had dwelt there long and had not been idle." -The Two Towers, "The Road to Isengard"

[@nikoszaxarias5200]

Since you ask about the Palantiri, my Lord, I answer: The 3 Stones of Arnor, in Annuminas, in Amon Sul and the Stone of Elendil in Elostirion. Gondor had 4 Stones, that were placed in Osgiliath- the most important of them- in Minas Anor, in Minas Ithil- which became Minas Morgul when it fell to the Nazgul- and in Orthanc, which was used mostly to communicate with Arnor. After the fall of Minas Ithil, the Kings of Gondor locked Orthanc, as they didn't now what had happen to the Palantir and they feared that it had fallen into Sauron's hands, which, as we understand and from Pippin's experience, was totally true. That's why Orthanc was locked when Saruman asked to take it as his residence. King Frealaf and Steward Beren thought that it was a wise option to give Orthanc. Perhaps Beren thought that the Palantir of Orthanc was safe with Saruman. We all know the story from ther after. Cair a Alph, my friends!

[@JosephPaulk77]

So glad to see you still making videos. My favorite channel on KZbin. Great!

[@zlinedavid]

I think the term you were looking for regarding the texture of the exterior of the tower is "rough hewn". Been listening to these for years, excellent as always.

[@ar-thanatos5935]

Lovely video Galu, I've always had an interest in the many interesting locations that appear in Tolkien's works so to see you breaching the subject is a lot of fun. Hope you do more of this and keep up the good work.

[@MrMartechi]

I wonder what secrets the Orthanc contained - if perhaps Saruman, in his centuries of study, might have learned something of the fate of the Ent-Wives and if after the end, these secrets might have been revealed to the Ents after all, either giving them further hope of finding their wives after-all or at least giving them closure about their fate.

[@Grimlock1979]

There was one Stone in Minis Tirith, one in Osgiliath AND one in Minas Morgul. The one in Osgiliath was lost during the Kin-strife and sunk into the Anduin. Sauron took the Minas Morgul one. In the North, there were Stones at Amon Sul, Annuminas and The Grey Havens. The first 2 were lost with Arvedui's ship. The one from the Grey Havens was taken back to the Undying Lands. The Orthanc stone was the last remaining that still worked at the end of LotR. The Minas Tirith Stone stopped working and Sauron's was buried under Barad-dur.

[@otwk]

Two small additions: Technically, the Minas Tirith Stone could be used by someone extremely strong-willed, IIRC (including Aragorn, I'd guess). Everyone else would only see the burning hands of Denethor. Certainly one of the darker parts of Tolkien's universe. The Stone from the Grey Havens wasn't actually in Mithlond, but in the Highest of the Towers of Elostirion, and it was said to only look west (it's sometimes believed that it could be used to view Tol Eressea or even communicate with the Elves there, though another is that Elendil used it to view the place where Numenor sunk between the seas). To me personally it always seems strange why Cirdan gave it to Elrond when the Ringbearers left Middle-earth, but it's another magical thing of old, a connection to the West, gone from Middle-earth.

[@VendErre]

i love Tolkien, man, some of his imagery is so gorgeous. like the dusty road lined by chains, thats just fantastic. its stirring imagery, it really is. a road of chains leading to the tower

[@leeadamson5504]

The ancient Númenórean outpost of orthanc that saruman took over in T.A. 2953 when sauron returned. Great video big fan of fall your videos and all things Tolkien related.

[@orclover2353]

Jeezus, this is fantastic. I can imagine you running a university course on tolkien, linguistics, lore and its interaction with video games.

[@communist-hippie]

Your lore videos are sent from heaven

[@martinschlosser9982]

Thank you Very much Galu, for making these lore videos. I really enjoy them. Ressently i am recovering from a hand surgery, and the videos are perfect for my walks. Pls keep them comming..

[@tum_tums]

This was a great video! Very well researched and put together, as always.

[@kyleshore9591]

Aragorn touched it also to distract Sauron's gaze to Morannon.

[@irawain4858]

Hey if I know the lore rightly only 4 stones are left accessible 1.Minas ithil stone 2.Minas anor stone 3.Orthank stone 4. The stone that's set into a tower in the tower hills but I do know two of the stones were lost to the waters of middle earth 1.the osgiliath stone was lost during the many attacks on osgiliath 2. The anuminas stone was lost when the king got on a boat against the council of a sage up north

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

Through most of the 1950's the US President was one Dwight D Eisenhower. That last name was German and meant "Iron Hewere [monger, maker, etc]"

[@Ragnarok6664]

Sounds like a fascinating place to live, Angmar & Minas Morgul are on a similar level

[@siamath9954]

I wanted to post this under the next DaC video, but I'm going to put it here, before I forget: Concerning the Ered Luin script, there was a request to give each choice more of a benefit. I was thinking about it since I've been playing EL and Erebor recently and I had two ideas for a possible benefit for rejecting the rings. First, you could get access to a few units of the other Eriador factions in Thorin's Halls as a sort of thank you, like Erebor gets Dalian Woodsmen, Dale Cavalry and (I think) Woodland Scouts. Especially I think getting access to Merchant Cavalry would be neat, since you are in dire need of mobile troops to run down fleeing enemies or bind archers. Secondly, instead you could get access to a unique general. Lets say Erebor is impressed with your fortitude and wisdom to reject the rings and thus sends Dwalin (maybe with a custom bodyguard like Axeguard) to reconnect a bit more with their western brothers.

[@Mik870]

What happened to your old lore videos? I loved listening to your 1st age lore videos about the valar

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[@Monarch395]

your conversational style is great, you're lotr's dan carlin

[@Pinkerton000]

I want to make one tiny correction, which you might already be aware of and maybe you just misspoke: Westron is NOT English. Rather, Westron is the language that Tolkien "translated" into English. Thus, many of the common tongue names for places and things that we are aware of are not actually the names by which they are known in Middle Earth. This is because a word like Rivendell is an English translation of the "original" Westron name, which is "Karningul". Even names of people are translated into English, or rather English versions of the names. For instance, "Frodo" comes from the old English "Frod", meaning "wise by experience", and "Baggins" is probably either a reference to Bag End (an English translation) or "Bagging", which can be used in northern England to mean "eating between meals". Thus, it is English based. The original Westron name of Frodo Baggins is actually "Maura Labingi". Similarly, Rohirric as presented to the reader is not the same as the actual language in lore. It is rendered as a version of old Anglo-Saxon English in order to represent to the reader its linguistic ties to Westron, which is rendered to the reader as modern English.

[@Pinkerton000]

One more correction: One Ent did die in the battle of Isengard. Beechbone was burnt by a flame from Saruman himself. His death just really pissed off the rest of the Ents, though.

[@JunoNH]

You are going more ASMR every video

[@boobacockaa]

Disagree.

[@dejananaful]

Guys, can someone help me please. I tried to install DaCV3 but cant run it, because it opens an error which says: echo ERROR: Cannot find the M2TW or Kingdoms executable. What can i do?

[@zekecampesino]

Followed all the instructions for DaC and still having unspecified error crashes whenever I try to manually fight battles, custom and campaign. Did it correctly the first time, uninstalled and reinstalled, and tried every thing I could find to troubleshoot the issue. The only one that I couldn't find was that my Med2 didn't have a file in the Virtual Storage folder. Also I think the issue may stem from my games being the original discs and not the steam versions, but also I haven't been able to find this specific issue being brought up. Any advice is welcome and appreciated...

[@zekecampesino]

@@imnotyourbuddyguy9713 yep on both exe game files. Still crashes with any battles, although sometimes it'll let me start the battle and then it crashes. Idk if that helps

[@grunurstracquadanio1798]

Hi, what about a goblin of moria campaign?

[@jeremyh2305]

Perfect timing.

[@loukes116]

Hey man, just some feedback. I much preferred the LOTR music, that made it much more magical.

[@samoppedisano3994]

Loukes copyright

[@juakohiphop]

What happened with the other videos

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[@Drimil3]

Did you deleted you videos about melkor, sauron, the istari and stuff?

[@R-es5pg]

I think those are unlisted.

[@johanlindgren5801]

what have you done with your old lore videos i liked them, why remove them

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[@johanlindgren5801]

@ OK my bad I didn't realize you had just moved them around a bit. thanks, I thought you had needlessly removed them. keep it up mate and have a good one. :D

[@ep5019]

what about an alternate story you can choose where Saruman stays good

[@eveningstar7048]

Great video but the way you say Éoþéod irks me lmao

[@eveningstar7048]

I will say though your elocution is so much better than half the people making this type of video

How do you say it?

[@eveningstar7048]

@ /e͜oθe͜oːd/ the second diphthong is pronounced just like the first, "ay-oh-thay-od", although more like an open "ay", less palatal.

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

Saruman's original name (in Valinor) was actually Curumo, not Curunír. Video is ruined. (Okay, maybe not.)

[@jakeatohio]

Saruman also had a secret weed stash. If you really want to get a lot of views, make a video called Marijuana in Middle Earth. It would be hilarious XD

[@valantheflame0193]

First

[@adrianmtz8947]

bruh...

[@wtrdawnlord]

Well it's certainly obvious you don't follow a script for your videos. Too bad. Maybe if you did you wouldn't seem so rambling and unsure of what to say.

The rambling is what has been lauded the most about my lore videos. I think, perhaps, they are not for you.

[@wtrdawnlord]

@ Well then I'm glad others enjoy your style of delivery for some reason, even if it disagrees with me. Still, to each their own, and you are absolutely correct. They aren't for me, but thank you for the courtesy of actually responding to my comment. I hope you continue to do well without regard for how I might feel about your delivery.

[@wtrdawnlord]

@ Because you said your delivery is what has been most praised, I looked at all the comments here, just curious if any did applaud that point. Granted an anecdotal sampling from what is obviously quite a collection of videos. I didn't see any that lauded your "rambling" but one definitely enjoyed your "conversational" style which I will take to be essentially the same, but obviously without any potential air of negativity. It seems your delivery isn't for what they "...[have] been most lauded...." Of course there were plenty that praised your videos in general. I'm very pleased that so many do enjoy them even if I can't.

@@wtrdawnlord Thanks I suppose.