LOTR: The Return of the King - The Missing Information

Alas, Tolkien saying "shut up" is actually a fake. Shame because it is the best response to the eagle question. Also, the question about Smeagol is why is he so addicted to the ring initially. Not why he is addicted to it after having used it for 500 years: I thought that was fairly self-explanatory.

[@davidp7178]

One factor was Smeagol began by taking the ring and killing Deagol. Bilbo began by showing mercy by not killing Gollum in the tunnel.

[@Bradley_UA]

@@davidp7178 Yeah, but why was the ring able to make smeagol kill, and not bilbo?

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@Bradley_UA I think it should be understood that Smeagol already had a rotten side to him; the ring amplified it immediately. Bilbo and others didn't have the same degree of rot already in them.

[@Kaliayep]

Seeing finally the end of the road on this youtube channel brings a feeling of sad peace to me - it has been a grand pleasure to watch the vidéos and listen to the lorecasts during these years. I bid you farewell Arachîr, and I wish you both a good life :)

[@MrHelllllloooooo]

Its sad to hear this is farewell, your videos have done alot for me in the past and still do, they help bring some sunshine to a rather cloudy life, so thank you verymuch for all the time you put into the channel. Happy Holidays from Ontario Canada!

[@pinie111]

Well met indeed. Much love and well wishes !

[@Antipius]

Insane... at last, it happens! I've been watching this channel for over 4 years now - and seeing a channel just formally end is so weird, after so long. Been an amazing ride! Thank you for all the amazing content and for this last, delightful series of videos. Best of luck to you in life and career. Cheers :)

[@jaking1185]

It will be sad to see you go. Have a happy life!

[@danyrose1697]

Never clicked on a video so quick. Ill be soooo sad to see you go but I hope you have a lovely life after KZbin and you continue in your career. Thank you, Mellon. ❤

[@erikakirkbride1485]

I'm not a gamer, but a passionate LOTR books fan (and Tolkien's other books & bits) and I've really enjoyed the lorecasts. I wish you the best with your endeavors and hope to hear your lovely voice again some time in the future. Fare well, both of you 🌳

[@arbarad7393]

This channel has been such a joy to watch, thank you for the years of content. Wish you the best!

[@maciejsochacki9534]

I am going to miss this channel, the content, and most of all the 3 main stars (Galu, Jess and the cat) I have learned allot from you, both LORT-related but also other things. I will always think of this channel when I do/read/watch something LOTR related. Thank you for the great time! And good luck and best of wishes in your lives. You all deserve it!

[@protozoanpro]

Thank you for everything Galu. Namárië! nai hiruvalyë Valimar, navaer mellon nin. I’ll miss your knowledge and talks about every day things. Never change and best wishes in “retirement”!!

[@lukeoreilly7518]

Farewell Galu your videos have been a wonderful source of entertainment. I found your channel during lockdown when I was living alone for university and your videos helped keep my spirits up. Again farewell and may life be good to you Slán agus go raibh maith agat a chara

[@joelincz8314]

The end of an era! Thank you both, once in a while I will happily come back and watch or re-watch something ( A classic Galu rant about the hobbit would have been so much fun!)

[@baggelis_aikaterinis]

Thank you for the entertainment !

[@tankerbrosgaming6556]

Farewell, I'm been around since Dac 1.1 I believe and enjoyed your content. Got me into DAC and learned so much about the lord of the rings that is didn't know

[@AnthonyJones-us3bh]

You were by far my favorite Tolkien expert. Sad to see you go. Blessings on your next venture.

[@blinkrush6101]

Grief over you leaving, but also hope for your future. Have a fantastic life Galu. “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace!”

[@leumnewman8772]

The door has finally lead back to where it began. How far and long this journey has been!

[@micahembree2480]

Thank you all so much for contributing to my love for all things Tolkien. Everything from Third Age: Divide and Conquer to your reviews and discussions about Middle-earth related content. It has been wonderful to hear your thoughts and elaborations on these topics and it saddens me to see it end. Although your main content won't continue, I hope that knowing that I and many others have benefited greatly from your content is an encouragement. Farewell to you (both of you). Namárië, you will be missed.

[@JimRiven]

You will be missed. Good luck to both of you, I wish you nothing but happiness in the future. And thank you for years of content that I still regularly watch. Goodbye Galu.

[@TETASARAIVACS]

“I regret to announce this is the end”

[@hurryupharryg]

Noooo!! Jess you have to find something else for him to do videos for 😂

[@Catstecc]

Sad to see you go. Goodbye Galu

[@lokenontherange]

I think it's implied that part of the reason that Frodo has such an easy time with the ring is because it was voluntarily given to him, unlike Gollum who killed for it.

[@etsolomon6709]

Galu I started watching you in 6th grade (the begging of middle school here in the US) and it’s fitting now that it ends on my last year in high school. Your channel has been a comfort to me through adolescence and I enjoyed your videos immensely. I hope you have success and happiness going forward. May the wind always be at your back. -Elijah Solomon

[@manfrommontreal]

Thank you forever for the great content, it was a pleasure. Farewell!

[@mikeinva8563]

Thank you for your videos. I am sorry to hear this is the last.

[@treebrunk8294]

Thank you for everything.

[@hglundahl]

7:03 I would say it means they fade away as to materiality, grow more wraithlike in make up, though obviously not necessarily damned or near damned as the Ringwraiths. That would explain elven or elfin appearances later on where they need to be in their Sidhes to fully materialise. The elves of Tolkien are not just meant to be homonyms to the elves of folklore, but to be Tolkien's version of explanatory background. As my Susan Pevensie fan fic has her, Audoin Errol (I had the names of father and son turned around), and the godmother of Uncle Andrew all be of fairy origin, and as Tolkien's version is rejected as incorrect, I have a chapter where she and her upcoming husband Audoin Errol are discussing "what are faires" ...

[@russellhammond7943]

Oh I’m so sad it’s the last video

[@theyesofthedevil]

Thanks so much! I've enjoyed every minute of you videos. It's been a pleasure. Take it easy mate. All the best

[@hunsler1006]

Yeah that Christopher Lee story is true, and the team he was in was the inspiration to James Bond. Of which Christopher Lee was a relation to the author Ian Flemming. Honestly Christopher Lee's wiki page or life story is just one of the most interesting things you'll ever read.

[@sebastianellinghaus5025]

Thank you very much for all those years of entertainment. Live long and prosper.

[@denizifran3676]

the C. Lee story is from an interview with PJ.

[@vincentkhatibi1439]

Farewell Galu. Thank you so much for the joy and knowledge you have provided us all with. I really do hope that everything will go well formyou and your wife! (The cat too) Again thank you very much and you are always welcome to post videos in the future, I will for sure watch them and I will rewatch old videos as well, cause they that good. Farewell Arachir Galudirithon. Good luck /Ortherion

[@arthurdaffos1490]

Well, it's been a good journey! I Hope you will be living some merry times with your wife!

[@hglundahl]

23:05 Tolkien answered it. In Valinors, ringbearers would like anyone else eventually die. But, Valinor would provide them with a healing they cannot get in this world and would need before they die.

I do enjoy when people comment an answer that I give in the video. Just make your own video dude.

[@hglundahl]

@ Do not have the means. I use my youtube channel for commenting, have no camera or cell phone.

[@ericfiedler5506]

A formal ending. Actually sad :( dont break my heart like this

[@maxgrozema1093]

Goodbye Galu!

[@neloangelo84]

Oh wow not been on the channel for the last 2 years and when I finally come back you've literally announced you're not going to continue.. alas it was meant to be. Farewell and thank you for all your history of middle earth videos

[@Syaniiti]

I've had a knife in my thigh, no screaming involved mostly shock.

[@AragornGhost15]

I think Smeagol is much more ring corrupted easily because he started his possession of the Ring by killing a friend and with bad motivations. When Bilbo started his possession of the Ring, he did the opposite by letting Gollum live.

[@Benson8554]

There are many videos on here with Christopher Lee and Peter Jackson talking about the stab in the back scene

[@lcdcstudios]

godspeed

[@TETASARAIVACS]

Gandalf himself was prohibited by the Valar of using the whole of his power. They were afraid they would destroy Middle Earth again if they meddled directly with its affairs.

[@TETASARAIVACS]

Smeagol had owned the Ring for centuries, that’s why he’s so affected by It

[@hglundahl]

3:47 I think I saw the interview, and he stabbed several Nazis in revenge for what had happened during the war ...

[@bradleysmith7170]

No questions from Cirith Ungol, the Battle of Pelennor Fields, Shelob, so much untold broken lore/cannon. Crazy. Also, I know this is your last content video, but you guys should do content videos on the animated LOTR, Return of the King and the Hobbit movies. That would be a lot of fun.

[@Tar-Elenion]

Tolkien had several variants on the aging of Elves to adulthood including 1 year to 1 year, 1 to 3, 1 to 12 and even 1 to 144. He seems to have settled on the shorter rather than longer aging process for childhood (though I get the impression that he really wanted the longer childhood, he ran into problems with various set in stone dates for characters). Elves are fully adult by 24 sun years and then slow down to a 1 to 144 years aging process They don't get 'elderly', but rather after a great length* of time start to 'fade' or 'diminish', with the spirit (fea) consuming the body (hroa). *In one place he suggest the process starts (almost imperceptibly) after 96 'life years' (over 10,000 sun years) while in another it is 120 (almost 14,000).

[@Kalstorm22]

Great video!

[@KazzoKiller3890]

Bro, you talk to her like how a child thinks adults talk to children

[@TETASARAIVACS]

Faramir is one of the most impressive characters of all. Denethor loved more Boromir, although Faramir was more like the father, having “more of the blood of Numenor” than his brother.

[@TETASARAIVACS]

It’s said that Celeborn was the last Elf to leave Middle Earth

[@OKmusic12]

So sad. Enjoy your rest.

[@BernddasBrotB7]

Morgoth was booted out into the Void, which is just space. As a result, I always find it funny that Morgoth is therefore floating around somewhere and the Valar have just made him someone else's problem! And considering we know from The Notion Club Papers that there are aliens in the universe...

[@BernddasBrotB7]

Also, surprised Jess didn't ask about Pelennor Fields. My word Jackson butchered that.

[@hglundahl]

0:19 I can absolutely relate to your wanting to spend hours at home with her over making youtubes!

[@TETASARAIVACS]

Minas Morgul was made of white stone, but had this ominous greenish glow, mostly because of some kind of “evil magic”, something that poisoned the stream that passed around the Dead City. That moment in which it shone like a beacon, it was an answer to a previous signal that came from the Mount of Doom: first as an earthquake that the Hobbits could feel, then a sudden red flash that painted in crimson all the mountains around them, and finally a great crack of thunder (apparently a volcanic eruption) “And Minas Morgul answered. There was a flare of livid lightings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The earth groaned; and out of the city there came a cry. Mingled with harsh high voices as of birds of prey, and the shrill neighing of horses wild with rage and fear, there came a rending screech, shivering, rising swiftly to a piercing pitch beyond the range of hearing.” (BOOK FOUR, CHAPTER 8: THE STAIRS OF CIRITH UNGOL) And after that, the gates of Minas Morgul opened and Sauron’s army left for battle

You know, the point of these videos is to explain things simply. "the light let Sauron know Minas Morgul was ready" is better than three paragraphs from the book. Just tell people to read the book rather than pasting paragraphs.

[@rodharrison3752]

@ I'm going to miss this sort if fiestiness so much. It was always my favorite part of your channel, you can tell that you love the lore but you don't put it on a pedestal and are fine with explaining things from the book as simple truths. Hopefully some time away will reinvigorate you too cover season 2 of rings of power with Jesse as those videos near the end of season one had some hilarious moments. And if not, I wish you a great life, thank you for all the amazing videos.

[@P4GYY]

Wow, no way are you leaving :o damn dude thats a shame, ima miss u tbh

[@FishBoneD14]

Goodbye. You’ve been wonderful.❤

[@stevenfalada8659]

Hahahahahhaha immediately hates on her question

[@PlayinOcean]

You promised us 40 minutes! :(

[@rowanpdx]

I believe he finished the video neither late nor early, but precisely when he meant to.

[@grouchymax6451]

We all know she's the reason.

About 17 times I should think.

[@radagast7200]

Removing the Scouring is still my biggest disappointment with those amazing films. I get why they did it, they were worried about an 'anti-immigrant undertone' or something. and "I don't know why... but it makes me sad.""

[@HBPhD]

o7

[@TotalWar305]

That Tolkien interview where he says shut up is a deepfake

[@lcdcstudios]

these videos are literally the best solution to getting your gf to not ask questions 50 times throughout the films

[@tankerbrosgaming6556]

First in the last video