Founding of Númenor and Crafting of the Rings - Timeline of Arda #10

The beginning of the Second Age of Arda saw the creation of Númenor and the foundation of many Elven realms in Middle-earth, before the Noldor went on to create the Rings of Power. Thank you all so much for watching, let me know your thoughts about this part of the Timeline of Arda in the comments below! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!
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[@_Dovar_]

These pictures are so wonderful. Imagine actually being in such beautiful place in real life... Transcendent.

[@ghostdreamer7272]

1600 years of peace. Thinking of it, Elros basically ruled Numenor as long as the entire history of the First Age from the first rising of the Sun to the War of Wrath. So too did Sauron pretend to be Annatar before the One Ring was revealed, about 400 years.

[@thevoidlookspretty7079]

I like to think that Sauron spent 100 years alone thinking of the name “Anatar.”

[@MenoftheWest]

😂

[@Alexs.2599]

Haha good one. He probably did, the bastard.

[@alexv3357]

And then spent the next 100 years ruing how evil it made him sound

[@Alexs.2599]

@@alexv3357 Bingo exactly.

[@UnholyWrath3277]

Picture him with a little notebook pausing like. "Ooh ya that's good"

[@brycecheng193]

So many timelines in history, it would take a lifetime to learn all of this.

[@muhammadsadiq-gb5tp]

Tolkien did it in decades

[@MohammadAli-fq6bx]

And it's totally worth it.

[@lmatt88]

Yeah specially the first age is very confusing

[@fmarshal557]

Excellent video, I’m pleased that I’ve found a place to further explore the LOTR universe, 47 years after reading it for the first time.

[@shadowofchaos8932]

I always wished to see the Grey Havens under Cirdan the Shipwrights leadership in its peak of the Second Age.

[@DragonoidBerserker1]

We might see that in the LOTR Amazon series

[@MohammadAli-fq6bx]

Cirdan had Narya ring but he was not as mighty as Gladriel or Gilgalad. 🤷🏻‍♂️☺️

[@MohammadAli-fq6bx]

@@DragonoidBerserker1 I swear if it is made I would switch to Amazon prime from Netflix.

[@MohammadAli-fq6bx]

@Patrick B I would agree that Netflix doesn't have good quality content now maybe due to covid-19 that moving pictures' industry has suffered globally, however, I don't understand the legal reasons for releasing on digital platforms that largely remain deregulated.

[@eduardoparedes1460]

They should make an RPG where you can explore 1st and 2nd Age Numenor and can sail to Middle Earth, Elder Scrolls style. Valinor can be within sight but can not be reached, as an ultimate tease. Who am I kidding? Modders will crack the barrier to access Valinor in no time. 😂😂😂

[@Transilvanian90]

The fact that there isn't a true open-world LOTR game like Skyrim is a crime.

[@danielchristensen7161]

Great video as always! I appreciate how you point out places where the history of Arda is unknown, uncertain, or has competing views. You present the evidence, make a good argument for the most likely answer, but let your viewers make the judgement for themselves also. I like that a lot. This really helps us see that LOTR is not just telling a story but writing a "history" as it were. This gives these tales so much more depth and makes them all the more enjoyable.

[@CarthagoMike]

Always nice seeing a new upload at 3am in the morning. Time to abandon sleep, get a cup of coffee, and enjoy the video.

[@Alexs.2599]

Thanks for this video my friend. Numenor has always fascinated me. I always wondered what the third age and beyond would have been like if a surviving Numenor had endured with the faithful in charge.

[@Darwyn4321]

The Second Age is my favorite age of the Legendarium. I always love listening to you talk about this time period, especially Numenor.

[@bullionsean456]

Sauron: "Hi, I'm Anatar." Elrond: "Who?" Sauron: "Anatar, Lord of Gifts" Elrond: "Lord of what?" Sauron: "Gifts" Elrond: "What kind of gifts??" Sauron: "....uhhh, the good kind?" Elrond: "GTFOOH Sauron, pos. Hah, Lord of Gifts! gimme a break. SMH"

[@hudsonball4702]

I don't know if you've done something like this or not, but I'd like to see a video about the sky of middle earth. stars, constellations, space, the moon, the sun. night and day, and other unique aspects of the sky of this world.

[@Weezii668]

Hudson Ball : Becca Tarnas has done some Tolkien astrology. Quite interesting. Cheers, Mellon 😊

[@roberthofmann8403]

I always figured the stars were the same back then.

[@TheMarcHicks]

Here is a possible "What if" for a future video. What if Sauron had undergone the justice of the Valar at the end of the First Age? Or what if Numenor hadn't succumbed to the corruption of Sauron?

[@AmiraMekki]

Great video! Doesn't matter how many times I read the silmarillion it never gets old and watching videos about it always feels like new.

[@simonfraser3906]

Always love starting my week with a journey back into Middle-earth!

[@NerdoftheRings]

Great topic for LOTRonPrime prep!! Well done, as always, Yoystan!

[@MenoftheWest]

Thanks Matt, I appreciate it man!

[@matthewrickard7609]

Cant wait to see this stuff in the TV show

[@FoxieShay]

Hope you've been safe! Im so glad for you doing these videos!! My father and I have been rewatching a few(more like 30+) of your videos and recently started this series and are super excited for these!!

[@MenoftheWest]

Thank you Molly, I wish the same for you! And thank you and your father for the support, my friend!

[@FoxieShay]

@@MenoftheWest Thank goodness in my state we have limited cases and in my town its little to none! Im glad you're safe and of course!! You deserve the support💛

[@ChiaraSiasat]

Great way to end my evening! The 2nd age is definitely one of the most interesting of the Legendarium. I look forward to the second part of this series!

[@raz1684]

I agree, I hope the Lord of the Rings Amazon series does the second age justice

[@ChiaraSiasat]

RazzerBlade with their production budget, I hope they do as well.. not just visually but story development and character development.

[@r.blakehole932]

RazzerBlade Yes. But, given the recent history of Hollyweird and Disney and their bastardizing of great storytelling brands....I have GREAT trepidation about Amazon's treatment of the Second Age. GREAT TREPIDATION AND CONCERN!

[@bibleverses5908]

Thank you so much for your time for us, God bless you my friend ❤️❤️❤️

[@Scott.W.Brown0]

I've always wished Tolkien had written more tales set in the 2nd age, particular about the doings of the Númenoreans.

[@marionbaggins]

Wow, already in the Second Age, Bring It On Yoystan...Bring It On!!! While watching this, I am thinking more about the Podcast you did with History of Middle Earth about the TV Series and what it will be like...the time jumps and all of this time period in the second age!!! Thanks, Mellon for starting the Begining of a New Era, *age #2* Until the Final Two Towers What's Different...Marion Baggins Out!!!

[@orrointhewise87]

“You are one of the Dunedine; a descendent of Numenor, blessed with long life. It was said that your passed into legend” The greatest kingdom of men, I always like how the story of numenor started; strong, proud, full of honor and valor. It did take me a couple times to get all the names and kings of men straight from this point on 😂 Too many for my taste Even tho I know what happens can’t wait for the next installment 😁

[@jessetheunending9357]

I absolutely love your takeaways from these stories! You are a beacon of hope in dark days. Well meet, and well said Yostan!

[@srimadhumithra2330]

A great addition to the ongoing timeline of Arda. Amazing, Yoystan, Storyteller of Arda. May the Valar watch over you always..🙏☺☺

[@otaku-sempai2197]

It seems, according to LotR Appendix A's discussion of Eriador, that not all the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains emigrated to Khazad-dum. It is written there that at least some Dwarves remained, especially in the southern Ered Luin where they still had working mines. Sauron did not distribute any of the Great Rings to Dwarves or Men until after the War of the Elves and Sauron when he recovered all but the Three Rings of the Elves that were crafted by Celebrimbor.

[@MenoftheWest]

Indeed! I saw that when I was doing some research as well! But I wonder if they were Broadbeams and Firebeards, or if they were Longbeards, or if they were all three? I think there were always Dwarves in those mountains, but the vast amounts of the Broadbeams and Firebeards migrated away. Thank you for mentioning that here, my friend!

[@otaku-sempai2197]

@@MenoftheWest I don't think that any significant number of Durin's Folk dwelt in the Blue Mountains until after the War of the Dwarves and Orcs when Thrain II led his people there in T.A. 2802(?). Any Dwarves living there before that time would have been Broadbeams and/or Firebeards.

[@adrianciobanu5856]

Sauron dont have power in Palisor wheare 4 dwarths Clans live with avar elfs this region is under Fankil most important leuthenant of melkor for coruption of mens

[@otaku-sempai2197]

​@@adrianciobanu5856 I would think that by the end of the Third Age, Sauron had pretty firm control of all of the East of Middle-earth (though the Blue Wizards might have succeeded in undermining his power to some extent). It seems unlikely that the Rhunic Dwarves entirely resisted Sauron's corruption; nor do we know how well the Avari Elves fared under the dominion of Sauron and his servants. If Fankil survived into Tolkien's later writings, as a servant of Melkor, he would have been long dead by the time that Sauron rose back to power in the Second Age.

[@Steel-101]

Ahhhh this is perfect 👌🏼. I’m just gonna sit back relax, drink a root beer 🍺, and watch this lore video. Great job man!! Awesome video!! 👍🏼

[@michaelpace99]

This was actually my favorite part of The Silmarillion

[@Kenneb]

Your videos always helps me to calm down and truly relax! Thank you for your amazing work✨

[@IronDragon-2143]

It's interesting how Tolkien worked it into the story how Sauron exploited the Elves and their desires to protect and preserve what they loved to advance his evil plans.

[@varryan3315]

You fill up our nights and mornings,hantanyel Yoystan

[@77777Spooky]

I want a LOTR series that is just a crew on a ship from Numenor, exploring Middle-Earth star trek style.

[@morgothbauglir8687]

I personally really enjoyed reading about the story of Aldarion and Erendis

[@Gwilfawe]

Nice one, Spooky

[@generoberts9151]

I hope that LOTR TV series stays true to the canon. There is so much material. The rise and fall of Numenor will be prominent, but I would like to see the foundation and fall of Moria as well.

[@tylersoto7465]

Yes and a game building and explore a empire building colonies

[@sano3813]

Its a good day to learn in this time of quarantine

[@claptonhousecat8092]

Just saw your new video and as always professional informative and motivating. Grabbed silmarillion with renewed determination to walk my way through more. Awesome job! Thank you!

[@reencollett6835]

Hi Clapton. I also [at my advanced age] found it hard going - kept mixing up the characters' names and had to dash from glossary back to story - then I put it on a doc. and used Bold and Underlining to sort things out, and it worked well. I could do my own indenting etc...too. (While I'm not into Elven Rituals or learning Runes, The Silmarillion is vastly more meaningful and fun than the Old Testament.......so excommunicate me!!)...... love from W. Province, SA. And Thanks Yoystan ---What a breath of oxygen you are and all your excellent artists in this bad old world!

[@plamen2530]

Could you do a video about Fingolfin?

[@prussianeagle1941]

Thank you so much, I've always wondered about the rings and exactly what happened/when they were made :)

[@geviesanta3631]

Good evening Yoystan!! 😊

[@MenoftheWest]

Good evening, my friend!

[@dacsfrancis]

Great video again!

[@mitchmiller6366]

Another Sunday night at the Green Dragon 🐉🍻

[@shadowlight39]

Much love from Mexico!

[@MrRaisinBran]

You have made my commute so much more bearable every morning with this series. I'm sad that I will now have to wait for more, but you're doing great work with it.

[@ErelasInglor]

Hmm, the 2nd Age is indeed less dense without a thorough narrative of the UT. :)

[@shadowcloudspher5149]

Boromir: "One does not simply walk into the lord of the rings."

[@Toviyah]

I hope this will be a great video I love the numerians and there island yostan I hope I spelled your name right anyways I was wondering what your thinks on minas morgul if it stayed evil after Sauron death or would it return to it old self minas Ithil anyways i always look to Sunday for your videos may we stand MEN OF THE westerness

[@geethakarthikeyani2356]

Yes!

[@MenoftheWest]

Thanks for the support, my friend! I think Minas Ithil was remade anew, and the evil of Minas Morgul was torn down!

[@Toviyah]

Men of the West thank you

[@kossend1]

After the War of the Ring Aragorn had the city destroyed as there was still an evil stain on it from it's time as Minas Morgul. I think Yoystan will correct me if I'm wrong here, but if I recall correctly Aragorn entrusted Faramir with this task as he was now the first Prince of Ithilien and the tower overlooked that region. Eventually the city was rebuilt as Minas Ithil but I don't think the "when" is specified (again Yoystan may correct me here).

[@MenoftheWest]

@@kossend1 I believe you have the right of it, my friend!

[@morgandavid6908]

Excellent episode. And as always i learned something. Thank you for your time and effort.

[@dakotashomaker8812]

I love this channel. It's the best break from toxicity on KZbin. Thank you, sir, for this channel.

[@jackthehumanofficial]

CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT TIMELINE OF ARDA VIDS! THANK YOU YOURE A LEGEND 🙏

[@krakentacos]

Please continue to dig deep into the Silmarillion. 👏👏👏

[@johnhanifin1952]

Greetings men of the west

[@MenoftheWest]

Hey!

[@Tyrfingr]

Greetings from the North

[@skzanarchist]

great and informative video as always yoystan!!

[@goldeviolets4314]

Great as Always! Love this series ❤️

[@chefitaly7339]

I can’t wait for the next one man! Great job

[@jaxpink4555]

this channel makes reading the books so much more engaging!

[@spaceace3048]

Very nicely done! :D

[@WillDavid93]

Another very engaging video!!

[@Matli1804]

I’ve been waiting a long time for this good job as always

[@sethmiller2534]

I mean...a certain ring may be starting to be crafted for you...if you’d say yes of course

[@knightonart8886]

This is the stuff that needs to be in Amazon's show

[@geethakarthikeyani2356]

Great men of the west. Lotr is my life

[@geethakarthikeyani2356]

Thankyou men of the west

[@geethakarthikeyani2356]

I love your channel so much

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Welcome, your videos are awesome

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Its a very complex work to collect each and every information.Thankyou

[@user-sd7ri9fy4i]

Nice work dude thanks

[@michaelbarasciutti1224]

Please continue this series, i love it :)

[@tomassalinas3331]

We need a series only on the Numenorians! Such a mighty race, so mighty that even Sauron surrendered to them immediately! Or was that part of his plan? Lol

[@tommypepper1796]

Hi Men of the West

[@Chris-fd9sg]

Of all the downfalls in the legendarium I find the downfall of Numenor the saddest. Not sure why, maybe because it involves men.

[@timonsolus]

Chris Wilcox : Perhaps because it was the most unnecessary and most avoidable downfall of the Children of Iluvatar. It was the only great kingdom of Elves or Men that destroyed itself (although Sauron’s treachery greatly accelerated its end, it was not the root cause.)

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

Numenor and Gondolin both sadden me, though in different ways. Gondolin feels more tragic, Numenor feels like the loss of wisdom and knowledge.

[@Chris-fd9sg]

Tim Smith I think this is it. Nice insight.

[@beatleblev]

Perhaps because it was an island of heroes, who had taken a stand with their Firstborn kin against the overwhelming Darkness of Morgoth. Perhaps because there was so much potential for good. The Numenoreans were given every gift the Valar could offer. It was Aman for the Dunedain. Their flora and fauna came from Aman delivered by Maiar. They were instructed by Eonwe himself. The Valar even "cheated" as much as they could and gave the Men of the West long life. In the end, the only thing that the Kingsmen of Numenor wanted was the one gift the Valar did not have the authority to give. Tolkien's lesson is clear: even if there existed a greater, more gifted subrace of men, they would still be subject to all of the shortcomings of pride, hubris, wrath, and envy that all of the Children of Eru must wrestle with every day.

[@tylersoto7465]

It's like listening to the list city of Atlantis story very inspiring but sad

[@hughgedney3393]

A very extremely great video as always Men of the West.

[@alexs4392]

“What’s different” coming soon for return of the king?

[@johnpatricktan5545]

interesting video

[@farahahmed8201]

When is the next timeline of arda video coming out I love these

[@philipcallado5693]

Can't wait for the Amazon series! The concept artist is the same guy who did the LOTR movies, John Howe.

[@thesarkive7746]

I love that were all friends

[@TLM860]

This needs to be in history class!

[@winniolanimus138]

But what happened in all these regions within the first age? Were Eriador and Rhovannion of no importance during the plot of the silmarillion? When exactly did the dwarves settle in Khazad Dum?

[@MrOmnistar]

In the Unfinished Tales, there is an account that Olorin (Gandalf) brought the original elfstone back from Valinor and gave it to Galadriel with the prophecy that she would eventually give it to one who bore its name, Aragorn Elessar.

[@mcriley08]

I'm not sure where else to ask this but what program is used to make these video presentations?

[@camcamcam91]

Hey man love the vids :) i have a ?: not sureif ever answered but, Why does Bilbo never end up looking like Smeagle ? or start gaining his habits? How long did smeagle have the ring? Just find it curious that Biblo never transformed.

[@animalmuther4000]

Hi, just wondering did it take long for Beleriand to sink? I mean did people drowned or did everyone get out.?

[@arnebenne]

I hope all this info shines in the Amazon Show please...

[@randomshit308]

Yoystan, do you think you'll ever make a video on the oath of Feanor?

[@rick9977015]

Is this the age that the prequals in pre-production are gonna be based on? I am so looking forward to that.

[@jonasaho6722]

it is important to have timelines through which to reflect, what has happened and why. This sort of timelines have tendency to leave me with irritating itch to check many things that have only been implied in them. Deep roots have many things in Arda on the foundations on which many things are build are ancient. In this part of the timeline we can see beginning of the many things, that are important during the War of the Ring. It also gives us further nsight on Sauron and on scale of effort he put in his quest to rule them all. Though the title was self given Lord of the Gifts earned it as well.

[@briandhaze5906]

Wohoo! First viewer! Mae govannen, Yoysten!

[@caseyrayharris.esquire489]

Aw man I was hoping to hear how the world goes from flat to round.

[@Halbared]

I really like that 3D relief of Arda, where is it from?

[@rafaelfarias4359]

9:39 Celebrimbor look absolutelly buff in this art

[@thepallghost6443]

Could you do what-if Thingol didn't ask for a Silmaril? I feel he only died because he was wrapped up with the Doom of Mandos, and it would be interesting if he survived to the second age

[@heraldapostol8514]

Another video about middle earth

[@jaylars4176]

If I'm not mistaken Narsil was forged by a dwarf who's name I don't remember for Elendil the tall (Isildor's father arguably the more famous Elendil) I could be wrong that's just off the top of my head.

[@beatleblev]

It was forged in the 1st Age by Telchar of Nogrod, who is also famous for the dagger, Angrist, that Beren used to cut a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth. Telchar is perhaps the second best weaponsmith of all of the Children (adopted or not) of Eru.

[@mizcaesar1804]

I'm early 😂

[@mizcaesar1804]

Hearted my comment, absolute CHAD

[@TheSaneHatter]

Here's a question that never occurred to me before: why DIDN'T Sauron know about the three Elven Rings, since he supposedly was going to use this strategy to conquer all the Free Peoples? And why did he forge the One Ring before, as far as he knew, getting the Elves to make rings?

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

I recently started wondering: what would have happened if Sam didn't come back for Frodo? (Aka what if Gollum would have won)

[@tommypepper1796]

Who likes The Children of Hùrin? 🙋

[@rasmusslettemo7234]

**everyone liked that**

[@trevorp8124]

Children of Hurin (or at least, the ending) is the perfect remedy to being in a good mood.

[@Toviyah]

Me

[@Alexs.2599]

I do, I have it. Love it. It's the only book that is complete of the three that Christopher Tolkien published of his father's main body of work of the first age.

[@penelopegreene]

Yes.

[@luisfer14240]

👍🏻

[@EricM93]

When will people realize that the Silmarillion is real history, that Numenor was atlantis, both were real, and ended in a single cataclysm at the end of the last Ice Age. That the helcaraxe was the remnants of the ice sheet used to cross back to Europe after North America was wiped out by this event - when 80% of large mammals died across the continent. When will men and women remember their beautiful - if painful at times - history on this planet and start treating each other better. When will they remember their true purpose in this realm? To bring beauty to this wonderous universe that has somehow come to be from the initial quantum vibrations that tolkien so eloquently labels the "ainur". Perhaps one day.

[@hazzmati]

When will you realise the Silmarillion is a piece of fiction written by someone who was born in the 20th century?

[@DLAbaoaqu]

What if Morgoth failed to corrupt Mairon?

[@ElessarTelcontar9709]

Just a suggestion. When you do the What's Different videos months apart, it kinda makes me forget what the previous What's Different videos were saying. Maybe have them a bit closer together. Possibly every other week. "Just a suggestion."

[@sivartevafal]

Me finally realizing Aragorn and Arwen are distantly related....no wonder Elrond was opposed...dude must have been like “yo that’s my great great etc...nephew...” which also must have been super weird, having lived so long to see your brothers descendant who then fell in love with your daughter. lol. Ah well, at least it’s not like it’s a Turin situation.

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I like my Mens from the west!

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