Reaction to SABATON - Fields of Verdun (Official Music Video)

Reaction to SABATON - Fields of Verdun (Official Music Video)
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[@smithertoddsforge2625]

Tolkien was a British soldier in ww1 and served in the battle of the Solm, his personal experiences in war and brotherhood of soldiers far from home deeply informed how he wrote, for example, the relationship between Frodo and Sam.

[@franciscoguinledebarros4429]

I've never heard of specifically father and son, but it's very likely

[@rogerhack3750]

German command: the battle is going as planned, we're bleeding the french dry.

[@davidogden1927]

This is becoming one of my favorite songs. The lines "Nowhere to run, Father and son fall one by one" describe how brutal the battle was. Congratulations on your new baby girl by the way.

[@ludantikasmith2869]

farther and son refers to that due to the duration of the battle of verdun(10 months) most soldiers managed to serve at the battle of verdun with above 700k total casualties(both french and german) the farthers and later the sons served in the battle of verdun

[@DisTail]

The Battle of Verdun has a special traditional name in Russian historiography -- "Верденская мясорубка" ("Verdun meat grinder"). Makes perfect sense, I guess.

[@2104dogface]

Tolkien did fight in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. On 27 October 1916, as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, shortly after that attack he got Trench Fever and many of his close friends were killed. he was pulled from the line after that his unit (11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers) was almost wiped out. he was stationed on the home front for the rest of the war. and he started his writing. and he did draw from many of the events from that war

[@Misagh_H]

V E R D O O N

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

Fun fact: French ww2 general and future president Charles de Gaulle served in the Battle of Verdun as a corporal where he would crawl through no mans land and listen to the Germans talking in their trenches. About a month after the battle started he was injured and taken prisoner.

[@lovrosedej7655]

Yeah JRR Tolkien served in ww1, and he was in general very inspired by historical events of the real world, for instance both the Rohirrim charges at Helm's Deep and at Gondor remind of some Polish lads with wings

[@samuel10125]

Ver-done =Verdun and The battle of Passchendale became the iconic representation of the nightmarish meat grinder that was WW1 plus WW1 wiped out entire generations of young boys all nations in some cases entire towns lost all their young men.

[@RavetsU]

I believe and what I've heard is that J.R.R Tolkien was inspired by French General Robert Nivelle with the quote "They shall not pass". I could be wrong, not 100% sure. Awesome reaction btw!

[@saintcynicism2654]

Verdun was an absolute, unrelenting bloodbath. If you ever want to read more into it (and what other battles were like on the Western Front), there's a book I very strongly recommend called "Poilu."

[@Lyhyt]

I can't get over the power of "though you die where you lie, never asking why" into that solo. Hooooooly moly.

[@nlcrypto7324]

If you have cc on their solo it just say "Awesome Solo"

[@moreauclement9702]

In France, Verdun is considered both as a great victory and tragedy. While Germany was starting to be stroke by the cost of the war (both financially and in terms of ressource) they thought it was the moment to end the stalemate and trench warfare to go back to movement battle like at the very start of the war, pushing to Paris and forcing France to surrender. While Austrian-Hungarian force were still holding the Russian army on the east, Britain and France (mostly MOSTLY britain) had sent troops to the Ottoman Empire, allied with Germany, to cut off their supply in Oil (Assault des Dardanelles / Battle of Galipoli) Germany thought they could concentrate all their forces into one point to break through.

[@lavabeard5939]

verdun was a significant cultural city for the french which is why it was attacked and why the french fought so hard to defend it. it was originally supposed to be a diversion to draw attention away from other parts of the front, but it escalated into the biggest battle in the world

[@zioncity21]

France had to rotate the men in the battle of verdun, and at the end of the battle allmost 90% of the france army had fought at the battle of verdun.

[@connorwilliamson2660]

The battle itself was supposed to bleed the French and the Germans knew that the French would not let Verfun fall and thought they would pull troops from Belgium and lead to a massive attack by the Germans to break through the northern front

[@mikehall5815]

Professor Dave, I know your children will be well-versed in all different types of music. Congratulations on your new baby girl. Great job as always!