History of Eregion, Land of the Ring-crafters

History of Eregion, Land of the Ring-crafters - Region Spotlight

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Eregion was the land of the Ring-crafters, the Elves who studied beneath Sauron under the guise of Annatar. It saw beauty and war, and was reduced to a land of ruins and memory. Thank you all so much for watching, let me know your thoughts on Eregion 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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@archades115 2 жыл бұрын

There was an old game on the GameCube. LOTR: The Third Age. Now I know not to put stock in video games as canon sources for most fantasy settings. That being said... In the first chapter of the game, you pass through Eregion and get to see many of the Elven ruins. The woods are haunted, littered with statues and relics. I think the game did great tribute to this place and the lore.

@morningstar577 2 жыл бұрын

I played it on PS2. I loved that game!

@MiD218 2 жыл бұрын

I had it for the Gamecube. The amount of hours I've spent just wondering Eregion and especially Moria is insane. Rhey really did a great job at creating Middle Earth. Except the cheesy dialog from the film characters they just copy/pasted in haha. Especially Aragorns dialog was bad but it's the most immersive LOTR game I've ever played.

@stegura83 2 жыл бұрын

Great game. But Eoden and Morwen were useless.

@matthewthomas1335 2 жыл бұрын

Best LOTR game out there. My favorite quote is when the goblin in Moria goes, "who dares enter" and Hadhod goes, "I THINK I DO"

@joshuaott7783 2 жыл бұрын

Had it on the GC as well.. Loved playing as a balrog and killing Gandalf

@ashertony1 2 жыл бұрын

“But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them: Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.”

@vteles 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a simple man. I see a MotW/Yoystan video, I smile and press the like button. Life’s good.

@thebrotherskrynn 2 жыл бұрын

Eregion is one of the most tragic parts of the history of Arda, really feel bad for Celebimbor and shudder to think of his fate and how he was used as a banner, in a gesture that was barbarism personified.

@debbie4503 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone who is interested in Legolas probably all ready know this, but I am watching Pirates of The Caribbean for the first time and Orlando Bloom is in this.

@Comicnut64 2 жыл бұрын

region spotlight lets do it

@charlesstanford1310 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I read the description of part of Eregion as a country of bare red stone, I think about southern Utah.

@BDawg-hy7pl 2 жыл бұрын

I recall this place being very windy in the books

@glennross85 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the Beleriand Noldor were like the Elves of Antiquity and the Eregion Noldor are like the Renaissance Elves

@oddmott7653 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid, i had a game called LOTR: the 3rd Age. It's a utrn based RPG, and it is not a very good game, but at the time, i played it happily. I bring it up because the first area of the game is Eregion, and even if the game itself isn't good, i found the landscape to be most appealing. Lush woodlands & rocky plains hide ruined elven structures of untold myth & lore. Along the way, you visit several ancient shrines to recover artifacts (on at the base of a waterfall, one in a Lothlorienesque tower, one in a ruined fortress, and one in a shrouded glen), rescue a Dunedain ranger in a mountain pass, defeat a troll to save his dwarf friend, and scale the cyranon reservoir to approach the doors of Durin, all while passing through varied fantasy forestland scenery along the way. Playing through it as an adult is a big letdown (mostly because it is not a good game), but the essence that i remember though my rose-tinted glasses still inspires me to this day, and makes the Eregion region among my favorite places in all Middle Earth.

@Mark723 2 жыл бұрын

Eregion and its history are always fascinating - thanks for sharing.

@coachvolkmarchine92 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know the rings were crafted there. Thanks!

@stevenv2190 2 жыл бұрын

There are quests in LOTRO that deal with ring-lore.

@kaidorade1317 2 жыл бұрын

I totally forgot this region existed! Thank you sir

@mariapazgonzalezlesme 2 жыл бұрын

Sunday + Men of the West = Happiness.

@andrewfanner2245 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite parts of the Legendarium and you have done it justice. Thank you.

@Dare_To_Game 2 жыл бұрын

Nice region spotlight for an underappreciated region.

@goransekulic3671 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making these Yoystan! They're always so nicely put together. About Eregion? Yeah, that is an interesting region(...lol) of which I wish we knew more about. Besides Ost-in-Edhel and few snippets here and there, not much is known. And it'd seem that there is actually quite a lot of interesting stuff here. Just glossed over because Tolkien didn't seem to flesh out this part fully. But such is the fate of all the later chapters of Silmarillion. They're super condensed.

@BrianOxleyTexan 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see Eregion covered! Only as you use screenshots from the game do I mention this, but Eregion is one of my favorite regions in LotRO. It raises my excitement to enter Moria, and still is it's own place. I learned to appreciate the holly bush, and see why it the area is called Hollin. Beleriand is under the waters. In Hollin I can see the sadness and fading of the Elves.

@Naturalcalvezilla 2 жыл бұрын

Was going to say the same

@dfringlord 2 жыл бұрын

The Home of Celebrimbor 🔥👁🔥

@Huskytabby 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@vondondolo1582 2 жыл бұрын

Eregion was always a mystery to me. Not its foundation or history, but its present by the time of the Third/early Fourth age. It's explicitly stated that it was empty but was still a fair and fertile land. Yet the Dunlending tribes nearby struggled with poor soil and marginal land for their herds. It might be to illustrate how scared non-Numenorean humans were of the elves, or the superstition that the land was cursed, but with Tolkien stating it wasn't cursed beyond the bad memory of its defeat, you'd think tribes would eventually settle there. Or if they feared it, that the Dunedain would make use of it. Or that goblins would inhabit it. Anything besides emptiness.

@mikes7504 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to get an answer to that myself.

@AF-kh1ki Жыл бұрын

Its possible that the closer we get to the Third Age and the events of the Ring the Dunedain were far too few in number and scattered to properly settle the lands and hold them, when they were so close to the numerous threats in the area. Also if I remember correctly leading up to the war of the ring the Dunedain, especially under Aragorn's orders kept close watch of the Shire's borders and ensured its safety, which leads me to believe they really didn't have the manpower to settle those lands.

@Jake-oj5uc Жыл бұрын

My thinking is that after Aragorns death and his sons rise to high king Eregion was claimed by him as part of the reunited kingdom. I think this because he has a genuine claim over the region since it was ruled by his grandfather and uncles before they left for the west. I think he’d see that if he didn’t claim the region it could become home to those who would desiccate it. I think it went that one of his sisters married a second son of Dunidine lord who’s family was rumoured to have elven heritage so would have greater respect for the region than even your standard dunidine. Knowing this he rose his sister husband to prince of Eregion knowing between his elven heritage and the fact his sister also had family ties to the region that it would be well looked after, I do believe he as high king would put some rules in place regard to protection of the elven history there but not much else.

@geviesanta3631 2 жыл бұрын

It's been quite a while since we've gotten a region spotlight video, Thanks Yoystan.

@fingolfin9086 2 жыл бұрын

I love these Region spotlights I think the best, I don’t really know why but please keep doing them.

@randybarner6483 2 жыл бұрын

Wow..With each video I come across another set of "riddles'" answers leading to bigger questions I have. Thanks guys

@orrointhewise87 2 жыл бұрын

"The world is changing..." Very interesting location in this world; a meeting place between races and the site of many battles. Makes me wonder what would have happened to the region had sauron never attacked and Dwarven doors never shut 🤔

@davepowder4020 2 жыл бұрын

If Sauron had never attacked, he wouldn't have recovered the 9 and 7 rings and we wouldn't have had Thorin Oakenshield's family have the urge, via one of the Dwarven rings, gather so much treasure under the Lonely Mountain, thus Smaug wouldn't have taken it and then been defeated later on. Then we'd have to live life without knowing how to sing "Far over, the Misty Mountains cold..." in public places to entertain or spook passerbys!

@istari0 2 жыл бұрын

I think the only way the attack wouldn't have happened one way or another would be if at the end of the War of Wrath, Eönwë had taken Sauron prisoner and brought him back to Valinor. That would have rewritten the history of at least most of the 2nd and all of the 3rd Ages.

@istari0 2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil On the other hand though, the elves lost a lot of their population in the War of the Elves and Sauron and the survivors were still slowly leaving Middle-Earth. I think it is as simple as there not being enough elves to rebuild and those who had lived there and remained in Middle-Earth simply chose to live in one of the other elven lands.

@marionbaggins 2 жыл бұрын

Man, if we see pre-Sauron Eregion in LOTR:ROP That would be Awesome!!! Thanks, Mellon for the Eregion's Spotlight...With Another Awesome Elf Drawf Friendship place, And then Legolas and Gimli Became Bros after visiting Eregion and some more places!!! Until Théodred's ECH Marion Baggins Out!!!

@Imperialistic82 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Ost-In-Edhil had the same timeless and peaceful vibe like Rivendell.

@eu4um 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much of Eregian we might get in the Amazon show.

@timonsolus 2 жыл бұрын

Eregion must have been populated by Men in the Fourth Age. After the Dwarves had recaptured Khazad-dûm, Men from Gondor would likely go there to set up a trading post. It would not be long before the trading post became a town, and then a city.

@Jayjay-qe6um 2 жыл бұрын

In the Unfinished Tales it is stated that "Celeborn and Galadriel therefore went eastwards, about the 700 of the Second Age, and established the (primarily but by no means solely) Noldorin realm of Eregion." This contradicts the information published in The Lord of the Rings which gives the founding of Eregion in the year 750. It is possible to reconcile the texts if 700 is seen as the year of their moving eastwards with 750 as the year of the foundation of Eregion; the canonicity of this, however, is unknown.

@ghostoferegion1042 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite place in middle earth ✊

@shanenolan8252 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys.

@mattcrook9725 2 жыл бұрын

I mean celebrimbor is still tied to the curse of mandos so eregion was doomed to fall

@MenoftheWest 2 жыл бұрын

Ah that is very true!

@glenmcintire3106 2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only 1 who knew that. 🤯😂 Curses, especially that of the higher beings were quite effective in Tolkien's world.

@leocoulson-venn9447 2 жыл бұрын

Hey i just had an idea for a theory video, what if Khazad-dum never fell to the Balrog. We could see how it would play a role in the War of the Ring and how far the friendship between Elves and Dwarves would go.

@SilentSolvent 2 жыл бұрын

I'm questing through Lotro right now, and I really love these videos to give me insight into the zones as I go through them, very fun experience I highly recommend.

@revolutionarybanana7296 2 жыл бұрын

would you be able to make a video on what would happen if Faramier went to rivendell instead of boromier? Love your videos!

@brysonnguyen1483 2 жыл бұрын

I just realized you have a new animation for your intro and I love it, it is so good

@marcusaurelius9577 2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on the Christian influence and themes in the Lord of the rings

@ErelasInglor 2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough, this area was settled by Noldor, Tolkien never attributes this to Galadriel who presumably first arrived and stayed there for some time, nor to Celebrimbor who came later to the area...so there must have been a large enough group of Noldor that chose the area to settle without lordship such that it was in Tolkien's mind.

@marcress 2 жыл бұрын

I have often wondered about the "lesser rings." What were they, what were their powers, what were their fates?

@pattonramming1988 2 жыл бұрын

No realm has shaped middle earth as Eregion has

@user-lp3ew1xb5u 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@shadowofchaos8932 2 жыл бұрын

In the Fourth Age of my world, Dunlanders repopulate Eregion after Silver and copper deposits are discovered. Trade reopens after Moria is retaken by the dwarves and some successful Men of Dunland join in the leaf weed plantation business. The Wild Men of Dunland keep their traditions and Melkor worship in their own lands. But are peaceful and have a strong influence in Thorabad and the two Kingdoms of Numenoreans.

@ebeneezerscrooge8394 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video

@StickEBallz Жыл бұрын

bro your assemblage of artwork is really great!!

@NoobMaster-jh9hw 2 жыл бұрын

Just my own theory tho, maybe the trolls took the 3 swords from Eregion and most of the treasures, in Silmarillion Celebrimbor once dwelt in Gondolin in the First Age maybe he took those artifact as a reminder of the great elven kingdom of Gondolin before Beleriand Sunk to the sea by the way love the video man kept it up 🔥

@dannyv161 2 жыл бұрын

I really really hope the Amazon show does the war of elves amd Sauron with the grand scale it derserves and the intricate plot that Sauron hatched

@JB-lg2vj 2 жыл бұрын

For 'DAC' players, there is a submod that allows you to play the Noldor of Eregion and witness their (over)power...

@michaelsnow4521 2 жыл бұрын

Word

@thomasshirley318 2 жыл бұрын

i love your voice. you Should do Elden Ring Lore

@robertmiller5258 2 жыл бұрын

Could Mithril have been titanium?

@pattonramming1988 2 жыл бұрын

Stronger than steel and lighter weight? Perhaps

@rafaelfarias4359 2 жыл бұрын

Unlikely. Titanium while has its uses, is not that good as people mythifies it. It has a very good strenght-weight ratio, but is outperformed by tempered steel in all other aspects outside it. There is no real world alloy that equals Mithril.

@gerrysabron Жыл бұрын

nice story, appreciate the details.. my interest of the lore of Middle earth came back afterr watching ROP...but I do wonder, that great host from mordor and its distance, surely there would have been warning of their arrival in ERegion..but seems not the case.

@DoomMomDot Жыл бұрын

I believe Tolkien said the Elves of Eregion were vulnerable to Sauron because they didn't want to go to the Undying lands, but they wanted the peace of that land in their own home.

@guilherme5094 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@robertmiller5258 2 жыл бұрын

Could Mithril have been platinum?

@dkp2112 2 жыл бұрын

Is there any information on the “lesser rings?”

@bagthebird7610 2 жыл бұрын

Sauce on the artist at 4:09

@azhr8499 2 жыл бұрын

first 1k dude 2 view this vid

@venkelos6996 Жыл бұрын

I still don't totally get why Sauron gad to deplete himself to forge the One, but Celebimbor got to make the Three, and I guess the Seven and the Nine, for free. They could do some impressive things, but Celebimbor was no less after their forging. It sort of reminds me of how Feanor made the Silmarils, and the only seeming limitation had been components. Yada yada yada. Celebimbor is a cool character, and continues my trend of liking Tolkien Elves who take up crafting. His land was also neat, and it's a shame it never rose again, after it's heyday.

@muz9663 Жыл бұрын

You do realise Sauron helped Celebrimbor forge those rings and it took 90 years to do so? Also the one ring was different in terms of power, he poured evil into crafting the one ring which was not the case for those 19 other rings. Without the one ring, there wouldn't necessarily be evil lurking within those other rings, only power. Overall there was some different forging technique for the one ring, that's why it drained Sauron, unlike Celebrimbor forging the others

@dkp2112 2 жыл бұрын

I wish we could see a true telling of this part of middle earth in film by real Tolkien lovers and not the crap Amazon is about to put out.

@harrisoncortis8416 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos but you make analogies at the end about the work that drive me bonkers.

@privatename5788 Жыл бұрын

So did Tolkien just need a name for the region his elves lived in, n Elf region, or E-Region, and just say "good enough"? That's the worst thing since he needed a name for his bar man and settled on Barliman.