Three rings for the Elven kings, under the sky Seven for the Dwarf lords, in their halls of stone Nine for the mortal men, doomed to die One ring for the Dark Lord, on his dark throne One Ring to rule them all One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie

Probably one of the most epic fire-and-ice battles I've ever seen

I am %100 a Lich King fan and I knew going into this, Arthas did not stand a chance. I didn't know anything about Sauron's origin but I know the Lich king was nowhere near as powerful. Completely fair to be honest.

I'm glad someone finally laughs at the "God's hits single" bit, most reactors were too distracted learning about the lore

This has been the most interesting waiting period I've seen for a death battle. I know absolutely nothing about these two, but watching the back and forth on deciding who would win was so fascinating. Nobody could seem to agree, and both seemed to make very convincing arguments. It was to the point G1 prediction blog(?) sauron only one by *one vote.* This was a very interesting debate, and I love it.

we have had a DB that took armies into account, Eggman vs Wily. still eagerly await the day you get a Death Battle right without doing it for all the wrong reasons, it's genuinely equally parts funny and impressive how it's always irrelevant details or less-impressive feats that sway your vote

rewatching this agen i still love how cool Sauron is in the movie you dont see much of him in his armor so im glad there was a death battle of him to show how cool he truly is

I just finished reading J.R.R Tolkien's backstory book The Silmarillion for the first time. Sauron does some badass scary stuff in that.

The wolf howls. The ravens flee. The ice mutters in the mouth of the sea. The captives sad, in Icecrown mourn. Thunder rumbles. The fires burn. And Arthas fell before the throne.

Nice to see someone reacting to Sauron melting the throne; one of the rawest things I've seen in this series

Lich is a term that has been used both in medieval fantasy literature, folklore, and even just simple linguistics. This is because originally, "Lich" simply meant "Corpse; Cadaver; Dead Body; Remains" in Old English, i.e., the form of English that the guy who wrote Beowulf (and would later inspire J. R. R. Tolkien, the man who created the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit) spoke. And this was reflected in an archaic term for a cemetery; a "Lich-Field" or "Litchfield," in addition to the "Lichgate" that funerary processions in England passed through as part of the service. So how did it become associated with the image of "Undead Wizard," as promoted by D&D, fantasy games, and so on? Well, the earliest attested use of the word in this manner was the story fragment 'The Stairs in the Crypt,' written by Clark Ashton Smith (whose most well-known literary compatriots were H. P. Lovecraft, who created the Cthulhu Mythos, and Robert E. Howard, the writer who gave the world Conan the Barbarian) in some unspecified date around the mid-to-late 1920's, completed posthumously and published in 1976 (15 years after Smith's death in 1961), with help from his friend, Lin Carter. In fact, a lot of the old 'Sword-and-Sorcery' pulp fantasy stories from the early 20th Century often made use of the term to refer to corpses, but the Stairs in the Crypt was the first to explicitly connect it to "Undead Wizards." A 2nd-place contender for earliest use of Lich as "Undead Wizard" is Robert E. Howard's 'Skull-Face (a novella released in a series of installments from October 1929 to December 1929 in Weird Tales, a popular Pulp Fantasy-Horror-Science Fiction rag),' in which a modern day (i.e., 1920's Era) character named Stephen Costigan does battle against a resurrected necromancer from the fabled kingdom of Atlantis.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Sauron: I serve no one! Melkor in the void: Am I a joke to you?

I wish they used a line from the games for Arthas. "Come to me, Pretender. FEED MY BLADE!" "Watch, as the world around you COLLAPSES!" "Frostmourne hungers!"

Okay, so after taking the time to actually digest this battle here are my thoughts: *Lich King* : 1. They kind of skimmed over the fact that Frostmourne is able to damage and trap souls, even ones like the Nathrazim who , like Sauron, can simply reform if their physical body dies. It was really the Lich King's main win condition. 2. The Lich King grew significantly in strength the more souls he consumed. In fact, he literally KILLS the players, *the same players* who had previously *also* beaten Illidan and many other powerfull beings like Hakkan, Onyxia, Nefarian, Ragnaros (albeit not at full power) and even a moderately weakened *Kil'jaeden* , you know ,the guy who *MADE* the original Lich King! Then he begins to resurrect them at the end of his fight admitting that it was his plan to bring the strongest individuals in Azeroth to his seat of power to become generals in his army, implying he had been toying with them the entire time. The only reason he loses is because Frostmourne is broken at the last second , which *does* track as Sauron's win condition. But ,it really shows that the Lich King was WAY more powerfull at his peak then they gave him credit for. Other then that they did a good job of representing him and although he lost the fact that they showed that experience and raw power were the *only* deciding factors just shows how much of a threat he was. His responses to Sauron were badarse and the way they had him counter him blow for blow did the most popular character in Warcraft history justice. *Sauron* : 1. The main thing that irked me about their Sauron analysis was that didn't really enthasise how big of a weakness the Ring is. Sauron didn't just retreat into his spirit form when the Ring was separated from him, he literally *LOST THE ABILITY* to maintain a physical form and the loss in power was so great that he needed centuries to rebuild his spirit's influence over the physical world. Shown by the fact that the Nazgul also weren't able to maintain physical form until around the events of the the LoTR as their power is directly proportional to his own 2. Something I wish they had mentioned was that Sauron usually didn't even fight with a weapon. Sure the mace is iconic, but the dude had a tendency to throw down with his *BARE HANDS* which would be wreathed in flame (hence why Isildur had the perfect opportunity to cut off his finger) Similar to Arthas, they did an overall good job and ironically gave Sauron more badass scenes then the Jackson trilogies or the sh!t Amazon series *combined* The shot of him erupting Mount Doom in the background and sitting on the Frozen Throne with it slightly melting were definite highlights

This is Definitely one of my Favorite Death Battles in the season. I recently finished watching the extended edition for the LotR movies and I'm currently reading the Hobbit so I was real excited when Sauron won(and the only mid-season reveal character to earn a W). The animation was great, the track "One King to Rule Them All" was Spectacular, and the performances of the characters were great, and the final Blow was Awesome. And this was the first Death Battle I showed to my Dad with him being a Huge LotR fan and he enjoyed it to

"I'd love to see a Death Battle with armies" You mean like Eggman vs. Dr. Wily?

9:08 A lot of the info in Sauron’s introduction was cramming in info from the Books (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Silmarillion) Movies, & Video Games. In case you’re confused there were 3 rings for the Elves, 7 rings for the Dwarves, and 9 rings for Men. Which adds up to 19. Then Sauron made the One Ring to rule the other rings.

Just to note, a Lich is generally depicted as a nearly-immortal undead with dominion over other undead. For instance, in D&D & Pathfinder, a Lich is extremely hard to kill permanently, as unless you destroy the Lich's phylactery first, killing the Lich will only be temoprary and the Lich will resurrect at some point between 1-10 days later just as powerful as before but fully aware of how they were defeated the previous time. There's a reason why in-universe, Liches are viewed will utter terror. In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, when your team runs into Zacharius, who is himself a Lich, even your party's Paladin (a holy knight that *specializes* in taking out evil beings like demons and the undead) is downright *terrified* at the thought of having to potentially fight Zacharius.

I never knew Sauron was anything more than an eyeball, I was as lost as you were in all other videos

When god himself can't kill a character you know that guy is something else

One thing thats fun about Sauron is that he cant create anything orriginal anymore since he was corrupted by Morgoth. By that time all he does is twist beutifull things into something vile and he immitates Morgoth all the time, hes a lot more cunning and sneaky than his old master but he does immitate his army, for example the fell beasts his Ringwraiths ride on can be seen as cheap imitations of the great dragons that Morgoth made, Sauron also allied himself with Shelob (the giant spider from the last lotr movie) to mimic the way Morgoth was allied to Ungoliant the mother of all spiders, who was a spider demon of such epic proportions that even Morgoth himself cried for help once she turned on him... Sauron even corrupted Saruman the same way he was corrupted by Morgoth...

I love death battles like this where it comes down to more than just raw power but experience and adaptability. Also, the voice overs were chillingly awesome.

Haha mentioning Sean Bean's movie deaths...funnily enough, he was once in a horror movie and didn't die.

On a similar note, "Wight" being used in reference to undead is also an Old English term (this time from the word for...'man'; yep, that's all it meant, a man, or person), and J. R. R. Tolkien had a slightly more direct hand in Wight being used to refer to malicious undead to boot! This is because in Lord of the Rings, there are repeated mentions of "Barrow-Wights (also called "Barrow-Men" or "the People of the Barrows") who haunt the dark and lonely places of the world, but never too far from their barrow, where their bones were interred after death. They typically stalked the places where they died in battle or walked the perimeter of an area where they buried their treasure, so greedy and vicious even in death about anyone else laying a finger on _THEIR_ treasure, that it's common knowledge that if someone steals from a barrow, they'll be cursed by the Barrow-Wights to a wasting-away illness, bad luck, and the Barrow-Wights themselves travelling all the way from their Barrows (one of the few times they can leave it and not suffer the bane of sunlight) to reclaim their stolen property, no matter how many bloody swathes of people they need to cut through to get it back! When the writers of TSR wanted to adapt elements of the Lord of the Rings into D&D circa 1974, they had a brief copyright altercation with the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien, over the use of the words 'Hobbit' and 'Barrow-Wight,' forcing the TSR team to adjust their plans a bit (replacing 'Hobbits' with 'Halflings' and dropping the 'Barrow' from 'Barrow-Wight,' simplifying it into just 'Wight').

One thing to consider with this battle is that Tolkien heavily inspired the pantheon of LotR from actual Christianity. When LotR's god, who was based on the Christian god, tried to destroy Sauron, who wasn't even this world's version of Satan, but one of Morgoth's generals, Sauron literally just walked it off. God literally tried to smite him, and all it did was annoy Sauron.

"I think Sauron might win this, unless there's some sort of trump card." Meanwhile: *Sauron literally has the music in his favor while proceeding to sit on the throne*

I love when villains fight each other in death battle.

You know Izuku but regarding Asta, imagine this: You are a mage, One born of royal blood and high mana. You work hard and in time you learned to cast powerful magic, very few could measure to your power and skill but many would look up to you. However, in time you develop a superiority complex looking down on those with lesser status. Then one day, at your most powerful you were easily defeated, not by a superior mage, but a small, magic-less peasant who hit you in the head with a huge anti-magic sword. How humiliating would that be?

I have been asking for this fight for 5 years

This was one of my favorite fights of the season

18:09 “I think Sauron might win this” He says, as Sauron proceeds to win this

You're thinking of Twitter, Kyle.

16:07 They already did an army battle, remember Eggman vs Wily

This track was fucking epic One King to Rule Them All Even has an audible little tribute to the LotR movies theme "one ring to rule them all"

Sauron used to have a boss. But when Morgoth is taken out, Sauro assumes the throne and is the top guy thereafter. He holds the highest position long before the Lord of the Rings which would be the context you know him from.

"The Leak King"

I love how everyone's made that "don't kill Jaiden Animations" joke

Sauron goes up against angels and super-elves. Literally had to be plot deviced into defeat. Arthus ain't got it like that.

This is my favorite fight of the Season, I love it

I make fun of my friends all the time who has red and the Lord of the rings books and she gets so mad because I say why does an eye need a ring She gets so mad and starts going into the detail backstory of sauron. It’s hilarious.

This is the best match for Sauron imo. Most people pit Sauron with people like Vader or Palpatine and be like "hurr durr Sauron will lose" but he won't. The Lich King and Sauron are very equal, they both have menacing armour, vast armies of chaff, and absurdly powerful artifacts. Also Lich is pronounced "Litch" Edit: side note but please don't talk so much while you're reacting, and you do know pause buttons exist right? Sorry if I'm rude but I've seen one pair of guys talk WAY TOO MUCH while they're reacting

16:09 Eggman vs Wily is one

Best battle this season very sick

Still disappointed they didn't specifically remark on one of Sauron's Greatest feats... ...He won a singing competition against THE ELF LORD himself, Finrod Felagund. That's right, Sauron is so Badass he could have Rap Battled the Lich King into oblivion! To explain, there really is a moment in the silmarillion where Sauron and Finrod (Who was disguised as an Orc at the time, long story) sing songs of power in competition against each other, and it is so epic that the Elves specifically wrote a poem about Sauron's victory. Clamavi De Profundis has done a really good rendition of it here on youtube, you should react to "The Battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund" sometime.

Yeah... movies and even the books leave a lot out about Sauron. It’s not until The Silmarillion we get anything on his backstory.

Maybe the Isildur scene was in the extended version. Could explain why you don’t remember it. The movies are 10 hours altogether when extended.

he was never that flaming eye in the book he just bassicly sat on his ass in barad dur

By the way, sauron is a major character in the series that recently premiered on Amazon Prime, Lord of the rings: the rings of power (supposed to be a prequel to Lord of the rings).

I hope you start getting into WoW lore. The cinematics they make are top notch and extremely entertaining. As a fan of both worlds I kinda knew Sauron would win. Sauron with the One Ring is pretty much completely unstoppable, even other Gods fear him when he is with the Ring. Army vs. Army though I think the Lich Kings forces would win an actual war. Orcs can be bred but that takes time, the undead can just be raised over and over. I get why they pitted Arthas vs. Sauron but a closer fight would've been Sargeras vs. Sauron. Then it would've been green fire against red fire lol. Probably would have to use tiny Sargeras though since his true form he is larger than planets. However, if Arthas had somehow gotten the Ring away from Sauron it would be Arthas all day. That's really Saurons only weakness is being seperated from his Ring. He's strong without it but I don't think he'd be on the same level as Arthas without it

11:00 *Arthas did nothing wrong* 🙂

i love the raw villine vs villine battles.

The Lich King is just awesome, but in the end, Sauron is basically Tolkien's Universe Lich King, Mannoroth, Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde combined in one.

The only death battles that take armies into account is eggman vs wily, and to a lesser extent sigma vs ultron.

Isildur cutting the finger of the hand is the first part of the first movie

11:02 given their level of "technology"/medicine etc not much else to do to keep something like this from spreading ... at least as far as I can remember the lore from years ago that decision was not easy made and one of the things that increased the pressure on him to look for more radical solutions to stop it... such a long time already since I was invested in all this lore until they themselves poked holes into it with WoW... mfg Olli

Saurons lines where directly from the movies

I hope Sauron the plumber can beat 'leaking'

What made this a good battle is (unlike the one before and after it) it wasn't an obvious stomp! It's like they put it between a stomp sandwich. Like Stomp/Interesting/Stomp, hold the mayo.

For once, I was in the same boat as you, Duck. I knew next to nothing about both Lord of the Rings and World of Warcraft. Didn't damper my enjoyment, though. 🙂

I thought it was Lich king from Adventure Time...I was Wrong Duck Record 84 W 51 L (C 2 In A Roll) Highest Streak: 7 Me: 45 W 34 L

"I'd love to see a death battle that takes armies into account." Me to, but let's be honest its really not that feasible budget wise. It was only really an option back in season 1's smaller scale (eggman vs wily)

I've read LOTR and the Silmarillion, and have been playing Warcraft since he RTS days. This was a no brainer, but entertaining nonetheless.

Just to be safe from spoilers, you should wait a bit till someone says it's spoiler free for mha for the next time

You should definitely read (or audio book listen to) the lord of the rings books. Even with what they covered in the movies, each movie could likely be split into as many full length director’s cuts as the entire current series, and still not cover ALL that was in the books

Good that you saw the movies. True pieces of art, and I feel that the comments would've gone berserk if you didn't. What was your favorite moment from those films? In case you were wondering, I was backing Sauron right from the get go. Za dashu snaku Zigur, durgbu nazgshu, durgbu dashshu! (Hail Sauron, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Earth!)

I just realized that the original of Boomstick's was WoW (World of Warcraft) this is my third time watching it.

When will we have a kirby reacts to death battle?

so about asta, will it be the asta BEFORE the movie or asta AFTER the movie? asta's anti magic sword will be just a normal sword cuz deku doesn't have magic...

You should check out more of the Lich King, he is an awsome character. The Darth Vader of WoW.

Black Clover has some Banger openings that might really be worth a watch if not planning to see the series itself. It is honestly one of those series which basically just continues to improve the deeper it goes without dropping and has some REALLY good animation. Personally, I'd say Black Clover > My Hero, it has some absolutely badass moments and characters.

I would suggest caution when going into the next battle. There MIGHT be spoilers for season 6 of MHA, or even from the manga. I'd suggest waiting a bit until someone's watched it and told you if there are spoilers or if it's safe. That's my plan.

So duck, what would happen if you wear the lich king's armor

I'm a comendium of lore for World of Warcraft and was obsessive over it for the longest of times. That said, even I knew (with little knowledge of LOTR extended lore) that Sauron won this. I love Arthas and his character's sad fate, but there was no way he wasn't taking the L here.

Do you think you'll check out DRAGON BALL KAKUMEI?? It's a fanmanga that takes place after Broly with story writing comparable to og Dragon Ball Z and art that rivals One Punch Man

16:07 Eggman vs Dr Wily I want Death Battle to do army fights again

so this makes Sauron is the Lich King now?

He lost his ring in the first movie it was at the beginning

Old gods are basically sons of the void

The thing about the Lich King they really killed him as a powerful villain in his universe cause his tools of power were just mere childsplay weapons from the afterworld if you would call it like that. And his Leaders appeared and it was revealed it was all a masterplan of some dude sitting in Hell controlling everything. It went really downhill with the Lore writing there.

14:11: LEEROYYYYY ... (GASP) ... JEEEENNKIINNNSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah there is going to have manga spoilers for Deku analysis and for Asta too since you never saw Black Clover, but it be cool to see your reaction to the anime too eventually, it's really good

But I called Sauron's father, I mean Morghot or Melkor, things change, he is more powerful than Sauron.

14:08 And just like that you got my respect for live... LEROOOOOOOOOY JENKINNNNNNNNS!!

The one thing i kind of disagree with the outcome is that the LK can steal any soul. A blade weaker than Frostmourne were able to take the soul of what was practically a god. In WoW.

If you're interested in World of Warcraft story, I'd recommend Nobbel 87. He has the best voice and most extensive lore channel for characters and the main story alike. Including the Lich King.

Whas the nostalgic critic lord of the ring 1978

Imagine if they did SMG4 vs Devilartemis Cell

5:52 You mean the begining of the very first movie?

Honestly they didn't go nearly into the LOTR power levels and how OP Sauron actually is The Maiar and Valar in reality are up to Outerversal in power- (universal , above that there is multiversal , then hyperversal and only after that there is Outerversal) Even without this , the Sword that Sauron shattered is comparable to object which contained power of countless stars . Or the Maiar / Valar speed (which might interest you) being immesurable , they can quite literally go as fast as they want and can imagine . And if this insane power , speed and immortality wasn't enough - The One Ring's corrupting power actually scales with person's Power , Evil and Ambition (all pretty much defining characteristics of the Lich King as a character) meaning he would likely get corrupted anyways . *And final note , the One Ring could NOT be destroyed in any lava , it had to be specifically in Mount Doom where Sauron made it

Watch detective void

20 seconds in and you are already Triggering my inner Toxic WoW Fanboy... DOES NOT HELP that Arthas is my favourite character/story in all of fiction... Well at least tied with Lelouch...

Sauron is 9 ft 2

Sauron got beat up by a dog.

You should react to therussianbadger or dead meat

Hey would you react to actual Tolkien lore. Maybe Morgoth by Men of the West.

you shoudl reacto to wow cinimatics they are so good

Have you ever reacted to solid snake vs sam fisher?

I'd suggest skipping the next one for possible spoilers. I'm avoiding this one too for the same reason. It's the first Death Battle I'm actively avoiding.

More than likely they're going to use manga content that has not be adapted into anime yet, for both characters. Luckily for me I'm reading the manga for My Hero Academia, but I'm reading the English volumes which are 60-ish chapters behind the current chapter release. (At most they will spoil the next volume I think...) And I'll likely forget about Black Clover spoilers until the relevant anime episodes come out when the anime returns.