haha have fun :) Yes there are so many little details, that can be easily forgotten. I forget so many things over time again too. It's shocking. Sometimes I check scripts of my older videos and discover details I have long forgotten about.

Thank you :)

haha happy to hear, thank you :)

No problem, happy you liked it and thank you too :P

haha happy to hear ^^ I also hate this function and the need of hinting, that it exists in my videos. Can be quite important (esp. when you (like me) only upload 2-4 videos per month)

That's a good point and well said!

Thank you :) Yes I thought it was fitting and we talked about it in the last video a bit, which this video somehow is connected to. happy you liked it ^^

I'll try, thank you ^^

@@ThePhilosophersGames where you from? I guess you are German 🇩🇪

Yes you're right, I'm from Germany

@@ThePhilosophersGames danke,ich bin griechische frau 😀

Nice, Γεια σας (I hope it's right xD)

Yes, I originally wanted to include the white mountains and some other places, but had to finish the video (because I don't have much time this week). I will revisit the topic at some point.

Thank you :)

Thank you :) Yes agree I think that is a really interesting way of looking at them.

Thank you :)

Thank you, I'm glad you like it :)

Thank you :)

Happy to hear ^^ thank you for commenting :)

Thank you, happy to hear you liked it ^^

Thank you again (and for reporting back ^^), happy you liked it :) Yes, I know what you mean. I should also go and see mountains again ^^ Dwarves are on my list, but that could end up being a bigger video and will take some time.

@@ThePhilosophersGames that is fantastic news, I love your longer videos and am more than happy to wait! Many thanks

Thank you, I'll try ^^

Thank you :) I can't agree more about Tolkien. I make those lore videos for quite some time now and I always find something new I've never noticed before. It really shows, that a lifetime of work went into all of this.

@@ThePhilosophersGames I know right! Its awesome! By the way, do you have a link to the map you used a 3:03?

I have, it's the map from the Amazon series published on their twitter account: www.amazon.com/adlp/lotronprime

@@ThePhilosophersGames Thank you!

Yes agreed. Tolkien spent much time of his life to create his world and its story. He started writing in the 1920s and his last writings are from arond 1970. He worked a big portion of his life on this. And his son Christopher worked a big part of his life to "order", analyse, explain and publish everything unpublished, which was a lot. It's really impressive!

haha I think I wanted to mention it, but I think I forgot. Orodruin means something like "fiery red mountain" in Sindarin, but Amon Amarth is the actual Sindarin translation of "Mount Doom". Thank you, happy you liked it :)

Thank you :)

Thank ^^ Yes we know a few things. Mordor basically came under the control Gondor and of King Elessar gifted the farm land around the Sea of Núrnen to the slaves of Mordor to have it as their own and live in peace. The remaining Orcs had without Sauron no purpose and no power that "unified" them. So they fled from Mordor and went into hiding, maybe just having small bands, while a lot of them were probably also slain in battle (we don't have numbers I think). It seems though they would not bother the free peoples of Middle-earth during the Fourth Age anymore.

Thank you :) Oh wow Mount Fuji? Some day I need to visit Japan too. I can imagine how impressive it must be. I also really like mountains. on their tops it's incredible. A very special atmosphere and silence.

@@ThePhilosophersGames Yes it was definitely a sight to behold. I think perhaps since it is harder to build on a mountain mountains have become sanctuaries of nature. That is probably why I love them so much. The mountains of southern Spain, Switzerland, and the Colorado Rockies will always be beautiful to me. I think their natural beauties and isolation makes it feel like you are entering into a fantasy world when you climb them.

That's a very good point. Yes I know exactly what you mean :) PS: you are coming around ^^

Coming around?

Sounds like you are travelling a lot ^^ PS: I think I just translated a German idiom (fail) xD

Thank you :) I guess I upload to infrequent and also have two topics, that I cover. I hope it gets more too ^^

agreed (I mention it in the video too; at least I remember voice recording the sentence) PS: 11:46 min found it, was getting nervous :P

I really like that interpretation! :)

me too ^^

The Misty Mountains were raised by Melkor to hinder the movement of elves west.

It's a bit of both. Quote from the Silmarillion: yet they [the Misty Mountains/Hithaeglir] were taller and more terrible in those days, and were reared by Melkor to hinder the riding of Oromë. Now the Teleri abode long on the east bank of that river and wished to remain there, but the Vanyar and me Noldor passed over it, and Oromë led them into the passes of the mountains. And when Oromë was gone forward the Teleri looked upon the shadowy heights and were afraid.

haha thank you ^^ I guess it's niche content, so not many people find my videos.

To 1: this is an interpretation or idea of Karen Wynn Fonstad (and it made sense when she created the Atlas), but in Peoples of Middle-earth we find hints, that this could not be the case, because Mount Gundabad and the Grey Mountains already existed during the First Age. Actually around the time the elves awoke, because Durin and some of the other seven fathers of the dwarves awoke there and the Grey Mountains and Gundabad are explicitly mentioned. PS: they could be connected, esp. considering that Angband was in the range of it. To 2. In my understanding the Great Lake formed the oceans of the world. The misty mountains also quite far away from the Sea of Helcar too. PS. checked the part in LotR again and it does not hint at a giant lake. We can just read "then we plunged into the deep water". It's very vague.

@@ThePhilosophersGames there are several deep salt water lakes underneath the mountains that might be either formed by filtrations of rain water through the rocks, or as more probably the deepest great lake at the bottom of Moria, the remains of what was left of the former inner sea (or part of that) at the earliest Arda form. I think the latter oceans were formed because of the gulfs led by the destruction of both Lamps, and also there was some outher sea/ocean around the main earliest only continent of the world (It seems that Almaren was sorrounded by sea, but it sorrounded by earth and then some other slimer stream of concentric water as a series of concentric circles: Almaren (land in the center), then the sea around Almaren, then the main only continent of Middle Earth with both the Lamps at its opposite poles around the central sea, and then MORE SEA, or Outer Sea around that land.) Then Melkor did havoc and the perfect simplest symetric form of Arda got broken in several continents and seas. I don´t know what actually had happened to Almaren is got also sunken or not, but the central sea somehow remained, and the Helcar and maybe Rhun inner seas were actually the gulfs created by the destruction of the Northern Lamp, rather the central sea around Almaren, and it makes sense why the Misty Mountains are so CENTRIC about all things that happen in Middle Earth and separate indeed the domains at its western side closer to the Valar and Illuvatar´s influence, and the eastern side being a more troublesome location continually worried by the Evil/Outer Influence, very much the same reason why Melkor builded them any way.

The Encircling Sea/Ekkaia are still existent in the early Second Age and probably had in influence too in forming the oceans, but I see the Great Lake as sea too and it's described that the seas were moved (it would make sense that Belegaer formed in this process). To my knowledge the Sea of Helcar was a "crater" of Illuin (the northern Lamp). Ormal probably formed Sea of Ringil and that probably formed the Dark Land at some point. Even Beleriand was a troublesome region and Melkor could move relatively free in Middle-earth in early times. But ofc as said in the video they hinder the West. So I agree with your basic point (I mention it in the video too). The Sea of Rhûn existed in parallel to the Sea of Helcar (at least in Tolkien's later published notes). I think I even made a change to my maps, to correct this at some point.

Yes a very good point too.

Quite interesting. They put some effort into details like these.

Thank you :) I know, I always say it it wrong. I can't get rid of the wrong pronunciation, probably because I heard it wrong too many times and memorized it that way as a kid xD Mybe next time ^^

Not a bad idea. I'll write it on the list :)

Thank you :) It's on my list for quite some time, but right now I struggle a bit when it comes to extremely long videos and I hate to split them up. But I will make a video like this at some point.

Thank you for your kind words :) Let me know, how you liked it ^^ PS: Yes the topic is quite interesting, I would have loved to include the White Mountains though, but I had no time (next week I'm quite busy)

Thank you, you too :)

No problem and thank you :) Tolkien says in Appendix E, that the R represents a trilled r in all positions (which is strange). While in other languages the R becomes often more of a voiced alveolar tap inside or at the end of a word, in Tolkien's languages this seems different. He explicitly states the trilled r appears in all positions. However some people really dislike the R trill sound, so I often try to reduce it to a tap as a compromise. In some words like Sauron it works very well, but I have immense trouble cutting the the trill to a flap in certain words while reading. Mordor is a good example for it - esp. when I focus on delivering the English sentence. So I'm a bit inconsistent at times and sometimes unable to do it. For Mordor I would trill the first R and tap the last, but I can't and often end up trilling both, because the trill is easier for me.

Good question. I'll put it on the list. I only know about a few things that probably happen there, but maybe some research can reveal more :)

@@ThePhilosophersGames maybe colonized by Numenoreans or other humans?

@@vasilitheocharis2773 Númenor explored Arda and probably those continents a bit (they mention the Gates of Morning and mountains called Walls of the Sun). Also Shelob's mother Ungoliant went into the South. Some theorize, that she went into the Dark Land. beyond that nothing is known of the Dark Land and the Land of the Sun.

@@ThePhilosophersGames Dark Lands and Lad of sun remind me in our world Australia and other lands colonized by Europeans.I think Tolkien I flueced from that

Yes that's possible. Antartica could also be in inspiration, esp. when these continents are uninhabited (ofc they probably have less snow and ice in Tolkien's world).

Yes the Blue Mountains are quite interesting in context of the First Age and the Destruction of Beleriand. I definitely want to cover those and the Dwarves in a video at some point. The White Mountains are also a very interesting place. We have a lot of unusual developments there. Like the Drúedain wandering there, the Oathbreakers and their origins, etc. Need to make a video about those mountains too :)

@@ThePhilosophersGames First I just want to say how fantastic it is that you respond to comments on your videos even so long after they were uploaded. And yes the first age but in The Hobbit trilogy there is reference to the dwarves in exile making their home in the blue mountains. In general I think learning about the lesser known hosts of Dwarves would be very interesting.

No problem :) I try to answer as many comments as possible, but it does not always work. Yes the Dwarves fled Khazad Dûm and returned. In the First Age they also had two big Dwarven cities (Nogrod and Belegost) there too, but parts of those mountains god destroyed, including the cities. Then they went to Kahzad-dûm.

Yes "helcë" means ice and "helka" seems to mean "ice-cold"; "hel-" is to freeze. "Caraxë" means something like "jagged hedge of spikes" The creation of the Sea of Helcar is tied to the destruction of the Two lamps, to the Lamp Illuin. And n early versions Helkar is the tower of the lamp. So I assume that is where the name comes from and because it stood in the north it was cold there, that is maybe why the name seems connected to ice. Helcaraxë is translated with "Grinding Ice".

@@ThePhilosophersGames thanks!

yes true, but I think the dwarf and orc operations are a topic for another video ^^

Sadly no =/ Some private things are going on in my family right now, which I have to take care of

Thank you :) wow that sounds awesome ^^ had a good time with GTA: San Aandreas back in the day. Always nice to see that the mod community is still active.

@@ThePhilosophersGames but I don't why gamers don't use lord of the rings mod for San Andreas I'm the only one

I didn't even know one existed ^^ I have to try it :D

Yes, that is quite likely ^^

:P

Complicated topic, but it started flat and then when Númenor was destroyed (by god), god changed the shape of the world to a sphere (also moving Aman to the Unseen), so nobody except the elves and Ainur could reach Aman anymore (the men of Númenor tried to go there and claim immortality). This was in the second half of the Second Age. However Tolkien worked on a "Round World Version" in the background, where Arda was always round, but he never finished it and probably abandoned it too. So I wouldn't consider it "canon". PS: Thanks for commenting too :)

@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Yes correct. he is called Eru Ilúvatar, sometimes only Eru or only Ilúvatar.

I really hate it :D but if you upload only 2-4 videos per month, it's actually important, if people want to get notified

Yes, could be, I don't know where Kimberly80 took inspiration for this painting. PS: just checked the comments of her deviant art page and yes she confirmed it ^^ www.deviantart.com/kimberly80/art/Melkor-388446612 (on page 2)

No the art of Jude law is not for morgoth but for sauron you are wrong.

@@turkishpornxplogamesmom6597 Point is, its Jude Law though yeh?

@@YourOldUncleNoongah yes