Yes!!!!!

Was about to comment this

Just keep Peter Jackson away, "somehow" all of his movies' characters will be involved.

@@BlackSmokeDMax im confused he did a good job on the movies why wouldn't you want him?

@@kamds0140 great job on LOTR, I have VERY few complaints. The Hobbit trilogy OTOH was a train wreck, IMO. I mean not in a technical aspect. In that regard it was gorgeous, just not as faithful to the book.

Haha! I laughed out loud at this comment. So true. It's a miracle Aragorn didn't kill him.

Very witty comment. I commend you.

so was the movie not accurate when gandalf tells frodo gollum had been captured and tortured?

@@Shiggystardust lol well he was. by sauron

worse than 'ARE WE THERE YET!' I'm sure Thranduil was so pleased to have that care package dropped off at his doorstep ! - aww MAN what are we going to do with this guy ?! Aragorn probably ran as fast as he could out of there! - later the wood Elves said OOopps we lost him.... HA ha

our only wish, to catch a fish, so juicyyyyyyyy SWEEETTTT

Be silent! I will get you a fish.

@@noideas439 but what about second Fish, elevensi, afternoon tea

Aragorn: pull my finger. Gollum: Not this again precious.

loooots and looots of riddles precious....

Yea he had the weed

Sauron wants to know your location

He’s an evolved being, and came to Middle Earth to be a help and a guide. I really love him. Not only is he powerful, he has a great sense of humour.

Every time I see his name I keep wanting to say Ganondorf.

Friends with everyone except Denathor....one can wonder why😅

I’m very impressed by how well researched the movie is. I never knew that one.

And it is already one of the most thrilling scenes for me, especially thanks to the score of master Howard Shore when Aragorn draws the sword, NOW IT'S EVEN BETTER !!!

As a rather uninformed watcher I have seen those scenes as cringe. The next time I watch them it might have a very different effect.

Except that he got it from Elrond before the counsel where the Fellowship was formed, so in the movie it’s a bullshit scene

@@fcturner It makes sense in the context of the movie...they changed quite some stuff regarding Aragorn. So instead of just complaining, try to think why they made the sword scene differently

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*40 years later* Aragorn: "Cheers ;)"

Elrond:”..... Mr. Anderson!” (put on sun glasses)

Elrond has arrogance left in him, huh? Being proud of one's own status as an immortal and of high previlige, he think only the highest Human position is good enough for his daughter, huh? But at least he had Aragon not ambushed and captured, interrogated and then started sniffing his head while saying *_" I can smell, how you age. And every time I smell it I fear to have been infected! Humanity... is an illness. And we Elves, are the cure. "_*

Hold my ale?

It's true, he is the true king archetype for men

It's harder to be good than to be bad.

@@AnnaMarianne i dont get it either. people seem to find fictional characters who show nuances of meanness or darkness in them as a more excellent writing. when being real, and noble is the hardest thing a human can aspire to. people just want their ego stroke lol

@@redefinedliving5974 Yep. Anyone can be selfish, foolish or a jerk. It doesn't take trying. I think people feel threathened (judged) by someone else's successfull striving for inner greatness, and want to tarnish it. We want to find something ugly in good people, and tell ourselves the bad people aren't that bad really. Gives us solace while we stay in our vices.

@@TheRatsintheWalls that's not the point. look at the hatred towards mary sue/gary stu characters. people seem to not believe that such people exist in the world. we're talking about more about the collective shadow of humanity and their negativity towards people like Aragorn in real life. to be so noble there must be something wrong with you. maybe there are exception to this but people seem to be so dissociated and like living in the fictional world more lol

So cool!!

It's insane to think that Peter Jackson got this on film! It makes me wonder how much the producers researched the whole story instead of just shooting stuff.

@@peterbneto Phillipa Boyens and Fran Walsh knew their sh*t, my friend.

@@peterbneto Peter Jackson didn't just make these movies, he literally turned into a Hobbit during the whole procedure. I think that says it all :D

I love Tolkien, the books, film adaptations and extended lore, but whoah… my knowledge is truly surface level, I’m realising, as I watch more and more of these excellent videos. The significance of that “I keep none for myself” line is shatteringly emotive.

It's one of my favorite pieces of background info that feed into LOTR. To be fair, Tolkien's world is full of things like this, but I love how directly it ties into such important characters in LOTR!

@@NerdoftheRings thank you for your work. I’ve been on a re-bing of all thing LOTR to help cope with Pandemic anxiety. And stuff like this really is wonderful to listen to!

I’m so glad my videos could play a small part in helping you cope with current events. It’s been a great escape for me as well, creating these videos. Middle-earth is a great place to visit when times get hectic!

@@NerdoftheRings Absolutely. I just wish the Amazon TV show is A) Good 2) coming soon.

Yes I just found out about that myself his own father favored Aragorn over him even though he never knew who Aragorn really was

Watched a pretty good video about how Aragorn is basically the picture perfect example of positive masculinity and I could not agree more

Feanor > Aragorn.

Sameise all the way!!

@@jameswalsh4113 I wouldn't say he is "'cool"

In my opinion, the stories of Beren (hero) and Turin (cursed hero) are better. They face a greater foe in Melkor (Morgoth) and the evil creatures of Middle Earth are stronger because Melkor's strength and wrath made them. Sauron (maia) and his creatures, like the men of the line of Numenor, are diminished from the likes Glaurang (dragon), Gothmog (Balrog), Carcharoth (wolf), and Melkor (Ainur). That's not to say Sauron and his creatures were not daunting adversaries, just not as those that came before. That said Araragorn is a hero worthy of the greats in literature, belonging with likes of Odysseus, Hercules, and Beowulf.

I'm still confused by "talking"... Really? Just " Talking"?

I assume the elves natural low fertility does come in handy in an age where no conception is known apart maybe from some herbal times and counting the days.... (or maybe they are not less fertile, but have just really, really long menstruation cycles, like every 20 years for full 5 years... thats gonna be a tough time for Aragorn)

@@JH-zs3bs Straight to faves. Too much detail here, but I love it. I can definately see a culture clash between the elves more laid back nature spanning thousands of years and Aragorns more ... human needs ... spanning ... well, a couple of hours. Btw, this is not the topic for a 3 hour movie, more in the nature of a 20 minute movie where they "Talk"

@@radagastdk that’s why Arwen always seemed so tired and walked very lightly.

@@limeyfox Shame on your dirty mind :-)

but Dunedine fellows has 3 times longer life, so 40's roughly equal to 13 years old that's an edgy teenager lol

@@Laurence0227 oh man. You just had to slash that one, and even on a friday before weekend. "Aragorn, you are our only hope".

@@Laurence0227 Yes but he stayed a virgin until 87.

@S R well I am a couple month away from becoming a mage, and the Undómiel of my life hasn’t show up yet lol

Im sure he got some strange in bree.

Oh hell yeah!!

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The Orc shot him in the eye Arathorn And Boromir was shot multiple times on the chest

We can live hundreds of years. What could go wrong..dies at 60 years old

I'll go to hell for laughing so hard at this

Be like Smaug.

no tv and no youtube and no smartphone = lots of time to write

@@Blackadder75 tolkien's head exploding after I show him "shitpost status 3" on youtube

This tidbit is one of my absolute favorites from the adaptations with deeper meaning (unknown to most). So cool. Thanks for subscribing!!

I cried like a baby at that part

But the references were grotesquely altered, giving the mindset of one character, to another character altogether. Robbing them of their bravery, stripping others of their wisdom and still others of their dignity. Quite effectively turning them... no... Throwing them, on their heads, in direct reverse of Tolkien's written intentions. Having Steeped myself in Tolkien's written world for over 44 years, Jackson's reversals of character and line switching... Well, it felt Outrageous and Blasphemous and that is, I am afraid, the very Best that I can say about Boyen's Walsh and Jackson's treatment of Tolkien's Beloved Children. They are but dim, wanting and Shadowy imposters to his world's actual inhabitants. As for the...LOOK, of Jackson's "Middle Earth" Save only for the roof of "The Golden Hall" Jackson's "Middle Earth" is absolutely stunning and profound in its Beauty and perfection of Landscape, Architecture and Design!

I read lord of the rings at 17….wonderful books..but did not read simarrillian , the hobbit first. Fantastic.

What is Silmarillion?

@@auroraarcturusambassador8042 the other stories about Middle earth before LOTR and the Hobbit

@@auroraarcturusambassador8042 Silmarillion is a book published after Tolkein's death. It was not worked up into book form by Tolkein, and many argued for it to be left as it was. It was mostly written first, but you could call it the prequel, or a laying out of context for The Hobbit and LotR. There's lots of information in it which explains hidden references in LotR.

The eleven word he utters then: estel meaning hope

This was what I thought too. I love how there's so many hints towards the history of the characters that you'd never find out without researching. A true masterpiece.

Agreed!

The conversation in LOTR are a favourite, they are well written

@@emmaphilo4049 the acting, the setup for all the orca where as in the new hobbit movies everything is done really poorly with shit cgi

It's poetry...

He is dead my guy..

As if you want to see a black gandalf

@@JuniorJuni070 I'm talking about gandalf not saruman. Gtfo

@@Jupiter.141 are you hurt or something ? Why you so disresprctful my guy.. chill out. you might get a stroke You got no humor.

@@Jupiter.141 i was talking about gandalf too you dumb fuck.. you blind too

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Tolkien was a perfectionist. He often rewrote whole chapters of the story because he discovered that the timeline of two complete different plot branches (say Frodo and Sam vs Gimli and Legolas didn't align up with the position of the moon! As in in scene A it was full moon and in scene B it was half moon, but he calculated that it should be the same day. Although probably nobody would notice, that simply would not do, and he would rewrite parts until it all fitted perfectly. This drove the publisher mad , the book was work in progress for at least 14 years (although that includes WW2)

@@Blackadder75 fucking amazing man. People look at me like I’m crazy when I praise Tolkien, but the man was a god amongst men with his work.

Same, but I'm liking the voices less the more I hear them.

This is why I love how these books give us the full maps for us non middle earthers to follow along to lol

I think forty generations(??) separate Arwen and 'Strider' between the two family lines.

@@thekalaoakidd Forty human generations, yes. Arwen would be the niece of Elros, Aragorn's ancestor. So when you look at it from the Elvish angle, as I'm assuming she did, it's not so remote. And for immortal beings like Elves we humans must come and go so quickly as to be almost irrelevant to them at times.

Iirc, they are first cousins *sixty-seven times removed.*

Elrond and Elros are identical twins. Elros lived up to 500 years old before he left the circles of the world. By the time of the War of the Rings during Aragorn's livelihood, Elrond was already 6500 years old. Arwen is roughly about 3000 plus years old by this time as well. Elros is Arwen's paternal uncle that is correct and Aragorn is a direct descendent of Isildur, last of the Lord of Andunie in Numenor. The Lords of Andunie are descended from Silmarien, first child and daughter of her father, a Numenorean King (I forgot his name) who in turn is a direct lineage of Elros Tar Minyatur himself. Hope that helps.

@@goodputin4324 Yeah, that's more or less how I recall it. Once years ago I sat down and analyzed and correlated the dates and events and wrote out a handy chart of the ages of the main elvish characters. Long since lost it but I remember Arwen was just a bit over 3,000 but you're right, not 4,000. Still, that's a lot of birthday cakes over time.

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@@NerdoftheRings Yeeeeeeeey!!!! Youre now one of my favorite channels.

When you mentioned Denethor i instantly imagine tomatoes masacre 🤣

Can someone help meeeeeeeee i need to know what music is at the arwen and aragorns part

It's kind of crazy isn't it? It always amazes me how the years pass in Middle-earth. It our day, taking a year to go on a trip seems insane. In Middle-earth society, it's a normal occurrence to be away from home for a few years at a time.

@@NerdoftheRings I mean, that was pretty normal back in the days before easy air or rail travel. I can get pretty much anywhere in the world within a week, if I could afford it. When the travel time is months to years, you can't exactly skip back after a few days. Most people instead would either never leave home, or would never return.

@@NerdoftheRings I spent years sailing a small boat across the Pacific, at the average speed of a person jogging. Many a deep did we cross, many breaking waves taller than high hills did we surmount, and many a killing storm did we survive. We spent a few years at it.

​@ Looking for the undying lands uh?

They are like demigods! Their time and wisdom is far greater than any library on middle earth.

A smart man is always nice to his girlfriend's family

He's the ultimate politician, he's literally spent his entire life training to be king and 80 years of it knowing that he won't get laid unless he's king.....of COURSE he desired power and kingship.

ur symbol is nearly a swastika my guy

Great peice of film just after he is crowned, he seems to sigh before he turns to the crowd, as though even though he is rightfully the king, he really doesn't want it

The movie made it look like he was afraid of failing, and with the Ring found, he was specifically afraid of becoming like Isildur

I had to research Ingleborough, it's beautiful and makes a perfect weathertop. I live in Alsace, France, to me Alsace IS the Shire, the villages look like Bree :) I think it's interesting how everyone is projecting Middle Earth onto the lanscapes that surround us. Same goes for Peter Jackson who grew up imagining LOTR in New Zealand :)

@@emmaphilo4049 Indeed, France has some amazing scenery, I used to follow the Tour de France around when I was younger and the scenery was beautiful, but the Yorkshire Dales is my childhood and so remains special for me as the midlands did for JRR. I actually live in Hong Kong now in a small town by the sea but still visit the hills when I see my family, when we're not in Covid.

Between Malton and Pickering lie a couple of hobbit villages , the Marishes, and of course don't forget Wetwang in the Wolds. Wouldn't surprise me if Tolkien thought of Ingleborough when he envisaged weathertop

I would buy this game in a heartbeat!

I would rather see a movie or even a 2 parter!

@@AmazingJayB51 I’d like that too. But I feel it’d be hard to see someone other than Viggo as the character. My thought with the game was that they could make the character look like him and he could do the voice, even though he’s 20 years older. Of course, that’s wishful thinking. But he would be a great character for a movie series or even a tv show like The Mandalorian style.

that would be a dream come true edit: It would be even better if it were developed by from software. I think they would really do it justice.

@@robertstimmel1100 holy moly could you imagine a LOTR game by From Software?

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Literally what I was thinking. So well spoken and detailed. Another subscriber added to the list.

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I would totally love to see a series of "The Life and Trials of Aragorn".

He was never 'King Aragorn' nor was his ancestor, like all respectable kingdoms when he took the throne he chose a more hip name.

@@BenFrayle whoever did call him King Aragorn?

@@goodputin4324 No one - but it is usually only kings that number their names in this fashion. No one called him 'Aragorn II', every name will likely have been used by numerous ancestors - in fact it is quite normal for people to choose a name for their son or daughter taken from another relative,

@@BenFrayle what the fuck are you on about? I just wrote the fact from books. He is officially Aragorn II, when he became King of the Réunited Kingdom he took the name of Elessar Telcontar, just like his great father Elros who became Elros Tar-Minyatur.

@@goodputin4324 I see what you mean, but just because the chart of his lineage has him as 'Aragorn II' that wasn't his 'name'.It is a numbering device for historians to avoid confusion, and was affixed there when they were being written down years later. Consider, did 'Aragorn I' 2319-2337) refer to himself or was he addressed as 'I'? None of the other chieftain without a same-named successor are listed as I. The I/II was just added by Tolkien for the same reason he put the lineages, footnotes and appendixes generally - to explain the background of the world.

@ no, the elves reforged it of course. But I didn't say about the reforging

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I had to do a retake of the Demeanor/Boramir/Faramir comparison. That segue was great!!

There's so much lore and I want to see more movies, but not from Hollyweird, where they can't help screwing it up somehow.

Agreed. But only with Viggo playing him.

how do u tag netflix

yo i get goosebump. i think your wish will come true

They should when Viggo was younger!

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if you really want to understand the lore you need to read the books, the movies just scratch the surface, extended cut or not.

Finrod probably gave other rings to other people . But the one he gave to Barahir is important much later in history .

Finrod was not 'lost to time'. He was revered by Elves, Men and Dwarves as the fairest, most noble, most courageous of all the Noldor. Because of his deeds in Middle-Earth, he was 'allowed' to return to Valinor (where he was reunited with his father, Finarfin and his true love Amarie).

@@moiradalgleish I guess it's just coincidence that people think it's Barahir's ring and Finrod isn't mentioned by name once in all of The Hobbit and LotR.

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there's a REASON these stories have endured for 70 years... known and loved by three generations...

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Totally. I wish we got more Tolkien games on a regular basis.