As I work my way through the History of Middle Earth series, these videos are a great resource to remember details I missed or to clarify complex histories that remain spread out in Tolkien's fragments. Its awesome to see the salted pork partnership with Lord of Maps.

Do the seven rings of the dwarves after

I love the rings names, I think they would make great baby names! My nephew watches all your videos religiously, while I sit back and eat my salted pork. ;)

Why didn't you show the arrival of the blue wizards with the other three?

Will do 🥰. Also can you do a video on the Waning of the Dúnedain? How they became lesser with time, and their lifespans, wisdom, stature and strength waned. How they forgot their own architecture (forgetting how to build mighty things like Orthanc, The Rammas Echor, the Black Walls of Minas Tirith, Hornburg etc. To the point that by the late Third Age, most Gondorian commoners lived a mere 80 to 100 years. The high lords around 110 - 120 at most (the exclusions being the Stewards and his line and those of Dol Amroth (with somewhere around 130 - 135 years). Even the Dúnedain of the North, with a mere 130 - 175, the exception being Aragorn with 210 years by the end of his life (still a mere Shadow compared to his ancestors in pre-fall Nûmenor, who lived around 250 - 300 years or the kings with 350 - 450 approx). Sorry for the testament 😅, it is one of my favorite topics from the Legendarium.

lol winning

I'm officially Dead 😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@-_Nuke_- So is Celebrimbor

I see. The reason why sauron killed him. 😄

*gets impaled in the ass*

Look fair, feel foul.

​@@SeyhawksNow Gandalf said a shadow fell on his heart when he, Bilbo, and the Dwarves got past the Hithaeglir, though he did not know the cause.

Had that beautifully dark inscription only seen by fire too

doesn't have to look fancy when it's got the kind of power it does

Great insight!

@@AlejandraCamposGua Thank you. I’ve also done a bunch of editing on the Tolkien Gateway site, and I think part of this observation also came from my work there.

This is a good obversation, which I entirely agree with.

both the Ring of Elrond and the one from Galadriel were very powerfull, however my guess it also depends on the nature of the bearer. Nenya could have been the more powerfull of all - it seems that Celebrimboor meant it to be wield by Galadriel alone ALL TIME (as there are hints of him infatuated with her however he couldn´t do that because she was his aunt and already happily married to Celeborn, so pretty much as Fëanor also got some similar incestuous inspiration of his unfullfilled love-admiration for his niece asking thrice in vain for a locket of her hair [which she actually give much later on THREE freely for Gimli, a rather more worthy and humble nice requester for that, being that another awesome theme to contrast and remember always], and because of it he made the Silmarills, so Celebrimboor did the same with the Rings of Power) - however as Gil-Galaad was the last High King of the Elves and the main wielder of Vilya, the ring was considered then the Mightiest of all, as he use it along his works against Sauron very actively, whereas Galadriel just kept if to hold on to defend her domains. Later on as, Elrond got Vilya, after Gil-Galaad knew by some vision or hunch, that he was not to survive the Last Alliance fight against Sauron, eventhough he might defeat him anyway, he was the next wielder but for sure, himself being actually a Half-Elf, not being close in all to the former bearer of the Ring who at once time, indeed have acheived a more mighty level of power than the Ring of Galadriel, because he was the High King then. So when the time of the Lord of the Rings story came, the relevance of Vilya was much of a legend after Gil-Galaad but not on true actual time since Elrond use it. Galadriel in other hand, now she didn´t have anything to rival her power, and mastered the use of the mightyness of Nenya at full lenght - thus also that way was how she got a hard trial when meeting the One Ring and almost nearly fall on the temptation to get it on her power too, though in the end, she succeded to overcome that trial, once more becoming worthy for returning to Valinor and acknowledging she must do that since her own power by her ring will be over some little time as long Frodo succeded his task. However, she wasn´t named a High Queen to rule all the High Elve lineages, eventhough she could have claimed it, and the power and the heritage rightfull to do it, but she accepted just the fate to not do it - maybe she was very haunted with memories on how all her family close-relatives who wanted power got doomed because of it, specially Fëanor and Celebrimboor in different ways for each one, so she didn´t seeked for it, untill the very end at the trial set by Frodo and the One Ring, which she succeded to avoid it once for all finishing the curse set on her family by the Valar. It seems there are some very antifeministic and very traditional conservative views about females when wielding power, about how they shouldn´t seek power on the same way as males do, eventhough they might be into a position of power earned legally by her own as one last resource finding themselves into that by others and by chance, not by their own will, which is a very true patriarchally traditional condesendant-protective way, fearing that if Galadriel seeked and acheived actively power on her own, she could be another form of evil potential even more dangerous and troublesome than Sauron or all the other male-menances at the story, as totally unleashing a more true unnatural wild force to action to which anyone is prepared to fight properly against it - some very missogynic fear upon the unexpectedly-convoluted and darker-mysterious way of thinking of female brain broking out of logics and reason when totally wild of full passionate instincts on a position of power, and not wisdom to self-moderate themselves. It´s very interesting how the more uncanny dangerous foes of all Tolkien work are females: Ungoliant, Shelob, Queen Beruthine of Gondor (with her cats) and of course, this dark Galadriel alternative-future version hinted to be. It seems that Tolkien idea, was very in tune with older classical traditional views, consolidated during his childhood and teenage years at late Victorian and the whole Edwardian ages of England, and over-all before WWI start at 1914, henceforth he though of women not seeking political-social power by their own will, neither seeking for more political-social power if they were already by change or chosen by others - men - on trust for that role, on a political-social appointment before. (He was somewhat also a bit rightfull on the more recent developments of feministic waves of their ideology, eventhough for a big while he has been proven also wrong on that conservative view.)

Or it could have been a property of Galadriel, a noldor who saw the light of the trees in vain or, a being who saw the silmarils and who fought against melkor the morgoth

@@CannabisDreams I always loved how she addressed him in the Hobbit trillogy to Sauron just as a "servant of Morgoth" which is actually a way to disminish his own power exposing him as a shade of the actual greater evil power already defeated before, and eventhough that scene of she confronting and expelling him from Dol-Guldur was a great addition to the Tolkien's lore adaptation on its own.

@@lhadzyan7300 Where are you even getting your third paragraph musings from? Galadriel WAS pretty much queen of her domain, much like Elrond. Everyone who might try to wield the One Ring is shown to be corrupted by it, except maybe Tom Bombadil, not just Galadriel (for instance Gandalf also denied it, just as she did, fearing corruption). Also pretty much all the characters who actually did fall to the Rings' corruption were male. Ungoliant and Shelob weren't just female, they also weren't human - so reading some sort of message about humanity into them is a stretch. Almost all the bad guys in LOTR are male, with Queen Beruthine being one of the only exceptions. How all this adds up to an "antifeministic" narrative is beyond me.

Well that's because many other fantasy elves are very weak copies of tolkien elves

I wanted to say it charitably since they helped me find Tolkien eventually, but yeah I agree. Those elven races usually focus either on the arcane or the nature part, instead of being this nuanced.

@@taylorlewis6931 exactly, they capture the same general vibe and look of tolkein's elves but without any of the depth and complexity

Only one who has done a day's work may be bearer of a ring of power.

Did a hobbit hack your phone for that last bit?

Captain Midgard

This video went a long way towards clearing up why there's no "Earth" ring, in that they are tied to where the silmarils vanished to. It makes things clearer to me. If it helps any Valentin, it sounds like the ring of fire is also the ring of heart.

@@Dark_Jaguar well ,thanks but I was just joking. I mean come one rings that have the power of the elements ! Someone just had to make a "Captain Planet " joke.

I definitely was thinking about the 2 missing elements haha...

Captain Arda, He's a Hero Gonna bring Dark Lords to zero

Sauron could dish it out...

No she's the one witch I need her tell her to see my manager 😂

These rings could be why Galadriel reminds Elrond that they foresaw Frodo's life in extreme danger because of the One Ring, and why Elrond could see Arwen's death from heartbreak (although I'm only speaking as a movie-only fan)

Its beautiful and loaded with a whole world you barely even touch with just the movies , i love these videos.

Great question! It's something that has somewhat conflicting statements from Tolkien, but it seems most likely that certain elves could only grow beards when they are exceptionally old. Cirdan, having been around since Cuivienen, is the oldest elf ever to have their physical appearance described - at the end of ROTK.

False beard.

@@NerdoftheRings Thanks for answering. Do you think that leaves it open for very old Numenoreans to have beards?

Only 2 elves who had beards came to mind Mahtan father of Nerdanel (wife of Feanor) and Círdan, I believe Círdan was in the 3rd cycle of his life and Mahtan actually grew his at an early age roughly around his 2nd Age cycle.

Cirdan is ‘Ancient’ so why not..??

Thanks! And welcome from Instagram! :)

@@NerdoftheRings Thanks!! I’ve seen what I’m guessing are screenshots from your videos on Reddit and now I know the source… I have some catching up to do.

Thanks so much! The seven, the nine, and the one will be getting their own videos as well!

@@NerdoftheRings Looking forward to it!

And technically, Nenya is made of two elements: mithril and carbon. BTW, I wonder if the Mouth of Sauron bore one of the surviving Dwarf Rings.

Mast of ancient hardwood.

A great food to pair with NOTR vids! :) Thanks for checking out the video after seeing the Instagram post!

The code Sauron supplied to Celebrimbor had a back door hidden in it.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

I want to know the same thing. I love the music- especially the ending song.

Same

the ending song is Roaming the Fields by Kyle Preston

@@TheMihaiRulz finally!!! Thank you so much