Meanwhile tulkas ties up melkor in hog tie and can send melkor away with his tail between his legs like the ninny that he is.

They took a unspoken vow to not take direct action. When Ainur clash: land masses sink to the bottom of the sea like Beleriand in the the War Of Wrath etc. this was why the sun and moon from the last flower and fruit being set in an area where Morgoth couldn’t go to ruin them. He followed Tillion and Arien and got majorly burned by Arien as she was evidently stronger than him. And even the Valaraukar that became balrogs were of similar type of Ainur to Arien. Same as when Eru didn’t attack anyone. Moving Valinor into a limbo zone between Eä and the rings of the world which caused arda to bend and caused tidal waves that didn’t just sunk Númenor. It destroyed entire coastline of middle earth and killed many innocent people. People who think Eru intentionally levelled middle earth don’t know much about the AllFather and free will and how sacred it is!

I will make a video about it :)

@@middleearthtales haha brilliant thanks

Can you properly pronounce pedantic?

@@patty4349 Can you properly go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?

I understand you, but I disagree. Tolkien is English, yes, but the world he created is universal. People from all over the world, from every culture, enter this world with the same feelings. They get lost in this world. How reasonable is it to expect a Japanese, a Polish, a Ukrainian, an Australian to pronounce every character in the book in the same perfect way? At the end of the day, isn't the only important thing to get lost in this marvelous world? Thank you for your warning, I will take it into consideration. Please try to focus on what I am discussing in the video.

@@middleearthtales There is a difference between having a regional accent and simply changing nature of the word. There is no linguistic principle that I am familiar with that suggests that the syllable “alf” should somehow naturally morph into “olph” in pronouncation in an American context, and it’s not unbearably difficult for a native English speaker to pull themselves up by by the boot straps and get it right. If we have to speculate, to me it comes across simply as the familiar cognitive dynamic that when faced with a slightly awkward syllable, concept or sound the brain tends to revert towards the closest familiar concept - here the conceptual frame of more familiar names that end in “dolph”, which incidentally is pretty far removed from Middle Earth. So It’s not about having perfect British pronouncation it’s about having and communicating conceptual clarity, which should concern anyone proposing to do serious work in any field. The movie has an international cast - and they manage. Hell - I am not even a native English speaker myself, and I still do not go around saying “Gandolph”. Now as for your recommendations: - There is absolutely no reason for you to assume that I say this at the cost of personal immerson, simply because I put emphasis on a specific thing in my post. I suppose it might be convenient to think of me as a person suffering from some variety of perceptual narrowing, but that does nothing to detract from my actual point. - There is even less reason to assume that pointing out something like this should destroy the potential for immersion for anybody else. - There is certainly no reason to assume that I have not focused on our video simply because I point this aspect of it out either. I am under no obligation to provide a full balanced review of the whole thing, simply to make this one point, which is true of not just one video but which is actually VERY pervasive with mainly American Tolkien content creators. It’s a thing. - It’s not a “warning” either. You asked for feedback and you can do with it whatever you like. The feedback you are getting from this viewer is that for some people it’s rather annoying to listen to in the long run, it gives off a poor impression and feels lazy, even if the work as a whole is not. It’s rather like a thesis defense where the student keeps getting the name of their main theorist wrong - not due to some pervasive regional linguistic pattern - but simply because it didn’t roll off the tongue and something more conceptually familiar felt more safe and convenient. It’s just bad form is all. Doesn’t detract from the content, just from certain aspects of the presentation.

@@patty4349 Yes I can Putty … or was that Petty or Pity? Never mind, only matters to Pedantic People, right.

The Istari were sent into this fight with their hands tied behind their back and their glory subdued. Saurons power was unchecked.

Sauron, much like Melkor, weakened himself by investing much of his power and essence into his creations. Combined with some diminishing due to previous defeats, I believe that Sauron was not nearly at full strength, either. Still formidable, of course.

​@billgoodman9103 Yes because power corrupts as the fallen angels Melkor and Sauron proved and later by Saruman who was the most powerful Istari.

Also in a dying world so there was less essence to draw from unless you cast away your physical raiment and kept your tether connected to Eru like Melian and Even Olórin did much can be done. Elves have also less inhibiting them and they always had more head of them. Destinies of sorts. In some ways surpassed the Valar. Sometimes the more powerful you are the more inhibited you are. Side note. Ainur really found it hard to reform a new body. Takes years upon years. They disliked losing their bodies especially in battle or to be a naked soul before another ainur or anyone else. Much of why gorthaur>Sauron let Lùthien banish him away from Taur Ín Gaurhoth.

@Makkaru112 The 2 towers reaperance of Gandalf refutes this notion of the Ainur taking years to take physical form as does the appearance of all the Istari. Tolkien may have hated allegory but he leaves no question that the Ainur are the equivalent of Biblical angels with all their hierarchies. The Istari were in fact low cast angels that were given human form. Also Arda (Earth) wasn't a dying planet by any stretch of the imagination.

Gawnd-alf. Staff elf.

@@Makkaru112 Grondolph, Battering Ham.

A lot is also in Quenya. Even middle earth is called Endor by the Noldor for Hitherlands. It’s why even in songs the term hither shore is used often.

Do we know he’s not using some automated voice that can’t pronounce anything ? It why I use voices that are naturally Italian or spanish etc as they’ll pronounce the elvish phrases and entire pages translated to full elvish so darned well. It’s wonderful. When a audiobook pronounces everything as it was meant to it’s even more immersive ! ❤

Many of the giant channels like GirlNextGondor cover this in heavy lengthy detail