Tip 10) Read The Silmarillion First

The most lovely Tolkien nerd identified ;) this video was hilarious and awesome lol

There is also a sense that her 'rebelling' against the wishes of her family was somewhat serendipitous. Her insisting on riding to battle allowed her to bring Merry to the battle, and it was ESSENTIAL that Merry be present there as well because he was carrying a blessed blade of Westernesse from the tombs of the Barrow Wights, which it is implied was how the witch king was weakened enough to be slain by Eowyn. Her character arch was perfect, in that she broke with tradition JUST ENOUGH to make a difference when it was needed, and then returned to tradition when it wasn't. It is the exception that proves the rule.

Rosie? Samwise's future wife? Lobelia? A Sackville-Baggins.

Used to work the Small circuit in Southern California for years. Each faire is a mixed bag, but it was a great experience!

I am a massive LOTR and Hobbit fan and I have recently come to appreciate and like Dune. I think what makes Dune so intriguing is the concept that ideas have power. Our minds have the power to shape our reality. Whereas I think with Tolkien things seemed more destined and pre-ordained. Tolkien veers more into finality and good and evil. Herbert's vision is less black and white, less certain. He invites questioning and debate more from the reader, Tolkien wants to comfort us. Herbert wants us to question.

Well, Tolkien wasn't ready to wrestle again with Sauron! Once in a lifetime is more than enough. But evil will never been eradicated. Because the possibility of evil is within ourselves. It’s interesting, though, that Tolkien said it's a thriller or a mystery novel! I would have liked that because I love mysteries. But at the end of the day Tolkien never was a mystery writer.

The second I heard that history channel narration I got big time nostalgia

I had to say it was bothersome when I watched the Hobbit and saw Kili as ... a man. Not a dwarf at all. It was baffling. And distracting. And even annoying. I figured that it had something to do with the absurd "romance" with the Mirkwood elf. Fili and Thorin were almost as bad. They were men, not dwarves. And I agree with you about something else, Jess. As the royal family, those three should have been the dwarviest of the dwarves in their appearance.

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Sexism is bad. But there just are differences between men and women that matter in a context of waging wars. And for that reason it's still okay for movie to side with Aragorn and other men even while condemning sexism. It wasn't all that hot issue 20 years ago either. People seemed to understand stereotypical differences between sexes back then. Women being easier to overpower would also be riskier for entire army. But I guess that comes down to how similar human in Middle-Earth are to Earth's human.

Never let your boyfriend talk in a video again

Maybe he’s a reference to fairies? One of the tenants of the creation of the world was to “give a mythology for England”.

26:53 : Jess is clearly turning into mentat.

I really love that Eowyn’s arc in the book *doesn’t* revolve around her being a woman. Like, female empowerment stories are great, but I personally find it to be better representation for women to have a female character with an arc about something non-gender specific. Having so many female characters be defined by their gender gets tiresome

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I think tolkien would consider everything as canon since he seemed to consider even himself an unreliable narrator simply recounting tales

0:13 i been there 3 times dont speak for me

19:50 no wonder your a part time hobbit.

Video idea (you have the pieces just not the thesis) is it easier to live as a hobbit or a medieval peasant?

SHE SAID THE F WORD OMG

Saw in London in 2008. Easily the best musical I've ever seen.

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This is the silliest thing I've ever seen. I did watch this when it was a new release. Somehow, I had managed to forget about it ... until now! Thanks for nothing, Jess!!!

Some how Sauron retrunred. That would be diseny if they bought lord of the rings and made a sequel

I'd say that the greatest motion capture and CGI of all time is Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. That performance combined with the visuals made him seem completely real. But Gollum is a close second. He was so life-like and real.

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I’m not surprised that they left out his Christianity. Hollywood hates Christianity

It's interesting how the creature seemingly knew the word wings but not bird.

The fun bits that you add to your videos means that I can't appreciate them by simply listening. You're making my workday less efficient, Jess!

yes, agreed. love the look of a good cloak. you look great in yours and not a difficult project. thanks for sharing

I just cited you in my thesis. Thank you for this video

Ill be honest. This excerpt is more enthralling than LOTR. Its less ponderous but has more worth pondering.

Women are unable to get to the sacred place on the inside using the water of life. Lemme tell you. You don’t understand what made Tolkien great because your woman brain is unable to understand the song of creation and the background of the Gods and angels and the style Tolkien understood about vibration and reality. Which was given to him through his background as a soldier, scholar and Christian. You are only a scholar.

This video inspired me to go back and re-read the books after years. Only halfway through fellowship but holy shit did I miss the feeling I only get reading the books. Newish to the channel, can’t wait to go back and watch your past videos as I’m reading!

I really hope we have more of these videos in out future with you. Thank you for all you do.

Most people don’t get Tolkien, because they don’t get Catholicism.

Can the History Channel just go back to non stop WW2 ans Civil War documentarys? With the occasional documentary from other wars.

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One thing missed in the video, the sorta cheer up monologue that was done by Faramir in the books at the end, was sorta done by Aragorn in the movies way earlier, when Eowyn speak of being caged and all he answer that it wouldn't be her fate, he basically tells her he believes in her, unlike the books where it may come off rather instead somewhat as pity instead, while yea later he tried to prevent her from fighting, he still sort of steal Faramir's thunder from in the books.

Shield maiden

Right on th mark. The movies have a lot of faults and I was a Tolkien fanatic in the 60's and a Catholic so closer to Tolkien and his times. They missed out on the Prince of Dol Amroth in that scene. Cool guy. So is Glorfindel.

Audiobooks do help.

All things considered, the "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" shows that not all orcs were not loyal to Sauron and wanted to just live their lives.

Weird. It's like traditionalist Catholic Tolkien, writing in the dark days before Betty Friedan brought enlightenment to the English-speaking world, not only understands humanity, women and individuals so much more that modern feminist ideology, in which there are not individual women - only representatives of a group - and who can only see the binary of anything-that-men-can-do-women-can-do-better Girlboss or the utter degradation and oppression of anything women did before the 1970's. How can this be?! Tolkien is a F**king white male! The 2000-year tradition of Tolkien's Church, which he loved and with which he agreed, could not possibly have any wisdom in it - because celibate all-male clergy, who are against birth control and abortion, no less - or something. It is almost as though a woman is an individual with her own strengths and flaws, desires, preferences and fears whose identity, while necessarily connected to her sex, is not defined by the category. Speaking of which, nothing that Eowyn did to prepare herself for battle caused her to be victorious against the Witch King. It was not the notion that she had to "work twice as hard to show men that she was just as capable" that brought victory; it was her womanhood itself - that which she despised, or at least resented - that carried the day (that and help from a demi-human hobbit using a special anti-undead knife hamstringing the enemy). Perhaps the lesson here for the contemporary reader is that womanhood *itself* has virtue and that women who think that self-fulfillment comes from being a man accidentally afflicted by different anatomy are looking in the wrong place.

I enjoy both LOTR/Hobbit and Dune. Books of all(the best), of course movies and shows as well. On a completely different note…. You’re extremely beautiful.

The music is from a book called "The road goes ever on" a collaboration between J. R. R. Tolkien and the composer Donald Swann so you get a chance to hear this in the film as it was intended and for that reason alone these made for TV versions are totally worth it

How about, "Hope you have a very happy, sand-wormy day." :D

Now I loose(s( it

23:02 I am VERY happy that someone else thought exactly what I always think when I reach this part lol