This was my introduction to the story of the films that I wasn’t allowed to watch at the time. A poorly optimized RTS made by EA from the early 2000’s. What interesting way to make me want to watch the films.
At 1:00 it's best part of this epilogue. It describes the best how much painful was destruction of Northern Kingdom of Arnor. We can imagine how many Dunedains of Arnor fell by the hand of the Witch King of Angmar's and his servants. Dunedains of Arnor were most noble, most brave and strongest of all Dunedains in Middle-Earth, but there wasn't left many of them left to repel Angmar's attack. This part always somehow kicks the hurt because as a Tolkien and LOTR fan I always remember Dunedain archers in the battle of Dagorlad at the begin of the Fellowship of the Ring movie. Actor who's giving the voice for Glorfindel is just awesome! And we will always remember characters like Elrond, Glorfindel, this epic Tolkien world which is too far beyond the movies, the world for itself in which will true fans always live!
I can't decide which intro I like better: this one, or the original FOTR monologue narrated by Cate Blanchett. Both Sir Ian and Cate Blanchett are amazing. 😁
"And so it is at the will of my people, that I change from Storyteller, to Bladebearer once more." What a fantastic transition from him being the narrator and also mentioning his involvement in the Carn Doom siege previously. Awesome writing.
My favorite unit in this game was the Thrall Master because you could use him to get any combination of units you wanted on the fly. Anyone care to share their favorites?
This expansion was a great adaptation of the Angmar War in the Appendices. Glorfindel's narration here is great and they took the exact words from his prophecy about the Witch-King.
I disagree. I don't think it would have worked that well in the film, as it sort of undermines the section of the film where Gandalf is figuring out that the ring is *the* ring. Having him narrate this at the start implies he's already fully up to speed before he actually finds out.
@@grantrichardet6250 Yes, it was to the west of Carn dum, but they are on the same parallel of the world. Essentially, the ruins of Angbad are in the sea west of the blue mountains, and while it was active it's influence stretched throughout the Iron mountain chain, which if you look on the map of beleriand streched past the blue mountains and reached the area of the Angmar mountains. This is the only thing it could possibly be referring to in my opinion, I have also heard somewhere that this is the case but I can't remember where, so I guess take it with a grain of salt, but it makes sense considering they said ancient darkness, and the fortresses are alligned on the same parallel and reside on effectively the same mountain chain, just that much of the Iron mountains were destroyed of course.
You know what, now that i look at it again, it might even be refering to Utumno, the first fortess of melkor, since utumno was just to the east of Angbad, very close to the actual location of Carn dum. I thought Utumno was also a lot more to the north, but it looks like its just directly to the east, so that should actually be what its refering to.
"Not by the hand of man shall he fall." Witch King: "Hahahaha, that's right fools! I AM INVINCIBLE!" A thousand years later: Eowyn: "I'm about to ruin this man's career."
My head cannon is that the Witch King didn’t create the great plague, but merely reinvigorated the existing but slowing down great plague that had already ravaged Gondor, but had started losing momentum in Dunland as it moved North. The ritual just reinvigorated it so it would hit Arnor as hard as it hit Gondor.
At 2:04 you mention in ages past there was a "great fortress of the ancient darkness." This wasn't the remains of Angband, stronghold of Morgoth was it?
For everyone's information who really likes BFME 2: There actually exists a petition to bring BFME 2 on Steam: www.change.org/p/steam-the-battle-for-middle-earth-ii-on-steam And it doesn't even need that many supporters.
