Welcome to our channel "Mysteries of Westernesse"!
Here you'll find videos about Tolkien's epic legendarium, for both Lord of the Rings experts and newcomers. We always try to release a new video every one or two weeks.
Our goal is to show you the world of Tolkien as simply as possible, but still accurate. For this purpose, our videos feature animated maps of locations, kingdoms and battles, which will show you the course of Tolkien's vast world in detail. We look forward to feedback, comments, video ideas and every new viewer who we can bring closer to Tolkien's stories! :D
Hi, right now university is quite demanding and I don't have time left for editing videos, but hopefully this will get better in the coming months. :) All the best, Danny
Tom bombadil is a merry fellow he was here when the first rain drop fell and the first star fluttered before even the valar came to dwell in aman in all likelihood Tom bombadil is and has always just been so yes he is 💯 more powerful then Sauron but he would never fight him cause he’s just a merry fellow
I think I’ve figured it out: Tom knows he’s fictional - along with everything else. he lives in such a specific place because, simply, he wandered the world and stayed at the place he liked best. he would disappear if Sauron won because there wouldn’t be anymore handsome places to live. he would eventually lose the ring because he knows that not a single real life would be lost if Sauron won. as for where he came from… I dunno.
I'm dreaming up a story for Gandalf's time with the Balrog in the bones and stones of Arda. Would make a great game with levels representing the farther down they go and face the nameless things and each other eventually culminating in the final battle. The fact that Gandalf dies, comes back and wont speak about it would give you full creative licence to explore those depths and introduce an entire new sub plot with these creatures and not mess with the canon.
Why would an immortal have, want or need a successor? I seriously doubt that he ever believed that he wouldn't eventually rule Middle Earth for Eternity.
A very good point indeed, though there is a difference between a designated successor, who had to have been named as such by Sauron during his reign, and an effective successor, who assumed that role and/or title after the Dark Lord's fall. So it is in that latter sense still a valid question. 😉
@MysteriesOfWesternesse I would say that it's a very human trait to plan for all eventualities and have a named successor. My view is that Sauron would name a second in command, such as The Mouth, the Witch King if he'd survived or Khamul. Considering how untrustworthy a bunch they had the potential to be, if I was Sauron, I wouldn't have named a successor. Whether it's putting ideas into your underlings heads or showing weakness by suggesting you might fail or fall, it wouldn't have been a great move in my opinion. 😏❤️😏
I've only watched the movies, I had no idea 17 years passed between Gandalf telling Frodo to keep the ring hidden and secret to when the actual quest begins! It makes a lot more sense when you have that knowledge.
It's said in the Silmilrilion that they Valar do NOT know everything about the world and they find a new surprise in every age. Things older than themselves and the Maiar would definitely be a surprise, but not an ontological problem. It just represents another gap in their knowledge.
Nobody who just started writing writes a masterpiece. Just try and write a lot to train and hone your skill. Let your mind run free and see where you can grow and what you can create! Because in the end, all of this epic legend started with just: "In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit." 😉
I could imagine it being washed away after the dwarves recaptured Moria under Durin 7th in the fourth age. They would want full access to the Doors of Durin and rebuild them, so the dwarves undamming the river and washing it away upon the river's release is a good way to get rid of it.
According to Tolkien himself, the only incarnation of Eru/God is Jesus Christ. Remember that the events of Tolkien’s work take place in our world, in a DISTANT PAST. So Eru will incarnate in the distant future as Christ. Tolkien hated analogies hence why he would never write an analogy of the Christ figure he so rigorously believed in. Doing so would be a blasphemy in his eyes.
Easy. They had tempest-like speed at foot. When you read the first documented encounter between Melkor and Ungoliant, you can read that Melkor literally ran atop a mountain within minutes. It is implied that Ainur can traverse the earth at great speed
@@Crafty_Spirit From Thangorodrim to Lammoth is about 200 miles. There are two mountain ranges that must be negotiated. The Balrogs are on fire, which means any strong wind could literally blow them out. They are much taller than Elves, so their stride is very long. Still they are heavily armoured. A tempest is as much a "storm" as it fast winds. Tolkien could have meant they traveled in a pack with shadow and fire surrounding them, making them look like lightning in a storm cloud. That is what I think Tolkien meant. At 30 mph, it would take 5 hours to get to Lammoth as the crow flies. The way Christopher wrote the narrative, it reads like the Balrogs got there in a couple minutes, like a 911 ambulance, so I won't go by that. Ungoliant had Morgoth trapped like a rat and she was playfully torturing him like a cat would play with a mouse before finally killing and eating it. I don't think her doing that for 5 hours is an unreasonable assumption.
@@Enerdhil Hi friend good to read from you :) I was just wondering where does it ever say Balrogs wore armour? I thought it was left open. These numbers seem plausible but also arbitrary. There are only very few passages that give a glimpse at how the Ainur could move in and interact with the world but what I can read tells me that all Ainur can defy or circumvent physical laws to an extent, which seems logical since they are actually tasked to govern the forces of nature. I don't have an exact idea as what speed maximun that would amount to. I'd say somewhere between double the maximum speed of an elefant to a fighter jet 😆 But I just came up with a nice conspiracy theory. What if Morgoth spent some of his power to warp time such that time slowed dowm during his fallout with Ungoliant - his own terror and inaction almost freezing time.
Thank you very much! I listened to his personal recordings and I try my best to at the very least approach his voice and intonation. I'm very happy you like it!
@@Crafty_Spirit The main 3 people from the channel are from Germany, as the channel lists, though I myself am not. Unfortunately, that is all I can say right now (gotta keep the mystery alive 😉)
@@Crafty_Spirit I share that interest. Though, as a result, in English I am nigh-fluent in 3 accents, and in 2 more languages I speak at least 2 accents/dialects as well. As a result, I fear that, despite my attempts to speak MRP as a foundation in these videos, some of the other accents might bleed into my speech. I'm curious to hear your guesses, though I will not be able to confirm or deny some things ;)
I have sometimes wondered if, had his physical body not died by Wormtongue's hand in the Scouring of the Shire, Saruman could over time not have become a new Dark Lord.
Gandalf, as the White, was essentially at the apex of his true power and knowledge. Being resurrected by Eru Illuvâtar Himself, he is much more stronger than he was before, to the point where he battled Sauron's Eye to prevent Frodo's location from being known (which is not an easy feat). This, in terms of power rivals, if not, surpasses Sauron.
he will not fight. he will just allow sauron to take over him if he can. because even if he lose, he knows all things will all come to a balance, and someday, someone will make the scale balance again and take out sauron.
