There are a ton of great characters. One of my favorites is Samwise Gamge. I also find Lord Denithor one of the most misunderstood characters in the LotR universe, mainly because of how he was represented in the movies.
The reason why the LOTR universe is so expansive is because Tolkein didn't just sit down and say, "Yep, I'm writing a story now." He actually stared by creating his own mythology, and then he worked down from there, creating the races and languages, and eventually he decided, "Hey, there needs to be a story for all of this." That's the very very short explanation of what happened, but that is why there is so much detail in the background of the characters and the world itself. He didn't create the world for his story, he created a world and a story came _from_ it.
Sam: It’s all wrong By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam? Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for. I love the Lord of the rings, I could watch it everyday & never be bored even tho I could word for word say every line in all 3 movies by now lol
@@rufersalonky9547 Yes, because his father told him about the young ranger and that he should find him. We don't see the meeting, though, but we know it happened.
@@lizardlad279 cmon, there are really awesome stories and solid/good stories. it doesn't necessarily mean that people are just after the money... (but i'm in NO way saying that you're not right in the case of disney!) i think you can't compare "soap-style"-stories, like avengers, star wars etc (which i enjoy a lot!!) with epic legend stories like the greek myths or tolkiens myths p. s. plus, not everyone has the time and money (!) to be able to spend decades on writing one story-universe (without publishing it i mean)
As much as I loved Viggos performance in TLR's I still say his portrayal of Satan in the first "Prophecy" is his best work, he scared the piss out of me as a kid with it and made me a fan from that moment forward...
Do we clearly know that the last king of Gondor (Earnur) died or is he corrupted by Sauron when he went to Minas Morgul to confront Witch-King? Mouth of Sauron, maybe?
after he died, she left her family and returned to Lothlorien, now empty, and died there, buried where they were betrothed (buried by whom, I wonder, if the place was empty).
This video is tight and knowledgeable but if you want real videos on everything Middle Earth and Beyond then check out a RU-vid channel called “Men of the West”. The video are very well done and gets all information from books and old manuscripts from JRT... Hands down the best way to see Dope ass videos of the history we all love!
I just finished watching the Hobbit and then the LOTR and I never realized how freaking good those movies were and how much I love fantasy movie/books with a passion. I sobbed like a baby when it was over and "Into The West" played in the credits. Tolkien is one, if not the best book writer I've ever been able to enjoy. I wish he had written more.
Yeah “Into The West” gets me every time. I’m reading my girlfriend TLOTR Fellowship of the Ring for the first time, it’s great. Keeps the world alive for me that was. 👍🏻
@@ozzyg82 I really wish I had been alive for it in the theater at the age I am now to be able to understand and grasp what the story was fully about and what it truly meant. Honestly one of the best movie trilogies ever in my opinion.
littlehollow Music that’s a good point. I feel lucky, I think I was at a great age for the theatrical release of the trilogy, I really enjoyed them so much. I’m sure there’ll be other great movies released perfect for you too. I hope you get to see the three films on the big screen at some point too.
@@ozzyg82 Me too lol. I don't know if you saw Interstellar, but that's another movie I missed in the theater because I was too young and probably wouldn't have appreciated it as much then like I would now. I won't miss TENET though. (If you even know what that is)
My aunt and I had a special bond when watching these movies. My mom, my cousin and my aunt all went to see all of the movies, but my aunt and I had a huge crush on the actor who played Aragorn. I miss her and my mom.
@@SimmSumm I can see why you'd say that. But at the same time I love dude in it from luke cage and I'd welcome a positive movie on race relations at the moment.
Recognizing that JRR Tolkien creates this entire mythology out of thin air, complete with its own language is almost overwhelming. That intellect doesn’t exist anymore.
Not entirely out of thin air. His whole Legendarium has a lot of little inspirations in real world history and mythology, and in filology and linguistics, his area of study. I think the really innovative thing he did was how carefully he brought those elements together, rather than just throwing them in a pile. He payed attention to etymology for the sake of storytelling, bothered with genuinely rigorous consistency (though it has its occassional oversight), as well as presenting fictional historical events with a certain degree of variety and randomness (similarly to how they'd unfold in real history and real world mythic stories). Aragorn, both in the books and the films, is rather interesting for the fact that he finally breaks a certain vicious cycle that's been pursuing his ancestors since the times of Númenor. They always grew too prideful and complacent, then they often used that as an excuse to abuse less-developed peoples, and they fell for Sauron's tricks or even direct influence several times. Númenor paid the price for this, Isildur, his father and brother perished too, the two kingdoms in exile took a beating in later times, and the same sort of prideful mistakes kept reoccuring (the last king of Gondor mentioned in the vid died because he couldn't resist the Witch-king's challenge to a duel in Mordor, and went there like a complete fool). Aragorn's notedly different from the mannerisms of these ancestors by having travelled a lot across the world, often living humbly, getting to know various cultures. Being humble, learning humility and understanding what and who he's fighting for if Sauron is going to be defeated and the Arnor/Gondor royal line be reinstated to the throne. You could say he couldn't have become the person he is if he had a more pampered upbringing and considered his right to rule as a given. He knows he has to properly work for it, and be very principled and very honest, to grow into a king widely accepted by various people. The grammar and some of the pronunciations of Aragorn's mother tongue, Adunaic, and its folk offshoot, the Westron language, was partly inspired by Middle Eastern patterns, in addition to European linguistic patterns. The dwarven language was even more inspired by Hebrew and Arabic, interestingly enough, and the two main elven languages by Finnish and Welsh grammar and pronunciations. Aragorn's own name (and most other Arnor and Gondor names) are in elvish, though, rather than a human language.
@@animec-dramaskpop6362 dont get me wrong I watch a ton off movies, I rig nets for a living so it means I get to watch films all day, slightly problematic when I stitch my clothes in the net through lack of consintration.. but lotr extended addition are perfect lenghts!!
If you think about it, Aragorn married his distant relative who is old enough to be his ancestor and he only met after staying with Elrond for more than 20 years.
Yes, but Arwen had been off visiting her gramma Galadriel during those 20 years (though you'd think that Aragorn would have heard something about her before then either from Elrond or from Elladan & Elrohir; and maybe seen a portrait of her).
@@jmmmenelik4784 Arwen is a Half-elf, the daughter of Elrond (Half-elven). Aragorn is a Man of the Dunedain, whose distant ancestor was Elros, the brother of Elrond.
@@otaku-sempai2197 and elros wasn't half elf, he was made human. the advantages of the numenorians were a result of perfected humanity being mixed with normal humanity, an elf decided to become mortal after the valar gave a choice, but the valar are awesome, they made the elf mortal, but that elf was still an elf. so the line of numenor lives for a ridiculous amount of time. and the number of years has been enough that even the original numenorians has spread around long life enough that pretty much all numenorians had long life before they even went back to middle earth. phaw, its a long story, a great starter is the silmarillion.
One minor clarification: Yes, Aragorn spends a few weeks spying out Mordor after he leaves Gondor. However, he is reunited with Arwen in Lothlorien and returns to Rivendell before he begins his journeys in the farther East and the South. T.A. 2980 was a very busy year for our Ranger-boy, probably his single most momentous year until the War of the Ring.
I’ve read all the Tolkien material but this is interesting. Aragorn is my favorite character. Viggo Mortensen is one of my favorite people in general. 👩🏻🦰👍🏻👑
Thanks for an informative video. Just wanted to say though that this 'striking out in desperation' when Isildur cuts the ring from Sauron's hand is Jackson's vision, not Tolkien's, and is one of my two great disappointments with the film, the other being the removal of the 'Scouring of the Shire'. The original tale has Sauron properly defeated, not some lucky win by a chance blow.
You know, to this day, I still don't like the section with Tom Bombadill; it just seems a pointless side plot. The Scouring of the Shire however, that was Frodo's payback in respect of his return home; should never have been dropped.
Queen Eowyn was such a good character as well originally I thought for sure Aragorn and Her would end up but I love that Farimir ended up either way it would unite Rohan and Gondor
Isildur does not cut off the Ring in a desperate swipe. Gil-Galad and Elendil defeat Sauron, but die in the fight. Isildur cuts the Ring off of Sauron’s corpse
Even though this trilogy is a 13-15+ movie, I started watching this masterpiece when I was 7 with my brothers. I left it for a while, but now have been reunited with it, and I immediately fell in love with Aragorn's character. Tolkien made him so likeable, and Viggo Mortensen did such an amazing portrayal. I would so love to see more, maybe even have him make a cameo in the new show set to come out next year. I would love to see his rule of 120 prosperous years.
Nno mention of how he met legolas before the fellowship of the ring. It's obvious from that movie that they have been friends for a long time. Also in "battle of the 5 armies", if am correct, legolas' father told him to seek aragon. So looper what do you guys think
That's bullsh*t from the movies. During the events of the Hobbit Aragorn was a 10 year old kid living in Rivendell. He and Legolas probably met when Aragorn captured Gollum and brought him to Mirkwood
I would like to see this in a animation, im getting confused to whats going on on the screen and what is she talking about, still learned some things tho.
I watched these movies when I was a really young so never really remembered much of anything, but during the quarantine my gf and I decided to watch LOTR and Hobbit movies. Great movies, I loved them so much!
Personally I love the LOTR books and movies for completely different reasons. The movies feel like a mad rush from one end to the other. The books carry much more that the story is focused on the journey.
thanks to the animated movie in the 1970s, there is an entire generation (Gen X) who will always think of Aragorn as a tall Native American man with a vaguely-British accent.
the blood of Luthien and Beren runs in his veins....and in Arwens too....along with Tuor and Irdil of Gondolin....and within their blood lines runs that Melian the Mair...
Looper if you're gonna make an Aragorn backstory, pls read the books next time instead of just rewatching the movies... Isildur did not "strike out in desperation", nor was Elendil "defeated" . Elendil and Gil-Galad dueled Sauron and, though they both died from their wounds, brought him down with mortal injuries, and then Isildur just cut off the ring from his hand to finish him off, using Narsil. If you're gonna make a LotR video 20 years after the films, at least do it right.
The scene I found most evocative in this movie series was at the end of The Two Towers, when the river is diverted to drown out the works of Saruman, but only because it evoked the Biblical verse (Micah, I am guessing, or another of the pre exilic prophets, I think) that we think of in context with the work of MKL: "Let justice flow down like water." The first time I saw the movie in the theater, I found myself gasping back tears at the visual image that so vividly evoked that key quotation, with its relevance to modern American history. But casting Gollum to look like Humphrey? "I want's it, precious, I wants the nomination!" Ick. Distracts from the art of Tolkien, from the matter at hand. I can see why the guy would have done it, but I think it was a mistake, from an artistic point of view. For people who value RFK's actual valid contributions to U.S. political discourse, the recent Black Lives Matter marches, around the country and around the world, protesting systemic racism, commemorate RFK's real-world contributions far better than the cheezey-peazey digression in this silly movie. (By which I mean the unique contribution to the field of national presidential politics that systemic racism is an appropriate and a necessary topic for national presidential candidates in the US to address in their campaigns.) Let us hope that the real RFK didn't really imagine himself to be a saint, but would have been tongue in cheek about taking on a saint's name, "Will no-one rid me of this troublesome Attorney General???" Otherwise it's narcissistic as he**, as is trying to cast him, somehow, as Farimir. What, was he funding the production or something? Ick.
As a righteous ruler ellaser should have lived the 500 year maximum lifespan of a descent of elros. Many Númenóreans rulers reached that span. Good content BTW. Tolkien should have given that span to a great king, returned. For the dunedein. Even if manwee had to intervene directly
It was stated in the book that by the time Elessar was King, the lifespan of the Numenorean descendants was greatly reduced, and hardly any of them lived past 200.
