How powerful are the Nazgul?

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@braalkmath Месяц назад

Nobody expects the Nazgul! Our chief weapon is fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Sauron... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.”

@curtishammer748 Месяц назад

... (sigh) "I didn't expect this sort of Mordor Inquisition"

@NV..V Месяц назад

Have you got all the stuffing up one end?

@themiddlecase Месяц назад

@@curtishammer748NOBODY EXPECTS THE MORDORISH INQUISITION!!!

@green_dragon_knight Месяц назад

I would really love if behind every Black rider was an orc making horse hoof noises with a coconut

@Scientist_Salarian Месяц назад

@@green_dragon_knight😂😂😂 That would be brilliant

@cyrilmeynier5688 Месяц назад

Her : i'm sure he is thinking about another woman. Me : How powerful are the Nazgul?

@raymendez6682 Месяц назад

Yup

@Peatingtune Месяц назад

Exactly. If I have a preoccupied frown that makes it seem like I'm about to announce something life-changing it's because I'm thinking about Lord of the Rings or Star Trek or the like. "...is he mad at me?" Nope, just pondering the nuances of Shire economics.

@StoneDeceiver Месяц назад

@@Peatingtune shire economics lol

@curtishammer748 Месяц назад

But what WAS aragorn's tax policy?

@NaughtyJackal Месяц назад

she Elf

@jacobbronsky464 Месяц назад

Another weakness of the Nazgul is epic paragons of courage and valor, specifically Farmer Maggot.

@ebransc09 Месяц назад

I thought their greatest weakness was Sauron’s failure to provide a dental plan

@davidtatro7457 Месяц назад

I think everyone is afraid of Farmer Maggot.

@Scientist_Salarian Месяц назад

I worked on farms for a good part of my early life. Generational farmers are not to be trifled with. They’re strong as an ox, stubborn as a mule, and have a broader knowledge of the physical world than just about anyone. And they tend to be well-armed.

@stevemonkey6666 Месяц назад

I find the Nazguls' Hobbit interactions to be quite funny. This big, scary, evil invisible dude. Wearing a black cloak has to listen to Sam's Gaffer complaining about the neighbors. To me that's one of the funniest things in the books😅

@Eloraurora Месяц назад

@@Scientist_Salarian Now I'm just flashing back to the 'rural medicine' sketches, and the farmer pain scale topping out at "I'm here, ain't I?"

@Scientist_Salarian Месяц назад

If I ever get rich, I’m going to produce an audio book of Tolkien’s appendices and histories, and hire Robert to read them. Best voice on RU-vid, hands down

@ricky2416 Месяц назад

Phil dragash is my favorite lotr audiobook narrator

@charlesg5085 23 дня назад

Male sure he records it in the nude. This will give the reading a vulnerability, an underlying shame just under the surface skin. His shame bleeding through the reading...

@Scientist_Salarian 22 дня назад

@@charlesg5085 50 Shades of Grey got nothing on this LotR narration.

@GeorgeSukFuk 21 день назад

@@charlesg5085nude and on a wooden pony.

@errantwinds-up8uu Месяц назад

One of the things that I think is easy to forget about Aragorn is that he wasn't just a king and warrior, but a healer, and that that's a deep part of his kingship. Bit of an aside but as it was mentioned, it's one of my favourite things about him.

@leemastro9904 Месяц назад

The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.

@glennkuban7964 Месяц назад

Kingsfoil go brr.

@IrishCarney 26 дней назад

It's a deep and old part of European folklore that kings can heal, even by just a touch.

@factusnonverbus 11 дней назад

It's one of the very few magics manifested by men, perhaps including the barrow blades and the concrete used to make Orthanc. Of course Aragorn is part Maia and part Elf...

@PiscatorLager Месяц назад

Just realized that the Nazgûl were probably one of those aspects of Tolkien's writing most influenced by his time at the Battle of the Somme. The screams, the Black Breath, the sheer horror surrounding them.

@oguzhanenescetin5702 Месяц назад

Why do people always connect everything they can find in Lotr to battle of Somme?

@raphlas8635 Месяц назад

@@oguzhanenescetin5702 Not always the Battle of the Somme in particular, but it is easy to draw parallels from Tolkien's life as a WW1 veteran, and a few things that appeared in his writings. I mean, anyone who would have survived this hell on Earth that was WW1 would be emotionally scarred for the rest of their life, especially with psychological aid being uhm.. not that advanced at the time

@AskMia411 Месяц назад

@@oguzhanenescetin5702 It does pop up a lot, but there is good reason for it. The most common comparison is the dead marshes, because we know the battle of Somme was slightly flooded and there were bodies staring up out of the water. Given that he wrote a great deal of the early history of middle earth while IN the trenches, it’s unavoidable that there would be parallels. I think people default to the Somme because it’s the most well known battle he was in. Though with the Nazgûl shrieking and black breath I think any battle ground in WW1 world qualify as an influence. Missiles shrieking overhead, constant fear of chemical attacks, people around him losing the will to live. Coming up with monsters with those traits and having them be defeated by friendship and good will was probably unconscious catharsis for Tolkien

@arroncusimano9169 Месяц назад

Chemical weapons used in wwI like Chlorine and mustard gas... Black breath.

@PiscatorLager Месяц назад

@@oguzhanenescetin5702 definitely not everything, but for some of the horror elements it's easy to see the parallels.

@davio14 Месяц назад

I like the contrast between the Nazgul, men who instill fear and men such as Aragorn, but also Eomer, Imrahil etc. who are not only great warriors by themselves, but also inspire hope. The Lord of the Rings is truly a clash between light and dark, personified by their respective champions.

@KuK137 Месяц назад

It can hardly be a "clash" when any 1 good champion easily beats 9 strongest evil champions. Or in Silmarion's case, even more idiotic 1 elf vs literal evil god (Melkor) almost ending with a draw and said god walking away crippled. Only utter idiocy and holding gigantic idiot ball on the side of 'good' prevented easy and quick stomp of everyone 'evil' in an afternoon...

@Spoon80085 Месяц назад

This fits into Tolkien's whole philosophy when it comes to evil (and its strength/ birth). That being that most of its strength is immaterial; the fear of something wicked, not the actual physical wickedness. In fact, the Nasgul have no form at all, they're specters, essentially. The majority of their power is stopping good people from trying to stop them, which is in Tolkien's words, is all it takes for evil to arise. Even the Witch King dies in fairly middling circumstance, to a warrior of little regard, but the courage it took to fight him was all it took to overcome him. Gandalf more scares them off than actually fight them, and they shirk away from any being who meets their gaze. Because, for all their power, they are mortal men that have burdened themselves with covetous greed and fear that their power should be taken away. The most powerful abilities in Middle Earth are those that sway the hearts of men, in essence.

@kadaverf Месяц назад

Have I ever said that your videos make reading the books you talk about ever more enjoyable than it already was?

@MrLeafeater Месяц назад

They take double damage from being told off by grumpy farmers, too. Farmer Maggot FTW!

@Kriegerdammerung Месяц назад

Can you explain me the implications of the joke? I do not understand )=

@MrLeafeater Месяц назад

@@Kriegerdammerung Farmer Maggot was a Hobbit in the Shire. When one of the Nazgul confronted him, looking for the Ring, Farmer Maggot just told him go get lost...not really any fear at all, despite the powers outlined in this excellent video.

@Kriegerdammerung Месяц назад

@@MrLeafeater I suspected as much. That farmer was the MVP from the correct perspective ;)

@khartog01 Месяц назад

If he had a shotgun, they would have been destroyed.

@thecappeningchannel515 Месяц назад

Farmer maggot was originally a Tom Bombadil type character, in early drafts. The Nazgul didnt want to stab their way through the 30 000+ population of the shire.

@Sibbarp Месяц назад

Thanks for your high quality videos!

@misterthegeoff9767 Месяц назад

I don' know if Tolkein ever made it explicit but I always thought that the explanation for the Nazgul being so much less powerful in the Shire and on Weathertop was because their power came from Sauron, the further they are from his stronghold the more their power diminishes. That's certainly the feeling I came away with from just reading the Lord of the Rings, I never delved deeper into the less accessible tomes of the legendarium, that's what I follow this channel for.

@jmeds94 Месяц назад

I would love a confirmation of this as well, it’s been my thought for years

@robmartin525 Месяц назад

Do you think they had aerials to pick up stronger dark magic signal strength? Guaranteed to be in an awkward position and will drop out as soon as you move!!!

@dev2410 25 дней назад

That is an interesting idea I do happen to know that the Orcs are more bound to the will of sauron the closer they are to him and less so the farther away they are from him maybe something similar happens to nazgul

@Greendalewitch 21 день назад

I feel like it was stated somewhere that the reason the Nazgul were so less powerful in the shire and on Weathertop, was because Sauron was still weak and gathering strength. It took him 2000 years to reform and return to Middle Earth, and so the Nazgul appeared along with him, and grew in strength as he himself grew. Can't remember where I read this though, so take this with a grain of salt.

@MrBottlecapBill 21 день назад

@@Greendalewitch Sauron's strength didn't change much during the novels. It was just bad writing on the part of Tolkien honestly.

@KRJayster Месяц назад

Arguably the Witch-King’s greatest weakness was prophecy twists.

@malena5026 Месяц назад

Prophecys are dangerous vor a reason. No matter if its LotR, Game of Thrones or Dune prophecys in Literaturen are Always vague Up for Interpretation and hiddeous crimes can be commited in the name of IT

@mpetrison3799 Месяц назад

Yep, in the books. In the movies, tho, it was Mary Sue.

@malena5026 Месяц назад

@@mpetrison3799 she isn’t a Mary sue in the movie she struggles killing him and only can together with Merry because of him wounding him with his sword that was forged to fight the WK

@michaelhorning6014 Месяц назад

If the Witch King had read Macbeth he would have been better prepared.

@Calvinosaur Месяц назад

@@malena5026 In the movie that sword is just a hobbit-suitable sword that Aragorn probably bought in Bree. It's only an enchanted barrow-blade in the book.

@hunterG60k Месяц назад

Having your cloak catch on fire is "quite annoying" - Rob 😂 That made me chuckle

@Belligerent_Herald Месяц назад

Wow, I started to make a comment and when I typed Nazgûl my auto correct recognized it and fixed it. I’ve never typed it before. That is how iconic Tolkien’s work is, his characters are in the automatic dictionary.

@jefffinkbonner9551 Месяц назад

I’ve noticed that when typing Boromir. It at least suggests it after typing bor!

@Crocy 21 день назад

Words and names from my country come up sometimes. My theory is that our languages are based off country AND popular stuff.

@asierurteagaaguirre3462 Месяц назад

9:04 come on, its Glorfindel! even Sauron will think twice before facing him.

@joshuaeason3426 Месяц назад

You're right. He's so over powerful and important he was replaced by Arwen in the movie. Come on man 😂😂😂😂

@nordvestgaming1238 Месяц назад

@@joshuaeason3426 I mean he was replaced so that they could push the whole Arwen and Aragorn love story, and so they didn't have to try and explain to watchers who weren't as versed in Tolkiens works who Glorfindel was, not because he wasn't powerful. Glordindel is at bear minimum just as powerful as Gandalf the Grey while he is wearing Narya as they both faced Balrogs and though they both died, at least their physical form did they also did defeat their respective foes. Being on par with a maiar (and a very powerful one at that) who is also wielding a ring of power is no small feat.

@fromthecheapseats7126 Месяц назад

I understand why he wasn’t in the movies, but I still wish we could’ve seen his transformation onscreen.

@minnumseerrund Месяц назад

@@joshuaeason3426 bruh, he was replaced cause he litterally does nothing else in the books other than taking Frodo for a ride. Nevermind the fact that him not joining the fellowship (being basically the most powerfull Elven warrior in the 3rd age) is such a weird plothole

@joshuaeason3426 Месяц назад

@minnumseerrund no shit Sherlock. It's called sarcasm, you should try it some time. 🙄

@israelisntreal786 Месяц назад

Hi Rob, I've been a huge fan of this Channel for about 3-4 Years, I was just wondering if you had deleted all your old LOTR content. Really loved those videos, helped me through a hard time.

@InDeepGeek Месяц назад

Thank you! It means a lot to me that my videos helped in some small way. :D And yes, they are returning; updated where we have new information (from new JRRT letters etc) and with improved audio and video.

@israelisntreal786 Месяц назад

@@InDeepGeek awesome Robert, we love the content and thank you.

@Grancigul Месяц назад

@@InDeepGeek i too miss them dearly as i loved to play the playlist on shuffle as i fall asleep to stop myself from thinking bad toughts, i am glad to see you uploading more often lately 😊

@draw4kicks Месяц назад

Please do a video about "Tolkien's steampunk ponderings on Numenor"!!! That sounds like an absolutely fascinating topic!!!!

@haraldjensen1839 Месяц назад

He did

@citizen_grub4171 Месяц назад

@@haraldjensen1839It even has a card in the video.

@OYME13 Месяц назад

I love how Glorfindel is just a Faith Build powerhouse, that even multiple Nazgul will purposely avoid. It's like they can see some ridiculous bright radiance in the distance, and they just "nope" the heck around that. I was immediately enthralled when I first read of Glorfindel basically manifesting like Jesus. Dude revealed his true form. Gotta be careful when killing some elves. Sometimes they come back upgraded.

@specialnewb9821 Месяц назад

Killing a fallen angel who was a better fighter than their own will do that!

@TheBriarWolf Месяц назад

“Nope” pretty much sums up their reaction to Glorfindel 💯 😂

@vksasdgaming9472 19 дней назад

He never came back. Nobody faced balrog and lived or returned from death to tell the tale. Except Gandalf.

@mishie618 Месяц назад

That was one of the best videos and interpretations of the Nazguls power, and so we'll said, so we'll narrated, I could really feel everything he was saying. Very well done❤

@moritamikamikara3879 Месяц назад

Facing the wind as they ride through the sky Shadows of Mordor, black horses they fly

@yahboy3615 Месяц назад

always nice finding culture

@brettsgamingtavern7429 Месяц назад

Good ole Sabaton.

@Grunt_007 Месяц назад

I have been watching your videos for quite some time now, can't say for certain how long, but it feels like a good few years at least! Even though by now most parts of the Tolkien lore is no longer new, I still get excited to watch your uploads. The selected artworks are always stunning, and your calm and relaxing narrating, make them a joy to watch and listen to, and allow me to immerse myself entirely and once again 'step into' this wonderful universe we all love. Thank you for your content!

@queenvrook Месяц назад

Tolkien's magic seems to be based on "will," the ability to intend things into being, as best I can tell. Given this, I think of the Rings as enhancing the person's will, toward a certain end or several. The One Ring's focus was domination, especially magical domination. The Three were made to enhance the ability to preserve, protect, and defend, which is a subtle trap for the Elves: preserving is not growing. It's an open question whether the Dwarves could, in theory, turn their rings to something other than amassing wealth, if they had only willed it. Apparently the Nine served to enhance the ability to dominate another's mind, rather than their will, which was reserved to the One.

@ReeseCraven Месяц назад

Watching this to get hyped for the inevitable Nazgul VS Gandalf/Aragorn/Legolas fight scenes in The Hunt for Gollum.

@benx6549 Месяц назад

Let's hope not

@ReeseCraven 13 часов назад

@@benx6549 Oh, I'm hoping for it alright! The Hobbit trilogy taught us that Jackson's team aren't concerned with adhering to the books anymore, so why expect them to? Disappointment is practically guaranteed. Instead of getting my hopes up for something cool like that, I just want to see more of Legolas doing crazy elvish Matrix moves. Have we ever seen him fight the Nazgul? Not yet, we haven't. Okay, hear me out. Once I got past the fact that Legolas was in The Hobbit, he became my favorite part of that trilogy. They fleshed out his character a little more and gave him a proper nemesis in Bolg. That scene where Legolas sees his own blood for the first time was so badass. And the final showdown on that crumbling tower, just wow. If that ends up being Orlando Bloom's last battle as Legolas, they sure gave him an awesome sendoff. Not canon at all, but awesome nonetheless. Now, do we expect the team who put Legolas in The Hobbit to restrain themselves from putting Nazgul fights in The Hunt for Gollum? I think not. At the end of the day, whether or not the new movies suck, I refuse to hate Peter Jackson. The man's a genius. He gave us the original trilogy, and I will always appreciate that. At this point, I'm just down for the ride.

@ThingsThatIDo Месяц назад

I always felt like each of them had different power levels with the witch King being the strongest

@jmeds94 Месяц назад

By far. Khamul is the only one we can conclude was more powerful than the other seven. And I would say the gap is like Other 7 < Khamul

@lordschaft1073 Месяц назад

Yay, new video! Always happy for a new lotr upload!

@GhostOfAces Месяц назад

The Barrow blades are the only reason the Witch King was beaten by Eowyn and died. Noone can convince me otherwise.

@GravityRavenYT Месяц назад

Obviously, otherwise there wouldn't have been a reason for Merry to be there if Eowyn was capable of actually beating him on her own. Like, he broke her left arm with a single swin of his mace when she shielded herself from his attack, in fact, at that point, the Witch King was as strong as Gandalf, a single mortal with a simple sword could've never defeated him.

@chrisdaigle5410 Месяц назад

Why would anyone think otherwise? Without the barrow blade wound, the witch king would be invulnerable to Eowyn.

@alpineadmiral1 Месяц назад

Pretty sure that blade unwraithed him allowing Eowyn to deal the death blow, but I do agree technically. Even if she didn't kill him it would've been possible for anyone else in the battle to kill him at that point.

@kjells3578 Месяц назад

These are the best depictions I've seen in your videos!

@maxbridgeman9199 Месяц назад

4 videos in 1 week? love to see it

@davidtatro7457 Месяц назад

I believe that at least a couple are re-uploads. Not sure why, but l am absolutely not complaining.

@maxbridgeman9199 Месяц назад

@@davidtatro7457 i think only the ASOIAF videos are re-uploads but what can you expect when GRRM doesn’t give any new material to work with

@Cosper79 Месяц назад

One great thing about the original (and arguably best CCG ever) Middle Earth card game, Middle Earth: The Wizards by I.C.E is the companies desired and direction to not break canon. They only took liberties when Tolkien left questions unanswered, as he did with the Nazgul. One of the names for the nazgul in I.C.E is Adûnaphel. Firstly, that is such an excellent name. Secondly, Adûnaphel was depicted as a female nazgul. Unfortunately, the honor and respect it took to not break canon did not move forward with Amazon nor Wotc. Middle Earth in Magic the gathering and RoP are Tolkien in name only. You can even describe those products as Untolkien.

@katelynlawrence9034 Месяц назад

Anything you do about the Nazgûl is amazing. Love your channel

@kaipirinha089 Месяц назад

Hey! I really like your content. Keep it up!

@istari0 Месяц назад

Excellent video! Thanks!

@jacobnavarro3675 Месяц назад

"most terrible servants" makes it sound like they were really bad at their jobs... which isn't a super-wrong assessment.

@VegardLaur 23 дня назад

Yeah lmao

@eagle_and_the_dragon Месяц назад

Onr thing that bugged me in Return of the King (movie version) was when the Witch King faces down Gandalf, and breaks his staff. Very silly, as Gandalf- especially the White, was quite a bit more powerful than the Witch King.

@MythicTales993 Месяц назад

Your video has enriched my understanding of the topic. Thank you for your dedication.

@short11000 Месяц назад

Thank you. I enjoyed it.

@Play3rID Месяц назад

Love the lore videos!

@sdev2749 Месяц назад

brilliant video, ty

@wuothanar3544 Месяц назад

Another excellent video. The level of quality this channel continues to produce is worthy of high praise.

@MellowFellow.2407 Месяц назад

Very intriguing thank you for sharing! 😃👍

@NaYoung1337 Месяц назад

Great Video. I think the nazguls are one of a kind when it comes to depicting power being bound to depencies

@jonthan135 Месяц назад

Thank you Robert

@faymilan2429 Месяц назад

so glad u still make viedos about lotr , just got home enjoying this with an ice cold dry cider thank you, bless

@faymilan2429 Месяц назад

is thier somewhere u have all your videos as files , i whould def buy this as cd box set or a long movie with it all recorded

@Urdok123 Месяц назад

Cheers, interesting as always

@cthulhucollector Месяц назад

Great video.

@bcfb21 21 день назад

One of the things I liked most about shadow of war was how they gave a few more nazgul personas. I know it’s not canon and also doesn’t match the timeline. But I like it.

@stephenbenner4353 Месяц назад

Of course they may also avoid Glorfindel as he was the one who prophesied that no mortal man would defeat the Witch King, a prophecy the Witch King believed in, but then Glorfindel had died and been returned to middle earth mafter defeating a Balrog mellenia earlier.

@bobqzzi Месяц назад

When you think about it, the Nazgul got a heck of a deal. Well worth it.

@E3ECO Месяц назад

You are incredibly good at explaining Tolkien's lore. I've read the source material, but not gleaned the nuances you bring forth in these videos.

@QuasarEE Месяц назад

Somehow I didn't catch the bit about Frodo's blade glinting back when I read the books, so that was fascinating to learn.

@commandosolo1266 20 дней назад

"The leader... raised up his hand. Frodo was stricken dumb." I so wish Jackson had filmed this moment exactly as written so the kids could say, "hey, he's copying Darth Vader!" only to realize no, it's the other way 'round.

@thelastape7736 Месяц назад

Cool listening to this guy. It’s like listening to David Attenborough.

@MrLePov Месяц назад

Now I just want to see a montage of the Witch King training in the Barad-Dur gym to get more powerful 😂

@Honeyless-Badger Месяц назад

They are too slow in combat, but very effective in pyschological warfare.

@specialnewb9821 Месяц назад

Morale is a major component of warfare and rulership. We do best to remember it!

@almVancouver 21 день назад

You rock bro!

@doe6974 28 дней назад

Couple of points to nitpick on . 1. Their horses were not speacially bred for them, but rather stolen in the night from rohan. 2. Felbeasts have some sort of connection to the moon. Forgot the details thouhh

@0IlTSMax 26 дней назад

The Nazgûl are arguably the most badass and tragic monsters in fantasy.

@gaminawulfsdottir3253 Месяц назад

Everyone speaks the phrase "fell beasts" as if that describes a particular sort of animal, like saying "dragon" or "balrog". But the word "fell" is simply an adjective that means "of terrible evil or ferocity; deadly". Tolkien used the word simply to avoid further defining what kind of beast the nazgul rode.

@thecappeningchannel515 Месяц назад

Beregrond calls them hellhawks.

@larkshadow5317 27 дней назад

"having your robes catch on fire is annoying even for a Nazgul" LOL...

@superkamivegito5499 Месяц назад

Im a new fan of LotR and I love your videos! Thank you for making them!

@Intreductor Месяц назад

What happened with the "Lord of the Rings from the Witch King's perspective" video and some others from before? Are they exclusively for patreon currently?

@dandiehm8414 Месяц назад

They also were not fond of Water and could be confused by it.

@richardpell 17 дней назад

Sauron had to have known he was cooked when all of his top brass Nazgul cornered Frodo on that tower and Aaragorn 1v9's them with a torch.

@NINE93THREE Месяц назад

My InDeepGeek coffee mug arrived today! ⚔️☕

@BluffyMoo Месяц назад

Part of me wishes to have Frodo turn into a mini Nazgul. He'd look like a kid on a war horse. How fearsome would he have been?

@1985uber 28 дней назад

nice video, but you forgot to mention their fear of the power of Ulmo and Orosse - thats why they feared to cross the water so many times and thats why Sauron had never made open war on sea...Ulmo was still very present even in 3rd age...he cared a lot, maybe even more than Manwe

@msolo79 Месяц назад

Thank you

@Stormkrow280 4 дня назад

My theory as to why the Witch-King is the leader of the Nazgûl is because I believe he was the only one of the Nine who was a king BEFORE he gained his Ring of Power, the other 8 were great warriors or sorcerers (I like to imagine that there were 4 of each; 4 who were strictly Warriors and 4 who were strictly Sorcerers) but they were not kings yet and they used their rings to become kings, but the Witch-King as a human was already all three: a Warrior, a Sorcerer, and a King.

@DomCristante 20 дней назад

9:00 AAYYYEEE I didn't know David spade rode horses 😅

@josephbenson6301 Месяц назад

I've often considered that the Nazgul can't hold the weapons themselves, they are wearing armor and clothing and especially gauntlets and it's the clothing that is "holding" the weapon. It's the armor that is sitting on the horse and it's the boots touching the ground. I ponder that because of a statement made about how, after the Ford of Bruinen, they are unrobed and that effected them greatly. Occam's razor probably suggests that is a level of complexity over necessity, but that statement at the Ford troubles me without it.

@itzakehrenberg3449 20 дней назад

I would point out that the Witch-King was able to strike Frodo dumb and break his sword during the time that Frodo had a piece of a Morgûl blade in his body where it had been festering for days; there is no indication that the Witch-King could do this to just anyone at any time.

@BierBart12 Месяц назад

I'd love to see a video about these human sorcerers.

@GravityGuy112 Месяц назад

Please do a video about the powers of the different rings and why the one ring is so powerful!

@Cosper79 Месяц назад

Best Tolkien RU-vidr!

@maylabrown4584 Месяц назад

Woah that would make a great What-If Video, what if Frodo killed the Witch-King on Weathertop?

@curtishammer748 Месяц назад

I was about to say Aragorn would have to deliver the finishing blow, but that would conflict with the prophecy that "not by the hand of man shall he fall." Therefore, the 4 hobbits would have to jump him

@scottthomas3792 Месяц назад

In the book " The Wizard of 4th Street, there's a band named " The Nazgul"...the book is from the '80s, and well worth finding...

@RoshDroz Месяц назад

I'm actually amazed that the first scene with frodo and the nazguul had lore reasons behind why it sniffed and sensed them but didn't manage to find them. I always just thought that was an oddly lucky, maybe even far-fetched thing they wrote in just for suspense. .

@thakyou5005 23 часа назад

"...They also, like many evil creatures, are sensitive to things that are good and pure." Sounds a lot like former friends.

@dfailsthemost Месяц назад

I wonder where their spirits went. Halls of Mandos would be a tough room for them.

@majornugzzz5424 Месяц назад

They ended up in Des Moines Iowa.

@dfailsthemost Месяц назад

@@majornugzzz5424 That checks out

@nerfherder4284 27 дней назад

I always got the impression that they were ethereal in the beginning because Sauron's power was still rising and had he had the ring they would have been fully physical.

@EmperorTerran Месяц назад

07:26 what scene is he talking about? I tried to find it but cant, is it in fellowship of the ring? Frodo draws his sword when they move down bellow them and unseen world we see only after ring is on and the sword long gone.

@beverniousb5992 Месяц назад

The Nazgul have always been my favorite characters in Tolkien mythos, still to this day I wish he expanded on them even more but at the same time I love that he didn't because the unknown makes them that much more interesting of characters.

@michaelhart7569 Месяц назад

Merry's sword dealt the Witch KIng a serious blow, but I'm not convinced that was enough to kill him by itself. It seemed to me that it broke "the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will" only temporarily on the Pelennor field. That was enough for Eowyn to deliver the coup-de-grace. Given that the Witch KIng must have met a lot of armed opponents during his thousands of years, many of them must have hit him with arrows. This must have stung a little bit. But it took the double hit of Eowyn immediately following Merry's special blade to do him in. What I don't get is how the Dunedain of Arnor could make such 'magical' weapons well into the Third Age when their arts and knowledge were so much less than at the height of Numenor and when Ringwraiths were probably not a problem the Numenoreans had to deal with.

@alecrichards8574 Месяц назад

The nazgul are so preciousssss

@atimholt Месяц назад

The book mentions that the intended use for the morgul blade was that it be stabbed directly into the heart and left there. Presumably, the effect would be nearly instant. The stab missed because, unexpectedly, Frodo resisted. I understood that Frodo's speaking in Elvish threw the wraith off.

@specialnewb9821 Месяц назад

I think Gandalf later says the broken off tip was working deeper in Frodo as well.

@aidynoconnor582 Месяц назад

You only included part of the quote from the letter from Tolkien, which directly discusses the power of the Nazgul "Their peril is almost entirely due to the unreasoning fear which they inspire (like ghosts). They have no great physical power against the fearless; but what they have, and the fear that they inspire, is enormously increased in darkness. The Witch-king, their leader, is more powerful in all ways than the others; but he must not yet be raised to the stature of Vol. III. There, put in command by Sauron, he is given an added demonic force. But even in the Battle of the Pelennor, the darkness had only just broken. JRR Tolkien, The Letters of JRR Tolkien, “Letter 210” Tolkien makes it quite clear that their main weapon is fear. Part of the reason why they aren't that much of a threat against the likes of Gandalf, Elrond or Glorfindel.

@tomasradnic8874 20 дней назад

there were human wizzards in tolkien world? :) nice, everyday I learn something new.

@Erik-um1zn 28 дней назад

I'm not sure that they are immune to 'normal weapons.' Eowyn's sword was, as far as we know, a 'normal' weapon, though of course Merry's was not. Both were destroyed. What we do know is that Aragorn tells us that all blades perish that pierce the Witch King. We also know that they became permanently invisible, which is how they become wraiths, as they are drawn more fully into the spirit world. They require something to actually take shape in the mortal world, which may or may not be somewhat more than merely putting on black cloaks. The flood released on the borders of Rivendell would have killed a mortal caught in it, as it did their horses, so they can survive what would kill a mortal (there's also the fact that one survived having his flying mount shot out from under him at a great height). So it may be that when confronted with such a situation, they may be forced to abandon their shape in the mortal world and flee more fully into the wraith world and return to their master to take shape again.

@MagicGame_ 29 дней назад

Can you do a video on what is or what is the significance of the Eye of Sauron?

@egoruderico3038 22 дня назад

Nazgul’s Strenghts: Might, never tire, immortal, swordsmanship, can ride. Weaknesses: being stabbed in the face by women.

@vksasdgaming9472 19 дней назад

That applied to one of them only.

@seanmurphy7350 Месяц назад

I've always thought the nazgul were supremely interesting. Also, more Witcher content please!

@bluestrife28 Месяц назад

I just gotta say thanks to Britain for providing the dark, misty, mysterious atmosphere that has inspired so many of its children in their world creation.

@paulnorton2885 Месяц назад

Let's consider the following statement by Gandalf: “A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings. Yes, sooner or later - later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last - sooner or later the dark power will devour him.” It can be inferred from this that Gandalf knew (or had been informed by Saruman and/or the Elves) that at least some recipients of the Great Rings (including some of the humans who received them) were well-meaning to begin with and took longer to succumb than others. It would be interesting to speculate on the process by which a well-meaning human lord, warrior or magician might have been corrupted over time through possession of a Great Ring, how this would manifest itself in changes in their behaviour and the consequences of their behaviour, and at what point others would perceive that they had transitioned from human to Ringwraith.

@gptsiteuser Месяц назад

If Saruman had gotten the ring could the Nazgûl have switched sides

@Grancigul Месяц назад

They would have, they serve the ring not sauron. It was only because nobody had yet dominated the ring the way Saruman would have that they still obeyed him

@Scientist_Salarian Месяц назад

@@GrancigulCould Saruman have controlled the Ring, that’s the question. Even Galadriel was afraid that the Ring would consume her, and she was arguably more powerful than Saruman, at least in the literary canon. Sauron was a more powerful Maia than Saruman, having been Morgoth’s chief commander, and having spent around 7 millennia longer in Arda than the Istari. I tend to think Sauron’s influence would have consumed Saruman far more easily than Saruman thought possible.

@Alizudo Месяц назад

The thing I dislike the most about LoTR is how we never get to witness what the ring is *_capable of. What does it actually do?_* The invisibility isn't even something it's *_designed to do!_* It's entirely unintentional, due to it allowing you to perceive the wraith world. Besides the ability to command and control the wraiths, does it grant sorcery or spellcasting; turning a mortal into something akin to a sort of Shadow Istari? Does it enable the mind control of other, non-wraith mortal beings? Does it boost your physical prowess and martial skills? Does it grant knowledge? How to create new orcs or on corrupting elves into such? Across the entire series, it only turns people invisible and occasionally mentions its connection to the wraiths, but that doesn't actually tell us anything.

@akiramasashi9317 Месяц назад

@@Scientist_Salarian Yes, Saruman could have dominated the One Ring. And no, Galadriel was *NOT* more powerful than Saruman. Saruman is a Maiar, of the same order as Sauron himself. Both former servants of Aulë the smith. Galadriel was just an elf. One of a royal and noble lineage, but still just an elf. And Sauron did not just gain more power by serving Morgoth, he just became more learned in sorcery.

@Mare_Man Месяц назад

@@Scientist_SalarianSauron _was_ more powerful than Saruman originally, but the lion's share of that power went into the Ring itself. If anyone in Middle-Earth could have dominated the Ring, it would be Saruman

@davidkulmaczewski4911 Месяц назад

I always took the "black breath" to be metaphorical; the Nazgul didn't actually have to *breathe* on you, rather if you were close enough to them to 'breathe their air' or otherwise directly interacted with them, you would be overcome by the fear they produce. It's also interesting that Tolkien originally envisioned the Witch King as being like an order of magnitude greater in power than any other Nazgul. He first considered the Witch King to be a fallen Istari and so fundamentally different from the other eight, and seems to have had a tough time abandoning the idea of a super-powerful Witch King (hence the 'power up' before Pelennor Fields).

@bluesbest1 Месяц назад

Yeah, "Black Breath" is just what the people of Gondor called it. Your interpretation feels correct, since they can instill a feeling of dread even when so high up that no one can see them and being near enough to hear their cries is enough to make everyone abandon all hope. After a certain threshold, the human body would probably simply shut down from the stress and negative emotions.

@the100guy Месяц назад

I'd love a video about the fame of the ring. As in, did ordinary folk even know about it or were the soldiers in these battles just under the impression they were fighting an invading force. When the final band of good guys matched on the black gate did the average soldier even know why or did they think they were actually going to invade Mordor?

@allenporter6586 25 дней назад

One of the problems (well logical problems) in using Tolkien in D&D is that one gains levels by getting experience, gaining experience is a function of time with a positive correlation between time and experience. Most of the elves and the Ringwraths of course are THOUSANDS of years old, unless the DM makes some ruling to cap their level (which should have some logical explanation), the elves and wraiths should be so far above (levelwise) any character built by a player to be unassailable. And the DM can't put in some constant to reduce the experience rate gained by elves to explain why somebody who is 3000 years isn't 100th+ level without destroying the playability of elves as characters.

@vksasdgaming9472 19 дней назад

Levels are gained active participation on things. Most Eldar are not active in it so their EXP-gain is very slow despite possibly high age.

@thebatmary5954 Месяц назад

Their power level is somewhere between Frodo’s left shoulder and Farmer Maggot. That’s a VERY wide range, though.

@user-xo7hb6ts7j Месяц назад

Nazgul, were absolutely loyal to him. Perhaps the adjective "loyalty" does not even fully encapsulate just how strong the connection between the nine and the dark lord was. This, more than their combat prowes, was much much more important to Sauron. It was their most valuable trait. He dispatched them to find the ring, not because they were the best scouts or the best diplomats, I am sure that Sauron could at least found some humans for this task which would be less noticeable, but he chose the nazgul because they were the only once whou would bring the ring back if the were to find it. They were individually powerful, sure, but their obedience was what made them so important to Sauron.