Rapper Reacts to Epic Rap Battles Of History!! | J.R.R. Tolkien vs George R.R. Martin (LETS GO!!) 

Hey Knox! Love your videos, amazing reactions to some of my favourite rappers. And now ERB? So happy. You should watch Thor vs Zeus 😃 and Hannibal vs Jack the Ripper 👌 two amazing rap battles. If you want to see one where noone wins, watch the two titans Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill. Peace and love brother

Adolf Hitler vs Darth Vader trilogy!.

vlad the impaler vs count dracula

Yo I love these ERB breakdowns, always excellent and I'd love to see more. Thor vs. Zeus is real good, I think Stevie Wonder vs. Wonder Woman is some of the best wordplay they got, ditto for James bond vs. Austin Powers. Also Steven Spielberg vs. Alfred Hitchcock if you're into film

It’s Aragorn 😭😭 not Eragon! Tho it’s one of the best books ever!! I would say the Darth Vader Trilogy! Also on Chaos Theory, I get lonely has been my favorite song! I’m going to buy merch from you on my pay day!!! Keep up the amazing work my guy!

hey EpicLLOYD. Hope you and Peter are doing well.

Man this series is amazing! Thank you for all of your hard work put in over the years and for giving us all content like this. Much love and respect 🙏🔥

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@@kingclint2382 Nothing to see here just 4 legends reading each others comment's

@@fidel_manuwa1827 us mortals shouldnt be here

he was also a professor in medieval languages.

I also imagine creating the world of Middle Earth was subconsciously a coping mechanism after the Great War. Back in those days, PTSD wasn’t identified and was known as Shell Shock. They simply thought it was temporary.

​@@dancingcarapace They also thought that it was a physical thing, kinda like a concussion, product of being constantly exposed to the shockwaves from blasts of artillery fire. It was hard to explain at the time how it affected brave, mentally stable people if it was "just a psychological phenomenon"

@@Ragnarok2kx true, hence the name Shell Shock. They thought it was caused by the artillery shells and not watching your friends get ripped to ribbons by machine guns in the trenches

@@dancingcarapace You can see how the idea of a simple battle of simple good vs unfathomable evil could be comforting to a veteran of a war like WWI where everyone was guilty and there was no real reason for it to be necessary.

Good observation man. Seriously, watching knox and these comments, really gives another dimension to the ERB..

not gonna lie, I thought I was the only that noticed that. Excellent eyes my friend.

Nice catch!

Also a reference to The Hobbit, when Bilbo Baggins confronted Golem: "What's in my pocket?"

I noticed him removing the ring, but I didn't know it was a diss. cool

I knew they were friends, but didn't know that story. So basically one of my favorite series as a kid was basically written on a dare? Cool.

The santa bit of the lion the witch and the wardrobe almost ruined their friendship

Hey bro, you saw this fantasy thing I wrote? Do one too. Nah. I don't think I'm good with that, sorry Common, do it Kay. *Writes an age breaker of a book*

That's totally incorrect. Lewis was a fantasy writer, ever since he was at a train station, and picked up a copy of George MacDonald's "Phantasies." Which he then later introduced Tolkien to. You cannot understand either Lewis or Tolkien, or W.H. Auden, or Lewis Carroll, or Madeline L'Engle, or Neil Gaiman without reading George MacDonald.

Also L. Frank Baum, the writer of The Wizard of Oz was heavily inspired by MacDonald. So, yeah. It was MacDonald that made Lewis into a fantasy writer, not Tolkien.

I agree. He didn't have to say a word to win.

Haha I’ve only done three but I have to agree so far

Tolkien has been accused of being an escapist writer. And he shot back, yeah. That’s the point, we don’t need to make more sorrows and woes. Thames are supposed to inspire not bring down

My argument against this is the fact that unrealistic elements in fantasy is the world itself, not the logic of the events. It’s UNREALISTIC for those events to happen in a world like that

@@jojobod Yeah we all know, but the line is hilarious nonetheless.

@@jacobmeisel588 Themes aren't supposed to do anything.

when the hand is a double

@Ángela Sofía Jaime Moreno I think it´s universal

It's also pointing out the fact that, in fact, G.R.M. did in fact steal the R.R. Why? He changed his name to add that second R, he doesn't deserve it.

Oh, nice! I thought he was making a hook with his fingers 😅

@@benverzijlbergen2968 That too, and “RR” sounds like a stereotypical pirate

imagine being such a famous author that your children's children will have enough money to live in the lap of luxury and still have plenty left over for the next generations to do the same

Didn't his children finished one of his works? So they don't just make money of it, but have a part in writing too? Or do I recall wrong?

@@gandalf_thegrey might have our point was more that they dont need to lift a finger to live comfortably because tolkien's work is so famous we werent saying they were lazy just that they could, if they wanted to, not work a day in their lives

@@mrroboshadow Oh I didn't want to come of as if I wanted to put words in your mouths, I'm sorry. It was just a genuine question :D

@@gandalf_thegrey oh no worries i was just clearing up what i meant, didnt mean to come across as defensive or stand off-ish

It's all fun and giggles. One of the reasons George RR Martin kills off characters once in a while is because of how he loved the shock of Boromir dying. One of the most traditional "warrior" characters, setup with a perfect redemption arc trying to be better and dies so early in the trilogy.

*which

The elvish, the dwarf tounge, the black speech

Also, to add on, Lords bow to Kings!!! Even better

It's also a reference to Chicago (I think that's where NicePeter and EpicLloyd met/started); it's often called Chi-raq because of the violence.

This needs more uovotes

And its probably also a refrence of the scourging of the shire, as in "war in the shire "

I would love to see him respond and breakdown to that lol

Joker vs Pennywise fr

for joker vs pennywise he needs some serious history on that one. there is just so many little bits and everything throughout the entire song. like big brain raps.

Joker v pennywise

Joker vs Pennywise

And so fell the tree branch of Gil Guriel, born during the chaos of the Second Age and hardened during the fires of the Angarrian Plains. From that branch sprouted but two flowers, one of pink and pale green hue which adorned the hair of a ruby haired shepherdess before she was betrothed to Eduin, Third Cousin to the King of Lebannin. The other flower grew grey and black as if corrupted by malign forces, but came into prominence early in the reigns of the High Stewards as only its sap could bring relief to the fever that ravished that land, brought there by a foul curse from a fallen Numenoran artifact, the eldritch want Syzibor forged during the First Age by...

Rest In Peace Sir

Rest in Peace

Rest in Peace

Yeah, that's how Prime got to make that bullshit show, that ignores everything. His grandkids, didn't give a shit about protecting his father's legacy, and sold it for money so Amazon made a lotr in name only. That shitty show would have never been allowed under Christopher.

Ron Perlman, the real manimal

Aww, I forgot about that show! I loved it!

I kinda remember that show. But totally forgot Ron Perlman was in it.

Martin wrote episodes for that show? Huh, neat.

@@willparry530 yeah he was in a huge financial slump before writing A Game of Thrones and started writing in Hollywood to pay the bills

🤣🤣🙌 I do what I want

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@@KnoxHill Lets go! Had me dying :D. You're the best man.

Also, *George* W. Bush referred to Chicago as Chi-raq, because of the violence.

I thought it was Wordstar, actually.

"I'll fight you on the beaches; I'll fight you on the beats, yes!"

@@MKDumas1981 "Anywhere you want to fight I'll fight ya and I'll beat ya see!"

legoes go harder then real people :)

@@HardstyleForLife1000 Especially if you step on one.

Also, I believe he quite literally wrote the dictionary.

Not for fun, it was his profession.

@@vexaris1890 but he also found it fun. Hence why it ended up becoming his profession eventually.

​@@vexaris1890some people actually enjoy their jobs as hard as it may be for you to believe

@Tusumia True, you’re right.

very interesting insight

And he learned Finnish so he could read Kalevala in the original language, Turin Turambar's story in Silmarillion is based on the story of Kullervo from Kalevala, and one of his languages, Quenya, is based on Finnish. And if you want dark, Turin's story, as well as some other stories in Silmarillion, are pretty dark even if you compare them to GOT (I'm only familiar with the series though, and haven't seen all of it, I have had enough darkness in my life to not enjoy reading "realistic" all that much). When the Finnish translation of Lord of the Rings was published I remember a magazine article claiming that he had read it, and given the ultimate compliment to the translator, claiming that he had actually found the translation better than his own original writing. Frankly, I don't know if that is true or not, I have not been able to find anything about that online and no longer even remember where that story was published, I was a young teen when I read it and that was a (mumble) of decades ago, but I do have a fairly clear seeming memory of it. And maybe if he said he said it just to be polite, but he seemed to like Finnish as a language.

I thought Don Quixote was the best selling novel of all time though? Didn't it sell around 500 million copies?

@@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox That’s exactly what he’s pointing out... Older books are more of an estimate than actual sales numbers. He’s saying those older numbers can be wildly inaccurate because they’re estimations, and because of the fact that he’s never seen a copy of Don Quixote but he’s seen tons of copies of LotR it would imply that LotR has probably sold more copies. And it’s the same for me, I’ve personally never seen a copy of Don Quixote either but I’ve seen a lot of LotR, and I even own a set of the LotR books. I have no clue how they do the estimations for the amount of copies sold for older books and I never really pay attention to that stuff anyways. It just doesn’t matter to me.

no, it's the sign language sign for the letter R but then he curved it a little to look like a pirate hook. close tho!

Definitely not the sign for "Pirate". It's the letter R like Mimsy said.

One of the reasons that game of thrones is so different from lord of the rings is because Martin knew that he couldn’t match what lord of the rings achieved in that style of fantasy

He tried to play game of thrones with Tolkien for the fantasy genre, but there was one Mordor that he could not pass

The Renegades React Channel had stated this too. They're not contemporaries at all. C.S Lewis, would have been a better match for Tolkien, but the pairing had to make sense in an easily understandable way. So it had to be Tolkien and Martin. They could tried with one of Martin's contemporaries though, since has a lot of them, but are less blockbuster Hollywood like him. You got Gaiman, Prachett, etc. Hell, they coulda even tried with Rowling. But it still wouldn't have worked as well as the matching "R.R."s on their names during the intros.

Yeah GRRM would probably agree it’s an unfair matchup. He loves Tolkien and credits it as his biggest influence, and rereads it every couple years

Books been out for decades.

@@ChaoLiang_thecmancan These are a coming of age for some people, people still read em

If you’re worried about spoilers, maybe don’t click on a RU-vid video that says in the title it’s about the thing you don’t want spoiled.

That Skarsgard line from Joker vs Pennywise had to be smiling for a while.

@@someonebr7862 Dope lines!

He's doing ones whose characters he's familiar with

This one is amazing

Of course Tolkien created a universe - as you call it - but actually a creation myth based on the Norse sagas, because England doesn't have such a thing. He drew heavily on the Finnish creation myth Kalevala, the Ring of the Nibelungs/Siegfried, Beowulf and Icelandic saga literature. Tolkien also drew on stories from classical Greek mythology and heroic epic poetry, such as the Homeric Iliad or Plato's depiction of the sinking of Atlantis, as well as various fairy tale motifs as written down by the Brothers Grimm. The Children of Hurin (one of my favourite Tolkien books) has many parallels to Kullervo (The Story of Kullervo). Túrin kills his comrade Beleg, marries his sister Nienor and all this while fleeing from an imposed fate. When the two realise that they are siblings, Nienor throws herself into a river and Túrin into his sword. Their father Húrin has to watch everything and cannot intervene. That Elvish and the Black Language of Mordor are not based on any worldly language is also wrong. Elvish has two important dialects that have been developed in the most detail. Sindarin and Quenya. While Quenya was not the first language Tolkien invented (he had attempted a further development of Gothic, for instance, before that), it was the first of those languages he later integrated into his mythology. In 1912, Tolkien discovered the Finnish language. He was so impressed by the experience of reading the Finnish national epic Kalevala that he decided to invent his own language based on Finnish phonetics, which he found particularly beautiful. Unlike its successor Sindarin, Quenya can be described as an inflectional language inspired by Finnish. It knows ten cases and four numerals and thus has more pronounced declensions than the original Indo-European language. However, with five tenses, no distinct passive voice, and modes indicated only syntactically or by particles, the verbal morphology is very limited compared to Indo-European. Sindarin was the language of the Sindar (Grey Elves, Teleri) in the First Age and later spread among the other Elves. Tolkien left less written material on Sindarin than on Quenya, so only the basic features of Sindarin can be clarified today. J. R. R. Tolkien liked the Welsh language. Some grammatical and especially phonological features of Sindarin can be traced back to Welsh. For example, the anlaut mutations, which are an innovation of the island Celtic languages within the Indo-European language family. However, the language can certainly be described as "real", since Sindarin also has a predecessor language from which all its roots can be derived. I hope this has helped you a little! :)

I love that somebody knows that Quenya is a type of Finnish and Sindarin is a type of Welsh.

And another fact that people didn't pick up on is that George uses an old computer like the one featured in the video to type his books.

I remember playing the Zork series when I was young. My god that dates me badly

I really want to see him react to who played Newton, and the equation bit, SO BAD

Honestly I think Hitler won the majority in those ERB's, only losing the final one, and the only reason people say different is cause he's Hitler. Vader had next to no good diss' in the first two battles while Hitler had at least two each battle, until the third where I think they just intentionally gave him not-as-good raps so they could lay the whole thing to rest and say Vader won, plus at that point Hitler had so little to diss Vader with, while it feels like they left the best diss against Hitler for that last battle.

What’s the very, very worst thing about prison?

He has two books to finish actually

Nah the show writers didn’t care about the books and started changing tons of stuff in season 5. Even if the books had been finished they would’ve still botched it. For example in the books Stannis, Mance Rayder, and Ser Barristan are all still alive. They killed them off in season 5.

Maybe he should have finished his books before GOT turned to shit

Huh. Got any links verifying that?

There you go, Mitch. Took me about 30 seconds.

@@Mitwadus There was this 1980's tv shows starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. George R. R. Martin was co-written 14 episodes www.imdb.com/title/tt0092319/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

"Oh, snap"? I see what you did there.

@@MKDumas1981 Thanks for noticing, I thought nobody would notice the "Oh, snap." and the "put a smile on my face." line. 😆