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Rapper reacts to Epic Rap Battles of History and tries to break his brain. J.R.R. Tolkien vs. George R.R. Martin - who won?
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@KnoxHill
@KnoxHill 3 года назад
What else should we react to? 🤔 Comment below! Also if you like the song in the intro check out ‘I Get Lonely’ now ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MGRbKVoBhI0.html
@ShadowStudiosFilms
@ShadowStudiosFilms 3 года назад
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
@fatdevil1978
@fatdevil1978 3 года назад
Adolf Hitler vs Darth Vader trilogy!.
@c4s595
@c4s595 3 года назад
vlad the impaler vs count dracula
@diamonds9120
@diamonds9120 3 года назад
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
@Blackjackk777
@Blackjackk777 3 года назад
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!
@EpicLLOYD
@EpicLLOYD 3 года назад
Nice breakdown my man. Thanks for watching.
@mvjokerdavis5094
@mvjokerdavis5094 3 года назад
hey EpicLLOYD. Hope you and Peter are doing well.
@KnoxHill
@KnoxHill 3 года назад
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 🙏🔥
@kingclint2382
@kingclint2382 3 года назад
Eyy Lloyd
@fidel_manuwa1827
@fidel_manuwa1827 3 года назад
@@kingclint2382 Nothing to see here just 4 legends reading each others comment's
@lorcanzo2498
@lorcanzo2498 3 года назад
@@fidel_manuwa1827 us mortals shouldnt be here
@omargoodman2999
@omargoodman2999 3 года назад
Tolkien didn't even want to be a writer. His great love was linguistics and he wanted to create living languages. But for them to truly be *living,* they needed a world in which to live. So he didn't create the languages for the world; he created the world for the languages.
@sorrowdusk5068
@sorrowdusk5068 3 года назад
he was also a professor in medieval languages.
@dancingcarapace
@dancingcarapace 3 года назад
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.
@Ragnarok2kx
@Ragnarok2kx 3 года назад
​@@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"
@dancingcarapace
@dancingcarapace 3 года назад
@@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
@teamcybr8375
@teamcybr8375 3 года назад
@@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.
@Scorpio1721
@Scorpio1721 3 года назад
Don't forget Tolkien's first battle diss...when he appears in the "intro" he removed the One Ring and put it in his pocket, a reference to Riddles in the Dark and the fact he didn't need its power to win
@jaydehaas15
@jaydehaas15 3 года назад
Good observation man. Seriously, watching knox and these comments, really gives another dimension to the ERB..
@codycross172
@codycross172 3 года назад
not gonna lie, I thought I was the only that noticed that. Excellent eyes my friend.
@itsmezed
@itsmezed 3 года назад
Nice catch!
@WisteriaDrake
@WisteriaDrake 2 года назад
Also a reference to The Hobbit, when Bilbo Baggins confronted Golem: "What's in my pocket?"
@vintage-radio
@vintage-radio 3 месяца назад
I noticed him removing the ring, but I didn't know it was a diss. cool
@MrKleinM
@MrKleinM 3 года назад
CS Lewis wasn't a fantasy writer but Tolkien challenged him to write a fantasy novel and then he wrote Chronicles of Narnia. They were really good friends
@kyletucker3811
@kyletucker3811 3 года назад
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.
@rebeccaharman803
@rebeccaharman803 3 года назад
The santa bit of the lion the witch and the wardrobe almost ruined their friendship
@gandalf_thegrey
@gandalf_thegrey 3 года назад
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*
@twentyninerooks
@twentyninerooks 2 года назад
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.
@twentyninerooks
@twentyninerooks 2 года назад
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.
@ssfbob456
@ssfbob456 3 года назад
In the "stole my R.R." section, Tolkien is flashing the American Sign Language symbol for 'R.' Just another little layer.
@jakob3044
@jakob3044 3 года назад
when the hand is a double
@giovanniperalta9798
@giovanniperalta9798 3 года назад
@Ángela Sofía Jaime Moreno I think it´s universal
@aristedes9449
@aristedes9449 3 года назад
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.
@benverzijlbergen2968
@benverzijlbergen2968 3 года назад
Oh, nice! I thought he was making a hook with his fingers 😅
@WafleEnterprises
@WafleEnterprises 3 года назад
@@benverzijlbergen2968 That too, and “RR” sounds like a stereotypical pirate
@OtakuJuanma2
@OtakuJuanma2 3 года назад
"it's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee" is my favorite line in the entirety of ERB history.
@KnoxHill
@KnoxHill 3 года назад
Haha I’ve only done three but I have to agree so far
@jacobmeisel588
@jacobmeisel588 2 года назад
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
@jojobod
@jojobod 2 года назад
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
@OtakuJuanma2
@OtakuJuanma2 2 года назад
@@jojobod Yeah we all know, but the line is hilarious nonetheless.
@ginge641
@ginge641 Год назад
@@jacobmeisel588 Themes aren't supposed to do anything.
@heroofcanton101
@heroofcanton101 3 года назад
"Got my children making million off my Silmarillions" is a much more literal reference too. The Silmarils were three flawless gems, and Tolkien has three big stories that are still hugely valuable to this day, The Hobbit, LotR and The Silmarillion itself. His kids are still making huge money off of his three legendary creations.
@mrroboshadow
@mrroboshadow 3 года назад
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
@gandalf_thegrey
@gandalf_thegrey 3 года назад
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?
@mrroboshadow
@mrroboshadow 3 года назад
@@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
@gandalf_thegrey
@gandalf_thegrey 3 года назад
@@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
@mrroboshadow
@mrroboshadow 3 года назад
@@gandalf_thegrey oh no worries i was just clearing up what i meant, didnt mean to come across as defensive or stand off-ish
@LuxQueensbane
@LuxQueensbane 3 года назад
Honestly Tolkien just won in the intro when he literally took off the One Ring to battle.
@ruthdeckman9781
@ruthdeckman9781 2 года назад
I agree. He didn't have to say a word to win.
@undertakernumberone1
@undertakernumberone1 3 года назад
"All your bad guys die and good guys survive! we can tell what's gonna to happen by page and age five!" *Sad Boromir and Finrod Felagund, Turin, and general SIlmarillion noises*
@Askyl
@Askyl 3 года назад
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.
@thesterndragoon9159
@thesterndragoon9159 3 года назад
Tolkien: I'm numbers One AND Two; you're under Fifty Shades of Grey!" *FLAWLESS VICTORY* *FINISH HIM* Tolkien: "You're a pirate; you even stole my R.R." *FATALITY* *RETURN OF THE KING*
@NapoleonSoares
@NapoleonSoares 3 года назад
"you want a war, George? Welcome to Shir-Iraq." This is an even better play on words than it seems initially because guess who was president of the US when they declared war on "terrorism" and sent troops into Iraq? GEORGE. W. Bush.
@Kaydee815
@Kaydee815 3 года назад
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.
@Dead_Heir
@Dead_Heir 3 года назад
This needs more uovotes
@mqurh4977
@mqurh4977 2 года назад
And its probably also a refrence of the scourging of the shire, as in "war in the shire "
@BFBCFTW
@BFBCFTW 3 года назад
A small one you missed with "you can't reach this fellow, shit I'm too towering" is that Tolkien was the Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford and also Fellow of Pembrook College, Oxford and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. So when he says "fellow" he doesn't just mean it like "look at that fellow over there" but it's an actual academic title.
@pachacutti1012
@pachacutti1012 3 года назад
Speaking of Cristopher Tolkien, its very sad to say but he did die as of January 2020. He was a great author and did his father proud, rest in peace
@frankierodriguez4132
@frankierodriguez4132 3 года назад
Rest In Peace Sir
@StupidWeb
@StupidWeb 3 года назад
Rest in Peace
@LocseryuOfficial
@LocseryuOfficial 2 года назад
Rest in Peace
@johnterell8642
@johnterell8642 Год назад
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.
@allycard
@allycard 3 года назад
what i love about this is it starts with martin saying "there a new literary lord in the ring" and ends with Tolken "every time i battle it's return of the king" it feels very well rounded.
@isabelheiner631
@isabelheiner631 Год назад
Also, to add on, Lords bow to Kings!!! Even better
@wotancatro9479
@wotancatro9479 3 года назад
Beauty and the Beast was a rather brilliant series from the late 80s, staring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. Martin wrote some 14 episodes for the series.
@exceedcharge1
@exceedcharge1 3 года назад
Ron Perlman, the real manimal
@evabartlett4599
@evabartlett4599 3 года назад
Aww, I forgot about that show! I loved it!
@zarakikon6352
@zarakikon6352 3 года назад
I kinda remember that show. But totally forgot Ron Perlman was in it.
@willparry530
@willparry530 3 года назад
Martin wrote episodes for that show? Huh, neat.
@jaimelannister1797
@jaimelannister1797 2 года назад
@@willparry530 yeah he was in a huge financial slump before writing A Game of Thrones and started writing in Hollywood to pay the bills
@mattiasandersson8693
@mattiasandersson8693 3 года назад
Tolkien actually started by inventing the languages. Then he started imagining what the races were like to witch the languages belonged.
@evabartlett4599
@evabartlett4599 3 года назад
*which
@mattiasandersson8693
@mattiasandersson8693 3 года назад
The elvish, the dwarf tounge, the black speech
@Crosshead
@Crosshead 3 года назад
Yeah, the ERB battles continue! Suggestions for next clip: Joker vs. Pennywise or Jordan vs. Ali.
@danielleweeks4552
@danielleweeks4552 3 года назад
I would love to see him respond and breakdown to that lol
@skechyassmofo
@skechyassmofo 3 года назад
Joker vs Pennywise fr
@Nox-jx9rz
@Nox-jx9rz 3 года назад
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.
@anthonyferguson9282
@anthonyferguson9282 3 года назад
Joker v pennywise
@adclark09
@adclark09 3 года назад
Joker vs Pennywise
@lordzeriph
@lordzeriph 3 года назад
Knox out here bodying people and then doing erb reactions. Totally dope man. Definitely keep it up
@KnoxHill
@KnoxHill 3 года назад
🤣🤣🙌 I do what I want
@lordzeriph
@lordzeriph 3 года назад
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Juan-wr2or
@Juan-wr2or 3 года назад
@@KnoxHill Lets go! Had me dying :D. You're the best man.
@artua7461
@artua7461 2 года назад
look, i don't know about some, but personally, I LOVE having the backstory of every tree branch. it adds to the fact that Tolkien wasn't writing a story, he was creating a world, and that world had lore, DEEP lore, and he was so in depth that the immersion level was insanely, high.
@colinmerritt7645
@colinmerritt7645 8 месяцев назад
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...
@thomasandersr
@thomasandersr 2 года назад
22:40 Another thing to mention here, is that Tolkien was a "Fellow" (i.e. someone with exceptional academic recognition) of Oxford College, which then also plays into the Fellowship of the Ring.
@teamcybr8375
@teamcybr8375 3 года назад
The best description I ever heard is that Tolkien built the sandbox that George is playing in.
@tobimaster1055
@tobimaster1055 3 года назад
One thing I just noticed is that with the Shire-raq = Iraq wordplay, there was another layer of wordplay there because George W. Bush was the one who pushed for war in Iraq thus leading to "You want a war George"
@MKDumas1981
@MKDumas1981 3 года назад
Also, *George* W. Bush referred to Chicago as Chi-raq, because of the violence.
@PhirePhlame
@PhirePhlame 3 года назад
Fun fact: Martin still writes in WordPerfect for DOS. That's what they referenced with the old computer during one of his shots.
@clasqm
@clasqm 6 месяцев назад
I thought it was Wordstar, actually.
@Leedark3
@Leedark3 3 года назад
The last line is also great because it mirrors the end of Martin's first verse. In response to Martin calling himself the "literary lord in the ring," Tolkien calls himself the King.
@kingclint2382
@kingclint2382 3 года назад
Tolkien killed this one 💣💥. You must be proud being LOTR fan 😂
@P99s-s
@P99s-s 3 года назад
i nominate their best history ones imo: Alexander the great vs. Ivan the Teribble and Stalin vs. Rasputin
@ryanpalyo8181
@ryanpalyo8181 3 года назад
Thor vs Zeus has some good disses and wordplay while also being in the lego style harry potter vs luke skywalker was in. Def worth checking that out
@HardstyleForLife1000
@HardstyleForLife1000 3 года назад
legoes go harder then real people :)
@rockysandman5489
@rockysandman5489 2 года назад
@@HardstyleForLife1000 Especially if you step on one.
@dancingcarapace
@dancingcarapace 3 года назад
Dude, you didn’t lose cred, you gained it. Real dudes recognise quality literature
@cerebralfailure8804
@cerebralfailure8804 3 года назад
would be tough to beat Tolkien in word play, after all he studied language for fun so much he was able to create his own
@ruthdeckman9781
@ruthdeckman9781 2 года назад
Also, I believe he quite literally wrote the dictionary.
@vexaris1890
@vexaris1890 2 года назад
Not for fun, it was his profession.
@--CHARLIE--
@--CHARLIE-- 2 года назад
@@vexaris1890 but he also found it fun. Hence why it ended up becoming his profession eventually.
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox 2 месяца назад
​@@vexaris1890some people actually enjoy their jobs as hard as it may be for you to believe
@williameldridge9382
@williameldridge9382 3 года назад
One slight correction. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King are in fact NOT books in and of themselves. They are volumes of ONE book, called The Lord of the Rings. The reason it was split into three volumes is because of the publisher and economic reasons. Its original intent was for it to be one of two volumes, with the Silmarillion being the second volume, but the publisher did like that because the time it would take and economic reasons. That was why he is #1 (The Hobbit) and #2 (The Lord of the Rings) in book sales, the reference in the battle, because Lord of the Rings is in fact ONE book. The Lord of the Rings is often sold as a Trilogy so it's numbers are bit more obscured, but each of them are estimated at over 150 million copies sold each. Followed third by Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone. Martin's entire franchise has only sold 90 million copies, and Fifty Shades of Grey sold 15.2 million copies as ONE book. Older books have troubles tracking actual book sales, because tracking of book sales is a VERY modern thing, so sales of things like Don Quixote are at best wildly speculative estimations. I've never even SEEN a copy of Don Quixote, let alone read it. Whereas you cannot throw a rock without hitting The Lord of the Rings books or movies. As far as the Beauty and Beast reference, it refers to an old 1987 CBS fantasy romance series called Beauty and the Beast, he was a writer on that show for all three seasons.
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox 2 года назад
I thought Don Quixote was the best selling novel of all time though? Didn't it sell around 500 million copies?
@CrippledMerc
@CrippledMerc 2 года назад
@@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.
@weatwoodbello3121
@weatwoodbello3121 3 года назад
"I will fight you on the comments". I inhaled a mouth full of beer and went into a coughing fit that made my neighbor come check on me. So fucking funny, I'm loving this!
@MKDumas1981
@MKDumas1981 3 года назад
"I'll fight you on the beaches; I'll fight you on the beats, yes!"
@asantesanders9518
@asantesanders9518 2 года назад
@@MKDumas1981 "Anywhere you want to fight I'll fight ya and I'll beat ya see!"
@TheHalmkopf
@TheHalmkopf 3 года назад
Maybe you did not notice, that it looks like a lecture from a professor Tolkien to Martin when Martin sits in a chair. The gestures of Tolkien are at least for me close to a teacher or professor who explains the topic. Also George is reading "The Fellowship of the King" before Tolkiens first part starts. Love your breakdowns of the ERB and I love to see more. I really like the big ones like Rasputin vs Stalin or Ivan the Terrible vs Alexander the Great
@valkyrie283
@valkyrie283 3 года назад
The very foundation of modern fantasy was actually laid by Tolkien. Almost every standard fantasy race and mechanic can be traced back to his works. Edit: Modern Western Fantasy
@valkyrie283
@valkyrie283 3 года назад
@Tusumia True, you’re right.
@mannistef
@mannistef 3 года назад
Knox, you are about to become a legend in the ERB reaction world after seeing your first three reactions. A couple of fun facts: Tolkien did study Icelandic and used it e.g. around the Rohirrim and the Dwarves and he had an Icelandic babysitter in the 30's that did give some nice insight in their family life when she was interviewed in her old age. Greetings from Iceland.
@bigboss4178
@bigboss4178 3 года назад
very interesting insight
@pohjanakka4992
@pohjanakka4992 2 года назад
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.
@turinturambar1688
@turinturambar1688 3 года назад
“All your bad guys die your good guys survive” cough cough silmarilion... also Turin, even then good didn’t beat evil, evil brought about its own doom (if not for the corruption of Gollum, the ring would never be destroyed) “Chance and anarchy” in Tolkien’s works there is no chance
@metaphase-
@metaphase- 3 года назад
Martin playing the RPG on his computer is a reference to how he writes. Martin uses an ancient text program that only runs on DOS. He does this because he claims modern word processing programs interfere too much with his writing. (Spell and grammar check, page formatting, etc.)
@craigwoodward8455
@craigwoodward8455 3 года назад
YOU MISSED SOMETHING!!! "you're a Pirate, you even stoll my RR", when he said this, his fingers were wrapped together... thats the sign language for pirate, because it's like a hook on the hand, AND it looks like your fingers make a lower case 'r'. Edit: I beleive the beauty and the beast line is in reference to George rr Martin cutting his 'television teeth' on episodes of the beauty and the beast live action series that was done.
@themimsy
@themimsy 3 года назад
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!
@xtravagentk1275
@xtravagentk1275 3 года назад
Definitely not the sign for "Pirate". It's the letter R like Mimsy said.
@AndragonLea
@AndragonLea 3 года назад
The point for Game of Thrones being more mainstream could actually be given to Tolkien because his work and the slow but steady dissemination of the LOTR series through-out the world that finally resulted in the billion dollar successes of the movies arguably paved the way for GoT to become so widely accepted in the first place. R. R. Martin was so visible because he was standing on the shoulders of one of the biggest fantasy giants to date.
@cyanide7270
@cyanide7270 3 года назад
Thats the thing about "going too deep" though, Tolkien, DID create a universe. Martin just took what we know from history and mythos and built a world, Tolkien, built, a, UNIVERSE. Even the spoken languages in a Song of Ice and Fire are just rehashes of languages we have today, fucking Dothraki is predominantly Maori and Samoan FFS!, whats Elvish and the Black Speech based on? NOTHING, theyre ENTIRELY new languages! One could argue that going too deep is too far, but i have nothing but admiration for that kind of dedication to your craft, and thats why Martin will NEVER be equal to Tolkien.
@yukisaito1529
@yukisaito1529 3 года назад
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! :)
@darioluque9079
@darioluque9079 3 года назад
I love that somebody knows that Quenya is a type of Finnish and Sindarin is a type of Welsh.
@franciscomoreira819
@franciscomoreira819 3 года назад
I was hoping for the day you start reacting to ERB. Check Oppenheimer vs Thanos and Joker vs Pennywise that ones are dope! Love from Argentina Knox, keep doing like this!
@someonebr7862
@someonebr7862 3 года назад
That Skarsgard line from Joker vs Pennywise had to be smiling for a while.
@franciscomoreira819
@franciscomoreira819 3 года назад
@@someonebr7862 Dope lines!
@wristcontr0l
@wristcontr0l 3 года назад
If you're doing ERB's greatest hits, make sure to check out James Bond vs Austin Powers, you'll love it!
@CaptainRudy4021
@CaptainRudy4021 3 года назад
He's doing ones whose characters he's familiar with
@spacejammer1991
@spacejammer1991 3 года назад
This one is amazing
@daelaenor
@daelaenor 3 года назад
I JUST finished the trilogy again, and man... the last 30 minutes will never fail to hit you right in the feels.
@SnibediSnabs
@SnibediSnabs 3 года назад
I feel like this whole battle is unfair as hell. Like no offense to GRRM, he's one of my favorite authors, but Tolkien was quite literally the big daddy of the entire fantasy genre.
@TrueBladeSoul
@TrueBladeSoul 3 года назад
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
@sethyarbrough5204
@sethyarbrough5204 3 года назад
He tried to play game of thrones with Tolkien for the fantasy genre, but there was one Mordor that he could not pass
@B.Scruby
@B.Scruby 3 года назад
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.
@jaimelannister1797
@jaimelannister1797 2 года назад
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
@nickibridges2898
@nickibridges2898 3 года назад
The true joy in your face as some of the punches hit was priceless! Great job Knox!
@brandyanderson3522
@brandyanderson3522 3 года назад
My ERB suggestions is for: -Joker vs Pennywise -Thanos vs Oppenheimer -Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible
@Revenant-oq9ts
@Revenant-oq9ts 3 года назад
Technically Tolkien developed the languages first iirc. He then worldbuilt around the languages and THEN wrote the stories within them.
@Talaerus
@Talaerus 3 года назад
These are absolutely my favorite breakdowns. Super well done, man! Also, awesome music in the intros! Will give a listen to the album.
@seanb390
@seanb390 3 года назад
This breakdown is one big spoiler warning. This was a fun one.
@ChaoLiang_thecmancan
@ChaoLiang_thecmancan 3 года назад
Books been out for decades.
@TheMetalheadWeeb
@TheMetalheadWeeb 3 года назад
@@ChaoLiang_thecmancan These are a coming of age for some people, people still read em
@odile8701
@odile8701 3 года назад
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.
@vladalex3561
@vladalex3561 3 года назад
Much love Knox! I can’t get enough of your content and that diss track was something else bro, looking forward to Saturday’s stream! keep them coming!
@18turps
@18turps 3 года назад
I love seeing a fellow Tolkien lover loving this. You can see how happy you were the whole time. It is one of my favourite ERB's for sure.
@Bleeglesplotch
@Bleeglesplotch 3 года назад
I can't believe it took me so long to find your channel. I've literally spent all day watching so many of your breakdowns and now I see why you get all the respect you receive and deserve.
@OpDDay2001
@OpDDay2001 3 года назад
I'd also recommend Thanos vs Oppenheimer. Again, a very one-sided battle but one of their best produced and best performed videos/songs. So many good ERBs I've forgotten about. lol
@eternalkickman5128
@eternalkickman5128 3 года назад
Knox This was easily the best breakdown of this battle I've ever seen man good stuff!! keep up the grind man you are gonna blow up heavy man mili coming to you
@eintracht691
@eintracht691 3 года назад
I am super glad you stumbled onto these. Loved ERB a long time. Glad to see the appreciation!
@asmariamoon
@asmariamoon 3 года назад
A little side-fact: the game George is playing on the computer is Zork, a classic text-based adventure game.
@fullmetaltheorist
@fullmetaltheorist 2 года назад
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.
@ingiford175
@ingiford175 2 года назад
I remember playing the Zork series when I was young. My god that dates me badly
@MrPhlanj
@MrPhlanj 3 года назад
Sir Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye is great but a bit short.
@madmastah2503
@madmastah2503 3 года назад
I really want to see him react to who played Newton, and the equation bit, SO BAD
@BoydOfPray
@BoydOfPray 3 года назад
I'm really glad you caught that last bar. I missed it every time until it was pointed out to me, but it's honestly one of the sneakiest, clever bars I heard in awhile.
@johnaldridge8611
@johnaldridge8611 3 года назад
The Beauty and the Beast line came from the fact that Martin was a writer for the 1987 TV series.
@benjaminshaw6776
@benjaminshaw6776 3 года назад
Enjoyed that. Enjoying your album as well.
@assassin_5656
@assassin_5656 3 года назад
I highly recommend Zeus vs Thor Epic Rap Battles of History. Some of the most savage bars in ERB history
@JourneywiththeJoyners
@JourneywiththeJoyners 3 года назад
Lol Knox getting deep with that lore knowledge!!!! Loving it man
@marianacardoso2655
@marianacardoso2655 3 года назад
Knox great reaction and analysis! BTW, you keep surprising me in each of these Epic Rap Battles of History! I can't believe that you knew so many details of the fandoms, I think that's it's really cool that you know so much!😊This is one of my favorite reactions from you!
@VTboardgamer
@VTboardgamer 3 года назад
The more of your breakdowns I watch the more and more I'm impressed. Nice job man!
@iplaybass6690
@iplaybass6690 3 года назад
led zeppelin reference, here are some lyrics from Ramble on .... "How years ago in days of old When magic filled the air 'T was in the darkest depths of Mordor I met a girl so fair But Gollum, and the evil one Crept up and slipped away with her Her, her, yeah Ain't nothing I can do, no"
@kingclint2382
@kingclint2382 3 года назад
Nasty Knox, Nerdy Knox. We love em all 😂
@keepingitrealawesome
@keepingitrealawesome 3 года назад
Another amazing video Knox! These epic rap battles are fire 🔥
@adiksaff
@adiksaff 3 года назад
I thought I've read everything about how deep these battles are but DAAAAMN you helped me see and appreciate so much more wordplay. Also that sample at the start spoke to me man! I'm definitely checking it out. I hope you're doing awesome these days!
@mr.supporter4u
@mr.supporter4u 3 года назад
Knox: I'm Picking the Ones I Know the most about. Me: It's A Simple Spell But Quite Effective.
@lure3601
@lure3601 3 года назад
When he realized Tolkien had a fire ending.
@slaum02
@slaum02 3 года назад
holy gosh darn dude. i have watched these so many times but you are showing me things in beast ive never heard. thank you
@johncall4733
@johncall4733 3 года назад
Love that you cover lyrics, production, and the music side all in one! Keep it up
@Tholen3
@Tholen3 3 года назад
Cool dude, im personally definitely digging these breakdowns. Tolkien preferred winner for sure. Thanos vs Oppenheimer or Dr Suess vs Shakespeare. Also check out Sage Francis/NonProphets.
@ksamuel9
@ksamuel9 3 года назад
Also, keep in mind that Tolkien was a devout Catholic and that's evident in his stories where good (God) triumphs over evil.
@pjsin9472
@pjsin9472 3 года назад
Knox! Brother The new releases freaking amazing. Awesome job bro, awesome. You're up there with the big dogs
@henryrobert5917
@henryrobert5917 3 года назад
I'm so glad you got the fellow-shit, two towering and return of the king bars, so many miss this. One of my favorite battles ever
@King-Omega-
@King-Omega- 3 года назад
Loving these breakdowns mate, you've earned a new sub here. I'd like to nominate Joker vs Pennywise for you to check out, you'll be there all day breaking down those bars.
@ryanager8029
@ryanager8029 3 года назад
The main 3 I’d recommend checking out next are Thor vs Zeus, Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible and Joker vs Pennywise.
@Audiojack_
@Audiojack_ 3 года назад
I love seeing fanboy Knox come out, the vibe and energy is always so fresh.
@blunthex1871
@blunthex1871 3 года назад
Thank you knox, keep up the good work.
@akhineshs2754
@akhineshs2754 3 года назад
Congrats on you your diss track broo . Thats was some dope fucking piece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@emmie11293
@emmie11293 2 года назад
Love your breakdowns, I found you through your coverage of the eminem vs MGK video and I just so happen to also LOVE ERB anf you've covered most of my favorites so this playlist is a perfect combo, I cant wait to check some of your stuff out. Just one note on this video, GRRM has NOT brought Jon Snow back, DandD did for the show but the last book, that's still a cliffhanger and none of the prerelease chapters have given away Jon's fate. Most suspect he will be resurrected, but it probably won't be that simple, he might be like lady stone heart or something.
@jaydenbakes9269
@jaydenbakes9269 3 года назад
Great breakdown once again, keep this series going man! Zeus vs Thor is one reccomendation I'll make that I haven't seen to many people make. Such a fun and tricky battle.
@stewartgardener8104
@stewartgardener8104 2 года назад
I am loving this channel. Your ERB reviews are amazing. Its impressive how much subject matter knowledge you have on this stuff and the amount I have learned watching these videos, please keep them coming! Also (if you have not already done it) please react to ERB Adam Vs Eve.
@scottjameson5358
@scottjameson5358 3 года назад
Oh, snap. I really didn't expect another ERB reaction. I was having a shitty situation at the moment but your reactions has put a smile on my face. Great breakdowns, Knox. 💪💪 Speaking of next reactions, well, a lot of people are recommending Joker Vs Pennywise but I'm gonna throw a wrench and I want to see you react to Ronald McDonald Vs The Burger King.
@MKDumas1981
@MKDumas1981 3 года назад
"Oh, snap"? I see what you did there.
@scottjameson5358
@scottjameson5358 3 года назад
@@MKDumas1981 Thanks for noticing, I thought nobody would notice the "Oh, snap." and the "put a smile on my face." line. 😆
@mistertwister2000
@mistertwister2000 3 года назад
I really doubted Martin could’ve won this. He had some great lines but Tolkien’s reputation just murders him. It’s like Oppenheimer vs Thanos, Thanos might have done far worse but Oppenheimer was a real dude, he almost got guaranteed the win.
@HBPgaming707
@HBPgaming707 3 года назад
Just stumbled upon your channel and you easily have the best breakdowns of these raps that I’ve seen.
@bombshellgirl8106
@bombshellgirl8106 3 года назад
This is CRAY-CRAY... I got here randomly from the Tom MacDonald Diss-off i saw you do. LOL. 1. I just discovered Tom MacDonald yesterday. (Yes, I know, I'm WAYYYYYYYY behind). 2. I just got into LOTR a few days ago, haha. 3. I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and that goes way back. 4. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the connection between LZ and JRRT. 4. I got into watching many reactions to rap battles after seeing you do it first. You are THE EPIC BEST at this!!!! I love the nuances you notice, you zoom in and notice the tiniest details, and then you zoom out and call out the whole picture. And you do all of this is a split second, catching those lines that I can't hear even after replaying gazillions of times. I absolutely love the expressions on your face and can't wait to hear what you "caught." I'm a 57 year old fan!!! Fascinating! I'm a newb subscriber now. GOOD JOB. LOL
@jleisman8800
@jleisman8800 3 года назад
Ah, Yes, J.R.R Tolkien vs We Skeem, My favorite rap battle from ERB. Two men whom I respect and ERB doing this battle is going back to their roots of choosing battle match-ups randomly
@garretthenderson5738
@garretthenderson5738 3 года назад
You missed the "you went too deep" line. It's a double, both dissing Tolkien's insane detailing and referencing the dwarves digging "too deep" and awaking the Balrog. And, yes, Martin was a screenwriter on the Beauty and the Beast TV show with Linda Hamilton Ron Perlman.
@ninjassin77
@ninjassin77 3 года назад
Just discovered this channel thanks to the ERB reactions, keep it up
@heatkingzz6106
@heatkingzz6106 3 года назад
Just wanna say much love to you homie Knox Hill love your content from South Africa 🔥🔥
@rinoaleonhart939
@rinoaleonhart939 3 года назад
Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible please
@ItzBerg
@ItzBerg 3 года назад
ERB Darth Vader vs Hitler.. 3 parts to this beef. The Force is with the bars
@leonmorte7241
@leonmorte7241 3 года назад
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.
@insanelynerdy649
@insanelynerdy649 3 года назад
What’s the very, very worst thing about prison?
@benverzijlbergen2968
@benverzijlbergen2968 3 года назад
Hi there! I'm new to this channel, but I've been an ERB fan since the first season. Always glad to see a new breakdown face picking up on the boys. I won't give you suggestions on what to pick. Pretty much all of their stuff flames. Ofcourse, you might want to start be looking through the early seasons for characters you like, so you really get to appreciate the way they have developed in their productions - and you get to pick up some extra lines sometimes. But hey, you do you, man. I'll be back to check it out when you upload another one ^.^
@purpletux3573
@purpletux3573 3 года назад
I love how much fun Knox is having listening to this!
@TheGoauldApophis
@TheGoauldApophis 3 года назад
Almost no one catches that he named all three books. And only you reacted to it reacted the way I did.
@3thosmusic22
@3thosmusic22 3 года назад
If George RR Martin finished the last book the final season of Game of Thrones wouldn’t have sucked
@Ballin4Vengeance
@Ballin4Vengeance 3 года назад
He has two books to finish actually
@jaimelannister1797
@jaimelannister1797 2 года назад
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.
@arturcarreira8595
@arturcarreira8595 3 года назад
This breakdown is so interesting! Good Job!
@littlered8205
@littlered8205 3 года назад
Your music is amazing and I live for your incredible reactions.
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