The 8 Most POWERFUL Artifacts in Middle-earth 

The Arkenstone

Legolas quiver with infinite arrows :)

It's the Silmarils and it's not even close.

@@wtrrobson738of course it’s the silmarili. They are like three pieces of the sun on earth

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Ah yes Golem's bane

@@Civilmonkey1yes!!!!!

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Part of me wants to believe he swung it at the troll at some point when it was focused on someone else

I was going to make this comment the moment I heard it in the video. Glad someone else is keeping people honest 🙏

I made the same comment before reading yours, of course you are right and I am surprised they made such a huge mistake.

Thanks for this comment lol, immediately came to the comment section after hearing this :D

Legit stopped the video and came to the comments to write exactly this

Relatively speaking it's close to gondor

That one definitely got slept on.

He'd mispronounce it.

@@thorgrimgrudgebearer who cares about pronunciation lmao

Is the ring speaking just in the movies? Can't recall

@@Cicero7217 None of the rings ever speak in the books.

Good suggestions. I'll be a creating a video about the weapons from Tolkiens Legendarium too.

I would also add Belthronding, the bow of Beleg, Aranruth, the sword of Thingol (and later, of the Kings of Numenor), and the Dragon Helm of Dor-Lomin.

​@@jopay142 The Dragon Helm is way badass!

I most definitely agree about Ringil.

​@@The.Lore.Seekermake sure to double check yourself so you don't make anymore basic mistakes

Idk why stupid misinformation spread in these youtube vids are done. Should say its based on the films at least.

@@portlandjosh Who is Telgar? Where is Eraigian?

Umbar, Harad, Khand, Hildorien, Cuivienen, these would all be further travels from Gondolin that Gondolin to Gondor, but they are certainly not close together.

I assume he's mixing up his Minas Tirith's like an idiot. Finrod's Minas Tirith was super close to Gondolin.

Definitely done on purpose

although through Celebrian + Elrond we get Arwen Undomiel, who was Vanyar, Noldor, Telerri, and Dunedain (Elrond being half Dunedain, so many forget)

Even Eonwe bowed to Feanor. Several elves beat Balrogs - I’d say they were more powerful than those maiar. Remember Luthien subdued Morgoth on his own turf.

@@derekmiller6091, she made him rest with the weight of the Silmarils upon his brow, she did not defeat him. Luthien was awesome though.

Tbh Feanor was greater than most of the Maiar, did things they couldn't even dream of , Terrible guy but Great

The istari were weakened maiar. The valar took power from them so they couldnt become dark lords like sauron. Means they are much closer to elves than actual maiar. Gandalf is probably not bigger in strenght than galadriel. But i guess we will never know. He definitely is not on a sauron full power maiar strenght tho

Later known Gondor what a load of crap hahah😂

They were probably referring to Minas Tirith, the First Age fortress built on Tol Sirion, which was relatively near Gondolin. I guess its an easy enough mistale if they were going off memory and got the names mixed up though.

You sounds real worked up over a mistake in a lore video 😂

Obviously just reading off a wiki page to get views

@@Thetruepianomana huge mistake… means the author needs to seek lore out of the silmarillion not off the internet

I believe you're taking your assumption from a much earlier version of the Fall of Gondolin where Balrogs were a dime a dozen and everyone and their granny slayed 12 at once. Later on Tolkien decided the Balrogs were MUCH rarer and harder to kill. He seemed to land on the idea of 7 total Balrogs, and each slaying of one was a massive achievement.... sung into legend...... so, no, Fingon didn't kill several.

The version of balrog that we have today is basically a gandalf-level entity focusing entirely on power. You'd have to be one strong elf to defeat even one of those and live

@@KS-xk2so 7 or 3. If it was only 3 then all are dead with Durin's Bane.

Tbh a host of balrogs would even bring Morgoth to tremble if they were not in his side, remember Morgoth who was bullied by Ungoliant demanding the silmarils, was scared away by them into hiding forever 😂

The guy’s American, dude, cut him some slack…

Yes! Honestly, it’s like he’s doing it on purpose… it’s like he never heard any of these words….

The lore seeker is doing more for keeping middle earth alive than anything your lazy ass has done. Judge away but I can look past minute details to enjoy the shit out of his videos

​@jeffreygreen8668 so what ? I'm an American too, but I can pronounce them right

Wished I could reply to all of y’all but in another comment he addressed that he wasn’t a native English speaker so when he had the one who did the voice over he wasn’t 100% sure which pronunciation was correct which is why the they’ll get the pronunciation right a time or two in the same thought as a handful of bad pronunciations

I know!! What's this guy talking about!! 🤔

More than half the pronunciations lol. That’s what Tolkien would care about the most

And he said sauraman was with Sauron but he was actually more of his own party against Sauron and the rest of middle earth

meh very fine parsing here.. Laurelindorinan(spelling?) existed before she and Celeborn moved there and THEN elevated it into Lothlorien, a newer bigger, better stronghold.

I second that motion!!! 🤠👍

No argument here 👍

Oddly enough, I think Tolkien did most of his development longhand.

Yea, I'm not a native English speaker I sometimes find it difficult to know how the voice artist should pronounce it, sorry 🙏🏻

I cringed when you said: "the sil marils" hahaha. Great video tho

​@@The.Lore.Seeker it doesn't help that your also trying to speak elvish in some cases. But because Tolkien was Tolkien both elvish and dwarf are actual fully fleshed out speakable languages with full written alphabets.

No it didn’t, the ring of Barahir was gifted by Finrod to show eternal friendship for his life being saved. It had nothing to do with a sign of kingship. The fact that it was recovered by Beren and passed down eventually to Elendil, who was only a king after he arrived in Middle Earth is coincidental.

Appreciate it man, thanks!

I think he's got his Minas Tirith's mixed up....

I wonder if someone writing that got confused by the fist city Called Minas Tirith, which WAS relatively close to the Echoriath Ring of mountains.

That's intentional. Mispronouncing things generates engagement as people feel a desire to leave a comment about it. Yours is proof that it works.

Wdym? I thought the pronunciation was flawless

With that frying pan, you could probably fry an entire dragon-just make sure to season it first!

Thank you!

You're welcome!

I'm working on a video about artifacts, it will feature the arkenstone

I think the most powerful objects were without a doubt the silmarils. they contained the light of the trees and they were hallowed by Varda. Evil creatures, or even those who weren't evil but committed evil acts couldn't even touch them. Morgoth got his hands burned and they never healed.

I've been thinking about a Mithril video, not sure on what story though. And my list of possible stories is so long!

​@@The.Lore.Seekermithril lore is pretty specific within Tolkien lore. Methinks you're BSing.

Mate, that compliment is way to big. Thanks though

Can a living being or the spirit of a what once was a living being, qualify as an Artifact? The Watchers outside the entrance of Minas Morgul were such. You could also argue that Gollum was an Artifact, a evil Hobbit from long ago, preserved by the One-Ring. Gollum was powerful, in that, the One-Ring could not have been destroyed without him.

That is nothing comparable to an artifact. The universe is an artifact in that case

I don't think it was simply reforged, I don't think that's possible, there was a reason why the elven smiths were the only ones they could do it, they used magic. Most of the elven weapons have some sort of magic in them (think of sting glowing blue when orcs were near), even weapons made by the dwarves, or even the Dunedain have magic embedded, think the dagger that Merry used to stab the witch king.

As a bladesmith, I can honestly say that there is nothing more irritating than watching swords being forged in movie The magic in them is put there by the singing of spells during the making. I aways ask when some other smith shows me a sword they have made, "did you sing to it? How is it gunna slay a Balrog if you didn't sing to it?" Most times they just look at me weirdly but a few get it "The dwarves of yore made mighty spell, while hammers fell like ringing bells, in places deep where dark things sleep in hollow halls beneath the fells"

I create most of them myself through Midjourney.

Uhm...cell phone?

I would say that to an extend, both Bilbo and Sam resisted it. Bilbo left it behind by his own will, and Sam, although struggling, give it back to Frodo.

@@rjb639 There 'resisted' and 'unaffected'. They probably could have said 'No one could resist it for long'.

@@rjb639 So did Isildur, for the most part. By thee time he headed to Rivendell, he realized he could never wear it and the danger it represented. The account in the books was completely different than the movies.

The Arkenstone just looks good more to a dwarf than anyone else. If it had any powers none was ever written of it that I've ever read.

Thank you. The music is "emotional music" by SergePavkinMusic

The only thing they used from the lore was the names.

theoretically yes. Gandalf was Olorin, a Maia. Maiar are above the elves, however, Galadries was at her full power but Gandalf was not. The Valar didn't want the Maiar to manifest their full power because they were afraid they could cause more destruction. They didn't even remember who they were before. Perhaps Gandalf the white was, but why he was more in his pure form than Gandalf the grey, I don't think he was totally himself, not until he returned to Valinor.

@@rjb639 I had actually forgotten that that Maiar were restricted when they were sent to Middle Earth. Now it makes sense.

Working on it! I've hired a voice artist who knows how to pronounce. He'll do all videos in the future.

You found my easteregg!

Yea.. honest (stupid) mistake. Sorry :) I do proper fact checking nowadays

The Ring didn't give Sauron power over the orcs; Sauron already commanded them by virtue of being the most powerful being of evil on the planet, and it didn't prevent Sauron from dying (as one of the Ainur, he's natively immortal). He was physically slain twice WITH the Ring in hand - once during the Drowning of Numenor, once more at the end of the War of the Last Alliance.

@@LordMortanius One; it gave him greater power over the orcs, the narrator here says the ring gave him a power of command over lesser beings, which I'm pretty sure is accurate. It also allowed him to call the orcs from all their scattered little hidey-holes to Mordor. With maybe the exception of the Moria orcs, and he may have just left them there to ensure the Dwarves didn't try to retake the most powerful fortress in Middle Earth again. Two, Sauron's body died, but his body was just a shell for his spirit, and it did not die with his body. Note too that the Balrogs were also Maiar and nearly all of them were killed quite dead. Their immortality extended only so far that they'd never die of old age and not much farther.

Think about how Easily Tom Bombadill made the ring of power disappear!!! 🤠👍

@@worldtraveler930 Yes, Tom was in his place of power where he was dominant. Just like Melian was able to hide her entire forest from the eyes of Morgoth for centuries. I'd say the latter is much more impressive than not letting the ring created by one Maiar affect another in their own domain. We know that when an Ainur invested their spirit into a place or thing they became more powerful - but also more vulnerable if the place or item was destroyed. That's how Morgoth was able to fight off 12 (?) Vala while on Arda. Even Eru says that he couldn't remove him from Arda without destroying Arda. It wasn't until Tulkas the strong arrived to help the other loyalist Vala that they were able to gain the upper hand against Morgoth, and he fled into the darkness of the Void to hide. An interesting side note is that apparently Christopher re-wrote the Silmarillion almost every time it was republished. His father's notes were so extensive, and so haphazardly collected in a large traveling trunk, that as Christopher dug deeper he found new things about the story. My own copy is from the first American printing. There are details that got changed later. For instance in my copy Morgoth discovers Ungoliant in the Void, a creature of malice and darkness. Her one goal was to murder Eru Iluvatar and destroy everything he'd polluted the Void with. Morgoth made an agreement with her, if she helped him conquer Arda, he'd help her kill Eru. Probably neither of them intended to fulfill their end of the agreement. Later versions say he'd created her somehow and she was his servant. JRR Tolkien had to remind himself several times that no Ainur had the ability to create life, only Eru had that power.

It prevented Sauron from dying because it had part of Saurons power forged in it. Once it was destroyed that was the end of Sauron.

They are several examples of elves killing balrogs. Glorfindel killed the balrog that was on the way when Tuor, Idril and Earendil escaped. Echtelion killed Gothmog, the most powerful balrog. Both were killed as well, but they did killed the balrogs. To kill Fingon, Gothmog needed another balrog to tie Fingon's hands from behind with his whip. And let's not forget Fingolfin who matched Morgoth blow by blow, he only lost at the end because Morgoth truly couldn't be killed and he grew tired, but he injured Morghth very seriously.

Your are 100% correct, I made a honest stupid mistake, sorry. I've incorperated fact checking for all videos after this one.

No it is not. Go back to reading. The star whose light it contains is not even a star. That "star" is the Silmaril that was cut from Morgoth's crown. The Phial contains the captured light of the Silmaril, just as the Silmarils radiate the captured light of the two trees

@@brettmuir5679 The silmaril was put into the sky and became a star. The light is reflected yes, but it is still the light of a literall star. I read just fine poser.

@@TheTrueBobDole nope. The star of Earendil IS a silmaril. Actual stars are different as they were created specifically for the awakening of the firstborn

@@brettmuir5679 The stars are the tears of Nienna. Every time she cries, the Valar collect her tears and put them into the night sky, to become new stars. Just because it's a silmaril doesn't mean it's not a star.