The Story of Sauron - The Lord of the Rings - The Lord of the Rings Universe - See U in History Art: Clayton Inloco Color: Rod Fernandes #lordoftherings #SeeUinHistory #History #MythologyExplained
@@princess7jasmine 500 million, but who's counting. Story sucks and half accurate at best, writing is bad, characters are unlikable, and full of unnecessary "modernizations". There won't be a second season, and if there is, they need to fire the writers and re-hire the Tolken historian to advise them.
@@Adventures-cb6sz If you're going to use its budget as a negative against it, make sure you get it right because the budget pays for all 5 seasons of the show, not just season 1. Yes, there will be a season 2 and likely improvements as well, so feel free to throw a tantrum over that. Everything you said goes down the toilet the moment you mention those nonexistent "modernisations". Plus, I imagine you haven't even read one page of Tolkien's actual works. Oh, by the way, the show still has Tolkien professors on it and the Tolkien estate agrees to what they've presented so far, otherwise it wouldn't be on screen (before you accuse them of being sellouts, Netflix offered to buy the rights for a higher amount than Amazon offered and were declined)
True its a terrible serie, doesn't feel like Tolkien or lotr feels like Amazon trash. Everything is too crazy black dwarfs and black elves. If they want to show race show the haradim or create a faction of Africans, its just not lotr and Tolkien at all and just terrible
i am not that much of a LOTR nerd, but i don't really understand why everyone hates the rings of power. my father introduced me to the hobbit, which i read, and i am currently reading the lord of the rings trilogy. I know there are some inconsistencies, but I don't understand what's so wrong with it. Can you please explain why?
@@user-cq6ks3lo2e "some inconsistencies", people hate it cause there is nothing in common between it and any tolkien's work, its a standalone work written by different writers, even hobbit was based on "The hobbit" book, amazon just slapped in "LOTR" title for PR, its like someone writing a completely different story using names from GOT franchise and slap in GOT tag for sales, its literally a scam.
@@niks660097your comment completely explains how you literally know nothing about Tolkiens writings or the second age of ME, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is literally implying sauron, during the second age there is only one major character that is sauron himself obviously the show will be titled after him and also uniting the IP. And nah buddy you are absolutely in no position to say that the show reflects nothing tolkien. The entire story of Galadriel trying to seek validation by seeking revenge on sauron completely reflects her entire arc from late second age to the third age when she wants to go to valinor
In addition to being a great reformer who would bring law and order in a scenario of cultural decay after the War of Wrath, I think Sauron saw himself as a Promethean figure who would lift Humanity out of cultural prehistory and technological ignorance: The Silmarillion says that the men of the East and South built cities of stone and had access to metallurgical knowledge. And bringing economic benefits: he proved himself a good economist in Númenor by multiplying the Island's wealth. Furthermore, he had to see himself as a deity of a great world unification: a single theocratic government, a technocratic political-economic system and a religious reformer to bring true belief through dogmatic ideas. This religious engineering reminds me (in some ways) of Gnosticism: a liberating god (Melkor) to rid rational beings of "Archons" (Valar) from a "Demiurgic monster" (Eru) who imprisoned everyone in a world of war and death. Interesting that Sauron spoke this of Melkor in the Second Age, but later he claimed to be Melkor in the Third Age.
@@magicman3163 Yep. And their dual citizens that occupy our nations, especially America. I'm seeing way too many parallels between America today and Numenor's gradual descent into darkness and eventual downfall for my comfort.
The epic tale of Sauron is beautifully encapsulated in the ancient song from the Southlands. "Sauron and Galadriel sitting in a tree, Kay Eye Ess Ess Eye En Gee"
Okay that is a bit different from how i remember the lore... First of Sauron didn´t forge the 19 rings for humans, elves and Dwarfs that wasn´t his plan at the beginning. At the start he only wanted to corrupt the elves and the three rings where forged without the assistance of Sauron, so technically he didn´t forge those. It was only after he recaptured the 16 rings that he distributed them amongst humans and dwarfs. Also Gil-Galad and Elendil killed Sauron in battle, and Isildur cut of the ring from the dead body of Sauron claiming it as weregild for his dead father. The elves advised against this, but there was no "cast it into the fire, destroy it!", at most it was "we don´t think taking the ring is a good idea." But nothing else. Also the disembodied spirit of Sauron did NOT flee back to Mordor... it went to Mirkwood where it would later become the necromancer. Also Sauron DID have a body, Gollum has seen it, he mentions in a conversation between him Frodo and Sam that the Black Lord only has four fingers on one of his hands, but that it was enough. So Sauron DID have a physical body at the time. Also slight nitpick you show the Peter Jackson version of the Balrog... but that´s not how it looked in the books, there it was more described that a man shaped thing about the same height as a man, but wreathed in fire and shadow and that Terror and fear went before it.
True, all the Elvish and Men names with the 1st word of C always pronounced with a K due of Tolkien's inspiration from Celtic Welsh that which he will formed Sindarin - Language of the Sindar or Grey Elves and 1 of the 2 Elvish Languages after Quenya (Language of the High Elves from Aman) was formed.
This is great, just one correction. Elendil and Gil Galad are the ones who defeat Sauron at the Last Alliance. Sauron burns Gil Galad alive with the heat of his hand and Elendil is slain as well, but not before they first both take Sauron down and severely weaken him. Isildur then uses Narsil to just cut the ring off Sauron’s hand. He doesn’t actually defeat Sauron himself
And also Tolkien clarified it that Sauron was in a greatly weakened and diminished state so his physical body became vulnerable to the mortals. Otherwise even Manwe's(the most powerful Valar) fiery lightning bolt couldn't even harm Sauron's physical being in Numenor. So it was all Eru's work
Sauron is so cool! I hope the writers don't ruin this awesome villain in The Rings of Power. I hope the writers don't ruin this awesome villain in The Rings of Power.
This vid pops out after I finishing Middle Earth Shadow Of War game. Man, the storyy really make me goosebump. I watched the movie also inclusing the Hobbit trilogy (I wanted read the novel but still no version for my language). I think Sauron was one of the greatest enemy (in pop culture) and brilliant strategist. He managed to deceived many Man and waged war for thousand years. From the game I learned Talion want to destroy Sauron for good, he didn't want Celebrimbor or other Man become Sauron itself, just because they want dominate each other. Talion sacrifice so much and he willingly to become Nazgul to prevent other Ring bearer to dominate Sauron. He believes when the times comes, there's a real hero that really continue his mission to truly destroy Sauron for good. which in this case Bilbo Baggins. and from that he finally can go into the afterlife for good
he is known by many names.......including Halbrand in Rings of Farce I think an important element skipped over was that Sauron was not 100% responsible for the fall of Numenor. Over the centuries, starting with the king who first sent his armies to fight Sauron,, the Numenoreans slowly grew jealous of the elves to the point of that they had ended their ancient alliance with the Elves. by the time Sauron had surrendered to them. What Sauron did was use their desire for immorality to convince them to go attack the land Valar.
@@LordMortanius And the burning of the white tree of Numenor (Original oak from Valinor). But Isuldur took the fruit before the King's Men turned it down.
Tolkien estate didn't allow them only a handful of lines and unfamiliar excerpt from the book that was given to them as rights from there they had to create stories and events that didn't or wasn't on the book under the consultation and approval of Simon Tolkien himself..
Thank you for the lucid explanation. Please make a similar video on Sauron's human allies- The Easterlings, The Haradrim and the Pirate Mercenaries who were stopped at Osgilliath. Especially the Easterling who are said to have been inspired by soldiers of ancient Persia and the Haradrims from African Kingdoms and Indian empires.
I love the pictures you show for explain his story,looks like a comic book wow imagine if tolkien estate let LOTR and Hobbit be part of DC comics by telling his stories.
they did. the guy’s running the show had never run a show before, but they were super fans and tolkeins estate liked their story ideas the most so they were picked. You’ll find that every fan has their own idea of how things should be, and thus, when one fan gets a billion dollars to make what’s in their head as a show other fans will complain that it’s too different from what they had in their heads.
I just don't get the motivation of wanting to destroy all creation. I guess it's to drive home the point that he's a bad dude, but realistically it's kind of self-defeating.
It’s truly a testament to the human imagination that Professor Tolkien was able to weave such a unique world. Even with the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian influences
I wish we saw more of Sauron. He is one of the best dark lords, yet we only see him for 10 minutes for all 3 movies, and even less in the the Hobbit. And in ROP, he never appears or fought in his dark armor and was a “good guy” for 90 percent of the series
Good work but I think at 6:45, Sauron goes to Mirkwood, not Mordor. There he is known as the Necromancer and Gandalf learns about his return in the Hobbit. I haven't read them for a while so I might be wrong.
the three elven rings are made by celbrimbor alone after sauron/anathar is on his way back to mordor. only the ring of men and dwarves were made in the presence of sauron and thats why these rings can corrupt and bind you to the one ring. the elven rings were made only by saron design but he wasnt present during the forge to wheave his own lifeforce/magic in them. thats why sauron can feel the rings but not corrupt the wearers.
Some of it is. I believe their was a norse myth about a ring that corrupted the hearts of men. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were big fans of all mythologies and somewhere down the road they decided to write children's books about mythology with Christian principles.
This story is not entirely accurate. First off the elven rings were made in secret by Celebrimbor and that’s why Sauron had no control over the three rings the elves had. Second, Sauron couldn’t control the dwarves because they have a natural resistance to the rings, it only made them more greedy. Also when Sauron went away for 1000 years he was hiding from Eru and the valar. After one thousand years he took over Morgoths place because he thought they would not look for him. Little did he know they sent other maiar like Sauron in the form of the wizards that were sent to oppose him.
a few inaccuracies around the lore ...(example, Melkor is who Eru created him to be, he didn't turn evil, it was his nature all along)...but pretty solid video overall
It would be dope if the next doom game had a lord of the ring Easter egg. A Secret portal after going through it it takes you to Mount doom. And while there you find the one ring laying on a rock or something.
Havy armord warlords are among the most baddass villains human imagination has ever created. I wander if Sauron is the first such villian? Was it Sauron who started this esthetic that later on the lich king Mordekaiser and others also took?
This isn't exactly accurate as Elendil and Gil-galad were the ones who vanquished Sauron in battle though at the cost of their own lives with Isildur cutting the Ring from his defeated body.
16 Rings? Wasn't the 4 of the 7 dwarf rings consumed by Dragons And Sauron only took 3 rings(2 before he fell in Mordor and 1 from Thrain Son of Thror) according to Gandalf when he was with the White Council in the Hobbit Extended edition?
