Tulkas the Vala | Lord of the Rings Lore | Middle-Earth 

Hey guys, so for the past few months I've been really busy with another project, a pc game that I've been creating with a team, and I've barely had time to dedicate to this channel. However, things seem to be going better and I've got more free time on my hands, so hopefully I'll be able to publish more frequently! As always feedback is welcome and subtitles are available!

My favorite Vala has always been Oromë, but Tulkas is certainly up there. What I find the most compelling and memorable about Tulkas is the fact that he was slow to anger, and people like that tend to be all the scarier when they *do* get mad.

My favorite is Nienna. I just love the focus on empathy and hope and giving people strength in the face of dread. She embodies everything that makes Lord of the Rings so great

Feanor telling Morgoth to get lost is one of the most badass moments in the entire Silmarillion.

Missed you, Karl, and with such a fitting selection to usher your return as narrator.

You gotta save the best for last. Tulkas is basically the final boss of the Valar. Even with Ungoliant as ally Melkor hid in her web of darkness just to avoid Tulkas. He is my absolute favorite Valar. Just sheer badassery. Puny Morgoth, Tulkas SMASH!!! XD

My absolute favorite Valar. I've named my various game characters after him for the past 20+ years. Thank you for the focus video!

I think one of the things that sets Melkor apart from other Ainur is that he is pluripotent. It seems to me that Melkor would act as the chaotic and entropic aspect of several elements of Ëa: Aule participated in the "ordely" geological formation of Earth, whereas Melkor would act as seismic-destructive activies in Arda. The Ainur, in the great music, would be a kind of "Demiurgos/Demiurges" who perfomed the so-called "Creation of Concepts" that form Ëa: Energy, matter, light, darkness, gravity, life, death, etc. Quote from the Parma Eldalamberon XVII: "These fanar they (Ainur) assumed when after their demiurgic activities they came and dwelt in Arda (the realm), that is the Earth; and they did so because of their love for the chieldren of Eru, for whon they were to prepare the world, and for a time to govern;" And: “And as is known well, the prime among these is Melkor. Measureless as were the regions of Ea, yet in the Beginning, where he could have been Master of all that was done…” Morgoth’s Ring And: "Even in his diminishment the power of Melkor is beyond our calculation. ~ the Marring of Arda, and comes of the Shadow, and of the taint of Melkor that touches all the matter (or hroa)(8) of Arda, if not indeed of all Ea." In that case "the morgoth ingredient/element" was dispersed in the universe/Eä (galaxies, planets, stars). That would explain the entropy, the cosmic indifference and the death of the universe. The entire universe is then the Morgoth's Ring. If the Morgoth's ingredient is the instrument for the decay and destruction of all matter, it means that the children of Ilúvatar who will sing the creation of a new unblemished universe/Eä will not be just those of Arda. It will be cosmic music with many "others" in many places of the Universe.

Great to hear your voice!! Love the videos you narrate!

Thank you for bringing your own voice back for narration. Much appreciated and preferred.

I just read the Silmarillion for myself the other day. Such an amazing piece of work, and sooo underated.

Tulkas is my third favorite of the Valar. While I like his personality and how he is always willing to oppose evil, there are two others whom I think are more interesting. First place belongs to Mandos because I just find it so cool that he is the Valar of the dead and of prophecy/dooms and is often the one who foretells future events. Second is Ulmo because he is basically Poseidon/Neptune who I have thought was cool too thanks to The Percy Jackson series.

I am VERY glad that you are back Karl! I missed listening to your unique voice and your take on Tolkien lore. Please don't leave again, I felt lost when you left and no longer wanted to watch your channel, thank you for coming back to us!

I LOVE your channel and I most definitely MISSED Karl narrating!

Finally! I love me some Tulkas videos 😁

Great to have you back Karl! Appreciate the other guy but it felt like any other Tolkien channel. You have a wonderful voice that speaks to the universality of the Legendarium.

I really like Tulkas! Just like you mentioned at the end of the video, that he seems a bit like a nordic god. I'm getting strong Tor (english Thor) vibes from him! And not the marvel version of him, but the true Tor. And I think Helm Hammerhand resembles Tulkas as well, with fists as weapons 👊 It was nice to hear you narrate the video by the way, I don't know if you are not happy with your own voice and/or accent, but I think it adds a lot of flavour to the videos. In a good way. Thanks for the video (:

Awesome to have you back Karl, the other guy you had narrating your videos was good but it just feels right to have you doing the narration. Keep up the great work and good luck on that game your making, I hope we get to see a demo of it someday on the channel.

Just imagining Tulkas laughing his way through the misty mountains and clouds to open a can on Melkor is just so satisfying xD

Awesome! I don't usually fanboy like this but I really love your channel. Got really happy when I saw a new upload! Good luck with your game, gonna check it out for sure once you're finished with it! Much love from Sweden!

Welcome back!!! You picked a great topic to make your return. Good luck on the game.

Missed your narration, glad your back :)

This video is incredible, I'm surprised it doesn't have more views

Glad to have you back. Nice video!

Your content is a gem dude.

Such a pleasure to hear your voice again.

Great video and presentation as always!

Welcome back Thank you for narrating I appreciate these informative and fun videos

Awesome video, glad you are back

I love this! I wonder what you think about the Book of Lost Tales version of the arrival of the Valar at Utumno where they pretend to offer Tulkas as a hostage to Melkor. It's honestly one of the more uncomfortable, even disturbing scenes I've read in Tolkien, where Manwë promises to give Tulkas "to Melko's power and pleasure" (exact wording). Fortunately, Tulkas does not come to harm as, furious when Melkor insults Manwë, he escapes the chains and attacks Melkor.

great video. can you do one on all the major Vala

Great video Karl. About Melkor, Though Tulkas is strong I still think Melkor in his prime could have given him the fight of his life possibly even over power him at some point.

Your narration on this video gave me a huge serotonin boost 📈📈📈 honestly I could listen to you read the phone book and be entertained 😅

Great video, my friend!

I appreciate Tulkas for how different he is to the other valar. They generally tend towards being very contemplative working "many things with thought rather than with hands", so we as readers don't get to see too, too much into who they are and what they think. But Tulkas is so straightforward and uncomplicated that you can more or less see the whole of him in his actions

Tulkas is so crazy n over powered I love it!!

My favorite valar is manwei but tulkas for me is the real game changer 😂

Welcome back! Really missed your voice, my dude!

Can't wait!!!

Missed you very much !!!!

Finally, my favourite champion of a valar Tulkas has arrived :D It always sounded to me like a wwe fighting battle between Tulkas and Melkor lol

Hello Karl. So glad you’re back at it. I missed your content and your voice.

He’s back!!

I missed your voice man! :) Nice to hear it again.

Tulkas is the Hulk of Tolkien’s world. Not much intellect, just smash.

Marvelous!!! ♥️

I really like Tulkas for he reminds me of an ancient champion from the original Olympic Games. Also he appears like the absolute opposite of Morgoth. So, yeah, probably my favourite Valar. Thanks for the great video!

Melkor is my favourite Vala. 🤩 (Am I allowed to say that?) Tulkas I think is pretty low on my list. Not because he's done anything wrong, just... I guess most of the other Valar are more interesting to me? I do enjoy that he holds grudges though, that gives his character a little more depth.

I've missed your mystical voice. You and Nobble from WoW are amazing to listen to, your Dutch accents are perfect for story telling, you sound like wise old sages from foreign lands.

2 Great Hoorays to Tulkas And KARL good to hear you again

I picture tulkas in battle that had to be awesome

Great video! Which actor do you think can play as Tulkas if The Silmarillion were a major motion?

*melkor/morgoth literally does anything* Tulkas: Its clobbering time !

Tulkas really showed up laughing and ready to kick ass, and I think that’s very sexy of him.

Tulkas is my favorite of all Valar. I would love to see him laughing while slaughtering his enemies with his fists.

As Tulkas is basically the Alex Louis Armstrong of the Vala,he is amazingly cool :)

The lore channel equivalent of a warm bath lol

KARL IS BACK!!!

My favorite vala ever!

Who misses Karl's narration?? 🙋🏻‍♂️

Nice

Please make a video on gundabad orcs 💗

Can only sleep to Tolkien Lore. Great job 🔥🔥💯💯

1 minutes to launch!

I don't know why but tulkas reminds me of one of the gods from Celtic mythology .

This story reminds me of how Batman lets his nemeses live and they just break out of prison and kill again

What made you personally come back to narrating your videos, mate? Not that I'm complaining 😁

What is the music that starts at 8:19?

Tulkas kind of reminds me of Heracles

I think that Tulkas, was based off of the god Thor.

If you don't kill evil at your first attempt, it will just come back later to destroy you.

I am not very fond of Valar, because of their hypocracy. They are pictured as "that good guys". But they aren't much different than Melkor. They are equally prideful. They were offened when Noldor leave Valinor, they refuse to help them for entire first age (and they should, if not for the elves, than for other beings in Middle Earth). They didn't care about men, because they were in ME, where Noldor (now their enemy) were. And after Ëarendil's plee, they invite every elf expect of Avari. Etc etc etc... For this reasons I like only Ulmo, because he actually cared about ME. Melkor is also very interesting character, especially before creation of Ëa, when he wasn't evil.

Tulkas looks like a mixture between Zeus and Goku.

cool

My favourite Valor is Morgoth. Easily the most interesting.

The Chad Tulkas

If tulkas beat melkor then his balrogs and dragons is nothing against him lol damn.

Fingolfin is so much better even for someone who isn’t as strong but is brave

Com on com on! 😊

The trees weren't poisoned. They were sapped of all of their light. Not the same.

So is Tulkas Thor or not? What's the difference?

The origins of giga Chad

Why did Melkor flee when Tulkas arrived? Wasn't he still the most powerful among them and therefore could have used his vast non-physical abilities against Tulkas?

:O

so Tulkas is a Chad

I always enjoy these different channels talking about Tulkas defeating Morgoth because they always get it wrong.... First of all the silmarillion is very clear that the most powerful Vala was Morgoth and that he was chief.... There never is a mention in the beginning of Tulkas until later....And the Vala most like his father Eru Iluvatar was Morgoth who burned with a Hot desire to be like his Old Man hence the reason he would walk in the void looking for the imperishable flame....hence the reason he took the mastery of the music.... So in other words Melkor pissed Daddy Eru off Daddy Eru decided to shame him....this hurt Melkor because he was humiliated in front of all of the others instead of being praised for being different and having the Mastery....Eru claimed to have mastery but yet he had to stop the music because he could not stop Melkor.... So he's pissed and he shames him then this puts Melkor in a foul and rebellious mood....So when Arda opens up he descends in full power upon it and immediately starts contending with the other Vala.... Whatever power they use to build something he uses his power to uproot it and destroy...1 Vala against all others and they still couldn't beat him.... They fought for eons uncounted.... So yeah eventually Melkors power and their power is diminished because their power was finite within Arda.... Then suddenly a fresh off the bench player comes to the side of the Vala to contend with Melkor and of course he was defeated but that's only because Tulkas power was full and fresh....and Melkors was not.... Imagine fighting a tough man contest where you're dispensing all of these players and you get through 10 levels of players that also have been duking it out with you then all of a sudden they send in a very fresh off the bench fighter to fight you after you're worn out and yeah you're going to get mopped.... That's what happened here with Tulkas it's not that he was special because he wasn't it's just that he was fresh off the bench and of course if you're fighting against everyone else and whooping their ass for a long time and then all of a sudden this fresh guy comes in yeah you're going to be a little fearful and running for your life even though initially in the silmarillion all it says is that Melkor fled to the outermost part of Arda obviously until he could regain some of his power if possible... Initially it doesn't mention any fear that he had of Tulkas.... That wasn't till later.... And then later it talks about Tulkas getting tired and sleeping for a long time.... So yeah he was fresh and strong off the bench but Melkor was only weakened because he had battled for eon's untold with all the other Valar.....

Tulkas seems OP! Need to nerf him to make it more exciting. He is like wonderwomen or doctor manhattan.

Tulkas comes across a bit of a buffoon to me. Strong and good, but not particularly bright or tactful.

what soundtracks did you use in this video? @GeekZone