This is great bud and your diction is excellent. The spoken word speed is maybe 33% too slow. I like the deliberate + precise words, but you could be a little faster and improve the acceptance of the information
Thanks! I know some might think it's a little slow, but I assume a little slow is better than a little fast, so people aren't missing anything important.
When Tolkien wrote "The Hobbit", he probably didn't have a clear idea of the history behind Sting. As it is now, Sting's presence in eastern Eriador late in the 3rd age is problematic. Elrond says that Sting and the other swords must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder-but that others may have "robbed the robbers"- this had to be the case, since the dragon hoards would have been drowned at the end of the 1st age, and it's questionable whether orcs would have even been able to endure having such weapons around. Men must have had the swords for much of time between the fall of Gondolin and Bilbo's adventure.
I love the designs of the prop swords from the films, but, apart from the fact that they were I engraved with runes, there is very little in the way of description from Tolkien. I suspect, knowing his areas of historical interest, that sting was a Kurt sax, the shorter version ( very popular at one time ) of the long sax. Which is basically a single edged sword that was popular for centuries, throughout the Norse kingdoms.
Wasn't Sting in the books uninscribed? Elrond could read the runes and identify the swords Thorin and Gandalf carried, but not the weapon Bilbo would call Sting. 🤔
Yes and no, at the time that the swords were read by Elrond, Sting had not been inscribed. Sting wasn't inscribed until after the encounter with the spiders in Mirkwood. Which happened after they met with Elrond.
@@UncleFester84 short sword or long dagger.Elves put effort into their production in the days of Gondolin from wence came Orchrist and Glamdring,(the kings sword and later Gandalfs).
I think you missed out the most important conflict in which thing was involved. I mean the attack of five of the Nazgûl on Weathertop. Frodo does not just collapse in the presence of the Nazgûl as many do - he at least tries to fight. Sting at least cuts through the Nazgûl’s garments. Who knows what damage such a blade was able to do to the Ringwraith??
He was not using sting. That was one of the blades where frodo finds in the barrow whites when Tom comes and rescues the hobbits. Basically merry is using one of the blades that he uses to Stab the witch king.
The speech comes across as Slow. Taken too much THC or just not enough sleep? Can't listen too. So Annoying. Tempo, Pitch, Variable volume - lacking. Monotone.
