Why Theoden Appeals to Gen Z

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In comparison to our ancestors, we are but meek imitations. In relation to the titans that came before us, we are measly shadows. It will require everything in our power to reach half the heights of our forefathers. These sentiments were often proclaimed by Theoden, king of Rohan, throughout the tale of The Lord of the Rings. He lamented his own lack of greatness when measured against the success and prowess of those from which he descended, and made it his final ambition to become worthy of being mentioned in the same breath. Though I grew up reading and watching Lord of the Rings, my favorite character often changed as I aged. Now, I have decided it is none other than Theoden. I yearned to discover why this was so, and upon further reflection, I believe I have discovered the foremost reason. As a member of Generation Z, I have found that Theoden, King of Rohan and martyr of the Battle of Pelennor Fields, represents and echoes the sentiments of our generation. So, why does Theoden appeal to Gen Z? Let’s explore…
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0:00 Introduction
4:05 An Unconventional Hero
4:36 Back from the Possessed
5:47 Helm's Deep & Nihilistic Temptation
7:52 Pelennor Fields & Embracing Purpose
10:58 Theoden: A Hero for Gen Z
15:16 Conclusion
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@ExploringFiction 18 дней назад

RIP Bernard Hill

@mariaclaragomesdecarvalho4117 15 дней назад

A noble man.

@Makaneek5060 14 дней назад

Hail the victorious dead

@BenBebbington 13 дней назад

Wotcher doin? Inspirin multiple generations with your performances? I can do dat.

@liaml.e.5964 12 дней назад

Long live the King!!!

@matthewgubbins8515 8 дней назад

For the king

@randywise5241 14 дней назад

" We stood on the shoulders of giants and proclaimed our greatness, only to fall a greater distance." A Roman at the time of the German invasion that sacked Rome.

@rehm402 12 дней назад

Harrowing

@dermilchmann3655 9 дней назад

A German invasion that sacked Rome?

@donaldpratt2296 5 дней назад

Can you offer a more specific attribution?

@tiringsarcasm День назад

Which German sack? The Vandals, The Ostrogoths, or The Visigoths?

@donaldpratt2296 День назад

@@tiringsarcasm probably not, since I’ve absolutely never heard anything like that quote attributed to anyone pre enlightenment.

@user-cw4zj6kc8u 15 дней назад

I was born in '89. I''m a washed up millennial. I watched our world crumble my whole life. I have done everything in my own life to resist and have found endless defeat. Thank you for this encouragement.

@eldritchedward 14 дней назад

81 here and I feel the same.

@chesterstevens8870 14 дней назад

Also '89. We march into this brave new world together, Brother; bent but not broken.

@googleuser9009 14 дней назад

94' Canadian. Feel the same way

@ironclad4451 14 дней назад

90' feel the exact same way. My entire life is just a series of brutally hard fought failures...

@troffle 14 дней назад

Born 1971 and I feel the same. And years and bastards bent me until I broke.

@Grimmlocked 14 дней назад

“My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed.”

@ChrisDWren 18 дней назад

Theoden was always my favorite character. He goes against "good' narrative convention in the sense that he can only react to forces and circumstances beyond his control, but that's the whole point of his character - he has only one choice - to rise to his duty, or not, and he rises to it magnificently.

@joyfulyes 6 часов назад

In the words of Gandalf, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. This is a major theme in Tolkien -- so much depends on the choices of folk who find themselves caught up in circumstances bigger than they are. I believe this perspective has roots in his experience of the trenches of WWI.

@notreallymyname3736 16 дней назад

Im a millennial; but Théoden and Boromir have become my favorite characters in the Lord of the Rings. They're just so extraordinarily human.

@ExploringFiction 16 дней назад

Boromir is great too!

@mariaclaragomesdecarvalho4117 15 дней назад

They're both in my top 3!

@cheeseburger12 14 дней назад

Add Gimili and you have my top 3.

@gingerbaker_toad696 11 дней назад

I am from '94 and at first i didn't understand Boromir and Theoden, so i didn't like them.. now they give me full body goosebumps and make me cry without fail... Whole LotR love ❤️

@LKRBooks 9 дней назад

I love those guys, but Sam is my goat.

@rebbeccahoneycutt7941 14 дней назад

It's such a shame that Samwise Gamgee and King Theoden never got to meet. Sam's greatest hope was that 'there is still some good left in the world and that it is worth fighting for.'

@skeletonguts313 6 дней назад

Words I live by.

@stephenfitzgerald9769 14 дней назад

Older Millennial here. Can confirm: the late 80’s and 90’s were a much friendlier, happier, more-welcoming time to experience. I would very much like to see us, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha return to those times; that we may share in the days of peace.🕊️

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 14 дней назад

As much as we desire it, those days are gone. We must instead strive for a new world that can be just as good, one formed by new forces and circumstances but just as peaceful and kind. We cannot remake the good past, so we must make a better future.

@troysimmons506 14 дней назад

94 here my whole life I watched it 8 years old me sitting in my room watching a national geographic documentary about what will the effect of Cell phones on the population Watched my lunch money turn into a personal Identification card to buy my lunch lime wire dial up connections VHS and disposable cameras. you better feel lucky you live in the United States said the church lady's saw it all go and watched the youth turn into rainbow haired freaks

@carysmith-df9wd 14 дней назад

Only if you are willing to embrace the values of the people who lived in those times. Reject modernity, embrace Jesus and family.

@silverhawkscape2677 14 дней назад

Depending on where you were in America it is a Friendlier time. To other wars but to some a Better time.

@DomR1997 14 дней назад

Well you'd have to shut down social media and heavily regulate national news media, so that'll never happen.

@conanmcdonagh2619 15 дней назад

People also forget that Théoden King was literally in his 70s when he charged out into battle

@B31NG 14 дней назад

bro aragorn was fuckin 80

@deborahbarkley9055 14 дней назад

@B31NG , except Aragorn has elf blood granting him long life Theoden was human

@toad_of_the_sky 14 дней назад

@@deborahbarkley9055he is also a descendant of numinor

@jonnybgoode7742 14 дней назад

70 year old leading a cavalry charge... after RIDING A HORSE FOR TWO DAYS. Dude was hard as woodpecker lips.

@dimesonhiseyes9134 14 дней назад

@@jonnybgoode7742I'm not even half way through 40's and I might wake up crippled because the wind blew outside and my back decided to "not today Satan" to walking.

@shiperobin 16 дней назад

Theoden resonates with millennials too. Good to see you gen z folks still care about Theoden and LOTR in general

@dhivaansalig6398 14 дней назад

98 Gen Z here. Recently watched Lord of the Rings and LOVE it.

@HeathRHansen 14 дней назад

I think the declined and beaten down state of Rohan and Gondor both speak to Millennials and Gen Z.

@LordVader1094 13 дней назад

@@HeathRHansen Agreed. More than ever it feels like the declining state of Middle-Earth at the end of the Third Age resonates with the current state of our world. Though it is a truly timeless message, of course.

@ProtossWannabe1984 12 дней назад

Yeah. We were prophesied by the Strauss-Howe generational cycle theory to be the new “hero” archetype generation (to mirror The Greatest Generation) but we sure as hell don’t feel like it

@fredflintlocks9445 12 дней назад

@@ProtossWannabe1984the greatest generation is viewed that way in retrospect, our story isnt written yet to say how succeeding generations view us, but if we prove to be the ones to right the ship so to speak and return the west to prosperity i imagine theyll view us quite well and if we fail, well not so much.

@tobeymalone3436 15 дней назад

Theoden is unique in that he is not some hero of prophecy, he's not the White Wizard, he's not the long lost King come back to save the world, by all rights he should be like Denethor, "the lesser son of greater sires", and yet he's not. He rises to his duty because it's the right thing to do, and he does it knowing full well it means his demise. He's not the only character that does this, but he's the one that truly embodied what a King should be in dark times, and it's the example I look to the most right now

@ExploringFiction 14 дней назад

That's a great point.

@tuskinradar8688 13 дней назад

100%, in my mind the archytypal king is Theoden King.

@LordVader1094 13 дней назад

Even Denethor is not a lesser son of greater sires in the books. He's a strong man of virtue, brought down by despair as he sees no victory against Sauron. He can't see hope, as he (rightfully) sees no military victory against Mordor, and no victory in any other way.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

And let us not forget, it is Theoden's fall, that sets up the Fall of the Witch King! That is a ANGBAND of an assist! If the Witch king had left Theoden alone, the Ring-Wraith might have stopped Frodo later. In THAT sense of Eru's use of ironic events, Theoden saved EVERYONE!

@FullMoonHowl 10 дней назад

Beautifully put.

@hardworkingslacker7233 17 дней назад

The cure of Theoden is probably my favorite scene of The Two Towers because I too merely lived as a husk than an actual man for a long time. There is a lot of work still ahead of me but I hope that I too can say one day before my end that I made the right choices, not every time but when they really count for something.

@evan12697 14 дней назад

just gotta pick up your sword, get that dog back in ya

@AskTorin 13 дней назад

We're with you ❤️💪

@twonerdsjousting 13 дней назад

"Breathe the free air again, my friend"

@tfuenke 11 дней назад

So you were married too.

@hardworkingslacker7233 11 дней назад

@@tfuenke No, I wasn't but I wish you a full recovery nonetheless.

@conanmcdonagh2619 15 дней назад

My reason for loving Théoden King is much more personal. He clearly struggles with issues of self-esteem & Gríma is a manipulative abuser that, through Saruman, breaks Théoden down & leaves him a shell of his former self. I also have to wrestle with loud thoughts of not being good enough, & I've also survived such an abuser. The fact that, after Gandalf saves him, Théoden rises through & above his demons & struggles & makes a hero of himself is an inspiration to me, & I'm sure many others feel the same way.

@ezrafaulk3076 14 дней назад

As a 98 born Gen Z, I grew up in a similar situation; I've long cut my abusive father & those in my family that sided with him outta my life, & while it seems like it's pretty hopeless right now, I'm still working on healing from it, & I'm even working on some projects that'll hopefully prove to be achievements comparable to those of our ancestors too.

@ANKAMedien 14 дней назад

The book chapter of the Ride of the Rohirrim makes me tear up every time. that moment when the gate is splintered in a blinding flash and Theoden goes from slumped in the saddle to upright and shouts "Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spears shall be shaken, shields be splintered, A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!" just... ahhh 🥲🫡 "honey, where's my Spear?"

@samuelduarte7678 13 дней назад

And in the movie he adds "Ride for ruin! and the world's ending! DEATH! DEATH! DEATH" chills every time i watch that scene

@Wolf-bz6kq 12 дней назад

Suddenly he seized a horn from his bannerman and blew such an blast it burst asunder and straight away all the horns in the host was lifted up in music and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that our was like a storm on the plains and thunder of mountains RIDE NOW, RIDE NOW! RIDE TO GONDOR!

@SuperUniverse 14 дней назад

There is a yearning of heroic people. Gen z lacks such heroes in an age of tiktok and logan pauls. Theoden is a great role model on that

@titolovely8237 14 дней назад

i disagree. they still exist but too many are too demoralized to act. this is the point of the story. an aging man in decrepit decline reinvigorated by being able to once again see the good in the world. gen z is this way. theyre very negative and it blinds them to the good things around them that would allow them to become heroes.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 13 дней назад

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@@titolovely8237gen z is paradoxical by matter of involuntary circumstance. They know of the triumph and the knowledge of the past, the great and terrible and other things which have long been cast. Yet despite that, knowledge is suffering. For Gen Z knows both too much and too little with little way to parse through said wisdoms, to take the bad and the good and make do with what they have. They are born into a world of conflict, polarization, and impersonalization. A time of war not amidst nations, but conflict so petty and between peoples who identify with one side or another. I cast no judgement, but in effect, I’ve seen innumerable of those people burn out, crash, and fall when they fight. For every outspoken voice one of them makes, innumerable others cry out to denounce them, not even the incoherent rambling which got drowned out in the noise, but painfully, agonizingly readable, disconnected from time or space. Like people innumerable they wish to have what they do not, to have a world they wish, except they are also highly fragmented, broken apart by barriers of thought, barriers of mind, and barriers of place and time. In a way it is not just being demoralized, it is also that they are disorganized, that they are also disincentivized for word travels at the speed of 5 seconds sharp on the interconnected net I send this to you through.

@Shythalia 13 дней назад

These heroes do exist. So many of us are just ignorant of their existence because just like the news, negativity gets more attention. I cannot think of any heroic gen z people off the top of my head, though to be fair, we are still a young generation and it will take some time for more of these heroes to form. So instead I'll give 2 heroic-esque examples from the millennial gen: Markiplier & Jacksepticeye.

@SuperUniverse 13 дней назад

@@Shythalia Perhaps making more movies of strong heroic male heroes needs to be reintroduced into the movie scene or on platforms like youtube for a start is in order :)

@monkeymox2544 13 дней назад

@@SuperUniversedon't be silly, every year the vast majority of blockbuster films have heroic male leads

@jefftheindianchief8279 13 дней назад

Theoden is a timeless character. Countless generations can relate to the struggles of a man who has fallen on hard times, only to pick himself back up & face adversity head-on. His final speech to his fellow Rohirrim, with The Battle of the Pelennor Fields playing in the background, never fails to send chills down my spine. He may not be king of Gondor, but even I'd follow him to face the insurmountable odds they faced that day.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

Aragorn had NO problem following Theoden. That's quite a feat in itself!

@theequestriandojo3768 16 дней назад

Gen X'er here and it makes me happy to know that people your age are still learning these stories. King Theoden is a great example of what JP calls willingly embracing your sacrifice. Especially after one has been living in black pill Hell as he was under Saruman's influence. Slowly poison dripping his mind with the repeating message "abandon all hope". But as close as his inner flame was to going out, it had not yet. Such an example of a man for our time. You'd probably agree, but I think that one of the other greatest heroes from LOTR for our time is Sam. His reverie on the slope of Mount Doom, both book and movie. The way he could stand in the darkest, most dangerous and hopeless place in the world where it seems like all is lost and yet somehow, his faith is never broken. Even though it seems like a sure thing that the world is ending, he finds it in him to get back up and take another step forward.

@ExploringFiction 16 дней назад

Definitely agree. Sam is another great hero

@loganbennett2488 13 дней назад

Sam could do it because he was simple, and that's not an insult. He trusted his master, Frodo, totally. He couldn't have carried the ring, he never would have volunteered for it, but since Frodo did, he followed him. He was able to believe in their triumph over the enemy because he believed in Frodo, he didn't care for battles and hopelessness, because his master wouldn't fail. That's why, for me, the betrayal and sadness in Sam portrayed in the movies when Frodo refuses to throw the ring into Mt. Doom hits so deep. He's gone this whole journey, able to make jokes and be hopeful because he never doubted Frodo, but at the last moment his everlasting hope was slashed. Even Samwise the brave was brought low.

@Max-px5ym 13 дней назад

Who's JP?

@reclaimerbear6760 13 дней назад

@@Max-px5ym Jordan Peterson

@Max-px5ym 12 дней назад

@@reclaimerbear6760 erm... People quoting Jordan Peterson as if he were Marcus Aurelius is quite sad

@ghostdivision7 14 дней назад

I'm not sure if the world has really gotten more ugly these last decades. There has always been hate, corruption, incompetence and greed. The difference is that we now have non-stop internet and social media, bombarding us with (bad) information. It reminds me of Denethor in the novel. He lost hope and eventually went insane by looking into the Palantir of Minas Tirith to often.

@kjj26k 11 дней назад

This. Things are bad, but look at what was going on 1910-1945, it was the apocalypse. We aren't there. YET That's the thing. We are all in 1913 and we know what's about to happen and that nothing can be done to stop it. That is truly crushing.

@bradleyroady599 8 дней назад

“I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.” -Pippin

@joyfulyes 5 часов назад

I like that analogy! Denethor's Palantir is like our phones and social media feeds -- which even at their best can show truth, but only part of it.

@oscarstainton 14 дней назад

Born in 1992, and growing up I looked to The Lord of the Rings with the reverence that Gen X had for Star Wars. While lesser men and women have spurned the wisdom of these sagas, I try to live up to these deep themes and messages and keep them alive in my heart. Better to go out like Boromir and Theoden than Denethor or Sméagol.

@TheRealRetroBeard 14 дней назад

I'm gen X. You are right, the world was better in my youth. There was more consideration, awareness and technology was our servant, not our master. I've seen so much fade and go away. The world is so lonely and hopeless now. Property prices have risen disproportionately. National identity has been eroded. Everyone is afraid to say what they really think and so on. I detest this world and have no idea why it went this way. What can men do against such reckless hate?

@mirceazaharia2094 13 дней назад

You ride out. You ride out and face doom, one last time. You spit defiantly in its face and match it, blow for blow. Even if you fall, others are laboring steadily away to build something better in its place. The foundation of our past was forged from the blood, sweat, tears and bones of great men. It's time to reinforce those foundations with our own efforts, and add our own contribution to the great project that is Human Civilization.

@MidlifeCrisisJoe 12 дней назад

Well, minimally, if the left says to do it, do the opposite. Most "progress" in the last 50 years has been absurdly negative in effect. So ask "who is it progress for?" and "What is it progress to?" Asking those questions reveals most of the errors that led us to where we are.

@rutgerkerpel306 12 дней назад

The work was prophetic. Technology will advance further and further so it can be used as a means of control and domination over all life. This is what Sauron represents, strength through tiranny from a hidden realm (the digital world). One can experience that "fake matrix-like" world with the use of virtual reality. This is the Ring of Power, a tool one can wield to get away from the reality we live in and peek into the world of 'beyond'. There is so much more to explore, but this was discovered a while ago by some professor, I forgot his name, but you can find his interviews one YT, he wrote a book about it. 'Mount Doom: The prophecy of Tolkien revealed. I Have yet to read it myself, but it's probably one of the most important pieces of Tolkien research that any person that loves his works, should read.

@thefoxwolfdraconis 12 дней назад

Im going to be blunt and direct - return to seeking God, return to pursuing the truth, and above all letting go/offering up your life - the greatest act of love - to love, to God. Why would someone hate love, if not to side with the enemy? As we see here with Theoden, we have little say in the matter of whst we do in the end of it all - either we forsake our duty to love, or rise to it. Be a slave to evil, or a servant to Good.

@seekingabsolution1907 10 дней назад

@@MidlifeCrisisJoethe left is the only group trying to replace this awful capitalist system with a fairer, kinder one. What are conservatives going to do about massive wealth inequality, the inaffordability of the essentials of living, amd crippling medical and educational debt? More privatisation, more subsidies and tax breaks for the richest and most powerful people on the planet? More scapegoating of marginalised groups for the problems caused by capitalist greed and government policy? That won't fix anything. We must put an end to capitalism and to do that you need to learn everything that has been tried by those that came before you, so grab a book on socialist theory, or the history of socialist experiments and get reading. I recommended Michael Parenti personally, he jas a good book called Blackshirts, and reds. Details the role fascism plays in capitalism. You seem like you need it.

@gmanplaysgames256 14 дней назад

Lord willing, may we be men half as great as King Theoden in these evil times.

@alexzanderthered6694 14 дней назад

2003 kid, I grew up admiring our founding fathers here in America and find today's leaders no equal to their greatness, brothers and sisters divided by politics and isolated by technology, I want to be a leader like the founders and inspire people the same way, but struggle to even fight against the routine of my humble mundane life

@henrygibbons2354 12 дней назад

Gen X here - I love your energy and commitment. You can very much be those things. Unsolicited advice coming: Seek out community organizations (maybe even your local political party!) and volunteer your time. I can speak for my own organization, a local Democratic Party organization in a fairly red county - we and others are starving for new blood and ideas - and we honestly need younger folks with experience and knowledge of the digital world. For example, I recently entrusted a significant portion of our digital efforts to a recent college grad. He’s now doing to be a delegate at the national convention. Get to know and learn from the older folks and you’ll find yourself being called a community leader before you know it.

@ylygylygynda 5 дней назад

I’m a millennial born in 1993 and I am happy to hear such an ambition from you. You have a chance to grow into a great man, and godspeed you in doing so.

@a.cameron207 14 дней назад

Millenial here. I came to the conclusion a while back that we are all going to have to be Theoden for a while, until we can find a way to bring Aragorn back (if that makes sense). We seem to be living in a time of decay, where civilisation gives up on itself, and I have felt this in my own life but you can also see it in the data. Whatever solves this problem isn't here yet.

@mirceazaharia2094 13 дней назад

We need to be Theoden, that keeps it all together and does everything that he can, until the messianic chosen heroes ride into town, in this analogy. But Frank Herbert warned us against relying on human messiahs. We, the people, have yo take responsibility for ourselves and our lives, not foist all power and hopes on a few, hopefully great, men.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

Just wait a very few more years ^_^

@rutgerkerpel306 12 дней назад

Read the book: Mount Doom: The prophecy of Tolkien revealed. It will explain much of this feeling and the whole sickened aura that the world envelops now.

@gosonegr 11 дней назад

Yeah, we’re called to be the generation that pays boomers sins and breaks the cycle to leave a better future for the next generations to come, and being 34 I’m totally fine with that though, specially now I see my friends having kids, I don’t want these children to grow watching on the tv endless economical crashes and absolutely no future.

@Level_Eleven 9 дней назад

“The master of the universe did not build a staircase leading to nowhere”

@Thesiouxempirepodcast 14 дней назад

I’m an elder millennial, starting just before I turned 40 I started to really identify with Theoden. I have more hope that Gen Z and after will bring brighter days. “Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.” Goosebumps every time from those lines.

@ezrafaulk3076 14 дней назад

As a fellow Gen Z, I'm ashamed to admit, I never really was such a fanboy of the Lord of the Rings to read the books, or even the watch the movies seriously; but your explanation of Théoden does make him sound like the most relatable character to us Gen Zs.

@Fred-rv2tu 13 дней назад

As a millennial who enjoys Shakespeare don’t feel too bad about the books. I found them unreadable. The movies on the hand are absolutely worth time.

@steampunkwhale2280 12 дней назад

The movies are great. The books are a whole different animal and they are tough to read. But if one can get past its difficulties there’s some batsh*t crazy magic in almost every chapter lol it rules

@zztopz7090 12 дней назад

At least read The Hobbit. It's a crime not to admire Tolkien's poetic style.

@Stygard 14 дней назад

I watch/listen to his charge speech whenever I’m having a bad day or need to face responsibility.

@CatholicSamurai 14 дней назад

Born in '95, mostly millenial but with a twinge of GenZ. I daily feel many heavy things, and think many heavy thoughts. The life of man upon earth is truly a warfare. This was an excellent video. Thank you.

@cyberpunkfalangist2899 13 дней назад

Born early enough to gain a glimpse of the old world but not bound to the memory like many of our older millennials and just old enough to understand how different things were growing up compared to the younger gen z, who were only told stories. late 94

@normanclatcher 12 дней назад

Late '96. Finally marrying this year, and we're aiming for a quiverful.

@Callisto_Arcas 18 дней назад

I love the comparison! Great commentary on Gen Z and how they can relate to a character who was created more than 85 years ago. Nicely done!

@ExploringFiction 17 дней назад

Thank you!

@razersword178 14 дней назад

Guys we were born for such a time as this. I feel many have thought previous generations were greater and better, but these last few years and the years to come are our chance to make our mark on history and to become great. frankly, that encourages me.

@ArthurTheUnbrokenBlade 12 дней назад

It feels like we are at one of those crossroads in history, where what happens in this time will define what happens for centuries to come. One era is ending, and another is on the horizon, let us try and make it a good one.

@solinvictus2045 11 дней назад

Do you have discord ?

@user-je3sk8cj6g 8 дней назад

Yeah, a new era of heroes seem to be on the horizon. Problem is, this means an era of catastrophes

@Hypogean7 7 дней назад

@@solinvictus2045 Greatness is not found on a random Discord chat.

@solinvictus2045 7 дней назад

@@Hypogean7 you assume too much and know too little.

@josephahner3031 14 дней назад

Tolkien is timeless. A day may come when his work is forgotten and lost, but it is certainly not this day and I cannot forsee that day's arrival. I expect that Christ will return before the Lord of the Rings fades from human memory.

@GutsOfRivia 13 дней назад

I'm a Millennial and even tho I was Arab American growing up in post 9/11 America I will say that our days were filled with much more understanding and friendliness dispite what the media told you. And I feel nowadays where people preach peace and understanding there is much less of it in actual practice.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

Well said! And keep saying it!!! ^_^

@SpinDlsc 14 дней назад

If there's one thing that we Millennials have in common with Gen Z, it's that many of us became adults at a time when things were stacked against us. In the U.S., the American dream has slowly been falling out of reach, and our country's leadership has become too proud and too privileged. In other parts of the world, like Japan and South Korea, the birthrate has fallen well-below what is required for demographic replacement, which will inevitably lead to a slow crumbling of their economy and infrastructure over the years. In the third world, more and more corruption and wars have been taking place, painting a grim future for the young in those countries. All this, while climate change is an ever-looming threat that simply can not be contained with the way things are running in post-capitalistic societies. It almost seems like there is a global plague eating at the very soul of humanity. I'm not sure how much hope I have in this world's current leadership to make the best choices for the future. It will ultimately be left to future leaders to correct the mistakes of our past and current ones. I only pray that they will be the right ones, though I fear that things will only continue to get worse over the coming years before they get any better.

@Michael_1DK 13 дней назад

Being European If i may reply here by saying that's also the case for western Europe. Britain, France, Germany, Sweden etc. Weak and corrupt leaders have allowed this darkness and corruption into our lands. The few that promote our cultures, languages, heritage and rights of ethnic Europeans are few. Whoever controls the economy also controls the birthrate, salary, jobs, opportunities and thus controls the people. I would not like to see the same for America. Foster a culture of strong people and protect your lands for you can loose it at any day.

@zztopz7090 12 дней назад

Climate change is the least of our worries. Weather manipulation, like with Lahaina, by Malthusian trillionaires is worse.

@avroarchitect1793 11 дней назад

@@HERMETICTELEVISION its not a theory, the US military weaponised weather manipulation at least as far back as the Vietnam war by extending the Typhoon season with cloud seading to keep the rain going well beyond the norm.

@Level_Eleven 9 дней назад

@@zztopz7090This is 100% the true threat on the weather front... *And then there’s CERN.*

@simcha10000 13 дней назад

I am the 95er, I remember dirt and sticks gentleman. Being stung by bees and the wretched sound of dial up. I know how to use a rotary phone and can use all of the technology we have so far easily. I mowed the lawns going door to door as a kid. As long as we keep our family culture we cannot be defeated. The idea cannot die if we do not fail to teach.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

Well said!

@Dogofwarno7 14 дней назад

Not to take away from zoomers, but honestly, anyone versed in history, with even a shred of humility thinks that the good times are past, that all live in the shadows of far greater, far more accomplished ancestors, and lament that they may never live up to them.

@mirceazaharia2094 13 дней назад

Our ancestors were human and they struggled to achieve greatness. We are human as well, and we can struggle in our turn to achieve our slice of greatness. No ifs or buts or excuses. Let's get to work.

@erwannthietart3602 13 дней назад

I think theres a slight differance now however. We got the information and data to see that life in the past was better now. Like not the distant past, but just a few generations ago. Most romanticise history when they look back, now... thats still the case, but there more than a few proof to show it

@Bronasaxon 13 дней назад

We didn’t have people mass murdering babies because they didn’t want the inconvenience of having them around. We didn’t have an atomized and sick society. We didn’t have our nations flooded by foreigners who hate and have nothing but contempt for us. We didn’t have over half of men and women destined to die alone and unmarried. The past was better. Forget your shiny technology and entertainment slop.

@LordVader1094 13 дней назад

Certainly, but it feels like zoomers have more information to reinforce that view. Especially when you look back and see that not long ago, life *was* good. Not even all the way back to WW2, but as recently as the 90s.

@Jenna_Talia 12 дней назад

Yep. I think a lot of people are going to start waking up to this generational cycle. We've spent 70 years or so with the exact same opinions and thought processes being well documented and broadcasted for the world to see. People are bound to stop and realize that teenagers are anti-social and edgy, that every generation believes the world will end in their time (y2 and 2012), that every generation believes the older ones are hostile and misguided, and that the newer generation is foolish and weaker than them.

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 14 дней назад

12:32 we see the rot that has festered, and it disgusts us. It disappoints us. It drives us to despair and hopelessness. Yet I, at least, know that we must fight it, we must defeat it, lest humanity fall into worse fates than ever before.

@Theomite 13 дней назад

The thing about Theoden was that the Battle of Pelennor fields was essentially Armageddon for the peoples of Middle-Earth. Theoden knows just about everything that's going on with the War. He knows that the chance that can destroy Sauron can also restore him to full power. BUT...the stakes are "Total Ruin" or "The End of Evil." Faced with that, there's nothing futile about giving 110% against impossible odds because the potential gain is literally Everything. However he dies, he fought to save the entire world. Even his ancestors couldn't claim that honor.

@supernautacus 12 дней назад

Excellent points! his fall set the fall of the Witch King. If he was later in Mordor, would Fordo have made Mount Doom? Would the One Ring be lost in it's fires? That seems unlikely.

@RC15O5 День назад

Closest would be the Rohirrim founding father Eorlas, who pledged alliance with Gondor and his horse lords partook in destroying Sauron's forces in the War of the Last Alliance. As thanks, the Kings of Gondor had given his people the lands of Rohan to live in and inhabit. Afterwards, another term for the people of Rohan is Eorlingas, Sons of Eorl, and I think Theoden lived up to and maybe even surpassed mighty Eorlas.

@Theomite 22 часа назад

@@supernautacus If he had been there for the March on the Black Gates, it's likely Sauron wouldn't have even opened them. Sauron knew that he had an advantage when Aragorn rode up with the Gondorians. But if both Aragorn and Theoden had been there, with the cavalry (or what was left of it) present? Sauron would've gone radio silent because he would've known that if this army at his front door routed 75% of his forces, then the remaining 25% wouldn't have stood a chance. Sauron was also losing ground in Erebor and Mirkwood (possibly Lothlorien too) because of the mutual resistance by the Dwarves and Elves. He might've said "Fuck it, let them stand out there for years if they want, I'll regroup in a decade or so." So no, Frodo and Sam likely wouldn't have succeeded unless the Orcs assembled at the gates to prepare for a battle that would ultimately not come.

@paskettimalone2121 6 дней назад

great video!! thanks for making it. RIP Bernard Hill, RIP King Theoden!!

@rellek4053 14 дней назад

I wish I had Theoden’s battle. My enemies are out of reach, and far more insidious than simple orcs.

@adamhoworth1082 14 дней назад

World has always been crumbling but we look on past generations with rose tinted glasses, what we have to do is learn from our past generations and do better than what those in the past have perpetuated and live as the example we want this world to be

@paloim 13 дней назад

"Muh rose tinted glasses!!!" No, previous generations, prior to the boomers, were genuinely better than us, stop with this modernist revisionism, past generations were better and we should strive to embody what made them better

@dimitralex1892 10 дней назад

yeah and that's exactly one point: we learn less and less from our mistakes. there absolutely is more hate today in the world than there was 40 years ago. it also has a self reinforcing effect, especially in times of social media.

@dallassukerkin6878 14 дней назад

An excellent piece, young sir. I did not expect that I would be left feeling great empathy and fellow feeling for those much younger than myself. I have spent sixty odd years seeing the world my fathers and grandfathers died for and built be diminished and their glories squandered by self-serving, evil-minded, men at the pinnacle of the pyramid of power. Nearly everyone I have ever known, trusted and loved is dead - as Elrond said, my list of allies grows thin! Certain things, shiny, ephemeral, things, have come into being that distracted far too many of us from what was really going on. And I do fear, in that way of older men whose power is nigh on spent, that there is no way to throw back the dark veil that is eclipsing all that has been built. But hearing that some of those who still have vitality in their limbs and spirits have a mind to resist, solely because it is a call of duty to their civilisation that they hear ... that gives me hope.

@dallassukerkin6878 14 дней назад

Remember that history is a wheel, not a line, and such times have been upon us before. Search for the translation of the Anglo Saxon poem The Wanderer and see that we have faced this malaise before. Dr. Ophelia Eryn Hostetter makes a good stab at a sort-of contemporary reading.

@tuskinradar8688 13 дней назад

Its reasons like this that make this story all the more relevant with each passing day. Growing up as a Gen Zer born in 98, I quite strongly identify much of Sam's Speech from the end of Two Towers. The LotR Movies are quite literally the stories that stuck with me, even though I was too young to understand why. It reminds me whenever I look upon it that even though there is so much to be mourned, so much rot that has corrupted the world, there is still some good in this world, and it is still worth fighting for.

@jodofe4879 8 дней назад

I love the poetic way in which Tolkien describes the moment where Théoden's story arc concludes and he finally lives up to the fame of his forefathers: "Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them." The shadows of Mordor are driven back just as Théoden steps out from the shadow of his ancestors, shining like the sun, restoring colour to a bleak world and entering the realm of myths and gods. Théoden here is no longer a weak, bent old man, but a mighty warrior-king who has overcome all of his own struggles to become a living legend that will inspire countless future generations to greatness in turn.

@the98themperoroftheholybri33 13 дней назад

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

@JohnDWJ 12 дней назад

Truest words.

@leoflaskay4963 13 дней назад

There are so many positive role models in the Lord of the rings. Aragorn, Theoden, Samwise Gamgee, Gimli, Legolas, Gandalf- they each embody a separate virtue; like all great fantasy, they teach us how to live

@JohnDWJ 12 дней назад

Thank you for this, my young friend. I’m an 82 child. Things were indeed kinder before technology made us aware of everything and everyone everywhere. Fear didn’t rule and insist on our cowering participation at every turn. Your video gives me hope. We are all so partitioned off from one another, this video shows me we see the same broken realities. The same poisoned wrongness. That awareness breathes hope. We are in a time of an awakening. People ARE realizing this is NOT the world they want to live in. There will be a time soon where we must be as Theoden and choose courage, even amidst fear. Choose to be kind, even to the unkind. Question what the Grima Wormtounges spew (there are a lot of those guys these day). We will find that courage and forge new better realities. Such battles begin with us making a simple choice. Reject the false reality, where we are told to hate each other, and be kind and open. Bring laughter and light and awareness. These things chase the dark. We can choose to embody light. To be strong. To be good. And I believe we will. My unconditional love to you all.

@Gigglerue 14 дней назад

I used to think that the different kings in this series were all the same, stubborn and blind, just getting in the way of what needs to be done, I'm older now and really admire Theoden, I now understand exactly why he was so hesitant to face death, but time after time he proves himself courageous, striving to be better than he believes himself to be, he just feels so real compared to the other characters of the story, I recall the scene where they're all standing in the water at Isengard talking down Saruman, and just thinking that despite his great kingly status, he was the odd one out, like he was a stranger witnessing a small part of what these legendary heroes have been up to this whole time...

@realifenow4485 12 дней назад

My friend, this is an excellent take. I will be sharing your thoughts with my friends.

@zachmurphy3396 14 дней назад

Great video man!

@user-cf6ee2ud2y 12 дней назад

I always liked the scene where Theoden picks up a sword for the first time in a long time. It’s ambiguous whether Gandalf used magic to heal him or whether he simply had faith that Theoden hadn’t fallen as far as he believed. It was an uplifting redemption, a chance to face his death with honor instead of as a crazed old man in a haze.

@Molitzmosgm 11 дней назад

Great insight and great video

@henseltbrumbleburg3752 13 дней назад

I honestly laughed at this when I first saw it, it's so random. But this is very provocative, great work

@DarthTelos 13 дней назад

They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. God creates us in the single best time for our salvation.

@ParienteThomas 10 дней назад

Just discovered your channel. I love your work on rhythm and the quality of your writing. Cheers!

@ExploringFiction 10 дней назад

Thank you so much!

@settratheimperishable3491 День назад

You hit the nail on the head! I've always loved Theoden but I've never made this connection. I hope I'll see the light of hope for this world that Theoden son of Thengel saw for Middle Earth.

@blueveil5270 12 дней назад

The Ride of the Rohirrim at the battle of Pellenor Field has got to be one of the best moments in cinema for me, I’m 24 years old and the LoTR movies and Tolkiens books stir feelings of nobility, grace, oaths kept; things that just seem lacking today. It feels like a world where people are fighting back against their doom not giving into it like today.

@G.SPIES24 17 дней назад

Interesting take. I like it. Good job, man.

@ExploringFiction 17 дней назад

Thank you!

@nienor1510 13 дней назад

You cannot be heroic without dark times and struggle, it's the great deeds done in those dark times that lead to good times. We live in dark times, it's time to choose if you will be a great man or a weak man, just like Theoden chose to be a great man despite his own weakness and doubt. I don't think it's necessary to achieve heroic feats to be a great man, just like Tolkien said, it's the ordinary deeds or ordinary folk that can sometimes make the most difference. Remember that even Fatty Bolger had a part in saving Middle Earth.

@thomasalvarez6456 14 дней назад

I have been feeling this way about Theoden for a few years now. The line by Tony Soprano in the first episode of the Sopranos “I came in at the end. The best is over.” Is also another sentence I constantly remember. Perhaps it was different, it can be great again, we must make it not so. It is in ourselves to do so. One of the generations in ages to be poorer than their parents and grandparents. In many ways, we are at risk of more addiction, health issues, less opportunities, sexual and social issues etc. We probably have more in common with the silent generation in my opinion. In an ever changing world that is alien to the previous world. However, there is hope. Even if there is darkness, light will come. We must all try to stay in the light and have faith, work hard and keep going. God bless.

@aaronslater470 13 дней назад

You can not understate how important it was for Rohan to show up. Gondor was on the ropes and was deep in despair and had no hope. In the moment of Rohan's arrival Gondor knew it wasn't alone and redoubled itself against impossible odds. Sometimes all we really need to know is that someone has our backs. Then we can face anything

@AmashiYakashi 6 дней назад

Lines that always hit me like a ton of brick. "I wish it had never come to me." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." And "that there is some good in this world. . . and it's worth fighting for."

@jakemortiki 12 дней назад

This earned you a like, a comment, and a subcribe. We will be watching your career with great intrest.

@catherder4747 13 дней назад

Excellent, inspiring, and powerful video!

@ExploringFiction 12 дней назад

Thank you!

@tzazosghost8256 15 дней назад

So In former times long ago. Our ancestors said "fate (wyrd) spares the undoomed if their courage be good". And lurking within this saying is the truth, that those doomed by fate, who valiantly strive against it's cruelty. Earn heroic fame and become remembered. That was "ours" (Swaffe). That was honour (ar) That was deft and risen That was our heritage (i-seleness)

@hugothepoet 18 дней назад

You’re quite the raconteur. Go Gen Z! Glory beckons

@TheEmperorsChampion964 13 дней назад

Theoden is the best, he protects his people, he is loyal, he is brave, he is selfless. "GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!" "And Rohan will answer" "RIDE NOW! RIDE FOR RUIN AND THE WORLD'S ENDING!!!" Theoden is the best role model for us millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha

@yourseatatthetable 15 дней назад

Excellent video

@ExploringFiction 14 дней назад

Thank you!

@ZemphiraK 8 дней назад

what a beautiful video...

@shovas 3 дня назад

Well done. You give the rest of us hope.

@ExploringFiction 3 дня назад

Thank you!

@wxwaxone 12 дней назад

Thanks for this. I was born in ‘69-bleeding-edge Gen X, or even, as I like to say, ‘Gen W’-and it’s been amazing to see the march of the generations and the huge changes, many of them awful. I sympathize with Gen Z’s tough situation. I’ve often encountered seemingly impenetrable self-love from Gen Z people,to my dismay, and I’ve suspected it’s actually not real and just a stance taken in reaction to their fears-the fears that you eloquently express in your video. I find your video brings me hope that people are still thinking deeply about the past and the future and coming to terms with, as Yeats put it, ‘what is past, or passing, or to come.’

@Collin4486 День назад

Excellent work. Please make it slightly louder next time, brother.

@laordendelguaraguao8002 11 дней назад

Born in the 70's here. Unexpectedly profound coming for your generation. Most of my generational peers would not have expected for you to have it in you to have such valid and well-grounded aspirational concerns such as these. Your analysis gave me a sense that perhaps not all hope has been lost. Completely agree. FIGHT ON!

@awsome182 12 дней назад

As many in the comments, I'm also a Millennial. Born in 1991. I've watched all three movies in cinema when they came out and they absolutely flashed me. Theodén and Boromir are quite my favourite characters. They are both tragic, yet died heroic. Many people say that The Two Towers is their "least favourite" movie of the three, but that's not the case for me, I loved the second movie so much because I simply loved the entire Rohan plotline, the healing of Theodén, the tragic of his only son's death and the display of courage in hopeless times during the Battle of Helms Deep (especially since his courage falters first, but Aragorn is able to ignite it again). Bernard Hill played Theodén magnificently, so I was really sad to hear of his passing a few months ago. May he rest in peace.

@angelus823 11 дней назад

I also love Theodan because he is a man in old age, his life mostly spent and wasted, and as he sat on that throne rotting away he must have felt like such a failure, but with help he was able to live heroically in the twilight of his life. As long as he still drew breath it wasnt too late to change and do good.

@biblium17 12 дней назад

Watching this at work trying not to cry. What a good character.

@Kiedra-hp1bu 14 дней назад

Great vid on a character that I feel is often overlooked. I often feel the same kind of dread that the world is less than it was before with the passage of each generation. Less kind, less fair. Used to be that when you had kids you banked up assets to leave behind in the hopes that your children would be better off than you were. Now all we leave behind is debt. With each generation being smaller than the last, the old now scalp the young to get by, and corporate greed soaks up the rest. I worry that Sam's dream, of fulfillment in home and family, is an incredibly difficult achievement anymore. I feel that if Sam's dream was more realistic for young folks then perhaps Theoden's fatalistic journey would hold less appeal. It is comforting to know that there are young people with the desire to lead that charge, because sometimes that is what is necessary to affect change in the world. So, thanks for that. But remember, as Gandalf said, it is the small deeds of everyday folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Being kind and considerate in your day to day life brings more light to the world than you can imagine. Thanks for the video, it was well written and thought out. Hang in there genZ

@sccrdelic89 13 дней назад

'89 here. Great to know im not alone in this. RIP King Theoden/ Bernard Hill. Keep fighting brethern for you and I, for the good comonfolk.... for Frodo

@davidnorris1064 14 дней назад

Born in ‘87, and I’ve got a mixed opinion on this tbh. It’s fine to want to emulate the best parts of previous generations, but there’s a slippery slope in seeing everything that they did through rose colored glasses. They had their own faults that we shouldn’t be blind to.

@drnerdrage2535 14 дней назад

I think its also just refreshing to see a noble man. It seems much of Millennial and Gen Z story telling revolves around morally ambiguous characters, the idea that the past was always awful all the time, that no sort of western theocracy has ever produced anything worthwhile. How many stories in recent years have portrayed a noble king? very few.

@NefariousKoel 13 дней назад

Demoralization. A method used to undermine and deface what was built before in order to replace it with something different and increasingly more repressive. Programming people to support it or give up.

@aaronrowell6943 14 дней назад

When you look at Theoden's ancestors, i dont blame him for feeling inadequate XD Theoden is the GOAT though

@lukemusa2687 8 дней назад

Well spoken, and we’ll said.

@laurabryan6938 12 дней назад

This gives my spirit hope 🙏 to continue fighting ❤

@Chrisey96. 6 дней назад

We don't want to see perfect heroes, we want to see realistic ones. Because we believe them.

@ChannelMiner 12 дней назад

As a Gen Z born in 2003, I have great nostalgia for the pre 2016 times

@_Woody_ 11 дней назад

I really loved this video, as it expressed some sentiments I carry deep in my heart. However, as a german Gen Z member of almost 25 years, I have to always remind myself that it is largely untrue how I put the ones before us on such a high pedestal. My forefathers have done terrible things that ruptured the earth. My great grandfathers all died in the second world war, probably defending Hitlers values and exterminating the hopes and homes of other nations. I am saying this here so that you all keep it fresh in your mind, that the generations before us have made and done terrible mistakes and deeds. We *have* to be better than them. Better, not half as good.

@thebeefchief1098 13 дней назад

Thank you. Theoden is my favourite character from Lotr and unlike all the fellowship, I don’t see many videos centred around him.

@Conman101 5 дней назад

This was a great analysis of our tragic hero king who lost all hope (in the depths of ensorcellment, itself an appropriate analogy) but found his strength again to face the evils and challenges of his day and rise to the call. The only thing I would add are some book refrences that emphasize just how great Theoden was in that moment when he chose to stand against the darkness. The movies do the story justice in many ways, but as Theoden King gathers his strength and throws himself into this impossible task the text makes it explicit that he has found his moment of greatness to match his forefathers , “Fey he seemed, for the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire through his veins and he was borne upon Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young.” And thus in the end Theoden would not ever feel ashamed in the halls of his forefathers. For he stared into that myopic dread. The feeling of hopelessness that nothing he did would matter, could change anything. And he decided to face that darkness and do whatever he could nonetheless. Each and every one of us can make that same choice everyday, to fight our personal demons and the vices we see in our world, and as long as we do not surrender to the darkness our efforts will make us worthy of the legacy we have inherited.

@HeathRHansen 14 дней назад

From a Millennial: Hope isn't dead.It'll shine out the clearer in the end. Great video.

@JimBaker-vk6ed 13 дней назад

I'm a early Gen z born in 01 and seeing the rot all around me makes me yern for the days of old and seeing glimpses of it in my early years and it now gone at the age of just 23 makes me more jaded for tomorrow than the last

@rabidspatula1013 7 дней назад

So many people are looking for purpose in life and we live in increasingly heroic times. Battles of the spirit combined with bringing kindness and compassion to our society. What a time to be alive! Stand up heroes, your time has come.

@Overlord367 14 дней назад

was born in 1997 i agree with this statement.we should all strive to be better than what came before even if it’s impossible for that is the ultimate goal of any good parent or family member to see the student pass the master. 0:39

@stuff4007 10 дней назад

I watched the Two Towers the other day and cried over the end of the West speech he gives. “Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into Shadow…”

@randallwalter7589 14 дней назад

Fantastic video! I'd never tgought of Theoden in this way before. I feel this a lot, that the men that came before me were greater, and I am weak and undisciplined by comparison. But I know I have the potential to be great, and that I am not so weak as I believe. Before the closesr example I had was Rengoku, who, strong as he was, wasnt stront enough. Yet he did not give up. He gave everything he had and saved many lives. Despite not being the strongest, his impact shaped the rest of the show. Theoden is a more human example, with Rengoku being the height I wish to reach, as I feel that to fall in a battle, whether metaphorical or literal, is my destiny.

@MalzaHaps 17 дней назад

Long live the king his charge onto the Pelenor fields is legendary. Rest easy sir. Rest not in shame with your fore father's

@johnlove3505 14 дней назад

"I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, han mathon ne chae a han noston ned 'wilith." "The world is changed; I can feel it in the water, I can feel it in the earth, I can smell it in the air."

@hawkticus_history_corner 14 дней назад

Movie Theoden is a man who never feels he is enough, a man who watches what could be the end of his people. Book Theoden is a man of the legends, he states that he is but a pale shadow of those that came before, but he rides, head hell high, into the teeth of danger, never a thought to not. Both are wonderful, but movie Theoden does such a good job of showing the doubt and fear that such a time creates, and how hard it can be to stand against it.

@poTato_777 14 дней назад

Book Theoden shows doubt at pelenor

@Drewe223 18 дней назад

Great video man, Theoden is my favorite LOTR character. Keep it up. If there’s any advice I would give, It would be that your narration is clear and well written, but maybe a bit slow paced and monotone. It is kinda easy to zone out for someone with ADHD. Not saying you should do stupid exaggerations or anything, maybe just speed up the reading slightly and add some inflection.

@ExploringFiction 17 дней назад

Thanks for watching! And I will definitely try to work on that

@FullMoonHowl 10 дней назад

Born in '82 (Gen Xennial). I couldn't have put this better, myself. And I *really* couldn't: I've defended my generation to previous ones by asking them to consider soberly and earnestly the world we inherited. Given so much hope in formative years, and so little to work with as we came of age. I've felt very lied to. But I likewise didn't consider that the generation after mine had even less hope on which to build. It gives me so much more empathy. *You* are the something good lingering in this world. And you are worth fighting for.

@yanomamo89 14 дней назад

Good take 👍

@andrewlynch7038 10 дней назад

Rest in peace Bernard Hill. As a young kid who loved the films - and then a young adult who read the books - King Theoden's death made me cry twice. Two very different times, through two different mediums, for different reasons based on how each was depicted. Goated character

@GabrielAugustomisterkakuna 9 дней назад

Tolkien would be proud of this. Having be analyzed like this while still inspiring them is invaluable to a writer.

@Fredo_StarRunner 13 дней назад

I am a millennial. I have struggled and currently struggle. Feelings of loneliness. Of not being able to make my family proud. That I won't be able to start a family of my own. That I won't lose the weight. That I am an addict to the dopamine hits that plague our world. The illness of our age. But when I think of Theodan King, or historical rulers that strove to recapture the past, I think differently. We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot recapture old glory. But we can strive to make our own glory. We have everything we need to make our future better than the past. It will require focus, perseverance, humility, love, self-control and an almost insurmountable level of work. But we can do it.