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Hello! I’m a music researcher and am currently working on a research project about music in AI videos of the Tolkien universe and was wondering if you would be open to discussing your process for working on sound and music in the videos you’ve created/published. I’m thinking about how fans are using AI videos to explore these texts and stories and the relationships this new media has to the existing film, TV, game, and other commercial adaptations of Tolkien’s work. Any thoughts or insights into your work would be very helpful and much appreciated. Many thanks!

Why didn't some of the elves take the ring to the west. The false are more powerful than sauron

Who made the stairs in the deep?

One could argue not that he doesnt care. But that he trusts the peoples of middle earth will prevail

I think it’s simpler. The 5 were restricted because Sauron had demonstrated to the Valar what a Maia could do with its own innate power and no scruples. Out of the five, only Olorin demonstrated the wisdom and moral courage to choose the “right” course of actions. Thus, Gandalf is not enhanced so much as released from the restrictions of his own innate power. He is TRUSTED not to fall to the temptation of his unrestricted power.

very well conceived....Enjoyrd it alot.

Excellent! Truly excellent work. My thoughts on Gandalf are as follows, I haven't seen the letters you refer to but have reasoned through, often with a friend, to get remarkably similar conclusions. Galadriel was in the same place at the same time as Olorin, wisdom such has his have a pattern that cannot be disguised. So, along with the help of her ring, I believe she knew Gandalf's true identity. When Gandalf fell on the bridge, Aragorn stated that they must continue without hope. When Gandalf returned, Aragorn stated that "beyond all hope, you return to us" It's a fairly clear indication of what Gandalf had achieved. The people recognised what he was, hope, and they could continue without him. I have thought for many years that it was Eru who sent back Gandalf, the Valar do not have the power. Gandalf the white was immune to any weapon forged on Middle Earth, no enemy attacked him, the only ones to try were Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. During the battle at the gate he stood on a mound and no shadow fell on him that day, that is pure might. When Frodo put on the ring after Boromir's attack, the eye closed in on him, then veered away. That was Gandalf being returned to life, so powerful was he as the white that Sauron felt his return and likely knew where he was at all times, something Aragorn used to draw out Saurons army at the black gate. The films diminished Gandalf the white, he was never defeated, never attacked. On the Pelenor fields light did not eminate from his staff, it was white fire from his hand that forced the Nazgul to retreat. In my view, Gandalf was wise enough to realise that you can only achieve what is possible and so didn't hope for miracles. I also think that Eru only altered the plan of the Valar at the point of it's failure and did not guide the Valar in making their choices. Imagine walking around for 3000 years to help guide and increase wisdom over many generations to several different peoples, then, at the moment everything really started you found you had no time. knowing you could not interfere but could inspire, enlighten and give counsel. Giving your life to the cause only to be returned to complete your work. Such an incredible character to create. My final thought on him is that at the key moment, after the battle for Minas Tirith, Gandalf finished his task when he watched Aragorn lead the free peoples and make all the decisions.

What a great video. Lore was great, story was great and those AI images where awesome. Very well presented. Thank you

Tom was created before the LOTR or the Hobbit, I think Tolkien just put him in to make the early build up in book 1 a bit less slow. I used to think he was Tulkas when I was a kid but I realised Tulkas would have probably thrown the ring into the fire from the old forest. The fact that Gandlaf went to see him on his gooodbye tour made me think that Tom had a much larger impact than Tolkien wrote about, maybe he would have shown up more in the 4th age or if Tolkien had another 20 years to fill out all he had in his mind. The fact that the Shire was pretty much unmolested would indicate that Tom was a nuclear deterent.

Great work. I've read pretty widely in the Legendarium and I think this was a masterful synthesis of the lore with a bit of (justifiable) original speculation thrown in connecting all the dots. I hope you will excuse my offering one small correction: at the end of the Second Age Sauron was defeated not by Isildur, but by his father Elendil fighting alongside King Gil-Galad. Isildur cut the ring from Sauron's hand after that. Overall, fantastic work nonetheless!

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Did olerin or gandalfs miar name fight against morgoth?

I thought the difference was persil

I just subbed and totally mesmerized by your works here, if possible could you create more like story of 1st age Elves, would love to see the fall of gondolin and to see some of the heroes from the twelve houses of Gondothlin, i.e Ecthelion from the house of the fountain , Glorfindel from the house of the golden flower and so on. Keep it up

i'd love you to simply tell the tail of the Silmarillion piece by piece like this from beginning to end. not the book word for word, but like this. exactly like this until the whole thing is told. and then do a monster 34 hour supercut... and that would be MAJORLY cutting it too XD.

to be fair, this is probably the best i've seen A.I. animation be done. keep it up man. it's brilliant.

Tom Bombadil : 11 letters Eru Iluvatar : 11 letters Third letter of first and second word are the same for both names (m and u)

But I thought Morgoth could only corrupt and not create? How could he have created a dragon out of nothing?

Tom save the hobbits twice, so i think he is quite good.

We forget about his wife.

I think it's pretty simple. He is either a holdover from a previous creation, or a wholly unique entity created by Eru Iluvitar, that was not part of the Varda yet had power like them. You can know this to be the case simply due to the fact that the machinations of the enemy never effected Tom which makes him at least on a similar level to to the Varda in power. If Morgoth's binding of the great ring to himself (the planet of middle earth) didn't do anything then he also stands apart. Not only this, but he is likely connected because the way he wields power is similar to the Varda when they sang the world into existence, being able to speak not just with dull creatures like tree's but also inanimate objects like rivers. All the Varda are divided into principalities which control the various forces of creation such as storms, smithing, stars and wisdom, etc. I think Tom is the first Steward. The first tree-herder. Perhaps he even taught the Ent's their trades, but what is indisputable is that he holds power over all things that can be called part of the natural order of middle earth. Like a good version of Melkor but part of a seperate choir of singers, if that makes sense.

Tom was born during Ainulindale. He's the master, not a sub-creator as the Maiar and Eldar, and arguably some acts of the Valar (Melkor's dissonance, Aule creating the dwarves) He is unconcerned because he knows how the story ends. Melkor is gone and it's Sauron's last gasp. And what would Tom have done if Sauron harmed Goldberry?

I know this is a long shot but does anyone know the song that’s playing in the background starting at 5:25 ?

I lean toward Bombadil being a manifestation of Illuvatar, or God. Because Tom isn't worried. And the ring had no influence over him, though even Maiar and the most powerful elves freely admit that it would totally overpower them. That means Tom is either a Valar, or God himself. At the council, wasn't it Gandalf who said Bombadil wouldn't attend if he was asked or summoned? But Illuvatar was there at the council, when Frodo volunteered in a voice that was not entirely his own.

I agree Tom is the manifestation, avatar of Arda, the first nature spirit, Father Nature. He's like Treebeard who as a shepherd is focused upon his charges, the Trees & kindly unconcerned with the Creatures' struggles which are beyond his worldview until these trespass directly into his realm. It's known that JRR Tolkien was concerned & anguished by the impact that Industrialization & its Wars were having upon the countryside of England. Such were slowly enveloping & marring Nature against its created purposes. His experiences in the nightmarish, battle scarred trenches of WW1 gave him these insights into Industrial Warfare. That is why Gandalf said even Tom in his realm would be defeated even though he would be the last to fall before Sauron's unholy & unnatural evil to have power over all & to be the One to rule all even Nature.

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I believe that Tom Bombadil is Tolkien’s is a personification of his own imagination. How he entered and envisioned his creation. Tom gave him perspective. I believe is how he accepted the loss of a great character. It’s how he coped. My 2 cent theory 😂

Amazing video! Beautiful song and animations 👏

I am glad Jackson left Tom Bombadil out of the movie. He would have no real role in the movie as he is just far to specialized character that Tolkien made to be a mystery to even the mysterious!

Tom is a guard of Shir. He protects hobbits from Dark Lords guys. Thats why Sauron didnt know about them

What if he was Eru?

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impressive to say the least

So basicly he is the Trainman in the Matrix...intresting.

I'd be really happy every day to the point of singing songs all day long if i, too, had a really hot elf wife

You forget that Tolkien was Catholic. During his life there was a re-establishment of the monasteries. The monks of monasteries were the spiritual warriors that saved the world. They stay in their walls and pray for the world, and their prays hold the world together.. I am not saying Tom was a monk, but the same principle: If he were the Music of arda personified, then that music needs to be constantly sun to continue. It is Tom's role to stay in his place and continue to sing the world into existence.

What better way to punish a dark lord then to turn the dark lord into a cheerful elf like man

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I disagree. Although, Tolkien did not say who he was. If ERU did descend to middle earth Tom would be a representation of him but not him. Just like Gandalf was not the same as he lived in Aman. ERU did not need to be in charge any more since Manwë was the leader. I met Christopher and according to his lectures this would not be inconsistent with the lore of the book. Eventually if they do the Silmarillion it would explain this. Lore means it could be expanded. A never ending story that could grow.

In the style of Beastie Boys oooooooOOOH Old Tom Bombadill is merry / FELLOW Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are / YELLOW

I get why they left him out of the movies, he is just so odd in the setting. He doesn't really seem like he is meant to fit anywhere under anything in the mythos. Personally.... when I think about what Illuvitar is supposed to be, the big bad ass god over everything. It seems to me that such a thing wouldn't simply create just one place like Arda, that he probably has countless other worlds that we just know nothing about. To me it feels like Tom would fit into the role of an eternal caretaker of Arda and that Illuvitar might place one such being on each of his worlds. Something that is there at its beginning and there at its end, that stands above any normal concerns of the world and is merely just there to be a witness or a caretaker of sorts. Why Illuvitar would need such a thing is unknown but to me it makes sense. lol

So many clues he's pry the 1st Hobbit. Bagans line?

Bombadil looked over the equivalent of Eden in Middle Earth, or embodied the essence of what Paradise should be, or what should be aspired to. But it was Illuvitar's plan to have his creatures reach or that goal through trials, making choices of their own. The whole Free Will concept.

Wouldn't Robin Williams have made a great Tom Bombadil?

Arien was hot, literally as well.