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I'm a first time reader and this series has been amazing, it is a pity that you did not finish it. Great work!

Not how to pronounce Dor-i-ath.

Amazing series

Enters here the joyfull warrior. Melkor's selfish strife withers before the selfless struggler.

12:43 "Tho' he has no part to play in the first two ages of middle Earth"... Happily, and with thanks, I disagree. Olorin walked often, though unseen, with the children of Eru. He was covert, because he was afraid of the dark lords. He was ever helpful nontheless.

05:10 Frodo, while wearing the ruling ring, calls the name of Elbereth Gilthoniel. (Bang!) I bet that was the second (or third) worst injury that the Witch-King ever suffered.

The 'rebellion' of Melko against Eru is the 'echo' of Eru's 'rebellion' against nothingness.

Tolkien's work gets a lot more interesting when the lore is known. (eg., Sam was a super hero on par with Beren and Turambar.)

Please continue

Pippin named his son Faramir???? Excuse me while I go have a nasty cry 😭😩

Awesome series man. Ive been trying to read the Silmarillion again and Ive been looking for a companion piece to refresh after each chapter to better understand what Im reading. This is perfect!

I don’t think the Valar and possibly Eru as well would have extended this special grace to the ringbearers and even to Gimli just for them to get there and waste away rapidly. I think they certainly died but at least at a normal rate if not a slightly lengthened rate. A chance to heal, be at peace, and reunite in joy one last time for their friends. At least that what’s I’m gonna believe.

According to the gospels God spoke in dreams to Saint Joseph not to the holy virgin Mary

My favourite voices so far in this series!!!

Oh, just the usual: twiddling their thumbs. What else do they ever do?

I love the insight into each chapter.

This "professor" is a charlatan. There is canon in The Lord of The RIngs. Saying there isn't is a travesty to the works of Tolkien.

Thank you so much for making these videos. It really helps to have someone go over and explain what I just read. You’re my hero!!

The coward who, born in Doraith in the first age, ran to Lindon and ran away to Mirkwood. Hid.

I am sorry, the narration in this video is just awful. Why so sonorous? It’s distracting.

I've been injecting the Silmarillion into my veins for 30 years. Lets see how good you are. YOU'LL BE JUDGED!!!! See you in 100 hours, or however long your series is.

Great videos! Hope you finish series

For your father’s voice acting, I can think of know kinder words than that I thought you’d hired a professional. Though for all I know, he might be one😊

big thanks for putting all these together! working my way through it. will try to remember to like all the way through!

Discord is what Lisa Simpson creates in the Simpsons intro

Tolkien had not made up the Valar yet......

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I love you. Chapter by chapter??? I LOVE YOU DUDE

Whilst swarthy can somewhat infer black or brown skin, in its common usage, of the early and mid 20th Century, it means sun tanned. Rarely if ever, has the word swarthy been used by any author to describe African or Asian ethnicity. Also, do not dismiss the fact that Tolkien's main objective for Middle Earth was to be a mythological legend of ancient Northern Europe, especially England. Whilst I openly invite diverse characters and peoples, a fictional mythology based upon ancient Ethiopia, or Sudan could describe some men as being "light skinned". I wouldn't assume that meant white Europeans, rather I'd imagine it describing different variance within that historical area. Same as some 100% white English people are prone to tanning easily and become swarthy. Others are not and only sunburn or show freckles. There is SO much creative room for all ethnicities in middle earth. Rhun, Easterlings, Harad, Houses of Dwarves, etc. So many stories!! Spies fighting spies, warriors that reject Sauron. Family perspectives, struggles, perseverance. But to have an ancient Northern European setting and forcing diversity into it is just ignorant. Middle Earth should not resemble modern day Los Angeles or London. Don't lock a timeless story into "modern" time.

This is great minus the background music

Would love to hear your opinions on Primes rings of power season 1 & the direction they’re taking it in?

Feanor is an interesting character. He's flawed, yes. He has stubborn pride that leads to arrogant outbursts to his kin. But that same fire also led him to acquire the knowledge to create the Silmarils, an unparalleled beauty. It could be said he created them as he had forebodings of the end of the two trees of Valinor and wanted to preserve their beauty for generations to come. He didnt want to leave the Valar out of arrogance like Melkor, who wanted dominion, he just wanted the creative freedom to be able to use his skills for the good of Arda, Also, he has the inner moral strength to reject the mind games of Melkor, courageously slamming the door in the face of the most powerful Valar. I'm interested to see how he develops in the rest of this tale.

hey man you gonna finish these videos I m fucking lost after chapter 18

Actually the narrative style is due to the way the two sets of works (say "The Hobbit and LOTR on one side, and "The Silmarillion" or "The Book of Lost Tales") were produced. The Silmarillion and similar is actually a set of J.R.R. Tolkien's notes and background sketches, which were quite extensive, then were edited by his son, and published. It was not set in full fledged fiction writing prose like LOTR or The Hobbit (Tolkien also routinely drew maps and sketches - he was quite good). Those two works were fully set by J.R.R. Tolkien to be published as is (Christopher helped a lot on the final maps details). All the various re-writes were done, minor textual corrections made, put into typewritten form, the maps drawn up, etc., then sent to the publisher and reviewed. Some subsequent corrections arose due to the author noting some problem (a major correction like Gollum and Bilbo's meeting and the resolution of the riddle game, as well as Bilbo's later telling of the encounter, which was changed in a far later "The Hobbit" re-write once the "Ring" story had developed and became what it eventually was in LOTR). So, overall, the most direct path for us to hear John Robert Ruel's "voice" is reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. When we read The Silmarillion we have his ideas, and notes, and Christopher's brushed up story lines (I'm pretty sure he tried to minimize any changes he had to make).

They spit roast sooo many elven maidens. It was called a "Shire BBQ". Sometimes Bilbo would even show up.

Son of Fingon 🤔😁 thats who he is.

Parabéns

I think when you get on that boat and go to the undying lands you are in a version of heaven where you never die and you are healed completely and there is no anguish, sorrow, wars, etc....you are at full strength, knowledgeable, and at peace with all there and yourself.

Thanks!

Please continue this!!! I had no idea it was incomplete and was so looking forward to the beren and luthien chapter!

Hi i know I'm late to this video haha but i have to correct the statement of the cast being in purgatory in 'Lost'. This was not the case, the ending was a flash sideways which gives the cast a happy ending and coming together at the end. It seriously offended me cos Lost is my fav series of all time 🤣.

I was under the impression that by baring the Ring gave immortality, albeit you would still age & weaken.

Come on man! Just before Beren and Luthien? Has Melkor imprisoned you? Please come back!

It's interesting that your channel is called the "voice of geekdom" because I have always thought that if there were a "geekdom", then the citizens of it would take oaths on copies of the silmarillion. It would either be the Silmarillion, the Lord of the Rings itself or perhaps the first Dune novel.

The Valar weren't actually needed to take down Sauron; but they were needed in a previous age to take down someone a thousand times more powerful, their own brother, so the Maiar were all they sent to do away with their own kind, Sauron, and all it took was a group of old men---and in the end, just one.

Where did you go bro?

The Haladin are my favourite among the men

Thanks man.

Cowardice on Sauron's part, and stupidity on Eonwe's part. Sauron was hoping for a slap on the wrist and Eonwe was too stupid to grasp that Sauron was hoping for a punishment-free forgiveness. So when Eonwe told Sauron to report to Valinor for judgment by Manwe, Sauron fled in the opposite direction and Eonwe was too lazy to chase him down. Really, Eru's biggest mistake was even allowing the Ainur to enter into Arda. Or at least He ought to have pulled them back out again once they'd finished setting up the world. That ought to have included Melkor and Mairon.