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We werent these badasses in the movies? Why replace them and the swan knights with cliche incompetent canon fodder??????? Why replace the swan knights with shitty cgi ghosts???????? It makes the gondorian soldiers look very incompetent if they need ghosts to save their asses.
Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, this was recorded quite some months ago and I doubt we'll have much more videos with Galu leaving UA-cam and all.
I love it! However I think it should be mentioned if following the books or the movies as Tolkien never mentioned them having plate armor. I do love movie's vision, the same used in this video, but I think it is an important distinction to make. Next I would LOVE to see video about Houses of Gondolin, especially Order of Fountain, their leader Ecthelion and how they marched clad in white, diamond and silver, playing their flutes!
Excellent video Invicta! It is great to hear Galudirithon's voice again! Give him my regards! I hope to see the Noldor swordsmen in a future video. The elves are excellent archers, but I hear how the elves, especially the Noldor high elves had the most lethal swordmasters in Middle Earth
We already have a sense of how the late 3rd age Gondor soldiers look like. It would be interesting to see a similar breakdown video for the late 2nd age or the early 3rd age Gondor/Arnor soldiers and their armies, at the peak of their might.
@@thegermaniccoenus2525 If based on the movies, Gondor/Arnor soldiers looked different in 2nd age (Prologue - War of the Last Alliance) to what we see in ROTK. But I agree with your point that they would look different based on which fiefdom or region they come from.
@@thurahtun6428 the men from the prologue while from arnor mostly would be extremely simillar to gondor as they pretty much just arrived in middle earth after the fall of numenor. In the 2nd age arnor probably looked different mabye even worse than in the prologue when you consider the fact that arnor split in 3 and then went to war against each other. 2nd age gondor is described as being great and very strong. When the vanguard of a gondorian army arrived in mithlond the elves there had not seen a force that strong since the last alliance. And that was just the vanguard of gondor with a huge fleet. Its after the fall of arnor that the witch kong takes minas morgul and weakens gondor through acts of war and pestilence.
@@thurahtun6428 Yeah, but we shouldn't based upon the movies, which are fanon, like what they did here. The books have already provided a great source of information regarding to the kind of weapons or armor used by the armies of the Numenorian Kingdoms in Exile. Take for example the winged war-helm of the Citadel Guards. In the RotK, the helms of the Guards of the Citadel were described as "heirlooms from the glory of old days" and the Crown of Gondor, which was described in the appendices as of similar fashion to the Citadel Guard helm, is actually a Numenorean War-Helm that belonged to Isildur since his brother Anarion's head and helmet was crushed by a stone projectile during the siege of Barad-dûr. This mean that the Winged War-Helms used by Guards of the Citadel were of the older Numenorean design. And just to add, according to Book of Unfinished Tales, in the First Age, Tuor, the grandfather of the first Numenorean King Elros and the ancestor of the Numenorean Kings, also wore a Winged War-Helm. By that account, this just makes use of the helm unchanged and far older than the Kingdom of Numenor.
@@thegermaniccoenus2525 Thanks for your comment. It is an interesting point regarding how Numenorean helms would look like. But what I am trying to say here is different.. I admit I have not read the books complete, but I am aware about the books' description regarding the arms and armour used. If I am not mistaken, the most common armour according to the books would always be the simple mail hauberk/shirt throughout the ages, unlike the movies where they implemented fantasy plate armour. I am just curious about Invicta's idea (Or the community's idea) based on what the audience have already seen from the LOTR movies. Like if there was a late 2nd age or early 3rd age TV show (like Rings of Power currently), how would these soldiers look like in those periods if that show follows the same design concept of the LOTR trilogy. According to the books, these soldiers would not look so different, most regular soldiers would be equipped with simple mail hauberk.
"it would be from the inside that the strength of men would falter." its always such a lovely line. ripe with doom, but Tolkien really did get people. any manner of exterior threat, and you can find countless examples of people rising above and beyond. but there is no seemingly unconquerable threat as moral character rotting away to wickedness and deceit.
There he is! Arachir Galuditrithion! I had a gut feeling that you may have done another collab when I saw this was a Lotr video. Normally I put these on watch later for when I have more time, but I simply couldn't resist once I saw it was a collab with him. Awesome work both of you!
The quality of your videos are amazing! Respects to the artists. Im also looking forward to see that Dune video you are going to do on Paul's journey and the Fedaykin
It was an awesome honor to have worked with Galu for the research and narration of this video! You can watch all his lore content here ua-cam.com/users/Arach%C3%AErGaludirithon
It would be awesome if you could do the Knights of the Silver Swan and all the other Gondorian Regional units such as the Axemen of Lossarnach, Ithilien Rangers, Pelargir Marines, and such.
Would love to see something like those Elves that were part of a house or "club" like Glorfindel. :D Or Dwarves in a certain guard or company, real badasses :p
What's the next unit video I want to see from middle earth? The Swan Knights of Dol Amroth of course! They did not make an appearance in the films sadly, and I'm in love with their lore and the unit in general.
Guards of the white tree with glittering banners as far as the eye can see must now stand with Gondor shield of the world of men in order to make a stand against doom once again for the one ring has returned and we must prove our worth For glory and kingdom! For Gondor!
In Tolkein's Stories, the Units that I would love to see are the Corsairs of Umbar, the Gondorian Swan Knights, The Atala and Ithilian Rangers of Dale and Gondor, heavily armored elite infantry of Rhun, the Variag Raiders, the Serpant Guard of Harad, the Hasharii Assassins of Harad, Muhad Tribesmen, the Dunlending Clansmen, the Black Numenoreans, the Nazgul, Warriors of Mithlond and Rivendell, and the Silvan and Mirkwood Elves. @Invica, pick 1 after the Riders of Rohan and follow the list, Trust Me you won't regret it. 🙂🤗🧐👌👍
Seeing how Invicta is doing the maps showing the territory of the kingdoms. Can Invicta do territory of the kingdoms of Arnor and gondor from the foundation to the time Aragorn son inherited the throne
0:14 Love how they took a previous piege of art from a byzantine video, then slapped lord of the rings stuff on it and called it a day Edit: Not only that piece, but many lore across the video
He didnt murder denethor or hinder faramir what are you talking about. He hindered the household men of denethor from bringing oil and fire to burn faramir alive. For that his life was already forfeit for spilling blood in the street of the dead kings. Aragorn spared him and beregond became faramirs lieutenant in ithilien i think He was devoted to faramir.
@@cognitivedisability9864 Thank you I meant he stopped Faramir burned alive by Denethor. If it is just to be executed for saving an innocent life, then why did Frodo carry the Ring to orodruin
And yet we saw none of the Fountain Guards in action and nor were we able to even get a glimpse of their Martial Prowess, there are some things that make me disappointed in LOTR and that is there were so many things missing and except for Oliphants we saw none of the armies of Easterlings, Haradrim, Rhun and the Umbars, but only Orcs and more Orcs
I know you primarily talk about Western Troops, but it would be great if you made some episodes on Eastern militaries too. India and China had large ancient empires which had much larger militaries than any Western ones at the time.
To be honest the Gondorians seem very poor in managing their Empire properly. Their traditional racism may be a major factor that there were always people in the East and South who were ready to take up arms and who would stay loyal to Sauron even after he was defeated. Saurons propaganda of course played a important role, but it was surely much more than just that. The Numenorian even in exile were proud to be from the blood of the High Men even after their power declined, looking somehow down not only onto defeated foes but to some extend also onto those who fought with honor by their side and rescued Gondor more than once. They had problems incorporating people from outside of the mainland. And you could see that kind of mindset even in the days of the War of the Rings when Faramir asks Eowyn if she want to marry him and she reacted with some hesitation, in part because she thinks that there very well may be people among Faramirs own who will mock him if he choose a shield maid of Rohan, as if he could not find something better. And that came from a woman who was closely related to the slain king of Rohan, her brother be the new king-to-be, related by blood to heroes and a hero herself, so truly someone who was in no way inferior to Faramir. It seems that the Numenorians often saw the not-Numenorian people they ruled over as second or even third class humans, hardly fully developing some kind of citizenship as the historic Empire of the Romans (which Tolkien in his writings included as the Rum-hoth if I remember right, a Empire which would rise long time after the events of the War of the Rings) which could make people from the colonies over time to full members of the Empire. If Aragorn changed that to the core I do not know but it is a fact that he had to fight on for at least a generation against those who hated Gondor (and in part with good reasons). The Numenorians watered the seeds of hatred Sauron had planted very well by themself.
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Bruh
We werent these badasses in the movies? Why replace them and the swan knights with cliche incompetent canon fodder??????? Why replace the swan knights with shitty cgi ghosts???????? It makes the gondorian soldiers look very incompetent if they need ghosts to save their asses.
@@mariobadia4553 cause peter jackson made a lot of mistakes too
I guess you're going to need a second channel for this . Like kings and generals
Otherwise you're going to loose many history fans ...
Holy smokes, I was waiting for a video on this Gondorian military unit, they look so regal. I loved PJ's depiction in LOTR
An honour to be given an opportunity to work alongside Invicta. A fitting swan song indeed. Thank you.
Bro, so good to hear you
You did a magnificent job
You have been sorely missed mellon
What a pleasant surprise to hear Gaulu here! Really did not expect that but love it all the more!
Also looking forward to more middle earth units!
Excuse me is this Arachir Galuditrithion I hear? Awesome partnership and great content as always to both of you!
It sure sounds similar.
It is indeed Galu! We've been in talks for a while and he helped me on some old content. Happy to have him on board for this one!!!
@@InvictaHistory That's great to hear. He does have an amazing knowledge of all things Tolkien.
Outstanding partnership 👏
Great lad, love his stuff
Next Ideas:
-The Cretan Archers (feat. Anatasia Tsilimpiou).
-Ancient Greek navy (feat. Melissanthi Mahut).
-The Medjay (feat. Abubakar Salim).
-The Norse Ships (feat. Magnus Brunn).
-The Minoan Labrys Warriors (feat. Michael Antonakos).
-The Dromedarii (feat. Lee Majdoub).
Noldor spearmen
Great to see Arachir is still active after DaC!
Next: the glorious, the marvelous... Hammers of Gundabad!!!
Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, this was recorded quite some months ago and I doubt we'll have much more videos with Galu leaving UA-cam and all.
I love it! However I think it should be mentioned if following the books or the movies as Tolkien never mentioned them having plate armor. I do love movie's vision, the same used in this video, but I think it is an important distinction to make.
Next I would LOVE to see video about Houses of Gondolin, especially Order of Fountain, their leader Ecthelion and how they marched clad in white, diamond and silver, playing their flutes!
Magnificently done, as usual. Please make something on the Elven army or Dwarf troops, they've both looked cool at the Battle of Five Armies)
When Denethor wants to enter the throne room every morning, he asks the Fountain Guard for their permission
This is one of the better lore videos I’ve ever seen. Awesome work, explained well and simply.
Excellent video Invicta! It is great to hear Galudirithon's voice again! Give him my regards!
I hope to see the Noldor swordsmen in a future video. The elves are excellent archers, but I hear how the elves, especially the Noldor high elves had the most lethal swordmasters in Middle Earth
We already have a sense of how the late 3rd age Gondor soldiers look like. It would be interesting to see a similar breakdown video for the late 2nd age or the early 3rd age Gondor/Arnor soldiers and their armies, at the peak of their might.
They didn't look different from each period unless they are from a different faction, Kingdom or fiefdom.
@@thegermaniccoenus2525 If based on the movies, Gondor/Arnor soldiers looked different in 2nd age (Prologue - War of the Last Alliance) to what we see in ROTK. But I agree with your point that they would look different based on which fiefdom or region they come from.
@@thurahtun6428 the men from the prologue while from arnor mostly would be extremely simillar to gondor as they pretty much just arrived in middle earth after the fall of numenor. In the 2nd age arnor probably looked different mabye even worse than in the prologue when you consider the fact that arnor split in 3 and then went to war against each other. 2nd age gondor is described as being great and very strong. When the vanguard of a gondorian army arrived in mithlond the elves there had not seen a force that strong since the last alliance. And that was just the vanguard of gondor with a huge fleet. Its after the fall of arnor that the witch kong takes minas morgul and weakens gondor through acts of war and pestilence.
@@thurahtun6428 Yeah, but we shouldn't based upon the movies, which are fanon, like what they did here. The books have already provided a great source of information regarding to the kind of weapons or armor used by the armies of the Numenorian Kingdoms in Exile.
Take for example the winged war-helm of the Citadel Guards.
In the RotK, the helms of the Guards of the Citadel were described as "heirlooms from the glory of old days" and the Crown of Gondor, which was described in the appendices as of similar fashion to the Citadel Guard helm, is actually a Numenorean War-Helm that belonged to Isildur since his brother Anarion's head and helmet was crushed by a stone projectile during the siege of Barad-dûr. This mean that the Winged War-Helms used by Guards of the Citadel were of the older Numenorean design. And just to add, according to Book of Unfinished Tales, in the First Age, Tuor, the grandfather of the first Numenorean King Elros and the ancestor of the Numenorean Kings, also wore a Winged War-Helm. By that account, this just makes use of the helm unchanged and far older than the Kingdom of Numenor.
@@thegermaniccoenus2525 Thanks for your comment. It is an interesting point regarding how Numenorean helms would look like. But what I am trying to say here is different.. I admit I have not read the books complete, but I am aware about the books' description regarding the arms and armour used. If I am not mistaken, the most common armour according to the books would always be the simple mail hauberk/shirt throughout the ages, unlike the movies where they implemented fantasy plate armour. I am just curious about Invicta's idea (Or the community's idea) based on what the audience have already seen from the LOTR movies. Like if there was a late 2nd age or early 3rd age TV show (like Rings of Power currently), how would these soldiers look like in those periods if that show follows the same design concept of the LOTR trilogy. According to the books, these soldiers would not look so different, most regular soldiers would be equipped with simple mail hauberk.
Beautiful narration always loved the Citadel Guards.
"it would be from the inside that the strength of men would falter."
its always such a lovely line. ripe with doom, but Tolkien really did get people. any manner of exterior threat, and you can find countless examples of people rising above and beyond. but there is no seemingly unconquerable threat as moral character rotting away to wickedness and deceit.
This single UA-cam video is better than the entire ROP season
There he is! Arachir Galuditrithion! I had a gut feeling that you may have done another collab when I saw this was a Lotr video. Normally I put these on watch later for when I have more time, but I simply couldn't resist once I saw it was a collab with him. Awesome work both of you!
collab between my fav 2 channels, more please!
Excellent presentation and your Narrator is top tier! Thanks much!
The quality of your videos are amazing! Respects to the artists. Im also looking forward to see that Dune video you are going to do on Paul's journey and the Fedaykin
It was an awesome honor to have worked with Galu for the research and narration of this video! You can watch all his lore content here ua-cam.com/users/Arach%C3%AErGaludirithon
Little of the actual unit description is accurate to the books
It would be awesome if you could do the Knights of the Silver Swan and all the other Gondorian Regional units such as the Axemen of Lossarnach, Ithilien Rangers, Pelargir Marines, and such.
One of the Elite Units of Gondor where the Knights of the Silver Swan.
thought these guys belonged to dol amroth not gondor a fief of gondor but not fully gondorian
@@The_Dodge_Meister they had some autonomy but were part of Gondor nonetheless I think
Swan Knights would also be interesting.
This video taught me more lore information than The Rings of Power.
I enjoyed this video. Great job.
Have you guys done a video on the Rohirrim? If not you should totally make one.
Galu, real pleasant surprise, as always excellent 👌
Was i ever so pleasantly surprised to hear a familiar voice
I would love to learn more about the Knights of the Silver Swan, led by the Prince of Dol Amroth
Epic! I want to hear about Arnorian army and elite units.
Would love to see something like those Elves that were part of a house or "club" like Glorfindel. :D Or Dwarves in a certain guard or company, real badasses :p
personally i would love to learn more about the common gondorian soldiery but also i would love to learn about the equipment of Sarumans Uruk-Hai.
What's the next unit video I want to see from middle earth?
The Swan Knights of Dol Amroth of course!
They did not make an appearance in the films sadly, and I'm in love with their lore and the unit in general.
Superb! Thanks!!!
Galu narrating this is amazing.
Nice job Galu!
So happy you’ve begun looking into Middle-earth!
Guards of the white tree with glittering banners as far as the eye can see must now stand with Gondor shield of the world of men in order to make a stand against doom once again for the one ring has returned and we must prove our worth
For glory and kingdom! For Gondor!
aw and don't forget, Aragorn with Gandalfs help found a flower in the mountians to restore the white tree.
ARACHIR!?!?Love him, Ive missed that beautiful voice
What a soothing voice! Let him narrate more.
For Gondor! Please talk about Uruk-hai and their diverse types
You mean orcs?
@@randomelite4562 I meant unit types of Uruk-hai serving the white hand
In Tolkein's Stories, the Units that I would love to see are the Corsairs of Umbar, the Gondorian Swan Knights, The Atala and Ithilian Rangers of Dale and Gondor, heavily armored elite infantry of Rhun, the Variag Raiders, the Serpant Guard of Harad, the Hasharii Assassins of Harad, Muhad Tribesmen, the Dunlending Clansmen, the Black Numenoreans, the Nazgul, Warriors of Mithlond and Rivendell, and the Silvan and Mirkwood Elves.
@Invica, pick 1 after the Riders of Rohan and follow the list, Trust Me you won't regret it. 🙂🤗🧐👌👍
For Tolkien, would recommend the Dunedain Rangers of the North/the grey Company.
As for historical, maybe the Scots Guard of France?
"We guard the White Tower! Keepers of the White Tree! " Amazing vídeo, and was a pleaseant surprise to hear Galu's voice!
Seeing how Invicta is doing the maps showing the territory of the kingdoms. Can Invicta do territory of the kingdoms of Arnor and gondor from the foundation to the time Aragorn son inherited the throne
Reporters :- Can the White tree be destroyed ?
Tolkien :- Yesn't .
😭
Please make a Video about the Uruk Orks
Do players + designers of these sorts of games have some players establish democracies + republics.?
The sudden rise of Isengards fighting uruk-hai please
That voice hmmmm where have I heard this so soothing
are nazgul considerd "a unit of history", if so I would like to see a video about theme.
Hail, Galu!
Thank god Galadriel managed to make her way to Numenor and teach the Numenorians how to stab with the sword.
Thanks to that we can watch this video.
I greatly enjoyed and more LotR units please. Thank you.
Can you make a video about the creation of Rohan
Working on it
@@InvictaHistory thank you
Next Units of Middle Earth Rohirrim or Uruk-hai
I kinda find it fitting that some of the pictures and animations were just retextured Varangians from their videos haha.
y defiantly got to do the chariots of Rhun or the Dragon Knights
The guard likely was not at Gladden. They are sworn to Gondor. Isildur headed north with his remaining Arnorians.
I’d really like to hear about the rangers of ithelian
Great video. Are you going to make one about the different rangers?
what about the knights of dol amroth
As for Units in Lord of the Rings, I would like to see something on the Easterlings.
how about the Knights of Dol Amroth or the Swan Knights
Cool
I miss Battle for Middle Earth so much...
"WE GUARD THE WHITE TOWER!"
I know arachir galudirithon when i hear him
0:14 Love how they took a previous piege of art from a byzantine video, then slapped lord of the rings stuff on it and called it a day
Edit: Not only that piece, but many lore across the video
Awesome video
What happened to the other voice over guy?
He did the sponsorship section
I thought the citadel guards and the fountain guards were two different guards
And you would be right !!
Aragorn showed not mercy but justice to Beregond, who tried to hinder Faramir being killed by Denethor
He didnt murder denethor or hinder faramir what are you talking about. He hindered the household men of denethor from bringing oil and fire to burn faramir alive. For that his life was already forfeit for spilling blood in the street of the dead kings. Aragorn spared him and beregond became faramirs lieutenant in ithilien i think He was devoted to faramir.
@@cognitivedisability9864
Thank you
I meant he stopped Faramir burned alive by Denethor.
If it is just to be executed for saving an innocent life, then why did Frodo carry the Ring to orodruin
this narrator reminds me of the male breton voice actor for Oblivion lol
Great video!
Citadel Guards =/= Fountain Guards :P
Battle for Middle Earth 3 when?
what about the orcs ? or the eastern people?
hell yeah Barad dur black Guards or Black Uruks, Morannon orcs
Imagine guarding a fountain, could be me/s
make one from Warhammer Fantasy 😇
What other units do we want to see you ask ??
Simple answer - ALL THERE ARE !!!! 😀
Galu!!
Thank you for the video
Galu :D
man I got here early
And yet we saw none of the Fountain Guards in action and nor were we able to even get a glimpse of their Martial Prowess, there are some things that make me disappointed in LOTR and that is there were so many things missing and except for Oliphants we saw none of the armies of Easterlings, Haradrim, Rhun and the Umbars, but only Orcs and more Orcs
Defense?
Wooah, didn't expect to hear Galu! It was pretty cool to hear him though.
Norfork units would be good too
Fantastic introducing ot this Thriller Legends
13:39 Isn't that the same art from the Rise of Harald Hardrada thumbnail but made to fit the LOTR??
Maybe 😂 I thought it was familiar
I suppose it does work since Gondor/Numenor is often times compared with Byzantium
@@randomelite4562 not saying anything about it working or not I just found it funny when I remembered it lol, its like an Easter Egg
The lord of the rings 😍😍😍😍😍
Middle Earth
I know you primarily talk about Western Troops, but it would be great if you made some episodes on Eastern militaries too. India and China had large ancient empires which had much larger militaries than any Western ones at the time.
0:21 I see that you two reuse art
Good to see Galu as a narrator for this video. Hope to see more lotr videos with him in the future!
YES!!! Most epic and awe inspiring unit ever!
To be honest the Gondorians seem very poor in managing their Empire properly. Their traditional racism may be a major factor that there were always people in the East and South who were ready to take up arms and who would stay loyal to Sauron even after he was defeated. Saurons propaganda of course played a important role, but it was surely much more than just that.
The Numenorian even in exile were proud to be from the blood of the High Men even after their power declined, looking somehow down not only onto defeated foes but to some extend also onto those who fought with honor by their side and rescued Gondor more than once. They had problems incorporating people from outside of the mainland.
And you could see that kind of mindset even in the days of the War of the Rings when Faramir asks Eowyn if she want to marry him and she reacted with some hesitation, in part because she thinks that there very well may be people among Faramirs own who will mock him if he choose a shield maid of Rohan, as if he could not find something better. And that came from a woman who was closely related to the slain king of Rohan, her brother be the new king-to-be, related by blood to heroes and a hero herself, so truly someone who was in no way inferior to Faramir.
It seems that the Numenorians often saw the not-Numenorian people they ruled over as second or even third class humans, hardly fully developing some kind of citizenship as the historic Empire of the Romans (which Tolkien in his writings included as the Rum-hoth if I remember right, a Empire which would rise long time after the events of the War of the Rings) which could make people from the colonies over time to full members of the Empire. If Aragorn changed that to the core I do not know but it is a fact that he had to fight on for at least a generation against those who hated Gondor (and in part with good reasons). The Numenorians watered the seeds of hatred Sauron had planted very well by themself.
As nerds we love fantasizing what real men would do or have done......... Right boys?
It would be nice if the Gondor soldiers were actually decent fighters. How they were shown in Return of the king was a joke