The 7 Most TERRIFYING Monsters of Middle-earth
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The 7 Most HORRIFYING Monsters of Middle-earth
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In the dimmest recesses of Middle-earth, where light dares not tread, ancient and malevolent creatures stir. Beyond the glory of epic battles and the beauty of enchanted realms, a darker, more sinister world exists. This is a place where nightmares walk and shadows whisper secrets of old. What unspeakable terrors dwell in these forgotten depths? Journey with us as we explore the shadows to reveal seven of the most terrifying creatures of Middle-earth. Will you brave the darkness and confront the horrors that dwell in Tolkien’s world?
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What about the Watcher in the Water?
I chose not to pick that one. Perhaps in part 2!
I fell asleep during ‘Nightmare on Elm Street. I had multiple nightmares about Ringwraiths chasing me, long before the books became the movies. The movies did a great job with the wraiths, by the way. 👍
It was Morgoth that lied to Ungoliant. He roped her in to eat the trees by promising that she could eat her fill. He fled after the trees were killed and she followed.She was not full, and wanted more. She sensed that he had objects that created a lot of light, and she wanted to eat those. Ungoliant had gotten so large by eating from the trees, that even Morgoth was afraid of her. He promised her the Silmarils, and eventually ended up giving her fake ones to eat. She sensed that he was lying to her and she tried to eat him with the silmarils. He then screamed so loud that all of his Balrogs came to the rescue.
To sum up what your said Basically ungoliant got so powerful she turned melkor into a crying bitch lmao
And those Balrogs in turn, made her flee in pain, really gives you respect for those fiery bois
The big baddie of Middle Earth had to blow a rapewhistle? Lmao
Ancalagon the Black. He was so massive that when he fell from the sky he leveled mountains. The greatest of the Flying Dragons.
Yea he is very mighty but i think he mean The most terrifying, mysterious , strange and unknown creatures so ancalagon isn't like that
He literally destroyed 3 highest peak in mordor (iirc) by just falling to his death
@@quanlinglingdingle6122not mordor
@@MustafaAlmustafa-bl7ewAncalagon was the 1st and greatest of the flying Dragons. To me, he checks all the boxes on your list.
@@MustafaAlmustafa-bl7ew and how is he not all of those things you just described? Lmao
Glaurung is also a terrifying creature. The Children of Hurin and Of Turin Turambar is legitimately terrifying stuff.
Ah, yes.. totally.
I better create part 2, I guess 🤣
@@The.Lore.SeekerYes that would be good. I enjoyed and learned more today. Besides Glaurung, I expected to see the “Watchers” or “Barrow-Wights” . Please, part 2.
@@generoberts9151 It's scheduled, but I need some time to produce it. Bear with me :)
More so than Tybault Prince of Cats
I’ve got an audiobook on CD of The Children of Hurin. It’s read by Christopher Lee, and the voice he uses for Glaurung sends chills down my spine every time!
I’m sorry I just can’t take the kitty as a nefarious evil force that could’ve been the main villain of the world seriously 😂
I suppose you're not the only one 🤣
Have you ever met a cat? They do hold the propensity for great evil.
@@samhobbs9116 But like... The rest of their traits are basically Hobbits. 😂
@@Knight-Bishop A cat is basically a narcissistic Hobbit.
But he is the main villain though 😅. Tevildo is one of Sauron's earlieat forms.
If you look carefully at the writing, Ungoliant wasn't actually a spider. She was an evil being who took a spider-like form. If you want to see something closer to what Tolkien likely intended, Jazza has a video where he drew her daughter Shelob based purely on book description. There are features mentioned like a neck, horns, and a stinger, none of which a spider actually has. Shelob's described more as a demonic monster whose closest resemblance is to spiders, with word like "most like a spider she was," indicating something that shares a lot of basic features but most definitely doesn't look the same as one. Jazza's drawing of Shelob going purely by the book writing is actually far more horrifying to see than just a giant spider, and it's worth looking at some of his stuff because he does a bunch of drawings based purely on writer description. Sometimes it's done with someone else choosing the character or creature, giving him some description in notes, and him just drawing whatever he's given, only getting to know what it is after he finishes. As a fun one, Cthulhu's original descriptions by Lovecraft are pretty much exactly what image comes to mind for most thinking of him.
It's also the creature in IT according to some
The problem with that is its js his imagination as we've had fans draw the iron thrown from asoiaf yet grrm still saying it's not quite his vision several times the authors pov and the readers tho similar will still perceive 2 at times vastly different outlooks from a description of something.
@@Dokgo22 There's definitely room for a level of interpretation in exactly how the features look, but the basic creature is very visually distinct as what she is even if the original picture the author had in mind can't be confirmed.
Not like the Nazgul's winged mounts, where further description was given outside the story and Tolkien compared them to pterodactyl type animals. Taking that basic outline and adjusting it to fit the book descriptions is gonna be very close to what was intended, with the only improvement being if the man was still walking around in order to draw it.
Best monster description ever is Cthulhu. If you look carefully at everything describing him physically in the original writing, it adds up to be exactly the way people usually draw him. Almost no room in his description to vary too much.
Is that why in the Shadow of Mordor game, they make Shelob a woman?
@@renderlifestyle Yes, that's their interpretation of her mother choosing the form. Considering Shelob was born that way and stayed the same for centuries just getting bigger and fatter, I think it's inaccurate. I think Ungoliant was just drastically stronger in every way than her offspring, especially with Shelob being the only surviving one for unknown reasons.
Tolkien's "Nameless Things" reminds me of Lovecraft's "Old Gods".
I feel like the mortal really is never truly safe with such an evil thing lurking beneath the Earth😂
@@R.J.MacReady1982 bro wtf are you trying to say lmao
@@TheGreatPewpyOne That even with the defeat of Sauron, Middle Earth will never be a safe place, seing that these creatures still exist...
If they’re older than Sauron, and possibly Melkor, then they would’ve been enemies of Eru Illuvatar or used by him during the Song of Ainur to create the universe. So they wouldn’t be weak beings and could be a bigger threat than either dark lord ever was if they were set onto the surface.
*Morgoth reading that week's reports from his lieutenants*
"What the... Angband needs more scratching posts. Ugh, again? It's been less than a fortnight!" 😅
Id love a series about the Nameless ones. The Eldritch horrors of Middle Earth.
A series even?
What would you have in mind?
@@The.Lore.Seeker Possible theory crafting, since the written lore of these are pretty scarce. The art work and depictions are so unique compared to all other denizens of Arda. We're they part of Erus song but fell out of alignment. Were they beings seperste from Eru entirely and the originator of evil. I'm a huge Lovecraftian/Eldritch horror fan and finding out about the Nameless Ones was so exciting. It's a shame Tolkien didn't elaborate more about them. I guess most of the intrigue is the mystery.
lol imagine the lord of the rings franchise if the main baddie was a cat lol. Glad it was Sauron and not tevildo
Haha, I can't say I disagree
Uhmmm... Tevildo is Sauron. 😅
It's an earlier form of him.
@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke true true tevildo well glad we got this version of Sauron and not a black cat lol
Ungoliant was defeated when Melcor let out a scream of fear and pain so loud that his Balrogs heard it and they came to his rescue with their whips of fire. She wasn't defeated by Melcore's cunning and guile.
Because he was weakened.
What a cunning plan. Get your ass beat so bad you have to cry to your strongest allies for aid.
The work of a mastermind @@jordangomez4751
All the balrogs together could do nothing more than force her back. And the fact he was weakened means he was weak, she was not and he belonged to her.
They were only able to force her back. She died by eating herself
I was 100% not prepared to go from swamp zombie boogeymen to... Cat with fancy collar.
Perhaps that was my intention haha
the barrow wights in lord of the rings really had me scared when I read it the first time as a kid, especially the part where the cut of hands keeps crawling on, and that it seemed you where basically at their mercy, inside their sphere of influence unless you had magic or a magical weapon..
Gothmog - chief of the balrogs.
Rock giants, we never hear a lot about them in the hobbit, except that they seem extremely powerful and destructive, which would make them maybe not horrifying then pretty scary at least.
I'm working on a part 2 of this video. I'm featuring the Barrow Wights and perhaps Gothmog and Rock Giants too.
Strange how they make the Wolf look so big yet almost bested by Beren and Luthien’s hound.
Really the whole story of Beren and Luthien would make a good movie. Some of these tales from the Silmarillion are really quite Jackson worthy
For the Nameless Things: You could’ve briefly explained Melkor interrupting the music of the Valar and causing discord, thus giving birth to the Nameless Things (revealing also that they’re only “older” than the Ainur in that they were in Arda before them).
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I thank you for including the Prince of Cats! A Being so powerful yet nearly forgotten!😊
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I think Tevildo is usually forgotten because it's "just a cat".
Cringe af
ungoliant actually went to open a very charming b and b south of rohan and became a tiktok influencer
That cat is ridiculous 😂
Ungoliant just went to hang with the nameless things😂
This video inspired me!!
"lord of the rings: darksouls"
The world they could make in a elden ring style game with the lore of LOTR would be epic. ❤❤
Imagine a Middle Earth Soulslike Game from From Software 😍
Darksouls/Eldenring is basically Tolkien personified in a game already. Extensive lore that is also vague enough to make you wonder. Larger than life bosses, multi-era story lines/continuity. Playing a fromsoft game is as close as you’re gonna get to an LOTR game.
There’s been a few over the years that haven’t done so well imo.
That would be so amazing.
I really hope they will make a movie about the time of the two trees.
I wanna see Ungoliant on the big screen that must be terrifying
My theory is that the Nameless Things (Ungoliant among them) are fruits of Melkor's discordant tones from The Music of the Ainur.
Very likely, Melkor himself wasn't fully aware of what he was doing, so there are inumerable terrors out there in the world and in the void that no one (except Eru) knows anything about.
Mewlips sound like the inspiration for the inferi in Harry Potter.
Carcharoth also seem to have inspired Igor Karkaroff in Harry Potter.
Carcharoth feels more like a one headed Fluffy.
Karkar was just off
Thanks very much for including Tevildo good Sir!
I very much enjoyed reading of his early exploits in The History of Middle-Earth, Vol-II and though I of course prefer the final personage (Sauron), Tevildo's story has an adoring charm of its own.
The Aussie Huntsman spider!! So massive she scared the living daylights out of Ungoliant.
Haha, I've seen a Huntsman once.. in the bio-toilet up in Cape Range NP. I nearly sh*t myself..
You've never seen a goliath bird eater.
The Ungoliant is the most horrific disturbing thing ever to be thought into existence. Spiders terrify me forever!!!
All I know is, I wish that some writer and director would delve deeply into this subject matter and create movies and series dedicated to the stories of the dark... more adult than family or child friendly. Something with the kind of imagery and nightscape depicted herein. With conflicts between dark characters vs evil characters, lawful vs chaotic...
Almost cthuluesque in vision.
King Thranduil mentions to Thorin about how he faced the great serpents of north before exposing his face wounds, Any Information on them?
Would love a series thats about the First Age.
Carcharoth is my choice. His bite is worse than his bark.
Great video
Tevildo isn't forgotten he is deleted from the drafts and in the eventual story replaced by Sauron. Implying he (and mewlips) are canon is quite a stretch.
Thuringwethil was such a great character totally WASTED by Tolkien as he avoided to have a more accurate idea about her fate, though it seems it was ill-fated one, as Luthien found her magical dark-cloak just thrown randomly on the floor as she is leaving Sauron´s fortess after having defeated him and rescued Beren alongside Huan´s help but... just suddenly she dones that magical cloth and asumes a disguise as her to infiltrate into Angbad alongside Beren who is turned into the deceassed werewolf too, so... did Thuringwethil died too by chance on this implication off-scene?
However this made some lost of being more explicit on her fate and having a rather more interesting scene fighting Luthien and being killed by her or with Huan´s help as had happened earlier to Sauron. (Also makes perfect sense to have killed Thuringwethil as she might have gone faster to inform Morgoth about the defeat of his main minion, but... suddenly she is no working as the usual messenger so... Luthien is able to have her disguise and to infiltrate to get the Silmaril, all very convenient with the sudden dissappearing of Thuringwethil so... though Tolkien never says it, she died somehow but... why to hide that?!!)
It seems that Tolkien hated to have openly ill-fates for evil FEMALE antagonists on Middle-Earth by some reason. He is so openly stating on male ones but female-ones besides on being very few on her own, their ill-fates are so AMBIGUOUSLY OPEN and off-scene that seems as if he was doing some sort of pro-feminist working there, thinking of this as missogynist issues rather that proper justice retailation on them but... seems that Tolkien felt into the naive narrow dychotomy of males prone to evil more than female, and to be rather apologetic on them being not so harsh or openly stating their proper ill-fate retribution at their end: all the very few evil females (Ungoliant, Shelob, Queen Beruthiel and Thuringwethill, and even Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, got very loose and vague ends for all the nasty evil deeds they did, and so VERY WASTED characters!!)
He got the opportunity to make a good stand of a great woman of goodness on Luthien against an evil one on Thuringwethil but no... he MISSED A GREAT TIME!!
luthien looked so cute transformed as the bat vampire lady
Telvildo was (at least, partially) inspired by the 'Cait-Sìth', a Mythological creature from Celtic Folklore that took the form of a black cat with a white ruff, known for mischief and malice. Also the inspiration for Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII 😉
A cat with an army of kittens?? 😂 Of course this idea was scrapped.
The nameless things reminds me of Nidhögg from nordic mythology, who is like a dragon that gnaws the yggdrasil tree and is there from the beginning til the end of time
And you know whats still one of the best writings of the book? Humans are humans here, there are no overpowerd humans that can solo a balrog (and no wizard are no normal humans). Its not a power fantasy (altough i enjoy those too), and there is no “perfect chosen one” its nations forming a front against ancient evil. Frodo might be “the one” thats needs to throw the ring into mount doom. But if he didnt have his friend with him at the end a new era of evil would be born. Its not the story about a small group saving the world, its a story about nations rising up helping the core group even when they fall apart.
Not sure I agree with you regarding the humans as the ancient Numenorians were meant to be super human and Aragorn obviously has some of those traits. But I think it's because Tolkien is just far more subtle with how he portrays power. It's not cheap and flashy and it's very much embedded in the earth, surroundings and spiritually. Which for me makes it far more powerful and intimidating than any other fantasy because it feels real and immersive
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Bruh the Mines of Moria scare me enough, with or without the goblins and now you're telling me that middle earth has MORE demon monsters 😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Kitty! Who needs ear pets and snuggles?
Cringe
@@TheGreatPewpyOne Looks like you need some ear pets and snuggles!
When we need a RPG game set in Tolkien world something like Skyrim
I'd love to create a rpg game!
Someone wrote a table top RPG based on if they took the eagles to Mordor and what happened from that.
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Good stuff mate.
Much appreciated, TillionTirrion!
Tevildo was sauron..
Yep Sauron was Melkor cat tevildo was one of if i remembee correctly
But Tevildo is not Sauron. The cat got his golden collar from melkor before Sauron was even walking about Middle Earth
@Nicholas-nu4wy the isle of cats 🐈
The isle of wearwolves ..
It's an older version of the story...
Check it out..
@@AlexCj-k8v sauron is not melkor
What if Ungoliant was one of the Nameless Things? Origins unknown, come from/dwell in darkness, older than the known history. Could fit
Oh, that's a very good question! Tolkien left her origins shrouded in mystery. One can only guess.
Tevildo is one of Sauron’s forms
If I saw Tevildo I would just "Psst psst psst" at him. He's so cute!
His weakness is catnip.
Perhaps these unknown and horrifying creatures served as the inspiration for H P Lovecraft's stories of Eldritch Cosmic Horrors such as Kuthulu and others ? Whatever they are or were some things are best left alone ; not spoken of ; and forgotten ! Nice UA-cam channel channel , I look forward to more forthcoming updated installments forthcoming soon.
The word of LOTR is more terrifying then I ever would imagen...very cool!
Where can I find this art? Its really pretty good.
Thank you! Most of the artwork is carefully created by me through midjourney, so it's on my Google Drive.
Tevildo… if not friend why friend shaped?
If nobody bad was able to make life how did we get so many evil creatures? Who made that first werewolf? How’s vampirism work with multiple races?
If a god was all powerful, he can’t be all good. And if he is all good, he can’t be all powerful. Eru Iluvarar cannot be all good, which results in your vampires and werewolves
There is a theory, that evil beings came into existence, when Morgoth disturbed the great music
@@ThurValEru told Melkor that everything he did was only because it was a part of his will. So, still a part of his ultimate plan. However, maybe his pride prevented him from admitting that things didn’t go according to his plan, and maybe he didn’t have as much control over creation as he made his children believe. Maybe there was creation of things that happened outside of Eru, and maybe there were primordial beings that coexisted with Eru
Melkor despised the fact that he could not create life. He therefore took great pleasure in twisting all forms of life that existed.
@@ehschlect That mfer abandoned middle earth
"Fairy tails were never about the monsters in them. They were about how we can kill them."
So Tolkien had something against cats, I take it? Prince of evil cats? Really?
I know not everyone likes the Rings of Power like i do but i desperately want them to show some of these in live action, even if its just a cameo
They would just ruin it.
I would like that, the conception of the Rings of Power was to fill in gaps and add substance to vague explanations
I'm surprised that Ancalagon did not make it into the top 3.
John 14:6 ❤️
A giant cat,? lol 😂
Wait. Why does a cat need a dark castle?
7:17 another reminder that Tolkiens universe was inspired by Norse mythology, that seems to resemble Fenrir.
It would be nice if the creators of the lord of the rings will create a background story of those so called Nameless things which was thought to be older than morgoth himself. I wonder what sort of dark primordial powers created those things and how powerful such creator was. Come to think of it, it might be a stand alone series of its own if it will be turned into movie. I can only imagine those ancient primodial heroes that will serve as archenemies of these Nameless things especially on how powerful they are as they were able to cast such powerful Nameless beings into the depths of the earth, never to be seen again and just become some sort of folktales among those dwelling on Middle Earth... 😊
Haha, you should become the scriptwriter. You're full of imagination and creativity!
@@The.Lore.Seeker lol why not? 😄
@@torreeric499 haha, you tell me ;)
Yeahhhhhh I’ll watch this at 2 AM… What is wrong with me
Living on the edge 😜
Morgoth cheated ungoliant. Morgoth promised to give her whatever was in his hand. I forgot what he got in return. When she completed her part of the deal, morgoth was holding the silmarils. Ungoliant wanted to eat those and was promised them… morgoth said no
Did Tolkien not like cats? Or was he playing off the old mythology of the black cat familiar?
Probably a bit of both
He had this evil queen with an army of black cats too. But her chief cat was actually white.
Really, that's new to me. Haha
I want to play lovercraftian action mmorpg!
I always thought Red Maw would be a great band name
Why couldn’t Amazon adapt any of this lol
Had no idea a cat was supposed to be the villain instead of Sauron. The dark colored feline does symbolize supernatural and superstitious dread- with haunting aura of bad omens/ ominous misfortune.
These are just the average Elden Ring enemy/boss. Great video btw, I love hearing descriptions and looking at illustrations of creatures from various media.
Tevildo is actually the first, or one of the first forms of Sauron. Sauron didn’t overshadow tevildo, tevildo BECAME Sauron!
You should add Harfoots. Those things and every other character in Rings of Power filled me with annoying dread when I wasted my time on that trash.
I agree on one condition, he should not name the harfoots. He should just say how fearfull we should be things that are “allowed” to be canon. But are actually fanfic of the worst degree. Tolkien would jump up from his grave and become a (ring) wraith to haunt all the writers!
Prince of cats so cute
Tevildo would’ve most likely been a bogeyman of sorts among house cats and their kitten offspring, a monster to enslave them and kill their human owners that they loved as a parent (so theorized a friend of mine who’s a cat lover). Tolkien didn’t hate cats, but I can image he would’ve built up Tevildo as a creature that regular cats would fear and utterly hate.
So when the one ring was destroyed, did these things beast die along with it?
Most of them predated it, so not likely. And the whole planet is like a one ring for Melkor, so they won’t completely be gone until the world is remade.
@@skeletorgames8641Arda isn't just Melkors ring byt all of EÄ
The balrog definitely scared off the unnamed things
I thought Ancalagon The Black was going to be featured.
if you dont mind me asking where did you find most of these pictures? would love to save a few!
@7:45 @7:51 @8:04 @9:38 @11:01 @11:05
Huh, game devs and Amazon are really fumbling the bag with the mountains of lore.
I may be wrong but I believe Ungoliant translates in Khazad, the language of the Dwaves, to "Big Hungie".
I’d be a lot more terrified of Glaurung over some cats
Im just happy they didnt make cat a main villain! 😅
#1 through #7 is whatever is underneath Moria
We need more dragons
Will you brave the dar-
“Hell naw”
10:39 I think we can actually make an educated death about the nameless creatures. It all rests on the sentence that they are older than Sauron...which means that they cannot originate from Middle Earth. Sauron is one of the fallen Ainur/Maiar - he himself is older than Middle Earth which means that no creature from Middle Earth can be older than him.
This only allows one conclusion: They originate from the Void.
It doesn’t make sense that you say the nameless things were there before the valar brought order to the world… illuvatar literally made the world, including everything in it. So he would’ve made the nameless things if they do exist
What’s the name of the song that starts playing at about 2:20 ?
Another ending for Ungoliant is that Eärendel killed her.
And somehow, even amongst all these dark and twisted horrors, both known and unknown, Middle-Earth remains in a state of medieval stasis. Was there ever more than the exception of Numenor to challenge this statement?
It's a medieval fantasy
So horrifying 😂😊💀☠️
A cat ... A fucking cat ..
the nameless things are NOT the embodiment of dark and chaotic forces. You have no idea what you are talking about. They are living breathing creatures not good or evil. Just beasts that serve no master. Pls stop making stuff up. They serve no master.
Why would Tolkien create an evil cat??
I will say however that the nameless things couldn't have existed before Morgoth since he, as Melkor, was among the Valars who sang the planet Middle-Earth is part of into existence. Before the song, the world didn't exist.
A cat? Are you kidding me?
Read The Book of Lost Tales 1 & 2. These are Tolkien's early versions of the Silmailion.
Ahh the Nameless things would sT that spider
They had Vampires in LotR?
Vampire bats
There were many parts of Middle-Earth that were created, but they were vaguely talked about.