@@Chaesoup I dunno. Take everything that happened to Sam for example... you can kill his friend, starve him, torture him, make him walk for weeks, burn him, make him fight giant spiders, place a tower of Orcs in his way, flood him with lava... doesn't matter. He never stops. He just keeps going. He relentlessly marches towards the Mt. He cant be talked out of it. He can't be bought or reasoned with or negotiated with. He is a machine! (I swear Sam is secretly an actual terminator that traveled back in time to destroy Sauron. 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Agreed 100%. Though I do love the movie version too. The Ghost Army at Minas Tirith looks great, sounds great, is quick and efficient, requires no dialog.... but wow it kinda breaks down when you start thinking about it, right?
Oh no. I would never pick on Boromir, how did that troll get in there??? I think my account was HACKED!!! :) (honestly, I went 99% of the video before trolling on Boromir... that might be a record for me! 🤣🤣)
Ur coming in with the true question my guy! I like it. I’m currently watching All of your videos your like the fourth lotr UA-camr I’ve done this for. Your editing and style is slick brotha keep it up don’t end up like a trash orc.
You know what I might want to hear about? In the Hobbit, when Bilbo’s hosting the dwarves at his home, at least one of them asks for Coffee. Which leads me to believe that somehow, coffee made it to the Shire. I’d like to know how that’s possible. (My best guess is that Coffee is kinda a delicacy in lands like the Shire, suggesting that Bilbo was pretty well off even before he went to Erebor, which I guess was kinda well known. And that coffee beans were likely grown in faraway lands like Umbar and the Far Harad, most likely by the Haradrim, and possibly they gouged the price of it a lot if they were selling it to lands like Gondor and Rohan, since they were at war with them. Meaning it’d probably be even more expensive in lands like the Shire. So, yeah, bit of a lot of backstory for a small bit of the world, but with Tolkien, I’d expect no less.)
@jacobshore5115 .... uhhhh... what? 🤣 This is the best comment ever!!! 😅🤯 Of all the awesome things people ask about Tolkien ( the nature of the universe, life after death, the role of fate versus free will) you question is about... coffee! THIS IS AWESOME! 🤣🤣🤣 Ok full transparency, I never even noticed it until just now - but your right. Someone (Balin maybe?) asks for coffee and Gandalf red wine and a few others beer if I remember correctly. Ok now I'm super curious. I gotta jump into this and give it some thought. Thanks for the awesome comment! 🏆🏆
@@thegreyhavens167 I guess a lot of that was speculation on my part, not sure if you’d find much information confirming any of this in the Legendarium…
@@anathardayaldar Pipeweed exists in the Shire without coming from a place outside of it. It originates from a hill near Bree and is exported/discovered to/by Men and Dwarves according to Tolkien. Especially the Rangers.
Actually there are less than 200,000 Orcs that are shown on the Battlefield in the Movie. We tend to underestimate what "10,000" soldiers is and looks like, it's actually a pretty massive number of men.
Well said - and it's a good point about just how BIG 10k people are. That being said, there are no exact numbers ever given in the main books or any of the other works. So the movie just guessed and did what they thought looked cool. I really did about the same... just took a cool guess on what sounded right to me. That being said, safe to say there were a LOT of orcs!! Hope you liked the vid :)
Awww yeah!! (ノ^_^)ノ. Thanks, I appreciate that. Glad you liked the vids. Drop a comment if you ever have a question or topic you want a vid on :)
@@thegreyhavens167 I wonder if you could make a video about how Minas Morgul was once Minas Ithil, a fortress of Gondor. I remember reading this in either the Silmarillion or one of the other Tolkien books. Your videos are great btw!!! Keep them coming!
These are SO good, please keep making them. I'll start going through them all to post comments for the yt-algorithm. Srsly, keep making them. You're incredibly witty and entertaining! Regards, H
Thanks... I appreciate it! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Yep I am a new channel, and don't have a ton of views or subs yet, but honestly I am having so much FUN making these silly videos!!! 🤣
Awww yeah! (ノ^_^)ノ. Thanks. Just trying to have some fun with it. Most Tolkien sites have gotten weirdly serious over time for some reason 🤷. Glad you are liking them 😁
I LOVE IT!!! Let me do a bit of research on Balin. He was always my fav dwarf from book Hobbit. My initial thought is there probably is not enough info.... but I wonder if maybe I could combine it with other Moria adventures. Thanks for the good idea! (next vid, btw, is on the Ghost Army -- how exactly DID Isildur curse people into ghosts? 🤔)
@@thegreyhavens167 maybe helms deep? In the movies it's fun but doesn't feel right, only 10 of them are surviving in the end it looks like (before gandalf comes).. if you feel like making it, it might be interesting
I think that really shows, the fun you had definitly showed! Maybe Helms Deep or the battle of the 5 armies from the hobbit. Or if you wanted to the actual travels of Frodo Sam and Pippin from the books compared to the movies, tough that is not really a battle at all. No matter what video you make I am excited for the next one!@@thegreyhavens167
I like it!!! Helm's Deep added to the list. Yeah I love HD in the movies but it does seem a little weird sometimes. The army disappears at the end (and the elves are all dead I guess?) and the massive amount of soldiers Eomer has seems a bit weird... exp since we earlier saw him and he only had like 50 troops at best... I am going to give this one some thought :)
First of all, you have excellent taste in movies! AoD is just about the most quotable movie ever! 🤣🤣🤣 I can NOT believe you caught that. That's amazing!!! Well played good sir, very well played. Did you noticed the second reference at 8:05 as well?
@@thegreyhavens167 Yup! How could I not recognize The Chosen One himself? I just wasn't at that part of the video yet Also I find it ironic that he's in that part since, he and undead armies aren't exactly on good terms in The Evil Dead universe
That was very neatly explained.. thank you very much for that... I'll ask one question if you don't mind.. in the movies we see the great spider stab frodo in the back, which is odd because mithril should have blocked the hit (theoretically). Is there something which explains this moment?
He is stabbed facing forward so not that back. If you pause at the moment the camera pans through the window to see him lying on the ground as the orcs search he has a stab mark from the blade and above that is a jab scar
In the books, it's explained easy enough. The Spider stabs him in the back of the neck. In the movies, it seems to me this is just a small mistake. Mithril armor is supposed to be invulnerable to most blades. For example, think of how much harder that spear in the Mines of Moria hit Frodo and still did not go thru, while Frodo was standing next to a wall! So hard to understand how a stinger could go thru when Frodo is standing in the open. ＼（〇_ｏ）／ So in my opinion, a small mistake. (also later we see the Orcs hold up the Mithril shirt... and doesn't look damaged to me)
I'm about 2 mins into fhe first vid of yours i've ever seen and you got a like and a sub. If rest of video is shit, i will still watch at least five more bc so far its best vid ive seen on YT in a while. It's funny and informative and it is funny.
Awwww Yeah!!!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you are liking the vid! (Spolier Alert: if you liked the first 2 mins your gonna love the last 2 mins. I personally think that final scene is pretty funny 🤣🤣)
That was a terrific ending. Quite possibly the worst ever use of terrific considering that historically terrific meant something that was terrifying. I guess that if Sam and Frodo did meet with 30,000 orcs, then they would have been terrified. 😊😊😊❤😊😊😊
@thegreyhavens167 There's a more recent one. The standard British English word is normality. The USA had to be different, and because normality is so hard to spell, it was changed to normalcy - a word that I find revolting. I first came across normalcy in 1999 at university because my politics course had a young lady from New Hampshire. She wanted permission to use the American spelling. I like it less with every passing year. 😊😊🥺❤️🥺😊😊
@@markstott6689 Oh No! I am a physicist and engineer, and we use the word "normalcy" all the time. Now I am going to think of this every time is comes up 🤣. Any chance I could talk folks into using "normalness" instead? Seems like a good compromise :)
@thegreyhavens167 Nice try, lol. You're free to use your spelling whenever you wish. Just know that I will be quietly retching in the background should you use it on your channel. Anyway, surely there's a British term that has a similar effect on you? 🤔🤔😀❤️😀🤔🤔
(ノ^_^)ノ Awwww yeah!!!! Really glad you liked the video! I love Tolkien, but personally find other channels to be extremely serious 🤔. Just trying to have a bit of fun with it! Thanks for the cool comment.
@@thegreyhavens167 yeah man, it’s always fun to get a serious recount of battles but they’re for info not for entertainment, I’ve read all the books and I’m still learning!
@@thegreyhavens167 Would you consider doing some stuff on the rings of power, like maybe comparing the details to the canon etc. I know they had to condense it down a little bit but I believe prime didn’t have any access to anything other than the main 4 books so they had to improvise a fair bit, is that correct?
Wow! I loved this! You should do more if this kinda thing. It would be absolutely amazing to see like an animated version of LotR that sticks completely to the books
Thanks. I really appreciate that! 🙇🙏 I'm a new channel and not totally sure what I'm doing, but having lots of fun. Definitely thinking of doing another similar to this. Glad you liked it 😅😅
@@thegreyhavens167 yeah, honestly I’ve already nearly watched all your videos, and I really like the trivia and the editing. When I saw like, a newer vid of yours, I thought you were one of the top lotr channels lol
This is just what is there i have not said artwork 10/10 funny 10/10 boromir jokes 69/10. khand vids… oh wait there r no khand vids….. yet At least i hope so…
I wish we could see swan knight in action on the movies. Rohan gets more love than gondor in the movies, where Gondor serve as a punching bag, and a way to potray how broken men of the west is. Atleast give us a cool gondor soldier scene where they actually rekt the orc like Rohan soldier does many times in the movie.
I'd love an explanation of Dwarves, as they don't have eternal lives like Elves, but also don't have the gift of men, what happens to Dwarves when they die? and why don't they fear and avoid death like men do? Because I get the Elf-Men dichotomy between eternal and mortal lives but Dwarves seem like this akward inbetween of 2 theologically poignant extremes. side note: Does the lesser part of Saurons spirit that wasn't destroyed remain in middle earth? If not does Saurons entire spirit pass into the spirit realm like Saruman and just wander middle earth?
Awesome comment! Here are a couple answers for you, or at least how I personally read it: * Sauron's spirit: yep, still floating around here somewhere. it's just so weak and puny, however, that it can never react with the physical world again. I like to think of him floating around, angry and yelling at folks, and no one can hear him. 🤣 * Elves are immortal? Well, as a human: YEP they certainly are from my perspective. But to the elves... not so much. They are trapped forever on the Earth, which has a definitive stop at some point, and when it dies then they all die too. So in their mind they are MORTAL. From their perspective, it's MEN that are immortal... for when we die we sail to another place and aren't trapped here. Maybe in the other place we live forever? While the elves can never escape their doom. 😟 Anyways, sry so long. i LOVE the idea about doing something on the dwarven afterlife, though I dont know if there is any info on it or not. Gotta do some more reading on it. Thanks for the AWESOME idea!
If I remembered correctly The dwarves perspective of death is when they die They have place in the halls of Mandos so basically the same as the elves their spirit lay there awaiting to rebuild the world with their Father's help Aule
Agreed! I read it as Elrond did NOT want Merry and Pippin in the band and would have sent some awesome elvish warriors instead. My guess, Elladan and Erohir -- same guess I suspect you are thinking. Seems to me they are besties with Aragorn and taught him much of his epic skills 😎 But you know how Gandalf is around Hobbits. Maybe he just likes to feel tall? 🤔 G just had to talk him into Merry and Pip! 😅😅 (If I was Aragorn, I would have pushed for a Fellowship of at least 11!!)
YES YES YES YES!!!!!! Glad you liked it 🤣 btw, next vid is on the Ghost Army. Ever wonder "how did Isildur possibly have the ability to curse people into ghosts?" should be fun!
@@thegreyhavens167 awesome, can’t wait for the next video Also I always wondered where are the elves during the battle of Minas Tirith, need more info about it
🤔 Oh wait... that's actually a stellar idea. Do you mean include the Battle of Erebor, the attacks from Dul Guldor, the Battle Under the Trees, the March on the Black Gate, etc -- kinda like a World War thing? 🤔
More algorithm comments, but I have a Tolkien question! How did denethor come to be steward of Gondor? And what where the dwarves up to during all this? Keep em coming
Yeah, my Greek is a little rusty... but Skull Hill, maybe? Agreed... I just listened to it back and sure enough I save Calvary. Well the good thing is when you make mistakes on the Internet they go away, right? 🤣
The music just before 4:45 is What I've Done by Linkin Park. The 8 bit music just after that is by a UA-camr called Spencer Friesen that has a 8 bit version of the Riders of Rohan (it's epic).
Hey man. On Theoden : I remembered Saruman saying in the movies "you have fought many wars, Theoden king" and Aragorn said "Helm's deep has saved them in the past". I googled Theoden's past but didn't find anything except info on his sister, him adopting Eowyn & Eomer then it always jumps straight to the war of the ring, nothing in between. Did Tolkien write anything about these wars he fought before the war of the ring ? Is there anything interesting in this time period of his life ?
@thegreyhavens167 if you a fan of lord of the rings and love strategy games its worth the play it follows the events of the movies but it's more play your way
Excellent video but I think you underestimate the strength of Mordor, or more precisely, I think you fail to mention some of Sauron's other forces. The numbers at Minas Tirith sound about right, but these only represent the force from Minas Morgul. And there would still be a significant garrison left there and at Cirith Ungol. There was another significant force at Dol Guldur, strong enough to attack Lorien a couple of times, along with I expect, the Orcs of Moria and the Misty Mountains. And they could at the same time keep the Woodland Elves fighting defensively at the Battle Under the Trees that occurs simultaneously with the second assault on Lorien. The forces at the Morannon would have been stronger than the Minas Morgul force, probably much stronger as Minas Morgul guards a narrow mountain pass requiring a smaller fortification and smaller garrison while being less capable of passing a large army through, or for supplying one. The Morannon is wider, more suitable for invading Moria or for a great host to issue out of. So the Orcs and trolls at Minas Tirith would likely be at best a third or less of what Sauron had on hand.
nah the real untold story of the batlle is that boromir was actually there and he killed the withc king beacuse he is actually really epic and way cooler than the witch king beacuse of how nice he is (you should make a video of that btw)
Dude... can you imagine what the defense of Minas Tirith would have been like if Boromir had never went to Rivendell and was still there? If Boromir was leading the defense instead of his father? EP-IC!!! I mean he could have stood IN FRONT of the soldiers and catch all of Mordor's arrows. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@slowandcalm3665 To be fair, Minas Tirith would have been REALLY difficult for Mordor to attack with Boromir there. I mean Faramir is super cool, but I picture him more of a special forces kind of guy. And Denethor had lost it. Boromir was truly a great general I think. You know he would have kicked the Took out of the orc army!
600,000 Orcs attacked Minas Tirith this army was to destroy all in Middle-Earth. Minas Tirith was just the beginning and was to fall quickly and effortlessly. But alas the heroes put up a good fight. But if not for the army of the dead there would have been no victory.
🤣🤣 BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY! 🤣🤣 I know there are a lot of Frodo fan boys around, and I get it.... but I honestly agree with you 100%! Samwise is a complete LEGEND!!!
Mordorian infrastructure. Mordorian infrastructure. Huh, yanno, now I just can't stop picturing a superhighway funneling thousands of orc commuters from Barad-dur to Minas Morgal and back again every day, bitching about the weather, their boss, those reports due on the boss's desk by the weekend....
Wow... I REALLY need to see Sauron in a shirt and tie at a desk being super annoyed at the Orcs that aren't getting things done around the office. Had no idea how much I needed that until just now! 😅😅
@@thegreyhavens167 I see him sounding an awful lot like Bill Lumburgh. "Mmm, yeaaaaah, Grishnak, I'm gonna need you to pick up an extra shift this weekend. No overtime, but these reports aren't going to file themselves you know? Yeeeeeeah, thanks."
🤔 well ... gotta take some guesses with populations and such. Tolkien never tells us exactly, but most estimates are in the 1-5 million range. Keep in mind that by LOTR Minas Tirith had almost become a military outpost and other cities had potentially bigger populations. The majority of the population lived along the coast of the sea. So in the Battle with Sauron, Minas Tirith was expected to contribute ~3-4k troops and other cities ~25k troops.... So you can see how the population was segmented. What do you think?
🤣🤣 I am definitely too old to be a zoomer 🤣🤣 Honestly, just trying to have fun with it. I feel that most Tolkien sites are VERY reverential. It's like being in a church or something! So just taking something I love and injecting it with a lot of joy and fun. ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ What do you think? Is this crazy?
I love how he calls Frodo and Sam an elite team of special forces
🤣 🤣 🤣 Don't mess with Hobbits! They are terrifying!
Aren't they tho. Hobbits are super underrated
@@Chaesoup I dunno. Take everything that happened to Sam for example... you can kill his friend, starve him, torture him, make him walk for weeks, burn him, make him fight giant spiders, place a tower of Orcs in his way, flood him with lava... doesn't matter. He never stops. He just keeps going. He relentlessly marches towards the Mt. He cant be talked out of it. He can't be bought or reasoned with or negotiated with. He is a machine!
(I swear Sam is secretly an actual terminator that traveled back in time to destroy Sauron. 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
@@thegreyhavens167 Sam is the gigachad of the fellowship
They literally saved the world lmao
This would have been a way more epic battle than what was in the movies
Agreed 100%. Though I do love the movie version too. The Ghost Army at Minas Tirith looks great, sounds great, is quick and efficient, requires no dialog.... but wow it kinda breaks down when you start thinking about it, right?
@@thegreyhavens167The Haradrim and Rohirrim entrances were absolute bangers tho ngl
It would have forced a 4th movie. Which they could have afforded with the profits from the first 3. But instead they made that miniseries abomination.
The small size of the armies wouldn't look like they threaten all of Middle Earth.
@@praetorian3902 they can keep the numbers, i just don't like what they did with the ghost army
Even when he's dead you STILL come at my boy Boromir like that
Oh no. I would never pick on Boromir, how did that troll get in there??? I think my account was HACKED!!! :)
(honestly, I went 99% of the video before trolling on Boromir... that might be a record for me! 🤣🤣)
@@thegreyhavens167Honestly I think it is lol 😂 Love your content man, keep up the great work!
That Aaaragorn pirate joke is the best thing I have seen in years!!!!!
Thanks! (next vid, btw, is on the Ghost Army -- how exactly DID Isildur curse people into ghosts? 🤔)
@@thegreyhavens167 ooh awesome
Ur coming in with the true question my guy! I like it. I’m currently watching All of your videos your like the fourth lotr UA-camr I’ve done this for. Your editing and style is slick brotha keep it up don’t end up like a trash orc.
You know what I might want to hear about? In the Hobbit, when Bilbo’s hosting the dwarves at his home, at least one of them asks for Coffee. Which leads me to believe that somehow, coffee made it to the Shire. I’d like to know how that’s possible. (My best guess is that Coffee is kinda a delicacy in lands like the Shire, suggesting that Bilbo was pretty well off even before he went to Erebor, which I guess was kinda well known. And that coffee beans were likely grown in faraway lands like Umbar and the Far Harad, most likely by the Haradrim, and possibly they gouged the price of it a lot if they were selling it to lands like Gondor and Rohan, since they were at war with them. Meaning it’d probably be even more expensive in lands like the Shire. So, yeah, bit of a lot of backstory for a small bit of the world, but with Tolkien, I’d expect no less.)
@jacobshore5115 .... uhhhh... what? 🤣 This is the best comment ever!!! 😅🤯 Of all the awesome things people ask about Tolkien ( the nature of the universe, life after death, the role of fate versus free will) you question is about... coffee! THIS IS AWESOME! 🤣🤣🤣
Ok full transparency, I never even noticed it until just now - but your right. Someone (Balin maybe?) asks for coffee and Gandalf red wine and a few others beer if I remember correctly. Ok now I'm super curious. I gotta jump into this and give it some thought. Thanks for the awesome comment! 🏆🏆
For me, it was how did they know about tobacco, when it wasn't introduced to Europe until Columbus discovered South America.
@@anathardayaldar also a good question!
@@thegreyhavens167 I guess a lot of that was speculation on my part, not sure if you’d find much information confirming any of this in the Legendarium…
@@anathardayaldar Pipeweed exists in the Shire without coming from a place outside of it. It originates from a hill near Bree and is exported/discovered to/by Men and Dwarves according to Tolkien. Especially the Rangers.
Actually there are less than 200,000 Orcs that are shown on the Battlefield in the Movie. We tend to underestimate what "10,000" soldiers is and looks like, it's actually a pretty massive number of men.
Well said - and it's a good point about just how BIG 10k people are. That being said, there are no exact numbers ever given in the main books or any of the other works. So the movie just guessed and did what they thought looked cool. I really did about the same... just took a cool guess on what sounded right to me. That being said, safe to say there were a LOT of orcs!!
Hope you liked the vid :)
Love that Sauron is Aku
Awwww yeah!!!!!! Thanks, glad you liked it!
Just found out about your channel and mate your humor and narration are pure gold! Thank you for the great content.
Awww yeah!! (ノ^_^)ノ. Thanks, I appreciate that. Glad you liked the vids.
Drop a comment if you ever have a question or topic you want a vid on :)
I love the way you do just everything in these videos, the editing is just so amazing
Aw yeah! Thanks... I really appreciate that! Glad you like it.
@@thegreyhavens167 I wonder if you could make a video about how Minas Morgul was once Minas Ithil, a fortress of Gondor. I remember reading this in either the Silmarillion or one of the other Tolkien books. Your videos are great btw!!! Keep them coming!
No, I don't think so. Because re-creating a book page per page into a movie, it would have been a mess, this is what PJ said too
This video is a masterpiece. keep up the good work!
Aw yeah!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Thanks!
This format was wonderful 💛
Aw yeah!!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Thanks! Trying to bring a little fun into the Tolkien world (some of the other sites are super serious). Really glad you liked it.
The editing in this video was soooo good! Loved the video!
Awwww yeah!!!! 😎😎. Thanks, I really appreciate that. Glad you liked it!
These are SO good, please keep making them. I'll start going through them all to post comments for the yt-algorithm. Srsly, keep making them. You're incredibly witty and entertaining!
Regards, H
Loved all the jokes and memes great video as always!
Aw yeah!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you liked it. fwiw, I am having so much fun making these vids!
Ive only just realised you only have 14k subscribers! Seeing your stuff in my shorts made me think you were some massive UA-camr 😅 very nice work man!
Thanks... I appreciate it! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Yep I am a new channel, and don't have a ton of views or subs yet, but honestly I am having so much FUN making these silly videos!!! 🤣
@@thegreyhavens167and we have so much fun watching your silly videos🤣
I’m commenting just to boost your algorithm, a lot of effort was spent on this video and it was an awesome watch, GG !
I appreciate it! THANKS!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you liked the vid!
Love your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do! Glad you like it! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ I'm also having sooo much fun hanging out with Tolkien fans in the comments here! 🤣
Enjoyable to have a new take on these topics
Awww yeah! (ノ^_^)ノ. Thanks. Just trying to have some fun with it. Most Tolkien sites have gotten weirdly serious over time for some reason 🤷.
Glad you are liking them 😁
Frodo and Sam never would’ve made it to mount doom if Aragon hadn’t taken saruons attention from Mordor.
Loved the vid. Im a sucker for a good last stand, you think theres enough content for a similar video about Balin’s Moria quest?
I LOVE IT!!! Let me do a bit of research on Balin. He was always my fav dwarf from book Hobbit. My initial thought is there probably is not enough info.... but I wonder if maybe I could combine it with other Moria adventures. Thanks for the good idea!
(next vid, btw, is on the Ghost Army -- how exactly DID Isildur curse people into ghosts? 🤔)
@@thegreyhavens167 cant wait!
This video was straight🔥ur style is the best
This was amazing! The video was such a wild ride I loved it!
Thanks! I appreciate that. I really liked doing this "battle" style video. I think I might do another one... any suggestions? 😅
@@thegreyhavens167 maybe helms deep? In the movies it's fun but doesn't feel right, only 10 of them are surviving in the end it looks like (before gandalf comes).. if you feel like making it, it might be interesting
I think that really shows, the fun you had definitly showed! Maybe Helms Deep or the battle of the 5 armies from the hobbit. Or if you wanted to the actual travels of Frodo Sam and Pippin from the books compared to the movies, tough that is not really a battle at all. No matter what video you make I am excited for the next one!@@thegreyhavens167
I like it!!! Helm's Deep added to the list.
Yeah I love HD in the movies but it does seem a little weird sometimes. The army disappears at the end (and the elves are all dead I guess?) and the massive amount of soldiers Eomer has seems a bit weird... exp since we earlier saw him and he only had like 50 troops at best...
I am going to give this one some thought :)
@@thegreyhavens167 ohh man am I glad to read that comment now :DD
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli together add up to 2.5 😂😂. Best LOTR video ever
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Aw yeah!!! Thanks, I appreciate that. Glad you liked it!
EPIC!!! After credit scene is fire 🔥😂
Thanks! I can imagine Sam being furious at Aragorn for the rest of his life! 🤣
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Man, I really love Army Of Darkness, its my #1 favorite movie! and hearing that little soundclip made me smile a bit.
First of all, you have excellent taste in movies! AoD is just about the most quotable movie ever! 🤣🤣🤣
I can NOT believe you caught that. That's amazing!!! Well played good sir, very well played.
Did you noticed the second reference at 8:05 as well?
@@thegreyhavens167
Yup! How could I not recognize The Chosen One himself? I just wasn't at that part of the video yet
Also I find it ironic that he's in that part since, he and undead armies aren't exactly on good terms in The Evil Dead universe
Great video!!! Could you please do a video about the battle of helm's deep?
I like it! Battle of Helms deep added to the list! 😎
2:36 😂now that’s some smart editing with the FNAF cameras ha!!!
Awww yeah.... (ノ^_^)ノ. This guy gets it! 🤣. Glad you liked the vid.
I love this channel and it’s video game-like special effects
🤣🤣🤣 I love this comment so much!!!! Thanks!
@@thegreyhavens167 Well, it’s true!!! It’s my favorite part of your videos!!
Please make such videos for every battle in middle earth!
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Oh yeah!!! I love it! I will see what I can do. 🤣
That was very neatly explained.. thank you very much for that...
I'll ask one question if you don't mind.. in the movies we see the great spider stab frodo in the back, which is odd because mithril should have blocked the hit (theoretically). Is there something which explains this moment?
He is stabbed facing forward so not that back. If you pause at the moment the camera pans through the window to see him lying on the ground as the orcs search he has a stab mark from the blade and above that is a jab scar
In the books, it's explained easy enough. The Spider stabs him in the back of the neck.
In the movies, it seems to me this is just a small mistake. Mithril armor is supposed to be invulnerable to most blades. For example, think of how much harder that spear in the Mines of Moria hit Frodo and still did not go thru, while Frodo was standing next to a wall! So hard to understand how a stinger could go thru when Frodo is standing in the open. ＼（〇_ｏ）／ So in my opinion, a small mistake.
(also later we see the Orcs hold up the Mithril shirt... and doesn't look damaged to me)
@@thegreyhavens167 thanks againg! I really need to dig into the books..
this was so interesting to watch 10/10
Thanks. I appreciate that! Glad you liked it.
Adding Warcraft Unit Images is quite creative. Wish you can do it again.
Aw yeah!! Thanks ＼(^o^)／
Honestly, kinda surprised anyone really noticed. Well played, friend, well played 🏆🏆
@@thegreyhavens167 You're welcome man. And good luck.
Brilliantly done 👍
Aw yeah ＼（〇◡ｏ）／!!! Thanks for the positive vibes!
I'm about 2 mins into fhe first vid of yours i've ever seen and you got a like and a sub.
If rest of video is shit, i will still watch at least five more bc so far its best vid ive seen on YT in a while.
It's funny and informative and it is funny.
Awwww Yeah!!!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you are liking the vid!
(Spolier Alert: if you liked the first 2 mins your gonna love the last 2 mins. I personally think that final scene is pretty funny 🤣🤣)
That was a terrific ending.
Quite possibly the worst ever use of terrific considering that historically terrific meant something that was terrifying.
I guess that if Sam and Frodo did meet with 30,000 orcs, then they would have been terrified.
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Thanks, glad you liked it! It's to weird to me that Terrific and Terrible are the exact same word. How do things like this evolve in a society?
@thegreyhavens167 There's a more recent one. The standard British English word is normality. The USA had to be different, and because normality is so hard to spell, it was changed to normalcy - a word that I find revolting. I first came across normalcy in 1999 at university because my politics course had a young lady from New Hampshire. She wanted permission to use the American spelling. I like it less with every passing year. 😊😊🥺❤️🥺😊😊
@@markstott6689 Oh No! I am a physicist and engineer, and we use the word "normalcy" all the time. Now I am going to think of this every time is comes up 🤣. Any chance I could talk folks into using "normalness" instead? Seems like a good compromise :)
@thegreyhavens167 Nice try, lol. You're free to use your spelling whenever you wish. Just know that I will be quietly retching in the background should you use it on your channel. Anyway, surely there's a British term that has a similar effect on you? 🤔🤔😀❤️😀🤔🤔
genuinely the only lotr explained i want to watch, much more interesting than others
(ノ^_^)ノ Awwww yeah!!!! Really glad you liked the video!
I love Tolkien, but personally find other channels to be extremely serious 🤔. Just trying to have a bit of fun with it! Thanks for the cool comment.
@@thegreyhavens167 yeah man, it’s always fun to get a serious recount of battles but they’re for info not for entertainment, I’ve read all the books and I’m still learning!
@@thegreyhavens167 Would you consider doing some stuff on the rings of power, like maybe comparing the details to the canon etc. I know they had to condense it down a little bit but I believe prime didn’t have any access to anything other than the main 4 books so they had to improvise a fair bit, is that correct?
Love that music
Awwww yeah!!! (ノ^_^)ノ. Thanks, glad you like the video! (That Mortal Kombat theme song is kinda epic!)
Love the sense of humor!
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Thanks! Glad you liked it! fwiw I am having a TON of fun making these crazy vids 😅
Please do this for every battle!!
Aw yeah ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ !!!!
This was easy to understand, "Bitesize" LOTR ,Thanks !! :)
Your welcome. ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you liked it!
Wow! I loved this! You should do more if this kinda thing. It would be absolutely amazing to see like an animated version of LotR that sticks completely to the books
Thanks. I really appreciate that! 🙇🙏
I'm a new channel and not totally sure what I'm doing, but having lots of fun. Definitely thinking of doing another similar to this. Glad you liked it 😅😅
@@thegreyhavens167 yeah, honestly I’ve already nearly watched all your videos, and I really like the trivia and the editing. When I saw like, a newer vid of yours, I thought you were one of the top lotr channels lol
Jooooooo he has uploaded again
Joooooooo - he has commented again!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／
The 8bit story telling was superb...
Awwww yeah!!!! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you liked it!
This is just what is there i have not said artwork 10/10 funny 10/10 boromir jokes 69/10. khand vids… oh wait there r no khand vids….. yet
At least i hope so…
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ My next video is on the Ghost Army 👻👻👻. Maybe Khand is next after that....????
@@thegreyhavens167 💀💀 u said it like 5 times… but not to be hasty i will wait
@@Prohos. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, I haven't found anything cool about Khand just yet... but will keep looking 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Is there something speicif you have in mind?
The siege of Minas Tirith and battle of the Pelinel Field are my favorite parts of the entire movies and books. It’s the greatest moment in any book.
I wish we could see swan knight in action on the movies.
Rohan gets more love than gondor in the movies, where Gondor serve as a punching bag, and a way to potray how broken men of the west is.
Atleast give us a cool gondor soldier scene where they actually rekt the orc like Rohan soldier does many times in the movie.
Your vidéos are so cool man !
Thanks! I really appreciated that. Glad you liked them! 🙂
Great content ! Love it Haha
This is fucking awesome! thanks for the video.. now just make 100 more please
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Aw Yeah!!! Now we're talking! Thanks for sending the awesome vibes my way! 🙇
(next videos... the spooky Ghost Army 👻)
I'd love an explanation of Dwarves, as they don't have eternal lives like Elves, but also don't have the gift of men, what happens to Dwarves when they die? and why don't they fear and avoid death like men do? Because I get the Elf-Men dichotomy between eternal and mortal lives but Dwarves seem like this akward inbetween of 2 theologically poignant extremes.
side note: Does the lesser part of Saurons spirit that wasn't destroyed remain in middle earth? If not does Saurons entire spirit pass into the spirit realm like Saruman and just wander middle earth?
Awesome comment! Here are a couple answers for you, or at least how I personally read it:
* Sauron's spirit: yep, still floating around here somewhere. it's just so weak and puny, however, that it can never react with the physical world again. I like to think of him floating around, angry and yelling at folks, and no one can hear him. 🤣
* Elves are immortal? Well, as a human: YEP they certainly are from my perspective. But to the elves... not so much. They are trapped forever on the Earth, which has a definitive stop at some point, and when it dies then they all die too. So in their mind they are MORTAL. From their perspective, it's MEN that are immortal... for when we die we sail to another place and aren't trapped here. Maybe in the other place we live forever? While the elves can never escape their doom. 😟
Anyways, sry so long. i LOVE the idea about doing something on the dwarven afterlife, though I dont know if there is any info on it or not. Gotta do some more reading on it. Thanks for the AWESOME idea!
If I remembered correctly
The dwarves perspective of death is when they die
They have place in the halls of Mandos so basically the same as the elves their spirit lay there awaiting to rebuild the world with their Father's help
Aule
Why didn’t Glorfindel, Elladan, or Elrohir join the fellowship? Would they have made it farther together without Mary, Pippin, and Sam.
Agreed! I read it as Elrond did NOT want Merry and Pippin in the band and would have sent some awesome elvish warriors instead. My guess, Elladan and Erohir -- same guess I suspect you are thinking. Seems to me they are besties with Aragorn and taught him much of his epic skills 😎
But you know how Gandalf is around Hobbits. Maybe he just likes to feel tall? 🤔 G just had to talk him into Merry and Pip! 😅😅
(If I was Aragorn, I would have pushed for a Fellowship of at least 11!!)
Truly the most EP (wait for it) IC way to understand LOTR
YES YES YES YES!!!!!! Glad you liked it 🤣 btw, next vid is on the Ghost Army. Ever wonder "how did Isildur possibly have the ability to curse people into ghosts?" should be fun!
@@thegreyhavens167 awesome, can’t wait for the next video
Also I always wondered where are the elves during the battle of Minas Tirith, need more info about it
@@phoenixboyzAnd the dwarves. I heard they were attacked by Sauron.
Do an oversimplified style video about the entire war of the ring
🤔 Oh wait... that's actually a stellar idea. Do you mean include the Battle of Erebor, the attacks from Dul Guldor, the Battle Under the Trees, the March on the Black Gate, etc -- kinda like a World War thing? 🤔
The AOE debuff from nazgul made me realize you are a veteran battle for middle earth gamer😂
This channel is the best!
Me listening to Mortal Kombat music on the The Battle of the Pelennor Fields clips ... Ok subscribe
Awww yeah! ＼(^o^)／. Glad you liked the video!
Now, can we trade screen names???
More algorithm comments, but I have a Tolkien question! How did denethor come to be steward of Gondor? And what where the dwarves up to during all this? Keep em coming
*Cavalry is spelled cavalry. Unless you're talking about the hill Golgotha outside of Jerusalem
Yeah, my Greek is a little rusty... but Skull Hill, maybe? Agreed... I just listened to it back and sure enough I save Calvary. Well the good thing is when you make mistakes on the Internet they go away, right? 🤣
@@thegreyhavens167 I love the video but sorry, that one thing is just a personal pet peeve
@@Set_Your_Handlle Fair enough. Yeah my pronunciation is not always the best! We will see if I can get it right next time. Glad you liked the video! 🙂
Love how Goku is apart of the video
Please keep the MK intro track in all the upcoming videos!!!!! :)))))
＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Aw Yeah!!!!!! I mean the song's lyrics do basically summarize the whole video, right? 🤣
@@thegreyhavens167 lol absolutely!
What is the music a 4:45 I love it?
The music just before 4:45 is What I've Done by Linkin Park. The 8 bit music just after that is by a UA-camr called Spencer Friesen that has a 8 bit version of the Riders of Rohan (it's epic).
I love ur videos thank you
Battle of Pelanor Fields vid :0
Im dying how the took😂😂😂😂khand
*But what about the droid attack on the Wookies?*
Go back to Cybertron you Vulcan Muggle of Dragons!!!! ＼（〇_ｏ）／
Wait, are you saying Tolkien based the ENTS on WOOKIES??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@thegreyhavens167 More like Middle Earth is on Kashyyyk. Its pretty Obvious
Ur the best
Thanks for the positive vibes! ＼（〇◡ｏ）／ Glad you liked it.
Hey man. On Theoden : I remembered Saruman saying in the movies "you have fought many wars, Theoden king" and Aragorn said "Helm's deep has saved them in the past". I googled Theoden's past but didn't find anything except info on his sister, him adopting Eowyn & Eomer then it always jumps straight to the war of the ring, nothing in between. Did Tolkien write anything about these wars he fought before the war of the ring ? Is there anything interesting in this time period of his life ?
Did i just hear something the battle for middle earth at the end of the video
🤣🤣 I love it! Well played.... well played. 🤣🤣
@@thegreyhavens167 playing it right still can't believe I found a version that works
I've never played it. Somehow I missed it when it came out and didn't really hear about it till a while ago. Is it still worth playing in 2023?
@thegreyhavens167 if you a fan of lord of the rings and love strategy games its worth the play it follows the events of the movies but it's more play your way
Excellent video but I think you underestimate the strength of Mordor, or more precisely, I think you fail to mention some of Sauron's other forces. The numbers at Minas Tirith sound about right, but these only represent the force from Minas Morgul. And there would still be a significant garrison left there and at Cirith Ungol.
There was another significant force at Dol Guldur, strong enough to attack Lorien a couple of times, along with I expect, the Orcs of Moria and the Misty Mountains. And they could at the same time keep the Woodland Elves fighting defensively at the Battle Under the Trees that occurs simultaneously with the second assault on Lorien.
The forces at the Morannon would have been stronger than the Minas Morgul force, probably much stronger as Minas Morgul guards a narrow mountain pass requiring a smaller fortification and smaller garrison while being less capable of passing a large army through, or for supplying one. The Morannon is wider, more suitable for invading Moria or for a great host to issue out of.
So the Orcs and trolls at Minas Tirith would likely be at best a third or less of what Sauron had on hand.
What song was that in the first 15seconds
Theme song to Mortal Kombat 😅
Couldn't Aragorg have kept the ghost army just for a bit longer? 😅
Question: what is that ring, that aragorn has?
nah the real untold story of the batlle is that boromir was actually there and he killed the withc king beacuse he is actually really epic and way cooler than the witch king beacuse of how nice he is (you should make a video of that btw)
Dude... can you imagine what the defense of Minas Tirith would have been like if Boromir had never went to Rivendell and was still there? If Boromir was leading the defense instead of his father? EP-IC!!!
I mean he could have stood IN FRONT of the soldiers and catch all of Mordor's arrows. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@thegreyhavens167 it would have been boring ngl boromir would have just killed sauron
@@slowandcalm3665 To be fair, Minas Tirith would have been REALLY difficult for Mordor to attack with Boromir there. I mean Faramir is super cool, but I picture him more of a special forces kind of guy. And Denethor had lost it. Boromir was truly a great general I think. You know he would have kicked the Took out of the orc army!
@@thegreyhavens167 no way you actually gave boromir a genuine complement are you feeling OK?
@slowandcalm3665 to be honest, Boromir never seems to catch a break...
...but he DOES catch a lot of ARROWS 🔥🔥
600,000 Orcs attacked Minas Tirith this army was to destroy all in Middle-Earth. Minas Tirith was just the beginning and was to fall quickly and effortlessly. But alas the heroes put up a good fight. But if not for the army of the dead there would have been no victory.
Guestion who is Aragorn the first of the dunedain
You are saying calvary not cavalry. Calvary is where Christ was crucified. Cavalry is the military unit.
Why did Aragorn free the ghost army so early?
Not elite special forces. A SINGLE elite with maxed skills and a noob who had pickup up the most important item in the game
🤣🤣 BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY! 🤣🤣
I know there are a lot of Frodo fan boys around, and I get it.... but I honestly agree with you 100%! Samwise is a complete LEGEND!!!
34.5 😂
If Gimli is 0.5 does that make his KDA x2 ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment of the day!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆
I like more the battle of the movie
Fordo and Sam special forces definitely 🤣🤣
Easterling in the battle of Minas Tirith troll mash the gate open.
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Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Mordorian infrastructure. Mordorian infrastructure. Huh, yanno, now I just can't stop picturing a superhighway funneling thousands of orc commuters from Barad-dur to Minas Morgal and back again every day, bitching about the weather, their boss, those reports due on the boss's desk by the weekend....
Wow... I REALLY need to see Sauron in a shirt and tie at a desk being super annoyed at the Orcs that aren't getting things done around the office. Had no idea how much I needed that until just now! 😅😅
@@thegreyhavens167 I see him sounding an awful lot like Bill Lumburgh. "Mmm, yeaaaaah, Grishnak, I'm gonna need you to pick up an extra shift this weekend. No overtime, but these reports aren't going to file themselves you know? Yeeeeeeah, thanks."
several million? gondor??
🤔 well ... gotta take some guesses with populations and such. Tolkien never tells us exactly, but most estimates are in the 1-5 million range. Keep in mind that by LOTR Minas Tirith had almost become a military outpost and other cities had potentially bigger populations. The majority of the population lived along the coast of the sea. So in the Battle with Sauron, Minas Tirith was expected to contribute ~3-4k troops and other cities ~25k troops.... So you can see how the population was segmented.
What do you think?
9:38
Nahh I'm kinda fine really
🤣 In my head, Sam is cursing Aragorn for the rest of his life! 🤣
Day 5 of asking for Tom Bombadil ❤
It's coming... or at least I'm exploring it. I'm thinking a vid on Tommy B + Old Man Willow.
Dude, when you're talking about mounted troops you're talking about CAVALRY. CALVARY is where Jesus was crucified. 😢
While it's complete semantics, you are right.
At last, a format that will keep the zoomer's attention.
🤣🤣 I am definitely too old to be a zoomer 🤣🤣
Honestly, just trying to have fun with it. I feel that most Tolkien sites are VERY reverential. It's like being in a church or something! So just taking something I love and injecting it with a lot of joy and fun. ＼（〇◡ｏ）／
What do you think? Is this crazy?
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do for the algorithm.
It does show alot of effort so I admire that.
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LMFAOOO
The music tho…is so trash and….