Debunking CinemaSins’ “Everything Wrong with Lord of the Rings (1979)”

I've done three videos on the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow Downs. But why bother talking about chapters that don't move the plot forward in any significant way? Well.... Video on the Ol...

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Before watching this video, watch The Old Forest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ODkwQ-lnY) and Tom Bombadil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfG0vP_INs) for some context. You might also be in...

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If you haven't seen the Old Forest video (https://youtu.be/Y1ODkwQ-lnY), you might want to watch it first, because this is the second of a three-part series covering a huge amount of material Peter Ja...

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Peter Jackson left out several chapters of material from the Fellowship of the Ring between the hobbits leaving the Shire and arriving at Bree. This is the first in a series of videos exploring that ...

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People tend to find all kinds of hidden meanings in fiction, and Tolkien's works are no exception. Here are some of the more plausible alleged allegories in the Lord of the Rings, with explanations o...

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Aside from the friendship of Frodo and Sam, the one shared by Legolas and Gimli is probably the most significant in the Lord of the Rings, so much so that you almost can't talk about one of the pair w...

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Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy didn't just leave out plot points, it left out some pretty significant characters. Here are my top five. Middle Earth Mysteries video is here: https://www.y...

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The events at Bree are pivotal to a lot of the story in Lord of the Rings, but because Peter Jackson's movies truncated so much of the Fellowship, a lot of Tolkien's version got left out. In this vid...

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