Why Hasn’t the Tolkien Estate Sold the Rights to Adapt the Silmarillion?

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...

20 Jun 20219min

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...

20 Jun 20219min

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...

20 Jun 202113min

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 ...

20 Jun 202114min

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...

20 Jun 202117min

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...

17 Jun 202121min

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...

17 Jun 202116min

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...

17 Jun 202121min