Turin’s Weakness Is His Lack of Tolkien’s Greatest Weapon: Friendship

Now that I’ve covered the basic rules for Elvish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNita-4Ujk), we can explore some other rules unique to other languages, like Khuzdul, Black Speech, and the tongue of...

20 Feb 202319min

Tolkien is famous for creating a sense of history in his Middle-earth Legendarium, but his references to ancient history is only the beginning of how he leads us to want to get more out of his imagina...

16 Feb 20239min

Years ago I made a video about how to pronounce words in Tolkien’s Middle-earth which was...a bit flawed. Now I’m redoing that in two videos. This first video will cover the rules for Elvish words, ...

13 Feb 202345min

For a story that focuses so little on eating and drinking (outside of the Shire of course!), The Lord of the Rings has quite a few important and seemingly magical beverages, each with its own effects ...

9 Feb 20238min

One of Tolkien’s key themes throughout his work is subcreation, the idea that as beings created by a creator God, we (or his invented elves and other races) are also by nature creative. But there are...

6 Feb 202321min

As a young reader my brain quite naturally correlated Aman, west of Middle-earth (Europe) with America, though I was aware that was not really Tolkien’s intent. Imagine my surprise to find out he alm...

2 Feb 20236min

The contrast between book Theoden and movie Theoden could hardly be more striking. Some of that is related to some plot changes introduced in the movie, but those don’t justify movie Theoden’s whiny ...

30 Jan 202336min

The Ruling Stewards of Gondor declined to use the standard of the kings and instead used a simple white flag. What’s the significance of this choice? Whatever it means, it definitely isn’t surrender...

26 Jan 20235min