What Would Have Happened if Samwise Chose to Stay with Frodo in Cirith Ungol?

If you haven't read the Appendices to the Lord of the Rings, but you've seen the movies, you might be wondering how Aragorn can be the descendant of Elendil and Isildur and yet he's seemingly a random wanderer far from Gondor. Wonder no more, because I'm going to explain the history of the other kingdom of the Dunedain: the northern kingdom of Arnor. Video on the Disaster of the Gladden Fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-s2BljVvCU The video on Numenor is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqDslbXjg70 Oh, and that awesome map of Middle Earth? Get it (with 3 others) here: https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Tolkiens-Middle-earth-Brian-Sibley/dp/061839110X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493809054&sr=8-2&keywords=maps+of+middle+earth

10 Juni 202121min

Tolkien eventually did write a full account of how Isildur lost the Ring, but it didn't reach the public until Christopher Tolkien published the Unfinished Tales. Here's the story. The Unfinished Tales can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Tales-Lost-Lore-Middle-earth/dp/0345357116 Video on the Kingdom of Arnor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0zfrkinqc Oh, and that awesome map of Middle Earth? Get it (with 3 others) here: https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Tolkiens-Middle-earth-Brian-Sibley/dp/061839110X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493809054&sr=8-2&keywords=maps+of+middle+earth

10 Juni 202121min

Tolkien's view of fantasy includes the idea that creating fantasy is an act of "sub-creation," but he also made the idea of sub-creation a powerful theme in The Silmarillion. This video explores how he used that theme.

10 Juni 202126min

In this video I explain the history and significance of Aragorn's ring, the ring of Barahir.

10 Juni 202113min

The island of Numenor was a relatively late addition to Tolkien's Middle Earth mythology, but it turned out to be tremendously important. In this video I get into the basic history of Numenor in Middle Earth, and explain a few interesting facts about it as well. Most of our information about the island of Numenor comes from the Silmarillion: https://www.amazon.com/Silmarillion-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544338014/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482069523&sr=8-1&keywords=silmarillion With some additional information found in the Unfinished Tales: https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-N%C3%BAmenor-Middle-earth-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544337999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482069566&sr=8-1&keywords=unfinished+tales+tolkien But its origins lie in a story Tolkien never finished: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Other-Writings-History-Middle-Earth/dp/0345406850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482069606&sr=1-1&keywords=the+lost+road+and+other+writings

10 Juni 202132min

Friends don't let friends watch dumb pop culture site videos about Tolkien, so I'm here to clear things up in case anyone was fooled by the lazy ideas spouted by Grunge.com. For my video on Merry's role in killing the Witch King, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJKnsNlwgNw&t=758s And for more on why the Eagles didn't just fly Frodo to Mount Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EtgU3tf_oQ If you really want to watch Grunge's video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g75laLtd_k You can now find me on Rumble at https://rumble.com/c/c-355195 And on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TolkienLore:f You can support my channel by visiting my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/tolkiengeek.

7 Juni 202114min

The Story of Kullervo provides an interesting look at Tolkien's creative process and some of his source material for the Silmarillion.

2 Juni 202112min

We all know Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, and many of us are familiar with the Silmarillion and perhaps the fact that he was a philologist by profession. But did you know he wrote several other pieces of fiction? This video explores one of them, "Smith of Wootton Major," which lies somewhere near the epicenter of Tolkien's work in the sense that it incorporates some of his personal views on "Faerie story".

2 Juni 202116min