Before the Downfall of Númenor, Men fell swiftly under Morgoth, as they listened to his evil and cunning words. While they feared the darkness they believed, they also worshipped it. Thus, some of them would sail west, as “they had heard a rumour that in the West there was a light which the Shadow could not dim.” (Silmarillion, “Akallabêth”) Eärendil had sailed west just before then and never returned. After Manwë put forth Morgoth and shut him beyond the world for him never to return, ...
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Rings of Power Episode 4 Breakdown + Review
Rings of Power Episode 4 - So I first thought about ceasing watching #ringsofpower after two episodes but I heard from some people I knew that Episode 4 gets much better than the previous ones. So maybe it’s worth giving a shot. Personally I won’t have much time to go through all the episodes but would be able to go through some of them. Yes I have watched episode 3. Of course we got to see #Númenor for the first time! And Númenor looks like #middleearth in my opinion. Of course ...
Rings of Power Episode 2 Review
Anywho, so right before Rings of Power Episode 2 and during it - since the end of episode 1 Galadriel went there after Gil-galad let her in, and went swimming when she was on the ship to Valinor. Rings of Power Episode 2: The Stranger Then the scene skips to the Harfoots - when Nori sees something - I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be. Some sort of body or statue laying in the middle of a fire - which we later see it being The Stranger. She says it could be a man or an elf. There ...
Response to: FEE’s “You’re Wrong About Optimism”
FEE (Foundation of Economic Education)'s "You're Wrong About Optimism" uses the plots of the Lord of the Rings, and a couple of other movies and shows to show the importance of optimism and optimistic characters in times of despair. So the beginning of the video talks about how LOTR is a story that is not about big heroes but small heroes that want to make the world a better place. Since this is a LOTR channel I will mainly go over the Middle-earth sections of it - though the videos do ...
Rings of Power Episode 1 Review
Rings of Power Episode 1 Review: So I haven't done a RoP post in a while, mainly because I wanted to sort of wait until the show comes in. I kind of got excited for the first trailers, but after that it just got kind of boring to me it was hard to keep up with all the new news (ha!) going on. I vaguely watched many of the trailers, and while before it didn't really give me the Middle-earth feel, it sort of grew on me after that. But I kind of had this feeling that they might stray too far ...
Sam’s Speech Two Towers Explained
Did you know that Sam’s iconic speech in the movies, was also in the books as well? Much like the movie, it was in The Two Towers. though it was in the stairs of Cirith Ungol, and starts with “Yes, that’s so.” “‘Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam. ‘And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started.’”JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers, "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol" And it goes on until: “Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different. Why, even ...