Great video, must have took a lot of work! You should do the same for star wars creatures!

I feel like the reason the Rohirrim were unable to tame Shadowfax was because he wished to be treated as an actual equal or even better as a friend instead of merely dominated. That's why Gandalf succeeded where others failed.

You don't need to use transitions effects for the same image over and over lol just leaving it be on the screen is fine

The looped transitions are like a photo screensaver with only one image in the gallery. Kind of hard to watch after the same picture zooms into focus five times

If someone with a big budget had the idea of making a TV series based on the stories of Tolkien they would have so much to work on. To bad it will never happen.

The names of the chapters are unholy. Whoever put that together is a legend.

Shelob wasn't killed by Sam. Where did you get that from? It's left ambiguous in the books too

You can't even get the names right, for example "Calagon" should be Ancalagon and "Sheilob" should be Shelob". And "Mama kill", seriously? That should be Mûmakil.

cool fact: in finnish translation Shelob is translated as "Lukitari" which is an incredibly awesome name to be. it's actually similar construction of word than Shelob - an artistic rendition of two words "Lukki", a common water spider, and "tar" which is the feminine ending to a royal title. but let me just say it's the coolest translation in the history of writing ever because how good it sounds.

Funny, Durin's Bane actually ran from something, Gandalf said that the only hope he can gets from under there is by following his enemy because the tunnels that were under Khazad Dum was not by the Dwarves. It is not made my the Balrog but instead by Nameless Things

Thank you for this compilation I enjoyed listening to it after work

41:41 Your AI got a little stuck there for a second 🤣

My only real problem: Sam didn't just outright kill Shelob. When Sam and Frodo left, she was still alive "bubbling in her misery" as the book says. The book implies that she survived, but states that whether she did or not "this tale does not tell." Again, tho, it goes into detail of how she might have survived, and is generally assumed that she did.

All these great, informative videos! Awesome content!

Ungoliant, now there's one that gave me the creeps. Her whole story oozes terror. Whenever I revisit her story, I have a can of insecticide ready. I was disappointed that the movie, The Hobbit, did not depict Smaug's comic and playful aspect as the book did. He was funny, and that made him a vastly more interesting character. Can't forget the Watcher in the Water either. Tolkien doesn't neglect the powerful effect upon the reader's mind by evoking horrid smells.

Ungoliant tried to kill melkor because he wouldn't give her the silmarils. She ate the trees

This is a great video. Your vids have come a long way.

I like when you mentioned the “roots”of the Ent language.

Absolutely love your vids lot's I learn about all I like. Also you should make a video of all the creatures in Mass effect if you haven't.

Subscribed and left a like.! Thanks 4 all the Informations from the masters lore... Llve your Videos pirio Greez from Vienna 🤜🤛

The literary greatness of Tolkien is his ability to come up with millions of random names and routinely turning to Deus Ex.

Interesting presentation, it has been a long time since I read the books, seen the films..I enjoyed this very much, Thanks !

Love the video, but I feel like animating the SAME image on screen over and over is unnecessary. Just leave it up once it's up instead of flashing/spinning/blurring/zooming it back on screen while you talk. Ex. the same picture or Glaurung is put on screen in like 5 ways back to back and then you do it again with the next one. Like I said, love the video, just visually annoying imo.

Great shout out to LOTRO in the Scatha and Watcher segments. My all time fave MMORPG.

This is impressive. Thank you very much

Mumakil is already plural, Mumak is singular. No need to say Mumakils unless you're establishing ownership. In which case it would be Mumakil's

Awesome video! Thanks for all the hard work!

All that lore and all Amazon could give us is a moody Galadriel

i love that many of the beasts here are more like demonic peers of morgoth rather than servants of him. it shows imo how chaotic and unstable the dark lord's hold on middle earth was. to my mind he had only a fragile unity with the dragon lords, spider, giant wolves, giant water monsters and worms, etc. the only thing commonly uniting them being power and the promise of it. bolg in the films was not as strategic, was more impulsive, felt less pain than his dad. example, in d.o.s, bolg lost thorin's company in mirkwood and almost got killed by legolas, who was able to alert his father and bring his army down while azog cornered, beat and almost killed thorin and his company with his wargs if not for gandalf's cheat code, and destroyed thorin's father and grandfather. on the other hand azog with his use of a morningstar on an ice sheet against thorin in botfa wasn't particularly well thought out.

This was a great video!

Why am I just now finding this channel??? My new favorite

And they say Tolkien didn't inspire horror, only fantasy. Look no further than Stephen King. Shelob inspired IT being a massive spider and Pennywise being ancient spirit.

Can't remember if it's in the foreward or the appendices, but Tolkien himself said Orcs and Goblins are the same thing. It's not a misconception, it's what the author said. If I remember right, Goblin is a dwarf word and Orc is an elf word, but they describe the same creature.

You forgot about the most powerful being and most dreadful chapter of all. Tom Bombadil

Man honestly amazing work bro ❤ the amount of research and planning this must have taken is unbelievable garunteed to subscribe and support

I’m grateful the trilogie was made by actually filming, instead of only dancing in front of a green screen

First i thought "oh great, 13 minutes of fun and educational information!" An hour of exactly that later: "oh great, a repeat button!"... because i already forgot the first 15 minutes. And that's why i shall watch this video until i can speak every exact word of my mind.

Samwise didn't kill shelob he wounded her worse than she'd ever been wounded but did not kill her

A great example of world building only equaled by certain other multi volume series like Frank Herberts "Dune" series and the like.

40:37 this one will hunt me in my dreams Thanks 👍

Tolkien makes very clear in The Return of The King that Shelob was wounded by Samwise with Sting but not mortally so. The claim at 22:35 that he killed her is not consistent with the text. It should be borne in mind at 1:09:40 regarding Gollum/Sméagol that Cirith Ungol (where Shelob's lair is located) is approximately 100km west of Orodruin where the Sammath Naur opens.

I didn't know i needed this.

This is an instant like for me ❤

@Terry on Tuesday great video once again thanks.

No mouth of Sauron?

I really appreciate the amount of time and work that went into this great video. Only complaint is, MAN, how many ads can be put into one video? I know it is very long but every 5 minutes is worse than TV!

Nice video. I hope there's another like it.

Not a bad vid but you missed quite a few beasts and creatures hope you make another video

Sick video, what's that gameboy sounding track you got playing in the background?

Thank you for this ^__^ any chance you've done every alien from star wars??

I love this series

Your pronouncing of these names is fire

Great one

I think it's crazy that Eru Illuvitar only intervened once ( channeled by Galadriel ) and let all of these monstrosities exist in Middle Earth. 🤷

(3:55)Hurin & fam were cursed by Morgoth, not Glaurung; (6:43) Impossible to destroy? Every dragon in Middle Earth was slain! () (49:59)Wargs in Moria, Terry? Nope, nope, nope.

10:03 Smaug is basically, every banker i ever worked for in NYC.

Cool

These "transitions" to the same image over and over are really annoying

The Mouth is the scariest character I've ever seen

He makes it look so easy.

Sam only wounded Shelob. She was hunted down and killedvin the fourth age.

Would be fun if Gandalf summoned them in the battle of Pelenor. Imagine the Mumakills appears charging Rohirrim. Then u see Giants appear and they picks up the Mumakill like a rats and tossing them away. Would been fun to see.

Great AI-generated voice and video.

Thanks

listening to this reminds me of listening to the codex in mass effect

I was looking forward to hearing the definitive origin of the rustabell rabits...

I hope you do every resident evil creature that would be nice😊 and I hope you’re doing well

And Gandalf wanted to go inside Moria coz he knew if he kill Durin's Bane he would gain a Power boost. Good for him. xD

you missed the nameless beasts of moria...

This was better then a season of rings of power, thanks bud

I had honestly forgot were worms where actually a thing! Ok no The Hobbit Movie works a ton more thats awesome!

Why do you remove a picture just to swirl and return the same picture 10 times...just leave photo up while you are talking about the same character until you are ready to show a new photo. Its aggravating to keep thinking im going to see a new photo of the character just to see the same one reappear a bunch of times in a row.

The guarding statues in the Tower of Cirith Ungol are just the Watchers. The term Silent Watchers is only used in the books to refer to the watchers in Minas Morgul.

I want a pet Fell Beast, or Oikeroi and/or Tevildo!

No Caragors, Graugs, Carnán, The Tower Uruk or balrog Gothmog? Nice video btw

Didn’t know Craig Parker (Haldir) done gothmog voice

I like to believe winged dragons are more dangerous in LOTR. They seemingly were in smaller numbers and less organized, so perhaps they didn’t actually have as many occasions where they dished out destruction like their non winged counterparts from earlier times who were part of dark military forces. I think generally though that the winged dragons are supposed to be a more effective improvement than their ancestors. They might be smaller, but they are still equipped with the same level of protection, intelligence, and evil. They are far more mobile and strategically advantaged, which in our world tends to prove more dangerous than something larger with a heavier payload. All the old dragons were killed because they couldn’t get their asses off the ground. Imagine for a second two military tanks in our world. Imagine one is larger than the other, but the second one has fighter jet capabilities. In most scenarios it’s the flying fuckers I’d be more worried about.

The chapter mama kill made me laugh😂

Love this type of story ...would be nice to live on a world like that I be like Sauron

jesus...there's an ad every two minutes...

Orc and Goblins are separate because of Peter Jackson’s movies!! Ummm… how about no?

Can the ringwraiths be hurt and how did aragorn was able to win against all of them solo with just stick that was on fire, and if they dont have physical form how can you hurt them with blade ?

No, no, no. The Balrog was awaken from his deep millennium long sleep by an unthinking dwarf heaving a leaf down a hole in the wall that crashed down on the ground.

Excellent video sir

"90' tall... Size of a house" (Mumakil aka Oliphant) Ummm... That's more like 3x the size of a house, especially houses in middle earth 😂😂😅😅😅

What about the big rabbits that pull the brown wizards sleigh?

What about Graugs or Caragors, or even Drakes!

The David vs Goliath theme reigns supreme in fantasy art. Its so pervasive its almost canon. Though sometimes to me it gets a little bit annoying. Sometimes the 'bad guy' is so ridiculously huge (31:58) its like almost comical, get real, like how is anyone realistically going to take that thing down. A full grown man hardly even reaches its knee! And stilts and stone skin to boot lol

Teenage Glaurung was grounded for 200 years for getting busted sneaking outside.

There's elephants in Assassin's Creed Origins that seem like a cross between regular elephants and oliphaunts.

thought there was something weird about the voiceover in this, skip to 41:44 and listen carefully, its definitely an AI generated voice

EVERY wow :)))))

Definitely one to listen to while doing something else, the movie-maker transitions to the same image repeatedly is distracting enough that I found myself missing huge chunks of info due to how distracting this is visually.

Great video! But the amount of ads make it very hard to watch

The Worms remind me of the Sand Worms from Dune.

This kind of video is cool.

I always considered angoliont to be a first of the nameless things giving a name by Melcor before he totally went morgoth and or it was a first nameless creature from the dark of the void whom entered arda as created i love that we can debate it forever

Could have sworn the Giant Scene in the first Hobbit movie had 3 of them not 2.

Marvelous, You R Good and I am very thankful 4 that.

What was the sting in her tail like a wasps paralytic to keep there prey fresh that freaked me out it's all a spider needs they are already creepy as all hell the sting just put her over the top