i think it's incredible to see how detailed the history of this world is considering it's not until minute 44 out of 47 that the events of the lord of the rings trilogy actually begins

Can we give a praise both to this man who analyzed the entire timeline and to Gigachad Cirdan in Lindon who stood for thousands of years withouth his realm being touched by countless wars and hardships.

47:15 Lindon: My job here is done: Men, dwarves and hobbits: Job? You did literally nothing for several millenia straight. Lindon: Bye!

Notice the incredible attention to detail put in this video: for example, the inclusion of Nan Elmoth as part of Doriath, and the fact that in the small "Elves" box we see _Eldar_ written in Tengwar. Truly amazing, good job!

Cirdan the Shipwright, One of the first Elven Lords to rule in Beleriand during the years of the Trees before the first age... and finally the last elf to depart Middle Earth and sail into the West.

How long have you been in middle-earth? Círdan: Yes.

Small correction: not all elves left Middle Earth in the 4th Era. Most did, but some remained permanently. However, over time their powerful souls overwhelmed their bodies and they became more akin to wilderness spirits.

It's really happening! We are lucky that mappers like you guys exist

Pleasure working with you on this - I'm glad it's finally finished :)

“They had risen to be the masters of Earth and kept it until it’s ending”-made me cry😢😬

This is truly amazing. While watching, I was wondering what J.R.R. Tolkien would have thought of people taking the time to do all of this. I can only imagine that he would be joyed by such a thing.

The attention to detail is top tier. For example, not all of Mordor was barren. Its southeastern region was an agricultural land. The creators of this video didn't miss that detail and painted that spot(around the lake of mordor) with green colour. I didn't know the continent of Middle Earth was covered with forests in early times until I watched the video. Throughout the ages and after every conflict the land becomes more deforested... Thank you for your amazing work.

I just want to congratulate Lindon for existing for the second and third age, and most of the recorded part of the fourth, without ever falling...

Gotta love Cirdan vibing in Lindon for thousands of years

It's strange to think that in a way, Morgoth and Sauron defined the elves while they were in Middle Earth. The Noldor largely returned specifically because of Morgoth's deeds while the second and third age saw them have to account their plans around Sauron, all while living and trying to build in settlements that where pale imitations of their elder cities, destroyed after centuries of war with the Dark Lords, and when Sauron and the Mordor were *finally* destroyed...the last major Noldor settlements faded away while the other elves more or less declined with time, there greatest deeds seemingly done as their entire history faded to myth.

In Tolkien's notes there were a few other things that were supposed to happen later in the 4th age. Around the year 220 (forth age) the corruption of men would begin in the story called "the New Shadow." Men would begin worshiping dark cults similar to the "unfaithful" in the time of Numenor. After many centuries of corruption Morgoth would return in another story called Dagor Dagorath (year unknown). This final battle would lead to the destruction of Arda in a Ragnarok / Book of Revelation apocalypse. No living creature would survive the war. After Dagor Dagorath Eru would conduct the 2nd music of the Ainur and remake Arda in it's flawless form as it would be if Arda was never corrupted by Melkor.

Music time stamp: 0:00 Alexander Nakaranda - Adventure 4:33 Alexander Nakaranda - Nomadic Dawn 7:41 Evan King - Guardians 9:33 Alexander Nakaranda - Tavern Loop 11:49 PGN Music - Embers in the Wind 15:33 Alexander Nakaranda - Hymn to the Gods 21:40 Ragesound - Vortex 25:22 Alexander Nakaranda - Celebration 27:43 Alexander Nakaranda - Now we Ride 30:39 Free Dramatic Scores - Castle of Darkness 32:40 Alexander Nakaranda - Vopna 36:12 Evan King - Guardians 38:37 Alexander Nakaranda - The Lone Wolf 42:59 Alexander Nakaranda - Nakaranda’s Theme 43:19 Timur Haisyn - Brutal Fervour 45:40 Alexander Nakaranda - Adventure Thanks to Tim Taylor for finding the last I missed.

Bloody hell this video is amazing. I've never seen a breakdown for the history of Arda this accessible/high-quality.

wow to be honest i didnt even know there was so much history behind lotr and hobbit and this is so amazing

Bro honestly I am a major lord of the rings nerd and this was one of the best things I've seen. Showing how little of the lore is actually in the movies and stuff even the books like this is good

no one: Feanor and his children: Kinslaying time!

I managed to The Silmarillion years ago; it was tough slugging, so to speak. Once you got through the first part of the book and understood Tolkien's style, it was fantastic! It made one appreciate the LoTR events much easier knowing the backstory of the world and it's changing geography. Good video, by the way.

Lindon is basically the Switzerland of middle earth

It's nice to see the whole history laid out like that. It seems like the Elves have been around forever yet they only awoke like 55% into the entire story lol. The world in the first age seemed so magical and mysterious and beautiful yet I bet the Years of the Lamps was probably about 100x more crazy before Melkor could disperse his evil into Arda and become much much MUCH weaker as he was in the first age.

Amazing video! It almost feels like reading Silmarillion again, cuz I had that odd feeling of sadness and nostalgia mixed with happiness at the end.

this was really great and so detailed but there are a few things you missed in the forth age. 1. The kingdom that Gimli founded in the glittering caves 2. The Dagor Dagorlach at the end of the world when Melkor returns from the void and is killed by Túrin there might be other stuff but overall this was the most detailed history i’ve seen

Great job! I'm a big fan of LOTR and this is exactly what I was thinking about a few days ago - "Wouldn't it be great if someone made map explaining the events?" - thanks a lot, you can tell a lot effort was put into this.

meanwhile, all of this time (from 1:30 to 47:18) cirdan is just building ships.

Ages before the First Age: the Years of the Sun or age of the awakening of Man, the Years of the Stars, the years of the Two Trees, and the years of the Great Lamps Ringil and Ormal. Altogether the days before the first rise of the Sun and the Moon were believed to have lasted about 154.812 years.

Blows my mind that not only did Tolkien create such a vast history and language of Middle Earth, but also The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings take place only near the end of the Third Age!

Beautiful representation of how Arda evolved overtime. Though there is something I found wrong, the background during the age of the lamps should be void of stars, completely pitch black as Varda didn’t fill the skies of Arda with stars at the time

Nice work! A bit of note, since the petty kingdoms are missing, the "Bard refounds Dale" is weird, since there is no mention of the Kingdom of Dale earlier.

Thank you very much for this video! I was waiting for one like this by you, and it came. Utúlie'n aurë! The day has come!

I wonder what Tolkien would have thought about this. Amazing work.

This is awesome! I've got only one issue - Dunlendings. They're shown on the map in Dunland we know from the LOTR. But they've escaped Calendarhorn and moved there only after being slaughtered by the rohirrim, who burned down their villages while moving into the Calendarhorn

I'm amazed at the amount of effort must have been given here! As a massive fan of this series this one is by far the best one i have seen to this day and it has all the little details that needs to be said. Fantastic job man thank you!

unarguably best fantasy universe of the all time

It felt like I was taken on a long journey through history. Loved it

This is beautiful! It's evident that you put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into this - and the result is amazing. Thank you so much and congrats!

I did not expect to sit through this whole thing but all of a sudden it was over. Great work, extremely impressed with the detail and time put into this.

Wonderful effort by you. Only two small corrections: the realm of Morgoth didn't have a name of its own, Dor Daedeloth refers only to the land north of Beleriand in which Angband is located, and the Noldor after Nirnaeth Arnoediad did not flee in Ossiriand, but on Amon Ereb, a hill and fortress on the opposite side of the Gelion river, where Amrod and Amras had their base.

I never thought someone would do this! Impressive mapping and video, Vologda!

This video is quickly knocking out competitors to be one of my favorite videos in all of UKposts. Amazing work!

Amazing work. It is good to have a visual representation of these events, especially events from the First Age and before, where there are just so many names and locations to keep track of, it's easy to get lost when just reading the Silmarillion.

This was a really impressive video! A tremendous amount of work and it absolutely paid off!

Beautiful visualization of a beautiful story... Thank to You I went through it once again with a big nostalgia - Thank you so much :)

This is REALLY good, congrats to you guys for making this project. The level of detailing and research put into this is impressive. GG

I'm a huge Tolkien nerd and absolutely loved watching this. Definitely puts the time frames into perspective that are lost as you become engulfed in the story.

I was really expecting this to be a hit or miss kind of thing. Nope! It captured pretty much every world altering event throughout the Silmarillion and the published works. I'm extatic to see this so well mapped out. Anyone ever starts asking questions, I can come right back her and let them see for themselves. Well done!!

I admire the hard work in this video, but there is a couple of critical mistakes (that Karen Wynn Fonstad also made in her "Atlas of Middle-Earth") : Mordor and the Sea of Rhûn already existed in the Years of the Trees and the First Age, they were NOT submerged under the Inland Sea of Helcar. Mordor's early existence is something that is described in the posthumous "History of Middle-Earth" (HoME) volume XII, "The Peoples of Middle-Earth", by Christopher Tolkien published in 1992. Also, "Unfinished Tales" (UT) (1980) tells of how the Druedain travelled towards western Middle-Earth in the First Age by skirting the lands south of Mordor before arriving in Ithilien and then crossing the river Anduin. Similarly, the Sea of Rhûn already existed in the Years of the Trees as a singular body of water, as the "Nature of Middle-Earth" posthumous book published in 2021 describes that the journey of the Eldar towards the West saw them encounter, then traverse the Sea of Rhûn on ships. These are essential and defining elements of Middle-Earth's early geography, since the existence of Mordor and of the Sea of Rhûn pushes the Sea of Helcar further East, and essentially makes the landmass of the continent of Middle-Earth much wider than what is suggested in most maps (while also lengthening by quite a bit the westward journey of the Eldar and of the Atani).

This is the best history of middle earth timelapse i have ever seen. Keep up the good work.

Lindon is the Porugal of Middle Earth. Literally doesn't change for all these years

By far the best LotR-related video i've ever seen

Fabulous work, thank you for your effort in bringing it to us!

Really impressed at your work in creating this video.... and gives a phenomenal sense of the breadth and depth of Tolkien's world... wow- thank you

The base template for fantasy. I can see why. Tolkien was a god damn genius. He's my hero. Creative mind, expert conlanger, expert worldbuilder.

Reminds of me of a maps of Middle earth book when I was a kid. I remember just looking at the maps and the battles that took place. Thanks for thr nostalgia.

Huge props on you guys for doing the research and giving us such a detailed map. I am really suprised how well done it is and how much work is in this video. I always wanted to know what really happened before the books but never found a way to get onto that, without being thrown with one fact after the other, while having no way to realise what is happening. With your vudeo its really easy to follow due to the illustration on the map. Thank you guys for doing such a work with so much love and effort!

Guys, your work is absolutely brilliant

It's incredible how rich this world is considering the main story starts only after 43:20 of the whole story and lasts 3 mins.

Always wished someone would do this. Beautiful edition and accurate lore, this is so useful.

Well done truly Well Done for doing this! It’s an amazing work of art you’ve done, you should be very happy with what you’ve done

thank you for this amount of work! I love the Silmarillion but this really puts it into perspective and gives an overall view of what is happening. I hope that maybe one of my stories will be complex and good enough that people get this inspired by it.

Amazing as l could never quite grasp how the Sillmarillion starts and ends and how the world map of muddle earth is displayed throughout history. Thank you for this brilliant historical depiction of Tolkiens world!

I remember watching Pax Christas's video about LOTR almost IMMEDIATELY before you released this. The fact that the events of LOTR took place in the Third Age, where civilization as a whole as on the decline, prosperous empires had collapsed, and every race was falling into the clutches of an evil force, it really shows Tolkien's unwillingness to let a world so radically different and fantastical compared to our own be without its constant parallels to the human condition, and the NEED for salvation.

Wow. There went so much detail in to making this video. Really impressive job.

I was just searching for vids to go while I cook. Then I got hooked with details and need to read through the changing events though I know most of these already. Well Done! Namarie

Brilliant!!! Absolutely Fantastic ! Well done- thank you !

Stunning to watch! Thank you for this magnificent work! If only the show runners of the upcoming LotR series put this much research, work, respect, and dedication in their project. I guess only time will tell. Fingers crossed, but my hopes are low.

Best video I found about Arda so far. I'm reading the Silmarillion for the second time and this video helped me a lot, thank you.

That was exceptional, really enjoyed watching. Very well done 👏

Fantastic video! You did forget Gimli founding the settlement of the Glittering caves, but this is fantastic (And that was quite minor anyways)

I think i figured i am realy a fan of Tolkiens work as i got tears in my eyes by just watching map-work on different moments... XD

BEAUTIFUL This is AMAZINGLY well-made!

Perfect video. One of the best videos about Tolkien world I have ever seen, just aweson work, you have done great job it really gives you some knowlage of history even if you didn't read Silmarillion.

I am quite excited

My gosh this is so incredible

wonderful work. i loved it. thank you for such a detailed video. especially the sink of Beleriand and its geographic connection to the remaining Middle Earth. ❤

This is incredible and well worth the watch

The Fourth Age is not meaning all elves departed, mostly the Noldor and Sindar. Lothlorien, Rivendell and Lindon are abandoned. Mirkwoord (Woodland realm) and a part of East-Lorien remain intact for most during the Fourth Age. It was not specified whether the Nandor/Silvan/Avari elves had stayed longer or faded in obscurity.

CİRDAN = He become king 1000 years old and he ruled 10.749 years . Falas= 3973 Years (* 350 Valian years in Trees Age = 3500 Sun Years * 473 Sun years in First Age ) Balar Isle & Sirion Havens = 114 Years Grey Havens= 6662 Years (*Second Age 3441 *Third Age 3021 *Fourth Age 200 )

OMG! You guys are crazy, you just made the video I was wanted for so long! Amazing job plase keep up the good work.

I sat through the whole thing. Amazing work. 👏

Great video.

When the trees were destroyed, Melkor's corruption also affected them as they were dying, so when the Sun and Moon were made from the last fruit and the last flower, the light they have is already corrupted - this is also the nature of Man, both good and evil.

Loved the style and presentation. Felt old school in the best way

What a beautiful job, guys. It made me shiver! AMAZING!

pov: you're arnor and you can't stop losing

It was just amazing

Loved watching along to this one. Many thanks

Fantastic job, fully detailed and the same time simple and well explained. 😃👌

Now we need to see the complete history of Westeros and Essos

Can’t wait for this!

I'm about halfway through The Silmarillion. This is most helpful! Thank you and great job!

This is putting so much context, ty!

A Very Great Map!

Good god… 47 minutes… amazing.

This is simply brilliant and useful for both new and reviewing lore divers.

incredible work, thank you!

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