there was a deleted scene/altered scene at the end where they fight outside the black gate. Aragorn was supposed to be fighting Sauron and not a giant troll

@@snorreproductions Yeah i know. I just wish we at least got A confirmation that it’s not JUST a flaming eye. The Aragorn fight probably wouldve been too much. 😅

This is a good idea 👌 I wish we got a look at him in the PJ films.

@@olerocker3470 I'd guess that Sauron assumed he'd recover the mithril coat once his forces defeated Aragorn's expedition. The psychological value of returning it was worth the risk. It was a brilliant move. Aragorn's defeat was assured and his forces surrounded. There was no escape.

@@Uncle_Fred woulda, shoulda, coulda

Do you recall where in the books is described Sauron's desire to hoard all the mithril? It seems I missed that part

@@melizeche It's in Book 2 of Volume 1, in the chapter "A Journey in the Dark". As the Fellowship travels through Moria, Gandalf tells the others about mithril, and mentions that when the orcs took over Moria, they sent the mithril they plundered from the Dwarves' treasuries there "as tribute to Sauron, who covets it."

@@DamonNomad82 THANK YOU! 🙌🏻

Probably Morgoth would sooner or later also have started a war with Valinor when he thinks his forces could have become powerful enough, if the Valar hadn't intervened in the War of Wrath.

Numenor was Eru's gift to his favourite kids, but it was looking kinda doomed already.

He could have xD

I mean Eru had to tell the Valar to go after Melkor to save the elves. I would say Melkor crossed the line during his time more than Sauron ever did lol

It was the Numenorians who triggered the wrath; Sauron only advised.

Good Call. Ive never been too fond of Peters Lighthouse as you pointed out.

So he … wears a suit and a tie?

@@mediocreman6323 Nah, he just sees a righteous cause for his actions, this justifies whatever ends he must take to achieve his designs and plans because in the end he is right and sees it no other way. Many great evils have been committed through the ages under the assumption that it was for the ultimate good. The other thing that makes it dangerous is how easy it is for otherwise good people to support such a leader. Many men were under Sauron's banner and saw the destruction Men of the West as a necessary end they would help engineer

Yeah he's a just a typical boring dark lord and bad ass aragon is just a typical hetero normative white guy and it's all just typically boring good vs evil and I just like more complex and believable charecters I mean ffs there's hardly any incest or rape or child abuse in LOTR there's almost zero graphic gratititous depictions of gross sexyal activity in the whole text that's why asoif is top tier so what that it will never be finished at leat its not boring

If THAT is what you think makes a great story, then you clearly can't see what is right in front of your nose. Why does there need to be incest and rape? Tolkien was a man with a vision, his stories hailing back to times long gone, yet given life through his medium. Not every story must be filled with debauchery for it to be good.

@@kalebthehistorian5928 sarcasm bro

Him and Morgoth are the greatest villians in Fantasy literature.

To me that the Ainur and Mair could take any form they wanted wether Elven, Man or Natural element. Sauron 'appeared' in a fair form and decieved the Elves when the Rings were forged. Yet in the Silmarrilion he took form as a Werewolf and Bat (Fingol and Beren's quest for a Silmaril). When Sauron corrupted Ar Pharazon and Numenor was drowned he lost his mortal body and could not take a 'fair' form again. When the One ring was destroyed he could not take any form, but remained as spirit gnawing in the darkness.

"Now the Ainur took to themselves shape and hue; and because they were drawn into the world by their love for the Children of Illuvatar, they took shape after that manner which they had beheld in the vision of Illuvatar, save only in majesty and splendour. Moreover their shape comes from the knowledge of the visible world, rather than that of the world it's self, and they need it not; save only as we need raiment, and yet we may be naked and suffer no loss of our being. Therefore, the Valar may walk, if they would, unclad. And then even the Eldar cannot clearly perceive them, though they may be present, but when they desire to cloth themselves the Valar take upon them forms some as of male and some as of female; for that difference of temper they had even in their beginning, and it is but budded forth in that choice, yet not made by that choice, even as with us male and female may be shown by the raiment but is not made thereby. But the shapes wherein the great ones array themselves are not at all times like to the shapes of the kings and queens of the Children of Illuvatar; for at times they may clothe themselves in their own thought, made visible in forms of majesty and dread."

He is over-compensating his appearance to hide 🫣 his weaknesses. Sun Tzu art of war, “appear strong 💪 when you are weak”, he knew all of these secrets of war

Trans-spirit airways?

Best you get started then

I started years ago. My story ideas just don’t match Tolkien’s scope and brilliance.

@@anadmirer8789 Well keep at it, you have your own brilliance :)

I see Sir .... and does the gentleman in question have any distinguishing marks? 👮

I knew there was something odd about Finland

Wtf I couldn’t even tell it was a bot, we’re so fucked

@@dyroth lol yeah it's creepy that they're so good now. The new robots are incredible too. Brave new world is here.

😂👍

But it was speeled Melkor with a K

In his defense, that hound has written in plot armor.

Turtle Sauron sounds like a very uncomfortable shape to take though, a Smith and Artisan needs to have free mobility in his arms and legs

Whu do you presume based on others presumptions?

No I think it is you who presume too much

Blasphemy!!

It is Dark LORD, not Dark Lard.

Amazon's ring's of power agrees 😂

The lord who favors the color durple

But he would not be able to resist the ring.

Because that is the way the artificial intelligence he uses pronounces it. This is not a real person speaking and it seems to have fooled many people.

Because there’s no F.

​@@Patcannistan The pronunciation of lieutenant predates the existence of your country. Comes from Old French, luef.

He was intentionally cruel and malicious though.

no, melkor is the equivalent to lucifer

More like Abaddon, Satan, Beelzebub, Asmodeus - one of the traditional demons serving Lucifer. Though modern Christianity (and Hollywood) tends to combine all of these into one entity.

Sauron sounds more like Loki.

​@@grannypunany3114exactly sauron more of the anti Christ a step down from the devil

Bye.

Of blood and guts, I suspect Tolkein had his fill in the carnage of the trench warfare of WWI in which he served.

One of the most stupid and ignorant comments I've ever read.

That's not a truth that's just your opinion. And I strongly disagree with your statement.

@@Alexs.2599 I would think that generally if an author describes something in a sparse manner they are giving the reader an opportunity to piece together a mental image using their own imagination within the context of the narrative. And then there is also a certain entertainment that comes from deliberate use of mystery - that very often drives the reader to carry on and finish their book. lol.

@@fueledbylove I agree, I think that is a very accurate assessment of his works. That is what I love about Tolkien's legendarium, there is enough unsaid that you can deep dive into your imagination to fill the blanks in the story.