Silmarillion Synopsis 17: Of the Coming of Men into the West
We learned about Men several chapters ago, but now they finally arrive in Beleriand and we learn of their first interactions with Elves, from the good to the unfriendly.
The map used is the one from the Silmarillion chapter "Of Beleriand and Its Realms."
This episode is scheduled to publish on 12/27/21 at 12:00 AM
ewsweek released a special edition issue celebrating the 20thanniversary of the release of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring, but it’s full of misinformation and misleading statements, so get ready for some major corrections.
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Episode 6 is much better than 5, with a focused story and some nice character moments, but the writing is still clunky despite many overt attempts to capitalize on the Peter Jackson trilogy and even Tolkien himself.
Prior reviews:
Episodes 1 & 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3bJTDxHRY0&t=1389s
Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nw0Gi_h0o&t=3187s
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At last, the final debunking of CinemaSins has landed! Will they redeem themselves, or seek to lower depths of inane and dumb criticism?
CinemaSins' original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbY8yzy3cQ0
For my previous videos debunking CinemaSins' take on The Hobbit movies, check these links:
An Unexpected Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPQdf2ZN9M
The Desolation of Smaug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBTjocHruQ
For my previous video on CinemaSins' take on An Unexpected Journey, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPQdf2ZN9M
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A footnote by Tolkien in the recently released “The Nature of Middle-Earth” has lots of people claiming that it proves gay Elves are canonical in Tolkien’s legendarium, but a careful analysis undermines this argument.
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A lot of people lately have been using Faramir’s remarks about High, Middle (or Twilight) and Wild Men (or Men of the Shadow) as evidence that Tolkien and/or The Lord of the Rings is racist, since it shows he or at least the Numenoreans who developed the classification considered themselves superior to other men. But is it really that simple? Or does the classification reflect something more nuanced and less bigoted?
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Despite radically different settings, themes, and frameworks, the Harry Potter stories have some rather interesting parallels to The Lord of the Rings.
Music is from "Concerning Hobbits," Lord of the Rings Trilogy Soundtrack, copyright New Line Productions and Reprise Records.
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Another video covering a few short scenes from the book that never made it to the big screen. In this video I cover a Warg attack on the Fellowship, Gimli's visit to the pool of Kheled-Zaram, and Legolas' shot at a flying Nazgul.
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There's a fun (and tough!) quiz going around in which you have to guess whether a word is a Middle-earth character or an antidepressant drug, so in this video I take the quiz for some fun!
If you want to take the quiz, click here: https://antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/
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After the Council of Elrond, Elrond has misgivings about Merry and Pippin going on the quest with Frodo and suggests they should instead return to the Shire to warn the Hobbits. What might have changed if his advice had been followed?
My video on the character arcs of the four Hobbits is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOQ7dIVsktQ
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