Every Race In Middle-Earth Explained
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Date: 2022-07-06
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Brian
Where is it stated that Tom Bombadil is one of the Ainur? I don't believe this is so, many think that Bombadil represents the equivalent of the green man. If this is stated in Tolkiens works that Bombadil is an Ainur I think it would have been settled long ago, but this is still a matter debated today amongst those who study Tolkiens works deeply. You should make it clear that it is your OPINION that Tom Bombadil is one of the Ainur, not state it as fact!
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Where is it stated that Tom Bombadil is one of the Ainur? I don't believe this is so, many think that Bombadil represents the equivalent of the green man. If this is stated in Tolkiens works that Bombadil is an Ainur I think it would have been settled long ago, but this is still a matter debated today amongst those who study Tolkiens works deeply. You should make it clear that it is your OPINION that Tom Bombadil is one of the Ainur, not state it as fact!
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Layla
I absolutely loved it. It's the first time I watched a 30+ minutes video without jumping forward or setting x1. 5 speed. Had some trouble understanding some names and places, since the books are translated in it's totality and some names are adapted to sound more accurate for the non-english speaker. I always struggle reading Silmarillion, and this helped me understand a lot and contextualize many many characters and events. Thank you!
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I absolutely loved it. It's the first time I watched a 30+ minutes video without jumping forward or setting x1. 5 speed. Had some trouble understanding some names and places, since the books are translated in it's totality and some names are adapted to sound more accurate for the non-english speaker. I always struggle reading Silmarillion, and this helped me understand a lot and contextualize many many characters and events. Thank you!
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Super
You sure do put a lot of your own personal opinions as fact in this. Not to mention the muspronunciations. You can't really call yourself a professor if you clearly arnt a master with superior and accurate to the T facts / knowledge. With all that said you did still do a good job on the whole and that can't be undersold. It's obvious you love what your talking about and it does translate well into fluid speech and a clear voice
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You sure do put a lot of your own personal opinions as fact in this. Not to mention the muspronunciations. You can't really call yourself a professor if you clearly arnt a master with superior and accurate to the T facts / knowledge. With all that said you did still do a good job on the whole and that can't be undersold. It's obvious you love what your talking about and it does translate well into fluid speech and a clear voice
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Yewbdar
I like those mythology stories, and movies. I didn't see every one of them, the ones I seen, I was very amused. How one makeup storyline as such. Fascinating. My interpretation of the story was, humans and bi-dimensional, cross overlapping sometimes ago. That is how I believe it. I will continue to believe in this manner.
By the way English or UK have equal amounts of mythology. They just don't brag about it.
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I like those mythology stories, and movies. I didn't see every one of them, the ones I seen, I was very amused. How one makeup storyline as such. Fascinating. My interpretation of the story was, humans and bi-dimensional, cross overlapping sometimes ago. That is how I believe it. I will continue to believe in this manner.
By the way English or UK have equal amounts of mythology. They just don't brag about it.
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Prashant
Professor Cory Olsen is such a great storyteller himself. I have been watching his various videos on Tolkien-s mythology & time just passes away.
Thinking about Tolkien, I can only assume the kind of awe he must have generated on the budding writers and fantasy enthusiasts of his time. He was a revolutionary & his ideas perhaps makes him one of the most influential people of all time.
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Professor Cory Olsen is such a great storyteller himself. I have been watching his various videos on Tolkien-s mythology & time just passes away.
Thinking about Tolkien, I can only assume the kind of awe he must have generated on the budding writers and fantasy enthusiasts of his time. He was a revolutionary & his ideas perhaps makes him one of the most influential people of all time.
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vicnedel02
They could do the eagles thing and still have a good story. Just have Sauron and Saruman's forces interfier. Saruman could send storms and crows and Sauron can have nastier things like dragons and giant bats. It could be like one of those ww1 and ww2 battles in the air or several.
It can still be an interesting story, but then it would not be the one we love so much.
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They could do the eagles thing and still have a good story. Just have Sauron and Saruman's forces interfier. Saruman could send storms and crows and Sauron can have nastier things like dragons and giant bats. It could be like one of those ww1 and ww2 battles in the air or several.
It can still be an interesting story, but then it would not be the one we love so much.
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Colt
What Lord of the Rings audiobooks do you recommend? And do you recommend that best way to listen to the audiobooks while reading along digitally? Not sure the best setup for that as I'd like it to track both as if I set the digitalbook down for a bit. I could pick it up and it would be on the correct page compared to the page in the audiobook.
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What Lord of the Rings audiobooks do you recommend? And do you recommend that best way to listen to the audiobooks while reading along digitally? Not sure the best setup for that as I'd like it to track both as if I set the digitalbook down for a bit. I could pick it up and it would be on the correct page compared to the page in the audiobook.
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Gareth
orc is a shortening of Latin orcus (it appears as an Old English gloss in the Epinal and erfurt glossaries orcus: orc. The equivalent in the Corpus Glossary is orcus: thyrs, hel-diobul. Thyrs is cognate with Old Norse thors and Old High German duris, terms that are used interchangeably with jotnar 'giant'. Eventually, orcus becomes ogre.
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orc is a shortening of Latin orcus (it appears as an Old English gloss in the Epinal and erfurt glossaries orcus: orc. The equivalent in the Corpus Glossary is orcus: thyrs, hel-diobul. Thyrs is cognate with Old Norse thors and Old High German duris, terms that are used interchangeably with jotnar 'giant'. Eventually, orcus becomes ogre.
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Gamma
A couple things bothered me with this.
1. Dragonsickness wasnt a thing in the books
2. The ghosts didnt partake in The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Part of what he said was based off of books and the other part was based off of the movies. I'd say that the books are the -correct- ones so explanations should be based on that.
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A couple things bothered me with this.
1. Dragonsickness wasnt a thing in the books
2. The ghosts didnt partake in The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Part of what he said was based off of books and the other part was based off of the movies. I'd say that the books are the -correct- ones so explanations should be based on that.
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Nicholas
This was a rare treat! ---- You-re brilliant!
We must be kindred spirits. I did my senior English class project on Tolkien. The guideline was only Non-fiction authors. But I begged my teacher to let me do the report on Tolkien. He saw how passionate I was and allowed it. I got an A+! -
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This was a rare treat! ---- You-re brilliant!
We must be kindred spirits. I did my senior English class project on Tolkien. The guideline was only Non-fiction authors. But I begged my teacher to let me do the report on Tolkien. He saw how passionate I was and allowed it. I got an A+! -
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