Top Ten Fears | Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

here's a question can we discuss legitimate fears and concerns without descending into a spiral of hate let's find out maya govan and melanine and welcome to tolkien untangled's top 10 fears and concerns for amazon prime's the rings of power and guys don't take this list too seriously as i was putting it together i swiftly realized that these aren't really like massive fears that i'm going to talk about they're just a collection of things that i really don't want to see and why i don't want to see them so for the sake of leaving that troll mentality in middle-earth where it belongs what i really want to do in this video is to make a case for sitting on the fence in a world where everything seems to exist as an extreme let's try to find some middle ground between the two it's a wonderful place to be if you'll allow me to mix my metaphors for a moment when you're sitting on the fence the grass is always green on both sides so with that said let's begin my list of top 10 fears and concerns number 10 short-haired elves all right i will be the first to admit that this is a very minor and ultimately very insignificant concern nitpicking aesthetic details shouldn't really be a priority and to be honest this is more of an emotional reaction than a rational one which is why i put it at number 10. but this upsets me so much fair enough some people may not care about whether elves have long hair or short hair and some people may care very much about elves having long hair but is there anyone out there who was really really hoping for short-haired elves is there anyone at all who's looking at these new images and thinking finally finrod fellagund and eleron portrayed the way i always imagined them i don't know if that is how you feel then let me know but it feels like in this case the rings of power is trying to make a bold creative choice that's going to set them apart as different from the movies and unique and refreshing in the genre yet in most other cases one of the biggest complaints i've heard especially after the teaser dropped is how generic things look i'll talk about this a lot more throughout the video but i have a big fear that a lot of the show's creative decisions are at best safe and generic and at worst straight up cowardly but then there's this this isn't cowardly it's just astoundingly different from the general consensus that's been attached to these familiar characters for decades and i know this tv show is not the same as the movies and they have their own aesthetic preferences and directions but i do think there's a little bit more to this than just whether or not a fictional dude cuts his hair in my mind the long-haired men and very long-haired elves adds to the intended sense of mythology it feels otherworldly it feels timeless it hearkens back to a historical age and i worry that if we see too many characters with buzz cuts or hairstyles that we perceive of as modern even if they're not actually modern it could break the the mythical reality of the secondary world that surely anyone should be trying to capture in any portrayal of middle earth and its inhabitants and yes i am aware that people in the past did sometimes have short hair the 21st century does not have a monopoly on that but typically the anglo-saxons didn't and we know this from historical sources same with the old norse people same with the ancient celtic peoples long hair is a prominent feature in the way we imagine all those cultures and these are the real world cultures that inspired tolkien's sub-creation that he in his own words could dedicate simply to england to my country now i hope it's obvious that i am not saying therefore no adaptation can feature anything that isn't old english but it is a historical fact that it was the normans who introduced a shorter and very distinct hairstyle to england and there are cultural and historical reasons for why the normans preferred shorter hair but tolkien famously despised the norman invasions and the destruction that they brought to the older cultures of anglo-saxon england to which he felt such an attachment in fact in interviews with tolkien when people ask him what part of england he comes from his answer is usually the kingdom of mercier which is a kingdom that hasn't existed for like nearly a thousand years but it's what tolkien identified with and interestingly the ancestor in real life of the first anglo-saxon kings of mercier was a guy called eomer in lord of the rings when they talk about the lines of rohan being called the mark mark is just a cognate of the word mercier this is something tolkien took very very seriously so giving these otherworldly ancient mythological second age characters who are inspired by saxon and celtic and finnish history are typically norman hairstyle that does seem like a somewhat questionable decision however for the sake of fairness i must point out that absolutely nowhere in tolkien's writings does he state that all elves are long-haired i mean every elf who is ever described is described as being long-haired but short-haired elves have appeared in art and adaptation for decades so as i say this really isn't that big of a deal also there definitely is at least one long-haired male elf in the show so i'll probably be okay but while we're on the topic of hair near beardless dwarves what's that about apparently this character is called dissa and it seems they're making her the wife of durian iv now just like short head elves this really is an innocuously superficial detail and it's not going to make or break the show but i fear it is an example of a safe creative choice that comes at the expense of diluting the wider world tolkien explicitly tells us that all dwarves have beards from the beginning of their lives male and female alike nor indeed can their women kind be discerned by those of other race be it in feature or in gate or in voice and unlike the long hair on elves i don't actually think this is just a trivial aesthetic thing that's subject to preference this is a fact about dwarven culture it's an interesting dimension of what makes dwarves unique and refreshing and different from everyone else and it's just a little bit sad that what could have been an awesomely unique character is probably instead just going to be a fairly typical royal lady that we've seen a hundred times before in a hundred different shows hopefully i'm wrong but i fear i'm not anyway honestly i anticipate what's probably going to happen here is that when i first sit down to watch the beginning of the first ever episode i will see a barely bearded diesel and a short-haired airwand and i'll be real salty about it for about five minutes and then i'll realize that the only thing i can do in this situation is just kind of get over it and hopefully after that i will number nine the circle of generic fantasy so i think it's fair to say that pretty much all of what we consider modern western fantasy can be traced back to tolkien sometimes it's an expansion on what tolkien wrote and sometimes it's a subversion but either way tolkien's writings are the root of pretty much all of it but obviously in the nearly 70 years since the lord of the rings was first published the genre of high fantasy has grown and it's developed and it's flourished in many many cool ways and it's picked up a lot of new tropes and general ideas along the way and so in the year 2022 fantasy looks very different to how it looked when tolkien conceived his mythology and that's not a problem in the slightest except that now we have a high fantasy adaptation of tolkien's works and so i worry that a few of these modern fantasy tropes will trickle down into it it's like it's a weird circle of tolkien's very specific pre-norman anglo-saxon fictional mythology inspiring modern fantasy and then modern fantasy inspiring what are in some cases somewhat generic kind of vaguely old-timey medieval-ish tropes and these modern ideas of what makes generic fantasy fantasy are now being used as inspiration for this tolkien tv show it seems backwards and i worry it will result in a middle-earth adaptation that doesn't feel timeless and won't really hold up as particularly special in 20 30 40 years time and to illustrate exactly what i mean here i'll use an again admittedly very inconsequential example that i fear may turn out to be a symptom of a wider issue and that's the armor that we've seen this is undoubtedly a staple of fantasy and it is drawn from a vaguely medieval european aesthetic but it is not the specific medieval european aesthetic that tolkien envisioned in fact it is the aesthetic of the people who in his mind conquered and supplanted the historical cultures that he was drawing from historically armor like this was not invented and used until what's known as the late medieval period full suits of plate armor really did not exist until the mid to late 1300s and beyond and they reached their kind of iconic peak in the 1500s but anglo-saxon england was conquered it ended in 1066 it reached its peak hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years before plate armor was even a twinkle in any knight's eye the anglo-saxon people did not wear this kind of armor they wore chainmail and with one very specific exception there is absolutely no mention of any plate armor in any of tolkien's writings men and elves and dwarves are only ever described as wearing different types of mail along with helmets and shields so as i say it's not a big deal and i'm not saying this show is going to be bad because of it it's only number nine on my list but it does make me a little bit sad that the rings of power have seemingly squandered this opportunity to showcase something new in the fantasy genre and potentially inspire new aesthetics for future generations as tolkien himself did but instead they've gone with pretty generic vaguely medieval but decidedly anachronistic armor and i fear this is just one of many decisions that demonstrates the creative team don't quite have a tight enough grasp on what tolkien created and on why it works so well it's kind of like imagine if tolkien wrote a mythological story that's inspired by the history of christopher columbus but then in the amazon adaptation the fictional columbus uses a smartphone to find the new world it's technology that is hundreds and hundreds of years out of place but i am just nitpicking and of course peter jackson's movies featured plate armor too and although i kind of wish they hadn't does it significantly impact my enjoyment of the movies no number eight a condensed timeline so in that vanity fair article inside the rings of power we are told that the show runners have compressed events into a single point in time we talked with the tolkien estate to say spain if you are true to the exact letter of the law you are going to be telling a story in which your human characters are dying off every season and then you're not meeting really big important canon characters until season four look there might be some fans who want to do a documentary of middle earth but we are going to tell one story that unites all these things and i've gone back and forth on this a few times in my head on the one hand the showrunners kind of have a point if i were put in their position of having to adapt the second age for a tv show i think i could maybe be convinced to make the same choice the alternative is loads of massive time jumps or a huge amount of down time or waiting until the very end to introduce big name characters like isildur and so i fully appreciate why they don't want to do this and i fully appreciate that peter jackson did do a similar thing by condensing the 17-year time jump at the beginning of fellowship of the ring although a condensing 17 years is a little different from condensing 3441 years and there is a part of me that's a little apprehensive about the kind of ripple effects that could come from this decision the ramifications it could have for the wider law and the history of the second age because the second age is of course by over 400 years the longest of the three main ages in tolkien's writings and this isn't insignificant big things happen over large swathes of time for example the people of numenor in the books they don't just turn to the dark side when someone gets there during the lifetime of a sealed or they've been gradually falling under the shadow for centuries millennia even and this means we have a lot more nuance in the characters and in the story for example the first 12 rulers of numenor are elf friends and it's not until we get to the 13th ruler that people start to become discontent with the limitations placed on men in comparison to elves but then it is during the reign of the 14th ruler that numenor splits into the two factions of the king's men and the faithful and then many centuries later it is the 18th ruler who opts for a native adonaic name instead of a cindering one and it is the 20th king who banned the quenyan language and for bad elves from visiting numenor and then the 23rd ruler was the first one to openly persecute the faithful but then tar palantir came along and during his reign he tried to reverse a lot of what his ancestors did and to try and return numenor to a more positive path but it didn't take and so by the time of the last king numenor has slid back into darkness and that's when sauron arrives i worry that if all of this history is condensed into just one or two numenorean lifetimes it will really diminish the gravity of what's actually happened similarly there's a period in the second age called the dark years where sauron gains control over most of middle earth and these dark years last for millennia for thousands of years sauron rules vast populations of men and i worry that condensing this horror into a smaller time frame will not only undermine the might of sauron it might also undermine the wonder of eventually seeing him overthrown is it going to lower the stakes i hope not number seven an over-reliance on what's familiar so this one is pretty self-explanatory i guess i fully understand that most people watching this show will either know very little about middle earth's history or at least most of their knowledge will come from the lord of the rings and the hobbit and there is nothing wrong with that whatsoever the show should be able to accommodate all fans but i think there's a danger in trying too hard just to make this the lord of the rings but in the past the second age is fundamentally different from the third age and lord of the rings happens right at the end of the third age and so a lot of what is familiar from that story simply shouldn't be relevant to this one i don't want to see hobbits in the second age it will undermine their role in the third age and although i think the blue wizards could be very cool characters to explore and in his later writings talking totally did state that they arrived thousands of years earlier than the other wizards of the third age but i don't want to see gandalf the blue if we do see blue wizards i want it to be very clear that they're a bit different from gandalf and saruman and radagast otherwise why are those later wizards special similarly i am a tiny bit concerned about this poster of what we're told is hal brand it feels very rohani to me and that's not a problem in and of itself but i don't want him to just be a man of rohan in all but name the ancestors of the rohirim were called the aothead but they still don't enter the history books until the third age the second age ancestors of the aeothead are the north men of ravanian and they did have a strong relationship with horses but the main thing that we know about them is that they formed a great alliance with the dwarves who forged their weapons for them and later learned their language so instead of seeing men of someone that's not quite rohan but basically is just a poor man's rohan i want to see these horse lords being influenced by dwarven culture and i want to see something new and creative in this intimate alliance between men and dwarves that's really not been showcased before in other adaptations if that's what we get i think it could be awesome but a part of me fears it won't be number six money so in my top 10 hopes video i actually cited the massive budget as something that i was hopeful for but i would be remiss if i didn't also bring it up in this video obviously making money is a part of pretty much every single creative endeavor and i fully get that but i have a major concern that the rings of power exists as a business model rather than an opportunity to create art and i worry that the story might reflect that if creative decisions are tainted too much by commercial incentives i think we could very well end up with characters that only exist to like sell action figures or important storylines that may be scrapped because they don't track well with certain demographics and if this happens the story is going to suffer for it we've seen this over and over in different franchises where a good thing is ruined by bad motivations and it would be such a shame if the potential of this show was wasted like that if it's good i'm sure it will make a ton of money because people like supporting things they enjoy but if creative decisions are made on the basis of just what's going to yield the greatest profits then perhaps the whole thing is setting off on the wrong foot hopefully that won't be the case but as tolkien himself so famously said if more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world number five mythology doesn't really matter except yes it absolutely does now let me state for the record that i have absolutely no problem with action scenes or battle sequences whatsoever they're a significant part of tolkien's writings and they really are best realized in a visual medium such as film but action and adventure are not the foundations upon which this world is built they're awesome but they shouldn't be the focal point i've talked a lot about tolkien's works being best described as mythology but that's not actually what i mean right now what i mean right now is the internal mythology of middle earth the mythology that's important to its fictional inhabitants and the piece of information that got me a bit worried about this is the confirmation of our dwarf character prince during the fourth so on the one hand this may seem pretty innocuous and it may turn out just to be an inevitable symptom of that condensing of the timeline but during the fourth was not a relevant figure when the rings of power were being forged which we're told will be a central storyline in this series during the third was the king of kaza doom during this period and it was during the third who developed a close relationship with calibrimbor the ring forger it is during the third for whom the doors of durin are named durian iv is a character that tolkien tells us absolutely nothing about and to be honest we don't even know if he lived during the second age or the third age so why is it during the fourth that we're seeing in the show i feel like one of the most likely answers is that we'll also see durham iii who may very well be the king and prince during the fourth will be his son kind of like how charles ii was the son of charles the first or henry viii was the son of henry vii but this is exactly what i hope they don't do and that's because of the mythology so dorian is not just a popular name among the dwarves it's not a name that parents just give their children it is a profoundly important part of what can really only be described as dwarven religion the entire history of the dwarfs that we're familiar with began with during the deathless during the first the first dwarf ever to awaken the guy who had the vision that inspired him to found kaza doom the guy that lived for an absolute minimum of 2 390 years potentially he could have lived over 4 000 years and the entire history of the dwarves will also end with a durian during the seventh the prophesied final durian who will usher in a new age of prosperity for the dwarves before their race eventually disappears from the world and by the time of the lord of the rings during the seventh still hasn't been born which means in all of dwarven history for thousands and thousands and thousands of years there are only five other durians during the sixth was killed by the balrog durham's bane in the third age and during the second lived before the rings were forged and during the third is the one who famously befriended keller brimbur which means if during the fourth is also kicking around at the time of calibrimbor we get two durians incredibly close to each other and if they are father and son or even grandfather and grandson this completely breaks the mythology that tolkien created because the whole point of the seven durians according to dwarven tradition is that they are all reincarnations of the original during the deathless this is what makes him deathless each durian after the first one got their name because they were perceived by their people to be so alike to their holy figure that they must be during the deathless reborn so every single durian needs to be exceptional and you could never have two durians existing at the same time hopefully they will address this in the show but it does strike me as a rather bizarre departure from what tolkien wrote and it has the potential to massively break pre-established law number four language isn't that important except yes it is let's talk about hobbits for a second or half foots because from what we saw of the harfords in the trailer i'm actually pretty okay with it they do seem to be very different from third age hobbits which is good but i will be so so so frustrated if they are ever referred to as hobbits and that's not because i'm gatekeeping what isn't isn't a hobbit but because i understand the importance of language in tolkien's world we are explicitly told in the lord of the rings so not even an obscure writing the literal lord of the rings that the word hobbit comes from the rohirric language which originally belonged to the north men and yet these half foots seem to be living in the south so that word should not be in their vocabulary and even the word harford isn't something that i'm a massive fan of harford comes from westron and westron is a language that did not exist in the second age westron is a creole language that formed from the intermingling of the dunadine's adonaic language as well as sindarin and the native languages of the middlemen in the early third age of which rohirric and dalish are examples now the idea of a darker-skinned woodland-dwelling secretive proto-hobbit race living in the second age is not actually something the showrunners invented tolkien describes pretty much exactly that but he calls them drugu in their own language or pokemon or woeses the cinderin-speaking men call them druidine and i just think it's astounding that the show is using the much more familiar but potentially anachronistic name hafoot which comes from a language that shouldn't really exist instead of using the myriad of actual names that tolkien invented and gave to these people i worry it's going to make them feel very out of place and artificial and i know i'm going down into some kind of rabbit hole here and most people couldn't care less which word is used and for the average fan that is absolutely fair enough but for a billion dollar production company that spent a fortune on buying the rights to the source material buying the privilege of adapting tolkien's works language and mythology must not come as afterthoughts tolkien was a philologist he was a professor of language and language is the seed from which the entire legendarium flowered it is absolutely impossible for me to overstate that number three misplaced virtue signaling okay so i'm gonna get a tiny little bit political for a minute although not really but i will say that we seem to live in a culture nowadays where being perceived as a good person seems a lot more important to some people than actually doing good things and i worry that portraying some sort of golden wonderfully progressive shiny image may actually end up doing more harm than good for the show especially as we all know that at the end of the day amazon and most other big corporations don't really seem to live by the virtues they're espousing now obviously by its very definition virtue is a good thing that's literally what virtue means but doing it for the sake of getting praise or earning points kind of undermines the whole thing and this is made into a particularly incendiary topic when it's projected onto something as historically messy and emotionally complex and scientifically indefinable as race so hopefully it's obvious that i'm not saying i don't want for example any actors of color appearing at all in middle earth considering that tolkien wrote about people in the south and east having swarthy skin it's pretty impossible to defend a white only middle-earth argument and i don't really think that many people in this community are seriously advocating for that maybe i'm being naive but i'm going to trust that the vast majority of tolkien fans are not actually racist but that said i don't necessarily think we should just entirely shut down this conversation on the basis that it might be a little uncomfortable and i worry that there's a precedent being set that anyone who has any kind of opinion whatsoever that diverges from the amazon company line is going to be branded a troll or a racist and that is not okay if you are legitimately racist then don't be but if you're not then you're entirely entitled to your opinion and just because it's critical of a tv show does not make it hateful you're allowed to have an opinion without being vilified as either a nazi fascist on one side or a woke liberal on the other come join me in the middle on the fence it's a great place to be anyway bringing all of this back to tolkien middle earth is not just some random fantasy land where anything goes it is a unique achievement no one has ever created a world quite like it tolkien poured such an immense attention to detail into his work so much so that even something as seemingly trivial as like the phases of the moon syncs up perfectly with the passage of time in the lord of the rings such was tolkien's dedication to internal consistency and so i really don't think we ought to be colorblind when casting its inhabitants i think we ought to be intelligent and nuanced and respectful and so in my opinion i would like to see the north west of middle earth inhabited by characters who look like they could be either northern european or central european or western european as it's these parts of the world that inspired the north west of middle earth in tolkien's exact words it should possess the tone and quality the climb and soil of the northwest meaning britain and the hither parts of europe not italy or the aegean still lest the east and so i think casting german or finnish or danish or norwegian or welsh or english actors to play these roles would lend an air of authenticity to the roles but that said one of the things that i'm most excited for in this middle-earth adaptation is that it's not entirely set in the northwest middle earth is a big place and we will finally get a chance to see other parts of that world that tolkien made and we know from the books that those parts of middle earth are inhabited by people who don't look northwestern european and so it's for that same sake of authenticity that i think the actors playing these roles should reflect that but here's the catch it needs to be consistent middle earth is a diverse place but in the second age we do not have the bustling multicultural hubs that we have in the real world today they have not gone through that process of international globalization that began in our real world in the early modern period middle earth hasn't had an early modern period and so i don't think there's anything wrong with wanting every actor of color in this show to be playing a character whose ancestors lived in the south or east and very very importantly it's a two-way street i want every character whose ancestors came from the south or the east to be played by an actor of color for the sake of making a living consistent world that doesn't feel artificial within its own parameters obviously any individual character can end up in any part of the world they migrate there there have always been travelers but i think if the creators are pretending that they're so morally enlightened that they simply cannot see a character's race they're actually doing a disservice to the culture and the backstory of that character of course i have no idea if that's the case the only non-white characters that have been named and confirmed so far are dieser the dwarf and ardan dear the elf and so as long as it's made clear that both of these characters originally hail from somewhere in the south or the south east then there's no problem and so the only thing that i'm really fearful of here is that the show might say something along the lines of this is durian a dwarf of kazadoom and this is dieser also a dwarf of kazadu and anyone who questions the logic of why these two dwarves look different is automatically a racist in my opinion by far the most interesting way to make decer a compelling character is to acknowledge that yes she does look different from the other dwarfs and that is because she comes from somewhere else in the south and she brings her culture with her anyway i am aware that i'm teaching on a political brink that really has no place in a tolkien youtube channel and so i will move on number two the canons of narrative art so the canons of narrative art that's not a phrase that i came up with it's a phrase that shock tolkien came up with and i mention it on this list because i've heard a few people say that we can never know what tolkien would want from an adaptation of his work and so anyone is free to interpret it in any way they choose and generally i'm not opposed to differing interpretations but it's simply not true that tolkien had nothing to say about adaptations of his work towards the end of the 1950s there was a guy called morton grady zimmerman and he wrote a screenplay for the first lord of the rings movie adaptation and he sent it to tolkien for him to sign off on but tolkien did not approve he sent the script back with pages and pages of criticism and to be honest he was pretty damn savage i almost feel a little bit bad for zimmerman although it's pretty funny honestly but i urge you after this video go google tolkien letter 210 it's a great read and in that letter tolkien talks all about loads and loads and loads of really specific details that he disapproved of in this adaptation and some of them are wild radagast is an eagle pharamia floats at one point and the balrog laughs and sneers and talks to the fellowship truly terrible but in that letter tolkien also wrote more generally about why the adaptation failed so let me read a few of tolkien's own words on this topic i would ask zimmerman to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation and on occasion the resentment of an author who finds his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general in places recklessly and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it's all about the canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies zimmerman has cut the parts of the story upon which its characteristic and peculiar tone principally depends showing a preference for fights and he has made no serious attempt to represent the heart of the tale adequately and so this is one of my biggest fears for amazon primes the rings of power not perceiving where the core of the original lies i've already said that i'd prefer my elves to have long hair and for my lady dwarves to have beards and for people not to wear anachronistic armor but at the end of the day these are personal preferences and they don't represent the heart of the tail if the core of the original remains intact then the hairstyles and the actor's skin color and the questionable costumes won't matter but if the rings of power demonstrates that it doesn't perceive the core of the original if like zimmermann's script there are no evidence signs of any appreciation of what it's all about then no amount of cooler moments or new characters or stunning cgi is going to make this anything more than just some other tv show it might be fun to tune into every week and i would never judge anyone for enjoying it but it will not stand the test of time number one we the fans so i love being a tolkien fan i don't want to sound elitist or anything but i've often thought that among fan communities talking fans are particularly dignified and lovely my interactions with many of you guys in the comments has only reinforced that opinion and i'm always pretty blown away by how insanely talented many talking fans are and how international and varied the community really is there are some dodgy folk but that's true of every single group in the entire history of the world and so my fear is that if this show really is as like offensively awful as some people believe then we might lose something really valuable at least for a little while and it's not so much that i'm afraid people will watch the show and then just start spontaneously being dicks to each other on the internet my worry is more concerned with how the powers that be could weaponize this against us obviously the rings of power is being created by a writer and directors and actors and all kinds of other people who admittedly may not quite have stellar creative integrity but they are all to an extent artists however the people marketing the show they are not artists they are business people their bottom line is ensuring that this thing that other people created will make as much money for the studio as possible and i fear that those marketing people might realize that this toxic negativity that we've heard so much about could actually be good for their bottom line because from the perspective of just making money all engagement is good engagement if amazon can manipulate its viewers into constantly fighting about whether they like or dislike a tv show people will never stop talking about it which is good for amazon and if they can brand all of their critics as racist trolls then they'll never have to accept any serious criticism and if they can continue to fuel and exacerbate this whole woke versus fascist dichotomy where you're either one of us or you're one of them they will make a return on their investment and it's the community that will suffer but of all my fears this one is unique because it is the only one where amazon doesn't have the power to dictate whether or not it comes true so join me on the fence watch the show or don't if you don't want to that's entirely your prerogative but form whatever opinion comes to you enjoy the good discard the bad enjoy being able to discuss it with each other enjoy debating what you think works and what doesn't enjoy speculating but know that all the reasons tolkien's work still have such potential to be so internationally beloved is because of us the fans and also obviously tolkien but the negativity the attacks on each other's character this instinct to belittle people who don't share our opinions that is the exact opposite of what tolkien wrote about and the only people it serves are the people taking home the money so watch their show and judge it as you please but watch it from the comfort of the fence anyway that's about as political as i'm ever going to get on this channel and so over the next few weeks i will go back to the first age and continue telling the wonderful tale of beren and luthien and i'll potentially pepper in a few more of these top 10 lists videos as well so to make sure you don't miss anything in the future hit subscribe if you haven't already and don't forget to hit like and leave a comment on this video if you want to but as always until next time my dear friends much love stay groovy and nevia melanine [Music]

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