An idea for a future video : Boromir's journey to Rivendell. It took him 110 days, several horses, and finished on foot. What might he have endured? Thanks for your good work.
That would make for a great mini series if they could get Sean Bean. Even if he has aged a bit too much they could do it as an animated and tons of people would watch it.
Life can be so turbulent and chaotic, so unpredictable and unrecognizable at times. For over five years these videos have been a consistent source of calm and comfort for me. Instant stress relief when I see a new one uploaded. Your work means more than you know, Yoystan. Thank you for all you do.
"Bring your pretty face to my axe!" I'm sure Aule would b proud to see his creation make so many world changing works of art and weaponry. Give a dwarf and hammer and anvil and he'll make the stars on earth and build a tower to heaven. Makes me wonder what other wonders they would have made had their homelands not been taken. But I suppose war is one of the catalysts for them to make such amazing things.
Aule came up with the idea of the dwarfs but Eru is who created them. Creation lies solely with Eru the one God of Lotr. The valar are not gods and do not have the power to create anything or even effect middle earth without Eru.
There is also the VERY good chance that Aranruth itself, Elwe's sword, and the sword of the Kings of Numenor, was also forged by Telchar of Nogrod. I can imagine Elwing bringing Narsil and Aranruth to the Balar settlement and Elros carrying them aboard ship to Numenor. I expect that Narsil was given as a gift to Valandil son of Silmarien, daughter of Tar-Elendil upon his becoming the first of the Lords of Andunie.
It's not Tolkien, but in the Forgotten Realms literature, it was known that each Dwarven smith would eventually make their greatest piece. I have always loved that idea. That a smith would know when he hit his high water mark. As a real-life smith, I both long for and fear that moment.
"Gloin began then to talk of the works of his people, telling Frodo about their great labours in Dale and under the Mountain. 'We have done well,' he said. 'But in metalwork we cannot rival our fathers, many of whose secrets are lost. We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came. Only in mining and building have we surpassed the old days.'" Such is the way of all things, mortal and immortal. While in Imladris there were smiths of the Noldor who knew of the old ways, none were as skilled as the smiths of Eregion, let alone the First Age, for all were dead or gone to Valinor.
I absolutely love dwarven weaponry and armors. My over 30yr character for ttrpg has a set of axes crafted by the dwarven smiths (twins by twins) and have a mythical and epic history and historical weight. Not only on my character but the worlds in which they are wielded. Loving the channel and all that you do. Great collection of wonderous things here.
A personal theory of mine is that the Seven Dwarven Fathers were not the only ones to reincarnate among their kin. Perhaps Telchar was another such figure, returning throughout the ages to craft great weapons.
Man, the few known things Dwarves made is still Impressive to me as a Hobbit, It really is Incredible!!! Thanks for this quick Video about what the Dwarves Forged throughout the Lore...Until why Eru stopped Númenor but not Morgoth, Marion Baggins Out!!!
So sorry that you feel that viewership has been low! We love your content and hope it continues! I personally find myself often binging them, so maybe that is a consistent thing with others. I also just turned your notifications on for ALL videos!! Hoping for your success!
If the Dwarves hadn't fallen to misfortune so many times and lost all of their great cities for one time or another, who knows what they may have accomplished.
Yoystan I always look forward to a upload 😊 You give it a lot of thought. While on the topic of the Dwarf's why not a history and rise And Fall including militarily the of the various dwarf kingdoms And clan's over the four ages? 😊
Dwarvish first age armor could withstand dragon fire. I wonder what the best tools were like they used to make these items and weapons. Hammers, anvils, pliers, tongs and picks were all used to make the dwarvish works.
They probably entwined magical lore with high end craftsmanship. By "magical lore" I mean something like the knowledge of the fundamental laws of Arda, which we could think of similiar to magic itself. Tolkien always outlined how true knowledge meant great accomplishments, in Middle Earth.
I think if you did an in depth black Southington dive and give the differences between magic weapons on each of the races compared it might do pretty good. I would love to see that if you haven't already done one. Thanks and I hope that helps
Thanks for the great video! Do you know whether there's much information on the dwarves of the Blue Mountains in the Third Age? I understand that they hosted Thrain after the fall of Erebor to Smaug, but I'm curious whether we know about other interactions.
Yoystan! Have you played or read up on the board game LotR - Journeys in Middle-Earth? It is an absolute epic set of adventures taking place before the War of the Ring with many famous characters. In my humble opinion, it is very true to Tolkien's writing with great emphasis on the power of friendship, songs, darkness, and corruption. The game also has great references for weapons and armor. I highly recommend checking it out, and it could be a great video topic if you played thru the stories with either other LotR streamers or with interested subscribers!
I wanna say that among the most powerful weapos the Dwarves ever made was the Nauglamir, as it brought down the oldest - and maybe the greatest - Elvish kingdom of Middle-earth.
I am fascinated by mithril and other nae-impenetrable materials of our real world. How can mithril be both so durable and yet forge able? What is the material used to grind a blade to its first sharp edge? Other mithril? Like how we use diamonds against diamonds?
My personal theory is that as Aulë created the Dwarves, he made them to be naturally gifted as smithing and crafting of various kinds with many of them able to imbue their tools, weapons, and armor with a Dwarven magic that made them superior to most of the creations of other races other than certain Noldor. Among other things this could explain their resistance to fire; perhaps the armor and helms would actually reflect away most of the fire and heat.
It was Eru who created the dwarves, they where Aule’s idea but it was Eru who gave them life as creation solely belongs to Eru, none of the valar can create or effect middle earth without Eru.
@@jarlwilliam9932 Not exactly. Eru Ilúvatar made the Dwarves sentient, he gave them spirits. The rest of their nature comes from Aulë. The Valar had great abilities to create and modify Arda; they just couldn't create beings who had spirits.
@@istari0 Tolkien himself said the ability to create lies solely with Eru, so yes exactly. They where Aule’s idea but he was just a higher Angel, without God there to breath life into his idea, the dwarves wouldn’t have been created. Also Tolkien said the Valar couldn’t affect or modify Arda at all after the song because it was Eru’s creation not theirs. Hence why the valar called put to Eru to stop Numenor from invading Valinor.
@@jarlwilliam9932 Again, Tolkien said only Eru Ilúvatar could give sentient life, i.e., beings with spirits. Thus the Dwarves did not become sentient until Eru Ilúvatar gave them spirits. Furthermore, a simple reading of the first few chapters of the Silmarillion shows that the Valar were the ones that shaped Arda from the material Eru Ilúvatar created. The Valar called upon Eru Ilúvatar to deal with the Númenoreans because Eru Ilúvatar forbade them from taking action the Children of Ilúvatar. It wasn't that they couldn't have stopped the Númenoreans. They didn't have the authority to do so.
It really does just boil down to me whining, as I do, but I don't really get why the best, most famed craftsmen in the world HAD to be Elves. In some ways, such dedicated craft almost seemed to go against their mindset, and while some tale I haven't seen maybe does cover Aule walking among the First Children of Illuvatar, as he was wanting to do, the Dwarves were his people, so it always seems weird to me that Feanor, and Celebimbor, could just so totally eclipse anything made by other hands. I sometimes forget that Narsil was originally forged by Dwarves, but then Elves had to rework it, and "make it better". Sometimes, at least to me, it really does feel like, with the Hobbit giving the Dwarves such a focus, the other works did everything in their power to not do that, and even sort of marginalize them. They do some great things during the War of the Ring, but "off camera", and we never really learn too much more about their fate, except they do reclaim Khazad-dum, and they dwindle away there. Oh well, enough of my complaints. It's cool to see upper-end Dwarven weapons, armor, and crafts, as well as their architecture, in places like Erebor, and Moria.
I may be wrong, but I feel that if the elves and dwarves worked together and defended one another. It would have been almost impossible for their enemies to challenge them. I could be wrong, but aren’t both elves and dwarves the greatest when it comes to magic and crafting in Middle Earth?
Morgoth would’ve still stomped them flat as he did anyway, also the elves, dwarves, and men of the first age all banded together during certain trying times and Morgoth still slaughtered and subjugated them all.
The King of the Golden Hall is a great chapter but Aragorn's spiel about how "death will come to any man who wields this blade, save for those of the line of Elendil" seems so unnecessarily aggressive. Poor Hama is just doing his job dude, give him a break...
Why does all dwarven architecture and armor, even outside of LOTR, have angular designs using simple shapes? I think it's a lazy aesthetic compared to real ancient and medieval weapon and architecture design. This trend seems to have started after the LOTR movies. I haven't read LOTR in depth; is this style what Tolkien described?
Dragon resistant armour sounds rather special. It has to be otherwise it just becomes a steel can to be baked in. And that wouldn't be fun. I wonder how they managed to dissipate the heat? 😮🤔🫠
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An idea for a future video : Boromir's journey to Rivendell. It took him 110 days, several horses, and finished on foot. What might he have endured? Thanks for your good work.
That would make for a great mini series if they could get Sean Bean. Even if he has aged a bit too much they could do it as an animated and tons of people would watch it.
Narsil, forged by dwarfs, reforged by elves, worn by men. What better representation of Middle earth.
As always keep up the good work Yoystan.
“The Ring cannot be destroyed Gimli son of Gloin by any weapon that we here posses”
Great video as always. Dwarves will always be my fav, best craftsman in middle-earth imo!
Life can be so turbulent and chaotic, so unpredictable and unrecognizable at times. For over five years these videos have been a consistent source of calm and comfort for me. Instant stress relief when I see a new one uploaded.
Your work means more than you know, Yoystan. Thank you for all you do.
Couldn't agree more. These videos do tend to have some soothing quality that is both hard to explain and very-very velcome. Please continue!
"Bring your pretty face to my axe!"
I'm sure Aule would b proud to see his creation make so many world changing works of art and weaponry. Give a dwarf and hammer and anvil and he'll make the stars on earth and build a tower to heaven. Makes me wonder what other wonders they would have made had their homelands not been taken. But I suppose war is one of the catalysts for them to make such amazing things.
Aule came up with the idea of the dwarfs but Eru is who created them. Creation lies solely with Eru the one God of Lotr. The valar are not gods and do not have the power to create anything or even effect middle earth without Eru.
@@jarlwilliam9932 semantics 🤣
@@orrointhewise87 Not really no, Aule doesn’t have the power to create.
@Jarl William it was a JOKE relax lol
@@orrointhewise87 I can’t relax, that would be taking it too far. I must have cortisol levels and stress at max all times 0.o
There is also the VERY good chance that Aranruth itself, Elwe's sword, and the sword of the Kings of Numenor, was also forged by Telchar of Nogrod. I can imagine Elwing bringing Narsil and Aranruth to the Balar settlement and Elros carrying them aboard ship to Numenor. I expect that Narsil was given as a gift to Valandil son of Silmarien, daughter of Tar-Elendil upon his becoming the first of the Lords of Andunie.
It's not Tolkien, but in the Forgotten Realms literature, it was known that each Dwarven smith would eventually make their greatest piece. I have always loved that idea. That a smith would know when he hit his high water mark. As a real-life smith, I both long for and fear that moment.
are there any tall dwarves?
"Gloin began then to talk of the works of his people, telling Frodo about their great labours in Dale and under the Mountain. 'We have done well,' he said. 'But in metalwork we cannot rival our fathers, many of whose secrets are lost. We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came. Only in mining and building have we surpassed the old days.'" Such is the way of all things, mortal and immortal. While in Imladris there were smiths of the Noldor who knew of the old ways, none were as skilled as the smiths of Eregion, let alone the First Age, for all were dead or gone to Valinor.
I absolutely love dwarven weaponry and armors. My over 30yr character for ttrpg has a set of axes crafted by the dwarven smiths (twins by twins) and have a mythical and epic history and historical weight. Not only on my character but the worlds in which they are wielded. Loving the channel and all that you do. Great collection of wonderous things here.
A personal theory of mine is that the Seven Dwarven Fathers were not the only ones to reincarnate among their kin. Perhaps Telchar was another such figure, returning throughout the ages to craft great weapons.
I wish we had more on dwarfs as a whole, their work specially
are there any tall dwarves?
Man, the few known things Dwarves made is still Impressive to me as a Hobbit, It really is Incredible!!!
Thanks for this quick Video about what the Dwarves Forged throughout the Lore...Until why Eru stopped Númenor but not Morgoth, Marion Baggins Out!!!
So sorry that you feel that viewership has been low! We love your content and hope it continues! I personally find myself often binging them, so maybe that is a consistent thing with others. I also just turned your notifications on for ALL videos!! Hoping for your success!
If the Dwarves hadn't fallen to misfortune so many times and lost all of their great cities for one time or another, who knows what they may have accomplished.
are there any tall dwarves?
Most interesting chronicle into the many works and weapons of the Masters of Stone.
Nice to see a new notification from you, always enjoyable
The dwarves were amazing craftsmen. They made advanced locks and toys.
are there any tall dwarves?
Yoystan I always look forward to a upload 😊
You give it a lot of thought.
While on the topic of the Dwarf's why not a history and rise And Fall including militarily the of the various dwarf kingdoms And clan's over the four ages? 😊
Great topic but not a lot of material to fill those gaps in history.
Excellent Video-love the topic of these weapons as the maim content! Any one of those weapons could get their own video👍
Thank you for continuing to make such great content!
That was excellent, thank you! Please do more like this.
What's cool about the dwarves, is that they made a bunch of stuff, lived in caves, had beards, and were shorter than humans. Gotta love em.
Nice work dude
Dwarvish first age armor could withstand dragon fire. I wonder what the best tools were like they used to make these items and weapons. Hammers, anvils, pliers, tongs and picks were all used to make the dwarvish works.
They probably entwined magical lore with high end craftsmanship. By "magical lore" I mean something like the knowledge of the fundamental laws of Arda, which we could think of similiar to magic itself.
Tolkien always outlined how true knowledge meant great accomplishments, in Middle Earth.
@@orsogufo91 I like to think that the dwarvish runes help harden or sharpen tools. Make them more durable. Aule could have taught them magic.
I mean the greatest piece of dwarf armor straight up made the wearer invincible full stop without God stepping in.
The quest line in Lotro for the Mithril axe was a pretty good one with the correct ending
I think if you did an in depth black Southington dive and give the differences between magic weapons on each of the races compared it might do pretty good. I would love to see that if you haven't already done one. Thanks and I hope that helps
Thanks for the great video! Do you know whether there's much information on the dwarves of the Blue Mountains in the Third Age? I understand that they hosted Thrain after the fall of Erebor to Smaug, but I'm curious whether we know about other interactions.
I wonder did Borimir seal his fate from picking up the sword and cutting himself?
Great video!
I'm was in the middle of a Gatorland vlog 😅😅but here I am! I ditched adults dressed in animal costumes climbing up an alligator tower. Just saying 😁
I've always loved that the sword of the High King is forged by the dwarves so long ago.
Yoystan! Have you played or read up on the board game LotR - Journeys in Middle-Earth? It is an absolute epic set of adventures taking place before the War of the Ring with many famous characters. In my humble opinion, it is very true to Tolkien's writing with great emphasis on the power of friendship, songs, darkness, and corruption. The game also has great references for weapons and armor. I highly recommend checking it out, and it could be a great video topic if you played thru the stories with either other LotR streamers or with interested subscribers!
I wanna say that among the most powerful weapos the Dwarves ever made was the Nauglamir, as it brought down the oldest - and maybe the greatest - Elvish kingdom of Middle-earth.
I had no idea that Narsil was forged by dwarves!
"Hey! How do you like the old twirly-whirlies?! Ha ha, you buggers!" -- Dain
Random question. After saurons fingers were cut off, what happened to those fingers? Seems like the kind of thing someone would have saved.
Wasn't the metal in narsil originally taken from a meoter or falling star ? . Extra terrestrial metal.
Close! Those are Anglachel and Anguirel, the twin swords of Eöl.
@Men of the West oh ! Thanks. I remember in Game of Thrones, George Martin borrowed the idea for dawn . ( the sword of the morning) .
Thanks.
You should make a video about the weapons made & wielded by the evil faction in Tolkien's legendarium 😊
rock and stone!
to the bone!
can you do a video of how you can do a third age show
Boromir was cursed to die by messing with Elendil's blade in Rivendell. According to the Lore @ :01. He was doomed from that day onward.
Elven smithing: Elegant curves and natural shapes
Dwarven smithing: Intricate geometric shapes
Ocrish smithing: Broken piece of metal on a stick
Good vid
I am fascinated by mithril and other nae-impenetrable materials of our real world. How can mithril be both so durable and yet forge able? What is the material used to grind a blade to its first sharp edge? Other mithril? Like how we use diamonds against diamonds?
My personal theory is that as Aulë created the Dwarves, he made them to be naturally gifted as smithing and crafting of various kinds with many of them able to imbue their tools, weapons, and armor with a Dwarven magic that made them superior to most of the creations of other races other than certain Noldor. Among other things this could explain their resistance to fire; perhaps the armor and helms would actually reflect away most of the fire and heat.
It was Eru who created the dwarves, they where Aule’s idea but it was Eru who gave them life as creation solely belongs to Eru, none of the valar can create or effect middle earth without Eru.
@@jarlwilliam9932 Not exactly. Eru Ilúvatar made the Dwarves sentient, he gave them spirits. The rest of their nature comes from Aulë. The Valar had great abilities to create and modify Arda; they just couldn't create beings who had spirits.
@@istari0 Tolkien himself said the ability to create lies solely with Eru, so yes exactly. They where Aule’s idea but he was just a higher Angel, without God there to breath life into his idea, the dwarves wouldn’t have been created.
Also Tolkien said the Valar couldn’t affect or modify Arda at all after the song because it was Eru’s creation not theirs. Hence why the valar called put to Eru to stop Numenor from invading Valinor.
@@jarlwilliam9932
Again, Tolkien said only Eru Ilúvatar could give sentient life, i.e., beings with spirits. Thus the Dwarves did not become sentient until Eru Ilúvatar gave them spirits. Furthermore, a simple reading of the first few chapters of the Silmarillion shows that the Valar were the ones that shaped Arda from the material Eru Ilúvatar created. The Valar called upon Eru Ilúvatar to deal with the Númenoreans because Eru Ilúvatar forbade them from taking action the Children of Ilúvatar. It wasn't that they couldn't have stopped the Númenoreans. They didn't have the authority to do so.
The greatest weapon in all Middle Earth is the heart of a warrior
Here we go buruk khazad
It really does just boil down to me whining, as I do, but I don't really get why the best, most famed craftsmen in the world HAD to be Elves. In some ways, such dedicated craft almost seemed to go against their mindset, and while some tale I haven't seen maybe does cover Aule walking among the First Children of Illuvatar, as he was wanting to do, the Dwarves were his people, so it always seems weird to me that Feanor, and Celebimbor, could just so totally eclipse anything made by other hands. I sometimes forget that Narsil was originally forged by Dwarves, but then Elves had to rework it, and "make it better". Sometimes, at least to me, it really does feel like, with the Hobbit giving the Dwarves such a focus, the other works did everything in their power to not do that, and even sort of marginalize them. They do some great things during the War of the Ring, but "off camera", and we never really learn too much more about their fate, except they do reclaim Khazad-dum, and they dwindle away there.
Oh well, enough of my complaints. It's cool to see upper-end Dwarven weapons, armor, and crafts, as well as their architecture, in places like Erebor, and Moria.
I may be wrong, but I feel that if the elves and dwarves worked together and defended one another. It would have been almost impossible for their enemies to challenge them. I could be wrong, but aren’t both elves and dwarves the greatest when it comes to magic and crafting in Middle Earth?
Morgoth would’ve still stomped them flat as he did anyway, also the elves, dwarves, and men of the first age all banded together during certain trying times and Morgoth still slaughtered and subjugated them all.
AND MY AXE!
Huzzah!
None stand taller than the might of the Dwarves
The King of the Golden Hall is a great chapter but Aragorn's spiel about how "death will come to any man who wields this blade, save for those of the line of Elendil" seems so unnecessarily aggressive. Poor Hama is just doing his job dude, give him a break...
Wasn't the Black Arrow forged by Dwarves?
Why does all dwarven architecture and armor, even outside of LOTR, have angular designs using simple shapes? I think it's a lazy aesthetic compared to real ancient and medieval weapon and architecture design. This trend seems to have started after the LOTR movies. I haven't read LOTR in depth; is this style what Tolkien described?
Dragon resistant armour sounds rather special. It has to be otherwise it just becomes a steel can to be baked in. And that wouldn't be fun. I wonder how they managed to dissipate the heat? 😮🤔🫠
You know that very same armor, That's what alien spaceships are made out of. Anti-gravity shit. You want to bet it's the same technology?
Why forge them instead of making originals....