The DOWNFALL OF NUMENOR! | The Days that Shook Middle-earth | Middle-Earth Lore

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  • Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
  • There are many events throughout Tolkien's Legendarium that can be seen as incredibly important events in the history of Middle-earth. This series, "The Days that Shook Middle-earth", will be covering the most important of these in new and different ways!
    Today, in episode 1, we take a look at the crowning of Elros, brother of Elrond, as the first King of Númenor, Tar-Minyatur, and how everything that led to Akallabêth , the Downfall, came to be!
    I hope you enjoy the video!
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    Timecodes:
    00:00 - Intro
    02:05 - The Three Prayers
    03:54 - The Founding of Númenor & Crowing of Elros/Tar-Minyatur
    08:19 - Tar-Atanamir Speaks Out
    10:17 - The Changing of their Ways
    12:45 - The Mistakes of Ar-Pharazôn
    14:56 - The Aftermath of the Downfall
    16:39 - Round-up Conclusion
    17:47 - QotD & Thank you’s!
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  • @LaurelinTheOther
    @LaurelinTheOther Год назад +42

    It’s amazing how much lore there is outside of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as if it wasn’t deep enough already.

    • @dustinross120
      @dustinross120 Год назад +2

      For real, almost as if these events actually took place

    • @lkmjin
      @lkmjin Год назад

      Read sillmarillion its an adventure for your psyche

    • @LaurelinTheOther
      @LaurelinTheOther Год назад

      @@lkmjin i’m reading it right now 😀

  • @loraelstad8941
    @loraelstad8941 Год назад +4

    I’m with the “Please, Sir, can I have some more? 🤲🏻” crowd. Sometimes, the lore is so vast and detailed, ya gotta break it down into chunks that refer to important lore past, present of the subject and future outcomes. Each played their part. Would also love some carefully thought out “What ifs?” regarding what could/would have happened if some of these major turning points had gone differently. Loving this format, guys!

  • @roadwarrior1451
    @roadwarrior1451 Год назад +3

    the best Tolkien Lore master, more please

  • @JustusII
    @JustusII Год назад +6

    More please! This was a great video, one silver lining of the ROP show was it made me more interested in reading the actual lore of the 2nd Age, it's been a while since I read Silmarillion and now I want to get back into that period.

  • @Dr_Cole
    @Dr_Cole Год назад +11

    More please! I’d love to see you cover Bilbo getting the one ring. Not a chronology, as even the most basic of us are familiar with these details. But how a Hobbit getting the ring (and Bilbo specifically) changed the fates of Hobbits (and the view of Hobbits) and other peoples around the world.

  • @princehama7770
    @princehama7770 Год назад +4

    i love your naration and detailing in each video. please do a video on how and why Galadriel is so powerful as if she were a maiar herself.
    love from south africa

  • @jacobv3396
    @jacobv3396 Год назад +4

    More please! I think this is a good way to highlight the most important events in Middle-Earth.

  • @4Bobay
    @4Bobay Год назад +8

    Fun fact: According to Tolkien, Dunedain of the royal family did not have facial hair. This was due to having Elvish blood. "The Nature of Middle Earth."

    • @VaderzBane
      @VaderzBane 9 месяцев назад +1

      Did not know that. Interesting
      I like that Aragorn had facial hair. Kind of made him fit in as that “regular” ranger. Guy named Strider has to have a beard lol

  • @federicaesu8580
    @federicaesu8580 Год назад +6

    More please. I’d like you to cover the day that the Valar decided to release Melkor from his imprisonment in the Hall of Mandos , underestimating his malice and his hatred for the Elves which eventually brought about the destruction of the two Trees and the ruin of the Noldor

    • @Azulakayes
      @Azulakayes Год назад +1

      Yes...that was a turning point.

    • @DarthStygian
      @DarthStygian Год назад +2

      The Valar were more sympathetic than empathetic. They basically saw their oldest brother in pain and were moved by their own virtue to seek any potential virtue in their fallen sibling. It was very much like a Luke/Vader situation without the actual conversion from evil.

  • @robertcoplin2830
    @robertcoplin2830 Год назад +3

    More please. I think this will be an interesting perspective.

  • @israelwikkerink188
    @israelwikkerink188 Год назад +3

    More please! I'd like to see other things covered by you, as I really enjoy this channel.

  • @issac3670
    @issac3670 Год назад +3

    More please!
    Great job as always 🤟🏾

  • @diogoribeiro7009
    @diogoribeiro7009 Год назад +4

    Definelty more please. Outstanding work as usual, and an ever increasing production value. Thank you

  • @toslo24
    @toslo24 Год назад +1

    I like this, the numerorians were primed to accept saurons lies due to their own discontent and lack of appreciation of what they had. Sauron may have caused the final push, but they ran most of the marathon to their destruction on their own.

  • @DarthStygian
    @DarthStygian Год назад +2

    More please..
    Please more Numenor!!

  • @1aranel
    @1aranel Год назад +4

    This was fantastic. MORE PLEASE!!!!

  • @elleditsilver
    @elleditsilver Год назад +6

    More please! Love your content! How about the Battle of Sudden flame and it’s aftermath with the deaths of many Princes and High King Fingolfin? I always imagined Fingon feeling not ready to step into his father’s steps. Almost a Mufasa and Simba situation.
    Or the aftermath of the Last Alliance. Sauron defeated but also Gil-Galad and Elendil dead.

  • @ehc7775
    @ehc7775 Год назад +6

    Cool thing about angmar is that even though it was destroyed by elves and men, it was still feared and I think it was because of the quality of the evils that lived there. Wiser, smarter, stronger. And the most important part was the fact that they were men and as far as I know men make great evils such as isildur and the nine

  • @RobinGH
    @RobinGH Год назад +2

    More, please! I think this is a brilliant idea for a new series.

  • @scottskene8387
    @scottskene8387 Год назад +2

    How about a video covering the toppling of the Lamps? Cover some pre-First Age lore.

  • @angelabrittsan2881
    @angelabrittsan2881 Год назад +2

    More please. Looking forward to the next 9. The only thing I do not care for are the " what ifs" .
    Thank you.

  • @aletheiacole4132
    @aletheiacole4132 Год назад +3

    I can't wait for the rest of this series! I love how in your videos you give all the importants, and you don't go down unnecessary rabbit trails. Keep up the great work!

  • @TETASARAIVACS
    @TETASARAIVACS Год назад +1

    Tar Míriel looking down to Elendil: “And who would THIS be?”👸🏽
    “This is Elendil, you cousin, heir of Elros with a claim to the throne, my Queen”👀 “Don’t you recall that Thanksgiving a couple of years ago? He came along with Uncle Amandil, your father’s old friend”

  • @marc74e19
    @marc74e19 Год назад +2

    MORE PLEASE. just found your channel. Loving it!!!

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Год назад +2

    The manner of Sauron's arrival to Numenor took different forms in earlier versions of the story. The Fall of Numenor, Sur (an earlier name for Sauron) came to Numenor in the 'likeness of a great bird' and preached the return of Morgoth. In a later version, the King of Numenor sends ships to Middle-earth after hearing the rise of Sauron and summons him to do homage. The element of the King sending an armed host appears later in The Drowning of Anadune where he smithies weapons of war. This would later be expanded to what closely resembles what is in the Akallabeth.
    In earlier versions of the story Ar-Pharazon did not set foot on Aman with his army, instead he remained aboard his ship along with his queen Istar (an earlier name of Tar-Miriel) and both perished when the sea swallowed the fleet. This was also the instance in the texts that mentions Tar-Miriel accompanying Ar-Pharazon to Aman, whereas in later writings she remained on the island.

  • @alexanderrobertson3548
    @alexanderrobertson3548 Год назад +2

    Yes more please thankyou. I love the lore you guys cover. Great vid guy as always 😁😃👍❤️

  • @brownbenplumm9027
    @brownbenplumm9027 Год назад +3

    I just got my deluxe edition today!😄

  • @kristenkeys3273
    @kristenkeys3273 Год назад

    More please, and I'd like to see more about the moment the Witch King was killed, what it meant, and what the respective roles of Meriadoc and Eowyn were in his slaying. Thanks for helping me learn more about Tolkien's monumental contribution to the history of literature!

  • @rafaelgustavo7786
    @rafaelgustavo7786 Год назад +12

    Númenor was supposed to be a discussion about death vs life vs human nature vs immortality.
    The Fall of the Island is a reference to the fall of Man (a second fall) that exists in the Legendarium, and in the myths of humanity.
    This fight against death reminds me of Roy and the Replicants' fight in Blade Runner: Would you kill and destroy to find God and ask for more time to live?

  • @BenjaminJoseph-te3mv
    @BenjaminJoseph-te3mv 8 месяцев назад

    More please! This is so interesting and informative. Thank you and please go on.

  • @paulrhome6164
    @paulrhome6164 Год назад +7

    More please, and Finrod meeting and befriending the Edain would qualify for this category, I believe.

    • @TETASARAIVACS
      @TETASARAIVACS Год назад +1

      Imagine how fascinating it was for those Men when they first met Finrod?

  • @daniellekennedy8118
    @daniellekennedy8118 Год назад +1

    More please! More please!! More please!! More please!!

  • @user-dt7qu5ll7i
    @user-dt7qu5ll7i Год назад +2

    More Please… Love your great channel… Regards🇶🇦

  • @gamershaven254
    @gamershaven254 Год назад +2

    More Please! This is an interesting series.

  • @partofthetribe3277
    @partofthetribe3277 Год назад

    Your videos and the depth of the lore are so good that it doesn't matter whether you talked about something prior to a video or not.

  • @austinwilkes8556
    @austinwilkes8556 Год назад +2

    What a great series, more please!

  • @Blong243
    @Blong243 Год назад +1

    Interesting topic idea, let's keep them coming.

  • @javiervalverde628
    @javiervalverde628 Год назад +2

    More please.
    Thanks for the video. I have a question. How is it that the sinking of the continent of Numenor, the further removal of the continent of Aman from the world, and the making of the remaining world into a sphere not cataclysmic enough to mark the end of the second age. While the defeat of Sauron was a historic event, it doesn’t seem as world defining as the downfall of Numenor and the changing of the shape of the world.

  • @westleybenson1188
    @westleybenson1188 Год назад +1

    More Please! This is great!

  • @user-sd7ri9fy4i
    @user-sd7ri9fy4i 21 день назад

    Nice work dude thanks

  • @Huskytabby
    @Huskytabby Год назад +1

    What-if video idea for you to do:
    What if Gandalf never fell at the Bridge of Khazad-dum and continued with the fellowship to Lothlorien and on forward?

  • @andrewfanner2245
    @andrewfanner2245 Год назад +2

    Yes indeed, more please. As for days that shook Middle Earth, the dwarves delving too deep and too greedily, but possibly originally lead to that by the profitable trade in mithril to the Jewelsmiths.

    • @Brandon-a-writer
      @Brandon-a-writer Год назад +1

      The conception of this series came from one incident that I thought we could really expand upon as historic events within middle-earth: The Oath of Feanor and the three kinslayings and war of the jewels. The idea was to use that as a springboard to explore these really important, historic events that really changed the history of Arda.
      It's great to see this series coming to life! Thanks for watching friend!

  • @jprocha1570
    @jprocha1570 Год назад +6

    I think a good question to follow up on this video is; Did Sauron expect a different outcome with the Númenórean attack on the Valar, or was his plan just always the destruction of Númenor?

    • @TheBrokenSword
      @TheBrokenSword  Год назад +5

      A very good question indeed!

    • @DarthStygian
      @DarthStygian Год назад +2

      He totally knew the chances Numenor had in the attack. Moreover, it’s my guess that Sauron claims a personal victory for any outcome where his enemies fight each other.

    • @lkmjin
      @lkmjin Год назад +2

      @@DarthStygian feels like he relishes in mayhem, no matter where or why, just that he is the source of it. Truly twisted

    • @BattlestarZenobia
      @BattlestarZenobia 7 месяцев назад

      @@TheBrokenSwordI bet Crowley’s thoughts in Good Omens Noah’s Flood scene ran through his head. “Really sounds like something our lot would do!”

  • @nicholasmaddocks7545
    @nicholasmaddocks7545 Год назад +2

    You should react to Sauron versus the Lich King-death battle on rooster teeth. I think that you might enjoy it.

  • @TarnishedWayn3
    @TarnishedWayn3 Год назад

    More please ‼️ loved the video

  • @dustinross120
    @dustinross120 Год назад +2

    I love this channel so much, you guys do such an awesome job on the lore. For people like me who just hate reading books, this is the best alternative to learn everything about the lore. Thank you guys so much for making my Tolkien fandom go through the roof.

  • @TheMarineIguanaStudios
    @TheMarineIguanaStudios Год назад +1

    15:55 In Sauron's case, as he was an ainu... I don't think he would technically have a fëa, but instead an ëala.

  • @cryptojacklavers4476
    @cryptojacklavers4476 Год назад +2

    Yep ..good start to series

  • @Daangalf
    @Daangalf Год назад +1

    Need I even say this, after all this time with you? MORE, PLEASE!

  • @petteraven3761
    @petteraven3761 Год назад +2

    More, please!

  • @nuggetdoozy7831
    @nuggetdoozy7831 Год назад +2

    More PLEASE ❤

  • @panosmet4183
    @panosmet4183 Год назад +2

    More please!

  • @elozzabeth
    @elozzabeth Год назад +2

    More, please! 😁

  • @tomurg
    @tomurg Год назад +2

    more please!

  • @davidfish7920
    @davidfish7920 Год назад +2

    More please, lovin it

  • @eaglpaul1
    @eaglpaul1 Год назад +1

    MORE PLEASE!

  • @stephenhill6003
    @stephenhill6003 Год назад +3

    "Please sir, may I have some more?"

    • @loraelstad8941
      @loraelstad8941 Год назад

      I came here to say this after watching the video through, but ya beat me to it. Congrats 🎉! 😂 Was gonna add this emoji at the end: 🤲🏻

  • @chrisl2877
    @chrisl2877 Год назад +2

    More please, you videos are high quality and well researched! Keep up the good work!

  • @redtiger676
    @redtiger676 Год назад +1

    More please!😊

  • @michellejones3103
    @michellejones3103 Год назад +1

    More please!!! 🎉

  • @kennichols3992
    @kennichols3992 Год назад +2

    More, please.

  • @perreyalsdam7994
    @perreyalsdam7994 Год назад +2

    More please.

  • @bjorndamrong3289
    @bjorndamrong3289 Год назад +2

    Love it 😍

  • @tonyhinrichs1869
    @tonyhinrichs1869 Год назад +1

    MORE PLEASE!!!!

  • @timhutzler9441
    @timhutzler9441 Год назад

    More please! 👍

  • @funkybarany5086
    @funkybarany5086 Год назад +2

    I will quote a song from Kaleo, I want MORE

  • @matthewanderson9754
    @matthewanderson9754 Год назад +1

    More please please 🙏!!!!

  • @imthemaryyouretherhoda286
    @imthemaryyouretherhoda286 Год назад +1

    more please!!!!

  • @rataretrodos
    @rataretrodos Год назад +1

    More please!!!!

  • @ricklong7107
    @ricklong7107 Год назад +2

    More Please

  • @MKfelidae
    @MKfelidae Год назад +2

    More please

  • @Howarth78
    @Howarth78 Год назад +1

    MORE PLEASE

  • @douglaslindeman797
    @douglaslindeman797 Год назад +2

    More please....

  • @blaircolquhoun7780
    @blaircolquhoun7780 Год назад +1

    Numenor's Tolkien's version of Atlantis. Plato said that Atlantis was drowned by the Olympians in a single day.

  • @herr_der_spiele
    @herr_der_spiele Год назад +2

    More plz.

  • @thizizliz
    @thizizliz Год назад +1

    More Please.

  • @JeffreyChadwell
    @JeffreyChadwell Год назад +1

    Serious related question: What type of event causes the end of an age?

  • @rolltic
    @rolltic Год назад +1

    Great video! Have you guys managed to watch Sauron vs the Lich King yet? No spoilers who wins of course... :)

  • @krummhorn2824
    @krummhorn2824 Год назад +1

    More, please. 😁

  • @ehc7775
    @ehc7775 Год назад +3

    Not gonna lie
    The black numenorians are my favorite evil soldiers of all.
    I think the reason for that is because they are men that practiced with dark magic.
    Which made the worthy of to serve the Iron crown. And also a great threat to the west.

  • @wickedcircle
    @wickedcircle Год назад +2

    WHAT! Not a single word about Tar-Míriel the daughter of King Tar-Palantir, and the last rightful heir of Númenor.

    • @Brandon-a-writer
      @Brandon-a-writer Год назад +3

      This will play a part in another of this series, with the first marriage of elf and edain, and all of the implications that would have for the future. It's a question, always, when writing: where to draw focus and what must be included and what is (less) necessary to the story at present.
      But we've not forgotten Tar-Miriel!

  • @BattlestarZenobia
    @BattlestarZenobia 7 месяцев назад

    Bloody hell is Eru a genocidal maniac, the Akallabêth puts me in mind of the scene in Good Omens when Crowley is talking about the flood and Noah, “Not kids! You can’t kill kids!?”

  • @Spoeism
    @Spoeism Год назад +1

    How did Tolkein know about Azores with Ice age sea level?

  • @ivanabasic862
    @ivanabasic862 Год назад +2

    More please :) Pretty please :)

  • @thehikingcucumber3410
    @thehikingcucumber3410 Год назад +1

    I bought the new book. Reading it and love it. What went so wrong with Rings of power? Tolkiens work didn’t need altering, it’s really good as it sits

    • @julianneyvonne560
      @julianneyvonne560 Год назад

      Amazon did not have the rights to The Silmarillion nor rights to any of the material. That's the answer you seek.

  • @ZENmud
    @ZENmud Год назад

    "along the eastern coasts of Middle Earth" (around 8:40 +) ~
    I thought the Numenorians sailed East, to the western coastline of Middle Earth?

  • @havolei
    @havolei Год назад

    More, plz.

  • @munnin999
    @munnin999 Год назад +1

    More pls

  • @rafaelgustavo7786
    @rafaelgustavo7786 Год назад +5

    Númenor fighting Sauron (in his peak) is a fight doomed to failure. He is a divine person! And he was a "Trojan Horse" of Númenor.
    "His armada that took haven at Umbar was so great, and the Númenóreans at their height so terrible and resplendent, that Sauron's servants deserted him.
    So Sauron had recourse to guile. He submitted, and was carried off to Númenor as a prisoner￾hostage. But he was of course a 'divine' person (in the terms of this mythology; a lesser member of the race of Valar) and thus far too powerful to be controlled in this way. He steadily got Arpharazôn's mind under his own control, and in the event corrupted many of the Númenóreans"
    "Ar-Pharazôn, as is told in the 'Downfall' or Akallabêth, conquered a terrified Sauron's subjects, not Sauron. Sauron's personal 'surrender' was voluntary and cunning*: he got free transport to Numenor! He naturally had the One Ring, and so very soon dominated the minds and wills of most of the Númenóreans."

  • @paulgalligan1916
    @paulgalligan1916 Год назад +3

    Please sir can I have some more please 😆 🤣

  • @spankie7728
    @spankie7728 Год назад +1

    thank you for this video... this 1 was aloot better then.. the 1 billion crap that amazon gave us lol true fact! pllzzz make more:)

  • @sunfaestardust8548
    @sunfaestardust8548 Год назад +2

    Hi, Tank you and More Please☀️🌙🌌🐰⚔️🌻🍁 more thoughts to share ,🖌️🎨🐾🌲

  • @Sagittarius-81
    @Sagittarius-81 Год назад

    73
    He whose boldness appears in his daring (to do wrong, in defiance of the laws) is put to death; he whose boldness appears in his not daring (to do so) lives on. Of these two cases the one
    appears to be advantageous, and the other to be injurious. But
    When Heaven's anger smites a man,
    Who the cause shall truly scan?
    On this account the sage feels a difficulty (as to what to do in the former case).
    It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skilfully overcomes; not to speak, and yet it is skilful in (obtaining a reply; does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves. Its
    demonstrations are quiet, and yet its plans are skilful and effective. The meshes of the net of Heaven are large; far apart, but letting nothing escape.

    • @Sagittarius-81
      @Sagittarius-81 Год назад

      27
      The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful
      closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything. This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'
      Therefore the man of skill is a master (to be looked up to) by him who has not the skill; and he who has not the skill is the helper of (the reputation of) him who has the skill. If the one did not honour his master, and the other did not rejoice in his helper, an (observer), though intelligent, might greatly err about them. This is called 'The utmost degree of mystery.'

    • @Sagittarius-81
      @Sagittarius-81 Год назад

      8
      The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike. Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao.
      The excellence of a residence is in (the suitability of) the place; that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; that of associations is in their being with the virtuous; that of government is in its securing good order; that of (the conduct of) affairs is in its ability; and that of (the initiation of) any movement is in its timeliness.
      And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him.

    • @Sagittarius-81
      @Sagittarius-81 Год назад

      -1? Lamech has the answer!

  • @NinjaSquirrel30
    @NinjaSquirrel30 Год назад +1

    ❤️

  • @Seraphus87
    @Seraphus87 Год назад +1

    Aye.

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 Год назад +1

    Middle-earth was shook! - Tolkien, maybe.

  • @morgoth173
    @morgoth173 Год назад +2

    Video 198

  • @CordeliaWagner1999
    @CordeliaWagner1999 3 месяца назад

    The valar could have crated a perfect World for humans. But they choose not to.
    Why exactly should anyone worship them?
    Same question for Allah.

  • @CordeliaWagner1999
    @CordeliaWagner1999 3 месяца назад

    Tolkien's gods are as cruel as his catholic god.
    The treat humans like second class and wonder why they start to ask rational questions.
    To be doomed to diseases and death and uglyness while looking at the immortal beautiful free from disease Elves without getting jealous?
    I love Middle Earth, but I start to despise Tolkien more and more.
    His morals are so .... Catholic.

  • @jimmoriarty6964
    @jimmoriarty6964 Год назад

    If mortality is Eru's "gift" to the race of men, then why did he gave Numenoreans long life-span? Is he cursing these people?

    • @BattlestarZenobia
      @BattlestarZenobia 7 месяцев назад

      Because as shown every time Eru opens his trap he is a tyrannical ass who frankly based on his behaviour in the Legendarum deserves to be overthrown