I just saw a comment about this and wanted to clarify a possible mistake on my part, the Elves woke some of the Ents before going East into Beleriand, but I would imagine that they awoke more afterwards as well. Treebeard, being the eldest of the Ents, awoke at this point in time, alongside a few others that would pass away later on. Some others awoke later, and some around the time of the Elves returning I'm sure, but I spaced out the first ones. My apologies everyone! Thank you to Paul Wagner for pointing this out!
I would love to see a "What if" about if Old Man Willow got the one ring. Tom Bombadil keeps watch over him because of how old he is, and with the Wights so close by it would make a quick rise of Evil so close to the Shire. Old Man Willow isn't powerful enough to resist the Ring of Power or Saurons might, but Tom Bombadil would have to do something about Old Man Willow if he started destroying Bree, which would mean that he'd probably end up with the ring.
I can just imagine Lewis slowly... very slowly... having a pint or three at his favorite Oxford pub, addressing all his students who approached the table as "little orc".
I don't think that Ents feel the same dark desire to claim the ring (like the rest of the peoples of Middle-Earth because they're nothing like them) If he had taken the ring it would have not affected Treebeard
1966 and I'm about 11 or 12. reading "The Lord of the Rings" for the first of many times. The Ents story always left a sad void. As a man of 63 a tear can still fall for the Ents.
^Fucking Brutal. +Chainswept, that would be a cool band. I think, like Gloweye said it would make a sick prog track, on an album dedicated to LOTR performed by RUSH.
With so many fan-focused channels on RUclips, I've always wondered when I would finally find a Tolkien channel I could really get excited about. Been watching for a few weeks now. Thanks for being that channel.
I'm really late with this. I've always envisioned/fancied the idea of the ent wives having gone into a deep sleep in the shire. Everything grew well there with the love of the Hobbits, but could it all have been influenced by the ent wives? Could that be why Hobbits are more difficult to corrupt and ultimately why Frodo was the ring bearer? Great channel to exchange ideas.
r/imfourteenandthisisdeep Or r/basiceconomicsdoesntexist This kind of "deepity" pre-supposes that industry just mindlessly consumes everything in its path without replenishing. Every single logging company plants trees. Every single fishery has a policy of conservation. Nobody goes around poisoning streams and rubbing their hands together like a Hannah Barbara villain.
@@joshjames582 Oh, but yes, they do! Many industries such as metal industries or paint industries leave poisonous material back in rivers and streams, rapidly destroying them in a "no way back" fashion. And more, many logging companies don't plant trees by the same rate as they cut them down: it depends on the gain/cost balance of the moment... And even when they do, they plant monoculture bushes where once there were multiculture forests, which also destroys the nature. So, yes! Industries are rapidly shrinking down our planet's natural resources... And if you cannot see this happening around your city, it's because they're doing it in a third world country somewhere else, underpaying the owners of those resources and the workers doind their dirty work... Because they do know what evil they're doing, I can imagine them "rubbing their hands together", just like a Hannah Barbera villain...
@Oma Cool Okay? Why assume I'm a Trump supporter? And whether or not I am, I do find it funny how people tend to blame everything on the man. I'm amazed people don't blame natural disasters on the man at this point, as if he were some pagan deity.
4 countries in Asia polute more than the rest of the world put together. The west is taking care of its trash and spills.aim the blame Where its deserved or better yet get them to take care of their trash and spils.
That's the story of Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings. During the story of the Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth is almost over. It's great magic and energy is almost spent and gone. Many great kingdoms have finished into history and the ones that are left are only weak shadows of their former selves. The story is this world, holding on by a thread, coming together to fend off this last great evil. They are victorious, but Middle Earth cannot escape it's ultimate fate and all the great magics and people of the world eventually dwindle and diminish into nothing. It is melancholy, but it is meant to be. We see Middle Earth in its final days. Aged, old, feeble, but not yet completely spent. The world itself can manage to die with peace and dignity.
The Ents are my favorite of the books. Growing up in the high wild mountains of Idaho I loved imagining these caretakers of the forest when I was a kid. I used to pretend they were always around me somewhere watching out for me in the woods when we would go camping or anything like that... To this day it is still fun to use the imagination in such a way I think.
Thats an idea i stand by. Beorn was known in the hobbit to be the only one of his kind and in the lord of the rings trilogy there was a few of them that called themselves beornlings
LOTR is my favorite movie trilogy. It is like a forgotten history. I really have enjoyed your videos and knowledge of Tolkien's work. I have learned so much and could listen to you all day.. Thank you so much!
I don't know about everyone else, but to me, the Ents, their history, their language, their origin, their purpose, their lives, etc. are the most beautiful and interesting thing Tolkien ever created. It saddens me that he didn't fully develop Entish hahah
Great video! A thought about the Ent-wives occurs to me: if the Ents, who loved/stayed in the forests, are (as a race) gradually becoming more "treeish"... is it possible that the Ent-wives, who loved/stayed in farms/gardens, are (as a race and if they survived) gradually becoming more "human-ish?" So would Ents and Ent-wives even recognize each other any more? No real basis in the book for any of that, just a thought.
So glad I found your channel, I always loved Tolkien's stuff but I could not find good content related to it. Thank God you are here, please never stop making videos
I've always liked the idea of Thranduil with the Ring, because I think it would have a very different effect on him. Like Sam Gamgee, he already had everything he wanted at home, and basically just wanted to be left alone with his people (and a few trade treaties for wine etc) to have a good time. He's seclusive by his very nature. Magnifying that character with the Ring... he would surely clean up Mirkwood, probably knock over Sauron through alliances, and probably neutralize the orcs of the north. Then I think he would basically go home and lock off the forest from anyone but a few friends and merchants. It would be like turning that whole Mirkwood/Greenwood region into a historical black hole. He would definitely want to collect all the other rings of power "for safekeeping" and give them to his captains. Being a good strategist, by the time he moved against Sauron, Thranduil would already have figured out how to control the 9 ring-wraiths, then dispose of them later. Rings can be re-attuned, so the wraiths would just wink out of existence. He would get the 3 elven rings left in his care when their bearers sailed west, and maybe even find a couple of the remaining dwarf rings in the ruins of Barad Dur. He might manage to reunite the ents & entwives, too, and set their offspring as guardians and gardeners of his realm, and they would probably be just as glad of the eternal seclusion. That's still a kind of evil, if you like, an infinite recursion of self-absorption and isolation. The rest of history would just flow around "New Greenwood," carefully avoiding it, forever shut out as Thranduil's folk shut themselves in. I'm thinking the wood-elf parties would be really awesome, though. This kind of use of power/magic is consistent with historical germanic mythos from which Thranduil's folk were derived. The common advice outside would become: "Don't trespass in the deep woods... The Forest has a will of its own, and the spirits guard it well." Well, that all makes sense to this "animist channel" anyway" :)
5:50 Old Man Willow: "In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Tree. And I shall not be dark, but green and brown as the leaf and the bark! Shady as the Valleys and the Caves and the Leaves upon the Topsoil! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall water me and despair!" Tom Bombadil: "Bombadil is talking."
I always found it so sad as I read about the departing of the entwives and how treebeard yearned for them back. The loss and sorrow of the void that was left when they departed.
I read in Tolkien's biography that he would apparently have long conversations with trees when he was little. Also, congratulations on over 10,000 subscribers!
Back in the mid-80's I was homeless for a while and lived in a tent for about 3 months at the back of Tunstall Hill, Sunderland. Middle of the woods. Easy to believe someone or something was watching over me at 3am. Being a huge Tolkien fan I imagined Ents. Heard some weird noises at times, but never felt threatened. Just a watchful presence in the trees...
Ive always had identified the most with Tree Beard, more then any other of Tolkien's characters. He commands respect from his contemporaries. He has survived love loss and lived to witness the fundamental shift of his planet which ultimately leads to the end of his species.
I love how you present the sorrow of the Ents. Treebeard is my second favorite character in the LOTR because Tolkien gave him great depth and emotion in such a small part of the books.
Great video sir, I really enjoy your narrative. Thank you for expanding my Tolkien knowledge as well as teaching me some new things. As for future video, here are some ideas. - The scouraging of the Shire - Lands of Eriador (a completely new series where you talk about the various regions of ME and their history) - Eagles of Middle earth - the touge of Middle Earth (various languages of the people of Middle earth) - Beorn and the shapshifters - Gimli
Great video as always! Do a video dissecting the Battles of Beleriand. Those battles in the first age are more epic than the rest of Tolkiens' legendarium put together. The last one especially is so awe inspiring and yet passed over so quickly in The Silmarillion.
I was thinking a good video idea would be analysing all the different mountains chains in middle earth and their inhabitants (e.g Ash mountains, blue mountains, misty mountains, grey mountains, iron hills etc...)
Found your channel today. I'm a huge fan already. You go over things rather clearly and your passion for it is definitely there. Some things I would like to see or you made me think of while viewing. The dwarven rings. More on the Nazgul if you haven't covered them already. And a more interesting one. The Shadow of Mordor series. I am told it ties into the canon. Again thanks for the channel and the work you put into it.
Willow enchant water supply of middle earth and corrupts slowly to his subconscious will kinda theory? Or is it more like he will uproot himself and March a corrupted horde of trees across the land(huror trees messed up the orcs at helms deep). Great video, thanks for the fun history lesson of middle earth!
Great video and I like your correction in the comment down below--true the elves probably awoke some of the ents on their journey west. I have always felt that Treebeard is the Oldest Living Thing in Middle Earth, but Tom Bombadil is the Oldest Being (because he is a spirit) thus, if the elves awoke the trees, then Tom is older than Treebeard, but he is really a spirit.
I wish the Ents had more stories in the Unfinished Tales, or even some side story of Treebeard going to Lothlorien. I loved the brief interaction between Celeborn, Gladriel and Treebeard towards the end of RotK, sadly it was just that...brief.
I remember one little blue plum tree that just sprang up along the stone wall on the south border of our farm. Probably a chance seedling, I nursed it along for a few years, and it eventually bore fruit which my mother made into good plum jam. Interestingly, blue plums weren't supposed to survive winters in New Hampshire, but this one did. This started my interest in winter hardy fruits! Nature has many surprises!
In my favorite video game, Baldur’s Gate, there is an ingame lore book called “The Last March of the Giants”. I always liked that subtle little homage.
Hey everyone! Sorry, there were some formatting errors the first time I uploaded so I needed to upload again! Hopefully everything is good now! Let me know your thoughts on the video and the Ents down below. As always thank you all for watching, have a great day!
Can I draw your attention to a seemingly overlooked conversation between Sam Gamgee and Ted Sandyman (the miller) in chapter II (the shadow of the past) that takes place in the green dragon at Bywater. "But what about these Tree men, these giants as you might call them? They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back" "Who's 'they'? "My cousin Hal for one. He works for Mr Boffin of Overhill and goes up to the Nothfarthing for the hunting he SAW one" It made me think that if Sam had been questioned by Treebeard concerning Entwives that maybe after dealing with Isengard, Treebeard might have renewed his search for the Entwives near the Shire. Wishful thinking on my part,perhaps, but it DOES seem to be missed by everybody!
I'd love to see a video on the blue wizards. Just covering everything known about them and your personal theorys, thanks. Lobe the videos btw, keep it up!
That last comment about Tolkien saying he will "always take the side of trees" makes me think "Was Tolkien a Druid?" lol. If for nothing more than sheer amusement I would love to hear a "What if Old Man Willow got the One Ring" Anyway, Brilliant content, truly, and fantastically entertaining. Thank you Yoystan for your channel and please keep it up!
First I'd like to say your videos are extremely well done and have answered questions that I've always had about this "Tolken Universe" i would like a video on the Palantirs (seeing stones) where they came from and who or what made them and where they all ended up TY and I look forward to your next video
Love the videos! My theory on the entwives (and I may be all wet here) is that they wound up in the shire. Treebeard himself said to merry and pippin that they would have liked the land of the hobbits. As you stated, and as the conversation in the green dragon indicated, a walking tree was seen in the shire. Again, as you pointed out, fangorn forest was a remnant of the vast forest that had covered eriador at one time. Treebeard said “we lost the entwives”. It’s possible that through the ages, as the area was deforested, the ents kept more to the depths of the forests while the entwives sought out the tilled earth surrounding the shire. It’s obvious that the hobbits themselves retained little or no folklore regarding the entwives, so naturally, tales of walking trees would be viewed skeptically by the shirefolk. Even the terrifying tales of the old forest were seen as bedtime stories that had spooked fatty bolger. Just my two cents.
I like to imagine that the walking trees, seen in the Shire are Ent-Women and that they reunited with the Male-Ents. I really enjoy walking in the Woods and i like the thought of some trees being sentient and watching for the nature. Great video as always, have a nice one, folks!
Love the videos, dude. I see you as a great Tolkien counterpart to Alt Shift X's GRRM videos. I'd love to see a video about a genteral history of dwarves in Middle Earth too. Keep it up!
I grew up admist the forests here in Southern Connecticut and as a young girl would walk through them never fearing getting lost. I just recently discovered that the actress Dame Judi Dench also has loved trees ever since she was a young girl. When I was 20 I visited the Red Wood Forests in Northern California and was truly humbled by their height and age. I would love to meet an Ent.
I really love this video, its too bad that none of my friends really care about Tolkien's Legendarium. Also, can you do at least one of these suggestions 1. What if Cirdan had given Narya to Saruman? 2. What if the Fellowship took the Gap of Rohan instead of the Mines of Moria? 3. What if Galadriel had taken the One Ring? 4. What if Saruman accepted Gandalf's offer to surrender his staff and the Keys of Orthanc to be "free"?
The Ents were a truly great creation and a very tragic story The Ents attack on Saruman/Eisenguard was mighty indeed; didn't look great in the films in truth but was a mighty battle in the books The March of the Ents ... marvellous
All these beings, places and races show how broad Tolkien's world is and how much detail he put into his works that is why he's one of my favourite author's he had such an immense imagination which is something that I always believe to be a must in life for it is in imagination that we can create these worlds.
Reading The Hobbit and LOTR as a youngling inspired my love of trees. As silly as it might seem...I often talk to trees as the elves of Tolkien's world did and as aburd as it ight seem, I think they listen and appreciate the company.
I like happy ends. So i like to think that some of the younger Ents went east to search for their wives after the battles ended. Probably by the advice of Gandalf.
I really wish there was more spoken about the Ents, Ent-wives, and the inner-workings of their society... everything from their societal governance, moral principles, social culture, religious beliefs, personal relationships, family dynamics, etc.
Thank you so much for this it was wonderful Has anyone asked you to do anything about the old Forest… And maybe a what if about Ents in Mirkwood/greenwood?
Here's an idea; maybe you could tell us more about the Dunlendings? Also, possibly a "What if Saruman didn't inspire the Dunlendings to attack Rohan?" Theory. Another great video, I'm sad the most popular theory on the Entwives is that they all died. =[
I always liked the thought that the Ent-Wives went west, in the direction of the shire. It seems like the kind of place they'd like to watch over. Perhaps the Shire even was their work, a green paradise of meadows? Then the first ent mentionend, the walking tree the hobbit farmer claimed to have seen, might have been an Ent-Wive. I think Merry and Pipin even promised Treebeard to look for them in the west? Not 100% sure though. Feels a bit too grim for my tastes to see the ents doomed to a fate of slow extinction over the ages.
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I just saw a comment about this and wanted to clarify a possible mistake on my part, the Elves woke some of the Ents before going East into Beleriand, but I would imagine that they awoke more afterwards as well. Treebeard, being the eldest of the Ents, awoke at this point in time, alongside a few others that would pass away later on. Some others awoke later, and some around the time of the Elves returning I'm sure, but I spaced out the first ones. My apologies everyone! Thank you to Paul Wagner for pointing this out!
Men of the West nice video, I wish I could lend you some of my own drawings from the films.
I would love to see a "What if" about if Old Man Willow got the one ring. Tom Bombadil keeps watch over him because of how old he is, and with the Wights so close by it would make a quick rise of Evil so close to the Shire. Old Man Willow isn't powerful enough to resist the Ring of Power or Saurons might, but Tom Bombadil would have to do something about Old Man Willow if he started destroying Bree, which would mean that he'd probably end up with the ring.
Please do a "what if Old Man Willow got the One Ring" theory video.
Do a what if old man willow got the ring
Peredhil H I would also love to see a "What if Old Man Willow claimed the One Ring" video!
Fun fact: Tolkien based Treebeard's character off his friend C.S.Lewis
Will Banister He did indeed! Thanks for watching!
I can just imagine Lewis slowly... very slowly... having a pint or three at his favorite Oxford pub, addressing all his students who approached the table as "little orc".
0.0 awesome! Thank you.
Will Banister he was actually much more than a friend to him.
@@ernestolombardo5811 lol at the image you painted
I think it would be awesome if Treebeard got the one ring. The whole world would have become one evil forest.
I don't think that would happen treebeard is to good to be corrupted by the ring.
charlie hoke anyone can be corrupted by it, Gandalf was scared to touch it because he'd become the dark lord, treebeard would definitely be corrupted
@@darion1728 Tom Bombadil can't be corrupted by the ring.
of course I meant excluding Tom Bombadil hes weird af
I don't think that Ents feel the same dark desire to claim the ring (like the rest of the peoples of Middle-Earth because they're nothing like them)
If he had taken the ring it would have not affected Treebeard
1966 and I'm about 11 or 12. reading "The Lord of the Rings" for the first of many times. The Ents story always left a sad void. As a man of 63 a tear can still fall for the Ents.
Then... the story achieved its objective
The last march of the Ents makes me angry and sad.
Oh but to hear at least one rolling, long winded word of entish would bring such joy to my ears
Bonus thoughts: I've always held that "Last March of the Ents" would make a KILLER band name
It would make for a great track name, IMO.
^Fucking Brutal. +Chainswept, that would be a cool band. I think, like Gloweye said it would make a sick prog track, on an album dedicated to LOTR performed by RUSH.
@@alexross1816 there is also a band named cirith ungol
@@alexross1816 Pretty Metal.
killer sludge metal/ power-violence song title.
Ents and Eagles seem to be the most least problematic races by themselves along with the Hobbits.
With so many fan-focused channels on RUclips, I've always wondered when I would finally find a Tolkien channel I could really get excited about. Been watching for a few weeks now. Thanks for being that channel.
Thank you so much, it truly means a lot! I'll keep providing this content for you all!
Chrysippus Laughing why does your comment say gordan Ramsey needs to meet siman Cowell?
Men of the West there were ent wives and children, but went away.
Fine praise, and well deserved.
I wish that Aragorn would have found the last of the ent wives during his "trip" to the East.
LaidBack Panda dude, can't believe Tolkien never made that happen. I was hoping they could be found back in the shire.
The shire is where I'd expect them to be
I'm really late with this. I've always envisioned/fancied the idea of the ent wives having gone into a deep sleep in the shire. Everything grew well there with the love of the Hobbits, but could it all have been influenced by the ent wives? Could that be why Hobbits are more difficult to corrupt and ultimately why Frodo was the ring bearer? Great channel to exchange ideas.
Peace isn’t the LOTR rights up for grabs now? Technically couldn’t that “happen”
I've always believed the ent Sam's cousin saw was an entwife.
When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money
I've heard this before. Still true and always will be.
r/imfourteenandthisisdeep
Or r/basiceconomicsdoesntexist
This kind of "deepity" pre-supposes that industry just mindlessly consumes everything in its path without replenishing. Every single logging company plants trees. Every single fishery has a policy of conservation. Nobody goes around poisoning streams and rubbing their hands together like a Hannah Barbara villain.
@@joshjames582 Oh, but yes, they do! Many industries such as metal industries or paint industries leave poisonous material back in rivers and streams, rapidly destroying them in a "no way back" fashion.
And more, many logging companies don't plant trees by the same rate as they cut them down: it depends on the gain/cost balance of the moment... And even when they do, they plant monoculture bushes where once there were multiculture forests, which also destroys the nature.
So, yes! Industries are rapidly shrinking down our planet's natural resources...
And if you cannot see this happening around your city, it's because they're doing it in a third world country somewhere else, underpaying the owners of those resources and the workers doind their dirty work...
Because they do know what evil they're doing, I can imagine them "rubbing their hands together", just like a Hannah Barbera villain...
@Oma Cool Okay? Why assume I'm a Trump supporter? And whether or not I am, I do find it funny how people tend to blame everything on the man. I'm amazed people don't blame natural disasters on the man at this point, as if he were some pagan deity.
4 countries in Asia polute more than the rest of the world put together. The west is taking care of its trash and spills.aim the blame Where its deserved or better yet get them to take care of their trash and spils.
I love tolkein but it's a bit depressing. How many "last of somethings" are there?
That's the story of Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings. During the story of the Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth is almost over. It's great magic and energy is almost spent and gone. Many great kingdoms have finished into history and the ones that are left are only weak shadows of their former selves. The story is this world, holding on by a thread, coming together to fend off this last great evil. They are victorious, but Middle Earth cannot escape it's ultimate fate and all the great magics and people of the world eventually dwindle and diminish into nothing. It is melancholy, but it is meant to be. We see Middle Earth in its final days. Aged, old, feeble, but not yet completely spent. The world itself can manage to die with peace and dignity.
The Ents are my favorite of the books. Growing up in the high wild mountains of Idaho I loved imagining these caretakers of the forest when I was a kid. I used to pretend they were always around me somewhere watching out for me in the woods when we would go camping or anything like that... To this day it is still fun to use the imagination in such a way I think.
Kills me how Underrated this channel is.
Ents were a stroke of genius, who can't love these ancients. And thank you for this great channel!
+Men Of The West I think it would be a great idea to do a character history on beorn the skin changer.
Agreed, I second this! Beorn history please :)
Thats an idea i stand by. Beorn was known in the hobbit to be the only one of his kind and in the lord of the rings trilogy there was a few of them that called themselves beornlings
LOTR is my favorite movie trilogy. It is like a forgotten history. I really have enjoyed your videos and knowledge of Tolkien's work. I have learned so much and could listen to you all day.. Thank you so much!
Great video! The Ents are my favorite. Thanks for doing this one, I really enjoyed it!
My favorite Treebeard bit in the movie, was when they were talking about the Ent wives. Sad, but kinda funny too.
I don't know about everyone else, but to me, the Ents, their history, their language, their origin, their purpose, their lives, etc. are the most beautiful and interesting thing Tolkien ever created. It saddens me that he didn't fully develop Entish hahah
Wonderful video! The Ents are no where as near as beautiful as the trees in my realm of Mirkwood, but they certainly are fascinating.
King Thranduil of Mirkwood TREES? ENTS ARE NO TREES!
Your a pointy eared princess
Great video!
A thought about the Ent-wives occurs to me: if the Ents, who loved/stayed in the forests, are (as a race) gradually becoming more "treeish"... is it possible that the Ent-wives, who loved/stayed in farms/gardens, are (as a race and if they survived) gradually becoming more "human-ish?" So would Ents and Ent-wives even recognize each other any more?
No real basis in the book for any of that, just a thought.
...that is a really sad thought, very interesting though!
Would splinters count as an STI?
Shut up
So glad I found your channel, I always loved Tolkien's stuff but I could not find good content related to it. Thank God you are here, please never stop making videos
Good sir, please make a, "What if King Thranduil had the one ring" video.
King Thranduil of Mirkwood YES YES
I've always liked the idea of Thranduil with the Ring, because I think it would have a very different effect on him. Like Sam Gamgee, he already had everything he wanted at home, and basically just wanted to be left alone with his people (and a few trade treaties for wine etc) to have a good time. He's seclusive by his very nature.
Magnifying that character with the Ring... he would surely clean up Mirkwood, probably knock over Sauron through alliances, and probably neutralize the orcs of the north. Then I think he would basically go home and lock off the forest from anyone but a few friends and merchants. It would be like turning that whole Mirkwood/Greenwood region into a historical black hole.
He would definitely want to collect all the other rings of power "for safekeeping" and give them to his captains. Being a good strategist, by the time he moved against Sauron, Thranduil would already have figured out how to control the 9 ring-wraiths, then dispose of them later. Rings can be re-attuned, so the wraiths would just wink out of existence. He would get the 3 elven rings left in his care when their bearers sailed west, and maybe even find a couple of the remaining dwarf rings in the ruins of Barad Dur.
He might manage to reunite the ents & entwives, too, and set their offspring as guardians and gardeners of his realm, and they would probably be just as glad of the eternal seclusion.
That's still a kind of evil, if you like, an infinite recursion of self-absorption and isolation. The rest of history would just flow around "New Greenwood," carefully avoiding it, forever shut out as Thranduil's folk shut themselves in. I'm thinking the wood-elf parties would be really awesome, though.
This kind of use of power/magic is consistent with historical germanic mythos from which Thranduil's folk were derived. The common advice outside would become: "Don't trespass in the deep woods... The Forest has a will of its own, and the spirits guard it well."
Well, that all makes sense to this "animist channel" anyway" :)
I'm a simple man
I see Men of the West upload, and i drop my shit
Your videos hinder my study time :(
Haha sorry about that, but I'm happy I can give you some entertainment! Thank you for your support!
Fluffy Dasher lol... here here... Brilliant ain't he?... love this channel
I also love on how he interacts with the audience. You don't see that with a lot of other RUclipsrs!
Thank you both so much, it really means a lot! :)
This IS study time
Growing up the Ents have always been my favorite race , thank you for making this video
5:50
Old Man Willow:
"In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Tree. And I shall not be dark, but green and brown as the leaf and the bark! Shady as the Valleys and the Caves and the Leaves upon the Topsoil! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall water me and despair!"
Tom Bombadil:
"Bombadil is talking."
hahahahahahhahahaha just watched that scene from fellowship and i laughed so fucking hard at this.
I always found it so sad as I read about the departing of the entwives and how treebeard yearned for them back. The loss and sorrow of the void that was left when they departed.
I read in Tolkien's biography that he would apparently have long conversations with trees when he was little.
Also, congratulations on over 10,000 subscribers!
Not far off reality, there are plenty of "last of somethings" these days
Back in the mid-80's I was homeless for a while and lived in a tent for about 3 months at the back of Tunstall Hill, Sunderland. Middle of the woods. Easy to believe someone or something was watching over me at 3am. Being a huge Tolkien fan I imagined Ents. Heard some weird noises at times, but never felt threatened. Just a watchful presence in the trees...
I wish there were more tales of the Ents as they are one of my favorite beings in Tolkien's works.
Ive always had identified the most with Tree Beard, more then any other of Tolkien's characters. He commands respect from his contemporaries. He has survived love loss and lived to witness the fundamental shift of his planet which ultimately leads to the end of his species.
I really love how after the story ,you give a life lesson witch can be applied in our own lives ....thx brother ,and keep doing the good work!
I love how you present the sorrow of the Ents. Treebeard is my second favorite character in the LOTR because Tolkien gave him great depth and emotion in such a small part of the books.
Great video sir, I really enjoy your narrative. Thank you for expanding my Tolkien knowledge as well as teaching me some new things. As for future video, here are some ideas.
- The scouraging of the Shire
- Lands of Eriador (a completely new series where you talk about the various regions of ME and their history)
- Eagles of Middle earth
- the touge of Middle Earth (various languages of the people of Middle earth)
- Beorn and the shapshifters
- Gimli
Once more, great praise on the art you have selected. Holy Moly, Fried Fijoles, Tolkien was divinely inspired!
Three dislikes for the Elven-kings under the sky.
Your channel grows rapidly, well deserved.
Grey Eyes Haha thank you! :)
Men of the West you should do a video about azog and or borg
Great video as always!
Do a video dissecting the Battles of Beleriand. Those battles in the first age are more epic than the rest of Tolkiens' legendarium put together. The last one especially is so awe inspiring and yet passed over so quickly in The Silmarillion.
I was thinking a good video idea would be analysing all the different mountains chains in middle earth and their inhabitants (e.g Ash mountains, blue mountains, misty mountains, grey mountains, iron hills etc...)
i have been loving tolkien since i was a little boy and this channel is the best for tolkien lore... keep up the good work bro
Well done, Squire. As a pipe smoker, I'd love to see a video on pipes and pipe weed in Middle Earth. Would you be amenable to such an idea?
As a Tolkien fan I totally love your channel and I would enjoy a in-depth series about the Elvish languages. Le fael Dúnedain.
Treebeard was one of my favourite characters in the novels and the films! Great video.
Found your channel today. I'm a huge fan already. You go over things rather clearly and your passion for it is definitely there.
Some things I would like to see or you made me think of while viewing.
The dwarven rings.
More on the Nazgul if you haven't covered them already.
And a more interesting one. The Shadow of Mordor series. I am told it ties into the canon.
Again thanks for the channel and the work you put into it.
"The last March of Ents , we are probably going to our doom"
Best fucking line in the Trilogy
Do a "What if Old Man Willow got The Ring" theory
The rise of the tree kingdom! HALE TO THE DARK LORD OLD MAN WILLOW!
Is this how you write the name of the tree, by the way? Old Man Willow? Or did I misspell it?
Willow enchant water supply of middle earth and corrupts slowly to his subconscious will kinda theory? Or is it more like he will uproot himself and March a corrupted horde of trees across the land(huror trees messed up the orcs at helms deep).
Great video, thanks for the fun history lesson of middle earth!
Damian Skrok Sauron would fall asleep lol
Damian Skrok it would be a cool video. I would defiantly watch it.
I love this! The Ents are my favorite beings in the LOTR world
Great video and I like your correction in the comment down below--true the elves probably awoke some of the ents on their journey west. I have always felt that Treebeard is the Oldest Living Thing in Middle Earth, but Tom Bombadil is the Oldest Being (because he is a spirit) thus, if the elves awoke the trees, then Tom is older than Treebeard, but he is really a spirit.
Great video! would you please make a video about the Haradrim/southrons and their mumakil?
Djell Waters Thank you! I'll add that to my to-make list!
Super fascinated about those groups as well. I support this idea
I wish the Ents had more stories in the Unfinished Tales, or even some side story of Treebeard going to Lothlorien. I loved the brief interaction between Celeborn, Gladriel and Treebeard towards the end of RotK, sadly it was just that...brief.
You should do a video about Ungoliant and his history with melkor/morgoth
I remember one little blue plum tree that just sprang up along the stone wall on the south border of our farm. Probably a chance seedling, I nursed it along for a few years, and it eventually bore fruit which my mother made into good plum jam. Interestingly, blue plums weren't supposed to survive winters in New Hampshire, but this one did. This started my interest in winter hardy fruits! Nature has many surprises!
By the way everyone this is not the only channel that has good content of the world of Arda and JRR tolkien's legendarium
In my favorite video game, Baldur’s Gate, there is an ingame lore book called “The Last March of the Giants”. I always liked that subtle little homage.
Baldur's Gate 3 is very much a front to Tolkien. He was very conservative and wouldn't accept his work being page homage to by these people.
Found the channel recently, really enjoy listening to your videos as i go to sleep. Very captivating as usual.
Ents are the best! love this video! Thank you for the record. Would love to see a Scouring of the Shire if you haven't already
Excellent channel, great job on all the research. Much respect.
Hey everyone! Sorry, there were some formatting errors the first time I uploaded so I needed to upload again! Hopefully everything is good now! Let me know your thoughts on the video and the Ents down below. As always thank you all for watching, have a great day!
im confused as to what the dragons and balrogs would be a mockery of they seem to be wholly created by the darkness
Can I draw your attention to a seemingly overlooked conversation between Sam Gamgee and Ted Sandyman (the miller) in chapter II (the shadow of the past) that takes place in the green dragon at Bywater.
"But what about these Tree men, these giants as you might call them? They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back"
"Who's 'they'?
"My cousin Hal for one. He works for Mr Boffin of Overhill and goes up to the Nothfarthing for the hunting he SAW one"
It made me think that if Sam had been questioned by Treebeard concerning Entwives that maybe after dealing with Isengard, Treebeard might have renewed his search for the Entwives near the Shire. Wishful thinking on my part,perhaps, but it DOES seem to be missed by everybody!
Love the video man, been waiting for one on the ents :)
Thank you! I'm happy I could deliver!
I love the part when the Huorns attack the Uruks. I never thought about Old Man Willow being a Huorn. Cool video.
I'd love to see a video on the blue wizards. Just covering everything known about them and your personal theorys, thanks. Lobe the videos btw, keep it up!
That last comment about Tolkien saying he will "always take the side of trees" makes me think "Was Tolkien a Druid?" lol.
If for nothing more than sheer amusement I would love to hear a "What if Old Man Willow got the One Ring"
Anyway, Brilliant content, truly, and fantastically entertaining. Thank you Yoystan for your channel and please keep it up!
I would love to see some videos based on The Silmarillion! The fall of Gondolin, The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, Feanor and his Sons!
First I'd like to say your videos are extremely well done and have answered questions that I've always had about this "Tolken Universe" i would like a video on the Palantirs (seeing stones) where they came from and who or what made them and where they all ended up TY and I look forward to your next video
Love the videos!
My theory on the entwives (and I may be all wet here) is that they wound up in the shire. Treebeard himself said to merry and pippin that they would have liked the land of the hobbits. As you stated, and as the conversation in the green dragon indicated, a walking tree was seen in the shire. Again, as you pointed out, fangorn forest was a remnant of the vast forest that had covered eriador at one time.
Treebeard said “we lost the entwives”. It’s possible that through the ages, as the area was deforested, the ents kept more to the depths of the forests while the entwives sought out the tilled earth surrounding the shire. It’s obvious that the hobbits themselves retained little or no folklore regarding the entwives, so naturally, tales of walking trees would be viewed skeptically by the shirefolk. Even the terrifying tales of the old forest were seen as bedtime stories that had spooked fatty bolger. Just my two cents.
I like to imagine that the walking trees, seen in the Shire are Ent-Women and that they reunited with the Male-Ents.
I really enjoy walking in the Woods and i like the thought of some trees being sentient and watching for the nature.
Great video as always, have a nice one, folks!
I really enjoy your videos they're very well done and it's also great how you always have a wise saying of sorts at the end.
RegentPuppet 57 Thank you! :) I mean we take what ideas we can from the lore and apply it to real life to make our world better.
The Ents in Third Age Total War are deadly beasts, able to kill Trolls with a single swipe of a branch.
Any chance to do Azog and or Borg?
“I am on no one’s side, because no one is on my side”
I am on your side, treebeard.
Love the videos, dude. I see you as a great Tolkien counterpart to Alt Shift X's GRRM videos. I'd love to see a video about a genteral history of dwarves in Middle Earth too. Keep it up!
Love your content man! Even though this took a bittersweet turn towards the end but that's life.
Amazing video, man! Great job and keep up the good work!
I grew up admist the forests here in Southern Connecticut and as a young girl would walk through them never fearing getting lost. I just recently discovered that the actress Dame Judi Dench also has loved trees ever since she was a young girl. When I was 20 I visited the Red Wood Forests in Northern California and was truly humbled by their height and age. I would love to meet an Ent.
Dude k can listen to your videos for like 5 houra. Thanks for the time you out into these.
I've been looking for a channel like this for so long
I really love this video, its too bad that none of my friends really care about Tolkien's Legendarium.
Also, can you do at least one of these suggestions
1. What if Cirdan had given Narya to Saruman?
2. What if the Fellowship took the Gap of Rohan instead of the Mines of Moria?
3. What if Galadriel had taken the One Ring?
4. What if Saruman accepted Gandalf's offer to surrender his staff and the Keys of Orthanc to be "free"?
Thank you. I admire your work immensely. I am disabled and housebound.
Great advice in your closing statement, enjoyed these fascinating Lore videos!
Always great videos here. Thank you.
Thank you! :)
This is like the best RUclips channel ever. I love. LOTR lore
The Ents were a truly great creation and a very tragic story
The Ents attack on Saruman/Eisenguard was mighty indeed; didn't look great in the films in truth but was a mighty battle in the books
The March of the Ents ... marvellous
You did such a great job on this. Very informative my friend.
This is fantastic I'm so happy I found your Channel what a great video
Great video, keep up all the great work
All these beings, places and races show how broad Tolkien's world is and how much detail he put into his works that is why he's one of my favourite author's he had such an immense imagination which is something that I always believe to be a must in life for it is in imagination that we can create these worlds.
Reading The Hobbit and LOTR as a youngling inspired my love of trees. As silly as it might seem...I often talk to trees as the elves of Tolkien's world did and as aburd as it ight seem, I think they listen and appreciate the company.
Could you do videos on each of the elven kindreds and the lands of the elves? I would really enjoy it.
Great video as always
I like happy ends.
So i like to think that some of the younger Ents went east to search for their wives after the battles ended. Probably by the advice of Gandalf.
Your videos are very interesting, man. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Was wondering if you could go in depth on the creation of orcs/Uruks and the other evil thugs of Middle Earth? Love your vids btw, quality content!
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I really wish there was more spoken about the Ents, Ent-wives, and the inner-workings of their society... everything from their societal governance, moral principles, social culture, religious beliefs, personal relationships, family dynamics, etc.
Could you do a history of the Noldor High Elves they are my favorite elves and I would love to know more about them!!!!
That's awesome! I make a request for an Ent video on one of your other videos and a couple hours later you post one! Thanks!
I'm learning a lot from this Chanel thank you 😊
I was really hoping the Ent wives would have survived! I always thought they lived near Tom Bombadil, but if they went east, that's not possible. :(
Something I just thought of. What if Bard didn't kill Smaug? Your theory vids are great.
Thank you so much for this it was wonderful Has anyone asked you to do anything about the old Forest… And maybe a what if about Ents in Mirkwood/greenwood?
Here's an idea; maybe you could tell us more about the Dunlendings? Also, possibly a "What if Saruman didn't inspire the Dunlendings to attack Rohan?" Theory. Another great video, I'm sad the most popular theory on the Entwives is that they all died. =[
Love these more humanoid ents depictions
I always liked the thought that the Ent-Wives went west, in the direction of the shire. It seems like the kind of place they'd like to watch over. Perhaps the Shire even was their work, a green paradise of meadows? Then the first ent mentionend, the walking tree the hobbit farmer claimed to have seen, might have been an Ent-Wive. I think Merry and Pipin even promised Treebeard to look for them in the west? Not 100% sure though.
Feels a bit too grim for my tastes to see the ents doomed to a fate of slow extinction over the ages.
Great, great take on the Ents. Very though provoking!