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@sirandrelefaedelinoge

7 ай бұрын

Alan Lee

@JayashinaParthiban

7 ай бұрын

Elena Kukanova, Ted Nasmith & Alan Lee

@Tenshihan-Quinn

7 ай бұрын

Elena Kukanova's artwork takes me away from this world and completely immerses me in her vision, ...whereas Alan Lee's fantastically detailed works were the influence behind all the set builders work in Peter Jackson's films, ...so BOTH of these two artists, equally, for me.

@TheMan05555

7 ай бұрын

J.R.R. Tolkien’s artwork is what Middle-earth truly looks like. I don’t care how great Alan Lee’s art was.

@krakentacos

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the link

Maggot is a true G. Gave that Black Rider nothing

@MeanBeanComedy

Ай бұрын

Snitches get Stitches on these Mean Shire Streets.

Frodo is one of the greatest protagonists in English literature and a truly heroic person. I will die on this hill. He was not weak or unimportant--he sacrificed body and mind and soul to save his friends. And he suffers greatly to do it.

@quazzydiscman

7 ай бұрын

"I will die on this hill." Don't you mean, UNDER that HILL!?!? Hahaha yuck yuck yuck

@pendragon2012

7 ай бұрын

@@quazzydiscman Good one. I just get tired of the Frodo hate that seems to mostly come from a generation that knows the movies better than the books.

@ElffriendYT

7 ай бұрын

@@pendragon2012 Personally I thought both the books and movies portrayed him well. So what if he somehow whines and relies on Sam? That would be justified, as he was carrying the One Ring the entire time. That's a huge burden he's got. Frodo just doesn’t get much credit thanks to people trying to help the other characters get more credit. It’s just not comparable imo their tasks and what they did. It seems it was still driven by Frodo since he was the one deciding to take the ring to Mordor - sure he hesitated sometimes but it always became that he would keep going.

@pendragon2012

7 ай бұрын

@@ElffriendYT I agree with your take personally, but some of the perspectives on Frodo from people who seem by and large to be more movie than book driven annoys me. I thought Elijah Wood actually was a great Frodo.

@ElffriendYT

7 ай бұрын

@@pendragon2012 of course!

“Frodo undertook his quest out of love-to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task. His real contract was only to do what he could, to try to find a way, and to go as far on the road as his strength of mind and body allowed. He did that .” My fave letter

Frodo is one of the most misunderstood heros. I wont even begin to list why will be quite long.

The older I get, the more I feel for Frodo. Great video as always!!

Idk why so many people in this fandom hate Frodo. He's my favorite character, which is saying something cause they're all amazing. People just don't understand what true heroism is anymore

@stephenelliott1135

4 ай бұрын

Mine is Sam

@seandobbins2231

Ай бұрын

I think more of the people who dislike Frodo are thinking of movie Frodo who is whinier and skittish than novel Frodo. That said, if we're talking about hobbits, the best are either Bilbo or Sam to me, in fact Tolkien himself holds up Sam as the prime example of a hobbit. Frodo is certainly heroic though and understand why one would prefer him.

Me: yeah yeah yeah... I've seen the movies; I know about Frodo. Nerd of the Rings: Hold my canon.

"And though all mighty elf-friends of old, Hador, and Hurin, and Turin, and Beren himself were assembled together, your seat should be among them." -- Elrond to Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"

@micklumsden3956

4 ай бұрын

And that’s only half way through book 1 of the trilogy! And it’s 3,000 years of wisdom and experience speaking

Glad to see you finally tackling this mysterious and overlooked character.

Every time you post a new video, I get the urge to re-listen to Andy Serkis's incredible LOTR audiobooks. Can never get enough of Middle Earth! Also, your Gollum voice is on point. I honestly thought it was Andy Serkis for a moment

@ketanhein

4 ай бұрын

I'm listening to it again now, and reading the books along with the audio. It's such a magical experience and I love it every year I do it. I get teary-eyed at the end of the Return of the King when they are all at the Grey Heavens. Tolkien really did create a beautiful and magical place with complex and relatable characters.

Are you saying that in the first film, 17 years stands between the scene where Frodo locks the ring away and the scene where Gandalf jumpscared Frodo asking him if the ring is safe hidden?

The travels of Frodo definetly deserve it's own video. He is the protagonist of LotR after all, and had a great adventure from Shire to Mordor. Thank You! 🙌

@bofasofa9399

7 ай бұрын

main protagonist*

@mick19

7 ай бұрын

@@bofasofa9399 🙄

@TheGeneralGrievous19

7 ай бұрын

@@bofasofa9399 I thought being the protagonist entails being the main character. 🙄

@Hundredyacrewoods

7 ай бұрын

​@@TheGeneralGrievous19the problem is The Lord of the Rings has an ensemble cast, yes Frodo is the mainest of Main Characters but he makes no appearance whatever in book 3 (the first half of volume 2) or book 5 (the first half of volume 3) that's a third of the epic in which the main character makes no appearance. The list of people who could be termed Main Characters include: Frodo, Sam, Aragorn, Merry and Pippin (as a pair), the Fellowship of the Ring (as a group), the Ring itself and Sauron. In the classic sense of "Point of View" character, TLOTR has between 1 (Frodo) and 23 depending on what you count as switching the POV. Frodo is undoubtedly the most main character, protagonist is a much more wide term and in the ensemble cast of The Lord of the Rings there is more than 1.

Your Gollum impression is INSANELY good

@NerdoftheRings

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! 😁

@Pidger123

6 ай бұрын

They should of asked you to do the voice in the game 👍

Farmer Maggot was a standup guy, they did him dirty in the movies!!!

Lovely to see this illustrated and summarized. I was struck in Mordor that the orcs marched them all the way to the Morannon and they started along the very road to Barad Dur before turning off towards Mount Doom

3:18 it's always bugged me that people refer to pre-teens as "tweens" when Tolkien clearly spelled out: "At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three"

@simonster-9094

2 ай бұрын

It should be noted however, that hobbit lifespans and human lifespans are different. Since hobbits are "of age" at 33 and humans at about 18, then human "tweens" line up somewhat to hobbit "tweens".

I love how Tolkien's characters are princes, kings, descendants of important ancient heroes, with lineages that come from the awakening of the first elves and the arrival of the first men. Meanwhile we have the 4 hobbits, simple people who went so far and did the impossible.

@AlexanderNecheff

7 ай бұрын

Sorta. Sam was really the only commoner. Both Merry and Pippin are from well to do families that have held power in the Shire over many generations, both are even distantly related to Bullroarer Took. Frodo is also related to the Brandybucks and Tooks through his mother, while Bagginses (besides Frodo) never held political office they were well to do and influential members of the community. Frodo's maternal grandfather is the Master of Buckland and Frodo's great-grandfather is the Thain of the Shire to boot. Sam is just a gardener, and if he had never met Bilbo through his friendship with Frodo, he wouldn't even be able to read and write.

@vampirecount3880

7 ай бұрын

@@AlexanderNecheff indeed. Theyre commoners compared to the rest of the fellowship, but they have some pedigree indeed.

@mateuszslawinski1990

7 ай бұрын

@Generallyannoyed2024 Still, the Fellowship consists mostly elite (Sam is the only person with non-aristocratic lineage) AKA people with better education and respect then average fellow.

I know it's popular among some fans to say that Frodo failed, but really he succeeded as much as anyone possibly could, and in the end his faith and work was rewarded.

@NerdoftheRings

7 ай бұрын

He certainly failed - Tolkien himself said as much. However, Tolkien also makes the point that nobody could have gotten the ring as far as Frodo did. In reality, nobody would have succeeded in the quest and Frodo did better than any one else could.

@adpirtle

7 ай бұрын

@@NerdoftheRings Yes, that's what I mean. Some people tend to overemphasis his failure without acknowledging how much he actually accomplished.

@kalm6872

7 ай бұрын

Letter 246- he didn’t fail. No one could’ve succeeded in the quest and he did the best he can.

@WarriorOfTheHeavens

6 ай бұрын

@@NerdoftheRings "Frodo wouldn't have gotten far without Sam"... probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Smeagal, lol, but I guess Sam and Smeagal needed to balance things out... light vs dark. ; )

@samtjman

6 ай бұрын

After thinking about Frodo claiming the ring, it shows the importance of mercy. It was a small act of kindness and love, Sam and Frodo not killing a pitiful traitor that pushed the difference from bitter defeat to complete and utter victory.

@NerdoftheRings I always love watching your videos on Tolkien’s amazing work; if possible, would you please consider doing some videos about The History of The Iron Hills, and one on the Blue Mountains? And the dwarves that dwell in each place? I love learning more about the dwarves. Keep up the great work!

Coincidentally, I just met Frodo (Elijah Wood) at Comic-Con this past weekend for a Photo-Op. He was such a sweet guy. 😄😊

Your Gollum impression is actually so good

Did Gandalf show up at the end with 3 eagles because he though Gollum would be with them? Seems like something he would think about.

I’ve been listening to a randomized playlist of your content before I fall asleep. It knocks me out nicely! ❤❤

"The ring is mine" sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.

The best thing about Frodo is that Tolkien does not give him “main character syndrome.” This is how I refer to that trope in movies where the hero achieves what everyone throughout the whole film has referred to as ‘the impossible.’ Despite being beaten, exhausted, and driven to the brink of defeat, at the last possible moment, the hero gives one last burst of strength that saves the day just in time. Anakin emerges from the darkness to kill the Emperor. Luke resists the dark side at the last minute and swears himself to the Jedi. Captain America locks in the computer chip to change the Helicarrier’s targets 2 seconds before it can fire. Tony Stark takes the Infinity Stones from Thanos and snaps in the nick of time. But Frodo, a mere mortal, having spent every remaining ounce of his strength, utterly starved and dehydrated, with a thousand-ton weight bearing down upon his mind, a spider’s poison in his veins, and a Wraith wound on his shoulder, standing in the place where Sauron’s power is dialed to 11 and drowns out all other powers, *just can’t freaking do it anymore.* He reaches his breaking point and just has no strength left to resist the Ring. And the Ring breaks is will. Which is *exactly* what would happen to a normal person in that situation. Frodo is not a superhero. He is a normal person. And yet his effort and his accomplishments are enough in the end. He resists the Ring all the way through Mordor. He spares Gollum. He snaps out of the Ring’s efforts to make him turn on Sam. He lures Gollum - the person with enough lust for the Ring to disregard all caution to regain it - and the Ring onto the very edge of the precipice above the Fire, making Gollum’s fall utterly inevitable. Frodo wins the day not through a superhuman last-minute burst of will that defeats the Ring’s canonically indomitable will, but through wise choices and phenomenal inner strength that encompass his absolute best. And when he can’t do it anymore, even when the Ring overpowers him and all appears to be lost, he has actually already sealed the Ring’s doom, and Middle-Earth’s salvation.

how you voice acted the ringwraiths is amazing man . love your work❤❤

Thank you for doing a video on Frodo really enjoyed it although I do get sad everytime the fellowship splits and Frodo sets out on the ship. Its like i love to hear the story and am sad when its over.

Nice, gonna be a great video. Always good to learn more facts about LOTR.

Jerry's art is amazing. I have couple of his paintings at my house

Thanks for the sam bankman frodo artwork

A long awaited video with beautiful imagery!

Great video - Frodo is my fave character and he def deserves a video himself

it s always great to hear more about those two hobbits - a true hobbit intellectual elite. Frodo and his much older cousin Bilbo. love them both.

Holy crap you actually took my suggestion into consideration.

Your Gollum/Smeagol is near perfection, Serkis himself would give you props, bet!

Words cannot describe how much I love Bilbo as a character. He's just so sweet and so perfect

This video was well done. You also used some art for the Magic:The Gathering Tales of middle earth set. excellent choice. Liked/Followed.

Thank you. Great collection of illustrations. I wouldn't say all the illustrations are as fantastic as Vanderstelt's, but it's nice to see the variation.

Nice work dude thanks

it's nuts to think that Frodo did in fact utterly fail his mission and the world was saved because Smeagol was partying and fell lol

Thanks Matt :)

Uhuuuu, a new fantastic video!!! Just pressed play!

Thanks for an awesome video. ❤️

you have a great narrating voice. i like the way it was narrated 😌

"That was a short cut!" "A short cut to what?" "MUSHROOMS!"

Thank you for this video. It’s a perfect little story while on my nightshift!

Another video by NOTR. A good day indeed

I wish you would voice act the entire book series. I love all the voices you do.

Congrats on 1 million subscribers

Dude... can you imagine a version of the books with those arts?! It would be nice.

Your voice acting is stunningly good :o

Wow yeah Frodo has definitely been a long time coming on here, but its great that youre finally taking a look at the primary protagonist and hero of the entire LOTR saga.

@fingersTitan

7 ай бұрын

Samwise is the actual hero.

@valentinkambushev4968

7 ай бұрын

Frodo is not the hero, though. That honor goes to a brave gardener with a heart of mithril.

@myriadmediamusings

7 ай бұрын

​@@valentinkambushev4968Hmm curious always swore Tolkien meant for it to be Frodo. If it really is Sam though Im not complaining.

@NerdoftheRings

7 ай бұрын

@@myriadmediamusings While Tolkien did call Sam the "chief hero" of the story, he also says that NO ONE could have gotten the ring as far as Frodo. It definitely took both to see the quest through, but Frodo is often underappreciated for sure.

My favourite Lotr KZreadr as always 🥰

I just made the best tacos ever and this was a great video to eat them to. Good stuff!

did Hobbits have Hobbit dogs or were the dogs just as tall as them? referring to the part where he said, the farmer’s dogs chased Frodo. Or maybe they were Middle Earth version of the chihuaha? Which would be like, the size of a labrador to a hobbit?😅😅 Am I overthinking this considering that, it is all fictional anyway?

Would love to see a theory video about what if the Watcher in the Water had successfully captured Frodo and obtained the ring

This soundtrack when you tell the characters stories... It gives me goosebumps. Where does it come from ?

This is Great!

Wish to hear more of the Bombadil encounter and thoughts to his power.

It is a wonderful story!

Loving the visuals along with this videos, I’m always amazed by the amount of art that I haven’t seen and your vids are a great way to be exposed to it.

I would have loved to see Frodo's arrival at Tol Eressea...and a lot of other things...

Good video!

as im one of the many Tolkien fans who got introduced to Middle Earth thru the Peter Jackson films (although I did read half of The Hobbit before), I always found the difference in how Frodo's depicted on screen vs how old he actually is in the books astounding. I mean yeah hobbits live a bit longer than humans and tend to look younger, but 17 years passed in the book plot vs the 13 months in the films! Not to mention Frodo's around a decade older than Sam AND Boromir! No wonder they call him 'Mr Frodo' or 'Master Baggins', he probably never was supposed to be the older teenager I envisioned him as bc of Elijah Wood's performance. Still, I do think the casting in the films made me care for his character all the more, cuz I saw him as one kid against the entire world, and I love those kinds of personal journeys

@istari0

7 ай бұрын

Frodo was 33 when Bilbo left; this is when Hobbits come of age so he was about 18-20 in human terms. Frodo also acquired the One Ring at this point and basically stopped aging like Bilbo had.

@jakedunnegan

7 ай бұрын

@@istari0 Yes, but in the movies, they still made it seem like, at most, a few weeks or perhaps, months (due to Gandalf's going to Minas Tirith) went by, not 17 years. The only real tip-off that more time had passed was when they saw "old Bilbo" in Rivendell. So, yes, while Elijah Wood gets a pass for looking young - Merry, Pippin, Sam - all look the same age, what was their excuse for not aging? (Not trying to be argumentative, just pointing it out.) I LOVE the Peter Jackson movies, but having just re-watched the two extended cuts today, I've noticed a lot more that was changed between books and movie than I really had ever thought before.

@istari0

7 ай бұрын

@@jakedunnegan Fair point.

@Alexs.2599

5 ай бұрын

Hobbits live a bit longer on average than non Numenorian Mortal Men. But the Dunedain no.

@Alexs.2599

5 ай бұрын

​@@jakedunneganYeah Jackson had to time compress for film storyline purposes.

Honestly, I think the movies made Frodo too whiny. Don't get me wrong, Elijah Wood's acting was amazing, but the way Frodo was written comes off as too meek and scared.

@TheMan05555

7 ай бұрын

We don’t speak of Jackson’s bastardization of Tolkien’s characters.

@myriadmediamusings

7 ай бұрын

Jackson's films are great but I will agree that his rendition of Frodo was less than stellar. Nothing against Elijah Wood as he's a good actor and I'm sure he was doing what he was directed to the best of his ability. The best Frodo adaptation for me is the Bakshi animated one.

@valentinkambushev4968

7 ай бұрын

@@TheMan05555 did he ruin Sam, Gandalf, Theoden? No, I don't think so.

@TheMan05555

7 ай бұрын

@@myriadmediamusingsRalph Bakshi’s mistake was not being able to make three films, and letting Saruman be named Aruman.

@dunmatta2670

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. But I guess he put a little contrast from before Frodo was corrupted by the ring.

The movies really don't give you a sense of just how much time actually passes in the story.

Gollum is a great example of an addict. How much did Tolkien himself experience addiction? He smoked. He was in a war and I am very sure soldiers were given drugs to make them Focus, or less fearfull. My grandgrandmother told me that in the 1920, in every pharmacy you could buy psychothrophic Substanzes like Heroin and Cokain. And soliders were given Substanzen like Amphetamines aka Retalines.

Gollum kept his promise. In a twisted way. But he did not let The Dark Lord have it. Frodo spoke an Oath over Gollum. That he would cast himself into the fire if he ever betrayed Frodo. So, without Intention, Frodo fullfilled his task to destroy The Ring. Eru Iluvatar worked his will to destroy Morgoth and Sauron. I grew up as an Atheist, this made me better understand the thought process of religious believers.

The travels of Frodo: There and back again.

I see everyone always say it takes about a year for Frodo to get to Mount doom but if you count the months, it’s only six from September to March

Frodo and Sam's friendship really shows how different male friendships were back in Tolkien's days.

@TheMan05555

7 ай бұрын

These days, no male can be good friends with another male without people assuming they’re homos. The days have truly come down in the West, behind the hills into shadow.

@bofasofa9399

7 ай бұрын

? They are still like this, unless you live online and follow nothing but the red pill

@MC-810

7 ай бұрын

It most certainly does still exist in today. Some of the closest people in my life are “guys” that I have served in the military with.

@valentinkambushev4968

7 ай бұрын

@@MC-810 yet, if you show too much affection, you can be asked: "Are you gay?"

@mtgemperor

7 ай бұрын

If I recall properly, the relationship was akin more to officers and their aides rather than the "more-modern" of homoerotic fantasies.

I’ll rewatch this to visual where the story is going throughout my own read of the story

What if the 7 father's of the dwarf's awakend in Mount cundabad instead of all Awakening in different mountains

That map at 2:06 is gorgeous! Where's it from?

FINALLY!🥳

Most famous literature character ever. I always thought he was suppose to be Jesus, carrying the ring=carry man's sins and destroying it on the cross=Mount Doom .

You should extend this video, as it's just a part of 'The Complete Travels & Story of "The One Ring"'.

Why am I crying ❤😢

That frodo in the movie was amazing and have his Owen personality that everyone wants to meet after the ring destroyed

Whats the music name at 18:55?

I believe Frodo’s father and mother was killed and drowned by Gollum. In the book it’s clear that no one really knows how they died and if they fell in the river or were pushed etc…. (First Chapter)… at this point timeline wise, Gollum would have been free to hunt down ‘Baggins’ in the shire. I believe he was stopped shortly after by Aragorn and his rangers performing their patrols of the shire and this was where Aragorn followed Gollum before capturing him, preventing him from finding Bilbo.

Do anyone know the background music that playing at the part where Frodo sing the man in the moon stays up too late?

And now I will watch the Two Towers.

Not for nothing, but I'd say Bilbo's got bigger name recognition

Matt, normally I appreciate all the research you do for these videos but how could you let something so crucial slip by? Mushrooms are not vegetables.

Which piece of art is the beautiful Shire map at 24:20?

From watching these videos I realised how condensed the movies actual are.

hello, where can i see paintings used in this video, 12:22(elronds counsil in imladris) it would be sup nice to find it

Imagine wraith Frodo 😂 decked out in black on an armored pony!! The 9, and a 1/2!!

I was so upset when I watched the movies and they left out the fact that Frodo and Bilbo were born on the same day, I thought that it was a very cute detail :(

@David.Bowman.

6 ай бұрын

Kind of gives Frodo a motive to potentially be ensnared by the Ring with the same excuse of Smeagol. Bilbo handed over the Ring that day so it was truthfully Frodo’s “birthday present.”

Hello nerd of the ring, I have a question: who would win in a duel between these two Feanor vs Sauron, I think they would be tied because Fingolfin did a lot of damage to Morgoth and if Feanor was more powerful than Fingolfin and Sauron was less powerful than Morgoth, they would be in a tie, right?

I don't know if this theory has been mentioned here, and it is not my own, but someone speculated that Frodo's parents deaths may not of ben an no accident, but they were instead murdered by Gollum thinking he had found the "Baggins of the Shire" who stole his ring/precious. I don't know if Tolkien debunked this theory, but if not, then Frodo's mercy towards Gollum later on is exceptional if indeed Gollum is guilty of that crime.

where can i find a map like the one in the video?

if for example Bombadill truly is an aspect of the One, then maybe his Thoughts spawned hobbits in a distant past, and they are simply a race born from the song sang not in the eather but on Arda. maybe that is what makes them so resiliant to Morgoth and Sauron's sorcery. They werent planned when the sdopng got corrupted, before Arda was created.

26:50 How is this known? How did this information get back to Samwise or Eleanor to get put into the Red Book?

@12classics39

4 ай бұрын

Frodo told Sam about his dream in Tom Bombadil’s house, and they were likely told by Gandalf or the Elves at some point that the description matches that of Tol Eressëa. So Sam knew that’s what Frodo would see.

First age what ifs !!!

12:35 that's a pretty edgy hobbit standing next to Gimli there lol

I’m surprised this wasn’t covered before

@~6:00, dude's name is Maggot?