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@loganw1232

5 ай бұрын

I should be able to be there.

@anthonygshit6785

5 ай бұрын

I have a question on whale worms …..why didn’t they use them to get into the mountain to get the gold or did they want the dwarfs to kill smog first?!!

@ethandykema

4 ай бұрын

Hello

I always love when elements in Tolkien's works come full circle. Ungoliant kills the two trees. The only light from those trees now dwells in the Silmarils. Then a Silmaril becomes a star in the night sky, whose light is later reflected in Galadriel's mirror and collected in a phial. Then the light from that phial acts as a weapon against the last child of Ungoliant. It's a war between darkness and light that spans three ages of the world.

@vampirecount3880

5 ай бұрын

4 ages

@willrobinson3114

5 ай бұрын

And the Phial of Galadriel is just an echo of an echo of the light of the trees and the Silmarils

@spangelicious837

5 ай бұрын

Like Sm said, they're in the same story. ❤ Tolkien really knew how to bring a story full circle. Which is even more amazing considering he originally had no intention of these being connected at all.

@Swiftbow

5 ай бұрын

@@spangelicious837 By the time he introduced the Phial to the story, he had decided to connect them.

@spangelicious837

5 ай бұрын

@@Swiftbow Yeah, Galadriel is pretty much the reason why they're all connected.

The most epic flashlight in the history of literature.

@Hallows4

5 ай бұрын

It’s honestly a testament to Tolkien’s brilliance that he can make something as simple as a flashlight have a history that stretches for thousands of years and not make it sound corny.

@mariozogbo790

5 ай бұрын

This person wins comments 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂❤❤❤

@michaelotoole1807

5 ай бұрын

funny stuff!

@royadambrown3101

5 ай бұрын

I hate how accurate this is 😂

@kineticstar

5 ай бұрын

My eyes precious! They burns! My eyes!

Galadriel: *gives Sam a box of soil. Sam (prancing up and down the boat later): I got a box of dirt! I got a box of dirt!

@spangelicious837

5 ай бұрын

And a seed of the mallorn tree. Don't forget the seed. 😅

@siriusbizniss

4 ай бұрын

And guess what’s inside it!🤓

@bradylewis9698

3 ай бұрын

​@@siriusbizniss A Malorn seed!

You didn't mention when Frodo and Sam are in Mordor and they reflect on Beren's quest for the Silmaril. "Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it - and the Silmaril went on and came to Earendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got - you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?"

"I give you the light of Earendil, Our most beloved star."

The power of Fëanor, Eärendil, and Galadriel, bottled up in one item.

@vampirecount3880

5 ай бұрын

indeed

@Nick-rs5if

3 ай бұрын

haha, bottled up lamp juice

My man Boromir got trolled over his desire for the one ring....a friggin' golden belt...DOH!

It’s so wonderful to read that Frodo got to sit and have a moment free of the rings corruption. Made me so happy to hear that

my all time favorite scene from Fellowship of the Ring has to be when Galadriel introduces her phial as "the light of Ëarendil, our most beloved star" and gives Frodo a kiss. Just such a beautifully shot and narrated scene, and in relation to the Silmarillion, it establishes Galadriel and Ëarendil as carrying on the legacy of the Two Trees. Another funnier way to look at this scene is that it's just Galadriel giving him a bottle of Elrond's dad

@mrs.manrique7411

5 ай бұрын

“Light of Earendil” thankfully does not mean that it is made up of Earendil, but belonged/belongs to Earendil. A possessive “of” haha!

@wildfire9280

5 ай бұрын

Whatever you do, don’t ask for a cup of Joe from the vending machine.

@daarom3472

5 ай бұрын

when watching the movies during my youth I had no idea about the value of these gifts, especially this vial and the hairs from Galadriel.

@anonymous2678

5 ай бұрын

most beautiful acknowledgement of an amazing scene, followed by the most perfectly dictated one-liner I've ever read.

@Grancigul

5 ай бұрын

Earendil bath water 💀

It amazes me how Gimli never lost those 3 strands through all those battles. Or Sam never losing the box of soil

@colinbaldwin313

5 ай бұрын

I wonder whether those strands gave Gimli strength throughout that dark period. He may have taken them out and looked at them in times of great fear. If he kept a close eye on them, that might make it more plausible that he never lost them.

I’ve always been a star wars fan but my love for lord of the rings started to grow immensely about a year ago and I would say is larger then my love for Star Wars now. And that is all thanks to your Chanel. I’ve learned so much lore from your videos and I’m planning on reading the books soon. Just wanna say thank you and keep up your amazing work 😊

@samblack727

5 ай бұрын

The books are absolutely amazing. I read them over and over in high school. I was obsessed. I don't think the movie did the books justice but it was alright.

@PlanetEarth3141

5 ай бұрын

If you read the literature of Tolkien which starts with The Hobbit then the Lord of the Rings you have read the greatest fantasy of all. There isn't a Star Wars equivalent, a Star Trek equivalent or A Space Odyssey equal or any other at all. Their are great scifi books from Hugu and Nebula award winners, but they've not been used by Hollywood. That leaves LOTR, very little other fantasy worth reading.

@rubenescobar9340

5 ай бұрын

One of us, one of us, one of us

@samblack727

5 ай бұрын

@@rubenescobar9340 😂 yea!! One of us, one of us!!...🧙🏽‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️

It's noteworthy that in the end the light of the Phial was returned to the land of its ultimate origin.

The Phial of Galadriel reflected the Star of Ëarendil, which in turn came from Silmaril, which in turn comes from the light of the Two Trees from the time before the First Age. What a continuity. ✨ ✨ ✨

@reneedailey1696

5 ай бұрын

That same light which was said to have been captured in Galadriel's tresses, which initially gave Feanor the idea to trap their light in the Silmarils...It's all so intertwined and beautiful.

@mon_moi

2 күн бұрын

Adding on to the continuity, the Two Trees are Yavanna's creations, while the dwarves are Aulë's. And Galadriel gives her locks of hair (Yavanna's legacy) to Gimli (Aulë's legacy). It all comes full circle

'Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!' he cried, and knew not what he had spoken; for it seemed another voice spoke through his, clear, untroubled by the foul air of the pit.

The Phial of Galadriel is my favorite object in all of Tolkien's works. Thanks for the video.

You are so good I’m starting to worry about the moment every single chapter in Tolkien world is exhausted and you no longer have a topic to cover, lol. Great content!❤

That rope was badass maybe the next best gift. Not that the cloaks didnt save the hobbits lives but still love the elven rope.

Great video. I totally forgot that Frodo raised the phial when he sailed away on the ship, and it was the last his friends saw of him. Very touching moment. My personal belief is that Earendil symbolizes Tolkien's father. He sailed away into the west and was never seen again, leaving behind two boys and their mother, who eventually left them as well. If that is true, then it makes the significance of "our most beloved star" that much more poetically luminescent.

Considering it contains the 'Light of the Silmarils', it's certainly by far the most powerful gift. I know readers and close followers of the canon know that "our most beloved star" is worn on Earendil's brow in the the sky upon Vingilot, but that wasn't really explained in the movie, so casual watchers/fans won't really get how powerful the Phial is.

There is no explanation as to how the phial of Galadriel was made, but I think it could be like this: The phial of Galadriel was probably created in a similar way to Fëanor's teaching of storing light within a material object when he made the Silmarils. As a Noldo, Galadriel may have managed to keep the Silmaril light carried by Eärendil in her bottle in line with this teaching. The water in the bottle also shows the will of Ulmo, and the words that come out of Frodo's mouth involuntarily seem to me to be similar to the words that came out of Tuor's mouth when he came before Turgon, in their involuntary nature. I like to think about this idea in terms of carrying the ancient battle of darkness and light into the future.

@kulka92

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't Galadriel's mirror a basin filled with water and thus the reference to the Phial as it contains the reflection of Star of Eärendil from her mirror is that she simply collected the water in an ordinary (however beautifuly elven made) vial? I do like the idea, but for me it always seemed obvious how it was created and why, specifically, was it a vial/phial. Contrary to your approach, the Pial could have been made/collected right before being handed out - during Fellowship's stay at Caras Galadhon when Galadriel used the mirror, as she saw what has yet not come to pass. I like to imagine it like that: Galadriel stared into her mirror with dread, knowing that the only thing that could aid the Fellowship with what is to come would be light of the Two Tress. But she did not posses a Silmaril to give, which fueled the dread even further... but then her hope returned, as in corner of the mirror Galadriel saw a reflection of Star of Eärendil glimmer with unwavering eagerness to break the vision, creating a pool of clear water among depthless darkness. She collected the clear water as the vision broke, making the Phial not only a gift of Light of the Two Trees, but also of her hope rekindled.

@midgetydeath

Ай бұрын

She is closely related to Fëanor, isn’t she? Like probably learned from him?

@TarMody

Ай бұрын

@@midgetydeath Theoretically, she could have studied with Fëanor while in Valinor and applied the knowledge she learned from him, but given her negative attitude towards Fëanor, it is possible that this did not happen.

Great explanation of the Phial. I had forgotten that it had gone with Frodo into the Uttermost West.

I think it's kind of a poetic justice that the phial helps Frodo and Sam to escape from Shelob and ultimately defeat her, as it was the same kind of unnatural, evil darkness that Shelob's mother Ungoliant used to destroy the two trees. This is no ordinary darkness (a shadow which, cast in no light, also couldn't be dispersed by light) but something much more sinister - affecting not just the eyes, but also the minds of people ("darkness had always been. Darkness would always be. Darkness was everything.") I don't know if this is an intentional motive, but I think it shows that light ultimately triumphs over darkness, as the light of the trees - the only light that could pierce through those shadows - ultimately defeated the darkness which had once tried to destroy it.

Excellent video! Really good topic so excellently arranged and presented. Your talent and diligence is such a blessing to us.

Im so glad you made this video! I completely missed how the vial was made so I was baffled how Galadriel bottled a star 😅

It is appropriate that this video came out during the Advent season. Earendil, Tolkien's earliest character, was inspired by the 9th century Anglo-Saxon Advent prayer Crist I, from which sprang his entire mythology. It begins with "Eala, Earendel", such as Frodo cried out in elvish. "Hail, Earendel, brightest of angels, sent to men over middle-earth, and true radiance of the sun. Fine beyond stars, you always illuminate from yourself..." It is the most beautiful Advent prayer to Christ, and I pray it with awe and joy, just as Tolkien, and much, much earlier those ancient Anglo-Saxons, did.

The elven cloaks are pretty powerful as well. They certainly helped save Frodo and Sam outside the Black Gate. And the "dagger" given to Merry was no insignificant token considering what it later accomplished.

@jefffinkbonner9551

5 ай бұрын

Wasn’t the dagger wielded by Merry not given him by Galadriel but was a Barrow blade given to him by either Strider or Tom Bombadil? I can’t remember which. But it was a magical blade capable of fighting/ subduing the Barrow Wights, thus it also essentially stunned or broke the strength of the Witch King.

@nicolasmoreno9442

5 ай бұрын

Totally agree, but I must add that that "dagger", used to stab the Witch King, was made by Men to specifically hurt the Ringwraiths, not by Elves.

@spangelicious837

5 ай бұрын

​@jefffinkbonner9551 It was Tom Bombadil in the book. Galadriel didn't give them blades but belts for the blades they got in the Barrow Downs. Frodo and Sam also never fell down a cliff outside the Black Gate either, and if they had, the backpack Frodo was wearing would've ruined any ability the cloaks might have had to conceal them. That always bugged me about that scene in the movie. 😂

@midgetydeath

Ай бұрын

@spangelicious837 Magic?

The Phil of Galadriel, the Star of Earendil was so powerful that it’s light reflection of water could damage and scare Shelob. No wonder the Star of Earendil killed Ancalogon the Black.

Beautiful video! What an interesting but often overlooked relic of middle earth. I like the idea that Frodo is essentially carrying a drop of liquid energy from the two trees themselves.

6:32 I’d always wondered what Frodo had said in Return of the King! I knew that it was some form of elvish, though. 😏

Tolkien once said (as quoted by his son) that LotR was a sequel, not of 'The Hobbit' but of 'The Silmarillion.' The Sam/phial/Shelob scene is the finale, bringing the story full circle.

I have "may it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out" written in Tengwar as a tattoo

"A little bit of home? No. A little bit of PWN."

The clear, concise, well done pace was perfect and quoting Tolkien verbatim is poetry playing with words of wisdom. 😊

Good video bud. You should have talked about faenor and how galadriel is related to him and why she would be able to make the vial of galadriel

just wanted to shout out my appreciation for all the research and work done in all of your content, ive seen everything youve done and have it all saved on a playlist and thanks to you i know everything about lord of the rings that youve taught.

In the 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, when the White Council arrives to rescue Gandalf, Galadriel use the phial to cast Sauron out of Dol Guldur, rebuking him as a "servant of Morgoth" without name, face, or form.

I actually loved the addition in the Hobbit Movie where Galadriel uses it to help disembody Sauron and cast him out of Dol Guldor. I know, I know, it's not canon, but it was an epic scene.

Awesome! Please Upload a video with that soundtrack you put at the end of the channel's videos. This track is very beautiful and you would make many people's day happier by posting it in full for us to listen to. Thanks

The way you could view the phial as a sort of anti-ring is really nice imo

I love the concept of the watchers and how Tolkien describes their vigilance retiring as steel bars snapping shut.

I find myself wondering if there is some sort of Phial/Silmarillion connection? I would say that that there are actually two gifts that are tied for being the most important. One is symbolic and the other literal. The Phial and Galadriel's hair that she had refused her uncle, yet gave to Gimli willingly. HUGE moment that not many truly understood.

You should do a video on Aelfwine and the Lost Road

Sam helps himself to the rope stowed in the boats. It was not a particular gift, so much as part of the supplies gifted to the Fellowship.

This channel is the only thing that can satiate my hunger for LOtR lore. Nobody does it like you.

Outstanding video. That one actually warmed my heart. Looking forward to more excellent videos like this!

You always have such an excellent wrap up.

Great job in particular on this one. Cheers!

Your narration is always amazing.

Beautifully done!

Excellent, as always. Thank you.

Just wonderful. Love your videos.

I first read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books back 1971/72. I read the Silmarillion shortly after it was published. What puzzled me was reading about Ungoliant sucking up the light of the dying trees and not perishing. The light was always represented as being akin to holy, yet that evil creature ingested it without peril. So how was it that Shelob, a descendant of Ungoliant is affected so negatively by the Phial of Galadriel's light? It's essentially the same light. Maybe that was one of those inconsistencies Tolkien had meant to fix in some later edition of his books?

@josephfisher426

5 ай бұрын

It's not necessarily inconsistent: Ungoliant is a Maia, and wouldn't pass along all of her inherent properties.

@Debba521

5 ай бұрын

@@josephfisher426 Not sure on Ungoliant being a Maia? I recall reading she was just found by Melkor. Did Tolkien clarify she was a Maia?

@josephfisher426

5 ай бұрын

@@Debba521 Not specifically---but if she's something else (perhaps a personification of badness or darkness that Melkor introduced into creation?) the power jump is up from being a Maia rather than down toward being "just" a giant spider like Shelob. Also, had Shelob possessed all the same powers, all the evidence provided via the Orcs is that she had acclimated herself to a hole, and an intense light would have been bad news initially even if she would not have had a problem dealing with light in the long run. All the one-off dark creatures of Mordor beg for more explication---where were they when Gondor occupied the whole area? Shelob is supposed to have been there when Sauron first showed up... at his defeat did she flee and come back, or just hide? What did she eat? It doesn't seem likely that the Gondorians would have let a murderous but seemingly very killable spider hang out in their backyard.

Love your channel. Been saving up I’m binge watching today and writing few notes.

@NerdoftheRings

5 ай бұрын

So glad you love the channel! Have a wonderful binge day! :)

That was a beautiful explanation.

Another great video. Thank you! Have you considered doing a video about the Houses of Healing in Minas Tirith? That could be a really interesting "deep dive". Thanks again.

The phial is one of the coolest magical items in Tolkien’s works I think

Thank you for your content.

Amazing, amazing video. Thank you.

In the first draft text: Galadriel said to them, "I have foreseen that we shall be leaving Middle Earth, never to return, so you guys want any of my old stuff before I take it all to Goodwill?"

Merry Christmas!

Awesome video!

Hail Earendil, brightest of stars!!!

The Phial of Galadriel is as close to you're going to get to a Silmaril

@davidlundquist1979

5 ай бұрын

Not necessarily. Maglor threw his Silmaril into the ocean...

@jdspencer60

5 ай бұрын

@@davidlundquist1979 it's gone. I know, but it's gone lol. there are 2 silmarils in the ocean if I recall correctly

The fact that the phial was basically a second hand silmaril made it a mighty gift indeed. I never realized how valuable it actually must have been.

Suggestion for a What If? Video; what if Thingol had given the Silmaril back to the dons of Feanor when they asked for it in the first age? and what unfolds from that

Great video and topic as always . However ther is one topic i would like to see and hear you discuss , which is , the influence of ancient human civilizations and antiquities_ especially ancient Egypt_ on Tolkien's writings and the world of middle earth

I love Nerd of the Rings!!!

GM: I bestow upon thee a great tool. Hero: puts in pack and forgets about it until three levels later.

Marry Christmas To nerd of the rings And Lord of the rings

Thanks!

@NerdoftheRings

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the Super! Glad you're enjoying the channel!!

I'm playing the Blade of Galadriel DLC for the first time so it's really cool to hear more about this! I've seen you mentioning "sexy Shelob" before but did you like the Shadow of Mordor / War games? Any plan to talk about their plot choices in the future? Sorry if you already did, I'm still catching up!

Fun fact the old Shaman who blessed the water boy's special water when he was a kid, was in fact Galadriel of Lorien.

your video are very good

I was going to say it was a pity that the phial went into the west and was lost to the world. But considering it's the closest remaining thing to a Silmaril, that's probably for the best.

Can you do the watchers next

"But that is a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it - and the Silmaril went on and came to Earendil. And why, sir, I've never though of that before! We've got - you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end? "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended."

What are the Galathrim that Legolas gets his bow from? IDK if you've done one yet, but can you do a famous weapons and their travels video?

Seeing the Gollum shot at Mt Doom reminded me of what really happens when organic matter hits lava. You dont sink into it, its more like putting a drop of water on a hot frying pan: it'll bounce around on the surface exploding with steam...

Such a powerful relic 😅

The light of Eärendil was holy for the silmaril he bore had been hallowed by Varda. It was holiness which illumined the darkness and repelled Shelob.

Our dearest Samwise Gamgee, the greatest of the unsung heroes of middle earth

is there a video on why Galadriel is so important/powerful/respected in middle-earth?

If Galadriel didn’t give Frodo the Phial, he would of made a crunchy snack for good Ole Shelob in Mordor.

Galadriel was selling her bathwater before it was cool...

You the best man you got the fire of elu kkkk

Boromir, you get a belt. It all fancy and golden. Honestly we prefer silver. Also we didn't think it would be this heavy. Have fun with that, B!

Video idea: What if Frodo let Sam carry the ring the final stretch after Sam rescues him til Mount Doom

Galadriel: for you Frodo Baggins, i gift to you my bath water for you and all your thirsty fellowship boys.

Ah, but you did not mention that upon leaving the tower that the phial broke the watchers and arch crumbled.

That was some good word soup.

Just a question, since I haven't read any of Tolkien's works. Are Earendil and Elwing good parents to Elrond and Elros?

Do you have a video on "Why does Thranduil (and the elves) abandon the Dwarves"?

Way to give your protagonist a flashlight/electric torch in a low tech setting😂

I'm sorry if this is high-jacking the comments thread.. But I just have a question related to your shop. On most shirts (and other items with written text) you write NOTR in, what's generally known as High Elvish aka Qenya, and you have a bunch in Dwarvish aka Khuzdul, too. I came along some items where you have written NOTR in common Elvish. Now I assume you mean Sindarin with this, as these are the 2 Elvish languages Mr. Tolkien actually developed. That makes me wonder where you place the Silvan Elf's language. As they are a rather large group of Elf's and commonly known as 'Wood-Elfs'. Point is, when you refer to a high and common form of a language I kinda assume or think there can be only 2 versions of that language. This while Mr. Tolkien refers to at least 12 different Elvish tongues. Or is it Qenya > all other?

The greatest gift was the hair

I never considered it but I wonder if Galadriel caught on to the trick that Feanor used to capture the light of the two trees to capture the light of the star of Earendil? Furthermore, I wonder if it inspired Sauron in his creation of the ring to capture his essence? Previously I would’ve said no but now I’m not so sure…

Can you do a "what if" video showing what happened if Faramir went to the counsel meeting instead of Boromir.

Yes.

Can you do an episode on if shadow of war/mordor was canon? Or just a depiction of Talion’s story