Happy Halloween everybody!

@annaroselarsen4218

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Halloween!

@jamiegregg9211

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Halloween Mate

@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115

2 жыл бұрын

Samhain.

@NoName-lo9ym

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

@robertcoplin2830

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Halloween!

War with Angmar! Would love to learn more about that period

@TheonlyRIV

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@DaJinx1

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, make it so!

@user-oy4ii2xu1n

2 жыл бұрын

U will in the upcoming Amazon series ❤️

@legiohysterius4624

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-oy4ii2xu1n unlikely the amazon series is set in the second age. The wars against angmar was in the third age.

@user-oy4ii2xu1n

2 жыл бұрын

@@legiohysterius4624 Well yeah sure.. I meant eventually we are going to see it. Maybe later in the series 😏

I will forever be sad we didn’t get to see this on the big screen. Literally my favor part of the book.

Not sure why Frodo was the only one of the hobbits left conscious by the barrow wight - of course the plot would have ended right there if they all had been unconscious and at the mercy of the wight! But I think it's perhaps because he is the ring bearer that gives him some special ability to remain awake and alert, not only strong enough to grab a sword and hack off the crawling arm, but with his wits and memory intact enough to summon the aid of Tom Bombadil.

I often think that the whole encounter in the Barrow Downs would make an awesome short film. Half an hour or so... would love to see that

I think the Witch King was a sorcerer, more specifically a follower of Morgoth and one of the Kings Men when he was a living man. That would explain his power among the other Nazgul. But I like that his origin is not explained.

My personal theory is that the barrow-wights are a more "physical" and lesser version of what the Nine became. perhaps beings who were wounded with Morgul blades and faded to become servants of evil. It's actually a detail I enjoyed about the Angmar campaign in Battle for Middle Earth 2.

@Greye13

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting theory. Maybe this is what would have happened to Frodo, had the Elves not been there to heal him after Weathertop?! I like this possibility.

@konewhatsthenamespolicy6308

2 жыл бұрын

This ha been my question for a long time.

@sampsakeranen7069

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know where I could buy Battle for middle earth for Pc? Steam does not have it

@draconecare7634

2 жыл бұрын

@@sampsakeranen7069 watch a Tutorial on KZread how can you Download battle for middlearth

@timcarpenter2441

2 жыл бұрын

I concur. Frodo was slipping into the shadow realm after is injury

The war with Angmar sounds good. I've wondered about the wights. I settled on the idea that the spirits of corrupt servants of Sauron, or the Witch King, were held in this world to continue to serve after they had died. Necromancy. These undead servants were sent to reanimate the remains of those who been buried in the mounds. The spirits of the dead, buried there had already gone on.

@MrHaighahatta

2 жыл бұрын

It would be the final insult for the Witch King to reanimate the remains of Arnor's honored dead with the spirits his own servants. However, the fact that Tom Bombadil removes the grave goods/treasures from the barrow to prevent the barrow wight's return suggests an independent cause for the "haunting" of the barrows.

@danielshaw2473

2 жыл бұрын

I also like to add that one of the cruelest and most vile forms of Necromancy the Witch King and the other Black Numenorean sorcerers used could also trap the souls and spirits of recently slain enemy's within their own lifeless body. They could puppeteer them, forcing them to attack former allies and also turn them into wraiths....the biggest proof of this was in the tragic fate of Captain Carthin who was the brave and loyal friend of the last prince of Cardolin. He alongside the last of the brave defenders of the Barrow-Downs tried to stop the tainting of the graves of Arnor by the sorcerers of Angmar, but the Witch-king's right hand man Morgomir another fellow black rider and lieutenant of Carn-Dum accompanied with a large force of dark rangers proved too much and overwhelmed the young Captain and his army. Rather than simply killing him Morgomir stabbed the Captain with a Morgul Blade and struck him down, but his spirit remained in his lifeless body unable to depart to the west by the curse of the dagger and the dark spells of the sorcerers. He was corrupted and transformed into Karsh the whispering wraith of Angmar. For centuries Karsh was forced to haunt and help destroy both the kingdom of Arnor and the people within it longing for oblivion and the freedom by death. When Angmar fell the elves were finally able to use their exocisom skills to destroy his corrupted undead inslavement, freeing and bringing peace to his soul forever......

@xf171

Жыл бұрын

@@danielshaw2473 bro, that's the storyline of a videogame, not proof

@danielshaw2473

Жыл бұрын

@@xf171 closest we have to facts, no evidence against it is there?

@xf171

Жыл бұрын

@@danielshaw2473 that was the argument😂 (there's not much else to say really) take no offense, the game was the bomb, but your kind of logic regarding facts and truth is very fallible and potentially dangerous, when applied to the real world. It's called wishful thinking. Take care.

If we look at the map of the first age we see that Iron mountains or Angband, Ered Luin (Blue mountains) and the northern Misty mountains or the grey mountains were all connected. So it is possible that after the war of wrath and downfall of Morgoth all the remaining orcs, trolls, dragons, The balrog, Sauron and other evil beings escaped through the mountains to the lands later known as the Angmar. And these wraiths are either souls of the easterlings who fought with the Morgoth or souls of the captured elves or men (or even dwarfs) who were imprisoned and tormented by Morgoth, Sauron or the witch king. And if my theory about escaping through the mountains is true it could also explain The Balrog in Moria, Smaug The Dragon near Erebor and the trolls with Gondolin Swords near misty mountains.

War with Angmar! Quite a gray area for me so I would love to learn more about it! You make awesome quality videos, guys👌

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

Barrow Wights were obviously one of the inspiration for Draugr in the Elder Scrolls franchise

@kjetilhansen5363

Жыл бұрын

Draugr is a concept far older than either Tolkien or the Elder Scrolls. The word is Old Norse, and is sometimes mentioned in the sagas of the Vikings as a type of undead that haunts burial mounds. In short, they are both inspired by Nordic folklore.

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

@jacobl6714

2 жыл бұрын

good idea. he would have been able to help more but wouldn't have been gifted the extra knowledge and power. sets up a lot of questions of how later events would play out (or not play out)

this was the most memorable part of the first book. This perilous being emerging from nowhere, and whisking you off to it’s realm

I do appreciate Peter Jackson's attempts to incorporate parts of the books missed in the films in other places where possible. In this instance even though they didn't have the Barrow Wight's in the films, I like how they adapted that last quote/incantation of the Wight into Gollum's song in the Forbidden Pool.

Great video, I've always thought the barrow-wights were the spirits of the dead intered in the mounds, brought forth by the vile necromancy by the witch king of angmar and corrupted by his dark sorcery into the horrid specters that inhabit the mounds.

@blueldrrich84

2 жыл бұрын

I assumed the same. Corrupted spirits of the actual people buried there. Which is why its so creepy.

I would love the War with Angmar to be covered. I played the Battle for Middle-Earth 2 game, including the Rise of the Witch-King and it was honestly pretty awesome. Arnor was a magnificent realm and honestly, I would love Arnor vs Angmar as a movie some day.

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Those games are the best Middle-earth games!

War with Angmar!

I always thought the barrow-wights were long buried Numenorean kings that were raised by Sauron when he was still thought to be a necromancer. To watch over the area south of Bree for the ring.

War with angmar! Happy Halloween.

The wights remind me a bit of the army of the dead that were cursed by Isildur and later rose to the challenge by Aragorn. War with Angmar :)

Witch King: "No man can kill me." Nazgul #8: "That leaves elves, dwarves, ents, trolls, orcs, bad gas station sushi..." Witch King: "Shut. Up."

@TheGoodLuc

2 жыл бұрын

Dragons, spiders, maiar...

@sonofthebearking3335

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@thereaction18

2 жыл бұрын

Elvis: "Defecation Syncope". (poop strain)

I really like it that you added some voice distortion when impersonating a wight instead of just doing voice. You guys are one of the youtubers ive used to teach myself the lore and sagas of Middle Earth! Keep up the good work!👍🏼

I seem to recall there was a passage about the barrow downs. And that they were burial place of kings of the North, who in the fall of their times built tombs greater than halls of the living. And that it spoke of the corruption of the lines of numenor becaise their kings and nobles chose to be buroed woth theor riches. With that in mind, it makes sense that the wights of each barrow or burial mound, are the raised spirits of those corrupted kings, protecting their hoards and by the Wotch King's bidding, terrorizing any mortals that stray upon their lands.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

I am pretty certain that it doesn't work that way. Sauron had that kind of power over the spirits of The Nine because he captured their souls with the Rings of Power he gave them, but the Witch King should not be able to keep a man's spirit tethered to Middle Earth after the man's death. The spirit should go the Halls of Mandos.

@AdventuringJD

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil I'm not 100% a out it either. But remember, Isildur cursed the oathbreakers. They were not so different sounding to the wights.and Isildur, while a Numenorean was just a man. The witch king was a sorcerer and practitioner of dark magics, even before his service to Sauron, but especially afterward.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventuringJD True, but I doubt he could keep a human spirit in Middle Earth. It seems more likely to me that he took evil spirits, or better Sauron sent him some, to inhabit the corpses that were in the Barrows.

War with Angmar, also a long what if on Galadriel taking the ring would be interesting. Good stuff as always.

@alganhar1

2 жыл бұрын

What's long about it? Galadriel literally stated what would happen to Frodo. She would be bright to start with, and then become terrible... Perhaps even worse than Sauron, as unlike him, she was part of the Council, was a wearer of one of the three, and knew where at least one of the other of the three was.... She could have done something Sauron could not have done, brought the Three under her control......

@dontcare5998

2 жыл бұрын

@@alganhar1 I meant a more practical look at what the world would look like. Is there a war then between Galadriel and Elrond? And also your comment was long so right there answers your question.

@Max-px5ym

2 жыл бұрын

@@dontcare5998 much more to say about the war with angmar. We could indeed speculate all we want about galadriel, the fact that people would love her and despair, implying it would not be a typical "big villain destroys everything". But I think it's more about fan fiction than anything else.

@dontcare5998

2 жыл бұрын

@@Max-px5ym Of course fan fiction. Just curious as to what it would look like. I like to think about these things practically.

Happy Halloween! War of Angmar! Would be awesome to hear about that. Also any video at all that you guys make is outstanding.

I feel like when you ask, “would you like a vid on ________?” I am always going to say yes. And happy Halloween to you too.

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

😁

Thank you for this! I’ve always wondered about these creatures in the lore.

This was awesome, I'm running a d&d campaign set during the wars of angmar and the party is going bounty hunting for the "Terror of the Far Downs" soon and I needed more info on Barrow wights so thank you!

War with Angmar! Love your 'The Broken Sword' & 'The Table Top Alliance' videos guys, they are amazing quality! Always liked the Barrow-Weights and think they are a cool idea. It's great to learn more about them. Keep up the awesome work guys! =) Happy Halloween everybody!

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

It is worthwhile to mention that in the first age Sauron created ware wolves by placing evil spirits into wolf like monsters he had constructed. Also at the time of the war with Angmar there was a shadow in Mirkwood known as the Necromancer who was eventually found out to be Sauron. It is my theory that Sauron used the same powers that he used to create the ware wolves and earn the title the necromancer to create, essentially, zombies out of the bodies buried in the Burrow downs and placed them under the Witch King’s command.

Yes! War with Angmar, please!

War with Angmar! And than you for the holiday bonus vid. 🎃

War with Angmar indeed!

War with Angmar!!! Love the videos, congratulations and thank you for the amazing content.

Happy Halloween!!! Thank you for the extra video 🎃❤😄

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching 😄

@katarinaroman8392

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBrokenSword you replied!! That's SO cool! I hope you had an awesome Halloween!! I watch your videos all the time, im taking a whole college course on Tolkien right now and you help me understand so much deeper!

Great video. One of my favorite chapters. Fog on the barrow downs.

War with Angmar? Absolutely! I read a theory that the Wights physical forms were the corpses from the mound, but the spirits that animated them were tortured spirits of dead elves (men?) twisted by Sauron (or Melkor) and unable to depart for the Halls of Mandos. The Witch-King summoned them to the mounds and bound them to the bodies of the dead buried there.

@cuitaro

2 жыл бұрын

So, the Witch King summoned those spirits out of the Halls of Mandos. THE HALLS OF MANDOS! Melkor himself could not escape them. And anyway, the Witch King is a mere Man whereas as the Keeper of the Halls of Mandos, Namo himself, is one of the Aratar; the most powerful beings in the entirety of Ea

@frankmueller2781

2 жыл бұрын

@@cuitaro not every spirit makes it straight to Mandos. Some are bound by magic before they die.

@audreydimmel6674

2 жыл бұрын

Your theory actually fills in some of the gaps in mine! Thanks!

And a Happy Halloween to you and yours!

The included passages are a nice touch. This is of my favorite parts of LoTR next to Moria. (of book 1)

Another great video war with angmar sounds good

War with Angmar sounds excellent will look forward. Also thanks for the content it's fantastic work please keep the videos coming 😊

Thank you for the bonus vid. Happy halloween. War with angmar needed lol

War with Angmar! Keep up the great work. Your videos are excellent!

War with Angmar! Love the vids guys!

YES!!! Please hit us with a video on the wars of Angmar!!

War with Angmar I enjoyed this Halloween episode about the Barrow Wights. Thank you!

War with Angmar! I like it when you guys read passages from the books. Makes me miss your dramatic readings you guys used to do on your old channel.

You should do a “what if” on if Gandalf hadn’t fallen in Moria and continued on with the Fellowship

Great video. I’m very interested in the War with Angmar.

War with Angmar. Happy Halloween!

I believe that they may have been the spirits of Numinor that Sauron turned to Melkor worship, that he called back to serve the Witch King. Even the Black Numinorians Middle Earth may have been sacrificed and their spirits sent.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

So you think Eru Iluvatar took away their "Gift of Death" because they were evil?

@faerieprince6539

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil Melkor was given a part of each power and he taught Sauron much. It is not the first time we see sauron doing or showing that he can twist spirits, as in the case of werewolves. So I do believe Saurson learned from Morgoth/Melkor what they new of spirits, and from there bestowed some of that to the Witch King. I also do believe, in some manner, yes.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

@@faerieprince6539 I used to think that the Wights could be similar spirits to the Watchers at the Gate of the Tower of Cirith Ungol. But now I think they are similar to Ungoliant, but choosing a scary, stretchy humanoid form. Many posters are guessing they are human spirits, but I don't think so because if the Gift of Men: death.

@faerieprince6539

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil ​ Yes; however, we do not know all the workings of Arda. Ungoliant and the Nameless Things, along with Tom are mysterious and enigmatic. They're rare and how would Sauron, let alone the Witch King be able to send such forth? It makes sense that the wights would be along the same manner of spirits that Sauron used when creating Werewolves. Wicked spirits, could be elves, orc or men. It would seem to line more-so with men and elf rather than any other. / The gift of death just means that when men die, they are not bound spiritually to Arda. They terry some in the Halls of Mandos, then move on to somewhere else. Sadly, so many secrets died with Tolkien, and while sad it may be a blessing as we get to have conversations like these. :)

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

@@faerieprince6539 I think Sauron put evil spirits in wolves to create werewolves. The Wights seem to be something different, unless you think they are corrupted humans, but they don't die. Also the Wight that Tom Bombadil freed the Hobbits from hand a very long arm that stretched around a bend in the room they were in. That can't be human because it walked with its fingers.

War with Angmar! Sounds very interesting. I enjoyed this video on the Barrow Wights very much! Thank you!

Thank you for the video! Very fun one.

War with Angmar, many thanks for yet another great story video😊👍

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

War with angmar! Great video man

Yes please to content with Angmar, great videos really enjoy watching, many thanks guys

Happy Halloween 🎃

Excellent video! War with Angmar

I would love a War for Angmar video. To be honest, any video idea you guys have I would love to have. You guys always make wonderful informative content and have taught me so much about the History and Lore of Middle Earth and I am do grateful for it

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help 😁

@dambrooks7578

2 жыл бұрын

What he said 👆

Awesome! This was unexpected!

Your knowledge and presentation of information is excellent and your selection of art work is equally admirable. WAR WITH ANGMAR

I love your segments! Do yo have a segment about the Rangers?

War with Angmar! That would be first class, cheers and Happy Halloween from sunny Caerphilly

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you from rainy Newport!

Tolkien's imagination is absolutely insane. It's mind boggling to me that anyone could sit down and come up with all of this. Had he been born thousands of years ago he could've created his own religion.

@thelandlord111

2 жыл бұрын

Living in the 20th century didn’t stop L. Ron Hubbard doing it.

@nordicwarrior5014

2 жыл бұрын

Tolkien was a devout Christian...

@SpyTrader1988

2 жыл бұрын

All his ideas are just the regurgitation of ancient myths of Europe mostly. His imagination allows him to elaborate and create interesting characters and tales that’s it

@johnkeck

2 ай бұрын

@@SpyTrader1988 "Regurgitation" is harsh. But you're right he didn't devise all his ideas from nothing, but drew on the long tradition of his study.

I'd love to see a video about the War with Angmar!!!

Yes to the war of Angmar video!! 👍

A good time to talk about these Middle Earth legends for Halloween

Yes! Angmar and the witchking is very intriguing

War with Angmar. Its my favourite period of middle earth, we've been building a Cardolan army for my lotr warhammer

War with angmar! Happy Halloween!

i fell asleep last night with your video's playing on my computer and dreamt of middle earth , ha it was awesome

War of Angmar, defonitely Great video, thanks! One theory on the origin of the Barrow Wights that I've seen (A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day, 1979) is that they are the possessed remains of human kings and princes. What was said to possess them were actually more minor spirits that had been in service to Morgoth that were robbed of physical form during the War of Wrath who ran, fleeing the sun, to the barrow downs or any other place they could take refuge and find new physical forms. There they continued to serve their banished master through the sacrifice of unlucky travelers that they waylaid just as they did the Hobbits in LOTR: FotR.

Great video. War with Angmar please.

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😄

Happy Halloween!

Wars of Angmar. Also I want a video on the Dunedin forging of swords.

@TheBrokenSword

2 жыл бұрын

Great video topic idea!

War with Angmar would be an excellent topic for the next video;)

The Wwr with Angmar. I cannot get enough! 😍😍

War with Angmar. Would be a really fascinating video.

The Cardolan smiths crafted magic weapons specifically to fight the witch king and his undead. They were the only thing that could hurt them. Merry's dagger was of Cardolan make. It's what he used to stab the witch king with, which is what weakened him and made him corporeal so to speak so that Eowyn was able to finish him. Without Merry doing that, Eowyn's blow would have done nothing.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, what made Merry's sword actually work on the Witch King was the fact that he was not a man, but a Hobbit. That was the prophesy of Glorfindel. The fact that it was a Cardigan Blade was icing on the cake.

@mrmittenns5728

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil this really depends on if glorfindel's "prophecy" really was a prophecy or just some kind of foresight. Maybe the witch king could be killed by (a) man. However glorfindel "knew" that he wouldnt be killed by (a) man. I think the swords were a really important detail they missed in the movie. Also it is never stated that tolkien meant man as in male or man as in mankind

@tominiowa2513

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enerdhil - Dear Sun Friend, The interpretation of most Tolkien scholars is that Glorfindel was using his power of foresight to know how the Witch King was destroyed, and not stating that the Witch King was immune to attacks by men and not others. Backing that up is that hobbits are a branch of men, and have the same fate as men.

@tominiowa2513

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrmittenns5728 - PJ was forced to skip the back-story of the swords when he chose to skip the Old Forest and Bombadil; yet another cascade of consequences of his movie making sins.

@Enerdhil

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrmittenns5728 The interpretation of what Glorfindel prophesied seems to say "man" as in human male. Even the Witch King himself thought so. The sword was a cool way to kill him, but I am sure Merry could have stabbed him just as effectively with Theoden's sword as he did with the Cardolanian sword.

Thank you for all the work you do putting put into these fantastic videos. Please add the War with Angmar.

A War with Angmar video would be great

🎃🎃HAPPY HOLLOWEEN🎃🎃 I hoped we see them in the upcoming TV series, and yes I want to know more about the War Of Angmar.

Learnt about them recently from Lotr Rise to War where Barrow Wights can be found in Angmar.

The war of Angmar would be a great video.

War with Angmar DEFINITELY VERY INTERESTED IN THIS 🙌🏻🙌🏻

War with angmar! Would love to see some angmar table top too! 😍✌️

War with Angmar definitely!! Love the legendarium & all its many parts!

I'd love seeing a War with Angmar video

The power of Tom Bombadill keeps the wights where they are. That is why Tom has control over the wights. The wights are spirits of evil, long dead, who were once under the command of the Witch-King.

I am writing a small technical book of a few hundred pages with a computer and modern software. The Idea that a single person could write a novel like this in the 1940's with so many different characters and character arcs with essentially just paper and pencil blows my mind!

War with angmar. Happy Halloween

War with Angmar -- please!

The whites are a great example of fantasy undead done right. Mysterious, dangerous, and cursed. Not to mention messing around with the human form, both in the shadowy form who takes frodo into the borrow and in how we only ever see the hand of the entity with the great sword. It's nice seeing the nature of the setting used to help exaggerate some of the horror elements that even 1 undead being can bring to a story.

Happy Halloween!! 🎃👻

"War with Angmar". If you ever ask "do you want a video....." just assume it's a yes😉😂 Keep up the exceptional work.

Would love to hear more about tbe War pf Agmar

War with Angmar!! Long vid maybe??

War with Angmar! About the barrow wright, I think they once were men corrupted by witch king (or even Sauron) then being enslaved even until afterlife. So yeah, they were there under Witch King command. Barrow wrights, ring wrights, the silent watcher, the unnamed creature looming in the bottom of Khazad Dum, Shelob, and dead marshes gave me creep no matter how many times I reread the book of rewatch the movie 😅

The war of Angmar sounds good!

I’d love to hear more about the war with Angmar