Dragons of Middle-earth | Compilation
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27 Comments
First!
YOOOOO LETS GOOOO DRAGONS!
Perfect timing, I was just looking for a way to spend an hour. Always love your videos no matter the topic, you have a great narrative voice and pace!
2nd
Ahh yes just in time for some
Long bottom leaf!!!
Lord Robert this is awesome !!!!
Love Tolkien’s dragons
I've just watched the last one of these, but put in a compilation?
Well, don't mind if I do.
Thank you, Robert!
9:34 Good boi mentioned
Chapter 1: Morgoth's Creations – 0:32
Chapter 2: How Powerful was Glaurung? – 12:39
Chapter 3: How Powerful was Ancalagon? – 22:17
Chapter 4: How Powerful was Smaug? – 32:53
Chapter 5: How Rich was Smaug? – 43:39
Chapter 6: What Happened to all the Dragons? – 55:36
Holy notification pull
earliest ive ever been!
Fabulous! May we get one for dragons of ice and fire, too!?
Yes, Robert! Straight into my veinnns!
Although you claim to be geeky, you FAIL to acknowledge Orc Dragon Troll Warg Slaying enchanted weaponry crafted in those Valinor or 1st 2nd age smithing, do you not think such items were never created?? Tisk tisk Sir!🙄
The fact that I've watched all those other vids individually won't stop me from watching this masterpiece too.
So Morgoth made artificial creatures (stone trolls, metal dragons) as well as mutated creatures he could enhance with his own power (Carcharoth, normal dragons). Almost sounds like scifi. And Sauron and Saruman, despite 'improving' on the orc, never came close to Morgoth's greatest creations. It's like a postapocalypse story where people are clinging to what little technology is left.
I never clicked on a notification so fast. I've been waiting for this compilation. More compilation videos please!
In Deep Dragons
I love your compilations.
"The Great Worm". This gives us a seed. An indea as to WHAT Morgoth created Dragons from. What type of "Worm" were Dragons mutated from? Perhaps "Worm" is just a descriptor as to the fasion & motion of these beasts. Maybe 'Snake' would be a more accurate base for manipulation. But the use of the specific word "Worm" should, maybe, be taken at it's word. Dragons are worms….horribly mis-shapen & distorted. To a point totaly unrecognizable from what they were at their begining.
I love how everyone calls him "Smough", when I always call him "Smug" or "Smog". That is how I always read it. "Smug" always seemed to fit his character to me.
You missed The Green Dragon. Best beer in the East Farthing.
funny how Elon Musk is now "richer" than Smaug. or maybe sad? you decide…
As a side note, and I think worthy of an expanded video of it's own. Only Men KILL DRAGONS! Turin: Glaurung, Earendil: Ancalagon the Black, Fram: Scatha the Worm, Bard: Smaug. In Tolkien's world…only Men kill dragons.
There is evidence that some dragons fled to Rhun, where the Blue Wizards managed to untwist their natures and breed them to become guardians. Of course, as the ages passed, they shrank in stature and ability until they were eventually mistaken for lizards, whereupon they would defensively point out that they did not do "that tongue thing."
Why are you resposting this video like it’s new ?
The biggest misconception is that dragons disappear after Smaug; Tolkien explicitly leaves room for lesser dragons surviving into the Fourth Age.
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