Dead Marshes

black gate stuff

but the uh the king of the dead and his army land at number five number four is also a spectral entrant on our list it is the marsh wraiths of the dead marshes we've been referencing the battle of the last alliance a few times Nick put the marsh rates really high on his personal list.

So I want to know who are they for those that maybe don't know why these ghosts are here.

But why did you put them so high, even though they landed our overall number four, Nick?

He almost certainly means quite literally that some evil spirit was trapped in there.

Then there are the dead marshes that Sam, Frodo and Gollum pass through en route to Mordor.

I did a whole other video on that if you're interested.

Tolkien doesn't give us a full explanation of what is going on there, but instead leaves us with Sam's horrified musing.

So Sauron was originally, or from very early on, intended to be a necromancer, and was named as such, and there are numerous examples of him doing necromantic things with his hosts of phantoms and of wandering ghosts.

And if you take this in the way that Tolkien seems to have understood it, necromancy being the engagement with and enslaving of houseless spirits of elves or whoever whose bodies have died or faded but their spirits or fair have lingered, then we have plenty of examples of him doing just that.

There are the werewolves he controlled in the Silmarillion, the Ringwraiths, probably the Two Watchers, and whatever was going on with all those dead faces in the Dead Marshes.

He took spirits and controlled them, turning them to his evil will.

What? What's Lord of the Rings?

The Dead Marshes.

He wants me to do Gollum's voice in the Dead Marshes.

He's trying to bait me.

No.

whatnot nonsense, right? Like this is the perfect like crackable thing of like a there's some weird stream bounty or like whatever the whatnot people do of all like the the hype generation oh if we get this card selling slots for specific kind like oh if we get a a printer error this person paid this but whatever the the the voodoo economic bullshit that they do on that channel like this product is very good for that for that kind of thing yeah

Yeah, I think that looking at other cards here, so Urborg is one where we can look at the Dead Marshes, which is the Lord of the Rings skin of it.

The non-foil Urborg Dead Marshes is 120.

So I don't really know how much, because that obviously comes at a different rarity.

But that is where sort of the price of Urborg is sitting.

We have to talk about how they tricked the audience with locations.

When you watch the Dead Marshes, this terrifying, sprawling, ghostly wetland where dead faces float in the muck, you assume they filmed in some remote, desolate New Zealand bog.

Jackson initially intended to.

They scouted a vast natural wetland system near Te Anau on the South Island.