Dwarves in Middle-earth

I'm really excited to see where they'll go, how the story develops.

I can't wait to see Dwarves of Our Lives in season three.

But I feel like this has been quite a big conversation across the fandom.

But I just want to say that they all look fantastic and roll on season three.

but what names should i report and what should i say of you old and weary you seem now and yet you have fell and grim beneath i deem well do you see and speak said the wizard for i am gandalf i have returned and behold i too bring back a horse Here is Shadowfax the Great, whom no other hand can take, and here beside me is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, the heir of kings, and it is to Moonberg that he goes.

Here also are Legolas the Elf and Gimli the Dwarf, our comrades.

Go now, and say to your master that we are at his gate, and would have speech with him, if he would permit us to come into his home.

Strange names you give indeed, but I will report them as you bid, and learn my master's will, said the guard.

But we're going to be highlighting some of the deeper lore of Tolkien, the stuff that a lot of people don't get to.

I myself, during my lunchtime live, I'm going to be diving into Tolkien Chapter 10 of the Peoples of Middle-Earth, which is Volume 12 of the History of Middle-Earth, of Dwarves and Men.

And I'm going to be talking about the early relationships in the life of humans in Middle-Earth with the dwarves and how they interacted, how they met, and how they influenced one another in the areas that really the elves weren't hanging out in in the First Age.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

You have Dominic Monaghan as Merry, Billy Boyd as Pippin, and then you have Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey.

You have Sean Bean as Boromir from Gondor, Viggo Mornstein as Aragorn, Orlando Bloom as Legolas the Elf, and my all-favorite character is John Rhys-Davies as Gimli the Dwarf.

Such a perfect casting.

You also have members like Liv Tyler as Arwen.

Instead, we enter Middle-earth through the Shire, the peaceful, prosperous, happy region that is located at the westernmost edge of Middle-earth.

Here, the inhabitants are not the Men or Elves or Dwarves who populate the rest of Middle-earth, but instead a very small race of people known as Hobbits.

In the first chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, we are introduced not just to the Shire as a pleasant and generally easy place to live, but also to the lifestyle and culture of the Hobbits who live there.

Often think that I could have been a very happy hobbit because their lifestyle is generally focused on eating, drinking, and throwing parties.

So what happens now? Well, as Frodo and Gandalf agree, the ring needs to be destroyed, and it needs to be destroyed as soon as possible.

But the ring, Sauron's One Ring, cannot be destroyed through normal means.

It cannot be melted by ordinary fires, it can't be melted in the forges of the Dwarves, and it probably couldn't even be melted by the fires of the dragons that still survive in the current age.

Hey, you know, maybe Bilbo and all those Dwarves should have thought better before killing off Smaug in The Hobbit.

Right.

You know, because Thrain has a different father, Nain, or however you say it, N-A-I-N. Yeah.

And so it's like, I, so I'm like, what are they, are they trying to compress now the third, the third age into the second age? If they say that is Thrain, like what are they doing? Are they, is he just another random character? Will he actually be during the fourth now? And is, I just don't freaking know what they're

doing.

For all of the beauty and wonder they have brought into the world, their final fate is known only to Ilúvatar.

Of Dwarves and Ents.

In chapter two, we learn the story of Aulë and the creation of the Dwarves.

This chapter raises interesting questions about the music.

First and foremost, were the Dwarves in the Music of the Ainur? It is said that Aulë undertook the creation of the Dwarves out of impatience.

Were they in fact creatures that he foresaw? Through Aulë, we see exemplified an important difference between Melkor and the other Ainur.

Melkor, as we have seen, desires domination, whereas Aulë, though impatient, desires to share the greatness and beauty of this new world with creatures of his own.

Nevertheless, as Elves, they are both drawn by their inmost being to seek this place beyond the sea.

Awesome.

What group in Middle-Earth, Elf, Dwarf, Rohan, Gondor, what group are you most like?

Uh...

If I was younger, I would have told you like probably like Men of Dale or Numenoreans.

But in the meantime, what they're working on is the rings of power.

So, you know, there's 19 rings and You've all heard the intro to the movies, you know, Nine Rings to Men, and, you know, the Rings to the Dwarves and such, and these are given as these gifts, and unbeknownst to everyone, Sauron has corrupted these rings because he is secretly working on the One Ring, which is going to dominate them all, and everybody who is given these rings.

I'm just going to bring back my map.

I've just shown the famous One Ring.

Honestly, it just kind of makes me feel sad because you see in the Hobbit trilogy when the dwarves of the Iron Mountain come and you're like, these guys are pretty badass.

When the dwarves do want to fight, they are badass.

I mean, we won't talk about this episode, but in the Third Age, there's a war called the War of the Dwarves and the Orcs, and all of the houses of the dwarves get involved.

Isn't that one