I don’t think anyone would argue that Rockadoodle was a cinematic masterpiece, even by children’s movie standards, but oddly enough it does have some interesting intersections with Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

My prior video on “Passengers” and providence is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCmnGxJSl&pp=0gcJCX4JAYcqlYzv

My recent video on how Tolkien considered radically altering his mythology is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7YDFGc5j28

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Sauron’s history is one of multiple defeats and even destructions of his physical body, and each time it’s harder for him to come back and assume his mantle as Dark Lord. Why is that? Let’s see what Tolkien has to say about it.

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Business Insider had a whole troop of warfare experts critique scenes from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films (and Rings of Power but who cares about that…), and some of it is useful fodder for a deeper look, so let’s critique the critics!

For the full video from Business Insider, click here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJMR3s2E4Bo&pp=ygUmd2FyZmFyZSBleHBlcnRzIHJhdGUgbG9yZCBvZiB0aGUgcmluZ3M%3D

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Following up my video from last week for Tolkien Reading Day, I thought I would take a closer look at another strange fact about eh Fellowship: Almost none of them are actually there to go to Mordor! Seems bizarre, but it’s not when you look at it through Tolkien’s lense.

Last week’s video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmY25wunsc

For Men of the West’s video that helped inspire this one, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHHJpJehPs&list=PLBCsLcBwXZ_rEdWkF9nqOs02a8sbEX-Ut&index=5&pp=iAQB

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Despite the first volume of The Lord of the Rings being named “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the word fellowship actually barely appears in that volume, and only in its final chapter. Why was the group called the “Company” for so long, and how and why did it become the “Fellowship?”

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Tolkien changed a lot of material in his legendarium over the years, but late in life he almost scrapped the entire cosmology to fit with real world history. Why did he go down this road, and what are some ofthe implications?

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One thing that becomes clear with enough time spent in Middle-earth is that Eru can work with anything you throw at him. That includes Boromir taking Faramir’s spot in Rivendell.

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In response to my video on how Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy managed to win the loyalty of many book fans despite its many changes from the source material, I received a number of comments explaining how his changes were necessitated by the adaptation of a book to a movie. But does that excuse really hold water? I don’t think so.

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Finally completing this project in one fell swoop, because there's not much good to find here....

For the prior video on An Unexpected Journey, check here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Em1AN16K0

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A while back I got an email from a viewer arguing that Gandalf was, to put it politely, a little slow when it comes to making sure Frodo got started on his quest. But just how big a mistake was that, really?

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