Fifth Age Podcast: Tolkien Stories

The White Tree


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In this discussion from our Stewards of Gondor recordings, we talk about Nimloth, the White Tree of Gondor. We also talk about Elrond solving everyone’s problem by just kicking Isildur into a volcano and the Netflix Shannara series.  







00:30 What’s the deal with the tree?







00:58 It’s name is Nimloth







1:08 Descendent and look alike of Telperion







1:20 The trees of Valinor







1:30 You were right, Erica, the lamps were first!







1:50 The silver tree is Telperion.







2:00 The trees were killed by Morgoth and Ungoliant







2:20 Who are Morgoth and Ungoliant again?







2:40 Ugh. Spiders.







3:00 The tree in Numenor







3:15 Tar Palantir’s prophecy.







3:30 Sauron was in Númenor and wanted the tree destroyed.







3:57 Isildur stole a fruit from the tree/Herculean labor







4:30 Derpules  - get a photo of Derpules







4:47 Nerd alerts all around!







4:57 Isildur brought the fruit to Middle Earth (the continent)







5:50 Isildur doesn’t mess up all the things he does…







6:00 At least he’s not an idiot like Eänur!







6:09 But… he had a chance to destroy the ring and he didn’t.







6:14 Elrond didn’t Sparta-kick him in like he could have.







6:23 Beowulf - Killing one’s kin is one of the worst crimes imaginable. Unfortunately, Erica was wrong here. Elrond wasn’t really related to Isildur, but they were definitely buddies.







6:47HISHE, LOTR pt 2: Elrond Sparta-kicking Isildur into Mount Doom.







7:07 Elrond’s dad was an amazing fighter







7:10? (oops, Erica said badass).







7:07 Elrond was the standard bearer for Gil-Galad.







7:43 The tree in Gondor was tended in the courtyard. One died and was buried in the tombs of the kings. They didn’t want to burn it after the last time… The one in LOTR is the second one.







8:26 Buried another fruit







8:37 Aragorn and Gandalf find it in the mountains.







9:00 It’s a new tree when Aragorn takes the throne.







9:08 In the movie, it’s different. The tree comes back to life.







9:42 Shannara - Ellcrys - Netflix series.







11:58 Magic has a price.







13:40 Back to the topic…







13:45 Tree that Galadriel gave Sam was a mallorn tree. There were mallorns in Númenor, but they aren’t the same.







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Fifth Age Podcast: Tolkien StoriesBy Dan Martz, Erica Grunseth