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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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We wrap up the final years of the Trees with the terrible events that befall Feanor's sons, the creation of two very important celestial bodies, and... something else.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings loreion, we need to go back to the |
0:33.4 | Battle under the Stars, Dagar, Nguyenyen Gileath, the one that saw the final moments of |
0:43.7 | Feanor, when he and a small group of elves continued onward from the rest of the Noldor and ended up |
0:53.8 | surrounded by ballrogs. |
0:56.7 | And of course, this was his final moments. |
0:59.7 | Now, there are other parts of this conflict that we haven't discussed yet. |
1:04.9 | Now, I'll save you some of the details about where specific groups went and who went to what location and all of that. |
1:14.5 | It's a little confusing, and it's also not the most important bits of the story. |
1:20.5 | The most important parts here have to do with the fact that initially the elves were not prepared. Yes, they were on their way to |
1:31.7 | mount an attack against Melkor, Morgoth, and whatever was standing in their way, |
1:39.4 | they were willing to fight, but they were not prepared for what was standing in their way, obviously with |
1:46.3 | the ballrogs. |
1:47.1 | Now, there are some other details here. |
1:49.0 | Remember, at the end of the Battle of Balarion, Melkor pulls all of his orcs from |
1:54.8 | the field and moves them against the Noldor. |
1:59.4 | They mount a surprise attack, and Melchkor doesn't just attack them with orcs. |
2:04.9 | Now, he holds the ballrogs in reserve, but he sends on them, orcs and werewolves. |
2:13.5 | Yes, werewolves. |
2:15.9 | And you might be thinking, werewolves? And you might be thinking, |
2:18.6 | werewolves? |
2:19.8 | Wait, this is a thing in Middle Earth lore in Tolkien's stories? |
2:25.1 | And let me pitch this idea to you, |
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