84: Arnor & Gondor in the 3rd Age

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After the Battle of the Last Alliance, Sauron is beaten and the lands of Men struggle during the early to middle 3rd age.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the war of the last alliance and into a time of peace.
0:39.5	It occurs to me that yet again we have another situation in the history of Middle
0:45.8	Earth, that we can draw parallels to Tolkien's own life.
0:51.6	If we were to consider the last alliance to be similar to a last alliance that Tolkien experienced
1:02.7	himself in World War I, a coming together of all of these countries in order to stop
1:10.7	bad things from happening in Europe.
1:17.0	Then the time between World War I and World War II would be this period of relative peace.
1:25.7	And we see that happen in Gondor.
1:28.1	In this episode, we're going to dig into that.
1:31.2	And then there is another conflict at the end of this peaceful period.
1:37.6	And in Tolkien's life, that was only 30 years, 30 years between World War I and World War II.
1:48.0	There are similarities here.
1:51.0	It was commonly thought at the time of World War I that this was the war to end all wars.
1:59.0	There were more casualties.
2:02.1	The conflict was bloodier, more difficult, than any other conflict in history.
2:09.2	The populations were decimated.
2:13.5	Decimated, literally, the word decimated means one in ten killed.
2:20.5	It doesn't mean, we use it incorrectly in our own society today.
2:24.5	It doesn't mean everybody mostly was destroyed.
2:28.2	It means one-tenth of the population or one-tenth of the army was killed.
2:39.5	The Great Britain that Tolkien returned to was missing 6% of its male population by the end of the war. Other statistics show that
2:47.5	12.5% of soldiers serving did not return home. The difference in the
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