Battle of Bywater: Scouring of the Shire - Middle Earth Lore DOCUMENTARY

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Fights a war successfully, returns home, destroys the tyranny ruling and destroying his home, marries his childhood sweetheart, has 13 kids, becomes mayor for 49 years, and then goes on to become one of the very few non-elves to set sail for the Grey Havens What an absolute champion, not bad for a simple gardener

As a Dunedan, I just wished Aragorn would have thanked us for the Mumakil clean up we had to do in the fields of Pelennor. Threw out my back and all....

My brother read the books once when he was young, and one day we talked about them and he said "As far as I remember, they ended pretty undramatic. They just went home and that was it." I looked at him shocked and said "You.. may have forgotten just a few tiny details there.."

Merry and Pippin: lead an army Sam: rouses the entire Shire and makes sure his girlfriend is okay. Frodo: has a panic attack, which is honestly fair considering what he’s seen.

Tolkien, wonderful author and student of literature that he was, understood that there is one perfect way to make a threat feel impossibly close and dangerous: bring it home.

The funniest way to view the war of the ring is as one big fight for control of the pipeweed trade between the hobbits and Saruman. It works surprisingly well. Just think about it, Saruman started muscling in on their business pretty early on in the story and the Hobbits weren't in a great position to secure it. Add to that the threat of Sauron cutting them out of the game altogether and things get even more dire, so they send 4 guys to go merc Sauron and take down Saruman and along the way they just happen to restore the Gondorian monarchy and install a guy who basically makes the share a self governing tax haven that no one can enter without the hobbits say so? ensuring their monopoly on pipeweed? and the last battle is one final throwdown between Saruman and the Hobbits where Saruman is kicked out of the game once and for all along with his whole gang? Don't fuck with the Hobbit cartel bro.

One last nitpick for the ending: going to Valinor doesn’t make you immortal. It was originally propaganda spread by Sauron to convince the Numenorians to invade Valinor.

You forgot to mention that Saruman/Sharkey tried to kill Frodo on the doorstep of Bag End, only to have his blade turned by the Mithril coat! Rather a massive omission!

I’m by no means a Tolkien expert, but I could swear that after Theoden’s funeral in Rohan’s capital (the name escapes me at the moment) they went on to Isengard to check on Treebeard and Saruman. After finding that the latter had been let go by the former, the Fellowship went their separate ways : Gandalf, Frodo, and the rest of the hobbits went to Rivendell before they went on to the Shire; Aragorn and his retinue meanwhile went BACK to Gondor; and lastly, Legolas and Gimli went into Fangorn Forest before making their way back to their respective homes of Mirkwood and Erebor. Elrond and his sons went with Gandalf and the hobbits; Galadriel and Celeborn travelled with them for a short time (during which they passed by a ragged pair of travelers consisting of the de-powered Saruman and Grima Wormtongue) before also taking their leave and making their back to Lothlorien via that pass over the Misty Mountains (again, the name escapes me; but this was also where the Fellowship was forced to turn back (due to Saruman’s implied magical doings)). Would appreciate actual Tolkien experts to chime in if I’m correct or merely deeply mistaken.

I actually feel bad for the fate of Grima Wormtongue, although at the end maybe he found a spark of strength, not easy for a mortal man to go against the will of a Maia like Saruman who could deceive so many greater minds.

Legolas founded an elven colony in Ithilien and his ship went down the Anduin. They didnt go through Mithlond.

I loved the ending part of the book where Cirdan, Celleborn, and Thranduil all Sail west.

If LOTR went full on series with time to breathe and hour-length episodes, I can see how the Scouring of the Shire can be a good bookend to the hobbits' journey and evoking Tolkien's themes as was done in the book. For the Jackson Trilogy though? Yeah I think it was a good move to cut it out or rearrange some things. It may mean that many not even know of the Scouring of the Shire but that's hardly the fault of Jackson; the consumers or fans should do the research themselves.

One important note here is that mortals that made it to Valinor were still mortals, and they died there like they would die anywhere else.

You've put so much work into these documentaries and it shows. As I look through the playlists of this channel, I see Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Game of Thrones, Conan, and more! This is my idea of Heaven! My absolute favorite channel!

Something occurred to me. As Pippin was technically an employ of Aragorn, had Pippin been badly injured or, heavens forbid, actually killed Aragorn would’ve had full legal authority to assault the Shire under Saruman’s control. Can you imagine the legitimate terror on the Ruffian’s minds knowing they’d have ti face the full night of the mightiest King on Earth?

This might be a shot in the dark but have you ever thought about covering the Wheel of Time series? Finished up Lord of Chaos and I'd like to see your take covering the battle of Dumai's Wells. :)

This would’ve been really great to see in the movies and at least we got a glimpse of it when Frodo for saw it in Lothlorien

A few notes - Arnor only had 10 Kings, Later Arnor would be split into Arthedain, Rhudaur & Cardolan. Arthedain would have 15 Kings whereas not much is known about other two kingdoms. Hence Technically Aragorn was 11th king of Arnor & 16th King of Arthedain. Aragorn was also 34th King of Gondor not 35th. Earnur was 33rd king before Aragorn when he was lost in Minas Morgul and his fate is unknown in TA 2050.