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- Let's compare characters from the Tolkien universe. How tall are Melkor, Frodo, Gandalf, Sauron, Aragorn, Bilbo, Gimli, Saruman, Legolas, Ungalianta, Cave Trolls, Gollum, Balrog, Nazgul, Smaug. See this video for more information.
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Love how it starts with the ring… the only object that changed its own length at will.
lol
Goes on with "palantiri" (plural) - which were different in size.
True
I can change my own length at will too…ahaha yeah 🙏🙏
Ok
Merry and pippin were the tallest hobbits ever thanks to that special ent water
I know right, can't believe that was excluded from this stupidity
😏
2nd tallest Hobbits.
Billboes great great uncle was so large he could ride a real horse.
@@lichklng96 true, do they ever specify a height?
@@averageman4208 Believe he was said to be 4'5"
ungoliant is many times larger than Melkor, especially when she is enlarged when absorbing light from two magic trees, In addition, you should supplement with Thorondor and Ancalagon. Smaug compared to them is just a doll.
I’d wager Thorondor’s wingspan is a good deal larger than Smaug’s, but not double it’s size or anything
True, Ancalagon would be absolutely monstrous. It would be great to see him in perspective.
ungoliant was the size of everest at max height and weight
The tower of Isengard it's called Orthanc.
Is that where they are taking thehobbits to?
@@julienfourneau5558 To Isengard, to Isengard!!!
yes , the hobbits changed the direction of where barbol (the ent (walking tree)) was taking them , and went to isengard, to the ORTHANC tower, wich has a magicall spell thats why sauron was safe inside but his army defeated after the ents came
@@samalorn I remember when Gandalf confront Saruman, *He replay let me guess what u ask is it the key of Orthanch or perhaps key to the baradur & the road of 5 wizards*
@@julienfourneau5558 no that was where Saruman lives
This is possibly the worst and most inaccurate Middle Earth size comparison I've ever seen on CZcams.
There has be 0 research done here.
I think he underrated morgoth's size ( and many others along but that one bugged me the most)
@@Servant_of_Morgoth I agree, it depends on what he's referencing as well, books or movies, if it's the movies Smaug's size is way off, he is 130 meters long so that one annoys me the most.
All in all it is a very, very poor video.
@@joelhutchinson8048 il um ma
@@marcototobrocchi7689 I don't understand, sorry.
@@joelhutchinson8048 well he might be that long but this person might be referencing to Smaug's height, but I don't know, just wanted to help.
To think Tolkien came up with all this in a time of war and depression. His mind was beyond creativity
I (strongly) suspect he drew on the war as inspiration and iirc there’s evidence in his letters to support this eg the Dead Marshes is the dead zone between Allied and German trenches
He actually wrote the hobbit in 1930s and the the lotr in the 1950s
@@canyonrevia3718 he wrote lotr during the war as well
@@projectx5154 oh well now i know
He and Carl Jung are some of the greatest men ever produced.
I can't be the only one who read the books thinking this is just ridiculously wrong, right?
Edit : After watching things about the rings of power show.... This video isn't that bad. 😬
Ungoliant’s size is way off
We are in two ahahahahaha ok for the characters that we saw in the movies but for the others is really really ridicolous
@@Tirannogia he even told he knew Morgoth's height.. Which is so dumb cause no one knows how big he was
But if a simple elve wounded him and cut his foot off, this mean he was smaller than what this video states, maybe a bit bigger than Sauron but not a lot.
@@pepsithecarbo2213 For me, the question of the size of the various characters, creatures and entities of the Tolkien universe has always been very childish. All the more reason, Tolkien has often changed his mind about certain things, such as the number, power and nature of some beings like the Balrogs that initially shouldn't have been huge (dozens of them fall in Gondolin), only to become more and more powerful until arrive at the Balrog of the Lord of the Rings. It is difficult to estimate and what we see in the films is the result of a simple interpretation. The design of Balrog, Smaug and Olifanti is very nice but to believe that these dimensions are the "exact" ones is not correct (much less correct are the dimensions of the video above, very approximate and simple)
@@pepsithecarbo2213 Sauron was a shapeshifter, I assume Morgoth could do the same. The sizes of shapeshifters mean absolutely nothing.
Smaug was definitely not bigger than Ungoliant lol
Yup, you can see a drawing of Smaug in the Hobbit's book where Bilbo is near, which shows his length was a maximum of like.. 20 meters ? So in comparaison, even Ancalagon wasn't that big too, then, according to this..
Overall this video is pretty bad in accuracy tbh (and the Smaug they're showing is the one from the MOVIES, which they made far bigger so it could be more intimating lmfao)
@@pepsithecarbo2213 I'm pretty sure that the drawing of Smaug has been noted to be much smaller and the movie got the scaling correct.
@@unitedempire6273 haha no, sorry
@@unitedempire6273 the book is the officcial, the movie is just an adaptation
@@pepsithecarbo2213 well the movies would have been a complete failure if they used a 20 meters dragon
Ancalagon: hold my kilometres
Wait who’s ancalagon?
@@nuesschen4525 a huge dragon who lived during the 1st era who served Morgoth Bauglir aka Melkor
@@nuesschen4525 The biggest creature in middle earth. A huge, huge, huge Dragon.
@@nuesschen4525 The biggest dragon to ever live.
His size is very unclear, with some people putting him at 100m, and others at a few kilometers long.
@@nuesschen4525 The biggest Dragon ever lived in Middleearth. About 50times bigger than Smaug
Merry and Pippin were taller than Frodo. They were taller than most hobbits by the end of the quest.
the tallest in history in fact.
yeah cause they drank the water next to the entdraughts like even in the movies they show that
@@rlchamp7019 entdraughts! 😁
@@jkhristian9603 yes that's what I wondering thank you
@@THEJMAROCK91 Wrong, they never surpassed Bilbo's uncle, Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took who was tall enough to ride a full grown horse and was speculated to be 4 foot 5 inches tall as per JRR Tolkien himself.
Aragorn is as Tall as Legolas. And also Ungoliant was Much bigger than Smaug, MUCH bigger lol
she increased in size when she began to devour everything
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@@jesusisgod2953 wow who asked
@@jesusisgod2953 Liked his own comment... Great job. The Lord is slow-clapping for you....
Ungoliants size changed. Also as for Aragorn height it depends if you mean the books or films. Film Aragorn and pretty much ever other tall character like Legolas, Boromir, is like 4-7 inches shorter than they should be.
Aragorn being taller than the Nazgûl is so funny.
Why? Weren’t the Nazgul just men?
Yes,they were.I just thought seeing a ringwraith and Aragorn going face to face only to see that Aragorn is 4cm taller would be hilarious.ya know the ringwraith being all threatening and shit and Aragorn coming there looking like a NBA player…You gotta imagine sometimes man.
@@mairon4903 Gandalf is 200cm+, Aragorn too, Legolas 210cm+
@@7hbtzproductionstm581 I don’t think it’s in the book dude :/ it could be tho i’m not %100 sure
@@7hbtzproductionstm581 I think we only know Gandalf being 200+cm for sure
1.3k people have read the Silmarillion
Balrogs "demons with whips and claws"
Fellbeast "winged Nazgul"
... man... did you do your homework?
For real, pains my eyes
Not to mention that he called Morgoth an ainur when he's a Valar
@@Sumschmuck bro morgoth is valar
ainur is a term containing both maiar and valar.
Morgoth is an ainur, that's one of the few things this got right
Morgoth is an Ainur. The Valar are the Ainur who descended to Arda. Morgoth is a one of the Valar because he also descended to Arda.
Many of these heights are just wrong. The Balrog description in Moria is too vague to set a height. In Unfinished Tales I believe a Balrog's height is twice that of the elf fighting him. So maybe 4m, not 8.
Just wanted to tell you're absolutely right :)
And a lot of the heights in the movies are way exaggerated compared to the books..
@@pepsithecarbo2213 I loved the LotR movies, the Hobbit ones less so but overall Peter Jackson did great. I know the Balrog's way to big but I still loved it. Mumakils not so much, they should be elephants sized or a bit bigger, not bigger than most dinosaurs.
@@robinsteeden7466 Their height may not have been specified but the Mumakil were much bigger than elephants... Maybe not as big as the films but in the book the Rohirrim horses would not approach them so the Mordor army took defensive posistion close to them, as before that they were being ridden down by the Rohirrim. Sam quoted the rhyme about them which says "Big as a house" and later after seeing one he corrected it too "much bigger"
That was also what the lesser balrogs are described. Don’t think Durins bane was one of the lesser though.
Could be 5m at absolute maximum considering that the Noldor were meant to be exceptionally tall. 8m is probably too tall
The ring size is undefinable. It adapts to the wearer's hand.
Yeah, it’s depicted sometimes as 14 cm, sometime as 9cm
Ankalagon the Black got robbed of 1st place here
You start straight off with being wrong as you see the ring be various sizes throughout. It changes size to match the potential wearer, hence why it first perfectly on the fingers of Sauron, Ilsildur and Frodo, all of whom are very drastically different sizes, so can’t possibly have the size finger size.
Im sure he knows rhat, and you must be fun at parties 🥴
+1
@@jangolub8240 Or obviously not as putting something that can change sizes is pointless. You were obviously never invited to parties.
@@fwgking3428 you are obviously the host 🤣🤣
I never thought about this
Lol, not even mad about the wrong details. Why is there no side by side comparison? I wanna see a hobbit next to a dragon
Last time Gollum stood at 1.30 tall was in the Second Age.
Never knew Melkor was 23m tall....this is definitely a bit off scale to say the least.
And no Gorthmog and Ancalagon the Black?
He changed size as he changed bodies. In the form he was in the longest that seems overlarge since he was small enough to fight a duel with Fingolfin - you wouldn't have to fight a duel with someone less than 1/10 your size, you'd just drop kick them into the next county.
Also no Glaurung. 😒
"Winged Nazgul" for the fell beasts is not correct. The Nazgul were the Ringwraiths, not the name of their steeds.
Naz-gul means Ring-wraith in black speech
Yes I hate when people make this mistake.
The Nazgul and his mount are one
@@BigDictator5335 Metaphorically, sure. But that doesn't change the fact that the word Nazgul means "Ringwraith" and refers to the Black Riders themselves, not their steeds.
I hate "fellbeast" even more than that. It's not a name, it's just a description. People got the wrong idea because they sold the toys under that name, they're not even called that in the movies.
And i was expecting Thangorodrim, Taniquetil and Ancalagon The Black to be featured
Yeah but Ancalagon's size is not exactly known, only that he was very big so wouldn't be possible
Yeah same
@@ishambgong8342 I mean, almost none of those size are known anyway...
@@erberlon We can speculate, considering the descriptions. When Morgoth killed Fingolfin he"set his left foot upon his neck, and the weight of it was like a fallen hill" later on, when Ancalagon was killed, his fall destroyed the towers of Thangorodrim. When Ungoliant killed the two trees and drank their sap, she swelled to such a monstrous size, "even Morgoth became afraid" This video is therefore, among other things, weird to say that Ungoliant is just 3 meters bigger than Melkor.
@@Greendalewitch depends if it's Ungoliant before or after sucking the life out of the trees, but for Melkor, he, like the other ainurs and probably maia, most likely didn't have a definitive form in my opinion, and to be able to "set his left foot upon his neck" he can't be that big, otherwise the foot would never fit on the neck and he would just have crushed Fingolfin. Tolkien's works are written to be like legends, the narator is not entirely trustworthy and it is prone to lyric exagerations, I don't think Melkor was especially gigantic, it's more that his presence would dwarf everything around him, not unlike what Gandalf did when Bilbo threatened to keep the ring and wennt to grab his sword.
Saruman and Sauron shouldn’t worry about world domination. They should be hooping 🏀
Ents 6m ?
Melkor at 23m ?
Where does that come from?
Ents were tree-sized.
Melkor could change his appearance and size. When he descended into Arda he was "as a mountains that wades in the sea"
Sauron could also change his appearance
Yeah, Ungloiant was described as a "gigantic spider" and given at 26m. Thats like describing Cthulhu as a "giant squid" that is 100m tall.
The voices said so. ^^
Cush, I thought the exact same thing.
Where is ancalagon the black?
He's dead
So is Smaug
he would not fit on the screen
The nazgûl aren't ghosts. Balrogs weren't all the same size and are also maia. This is just a few of the description problems, but the whole thing is just totally wrong.
For those cases like Balrog i think must understand this is an avarage size, of couse they all don't have the same size but you got a dimension example for them
I thought only the chief Balrog for Melkor was a maiar?
they arr sometimes called wraths tho
@@oliverneudorf1250 It depends on when JRRT was writing about them. In the earliest conceptions of the mythos there were thousands of them and they weren't particularly powerful, but by the time he write the passage in LotR he had decided that only a few - no more than seven - had ever existed and they were all Maiar who had been corrupted into Melkor's service very early.
@@brucetucker4847 melkor was his original name. Fenelor, the maker of the silmarils, cursed him and he became morgoth
The one ring can change size so it can fit it's wearer or slip off.
Ungoliant was Not a simply Spider. It was the Avatar of Hunger, able to bind even Morgoth. Oh, and where are the Eagles or Stone Giants?
The stone giants were probably just trolls
@@quartzking3997 Trolls are not that big and didn't live so high in the Mountains. A Troll must eat and there lives nearly nothing.
@@christophlade7796 their sizes were not given in the book. Stone giants being literal walking mountains is a PJ invention
@@quartzking3997 Rigth, and i think that the SGs was'nt so gigantic like the First Hobbit Movie shows. In the Book Thorin gives a small clue about there sice when he says, that maybe grab the Party and kick them into the clouds like balls. It's not much, but i would say they are 30 - 50 feet high.
@@christophlade7796 a large troll would be able to kick a dwarf or a hobbit into the air. “Into the clouds” is just hyperbole
This video isn't correct I fought with ungoliant she's way too big to handle since when she sucked the two trees of valinor
Ungoliant was so big that when she attacked Melkor he was afraid. The Balrogs had to come rescue him.
@@landonjones258 i dont know why youre telling this to the man himself😂
When Melkor became Morgoth I’ll say he was about 25 feet in height. Large enough to cause giant holes in the ground with his hammer, but small enough where he could place his foot on Fingolfin’s neck.
And also that drawing sucks. I hate it. He has a hammer, not a scythe
Who is melkor, I cant remember it from the ring series?
@@BTN454 he is morgoth
@@BTN454 lol Melkor is Morgoth before his fall from Grace.
@@rossl5908 Melkor never referred to himself as Morgoth at any point. As far as he was concerned, he was always Melkor. Fëanor gave him the name Morgoth after he stole the silmarils and murdered his father, and that's what his enemies referred to him as ever since.
Morgoth (Melkor): oh so there's a cute little statue of me...
1:15 Actually the Great Goblin's height is about 2.7 meters
So it's totally agree, that these video is not that accurate.
Yeah I was thinking that the Great Goblin was far too big. 😂
Where is Ancalagon the Black?
Above the ruins of the thangorodrim 😂😂😂😂
I thought Gandalf was much taller than Legolas- *My whole life was a lie*
This video is a bit of a lie, ngl
@@SevenPr1me ^ this, not everything in this video is accurate, but I appreciate the baseline (however much work needs to go into correcting it)
I'm pretty sure Gandalf was as tall as an ordinary man nowadays, while Legolas and Aragorn stood taller than 6'0".
Fun to watch, as I’m constantly comparing the size of Elves vs. Trolls vs. Orcs, etc. (and picturing the CGI toil that went into keeping the proportions right).
This video is like a rough draft of a freshman's paper. I appreciate the effort to start it off, but major revisions must be made.
So you're telling me that Borad-dûr is 1421 meters long, 2 times bigger than the highest building in the world?
I know that it was so big that only the existence of the one ring kept it together. Otherwise it wouild have fallen to pieces.
@@Servant_of_Morgoth No, it was Sauron's will what keept Barad-dur together. The Ring(the other part of Sauron's himself) keeping the foundations of Barad-dur...not the tower itself. The tower was collapsed when Sauron lost his physical form and his willpower disappeared but the ring saved the foundations of it
@@_semih_ no foundations = no tower pal. Also it was not sauron's will but his dark power that kept it together. It is mentioned in 9ne of the books ( not the lord of the ring ones) that barad-dur was so tall that only dark magics were able to keep it standing
@@Servant_of_Morgoth That "Dark magic" works only when Sauron was around. In his absence, the dark spell will solve and disappear and it causes Barad-dur to fell into ruin due to its monstrous weight. But not the foundations. You need to destroy the ring to get rid of Barad-dur's foundations. My point was the tower always collapses when Sauron lose his physical body there is a direct connection between the dark lord and his mighty tower
@@_semih_ no there is not such connection when sauron returned to mordor in 2941 of the third age he didn't have a physical form and yet he was able to use his power to make his tower this tall. I agree with the part that the tower falls when he isn't around but the other thing about him having a connection to it, no
Damn reading the comments reminds me to NEVER mess with middle earth fans EVER! Love my people! JRR TOLKIEN FOREVER!
We do our homework and we pay attention to details.
I cant believe that all this beautiful lore could be destroyed by Amazons upcoming trash
This is BS. Gandalf is taller than Aragorn.
In the movies, maybe. But in the books, Aragorn is outright stated as being the tallest member of the fellowship.
@@seraphinaaizen6278 but it says that Gandalf is over 2m
@@lapizza7175 I don't think Gandalf's height is ever stated. He is outright described as being shorter than both Elrond and Glorfindel, but he also appears to be able to alter his height at will (the book frequently describes him as 'growing suddenly tall' - although this might not be literal and might just be putting across the idea that when he flexes his true power, the viewer perceives him as larger and more threatening. But given his appearance is not his true form, I imagine he can indeed alter it if he pleases).
Whatever height Gandalf is, however, he is still shorter than Aragorn. Because Aragorn is outright stated as being the tallest of the company during the trek through Moria.
@@seraphinaaizen6278 Yeah ok. But I would not be suprised if Gandlaf was taller than legolas
@@lapizza7175 No, Sauruman is 2 meters, Gandalf was like 1.82 meters or something
I can't believe how many people liked this! IS SOOO WRONG!
Thorin is 5'2 ft or 157 cm, though. That's what the actor said at least.
Luckily that doesn't really change the chart. I just though it might be interesting, because he's pretty damn large for a dwarf!
He might even be the largest dwarf we get to meet in Tolkien's works...
Smaug: My wings are hurricane
Ancagalon: 🦶
xD
Could've sworn gandalf was taller than legolas and aragorn..
Just as a technicality, Balrogs are also Maiar that once corrupted by Melkor (Morgoth) become known as Balrogath (or of Balrog-kind)
Looking at the height of Baradur I think Sauron is compensating for something.
I dunno why but I find that little pop-in of Sauron's eye on his tower in the end cute.
Ungoliant was a spider made out of pure darkness that was as big as a mountain and ate the world trees.
Despite all the inaccuracies in this video, I think the worst is calling the Nazgul "ghosts"...
Isn't that one of the few things in the video that's actually accurate, though? They're undead, spectral beings, and wraith is another word for ghost. I think it's fair game. =') There are far worse mistakes in this video.
@@mokarokas-1727 They do have material bodies, they're just invisible. They wear ordinary clothes (the cloaks that are visible), ride mortal horses, and use physical weapons.
@@brucetucker4847 - Eh, I still think it's fair game to call them ghosts considering everything else. Still literally a synonym of wraith anyway.
Smaug es más pequeño que Ungolianth, según las ilustraciones oficiales la cabeza del dragón era como el cuerpo de bilbo, y Ungolianth era una araña más grande que un balrog. Además, las bestias aladas no son de raza nazgul alados, se cree que son perversiones de otras razas
Tolkien dijo que Bilbo era "enormously too large" en la ilustración.
El video no incluye ancalagon tambien
The Spider in Lord of the Rings is not Ungoliant but her daughter "Shelob". Actually, I thought the Maiar was 10 feet Tall and the Valar (Ainur) was 40 feet tall. But the 5 wizards come to Arda with there height and powers severely reduced. Thus as old men.
Anchalon the Black: "Laughing from the distance".
A small correction: Radagast is a Maiar like Gandalf, Saruman and the Blue Wizards.
This is not the only problem…
Yeah. In the books he is able to change his appearance and height slightly. Sometimes he looks like an old man with a crooked back and sometimes he seems much taller and more intimidating, such as when he reveals his identity to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in Fangorn Forest.
and a furry...
ungoliant not only is naturally bigger than smaug, ishe grew in size every time it feasted, and from the lights of the trees she became probbably bigger than Ancalagon.
You forgot the smallest thing! The rotten tomatoes audience rating for “The Rings of Power”!
Lol, a noble effort but a fail nonetheless.
When are orcs one point 1.68, there are some hella big ones among them.
The Uruk-Hai were gigantic.
Ungoliant is waaaayyyy bigger than 26 meters my friend lmao
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They should’ve been put closer together so we could see the size difference better.
Aragorn, a direct descendent of Elendil the Tall, is supposed to be the tallest man of his age, possibly close to 7 feet.
Looking at his actor, who is 5'11 aka 180 cm, then Aragorn also shall be 5'11 lol. Sometimes fictions have wrong heights
You do realize morgoth is FAAAAAR bigger than that, right?!
What do you mean?
actually it may have be smaller, but there is no point in defining the height of a shapeshifter.
@@808reaper7 lmaoo
He's head was said to be above clouds. I read every single middle earth book.
@@tinalovre go around in the comment and tell people that
@@tinalovre Morgoth's height was variable. He was titanic when he first entered Middle-Earth, but he shrunk over time. He was small enough to fit in his underground realm of Angband without problem, a big place but certainly not above the clouds big. It would also have been rather hard for him to sneak around Valinor and later Middle-Earth if he could be seen against the horizon like a mountain.
Un error: Bilbo no era más alto que Frodo, y Pipin y Merry fueron los Hobbits más altos de toda la historia, superando incluso a Toro Bramador. Eso se dice explícitamente en los libros.
Si pero merry y pipin se hicieron altos por beber el agua en el bosque de fangorn, técnicamente no son altos por naturaleza, mientras que frodo, toro y Bilbo si lo eran
@@GrecoOrozcoRock. Léete la introducción de El Señor de los Anillos. A nadie le interesa si se hicieron altos por tal o cual cosa, el hecho es que lo fueron.
Tipico milenials q a fuerza le busca los tres pies al gato
@@estebanlopez853 a mi sí me interesa,cambia las cosas jaja
Oookay, I fell in love with Sauron 🤨 he is so tall ahahaha
Merry and Pipin are the tallest hobbits
I think that they werent the tallest hobbit before they drunk the water from the tree
Merry and Pippin got tall but they still never surpassed Bilbo's uncle, Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took.
Wasn’t Morgoth originally as tall as a mountain?
Melkor originally could take any size or form he wanted, including mountains. As he poured his evil into Arda he became fixed into his Dark Lord form.
I feel bad for the person that didn't realize the lore was so developed, was a fan of the movies, and went to all the work of of making this video.
Saruman is also Maiar, as is Sauron and every Balrog. Ungoliant is probably being confused with Shelob, here. Ungoliant was HUGE. The ringwraths are closer to being wights than ghosts, but they're not either.
"Wight" is just an archaic term for a man. "Barrow-wights" is just an old-fashioned way to say "Barrow-men," although it was animated corpses they were talking about.
Considering medieval-ish development at all, Numenorian building is astounding and Barad-dur is aswell beyond imagination even on our times.
utumno and angband was three times bigger than barad dur
Barad dur is actually quite large even by todays standards. Its actually more in league with futuristic buildings
Is it even true, though? Even in the films I don't think it was depicted as being the size of five Minas Tirith stacked on top of each other...
@@mokarokas-1727 I don't think we got a clear picture of its scale in the movies - we never saw anyone (other than Sauron's big flaming eye) in the same shot with it, for instance.
@@brucetucker4847 - True, but we do have landscape shots and a couple of close-ups where you can see orc activity, camps and torches etc. on it. I think the entire base structure could stack up to Minas Tirith or be slightly larger, but the tower does not extend a whole kilometer above that. lol
They were going by the movie 100% other than Aragorn legolas and Gandalf. I think they got pretty close to what the movie creatures would be. I only brought up the fellowship dudes cause in the movie Gandalf appears to be the tallest and Legolas and Aragon are the same. Gandalf is "actually" a bit under 6 ft but broad shouldered. Elves are said to be about 6'2 but I think legolas was regarded as a little bit of a standout as a prince. Same nobility thing with Aragorn cause he clocked in at about 6'6"/6'8" cause he is directly descendant of the old kings and was a bit of a lanky dude.
P.S. Melkor also seems off to me. He was definately big as hell, but not 23 meters haha He killed Fingolfin because his mace left a hole big enough for Fin to stumble back into. I'd say it would be a mace about the size of a man and he'd have to be about 25ish feet tall to weird it. Just a guess.
Yeah I was a bit confused when it showed Gandalf being just slightly taller than an orc. I thought Gandalf seemed pretty tall and he could use magic to appear a bit taller sometimes (when he intimidates Bilbo and his voice gets really deep). The book talks about Gandalf appearing stooped like an old man from far away but up close he stands straighter, taller and more noble.
You forgot Ancalagon the Black... although I doubt there'd be room enough for him on this scale. Big. Says it all, really.
Oh no, you're not doing my homeboy Radagast dirty, Radagast - the wizard, seriously? He's also an Ainur too
Oh this is just a size comparison of peter Jackson's lord of the rings. Otherwise Ancalagon the Black would have been the last item on the list
Ungoliath was bigger than dragon because she eats valinor trees
Thank you!
I swear to god, some of the scenes with Morgoth would look absolutely heavenly on screen…
Nice video!
No Angband or Thangorodrim? No Ancalagon the Black? Merry and Pippin drink Ent Draughts and actually end up being taller than any hobbit.
Also, Melkor in his initial state, was taller than mountains. He surpassed the clouds in height.
Also he changed size a bunch before getting burned with the Silmarils. When he was messing with the Noldor he blended in with them, therefore was as tall as them back then (then got in his Morgoth version to go steal said Silmarils & kill the Trees)
It's funny how author gives information about height up to the second decimal place
He doesn’t, this whole thing is wrong
In the book gandalf has height of 1.68m i.e 5'6''.
This really puts things in perspective.
It hurts me when people do size comparison videos like this. Someone is obviously not a designer.
>Saruman - Race: Ainur
Ok yes, that’s true, now-
>Sauron - Race: Ainur-Maiar
You fucking wot? Do you know Maiar are, OP? Why make this weird distinction?
Saruman and sauron are Both maiar.
@@istvanszatmari8803 I’m… well aware? Both are Maiar, which additionally means that both are Ainur. I was questioning OP’s decision to list Saruman is ‘just’ an Ainur, while Sauron was listed as an ‘Ainur-Maiar’.
Merry and Took also grew in height from their time spent with the ents; they became the tallest hobbits in all of history
Three words:Ancalagon the Black
Obviously this is a clickbait video, but for reference: Tolkien never established the actual sizes of most of the entries in this video. The only substantial description of Sauron (Post-Akallabêth) Tolkien gave us was that he was 'larger than a man, but not giant.' Balrogs are interesting, because descriptions of them vary wildly depending on what era of Tolkien's writings you read on them. Early Fall of Gondolin had Balrogs as essentially just stronger troops compared to orcs (think halo elites vs grunts). Later writings had them as far more limited in number, but more powerful overall (Not a single Balrog was technically slain in combat in the Silmarillion. Every balrog death had them fall from a significant height, or drown in a giant fountain, etc.) Melkor's height probably varied wildly between ages. In the years of the lamps and prior, it can be assumed he was titanic. He smashed mountains, spilled oceans, and carved deep pits in the earth. Yet significantly later (when he had lost a lost of his power) he was actually able to be wounded in battle with Fingolfin, a regular-sized elf. Not even going to get into Ungoliant and the dragons.
What about Mount Doom?👍🏻😀
Funny how Thorin is like 5’2 and in real life he’s like 6’3 lol
Dude not sure where you got the ideas for these sizes from but they are simply bogus.
Given that Elendil the Tall (a Numenorian) was around 2.4 metres tall (Tolkien says he was around 7 and half feet tall)... and that Aragorn was his direct bloodline male descendant, it would be quite reasonable to have Aragorn being around 6 and a half feet tall at least. Elves are generally thought to be taller than average men... putting them at around 2 metres at least. As for Sauron and Morgoth, they both did battle with Elves and Men (Beren cut the Silmaril from the crown that went around Morgoth's head), so making Morgoth the height of 22 metres is ludicrous.
But one also has to take into consideration the fact that Melkor could change his size and shape. This is how he was able to evade the Valar when fleeing from Valinor. When he first came to the world, he was described as “a mountain that wades in the sea.” So Melkor could have been as big as a mountain, but in the case of Bergen and Luthien, I would easily agree and say that Melkor wasn’t 22 meters tall.
@@hipson3452in times of beren and luthien melko couldn't change its shape
Well Gandalf isn't 1,80. Idk Sir Ian McKellen's height but Gandalf canonically 1,67~
He can change is height in is will
Balrogs are also Maiar who pledged heir allegiance to Morgoth in the very beginning, they ain't no demons.
Well Tolkien was a devout Catholic. There is only one God in Tolkiens literary world. The Valar andbtMaiar are generally considered angelic beings. (Yes, many of them have aspects similar to Greek and Norse gods.) and in Christianity demons are generally considered to be fallen angels. I would say that makes a Balrog pretty similar to a demon.
Ancalagon the black be like : Am I joke to you. 😈
What about the Stone Giants
Yeah some of these are wrong try research before tricking people who believe every video on youtube
It also lacks Ancalagon, which was supposed to be the largest living creature known of Arda, biggest dragon created by Melkor.
He has nothing to go on with that dragon. It's only mentioned once in writing, with zero size references that are of any value. And it's never made a screen appearance.
Wait... Melkor was 23 meters tall?! 😨 That's terrifying 😭
Shouldn't Ungoliant the spider that ate trees that had the sun and moon as fruits and grew to such a vast and twisted form that she terrified Morgoth be larger than that?
I mean I figured the size of a small mountain or at least significantly bigger than smaug. I mean she's a primordial monster from outside creation and treated like a lovecraftian old one im pretty sure she's supposed to be huge
Yea, but everything has its roots In Eru
Not, Ungoliant was one of the spirits corromped by Melkor in the beginning of the times, probably a Maia
Because everything has been created by Eru, the One God, and Eru can´t create anything bad
@@pabloortega2007 yes he can, he created melkor
@@duravakar2352 But Melkor originally wasn´t evil, he fallen, but originally was good
@@pabloortega2007 well yea, but eru created everything and the evil from melkor came from him aswell, everything outside the void came from him as well
The palantiri were different sizes, one of which was several metres in diameter. Gollum is not a hobbit and is not larger than the hobbits. Orcs varied in size from tiny goblins, not much larger than hobbits to huge Uruk-Hai which were the size of a large man. Pretty sure Shelob is larger than a cave troll. I'm sure if I looked into it, there would be more wrong.
Edit: The ring also changed its size to fit the bearer, and the Balrogs were also Maiar, so no need to classify them as "demons with whips and claws" (wtf?). Also Merry and Pippin drank Treebeard's entdraughts and became taller than Sam and Frodo (and perhaps every other hobbit).
it was speculated in book itself that Gollum was in fact hobbit, or of some closely related tribe (he's 500+ year old, so his people may no longer exist)
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 yes a related race, the "river folk" but not a hobbit
Gollum is an ancestor of the hobbit. There are technically 3 major "races" of protohobbits (or early Hobbits depending on how you look at it). The Shire, a part of the former separate kingdom of Arnor, became a mixing pot of all 3 types of races of hobbit so that they kind of blended together. Some families of Hobbits were easily identified as having traits of one of the original 3, but to many Hobbits, the differences became moot and they became one race: Hobbits of the Shire as we know them to be. Smeagol was a Stoor hobbit or river folk. Bilbo and Frodo (and to an extent many of the Took and Brandybucks) are descended from the Fallohide. Sam, while commonly thought to be a Harfoot hobbit (as they were the most common) actually has a mix of Stoor and Fallohide ancestry.
@@VeteranGaming_GamingUnited all very cool and correct but just to be clear, smeagol was not a hobbit. The river folk were a separate species, despite being quite similar in height, build etc.
@@HolyMith yes... as I stated he was an ancestor to the hobbit as we know them to be. A protohobbit if you will. Known as a Stoor Hobbit which essentially means River-Folk. It wasn't until they (all 3 "races" of protohobbits) moved to what would eventually become the Shire and intermixed that the actual hobbit came into being, or the Hobbits as we know them to be
Radagast was the same race as Gandalf, Saruman, Sauron and Balrog. They are all Maiar.
Didn't mention Ancalagon, the greatest dragon ever lived in Middle Earth.