The History of Mordor & Mount Doom | Tolkien Explained
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- It is a land surrounded by three mountain ranges, guarding an unspeakable evil within. While it would not become the dwelling of the dark lord until the Second Age, it’s origin lies in a darkness long before.
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Even if I already know like 90% of most of the things you say in your videos, it’s always so nice to just see it compressed with sentences and pictures in the backround. You really make history books become real, thankyou
I feel the same way. I’ve always loved researching Tolkien’s legendarium and reading all the books on it, but sometimes it’s good to just sit back and listen and hear it all in one easily understood video.
I especially enjoyed the background music in the videos. It adds so much.
Exact same way with Star Wars Theory 😂😂
As someone who has absolutely no idea what he’s saying or what he’s talking about. For some reason I enjoy it too.
I honestly love getting a recap on some stuff I could have missed or forgotten! These videos are great, I agree
Wait, wait, wait, wait... it wasn't unlocked by a key-sword that erupted in Galadriel's face and covered Mordor in cheeto dust? *mind blown*
Bruh....
Hahahaha lol rings of power sucks ass
Definitely not gonna watch that trashfire, wtf
you beat me to this haha
No no your wrong some hobo put a sword in a mountain and created mount doom and Mordor obviously
This is why I loved the Shadow of Mordor game as you travel to more fertile parts of Mordor like Nurn.
same, whilst obviously not 100% lore accurate (and its not even close) i still LOVED the story and the fact that we got to feel what it was like travelling around mordor, whether or not its what tolkein intended im too uneducated to know, but it sure as hell was a unique and amazing experience nevertheless.
That game was great, it was cool seeing Celebrimbor and some unexplored stuff from the visuals we had at that time. Cant wait to see where RoP goes with the story.
huh, I never made it that far in that game but your comment makes me want to haha. I'm not into combat games and it got too hard for me, so I let it go :P
@@Kait2478 Yeah, I found it starts off really hard until you level up and get better equipment and abilities. By the end of the game battling the orc plebs is a breeze and actually enjoyable. Worth sticking with.
As a fan of the books and movies. As well as rpgs, should I try out shadows of Mordor?
Volcanic ash rendering the southern parts of Mordor fertile is a really nice, realistic detail that I appreciate very much. It shows in a very subtle way that the best efforts of the dark forces to destroy and corrupt have, in fact, turned into something that invigorates life. Conversely, the Elves' best efforts to preserve and sustain (the great rings of power) ultimately turned into a method of domination and corruption. Nothing is permanent and trying to keep it that way will only come to slap you in the face later on, that kinda thing?
To me it gives a whole new meaning to the words in the Silmarillion, "For he that attempteth this (changing the foundational music of the world) shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
The elves didn't create the rings for their own good purposes, but were hoodwinked by a nice guy called "The Lord of Gifts" . Once they suspected his treachery, they created 3 beautiful secret rings without him, as he snuck away to make a boring secret ring of evil, then came back to steal the other 19 (getting only the 16 he already corrupted) .
I remember when I first saw a map of Mordor I was intensely interested in the great lake of Nurnen and the lands around it after only seeing the ash lands to the NW. Never knew the lake was salt water though!
The International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn's moon Titan after mountains in J.R.R. Tolkien's work. In 2012, they named a Titanian mountain "Doom Mons" after Mount Doom.
In the real world, the Italian volcano Stromboli was the inspiration for Mount Doom.
The Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth is named after the Sindarin translation for Mount Doom.
That’s pretty damn awesome
Would have been even cooler if they named the mountain of Titan Orodruin Mons though. It has a certain oomph to it (as one would expect from a language expert).
They also named a nebula after Sauron
🤘
There's also a plethora of black metal bands inspired by Tolkien.
Tolkien: Creates an entire language and names characters and places with lyrical and magical names.
Also Tolkien: names the big, bad volcano "Mount Doom".
It also has an Sindarin name tho and probhably one in Quenya and even the Black tongue
Thats kinda the point, how cultures see the world and their names for it. Men only know it as a sign of evilm Mt Doom. Same with how the Rohirram call Lorien the Elfwood because they see Elves as strange and dangerous.
😂 though Mount Doom comes from Amon Amarth which means hill/mountain of fate/doom so its not quite as goofy as when first seen.
Orodruin....
@@Don9872 He thought he was flexing but merely showed himself to be the dollard he truly is.
Good timing!
Exactly
I was just about to say this. Nerd of the rings is on fire!! ❤️🔥
*coughs*thats what she said*coughs*
Frodo and Sam are on their way to mount doom to destroy the ring when they reach the black gate, only to find that it’s closed.
And Frodo says “damn I wish there were mordors”
Get out. And take your like with you.
Unless you're a dad, that's illegal
Nice
Best worst LoTR dad joke ever...😑👾
Ha haaa!
Thank you for continuing making these videos based on ACTUAL Tolkien lore. Never change and never stop doing what you are doing.
Impeccable timing. And oh, not forgetting how great the narration is!
better than ep6.
For a place called Mordor it had surprisingly few doors!!
It makes up for that by having an absolutely massive door
@@Spiderfisch One door to rule them all
@@MemphiStig One door to find them
@@MemphiStig this door shall not pass!!
@@Prometeu21 one door to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
It's really cool how the ring technically killed Sauron. Frodo failed to resist it, Gollum fought Frodo to take it back, and in that struggle it fell into the only place it could be destroyed.
Well technically his spirit, while withered to a wisp, still existed. Only Eru could actually extinguish Sauron.
Its a great representation of the inner struggles we all face
Sauron wasn't fully killed.
@@nathanscovell2895 how come ?
@@budi22 he was banished into the immortal prison where Morgoth was so basically both od them had to dwell in this eternity Prison
You mean Mount Doom wasn't formed by unlocking an Indiana Jones secret door with a sword hilt, unleashing a river into underground lava? lol
As cheesy as it may sound, I always believed that after Sauron’s demise, all or most of Mordor, due to the now-ended constant volcanic activity of the land and the dispelling of the evil presence that possibly polluted the land, would eventually become a vast land of lush green and so many flowers, something utterly beautiful and breathtaking despite its fell past. Scientifically, anyway, it could be possible.
I guess so. Is Volcanic earth meant to be very fertile?
@@michaelblower7363 It actually is. It makes for very fertile land. I’m pretty sure volcanic activity has something to do with why Hawaii, for example, is so beautiful.
@@teleportedbreadfor3days Hmm interesting. :) I guess it would explain the lush greenery.
I guess that would be a nice nod to a possible Mordor turning into a paradise land! ^_^
@@Florence9a9machine It is, isn’t it
As long as there are no evil creatures who deliberately create wasteland around themselves, lands may heal.
Wonderful maps n depictions by artists, your informative dialogue and cadences are highly commendable . Thanks
Always love these, I wonder what mordor ended up being like in the 4th age. I enjoy the videos a lot, big fan.
Yes. The details about Aragorn's freeing of the slaves in southern Mordor was news to me.
Agreed, Eternal Darkness. The guy making this series is knowledgeable and entertaining. There is MUCH more to Tolkien's lore than The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien was both master and Father of high fantasy.
@@sean9448 indeed he was, he also formed part of my childhood
It became south London.
@@NassRedjem 🤣
Great job once again. I love all the history of the different places in Mordor. Wow, Thanks again.
I would love it if you made a video dedicated to the petty dwarves. Their history, as well as the story of Mim and his sons!
Everytime i see your videos I want to play shadow of war. Such a great game, whatever they changing lore, the atmosphere was like in lotr. And sauron looked so badass.
Far better than the RoP garbage. He is actually a badass in the game, so is Celebrimbor. To bad video game writers are better than what Amazon can come up with for $60mil an episode.
Well done as always. Thank you
You forgot to mention that Mordor was once underwater, as its location is towards the Northern end of where the Inland Sea of Helcar once lay. Indeed, I think the Sea of Rhun might be all that is left of that once vast body of water.
This. And also there was located Cuiviénen, whence the Elves first awoke.
So Mount Doom is once an underwater volcano during the First Age huh.
Looking at some map from that era. I can see that Mordor or a portion of it would be underwater.
After the War of Wrath, the world was reshaped with some areas from geological perspective dramatically shifted in a single day. The once great inland sea of Helcar was reduced to a large open plain with the Sea of Nurn and Rhun being the remnant of it.
@@rogueascendant6611 Not just Mount Doom, but The Ash Mountains (Mordor's Northern Border), that now separate these two seas (And any rivers that flow into them) from each other.
I always envisioned that Mordor was a basin, which is why it has three near perfectly shaped mountain ranges around it. It's very, very low as a result of it once being Helcar. The War of Wrath caused it to drain out eastward, and in time (or through unnatural means) the mountains that formed the rim were raised up even higher.
I read that recently too, but that makes the fact that the land and the mountain were claimed by Morgoth in the First Age really disjointed.
Also after Morgoth’s defeat at Thangorodrim, Sauron fled towards Mordor; would it have still been underwater at this point? If it was, how would he have known to flee to a land to reside that wasn’t there yet?
The only thing I can think of that makes it both make sense is that Mordor wasn’t fully underwater, but the Sea of Helcar stretched from Cuivienen to the eastern fringes of Mordor’s lands, enough for Mount Doom to essentially be across from Cuivenen.
Thank you for this!! I know I asked a couple times for a video on Mordor and I greatly enjoyed this! Cheers and thanks for educating us!
Wow it’s almost like Mordor already has a history and doesn’t need to be rewritten by a large corporation. 🧐🧐🧐
Another No-Life Troll crying. Go fig.
Imagine if Tolkien had written that a barkeep is responsible for the eruption of Orodruin in the Second Age....
Incredible stuff I really enjoyed this. I would actually dig if there was a quiz at the end reviewing the main points.
Excellent full background. I read The Hobbit in the mid 70s. Time to delve in again. Thanks for the enthusiastic spark.
Thank you so much for all the lore. I love your channel. Keep it up
The artwork in this video is super. Love this channel.
I can’t help but to wonder that J. R. R. Tolkien suffered from arachnophobia when he created these giant spiders, Shelob and Ungoliant as villains in Arda. I read somewhere that Tolkien was once stung by a tarantula as a child, but that memory faded, and he even saved spiders in his bathtub. But his children did not like spiders, and his son Michael particularly hated them, and in so using them in The Hobbit, the use of spiders helped to frighten him.
Another fantastic video. The freeing of the slaves, and their control of the fertile parts of Mordor, is something I'd never heard of until watching this. Tolkien lore is so deep, it's incredible.
Great video. Thank you for explaining Mordor in depth!
This was great! Really enjoyed the history 😊
Don't you just love that galadriel was the cause of the creation of mount doom in Rings of Power?
Thank you I’ve been waiting for a video on Mordor
Hats off to you, brother. You're trying really hard to support Amazon's show. I hope you're properly compensated.
Wow, the music, editing and narration at the end of this video were intense
As always, amazing! Thank you :)
Wow, you're doing a really great job!
We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love from Sri Lankan fan of you from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴.
I never realized Sauron returned to Mordor in the Third Age during the Disco Era
I agree as well it is pleasant to hear you speak of the history and tales of middle-earth. I for one would like to hear a reading of lords the rings by u or if not someone who enjoys the story and who speaks and reads with as much emotion as u do.😄😄
Good timing! Shadow of Mordor is 75% off on steam right now and Im replaying it, so this is really warm and fuzzy for me.
Now now!! We all know that the First Orc drained all the water from Nurn into the mountain to create Mount Doom! Galadriel was there to witness it. Amazon said so!
🤣🤣
Galadriel was then killed by a pyroclastic flow. The End.
Mordor, the land where all shadows lie.. Mount Doom the only place to end Saurons life. Great video
The land were all shadows lie; are you sure? I didn't see a single battlecrab...
Missed the captions! They're really helpful when I'm in loud environments (on top of the obvious accessibility merits!)
Very informative & interesting.
wait... so you're saying, Mount Doom was'nt created by a broken Morgal blade which functioned as a key to unlock a weird mechanism to flood a lava pool, which created steam and then somehow caused the volcano to activate and explode?
Good timing Matt. I always love your content
I was thinking the same thing!
😎yesss...excellent!😏
Such a scary place!
I love it!
This was awesome! I always wanted to know how Saron fed all his forces! Maybe a video on that!
Im loving relational content drops. Super smart. Keep it up, man.
At first I was like, nah this relational content is giving authenticity to the amazon show where it deserves none. But then I thought, wait this is important because he actually tells the correct lore and if we don’t promote the correct lore it is in danger of being muddied up by casuals. He’s doing important work, just wish he would be more dismissive of that awful show. It’s got comic book movie vibes. Sick of everything being dumbed down by low iq charlatans masquerading as creatives in the industry these days. We must demand better or we will keep getting this slop.
@@tonalambiguity3345 I get it. Its demoralizing, all the anticipation and this is what we get..some dog food.
I just found this channel last night and my life has greatly improved since! 👍
Matt thanks once again for another excellent lore video. You do a wonderful job. You're an artist in your own way.
Great as always
GG's
your videos are amazing like always
Those three mountain ranges always made Mordor look like a fortress to me. Did Melkor "build" Mordor as a "natural" fortress or did the evil lords just recognize these features as useful for a base?
I have a personal and completely unverified theory that most of Mordor is mountains and desert, like Nevada. Bilbo and Frodo know enough about its bordering mountain ranges to draw the map we see from the books they wrote (in universe) but the interior is also mostly mountains with valley areas in between. There is flat farmland in Nurn of course, maybe in valleys or maybe all in one big plain, hut the point is that there are a lot more mountains and valleys than we see on the map, maybe because people from the west don't like going there to explore it.
Just started a new play through of Shadow of Mordor, couldn’t have timed it better!
Great channel 💗🙌🏼
Been binge watching all videos related to the lore of Middle Earth. only yours make me learn so many things with the infographics included in the video makes me fully understand the history of tolkien works. cheers and keep it up.
great!
thanks
Hello , i wanted to ask if you can make a video about Beleg the archer 🏹 one of my favourite characters who had a tragic death. Btw great channel , keep up the good work
Great to see Mount Doom before the evil in The Rings of Power.
Morgoth escapes from the void & becomes executive producer of Rings of Power...
The Rings of Power TV: truly the darkest evil in Middle-Earth.
I feel like i'm watching and taking in a great documentary one chapter at a time. Goodness!
So the creation shown in "Rings of Power" isn't true to Tolkien's vision.
Nah. Amazon's works are merely inspired by JRR Tolkien's writings, and that's it. 3000+ years of the Second Age of Middle Earth compressed into 5 years was one of the first things Amazon announced, so we've known for a while it would not be a part of lore or any form of canon. Keep in mind that Jackson's movies aren't canon either, only inspired works of JRR Tolkien's original writings.
Maybe the volcano was dormant for along time seeing how old the land is? And Sauron knew the volcano needed some water so he could use it later. The dude is a blacksmith so this wouldnt be out of his element.
@@Senzuebean Nah don't defend Amazon like that
@@Solarnova Jackson's films are WAY more accurate than ROP. One takes a few liberties, the other bares no recognition beyond the names of a few characters and locations.
@@jacobrogers2906 bullshit, both PJ and Amazon is making fanfiction. I personally enjoy both. but honestly: none of them is worse or better when it comes to making material true to the lore. One exception: The Hobbit. that shitshow was just.... yeah, bad, really bad... It was like they just threw the book out the window and just said: Lets just wing this one! And then go on making the biggest action Jackson shitshow ever made, literally saying fuc# you! to everything Tolkien ever wrote.
This is really one of the best channel when it comes narrating the great lore of Tolkien books.
I have come upon before but none can compared to yours.
You have the right amount of music and voice to capitulate the exciting immersive venture to the world beyond.
Keep up the good work and hopes for more!
Please do a video about the 12 houses of Gondolin!
Thank you
Keep up the good content!
I love all the artwork you show in the video. I wish I had that talent.
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Always love your videos; I don’t know if anyone has asked this question yet but is there extensive Lore on Narvi, The Dwarf Smith Friend of Celebrimbor? If so, would you please consider making a video with more details? Thank you for doing what you do, keep up the good work!
I watched all the movies recently, and have started the books. Your videos have been invaluable in my attempts to take a crash course on this world's history in order to be as up to speed as I can for the new Rings of Power series. Thanks so much for all you do.
Good videos and well presented keep it up
0:40 So Mordor wasn't created because some old guy put a sword into a key hole and water gushed out into lava?
Nice, just finished episode 6 of Rings of Power
This is now my fav Lord of the rings channel
I always wondered, what happened to all the orcs and the rest of the army that didn’t die during the last battle. I know Aragorn forgave the Easternlings and the Hadurdin (idk how to say their name or remember it really lol) but what happened to the orcs? Did any of them survive?
Perfect video especially what unfolded in episode 6 rings of power
You're killing it
Sauron: Ok, so how was this land created?
Witch King: old man who was a village bartender bigot, stole a fire sword and made the volcano erupt because he wanted to be right...
Sauron: ...Yeah... I'm just gonna take those scrolls and make something better...
Witch King: DAMN RIGHT
Great Video and really interesting! :)
wait.. it wasn't called the Southlands and Mt Doom didn't have an on switch?
Cry more please as it's hilariously pathetic.
Shhh.. dont tell Amazon and its 12 year old fan fiction writers
@@lulululu8045 Another No-Life Troll crying. Typical.
Only in this series.
The Southlands... lol. I just imagine that is what the people actually living there would have called it, but when Galadriel & others call it the Southlands, I just roll my eyes. It was never called that. What was so wrong about calling it Nurnen, Nurn, Helcar, or just plain old Lands of Mordor. Oh right, Amazon never had the rights to anything outside of the Appendices to the Lord of the Rings.
Awesome video!
should make 3 movies about this ..............
Thanks for the quality content!
@nerdoftherings where can I find the artwork from 08:15 ? Absolutely love it
So fun!
wanna get absolutely sloshed? watch this (awesome) channel and drink every time he says the phrase "in an effort".
but foreal tho, this channel rocks socks. one of the faves
I noticed you ended this video with the dark foreboding music for this one.
Thanks
say what you want about Sauron. He was an early proponent of regenerative organic nonGMO farming.
Curious which tower rings of powers episode with the magic sword dam buster thing was put in by waldreg the clown lol
Do you have an music list for this clip? And thank you for this content!
Yes Finally
Sauron was the biggest badass of the series
It was a nice video in terms of timing and dedicating to the meaning and importance of the series episode. Sammath Naur could also be mentioned briefly.
Love your videos!