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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • It has been ages since I watched that. I don’t think I appreciated it as much when I was younger since I was more familiar with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Rankin Bass cartoons. But, this just looks so unique and interesting that I should really re-watch it as an adult to see what it’s like. The great thing about Tolkien’s work is the wide variety of artistic interpretations. I love them all.

    Thanks for posting!




  • Thanks! It was a fun project. Some day I hope to go back to it and add more detail. Maybe change the timing on the early parts so that there isn’t as much dead time while Boromir is the only one travelling. I’m always working on something, so it may be a while. I never did get around to adding The Fox, which was always kind of a joke, but I felt it needed to be in there. I also just realized I never put Goldberry in there either, which is a shame. There’s always more to do.

    I was listening to the Fellowship of the Ring again and realized that in Lorien they mention that orcs travelled up to Moria days earlier, so the orcs weren’t just already in Moria, they travelled there, which means I should add them to the video.

    The author of the atlas seems to have a background in map making because she also made a map book for Forgotten Realms that I have. I was organizing things and was thinking about what books to get rid of when I recognized the author’s name and decided to keep it for that reason.

























  • Yep, that’s from the books. The Witch King wore one of the 9 rings made for mortal men. After some time this caused them to fade and become permanently invisible and entirely under the control of Sauron.

    If Bilbo had continued wearing the ring, the same would have happened to him eventually. Although, given that Gollum had it for hundreds of years, it’s possible the process just takes a very long time for hobbits.

    Actually, it’s notable that wearing the ring made Bilbo invisible, including his clothes, whereas the Nazgul were invisible, but not their clothes. So, I guess that probably means that they had faded to permanent invisibility, but weren’t actually wearing the rings anymore.