The History of Erebor, The Lonely Mountain - Region Spotlight

Erebor, the Lonely Mountain is a great home of the Dwarves in Middle-earth, known for being taken by the dragon Smaug. This video covers the mountain’s history! Thank you all so much for watching, let me know your thoughts about Erebor in the comments below! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!

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[theexterminator]

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men they looked up with faces pale;
The dragon’s ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

[lukeskywalkerthend]

Ya know, despite the many quarrels I have with The Hobbit films, I do love its portrayal of the (2nd) great kingdom of Durins Folk. It honestly looked quite beautiful and is definitely one place I would love to visit (though to be fair I would visit everywhere in Middle-Earth hahaha). And it's history is definitely really facinating to study imo!!! :)

[parkerparrish]

Erebor is a very fascinating place to learn about, I’m glad I’ve learn so much from this amazing video. 👍🏻🙏🏻

[T_Senju]

As always, another great video :) Keep up the great work! Love from New Zealand.

[thevoidlookspretty]

Dwarves to Sauron’s messenger: We’ll think about it.
Dwarves when the messenger is out of earshot: PREPARE FOR WAR!

[Americandragonrider.]

I love Erebor.
If I lived in Middle Earth, I would live in Erebor.
It is the absolute most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.

[AmbientWorlds]

Glad we could collaborate on this video! Thanks so much MotW!

[ivanvukasovic]

Men of the West, Ambient Worlds and Clamavi de Profundis coming together? Personally, this is the greatest collaboration ever since The Last Alliance of Men and Elves lmao. Love all three of these channels, so happy there's a communication between you guys, I'm sure you'll give us even more amazing content because of it. Cheers and thank you for all the effort, it's highly appreciated.

[andybettencourt]

Man, these videos are the reason why I have grown to love the LOTR universe. Keep up the amazing work my dude :).

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[thebrotherskrynn]

The perfect region spotlight video, thanks for directing me here! Gonna listen to this at least three more times before the recording; once whilst writing, second time to help inform during the video and the third time for fun.... aw who am I kidding, going to be watching and re-watching this over and over again because of how well-put together and great this magnificent lore video is! Great job good sir!

[syanide]

Man the lotr videos about the end times of dwarves and elves always makes me depressed...Lotr is just amazing and this channel is always amazing...

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[Ivan_Glamdryng]

Well done, as usual. Always a great and informative video. Thank you!

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[treynienhuser]

I knew you listened to Clamavi de Profundis! Great video by the way Yoystan.

[darth]

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