OLDEST CHARACTER IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS? #lotr #tolkien #lordoftherings

[InkandFantasy]

Tom Bombadil is the oldest outside of the confirmed ainur characters and Eru, so consider this as "who's the oldest except for them"!!

[AlanOLeary]

" only 8 thousand years old " 😂

[jackroche]

This video didn't include the portion about valian years. The first 4ish thousand years in Middle-earth had a different time scale than solar years since the sun and moon didn't exist. 1 valian year is equal to 9.5 of our solar years. So galadriel is much older than 8000 years old.

[tomservo]

Don't know how Galadriel does it. She doesn't look a day over 6, 500 I want to know what her beauty secret is.

[jcdenton]

This hits hard since elves are immortal, those killed in battle are such tragedies.

[KingOfStopMotion]

Cirdan was way older, as he was one of the first elves to ever be made. But I am glad you mentioned him. Although you could pose Tom Bombadil as we literally don't understand who or what he is...but is discribed as as old as the world itself

[b.a.krokodil]

Id actually say Treebeard, he was created by Yavanna around the time of the first elves, but we have no idea if any of these oldest elves survived till Lord of the Rings. Galadriel was one of the few left that had seen the Trees, Cirdan was a bit older, true. Tom Bombadil is a wild guess with many believing him to be Eru or JRRT insert, but since his entire character is unclear, I’d say Treebeard.

[spencernold]

I disagree, Eru Iluvatar is the oldest CHARACTER, but if we aren’t counting the literal creator, Tom Bombadil is the oldest

[GarlicKnot]

I’d say given the music of the ainur created the world, I reckon Tom was a creation of Eru’s response to Melkor’s discords; I’d say ungoliant and the nameless things were creations of melkor’s discords.

[d_no_allyn_]

If Gandolf actually lived 300 lives of men, like he says in the movie, even if humans only lived to 70. That's still 21k years lol. Insane.

[storyofthegrim]

I love how Gandalf is older than the elves 😂

[sarahgould]

Thing is, we don't know that Imin is actually still alive, since he was not only the first Elf, but also the first leader of the group of Elves eventually known as the Vanyar. He was described as ambitious enough to form a strategy to lead the largest group of Elves, which ironically caused him to have by far the smallest group. However, when Ingwe and his fellow ambassadors returned from Valinor, the soon-to-be-Vanyar fairly immediately recognized him as their new king, with no mention of Imin at all, much less his reaction to being supplanted. We also know that Ingwe and Imin were not the same person, because Tolkien confirmed that the initial ambassadors to Valinor were not of the first generation to awake. So it is possible that Imin was still alive as just one more Vanya enjoying Valinor, but it's equally possible that his search for another group of Elves to awaken caused him to be one of the Elves who wandered off and were taken by Melkor or killed by Melkor's creatures before Orome found them.

[tymcifidelec]

The shipwright was also one of the first awoken and created by Eru himself

[superslayerguy]

What about Tom Bombadil isn't he as old as the world itself

[themasterofmiddle-earth]

I love how he says, "Only 8, 000 years old" XD

[SkotiM]

Gandalf is a Maiar, he existed before the elves were awoken.

[echoshatter]

I want to point out - the dwarves were created and given life before the Elves, but Eru had them sleep underground until the elves came about.

So technically, of the three main species (elves, dwarves, humans), dwarves inch out the elves on a technicality.

[Makkaru]

The oldest elves are Tata&Tatyë, Enel&Enelyë, Imin&Iminyë. Their children and or grandchildren are Elwë, Ingwë and Finwë.

[charlesmiller]

According to Tolkien and Gandalf in the books, Treebeard is the oldest living thing created in Middle Earth that still lives. Gandalf the White tells this to the three hunters after he meets them in Fangorn.

[RillE]

To be fair, we don't know if Cirdan isn't one of the 144 first elves. He's minimum 11, 008 years old, the first 144 are roughly 11, 500 years old. Cool video!