Complete Lord of the Rings Timeline Explained

The Lord Of The Rings is one of the most expansive and detailed fantasy worlds ever created. It spans tens of thousands of years and literally hundreds of characters. Let's break down the entire Lord of The Rings timeline in one concise but informative video.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Sauron’s defeat
2:58 Gollum
4:12 The Shire
5:14 The journey
7:51 The Two Towers
9:54 Return of the King
11:59 Celebrations
12:39 Rings of power

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Written by Chris Goodmakers
Narrated by John Aljets
Edited by Guillermo A.

[ScreenRant]

Which movie from this epic story did you find the most interesting?

[nullentry]

Sauron did not create or touch the three Elven Rings of power. Though they were still ultimately connected to the One Ring, Sauron could not corrupt the Elven ring bearers. Sauron had a hand in the seven Dwarven Rings and the nine Human Rings, which is why all of the Dwarf lords and Human kings were corrupted and brought their realms to ruin using those rings of power.

I want to see those stories. I want to see Sauron corrupting Dwarves and Men with those rings and the downfall of their realms. Now that would be an amazing series. Sauron would be a secondary character, like a demon providing 'needful things' then we get to see how those powers ruin nations.

[billielachatte]

The Lord of The Rings saga is just like any of my childhood stories when I played with my toys; good vs evil, good prevails. The evil lord is hungry for ultimate power and world domination, a fellowship of unlikely toy characters I mean friends band together and saves the world by defeating The Ultimate Evil... Difference is I never wrote any of them and would just end abruptly when my mom calls me for dinner.

[endorbr]

Yeah, the timeline starts with The Hobbit and goes through Return of the King.

[BloxianCode]

A few years ago in highschool we had bookpresentations in my class. One person decided to summarise The Lord of the Rings. Our bookpresentation must highly take 15 minutes. That person talked a whole hour!!

[irian]

What's up with the sound? Sounds so "tinny"?

[Maedhros]

Celebrimbor is mentioned in the Silmarillion in the chapter "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age". He was not invented in Shadow of Mordor.

[JadianRadiator]

10:28
"Ghost servants" actually.
And the sword technically wasn't recycled.
"Recycled" implies reconstruction into something different.
It was only reconstructed back into its repaired state from before it broke.

[mrfake]

The sheer audacity for them to even make a video like this. As far as I'm concerned, the LoTR Timeline starts from The Fellowship.

[JadianRadiator]

12:55
I hope one of the franchises cinematic entries mentions how Middle Earth and its life wouldn't exist without Sauron.
The other ethereal entities only made Middle Earth and the life in it because Sauron showed them what it would look like if they did.
... assuming the lore video I learned this from was correct.

[ancientphilosopher]

Where in the timeline does the part about Harry Potter occur? Thanks in advance!!

[professorkraft]

Vader did throw the emperor into the lava at the end of return of the Jedi, didn't he?

[JessieTrainorLVegas]

I've climbed Mt Doom (Mount Ngauruhoe).
If you ever decide to go, it's called "Tongariro Alpine Crossing" and is roughly 6-9-hour hike (19.4km).
Tough fun hike, green & blue lakes, geysers, waterfall/spring that you can drink from. It can be very cold at the top even on the sunniest day.
Best time to go is summer between Dec-February.

[hectorlopez]

Man shadow of mordor/war would be great movies.

[B.D.F.]

Why is the narrator’s audio so compressed and processed? Am I listening to a 32 kbps podcast turned into a YouTube video?

[illuminatipoodle]

I love how he talks about the speech but does not show it or say it

[jamm_]

Sorry guys, I’ll try to fine a better one this doesn’t explain things well, but it gets the gist across if you’re new..

[StevenGravett]

I'm glad i didn't start watching until this month. And watched them in order from the hobbit. Incredible films

[vanjradius]

Rings of power isn't made by people that appreciate Tolkiens works and most of the people making it didn't even read the books and it's very non lore actuate. there goal was to make "the novel Tolkien never wrote". So it shouldn't even be on this list.

[elmo]

Finally! It is a complex story, after all.