The History Of Middle Earth Explained

J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy sagas The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were brought to life on the big screen by acclaimed director Peter Jackson, but even though those six movies gave moviegoers hours of the Middle-earth experience, they only cover a small portion of the fictional world's entire history.

Tolkien created languages, poems, songs, maps, and the history of kingdoms and their people in his books, basing them on medieval Anglo-Saxon history and presenting them as high fantasy.

If you want to take a deep dive into the history of this magical fictional world, here is a breakdown of the history of Middle-earth.

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Before Middle Earth | 0:00
Wars among the gods and the Years of the Lamps | 1:29
The Blessed Realm and the Years of the Trees | 2:37
The history of the elves and the dwarves | 3:26
The Silmarils and the dimming of Valinor | 4:33
The First Age of Middle-earth | 5:28
The Second Age of Middle-earth | 6:38
The downfall of Numenor and the end of the Second Age | 7:47
The Third Age of Middle-earth | 9:04
The War of the Ring | 10:12
The Fourth Age begins | 11:15

[Tibo-fs]

This is more interesting than history class

[deathdefying]

Hopefully no one gets the idea to remake these amazing films

[easiorigami]

Wow, there is still so much content for prequels and sequels. They are all so magical.

[tarinindell]

You didnt go deeply into it. But the five wizards, including Gandalf, are Maiar, just like Sauron, although less powerful.

[KaiserBoseM]

Also Sam eventually travels to Valinor as he was albeit for a short time, a ring bearer. There was going to be more stories beyond the fourth age. After Aragorn's death, his son would begin his reign and elements of black magic would begin to surface.

[firestorm]

Who has read the Silmarillion? I am stuck at page 20.

[jesusroks]

Weird... About few days ago I started reading lord of the rings.... As I've only seen the movies.

[Sennmut]

What is it with Elven architecture? Don't these people believe in walls?

[hiimollielol]

I'm really looking forward to the amazon show, cus theres kids who have probably never heard of LOTR and that's sad

[michellea]

Bruh I keep seeing Christmas ads and...It's STILL November

[KSCHREIN]

9:35 the blue wizards came in the 2nd age. The other three came on the scene in 1000 T.A.

[jpjp]

Wait! I don't remember this stuff in the hobbit or LOTR books.

[patriciaorellana]

omg, they were traveling companiooonnns..

[ArchYeomans]

Tolkiens Mythology intersects with the Real World but in a more interesting way.

[zachcallicutt]

His pronunciation is scattered and isn't consistent between names and words 🙄 you can't pronounce ainulindale with an A sound at the end the pronounce Aule with an UH sound right after

[dachuckbuck]

You forgot the shadow of Mordor games :(

[metal_helm]

this could have a been a great video but that background music just destroys any semblance of a fantasy world.

[fjl]

Why did Tolkien decide to make middle earth history so needlessly complicated? Dude was a true nerd. Lol

[frankbingham]

There had to be a first age of middle earth before the second and third ages of middle earth.

[daveconrad]

Holy sheesh this is ALL really happening