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  • Proud to be a Tolkienist.....

  • This would be biblical if spoken to a primitive mind.

  • @aznflipgrl Because God caused the Big Bang, duh.

  • @CanadaGEM You can't prove atheism, any more than you can prove belief.

  • @wrigersc He's in another dimension, but he intervenes for Evil every day.

  • @SeaSerpent50 Maybe this is Tolkien's way of saying all religion and legend comes from a Common Source.

  • @SeaSerpent50 Mostly on the Fall of Lucifer, with an assist from the Legend of Loki. But all religion (including Christianity) comes from the same prehistoric stories, so it's all the same thing, ultimately.

  • Clearly Melkor was Lucifer. I know how he became evil. He went into the Void and found all the bad ideas that Iluvatar had rejected and thrown out. Desperate to become more powerful, Melkor devoured all these, not knowing they were poison. He became more powerful, but the nightmares of Iluvatar which he ate ruined and corrupted him for the rest of eternity. Trying to make sense of the nonsense of Iluvatar's mistakes, he organized the System of Evil.

  • Is it an Andy Mckee Song?

  • You are so sad :) xxx

  • andy mckee :D

  • alot of the music is Michael Hedges - great stuff

  • As a Tolkein reader and fan, I really enjoyed this. Thanks very much!

  • Nice video!

    I was a bit surprised by your choice of music, but then I thought that there is no music anyway, that would fit into Tolkien's description.....So I think it doesn't matter which music you take, as long as it displays the story :-)

  • @Zeobit Probably some kind of Classical music would be best.

  • mostly of the pictures are real nebula's in space

  • Lotr is a separate world from the cruelty of the world...

  • @xxAtlantianKnightxx It was a separate dimension of our world. After the Fall of Numinor (Atlantis), Iluvatar made it our world.

  • yEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

    hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Go to yahoo and type in Ainulindale. There is a picture of Melkor banging on drums...GO CHECK IT OUT!

  • He neded metal. wtf is this redneck shit

  • and i bet it was metal

  • The big sing.

  • very good attempt. Better than some of these people who have done nothing!

  • The book says they sang some as on pipes and lutes, and vials. So.........this is why it would be so hard to put this in cinema. It was a great music. Never does the Silmarillion say thaey were accapla, pure vocals!

  • beautiful!!! The Silmarilion is my bible (without offending)and Tulkas is my favorite Valar

  • no insult, but get it together man, the vallequenta is based on the Christian faith, melkor is Tolkien equivalent of lucifer/Satan/devil. How he practically became a fallen angel and the prime opposite of good?

  • This is close to the truth. His faith was a guiding line he used to incorporate many different things and ancient myths and traditions.

  • Hmm you have to say it more in "Tolkien style" in stead of a documentary... Oh and you say Ilúvatar wrong, it's elvish not english...

  • This music is wrong. The music, as I always thought it was, was the sounds of nature in every form it had.

  • Comparisons of God, Lucifurs' revolt, and creation

  • These are some absolutely gorgeous pictures. Where did you find them all?

    A very nicely done video that makes me want to read Silmarillion (well, I already did, but this makes me want to go out and read it NOW).

  • some are fractals, others are pictures of galaxies and stuff.

  • fwiw the blarogs and 'wizards' were all 'ainuur' as well. Obviously the balrogs were corrupted before they ever came into the world. They are some of those mentioned, convinced by melkor to rebel.

  • "melkors a faggot cocksucker!"

    Orcs shouldn't post when they're drunk...

  • Read up on your Norse and Finnish mythologies, WASP97. Tolkien drew heavily on these, though it is impossible to seperate the written product from his Catholic worldview. A singular synthesis, but a synthesis nonetheless. There is never a thought made that has not been thought before and, as Peter Wimsey said, the poets have said all there is to say.

  • if ur gonna ask about Jesus there really is no main comparison of Jesus in Tolkien lore, my example are Aragorn return of the king idk..ganfalf the white..frodo u can say is like David..when galadriel says "even the smallest person can change the course of the future." those are bible and tolkien lore comparisons

  • this is just like the Bible if yall know, satan was the leader of the chorus of the angels...melkor=lufifer..then morgoth=satan Eru Lluvatar= God and his Valar are the High ranked angels of God...Maiar are the servents= Prophets of God, remember Sauron was a Maia he was seduced by Melkor, Sauron= False Prophet..Tolkien based alot of his work on the Christian religion..

  • did he??or is it simply that christainity is based on paganism witch is were tolkien got his ideas

  • Tolkien got his setting, the flavor and atmosphere of his work if you like, from the mythology of northern Europe--Celtic, Germanic and Finnish. But his THEMES are rooted in his Catholic faith. Arda is not meant to be a pure fictional fantasy world: it is a "sub-created" mythic past of the real world, and as such for Tolkien it had to prefigure Christianity.

  • @MassCityGent Judaism and Christianity come from the exact same sources as Celtic, Germanic and Finnish myth, and indeed all the different beliefs in the World. It is all One. Yahweh is just the Hebrew Cronos or Bran. His name is identical to the Roman Jove. When monotheism emerged, all the gods simply became angels. There is absolutely no clash here. Michael was a god before he was an angel. He was Mithra.

  • @MassCityGent Remember, the Norse gods had an Overgod named Alfadur, who created the Universe. The Aesir and Vanir were simply the Norse way of conceptualizing Angels (spirits under One God).

  • holy shit i noticed somthing today think of all simarillion stuff theirs alot eh well i little much detail for one person to think of jrr tolkien created this whole entire world universe seams kinda strange well if you think it makes alot of sense i think it is real

  • @WASP97 I think it's real too. Always have. The book of Genesis says "There were giants in those days."

  • Interesting concept, enjoyed it very much.  Very nicely done

  • nevermind.... i just saw the credits, Andy Mckee

  • Please tell me about this guitar music... is it your own, or a publicly available artist? Thank-you for realizing your idea and posting it. It's an amazing passage of literature and deserves recognition and public forum.

  • hmm. i wonder what you'll be thinking when you suddenly find yourself BURNING. azn don't listen to him he messed up dumbass going to hell

  • I like this, after reading the Silmarillon, I aways wondered what an illustration of the begining of that book might look like. gj :)

  • I thought Melkor was the only one who revolted, I don't remember him convincing other Ainur to revolt.

  • that's true, he only messed up some maiar (maia) and elves...and men as well...

  • No during the beginning music people joined Melkor in his revolt. This wasn't a kill stuff revolt but a sing your own song revolt.

  • @Closetscholar like rock and metal.

  • @Closetscholar so they wear like the first real rock band... just going against all the rules.

  • @drummer059 No, rock music is good. The music of Melkor was discordant noise, hateful to any ear. Think of squealing brakes and a car collision.

  • @Closetscholar

    More like he wanted to be the conductor.

  • Also, when he used the term Ainur, you have to remember that Ainur means both the Valar and the Maiar.

  • he got other ainur to make the music with him

  • @ballinking32 Sauron was the most important Ainu that he corrupted.

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  • @SlipknoTXXIV Millions and millions of Ainur followed him. Sauron and the Balrogs were the most important ones. They were right there.

  • @SlipknoTXXIV

    Who do you think Sauron was? And the balrogs? Most of his minions were either Ainur or their corrupted descendants dragons, werewolves, vampires, and possibly even orcs.

  • yah!

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  • @0jerd Sauron was right there, helping Melkor make his Evil Noise.

  • @0jerd And every single Valar and Maiar was there too. Who the hell do you think the Ainur are? Valar+Maiar, of course. Many Ainur stayed with Iluvatar, but the ones who went to earth were the Valar and Maiar! Don't you remeber seeing Manwe in this very video, you know, the king of the Valar? He is also known as Michael the Archangel.

  • @54markl Dude wtf are you doing? You replied on my comment, and now I had to look back what I wrote TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO. I can't even REMEMBER commenting on this vid... Not even seeing it.

    And btw, EVERYTHING you say, is something I know already. Just wasting my time here...

    Well, have a good time annoying others and spamming on this vid.

    Srsly,

  • @0jerd Well at least you remember now.

  • @54markl No offence, but you're an asshole

    Im just sayin

  • @0jerd

    "Yeah, well the JERK-store called.... they're running outta YOU!"

    --- Seinfeld

  • @SovereignStatesman Lol nice man reacting on a comment from 9 months ago... I like the quote though :P

  • @0jerd

    That was the joke, you had to see the episode. George thought up a comeback like a year after someone made a joke about him, and he was obsessed over telling it to the guy.

  • @SovereignStatesman Haha don't know from what show it is, but that's a good one (:

  • @0jerd

    It says right in the quote, it's from "Seinfeld."

  • Beautiful job. Very Very creative. Thanks for doing this !

  • The Big Bang Theory?! Are you serious? This is a slap in the face to Tolkien himself! Shame on you.

  • I am not trying to support the idea that Iluvatar was the "Big Bang". It would be retarted to do so seeing that this is a creation myth. However i do want people to watch my video and using "Big Bang" as opposed to "Creation" or the likes probably gets more traffic.

  • next time use creation cause then people will have that same contravorsal shit going on that the big bang was not a creation but just something that happened

  • @Closetscholar I really like this, its a shame people dont understand the beauty of what your trying to do. I see that the title is to grab atention (to the vid) and not literal.

    Well may the hair on your feet never fall off.

  • @Closetscholar Iluvatar was God. Maybe the Music of the Ainur was the noise the Big Bang made when creation started. Tolkien's story does not contradict physics at all. Nor does it contradict religion. Many ancient religions say that God sang the Universe into existence. And Iluvatar says "Ea!" to make the Music real. That means "Let it be!"

  • @Closetscholar I understand what you're saying, but there does seem to have parallels with the many classic mythologies throughout the ages, including Christianity. All mythologies have used creation theories that defy science in order to explain how its world came to be. Greek mythology relied on the Titanomachy to explain how the world came to existence, while the Christianity relied on The Book of Genesis.

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  • @wutru If you don't believe in the Big Bang, you are an ignoramus. God created the Universe using the Big Bang. Maybe it made a musical sound.

  • @wutru Why is it a slap in the face to Tolkien?

  • lol

  • Well done. My 5 year old cousin made a slideshow just like this with pictures he also found on google... You two should get together and like, make more slideshows, then you could read a book right, as the vioce over...Well done...Really...

  • I made the movie so people who gave a damn could do something other than read the Silmarillion. And i didn't read the book as a voice over. And as far as i know this is the only attempt to depict the Ainulidalie.

  • Lovely. Of course, I'm going to be picky and say that you mispronounced a few of the words, such as Ilúvatar and Ainulindalë. but otherwise it was a nice tribute to Tolkien's works. I especially liked the period of dischord. Thanks for creating and posting this.

  • u idiot how do miracles happen huh??? there is a god your just to damned in your ways to see that, it's like a watch the peices don't just jump in there themselves, someone has to fit them in there and make it

  • Quite a strange idea to make Valars play guitar :D

  • @Haludek The Silmarillion said lutes. Guitars are a kind of lute.

  • This is magnificent. I've not yet read the Silmarillion, but you made me want to even more...

    Verry beautifull combination of Words and music, and so fitting...

    Work on your fading out, though... you might start talking while the mustc is still fading so as to not go to complete silence

    5 Stars for this one

  • Yes.  No need to be rude after all.

  • just a connection to the beginning of the universe

    sorry to offend...

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