The Ring of the Nibelungs (Quick Compilation Trailer)

Der Ring Des Nibelungen or the "Ring of the Nibelungs" is an Upper High Germanic edda written in Medieval Germany about the heros of Elder Germania & the Legend of the Rheingold. "The Lord of the Rings" is a bastardation of this story, rewritten by a 20th century plagarist, known as J.R.R. Tolkien.. Whom radically altered the original saga as told in this movie actually quite accurately to legend.

Uberheim was based upon the Teutonic legends of the Nibelungelied.. This video is a series of clips from a movie made 2 years ago in Germany known as the "Ring of the Nibelungs"... This is a 10 minute compilation of the movie which is over 2 hours in total. I condensed a quick sampler of some of the scenes of the film as a trailer. The movie was released in the USA but the name was altered to a generic title as it came out during the height of the "Ring Trilogy".. It actually never got released into theatres as a result & ending up on the Sci-Fi channel in the AM hours without any of the bloody scenes.. At least untill the release of the DVD which i happened to aquire.. The title was touted as "The Ring of the Nibelungs" in Germany, but in America it was released as "Dark Kingdom, The Dragon King"... Really a stupid name for the film, but they "dumbed down the title" for American consumption..
Anyway, it is an excellent movie & i personally editted this short intro as a dedication to the only modern film to tell the legend of the nibelungs, which was the inspiration for Richard Wagner & the Medieval group Uberheim that you will find in this channel.

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[ElliePearl]

Nice move, love Wagner's Ring and the legend, but you shouldn't call J.R.R. Tolkien such names. He took the ideas of a legend and used them in his story, which is also amazing.

There isn't an author living who didn't borrow from another source of some kind, and most religions are bastardizations of others and no one complains about that, so leave J.R.R Tolkien and his books alone.

[medjay07]

foarte tare filmu,nam c reprosa:-??

[TheKean88]

"Dark Kingdom, The Dragon King"... is indeed a really stupid name for the film, and it's said they've dumbed it down for American consumption. No matter the title, this film relies more on Wagner than on the original story. Wagner, not Tolkien, might be said to have "bastardized" this one.

[TheKean88]

Well said!  Also, scholars have 35 or more versions of the Nibelung stories. Tolkien didn't exploit the Brunhild vs Kriemhold saga and his work is as original as any great story can ever be said to be.

[TelumehtarOriOn]

@TheGenX1979

yes, he was siegfried von niederlanden but "niederlanden" ist not the modern netherlands (look at wikipedia). he wasn't dutch. however, dutch and germans have the same ancestors, so it's stupid to argue about this.

[TheGenX1979]

@TelumehtarOriOn NO !

,,Siegfried, Sohn des Konigs von der Niederlanden namends Siegmund , geht als Lehrling weg mit Meister Mimer ''.

You see. 'NIEDERLANDEN'

And i have multiple books wherein it says the samething from the NIEDERLANDEN. and Holland was way bigger in the early days, part of germany and whole of belgium.

[TelumehtarOriOn]

@TheGenX1979

no, siegfried wasn't dutch. he was from xanten which is in germany.

[13times]

"Wagner flatters his audience with the conceit that their libidinous impulses resonate with the Will of the World, and that their petty passions have the same cosmic significance as Iseult's or Kundy's [Arthurian lore].

Wagner portrayed as inevitable and even desirable the fall of the old order. his music turned the plunge into the abyss into an intimate, existential experience — redemptive bliss, a sacrifice restoring meaning to the orphans of traditional society. A new religion of impulse"

[13times]

Oh goody, Europeans embracing Wagner's Ring Cycle, what could possibly go wrong.

"For in the Twilight of the Gods their impulses would be freed from the fetters of the law. How can one be rid of ancient society? Only by declaring war against traditions and morality."

[TheGenX1979]

teutonic legend yes, but Siegfried was dutch ;-) Never forget that :P

[TheGenX1979]

@ElliePearl What J.R.R.Tolkin did was pretty common at the time, he spended just more time and work in it. C.S.Lewis did the same thing with his Narnia, a lot of unmarried scholars spended their free time at colleges like Oxford, writing this kind of things, in Europe they still do this, but in the time when people did not had TV, Internet, DVD, etc , they read more books and wrote more stuff, so they practiced their imagination way more than these days

[robrowles]

HA, I worked on this. Great to see it torn into a large montage on YouTube. It was produced by Germans. The same guys that worked on 2012. It was fun to work on it.