For Lord of The Rings fans, "The Silmarillion

[zathros]

This uses A.I. to generate the images, but the dialog is right out of the "Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, no liberties are taken. It's really worth watching, I think. It's one of the most unique things I've seen on YouTube, Much Christian allegory, but no a proselytizing kind of obnoxiousness. It really is the greatest prequel to the Hobbit, and the Lord of the rings made. IMHO

 

[zathros]

I wish one "LOTR" fan would watch this and comment. It really explains the basis for "LOTR".

 

[ElMäx]

The silmarillion is a great work of art. A really beautiful book full of great stories.
I am not religious and never had much knowledge of Christianity, of other religions even less. Surely we had the greek and roman mythology back then in school. I guess Tolkien, as an all-round expert for old European languages and religions and mythologies incorporated a wild mix of it all into his universe.

I love the story of Beren and Luthien and the even more tragic story of túrin turambar.
The bloodshed of the noldor on their brothers and sisters and the banishing of them from valinor.
I love it all.

And I am happy that they did not make a movie out of it after the disappointing hobbit movies (although a friend said to me there is a series about the rings of power, idk)

 

[zathros]

The "Rings of power" was a really good series. It stopped during Covid. It shows the beginning of Sauron. Definitely worth watching if you can stream it. It also shows a very young Galadriel chasing him, and the actual making of the the "Rings of Power".

The video I posted isn't so much a movie, but a conceptual story with thee Silmarillion being read along side it. Well worth the 2.33 hrs. long it is. Salron was one of the first created,. The Christian allegory is no mistake.

In Christianity, the Bible reads that God created Satan so beautiful, and was so happy with him, he gave him the "Morning". When God created man, again, the Bible reads that God counted the hairs of every human that was to be born, before he created the heavens and the Earth, and gave us "Free Will". Satan became so jealous that God's love for humankind was paramount, he wished to destroy mankind. The Bible reads that the number of Angels is innumerable, but God cast him down to Earth, and he took 1/3rd of all Angels with him. They are now Demons.

So what is "Free Will"? The only thing I can think of, and the only part we ultimately have to offer, is to love, or not. For Satan, it is very late in the day, 11:59:59, his time is up. One of Satan's tricks is to have people believe there is no Satan. I've run along that a lot. It is a matter of persistence. God has him imprint on every human of this world, and we all we be touched by God, and at that moment, have a decision to make. I am not talking about religion, as that belongs to man.

For some reason I can't post YouTube links. I'll have to check into that.

 

[ElMäx]

I don't remember how Sauron came into being. He was just some kind of minion of Morgoth and Morgoth was the equivalent of satan, if I remember correctly