Answering Your Tolkien Questions Episode 53 - Could Sauron the Necromancer raise the dead?

I am a Tolkien scholar who has been enjoying and studying the works of Tolkien since the 1980s.
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Every week I will choose the best questions to be featured in a video, though I will answer all that I can on there.
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0:00 Intro
1:34 Reading from The Hobbit
10:51 Why is Legolas also called Legolas Greenleaf?
12:40 What if Denethor had seen the arrival of Rohan in the Palentir?
17:30 Could Sauron, as a necromancer, raise the dead, such as Morgoth?
21:47 What does "Elf Magic" mean?
25:11 How did Tolkien come up with the Stone Giants?
28:06 If Sauron never made his ring, could he have kept returning?
30:07 How many Maiar would it take to successfully attack Mordor?
31:44 Why did Gandalf seem like he only just learned what comes after death?
35:20 What did Sauron do when he got bored?
38:35 What is the origin of the name "Sauron" and what does it mean?
41:06 How was The One Ring made for the movies?
42:48 How could Gandalf have handled Denethor differently?
44:50 What does it mean that the shape of the Valar comes from knowledge of the world?
47:11 What did Gandalf mean by true courage is knowing when to spare a life?

Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler

Edited by AJ "    / ebagentj   " McLaughlin

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