Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Here is the entire history of Tolkien’s (main) stories as told in our Timeline of Arda series. Enjoy! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!
#LordoftheRingslore
#Silmarillionexplained
#Tolkien
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Valar
Joby Weasel
Ed Patterson
Comicnut64
Zoomi
Peter Sheppard
Malleus Flavus
Elves
Emperor Kane
scooterdtx
Denis Warner
Ashley Dilley
Inge Marie Schmidlin
Van Hardison
Dale Starbuck
Chiara Siasat
Jpcjr
Susan Henry
Matthew Jacoby
(These are active patrons and members according to YouTube and Patreon. Please email me at menofthewestst@gmail.com if there are any issues!)
The new Men of the West thumbnail logo overlay was created by Raffe:
@RaffetheRandom on Twitter
The new Men of the West logo was created by Beau:
instagram.com/beauy.art/?hl=en
The new Men of the West intro was created by Tyler Lund:
artstation.com/tylerlund6
The image “Bag End” was created by Wayne Glassbrook at designly.net
Artists or Songs featured in this compilation video:
Galafee
@rossbugden
“Dreams Become Real”, “Procession of the King”, “Thunder Dreams”, "Gregorian Chant", “The Descent”, “Dark Times”all by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). These songs are Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
“Get Your Ticket”
library.techsmith.com
Many related and/or used art come from these artists and sources through the following Google document link. I actually ran out of room in this video description to list them all (5000 character max for YouTube descriptions), so here are the ones I could find! Please let me know if I am missing any!:
docs.google.com/document/d/1M1ofRt19MrAWW4TxTiWLQfgP6X3BhfOh-nSR7EdRunQ/edit?usp=sharing
Here is the entire history of Tolkien’s (main) stories as told in our Timeline of Arda series. Enjoy! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!
#LordoftheRingslore
#Silmarillionexplained
#Tolkien
Masters of Mythology (second channel):
youtube.com/@MastersofMythology
Consider donating to our Patreon for the Westernesse Podcast and Discord Server:
patreon.com/menofthewest
MOTW Store:
youtube.com/@MenoftheWest/store
Castle Kon Replicas (use code “West” at checkout):
castlekon.com
Check out our music channel (Galafee):
youtube.com/@MusicMOTW?si=ZMNQ7tXRf0e2yFpB
Join us on Facebook at:
facebook.com/Yoystan
Join us on X at:
twitter.com/Yoystan
Thank you for your patronage and support (Valar and Elf tiers)!
Valar
Joby Weasel
Ed Patterson
Comicnut64
Zoomi
Peter Sheppard
Malleus Flavus
Elves
Emperor Kane
scooterdtx
Denis Warner
Ashley Dilley
Inge Marie Schmidlin
Van Hardison
Dale Starbuck
Chiara Siasat
Jpcjr
Susan Henry
Matthew Jacoby
(These are active patrons and members according to YouTube and Patreon. Please email me at menofthewestst@gmail.com if there are any issues!)
The new Men of the West thumbnail logo overlay was created by Raffe:
@RaffetheRandom on Twitter
The new Men of the West logo was created by Beau:
instagram.com/beauy.art/?hl=en
The new Men of the West intro was created by Tyler Lund:
artstation.com/tylerlund6
The image “Bag End” was created by Wayne Glassbrook at designly.net
Artists or Songs featured in this compilation video:
Galafee
@rossbugden
“Dreams Become Real”, “Procession of the King”, “Thunder Dreams”, "Gregorian Chant", “The Descent”, “Dark Times”all by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). These songs are Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
“Get Your Ticket”
library.techsmith.com
Many related and/or used art come from these artists and sources through the following Google document link. I actually ran out of room in this video description to list them all (5000 character max for YouTube descriptions), so here are the ones I could find! Please let me know if I am missing any!:
docs.google.com/document/d/1M1ofRt19MrAWW4TxTiWLQfgP6X3BhfOh-nSR7EdRunQ/edit?usp=sharing
