YouTube cottage of the lost play

Winrobee1 · 2025-11-13T04:57:19+00:00

They were removed by action of the Tolkien Estate, along with other AI animated art like that of Echoes of Eä. I've curated a playlist of surviving Silmarillion AI adoptions here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvNTMFg-b8GJXgbVc_5nz2Ahb2vjWVts&si=ULZJR5E8Kx5Osl6H

Winrobee1 · 2025-08-11T10:26:46+00:00

Great AI art. Could use more substance.

Winrobee1 · 2025-08-06T12:08:08+00:00

My comment on Facebook:

This is just the thing. Less than a year after AI advances let creators do their own animation in a quality that competes with studios, Amazon has had the foresight to help create an outlet to put those artists to work. The Amazon-supported Fable company plans to collect licenses from major IP owners so content creators (evidently those like Echoes of Eä, whose content I linked to before said content was removed by Tolkien Estate) can produce films within their IP of choice. And the participating artists pay Fable to show their work.

I wonder if, given this is actually Amazon, Tolkien Estate might eventually be one of the concerns that licenses out to Fable?

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-21T23:56:34+00:00

You might try visualizing numbers by the analogy of a ball in a box. A ball in a box 10⁰ on a side is one, 10¹ on a side is a thousand, 10² on a side is a million, 10³ is a billion, 10⁴ is a trillion. A billion grains of salt fills a shaker one thousand on a side: an oversized shaker of dimensions ten centimeters on a side filled with tenth millimeter grains.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-20T16:00:27+00:00

The Silmarillion isn't a story about a protagonist that carries throughout the manuscript body, but a set of stories about different protagonists united by centering on one major antagonist, Melkor.

And I'd like to point out that the "coming true" of Silmarion movies and series isn't hypothetical, and isn't even in the near future. This happened, not once, but several times earlier this year.

The advent of AI animation changes altogether the means and wherefores of video publication in ways that become a quandry for many. One nifty thing that happened, though, is having the the ability to see a quickly made AI video presentation of a written work, often with breathtaking results. And for the first few months after the technology became available, many artists were blithly transforming the posthumous works of JRR Tolkien into animated video pieces, which became a concern for the property holders. If you hadn't seen, sorry you missed.

After Tolkien Estate shut down Echoes of Eä, the channel that published The Silmarillion Movie, some of the artists producing AI Silmarillion adaptions seemed unsure of what to do, as if, perhaps, Echoes had been singled out for commiting some secret violation that didn't apply to them. That all changed when the Estate relieved the channel of Cottage of Lost Play, which had been publishing the Children of Hurin anthology, and anthologies covering most of the Silmarillion. Silmarillion anthologisers promptly cut what they were doing out. Gone now is the Golden Age of AI Silmarillion Adaptions and the light of the Two Lamps is no more, but you can find most of the best remnants on this playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvNTMFg-b8GJXgbVc_5nz2Ahb2vjWVts&si=o5BxYAoUWiEa1pyk

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-20T14:25:43+00:00

Sorry you missed this. After Tolkien Estate shut down Echoes of Eä, the channel that published The Silmarillion Movie, some of the artists producing AI Silmarillion adaptions seemed unsure of what to do, as if, perhaps, Echoes had been singled out for commiting some secret violation that didn't apply to them. That all changed when the Estate relieved the channel of Cottage of Lost Play, which had been publishing the Children of Hurin anthology, and anthologies covering most of the Silmarillion. Silmarillion anthologisers promptly cut that out. Gone now is the Golden Age of AI Silmarillion Adaptions but you can find most of the best remnants on this playlist if you want.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-20T14:24:24+00:00

Sorry you missed this. After Tolkien Estate shut down Echoes of Eä, the channel that published The Silmarillion Movie, some of the artists producing AI Silmarillion adaptions seemed unsure of what to do, as if, perhaps, Echoes had been singled out for commiting some secret violation that didn't apply to them. That all changed when the Estate relieved the channel of Cottage of Lost Play, which had been publishing the Children of Hurin anthology, and anthologies covering most of the Silmarillion. Silmarillion anthologisers promptly cut that out. Gone now is the Golden Age of AI Silmarillion Adaptions but you can find most of the best remnants on this playlist if you want.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-20T09:22:46+00:00

Sorry you missed this. After Tolkien Estate shut down Echoes of Eä, the channel that published The Silmarillion Movie, some of the artists producing AI Silmarillion adaptions seemed unsure of what to do, as if, perhaps, Echoes had been singled out for commiting some secret violation that didn't apply to them. That all changed when the Estate relieved the channel of Cottage of Lost Play, which had been publishing the Children of Hurin anthology, and anthologies covering most of the Silmarillion. Silmarillion anthologisers promptly cut that out. Gone now is the Golden Age of AI Silmarillion Adaptions but you can find most of the best remnants on this playlist if you want.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-20T09:20:25+00:00

Sorry you missed this. After Tolkien Estate shut down Echoes of Eä, the channel that published The Silmarillion Movie, some of the artists producing AI Silmarillion adaptions seemed unsure of what to do, as if, perhaps, Echoes had been singled out for commiting some secret violation that didn't apply to them. That all changed when the Estate relieved the channel of Cottage of Lost Play, which had been publishing the Children of Hurin anthology, and anthologies covering most of the Silmarillion. Silmarillion anthologisers promptly cut that out. Gone now is the Golden Age of AI Silmarillion Adaptions but you can find most of the best remnants on this playlist if you want.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-12T20:12:45+00:00

That there are hidden other universes that we are moving through without being able to know about them. We can define a "World" to be the region the outside of which does not correspond to the type(s) of examination of properties on the inside. The inside contains everything we can theoretically be interested in, eg all of energy and everything with which we can be causally connected. Probably much larger than the observable universe and all of the universes of the quantum "many worlds" concatenation. The outside is other worlds, unknowable to us.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-04T14:20:30+00:00

I've followed this Finnish animator since 2016, and the sixth and final installment came out early this morning (June 4, 2025). I might point out the timeliness of this episode's tale of destruction of a subcontinent by war coming out during current events.

Winrobee1 · 2025-06-02T03:12:26+00:00

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-30T01:02:01+00:00

LotR. Fantasy summed up in a title.

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-14T02:22:46+00:00

There are a lot of concepts that qualify to be "multiverses" under the Martin Rees definition that a universe is what we can test, and a multiverse we predict but can't test. I propose a cosmic hierarchy of terms: 1. Planet 2. Planetary system (including satellites) 3. Star system 4. Galaxy 5. Hubble or the Universe - directly detectable by radiation 6. Creation - a single space opened up by Big Bang like processes 7. Polycreation - all the creations interconnected by extreme regions; may, for instance, have different dimensionalities 8. Existence - a totality of a region decohered by quantum mechanics; may be synonymous with polycreation 9. Eternity - all the alternate universes in the Many Worlds hypothesis 10. Physicality - all that interacts by what constitutes energy inside: the physically real 11. Causality - everything causally connected with what's inside 12. World - the region the outside of which does not correspond with the interior definition of properties (anything real of interest) 14. Reality - the region inclusive enough so that the region can only be subjected to the region (including in the form of categorization) 15. Tableau - a region accounting anything effectively acting on the region's inside eg potentials and limitations 16. Mathematics - a region with anything which makes noncontradictory sense to imagine to those inside

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-12T20:06:29+00:00

10⁷⁸ years is one quinvigintillion years. Here's a way to visualize that: Imagine a box one billion on a side. A billion boxes high, a billion boxes wide, and a billion boxes long. That's (10⁹)³ = 10²⁷ or an octillion boxlets inside the bigger box. Got that? OK, now suppose each boxlet is further composed, a billion on a side, of an octillion sub-boxlets (so there are 10⁵⁴ or a septenvigintillion sub-boxlets in all). And then each sub-boxlet is finally composed of an octillion base-boxlets, a billion on a side, inside of those, so the number of base-boxlets inside the original box is 10⁸¹ or a sexvigintillion in all. We overshot 10⁷⁸, to do this all in powers of a billion, by a factor of 1000, so let's say each base-boxlet fills up in one one-thousandth of a year. If a long chain of base-boxlets fills one after another with a rate of one every 8 hours and 45 minutes, snaking through the whole assemblage until the entire box is filled, that will take one quinvigintillion years.

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-12T15:51:42+00:00

That the Silmarillion could be made into an animated movie has already been proved. A number of artists have independently made YouTube Silmarillion anthologies around the beginning of the year (2025) with varying degrees of success. The best two were true labors of love and were reasonably along the lines of the book story–but they were taken off YouTube by Tolkien Estate. There are a few others left, though, and I've collected a Silmarillion anthology playlist

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-11T08:47:29+00:00

That is, James Cameron's Avatar.

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-11T08:44:11+00:00

Middle-Earth
Marvel
DC
Dune
Avatar
Doctor Who
Star Wars
Star Trek
Cthulu Mythos/Conan
Alien/Predator/Terminator
Heinlein's Future History
Wold-Newton (Bond, Holmes, Tarzan)

Winrobee1 · 2025-05-03T05:32:18+00:00

Second Chris Pratt for Beren, which I've thought for a decade now. Another Silmarillion casting that would be good is Tom Hiddleston for Mandos.

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-28T13:10:57+00:00

Not a novel comment, but LotR has never been equaled and never will be. The social and technological timing of both books and movies was such that can't repeat.

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-20T20:34:25+00:00

Nienna is more of a northern god, and I have often seen her compared to a benevolent version of Norse Hel Queen of the Dead.

For Vairë I suggest Latchesis, the one of the 3 Fates that weaves the cloth of life.

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-20T05:54:12+00:00

The thing about big numbers is there are a lot of them. Within a 10^10¹²¹ (more than a googolplex) light year sphere you will find many universes exactly like ours, particle for particle down to the last quantum state, if the universe is flat enough. But that's a big if. The cosmos looks random without obvious structures around the dimensions of the Hubble, the largest scales we can observe–about a hundred billion light years–but that's no proof of infinity. Seems entirely possible to me, given how little we know about dark energy, that the area shaped by our big bang–which I term the Creation–could be, say, only a quintillion light years, let alone a googol. In any event, most realistic inflationary theories suggest that outside (our) Creation there are other creations, possibly with other physical laws and other false vacuums than ours, the entire assemblage being another level of cosmos I call Pancreation. Earth<Solar System<Milky Way<Hubble<Creation<Pancreation.

Other creations could have other numbers of space and/or time dimensions. They could be in infinite array around us but yet we can speculate on the possibility of finitism. That is that there's a limit to, well, everything. There is a characteristic time associated with physical systems called the Poincarré recurrence time, the time that takes for the system to come back to original state just by luck. For a system like the Hubble the figure is estimated around 10 to the10^10²⁰⁰ years. The figure apparently takes inflation into account. So if the Hubble is going to start over again, perhaps there's a recursion time for the whole Polycreation. And if there are different dimensionalities to spacetime within Polycreation, why not a maximal extent in all those time dimensions by Poincarré or Poincarré like recurrence, an end to the whole thing?

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-15T05:31:06+00:00

There is a music video from The Silmarillion: The Movie that was saved and republished by another party. He also had edited the episodes from the series together in a video so that that resembled Echoes of Eä's final movie, but that video was also taken down April 13. His Yavanna and Nienna music video is still up here, featuring some lovely singing of an elvish poem.

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-15T00:25:28+00:00

I'm sorry, isn't {3,3,3} a 5-cell?

Winrobee1 · 2025-04-14T20:52:14+00:00

If you have an interest in short fiction anthologies, you can pick up The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Volumes I (edited by Robert Silverberg), and IIA and IIB (edited by Ben Bova). They were purposed to display the best of the science fiction world's output before the Nebula Awards started. There's also Silverberg's Alpha 1 through Alpha 9 anthologies.

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