Reading Lord of the Rings until I Regain my Faith in Humanity
Added 2025-12-31 23:25:28 +0000 UTCWhat's up gamers, here's the concillation prize I got for attempting and failing my Blood Meridian essay this month. See you next year and thanks for your support, I hope to continue to earn it
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I never get over bro's production quality and deliverance
Harrison
2026-01-29 03:42:31 +0000 UTCI’m begging you PLEASE make a video on true detective (season 1 of course) But also don’t because I’m gonna do that. But also do. Or don’t, it’s up to you really.
Chris Knotwell
2026-01-24 19:58:50 +0000 UTCJust past half way through Don Quixote, appreciate you delaying the essay for me to finish it first. However, you really should wait for some time to pass from a book's release to so openly discuss the ending. I am shaken by the notion that the knight with the sorrowful face might one day let his resolve on chivarly slip.
Ben Reilly
2026-01-06 00:20:25 +0000 UTCmoustache was a good choice
Evan Heaslip
2026-01-05 20:42:20 +0000 UTCAfter all these years, from the gaming videos to the history/literature pieces. I still adore your ability to tie two subjects together that I would unfortunately overlook. God be with you and I hope you have a great new year Mr Cobbler Btw when are we getting the husbando follow-up to “best waifu from history”? Not a weeb just find that video idea could be funny
Grossly Incandescent
2026-01-03 23:45:03 +0000 UTChey Peach, I know this is random, but have you ever watched Bojack Horseman? I think you’d enjoy it. I’m very drunk right now, and often, and I’m sorry to say that you’re an inspiration. I think you’d enjoy it, thanks.
Chris Knotwell
2026-01-03 06:35:41 +0000 UTCIt's all coming together. Yeehaw.
EchoChamberShow
2026-01-02 21:08:47 +0000 UTCLooking significantly healthier 👍
Connor Lowe
2026-01-02 01:35:36 +0000 UTCForgive me if this is scatter-brained, but your ending thoughts got me thinking. And feel free to argue... I've always found the discussion surrounding invading soldiers a fraught and confusing one. I suppose there are many lenses through which you can investigate it, many of them overlapping... I will preface by saying that I don't fail to admit my flawed character and rude beliefs of others, of course, and I sometimes fall to this language as well. I do understand why Ukrainians themselves have resorted to such rhetoric in regards to Russian soldiers. They've undergone a deep and horrendous tragedy, that's scarred the lives of millions... As tragic as it is, you do in some manner have to dehumanize the enemy, it makes their death easier. We've done it for millennia. It's even easier to do so when that enemy is invading your nation and harming your people. Though it still does not make that dehumanization and rhetoric justifiable, I do think it's understandable. What really confounds and distresses me is when non-Ukrainians use that language. Suburban Americans who can happily sit in their golden orchard protected by two oceans using such rhetoric of dehumanization is simply unjustifiable. There is no reason for its usage in their case, regardless of the acts Russian soldiers have committed. Americans have not fallen victim. As much as Russians have victimized others, they are themselves victims. Victims of themselves and victims of their rulers, the oligarchy and the tyrant state. A curious thing I've seen, and specifically seen in the video, is the joy people get from watching men, many of them frankly still boys, dying in combat to drones. It's psychotic to derive pleasure from such a death of another human, especially those so gruesome. I don't really know where I'm going with this, I just typed as my mind wandered. There's not a specific point or conclusion, so I guess I'll just finish with the thought that people should not enjoy the death of others. It leads to bad places, no matter the starting point.
Frixworks
2026-01-01 21:34:34 +0000 UTCMaybe I should finish that series, I dropped Cibola Burn about halfway through. Naturally I’ve got a lot of work reading to do right now, but I’ll keep it in mind!
DJ Peach Cobbler
2026-01-01 18:23:17 +0000 UTCYour final note about your judgment being flawed really resonated with me. Talking about how you'd have been wrong about using the nuke again, and you were happy for it. I think that final point illustrates so effectively how aspirational characters in fantasy, like Bombadil, really do have value, that is in reminding us to be hopeful about the human condition and the goodness we're capable of. You talked briefly about The Expanse book series in an earlier video (thank you by the way, that series was incredible.) I'm not sure how far you got in the series, but near the final few books Holden fights back against an authoritarian emperor who considers what they are doing to be best for humanity (under his judgment of course.) Despite all the horror Holden has witnessed, he counters the idea of a single willed grand plan by pointing out, correctly I think, that humanity has gotten as far as they have while mostly bumbling in the dark without a major guiding hand and the destruction that hand can be responsible for. And despite all the atrocities, most days in most people's life go by filled by peace and cooperation. The Expanse is obviously escapist Sci-Fi, but the aspirational character that Holden is still serves as a much needed and real reminder to me that we can, should, and often do better than our worst tendencies suggest we might. At least that's the kind of stuff that keeps me hopeful.
Austin Harper
2026-01-01 18:22:05 +0000 UTCHoly shit, Bomba-bardments was fantastic. THIS is why I give you my funko-pop money.
The Monkinator
2026-01-01 14:57:11 +0000 UTCThis is why I say that the follow up novel JRRT felt was too grim for him to write ought have centered around helping the orcs. Helping them rebuild, helping them find a way to the west such that the misdeeds of Melkor Sauron & Saumy on these elves are healed.
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2026-01-01 09:38:35 +0000 UTCExcellent video Mr. Musical Desert Man. But the Tolkien nerd in me behooves to point out that technically, the origin of the Orcs is kinda explained. I think it's in the Silmarillion, but not sure. Originally, the Orcs were Elves/Men that stayed behind in Middle-Earth in the east, when most of the rest moved westward. Morgoth, the big bad, then "corrupted" these Elves/Men (which I'm pretty sure included women and children, so Orc women and children do exist) who stayed behind, thus making the Orcs. The Orcs we see later on are kinda the descendants those ones. Also the Uruk-hai are a mixture of Orcs and men, they were born in the mud pits, yes, but fundamentally, Saruman cross-breeded Orcs with presumably Dunlending or Rohan people to create Uruk-hai. The human DNA removed the fear of the sun, creating the über-Orc. The way in which they are "corrupted" and "mixed" and cross-bred are left to the reader's imagination, because the Professor probably was too gentlemanly to overtly refer to stuff like that.
Aseem Athale
2026-01-01 07:02:07 +0000 UTCI'm better than you think I am ... Gonna chew on that for a while. I think I'm worse than you think I think I am? ... Nukes are siiick. The Road would defo suck to live in though. So hard to reconcile these two basic facts.
kostoglotov
2026-01-01 05:11:40 +0000 UTCCongrats on geting remonetized!
Midas Redding
2026-01-01 03:16:25 +0000 UTCWe are cool cobbler.
Noah McClellan
2026-01-01 02:25:51 +0000 UTCWood Elf uprising, we demand extra chocolate eggs and more 'fairy' time.
Anthony Dowd
2026-01-01 02:19:55 +0000 UTCHappy new year djpc happy to hear you get to make money again
Jadytalez
2026-01-01 01:43:55 +0000 UTChappy new year Mr Cobbler
Carl von Mentzer
2026-01-01 01:35:32 +0000 UTCHappy new year
morowitch
2026-01-01 00:40:29 +0000 UTCYou should really read The Last Ringbearer. It's a Russian spinoff of LotR, retelling the events through the eyes of the men of mordor and the orcs. It's excellent and released in english as a free ebook to avoid litigation by the Tolkein estate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
benoît balls
2026-01-01 00:29:53 +0000 UTCthank you pie man. 2026 will be better for you and hopefully some others
Evan Heaslip
2026-01-01 00:13:18 +0000 UTCIn a way, there is little practical difference between a book on world war 1 and Lord of the Rings. I have experienced neither, yet they both project images on the back of my mind. One of them makes me happier. Merry New Year Cobbler.
Aaron Silverman
2026-01-01 00:01:13 +0000 UTCImma paint a bunch of dicks on your ceiling
DJ Peach Cobbler
2025-12-31 23:54:57 +0000 UTCIt’s not about Blood Meridian because I want to do a real essay later, today is about my silly little poetry guy
DJ Peach Cobbler
2025-12-31 23:54:31 +0000 UTCYo Cobbler could you raise the prices of the Patreon I want to feel like one of those guys during the renaissance. Who would support different artists.
2008 2.7 v6 Chrysler Sebering Convertible Limited
2025-12-31 23:50:10 +0000 UTCLove you man. I'm excited to share in your excitement in 2026. Happy New Year and take care
TimtheForager
2025-12-31 23:36:17 +0000 UTCThe video has a good start, i just dont understand why you dont mention blood meridian in your title, if you want more yt engagement.
Nikolaj Bødewadt
2025-12-31 23:35:37 +0000 UTCHappy new year peachy boy
emmywebbmo
2025-12-31 23:29:10 +0000 UTCGoated first 3 seconds
Mytoeseateggs
2025-12-31 23:27:51 +0000 UTC
