the witcher game franchise while opinions may be split i really do think it is a worthy
continuation of sapkowski's books after all i can't play gwent in the books now can i yearning
to play a few rounds of gwent that oughta set me straight for everyone who might have stumbled upon
this video my name is elena and welcome in the tower while playing through the trilogy i couldn't
help but notice just how many references to lord of the rings one may find sprinkled here and there
i scouted both the games and the internet and i was able to write quite the list 20 references to
be exact plus a couple honorable mentions i really hope i've gathered them all after all i named the
video in the manner i did if you're having a bit of a deja vu a while back i made and uploaded
a video about witcher 2 references but decided to delete and make a more comprehensive version
why make three videos of varying lengths when i can just make one chunky video with no further ado
reference 1 the precious ring in witcher 1 right at the beginning of chapter 2 you may meet this
shady character in vizima who asks for the return of a family ring in the quest finders keepers
a precious golden ring to be exact gerald finds the deal suspect to say the least
what's the deal keep it all as long as you return the family ring to me why is this ring so precious
with that ring i'll come into my inheritance now moving on to witcher 2 reference 2 piece of lembas
in order to get this special piece of dialogue you may have to do a couple of things back to back in
act one you have to give iorveth his sword during the ambush in the elven bath give me my sword
die side with iorveth afterwards rather than with roche say to him i'd resort to a trick
when you talk to him just before the attack on flotsam the harbor could still be dangerous what
did you expect a tea party then finally when you meet him close to the gate he will say
this is the place we have to get past the gate piece of lembas what referencing none other than
the waybread of the elves reference three balin and the mines of moria though they are not the
mines of moria they are the mines of vergen if you side with iorveth in act two you have the
chance of exploring the mines beneath vergen and figuring out what's going on down there
you will find several dead dwarves throughout the mine some of them holding some very interesting
maps and letters they detail balin's expedition in the mines and are a poignant reference to dwarves
delving too deep reference four a balrog also in the mines of vergen right at the end of the
mine in the deepest tunnel there stands a creature named a bullvore which if you ask me looks quite
similar to a balrog reference five minor npcs i was able to find three npcs with names referencing
lord of the rings two in vergen and one in loc muinne i'm talking about radagast, bombur and
undominel referring to none other than arwen of course reference six gandalf the zerrikanian mage
right at the beginning of the flotsam questline in the discussion between dandelion geralt and
zoltan this piece of dialogue pops up let me guess the suspects also include a zerrikanian
alchemist and a group of halflings bold theory that but the mob comes up with even better ones
i genuinely thought it references the hobbits and gandalf reference 7 philippa's comment probably
the most known easter egg from the witcher 2 bar the dead body of altair from the prologue
is philippa's request for magical artifacts here have a listen what else do you need to heal saskia
thormador is a self-perpetuating substance any incursion into a cluster of poisoned cells causes
an immediate chain reaction each tainted cell that is removed is replaced by 10 new
tainted cells to interrupt this reaction i'll need an ungodly amount of the power
a water or air genie or one of the 20 legendary rings of power would be best one to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them right and then i'll have to run barefooted to the top of a volcano
all right all right let's forget the rings now where have i heard about 20 rings of power before
reference 8 sword of colonel gondor still in act 2 on iorveth's path while trying to find the flag
of the dun banner geralt will come across a spirit you may either fight it or trick it if you trick
it he says this the unicorn has returned he stands at vergen's gates with your help he'll avenge the
dun banner the standard lies in the sarcophagus take it you will also find the sword of colonel
gondor now it is yours thank you now moving on to witcher 3 reference 9 zoltan and his axe
before the battle of kaer morhen geralt may visit some of his old friends and ask them to join the
fight against the wild hunt a funny call back to gimli happens when you recruit zoltan in novigrad
the wild hunt will attack soon afterwards could use you at our side you'll have me and my axe
reference 10 smeagol the most comprehensive easter egg apart from piece of lembas from the witcher 2
is the gollum reference found in the blood and wine dlc the whole ordeal starts when you find
a corpse close to the trastamara estate that has a note mentioning a precious golden spoon
later in the main quest line during la cage au fou geralt can find another note and a
spoon key inside the trastamara estate which will guide him to the pheasantry in beauclair
wight's a true collector in the basement of the pheasantry one can find smigole's cooking book
the end of the treasure hunt leads to an elven ruin which used to serve as a culinary laboratory
reference 11 bagginson hugo meiersdorf owner of honeyfield meadworks will ask geralt not
to call him bagginson if geralt interacts with him long enough don't dare call me bagginson
reference 12 smaug right at the start of the game in white orchard during the arsonist questline
the dwarf willis says something very interesting referencing in my opinion smaug i'm the only smith
around so i got to service that garrison banged dents outta plate shoe horses that sort of thing
nilfgaardians don't pay me a bloody copper just give me supplies and orders
but humans can't fathom that they think i'm getting rich off their
misfortune that I sleep on a pile of gold like a ploughing dragon
reference 13 the stone trolls in an unmarked cave in skellige on the coast
between arinbjorn and kaer muire gerald may find three trolls preparing a meal an
obvious call back to the three trolls in the trollshaws found in the hobbit
reference 14 gimli at helm's deep in the hearts of stone dlc during the heist in the open sesame
quest if you recruit the dwarf casimir bassi as an assistant in the heist this cutscene plays making
a call back to a similar event involving a certain dwarf and tossing at helm's deep reference 15
undomiel the elven mage ever wonder what happened to undomiel the mage from loc muinne's tavern
well wonder no more she suffered a pretty gruesome fate she got captured and killed a sad fate for
a character that is supposed to bear the name of the evenstar reference 16 geralt gamgee during the
quest a walk on the waterfront in novigrad ginter de lavirac the fisstech dealer introduces geralt
as his gardener which is quite similar to samwise gamgee introducing himself as frodo's gardener
who's the fella followed you here he's my gardener i never go anywhere without him he's good luck you
see just no funny stuff got it reference 17 the witcher fellowship you have no idea how long it
took me to get footage of this reference if geralt walks off the edge of the map he may say this
a long trek requires a fellowship oughta cobble one together reference 18 thorin's company if
geralt wanders around novigrad's fields long enough he may stumble upon a company of 13 dwarfs
referencing thorin's company i have looked out and about for so long but most i could find was
a company of seven i'm sure they're somewhere around reference 19 spies of isengard in the
early game after the audience with emhyr emperor of nilfgaard geralt may find a letter addressed
to yennefer from fringilla vigo fringilla writes forgive me for not answering your early attempt
to reach me via megascope i'm trying to limit my magic communication to the absolute minimum
one never knows who's listening which could be paraphrasing gandalf's remark to saruman
in the lord rings film before we move to the last reference i have three honorable mentions
the first one is the name of this quest from the witcher 3 which might be a reference to a
chapter from the hobbit either that or it simply references the popular idiom another mention is
just how similar ciri's portrait looks to bilbo's portrait from an unexpected journey
the third is that the mountains near kaer morhen are called the blue mountains as we
know there are some blue mountains in tolkien's work too near lindon reference 20 caranthir when
you see a name like this pop up on screen it's impossible not to remember it mainly when it's
caranthir fourth son of feanor both the caranthir from tolkien's work and the witcher are elves i'm
not sure if the similarity was intentional but i've included it anyway and that's all i have
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