hey guys welcome to a new feature here on nerd of the rings it's called collectibles review
now as you can imagine i am a huge fan of lord of the rings collectibles i love all the swords and
armory and the helmets and all the cool things that have come out in the years since the lord
of the rings and the hobbit trilogies and i've built up a small collection myself it's far
from a museum by any means but it's one that i've become proud of and i have two new additions to my
collection and i wanted to do those in special unboxing videos uh and give you my thoughts
and let you check out the cool details with me um first up today we're gonna be unboxing the helm of
eomer and then in a video coming up on the channel very soon we're going to unbox guthwine the sword
of eomer incidentally he's one of my favorite book characters a lot of the coolest lines from
the films that theoden has are actually eomers in the books so if you didn't know that it's an
interesting fact and well worth checking out the books so you can hear some awesome lines
delivered by eomer but for now we'll set this one aside and we'll dig in to this awesome helmet
this box is pretty huge
i was very surprised how big this box was
all right i don't have my pocket knife
i guess it opens a little bit more than letters
all right man look at that
oh man
this is fun i love opening stuff like this holy cow
oh my gosh it's definitely got some good weight to it for sure
oh man
a little plastic off here that is impressive
i love that stuff like this has some genuine weight to it and it's not you know flimsy
like if you were building your own you do like the foam thing that cosplayers do but this is
this is pretty legit stuff here
oh man i have a little bit of a big head so it's a little tight on me but man that is pretty legit
yes look at that this this uh hair throws me off a little bit it looks cool in the films but man
when it flings in front here it kind of throws me off i can't ride a horse
but i feel like i should be able to right now that's pretty legit
it's a very tall helmet too
man yeah i love that the weight is substantial you see the the horse
designs here on the side now these of course are modeled after the uh props that weta used
um and the weta design is second to none as always um i i always enjoyed the eomer's head this horse
head coming down for the nose guard it's a really cool feature and then on the back we've got
some text here including there's eomer and then i think this is all rohirric text on the back
which i think we might have a translation for the main the ponytail of hair the ponytail
that's actually pony's tail if you think about it could be a pony's actual tail
and then of course this also comes with a base
very nice so it's got a base that is actually has some leather to it and it's got a nice um
plate up here says uh number 366 out of 1500. so there's only 1500 of these guys made
looks like we've got some plastic to peel off here yeah there we go so we get that nice and shiny
but yeah so this is obviously modeled after eomer's armor which is really cool i love that
it's not just like a plain stand i think this is a really cool way to display this helmet
so we put it on
here there we go
the helm of eomare 18th king of rohan
we've got the certificate of authenticity here let's see what it says so on the one
side we've got the lord of the rings across the top and then we've got the full ring verse
all the way through in the land of mordor where the shadows lie and then on the front side here
we've got quite a large bit of text going into some details about uh eomer as a character um
rohan and the rohirum and then the fact that this was based on the designs by wetta
says how the the prop maker is what a workshop production designer daniel faulkner
who incidentally we had here on the channel once so that's pretty cool we get to see one of his
pieces brought to life right here in the flesh i love that it says even though the helm is designed
with a leather padded interior and can be worn it is intended to be a collectible display replica
impact or shock may cause damage to the replica so don't get into any actual sword fights with this
thing but people would run away from you because they'd be so scared of how fierce you are so
on the certificate of authenticity it tells us a little bit about eomer it says the nephew of king
feyodin aomare was a captain of the king's cavalry marshall of the mark third marshall of the mark to
be specific it doesn't say that but we know and one of rohan's mightiest horsemen like his sister
aon eomer was a noble and strong warrior he led a company of rohirum horsemen to victory against the
urukai in the battle of helm's deep when theoden rallied his forces to the defense of gondor
eomer was by his side riding with the rohirum to protect the white city of minas tirith
and the hope of all middle earth he bravely fought against the forces of mordor on the pelinor fields
skillfully wielding his sword guthwina and hurling his great spear speaking of a spear
i did see that united cutlery's actually coming out with eomer's spear which is pretty awesome
because it takes out two moomix two mumma kill one spear it's like two birds one stone but
much more middle earthy in the final stand against the dark lord sauron
eomer fought alongside aragorn with the armies of rohan and gondor at the gates of mordor he
was recognized by his kinsmen on the battlefield by the flowing horsetail that crested his helm
after theoden's death and the war of the ring was won eomer was named king of rohan which
actually in the books he's named king of rohan on the pelinor fields by theodin as he's dying
but we can get into that later rohan was a kingdom of horsemen the rohirum and their entire culture
was based around the breeding and trading of horses which were essential in their daily lives
their clothing weapons and armor were all centered around nature and horses eomer's armor and weapons
were elaborately decorated and among the finest in rohan he wielded a royal sword called guthwina
which he used to slay many orcs and uruks from isengard that dared trespass into rohan
his steel helm was adorned with a brass horse head nose guard extending across the crest of the helm
ending in a flowing horse hair tail the cheek guards were elaborately engraved with a horse
motif the leather neck guard was engraved with rohirric words stating the helm belongs to soldier
and prince eomer protector and kinsmen of theoden so pretty cool that it gives a little bit of a
background uh history of aomere especially from the movies it's mostly centered on the movies
obviously and the fact that this is based on the weta workshop design i just i just love that about
these items like i said earlier aio mary's one of my favorite book characters because he has a lot
of the best lines that theoden has in the films which is probably part of the reason why i love
theoden so much from the films but the chanting of death death death and ride to ruin in the world's
ending those are all lines of eomers from the battle of pelanor fields and then another one
of my favorite lines of his uh actually theoden gets that in the two towers film but again eomer
says it at pelinor fields out of dark out of dark today's rising i came singing in the sun
sword unsheathing to hope's end i rode and to hearts breaking now for wrath now for ruin and
a red nightfall yeah like i said i do have kind of a big head so this is a little snug on me um but
i don't think that'd be the case for the average person i i think i have a bigger than average head
there's a reason that i fit into dwarf helmets really well and of course as i said theoden is
one of my favorite characters from the film so i do already have his sword it's one of my favorite
of the swords from the films um and i just love the fact that the horses are so integral to all of
their weapons and one thing we'll notice you know when we get to uh to aomer's sword will notice you
know that there are similarities but there's also differences between the rohirum swords so
you know aoen and aomere and theoden they're all different but they all pay homage to the
the horses that are so uh important to their civilization it's just it's a really cool
piece i'm not gonna lie i'm really pumped uh that i'm holding this right now this is pretty legit
um eomer's is one of the most distinct helmets in the lord of the rings films i feel like um his and
theodens uh i like i said i i have a soft spot for dwarves and and rohirum um and theoden gimli
and eomer are some of my favorite helmets from all the films um so to be holding this right now
feels pretty awesome and it definitely gets bonus points too for the bass like this bass is really
really cool i actually wanted to bring up the gimli one to kind of compare the two
so i've had the gimli one for a little while now and i think that it came out first i'm
not 100 sure which one was released first but i'm guessing probably gimli
and you can see there's a little bit difference of there's quite a bit of difference actually of
the two bases so gimli's you'll notice looks a lot like the uh plaques that you would see
on the united cutlery swords um that you would see mounted on the wall which which is fine like
it's a it's a good design it works it's still got the helm of gimli in a cool font there
so perfectly perfectly fine base um i just feel like this eomer one takes it to a whole nother
level there's actual leather in this i think i read in the in the paper that came with it
but it definitely feels leathery um the design is obviously there from the films from eomer's
armor and the fact that this is worked into the base uh just gives it a whole other dimension
it brings it to a whole nother level for me um so i can understand i'm not 100 sure what the current
pricing is on this now but i could understand if this was a little bit more expensive uh than the
gimli one was back in the day when it was coming out so i've officially swapped out rohan headwear
so no more of this when we're talking about war of the rohirum i'm going to
be wearing this puppy right here it is a little top-heavy a little bit front heavy i'd say from
the uh the horse design from the nose guard going all the way up but it's not too bad i think the
the gimbly one actually weighs a little heavier on my head if i was comparing the two
um but they're both fun it's really cool to wear like i'm just sitting here looking at myself
in the monitor and it absolutely brings a smile to my face because this is a legit helmet
um again bonus points for the bass this bass is incredible i just love the this world that i love
so much has so many cool collectibles from it and so many are so uh similar to what was actually
used in the films i don't usually go into like scoring systems and stuff like that i just kind
of give my opinion and you know i figure you guys can uh judge for yourself on these kind of things
i will say i really really enjoy this helmet i enjoy all of these swords and the collectibles and
the armory and all of it is just so so good and it's replicated from the wetted designs which just
makes it even more special um again bonus points i feel like for the base the base is really cool
but i love just being able to pop on this helmet and feel like riding into battle in pelinor fields
i do want to say a special thanks to united cutlery they did send me this helmet to
unbox and share with you guys here on the channel and give my thoughts on it so if you're interested
in this helmet or any of the swords and like i said earlier they're coming out with eomer
spear later this year which is going to be really cool you can go to the link in the description and
see all of their current products and they've got a lot of their upcoming products there as
well if you want to check those out thanks so much for watching guys if you have ideas of
other collectibles that you'd like to see me unbox and review here on the channel let me know in the
comments and be sure you hit subscribe because we'll have that sword of aomir coming up really
soon here on the channel thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time on nerd of the rings