This week on the channel +531K views this week
Gandalf's unfinished confrontation gives The Broken Sword a Tolkien question
The channel's only new upload explores the Witch-king encounter that Rohan's arrival interrupts in the book.
In short
The Broken Sword has 284,000 subscribers and 50,073,396 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 329,372 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Could Gandalf Have Defeated the Witch-king of Angmar?", with 219,446 views. By subscribers it is No. 4,093 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 5 of 10 in category "Books and reading".
The numbers today
subscribers
284,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
50,073,396
▲ 329,372 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
19,658
on a typical day: 56,850
Videos on the channel
609
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
6 days ago
October 18, 2026
Views per subscriber
176
a new long video usually gets 99,955 views
Next milestone
500,000 subscribers
216,000 subscribers to go
What happened lately
October 16, 2026 passed 1M views Everyone Gets Gandalf’s Magic Wrong. The video passed 1,000,000 views.
The video drawing the most views now
Everyone Gets Gandalf’s Magic Wrong.
- Video published
- September 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,194,640
- Video views, pace per day
- 17,522
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Books and reading | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,093 of 5,387 | 5 of 10 |
| By views gained this week | 3,854 of 5,295 | 4 of 10 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 4.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Books and reading
Views gained this week in the category Books and reading
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 283,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 284,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 48,335,807 views → October 24, 2026: 50,073,396 views · average: 62,056 views a day
The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 12.5 in the category: 20.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.6 in the category: 1.3
- short vs long
- 1 short (up to 3 minutes), 14 long
average views per short video: 37,717
average views per long video: 175,797
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- MilestoneEveryone Gets Gandalf’s Magic Wrong. The video passed 1,000,000 views.
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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This week on the channel +531K views this week
Gandalf's unfinished confrontation gives The Broken Sword a Tolkien question
The channel's only new upload explores the Witch-king encounter that Rohan's arrival interrupts in the book.
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