The age of a movie has very little to do with whether it is good or bad. You will miss out on some of the best films ever made if you exclude them because of their age.
for me, the aragorn appreciation didn't happen until i was older. i was all about legolas, my mom was all about aragorn. then i grew up...and i got it lmao
Young girls love Legolas. Young boys want to be a dwarf. Young women love Aragorn. Young men want to be Aragorn. Mature men and women want to be and know people like Sam.
"why can't they make movies like this anymore?" "They need to go outside more." Dude be like "the secret to good writing is touching grass." Interestingly this is actually pretty accurate. I heard a guy who worked in Hollywood a long time say that it used to be writers had a lot of real world experience, but now they're like hired out of college and placed on these writing teams. Gene Roddenberry had a long career as a cop before creating Star Trek. George Miller, creator and director of the Mad Max movies, is a doctor by trade. Tolkien was a professor and linguist who survived WW1. Dude knew what it was like to walk into hell and return. He created an entire world with thousands of years of history and multiple languages for a fantasy series that would be considered short by modern standards.
It's funny knowing that Tolkien made the languages first and was like "well now I need a world for these languages to exist in" and casually makes on of the most influential and revered stories of the 20th century
Not that Roddenberry was a great writer. Props for creating Star Trek as a concept, but the The Cage and TMP, where he had the most creative control, were some of the low points for the franchise. There are worse episodes, not to mention Star Trek V, but Roddenberry's vision for a more evolved, conflict-free humanity was antithetical to good storytelling.
@@toptextbottomtext9833 yeah, that's kinda what makes it great though. He didn't set out to make some commercially popular thing. The idea came from that and then his desire to come up with stories to tell his kid and dude just got invested in it and wanted to explain everything. Once he got going he just kept adding more ideas and fleshed it out and just built this massive world. Now they just build a facade of a world that's enough to tell the story.
I love how Tolkien just committed to it as his overall art. I always want to imagine what it would be like if ppl like this continued to live for another hundred years ( Einstein, Nikola Tesla, etc)
Small detail, but one of my favourite things about the Balrog is that instead of roar, they made him sound like a blast furnace. Really emphasizes that this thing is otherworldly.
To me it sounds like rocks and glass being grinded. Or I heard it was meant to emulate tectonic plates grinding each other. Sound design team WAS cooking that day and we’re still eating good twenty years later.
I saw it in theaters, I was only 9 years old. I barely remember any of the Fellowship but the Balrog roaring sticks out in my memory as clear as yesterday. That and the very end when Frodo and Sam start walking towards their destination and the screen going black while I thought “that’s it?? I need more!”
Yeah honestly these movies are timeless, I’m not even saying that as a hardcore fan, the sheer passion that went into these movies is what makes them the GOAT to me
The Lord of the Rings, as movies, and strictly as movies, was only possible due to the environment it came out. CGI was revolutionized with Terminator 2, followed by The Matrix with bullet time and other amazing break throughs. Then you had Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan, big spectacle epics that revolutionized blood and gore. The CGI, mixed with the specatcle, mixed with the live action sets and miniatures were only possible during those years at the turn of the millenium. It was lightning in a bottle. Imagine if LOTR came out in 2024, or 1954....it wouldn't be the same.
Boromir: _*is dying_ Girls: “How is he still doing this?” Guys: _*watching respectfully and relating to the strangely shared fantasy of making a final stand to hold off the enemy to protect our friends and loved ones to the very end_
Tbf, most of the mistakes he made was because the One Ring was specifically targeting him with it's magic due to it knowing humans are weakest to it's powers. If you remember the scene from The Two Towers where he was giving a speech to his army, he was a pretty normal and awesome dude when not around the Ring.
It hits harder with the extended edition version, the OG version. Peter Jackson wanted us to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result. Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons. - Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart. But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again. The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️). Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film. It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!” It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
“Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?”
He always had the seed of an idea to try to create a mythology to replace the lost English myths. It took many years for that seed to sprout and grow, and when he started writing it down, realized about half way through that it wasn't working and started over. The Lord of the Rings is truly a labour of love.
@@leeneufeld4140 He was asked by his publisher for a sequel to The Hobbit. He wanted to publish the legendarium, but the publisher wanted more about Hobbits. So he put his life work aside and wrote the Lord of the Rings. Of course, as in The Hobbit, the world he had been creating to explain the Elvish languages he had created, kept seeping into the story. After the Lord of the Rings was publish, he turned back to the other works and tried to make it all fit together into the same space. So much was written before The Hobbit even existed. And was written and re-written throughout his entire life and beyond to his son publishing. But it started with the languages.
Don't mean to be that guy, but actually Tolkien first created the map of Middle Earth and then created peoples and races to inhabit the lands on the map. THEN he created the languages for all of those races and people. Map > Races > Languages > Books
People need to stop saying “why don’t they make movies like this anymore”, like nobody was making movies like this that’s why this trilogy is a masterpiece of film
Too bad they missed out on the character development and worldbuilding and foreshadowing that comes with the original version. The extended. Peter Jackson wanted people to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result. Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons. - Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart. But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again. The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️). Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film. It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!” It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
THIS was the comment I was looking for before watching. It might sound shallow but whenever I watch a reaction, it needs to be to the extended editions. And especially if they’re trying to covert ‘haters’ to the movie. Like, the extended editions add SO much more lore and excitement. Why anyone would do the normal editions over the extended is beyond me
@@Makkaru112 it's a rewatch series anyways so i think it's fine, then they will watch the extended versions on rewatch and get more lore without it feeling overwhelming
Sure, in that they both say the word "wizard". Not much other than that. 🙄 Edit: Sorry if this was too snarky, I meant that HP isn't even like LOTR because it is crap and doesn't even do a fair job of imitation as flattery.
Yeah, but everybody says oh it’s dumbledore, or oh look it’s Ned! Makes my skin crawl. LOR inspired both of those movies/ series. But, TBF they are mostly still young.
@@legendsofcelestite.officia5398 Sam does mention that he hopes Bill will run into the Rangers. When they first got Bill he had been abused and neglected by his owner. But Sam gave Bill the full Hobbit treatment and fully rehab'd the pony. The entire journey Sam wouldn't stop talking about how great Bill is, "he never ceased to murmur his praises." Bill loved Sam. Sam saved Bill. "Bill the Pony stood beside Sam and seemed to understand well enough. He nuzzled his shoulder and heaved a long sigh. Sam gave him a last pat, turned away, and followed Aragorn."
When I was in college I got to see Ian McClellan in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (1981). He was awesome and made me fall in love with Shakespeare...I knew he was a super talent even then!!!!!
Fun fact: Christopher Lee (Saruman) met Tolkien while he was alive. He also was the inspiration for James Bond, and a direct descendant of Charlemagne. Rest in paradise, Sir Christopher Lee
@@bethcushway458 His mother was a Countess. Some British aristocrats lead pretty wild lives. It's a life where you're born with wealth, lots of social clout, connections, and zero responsibilities. Life is their oyster, so the adventurous ones tend to pick up some next level stories.
Count Dankula did a two part _Mad Lads_ retrospective on Christopher Lee because one video wasn't enough for the man. Described him as 'the main character of IRL'. Lee flipped a coin over whether to become an opera singer or an actor; made a pr0n film by accident; and guest-starred on a heavy metal album about his own ancestor in his 80s!
@@gdbssa it's definitely something I've appreciated more as time goes by. At heart he was a good man, not just a great warrior, but a Good man who defended and cared for his people and others who needed him. I'm glad they were able to put in the little moments in the movies showing his care for the hobbits - training them, worrying about them in the snow, wanting to give them time to grieve, and of course his first words as he lay dying "they took the little ones." 😭😭😭
@@BDUBZ49 it means they have brain damage and can't use normal words for the insane desire to "stand out" when all it does it make them look like fools.
Gandalfs speech to the Balrog on the bridge of a khazad dum right before they both fall. "I'm a servant of the secret fire...." Is gandalfs proclaiming himself a Maia (essentially an angel of the same spiritual class as the Balrog) and that he's a far bigger threat to the demon than it realizes. Gandalfs isn't a man. He's an angel sent to middle earth to help the ppls of middle earth save themselves. The vast majority of his angelic powers have been withheld from him hence why his "order" pretends to be wizards. Both gandalf and the Balrog are older than time itself. They quite literally helped create existence.
I also love that at first he says 'you can not pass' showing that he is scared of the balrogs power, but after he reveals who he is he says' You shall not pass' showing that he trust his own power
@@brettmuir5679 Balrog means in Sindarin "demon of might" (bal = power/might, raug/rog=demon). There are few good angelic spirits of flame and fire around, (as Tolkien says most flame spirits joined with Melkor/Morgoth) and one of them, Arien, takes care of the Sun. But there are no good Balrogs, just as there are no good demons.
@@matiasluukkanen7718 I was being simple for the lay reader. What I should have specified is that they are the Valakulyar (of the same order as Balrogs). Correct me if you have more info. This is obscure knowledge from before all the newer editions Christopher Tolkien published
OOOOOHHH THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL I'm literally from Utah, and I was very curious as to why I couldn't fucking stand any of these people's commentary @@Perhapsawiseman
I'm one of the elder millennials. I'm 37. I was there when each of these movies were born. And it still thrills me that the new gen can feel and be carried away by Tolkien's world ❤
@@CarlyMccI’d been reading the Hobbit & LotR since the late 70’s. I was so worried when I heard they were making these, because I thought that if they screwed them up, fantasy would continue to be the purview of nerds & weirdos, like it was when I was growing up. I can clearly remember the relief I felt when Hobbiton first came into view. I knew these filmmakers weren’t messing around & really loved the material.
57:54 "did you know?" now THAT is a fan. The context: The actor accidentally unsheathed his real knife instead of the fake one he was meant to throw, and Aragorn's actor realized and that deflection of the blade actually stopped him from getting stabbed.
I love how the Ring is its own charachter. It whispers when Sauron's name is spoken, it calls out the Nazgul when they are close, and it's so powerful that even Galadriel, the most powerful elf-queen in the world, and Gandalf, a literal angel, are terrified of what they could do with it.
Boromir’s death always gets me. He redeemed himself in the end. It’s Aragorn’s ancestor that failed to destroy the ring all those centuries ago. He’s the true king of Gondor, one of the great places of man. “Rest in peace, son of Gondor.”
Boromir is the son of Denethor, who was the steward of the throne of Gondor, not the king, he has no royal lineage to the throne, he cannot be the true king of Gondor.
32:46 "I wanna get married there, that's soo juicy." Aight bois... I was trying to give "juicy" a chance as a new slang... but it was after this I realized that it is an undisputed fact of the universe that the word "juicy" needs to be retired from gen z slang...
Tolkien wrote multiple dialects of elvish as well as other languages. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon languages at Oxford. My favorite tidbit is when he wrote the Hobbit the editor tried to use the more accepted spelling of "dwarfs" rather then Tolkien's use of "dwarves." Tolkien told him basically "shut up I wrote the dictionary"
Same thing with the word elven. As the plural for elf was elfs till he essentially made it common practice to make it “en” for the plural of those 2 races
As long as we're picking apart grammar - I think the word you're looking for is "elves," the plural form of "elf." The word "elven" is an adjective, meaning "of or pertaining to elves."
And at the time before heading over to the village of Bree, Pippin and Merry do not understand the severity of the ring Frodo carries. Not yet at least.
Frodo is 50 and Pippin is in his 20's. But for a hobbit, 20's are like your teens and you come of age at 33, but it's possible Frodo stopped aging as soon as he inherited the ring. A 111 year old hobbit should look no more than 80, but Bilbo hasn't aged since his mid 50's.
@@Gwenhwyfar7 Frodo's only 50 in the books. If he was 50 in the movies, Sam, Merry, and Pippin would be lot younger than pictured during the scenes before Frodo gets the ring. Pippin would be like 9 yrs old, but he clearly hadn't aged at all from his first scene to the scenes after they start their adventure. Frodo's likely still 33 during the adventure, which makes sense because Elijah Wood was 18 when filming, which makes both him and Frodo at their beginning of adulthood.
I love that scene where the Nazgul is crouching and sniffing around. That thing is so evil and unnatural that even insects are trying to get away from it.
A brilliant detail from Peter Jackson: the Nazgul appears from behind the tree, from right to left; however, if you look closely before it appears, there's nothing on the right side of the tree. The Nazgul wasn't riding from right to left, it simply materialized where it had to be in order to find the Ring.
The reason the bugs & worms were coming out of the soil when the Ringwraith was near the hiding hobbits (and the reason the dog was afraid of the searching Ringwraith earlier) is because the Nazgul are so vile and terrible that nature itself abhors them. The trees were shuddering as they approached the hobbits on the road, which is why Frodo yelled, "Get off the road! Quick!" They are anti-life ("neither living nor dead" as Aragorn describes them). They are servants of Sauron, aka Gorthaur, aka "Abomination." Just touching one could injure or kill you. Thus the creepy crawlies in the earth wanted to move away from it as fast as possible. ((Extended but about the Nazgûl below)). The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power. He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while. But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling. But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring.
The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power. He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while. But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling. But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring.
@@Nemnex The reason the bugs & worms were coming out of the soil when the Ringwraith was near the hiding hobbits (and the reason the dog was afraid of the searching Ringwraith earlier) is because the Nazgul are so vile and terrible that nature itself abhors them. The trees were shuddering as they approached the hobbits on the road, which is why Frodo yelled, "Get off the road! Quick!" They are anti-life ("neither living nor dead" as Aragorn describes them). They are servants of Sauron, aka Gorthaur, aka "Abomination." Just touching one could injure or kill you. Thus the creepy crawlies in the earth wanted to move away from it as fast as possible. ((Extended about the Nazgûl below)). The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power. He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while. But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling. But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring. Because the Valar aren’t about control. Never have been. It’s their main tenets. As well as the elves that have the same laws and virtues. Which also applies to Númenor They took an unspoken vow to not take direct action. When Ainur clash: land masses sink to the bottom of the sea like Beleriand in the the War Of Wrath etc. this was why the sun and moon from the last flower and fruit being set in an area where Morgoth couldn’t go to ruin them. He followed Tillion and Arien & got majorly burned by Arien as she was evidently stronger than him in her unbound form, remaining faithful (tethered to Eru and therefore her purest version of herself.) Even the Firey spirits that became Balrogs/Valaraukar were of similar type of Ainur to Arien. Same as when Eru didn’t attack anyone. Moving Valinor into a limbo zone between Eä and the rings of the world which caused arda to bend and caused tidal waves that didn’t just sunk Númenor. It destroyed entire coastline of middle earth and killed many innocent people. People who think Eru intentionally levelled middle earth don’t know much about the AllFather and free will and how sacred it is! See. The larger the character the larger the consequences. Even for Eru when bending reality itself to out Valinor into a safe space where hardly anyone could reach it ever again. Only two known ways to get there physically remain. Straight from the Grey Havens is functional as if the world had not been bent which is why it begins to look like the boats are flying at some point etc etc. and the route Idril and Tuor ventured together. Where Tuor became the first man to ever become an elf essentially. Great grandfather of Elrond. Father to Eärendil. ❤️
As Terry Pratchett once said: “J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
Legolas's face when they're standing outside Moria in mourning after Gandalf fell is underappreciated. He's (for an elf) relatively young and hasn't really experienced a loss like that, much less of someone as old, wise and powerful as Gandalf, whom the whole Fellowship clearly looked towards for guidance. The look on his face is a mixture of pain, sorrow and confusion, having never experienced these emotions, at least not to this degree. His look after the trio find Boromir dying is equally brilliant.
Something to remember is that this movie came out in Dec 2001, barely three months after 9/11. When Frodo and Gandalf are talking in Moria and Frodo says “I wish none of this had ever happened,” the entire audience was sharing that feeling. Gandalf’s answer, that “all we have to do is to decide what to do with the time that is given us,” meant so much to so many.
A lot of people share that feeling because a lot of really bad tragedies happen all over the world all the time. And the US is involved in quite a few of them. Also something to remember.
I remember feeling this in 01 now, I forgot that that was why it felt special even more, my heart breaks everytime Gabdalf repeats it at the end when Frodo is deciding. Remember how controversial for a moment when they were talking about renaming The Two Towere because of it? I'm glad they got to keep the title, also I remember Spider Man taking out the helicopter between the two towers in his web scene
Tolkien was a veteran of World War 1. He saw death and destruction on a scale that has rarely been seen in history. That he was able to draw on his experiences to write a story of such hope is what makes it so enduring, and why it resonates with us through every tragedy.
@@kazfarah7623 Stop trying to justify 9/11 weirdo. Those thousands who died that day had NOTHING to do with the Gulf War and other previous Cold War activities the US government secretly did and hid from the general public.
Watching the movie again, I realize that the entire Fellowship mourning Gandalf's fall so deeply despite only traveling together for about a month may seem weird to some people, but what the movies don't really explain is that every single member of the Fellowship had already had a personal connection to him from long before the events of the story.
Galadriel, the elf queen that was so frightening is the grandmother of Arwyn, the elf woman that Aragorn loves. That is why she tells him the gift she has already given to him is worth more than all the rest.
She definitely makes for a scary grandmother lol. I just envision her being like "My future grandson, I love you and all but if you break her heart I'll kick yo ass myself." But at the same time also be protective of them.
@@Dumbodwarf I mean she can literally read your mind. Good luck beating her in a fight, she'd know every single move you're about to make. And that's not even getting into all of the crazy magic she knows and created.
LOTR and the TikTok generation is a weird fit. I think I'm only like 5 years older than some of these people and I feel about a hundred watching them say things like "juicy" and "rizzed" about this modern classic 😂
'' Like Harry Potter '' I hate that. People are oblivious to the fact that this was written 60 years before and perhaps served as an inspiration to some elements in Harry Potter.
You are correct. LotR does predate Harry Potter by a good couple of decades, and absolutely served as inspiration for Rowling. The thing is...at this point, neither is new to the younger generations coming out, and movies are more accessible to people than books nowadays. And the movies Fellowship and Sorcerer's Stone came out the same year, iirc. Harry Potter, however, is aimed at a younger audience, so most younger viewers and readers are exposed to Harry Potter first. So while LotR DID come first, it's natural and understandable for people seeing it for the first time to say things like "the ring is like a horcrux" or "Gandalf looks like Dumbledore" because they're putting it into the context of what they know to help them understand. So yes, point out which came first and share that Rowling drew a lot of inspiration from Tolkien, but be kind about it. People coming in all judgemental because first time viewers don't magically know the timeline of which books came out first is what drives a lot of people away from our fandom.
I’d rather them make the comparison and experience it at all, if it helps them comprehend that’s cool too. Beats them never seeing such a fantastic story.
Yeah I'm not hearing it as them implying LOTR got the idea from Harry Potter. More just as "oh cool we've previously seen something with this concept so that makes it easier to understand."
She previously found the movie so boring she couldn’t complete it in previous attempts and yet throughout this occasion, she sits at the edge of the chair, following each scene with great focus. What a conversion!! 😅
That was the best part of the reaction for me😂😂😂 I tried to share this with my sister and her husband....was like a brick wall. Ten minutes in and they had gotten up and wandered off. Neither of my other two sisters or any of my aunts/uncles or cousins have seen it, as far as I know, so I really appreciate when someone breaks through and loves it.
I think she mainly found the books boring. I actually didn't like The Hobbit either. The story was good, but the writing style was so pedantic. But I was around 13 when I read it.
I had a friend like this - but with all prior attempts she missed a lot of exposition as she would be talking and visiting with others instead of focusing on the movie. She was hooked when we properly watched.
Speaking as a Gen X, and I remember a day when these movies were just a dream. Hollywood has forgotten how to make great movies like this without fucking it up
@@ScarriorIIIDo you really think corporates care about politics? It’s all a marketing strategy, drumming up controversy for clicks, and that ideology is what drags down big movies; capitalism demands maximum benefit for minimum effort. The market is the enemy of art.
@@BattleMatt Absolutely. So much hung in the balance, but Peter Jackson just blew it out of the water. The trimmings made it move just right without leaving out major plot points.
"It's so good it's making me mad" yeah, I feel similar. The amount of craftsmanship and effort they put into these movies, it makes other movies feel tacky. Other movies age poorly in 5 years, but these still look good after 23 years.
watched the reg version of Fellowship but once the extended version came out i didnt watch the other 2 until the extended versions were available and have not to this day seen the theatrical versions of The Two Towers or Return of the King
@@steamro11r Same with my family! We watched more than once in theatres, but we treated the theatrical release as a trailer for the "TRUE" extended edition home release.
The prologue is held up as one of the most efficient narrated prologues in cinema. It conveys a mountain of information in 7 minutes while also setting the tone, and keeping the audience engaged. For some people, it’s far too long, but I guess for this dude, it didn’t explain enough. Can’t please them all, I suppose.
That's what hooked me right away : the narrator's voice, the music, the cinematography... I didn't expect the once-in-a-lifetime journey I was about to experience.
Watching the faces of the ones who have seen the movie reacting to the comments from the ones who haven’t seen the movie was hilarious! 😂 Carter is a super fan, I enjoyed his comments. Cannon was pretty knowledgeable too.
It really wasn't him being ''weak'' just a moment of temptation, after a life-time of sacrifice and valour, judge not giants, lest thou be found wanting.
15:12 I love it when people think that the One Ring looks like a horcrux when in fact it is the horcruxes that look like the One Ring and most likely J. K. Rowling based it on the One Ring to create them. Sometimes because you couldn't see things in order, you forget what really came first and I tell you, The Lord of the Rings is much older than Harry Potter, the very concept of ''Dark Lord'' so used in Literature, cinema and animation were born from Tolkien's Legendarium
To be fair, in most old cultures there is a concept of "Undying creature with a relic that keeps him alive". It's an old concept, to be sure. As an example, in Slavic culture there is an entity that called "Koschey the Deathless" - a powerful undead mage whose life contains in a needle.
He gets more lines in the original version - Peter Jackson wanted people to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result. Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons. - Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart. But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again. The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️). Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film. It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!” It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
"That's so juicy," "She's so juicy." Whelp, I have no idea what the young'ns are saying these days. I am now officially old. I had the exact same reactions that the girls had to the Aragorn/Arwen scene, back when the movie released. My mom said that the recognition that Aragorn is hotter than Legolas is when a girl becomes a woman.
"I tried starting it many times, I just find it so boring" - Girl who gasps every 15 seconds, "what's he doing?", wonders what everything is and is the most engaged. Still the greatest movies of all time :)
This just shows how timeless this story is. When even a younger generation is asking why they can't make movies like this anymore, you know LotR is something special.
One of my favorite moments is when a reactor who thought these films would bore them, becomes one of the most invested. She was genuinely loving it within the first 5 minutes of the reaction lol
That was getting weird. I hope it's not some strange California slang that's about to spread to the rest of the country. I might cut off my ears if I hear people at work start unironically calling everything "juicy"
Boromir’s death gets me every time… Even in death, his first concern is for his friends and his people. The Ring corrupted his desire to ensure that Gondor remains safe. It turned a noble duty into obsession and desperation. I’m glad he was given his redemption in the end
One of my favorite parts of the Peter Jackson movies is just how close most of the cast still is, especially our hobbits. Merry and Pippin (Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd)even have a podcast! 😆 Love that y'all are watching these, my husband and I had our honeymoon in New Zealand for utterly nerdy reasons. Have fun watching/rewatching the rest!
Right, you don't miss much in the first theatrical, but you do NOT want to miss the extended from the rest because there are pivotal and final moments for many characters!
@@Gwenhwyfar7I agree. The first film, the only thing that should’ve been kept was Bilbo’s monologue about Hobbits & Hobbiton. Other than that, nothing important is really missed. The next two movies have scenes that really help the things together. The extended versions are superior to the theatricals. I’d highly recommend they watch those versions.
@@Gwenhwyfar7Galadriel’s Mirror and ring? Really? Calling the extended versions “extended” is a misnomer. They are far closer to Jackson’s original vision. The movies were deemed to be too long for theatrical release so were cut down-time can be an unforgiving master. But in so doing, some questions were left unanswered and future scenes weren’t set up as well as might have been. For people who can’t sit through a long movie, watching at home, take a brief break ~halfway.
@@joerosenman3480 Yeah, I can't even watch the theatricals now, I probably forget every scene they added in the first. I think they could have given us an intermission with the full extended in theater. Bring those back, seriously, no one will mind!
For the first movie, the cinematic version is better. Better pacing, better cut scenes results in better pacing. For the first movie, the extended version. The chain mail is over explained, the mithril scene with Gandalf is unnecessary. The Bilbo intro part is also making the combined intro too long. The scene meeting Galadriel first time with the whole group is choppy in the extended version. Also the "this is Nenya" (or something forgot the name) cut with Galadriel is awkward and should be cut or be expanded. For The Two Towers and Retun of the king, they cut out too many good and/or necessary scenes though. Extended is necessary. Boromir backstory and the scene when Saruman drops the palantiir (you know what Really happens but I don't want to spoil it). You need those scenes. I am happy we have all three extended versions, but for the first movie it's not necessary. (Edit:spelling)
For the question at 1:10:10 you guys **have** to watch the extended versions going forward. Especially the scene where the pressure Boromirs father puts on him is shown is so important, also for Faramirs character. It's such a shame they cut it for the theatrical version. Extended versions are a must, so many great scenes are cut.
One of the great lines in the Extended Edition said by Aragorn right after Boromir's death, "They will look for his coming at the White Tower, but he will not return." *long man tear falls down cheek*
To explain the creation of the Rings, Sauron took on a fair angelic/elf-like form and tricked the greatest elven smith at the time to make magic rings. Through Sauron's guidance and advice they were made to be powerful as said in the intro and divided up amongst the leaders of Dwarves and Men. (The Elves made their own, the Three, and he never touched them) Sauron made his Ring, killed the elf smith Celebrimbor and waged war on the world after claiming dominion on the world.
Good job, guys! At first I thought, oh great, that many young people will talk all over the movie, but you didn't. I look forward to watching The Two Towers with you!
Im always shocked at how much got cut out for the theatrical cuts. So much from the death of Isildur to Bilbo's "Concerning Hobbits" to Bilbo talking to Frodo at the party, to Meeting Rosy Cotton again in the Green Dragon Inn, UGH. That's just the first few minutes too. Moria doesnt get to show off its Mithril, Gandalf never mentions how valuable Frodo's armor is... So much... So much.
@@MrGaleanonsome of the extended scenes were filmed after the theatrical cuts were already finished. A big chunk of the cast and crew came back to do them.
I want saw something that said if you're a fan and show this to someone who's never seen it show them the extended version first then like 6 months later show them the theatrical version and when they start talking about stuff that they aren't seeing act like you don't know what they're talking about😂😂😂😂
I was 17 in 2003 on Christmas break. My older brother who didn’t live here anymore gave me the first 2 movies on DVD. A couple mornings after Christmas I woke up and started them up. He came downstairs and said start that over. We watched Fellowship, then Twin Towers and then he said ok let’s go the theater and see the Return of the King. A day I’ll never forget
1:10:03 the reason for that is partially because Gandalf was granted Narya, one of the three elven rings, which was described as having the power to inspire others to resist tyranny, domination and despair.
The extended editions get more and more important to watch later in the series. Whole story arcs that you will really wonder why and how they got cut, get cut.
Because to make money, movie theaters have to be able to have a minimum number of screenings per day, especially on the weekend (and that works for the studios, as well). The studio was already being generous on the final time for each of the released versions (and they knew the extended versions would help the to sell the dvds).
I always felt like the Fellowship on its own was always the most balanced movie of al three. It's a true journey, with many arcs, locations, new themes and characters.
After listening to the lady's comments, I'd try the extended edition of Two Towers. I know they're longer but the extra scenes give you time to breathe between big moments without making it feel drawn out. I don't think I've watched the theatrical release since seeing the extended.
The arrows Lurtz shot Boromir with are based off real medieval war arrows, which were larger than hunting arrows for small animals, or target arrows, which people are largely familiar with today. Boromir was a warrior and tanked those shots even more in the book, where it said he was hit by several, and even pulled at least one of them out.
These movies are over 20 years old and still better than 99.9% of movies out now
Which exactly 0.1% of movies is better than LOTR then?
@@LordHavelothCorrect question.
100%
@LordHaveloth it's not so much as better but just as good
The age of a movie has very little to do with whether it is good or bad. You will miss out on some of the best films ever made if you exclude them because of their age.
One of the most tragic aspects to Boromir is that the more he cherishes and wants to protect his people, the more the ring can twist and prey upon it
On the other hand, the more Frodo wants to destroy the Ring, the more he wants to walk it into Moria. Exactly where the Ring wants to go.
@@robbob5302
I think you meant mordor.
But I think it was also somehow lured into Moria, by the hand of Saruman, and on top, the Balrog's also there
@@mrterry1756
Yes I did
@@robbob5302 one does not simply walk out of Moria
- Gandalf, probably
But they ALL want to protect their people and the ones they love! His character has some defects that the rings preys on.
The girls: "OMG! Orlando Bloom!"
Me: "Oh, my sweet summer children. You just wait until Aragorn enters through the doors of Helm's Deep."
Yes! What an awesome scene. I love both actors ❤
for me, the aragorn appreciation didn't happen until i was older. i was all about legolas, my mom was all about aragorn.
then i grew up...and i got it lmao
naaa wait till they watch hobbit and see Thranduil 😉😉
@@DeviliaJanin And Thorin.
They're in the canon era of finding Legolas the most attractive 🤌 another decade and they'll be in their Aragorn era lol
Girls when see Legolas: 😍😍
Boys when see Gimli: 😄😄😄😄
Men when see Aragorn: My king!
My brother and his wife named their first puppy Gimli now whenever I visit them I go Frodo voice “Gimli!”
And after all that when we see you know who being the best mate ever.
Me when I see Galadriel: "I am yours, my Lady! Do with me what you will!" [falling to my knees]
My brother. My Captain. My King!
Young girls love Legolas.
Young boys want to be a dwarf.
Young women love Aragorn.
Young men want to be Aragorn.
Mature men and women want to be and know people like Sam.
"why can't they make movies like this anymore?"
"They need to go outside more."
Dude be like "the secret to good writing is touching grass." Interestingly this is actually pretty accurate. I heard a guy who worked in Hollywood a long time say that it used to be writers had a lot of real world experience, but now they're like hired out of college and placed on these writing teams. Gene Roddenberry had a long career as a cop before creating Star Trek. George Miller, creator and director of the Mad Max movies, is a doctor by trade. Tolkien was a professor and linguist who survived WW1. Dude knew what it was like to walk into hell and return. He created an entire world with thousands of years of history and multiple languages for a fantasy series that would be considered short by modern standards.
It's funny knowing that Tolkien made the languages first and was like "well now I need a world for these languages to exist in" and casually makes on of the most influential and revered stories of the 20th century
Not that Roddenberry was a great writer. Props for creating Star Trek as a concept, but the The Cage and TMP, where he had the most creative control, were some of the low points for the franchise. There are worse episodes, not to mention Star Trek V, but Roddenberry's vision for a more evolved, conflict-free humanity was antithetical to good storytelling.
@@toptextbottomtext9833 yeah, that's kinda what makes it great though. He didn't set out to make some commercially popular thing. The idea came from that and then his desire to come up with stories to tell his kid and dude just got invested in it and wanted to explain everything. Once he got going he just kept adding more ideas and fleshed it out and just built this massive world. Now they just build a facade of a world that's enough to tell the story.
This is underrated, love this comment
I love how Tolkien just committed to it as his overall art. I always want to imagine what it would be like if ppl like this continued to live for another hundred years ( Einstein, Nikola Tesla, etc)
Small detail, but one of my favourite things about the Balrog is that instead of roar, they made him sound like a blast furnace. Really emphasizes that this thing is otherworldly.
a blast furnance and rocks grinding together, thats the part i hear the most on its roar
They used two cement blocks rubbing together for his growl cause they wanted it to sound more earthy
Not "otherworldly", but "underworldly".
To me it sounds like rocks and glass being grinded. Or I heard it was meant to emulate tectonic plates grinding each other.
Sound design team WAS cooking that day and we’re still eating good twenty years later.
I saw it in theaters, I was only 9 years old. I barely remember any of the Fellowship but the Balrog roaring sticks out in my memory as clear as yesterday. That and the very end when Frodo and Sam start walking towards their destination and the screen going black while I thought “that’s it?? I need more!”
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the greatest trilogy ever made🔥💯
I'd go as far as to say it's the greatest cinematic achievement to date.
Yeah honestly these movies are timeless, I’m not even saying that as a hardcore fan, the sheer passion that went into these movies is what makes them the GOAT to me
Almost, Dark knight trilogy has it beat though 👍
@@BFG100 I’m sorry but I can’t disagree more
The Lord of the Rings, as movies, and strictly as movies, was only possible due to the environment it came out. CGI was revolutionized with Terminator 2, followed by The Matrix with bullet time and other amazing break throughs. Then you had Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan, big spectacle epics that revolutionized blood and gore. The CGI, mixed with the specatcle, mixed with the live action sets and miniatures were only possible during those years at the turn of the millenium. It was lightning in a bottle.
Imagine if LOTR came out in 2024, or 1954....it wouldn't be the same.
'Please sir, don't turn me into anything... unnatural'
MacKay: He turned him into the GOAT 🐐
😂😂😂
Jajajajajaja love this
💯💯💯
Yes, that was brilliant!
Didn't need to, Samwise was born as the GOAT!
Boromir: _*is dying_
Girls: “How is he still doing this?”
Guys: _*watching respectfully and relating to the strangely shared fantasy of making a final stand to hold off the enemy to protect our friends and loved ones to the very end_
Real
the reactions from some of these youtubers is like watching a toddler eat glue. Just stfu for 10 seconds and watch the damn thing.
@@cxo9378its the new generations man
@@mawortzno it’s not it’s every generation. There’s people who talk during movies in all generations
We’ve all been there.
I mean we haven’t, but we kinda wish we have
From "I thought it was boring" to leaning forward all into the movie😆it's what LOTR does💯
Boromir has a concise, classic redemption story. Torn in his allegiance, errs, makes retribution, seeks forgiveness. Very relatable.
Tbf, most of the mistakes he made was because the One Ring was specifically targeting him with it's magic due to it knowing humans are weakest to it's powers. If you remember the scene from The Two Towers where he was giving a speech to his army, he was a pretty normal and awesome dude when not around the Ring.
and not just that, he even succumbs to the allure of the evil item, so to speak.
It hits harder with the extended edition version, the OG version. Peter Jackson wanted us to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result.
Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons.
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Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart.
But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again.
The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️).
Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film.
It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!”
It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
Boromir wants to protect everyone, and The Ring plays on that. Insidious AF.
and dies in the end
Gen z slang is the new black speech of Mordor.
Ong
boom
The black speech of gen z will soon be heard in every corner of the west
Juicy
Do not utter it here.
“Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?”
"One day, our paths will lead us there and the tower guard will take up the call: The Lords of Gondor have returned."
I swear to you. I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail. Yeah ……Tolkien.. just Wow!
Goosebumps while reading yt comments....😅 only with LotR ❤
Yeah they should have done the extended version
Nope. It’s been diversified by tiny hat goblins, and now there’s thousands of homeless orcs and rent is 10000 gold pieces per month
Nonono, he created The Hobbit and LOTR to house the languages he created. The languages came first, then the books
He always had the seed of an idea to try to create a mythology to replace the lost English myths. It took many years for that seed to sprout and grow, and when he started writing it down, realized about half way through that it wasn't working and started over. The Lord of the Rings is truly a labour of love.
Thank you for this comment!
@@leeneufeld4140 He was asked by his publisher for a sequel to The Hobbit. He wanted to publish the legendarium, but the publisher wanted more about Hobbits. So he put his life work aside and wrote the Lord of the Rings. Of course, as in The Hobbit, the world he had been creating to explain the Elvish languages he had created, kept seeping into the story. After the Lord of the Rings was publish, he turned back to the other works and tried to make it all fit together into the same space. So much was written before The Hobbit even existed. And was written and re-written throughout his entire life and beyond to his son publishing. But it started with the languages.
😂 I tear up every time watching this movie its so good timeless masterpiece
Don't mean to be that guy, but actually Tolkien first created the map of Middle Earth and then created peoples and races to inhabit the lands on the map. THEN he created the languages for all of those races and people.
Map > Races > Languages > Books
People need to stop saying “why don’t they make movies like this anymore”, like nobody was making movies like this that’s why this trilogy is a masterpiece of film
Right?
Even the man who directed them couldn’t do it again
"That was a quick 3 hours"
You're ready for the extended editions. lol
Too bad they missed out on the character development and worldbuilding and foreshadowing that comes with the original version. The extended. Peter Jackson wanted people to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result.
Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons.
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Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart.
But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again.
The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️).
Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film.
It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!”
It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
THIS was the comment I was looking for before watching. It might sound shallow but whenever I watch a reaction, it needs to be to the extended editions. And especially if they’re trying to covert ‘haters’ to the movie. Like, the extended editions add SO much more lore and excitement.
Why anyone would do the normal editions over the extended is beyond me
@@Makkaru112exactly why when I bought all 6 films, they are only the EE versions. NO regrets!
@@Makkaru112 it's a rewatch series anyways so i think it's fine, then they will watch the extended versions on rewatch and get more lore without it feeling overwhelming
Every extended edition fan:
"But wait, there's more."
"It's like Harry Potter!" No. Harry Potter is like Lord of the Rings.
Sure, in that they both say the word "wizard". Not much other than that. 🙄
Edit: Sorry if this was too snarky, I meant that HP isn't even like LOTR because it is crap and doesn't even do a fair job of imitation as flattery.
Tbf every reactor I watch immediately understands the ring because of the concept of a horcrux and I think that's so fun 😂
Both great stories.
Yeah, but everybody says oh it’s dumbledore, or oh look it’s Ned! Makes my skin crawl. LOR inspired both of those movies/ series.
But, TBF they are mostly still young.
In that EVERYONE who watched Harry Potter or GoT or or or says that and it has to be corrected ☝️🤓 @@cpmf2112
@@cpmf2112 JK Rowling literally ripped the whole shit from LotR and narnia lol
The "Did you know" at 57:54 is not getting enough love, 10/10 joke for the 0.01% nerds who can appreciate it.
Hahahha his little smirk 😂
Let's see if he gets the helmet in the second movie.
I was looking if somebody would comment on that haha
It's not covered in the movies but rest assured, in the book Bill the Pony does make it home.
Even though in the books there are WOLVES chasing them. Bill the Pony is hardcore.
Gandalf gets an upgrade to Gandalf the White after Moria. You never see Bill the Pony and Shadowfax in the same scene. Just saying...
@@legendsofcelestite.officia5398 Sam does mention that he hopes Bill will run into the Rangers.
When they first got Bill he had been abused and neglected by his owner. But Sam gave Bill the full Hobbit treatment and fully rehab'd the pony. The entire journey Sam wouldn't stop talking about how great Bill is, "he never ceased to murmur his praises."
Bill loved Sam. Sam saved Bill.
"Bill the Pony stood beside Sam and seemed to understand well enough. He nuzzled his shoulder and heaved a long sigh. Sam gave him a last pat, turned away, and followed Aragorn."
It's crazy how Ian McKellan played Magneto in the first X-Men, then the next year played Gandalf in LOTR. What an incredible actor
When I was in college I got to see Ian McClellan in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (1981). He was awesome and made me fall in love with Shakespeare...I knew he was a super talent even then!!!!!
@@BillieArd So none of you could even spell Ian McKellen's name right...
Lol the girls all sitting forward with hands over mouth and nose and all the guys sitting back with hand under chin 😂 48:34
Fun fact: Christopher Lee (Saruman) met Tolkien while he was alive. He also was the inspiration for James Bond, and a direct descendant of Charlemagne. Rest in paradise, Sir Christopher Lee
I honestly don't believe everything Christopher Lee said. I think the man was a champion bullshitter.
@@bethcushway458 His mother was a Countess. Some British aristocrats lead pretty wild lives. It's a life where you're born with wealth, lots of social clout, connections, and zero responsibilities. Life is their oyster, so the adventurous ones tend to pick up some next level stories.
Count Dankula did a two part _Mad Lads_ retrospective on Christopher Lee because one video wasn't enough for the man. Described him as 'the main character of IRL'. Lee flipped a coin over whether to become an opera singer or an actor; made a pr0n film by accident; and guest-starred on a heavy metal album about his own ancestor in his 80s!
He also taught Chuck Norris all of his moves, not many people know that
Also THE Dracula for a couple of generations of horror moviegoers in the second half of the 20th centuty.
"you've kept your honor"
"I would have followed you,
my brother, my captain
my king"
so good
Growing up is realising Boromir is actually one of the best characters
Even reading these words make me tear up again
@@VordLoldemord Every time. 😢
His send off in the book is even more epic, the poem dedicated to him after his death is so beautiful
@@gdbssa it's definitely something I've appreciated more as time goes by. At heart he was a good man, not just a great warrior, but a Good man who defended and cared for his people and others who needed him. I'm glad they were able to put in the little moments in the movies showing his care for the hobbits - training them, worrying about them in the snow, wanting to give them time to grieve, and of course his first words as he lay dying "they took the little ones." 😭😭😭
"Juicy!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
These days words mean whatever you want them to mean that week. No one learns language or vocabulary anymore.
I disagree. They know the language and the vocabulary but they choose to ignore it. @@BDUBZ49
@@BDUBZ49 words are only what we want them to mean? I've heard of juicy stories, so why would it not apply here?
@@papahusky1263 The dude said "Juicy, it fits on my finger." Wtf does that mean?
@@BDUBZ49 it means they have brain damage and can't use normal words for the insane desire to "stand out" when all it does it make them look like fools.
Seeing the girls so devastated by Gandolfs death is 100% how I felt the first time seeing this.
Gandalf didn't fight shadow and flame and return from death by the grace of Illuvatar himself for you to misspell his name.
They were yawning, and then they were stunned. Beautiful
Gandolf 😂😂😂
Iluvatar didn't create Arda for you to misspell his! @@Xlcola
@@Xlcola hahahaha
“I don’t want Frodo to have it he’s too cute” oh boy this will be a wild ride
"Turned him into the goat" regarding Samwise. Haha what a line. Absolutely spot on lol 16:53
Gandalfs speech to the Balrog on the bridge of a khazad dum right before they both fall. "I'm a servant of the secret fire...." Is gandalfs proclaiming himself a Maia (essentially an angel of the same spiritual class as the Balrog) and that he's a far bigger threat to the demon than it realizes. Gandalfs isn't a man. He's an angel sent to middle earth to help the ppls of middle earth save themselves. The vast majority of his angelic powers have been withheld from him hence why his "order" pretends to be wizards. Both gandalf and the Balrog are older than time itself. They quite literally helped create existence.
He's also got one of the 3 Elvish Rings for that added buff!
He's also got one of the 3 Elvish Rings for that added buff!
Sauron and Sauruman are the same type of being as well but they were both corrupted.
I also love that at first he says 'you can not pass' showing that he is scared of the balrogs power, but after he reveals who he is he says' You shall not pass' showing that he trust his own power
Gandalf and the balrog, the most unwanted family reunion ever.
XD
It's freaking insane that Gandalf, the Balrog, and Sauron are all of the same race.
@@ThwipThwipBoom yup. Pre Arda angelic spirits. What is crazy also is that there are good Balrogs. They carry the chariot of the Sun
@@brettmuir5679 Balrog means in Sindarin "demon of might" (bal = power/might, raug/rog=demon). There are few good angelic spirits of flame and fire around, (as Tolkien says most flame spirits joined with Melkor/Morgoth) and one of them, Arien, takes care of the Sun. But there are no good Balrogs, just as there are no good demons.
@@matiasluukkanen7718 I was being simple for the lay reader. What I should have specified is that they are the Valakulyar (of the same order as Balrogs). Correct me if you have more info. This is obscure knowledge from before all the newer editions Christopher Tolkien published
"I'm feeling so rizzed" and "Rivendale is so juicy" have to be the 2 dumbest sentences I've ever heard
Take it easy on them, it’s Utah slang
chill out
OOOOOHHH THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL
I'm literally from Utah, and I was very curious as to why I couldn't fucking stand any of these people's commentary @@Perhapsawiseman
this is the worst reaction ive ever watched of this trilogy. tolkin would be rolling if he were to ever hear his amazing storys described this way....
That’s juicy. So juicy. This is juicy. He’s juicy. She’s juicy. I’m juicy. You’re juicy. We’re juicy. Everything is juicy!
I'm one of the elder millennials. I'm 37. I was there when each of these movies were born. And it still thrills me that the new gen can feel and be carried away by Tolkien's world ❤
Yes! Me too! 37 as well. I remember waiting for each one of these to come out and watching them in the theatre.
@@CarlyMccI’d been reading the Hobbit & LotR since the late 70’s. I was so worried when I heard they were making these, because I thought that if they screwed them up, fantasy would continue to be the purview of nerds & weirdos, like it was when I was growing up. I can clearly remember the relief I felt when Hobbiton first came into view. I knew these filmmakers weren’t messing around & really loved the material.
"Don't lecture me about the Lord of the Rings movies launch, witch. I was there when they were launched." (From another franchise, but valid)
Listening to the way they talk is interesting. Dude, goat, cook, sick. I’m 68
same
My brother
My captain
MY KING
My brother
My captain
My rizz 😂
57:54 "did you know?" now THAT is a fan.
The context:
The actor accidentally unsheathed his real knife instead of the fake one he was meant to throw, and Aragorn's actor realized and that deflection of the blade actually stopped him from getting stabbed.
Why did they ever give him a real knife?
Probably for close up shots
Props to Gimli for actually trying to destroy the ring immediately
And he wasn't using his own axe
He saw a problem and immediately tried to solve the problem
I love how the Ring is its own charachter. It whispers when Sauron's name is spoken, it calls out the Nazgul when they are close, and it's so powerful that even Galadriel, the most powerful elf-queen in the world, and Gandalf, a literal angel, are terrified of what they could do with it.
Boromir’s death always gets me. He redeemed himself in the end. It’s Aragorn’s ancestor that failed to destroy the ring all those centuries ago. He’s the true king of Gondor, one of the great places of man. “Rest in peace, son of Gondor.”
Boromir is the son of Denethor, who was the steward of the throne of Gondor, not the king, he has no royal lineage to the throne, he cannot be the true king of Gondor.
@@wrf85 why are you putting words in my mouth? Read what I wrote.
Being tempted by evil, yet overcoming it...
@@Houd_Vast hits harder when you get scenes like “Don’t carry of the weight.” And his talk with Aragorn by the river!
32:46 "I wanna get married there, that's soo juicy."
Aight bois... I was trying to give "juicy" a chance as a new slang... but it was after this I realized that it is an undisputed fact of the universe that the word "juicy" needs to be retired from gen z slang...
thank God I wasn't the only one peeved. Was starting to feel like a boomer over here
I also felt old as hell lol, juicy should only be used when describing some good fruit, a booty or some good gossip
For real I'm only 8 mins in and she's already said it like 10 times wtf...
Lol I'm gen Z and was starting to turn into a boomer when she kept repeating that lmao.
That and “rizz”.
"Stop trying to make juicy happen!"😂
Seriously. Annoying AF
Mean girls...watch next
I feel like dude in the middle was trying to watch the movie and actually take it all in while everyone else was talking every 10 seconds.
I think they did fine tbh. Have you seen Brett Cooper react to it? It was horrible.
Not even lord of the rings could make me watch her braindead content. She is bomb AF tho
They were talking a lot but everyone was clearly engaged and invested. All the commentary was about the movie and the characters.
@@dejajade6726 true! i'd much prefer that rather than having them go off topic that has nothing to do with the movie.
@@dejajade6726yep that is a good reaction, you try to comment about the movie not just staring at it
Tolkien wrote multiple dialects of elvish as well as other languages. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon languages at Oxford. My favorite tidbit is when he wrote the Hobbit the editor tried to use the more accepted spelling of "dwarfs" rather then Tolkien's use of "dwarves." Tolkien told him basically "shut up I wrote the dictionary"
Same thing with the word elven. As the plural for elf was elfs till he essentially made it common practice to make it “en” for the plural of those 2 races
As long as we're picking apart grammar - I think the word you're looking for is "elves," the plural form of "elf." The word "elven" is an adjective, meaning "of or pertaining to elves."
@@matthewmarchbanks8211 my bad, that’s what happened when it’s 2am and ready for bed. Glad it was still understood at least.
I agree but it's pronounced in the Oxford English Dictionary as Titbit but for some reasons the US is too scared to say tit lol.
Pippin is still a teenager. He is the youngest and most inexperienced
And at the time before heading over to the village of Bree, Pippin and Merry do not understand the severity of the ring Frodo carries. Not yet at least.
And Frodo's like 60 or something lmao
Frodo is 50 and Pippin is in his 20's. But for a hobbit, 20's are like your teens and you come of age at 33, but it's possible Frodo stopped aging as soon as he inherited the ring. A 111 year old hobbit should look no more than 80, but Bilbo hasn't aged since his mid 50's.
@@Gwenhwyfar7 Frodo's only 50 in the books. If he was 50 in the movies, Sam, Merry, and Pippin would be lot younger than pictured during the scenes before Frodo gets the ring. Pippin would be like 9 yrs old, but he clearly hadn't aged at all from his first scene to the scenes after they start their adventure. Frodo's likely still 33 during the adventure, which makes sense because Elijah Wood was 18 when filming, which makes both him and Frodo at their beginning of adulthood.
My man in the center blinked maybe twice during the entire, multi-minute, balrog scene. Bro was locked in.
I love that scene where the Nazgul is crouching and sniffing around. That thing is so evil and unnatural that even insects are trying to get away from it.
A brilliant detail from Peter Jackson: the Nazgul appears from behind the tree, from right to left; however, if you look closely before it appears, there's nothing on the right side of the tree. The Nazgul wasn't riding from right to left, it simply materialized where it had to be in order to find the Ring.
I’ll explain why the sniffing is shown as it pertains to their blindness.
The reason the bugs & worms were coming out of the soil when the Ringwraith was near the hiding hobbits (and the reason the dog was afraid of the searching Ringwraith earlier) is because the Nazgul are so vile and terrible that nature itself abhors them. The trees were shuddering as they approached the hobbits on the road, which is why Frodo yelled, "Get off the road! Quick!" They are anti-life ("neither living nor dead" as Aragorn describes them). They are servants of Sauron, aka Gorthaur, aka
"Abomination." Just touching one could injure or kill you. Thus the creepy crawlies in the earth wanted to move away from it as fast as possible.
((Extended but about the Nazgûl below)).
The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of
The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power.
He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while.
But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling.
But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring.
The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of
The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power.
He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while.
But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling.
But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring.
@@Nemnex The reason the bugs & worms were coming out of the soil when the Ringwraith was near the hiding hobbits (and the reason the dog was afraid of the searching Ringwraith earlier) is because the Nazgul are so vile and terrible that nature itself abhors them. The trees were shuddering as they approached the hobbits on the road, which is why Frodo yelled, "Get off the road! Quick!" They are anti-life ("neither living nor dead" as Aragorn describes them). They are servants of Sauron, aka Gorthaur, aka
"Abomination." Just touching one could injure or kill you. Thus the creepy crawlies in the earth wanted to move away from it as fast as possible.
((Extended about the Nazgûl below)).
The 9 Nazgûl are blind and basically deaf also, they can only "smell" the ring and the energies of the Unseen Realm. Sauron was always weary of
The WitchKing Of Angmar, (The Leader Nazgûl), would launch an attempt to usurp his power.
He and his forces almost singlehandedly destroyed the three kingdoms of Númenoreans, at the region of Arnor, mainly by spreading plagues upon the land with what is called The Black Breath. How sad is it that they "achieved" a twisted form of immortality but now they cannot interact with nor enjoy the world around them. The envy a portion of the Númenoreans had for the elves. basically led these individuals to such a choice, one by one of the 9 falling to Sauron at different speeds, and some even did good their entire country and world around them for quite a while.
But since he toppled the great Númenorean country at the heart of the sea between middle earth and Valinor by manipulating the people slowly degenerating lifespan, tricking Ar Pharazôn into attacking Valinor and back then that land was place one could physically see and travel towards. Eru Illuvatar the one allfather shifted Valinor into an in between limbo space and which caused the world to turn round or semi spherical which caused a giant tidal wave so huge it plunged Númenor to the bottom of the sea but Saurons fair form was pinned to the bottom of the sea by the island of Númenor so now he can no longer take fair angelic form ever again! Now he’s far less beguiling.
But sadly the waves also crashed into entire coastlines of middle earth too. See. Even gods actions have consequences! It’s why the Valar among other reasons do not take direct action anymore as it’s always caused something catastrophic. It’s also why Gandalf explained what he could do with the one ring.
Because the Valar aren’t about control. Never have been. It’s their main tenets. As well as the elves that have the same laws and virtues.
Which also applies to Númenor
They took an unspoken vow to not take direct action. When Ainur clash: land masses sink to the bottom of the sea like Beleriand in the the War Of Wrath etc. this was why the sun and moon from the last flower and fruit being set in an area where Morgoth couldn’t go to ruin them. He followed Tillion and Arien & got majorly burned by Arien as she was evidently stronger than him in her unbound form, remaining faithful (tethered to Eru and therefore her purest version of herself.)
Even the Firey spirits that became Balrogs/Valaraukar were of similar type of Ainur to Arien. Same as when Eru didn’t attack anyone. Moving Valinor into a limbo zone between Eä and the rings of the world which caused arda to bend and caused tidal waves that didn’t just sunk Númenor. It destroyed entire coastline of middle earth and killed many innocent people. People who think Eru intentionally levelled middle earth don’t know much about the AllFather and free will and how sacred it is!
See. The larger the character the larger the consequences. Even for Eru when bending reality itself to out Valinor into a safe space where hardly anyone could reach it ever again. Only two known ways to get there physically remain. Straight from the Grey Havens is functional as if the world had not been bent which is why it begins to look like the boats are flying at some point etc etc. and the route Idril and Tuor ventured together. Where Tuor became the first man to ever become an elf essentially. Great grandfather of Elrond. Father to Eärendil. ❤️
Best movies of all time.
LOTR and the Hobbit inspired every fantasy book and movie since 1937.
Fantasy and sci-fi
As Terry Pratchett once said:
“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
Legolas's face when they're standing outside Moria in mourning after Gandalf fell is underappreciated. He's (for an elf) relatively young and hasn't really experienced a loss like that, much less of someone as old, wise and powerful as Gandalf, whom the whole Fellowship clearly looked towards for guidance. The look on his face is a mixture of pain, sorrow and confusion, having never experienced these emotions, at least not to this degree. His look after the trio find Boromir dying is equally brilliant.
One does not simply say 'Juicy' 489 times during a Lord of the Rings reaction..
Yeah I tried to count the number of times she said “juicy” and I failed
@@rickkoenig3793 Or 'rizzed'. Typical tik-tok buzzwords. XD
@@vividly94 a little help for a mommy...what does "rizzed" mean please?
@@marieroberts5664 short for charisma, I found out.
@@Perktube1 bless you!
Something to remember is that this movie came out in Dec 2001, barely three months after 9/11. When Frodo and Gandalf are talking in Moria and Frodo says “I wish none of this had ever happened,” the entire audience was sharing that feeling. Gandalf’s answer, that “all we have to do is to decide what to do with the time that is given us,” meant so much to so many.
A lot of people share that feeling because a lot of really bad tragedies happen all over the world all the time. And the US is involved in quite a few of them. Also something to remember.
Yes!
I remember feeling this in 01 now, I forgot that that was why it felt special even more, my heart breaks everytime Gabdalf repeats it at the end when Frodo is deciding.
Remember how controversial for a moment when they were talking about renaming The Two Towere because of it? I'm glad they got to keep the title, also I remember Spider Man taking out the helicopter between the two towers in his web scene
Tolkien was a veteran of World War 1. He saw death and destruction on a scale that has rarely been seen in history. That he was able to draw on his experiences to write a story of such hope is what makes it so enduring, and why it resonates with us through every tragedy.
@@kazfarah7623 Stop trying to justify 9/11 weirdo. Those thousands who died that day had NOTHING to do with the Gulf War and other previous Cold War activities the US government secretly did and hid from the general public.
Watching the movie again, I realize that the entire Fellowship mourning Gandalf's fall so deeply despite only traveling together for about a month may seem weird to some people, but what the movies don't really explain is that every single member of the Fellowship had already had a personal connection to him from long before the events of the story.
Galadriel, the elf queen that was so frightening is the grandmother of Arwyn, the elf woman that Aragorn loves. That is why she tells him the gift she has already given to him is worth more than all the rest.
She definitely makes for a scary grandmother lol.
I just envision her being like "My future grandson, I love you and all but if you break her heart I'll kick yo ass myself." But at the same time also be protective of them.
@@Dumbodwarf I mean she can literally read your mind. Good luck beating her in a fight, she'd know every single move you're about to make. And that's not even getting into all of the crazy magic she knows and created.
And she killed an ice troll in under 10 seconds, all on her own.
@@kinagrill😂❄️
@@ThwipThwipBoom True and she's the only one who knows Osanwe.
But yeah all in all don't mess with her or her children.
LOTR and the TikTok generation is a weird fit. I think I'm only like 5 years older than some of these people and I feel about a hundred watching them say things like "juicy" and "rizzed" about this modern classic 😂
Yes
Youre not alone, bro
They're around my age...and I feel ancient lmao
Yeah, it was cringy
Well I'm 34 so not just a bit older but still! I'm sure I was 11 when it came out too.
'' Like Harry Potter '' I hate that. People are oblivious to the fact that this was written 60 years before and perhaps served as an inspiration to some elements in Harry Potter.
No perhaps about it, Joanne Rowling admitted she ganked some major things from other authors, including especially Tolkien.
You are correct. LotR does predate Harry Potter by a good couple of decades, and absolutely served as inspiration for Rowling. The thing is...at this point, neither is new to the younger generations coming out, and movies are more accessible to people than books nowadays. And the movies Fellowship and Sorcerer's Stone came out the same year, iirc. Harry Potter, however, is aimed at a younger audience, so most younger viewers and readers are exposed to Harry Potter first. So while LotR DID come first, it's natural and understandable for people seeing it for the first time to say things like "the ring is like a horcrux" or "Gandalf looks like Dumbledore" because they're putting it into the context of what they know to help them understand.
So yes, point out which came first and share that Rowling drew a lot of inspiration from Tolkien, but be kind about it. People coming in all judgemental because first time viewers don't magically know the timeline of which books came out first is what drives a lot of people away from our fandom.
I’d rather them make the comparison and experience it at all, if it helps them comprehend that’s cool too. Beats them never seeing such a fantastic story.
Yeah I'm not hearing it as them implying LOTR got the idea from Harry Potter. More just as "oh cool we've previously seen something with this concept so that makes it easier to understand."
@@kateiannacone2698”couple of decades” 😂😂 it was published more than a decade before Rowling was even born
She previously found the movie so boring she couldn’t complete it in previous attempts and yet throughout this occasion, she sits at the edge of the chair, following each scene with great focus.
What a conversion!! 😅
When I first watched it, I found it boring too, but when you dive deeper into the storyline it's one of the best of all time ❤
That was the best part of the reaction for me😂😂😂
I tried to share this with my sister and her husband....was like a brick wall. Ten minutes in and they had gotten up and wandered off. Neither of my other two sisters or any of my aunts/uncles or cousins have seen it, as far as I know, so I really appreciate when someone breaks through and loves it.
I never found it boring 🤷🏽♀️ I read all the books too so
I think she mainly found the books boring. I actually didn't like The Hobbit either. The story was good, but the writing style was so pedantic. But I was around 13 when I read it.
I had a friend like this - but with all prior attempts she missed a lot of exposition as she would be talking and visiting with others instead of focusing on the movie. She was hooked when we properly watched.
Speaking as a Gen X, and I remember a day when these movies were just a dream. Hollywood has forgotten how to make great movies like this without fucking it up
Social politics override coherent imagination.
I remember being really worried when they came out because I read the books as a kid, but they did them perfectly. Even the slight changes made sense.
@@ScarriorIIIDo you really think corporates care about politics? It’s all a marketing strategy, drumming up controversy for clicks, and that ideology is what drags down big movies; capitalism demands maximum benefit for minimum effort. The market is the enemy of art.
@@a.morphous66this 100%. maximum profit with minimum investment. So sad but once again capitalism is the root of it.
@@BattleMatt Absolutely. So much hung in the balance, but Peter Jackson just blew it out of the water. The trimmings made it move just right without leaving out major plot points.
"It's so good it's making me mad" yeah, I feel similar. The amount of craftsmanship and effort they put into these movies, it makes other movies feel tacky. Other movies age poorly in 5 years, but these still look good after 23 years.
Need to watch the extended edition. Like another 1-2 hours extra. Pure quality
Its always so painful to watch the short version
watched the reg version of Fellowship but once the extended version came out i didnt watch the other 2 until the extended versions were available and have not to this day seen the theatrical versions of The Two Towers or Return of the King
@@steamro11r Same with my family! We watched more than once in theatres, but we treated the theatrical release as a trailer for the "TRUE" extended edition home release.
Fellowship extended edition has around 40 more minutes. The other two have a LOT more extra.
"This city was once a place of light and beauty and music. And so it shall be once more!" -- Boromir
How could you cut that PJ? Just...how?
The music that plays when Gandalf falls is the sound a heart makes when it’s breaking.
This comment is everything to me.
How did they capture that sound I wonder
By the min 30 I could almost here Gabe in my head:
"SHUT UP ABOUT THE JUICE, SHUT UP ABOUT THE JUICE!"
The prologue is held up as one of the most efficient narrated prologues in cinema. It conveys a mountain of information in 7 minutes while also setting the tone, and keeping the audience engaged. For some people, it’s far too long, but I guess for this dude, it didn’t explain enough. Can’t please them all, I suppose.
That's what hooked me right away : the narrator's voice, the music, the cinematography... I didn't expect the once-in-a-lifetime journey I was about to experience.
Can someone teach that girl adjectives other than "juicy".
She should say: 'it's quite cool' instead.
For real. Girl's never read a book in her life
@@Pj0tter haha wedding coordinators about to be like WHAT... "this elven forest is juicy, lets get married here"
The boys universally knowing Gandalf was older than rocks was gold.
The best part is that you'll know understand like 20% more of the internet's memes now because they all come from this movie.
I turn 61 soon. I believe the verbs "rizz" & "juicy" have never been used with such sincere emotion before.
😂 agree, I have never heard anyone use Riz and Juicy this much in the conversation
LOLOL right?
I just turned 27. I've never hated my generation this much.
Someone tell her to stop…my ears are bleeding
Same im 31 and while the slang has changed, the emotion behind them transcends all that generational stuff.
"Why can't people make good movies these days?"
"I don't know, they just need to actually go outside"
😂
😂
Watching the faces of the ones who have seen the movie reacting to the comments from the ones who haven’t seen the movie was hilarious! 😂 Carter is a super fan, I enjoyed his comments. Cannon was pretty knowledgeable too.
Christopher Lee = Saruman
Ian holm = bilbo baggins
Rest in peace 🙏
And Bernard Hill
@@bjokvi91Hail, Theoden King!
“Hail to the glorious dead”
Legends ❤
I love that Jack signaled to Brig not to spoil that Gandalf comes back! You can tell this family and friend group is so special!
We all can be as weak as Borimir, but few can be as strong of spirit as him.
Especially when you know his past; sadly the movies couldn't delve into his history.
It really wasn't him being ''weak'' just a moment of temptation, after a life-time of sacrifice and valour, judge not giants, lest thou be found wanting.
15:12 I love it when people think that the One Ring looks like a horcrux when in fact it is the horcruxes that look like the One Ring and most likely J. K. Rowling based it on the One Ring to create them. Sometimes because you couldn't see things in order, you forget what really came first and I tell you, The Lord of the Rings is much older than Harry Potter, the very concept of ''Dark Lord'' so used in Literature, cinema and animation were born from Tolkien's Legendarium
I think Addie just related it that way because she loves Harry Potter so that makes the most sense to her, but yes you are totally right!
To be fair, in most old cultures there is a concept of "Undying creature with a relic that keeps him alive". It's an old concept, to be sure. As an example, in Slavic culture there is an entity that called "Koschey the Deathless" - a powerful undead mage whose life contains in a needle.
Phylacteries in D&D, the eponymous Picture of Dorian Gray, Koschei the Deathless...
Because zoomers are morons
ALL modern fantasy is inspired by and born from JRR Tolkien's reinterpretation of Western European mythology.
Bro in the dark jeans / pants delivers the shortest, most straight forward and smartest comments.
“Tell me where is Gandalf forimustdesiretospeakwithhim”
“THERE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO EISENGARD-GARD-GARD-GA-GA-GARD”
The hobbits the hobbits the hobbits ...
A balrog of Mordor. What did you say?
"Stupid, fat hobbit!"
He gets more lines in the original version - Peter Jackson wanted people to see the extended (uncut) versions in the theatres, but Harvey Weinstein stopped him. In fact, Harvey wanted just ONE movie in the threatres, not a trilogy. 5 years of court proceedings - and the 'harvey weinstein orc" in return of the king (made at Jackson's specific direction) was the result.
Too many people don’t realize they are arguing in favour of a version of this movies that was only shown in theatres because of legal reasons - not for artistic reasons.
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Peter Jackson’s passion project team was forced to not show their full content as it would cut into what the cinema CEOs literally called the theatrical edition to get more screen time in and more mulla for themselves. It’s a such a nasty business. 80 percent true that money be the root of all evil. It’s the reason the real pumped out the EE as fast as possible in DVD format before the second and third film hit theatres to get back at Harvey Weinstein, again, they wanted people to see the whole movie which invites feelings of completion in one’s heart.
But he just announced that’s he found 1300 hours worth of footage from a warehouse he finally got access to so we will see more specially made super extended edition cinema extravaganzas that no cinema would pass on the opportunity to ride on his coattails again.
The EE wasn’t just for fans. He literally was adapting the books to film as honestly as possible. the DVD documentaries showed that they didn’t want to cut anything. And weaselled around things to create the EE. (EE is extended edition by the way! ❤️).
Without the extended for the next two films I always say “Good luck missing the Boromir backstory. Good luck explaining why the cloak turns into a rock. Good luck explaining the elves that had explained their current situation since the first film.
It all ties together good luck skipping the gift scene with Galadriel and Celeborn and the extra scenes between Aragorn and Celeborn & Galadriel to Aragorn!”
It’s seriously needed for the film worldbuilding and heightening the stakes. Also, I’d rather have faith people have the emotional and intellectual IQ high enoug to understand it or shall we have changed the title to something else same as how JK was forced to change the title in America to sorcerers stone instead of PHILOSPHER as Americans don’t even know what a Philospher is anymore these days which is sad. Relating to that: Tolkien was very sad about people losing connection to their past and heritage etc!
Honestly, can't have a top 3 without Gandalf in it. Every single time. Its the actor that makes him amazing as well.
RIP Sir Ian McKellen.
Sir Ian McKellen is still alive, fortunately
@@ungenerationed9022Sir McKellen is still kicking.
It was Ian Holm who is no longer with us unfortunately.
@@Dumbodwarf mea culpa. Thought we lost him late last year. Quick Google check says you are correct.
@@DumbodwarfAnd also the other wizard in this film.
RIP Sir Christopher Lee. Pure and simple, an amazing man.
"That's so juicy," "She's so juicy." Whelp, I have no idea what the young'ns are saying these days. I am now officially old.
I had the exact same reactions that the girls had to the Aragorn/Arwen scene, back when the movie released. My mom said that the recognition that Aragorn is hotter than Legolas is when a girl becomes a woman.
"I tried starting it many times, I just find it so boring" - Girl who gasps every 15 seconds, "what's he doing?", wonders what everything is and is the most engaged. Still the greatest movies of all time :)
I ate my words fs 😪
Great reaction, I love how people in the end of this movie be like “that it? It was quick three hours”
This just shows how timeless this story is. When even a younger generation is asking why they can't make movies like this anymore, you know LotR is something special.
One of my favorite moments is when a reactor who thought these films would bore them, becomes one of the most invested. She was genuinely loving it within the first 5 minutes of the reaction lol
Common. My favorite is PIB yelling, "why didn't anyone tell me how good these movies are"
"We got another one lads!" -- LOTR enjoyers when
The dictionary needs to withdraw her licence to use the word 'juicy'.
That was getting weird. I hope it's not some strange California slang that's about to spread to the rest of the country. I might cut off my ears if I hear people at work start unironically calling everything "juicy"
The vernacular they were using just shows how social media and texting is destroying the English language.
take a drink whenever she says "juicy"
@@scesfizia🤣
@@SymetryClydethats the only way to tolerate it. 😂 annnnd I'm drunk
You can make this into a drinking game. Every time sister chick says "Juicy" or "Rizz", take a drink. 😆
Hold the fuck up, Carter and Canon are brothers?
yes
Cannon, Carter, and Addie are siblings. Brig is their cousin. McKay and Jack are twins
@sesawe2865 you're joking about McKay and Jack ,right ?!
@@drsone2651 No lol, they really are twins.
Always wondered which one is older between Cannon and Carter...
Boromir’s death gets me every time…
Even in death, his first concern is for his friends and his people.
The Ring corrupted his desire to ensure that Gondor remains safe. It turned a noble duty into obsession and desperation. I’m glad he was given his redemption in the end
@6:26 the way he just rises ominously from the bottom of the screen like, "do you have time to talk about our lord and saviour Morgoth?"
Why is that so true
Take a shot every time someone says "Juicy" 😂
Without exaggeration, you’d be quite literally dead before they reach Rizzendel
My guy, I’m not tryna die today! 😂
One of my favorite parts of the Peter Jackson movies is just how close most of the cast still is, especially our hobbits. Merry and Pippin (Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd)even have a podcast! 😆 Love that y'all are watching these, my husband and I had our honeymoon in New Zealand for utterly nerdy reasons. Have fun watching/rewatching the rest!
I like how half of them were like. "I'll check it out. Sure." By the end. "I need more!"
Extended for the next two. The girl on the right saying when she watched it before it was “so boring” but was mesmerized from the start.
Right, you don't miss much in the first theatrical, but you do NOT want to miss the extended from the rest because there are pivotal and final moments for many characters!
@@Gwenhwyfar7I agree. The first film, the only thing that should’ve been kept was Bilbo’s monologue about Hobbits & Hobbiton. Other than that, nothing important is really missed.
The next two movies have scenes that really help the things together. The extended versions are superior to the theatricals. I’d highly recommend they watch those versions.
@@Gwenhwyfar7Galadriel’s Mirror and ring? Really?
Calling the extended versions “extended” is a misnomer. They are far closer to Jackson’s original vision. The movies were deemed to be too long for theatrical release so were cut down-time can be an unforgiving master. But in so doing, some questions were left unanswered and future scenes weren’t set up as well as might have been.
For people who can’t sit through a long movie, watching at home, take a brief break ~halfway.
@@joerosenman3480 Yeah, I can't even watch the theatricals now, I probably forget every scene they added in the first. I think they could have given us an intermission with the full extended in theater. Bring those back, seriously, no one will mind!
For the first movie, the cinematic version is better. Better pacing, better cut scenes results in better pacing.
For the first movie, the extended version. The chain mail is over explained, the mithril scene with Gandalf is unnecessary. The Bilbo intro part is also making the combined intro too long. The scene meeting Galadriel first time with the whole group is choppy in the extended version. Also the "this is Nenya" (or something forgot the name) cut with Galadriel is awkward and should be cut or be expanded.
For The Two Towers and Retun of the king, they cut out too many good and/or necessary scenes though. Extended is necessary. Boromir backstory and the scene when Saruman drops the palantiir (you know what Really happens but I don't want to spoil it). You need those scenes.
I am happy we have all three extended versions, but for the first movie it's not necessary. (Edit:spelling)
For the question at 1:10:10 you guys **have** to watch the extended versions going forward. Especially the scene where the pressure Boromirs father puts on him is shown is so important, also for Faramirs character. It's such a shame they cut it for the theatrical version.
Extended versions are a must, so many great scenes are cut.
One of the great lines in the Extended Edition said by Aragorn right after Boromir's death, "They will look for his coming at the White Tower, but he will not return." *long man tear falls down cheek*
To explain the creation of the Rings, Sauron took on a fair angelic/elf-like form and tricked the greatest elven smith at the time to make magic rings. Through Sauron's guidance and advice they were made to be powerful as said in the intro and divided up amongst the leaders of Dwarves and Men. (The Elves made their own, the Three, and he never touched them) Sauron made his Ring, killed the elf smith Celebrimbor and waged war on the world after claiming dominion on the world.
Good job, guys! At first I thought, oh great, that many young people will talk all over the movie, but you didn't. I look forward to watching The Two Towers with you!
"Pippin again?!" - pretty much sums up the fellowship of the ring
I’m surprised that fans aren’t watching the Extended Editions. You do yourselves a disservice, they’re well worth it.
Im always shocked at how much got cut out for the theatrical cuts. So much from the death of Isildur to Bilbo's "Concerning Hobbits" to Bilbo talking to Frodo at the party, to Meeting Rosy Cotton again in the Green Dragon Inn, UGH. That's just the first few minutes too.
Moria doesnt get to show off its Mithril, Gandalf never mentions how valuable Frodo's armor is... So much... So much.
@@MrGaleanonsome of the extended scenes were filmed after the theatrical cuts were already finished. A big chunk of the cast and crew came back to do them.
I actually think the theatrical releases are better for first-time viewers.
The Extended version answers a lot of questions that you don't have in the theatrical version. Hopefully, the next ones will be Extended.
I want saw something that said if you're a fan and show this to someone who's never seen it show them the extended version first then like 6 months later show them the theatrical version and when they start talking about stuff that they aren't seeing act like you don't know what they're talking about😂😂😂😂
I was 17 in 2003 on Christmas break. My older brother who didn’t live here anymore gave me the first 2 movies on DVD. A couple mornings after Christmas I woke up and started them up. He came downstairs and said start that over. We watched Fellowship, then Twin Towers and then he said ok let’s go the theater and see the Return of the King. A day I’ll never forget
1:10:03 the reason for that is partially because Gandalf was granted Narya, one of the three elven rings, which was described as having the power to inspire others to resist tyranny, domination and despair.
The extended editions get more and more important to watch later in the series. Whole story arcs that you will really wonder why and how they got cut, get cut.
Because to make money, movie theaters have to be able to have a minimum number of screenings per day, especially on the weekend (and that works for the studios, as well). The studio was already being generous on the final time for each of the released versions (and they knew the extended versions would help the to sell the dvds).
You know a bunch of those were filmed after the theatrical cut was released, right?
@@PickledShark That is absolutely not true
I always felt like the Fellowship on its own was always the most balanced movie of al three. It's a true journey, with many arcs, locations, new themes and characters.
Petition for the extended versions for next 2. Especially if ‘full exposure’ is what they’re looking for
Im so glad she brought up "Do you wear wigs?" 😂
Extended versions for 2 and 3! It’s the best experience, u can’t miss out on that stuff
After listening to the lady's comments, I'd try the extended edition of Two Towers. I know they're longer but the extra scenes give you time to breathe between big moments without making it feel drawn out. I don't think I've watched the theatrical release since seeing the extended.
Yeah but they need to stop talking and actually listen so they can hear the lore!
Unironically saying "I'm feeling so rizzed"... Brainrot is real.
Bro she gets on my nerves so much
We need an edit of this video where it mutes her and that other girl every time they say "juicy, rizzed, and so cute." 😅
The arrows Lurtz shot Boromir with are based off real medieval war arrows, which were larger than hunting arrows for small animals, or target arrows, which people are largely familiar with today. Boromir was a warrior and tanked those shots even more in the book, where it said he was hit by several, and even pulled at least one of them out.