First Time Watching THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) Reaction! (Part 1)
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Original movie: The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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That was India that you showed pics of??? Holy crap they were beautiful. That totally blew my mind and what I think of what India looks like in my mind, I love it when that happens... Thanks.
That even made me start to contemplate God, and my thoughts around that whole conundrum lol.
you are very attentive. for example, almost none of those who watched for the first time immediately understood why Gandalf could not take the ring. thank you for watching this great movie :)
Thank you 🙏❤
In the books, the knife that Frodo was stabbed with was notched, allowing a piece to break off and remain embedded, working it's evil towards turning Frodo into a wraith.
Yeah. That shard couldn’t be fully removed like the rest. Essentially burries itself deeper and deeper. Housing itself near the heart. Sort of like what happened with Boromir The First. Boromir’s Ancestor in a way. Although he didn’t become dark. He actually did pretty well despite being wounded like Frodo was.
Frodo is Bilbo's nephew. Bilbo took him in after Frodo's parents died and made him his adoptive heir, which is why some of Bilbo's other relative were salty, as they thought they would inherit Bag End after childless Bilbo passed away.
Thanks for the info!
"Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way"
The movies kind of did Pippin dirty. He isn’t stupid at all. He is basically a teenager. He is impetuous, he is curious, he is sometimes immature, but he isn’t at all stupid. He matures before the end of the story, even though he is still very young. At the end of this story, he is still equivalent to a teenager.
Watching the movies is like driving through Yellowstone. Reading the books is like hiking through Yellowstone!
Great analogy!
very apt comparison
There's even maps. You'll have seen some when you read the Hobbit. When they pan across a map in the movie it's from the book. It's another angle on the scale of these journeys.
@@peterdrewer2574 I read lord of the rings first time in 77. My high school library had the big hard cover edition with a huge fold out map. I copied the map and put it on my wall. The librarian who knew me fairly well said when you run away from home you really run. He was so right
Nice move with the map. My encounter begins a few years later. There was an adaptation out the year after your reading which included semi animated scenes. One of these scenes with a black rider formed the cover art of a single volume paperback of the full story. It was this that I picked up from a shelf in KMART of all places. The maps were of course tiny but I wore the spine hard turning back to them frequently. I later got to see the animated version on VHS.
Gandalf is more than what he seems to be. He ain’t just a random man. Also. He invented fireworks itself. Probably due to him being a Maiar spirit too.
"Yet by a sense other than sight Pippin perceived that Gandalf had the greater power and the deeper wisdom, and a majesty that was veiled. And he was older, far older. ‘How much older?’ he wondered ... What was Gandalf? In what far time and place did he come into the world, and when would he leave it?" "The art of Gandalf improved with age."
he's not eve a man haha! he's like an angel or something similar..
@@Mrfailstandstil that’s what a Maia is in plain terms hah
He isn't the only one...
Fun fact, the scene when Gandalf walks into the ceiling wasn't scripted. Ian McKellen actually walked into ceiling and the laugh was genuine but he kept going with the scene so they left it in there. These movies were made first, but they take place after the Hobbit. Peter Jackson, the director and one of the producers, worked almost 10 years to get these movies made. Miramax was on board until the films were too expensive and wanted Peter Jackson to turn 3 books into 2 movies. Then they demanded 1 movie for 3 books. Peter Jackson refused and he had 4 days to find another production company. Everyone rejected him because he was a newish director with 3 horror films under his belt and the companies didn't know if the books had a big enough fanbase to make that kind of money back. New Line Cinema took a chance on them with the fact they had nothing else to lose because they were close to going bankrupt after back to back to back in movie flops. After Peter Jackson's pitch they were like "There's 3 books right? Well, make 3 movies."
Alan Howard was given screen credit as the voice of The Ring. Peter Jackson felt the Ring was too passive in the book, he wanted it to be a more " present " and active menace, to be an actual character.
LoTR is the quintessential Fantasy/Adventure story. It did everything first.
It was filmed entirely in New Zealand and you can still tour Hobbiton.
Frodo is an orphan whose parents were killed in a boating accident. He is Bilbo's cousin and adoptive heir. At the time of the party Frodo is 33 and now considered an adult and can inherit Bag End .
Thank you for the info :)
"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."
"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Fun Fact: Despite playing a dwarf, John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) is the tallest of the actors who play members of the Fellowship. He is 6' 1" in height.
Thud Landing Fact: According to Sean Astin in the Extended DVD commentary, when Bilbo drops the Ring before leaving Hobbiton, the floor was magnetic to prevent the Ring from bouncing. This was done to demonstrate the importance and weight of the Ring.
Stay In Character Fact: Gandalf's painful encounter with a ceiling beam in Bilbo's hobbit-hole was not in the script. Sir Ian McKellen banged his forehead against the beam accidentally. Sir Peter Jackson thought McKellen did a great job "acting through" the mistake, and kept it in.
Love this! Especially the ring fact! Thanks for sharing ❤
My eternal pleasure. I love these movies.
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Gandalf isnt just an old Wizard, but in fact an immortal, divine spirit taken the physical form. In his possession the Ring would be too powerful and terrible even to comprehend, so he shows an incredible resolve and determination when he declined to take the Ring.
Off the same ranks are also the other Wizards (mainly Saruman on these LotR films, but there was originally 5 of them sent to Middle Earth aiding the Free People in their fight against Sauron) and actually Sauron as well. Sauron is a fallen semi-divine, immortal being with immense power. However, having lost his One Ring (by deceiving the Elves into creating the Rings of Power was actually his secret plan to dominate all life in Middle Earth through his One Ring) diminished his powers very greatly, as he poured much of his own essence into One Ring in order to being able controlling the lesser Rings of Power.
Only deceived Celebrimbor and his Gwaith În Mirdain guild of elven smiths while he was in his fair form as Annatar the giver of gifts. Galadriel noticed many things but one of many was she knew nobody by that name working with Aulë the Vala as she was one of few who actually got the chance to learn from them and she learned from them all. Thanks to her being a Vanyar first and foremost.
Gandalf also has the elven ring of fire. It would definitely not do for him to have the one ring.
Minor point but the attack on Amon Sul when Frodo puts on the ring - he does not go invisible to the Nazgûl, on the contrary he finally becomes very visible to them. They’re now on the same plane of existence. In fact in the book the Nazgûl cannot see normally at all - they rely on the horses for help there. They can however smell living blood. There’s even a suggestion that they couldn’t have harmed Frodo unless he put on the ring, though that might be unclear and certainly would reduce their threat as portrayed in the movies. And no the Nazgûl aren’t afraid of water, they’re afraid of Elrond.
Thanks for the info!
Gandalf and the other wizards are actually angels sent by God to watch over and guide the races
This was entirely filmed in New Zealand where Peter Jackson was born and bred. There is also a tour of the Shire you can check out there.
You can actually live there too
Nominated for 12 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Best Make Up
Best Cinematography.
Hardly any CGI and SFX. All natural. Many things were made over months. Day in and day out. Handmade armour with experts in the field of that ancient art! Same for the shire. It was literally grown on a man’s farm in New Zealand where many can go live in, in real life!! It took like a whole year for that.
@@Makkaru112 they made the gardens and houses of the Shire like a year before filming bc they wanted for the plants to grow and the houses to be weathered for the audience to feel like ppl lived there much longer. :)
8:54 “Some” is generous 🤷🏾♂️😂🧙🏻♂️
You’d LOVE the behind-the-scenes trivia of this Trilogy! Practical effects & gorgeous natural scenery add to the realism!!!
at first they used old tricks like "forced perspective" for making some charachters of different hight. Mostly in the static scenes when the actors were sitting at the table or smt like this. And the CGI effects were added later to strenghten the old effects. And some scenes were played by short "scale doubles" of actors with their costumes and their masks. They made masks of main 4 hobbits and the small actors wore them in the scenes when they got need of help of small actors and the scene could not be done only by CGI of tall actors - I remember that those "scale doubles" were filming mostly the scenes on a wide plan, when the taller and shorter persons were seen close to each other but on some wide vistas - like Great River, thats why the scale doubles got the masks of main hobbit actors :) It was all so well planned :)
The way the lesser rings of power answer to Sauron’s ring is this:
Sauron was not always as he appears in the films. At the height of his power, he was a shapeshifter and could take any form he wished. Before the rings were forged, the elves were trying to make their kingdoms in Middle Earth more like Valinor across the sea to the west, places of preservation that never changed or decayed. The necessary magic for this was beyond them, so Sauron came to them in the fair guise of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, claiming he was a messenger from Valinor.
The lesser rings were all made using techniques that Sauron taught to the greatest elven smiths of the time, and Sauron himself had a hand in forging the 16 rings that would eventually go to men and dwarves. The three elven rings weren’t touched by Sauron at any point, and he didn’t even know of them until he forged the One Ring.
The One Ring contained a huge portion of Sauron’s dark power, as well as most of his soul. Because the lesser rings were made using his techniques, he knew what magic was needed to enable him to control everything that was done with the lesser rings.
Because Sauron never had anything to do with the three, the elves who bore them could not be corrupted by him, but he could still command all the works they made with their rings. The 3 elves who bore the rings were aware of Sauron the moment he put the One on his finger and the trap he had made for them. They took off their rings and refused to wear them until Sauron lost the One.
The Dwarves could be influenced by the rings of power Sauron gave to them, but could not be controlled by them, and didn’t turn invisible when they wore them. Because the rings worked to bring about the desires of their wearers, the dwarf lords who bore the 7 were able to find or obtain gold and riches beyond measure. However, the rings enhanced their desire for wealth until it grew into an insatiable, ferocious greed. The seven are either destroyed by dragons who ate the rings (via eating the dwarf that bore them) or recovered by Sauron.
The 9 worked on men exactly as Sauron intended them to. The rings gave to them a permanent state of existence, but didn’t actually give the bearers extra vitality. Bilbo described this sensation as being “like butter scraped over too much bread”. The longer men bore them and the more often the men used them to become invisible, the faster they became invisible permanently, in a sense becoming the living dead whose will was controlled by the One Ring. This permanent invisibility was why Frodo could see the Nazgûl as they were when he wore the Ring.
Bilbo freely giving up the ring is unique in history. It's one of the greatest acts of will power in Middle Earth. Basically, that alone marks bilbo out to have one of the most powerful minds around. There's a reason why the elves respect him like few others.
I mean, Frodo does try to give the ring away to like 3 other people in this movie, none of whom take it (first being Gandalf, then Galadriel, then Aragorn). And in the next movie, they meet a character who decides not to take the ring (and in the book was even less tempted to take it). Although they give up the ring without ever having held it, Frodo offering it up is still very much similar to Bilbo.
@@ohifonlyx33 and he turns it over to the council of elrond. But bilbo did carry it for a lot longer before doing so.
I love your thoughts & insightfulness in your commentaries/reactions. I'm really looking forward to going with you on this adventure and seeing what you'll have to say. All the best!
Thank you so much! Glad to have you here 🙏❤
Tolkien wrote the book as one story. But due to the length of it, it was divided into 3 parts if memory serves me correctly.
When I was on a ship in the US Navy in 1979, the books were being passed around by fellow crew members. I couldn’t put them down. It the books just took my mind to another world full of wonder, valor, and enchantment. After finishing the return of the king, I had the best dream ever.
I’ve been a fan since.
Peter Jackson absolutely nailed the wonder of middle earth in these films. It would take 6 more movies to cover the lore of middle earth.
Anyway, I do love your reactions, and the outfits you wear.
I look forward to seeing more.
Be blessed Shree.
That's wonderful ❤ And thank you!
The actor who played Samwise, Sean Astin is the son of Patty Duke, an Academy Award actress. His stepfather was John Astin who played Gomez Adams in the 1960's TV show called the Adams Family and Sean was in the Goonies as a child actor. He played the younger brother
The Shire is the country. Bag End, the ancestral home of the Bagginses, is located in the center of the Shire in a town called Hobbiton.
The year 1293 refers to Shire Reckoning -- hobbits measure years by when they settled the Shire. Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin begin their journey in 1418. The events of The Hobbit happened in 1341-1342.
You should definitely consider watching the extended editions going forward!!! And of course also for fellowship upon re-watches.
edit: after seeing the video I am one hundred pro-cent convinced that you would adore the extended cut. (which for many has just become the standard watching experience)
The extended cut was only meant for fan service. Peter Jackson himself has said the theatrical cut was his first choice because of pacing and editing decisions which made them better movies.
I agree with this. The extended versions are the better versions for me and would answer some of the questions that come up in commentary.
Frodo and his uncle Blbo share the same birthday, September 22. When Bilbo was 111 (eleventy-one), Frodo was 33 (the age that Hobbits come of age). Frodo and Sam left the Shire with the Ring 17 years after the Birthday party at the start (much compressed in the movie). I'm loving your reaction and look forward to sharing your journey.
Thank you for the info, glad you enjoyed 🙏
Great reaction ❤️
I love how you saw right away that the ring is an entity. For some reason many people miss that. 😊
Give Merry and Pippin a chance, they are portrayed more goofy in the movies than in the books, but they both still have interesting character arcs. 😊❤️
I saw that you intend watching the extended version of the next 2 movies. That makes me happy. They are REALLY worth the extra time!
Subscribed, and looking forward to the next part 😊
Thank you so much 🙏❤
And specifically that entity is the spirit of Sauron, but like a clone of him in ring form. It whispers with his voice, but the Great Eye on the tower of Baradur, can only see it when someone wears the Ring, where they're halfway in the dark or shadow realm, where Sauron physically is. At the end of the day, Sauron and the wizards are basically demigods. It's kinda like how Jesus, Yahweh and the holy spirit are all really just one (of many gods).
"I like most of you half as well as well as you deserve" it's a nice compliment
Notice that when Gandalf holds out the envelope for Frodo, he never touches the Ring. In fact, in the movies, no one other than a Ring Bearer (Isildur, Gollum, Bilbo and Frodo) ever actually touch it.
29 July 1954 (The Fellowship of the Ring) 11 November 1954 (The Two Towers) 20 October 1955 (The Return of the King).
The first Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - June 26, 1997.
So ahhh yeah, LOTR written a very long time before Harry Potter.
From when Bilbo first gets the ring until he's about to give it up, he's constantly surprised to find it in his pocket.
Thanks for doing a reaction on 'Lord of the Rings'! The Trilogy of Lord of the Rings was entirely filmed in New Zealand by Peter Jackson, and it took 8 months to film it consecutively. To this very day one can visit the Shire in New Zealand. (I edited it due to the fact I said in my comment that it took 8 years for Peter Jackson to film consecutively the Trilogy of 'The Lord of the Rings' when it only took 8 months to film). Watching your reaction again for the second time.
Thanks for watching ❤ Stay tuned for part 2!
@@ShreeNation You are very welcome! If you can (and it does take a little longer to edit) please do the Extended Version of The 'Two Towers' and 'Return of the King'. Those versions do focus more on the characters and the storyline as well in 'Fellowship of the Ring'.
@@undergroundwarrior70 Thank you for the heads up, will definitely check out the extended versions :)
@@ShreeNation Thank you so much!.
well, considering all the preparations it was actualy 8 years of making the 3 movies - between 1997 when they started to write scripts and prepare the locations and 2004 when they won 11 oscars :D even though the principal filming with actors got them 18 months, not 8 months.
All 3 LORD OF THE RINGS movies were filmed in New Zealand.
You’re now entering a world that is beyond fantasy. Fantasy is not the same as Mythology and Epics&Sagas
Frodo is 65 at this point in time. And the time between Gandalf leaving and coming back was a few months.
He's 50 in the books. 33 during bilbo's party, then 17 years pass between gandalf leaving and coming back. In the movies, it's implied that this is maybe a few months, and we also can only guess at Frodo's age.
Lord of the Rings was published 1954...
Yeah, it was before the Potter...
The Tower bit is explained ONLY in the Unfinished Tales Book: In [manuscript] C The Black Riders arrived at the Gate of Isengard while Gandalf was still a prisoner in the tower. In this account, Saruman, in fear and despair, and perceiving the full horror of service to Mordor, resolved suddenly to yield to Gandalf, and to beg for his pardon and help. Temporizing at the Gate, he admitted that he had Gandalf within, and said that he would go and try to discover what he knew; if that were unavailing, he would deliver Gandalf up to them. Then Saruman hastened to the summit of Orthanc - and found Gandalf gone. Away south against the setting moon he saw a great Eagle flying towards Edoras.
See, the thing is he was always master of studying the enemy and even being able to think like they do to always know exactly the best ways to handle ever situation and so on, but the thing is he didn't just become the enemy, he at this time in a sense for once actually grew afraid of him, probably Sauron did what Sauron did with Finrod Felagund(Galadriel’s elder brother who by the way was very important in the legendarium) which basically widdled Saruman with various visions of the past and future until it wore him down.
Thank you for the info :)
Gandalf new Bilbo had a magic ring. But he didn't know he had the " one ring ".
Definitely watch the Extended Editions. The behind-the-scenes documentaries are a treasure trove of information for cinema fans.
Will do :)
You are correct that the the Ring was keeping Bilbo youthful but, although the movies leave it out, in the books seventeen years have passed since Bilbo's birthday party to explain his older appearance.
Sauron, unlike Voldemort, is an immortal being. The Lord of The Rings was first published almost 70 years ago. Almost every fantasy story, including Harry Potter, is predated by this by decades. The entire trilogy of movies was filmed in New Zealand. I can’t express what a cultural earthquake this series precipitated. The closest analog is Star Wars in 1977. The biggest difference is the fans of the books had been reading them since 1954 or so. Amazon discovered how little Tolkien fans will tolerate messing with Tolkien’s legacy. The Ring is not ideological. It binds through magic.
Amazing!
Haha, the moment you said "if there's a tour there sign me up" about the Shire and Hobbiton I laughed thinking she probably has tickets to New Zealand booked by now
Sir Christopher Lee played Saruman.
He's a legend in film and real life.
He's been in Tim Burton films, Star Wars prequels, a Bond film, Hammer films as Dracula (an load of times) , Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy. His film and tv career run from the late 1940's until his death in 2015 at the age of 93.
Look him up on wiki. His life exploits and career are to large to list and too interesting not to learn about for film buffs.
Lee met J. R. R. Tolkien once, which made him the only person involved in the film trilogy to have done so.
I believe Christopher Lee met him more than once but yes love your comment ❤
JRR Tolkien himself said to Chrstopher in one of the meetings that if there was to be another adaptation that he’d want Chris to play Gandalf OR Saruman. And that really is saying something !!❤
The ring has a greater or lesser effect depending on a few things. You are right, the lust for power is part of it, but the strength of the will is another, and the way the ring is obtained is very, very important too. If the ring is obtained through murder, it gains much more power over the creature who gets it.
This series will bring you a truck load of followers. Many of which are fans that have been touched on a deep level by the great professors work. And even touched by the PJ films who had many teams involved over many months at a time that really had a reverence for the man and the source material. Nearly everything is handmade and so on. He also pushed the limit on how to film things as well. Adding techniques that nobody else had invented etc. so many cool documentaries to react to with us beside you the whole way through.
yea, all those 19 000 handmade costumes made (during I suppose like 5 years) with so detailed embroidery and many charachters got multiple costumes in different stages of wear (Frodo got at least 10 costumes), and some of the costumes have to be copied for tall and short actors ! Gee, I love P. Jackson's team :) And to add the problems with building of smithy and making armors and weaponry and with making all the props in different version for tall and for small charachters... oh my, thats the greatest story of filmmaking :)
9:00 I think Rowling got all of her inspiration from lord of the rings and the dungeons and dragons game😂
Also LeGuin’s Earthsea novels, I am sure.
Actually there is a very real place that was sketched by Alan Lee and others. It was either Finland (as where Tolkien found one of many landscapes that were literally what became Imladris(Rivendell
the feeling when Gandalf respond to Bilbo's ring fit, like when your parents say your full name in a stern voice.
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So this entire universe is a "mythological" version of England. Kinda like Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology. Tolkien spent the majority of his entire life creating the 55,000 years of history, thousands of characters, cultures, locations and things within it. He even created multiple languages from scratch, he was a professor of language himself. Simply put if something doesn't make sense to you. Don't worry even those of us who are going on are 100th 200th viewing of these movies find out new things. Someone could study Tolkien for their entire life and not come close to figuring it all out.
Hobbits live in The Shire which is actually a region. The Shire consists of four counties or farthings (Eastfarthing, Westfarthing, Northfarthing, and Southfarthing). Bilbo and Frodo live in Hobbitton, which is the center of The Shire.
I really hope that you will watch the extended versions of next two movies
I will :)
Shree Nation ...Not the extended version? My trivia is based off the extended version. Just so you know.
Yeah, it's too late to change now, but the extended editions really hit differently. A lot of the best character moments wound up on the cutting room floor for the theatrical release. Ah well.
@@djgizmoe Indeed. People get intimidated by the extra running length of the extended versions, but I've yet to see anyone who regrets having seen them. It tends to end with "what??? Over already?"
@@djgizmoe You talk about the theatrical cuts as if they're incomplete movies. Lemme tell you something. The theatrical edition of Lord of the Rings are better movies than the extended ones. They're not so long and convoluted, the pacing is better, and the character moments are not as cringe or fluffy. Concerning hobbits in the extended was a joke. So was Merry and Pippin at Isengard measuring each other's height and finding the food stash. That's not just terrible film making, it's complete garbage that apes the books way too much. Stick with the theatrical.
The Shire is the kingdom in which the hobbits live. The city where the Baggins live is called Hobbiton.
Not to be picky but it’s not a kingdom. There is no Hobbit king 🤣
@@Big_Tex it’s part of the long-abandoned Kingdom of Arnor. Hobbits say of goblins and other wild things that “they have not even heard of the king.”
They had a human King over the hobbits
The Lord of The Rings was shot in New Zealand, with the exception of a few interior scenes. The village of Hobbiton still stands, and you can stay there!!
it's rich because Arda of which Middle Earth is a part of was designed to be another forgotten history of our own world which ties to alot of other ancient knowledge and advanced civilizations throughout our world that's usually kept hush hush and made to be some silly thing done by Disney(Atlantis in this case). Tolkien and even his eldest son Christopher Tolkien had the same reoccurring set of dreams to do with a flooded island and they were in it. He was writing a mythology to give back to England and the Anglo-Saxons(who had their culture and folklore nearly destroyed by the larger empires rising at the time) reviving and bringing the culture of the Welsh,Irish, and Finnish back into the world. He is loved in England because he gave back to the WORLD. When you find out more about Of Beren And Lùthien, you'll then find out his inspiration for her, the greatest and most beloved women in middle earth was his wife Edith. Even check out their gravestone pics quickly. Just wow right? Haha ❤️❤️❤️
His works are heavily inspired by Beowulf and things of that nature. The Finnish Kalevala too, same thing with the more ancient stories of King Arthur and Celtic folklore, one of many being that of Avalon etc. he was a master of language and a top of the line linguist professor and efficianado to the point any time he had anything to say about history or anything else even the papers, the professors of even the status quo science would listen to him in respect. All of England love him because he GAVE BACK to England. Like a service to the people of the country. He was in letters explaining he was sad to see people even then abandoning culture and noticing the degradation of things over time. It’s present in all of his books this sense of unavoidable loss.
Arwen did not flood the river - the spell came from Rivendell. She was also surprised when it happened. Best. Mike.
Thanks for letting me know :)
Speaking of Freeman playing Bilbo, Ian Holm, who plays Bilbo in the LOTR movie series, played Frodo on BBC Radio back in the 80s.
Amazing!
and it was amazing creation. Holm's Frodo is so much stright from the book. Wood's Frodo was very ok, but not as faithful to book hero. :)
Hey Shree. You should definitely react to the Making Ofs of these movies (or at least some of it), they're on TH-cam in mostly intact form and it's pretty frickin' awesome. In my opinion, It would be cool to see reactors branch out into Making Ofs/behind the scenes/documentaries! :)
Interesting idea! I will definitely try and do that 😍
@@ShreeNationalso the channel "men of the west" is a good place if you ever want to dive down the rabbit hole into the lore behind the world. I am in awe that sonmuch came out of one man's mind. It is truly incredible
From what I remember the bed stabbing doesn't happen in the book as the Nazgul are blind and rely on the horses for site.
To answer a few of your questions;
Bilbo and Frodo are cousins. They say Uncle at one point in the movie, but this is not entirely accurate. Bilbo took Frodo in after his parents died.
You are quite correct in your observations about the Ring. It will corrupt anyone who holds it. Powerful people will be corrupted faster, because it has so much to work with. Hobbits are not immune to this, however, they are creatures with very little ambition. A great feat in the Shire is growing the biggest pumpkin. The Ring simply doesn't have much to work with. It also helps that in Bilbo's case, he began his ownership of the Ring with an act of mercy, sparring Gollum's life, when he easily could have stabbed him while invisible. So he owned it for 60 years before the symptoms started to become noticeable. The movie doesn't cover this, but 17 years pass between Bilbo leaving and Gandalf returning to test the Ring with fire. Frodo was 33 when Bilbo left, and 50 when Gandalf returned. 51 by Rivendall, as it's October and Bilbo & Frodo's shared birthday is in September. 33 for a Hobbit is about equivalent to human 21, and 50 to roughly 30. Hobbits live a little longer than humans on average, though not extraordinarily longer.
Putting on the Ring around the Nine is the absolute worst mistake you can make. They exist in the Wraith World, wrapped in physical cloaks so that they can interact with the living world. They're nearly blind, seeing only shadows of our world. But, put on the Ring, and it moves you partially into the Wraith World, and they can see you like you're glowing in the dark. That's why Frodo can suddenly see them. If a mortal wears one of the 20 Great Rings long enough, the inevitable effect is that you will become a Wraith, hence the fate of the 9 Kings Sauron gave those Rings to. Gollum seldom wore the Ring, living in dark caves for several centuries, so he never faded. He just put it on to hunt an occasional goblin for meat. He just held it a lot.
It is actually possible to visit Hobbiton. The whole trilogy was filmed in New Zealand, and the Hobbiton set still exists as a tourist destination.
Thank you for the info, i had no idea 17 years had passed between the two meetings! 🤯
It is incredible the amount of technology that did not exist before these movies were made -technology that was created by them during development and production.
the films came out at the same time . the Lord of the Rings books came out way before Harry Potter books . For the record, J.R.R. Tolkien published "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" in 1954. ("The Hobbit" was published several years earlier in 1937.) The first Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" came out in 1997
1: You should watch the extended editions
2: How could you have watched the Hobbit movies and not know Gollum? He was a pretty major character in it.
3: Yes, Hobbiton is a real place and you can visit it in New Zealand (Not Ireland).
Sorry about that. Its been a decade since I watched The Hobbit and I forgot a few parts. Will rewatch the series again soon!
"Is this how Orcs are born?"
Nope.
Sauron's former master Morgoth captured elves and corrupted and twisted them into orcs. They are ex-elves.
Thanks for the info!
@@ShreeNation and their Fëa (spirits) leave their body (Hroa) pretty soon into it so tbh there isn’t much left of them but imprints of personality and memories. They go to the halls of Mandos.
watching this while chilling out on New Years' Eve; Happy New Year & many hugs for 2023! 💗🥂🧁
Happy new year 🥳🍻
Did everyone forget to mention Hobbiton is a place you can actually visit in New Zealand...?
Bilbo is the only person to have used the ring and given it up willingly, He is known as Bilbo the Magnificent among the Elves
Subscribed. Love how long this is and how much you understand so quickly
Thank you so much 🙏❤
Congrats! You are the first reactor to these movies who realise they got into a boat aka Buckleberry Ferry. It's a river actually.
Looking forward to it. Will it be the special edition? Hope you are well. And happy holidays.
Thank you, happy holidays 💖 I think this is the theatrical edition but I'm not sure.
Frodo’s father Drogo Baggins was Bilbo’s second cousin and cousin-in-law. Bilbo refers to Frodo as his “nephew” for the sake of brevity.
The saga of the Lord of the Rings is among the most faithful adaptation of a fantasy novel ever put to screen.
The set designs are out of this world and every character is like a match made in heaven, especially Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
If you want to read the books (don't know if you already did), but I strongly suggest you read The Silmarillion a posthumous book edited by Tolkien's son.
It tells the story of the creation of Earth, men and elves and how the rings were created and where the wizzards came from.
When you read the book (Lord of the Rings) you realize there are A LOT of references to the first age and the Silmarillion greatly helps have a clearer view of the gigantic world Tolkien created.
I don't know if others told you but the extended edition for all 3 films is a must as there are a lot of cut scenes that add quite a lot to the story.
A tremendous achievement, Peter Jackson simply did a miracle by producing this masterpiece.
PS: Love your shirt 🤪
Thank you, i didn't know about the Silmarillion and now i can't wait to get my hands on it 😍
Books and movies are two very different media, and enjoying a movie doesn't necessarily mean you will enjoy the book. I have been reading LOTR at least once a year since I discovered it as a college freshman in 1965; these days I read it out loud to my wife in bed each evening before we go to sleep. It's a great experience, but it's a very different experience from watching Peter Jackson's wonderful movies. In particular, The Silmarillion isn't a novel at all; it's a collection of histories of Middle-earth, with a quite different tone from LOTR. If you read the extensive Appendices that follow the story and enjoy them, then you'll probably like The Silmarillion. If the Appendices bore you, then skip it.
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I'm sorry but i have to disagree with the latest writer.
The silmarillion is made from several tales and the main one Quenta Silmarillion is about 200÷ pages.
How is that not a novel?
Also i refered to it specifically in the context of the books, not the films.
Read about it online, try to find someone else beyond me who has it and they'll tell you the same thing.
It greatly helps with the understanding of LOTR (the book).
@@davidmeir9348 yeah. Heck. Christopher turned Of Beren and Lùthien into a novel alongside Children Of Hùrin. Many have said to read those two first before going into the silmarillion or even reading Tom Shippey’s “Road To Middle Earth” book before entering into those books. It’s a good trail blazer for those getting into his other books.
you might want to be careful with the Silmarillion. It is, literally, the elven bible. and it reads like one too
Dementors are fairy princesses compared to the Nazgul.
Great reactions!! Your observations are very astute. I look forward to going through the whole trilogy with you and I predict, by the end, we will get to see your mascara running hahaha
She sadly needs to rewatch this either alone or together with us with the extended. This isn’t just some nitpicking thing. It’s important to so much such as touching on how and why the elves are a fading people and it’s also necessary for the next two movies
Thank you so much ❤😇
JKR also took the idea of a Horcrux from the ring. Part of Sauron is in the ring
exactly. Just like everything else for that matter. That great man was the godfather to many other things we know and love today when he was writing a mythology to give back to the land that was pre England that had its culture and history stripped away from it as larger empires rose around it, essentially destroying it. Heavy influences from Finnish Kalevala and the likes of Celtic, Irish, Welsh and Norse folklore and so forth. The master linguist and beloved to his wife Edith AKA Lùthien! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
"I cab see the inspiration"
I hope you meant that LOTR inspired Harry Potter and not the other way around.
"Do they even drink beer in The Shire?" Yes, they do, as a very early scene in The Extended Edition showed. I seriously encourage you to watch The Extended Editions of the next two movies. I promise you you won't be disappointed.
I definitely will ❤
have you been at the gaffer's home brew?
If you are even remotely familiar with The Hobbit and saw the films, you have to know who Gollum is. The Hobbit movies detailed the meeting of Gollum and Bilbo and how Bilbo came by the Ring. You know that’s Gollum and not a troll! The films were made in New Zealand.
A few things you should know about the Ring
1) If you've seen Harry Potter, it's like an horcuxe : it bears a part of Sauron's sould, so, as log as the Ring's not destroyed, Sauron's not destroyed. But he needs it to be fully himself, as long as he doesn't have it he can't take physical shape
2) After he lost the ring it took cenuries or Sauron to recover but now, he has recovered enough for the Ring to feel it. That's why Frod sees the eye when he puts the ring and Bilbo didn't, that's why suddenly the ring is being more corrupting than before.
3) The Ring doesn't corrupts people immediately but the longer you stay close to him, the more he corrupts you and strengthen he grasp on you
4) Bilbo had no idea the Ring was evil. To him, it was just a ring that can turn him invisible.
5) The Ring can "feel" your fears or anything he could use to manipulate you. That's what he did to Boromir : Boromir is the son of the ruler of a Gondor, a country right next to Mordor. For decades Gondor has been fighting Mordor, trying to push them back from Gondor but it's been nothing but a long defeat. The people and the ruler of Gondor know very well that, in the end, Mordor will triumph. The Ring saw that in Boromir's mind and exploited it, making him think that, if Gondor had the Ring, they could resist the corruption and use its power against Mordor, that if they had iit they would stand a chance.
6) Unlike men, elves or dwarves, Hobbits have no other wil but to live peacefully, that's why the Ring has very small grasp on them.
Thank you, this was an informative read ❤
Basically all fantasy genre was based on Tolkien Work, Lord og The Rings and others.
Had you seen the last Hobbit movie, you would know WHY Bilbo didn't like his relatives. They tried to tell everyone he was dead so they could lay hands on all his possessions. He returned just in time to stop the auction ! From that moment on, he resented them, obviously...
Bilbo didn't really make a joke, he made a snarky remark that basically said "You all pissed me off so much that I'm going out, bye."
Also you don't remember Rivendell, Gollum and Saruman from the first Hobbit movie???
The horse shapes in the flood was Gandalf's touch whereas Arwen didn't cast a spell she asked for help from her father. You are one of the few who actually notice the horses shapes in the water.
Sorry about that. Its been a decade since I watched The Hobbit and I forgot a few parts. Will rewatch the series again soon!
The Hobbit movies that Peter Jackson did after LOTR didnt work for me. It's a story (the shortest book by far) that should have been told in one long movie.. instead that padded it out with fluff to make an unnecessary trilogy and the story was lost.. and as much as I like Freeman, I didnt connect with his take on Bilbo.
To me, the animated 1970s Rankin Bass film is the best adaptation. Short, sweet, beautifully designed and animated. The 70s animated Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi is interesting too... and you can see its DNA in this.. but they bit off WAY more than they could chew.
Gandalf in the books is actually very tall. There’s quite a big focus on height among the different groups of what’s known as the children of Eru îlluvatar!
Book Saruman was a little more complex in his corruption. In the book it kind of went like this: Gandolf-Hey Saruman turns out I found the Ring of Power, yeah THE Ring of Power. But dont worry, you know that guy I get my weed from, I gave to his nephew, no man it'll be fine, his gardeners with him. Saruman - Gandolf, you are fired, you are like really, really fired, and I will make my own orcs and go get the ring then I Saruman The Wise WILL RULE THE WOLD MWOO-HAHA.
I wish they left this dialogue in😁
IMO in the terms of compressing much events and still being good example of storytelling that LOTR prologue is a genius :)
Gandalf, Saruman and Sauron are the same species when it comes down to it. They are all Maiar as well as ultimately Ainur. Part of the myriad of entities that sung the world into being. Epic huh? I’ll explain more deeply in the second movie after you checked out the extended version of fellowship however you like before watching the second and third movie extended versions
Thank you for the explanation :) Looking forward to learning more!
Hey now! They were cooking BACON! Lol well worth the risk
Ok fair enough 😁🥓
Voldemort is a joke compared to Sauron.
There are 20 rings in total, including the One Ring:
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
There 20 GREAT rings. There are many other lesser magical rings.
@@rogerlackman4712 thats why Gandalf at first got hope that Bilbo's Ring was one of the lesser rings. Gandalf knew about the fate of the 3 (elven), the 9 (men), and they supposed that all 7 (dwarven) were destroyed, so IMO thats why he hoped that the Ring is just one of the lesser ones.
@@TallisKeeton I know that.
Welcome!!!! We’ve been waiting for you! And you’ve got to watch the extended versions of The Two Towers and Return of the King.
Happy to be here! 😍 Will definitely watch the extended editions!
Tolkien actually went into some depth about his calendar in the appendices to The Return of the King. Since you have a copy, you should check it out.
I dont say this lightly, you have been the best youtuber to watch review these movies. Your attention to detail and your background in watching the (lesser) hobbit trilogy. at least you have an idea whats going on prior to this. I am looking forward to the other movie reviews!!! (and may I request, the books?) lol
Thank you so much ❤😍
You got my like at the review break. Bravo. Impressive analysis for a first time viewer who's not even much into Fantasy!
Thank you, much appreciated 🙏😍
As a lifelong fan of Lord of the Rings, who grew up before the movies (I was a college freshman when this movie was released), I have watched many different reactions to them. I must say that you are amazingly perceptive and quick to pick up on things, like the fact that the Nine were the men to whom Sauron gave the Nine Rings. Most people who go in unfamiliar with the books don't realize things like that until the point where the movie reveals them. As for some of the questions you had (which may have been answered many times since this review was made a couple of months ago), long as they were, the films (even the extended editions) had to cut a lot of material that was in the books. The set of Bag End (Bilbo and Frodo's home). There were actually two versions of the set constructed, each identical down to the tiniest detail, except that one set was actual hobbit-sized, for Ian McKellen look gigantic in, and the other was scaled up to human-sized, for Ian Holm to look hobbit-sized in. Frodo and Bilbo's relationship: Frodo's mother was Bilbo's first cousin on his mother's side, and his father was Bilbo's second cousin on his father's side. The two relate as uncle and nephew, as that is a lot less complicated. The character of Pippin: Pippin is not so much stupid as he is young and impulsive (hobbits reach adulthood at age 33, and Pippin is only 29 at the time of the story). The effects of the Ring over time: Frodo turned 33 years old (and thus became an adult hobbit) on the same day Bilbo turned 111, and the party was actually for both of them. After Bilbo left the Shire, Frodo kept living there for 17 years, but the Ring kept him looking 33 the whole time. Unlike in the movies, in the books, Bilbo remains apparently young as long as the Ring endures. The Calendar: While the month names from the Gregorian Calendar were used in the books as well as in the films, the peoples of Middle Earth actually had their own month names and system for numbering years, which Tolkien explained in one of the Appendices at the end of the book form of Volume 3. Different parts of Middle Earth used different month names and year numbers. When Bilbo mentions the year "1296", he is using the "Shire Reckoning" which is how the hobbits number years. The year the movie starts is 1401 in the Shire Reckoning, or 3001 of the Third Age according to the calendar used by the Men of Gondor. The year Frodo sets out is 1418/3018. Additional story content: When Frodo left the Shire, he did so with a much more elaborate plan, selling his home to the Sackville-Bagginses (his and Bilbo's disagreeable relatives) and buying a smaller house at the other end of the Shire. He and his companions sneaked out through the nearby "Old Forest", leaving another friend of Frodo's, called "Fatty Bolger", at Frodo's new house to impersonate Frodo and make it seem like he was still there after he left. This actually tricked the Nine for a few days, during which Frodo and his companions had many adventures both in the Old Forest and the neighboring Barrow Downs (a range of hills covered in ancient tombs), and had to be rescued from danger twice by a strange, somewhat childlike and absentminded but extremely powerful being named Tom Bombadil. It was only the night they reached Bree that the Nine attacked Frodo's new house and discovered he wasn't in the Shire anymore. They then rode to Bree and attacked the inn, much as the movies depicted it.
Interesting, thank you for the in-depth explanation 😍
the Behind the Scenes stuff for these movies are longer than the films themselves, and for my money, almost more interesting - they built *so much stuff* and did *so many wild things* in the process of making these films. For example - nearly every prop in the first film was built twice, the second time at 1.3 scale, so in shots with Hobbits the props would appear larger.
And greenery and gardens in Hobbiton we planted a year before filming started.
Incredible! Gotta see them too 😍
Bilbo is actually 111 years old
Great reaction--so glad I found your channel. :-) Regarding the "pins" in the horse's hooves--they're nails from where the horseshoe was nailed on. The farrier (someone who trims horse's hooves and shoes them when necessary) did a crappy job though--the nails in real life would be clipped and crimped against the hoof and then filed so they aren't sticking out at all. But they probably left them that way or added them in with CGI for effect.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed! 😊 and thanks for the info!
You're in for an incredible adventure, Shree! I love these films, and I'm eager to accompany you to Middle Earth! 🙂
Thank you, happy to have you on this journey 😊
@@ShreeNation Absolutely, ma'am! You know, I used to watch all three of these films in succession on Christmas Day every year. How fitting the week of on this year, I'm starting this adventure again, but with you! 🙂
Not sure about the Hobbit movies, but in the Hobbit book, certainly Thorin, Fili and Kili are killed, I'm not sure how many of the others live.
This film was all shot in New Zealand. The Hobbiton setting can still be visited. Most of the scenery is real, although some is done with matte paintings and some with miniatures.
11:27 Some of the Hobbit children listening to Bilbo's story are the children of the director, Peter Jackson.
16:15 Frodo calls Bilbo his uncle, it's a little more complicated than that, but they are related. When Frodo's parents died, Bilbo adopted him as one of the few relatives he actually liked.
32:03 Yes, but usually in half-pints. They also smoke tobacco, they call it 'pipe weed' but it is definitely tobacco not any other plant you can smoke.
this movie was filmed in New Zealand, and the Shire is still there, you can visit it today
Yes Harry Potter came about 50 years after Lord of the rings 🙂
In the books Arwen was nowhere close by when the flood took the nine, the river responded to Elronds will when the nine entered the water because it was enchanted to protect it and the reason the nine hesitated was beause the one protecting Frodo was the strongest elf lord that lived in their time named Glorfindel and he fought the nine alone by the river
But I guess it was more theatrical in a movie to have Arwen cast a spell 🙂
I would've loved to see that fight between Glorfindel and the Nazgûl
Thank you for the info :)
IMO they wisely changed Lord Glorfindel for Lady Arwen becouse in screentime of this movie it would have been very hard to explain WHY Glorfindel shows up only for one big scene of fight with Nazguls and was not given a part in the Fellowship. So his presence in the movie should be showed as someone special (and he was special) but as he was not coming with the Fellowship it would be hard to explain this - look, the most powerful person in Rivendell (besides Gandalf) and he helped Frodo to get to Rivendell when Frodo was too sick to withstand the will of Nazguls but Glorfindel was not included in Frodo's Quest :) In the book it was explained but in the movie it would be hard to make proper explanaition. But look we know that Elrond sends many of his elves to seek for the hobbits on the roads close to Rivendell and so Arwen also could be one of those. And Arwen is Elrond's daughter and Aragorn's fiance and descendant of Luthien (of who Aragorn sings) and she is Galadriel's granddaughter and as an elven lady she probably has some communication with Nature esp water. So thats probably one of the wisest changes in the movie :)
@@TallisKeeton yeah, it was pretty much what I meant with "more practical" even though I didn't get much into details, it would have taken so much extra screen time when the movie is already so long, same thing with them leaving Tom Bombadil out, it would have needed a lot of screen time and also a lot of explanation to why he couldn't take the ring even though he was totally immune to it and all other ill of the world, so I understand why they left some very interesting and kewl things out :)
Merry and Pippin are barely more than kids; Pippin hasn't even come of age yet and Merry is only a few years older. If Pippin were a human, he'd _maybe_ be old enough to go into the army or college.
So they do stupid shit until they get killed or learn some common sense.
They are literally like 40 whilst Frodo is around 65!
They’re much cooler in the books and not yet again giving a finicky idea of what Irish people are like lol
@@Makkaru112 _Frodo_ was around 40 by the time the quest started, and remember that Hobbits age more slowly than Men. They only come of age at 33. They left this out of the movie, but Frodo and Bilbo shared the same birthday, so when Bilbo turned 111, Frodo turned 33, which adds up to 144; a dozen dozen. or 1 gross. In the book 144 people were invited, a fact that Bilbo commented on in his speech.
The quest began 17 years after Frodo turned 33.
Now attend:
Sam is 38 when the quest begins, Merry is 36, and Pippin is only 28. Pippin is not even of age by the Hobbit reckoning. He's in that shady area where you're old enough to get a driver's license but you're still on your parent's insurance.
You nailed the themes straight away. You'll love the next 2.
Thank you 😇