When they shot the Kharadras scene, only one actor of the Fellowship was buried in real snow: Orlando Bloom. Everyone else was shot on a sound stage covered in tiny Styrofoam beads, and everyone _hated_ that stuff because it literally got everywhere.
I tried watching the theatrical version a few years ago, turned it off after 10 minutes and put the extended version back on. It only took that 10 minutes to think…I’m missing out on so much here, can’t do this.
Yeah I was confused too. You either love the Extended more, or don't like LOTR. There is so much missing from the theatrical ones. Hell there is tons missing from the extended. And lots that shouldn't be. But I don't want spoiler things. Let's just say that the changes to a character I'm still furious about.
One thing I love about Hobbiton; they built the sets, planted all the plants, then left it there for a year. They came back and then relandscaped so that things looked more lived in. The farmer in New Zealand, who's land they rented to build it, has maintained it and it is now a tourist attraction. ♥️🤟😎♥️
It was actually built to be temporary the first time, then rebuilt in the same exact spot with more permanent materials for the Hobbit trilogy and that's the version that has stayed to this day!
@@pip5667 went last year and it was awesome. At the time they were also building the inside of Sam's house so that visitors can actually walk through it.
I saw this movie at a midnight premiere in Vancouver. Just as the movie was about to start, the lights came up and Sir Ian McKellen came out to talk to us. He was in town shooting X-Men 2, so he'd missed the Hollywood and London premieres of the film, so he came to ours. It was an amazing start to the night.
Dude Cate Blanchett's performance in this film is just unbelievably good and I'll say it every time I see it. How confident she is right before she is tempted by the ring and how shaken she is afterward... gives me goosebumps every time. Her opening narration is absolutely iconic.
They were absolutely right to have her do the opening narration. She sets the tone for an entire twelve hours of cinema with that monologue and just did an amazing job at it.
@@cvonbarronyes, i've just calculated out of curiosity her age in LOTR at the time of her encounter with Frodo, Galadriel (born even before the first rise of sun and moon) has 8360* of our solar years which equals to 58 elven years (but the elves reach full maturity after 100 of our human years anyway). The (awful) Galadriel in the (horrible) "Rings of Power" has between 3596 (25) and 5156 (almost 36) years (the timeline in that show is all messed up). *To calculate her age you need to count the years since the rise of the sun (7049 in LOTR) then add 138 valian years (1311 solar years) before that. 1 elven year = 144 solar years 1 valian year (before sun) = 9,5 solar years
"How come there is an Elvish gate guarding the Dwarf mines?" - you're the first one to pick up on that! It's because it was built specifically for trade with the elves who lived there, long ago when there was much less animosity between them.
It is not an Elvish gate though. the runes on it were carved by an elf (Celebrimbor) and the password used was an Elvish word, symbolic of the rare friendship that then existed between the two races, but the doors themselves were very much Dwarfish, as Gandalf explained, specifically built by the Dwarf Narvi.
@crispy_338 agreed. This trilogy eclipses and outclasses pretty much everything about the entire Star Wars franchise, and it's hard to do that to the iconic og SW trilogy.
Howard Shore got his start in collaborations with David Cronenberg. He’s able to inject his scores with that unnerving, minor key mystery that makes you feel like there are otherworldly forces at work.
Oh man, the "My Brother, My Captain, My King" line ALWAYS makes me cry. It's not even from the books!!! The writers did such an amazing job adapting the books and embellishing Tolkien's work into something so unforgettably cinematic.
I cannot adequately express how excited I am to rewatch these films with you. It never matters how often you've seen them, there is always something new, or forgotten to notice. The emotions come back full force every time. Thank you so much for watching & having these edited for us 🥰
44:40 Good question! They were made during a peace between the Elves and Dwarves during the 2nd age. The hidden stone doors are a Dwarven thing and the moon-runes are an Elven thing; a fusion of the two technologies. The full inscription reads "The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter. I, Narvi, made them. Celebrimbor of Hollin drew these signs." Narvi was a famous Dwarven smith, and Celebrimbor was a famous elven smith. They essentially signed their work 😊
@@T-SwiftsMaritalAid Celembrimbor "...is remembered primarily for his creation of the Three Rings of Power: Nenya, Vilya, and Narya." ~The Lord of the Rings Wiki
“There lie woods of Lothlórien! That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people!" - Legolas. "There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. “The grass in this clearing is as green as Springtime in the Elder Days,” and it seemed to Frodo “he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world.” This is the what the world is like for elves; the flowers and trees, re-enchanted, recall the very real wonder of the world.”
Galadriel was part of a group of elves that rebelled against the Valar in Valinor. They left Valinor to live in Middle Earth and were prohibited from sailing into the west until pardoned. That is why the scene where Galadriel rejects Frodo’s offer to give her the ring is so important. That act earned her pardon. She could then “diminish, and go into the west”. In other words she could sail home to the Undying Lands of Valinor.
20:00 That's a Dolly Zoom, when the camera moves forward while zooming out at the same time or the opposite. It's been used in many cool shots in movies.
Loved this reaction, particularly your attention to the music! "Ooh, listen to that clarinet" and "oh it's a little Fellowship theme!" and "this music sounds......... industrial" like homie u r KILLING it.
The adorable kids with the curly hair listening to Bilbo during the party scene are Peter Jackson’s children with Fran Walsh. They turn up in all three films.
Pete Jackson himself also turns up in each film. In the first he's a (seemingly drunken) lout the Hobbits pass in the streets of Bree, in the middle film he's a fighter wearing chain mail heaving a spear at some (hopefully unlucky) Uruk-Hai at the battle of Helm's Deep, and in the final movie he's the pirate who gets accidentally shot by Legolas after Gimli deliberately bops his bow. :D (Spoiler alert, btw... :))
Fëanor, the greatest craftsman of the elves, who created for example the palantiri, the seeing stones that Saruman has one of, three times asked of Galadriel a lock of her hair, yet she would not give him even a single strand. For Gimli here, she gave 3 strands of her hair.
I've said it a thousand times : Howard Shore's score for LOTR is at least 50% the reason the movies were so successful, just like John Williams' score was for Star Wars. So memorable. Add the right film crew, driven director, and perfect cast, and the right period for a cinema launch, and you got immortal movies, that i hope will still be viewed in a hundred years
One of the things I really loved about these movies were the running gags and throwback to earlier lines/situations. Gandalf says a wizard arrives precisely when he means to, and spends the rest of the movies arriving precisely when he's needed and intends to. Then there's the apple gag, when the hobbits are complaining about Strider not knowing about second breakfast, and it's obvious Strider tosses apples over his shoulder to them. When one hits Pippin on the head, he looks up as if it had suddenly fallen out of the sky. Later, when Merri and Pippin find the food floating in the water after the Ent battle, Pippin looks up at the sky to see if the apples were raining down again. It's those little bits that just give it a whole other layer of fun.
@@balrog7252 To me neither of those pass the line for me, I am your father I think can claim 2nd pretty securely, but I gotta go with my boy Gandalf making the ultimate sacrifice taking on essentially a Demi-God (one of the few remaining champions of Morgoth, corrupted Maia) single handedly to save the fellowship
38:34 That look of sadness on Gandalf's face is always so heartbreaking. He sees no other solution that would spare Frodo the terrible burden that Gandalf knows this will be.
I love that too... he would do anything to not have Frodo have to bear the burden, but he also knew that it was most likely the best option they had. I imagine that deep down there is a sense of pride in him as well.
Galadriel is a good elf. She is Arwens grandmother on her mother’s side. She may be the oldest elf. It’s estimated that in this time she is over 23,000 years old.
Ya her age is tough to calculate. She could be anywhere from 8000 to 33,000 years old depending on how you want to calculate time in the Age of the Trees. Days and years in the Age of the Trees were much longer than in the First Age.
She is also Aragorn's great, great, great, great,... aunt through Turgon (King of Gondolin and father of Idril who married Tuor) and Elrond is his great, great, great, ... uncle through Elros (Elrond's brother and first King of Numenor who is also related to Tuor and Idril, grandson I believe). Galadrel is the last of the elves that participated in the Flight of the Noldor and is technically still under the Ban of Mandos. It is her actions against Sauron that get the ban lifted from her so she can return to Valinor. She is NOT the oldest elf in Middle Earth though, that title would belong to Cirdan, Lord of the Grey Havens.
During post production, the sound designers were at a loss how to get the Nazgul shrieks to sound properly blood-curdling. The asked Peter Jackson what he thought, and he said "Oh, my wife can do that." He called her up: "Hey, Frannie? Can you come down and do a bit of recording today? We need the Nazgul scream." "She'll be in around 3:00."
Boromir was a great Man--greater than the vast majority. But he saw the writing on the wall, with Gondor weakening as Mordor (Sauron) grew stronger by the day. His sheer desperation and love for his people was what made him more susceptible to the One Ring than he normally would have been. Keep in mind that living in Minith Tirith, Boromir could see Mordor every day. Also keep in mind that great love can be turned into great evil by the One Ring, which twists and corrupts everything.
Indeed. Boromir was a great and noble man, who wanted nothing more than to protect Gondor from the evils of Mordor. But he had the weight of the world of Man upon his shoulders, and he was terrified at the possibility that Gondor would fall. Is it any wonder that he failed to see that the ring was a weapon that only Sauron could wield? Is it any wonder that in a moment of desperate weakness his knees buckled and he tried to take the thing he thought would save his people? Is it any wonder that this good man would immediately realize his folly once that moment of madness had passed, and then lay down his life in an attempt to make up for his mistake? Bormir, like all of us, was flawed. But he died as he had lived: a hero.
Boromir didn't just see Mordor every day, he had just barely regained control of Osgiliath from the Orcs. Everyone else was only fearing the start of the final war, Boromir was already living it. Of all the people in the council of Elrond, only the Men of Gondor were already facing the war, seeing the Nazgul leading Sauron's army to victory. His desperation was justified.
Great reaction as always Jen. I haven't seen this for 20 years. The shot of Rivendell reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Tblisi, Georgia, where you drop down into a gorge, walk beside this beautiful waterfall, and the river then takes you into the old city. I was there only last week 🙂
It is said the when Ian McKellen was developing the character of Gandalf, he patterned the accent and manner of speech after Tolkien, taken from interviews.
Thank you for uploading the full movie reaction and not splitting it up into multiple videos! You are by far one of the best reaction channels IMO. Loving the Star Treak vids too! 👍 👍
The scene where Frodo was sitting beside Gandalf on the cart was done using forced perspective. Frodo was actually sitting a few feet back, not on the same seat as Gandalf. The camera was locked at an angle so you couldn’t tell. They had two versions of many of the sets. For example the “small” version of Bag End when Gandalf hits his head, and a large version in scenes that just had the hobbits. They also had different sized stand-ins. For example a “little person” played Frodo when he jumped onto Gandalf’s wagon. They either used camera angles to hide the face, or used digital replacement of the face. There was also some very tall people to stand in for Gandalf etc. in some scenes with the hobbits or dwarves. This meant they also needed different sized costumes, weapons, etc. Christopher Lee (Saruman) was 6’ 4.5” tall. Ironically, John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was the tallest actor playing one of the nine in the fellowship at 6’ 1.5”. Viggo Morgtnsen (Strider) was 5’ 11”, Sean Bean (Boromir) was 5’ 10.5” and Ian McKellan (Gandalf) is 5’ 11” (not counting his hat :-)
You probably know this already, but mentioning anyway for other readers: some scenes with both full-sized characters and Hobbits in the same frame, like the meal in the Bag End kitchen, and Frodo's ride in Gandalf's cart - used a then-novel kind of forced perspective technique that actually allowed dolly moves of the camera, which ordinarily would be impossible as it would instantly nuke the forced perspective illusion. The static camera is usually the bane of forced perspective, but the introduction of camera movement in these scenes thus heightens the realism and makes the world with its different sized people seem more believable to the viewer. The kitchen table, and the seat of the cart were built on a hidden movable rig that could slide in a coordinated fashion together with the camera move. The table (with seats), and the seat of the cart were split in separate halves and built at different physical scales for each actor, and each half moved at different rates depending on the distance to the camera during the camera move. The actors then had their own off-camera marks to face as they spoke to each other, thus making it appear as if looking at each other even though they were sitting wide apart and not facing each other. :) This allowed the forced perspective illusion to be preserved so closely that you have to actually look for any inconsistencies to see them.
What's interesting about John Rhys-Davies being so tall is that they originally thought that they would need _three_ exposures for the full group scenes, one for the men and Legolas, one for the Hobbits, and a third for Gimli, but John Rhys-Davies was tall enough compared to the Hobbit actors that he could appear in the same shots as the Hobbits and it looked right, so they only needed two shots instead.
What I love about Tolkien’s books and these movies is that you can tell these characters exist in a rich history. They are thousands of years into the Third Age which leaves the first, second and most of the third age just hinted at. The First Age ended with the battle to defeat Morgoth, Sauron’s much more powerful and dangerous master. It was a battle of supernatural beings like the Valar (who are sort of like Angels) and Morgoth (who is sort of like Satan). Imagine the battle of Armageddon. And that’s just the end of the first age! The Second Age dealt with the rise of Sauron, the forging of the rings, and ended with the battle that opened this extended edition of this movie when he was separated from the One Ring. The Third Age was all about Sauron biding his time and growing his strength until he could recover his ring. The movie and books masterfully hints at this ancient history, like when Gandalf just casually mentions that Sauron was just a servant of a greater enemy, like it was something everyone knows. Even the minor throw-away scene when Aragorn sings the “Lay of Beren and Lúthien” hints at a tale that could be a whole new movie on its own. (It is its own book.) The TV series is loosely (some think too loosely) based on the Silmarillion, which discusses those first and second ages. In reality it was part of the background prep work Tolkien did creating a history to set his novels in. Thats part of the reason it took 18 years after The Hobbit to finish The Lord of the Rings. This attention to detail is carried forward in the movies. Just look at the number of ancient ruins they encounter, like Wearhertop, the Argonath statues of ancient kings, the ruins where Frodo and Boromir clash, etc. it is like us walking through ancient Greece, pointing to a land where more history is there to explore. I love it.
Rings of Power is very tenuously based on the Silmarillion. Amazon didn't get the rights to The Silmarillion, but to the appendices of Lord of the Rings, so they used a lot of artistic license in making it, i.e., they made up a lot of it.
@ Ah right, I forgot they based it on the appendixes. Too bad they can’t get rights to other works like the Silmarillion. That would have been a fantastic series.
Out of all the reactions I have seen of yours, I didn't realize you hadn't done LOTR already. You are in for a treat. These movies set a standard that it still up there today.
14:03 You know, in the books, it was 17 YEARS from Bilbo's party till Gandalf returns here. 17 years! Imagine not seeing Gandalf for 17 years, then suddenly he's in your house. "Is it secret? Is it safe?"
@@MatthewBrown-bf5lz Appendix B (Tale of the Years) indicates it was about ten years between Gandalf’s last visit (1408 S.R.) and his discovery/confirmation of the identity of Bilbo’s ring in 1418 S.R.
@GymQuirk Yes, ten years to discover it was the one ring. But another seven years before he returns to the shire. He traveled with Aragon for a while before his return.
Then telling you at like 60 you have to walk halfway across the known world (to Rivendale), or at least to the edge of your country (Bree) while being chased by powerful enemies you've never seen or heard of and you have never left your county before that day.
Hobbits are less affected by the Ring because they aren't ambitious, seek power or have much strife in their life which the Ring uses against those who are near it. The more powerful, ambitious or fearful you are the quicker the Ring will get to you. That is why Gandalf was afraid to even touch it for it might have easily ensnared him as counter intuitive as that seems.
@@ronweber1402 So is Gandalf weak, or is it just Men who can't resist the Ring's power because of the weakness of their entire race? Certainly Elrond, being of a superior race, wasn't weak like Men, so why didn't he take the Ring to Mount Doom to destroy it himself?
@@rbrtck Elrond would have been corrupted as quickly as Gandalf or Galadriel. The more powerful the holder, the more easily corrupted he or she is. If you think, "I'm strong enough to withstand it", then you're toast.
@@iggtastic I totally agree with what you said, and it only goes to show what a racist hypocrite Elrond is, and how he managed to poison Aragorn's opinion of his own race. He tells Aragorn how weak Men like him are, and then demands that this weakling heir of the weakling Isildur go lead the other weaklings as their weakling king. What would be the point of that? And then it seems that the majority of fans in the real world, whom I presume are of the same race, nod their heads in agreement that Men are all weak and corrupt. This implies that they think Elrond or any superior Elf would have easily destroyed the One Ring, no sweat. 🙄
@@rbrtck It's Elrond's and Gandalf's strength that makes them susceptible to the Ring. The less power and ambition you have the less quickly you will succumb to the Ring's influence.
@@ronweber1402 What Gandalf said was that his strength, as in power, made his susceptibility a great danger, not that his strength made him susceptible. For one thing it was his goodness that made him susceptible, as he said that he'd use the power for good, but it would get twisted into something bad. What Elrond said was that Men are all weak, which made them susceptible. And he implied that he himself wouldn't have been, yet he did not dare touch the Ring. He wouldn't. Galadriel was clearly susceptible, and while she managed to resist, it wasn't any more than what Aragorn, a supposedly weak Man, did. Let's face it, Elrond is an ignorant racist.
Did you know that the Nazgul screams was made by distorting the scream of the producer and screenwriter, Fran Walsh? To motivate her, a sound tech told Walsh to "scream like Peter just bought the rights to the Silmarillion".
Gandalf is actually very, very powerful. However, he is not allowed to use his full Maia power in Middle-earth, but rather to provide guidance, inspiration, and occasionally his own leadership. He'll also fight, but mostly as a strong, highly skilled Man, not as an empowered spirit. There were some exceptions, however, like when he fought the Balrog. In that case, with the fate of the Fellowship at stake, he had no choice but to fight the Balrog as a fellow Maia. That's when we got to see him at his most powerful.
He can only fight with magic against entities that also use magic. Like Saruman and the Balrog. But not against the Cave Troll, or the creature in the water.
His biggest show of magic in this movie is probably the one that's easiest to miss: when he and Saruman attempt to use their voices to influence Caradhras to avalanche or not.
Galadriel's gift to Gimli has deeper meaning behind it, like most things in this movie & reflects the expanded lore of the middle earth universe. She is one of the 2-3 most powerful & wise elves remaining in Middle Earth since the time the land was young. She was born in a place called Valinor, or the Undying land... which is basically the place of residence of the Valar, the local pantheon, the local "gods" as you may call them. (Essentially the land that be untouched by Morgoth and where the holy ones still yet reside.) Back then, the world was not illuminated by the sun&moon, (only the stars, but rather by 2 trees of gold and silver, Telperion and Laurëlin that lit the world before the sun & moon were born from their last flower & fruit as they were basically killed by Melkor when he struck them with his Lance and Ungoliant the primordial Eldrich Terror vampirized the life force of the two trees. Ungoliant she was named by the Eldar/Elves). It is said that Galadriel's hair had enmeshed some of the shine and power of those two trees within her tresses. Her uncle Fëanor, who was a great king of the Elven people after his father Finwë was slain by Morgoth(Formally known as Melkor). Fëanor arguably was their greatest craftsman & warrior to ever live (besides the father of his wife Nerdanel who mentored him since he was born), asked if she could give him a lock of hair, so that he could use it to fashion 3 gems that would shine of the same light as the trees. Sensing his pride & a shadow that wasn’t exactly belonging to him brewing from within, she refused his request 3 times. He stopped asking and made the gems anyway, managing to complete the task he had set for himself even without her hair. Around these 3 gems, the possession of which became the driving force for many of the great events in the world, entire wars that lasted for centuries exploded, and other events. The gems actively shaped the fate of the races of middle earth to the point that the aforementioned Valar got involved directly. During these times, events surrounding the gems brought about the traditional enmity between Dwarves and Elves... the same enmity that Gimli still feels towards them. That enmity however does not survive his encounter with the wise Galadriel, whom Gimli basically falls platonically in love with. By giving him 3 of her hair, Galadriel is opening a door, offering an olive branch that might one day close the gap that divides these two races. Legolas, himself being an Elven prince and centuries old, knows of the story through his father Thranduil & grandfather Oropher, as it shaped the lives of all Elves, and his subtle smile is possibly the first act of acknowledgment and reconciliation. it is also a way for Peter Jackson, the director of the film, to give a nod to all of the fans who know these facts and backstories... a way to make us feel seen, and to make us appreciate just how deeply the makers of the film respect the books and larger universe created by Tolkien. The thing with the hair may seem weird, but there is a significance to it in real life as well as in the lore of the story. In real life, it was not uncommon for wives, fiancés, or even girlfriends to give their men (who were going off to war), a lock of their hair as a keepsake, particularly in WWI, which Tolkien fought in. The lore part of it comes into play in The Silmarillion, Tolkien's tales of the creation of Arda, the Undying Lands of Valinor, and Middle Earth. Galadriel is many, many thousands of years old, & was born in Valinor before the sun & moon were even created. At the time, the world was lit by two trees, one gold and one silver which would shine at different times from each other, but would shine together once a day when one would fade and the other brighten. Galadriel's hair was said to look like the light of the mingled light from the two trees, which may have inspired Feanor, a master craftsman and heir to the high king of the Ñoldor, to craft the Silmaril's which were three jewels that captured the light of the two trees, one golden light, one silver light, & one co-mingled light. Fëanor had a bit of a thing for Galadriel and begged her for her hair three different times, which she rejected because she could perceive the inner darkness of his heart and rejected him, which made them "un-friends" after that. There is a lot more to the lore than that, so this is the super crib-notes version. But the point is, it was VERY significant that she granted Gimli three of her hairs to a dwarf, when she would not to the son of her king (great uncle) over 20,000 thousand years ago of which she is related to all three kings who were brothers and Elu Thingol of Doriath was one of the brothers that didn’t stay in Valinor even though he was one of the elven ambassadors along with his three brothers and that king I mentioned was VERY close friends with Elu Thingol.)
To me these movies have a 10 member of the fellowship... The shear beauty and majesty of New Zealand, where they where filmed in some of the most breath taking locations ever. Also to answer your question about the elvish words on the gates of Moria, The Doors of Moria where inscribed in Elvish because the doors were a symbol of friendship between the Elves and Dwarves. The doors were built by two of the greatest myths of their day, Caliburn the Elf and Narvi the Dwarf. The doors were opened during a time of peace, but were sealed during the war of the elves and Sauron to prevent Sauron's forces from attacking
One of the best musical build ups in this score is just after the Fellowship leaves Rivendell and until we get the establishing shot of the Fellowship. That long buildup and finally the climax (at 41:10 in the video) is sooo good. Such a great release of all the tension that has been built up. Great reaction, Jen.
Hey Jen, When J.R.R. Tolkein wrote LOTR he had come back from WW1 in 1919 to find that his countryside hometown had started to modernize. ---------- Society didn't feel as it does now. The leaders in the town wanted to do away with as much nature as possible in favor of stone and man-made structures. -------- This deeply disturbed Tolkein and as a result, he wrote his naturalist ideas into his books. --------- Giving nature the ability to fight back against man-made destruction.
When this movie was released, totally blew my mind after watching it in the cinema. Later on, for Christmas, my family gave me the OST CD-ROM. It was magic.
The song Aragorn sings has huge importance! Here is the full version: “The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen; Of stars in shadow shimmering, Tinnúviel was dancing there, To music of a pipe unseen And light of stars was in her hair; And in her raiment glimmering There Beren came from mountains cold; And lost he wandered under leaves; And where the Elven-river rolled. He walked alone and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlock-leaves; And saw in wonder flowers of gold Upon her mantle and her sleeves; And her hair like shadow following Enchantment healed his weary feet; That over hills were doomed to roam And forth he hastened, strong and fleet; And grasped at moonbeams glistening Through woven woods in Elven-home; She lightly fled on dancing feet And left him lonely still to roam; In the silent forest listening; He heard there oft the flying sound Of feet as light as linden-leaves Or music welling underground; In hidden hollow quavering; Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves And one by one with sighing sound Whispering fell the beachen leaves; In the wintry woodland wavering He sought her ever, wandering far Where leaves of years were thickly strewn By light of moon and ray of star; In frosty heavens shivering Her mantle glinted in the moon; As on a hill-top high and far She danced, and at her feet was strewn A mist of silver quivering When winter passed, she came again And her song released the sudden spring, Like rising lark, and falling rain; And melting water bubbling; He saw the elven-flowers spring About her feet, and healed again He longed by her to dance and sing Upon the grass untroubling Again she fled, but swift he came Tinnúviel ! , Tinnúviel ! He called her by her elvish name And there she halted listening One moment stood she, and a spell His voice laid on her: Beren came And doom fell on Tinúviel That in his arms lay glistening As Beren looked into her eyes Within the shadows of her hair The trembling starlight of the skies He saw there mirrored shimmering Tinnúviel the elven-fair Immortal maiden elven-wise About him cast her shadowy hair And arms like silver glimmering Long was the way that fate them bore O'er stony mountains cold and grey Through halls of ireon and darkling door, And woods of nightshade morrowless The Sundering Seas between them lay And yet at last they met once more And long ago they passed away In the forest singing sorrowless” The true elvish version is far greater and so full of beauty & nuanced mournful sadness that’s break the hearts of mortals from its beauty and sadness so the true song has been sort of taboo and the mannish tongues that retell it is stated to only be a shadow beneath the tree of the true story! (A clip of it is in the original definitive version though. Viggo Mortenson who plays Aragorn designed the melody and style himself and wished it to sound Celtic in nature.) I recommend reacting to the cover done by Clamavi De Profundis and Tolkien Ensemble after the trilogy is finished and even “How Howard Shore Used Voices”. You’ll see just how deep it went. The lore itself went into the musics lyrics. Using the languages within middle earth. So even when stuff couldn’t be put in they found other ways to highly reference it via the music. It ties in all the themes at the very end in a very profound way. The thumbnail image for it is Galadriel and the image has a blue tint.
The perspective shots were just mind-blowing to me when I first saw this. The tallest person of the main cast was Gimli actor John Rhys-Davies at 6'5", but Jackson made it work with clever sets and perspective angles for the cameras and the use of lookalikes for shots where we only see the back of a character. It just works, for the most part. The cleverest shot of all, for me, was the one where they all come over a crest between some rocks one at a time, during the trek south from Rivendell. That scene was the first teaser trailer for the movie in 2000 (maybe late 1999) and it was perfect.
Fun facts people don't mention a lot: The ring when Bilbo drops it in Hobbiton was made of iron and plated in gold, and a magnet set under the floor. Peter Jackson wanted it to thud with weight onto the floor, to emphasize how it was itself a burden. An ordinary ring would have bounced and/or rolled around. In Rivendell, the shot of the ring with all the reflections in it was made with a HUGE version of the ring, like a foot in diameter.
An interesting fact- In the scene where the Uruk-Hai throws Aragorn's dagger at him that dagger was real! The actor was supposed to throw it far to Aragorn's left and a separate scene with him throwing a rubber dagger at Aragorn would be inserted in post production. When the Actor threw the real dagger towards Aragorn , the forehead piece of his makeup/costume slipped over his' eyes and he threw it directly at Viggo! Viggo actually blocked it with his sword.! Peter Jackson was so impressed that they never filmed the rubber dagger scene and used the actual take!
The guy who trained Viggo in swordsmanship had worked with Errol Flynn, Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin from The Princess Bride and many others said Viggo was the best natural born swordsman he had ever seen.
This is one of those facts that needs to and does get mentioned in every one of these comment sections (along with toe-break kick). Thank you for your service, sir. 🫡
Many centuries before the films, Sauron went to the elves and disguised himself and taught their craftsmen to make magical rings. He tricked them into binding his own magic into the forging of the Nine and the Seven. But the Three were made by the elves alone, without Sauron being involved. The Three are not evil, but since they were made with the same methods, the One would be able to control them if Sauron were able to obtain it again.
The first time that Sauron had the One Ring the elves could feel it so they removed their rings to avoid being controlled by Sauron. After the One Ring was lost they put theirs back on.
I am always amazed at how great this trilogy is. I've read the books multiple times over the years and never thought anyone could do them justice on the big screen. Peter Jackson proved me wrong, and I love it!
God I hated fall when I lived up north and getting used to the cold again. November -20, December -30 January -40 brrr. Which is why I now live in Vancouver.
When i was a kid i had no internet i loved to watch movies i liked with people who saw them for the first time, with the advent of youtube and reactors i get to be that kid again and watch people reacting for the first time to my favourite movies. I really enjoy your reactions, Jen.
I was lucky enough to see all three movies at the theaters when they first came out. The only franchise I was invested enough to see all. I never was or have been since a big "go see movies at the theater" type of person.
I was actually so pleased that you understood the whole Galadriel interaction with the ring (and the other-worldly feeling of Lothlorien). So many reviewers/reactors misinterpret or misunderstand that part - especially Galadriel's refusal of the ring. I like that you caught on to how she was sort of a wildcard (and a contrast to Gandalf who practically refuses to even look at the ring). I always enjoy your intuitive analysis of these types of themes in the movies you watch.
Hey Jen, Interesting fact. Director Peter Jackson took Bilbo's house interior set and made it a second addition to his mansion. When people come to visit him. --------- He asks if they want to stay in the regular guest room, or the Hobbiton guest room. You figure which one they go for.
If you have the extended editions then I absolutely recommend watching the behind-the-scenes features in your free time. An absolute treasure trove of film making! They documented everything from the casting to the set designing to the costuming to the camera tricks they used to get the size differences.
Hobbits are susceptible to it, what they are is more resilient.. and this i think is typically attributed to the fact of low ambition. The greater the ambition the more susceptible the individual, the ring manipulates desires. Time with proximity can also play a factor. Hobbits typically yearn simple lives. Bilbo is an odd exception and actually has yearnings for adventure that pop up and so the ring uses that on him.
I've heard the butterfly/moth scene on top of Orthanc was actually a tongue in cheek reference to Radagast The Brown Wizard, who could communicate with and direct all kinds of wildlife, etc. Gandalf basically sent a message through the butterfly/moth to Radagast who then sent Gwahir The Eagle to rescue him from the tower.
"I give Hope to men. I keep none for .yself." thats the epitaph on the grave of Aragorns mother, Gilraen. His elvish name is Estel, which means Hope. When his father was killed, she brought him to Rivendell to be raised by Elrond.
So happy you got this up and your awesomeness can be appreciated and loved by hopefully hundreds of thousands 🔥 you truly are the best jen this trilogy journey is going to be epic . Ty jen for doing these movies and being the most precious reactor of them all 🔥💙
What kind of work can you do while watching a Jen reaction? This is not a critique, don't take it the wrong way. I'm just asking because I might want a job like that 😊
@1:09:00 - Fun fact about this scene, when Lurtz is throwing the dagger at Aragorn, it wasn't intended to come near (or not that close at least), that was an actual sharp weapon, and could've killed Vigo had he not deflected it.
I have "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" tattooed on my left forearm. Choose as much as you can to give your life meaning and help others, folks.
Oh wow! Jen, I never thought I could go on this epic journey through Middle Earth together with you.🥳 One thing I know for sure, this movie (trilogy) is the most impressive, thrilling, entertaining and emotional cinematic experience I ever made. Even the two and a half hours of waiting in line for the tickets of the midnight premiere was unforgettable😂 The theater was packed, even all the stairs and when Galadriel's prologue began I had chills. I read the books as a teenager, the blueprint for all my favorite fantasy/D&D role playing games...pen and paper and video games. Everything about these 3 movies is perfect for me, cast, writing, soundtrack and effects, with the perfect balance of practical and cgi effects. Jen, your reaction to this first part is nothing less than perfect as well! ❤ Also fantastic editing! Thanks alot! I can't wait till this mission...quest...thing continues.🤗👍
Sauron, as a Maia or powerful angelic, or in his case demonic, spirit was very powerful to begin with, and he was probably the most powerful of the Maiar (plural). What he did was put much or even most of his power into the One Ring in order to use it to dominate the wills of others (willpower plays a huge part in this story). So he was only at his full and frightening power when he had the One Ring, and arguably the application of his craft of making magical rings meant that it did make him even more powerful than before. When Isildur cut the One Ring from his hand, however, the trauma of losing this much power at once destroyed his body and much of his remaining power (whatever he did not put into the One Ring), and it has taken many centuries to sort of build his power back up. In the books, he managed to take a more normal physical form once again, but in the movies he took the form of a giant eye, which was the best he could do without the One Ring. By the way, examples of other Maiar who happen to be in Middle-earth are Gandalf and Saruman. They (and a few others) are known as the Istari, and are disguised as "wizards" who look like Men (meaning the race of mortal humans, regardless of gender), but they are not Men. The Balrog was also a Maia like them (obviously in a different physical form).
What a surprise that you’re now watching The Lord Of The Rings, I wasn’t expecting that, I’m glad you’re watching the extended editions, and I can’t wait for you to watch the next 2 movies / the rest of the trilogy
I looooove you noticed in 11:40 how HEAVY the ring is. All the ring's shots are carefully taken to show it's power; how when it wants to move, it finds a way, how it speaks...how heavy it is: not rolling when landing, changing in size depending on who holds it, the physical scars it leaves when carrying it... this movie was made with love and it shows in the details. Greatest movie of all time, LOTR. Also, people get confussed a lot about the Nazgul and water; they are not afraid of water. But the river Bruinen, at the land of Imladris (Rivendel) which is also a city guarded by a ring-bearer (Elrond has the elven ring of water, given by the last Elven King, Gil-Galad) itself? That's a no-no.
Anthony Daniels (C3PO) does Legolas in the 1978 Bakshi film. Same actor, Peter Woodthorpe, voices Gollum in both BBC and Bakshi versions. Great continuity for “my preciousss” lol
The cinematography, the sounds and the overall eerie effect of The Lord of the Rings. I absolutely love your reaction to this spectacular masterpiece, Jen. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.♥️♥️
The greatest trilogy ever made! My local theater does a marathon of all three extended editions and we always go, like 11 hours at the theater with breaks in between.
Jen, movies like this one make me proud to be called a "geek." Your reaction ran the full range from delight with the hobbits to horror at the wraiths. You have a sharp eye and caught some things that others might have missed. You're nothing less than incredible, not to mention a bit magical. Oh, I almost forgot... I read your question over on Patreon. I'm a bit south of any possible location you could be, but my area got snow, starting late Wednesday night. The streets are clear but my van is covered heavily.
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Glad you're checking this out. You're one of my fave reactors and this is one of my favorite movies and my favorite stories
You have such a contented look on your face in the Hobbiton scenes.
Jen , you have your own magic , you need of no rings !
You need people of intelligence in this comment section, reactions...replies.
My favourite reactor and my favourite movie. This is going to be one hell of a video.
42:51 "He's walkin' right on top of the snow!" YES!!! So few people notice just how "light-footed" Legolas is compared to the others.
When they shot the Kharadras scene, only one actor of the Fellowship was buried in real snow: Orlando Bloom. Everyone else was shot on a sound stage covered in tiny Styrofoam beads, and everyone _hated_ that stuff because it literally got everywhere.
There are no mixed opinions. There are those who love the Extended versions and those who are wrong.
I tried watching the theatrical version a few years ago, turned it off after 10 minutes and put the extended version back on. It only took that 10 minutes to think…I’m missing out on so much here, can’t do this.
Yeah I was confused too. You either love the Extended more, or don't like LOTR. There is so much missing from the theatrical ones. Hell there is tons missing from the extended. And lots that shouldn't be. But I don't want spoiler things. Let's just say that the changes to a character I'm still furious about.
There is no absolutes.
The theatrical release of "Return of the King" is truer to the book. They leave Saruman alive and under the watch of Treebeard.
@@raterusyeah, but a similar situation to the movie happens to him at the end of the book.
One thing I love about Hobbiton; they built the sets, planted all the plants, then left it there for a year. They came back and then relandscaped so that things looked more lived in.
The farmer in New Zealand, who's land they rented to build it, has maintained it and it is now a tourist attraction. ♥️🤟😎♥️
It was actually built to be temporary the first time, then rebuilt in the same exact spot with more permanent materials for the Hobbit trilogy and that's the version that has stayed to this day!
@@pip5667 went last year and it was awesome. At the time they were also building the inside of Sam's house so that visitors can actually walk through it.
I saw this movie at a midnight premiere in Vancouver. Just as the movie was about to start, the lights came up and Sir Ian McKellen came out to talk to us. He was in town shooting X-Men 2, so he'd missed the Hollywood and London premieres of the film, so he came to ours. It was an amazing start to the night.
That would have been an especially delightful and unexpected treat.
Very Jealous.
And that is the final proof that Ian McKellen actually HAS magic powers
Cooooooolllllll
A wizard arrives presiceley when he means to .
Dude Cate Blanchett's performance in this film is just unbelievably good and I'll say it every time I see it. How confident she is right before she is tempted by the ring and how shaken she is afterward... gives me goosebumps every time. Her opening narration is absolutely iconic.
They were absolutely right to have her do the opening narration. She sets the tone for an entire twelve hours of cinema with that monologue and just did an amazing job at it.
@@cvonbarronyes, i've just calculated out of curiosity her age in LOTR at the time of her encounter with Frodo, Galadriel (born even before the first rise of sun and moon) has 8360* of our solar years which equals to 58 elven years (but the elves reach full maturity after 100 of our human years anyway).
The (awful) Galadriel in the (horrible) "Rings of Power" has between 3596 (25) and 5156 (almost 36) years (the timeline in that show is all messed up).
*To calculate her age you need to count the years since the rise of the sun (7049 in LOTR) then add 138 valian years (1311 solar years) before that.
1 elven year = 144 solar years
1 valian year (before sun) = 9,5 solar years
Check her out in the movie the Aviator. She plays Katherine Hepburn and won the academy award for it
@@papabearlives9995 The Aviator
Please don't mention that piece of excrement that is the a****n show. lol
32:57 "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr Anderson."
- Agent Elrond
😂😂
My name, is Frodo!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that. I also hope I'm not the only one who yells "Run, Forrest Run" during the last march of the Ents.
I hear this every time I watch this movie; I'm just glad I'm not alone.
that was a fun joke from the old days.
"How come there is an Elvish gate guarding the Dwarf mines?" - you're the first one to pick up on that! It's because it was built specifically for trade with the elves who lived there, long ago when there was much less animosity between them.
Also dwarves hated teaching others their language so instead used elvish
@@connorbosley4431 True, they were very cagey with Khuzdul
It is not an Elvish gate though. the runes on it were carved by an elf (Celebrimbor) and the password used was an Elvish word, symbolic of the rare friendship that then existed between the two races, but the doors themselves were very much Dwarfish, as Gandalf explained, specifically built by the Dwarf Narvi.
I know how much you love great scores. This is one of, if not THE best scores in film. Infinitely listenable
It is definitely the best.
@ it eclipses Star Wars for me, which is no small feat
@crispy_338 agreed. This trilogy eclipses and outclasses pretty much everything about the entire Star Wars franchise, and it's hard to do that to the iconic og SW trilogy.
Howard Shore got his start in collaborations with David Cronenberg. He’s able to inject his scores with that unnerving, minor key mystery that makes you feel like there are otherworldly forces at work.
Oh man, the "My Brother, My Captain, My King" line ALWAYS makes me cry. It's not even from the books!!! The writers did such an amazing job adapting the books and embellishing Tolkien's work into something so unforgettably cinematic.
Tolkien's work does not need to be "embellished". These films are very fine action movies, but that's it.
@Chaoskoch ok horsecock
@@Chaoskoch “Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”
😂@@KingApeiron
...horsecock
I cannot adequately express how excited I am to rewatch these films with you. It never matters how often you've seen them, there is always something new, or forgotten to notice. The emotions come back full force every time. Thank you so much for watching & having these edited for us 🥰
I've seen these movies nearly 100 times and this time I saw, for the first time, an orc walking inside a wheel to help power Saruman's weapon factory.
Yeah I’m a blubbering mess by the end no matter how many times I’ve seen it. The death of Boromir and Sam’s loyalty gets to me every time
@@cloudwatcher608 The mark of a reactor for me is how they respond to Boromir's death
44:40 Good question! They were made during a peace between the Elves and Dwarves during the 2nd age. The hidden stone doors are a Dwarven thing and the moon-runes are an Elven thing; a fusion of the two technologies.
The full inscription reads "The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter. I, Narvi, made them. Celebrimbor of Hollin drew these signs." Narvi was a famous Dwarven smith, and Celebrimbor was a famous elven smith. They essentially signed their work 😊
Celembrimbor is actually the elvish smith who made the rings-at least the 3 for the Elf Lords!
@@JoeKawano false. Gandalf forged the rings
@@T-SwiftsMaritalAid Absolutely not. Gandalf had nothing to do with the forging of the rings.
@@T-SwiftsMaritalAid Celembrimbor "...is remembered primarily for his creation of the Three Rings of Power: Nenya, Vilya, and Narya."
~The Lord of the Rings Wiki
@@T-SwiftsMaritalAid I'm honestly really curious how you got this impression!
The fly terrorizing you: spy of Saruman!
Creblines from Dublin!!!! me, "WTF?!"
Or Gandalf couldn’t get a moth, so sent a fly?
😂😂😂
@@lodey Damn Irish birds...
“There lie woods of Lothlórien! That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people!" - Legolas. "There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. “The grass in this clearing is as green as Springtime in the Elder Days,” and it seemed to Frodo “he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world.” This is the what the world is like for elves; the flowers and trees, re-enchanted, recall the very real wonder of the world.”
When I see the Shire at the beginning, I genuinely feel as if I am home at last, and I usually shed a tear of happiness. THAT is storytelling.
I always knew I was not alone in that feeling, but it's wonderful to see it written
Galadriel was part of a group of elves that rebelled against the Valar in Valinor. They left Valinor to live in Middle Earth and were prohibited from sailing into the west until pardoned.
That is why the scene where Galadriel rejects Frodo’s offer to give her the ring is so important. That act earned her pardon. She could then “diminish, and go into the west”. In other words she could sail home to the Undying Lands of Valinor.
20:00 That's a Dolly Zoom, when the camera moves forward while zooming out at the same time or the opposite. It's been used in many cool shots in movies.
Probably the most famous dolly zoom shot is Chief Brody on the beach in “Jaws.”
Loved this reaction, particularly your attention to the music! "Ooh, listen to that clarinet" and "oh it's a little Fellowship theme!" and "this music sounds......... industrial" like homie u r KILLING it.
The adorable kids with the curly hair listening to Bilbo during the party scene are Peter Jackson’s children with Fran Walsh. They turn up in all three films.
Pete Jackson himself also turns up in each film. In the first he's a (seemingly drunken) lout the Hobbits pass in the streets of Bree, in the middle film he's a fighter wearing chain mail heaving a spear at some (hopefully unlucky) Uruk-Hai at the battle of Helm's Deep, and in the final movie he's the pirate who gets accidentally shot by Legolas after Gimli deliberately bops his bow. :D
(Spoiler alert, btw... :))
1:05:55 Aragorns back must be KILLING him every day from completely carrying the entire team every fight 😂
That voice, lamenting Gandalf's fall, is that of Isabel Bayrakdarian, a Canadian-Armenian opera singer.
It brings both chills and tears every time.
If you listen closely, you can hear one ring wraith whispering "....Jeeennn......subscriiibe.....".
Fëanor, the greatest craftsman of the elves, who created for example the palantiri, the seeing stones that Saruman has one of, three times asked of Galadriel a lock of her hair, yet she would not give him even a single strand. For Gimli here, she gave 3 strands of her hair.
I've said it a thousand times : Howard Shore's score for LOTR is at least 50% the reason the movies were so successful, just like John Williams' score was for Star Wars. So memorable.
Add the right film crew, driven director, and perfect cast, and the right period for a cinema launch, and you got immortal movies, that i hope will still be viewed in a hundred years
One of the things I really loved about these movies were the running gags and throwback to earlier lines/situations. Gandalf says a wizard arrives precisely when he means to, and spends the rest of the movies arriving precisely when he's needed and intends to. Then there's the apple gag, when the hobbits are complaining about Strider not knowing about second breakfast, and it's obvious Strider tosses apples over his shoulder to them. When one hits Pippin on the head, he looks up as if it had suddenly fallen out of the sky. Later, when Merri and Pippin find the food floating in the water after the Ent battle, Pippin looks up at the sky to see if the apples were raining down again. It's those little bits that just give it a whole other layer of fun.
“You shall not pass” One of the most iconic lines ever. The way Ian McKellen delivers that line always gives me chills.
I love seeing the You Shall Not Pass bumper sticker. This car does not like to be passed!!
as far as i know its based on Ils ne passeront pas=They shall not pass, Tolkien fight in WW1 and there he heard it
In my opinion, there are only two more famous lines in the history of cinema.
I am your father.
I'll be back.
Gandalf never actually says this in the books he says you cannot pass
@@balrog7252 To me neither of those pass the line for me, I am your father I think can claim 2nd pretty securely, but I gotta go with my boy Gandalf making the ultimate sacrifice taking on essentially a Demi-God (one of the few remaining champions of Morgoth, corrupted Maia) single handedly to save the fellowship
38:34 That look of sadness on Gandalf's face is always so heartbreaking. He sees no other solution that would spare Frodo the terrible burden that Gandalf knows this will be.
I love that too... he would do anything to not have Frodo have to bear the burden, but he also knew that it was most likely the best option they had. I imagine that deep down there is a sense of pride in him as well.
Apparently one of the ideas Ian McKellen had for that scene was "Imagine you're a father whose son just announced he's enlisted in the Great War."
Galadriel is a good elf. She is Arwens grandmother on her mother’s side. She may be the oldest elf. It’s estimated that in this time she is over 23,000 years old.
Ya her age is tough to calculate. She could be anywhere from 8000 to 33,000 years old depending on how you want to calculate time in the Age of the Trees. Days and years in the Age of the Trees were much longer than in the First Age.
She is also Aragorn's great, great, great, great,... aunt through Turgon (King of Gondolin and father of Idril who married Tuor) and Elrond is his great, great, great, ... uncle through Elros (Elrond's brother and first King of Numenor who is also related to Tuor and Idril, grandson I believe). Galadrel is the last of the elves that participated in the Flight of the Noldor and is technically still under the Ban of Mandos. It is her actions against Sauron that get the ban lifted from her so she can return to Valinor. She is NOT the oldest elf in Middle Earth though, that title would belong to Cirdan, Lord of the Grey Havens.
I believe Cirdan is older, but she is indeed older than the sun and the moon
Wow. She doesn't look a day over 27.
@@LibrarianMichaelgood skin care routine…
Viggo (Aragorn) bought the horse that Arwen's stunt double rode in the chase to Rivendale and gifted it to that stuntwoman!
I worked on these movies at Weta Digital doing the computer VFX. It was a dream job. AMA!
Why were VFX better 20 years ago than they are now.
During post production, the sound designers were at a loss how to get the Nazgul shrieks to sound properly blood-curdling. The asked Peter Jackson what he thought, and he said "Oh, my wife can do that." He called her up: "Hey, Frannie? Can you come down and do a bit of recording today? We need the Nazgul scream."
"She'll be in around 3:00."
This is a bit of trivia I had never heard. Thank you for sharing. 🥰
And she managed to make them sound so unnatural and inhuman. Especially the Witch King screams give me chills all the time! 🥶
Boromir was a great Man--greater than the vast majority. But he saw the writing on the wall, with Gondor weakening as Mordor (Sauron) grew stronger by the day. His sheer desperation and love for his people was what made him more susceptible to the One Ring than he normally would have been. Keep in mind that living in Minith Tirith, Boromir could see Mordor every day. Also keep in mind that great love can be turned into great evil by the One Ring, which twists and corrupts everything.
Indeed. Boromir was a great and noble man, who wanted nothing more than to protect Gondor from the evils of Mordor. But he had the weight of the world of Man upon his shoulders, and he was terrified at the possibility that Gondor would fall. Is it any wonder that he failed to see that the ring was a weapon that only Sauron could wield? Is it any wonder that in a moment of desperate weakness his knees buckled and he tried to take the thing he thought would save his people? Is it any wonder that this good man would immediately realize his folly once that moment of madness had passed, and then lay down his life in an attempt to make up for his mistake?
Bormir, like all of us, was flawed. But he died as he had lived: a hero.
It is the nature of the one ring. It has the power to take that which is strongest about you and to corrupt that strength.
Boromir didn't just see Mordor every day, he had just barely regained control of Osgiliath from the Orcs. Everyone else was only fearing the start of the final war, Boromir was already living it. Of all the people in the council of Elrond, only the Men of Gondor were already facing the war, seeing the Nazgul leading Sauron's army to victory. His desperation was justified.
His brother knew all the same things, and yet was wiser.
@@meherenowmaybe Boromir wasn't Tolkien's self-insert, and Faramir was.
Great reaction as always Jen. I haven't seen this for 20 years. The shot of Rivendell reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Tblisi, Georgia, where you drop down into a gorge, walk beside this beautiful waterfall, and the river then takes you into the old city. I was there only last week 🙂
It is said the when Ian McKellen was developing the character of Gandalf, he patterned the accent and manner of speech after Tolkien, taken from interviews.
Thank you for uploading the full movie reaction and not splitting it up into multiple videos! You are by far one of the best reaction channels IMO. Loving the Star Treak vids too! 👍 👍
The scene where Frodo was sitting beside Gandalf on the cart was done using forced perspective. Frodo was actually sitting a few feet back, not on the same seat as Gandalf. The camera was locked at an angle so you couldn’t tell.
They had two versions of many of the sets. For example the “small” version of Bag End when Gandalf hits his head, and a large version in scenes that just had the hobbits.
They also had different sized stand-ins. For example a “little person” played Frodo when he jumped onto Gandalf’s wagon. They either used camera angles to hide the face, or used digital replacement of the face. There was also some very tall people to stand in for Gandalf etc. in some scenes with the hobbits or dwarves. This meant they also needed different sized costumes, weapons, etc.
Christopher Lee (Saruman) was 6’ 4.5” tall. Ironically, John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was the tallest actor playing one of the nine in the fellowship at 6’ 1.5”. Viggo Morgtnsen (Strider) was 5’ 11”, Sean Bean (Boromir) was 5’ 10.5” and Ian McKellan (Gandalf) is 5’ 11” (not counting his hat :-)
After hearing about the forced perspective in the cart scene I can now see it when I really look but it was still really well done.
For the scene at the inn, there are scenes where the humans walk past the Hobbits. This was done by having actors on stilts.
You probably know this already, but mentioning anyway for other readers: some scenes with both full-sized characters and Hobbits in the same frame, like the meal in the Bag End kitchen, and Frodo's ride in Gandalf's cart - used a then-novel kind of forced perspective technique that actually allowed dolly moves of the camera, which ordinarily would be impossible as it would instantly nuke the forced perspective illusion. The static camera is usually the bane of forced perspective, but the introduction of camera movement in these scenes thus heightens the realism and makes the world with its different sized people seem more believable to the viewer.
The kitchen table, and the seat of the cart were built on a hidden movable rig that could slide in a coordinated fashion together with the camera move. The table (with seats), and the seat of the cart were split in separate halves and built at different physical scales for each actor, and each half moved at different rates depending on the distance to the camera during the camera move. The actors then had their own off-camera marks to face as they spoke to each other, thus making it appear as if looking at each other even though they were sitting wide apart and not facing each other. :) This allowed the forced perspective illusion to be preserved so closely that you have to actually look for any inconsistencies to see them.
What's interesting about John Rhys-Davies being so tall is that they originally thought that they would need _three_ exposures for the full group scenes, one for the men and Legolas, one for the Hobbits, and a third for Gimli, but John Rhys-Davies was tall enough compared to the Hobbit actors that he could appear in the same shots as the Hobbits and it looked right, so they only needed two shots instead.
What I love about Tolkien’s books and these movies is that you can tell these characters exist in a rich history. They are thousands of years into the Third Age which leaves the first, second and most of the third age just hinted at.
The First Age ended with the battle to defeat Morgoth, Sauron’s much more powerful and dangerous master. It was a battle of supernatural beings like the Valar (who are sort of like Angels) and Morgoth (who is sort of like Satan). Imagine the battle of Armageddon. And that’s just the end of the first age!
The Second Age dealt with the rise of Sauron, the forging of the rings, and ended with the battle that opened this extended edition of this movie when he was separated from the One Ring.
The Third Age was all about Sauron biding his time and growing his strength until he could recover his ring.
The movie and books masterfully hints at this ancient history, like when Gandalf just casually mentions that Sauron was just a servant of a greater enemy, like it was something everyone knows. Even the minor throw-away scene when Aragorn sings the “Lay of Beren and Lúthien” hints at a tale that could be a whole new movie on its own. (It is its own book.)
The TV series is loosely (some think too loosely) based on the Silmarillion, which discusses those first and second ages. In reality it was part of the background prep work Tolkien did creating a history to set his novels in. Thats part of the reason it took 18 years after The Hobbit to finish The Lord of the Rings.
This attention to detail is carried forward in the movies. Just look at the number of ancient ruins they encounter, like Wearhertop, the Argonath statues of ancient kings, the ruins where Frodo and Boromir clash, etc. it is like us walking through ancient Greece, pointing to a land where more history is there to explore.
I love it.
Rings of Power is very tenuously based on the Silmarillion. Amazon didn't get the rights to The Silmarillion, but to the appendices of Lord of the Rings, so they used a lot of artistic license in making it, i.e., they made up a lot of it.
@ Ah right, I forgot they based it on the appendixes. Too bad they can’t get rights to other works like the Silmarillion. That would have been a fantastic series.
@@kevinL5425 It's good that they didn't. They took enough of a dump on it as is.
@ Yes, that is disappointing. I haven’t seen the TV series yet but was hoping it would be as epic as the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Out of all the reactions I have seen of yours, I didn't realize you hadn't done LOTR already. You are in for a treat. These movies set a standard that it still up there today.
14:03 You know, in the books, it was 17 YEARS from Bilbo's party till Gandalf returns here. 17 years! Imagine not seeing Gandalf for 17 years, then suddenly he's in your house. "Is it secret? Is it safe?"
In the books, Gandalf visits periodically during that time.
@scottdean2199 No, I'm fairly certain he was gone for seventeen years.
@@MatthewBrown-bf5lz Appendix B (Tale of the Years) indicates it was about ten years between Gandalf’s last visit (1408 S.R.) and his discovery/confirmation of the identity of Bilbo’s ring in 1418 S.R.
@GymQuirk Yes, ten years to discover it was the one ring. But another seven years before he returns to the shire. He traveled with Aragon for a while before his return.
Then telling you at like 60 you have to walk halfway across the known world (to Rivendale), or at least to the edge of your country (Bree) while being chased by powerful enemies you've never seen or heard of and you have never left your county before that day.
Hobbits are less affected by the Ring because they aren't ambitious, seek power or have much strife in their life which the Ring uses against those who are near it. The more powerful, ambitious or fearful you are the quicker the Ring will get to you. That is why Gandalf was afraid to even touch it for it might have easily ensnared him as counter intuitive as that seems.
@@ronweber1402 So is Gandalf weak, or is it just Men who can't resist the Ring's power because of the weakness of their entire race? Certainly Elrond, being of a superior race, wasn't weak like Men, so why didn't he take the Ring to Mount Doom to destroy it himself?
@@rbrtck Elrond would have been corrupted as quickly as Gandalf or Galadriel. The more powerful the holder, the more easily corrupted he or she is. If you think, "I'm strong enough to withstand it", then you're toast.
@@iggtastic I totally agree with what you said, and it only goes to show what a racist hypocrite Elrond is, and how he managed to poison Aragorn's opinion of his own race. He tells Aragorn how weak Men like him are, and then demands that this weakling heir of the weakling Isildur go lead the other weaklings as their weakling king. What would be the point of that? And then it seems that the majority of fans in the real world, whom I presume are of the same race, nod their heads in agreement that Men are all weak and corrupt. This implies that they think Elrond or any superior Elf would have easily destroyed the One Ring, no sweat. 🙄
@@rbrtck It's Elrond's and Gandalf's strength that makes them susceptible to the Ring. The less power and ambition you have the less quickly you will succumb to the Ring's influence.
@@ronweber1402 What Gandalf said was that his strength, as in power, made his susceptibility a great danger, not that his strength made him susceptible. For one thing it was his goodness that made him susceptible, as he said that he'd use the power for good, but it would get twisted into something bad.
What Elrond said was that Men are all weak, which made them susceptible. And he implied that he himself wouldn't have been, yet he did not dare touch the Ring. He wouldn't. Galadriel was clearly susceptible, and while she managed to resist, it wasn't any more than what Aragorn, a supposedly weak Man, did. Let's face it, Elrond is an ignorant racist.
I've watched so many people react to these movies that I totally forgot that you'd never done them. Exciting!
Did you know that the Nazgul screams was made by distorting the scream of the producer and screenwriter, Fran Walsh? To motivate her, a sound tech told Walsh to "scream like Peter just bought the rights to the Silmarillion".
That is not true.
It was due to Fran having bronchitis and secretly recorded the sound I believe. Then edited it
Gandalf is actually very, very powerful. However, he is not allowed to use his full Maia power in Middle-earth, but rather to provide guidance, inspiration, and occasionally his own leadership. He'll also fight, but mostly as a strong, highly skilled Man, not as an empowered spirit. There were some exceptions, however, like when he fought the Balrog. In that case, with the fate of the Fellowship at stake, he had no choice but to fight the Balrog as a fellow Maia. That's when we got to see him at his most powerful.
He can only fight with magic against entities that also use magic. Like Saruman and the Balrog.
But not against the Cave Troll, or the creature in the water.
He is a little more 'magicky' in the books. Shoots off a few fire spells etc.
@@delbertogrady6824 In the books he is mentally fighting the Balrog before it even appears.
His biggest show of magic in this movie is probably the one that's easiest to miss: when he and Saruman attempt to use their voices to influence Caradhras to avalanche or not.
Jen: "I've clearly forgotten most of it, which is great." Yes, there are times in life when a porous memory is a blessing! 😂
Galadriel's gift to Gimli has deeper meaning behind it, like most things in this movie & reflects the expanded lore of the middle earth universe. She is one of the 2-3 most powerful & wise elves remaining in Middle Earth since the time the land was young. She was born in a place called Valinor, or the Undying land... which is basically the place of residence of the Valar, the local pantheon, the local "gods" as you may call them. (Essentially the land that be untouched by Morgoth and where the holy ones still yet reside.)
Back then, the world was not illuminated by the sun&moon, (only the stars, but rather by 2 trees of gold and silver, Telperion and Laurëlin that lit the world before the sun & moon were born from their last flower & fruit as they were basically killed by Melkor when he struck them with his Lance and Ungoliant the primordial Eldrich Terror vampirized the life force of the two trees. Ungoliant she was named by the Eldar/Elves).
It is said that Galadriel's hair had enmeshed some of the shine and power of those two trees within her tresses. Her uncle Fëanor, who was a great king of the Elven people after his father Finwë was slain by Morgoth(Formally known as Melkor).
Fëanor arguably was their greatest craftsman & warrior to ever live (besides the father of his wife Nerdanel who mentored him since he was born), asked if she could give him a lock of hair, so that he could use it to fashion 3 gems that would shine of the same light as the trees. Sensing his pride & a shadow that wasn’t exactly belonging to him brewing from within, she refused his request 3 times. He stopped asking and made the gems anyway, managing to complete the task he had set for himself even without her hair.
Around these 3 gems, the possession of which became the driving force for many of the great events in the world, entire wars that lasted for centuries exploded, and other events. The gems actively shaped the fate of the races of middle earth to the point that the aforementioned Valar got involved directly. During these times, events surrounding the gems brought about the traditional enmity between Dwarves and Elves... the same enmity that Gimli still feels towards them.
That enmity however does not survive his encounter with the wise Galadriel, whom Gimli basically falls platonically in love with. By giving him 3 of her hair, Galadriel is opening a door, offering an olive branch that might one day close the gap that divides these two races. Legolas, himself being an Elven prince and centuries old, knows of the story through his father Thranduil & grandfather Oropher, as it shaped the lives of all Elves, and his subtle smile is possibly the first act of acknowledgment and reconciliation.
it is also a way for Peter Jackson, the director of the film, to give a nod to all of the fans who know these facts and backstories... a way to make us feel seen, and to make us appreciate just how deeply the makers of the film respect the books and larger universe created by Tolkien.
The thing with the hair may seem weird, but there is a significance to it in real life as well as in the lore of the story. In real life, it was not uncommon for wives, fiancés, or even girlfriends to give their men (who were going off to war), a lock of their hair as a keepsake, particularly in WWI, which Tolkien fought in.
The lore part of it comes into play in The Silmarillion, Tolkien's tales of the creation of Arda, the Undying Lands of Valinor, and Middle Earth. Galadriel is many, many thousands of years old, & was born in Valinor before the sun & moon were even created.
At the time, the world was lit by two trees, one gold and one silver which would shine at different times from each other, but would shine together once a day when one would fade and the other brighten. Galadriel's hair was said to look like the light of the mingled light from the two trees, which may have inspired Feanor, a master craftsman and heir to the high king of the Ñoldor, to craft the Silmaril's which were three jewels that captured the light of the two trees, one golden light, one silver light, & one co-mingled light.
Fëanor had a bit of a thing for Galadriel and begged her for her hair three different times, which she rejected because she could perceive the inner darkness of his heart and rejected him, which made them "un-friends" after that. There is a lot more to the lore than that, so this is the super crib-notes version.
But the point is, it was VERY significant that she granted Gimli three of her hairs to a dwarf, when she would not to the son of her king (great uncle) over 20,000 thousand years ago of which she is related to all three kings who were brothers and Elu Thingol of Doriath was one of the brothers that didn’t stay in Valinor even though he was one of the elven ambassadors along with his three brothers and that king I mentioned was VERY close friends with Elu Thingol.)
To me these movies have a 10 member of the fellowship... The shear beauty and majesty of New Zealand, where they where filmed in some of the most breath taking locations ever. Also to answer your question about the elvish words on the gates of Moria, The Doors of Moria where inscribed in Elvish because the doors were a symbol of friendship between the Elves and Dwarves. The doors were built by two of the greatest myths of their day, Caliburn the Elf and Narvi the Dwarf. The doors were opened during a time of peace, but were sealed during the war of the elves and Sauron to prevent Sauron's forces from attacking
One of the best musical build ups in this score is just after the Fellowship leaves Rivendell and until we get the establishing shot of the Fellowship. That long buildup and finally the climax (at 41:10 in the video) is sooo good. Such a great release of all the tension that has been built up.
Great reaction, Jen.
54:13 "Look at this teeny little bridge. Nope!" You're the best, Jen. 😅
Where are the railings? Someone would have to drag me across that bridge. My Acrophobia says no way.
Hey Jen, When J.R.R. Tolkein wrote LOTR he had come back from WW1 in 1919 to find that his countryside hometown had started to modernize. ---------- Society didn't feel as it does now. The leaders in the town wanted to do away with as much nature as possible in favor of stone and man-made structures. -------- This deeply disturbed Tolkein and as a result, he wrote his naturalist ideas into his books. --------- Giving nature the ability to fight back against man-made destruction.
I loved your reaction to this, Jen, these films are truly epic, they bring out many emotions in me. Thank you so much for doing these, Jen.
When this movie was released, totally blew my mind after watching it in the cinema. Later on, for Christmas, my family gave me the OST CD-ROM. It was magic.
I have never seen these extended versions Jen! Thank you so much for sharing! 😊
"And my ax!" Uh, what ax, Gimli? The one you just shattered on the One Ring? I guess he carries spares. 😉
Some say he even got Gloin's axes, as he was present in Rivendale too during the council
Fighting axe, walking-axe, and throwing axes. He probably has a pickaxe at home, too
The song Aragorn sings has huge importance! Here is the full version: “The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen; Of stars in shadow shimmering, Tinnúviel was dancing there, To music of a pipe unseen
And light of stars was in her hair; And in her raiment glimmering
There Beren came from mountains cold; And lost he wandered under leaves; And where the Elven-river rolled. He walked alone and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlock-leaves; And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves; And her hair like shadow following
Enchantment healed his weary feet; That over hills were doomed to roam
And forth he hastened, strong and fleet; And grasped at moonbeams glistening
Through woven woods in Elven-home; She lightly fled on dancing feet
And left him lonely still to roam; In the silent forest listening; He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves
Or music welling underground; In hidden hollow quavering; Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beachen leaves; In the wintry woodland wavering
He sought her ever, wandering far
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn
By light of moon and ray of star; In frosty heavens shivering
Her mantle glinted in the moon; As on a hill-top high and far
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
A mist of silver quivering
When winter passed, she came again
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain; And melting water bubbling; He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again
He longed by her to dance and sing
Upon the grass untroubling
Again she fled, but swift he came
Tinnúviel ! , Tinnúviel !
He called her by her elvish name
And there she halted listening
One moment stood she, and a spell
His voice laid on her: Beren came
And doom fell on Tinúviel
That in his arms lay glistening
As Beren looked into her eyes
Within the shadows of her hair
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored shimmering
Tinnúviel the elven-fair
Immortal maiden elven-wise
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering
Long was the way that fate them bore
O'er stony mountains cold and grey
Through halls of ireon and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless
The Sundering Seas between them lay
And yet at last they met once more
And long ago they passed away
In the forest singing sorrowless”
The true elvish version is far greater and so full of beauty & nuanced mournful sadness that’s break the hearts of mortals from its beauty and sadness so the true song has been sort of taboo and the mannish tongues that retell it is stated to only be a shadow beneath the tree of the true story!
(A clip of it is in the original definitive version though. Viggo Mortenson who plays Aragorn designed the melody and style himself and wished it to sound Celtic in nature.)
I recommend reacting to the cover done by Clamavi De Profundis and Tolkien Ensemble after the trilogy is finished and even “How Howard Shore Used Voices”. You’ll see just how deep it went. The lore itself went into the musics lyrics. Using the languages within middle earth. So even when stuff couldn’t be put in they found other ways to highly reference it via the music. It ties in all the themes at the very end in a very profound way. The thumbnail image for it is Galadriel and the image has a blue tint.
The perspective shots were just mind-blowing to me when I first saw this. The tallest person of the main cast was Gimli actor John Rhys-Davies at 6'5", but Jackson made it work with clever sets and perspective angles for the cameras and the use of lookalikes for shots where we only see the back of a character. It just works, for the most part. The cleverest shot of all, for me, was the one where they all come over a crest between some rocks one at a time, during the trek south from Rivendell. That scene was the first teaser trailer for the movie in 2000 (maybe late 1999) and it was perfect.
They did also have body doubles of all sizes as well as props of all sizes too
Bravo Jen! I can see you have a wonderful time with this! Super Thanks!
Fun facts people don't mention a lot: The ring when Bilbo drops it in Hobbiton was made of iron and plated in gold, and a magnet set under the floor. Peter Jackson wanted it to thud with weight onto the floor, to emphasize how it was itself a burden. An ordinary ring would have bounced and/or rolled around. In Rivendell, the shot of the ring with all the reflections in it was made with a HUGE version of the ring, like a foot in diameter.
An interesting fact- In the scene where the Uruk-Hai throws Aragorn's dagger at him that dagger was real! The actor was supposed to throw it far to Aragorn's left and a separate scene with him throwing a rubber dagger at Aragorn would be inserted in post production. When the Actor threw the real dagger towards Aragorn , the forehead piece of his makeup/costume slipped over his' eyes and he threw it directly at Viggo! Viggo actually blocked it with his sword.! Peter Jackson was so impressed that they never filmed the rubber dagger scene and used the actual take!
The guy who trained Viggo in swordsmanship had worked with Errol Flynn, Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin from The Princess Bride and many others said Viggo was the best natural born swordsman he had ever seen.
This is one of those facts that needs to and does get mentioned in every one of these comment sections (along with toe-break kick). Thank you for your service, sir. 🫡
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Gandalf's sword Glamdring should have glowed blue, too, when Orcs were near. Peter Jackson later admitted that this was an oversight.
Many centuries before the films, Sauron went to the elves and disguised himself and taught their craftsmen to make magical rings. He tricked them into binding his own magic into the forging of the Nine and the Seven. But the Three were made by the elves alone, without Sauron being involved. The Three are not evil, but since they were made with the same methods, the One would be able to control them if Sauron were able to obtain it again.
The first time that Sauron had the One Ring the elves could feel it so they removed their rings to avoid being controlled by Sauron. After the One Ring was lost they put theirs back on.
I am always amazed at how great this trilogy is. I've read the books multiple times over the years and never thought anyone could do them justice on the big screen. Peter Jackson proved me wrong, and I love it!
Jen, you have made my day. What a present to have this reaction from you. As usual, I will join you till the end☺
I clicked this so fast! I was in disbelief! This is going to be a grand adventure. And THANK YOU for watching the extended editions!
Woah, Jen doing LOTR! For some reason I feel so underdressed!
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@@jenmurrayxo Looking forward to this journey with you... you shall have my sword, my axe, my bow, my like, my comment, and my subscription 😂
I love how you mention the music throughout the reaction. The score is truly a MASTERPIECE
It's 25 below in Yellowknife 🇨🇦. Perfect timing thanks fellow
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God I hated fall when I lived up north and getting used to the cold again. November -20, December -30 January -40 brrr. Which is why I now live in Vancouver.
When i was a kid i had no internet i loved to watch movies i liked with people who saw them for the first time, with the advent of youtube and reactors i get to be that kid again and watch people reacting for the first time to my favourite movies. I really enjoy your reactions, Jen.
Yay! I'm not alone ❤️
Impressive! All the dialog and story is still there! I watch all the LOTR reactions and this is the best editing so far!
My editor Dmytro does an amazing job 👍
I agree. Best editing award.
I let my editor know he did a fantastic job! ☺️👍
Perfekt, reading and replying to comments! 10/10!.
Anyone else whisper "commercial break" to themselves when Jen whispered "Subscribe"?
Fun fact: Galadriel is Elrond's mother-in-law, and Arwen's grandmother.
She's a Gelf. 😋
I was lucky enough to see all three movies at the theaters when they first came out. The only franchise I was invested enough to see all. I never was or have been since a big "go see movies at the theater" type of person.
You had some good quips and commentary throughout this one. Nicely done.
I was actually so pleased that you understood the whole Galadriel interaction with the ring (and the other-worldly feeling of Lothlorien). So many reviewers/reactors misinterpret or misunderstand that part - especially Galadriel's refusal of the ring. I like that you caught on to how she was sort of a wildcard (and a contrast to Gandalf who practically refuses to even look at the ring). I always enjoy your intuitive analysis of these types of themes in the movies you watch.
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5:40 - "I love his mumblings" - Ian McKellen modeled Gandalf's speech patterns on Tolkien's. You're more or less hearing Tolkien speak.
So excited to share this journey with you!
At 43:00, nothing to worry about, Gandolf, it's Saurmon practicing his yodeling just like me too. 😉😂🤣
Hey Jen, Interesting fact. Director Peter Jackson took Bilbo's house interior set and made it a second addition to his mansion. When people come to visit him. --------- He asks if they want to stay in the regular guest room, or the Hobbiton guest room. You figure which one they go for.
If you have the extended editions then I absolutely recommend watching the behind-the-scenes features in your free time. An absolute treasure trove of film making! They documented everything from the casting to the set designing to the costuming to the camera tricks they used to get the size differences.
Hobbits are susceptible to it, what they are is more resilient.. and this i think is typically attributed to the fact of low ambition. The greater the ambition the more susceptible the individual, the ring manipulates desires. Time with proximity can also play a factor. Hobbits typically yearn simple lives. Bilbo is an odd exception and actually has yearnings for adventure that pop up and so the ring uses that on him.
I've heard the butterfly/moth scene on top of Orthanc was actually a tongue in cheek reference to Radagast The Brown Wizard, who could communicate with and direct all kinds of wildlife, etc. Gandalf basically sent a message through the butterfly/moth to Radagast who then sent Gwahir The Eagle to rescue him from the tower.
They aren’t just big “birds”. They are also Maiar spirits. Shapeshifting primordial spirits that sang the world into being. ;)
"I give Hope to men. I keep none for .yself." thats the epitaph on the grave of Aragorns mother, Gilraen. His elvish name is Estel, which means Hope. When his father was killed, she brought him to Rivendell to be raised by Elrond.
He is a great-uncle something like 28x last I counted. 😂
So happy you got this up and your awesomeness can be appreciated and loved by hopefully hundreds of thousands 🔥 you truly are the best jen this trilogy journey is going to be epic . Ty jen for doing these movies and being the most precious reactor of them all 🔥💙
Thanks Ian!! ☺️👍
This just made an hour and seventeen minutes of work so much better! 😊
😂, It’s made mine incredibly inefficient and I’m not getting anything done.
@ricardodelgado3706 Neither am I, lol, but it's fun, lol. I'm done at 8pm east time zone.
What kind of work can you do while watching a Jen reaction? This is not a critique, don't take it the wrong way. I'm just asking because I might want a job like that 😊
@DerekMoore82 Forklift driver/mechanic. Got a phone mount right on the frame of the forklift.
@MatthewBrown-bf5lz Sweet! Ever since I played Shenmue on the Dreamcast I always wanted to be a forklift operator.
@1:09:00 - Fun fact about this scene, when Lurtz is throwing the dagger at Aragorn, it wasn't intended to come near (or not that close at least), that was an actual sharp weapon, and could've killed Vigo had he not deflected it.
Came here to say that lol
I have "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" tattooed on my left forearm. Choose as much as you can to give your life meaning and help others, folks.
Oh wow! Jen, I never thought I could go on this epic journey through Middle Earth together with you.🥳 One thing I know for sure, this movie (trilogy) is the most impressive, thrilling, entertaining and emotional cinematic experience I ever made. Even the two and a half hours of waiting in line for the tickets of the midnight premiere was unforgettable😂 The theater was packed, even all the stairs and when Galadriel's prologue began I had chills. I read the books as a teenager, the blueprint for all my favorite fantasy/D&D role playing games...pen and paper and video games. Everything about these 3 movies is perfect for me, cast, writing, soundtrack and effects, with the perfect balance of practical and cgi effects. Jen, your reaction to this first part is nothing less than perfect as well! ❤ Also fantastic editing! Thanks alot! I can't wait till this mission...quest...thing continues.🤗👍
Sauron, as a Maia or powerful angelic, or in his case demonic, spirit was very powerful to begin with, and he was probably the most powerful of the Maiar (plural). What he did was put much or even most of his power into the One Ring in order to use it to dominate the wills of others (willpower plays a huge part in this story). So he was only at his full and frightening power when he had the One Ring, and arguably the application of his craft of making magical rings meant that it did make him even more powerful than before. When Isildur cut the One Ring from his hand, however, the trauma of losing this much power at once destroyed his body and much of his remaining power (whatever he did not put into the One Ring), and it has taken many centuries to sort of build his power back up. In the books, he managed to take a more normal physical form once again, but in the movies he took the form of a giant eye, which was the best he could do without the One Ring.
By the way, examples of other Maiar who happen to be in Middle-earth are Gandalf and Saruman. They (and a few others) are known as the Istari, and are disguised as "wizards" who look like Men (meaning the race of mortal humans, regardless of gender), but they are not Men. The Balrog was also a Maia like them (obviously in a different physical form).
And the Balrog was a Maiar too
The balrog was a Maiar too
It was genius for Cate Blanchett to do the opening narration.
What a surprise that you’re now watching The Lord Of The Rings, I wasn’t expecting that, I’m glad you’re watching the extended editions, and I can’t wait for you to watch the next 2 movies / the rest of the trilogy
I looooove you noticed in 11:40 how HEAVY the ring is. All the ring's shots are carefully taken to show it's power; how when it wants to move, it finds a way, how it speaks...how heavy it is: not rolling when landing, changing in size depending on who holds it, the physical scars it leaves when carrying it... this movie was made with love and it shows in the details. Greatest movie of all time, LOTR.
Also, people get confussed a lot about the Nazgul and water; they are not afraid of water. But the river Bruinen, at the land of Imladris (Rivendel) which is also a city guarded by a ring-bearer (Elrond has the elven ring of water, given by the last Elven King, Gil-Galad) itself? That's a no-no.
Ian Holm (Bilbo) also voiced Frodo Baggins in the 1981 BBC Lord of the Rings radio adaptation.
Interesting!
I have the radio recording on 10 cassette tapes. It was a great listen.
Anthony Daniels (C3PO) does Legolas in the 1978 Bakshi film.
Same actor, Peter Woodthorpe, voices Gollum in both BBC and Bakshi versions. Great continuity for “my preciousss” lol
41:08 So freaking epic! One of the most iconic shots in cinema history.
Gwaihir the Eagle was who rescued Gandalf from the top of Orthanc (the tower in Isengard).
"...He's endured, but he'll never heal."
And that's kids, is what we call PTSD.
The cinematography, the sounds and the overall eerie effect of The Lord of the Rings. I absolutely love your reaction to this spectacular masterpiece, Jen. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.♥️♥️
Gandalf may be a wizard but Peter Jackson is a magician for what he did with these films.
Jen's reaction to a dog will never not be awesome.
The greatest trilogy ever made! My local theater does a marathon of all three extended editions and we always go, like 11 hours at the theater with breaks in between.
@@cvonbarron I would like that format for sure!
Jen, movies like this one make me proud to be called a "geek." Your reaction ran the full range from delight with the hobbits to horror at the wraiths. You have a sharp eye and caught some things that others might have missed. You're nothing less than incredible, not to mention a bit magical.
Oh, I almost forgot... I read your question over on Patreon. I'm a bit south of any possible location you could be, but my area got snow, starting late Wednesday night. The streets are clear but my van is covered heavily.
I live in Western NY, haven't gotten any as of yet. I'm fine with it; I've grown up with lake effect snow and it sucks.