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.
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 🥰
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. ♥️🤟😎♥️
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.
@@TheHighSorcerer Fun fact: Peter Jackson and his writers debated who should to the opening narration. Gandalf was considered as were Bilbo and Frodo. Finally, it was decided that it should be Galadriel since she would have been alive and in Middle earth during the events described. Gandalf didn't arrive in Middle Earth until hundreds of years later. Amazon's Rings of Power show retcons this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😊
@@Dylan.More-Veiny Celembrimbor "...is remembered primarily for his creation of the Three Rings of Power: Nenya, Vilya, and Narya." ~The Lord of the Rings Wiki
@3:14 "it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable..." "Oh really... What type of creature picked it up last time?" .... ........ "Okay, maybe not as unlikely as I made it seem"
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. 🫡
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".
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! 👍 👍
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.
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.
It doesn't matter if you've seen them or not, if you haven't seen the extended editions, then you haven't seen the movies. These three films, are the only movies I can think of that the extra scenes make them a different movie. The series is 9 hours long with the regular cut and almost 12 hours long with the extended edition and all the extra scenes are impactful if not down right changing the tone of the film. I'm glad you are checking these out and I'm here for it. :)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😊
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.
This trilogy is a cinema masterpiece that rarely happens, the casting, the innovation in filming, and the soundtrack are impeccable. And then there's Sam.
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.
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 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.
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 :-)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The look of sadness on Gandalf's face at the council, when Frodo says he'll take the ring to Mordor...gets me everything. He knows very well what it will cost Frodo.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Besides satisfying that fan of the books that I am, I also found the extended versions have a better pace and allow us to bond more with the characters. Looking forward to your reactions to the next ones!
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.♥️♥️
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.
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.
27:32 One of my favorite things about this series is this scene from the ringwraiths' point of view. They were winning, they were about to get the ring, and then all of a sudden this guy comes out of nowhere and beats the shit out of all of them, all while wielding their ultimate weakness --fire. He is Jason Voorhees as far as they are concerned. They are like "AHHH WTF IS THIS?! The swordsman of legend, with fucking FIRE?! Lets get the fuck outta here" and canonically they apparently were afraid of Aragorn. I would be too.
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.
I had a chance to see all 3 extended editions at my local art house cinema last June, but, it was done over 3 nights, (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Still, awesome to see them on the big screen.
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 am absolutely thrilled you are doing a reaction to these movies. Couple of facts for you, might answer a few questions. The Wizards, Sauron and the Balrogs are all Maia, sort of angels. Sauron and the Balrogs are followers of Morgoth once known as Melkor the strongest of the Arda(Archangels) who turned to evil. Galadriel is Arwen's grandmother, her daughter was Elrond's wife. Galadriel is the oldest elf in Middle Earth. She was alive before the sun and the moon existed and the light was provided by two magical trees. So, there is no know time exactly but she is somewhere around 40,000 years old. The 2 trees were destroyed by Morgoth and Ungoliant a being of pure evil that consumed light and life. There is so much more to tell :) Great reaction, looking forward to the next!
44:41 Because it was the door facing Rivendell. Back when Moria has first been established, the Dwarves and the Elves weren't enemies, quite the opposite, and this gate was built to encourage commerce between the two races. That's why the "password" was such a simple - and _friendly_ - word. There was no pond with Cthulhu in it either.
There are elvish words and spells on the door into Moria because they were made when dwarves and elves got along. Specifically, the elf craftsman Celebrimbor and the dwarf Narvi. They were very good friends, which is why the password is "friend". As a side note, Celebrimbor helped Sauron make the 16 rings of power, but he didn't know it was Sauron, or the purpose of the rings. As far as he knew, he was just making magic rings. He did make the three elven rings without Sauron knowing, which helped them thwart his plans.
This reaction does justice to the film itself... Sweet commentary (inc due appreciation of the amazing soundtrack), wonderful editing of this vid, so I feel like I'm watching along, & humor, intended¬! For one of many exs, Jen sez flatly: "I need to get a pipe!"
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.
44:41 That's a genius question. I've watched this movie 100 times and that never occured to me. I'm sure there's a reason behind it but I never thought to question it. Shit, this might keep me up at night I'll have to look that up.
Moria’s West Gate was built for trade with the Noldorin Elves of Hollín, the lands to the west of the Misty Mountains. It would have been principally Elves who would open it from the outside; the doors could be easily pushed open from the inside.
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.
One of my favorite reactors watching, arguably, the greatest fantasy movies of all time! I am also a huge fan of the books. There are a lot of changes, which will likely be pointed out (including by me), but don't mistake those comments as hate or harsh criticism. Most of us love the movies, even if we cringe a little at some of the changes. Peter Jackson assassinated the character of several people in the movie. Isildur is one of them. Sauron was already "dead" when he came on the scene. His father (Elendil) and Elrond's boss at the time (Gil Galad, High King of thee Noldor) killed Sauron's body, but were mortally wounded in the process. Isildur took the broken sword from his father and took the Ring as compensation for the deaths of his father and brother. Elrond never took Isildur to Mt Doom, but Elrond and another great elf named Cirdan did try to convince him to destroy it. Isildur tried to use the Ring, but realized that it was too powerful and that he couldn't dominate the Ring. As a result, when he travelled north to take over as King in Arnor Isildur made plans to give the Ring to Elrond but he never made it. Isildur was the kind of king that when his father made him ruler of Gondor, Isildur insisted that his younger brother rule with him as equals. He was an incredibly good and just man. Another interesting note is that Sauron was able to take physical form again by the time of these movies/books. Gollum describes him in the book and noted that he had only four fingers on one hand, but it was more than enough to inflict his pain and cruelty.
I'm not sure I would characterize that as "character assassination" by any means. The movie just shows that Isildur was as vulnerable to the ring as any other man would be. It still portrays him as a hero who had the balls to fight Sauron in battle. If being vulnerable to the power of the ring somehow negates that, and makes him a dirtbag... IDK. I think people have a tendency to get hyperbolic with these things.
@@AMortalDefiant Except he wasn't as vulnerable to the Ring as any other man. He resisted the Ring, and when he realized he couldn't master it he decided to give it to Elrond. The movie shows him as utterly corrupted, but the fact that he wasn't is why the Ring abandoned him. Aragorn is amazing, but he is a lesser reflection of Isildur. I understand why Peter Jackson made the change (and did it again later) for the movies. I just despair at the idea that people may think badly of Isildur when he was truly pure and noble - even when faced with the One Ring.
54:23 "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor." This is my favorite quote from all three movies! I have it tattooed in Elvish, wrapped around my leg right below my knee.
Watching the extended version is a must if you havent read the books, it gives you more context. With each film the amount of extra material grows. In this first one a number of scenes were longer, and added were the scene in The Green Dragon cafe with cute Rosie, the scene with the passing elves at night, the scene in the marshes with Aragorn singing and the scene about Aragorns mother.
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 🔥💙
There is an elvish gate on dwarf mines because on that side of the Misty Mountains was the elven land or Eregion, that enjoyed a long and prosperous friendship with the dwarves of Khazad-Dum, before the balrog arose. It was the master craftsman of Eregion, Celebrimbor, who began the forging of the original 19 Great Rings Of Power.
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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.
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.
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
32:57 "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr Anderson."
- Agent Elrond
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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.
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. ♥️🤟😎♥️
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.
@@TheHighSorcerer Fun fact: Peter Jackson and his writers debated who should to the opening narration. Gandalf was considered as were Bilbo and Frodo. Finally, it was decided that it should be Galadriel since she would have been alive and in Middle earth during the events described. Gandalf didn't arrive in Middle Earth until hundreds of years later. Amazon's Rings of Power show retcons this.
The fly terrorizing you: spy of Saruman!
Creblines from Dublin!!!! me, "WTF?!"
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.
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.
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 Wouldn't quite go that far, but, it's definitely one the greatest film scores in history. Howard Shore does his best 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.
That voice, lamenting Gandalf's fall, is that of Isabel Bayrakdarian, a Canadian-Armenian opera singer.
It brings both chills and tears every time.
Jen, you have made my day. What a present to have this reaction from you. As usual, I will join you till the end☺
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
@@Dylan.More-Veiny Absolutely not. Gandalf had nothing to do with the forging of the rings.
@@Dylan.More-Veiny Celembrimbor "...is remembered primarily for his creation of the Three Rings of Power: Nenya, Vilya, and Narya."
~The Lord of the Rings Wiki
@3:14 "it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable..."
"Oh really... What type of creature picked it up last time?"
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"Okay, maybe not as unlikely as I made it seem"
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. 🫡
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".
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! 👍 👍
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…
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.
“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
Imagine he replaced it with Jen's remark. "Oh, frigg off!" 54:04
It doesn't matter if you've seen them or not, if you haven't seen the extended editions, then you haven't seen the movies. These three films, are the only movies I can think of that the extra scenes make them a different movie. The series is 9 hours long with the regular cut and almost 12 hours long with the extended edition and all the extra scenes are impactful if not down right changing the tone of the film. I'm glad you are checking these out and I'm here for it. :)
I've watched so many people react to these movies that I totally forgot that you'd never done them. Exciting!
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
This trilogy is a cinema masterpiece that rarely happens, the casting, the innovation in filming, and the soundtrack are impeccable. And then there's Sam.
I'd argue this was the high water mark of Western filmmaking. Its all been downhill since.
Howard Shore did a masterful job with the score. The artistry is akin to Tolkien's in its scope and execution.
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.
breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, dunch, dinner, dupper, supper, latenight snack... my uni diet
I you listen closely, you can hear one ring wraith whispering "....Jeeennn......subscriiibe.....".
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 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. 😂
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.
54:13 "Look at this teeny little bridge. Nope!" You're the best, Jen. 😅
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!
“Saved his bacon,” an appropriate phrase considering who she was referring to a hobbit.
Viggo (Aragorn) bought the horse that Arwen's stunt double rode in the chase to Rivendale and gifted it to that stuntwoman!
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.
1:05:55 Aragorns back must be KILLING him every day from completely carrying the entire team every fight 😂
You had some good quips and commentary throughout this one. Nicely done.
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
This is what I hear.
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.
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.
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 have never seen these extended versions Jen! Thank you so much for sharing! 😊
Fun fact: Galadriel is Elrond's mother-in-law, and Arwen's grandmother.
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
Bravo Jen! I can see you have a wonderful time with this! Super Thanks!
The look of sadness on Gandalf's face at the council, when Frodo says he'll take the ring to Mordor...gets me everything. He knows very well what it will cost Frodo.
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.
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.
52:11 "Use magic!" Gandalf's light magic is keeping the crowd of monsters at bay right then.
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
Gwaihir the Eagle was who rescued Gandalf from the top of Orthanc (the tower in Isengard).
Wow, Jen, meaty video! This will be fun!
I’ve always wondered if you’ve seen these. I can’t wait for you to describe the score. I love this trilogy.
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.
"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
So excited to share this journey with you!
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
Besides satisfying that fan of the books that I am, I also found the extended versions have a better pace and allow us to bond more with the characters. Looking forward to your reactions to the next ones!
I would see Jen as an elf princess
I thought she is(!)
@@philpascali4070 I see her as a rider of Rohan. More down to earth.
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.♥️♥️
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.
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.
The Hobbit kids that Bilbo is telling the Troll story too are actually PJ's own kids
And they are adorable!
I can't believe I was just watching another reactor (SoFie Reacts) watching LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring 💍-- just this morning! Good time.
Me too. She looks elf like like Jen ❤
@@MethosFilms You watched this other reaction also just this morning? 😃😅
@@JoeKawano yes. I usually do unknown remixer channel for the mash up’s of lord of the rings
27:32 One of my favorite things about this series is this scene from the ringwraiths' point of view. They were winning, they were about to get the ring, and then all of a sudden this guy comes out of nowhere and beats the shit out of all of them, all while wielding their ultimate weakness --fire. He is Jason Voorhees as far as they are concerned. They are like "AHHH WTF IS THIS?! The swordsman of legend, with fucking FIRE?! Lets get the fuck outta here" and canonically they apparently were afraid of Aragorn. I would be too.
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.
I had a chance to see all 3 extended editions at my local art house cinema last June, but, it was done over 3 nights, (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Still, awesome to see them on the big screen.
@@cvonbarron I would like that format for sure!
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 am absolutely thrilled you are doing a reaction to these movies. Couple of facts for you, might answer a few questions. The Wizards, Sauron and the Balrogs are all Maia, sort of angels. Sauron and the Balrogs are followers of Morgoth once known as Melkor the strongest of the Arda(Archangels) who turned to evil. Galadriel is Arwen's grandmother, her daughter was Elrond's wife. Galadriel is the oldest elf in Middle Earth. She was alive before the sun and the moon existed and the light was provided by two magical trees. So, there is no know time exactly but she is somewhere around 40,000 years old. The 2 trees were destroyed by Morgoth and Ungoliant a being of pure evil that consumed light and life. There is so much more to tell :) Great reaction, looking forward to the next!
Someone might have the exact number, but Aragorn has known Arwen for more than 60 years.
One trilogy to rule them all... not been achieved again since, in my humble opinion.
44:41 Because it was the door facing Rivendell. Back when Moria has first been established, the Dwarves and the Elves weren't enemies, quite the opposite, and this gate was built to encourage commerce between the two races. That's why the "password" was such a simple - and _friendly_ - word. There was no pond with Cthulhu in it either.
One does not simply watch LOTR alone....
Also, Jen would def be an elf
There are elvish words and spells on the door into Moria because they were made when dwarves and elves got along. Specifically, the elf craftsman Celebrimbor and the dwarf Narvi. They were very good friends, which is why the password is "friend". As a side note, Celebrimbor helped Sauron make the 16 rings of power, but he didn't know it was Sauron, or the purpose of the rings. As far as he knew, he was just making magic rings. He did make the three elven rings without Sauron knowing, which helped them thwart his plans.
This reaction does justice to the film itself...
Sweet commentary (inc due appreciation of the amazing soundtrack), wonderful editing of this vid, so I feel like I'm watching along, & humor, intended¬! For one of many exs, Jen sez flatly: "I need to get a pipe!"
Cute Jen, you'd make one fine ponytailed hobbit! At 43:26, we hear Jen's most Canadian Wisdom Nugget so far: "Snow is heavy!"🙃
Snow is heavy, but not for elves, as Legolas walks right upon the surface of the snow
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.
44:41 That's a genius question. I've watched this movie 100 times and that never occured to me. I'm sure there's a reason behind it but I never thought to question it. Shit, this might keep me up at night I'll have to look that up.
The choice to have Moria's password be in Elvish both reflects the friendship they then had with the Elves.
The lands around the mountains outside the doors once were elf lands and elves frequently passed through Moria.
Moria’s West Gate was built for trade with the Noldorin Elves of Hollín, the lands to the west of the Misty Mountains. It would have been principally Elves who would open it from the outside; the doors could be easily pushed open from the inside.
Best movies of all time period.
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.
One of my favorite reactors watching, arguably, the greatest fantasy movies of all time! I am also a huge fan of the books. There are a lot of changes, which will likely be pointed out (including by me), but don't mistake those comments as hate or harsh criticism. Most of us love the movies, even if we cringe a little at some of the changes.
Peter Jackson assassinated the character of several people in the movie. Isildur is one of them. Sauron was already "dead" when he came on the scene. His father (Elendil) and Elrond's boss at the time (Gil Galad, High King of thee Noldor) killed Sauron's body, but were mortally wounded in the process. Isildur took the broken sword from his father and took the Ring as compensation for the deaths of his father and brother. Elrond never took Isildur to Mt Doom, but Elrond and another great elf named Cirdan did try to convince him to destroy it. Isildur tried to use the Ring, but realized that it was too powerful and that he couldn't dominate the Ring. As a result, when he travelled north to take over as King in Arnor Isildur made plans to give the Ring to Elrond but he never made it. Isildur was the kind of king that when his father made him ruler of Gondor, Isildur insisted that his younger brother rule with him as equals. He was an incredibly good and just man.
Another interesting note is that Sauron was able to take physical form again by the time of these movies/books. Gollum describes him in the book and noted that he had only four fingers on one hand, but it was more than enough to inflict his pain and cruelty.
I'm not sure I would characterize that as "character assassination" by any means. The movie just shows that Isildur was as vulnerable to the ring as any other man would be. It still portrays him as a hero who had the balls to fight Sauron in battle. If being vulnerable to the power of the ring somehow negates that, and makes him a dirtbag... IDK. I think people have a tendency to get hyperbolic with these things.
@@AMortalDefiant Except he wasn't as vulnerable to the Ring as any other man. He resisted the Ring, and when he realized he couldn't master it he decided to give it to Elrond. The movie shows him as utterly corrupted, but the fact that he wasn't is why the Ring abandoned him. Aragorn is amazing, but he is a lesser reflection of Isildur.
I understand why Peter Jackson made the change (and did it again later) for the movies. I just despair at the idea that people may think badly of Isildur when he was truly pure and noble - even when faced with the One Ring.
54:23 "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor."
This is my favorite quote from all three movies! I have it tattooed in Elvish, wrapped around my leg right below my knee.
Watching the extended version is a must if you havent read the books, it gives you more context. With each film the amount of extra material grows. In this first one a number of scenes were longer, and added were the scene in The Green Dragon cafe with cute Rosie, the scene with the passing elves at night, the scene in the marshes with Aragorn singing and the scene about Aragorns mother.
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.
"It has a will of it's own...it betrayed him..." just like my code.
If you think about it, Sauron created the first AI...
Let's freaking go Jen! This is the best trilogy ever made.
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!! ☺️👍
There is an elvish gate on dwarf mines because on that side of the Misty Mountains was the elven land or Eregion, that enjoyed a long and prosperous friendship with the dwarves of Khazad-Dum, before the balrog arose. It was the master craftsman of Eregion, Celebrimbor, who began the forging of the original 19 Great Rings Of Power.