The music of LOTR is simply extraordinary... it fills my soul with epic, love... Emma this is simply wonderful. And knowing the knowledge and appreciation that you have of music... makes me enjoy your reactions doubly!
A note about Gandalf... he's not just a typical fantasy "human wizard." He's actually an angelic being sent to guide the free peoples and aid them in their fight against Sauron (who was the chief lieutenant of Morgoth, essentially Middle Earth's equivalent of Satan), but he is commanded to limit the use of his power. His charge is to guide and encourage, not to win the war for them. That's why he only uses his full powers when he's directly fighting other beings like him (such as the Balrog).
Boromir's father - Denethor was played by John Noble. He's been in a lot of films/series. You likely remember him from playing Walter in the series "Fringe"
The thought of Haldir and his elven archers joining the battle when there is no hope to win, when they could just as easily have joined the rest of the elves, sailed into the west and lived forever. What a gesture!
Viggo Mortenson was a horse lover, having a few on his ranch. He fell in love with his horse from the series here, and bought it to take back home with him.
Amazing movie and perfect trilogy. I remember watching these in the theater. Good times. But the one-year wait between the parts was quite something. Watched them in special midnight screenings. Great crowd. The battle of Helms Deep here was so epic...and then with Gandalf coming to help. Beautifully shot and as always with an amazing musical score. Looking forward to your reactions to the third part.
So, the first movie in the theatre was an absolute nightmare for me. Let me explain... it was on the largest movie screen in the entire world located in Wichita KS at the time. But, my group ended up in the front row... so close to the screen that we had to turn our heads to see either side of the screen. Cue the opening battle scene with Elrond, Isildur and Sauron... whiplash. The whole thing was whiplash inducing. My neck hurt for a week after that show.
@@jamestaylor3805 I feel you, my ex took me to the movie as a "surprise", while I loved it, she complained the entire time about how long it was, how she didn't like fantasies etc..., even later when talking to friends she'd bring up how much of a sacrifice it was for her to endure it, what a martyr she was. Just one of the reasons she's an ex.
The horse that picked up Aragorn at the river was Brego. The horse he was talking to in Elvish and set free. Viggo Mortensen grew attached to him and bought the horse.
The Battle of Helm's Deep is still the gold standard for battle scenes to this day. Especially since it takes place at night, but you can still _see_ what's going on, something that modern directors seem to have forgotten how to do.
I love seeing how excited and emotional you get watching these movies. Feeling your sadness, your aggression, your impatience, etc. So enjoyable to share it all, with your obvious love of the music tying it together. Thank you again, Emma! 🤗🥰
The lines beginning "Where is the..." spoken by Theoden at 16:40 are taken from an old Anglo Saxon poem called The Wanderer. It is deeply sad and beautiful (and not that long) - worth looking up.
Fun Fact Emma: Aragorn's childhood name among the Noldor in Rivendell was Estel , which is Hope in that tongue. On her tombstone Aragorn's mother has inscribed "I give Hope to Men, I keep none for myself..."
And he bought Arwen's horse for Liv Ltyler's riding double Jane Abbot, because she really wanted him but couldn't afford him. When she asked how much she owed him, Viggo just said "Nah, I want you to have him.".
Elrond has particular reason to be concerned what Arwen is doing, since his own brother Elros chose a mortal life over immortality. Up until that point, he would never have expected to see his brother grow old and die. Elros was the first king of Númenor, distant ancestor of Isildur, and therefore also of Aragorn. And now he is facing the prospect of his daughter also dying.
Arwen was at Helms Deep but she was officially cut out of the battle but you can still see her very clearly wearing a red outfit running up the stairs into the keep after the main gate is breached and again on a horse beside Aragorn as they charge out.
I was glad they left that ridiculous trope on the cutting room floor, patently ridiculous that Elrond would send his only daughter and the Evenstar of the Noldor off to a hopeless battle to risk her life to save some strange humans
Gandalf's presence causes the hearts of men to be filled with courage. When he's around, their fear goes away. His power is the opposite of the Ring Wraiths, who's presence causes terror in the hearts of men. Anyone around a Ring Wraith is automatically terrified.
When I first saw this with my bassist, as epic as it is, "You haven't seen anything yet" and he was correct. Aragorn set him free... Brego returned the favor to the King. Godspeed
Sam's line "By all rights we shouldn't be here... but we are." is a reference to the fact Faramir doesn't take Frodo, Sam and Gollum to Osgiliath in the book but lets them go after he discovers that Frodo have The Ring (which Sam accidently blurts out after getting a bit of wine and got too comfortable) and Gollum is captured like in the movie (though not tortured but just being interrogated by Faramir). This was added to give Faramir some character arc as in the book he gives up on The Ring too easily saying "I wouldn't have taken it if it was lying by the wayside" and to give Frodo and Sam another climax because of the real one (which hints to "Her" that Gollum refers to) would have cancelled out the climax of Helm's Deep plus even if it is in The Two Towers book, it does happen during the events of The Return of the King according to Tolkien's timeline.
"In the book": The Ents do take forever to decide to act, and have been debating taking action since before the Hobbits even arrived. But ultimately they do decide to join the war, they don't refuse. As usual though, minor characters are not allowed their own agency, and it has to be a main character who _tricks_ Treebeard into joining the war, making him look like a very poor "shepherd of the trees" if he hasn't noticed that Saruman has cut down half his forest.
As a counterpoint to that, if Merry and Pippin didn't have more of a role in the Ents' decision to join the war, they did pretty much nothing of import during this entire movie. All they did was get carried around, first by the Uruk-hai, and then by Treebeard. They're still main characters in the trilogy and narratively they should have something to add to the move the plot forward.
@@WJS774 Or if you know anything about storytelling and narrative. Having two of your main characters do literally nothing but be dragged along for one third of your story without them taking any action to drive the plot or change a course somewhere is bad writing, not just in Hollywood slop, but literature as well. The movies aren't perfect, and they've definitely made some questionable and even bad decisions (looking at Faramir and especially Denethor here...) but having the two hobbits actually do something wasn't one of them.
In the book Faramir didn't try to take the Ring, he was afraid to even _look_ at it after Sam accidentally let slip that they had it. In the film you have to ask if he isn't going to let Frodo go, why on earth does he _not_ take the Ring from Frodo? Why on earth does he let him keep it, and send Frodo to Gondor still _with_ the Ring instead of taking the Ring himself? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Also... he didn't just let him keep the Ring, he let him keep his sword too? WTF?
Yes! _The Lord of the Rings_ books are the most beloved fantasies of all time. These movies were an amazing labor of love by Tolkien fanatics that director Peter Jackson had gathered from all over the world. There are a wonderful series of behind-the-scenes videos on YT about the making of the movies
Gondor couldn't help Rohan even if THéoden did send out riders, they were busy defending their own lands against attacks from Mordor. Like Madril, Faramir's second in command said "We must look on to our own boarders", so they don't have enough men to spare. They were attacked at two fronts, Cair Andross near the boarder to Rohan and Osgiliath.
12:08 When I saw this in the cinema I was really pissed off as this is the opposite of what happens in the books. 31:18 Yeah, they shouldn't even be here, a reference to the books, where they never get there, because Faramir is a lot wiser and let them got immediately ;)
On the true depth of these books and movies... Brego the horse was looking in the river for his Fallen Prince but found the Wounded King, the man who let him free to search for the lost prince. Had Aragorn not freed Brego... Had the Rhohirrim put the mad horse down as they intended... Had Rohan's prince not died... There are so many seemingly unconnected chains of events, and had any otherwise insignificant item in these chains been missed the war would have been lost, even if it seemed like a princely death was bad at the time...
Had Saruman not turned and betrayed the others his consel would have ever been to use caution and to avoid risks with any plans on how to move/deal with the ring, and the war would have been lost.
Two Towers is not my favorite out of the three but it still features my favorite battle sequence, Helm's Deep, the build but to it is phenomenal. It was the biggest medieval battle scene after Ivanhoe's battle of Torquinstone in the late 50s ! (you should enjoy those older movies soundtracks by Miklos Rozsa ! My favorite is the first one, followed by the third movie, Two Towers comes last but not far behind. But I usually take the three movies as a whole, as it was intended.
I love jackson's trilogy , AS A WHOLE, i waited 25 years for it after all, but really despised the character assassinations of Faramir and Denathor and the "Elrond of Rivendell has called a meeting" BS, the finding of the Ring was , first and foremost, a SECRET , known only to a few
I hope you listened to the song at the start of the end credits -- Gollum's Song. First time I watched the movie I didn't listen to the lyrics and was kind of disappointed in the choice of of ending music. The singing sounded too much like a modern ballad for this movie. But it's worth a listen. So sad. 😢
Great reactions. If you are interested in the creation process of the spectacular soundtrack of the movies there Is a book from Doug Adams who followed Howard Shore during the creative process.
At 2.40 of this video you hear one of the extremely few direct references to the mythology that I told you about when Arwen says "May the grace of the Valar be with you". Peter Jackson generally avoided such references because he didn't want to introduce notions that are unfamiliar to those who know nothing about the lore.
As someone who is ugly. I was saddened to hear your pity for “the beautiful elves dying”. Which by implication means that ugly people don’t matter as much
I think it's great that you are watching these. But I have to say that it's a shame you are watching these at home. Seeing these on the big screen in a theater was an experience you just can't duplicate. It was something special.
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The music of LOTR is simply extraordinary... it fills my soul with epic, love... Emma this is simply wonderful. And knowing the knowledge and appreciation that you have of music... makes me enjoy your reactions doubly!
Goosebumps in all my body while it rings "Ent´s march". What an epic and powerful scene.
A note about Gandalf... he's not just a typical fantasy "human wizard." He's actually an angelic being sent to guide the free peoples and aid them in their fight against Sauron (who was the chief lieutenant of Morgoth, essentially Middle Earth's equivalent of Satan), but he is commanded to limit the use of his power. His charge is to guide and encourage, not to win the war for them. That's why he only uses his full powers when he's directly fighting other beings like him (such as the Balrog).
Boromir's father - Denethor was played by John Noble. He's been in a lot of films/series. You likely remember him from playing Walter in the series "Fringe"
The "crazy professor" is Dr. Walter Bishop, but he's not a professor. He's just a mad scientist on the excellent TV show "Fringe."
your reactions are SO HEARTFELT! 💖 really enjoy how you help us FEEL the characters come ALIVE, THANK YOU! 👍☺
The thought of Haldir and his elven archers joining the battle when there is no hope to win, when they could just as easily have joined the rest of the elves, sailed into the west and lived forever. What a gesture!
Viggo Mortenson was a horse lover, having a few on his ranch. He fell in love with his horse from the series here, and bought it to take back home with him.
Amazing movie and perfect trilogy. I remember watching these in the theater. Good times. But the one-year wait between the parts was quite something. Watched them in special midnight screenings. Great crowd. The battle of Helms Deep here was so epic...and then with Gandalf coming to help. Beautifully shot and as always with an amazing musical score. Looking forward to your reactions to the third part.
Oh Yeah!!! You are right!!!
So, the first movie in the theatre was an absolute nightmare for me. Let me explain... it was on the largest movie screen in the entire world located in Wichita KS at the time. But, my group ended up in the front row... so close to the screen that we had to turn our heads to see either side of the screen.
Cue the opening battle scene with Elrond, Isildur and Sauron... whiplash. The whole thing was whiplash inducing. My neck hurt for a week after that show.
@@jamestaylor3805 I feel you, my ex took me to the movie as a "surprise", while I loved it, she complained the entire time about how long it was, how she didn't like fantasies etc..., even later when talking to friends she'd bring up how much of a sacrifice it was for her to endure it, what a martyr she was. Just one of the reasons she's an ex.
LMFAO the clucking sounds you did made me burst out laughing so hard!!
The horse that picked up Aragorn at the river was Brego. The horse he was talking to in Elvish and set free. Viggo Mortensen grew attached to him and bought the horse.
The Battle of Helm's Deep is still the gold standard for battle scenes to this day. Especially since it takes place at night, but you can still _see_ what's going on, something that modern directors seem to have forgotten how to do.
I love seeing how excited and emotional you get watching these movies. Feeling your sadness, your aggression, your impatience, etc. So enjoyable to share it all, with your obvious love of the music tying it together. Thank you again, Emma! 🤗🥰
The lines beginning "Where is the..." spoken by Theoden at 16:40 are taken from an old Anglo Saxon poem called The Wanderer. It is deeply sad and beautiful (and not that long) - worth looking up.
OK, Aragorn's return _is_ pretty good;
Gimli: "*hugs* Bless you laddie!! You're alive!"
Legolas: "You're late. You look terrible."
🤣
Hello beautiful Emma. I love your reaction to this outstanding movie.
Thank you 🤗
Hi emma great reaction always love the way you get immersed in the movies precious.😘😘
Hey, thanks! 🤩
Fun Fact Emma: Aragorn's childhood name among the Noldor in Rivendell was Estel , which is Hope in that tongue. On her tombstone Aragorn's mother has inscribed "I give Hope to Men, I keep none for myself..."
Viggo Mortenson who played Aragorn grew so attached to the horse Brego that after filming was over he purchased him
And he bought Arwen's horse for Liv Ltyler's riding double Jane Abbot, because she really wanted him but couldn't afford him. When she asked how much she owed him, Viggo just said "Nah, I want you to have him.".
Viggo Mortenson didnt play Aragorn... Mortensen did.
@@mevb Awesome!
John Noble is the actor who played Denethor, the Steward of Gondor. He also played the professor in the TV show “Fringe”.
And he played himself on DC's Legends of Tomorrow. :-)
And Sherlock's father in the series Elementary... He's a hell of an actor!
I enjoyed watching your reaction to The Two Towers (part 1 & 2), Emma! 👍👍👍👍👍
The battle scenes in this movie are just ridiculous. So amazing. So inspirational. Just wonderful. So powerful
Great reaction Emma!
Thank you!! 😁
By the way the man at 22:19 who threw a spear was the Director Peter Jackson :D
What a fun movie!
Lord of the rings trilogy is unreal film making. Unforgettable. Glad ur enjoying them. Sincerely Bruce
Elrond has particular reason to be concerned what Arwen is doing, since his own brother Elros chose a mortal life over immortality. Up until that point, he would never have expected to see his brother grow old and die. Elros was the first king of Númenor, distant ancestor of Isildur, and therefore also of Aragorn. And now he is facing the prospect of his daughter also dying.
John Noble (Denethor, Faramir's father) was a main character in the Sci-Fi series "Fringe" from 2008-2013.
Walter(nate). one of my favourite characters of all time.
i love this series:)))
yeah me too! Z nation and Fringe
Arwen was at Helms Deep but she was officially cut out of the battle but you can still see her very clearly wearing a red outfit running up the stairs into the keep after the main gate is breached and again on a horse beside Aragorn as they charge out.
I was glad they left that ridiculous trope on the cutting room floor, patently ridiculous that Elrond would send his only daughter and the Evenstar of the Noldor off to a hopeless battle to risk her life to save some strange humans
Bravo.
Gandalf's presence causes the hearts of men to be filled with courage. When he's around, their fear goes away. His power is the opposite of the Ring Wraiths, who's presence causes terror in the hearts of men. Anyone around a Ring Wraith is automatically terrified.
And he possesses one of the three Elven rings, Narya, which gives courage to fight.
@dudeusmaximus6793 I was trying to skirt around that 😉
When I first saw this with my bassist, as epic as it is, "You haven't seen anything yet" and he was correct. Aragorn set him free... Brego returned the favor to the King. Godspeed
Sam's line "By all rights we shouldn't be here... but we are." is a reference to the fact Faramir doesn't take Frodo, Sam and Gollum to Osgiliath in the book but lets them go after he discovers that Frodo have The Ring (which Sam accidently blurts out after getting a bit of wine and got too comfortable) and Gollum is captured like in the movie (though not tortured but just being interrogated by Faramir). This was added to give Faramir some character arc as in the book he gives up on The Ring too easily saying "I wouldn't have taken it if it was lying by the wayside" and to give Frodo and Sam another climax because of the real one (which hints to "Her" that Gollum refers to) would have cancelled out the climax of Helm's Deep plus even if it is in The Two Towers book, it does happen during the events of The Return of the King according to Tolkien's timeline.
"In the book": The Ents do take forever to decide to act, and have been debating taking action since before the Hobbits even arrived. But ultimately they do decide to join the war, they don't refuse. As usual though, minor characters are not allowed their own agency, and it has to be a main character who _tricks_ Treebeard into joining the war, making him look like a very poor "shepherd of the trees" if he hasn't noticed that Saruman has cut down half his forest.
As a counterpoint to that, if Merry and Pippin didn't have more of a role in the Ents' decision to join the war, they did pretty much nothing of import during this entire movie.
All they did was get carried around, first by the Uruk-hai, and then by Treebeard. They're still main characters in the trilogy and narratively they should have something to add to the move the plot forward.
@ucheehQ Sure, if you like formulaic Hollywood bullshit.
@@WJS774 Or if you know anything about storytelling and narrative. Having two of your main characters do literally nothing but be dragged along for one third of your story without them taking any action to drive the plot or change a course somewhere is bad writing, not just in Hollywood slop, but literature as well. The movies aren't perfect, and they've definitely made some questionable and even bad decisions (looking at Faramir and especially Denethor here...) but having the two hobbits actually do something wasn't one of them.
In the book Faramir didn't try to take the Ring, he was afraid to even _look_ at it after Sam accidentally let slip that they had it. In the film you have to ask if he isn't going to let Frodo go, why on earth does he _not_ take the Ring from Frodo? Why on earth does he let him keep it, and send Frodo to Gondor still _with_ the Ring instead of taking the Ring himself? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Also... he didn't just let him keep the Ring, he let him keep his sword too? WTF?
I really think you'd love the appendices of this. The making of documentary is as good as the movie itself
Yes! _The Lord of the Rings_ books are the most beloved fantasies of all time. These movies were an amazing labor of love by Tolkien fanatics that director Peter Jackson had gathered from all over the world. There are a wonderful series of behind-the-scenes videos on YT about the making of the movies
so quick with the missing bit. thanks.
Gondor couldn't help Rohan even if THéoden did send out riders, they were busy defending their own lands against attacks from Mordor. Like Madril, Faramir's second in command said "We must look on to our own boarders", so they don't have enough men to spare. They were attacked at two fronts, Cair Andross near the boarder to Rohan and Osgiliath.
12:08 When I saw this in the cinema I was really pissed off as this is the opposite of what happens in the books.
31:18 Yeah, they shouldn't even be here, a reference to the books, where they never get there, because Faramir is a lot wiser and let them got immediately ;)
On the true depth of these books and movies...
Brego the horse was looking in the river for his Fallen Prince but found the Wounded King, the man who let him free to search for the lost prince.
Had Aragorn not freed Brego...
Had the Rhohirrim put the mad horse down as they intended...
Had Rohan's prince not died...
There are so many seemingly unconnected chains of events, and had any otherwise insignificant item in these chains been missed the war would have been lost, even if it seemed like a princely death was bad at the time...
Had Saruman not turned and betrayed the others his consel would have ever been to use caution and to avoid risks with any plans on how to move/deal with the ring, and the war would have been lost.
Two Towers is not my favorite out of the three but it still features my favorite battle sequence, Helm's Deep, the build but to it is phenomenal. It was the biggest medieval battle scene after Ivanhoe's battle of Torquinstone in the late 50s ! (you should enjoy those older movies soundtracks by Miklos Rozsa !
My favorite is the first one, followed by the third movie, Two Towers comes last but not far behind. But I usually take the three movies as a whole, as it was intended.
I love jackson's trilogy , AS A WHOLE, i waited 25 years for it after all, but really despised the character assassinations of Faramir and Denathor and the "Elrond of Rivendell has called a meeting" BS, the finding of the Ring was , first and foremost, a SECRET , known only to a few
More please, Emmawise the Brave.
Peter pan 2003
The da Vinci Code
Alita battle angel
The mask of Zorro 1998
The best is last. Return Of The King won 11 Academy Awards. Tied for most ever by any film. Enjoy!!
I hope you listened to the song at the start of the end credits -- Gollum's Song. First time I watched the movie I didn't listen to the lyrics and was kind of disappointed in the choice of of ending music. The singing sounded too much like a modern ballad for this movie.
But it's worth a listen. So sad. 😢
Great reactions. If you are interested in the creation process of the spectacular soundtrack of the movies there Is a book from Doug Adams who followed Howard Shore during the creative process.
She is not from the GGG - Films....
13:49 ... ... ... And this is where I stopped, lady.
the biggest faux pas in this movie: Gimli having knowledge of "Nervous Systems" lol
@@justinhephner2117 Second one, that an Uruk knows the concept of a menu.
Frodo and Sam are tricksy...FALSE!!
The great Jeffrey Rhys-Davies that played Gimli also did the voice of Treebeard ✌️
John Rhys-Davies
At 2.40 of this video you hear one of the extremely few direct references to the mythology that I told you about when Arwen says "May the grace of the Valar be with you".
Peter Jackson generally avoided such references because he didn't want to introduce notions that are unfamiliar to those who know nothing about the lore.
As someone who is ugly. I was saddened to hear your pity for “the beautiful elves dying”. Which by implication means that ugly people don’t matter as much
I think it's great that you are watching these. But I have to say that it's a shame you are watching these at home. Seeing these on the big screen in a theater was an experience you just can't duplicate. It was something special.
Emma, new hairstyle and look equals STUPENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL,
there really is nothing else to say; GO EMMA, LOVE/RESPECT TOO YOU;
❤🙌🙏👍👏🙏💃💃💃💃🍁🍁🎧🎬🎙🎶🎶🙏💃💃💃💃🦅;
Now TO SIT BACK AND RELAX AND ENJOY EMMA'S REACTION, SHEER PLEASURE AWAITS;
Wow, thank you!🙏✨🙏😉😘
I love watching your videos, even if i don't like the movie.
I'm not a fan of Lord of the Rings, too long a movie...I'd rather watch paint dry.😂
Let me tell you the story of the Painting of the Shire. 🙂
@SeedFactoryProject 😂😂😂 do tell! 🍺
Thanks for sharing! 🙏🙏🙏🙏✨🤩