That’s a great scene. Thought not LOTR, one only good scenes in Hobbit is Bilbo saying “ You Don't Have One, A Home, It Was Taken From You, But I Will Help You Take It Back If I Can”
>Mine has to be when Aragorn is speaking up Boromir as he dies.
Yeah....best moment in the trilogy for me.
>I would have followed you, my brother, my captain... my king.
Kino... pvre kino.
I also liked the part where Gandalf is falling after the Balrog and catches his sword and dives towards it https://youtu.be/Y2fwe0rnHak?t=254
just an amazing scene. Tolkien kept thing hobbit-sized but never let you forget that bigger things were afoot, great works and monsters you never heard of. >Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not
Gandalf goes from helpless old fool to not letting the Balrog escape in a split second. What a role, what an actor, what a story
Gandalf doesn't even know what happens to hobbits when they die. I'm pretty sure he knows that they won't get into the place he goes to.
But it's still a kickass speech and if it works to raise morale then it works, true or not.
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand, shall sound in the deep one last time, let this be the hour that we draw swords together"
"Fell deeds await, now for wrath, now for ruin and the red dawn"
*deep horn bass*
"FORTH EORLINGAS"
Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountains,
like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the West,
behind the hills... into Shadow.
This conversation is one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in fiction. The lines immediately before your pic:
>Frodo: "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance." >Gandalf: "Pity? It's pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."
Probably outing myself as a moron but I only just realised on my last rewatch that Gandalf's speech here is what drives Frodo to be merciful toward Gollum at the start of Two Towers
Which is important, because by sparing Gollum Frodo manages to go the entire story without killing anybody, which is pretty nuts for a main character in a fantasy adventure.
He does stab an orc foot in Moria (who then yanks its foot back so Boromir can shut the door) but that's it. Frodo's K/D is 0/0.
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He's annoyingly onions in the books. When they get back to the shire and realise it's been sacked, Frodo forbids anyone to kill any of the ruffians despite them completely destroying their homeland and enslaving and killing their people. He even spares Sarumon for like the 60th time upon discovering he's the leader and living in bag end with wormtongue
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Wtf onions? Onions*
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I think he forbids them from killing any hobbits because the last Hobbit on Hobbit murder was Smeagol killing Deagol.
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He asks that no one is killed, evil hobbit, man, or Saruman.
Even when Saruman tries to knife Frodo and is stopped Frodo still asks the hobbits to spare him, stating that he was good once and if spared he may sometime find his way back into the light.
Then of course Wormtongue slits Saruman's throat and he gets keked on by the Valar, but the thought was there.
Frodo really took Gandalf's words about doling out mercy and death to heart.
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to be fair, saruman's last act was to call wormtongue a spineless murderous pussy and accuse him of cannibalism... after how much abuse wormtongue took it's understandable that he'd say "frick it" and shank sharky
the whole fall of gandalf scene. You shall not pass, fly you fools, Aragorn realizing he needs to assume leadership of the fellowship, the hobbits’ devastated reactions
'The Fellowship of the Cast' is probably one of the comfiest behind the scenes/making of featurettes of all time. Just a solid ~40 minutes of the cast sharing their favorite anecdotes from the two years they spent shooting together.
>The hobbits becoming bestbros >JRD fricking mopping the floor with the stuntmen and then treating the cast to a Tudor feast >The Splinter Incident >The cast spending the entire river shoot trying to capsize each other >Ian and the hobbits sharing a trailer and them blasting music to frick with him >Everybody chilling with their scale doubles >etc
Stop, you are going to make me watch the whole trilogy again and I'm trying to wait until December. Hard to believe that it's been nearly 20 years since the trilogy ended.
I used to do the marathons, but now I split it over three days. Nothing comfier than a dark night, a warm fire, a large pizza and LotR. Only thing that's missing is a gf ;_;.
Don’t worry, 9/10 women will sit on their phones, talk about their weekend plans, and lose track of the plot less than 6 minutes into the film.
They also psychically ask questions RIGHT as the film answers them. Leading me to believe that editors make practice of showing a cut to an entirely female audience and marking down the exact times that certain questions pop up in a fruitless effort to put training wheels on the Final Cut.
I used to do the marathons, but now I split it over three days. Nothing comfier than a dark night, a warm fire, a large pizza and LotR. Only thing that's missing is a gf ;_;.
got me a chubby gf and we marathon the extended versions on mushrooms, its a bonding experience. she hadn't read the books or even seen the theatrical cuts, so she was bawling at every opportunity (i'll admit i did like 6x throughout it all)
its literally the best media on earth and because of that, it's a weird bittersweet thing
He should have got best supporting actor for this.
I like this scene with Arwen and Aragorn too.
There a couple of shots, one here and another when Aragorn is lying on a couch, when Arwen looks lovingly at Aragorn with upcast eyes, so adorable, made me fall in love.
Speaking of Boromir, I like the bit they added to RotK, where Boromir is making an inspiring speech, and really cared for Gondor, just reinforcing that he was misguided and corrupted in Fellowship
>that speech >over that score >over footage of the Ents flooding Isengard >over the triumph at Helm's Deep >over Theodan's "VICTORY! WE HAVE VICTORY!"
How can one scene be so kino?
>"What are we holding onto, Sam? >"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
Pure chills every time. Sam is the best character in the trilogy bar none
I like how in the appendices they were saying they were worried about the line being too corny, and normally they would be right, but the combination of Astin's performance and
>that speech >over that score >over footage of the Ents flooding Isengard >over the triumph at Helm's Deep >over Theodan's "VICTORY! WE HAVE VICTORY!"
How can one scene be so kino?
made it all work perfectly.
I feel bad for zoomers for not being able to see these movies in the cinema back in the day.
They may not see it for the first time in cinemas like we did, but LotR still is shown in cinemas from time to time, even the extended versions. I bet there will be a lot of showings this winter considering it's the 20th anniversary of RotK and most new stuff in cinemas are shit so cinemas will have slots open.
God, I can't even think of a best moment, there are too many.
Probably the Pippin singing scene. Or maybe the scene when all four hobbits are back at the Green Dragon and share a quiet look with each-other. Or the moment the Ring-Wraiths did their assassination attempt at Bree. Or the when Fellowship row past the Argonath. Fuuuuck, there's too many!
>the hobbits sitting at the table, the realization that the joy they had before simply isn’t there. >then sam gets up and asks Rosie out >and they see that there’s still joy in the world for them
A lot of purists complain about the Sourging not being in the films, but I actually prefer the films, the contrast between the peaceful lives of the NPC hobbits and the four main characters just helps make their journey and hardships stand out.
God, I can't even think of a best moment, there are too many.
Probably the Pippin singing scene. Or maybe the scene when all four hobbits are back at the Green Dragon and share a quiet look with each-other. Or the moment the Ring-Wraiths did their assassination attempt at Bree. Or the when Fellowship row past the Argonath. Fuuuuck, there's too many!
A lot of purists complain about the Sourging not being in the films, but I actually prefer the films, the contrast between the peaceful lives of the NPC hobbits and the four main characters just helps make their journey and hardships stand out.
>save the world >get BTFO again by the same old loser who got you before the journey
I watching the Two Towers right now. For me it’s watching the hope and then relief wash over Aragorn’s face when he realizes that Merry and Pippin escaped the Uruk-hai slaughter and had made it into Fangorn Forest.
It's fricking astonishing that a cartoon with silly 70s songs and a runtime of barely an hour manages to do a better job of getting the narrative and character arcs right than a fricking nine hour epic trilogy.
The animated movie understood weapons and wyrd better than the LOTR movies. >If ever you came from the forges of the TRUE KING under the mountain, go now and speed well!
Gandalf's decision to go after the Balrog can't be understood from the movies alone
I'm sure he would disagree with it a lot but it's also a one of a kind movie and having such a giant of a movie made from your work would surely please anyone. Tolkien didn't seem like a cynical butthole, I like to believe that he would have liked it.
I’m glad they added it. It’s a great scene. Also, Aragorn/Boromir do a great job of showing the duality of man. Also, Boromir’s redemption is top notch.
Who was the best cast in the trilogy? Not an easy question >Gandalf is an easy cast, knockout choice >Sean Bean exceeded expectations >Aragorn is not an easy cast >Frodo was the boldest move >Sam, Merry, and Pippin are the canonical versions forever >Legolas and Gimli were just flawless casting
it goes on...
You mean McKellen? Lee wanted to play Gandalf too, but he is so much better suited as Saruman. Guess they wanted Connery for the star-power, but I can't see it working tbh.
Honestly Carrey would give Aragorn an element of passivity that earns all the criticism of people who don't know where he's been for 80 years. Proving himself in battle would have way more meaning than it does for Viggo the perfect warrior.
They are all perfect, but I think the movie would suffer the most if vigo wasn't Aragorn so he'd have to be my pick. Sean Bean is my favorite actor for his whole body of work though.
>Sam is spurred on by loyalty into deep water >knowing he can not swim >he sinks below the surface slipping away still reaching for his Friend >seconds go by >Frodo's hand rushes down and grabs Sam's >Sam grabs Frodo's wrist and is hoist upon the boat
I tear up every single time.
Exquisite taste. The triumphant reprise of the shire theme that soars in as Frodo pulls Sam into the boat is fantastic.
For me, it's Sam vs Shelob. Terrific action scene, followed by this:
>Mr Frodo... >Wake up >Don't leave me here alone >Don't go where I can't follow
Just ruins me every time. Sean Astin's acting is what makes the fight so good, too. You can really feel his desperation and terror, and his courage against this absolutely horrifying monster that he faces, despite everything, for Frodo.
That scene is a real 10/10. The storyline leading to it, the performance, the choreography, the imagery. For me it's THE scene exemplifying the whole theme of the humble courage and especially the relentless hope of an ordinary guy facing such horror for the highest virtues of loyalty, friendship, and the good of the whole world.
>be a kid, watching FOTR >Boromir just fricking died and it's devastating... despite him being a shifty c**t in the theatrical edition >now SAM is about to die
Call me a homosexual if you must but nothing beats Theoden's speech and the charge of the Rohirrim from the third movie. Two Towers is still my favorite overall but no other scene in the trilogy gets me quite like that one.
>I shall write about the most epic significant event in the last 10000 years, where should I start >ah yes 300 pages of proudfeet explaining where all the fricking hobbit families come from and what kind of carrot cake bilbo's great grandfather's favorite prostitute liked
what was tolkien thinking?
>hey I'm Herodotus, I invented the idea of recording history, I'm kind of a big deal >so did you know that male Egyptians sit down to pee while female Egyptians stand up? Crazy huh!
I have no idea.
Ian Holm's Bilbo is really underrated. One of the things that makes this scene is that fond reminiscence of his narration, and of all the hobbit actors he is the one who sells the corrupting influence of the ring the best, in my opinion. I also love the way he scampers around Bag-End looking for food to serve Gandalf. My own super-hospitable old relatives do it just like that and it's so charming.
boomer here. a great part in the theaters on release was when gandalf appears in fangorn as the white wizard. everyone that cried when he died in the first movie, had no idea he was coming back went crazy.
Boomer here too. Another great theater part was when Shelob crawled out of the crevice above Frodo after he narrowly evaded her the first time. A lot of gasping and griping.
Btw, Lee was a fan of the books and had met Tolkien at a bar way back before the films. He also correct Peter Jackson on set about how it sounds when a man is knifed in the back and Jackson relented. Lee had served in a special forces unit in WW2 and had likely killed people.
I'm gonna question your boomer status.
Every single promotional item spoiled Gandalf's return. From the teaser trailer, TV spots, to the fricking poster. No one was surprised.
I even remember being in the theater for a different movie when they showed the teaser for The Two Towers and some girl turns to boyfriend and said "I thought he died in the last movie".
The only real audience reaction I remember from LOTR is at the end of ROTK and the audience starting to get up at the each of the 5 endings and then sitting back down.
I like Sting
not only is it a neat design and features throughout the Hobbit and LOTR, it also could potentially have been Glorfindel's dagger from when he was fighting off the Balrogs in Gondolin, which is rad as hell
>The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck.
It's been 20 years since the trilogy, but I doubt we will ever see anything as epic as LOTR in another 20 years. Dune could have come close if Denis wasn't such a coward.
I love this guy like you wouldn't believe. Shows up for 10 seconds, has zero dialogue, fricking dies, and yet I still remember him fondly till this day.
Theoden coming to his senses after Gandalf purges Sauronman is such a great moment just in terms of the performances. So many nuances in every actor's face and body language, and every line is delivered perfectly. Add in the phenomenal score and mmmm it's fricking incredible.
I prefer the witless worm line and brad dourif's. >but you are a newbie. who knows what you've posted in the bitter watches of the night, when all your wits seem to shrink. the walls of (you)s closing in about you >a hutch to trammel some satirical actor
theoden and boromir (faramir and denethor too to a lesser extent) are such strong glimpses into the minds of men at the end of the third war, as an entire species at its wits end. Not one of them believes there is any real hope. Part of the reason the ring so easily grabs hold of Boromir first among the fellowship is he sees the ring as a real chance to actually defeat sauron, and nearly every one of theoden's lines are filled with dread and grim determination. It's always struck me that at pelennor fields in particular, he doesn't have his cavalry charge for victory, or rohan, but death.
Maybe thats part of why LOTR hits a cord with so many people, its a fantasy story with all sorts of strange and fantastical creatures but its really about a great triumph of mankind.
>They are the Nazgul, Ringwraiths, niether living nor dead. >At all times they feel the presence of the ring, drawn to the power of the One. >...except when they're across the street in a tavern room thats about 50ft away from us.
>Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
>gimli’s whole family is dead >Gandalf knows >doesn’t bring it up in Rivendell >doesn’t bring it up while hiking >doesn’t bring it when the snow forces them off the mountain >doesn’t bring it up when they are literally on their way to Moria where Gandalf knows his kin have been slaughtered >just lets him find out in the coldest way possible
“Yeah btw sorry gimli everyone got killed by a huge demon that’s actually still here that & know about and gonna fight in a few scenes time)
In the books everyone knows what went down in Moria before entering, even Gimli. I think they decided to change it in film for shock value for audience. But this only creates the question of why wouldn't Gimli ask Gandalf why don't they go for the safe passage of his kin instead of nearly dying up a mountain. Bit of a plot hole really
They don't know about the balrog, they just didn't want to go through Moria because it would take like a week to get to the other side. The mountain was shorter, but they weren't allowed.
Wasn't it not uncommon for them to go like decades without hearing anything from each other though? I thought the last news anyone had was that they were trying to resettle Moria.
Made the Hobbit kind of grim in retrospect since after all that it's like "oh and by the way they pretty much all die horribly later."
>https://bongstream.live/north/
please do not shut down the stream because there are only three people watching.
I love old animation
thank you brother
I liked how dark it is in this scene. Most modern movies try to make dark scenes light as frick or make it seem like night time with a shitty lens filter.
>I bid you stand, men of the west >a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises >you are soldiers of Gondor. What ever comes through that gate you hold your ground
>We shall have peace. We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children who lie dead there! >We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers, whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead against the gates of the Hornburg, are avenged! >When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace!
Can't believe this scene was cut from theatrical.
Aragorn wields the palantir and goads Sauron with the sword that destroyed him. Sauron taunts back with images of Arwen dying. >"Long have you hunted me. Long have I alluded you, but no more. Behold the Sword of Elendil."
You can 100% enjoy without any book knowledge. I think there are extreme differences between both, most changes work in a movie setting. Some are not great (far-from-the-book-amir), but most are totally understandable and dont take away from the kino that is Rings.
You can 100% enjoy without any book knowledge. I think there are extreme differences between both, most changes work in a movie setting. Some are not great (far-from-the-book-amir), but most are totally understandable and dont take away from the kino that is Rings.
What he says.
I read the books years after watching the Movies.
The Movie's different plotline enriches the "re-moralization" theme that Tolkien aimed for ; the renewal of friendship, kinship, bonds, duty, honor, love , etc , etc.
The Kino from the Movie is in its own Medium; setup for an AudioVisual experience.
They are both kino
You should probably watch them first, as when you read them, you might end up being slightly let down by some of the changes. If you watch it first, then read, you'll come to understand why the changes were made and can appreciate them both in their own rights
If you read the books first, you'll enjoy the films as a solid adaptation with spot-on casting. If you watch the films first, the books are going to feel like super-mega-extended editions by comparison. You can't really go wrong.
Gandalf's reaction to Aragorn telling him that Frodo wasn't alone and Sam went with him in the Two Towers is a really great bit. Ian McKellen really stands out so much in these films and has great little moments throughout that are oft overlooked for the more iconic ones.
The ghost army kinda sucks in the movie because it robs us of the human victory from the books >Theoden is dying and exchanges last words with Aomer and declares him King of Rohan. >Denethor using the palantir while he's setting himself on fire and thinking all is lost because it's showing him a fleet of Sauron's ships arriving >Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas actually have control of the ships and they bare their sigils. Among them are reserves of men. >Aragorn, Aomer, and Boromir's uncle all meeting on the battlefield and then charging together on horses to mop up the last of the orc scum
I get that but the movie is already 3 hours long, I imagine they tried to do it faithfully and just couldn't make it fit in the script without going over whatever the studio said was the max runtime
One of the better choices of the films was having ROTK open with the story of Smeagol and Deagol finding the Ring. Letting us get to know Gollum throughout all of TTT, then revealing his backstory after the fact.
The films did a good job of instilling this sense of awe and terror in the Ring itself; as this terrible evil that affects the lives of people who couldn't comprehend it.
Right before this when theyre walking in and Legolas and Aragon are just throwing haymakers and heeming fools while Gandalf says his wizard words.
Just turned on Fellowship Extended by the way. Havent watched the triology since the extended versions were added to max.
Favourite lines without a doubt is Gandalf describing death to Pippin, there's just something so incredibly relaxing and reassuring about the way he describes it. I've seen women not get this, so maybe this is a guy thing or just a me thing.
Pippin Took: >I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf the White: >End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... then you see it!
Pippin Took: >What? Gandalf? See what?
Gandalf the White: >White shores... and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
Pippin Took: >Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf the White: >[smiles] No... no, it isn't.
Close second is the entire farewell in pic related all the way up to "Well, I'm back.", so emotional that I still struggle to not cry even now, despite having seen the scene 20 times. What an ending.
that still looks so amazing even to this day, considering the fact that it was made in 2001
why is it that the rings of power version looks almost cartoony in comparison?
Weaving is an insane actor so he pulled it off, the big meeting in fellowship was probably his best moment and was phenomenal. I'd have loved to have seen alternatives though.
Weaving has a really weirdly proportioned face so its kind of distracting.
Don't mean to rub salt into your wounds, but the entire Moria part was so fricking cool. I don't think any cinema experience (except TT and ROTK) has ever gotten close
I still remember I had to choose between Fellowship and Harry Potter. I chose Harry Potter because that's what everyone in school was going on about. The next two years I chose LotRs though.
>So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
It’s the most pivotal moment in the films. Frodo remembers the words of his dead guardian and decides to take the ring alone, to face an impossible suicidal journey against all judgement, because it’s the right thing to do. The best piece of the score swells.
This homie had no right putting in a performance so good for a side character. Stole every scene he was in, especially upon finding his sister on the battlefield. That grief stricken guttural scream hits you at your core
No.
Yeah that was a pretty great moment.
Mine has to be when Aragorn is speaking up Boromir as he dies.
That’s a great scene. Thought not LOTR, one only good scenes in Hobbit is Bilbo saying “ You Don't Have One, A Home, It Was Taken From You, But I Will Help You Take It Back If I Can”
>Mine has to be when Aragorn is speaking up Boromir as he dies.
Yeah....best moment in the trilogy for me.
>I would have followed you, my brother, my captain... my king.
Kino... pvre kino.
I also liked the part where Gandalf is falling after the Balrog and catches his sword and dives towards it https://youtu.be/Y2fwe0rnHak?t=254
just an amazing scene. Tolkien kept thing hobbit-sized but never let you forget that bigger things were afoot, great works and monsters you never heard of.
>Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not
Gandalf goes from helpless old fool to not letting the Balrog escape in a split second. What a role, what an actor, what a story
It was kino as frick when Gandalf is fighting the balrog on top of that tower and catches the lightning with the sword to slay him.
not canon hackson made it up
Sauron'sman turning out to be a bad guy.
You bow to no one
When Pippin is hopeless but Gandalf comes with one of the best speeches ever
>that little snippet of Into the West that plays
iirc this ain't even in the book. He mentions something like this to frodo briefly but not to pippin on this scale. Really makes for a great scene
It's basically the end of the book dude
The speech is pretty much lifted from the last few pages where Frodo goes across to valinor
Some of it also comes from a dream Frodo has in Bombadil's house, where everyone has weird dreams but Sam because he's too based
Gandalf doesn't even know what happens to hobbits when they die. I'm pretty sure he knows that they won't get into the place he goes to.
But it's still a kickass speech and if it works to raise morale then it works, true or not.
Strange elves distributing swords in the darkness of night is no way to form a government what the hell Tolkien
>we will meet them in battle nonetheless
Basically everything Theoden says is kino
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand, shall sound in the deep one last time, let this be the hour that we draw swords together"
"Fell deeds await, now for wrath, now for ruin and the red dawn"
*deep horn bass*
"FORTH EORLINGAS"
Two Towers really did produce some top tier kino.
Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountains,
like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the West,
behind the hills... into Shadow.
sounds like our current year
I listen to this to hype myself up before I do a heavy deadlift set. I time it so Gimli blows the horn when I start the pull.
>I go to my fathers, in who's mighty company i shall not now feel ashamed
>Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.
Agreed. This line also comes to mind (yet I spend my day browsing pol).
This conversation is one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in fiction. The lines immediately before your pic:
>Frodo: "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance."
>Gandalf: "Pity? It's pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."
Two banger quotes back to back.
Probably outing myself as a moron but I only just realised on my last rewatch that Gandalf's speech here is what drives Frodo to be merciful toward Gollum at the start of Two Towers
Which is important, because by sparing Gollum Frodo manages to go the entire story without killing anybody, which is pretty nuts for a main character in a fantasy adventure.
pretty sure he stabbed an Orc or two
He does stab an orc foot in Moria (who then yanks its foot back so Boromir can shut the door) but that's it. Frodo's K/D is 0/0.
He's annoyingly onions in the books. When they get back to the shire and realise it's been sacked, Frodo forbids anyone to kill any of the ruffians despite them completely destroying their homeland and enslaving and killing their people. He even spares Sarumon for like the 60th time upon discovering he's the leader and living in bag end with wormtongue
Wtf onions? Onions*
I think he forbids them from killing any hobbits because the last Hobbit on Hobbit murder was Smeagol killing Deagol.
He asks that no one is killed, evil hobbit, man, or Saruman.
Even when Saruman tries to knife Frodo and is stopped Frodo still asks the hobbits to spare him, stating that he was good once and if spared he may sometime find his way back into the light.
Then of course Wormtongue slits Saruman's throat and he gets keked on by the Valar, but the thought was there.
Frodo really took Gandalf's words about doling out mercy and death to heart.
to be fair, saruman's last act was to call wormtongue a spineless murderous pussy and accuse him of cannibalism... after how much abuse wormtongue took it's understandable that he'd say "frick it" and shank sharky
I desire to have an older Wiseman figure in my life everytime I watch lotr.
Pray daily, God will start talking back if you force hard enough, just do it safely in a community so you don't end up manifesting a demon instead.
Had sex to this scene; I miss her so much bros.
>"Look to my cumming"
>whistle noises
>SHADOWFAX!
all things boromir
>I CAN'T CARRY IT FOR YOU
>SO FRICK OFF
I cry evertiem
>New party member
>New mount
>New area unlocked
>New quest
>Howard Shore intensifies
the whole fall of gandalf scene. You shall not pass, fly you fools, Aragorn realizing he needs to assume leadership of the fellowship, the hobbits’ devastated reactions
That part from the behind the scenes footage where Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd are pissing together.
'The Fellowship of the Cast' is probably one of the comfiest behind the scenes/making of featurettes of all time. Just a solid ~40 minutes of the cast sharing their favorite anecdotes from the two years they spent shooting together.
>The hobbits becoming bestbros
>JRD fricking mopping the floor with the stuntmen and then treating the cast to a Tudor feast
>The Splinter Incident
>The cast spending the entire river shoot trying to capsize each other
>Ian and the hobbits sharing a trailer and them blasting music to frick with him
>Everybody chilling with their scale doubles
>etc
The Nazgul chasing Arwen obviously, probably the best scene in the trilogy all things considered
You might be right. It was well filmed.
ven vill u ver vigs
>RELEASE THE RIVER
Any other answer is wrong by the way
This scene got me teary eyed on my last rewatch. RotK may be the weakest of the three but it still got some absolute kino moments
Stop, you are going to make me watch the whole trilogy again and I'm trying to wait until December. Hard to believe that it's been nearly 20 years since the trilogy ended.
Me and my GF had a movie marathon of the extended trilogy. 12hr kinofest.
I used to do the marathons, but now I split it over three days. Nothing comfier than a dark night, a warm fire, a large pizza and LotR. Only thing that's missing is a gf ;_;.
Same man, I'm watching return of the king tonight. There is no other set of films I watch at least yearly.
Don’t worry, 9/10 women will sit on their phones, talk about their weekend plans, and lose track of the plot less than 6 minutes into the film.
They also psychically ask questions RIGHT as the film answers them. Leading me to believe that editors make practice of showing a cut to an entirely female audience and marking down the exact times that certain questions pop up in a fruitless effort to put training wheels on the Final Cut.
got me a chubby gf and we marathon the extended versions on mushrooms, its a bonding experience. she hadn't read the books or even seen the theatrical cuts, so she was bawling at every opportunity (i'll admit i did like 6x throughout it all)
its literally the best media on earth and because of that, it's a weird bittersweet thing
This entire scene just does it for me.
He should have got best supporting actor for this.
There a couple of shots, one here and another when Aragorn is lying on a couch, when Arwen looks lovingly at Aragorn with upcast eyes, so adorable, made me fall in love.
Speaking of Boromir, I like the bit they added to RotK, where Boromir is making an inspiring speech, and really cared for Gondor, just reinforcing that he was misguided and corrupted in Fellowship
>that speech
>over that score
>over footage of the Ents flooding Isengard
>over the triumph at Helm's Deep
>over Theodan's "VICTORY! WE HAVE VICTORY!"
How can one scene be so kino?
>"What are we holding onto, Sam?
>"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
Pure chills every time. Sam is the best character in the trilogy bar none
I like how in the appendices they were saying they were worried about the line being too corny, and normally they would be right, but the combination of Astin's performance and
made it all work perfectly.
They may not see it for the first time in cinemas like we did, but LotR still is shown in cinemas from time to time, even the extended versions. I bet there will be a lot of showings this winter considering it's the 20th anniversary of RotK and most new stuff in cinemas are shit so cinemas will have slots open.
God, I can't even think of a best moment, there are too many.
Probably the Pippin singing scene. Or maybe the scene when all four hobbits are back at the Green Dragon and share a quiet look with each-other. Or the moment the Ring-Wraiths did their assassination attempt at Bree. Or the when Fellowship row past the Argonath. Fuuuuck, there's too many!
I enjoy the scene where Merry and Pippin are singing the green dragon song on the table
I meant the Minas Tirith "All shall fade" song, but that song is good too.
>the hobbits sitting at the table, the realization that the joy they had before simply isn’t there.
>then sam gets up and asks Rosie out
>and they see that there’s still joy in the world for them
A lot of purists complain about the Sourging not being in the films, but I actually prefer the films, the contrast between the peaceful lives of the NPC hobbits and the four main characters just helps make their journey and hardships stand out.
>save the world
>get BTFO again by the same old loser who got you before the journey
Gandalf: “I drive.”
I watching the Two Towers right now. For me it’s watching the hope and then relief wash over Aragorn’s face when he realizes that Merry and Pippin escaped the Uruk-hai slaughter and had made it into Fangorn Forest.
That scene is exactly the kind of tacked on stuff Viggo talked about having to add in reshoots, but it really works
Saruman making Gandalf break dance.
I like this scene with Arwen and Aragorn too.
Sucks that Tolkien never got to see his work in live action. Though it’s been debated whether or not he’d like Jackson’s take on it
He missed the animated qino too
Yup. Better all three Hobbit movies combined
free
It's fricking astonishing that a cartoon with silly 70s songs and a runtime of barely an hour manages to do a better job of getting the narrative and character arcs right than a fricking nine hour epic trilogy.
The animated movie understood weapons and wyrd better than the LOTR movies.
>If ever you came from the forges of the TRUE KING under the mountain, go now and speed well!
Gandalf's decision to go after the Balrog can't be understood from the movies alone
I'm sure he would disagree with it a lot but it's also a one of a kind movie and having such a giant of a movie made from your work would surely please anyone. Tolkien didn't seem like a cynical butthole, I like to believe that he would have liked it.
boromir trying to take the ring and immediate regret/fear afterwards
I’m glad they added it. It’s a great scene. Also, Aragorn/Boromir do a great job of showing the duality of man. Also, Boromir’s redemption is top notch.
The music that plays right after Gandalf falls in Fellowship
Really every scene in Moria is kino of the highest order.
I sharted pissed and cried all at the same time slayyyyyyy queen
>Where does my allegiance lie of not here
I'm with you man, though I pick the touching moment from Rohan, this mother already mourning her son/husband with all her love... makes my eyes watery
So.. it is before the walls of Minas Tirith, the doom of our time will be decided..
Who was the best cast in the trilogy? Not an easy question
>Gandalf is an easy cast, knockout choice
>Sean Bean exceeded expectations
>Aragorn is not an easy cast
>Frodo was the boldest move
>Sam, Merry, and Pippin are the canonical versions forever
>Legolas and Gimli were just flawless casting
it goes on...
The final cast was a minor miracle, they almost had Sean Connery for Gandalf and someone else for Aragorn.
I don't understand why they wanted Connery over Lee
You mean McKellen? Lee wanted to play Gandalf too, but he is so much better suited as Saruman. Guess they wanted Connery for the star-power, but I can't see it working tbh.
I mean why didn't they let Lee have a crack at Gandalf? It could've been kino even though he was a villain actor.
>Connery stated he didn't understand the role
I get the feeling that Connery wasn't particularly bright
Lee conceded that he was too old to do the role of Gandalf to his own satisfaction, so settled for Saruman.
for me, it's Sean Astin as Sam
based. His entrance in fellowship is perfect and completely dispels the grim atmosphere
Viggo as Aragorn was amazing. Imagine Nic Cage in the role.
Yuck. I'd rather have Jim Carrey
>I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.
>ALLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN
LEEEW-ZERRRR
Honestly Carrey would give Aragorn an element of passivity that earns all the criticism of people who don't know where he's been for 80 years. Proving himself in battle would have way more meaning than it does for Viggo the perfect warrior.
If not Viggo, what about Mads? He'd look about the same imo.
Mads could do it
They are all perfect, but I think the movie would suffer the most if vigo wasn't Aragorn so he'd have to be my pick. Sean Bean is my favorite actor for his whole body of work though.
Ok but those are all whyte pepo and very problematic.
If you had to choose one character to race swap to being black, who would it be?
Boromir
>My brotha, my OG, my kang
go away Black folk stop polluting a good thread with your brainrot
you just cant help yourselves can you? you have to bring your Black person obsession into every fricking thing
ease up chump
I would have the movie play out as is except in The Two Towers Gandalf returns as Gandalf the Black
>Gandalf the Black
LMAO. And have him played by pic related with no explanation or context ever given. All subsequent lines in 70's jive.
Lurtz and "CATAPULTS!" guy.
Unironically Sam.
>I go to my Fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.
Haven't cried yet but its always close. Great change from the book.
the non existent Glorfindel scene
it's ok, he's with the barrow wights and tom bombadil now
>Sam is spurred on by loyalty into deep water
>knowing he can not swim
>he sinks below the surface slipping away still reaching for his Friend
>seconds go by
>Frodo's hand rushes down and grabs Sam's
>Sam grabs Frodo's wrist and is hoist upon the boat
I tear up every single time.
It's been a few years, I thought Sam stepping on broken glass was part of the scene. They should've kept it in
>I made him a PROMISE Mr. Frodo, a PROMISE!
>Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee.
>And I don't mean to...I don't mean to.
Exquisite taste. The triumphant reprise of the shire theme that soars in as Frodo pulls Sam into the boat is fantastic.
For me, it's Sam vs Shelob. Terrific action scene, followed by this:
>Mr Frodo...
>Wake up
>Don't leave me here alone
>Don't go where I can't follow
Just ruins me every time. Sean Astin's acting is what makes the fight so good, too. You can really feel his desperation and terror, and his courage against this absolutely horrifying monster that he faces, despite everything, for Frodo.
That scene is a real 10/10. The storyline leading to it, the performance, the choreography, the imagery. For me it's THE scene exemplifying the whole theme of the humble courage and especially the relentless hope of an ordinary guy facing such horror for the highest virtues of loyalty, friendship, and the good of the whole world.
>be a kid, watching FOTR
>Boromir just fricking died and it's devastating... despite him being a shifty c**t in the theatrical edition
>now SAM is about to die
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peter is also on helms deep throwing a spear in one scene
yeah and in FOTR he's doing his favorite thing.. eatin' vege's in bree
was this the same actor as gimli? he screams like gimli when he gets killed too
It's Peter Jackson, the director
Call me a homosexual if you must but nothing beats Theoden's speech and the charge of the Rohirrim from the third movie. Two Towers is still my favorite overall but no other scene in the trilogy gets me quite like that one.
>scenes women will never understand
>Where to begin
>Ah yes
>Concerning hobbits...
The entire shire sequence has got to be some of the most comfy looking cinema in existence.
>I shall write about the most epic significant event in the last 10000 years, where should I start
>ah yes 300 pages of proudfeet explaining where all the fricking hobbit families come from and what kind of carrot cake bilbo's great grandfather's favorite prostitute liked
what was tolkien thinking?
It's autobiographical
he had just finished writing said epic, and it turned him into an old hobbit who only wanted to write hobbit shit
>hey I'm Herodotus, I invented the idea of recording history, I'm kind of a big deal
>so did you know that male Egyptians sit down to pee while female Egyptians stand up? Crazy huh!
I have no idea.
>invents recorded history
>first thing he does is dab on sandgays
zamn greekoids are based like that?
Ian Holm's Bilbo is really underrated. One of the things that makes this scene is that fond reminiscence of his narration, and of all the hobbit actors he is the one who sells the corrupting influence of the ring the best, in my opinion. I also love the way he scampers around Bag-End looking for food to serve Gandalf. My own super-hospitable old relatives do it just like that and it's so charming.
boomer here. a great part in the theaters on release was when gandalf appears in fangorn as the white wizard. everyone that cried when he died in the first movie, had no idea he was coming back went crazy.
Boomer here too. Another great theater part was when Shelob crawled out of the crevice above Frodo after he narrowly evaded her the first time. A lot of gasping and griping.
Btw, Lee was a fan of the books and had met Tolkien at a bar way back before the films. He also correct Peter Jackson on set about how it sounds when a man is knifed in the back and Jackson relented. Lee had served in a special forces unit in WW2 and had likely killed people.
I'm gonna question your boomer status.
Every single promotional item spoiled Gandalf's return. From the teaser trailer, TV spots, to the fricking poster. No one was surprised.
I even remember being in the theater for a different movie when they showed the teaser for The Two Towers and some girl turns to boyfriend and said "I thought he died in the last movie".
The only real audience reaction I remember from LOTR is at the end of ROTK and the audience starting to get up at the each of the 5 endings and then sitting back down.
I also remember the ending of ROTK taking forever.
Mr Nicholson, is that you?
.
and when they pulled the body from the twisted wreckage, it looked just like this
"...forth, and fear no darkness.
Arise, arise riders of Theoden!
Spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered - a sword day, a red day - 'ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin, and the world's ending!
Death!
>Death!
Death!
>Death!
FORTH EORLINGAS
playing R:TW after watching this is a mindfrick when you think of all the armies that went to death in hand to hand combat.
Kino
Are there any good TW LOTR mods besides Medieval 2?
There's one or two for Rome 1 as well. I remember there also being one in development for Shogun 2 (?) but not sure how that turned out.
It's stupid to make a mod for Shogun 2 a game with no shield stat.
That I will never participate in a cavalry charge is heart breaking
the largest ones that actually happened were more than 4x the size of the Rohirrim charge
like Murat's charge at Eylau, for example
What's your favorite sword in the movies?
For me, it's the Witch-King of Angmar's sword.
I like Sting
not only is it a neat design and features throughout the Hobbit and LOTR, it also could potentially have been Glorfindel's dagger from when he was fighting off the Balrogs in Gondolin, which is rad as hell
Aiglos
>seen in the opening battle wielded by Gil-galad alongside Elendil
>is leaning next to the shards of Narsil in Rivendell when the fellowship is there
>Your fingers would remember their old strength better if you grasped your sword
>music swells
Pure, unadulterated kino
>The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck.
Aragorn singing Elendil's oath. Viggo's voice was an amazing fit for the soothing words of a king. I wish the oath was much longer.
the last 40 minutes of the return of the king
After gandalf falls. Aragorn being the last one to leave, the mountains, the music, the grief, boromir wanting to give a moment before moving on.
I always loved Pippin's complete shutdown because you realize he's blaming himself.
Aragorn charging at the battle of the gate.
It's been 20 years since the trilogy, but I doubt we will ever see anything as epic as LOTR in another 20 years. Dune could have come close if Denis wasn't such a coward.
For me it's the arrival of the haradrim at the battle of the peleanor fields
I love this guy like you wouldn't believe. Shows up for 10 seconds, has zero dialogue, fricking dies, and yet I still remember him fondly till this day.
Bro I saw this in theaters at the time. Most kino thing I've ever witnessed in a cinema.
HAAA!
O!-
AAAAAAAAA!!!
and when spotting Eomer;
HOOOOOOOO!..
Is such level of grandiose energy even natty achievable?
>ET EÄRELLO
>ENDORENNA UTÚLIEN
>SINOMË MARUVAN
>AR HILDINYAR'
>TENN AMBAR-METTA
Never again! Will the lands of my people fall into enemy hands!
Well shit, the scene's delightful from start to finish.
I wonder about older people, to them these films are like tiktok-tier.
Theoden coming to his senses after Gandalf purges Sauronman is such a great moment just in terms of the performances. So many nuances in every actor's face and body language, and every line is delivered perfectly. Add in the phenomenal score and mmmm it's fricking incredible.
I prefer the witless worm line and brad dourif's.
>but you are a newbie. who knows what you've posted in the bitter watches of the night, when all your wits seem to shrink. the walls of (you)s closing in about you
>a hutch to trammel some satirical actor
>that subtle wink he throws to Aragorn after keeping his staff
Wonder if that was improvised?
I almost tear up when I hear this one, shit
theoden and boromir (faramir and denethor too to a lesser extent) are such strong glimpses into the minds of men at the end of the third war, as an entire species at its wits end. Not one of them believes there is any real hope. Part of the reason the ring so easily grabs hold of Boromir first among the fellowship is he sees the ring as a real chance to actually defeat sauron, and nearly every one of theoden's lines are filled with dread and grim determination. It's always struck me that at pelennor fields in particular, he doesn't have his cavalry charge for victory, or rohan, but death.
Maybe thats part of why LOTR hits a cord with so many people, its a fantasy story with all sorts of strange and fantastical creatures but its really about a great triumph of mankind.
Could a non-white EVER understand this scene?
I mean the screen shot kind of looks like Ferguson riots, so maybe.
yes but from the other side
From the Orc perspective, yes.
OP already nailed it. To answer a different question, my favorite line is "hail the victorious dead." Theoden had so many kino parts.
>They are the Nazgul, Ringwraiths, niether living nor dead.
>At all times they feel the presence of the ring, drawn to the power of the One.
>...except when they're across the street in a tavern room thats about 50ft away from us.
weaksauce
>they were once men
>it yearns to return to the hand of its master
>except when he is looking directly at it
For me it's Simbelmynë in the burial mound. As a kid I thought it was boring. Now that I'm a father it destroys me every time I watch.
I always liked that they included Sean Bean in the credits to Return even though he's not in it. It'd feel really incomplete without him.
>Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Gimli asking Galadriel for a single hair from her golden head and getting three instead due to his off the charts rizz level.
The bit where Legolas says
>The hobbits
>The hobbits
>The hobbits
>The hobbits
>To Eisengard
>To Eisengard
Thanks now I have it stuck in my head again
Lord of the rings really fricking sucks doesn't it?
ok brownie.
Oh and I'm trans btw but it sucks doesn't it?
Is this how little gays fight nowadays?
Come at my post head on.
How does it feel knowing RoP was made to pander to you and failed because of it?
picking on the disabled is cruel to such noble spirits as Lord of the Rings posters
You will never have Eowyn giving you frick me eyes,
Faramir won
Yeah he did. Have you seen Aowyn's pink eraser nipples? They're amazing.
Link?
Lol
Get fricked newbie
Crazy how she manged to be best girl despite being up against Y2K Liv Tyler.
HEY HO TO THE BOTTLE I GO
This whole scene right here.
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Just rewatched this scene and I feel it in my soul. It’s so powerful. Theodan is an amazing character.
Maggoty bread
The lighting of the beacons was kino
Can you imagine being stationed there as a soldier for decades and finally see the damn things getting lit?
>gimli’s whole family is dead
>Gandalf knows
>doesn’t bring it up in Rivendell
>doesn’t bring it up while hiking
>doesn’t bring it when the snow forces them off the mountain
>doesn’t bring it up when they are literally on their way to Moria where Gandalf knows his kin have been slaughtered
>just lets him find out in the coldest way possible
“Yeah btw sorry gimli everyone got killed by a huge demon that’s actually still here that & know about and gonna fight in a few scenes time)
Gandalf was a dick
I thought that was extended family like cousins? Gandalf also seemed shocked that everyone was already dead.
In the book Gandalf didn't know they dug up a Balrog. It was actually Aragorn and Boromir who didn't want to go through Moria.
I think Gimli knew in the books, been a long time since I read it though.
In the books everyone knows what went down in Moria before entering, even Gimli. I think they decided to change it in film for shock value for audience. But this only creates the question of why wouldn't Gimli ask Gandalf why don't they go for the safe passage of his kin instead of nearly dying up a mountain. Bit of a plot hole really
I've heard it kind of explained that the Dwarves were very insular so Gimli wouldn't have heard about it.
he does, Gimli asks Gandalf a couple times and Gandalf abruptly shuts him down
I know but it still seems strange that he wouldn't demand a straight answer to an obvious question of safe passage vs possible death
They don't know about the balrog, they just didn't want to go through Moria because it would take like a week to get to the other side. The mountain was shorter, but they weren't allowed.
Wasn't it not uncommon for them to go like decades without hearing anything from each other though? I thought the last news anyone had was that they were trying to resettle Moria.
Made the Hobbit kind of grim in retrospect since after all that it's like "oh and by the way they pretty much all die horribly later."
Gimli and Gloin's journey to Rivendell was, in part, to learn what had become of Balin's company
>and my dubs!
CHECKED
please don't taint my dubs with your scrubby singular digits, thx
Nice
Oh shit!
sharing a LOTR stream, watching Bakshi now @ https://bongstream.live/north/
>https://bongstream.live/north/
please do not shut down the stream because there are only three people watching.
I love old animation
thank you brother
The animated hobbit just started
makes me hungry errytime
Frick you it made me hungry as well.
The original hobbit slam.
To think for them that's hastily made outdoors food. Give them a full kitchen and you'd be eating like kings.
Fall of Gondolin miniseries when? HBO only.
>Uruk drops dead
>That sudden music swell
>Uruks snarling and going into a frenzy
Kino opening to the whole battle.
I liked how dark it is in this scene. Most modern movies try to make dark scenes light as frick or make it seem like night time with a shitty lens filter.
Is that Joe Gatto with hair?
>I bid you stand, men of the west
>a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises
>you are soldiers of Gondor. What ever comes through that gate you hold your ground
Why does RotK have such great rallying lines?
no father should have to bury his son
and
charge of the rohirrim
are tied
The sally forth tops them both.
>We shall have peace. We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children who lie dead there!
>We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers, whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead against the gates of the Hornburg, are avenged!
>When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace!
Can't believe this scene was cut from theatrical.
Dotard.
>immediately follow it up with some ridiculous tone shifting slapstick
I watch the extended exclusively and can't imagine cutting any of it
Haven't seen this once yet.
Aragorn wields the palantir and goads Sauron with the sword that destroyed him. Sauron taunts back with images of Arwen dying.
>"Long have you hunted me. Long have I alluded you, but no more. Behold the Sword of Elendil."
eluded
I have never watched LotR. Yeah, Television and Film user. Anyways, should I read the books first or it's not worth it?
You can 100% enjoy without any book knowledge. I think there are extreme differences between both, most changes work in a movie setting. Some are not great (far-from-the-book-amir), but most are totally understandable and dont take away from the kino that is Rings.
What he says.
I read the books years after watching the Movies.
The Movie's different plotline enriches the "re-moralization" theme that Tolkien aimed for ; the renewal of friendship, kinship, bonds, duty, honor, love , etc , etc.
The Kino from the Movie is in its own Medium; setup for an AudioVisual experience.
you can do either one first and still enjoy both
They are both kino
You should probably watch them first, as when you read them, you might end up being slightly let down by some of the changes. If you watch it first, then read, you'll come to understand why the changes were made and can appreciate them both in their own rights
If you read the books first, you'll enjoy the films as a solid adaptation with spot-on casting. If you watch the films first, the books are going to feel like super-mega-extended editions by comparison. You can't really go wrong.
The scenes with Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn chasing the orcs over open fields. Pure comfy kino
Gandalf's reaction to Aragorn telling him that Frodo wasn't alone and Sam went with him in the Two Towers is a really great bit. Ian McKellen really stands out so much in these films and has great little moments throughout that are oft overlooked for the more iconic ones.
From the Shire party up to Weathertop
premium comfy. i wish it was an hour longer
>betrays Gondolin in your path
you fricker
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The ghost army kinda sucks in the movie because it robs us of the human victory from the books
>Theoden is dying and exchanges last words with Aomer and declares him King of Rohan.
>Denethor using the palantir while he's setting himself on fire and thinking all is lost because it's showing him a fleet of Sauron's ships arriving
>Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas actually have control of the ships and they bare their sigils. Among them are reserves of men.
>Aragorn, Aomer, and Boromir's uncle all meeting on the battlefield and then charging together on horses to mop up the last of the orc scum
I get that but the movie is already 3 hours long, I imagine they tried to do it faithfully and just couldn't make it fit in the script without going over whatever the studio said was the max runtime
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This one, mainly because of the music.
Samwise's Troll song.
aragorn's speech at the black gate
The Lighting of the Beacons, how the music swells with the sweeping helicopter shots
>LET TH' LAIRD O' D'BLACK LAND COME FAIRTH
Final 30 seconds of TTT
this entire sequence, how can one movie be so perfect, bros?
>let's hunt some orc
>YES
why did he say "Orc" instead of orcs? makes it seem like they were hunting food
>Let's get some pork
>Let's get some venison
Were they planning on eating the orcs??
For me, it’s the lighting of the Signal Beacons.
The Old Alliance still lives.
>when the horns come in
One of the better choices of the films was having ROTK open with the story of Smeagol and Deagol finding the Ring. Letting us get to know Gollum throughout all of TTT, then revealing his backstory after the fact.
The films did a good job of instilling this sense of awe and terror in the Ring itself; as this terrible evil that affects the lives of people who couldn't comprehend it.
Right before this when theyre walking in and Legolas and Aragon are just throwing haymakers and heeming fools while Gandalf says his wizard words.
Just turned on Fellowship Extended by the way. Havent watched the triology since the extended versions were added to max.
Favourite lines without a doubt is Gandalf describing death to Pippin, there's just something so incredibly relaxing and reassuring about the way he describes it. I've seen women not get this, so maybe this is a guy thing or just a me thing.
Pippin Took:
>I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf the White:
>End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... then you see it!
Pippin Took:
>What? Gandalf? See what?
Gandalf the White:
>White shores... and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
Pippin Took:
>Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf the White:
>[smiles] No... no, it isn't.
Close second is the entire farewell in pic related all the way up to "Well, I'm back.", so emotional that I still struggle to not cry even now, despite having seen the scene 20 times. What an ending.
When Éomer thought Éowyn was dead.
>My friends... you bow to noone
Well that was weird
great kino minds think alike
My friends, you bow to no one
Tough call really, but I'd probably have to say the Balrog sequence was my favorite overall.
The entire moria sequence is kino of the highest order. Just listen to the fricking soundtrack
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that still looks so amazing even to this day, considering the fact that it was made in 2001
why is it that the rings of power version looks almost cartoony in comparison?
Hugo weaving as elrond still feels odd to me. I think you could make the case that lots of great actors could have done that role.
How many have that long elven face though?
my friends and I still laugh at how weird this scene was
I completely agree. I always felt that was weird as frick casting. All I can see when looking at him is agent smith.
Weaving is an insane actor so he pulled it off, the big meeting in fellowship was probably his best moment and was phenomenal. I'd have loved to have seen alternatives though.
Weaving has a really weirdly proportioned face so its kind of distracting.
They should have gone with Bowie, he auditioned for it.
when legolas slide down that dinosaur tail and went “yabbadabbadooo”
FRICK YOU Cinemaphile I want to wait 'til Christmas to rewatch the trilogy, but you are making me want to watch it now!
I shall watch popcorn in bed's videos to sate me until then. I can also pretend I'm watching them with a gf.
I feel bad for zoomers for not being able to see these movies in the cinema back in the day.
I got to see Two Towers and Return of the King in cinema but I regret not being able to see Fellowship since that's my favourite of the three
Don't mean to rub salt into your wounds, but the entire Moria part was so fricking cool. I don't think any cinema experience (except TT and ROTK) has ever gotten close
I still remember I had to choose between Fellowship and Harry Potter. I chose Harry Potter because that's what everyone in school was going on about. The next two years I chose LotRs though.
LotR is Cinemaphile. Cinemaphile shall not pass.
I think we just about quoted half the film in this thread, and that's my feelings too, the whole twelve-hour film is my favourite moment.
>So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
It’s the most pivotal moment in the films. Frodo remembers the words of his dead guardian and decides to take the ring alone, to face an impossible suicidal journey against all judgement, because it’s the right thing to do. The best piece of the score swells.
>Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, which means that you were meant to have it, and that is an encouraging thought.
This homie had no right putting in a performance so good for a side character. Stole every scene he was in, especially upon finding his sister on the battlefield. That grief stricken guttural scream hits you at your core