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AND THE WORLD'S ENDING
DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH
>courage, merry
>courage for our friends
gets me every time
>my favourite part is the worst part
Kino. There has never been wife material better than Eowyn. She is the perfect woman.
I´m usually annoyed by the stronk womyn trope but LOTR does it right. Maybe because she is talked down by the men and says frick it and then saves the day. She earned it
>LOTR does it right
This.
Eowyn doesn't demean the men around her, she doesn't quip about the institutions or patriarchy holding women down, she's feminine, she greatly respects and cares for her brother, cousin and uncle. She could stand before the Witch-King because she was driven by the love she had for Theoden, not because she was an awesome badass and fearless SLAY, QUEEN! b***h. No, she was obviously terrified and outmatched. She got promptly demolished and would have been killed had Merry not be here to stab him.
If more stronk womyn were written like Eowyn, they wouldn't have become such an annoying and stale archetype.
This is because her story came from Tolkien who didn't give a shit about pandering to people or playing up a trope. So it comes across as more sincere than what you see today
I dunno why Jackson worked so hard to make Arwen a bigger character for girl power points when Eowyn is right there and so much better in every way.
Same thing with arwen extra scenes. Trying to give more screen time to the few lady actresses.
i thought it was a good decision to have arwen rescue frodo instead of rando glorfindel
Doesn't really bother cuz arwen is pretty hot
Except Glorfindel just showed up, put Frodo on his horse and then had the hobbit ride alone away.
Frodo making a stand at the river, and telling the Nazgul to eat shit, was all his doing, despite the big stabby wound.
He had fran walsh and philipps boyens screeching at him for more romance.
I get that you want a more indepth romance for Aragorn and Arwen but wtf were those scenes in two towers. Atleast Jackson decided to use Haldir instead of Arwen. The latter could have tanked the trilogy.
>can't cook
we were so close to greatness
Isn't his name Pippin?
Pippin was in Minas Tirith with Gandalf.
Also, reminder that Pippin literally death-charged a fricking Nazgul, and was only stopped by the Fell-Beat using an AOE fear attack when it screeched.
Yeah but he's a manlet and therefore gay
>MUH HEEEIIIIIIGHT
kys feminine homosexual
>feminine homosexual
Anything under 6 foot is automatically female.
REFORM THE LINE! REFORM THE LINE! SOUND THE CHARGE! TAKE THEM HEAD ON! CHAAAARGE!!!
FORM RANKS MAGGOTS
FORM RANKS
PIKES UP FRONT ARCHERS BEHIND
AAOAOORRGGH
Anyone see this on the big screen? I did but I don't remember most things before 2010
Saw it in theaters on Christmas Day, 2003. Literal GOAT cinema experience.
When the first horn of Rohan blew, you could literally hear a pin drop in the theater.
By the time Theoden gave his speech and they started their death-charge towards the orcs, EVERYONE was leaning forward in their seats because of the hype.
I have Goosebumps right now just remembering the final horns blowing and the "FORTH EORLINGAS."
pretty sure half the people in the theater were asleep.
These movies are boring as frick.
>"I was born after 9/11": The Post
My mom saw this in theaters and they all started cheering at this part
I watched it at the cinemas with my mum.
I saw this in 2003 and it's the only time in my life I've seen people unironically applaud after a film.
I took my 4 year old, along with my 4 other kids and wife, to Fellowship. It wasn’t too young. He loves them still. He’s the only son who calls me on the regular. T. 70. You’re here forever.
t.
does anyone have those vocaroos of melina reading the battle of the pelennor fields
>my favorite movie theater experiences
embarrasing
Weak troll.
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTHHH
A SWORD DAY
A RED DAY
AND THE SUN RISES
Ere the sun rises
FORTH EORLINGAS
FORTH EORLhomieS!
thanks for avoiding the hard r
It's great, but it's not
>Fell deeds awake
>Now for wrath
>Now for ruin.
>And the red dawn
>FORTH EORLINGAS
is this the most kino scene in film history?
Lmao no.
It is not okay to be wrong.
Your take is bad, and you should feel bad. Be better.
Without a doubt, yes. It will never, EVER be surpassed.
it was a high point
For me, it's https://youtu.be/BKIgv8AhffA?si=gSBj1RfU38jCE8Be
Easily top 10, along with "I can carry YOU."
Actually, Sam's "I made a PROMISE Mr. Frodo" at the end of FOTT, and his speech at the end of TTT were pretty GOAT.
I want a Sam buddy so bad bros ;_;
Every LotR movie ends with epic Sam speech.
DEEAAAATH!
The scene is good but the previous Rohan charge from Two Towers is better. I'm sorry but it's just better
>gandalf leading the charge as dawn breaks
>the orcs face as the sun hits his face and he shits his breeks
>peak soundtrack
>slow motion of the orc head flying through the air as the horses leap
They're both top tier kino, there is no competition here
I would say the RotK one is slightly less good because the ghost boogaloo makes the conclusion of the battle less satisfying
>At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
>Arise, arise, Riders of The´oden!
>Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
>spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
>a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
>Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
>With that he seized a great horn from Guthla´f his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
>Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
>Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. E´omer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his
speed, and the front of the first e'ored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but The´oden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
I don't know how anybody can claim that Tolkien isn't the greatest poet of our time. This is the kind of story that will stay with mankind for generations.
People say Tolkien's prose is dry but I always thought it has a very poetic cadence.
>People say Tolkien's prose is dry
Who the FRICK say this?
Zoomers
It all started when a writer, assmad at him glorifying the countryside over industrialised cities (while living in a gated French villa), wrote an article that boiled down to him seething over the fact he and his friends weren’t selling as much as they “deserved” and blaming Tolkien for it.
Which writer?
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So much less kino and evocative than the movie. Books are like 7/10 (which is excellent for a fantasy novel mind you) while the films are uncontested 10/10, there's like maybe 5 minutes of bad content in their collective running time.
>Books are like 7/10 (which is excellent for a fantasy novel mind you) while the films are uncontested 10/10, there's like maybe 5 minutes of bad content in their collective running time.
I don't know about that one.
>No Barrow Downs
>Pointless Arwen romance (yes, it's technically canon, but Tolkien left it out of the books for a reason)
>Turning Gimli into the comic relief
>Galadriel doing an extra ham fisted "she's being influenced by the ring" spectral thing instead of just getting a weird look in her eyes and switching from talking about how she'd make the world a better place with the ring, and instead going on a rant about how all will love her and despair
>Frodo is made to take a pointless detour into Osgiliath
>Pointless subplot about Gollum making Frodo not trust Sam
>Making Denethor a complete moron
>Having the Dead Men of Dunharrow win the entire Battle of the Pelennor Fields single-handedly, making all the fighting up that point effectively pointless
>Having the Mouth of Sauron brag about torturing Frodo instead of actually trying to negotiate
>Skipping the Scouring of the Shire, but then also spending a million years at the fricking boat at the end
The movies are good, but Peter Jackson absolutely made some questionable decisions when he was adapting the book.
She just wasnt a believeable elf.
doing an extra ham fisted "she's being influenced by the ring" spectral thing instead of just getting a weird look in her eyes and switching from talking about how she'd make the world a better place with the ring, and instead going on a rant about how all will love her and despair
her dialogue there is straight out of the book, they just failed to adapt the ethereal change that comes over her
I wasn't talking about the dialogue. I'm talking about how the scene was really hamfisted instead of subtle.
There are differences between book (a medium of words), and film (a visual medium).
Often, in film, you have to make whats in the book more visceral for it to work as cinema.
>surfing legolas
>comic relief gimli
>ghost army bullshit
>evil galadriel scene
>frodo sending sam away
If only someone had reigned in PJs moronic ideas, then we could have dismantled the film industry because the perfect kino had been achieved.
please harm yourself
>Then suddenly he beheld his sister Eowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white; and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.
>'Eowyn, Eowyn!' he cried at last. 'Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!'
>Then without taking counsel or waiting for the approach of the men of the City, he spurred headlong back to the front of the great host, and blew a horn, and cried aloud for the onset. Over the field rang his clear voice calling: 'Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!'
>And with that the host began to move. But the Rohirrim sang no more. 'Death' they cried with one voice loud and terrible, and gathering speed like a great tide their battle swept about their fallen king and passed, roaring away southwards.
>cavalry charge scene
>kino hairs stand up
anyone else noticed this constant
You just have a longing for a chad king with a purpose worth dying for, no sense in denying it
>Who am I, Gamling?
>You are our king, sire
>And do you trust your king?
>Your men, m'lord, will follow you to whatever end
>To whatever end... Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstrint, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest, and the tall corn growing? 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.
People always mention the Fellowship when they talk about great casting in LotR, but Bernard Hill as Theoden might be the best one overall. He absolutely aced it in every scene. Made me wonder if he was a fan of the books.
>"No parent should have to bury their child."
Him weeping over the grave of of his son is one of the most powerful moments in the movie for me. It hit me hard as a kid, and it hits me like a ton of bricks now as a man with children. Did Bernard Hill get nominated for any awards for LOTR? Like best supporting actor or anything like that? Because he should have.
Bernard hill has like one SAG award to show for his entire career, he's the most underrated actor I can think of
Go watch Wolf Hall if you haven't, it's worth it just for him threatening to shoot peoples heads off with crossbows and complaining about his wife's blown out pussy
I can't watch anything with Damian Lewis in it anymore, after shows like Billions and Homeland. Those shit characters have tainted his face.
that's fair, for me it was him singing at that F1 race
I don't think any of the ensemble were ever nominated, nor do I think they cared. If you recall, the cast and crew (in)famously skipped the 76th Academy Awards after-party after sweeping it with 11 wins and instead went to a fan-hosted event to party with them.
Also just throwing this out there in case some people don't remember, but at the 75th Academy Awards "Lose Yourself" won Best Original Song, and Howard Shore wasn't even nominated for Best Score that year. So for all you guys who think that the Oscars used to be respectable or have ever meant anything, just remember that.
>the cast and crew (in)famously skipped the 76th Academy Awards after-party after sweeping it with 11 wins and instead went to a fan-hosted event to party with them.
based
mckellen was nominated for best supporting actor for fellowship, that was the only acting nomination for any of the films
That is the only scene in the trilogy that I would say is better in theatrical version, when he asks where is his son and it cuts straight to him mourning just with Gandalf by his side.
It's shocking that the Titanic and Lote is basically it for him, what the frick.
If it wasnt for ian mckellen Id agree with you but they really hit the jackpot with that old fairy
For me it's this guy
>AUUUUGGGH
K I N O
This lil homie just wanted to be back home in mordor working his orc farm with his orc wife. He never wanted to get drafted. And I'm meant to hate him just because he's ugly?
>orc farm
Right next to orc restaurant.
Farming ain't easy. anon.
Think of the little orc babies in their little orc cradles.
>little orc babies
Do orcs breastfeed their young?
>tfw no more orc breeding pits
This guy for, he's so happy just being there shooting dudes on horses.
It's crazy that LotR has so many memorable orcs with distinctive faces that show up for a couple of seconds at best while the Hobbit has... the fat bad CGI one and the white bad CGI one. I can't remember any beyond these two awful shitters. What the frick happened?
theres a videogame that has a ton of memorable orcs and trolls. i forget the name of it but you play a bad human trying to tame the orcs for sauron and bring them under his control or something.
Shadow of Mordor, it's the fanfiction game which gave us the Shelob/sexy Stoya b***h meme. That said the orc nemesis system is genuinely great but it has been patented by the greedy fricks at Warner Bros.
Why didn't the army of worfs just focus on shooting arrows and chucking spears at the horses in the front of the charge? The rest behind will just fricking trip over eachother and it will eventually be mass confusion. This concept in particular is part of what disappointed me about this scene, cause P.J. went out of his way to show some really fricking awful CGI horses collapsing inexplicably after their rider is shot, but it's like they just disappear into thin air and it has no affect on the absolute clusterfrick right behind.
Frick all you homies who complain about twelve foot Legolas taking down the AT-AT, that shit's gay but it's low-hanging fruit.
Did that happen in reality, tons of ancient battles had cavalry charges into infantry.
Cavalry charging spear or javelin infantry generally resulted in a failed charge unless the infantry was already engaged with ground forces or it was an ambush
it's that guy with the axe right, he's burned into my memory too
>HE'S GONNA SAY IT!
frick it's a sword, my life is a lie
In all fairness, there's a frame like ten seconds prior that shows a dude who looks almost exactly the same with an axe. Hell, it may even be the same extra.
Here he is. It's definitely the same guy. Same helmet, cloak, horse, beard, hair, etc...
Some of the extras were doing the bare minimum (like the elven archers at Helm's Deep) but this guy really gave it his all. What a legend.
its very likely a woman with a fake beard. Look at his/her eyes, seems womanly to me.
and it's well known that most horsemen extra in LOTR were women because they're the ones who are riding horses as a hobby these days.
Imagine your army getting destroyed by a bunch of reverse traps.
I always thought that this was Gamling
i always get distracted thinking this guy looks like elrond
mandela moment
russian moment
You guys are aware that both riders sre women? The extras for the horsey scenes were almost all women with beards because horses and riding is very gay and female sport now.
thank god
Why is horn blowing so fricking kino?
Das Horn Helm Hammerhands soll erschallen in der Klamm; ein allerletztes mal!
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Why do men find being eager to throw your life away so romantic?
Women and trannies will never understand
>I'm a good npc and I WILL be maimed for oil
Cool
How can a man die better than facing fearsome odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?
Not that anon but that’s not what most soldiers nowadays fight for. Most of them fight to further enrich a bunch of old rich fricks. The only people that actually fight for their people nowadays are probbaly the taliban that wanted the corruptionnof their people to stop and the palestinians that don’t want to abandon the land of their ancestors even if it means dying by the thousands.
Sure Hassan, now frick off.
>I will suck wieners for chinese solar
Now frick off from LotR thread, commie.
Because there is nothing more admirable than giving your life for your land and your people. It is my greatest hope in life that society will get less gay, so that I might die gloriously for a noble cause.
Because they're doing it to protect their families, people, kingdom, humanity. This was the war to determine the fate of middle earth itself. Anything other than fighting meant death and enslavement.
There is nothing more noble then giving your life to protect your friends and family.
You die so the parts of you that exist in other people can live.
Globalists can never understand this, because nothing of themselves exists in the people around them.
the only thing of you that lives in other people is you being an insufferable, racist c**t
if people will even remember your dysgenic face they'll do so as "oh, do you remember that angry loser?"
>muh racism
Ok orc.
The romantic notion is living in a world worth throwing one's life away to defend. In that way we're envious of them, because our world is gay.
Because you're dying for something worth defending. Your sacrifice will echo through the ages and even though you die, your memory becomes immortal.
>Things women cannot understand
because we are all going to die anyway. Having a cool death is a worthy goal as any.
>and for some reason the one guy riding the fricking SHIT out of his horse charging shoved it over the line. Riding with all the fury and anger of a kamikaze run.
What's amazing is that I know EXACTLY who you are talking about.
I remember reading the books when I was 14 or 15 and reading this I got constant goosebumps.
Most reddit trilogy ever?
That's not the cornetto trilogy
>I WOULD MY LORD BUT MY FOOT HAS BEEN IMPALED!
>tfw you get to blow your horn
This guy is the living embodiment of "If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life"
I found these guys scary for some reason. I think it was the idea of humans working alongside Mordor that spooked me
Based
These homosexuals are 100% mindfricked by degeneracy to the point where they are unable to recognize something good
Can you imagine something like this happening in real life? Humans finally getting sick and tired of Black folk and israelites banding together to drive them to extinction once and for all?
kek as if I want to risk my life for your ideals homosexual. I'd rather get black out drunk, high as frick and coom back to back before helping you with anything
yes because you aren’t white
one day, brother.
Pathetic cuck fantasy that ruins the pure and kino fantasy Tolkien wrote
Incel cuck fantasy never stirs anything but pity
every time i watch it yes
the movie is what’s going to happen
No homo, but whenever I rewatch this I'm crying nonstop from this point to the ending pretty much.
>End of Fellowship
>"Theoden King stands alone
>"not alone. ROHIRIM... TO THE KIIIIIIIIING!""
>Sam's speech
>DEAAAAAAATH DEAAAAAAAAAAATH
>"For Frodo"
>"you bow to no-one"
All guaranteed to make me shed a tear even after a gorillion viewings.
>20 years later, no scene can top this
Cinema is dead
> Halifax, show them the meaning of a current account!
>Shadowtax. Tis the lord of all bankers........and has been my consultant through many audits.
>So much debt. What can men do again such reckless rates?
with me. Evade and sue them
>For bankruptcy and profits
>>For Rohan Inc. For your shareholders!
>"The market is opening..."
>"Look to my jet at 5:30 AM next week"
>Yes. Yes. The Phone of H. Hammerhand will ring in the deep, one last time!
>>Let this be the hour when we draw litigation together. Fell collectors awake. Now for insolvency, now for ruin, and the black crash! Forth Eorlingas!
then hackson cheapened it when he made the army of the dead a deus ex machina.
>be peter jackson
>say that you hate the army of the dead
>have to include it because book fans
>make it way more prominent and remove the weight of everything else done during the battle
was it spite?
It's like in the old stories, Mr. Frodo, where everything goes real wanky, the bad guys are creaming the heroes and bending them over, fricking them real hard and...and you think they won't survive...but they do, except the fat one, well, I notice he always dies in those stories...
DEY RIDE NOW?
GET A THREAD GOING
My only fault with Two Towers is that we didn’t get more scenes of traveling from the orcs’ perspective, these dudes were fricking great.
AND YOU WOULD HAVE A YASS QUEEN SLAYYYY!!!
Then the hobitses will light little basic bank accounts of their own!
Oh c'mon that one doesn't even make any sense
> This is but a taste of the PlayStation 5's stunning game line-up.
>I musts take the Hobbitses to Villa Park
the extended edition is weird
Good Ebening man doesn't look like that.
Imagine being so empty inside you have no one and nothing you love so much you'll die for - and then calling other people goy NPCs.
I'll just take my loved ones away from big cities filled with br*wn peepoo and s*oys like you, I'm not fighting anything.
>he's a coward
we're talking about an army of orcs or Easterlings being on your doorstep, not a current year war fought with missiles you mong.
homie orcs aren't real.
>t. orc
>t. urk
Nobody is comparing Ukraine to the War of the Ring you fricking moron. In LotR the non-orc races are actually facing an threat that would totally wipe them out, not some KGBBlack person sperging out at a corrupt shithole next door. Imagine being so dead inside that you wouldn't fight for your family and your people.
DECKS WILL BE SHAKEN
HULLS WILL BE SPLINTERED
>Mr Lightoller, have the Irish been welded into their parts of the ship?
>y... Yes captain...
>good, good. Full steam ahead
>DEATH! DEAAATH! Captain Smith said calmly.
ERE THE ICEBURG RISES
thoughts on hackson's decision to include representation for the handicaped?
That's just Harvey Weinstein preparing his red sofa for another audition.
That assistant trying to help his commander 🙂
>mfw just watched through the extended Hobbit trilogy for the first time
Does the fanedit that turns it all into one 4 hour long movie salvage it at all?
I’m completely baffled that it was made by the same guy who gave us these god tier films, literally the only good part of them was the dragon who had his final fight cucked by a lame cliffhanger.
i only rewatch the dinner party scenes of the first hobbit
>the dragon
Smaug was good until he actually showed up then he was ruined like everyone else in this trilogy. In his case: a Scooby-Doo tier villain. The fricking dwarves chase in the mountain managed to be worse than the river barrels chase.
I don't get it, was this speech supposed to hype his soldiers to go and kill themselves?
>Ride off and DIEEEEE! Ride for DEAAAAATH! This is the EEEEEEND!
Not so much as go kill themselves but be prepared to die. If they are prepared to die then they won't have a fear of it. The first two cries are for themselves and the last where Merry and Eowyn join in is for the enemy.
It's a more eloquent
>Come on your apes, do you want to live forever?
Either they win or they die, there is no alternative. It looked hopeless but they had to fight.
IIRC in the books the DEAAAATH was from Eomer who became mad with grief after finding Eowyn's body DURING the battle. In the movie he found her after the battle ended so Theoden got to scream DEAAATH instead.
implying any tv soiboi would ride into death because his leader told him to lmao, you'd be hiding in the stables to dodge the draft
>Boromir standing his ground, fighting to his death while protecting Merry and Pippin, having just come to his senses after being compelled by the ring to betray Frodo / the fellowship
I'm pretty stoic, I don't generally cry during movies or tragedy in life.
But this scene, followed by Aragorn trying to comfort him in his last moments? I still shed a few tears every time, even after all these years.
And speaking of this scene
>Aragorn wears Boromir's arm bracers with Gondor motif for the rest of the movies
I didn't realize this until I saw it last, a few weeks ago (got the UHD blu-rays). Just thought they were just part of Aragorn's outfit from the start. Love little things like this.
All the extras for that scene were fans of the books too. Those guys got to live out their dream world in the most expensive LARP ever produced.
Hama, Gamling, Grimbold... with time I've come to appreciate the loyal bros of Theoden more and more. Ultimate love for the liege and a friend.
did hama let gandalf keep his staff on purpose?
for sure he knew, says it in the book, smth like "a stick/staff in hands of a wizard is no mere prop" he finally saw solution to the wormtongue illspeech..
>"RIDE NOW"
>they don't start riding until later
>FOR RUIN AND THE WORLD'S ENDING
>world prospers and doesn't end
>RRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH
this trilogy is so much better on a high frame
rate tv
makes the cgi and costumes blend in so much more