I was in the theater 20 years ago today watching this with my family when I was 9. I fell in love with the movies and the story and ritually watch them every X-mas. Here's to the start of the next rewatch. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Cheers!
Matt thank you so much for your channel. Following along with this was such a treat that I would never have been able to appreciate if not for all your Tolkien explained videos during this pandemic! I have such a fascination with the history of this world that I had no idea about before hand. I've seen all the movies and played LOTRO but now my love for the movies and the game is an obsession thanks to your videos. All the references in this watch-party are little nuggets that would have gone right over my head just a few months ago!
I had never been so amazed and floored by a movie in a theater. I must have gone back and watched it a half dozen more times. They really, really did do such an amazing job.
It is amazing that it has been 20 years. I discovered Tolkien and Middle Earth. While in college. Having them on screen was such a joy. Seeing people's reaction to them was so much fun.
I was 12 too. I'm from Argentina. Here we don't have (culturally) this level of bound to a history even if it is fictional, not to mention that we don't celebrate what comes around consequently of that richness that a written play brings: music, events like this one, theatre versions with live music, and so on. But I guess when it went globally through movies it gathered us fans from every corner on the planet and create our own Comunity. 20 years later we keep sharing our love for JRRT
I love how I can listen to you guys without actually watching the movie, yet, I 100% see every scene as you describe these extra things. What a nice idea it was to do that. The only bad thing is I put that video to fall asleep and here I am at 2 am, fully awake and just wanting to hear you commenting Two Towers next!
I was 50 years old when I saw Fellowship in the movie theater....I saw each one when it came out in the theaters. I went to Return of the King twice in 3 days
Happy 20th anniversary. It was overwhelming to watch the movie with you guys. Always get these goosebumps every time I watch them. Peter Jackson's Direction and Howard Shore Score is evergreen.
When I was in fifth grade, our reading textbook had the first chapter of the hobbit in it. When I read it, I had to have more, so i went to the neighborhood bookstore, and bought the hobbit in paperback , I read it several times before finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the same store. I read them so many times. That was all before the cartoon of the Hobbit came out. I loved that movie. My father bought the vinyl album of the Hobbit soundtrack with the movie and music just like watching the movie. This was before VCR tapes. When I was able I bought the VCR tape of the hobbit, and then the Lord of the Rings cartoon. I have always loved these books and movies.
The sound effect of that ring hitting the floor was absolutely amazing it sounded like it weighed like 1000 lbs Bilbo sounded like a different person immediately after just the way this movie tries to let you know the actual weight of htis ring is amazing with the score. Keep up the good work guys.
I started about ten minutes after you, so I couldn’t watch it with you guys. Even then, I would’ve been desynced (or however you spell it) because I had to switch discs after Pippin says “So where are we going?” But I still had a great time. These movies have barely aged in the last twenty years.
I had my mom paint my walls and ceiling Lord of the Rings themes when I was a kid. She even did 2 little double wooden drawers/boxes for me! Painted a whole Eye of Sauron on my wall, my dad got me a life size version of Narsil for my 14th(still have it, 8 years later). I am in love with this series, it is absolutely breathtaking that a single man could encapsulate so much lore, story and depth with his literature.
wish i could've joined this but excited to see the replay! i was at a screening of The Shop Around The Corner. Maybe there'll be more screenings of LOTR?? 🥰
Howard Shore uses leitmotif, a musical theme related to Gondor in this instance when Boromir speaks. The Leitmotif was developed in the Wagnerian Ring Cycle...and Wagner's last opera Parsifal.
Would you believe I was scared of these movies as a kid? 10 years later I started reading and watching again and now I’m a lore nut! Best movies ever made!
50:00 the theory that suits me for how Gollum didn't age even tho he had it longer time than Bilbo but was also separated from it, was because Sauron personally tortured Gollum himself to get info and it says in the extra texts that Gollum saw the black hand of Sauron having a finger lost - and it is sugested that since Sauron let Gollum go, he might have made a bargain with Gollum to keep him still living long life even tho they both were now seperated from The Ring, for a future purpose only Sauron knew..
Don't do the next watch party early, I agree. What fun this was. Learned many new things. I usually triple time thru the slash/war scenes, so this is the first time letting them run normally. Not my favorite scenes. I'll take more Lorien.
This was such a treat. Luckily, I've seen this movie so many times, I didn't need to play it alongside; I just listened to the commentary and played it in my head 😂 Major props for organizing this! Zoom calls are hard to pull off but this was very well put together. Also shout outs to Mithrandir who really wanted to participate in the commentary too 🐈
As a sound engineer, it is nearly insufferable every time Clifford starts speaking on this stream. I am perfectly fine with his commentary and presence, it's just that his mic is literally peaking out, distorted and much louder than Matt and Yoystan. I'm binging through NOTR's complete video library so hopefully this has been addressed in more recent uploads. I love you guys so fkn much, thank you for providing me with such great Tolkien content, your uploads always make my day.
Definitely remember my eyes going wide in the dark the the first seconds that prologue started and instantly realizing I was about to have an amazing next 3 hours…. But the worst part about seeing this in the theater was when the 3 hours were up and the 24 month clock started for the full set…
I’m one of those people who prefer the change of Frodo choosing to take the Ring to Mordor over the book’s version of him doing it because it was in a prophecy. I personally think it adds to his character and him realizing the danger, what would happen if the Ring isn’t destroyed, despite him not knowing anything and wanting nothing more than to return to the Shire. I’m kinda the same way with Clarice in the Silence of the Lambs movie over the book.
Clifford going on long (and borderline unrelated to the movie at some points) monologues throughout this whole thing while also having by far the loudest mic volume gets tedious after a while :D Other than that this was amazing. Balancing out the mic volumes before starting would be the easiest and biggest improvement for this concept. Thanks for putting it together! Much love to all involved.
It would make sense that the scenes of Bilbo finding the ring would look different in the two films. One was told from the perspective of Frodo and the other from Bilbo. Frodo probably pictured his Uncle looking a little different than his uncle pictured himself :)
Personally my first experience with Tolkien was the Hobbit cartoon. I loved the art and music. I also enjoyed the other two cartoons that were made for LOTR. The Peter Jackson movies were good, but I'll always prefer the cartoons. Gollum in the Hobbit movie was outstanding IMO. I grew up in the 80s and 90s which both had lots of fun fantasy cartoons and movies. I feel fortunate for that.
Great party. As a suggestion for next the next time, please equalize the volume of the participants sound if possible. May not be possible in real time, but for those of us watching later it would be helpful. I'd be willing to donate for the cost of the effort, yes I know that it would be more than nominal.
just putting this out in the aether: if i win the lotto (something i basically never play), i WILL be building my own hobbit home. but no well wishers or distant relations!
Interested to hear thoughts on how Peter Jackson ruined certain key characters. Exhibit A: Faramir. In the book he is not a people pleaser. One of the absolute low lights of the films, IMO, is in Two Towers when he discovers the ring and decides to take Frodo to his father. This is a terrible slight on the character of Faramir from my perspective. Keen to hear other thoughts on this. Exhibit B: Gandalf is portrayed as a relative simpleton in comparison to Saruman. The whole meeting at Orthamc that is shown just before Gandalf is imprisoned is totally opposite to what is shown in both LOTR and other Tolkien literature. Exhibit C: Gandalf vs The Witch King. The book doesn't have a confrontational as such - the WK leaves upon hearing the horns of Rohan. The movie portrayal of Gandalf being blown off his horse and his staff disintegrated is rubbish.
Me: *During last year* I want most of the Tolkien UA-camrs to do a reading of any moment of Tolkien's Works... Nerd of the Rings: *Have an amount of Tolkien UA-camrs together* What about having a watch party for LOTR FOTR 20th anniversary?!!! Me: That's Better!!!
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Happy 20th Anniversary to the greatest trilogy to have ever been made.
THATS WHAT IM SAYEN!!!!!!
Lord of the Rings is the number 1 trilly
Trilogy?! More like greatest MOVIES ever made!!
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Only the most wonderful movies the world ever produced, and will produce. Happy Anniversary LOTR
I was in the theater 20 years ago today watching this with my family when I was 9. I fell in love with the movies and the story and ritually watch them every X-mas. Here's to the start of the next rewatch. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Cheers!
Matt thank you so much for your channel. Following along with this was such a treat that I would never have been able to appreciate if not for all your Tolkien explained videos during this pandemic! I have such a fascination with the history of this world that I had no idea about before hand. I've seen all the movies and played LOTRO but now my love for the movies and the game is an obsession thanks to your videos. All the references in this watch-party are little nuggets that would have gone right over my head just a few months ago!
Happy 20th anniversary Fellowship of the Ring!!! Thank you Nerd of the Rings!!! I hope you will do this next year with the Two Towers!!!
This watch along stream was such a delight, thanks to all. Plus the facts/titbits sprinkled in were ace!
I was 16 when lotr came out! What an cinematic experience! Happy Anniversary!
I had never been so amazed and floored by a movie in a theater. I must have gone back and watched it a half dozen more times. They really, really did do such an amazing job.
It is amazing that it has been 20 years. I discovered Tolkien and Middle Earth. While in college. Having them on screen was such a joy. Seeing people's reaction to them was so much fun.
That was so fun @NerdoftheRings! Thanks for having us on and doing this awesome Watch Party!
Thanks so much for leaving this up as a video. I was so excited to watch with you live, but I had to work that night.
Love this! I watch with you all every time now. Its Tradition, thanks for being a big fan like me Matt and chat!!
i was 10 years old !! Happy 20th anniversary to the best trilogy ever made.
i can’t believe i was 12 when this came out. sometimes it still feels like yesterday… just goes to show timeless this trilogy is…
If that's you in your pfp you still look like a young teen! Pretty crazy
@@Cian._. haha yes that’s me! taken 3 years ago though, and i’m 32 now 😂
@@shareetz3154 still crazy! I think you look younger than me and I'm 20!
I was 9, and I am still always amazed at how long ago it was.
I was 12 too. I'm from Argentina. Here we don't have (culturally) this level of bound to a history even if it is fictional, not to mention that we don't celebrate what comes around consequently of that richness that a written play brings: music, events like this one, theatre versions with live music, and so on. But I guess when it went globally through movies it gathered us fans from every corner on the planet and create our own Comunity. 20 years later we keep sharing our love for JRRT
I love how I can listen to you guys without actually watching the movie, yet, I 100% see every scene as you describe these extra things. What a nice idea it was to do that. The only bad thing is I put that video to fall asleep and here I am at 2 am, fully awake and just wanting to hear you commenting Two Towers next!
I was 50 years old when I saw Fellowship in the movie theater....I saw each one when it came out in the theaters. I went to Return of the King twice in 3 days
You guys put a big smile on my face. Eveybody was talking about the movie at work this mornin.
I was 12 when the fellowship came to the theaters. Saw it 5 times. My parents were furious and it changed my life.
Best movie series of all time!!
I just rewatched the whole extended trilogy. I cry multiple times every time. Such great movies!
Happy 20th anniversary. It was overwhelming to watch the movie with you guys. Always get these goosebumps every time I watch them. Peter Jackson's Direction and Howard Shore Score is evergreen.
Thanks for answering my question during the stream :-) loved watching along with it
When I was in fifth grade, our reading textbook had the first chapter of the hobbit in it. When I read it, I had to have more, so i went to the neighborhood bookstore, and bought the hobbit in paperback , I read it several times before finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the same store. I read them so many times. That was all before the cartoon of the Hobbit came out. I loved that movie. My father bought the vinyl album of the Hobbit soundtrack with the movie and music just like watching the movie. This was before VCR tapes. When I was able I bought the VCR tape of the hobbit, and then the Lord of the Rings cartoon. I have always loved these books and movies.
This brought me so much joy. Thank you for everything that you do Matt! Aloha, from Big Island of Hawaii 😀
I actually just watched this again ..love all the insight and bits of knowledge! Never gets old.
This was such a great time! UA-cam pulled up this video just as I happen to be watching FOTR lol
Just found this channel, I wish I had known about it and joined yesterday ☹, anyway Happy 20th Anniversary to everybody! 😊
This is awesome! Can't wait for the two towers and return of the king watch party!
The sound effect of that ring hitting the floor was absolutely amazing it sounded like it weighed like 1000 lbs Bilbo sounded like a different person immediately after just the way this movie tries to let you know the actual weight of htis ring is amazing with the score. Keep up the good work guys.
Happy 20th to The Lord of The Rings Trilogy!!
This was so much fun. Thank you!
im 21 minutes into this and have watched the movies more then 100 times and I have learned literally 20 new things so far
I am from Germany and I am always recommending the „prancing pony Podcast“ to my friends.
Brings me back to simpler times good memories
love what your doing brothers!
I started about ten minutes after you, so I couldn’t watch it with you guys. Even then, I would’ve been desynced (or however you spell it) because I had to switch discs after Pippin says “So where are we going?” But I still had a great time. These movies have barely aged in the last twenty years.
I had my mom paint my walls and ceiling Lord of the Rings themes when I was a kid.
She even did 2 little double wooden drawers/boxes for me! Painted a whole Eye of Sauron on my wall, my dad got me a life size version of Narsil for my 14th(still have it, 8 years later).
I am in love with this series, it is absolutely breathtaking that a single man could encapsulate so much lore, story and depth with his literature.
By the way, Clifford I believe Bilbo and Frodo are cousins! Not Uncle/Nephew! Correct me if I’m wrong but I think I read it in the first book.
This masterpiece turned 20 on my birthday!
Man of the west is young thunder cat lol I remember watching Fellowship in theaters. Epic
wish i could've joined this but excited to see the replay! i was at a screening of The Shop Around The Corner. Maybe there'll be more screenings of LOTR?? 🥰
I wish I had known about it too. I wonder the same, hopefully there'll be other in the future.
I was 16 when LOTR came out in theatres. Great experience!!!
i wore my Gandalf Wizard hat. Smoked a lot of the finest bud in the shire. Too much fun. Thanx guys.
TY. I luv u gy's
I am listening to the 2nd half tonight Dec 26, 2021 and loving it!!!!
i wish i had noticed this, definitely gonna watch this next time watching
20th Anniversary!!!! OMG! I feel OLD!
Howard Shore uses leitmotif, a musical theme related to Gondor in this instance when Boromir speaks. The Leitmotif was developed in the Wagnerian Ring Cycle...and Wagner's last opera Parsifal.
i need the next two and then the hobbit series from you guys!! loved this
Just finished the trilogy for the 15th time yesterday, love em. Just started reading the silmarillion.
You guys should watch the Sovjet LOTR together!!! And upload it for us on YT
This is great ,i went on all 6 movies PREMIERE ofc )))
Would you believe I was scared of these movies as a kid? 10 years later I started reading and watching again and now I’m a lore nut! Best movies ever made!
PROUDFEET!!!!
I had a baby on December 19th, 2002. My sister and her boyfriend stopped to visit at the hospital after they went to the premiere of the Two Towers. 🤣
Bummer I got myself all excited thinking I was gonna be able to watch the movies 😂
50:00 the theory that suits me for how Gollum didn't age even tho he had it longer time than Bilbo but was also separated from it, was because Sauron personally tortured Gollum himself to get info and it says in the extra texts that Gollum saw the black hand of Sauron having a finger lost - and it is sugested that since Sauron let Gollum go, he might have made a bargain with Gollum to keep him still living long life even tho they both were now seperated from The Ring, for a future purpose only Sauron knew..
Don't do the next watch party early, I agree. What fun this was. Learned many new things. I usually triple time thru the slash/war scenes, so this is the first time letting them run normally. Not my favorite scenes. I'll take more Lorien.
Lots of young people I was 18 make me feel old
Woh Voice of the Rings is on! 3hours 6 minutes!
This was such a treat. Luckily, I've seen this movie so many times, I didn't need to play it alongside; I just listened to the commentary and played it in my head 😂
Major props for organizing this! Zoom calls are hard to pull off but this was very well put together. Also shout outs to Mithrandir who really wanted to participate in the commentary too 🐈
This was awesome
My fourth grade teacher Mr. Gonzalez read the class the Hobbit and it’s been history since 😂
As a sound engineer, it is nearly insufferable every time Clifford starts speaking on this stream. I am perfectly fine with his commentary and presence, it's just that his mic is literally peaking out, distorted and much louder than Matt and Yoystan. I'm binging through NOTR's complete video library so hopefully this has been addressed in more recent uploads. I love you guys so fkn much, thank you for providing me with such great Tolkien content, your uploads always make my day.
I know it's so hard to listen because of that.
Cool stuff love the cats in the background lol
I was brought here by Voice of the Rings!
I started my Tolkien journey by reading Silmarillion in 1983.
I found this channel by voice of the rings. :)
The lord of the rings 😍😍😍😍😍😍
The movie's I do wish to see in theaters original star wars and Indiana Jones trilogies
My Dad use to read me the the Hobbit.
Its pretty cool that later in life i helped build Park Road Post Production.
Definitely remember my eyes going wide in the dark the the first seconds that prologue started and instantly realizing I was about to have an amazing next 3 hours…. But the worst part about seeing this in the theater was when the 3 hours were up and the 24 month clock started for the full set…
Loved these ✌️👍
He said he was two years old when the fellowship came out. Damn that makes me feel old I was in high school.
I watched each one in the theaters. Am I old...
Was hoping to see In Deep Geek in your fellowship. Between this channel and his i get tons of great LOTR lore and what if’s.
I’ll definitely invite him next time! I was focused on my US friends this go-round because I knew it would be really late for my Europe friends!
Thanks for uploading the video. It seems that film franchise has forgotten to celebrate the anniversary
I’m one of those people who prefer the change of Frodo choosing to take the Ring to Mordor over the book’s version of him doing it because it was in a prophecy. I personally think it adds to his character and him realizing the danger, what would happen if the Ring isn’t destroyed, despite him not knowing anything and wanting nothing more than to return to the Shire.
I’m kinda the same way with Clarice in the Silence of the Lambs movie over the book.
Clifford going on long (and borderline unrelated to the movie at some points) monologues throughout this whole thing while also having by far the loudest mic volume gets tedious after a while :D Other than that this was amazing. Balancing out the mic volumes before starting would be the easiest and biggest improvement for this concept. Thanks for putting it together! Much love to all involved.
I wish the ring had never come to me. So do all who live to see such time. But that is not for them to decide.
Harry Goatleaf is played by Martyn Sanderson, gatekeeper of Bree
I wish I had been able to take part in this. Maybe you'll do it again next year, eh?
Two Towers is already on my calendar! 😊
It would make sense that the scenes of Bilbo finding the ring would look different in the two films. One was told from the perspective of Frodo and the other from Bilbo. Frodo probably pictured his Uncle looking a little different than his uncle pictured himself :)
i was a senior in HS and I took a girl.. we held hands a lot :)))))))
It's over a year later, and I'm starting my watch party streaming 😅 🍿
Nooooo, I can not believe I miss it.
Are you gonna do that again?
Could you make a video on the sun and moon of middle earth?
My 20th anniversary watch party didn't have this kind of commentary, but there's always next year!
I'm so sorry I missed it!!!!!!!
In the Heights meets the Hobbit.... I DIG IT!
Can we expect another Watch Party for the Two Towers Extended Edition?
Will this stay up? I'm at work rn and I don't get home for another 30 min :(
Certainly! It isn’t going anywhere. 😁
Personally my first experience with Tolkien was the Hobbit cartoon. I loved the art and music. I also enjoyed the other two cartoons that were made for LOTR. The Peter Jackson movies were good, but I'll always prefer the cartoons. Gollum in the Hobbit movie was outstanding IMO. I grew up in the 80s and 90s which both had lots of fun fantasy cartoons and movies. I feel fortunate for that.
Love that the cat wants attention 😻
Hey mate, are you still in the UK? Fellowship being show in cinemas tonight in the UK!
Great party. As a suggestion for next the next time, please equalize the volume of the participants sound if possible. May not be possible in real time, but for those of us watching later it would be helpful. I'd be willing to donate for the cost of the effort, yes I know that it would be more than nominal.
just putting this out in the aether: if i win the lotto (something i basically never play), i WILL be building my own hobbit home. but no well wishers or distant relations!
Love the movie
Sauron may be a king of weather,, but he's nowhere as powerful as Overlord Meow at 3:36:00.
ARagorn puts on Boromir's gaunlets
Interested to hear thoughts on how Peter Jackson ruined certain key characters.
Exhibit A: Faramir. In the book he is not a people pleaser. One of the absolute low lights of the films, IMO, is in Two Towers when he discovers the ring and decides to take Frodo to his father. This is a terrible slight on the character of Faramir from my perspective. Keen to hear other thoughts on this.
Exhibit B: Gandalf is portrayed as a relative simpleton in comparison to Saruman. The whole meeting at Orthamc that is shown just before Gandalf is imprisoned is totally opposite to what is shown in both LOTR and other Tolkien literature.
Exhibit C: Gandalf vs The Witch King.
The book doesn't have a confrontational as such - the WK leaves upon hearing the horns of Rohan. The movie portrayal of Gandalf being blown off his horse and his staff disintegrated is rubbish.
Music ends with 2 D Major Chords...pastoral key
Man I missed it. Well I guess there’s the Two Towers 20th anniversary
Me: *During last year* I want most of the Tolkien UA-camrs to do a reading of any moment of Tolkien's Works...
Nerd of the Rings: *Have an amount of Tolkien UA-camrs together* What about having a watch party for LOTR FOTR 20th anniversary?!!!
Me: That's Better!!!