The One Ring works by tempting people. Boromir was easily tempted, not because he was evil or power hungry, but because he was desperate to ensure the safety of his people. Since he believed (or at least hoped) that the Ring could be used to protect Gondor, he was an easy target for the Ring to influence. Conversely, Frodo is much more difficult to tempt, because he was perfectly content with his life before the Ring, and he really didn't want anything that the Ring could offer him. It's harder to influence and manipulate someone without any easy levers to pull on, like Boromir's fear for his country.
Right. As Galadriel explained, "one by one, it will consume them all." Boromir was just the first, because he's under the most stress, not because he is inherently weaker than the others. His home city of Minas Tirith is on the front lines - directly across the river from Mordor.
Boromir was arguably the best swordsman around - even better than Aragorn. In the books, it specifies that the Uruk-hai had to turn to archery to bring him down because anyone who came within blade’s reach of Boromir was slain. He was such a good, complex character who cared deeply for his people and the hobbits.
Nailed it! The ring targets someone’s strongest points (Boromir’s determination to protect others) and turns it into their weakness… Hence why the more powerful people like Gandalf won’t even dare to touch the ring.
“Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? One day our paths will lead us there, and the tower guard will take up the call: The Lords of Gondor have returned.”
To answer your outro questions: 1. In the movies Bilbo ages super quickly. In the books Frodo has the ring for 17 years before he sets out. He doesn't know it is THE ring for a long time, and then he has to find some way to leave the country without raising suspicious. Also, by that point sam, merry, and pippin all know exactly what is going on and plan their own departures without frodos knowledge. So by the time Frodo meets Bilbo again he has aged to 128... But he stopped aging around 50 so it is a sprint to old age nonetheless! 2. Gandalf did indeed die. 3. The ring is the presence of sauron. There are some nuances you'll pick up to that reality, but at this point seeing that the ring is sauron and is the main villain of the story is enough to be getting on with for now. Enjoy the next ones!
The Ring can be described as a horcrux with even more power in itself (but i think it is a good was to describe for someone familiär wichtig Harry Potter... 'horcrux on steroids'
It has been hundreds of years since a dwarf has set foot in her lands, and there has always been an uneasy rivalry between the two races, with much history and bad blood behind it. So when she gives him the chance to pick a gift, anything that his heart desires, this is a true honor indeed. And perhaps, thanks to her powers of foresight, she already knows what he will ask, and it is because he asks for something so modest, so sweet, that she is happy to bestow it. But the three golden hairs that Galadriel gifts Gimli at his behest have far more significance than their just being very pure and innocent requests, rather than all the gold or power or wisdom he could have asked for. Any fans who have read the Silmarillion will know that Feanor, one of the greatest elves, and most amazing crafters of the world had made a similar request of the golden lady thousands of years earlier. Feanor was so inspired by Galadriel’s grace and beauty, that he wished to use strands of her hair in the making of his three Silmarils, the most precious gems ever created in Middle Earth. He begged her three times for a single strand of her hair, but even though she was young and inexperienced at this point, she looked into his soul and saw that his intentions were not fair and benevolent, but were driven by greed and a desire to possess something more precious than the other elves of the time. She, therefore, refused his request, causing much wrath and anguish, and he was forced to find other precious substances to infuse into his gems. It is incredible then, that Galadriel would give this gift to Gimli. Her husband Celeborn is the only other being in all of her many long years who has been able to so much as touch the golden strands of hair on her head, let alone pluck them out and keep them. So when she allows this incredible rarity to Gimli, she essentially gives him the three hairs that Feanor demanded of her, because she has looked into his soul and found that he has a good heart and that he desires them for nothing more than to treasure the beautiful days he spent in her lands. Here, she finds a dwarf who is worthy of ending the hundreds of years-long rivalry between their races, who proves that a dwarf can be loyal and brave, and all of the amazing qualities that Gimli shows, despite so many of his people simply being greedy and power-hungry.
Very good summary! One additional point is that carrying a lock of a loved-one's hair was a common way to feel connected to them while away before photographs were common. For people of Tolkien's time this would have been seen as an old-fashioned sweet tradition.
Additional lore dump: The significance of the gift lies in that there once was an elven craftsmen, the greatest of the elven craftsmen who was corrupted by greed. He asked her for a hair three times, and each time she denied him because she knew his motives to be evil. So when Gimli asks for just one, she gives him the three denied to the craftsmen, because she knows Gimli's intentions to be pure. He encases them in crystal to be a permanent symbol of friendship between dwarves and elves
@@isaaco5679 even though Tolkien was always inconsistent with how orc were made, in every iteration he says they either come from corrupted elves or men.
@@oddish3022 Agreed. Thank God that Tolkien (and Christopher) put out enough material or commented enough on the books to dispel any would be professors from inventing false theroies. Isaaco5679 is commenting on ClarkRowland's post and probably doesn't even know who Feanor is. SMH.
@@isaaco5679 Tolkien said everything that needed to be said to dispel any theories. Read "The Histories of Middle Earth", all 12 volumes, and hit me back.
A New Zealander here that lives 30 minutes from Hobbiton. The credits are so long as Peter Jackson wanted to give credit to as many people as possible, when the Movies were made New Zealand had a population of just over 4 million & it is said that nearly half of New Zealanders were directly or indirectly involved in making these moves. It you read the list you can see families of 5 & 6 people listed, grandparents, parents & children. What I love about these movies is that Peter Jackson made them as a passion project & it shows. DYing for the next one & so happy you are watching the extended versions as you get a lot more of the backstory/info.
One thing I love about these movies is the complex characters. People are never full on “good” or “bad”. Rather we all have good traits and bad traits. The one ring seems to bring the worst out of people. We see it with Boromir, he is an honourable man with honourable intentions, but sadly the ring played on his waning faith and lead him to a moment of weakness he later regretted. However he realized that and fought to the end to redeem himself, showing the good in him
Ages at Bilbo’s birthday party (obviously for filming purposes, Pippen’s age was off): Frodo - 33 (the hobbit equivalent of human’s 21) Sam - 21 (basically a teen for a hobbit) Merry - 19 Pippen - 11 (though he was portrayed in the movie as being more like a single year younger than Merry) Bilbo - 111 Ages of the hobbits when they meet Bilbo at Rivendell: Frodo: 50 (he left the day after his birthday) Sam: 38 Merry: 36 Pippen: 28 (still basically a teenager for a hobbit) Bilbo: 128
When the credits ran in theaters, Enya's "Let it Be" song played and really captured the mood of the cliffhanger. It's covered a lot by many artists, check it out.
Context without spoils : 1) Sauron HAS a physical form by the time the events take place. When he lost his Ring and was defeated, 3000 years prior, his body was destroyed. It took him about 2000 years to regain a body and start gathering slaves again. Think of Voldemort and his Horcruxes. He’s not as powerful as he once was because he’s poured part of himself in the Ring. The reason he must NOT get it back is because the Elves and the other free folks are much weaker and divided by that point, and they can’t defeat him a second time. 2) Seventeen years passed between Bilbo’s farewell party and Frodo fleeing the Shire, hence why age suddenly caught up with the old Hobbit. Nothing significant happened in those 17 years (except Gollum was tortured and revealed everything, remember the scene?). So it was cut out of the movies.
Good Guys ---------------------- Gandalf - Ainur (Gray Wizard) Frodo, Samwise (Sam), Meriadoc (Merry), Pippen - Hobbits (Frodo is related to Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit in 'The Hobbit'. Finder of the One Ring. Aragorn (Strider) - Dúnedain (A race of Humans) (Ranger/Heir to throne of Gondor) Boromir - Human (Son of the Steward of the throne of Gondor) Gimli - Dwarf (Son of Gloin, You'll find out more about dwarves in The Hobbit) Legolas - Elf (Son of King of Mirkwood forest) Elrond - Elf (Lord of Rivendell, Father of Arwen) Arwen - Elf (Aragorn's love) Bad Guys ----------------- Saruman - Ainur (White Wizard, Lord of Isengard, Was corrupted and then betrayed good guys) Sauron - The Dark Lord of Mordor (maker of the One Ring) (his history is complex) Ring Wraiths - Former Human Men (The nine rings that were given to men and corrupted them into the wraiths) Uruk-hai - Created by Sauron. Cross breed of Orcs and Goblins. Orcs - At Isengard and Mordor mostly atm. Goblins - You saw a lot of these in Moria. Troll - You saw the 'Cave' variety in Moria with the Goblins. Other --------- Gollum/Smeagol - River Folk (cousin to Hobbits) - Corrupted over many years by the ring. Lost it to Bilbo Baggins during the adventure of 'The Hobbit' Places ------------- Shire - Home of the Hobbits Moria - Mines/City that belonged to the dwarves. They dug too deep and woke up the Balrog. Combined with goblins, they were killed. Rivendell - Home of Elrond. Father of Arwen Minas Tirith (The White City) - Capital city of Gondor (mentioned briefly by Aragon to Boromir during his death) Isengard - Home of Saruman Mordor - Home of Sauron. Location of Mount Doom where the ring was forged (and only place it can be destroyed). Here's something that might help. I probably missed a few things. There's also more to come in the second & third movies.
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: 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.” I always like to give context of those lines to younger viewers. LotR:FotR was released in Dec 2001, barely three months after the 9/11 attacks. Everyone was still waiting for the next shoe to drop and collectively felt the same as Frodo, that none of this had happened. The comforting wisdom of Gandalf, written by Tolkien from the lessons of WWI and WWII, provided the audience with a cathartic release and a feeling that just maybe do have a say in what’s to be done with the time given to us.
The Lord of the Rings Fan Club was everyone who contributed financial support to the creation of the film. Kind of like Kickstarter before there was such a thing. It's my understanding that Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the Royal Family chipped in several million (dollars, pounds, euro, something) to help get the studio to support the making of all three films at the same time - an unheard of thing in that era. The shoot of principle photography for the three films ran 417 days in a row.
Boromir was also the most kind to Merry and Pippin...in case no one noticed. Boromir was my 2nd favorite after Gandalf. He's hands down the most human and had the most understandable motivations...as you will see.
Be patient with the hobbits. They’re not a combat minded people. They live very simple lives that doesn’t require fighting. Hence why they showed Boromir giving Merry and Pippin some basic sword lessons. They’ll have a very serious and deep devotion to their friends, hence why all three of Frodo’s refused to be left out of the journey. Not for the adventure and the fight, but for him. So they’re not exactly gonna be the best of fighters, but they will try to help if they believe they can. Others have already pointed out the lore about Gimli and Galadriel’s 3 hairs, but I also saw that it was war time thing, since Tolkein fought in ww1. Soldiers kept strands of hair from their wives. And it’s also not uncommon for people to keep locks of hair of their loved ones in general Ron Weasley, and everyone honestly, WISHES he could be Sam! Yes, the eye is Sauron manifested after the loss of his physical body and it’s him talking to Frodo. Part of his spirit is in the ring. I’m surprised you still didn’t understand the Bilbo age thing after watching it again. The Ring prolongs the life of whoever keeps it, delaying old age, so once he was parted from it, age caught up to him. Although there is one thing from the books, but it might not be intended to be the same in the films. When Gandalf leaves the shire to do his research on the Ring, he’s gone for 15 years.
There are both orcs AND goblins running around. In the books they both exist, but they're not properly differentiated. So they're kinda treated as synonymous. The movies treat the goblins as the smaller spider-climbing ones (seen mostly in Moria), the orcs as the regular human-sized ones (most of the orcs seen everywhere), and the huge Uruk-Hai (In the books they are simply the largest most powerful breed of orcs, but in the movies they're half orc and either half human or half goblin. It's not clear.)
In the books, Goblin and Orc *are* synonyms, simply being nouns from different languages to describe the same thing. Goblin is what Hobbits call Orcs, and Orc is was Elves call Goblins.
One of the more INSANE bits of trivia about these movies is that when Lurtz (the huge Uruk-Hai "final boss" guy) throws that big knife at Aragorn, and Aragorn deflects it with his sword.....that was 100% real. Lurtz' actor was supposed to throw it a different direction so it LOOKED like it was flying at Aragorn, but the two of them kept training for it over and over and over and over til he was essentially throwing the knife right at Viggo Mortensen, and Mortensen blocked it for real. There is TONS of Viggo lore for the making of these movies. Like the costuming for these movies was basically unrivalled by anything ever. Weta Workshop made THOUSANDS of suits of ringmail armor (using PVC rings for lightness) to armor all the orcs and everyone else. Countless different orc and goblin and Urik-Hai mask sculpts and prosthetics, etc. And for the more important characters.....the costume were COMPLETE. Like they made the underwear, the the first layer of clothing, the over layer, the armor, the gear, everything. And they didn't half-ass it. Like they had vests that you NEVER SEE because they're worn under other stuff fully embroidered with hyper elaborate elvish or royal designs. And then Viggo Mortensen, being the hyper-dedicated legendary maniac that he is, took it all SO MANY steps further, and LIVED IN his gear as if he were really Aragorn. He'd wander off into the woods in costume, when he had to go to a new shooting location....he'd just hike there in full costume, he'd sleep in Aragorn's gear, he'd hand wash it himself in the river, when it got torn he'd stitch it back together himself with a needle and thread, etc. He has probably the most authentic possible costume EVER for a fictional character. It's nuts. I know you do prop stuff, so when I say....if you ever somehow get a chance to see Lord Of The Rings props and costumes, jump on that opportunity. I got to see an exhibition of all of the main costumes and props, and they are absolutely INCREDIBLE. I'm a pretty well-traveled museum and castle nerd (in the US, the Louvre, and all over Germany), so I've seen a LOT of real medieval weapons and armor. And it's CRAZY how real the Lord Of The Rings stuff seems.
In your second outro, you ask about the timeline. In the books, after Bilbo leaves the Shire, it is 17 years before Frodo leaves on his adventure. It took Gandalf that long to find the information he was looking for.
To help you out here, I have read the books in my childhood. You asked a question about how Bilbo aged so much. After he left his party and left the ring behind, Frodo comes home to find it and has a conversation with Gandalf. Gandalf decides he’s going to leave and do some research on the ring. He then returns to Frodo in a panic state when he realizes what the ring is. It makes it look like not much time has passed in the movie when in actuality Gandalf was gone for 17 years researching and finding information on the ring. So when you see Bilbo again, it has been 17 years. He also doesn’t have the ring anymore, which was slowing down his ageing process. Hope this helps with your question. I think I’ve got that right although it has been several decades since I’ve read Lord of the rings.
He didn't spend all that time researching the ring. He also was looking for Gollum and doing other things. Read the book for all the details - and there are a LOT of them!
He died early in Game of Thrones as well. There was a running joke about the roles he was playing. We watched the movies in the theaters. Great experiences and memories.
The series of films beginning with Sharpe's Rifles is one of Sean Bean's earlier works. He plays a soldier in the English army in the Napoleonic wars and he survives (barely) through over a dozen episodes though he takes a beating in each and every one.
I was there, 3000 years ago when the movies were first released. I can remember the feeling of awe as the credits rolled on the first movie. It was like no movie watching experience I had before or since. And I had read the books as a kid so the story probably did not hit me as hard as many others in the theater.
I was there the day the strength of Peter Jackson failed. "You must destroy it! Throw The Hobbit into the fire! Not an actual hobbit of course. The movie of that name!" "No."
Hobbits make good ring bearers for a couple of reasons. As you noticed when you saw Hobbiton, they really don’t aspire to have power or possess much greed. They like things the way they are in their homeland and can take life pretty easy. They’re also not magically powerful, like elves or wizards, so The One Ring sees little use in them other than to try and push them to use it in order to be found. Finally, the timeline of Bilbo having The Ring isn’t well covered in this movie, but he went on his adventure and came across it when he was 50 or so, and he gave it up when he was 111 with a little nudging from Gandalf. It took that long to get its hooks into him, and part of that was how far from Mordor he was and how weak Sauron himself was. The power of The Ring seems largely related to how close to Mordor it is, the place where it was made. As it gets closer, it will grow stronger.
The Ring _is_ affecting Frodo, but it is working more slowly because he is not power-hungry. Anyone who comes in contact with it will, sooner or later, come under its spell. But Frodo was "the chosen one" because it worked more slowly on him -- he had the best chance of fulfilling the mission. But he does increasingly become affected by the Ring as the story goes on. Oh, and Sauron is the big Eye that we keep seeing when Frodo puts on the Ring.
37:55 saurons main thing in this is that he has a strong power to corrupt. like in the intro when galadriel described the ring she said "and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice.. bla bla". thats what the ring does.. it brings you to darkness, makes you lose hope, desperate, all the negatives, then corrupts you to do saurons bidding.
Galadriel, it should be noted, is one of the Ringbearers. THAT'S part of why she's so powerful, and why offering her the One Ring is so dangerous. She ALREADY possesses one of the 3 elven Rings Of Power. That's why she appears in the opening montage. She's the bearer of Nenya, the White Ring, the Ring Of Water. That's why she's such an important character for Frodo to meet, ESPECIALLY after losing Gandalf - because she's one of the VERY VERY few other Ringbearers who has experience and can offer advice to Frodo on how he might handle the burden of the One Ring. And yes, she's the narrator. Galadriel's main purpose as the narrator comes from her gift of sight - her borderline omniscience, as well as her ancient age. She has already witnessed so much history, sees the present more clearly than any, AND sees possible futures. So she's the character most naturally capable of taking on the omniscient narrator role. It should be noted that Gandalf was ALSO a Ringbearer. He inherited Narya, the Elven Ring Of Fire from its previous owner. Galadriel's ring, Nenya's power was preservation and concealment from evil. Galadriel used these powers to create and sustain Lothlórien, her glorious elven realm. As the Ring Of Water, it's PROBABLY somehow connected to Galadriel's ability to turn water into a way to view possible futures, and LIKELY somehow related to her ability to bottle starlight within water. Gandalf's ring, Narya, was described as having the power to inspire others to resist tyranny, domination and despair, as well as having the power (in common with the other three Elven Rings) to hide the wielder from remote observation (except by the wielder of the One) and giving resistance to the weariness of time. It is also thought to have other magical properties and fire powers, as when fighting Durin's Bane (the Balrog of Moria), Gandalf claimed to wield the Flame Of Anor. But, for both Galadriel and Gandalf, it's hard to tell where their sorceress/wizard powers stop and the powers of the Elven Rings begin. 🤷♂
Billbo was kept young by the ring. Once he gave up the ring to Frodo, he aged to what he shoudl have been. If I recall correctly, there was a comment at the beginning that he was unexpectedly young. Glad that you have the various names sorted out. There's going to be more characters to meet! The Two Towers won the 2003 Oscar/Academy Awards for Best Picture.
Goblins are a type of Orc, the smallest. They mostly live in the misty mountains. There are other types , like Uruk and Snaga, which are larger and smaller Mordor orcs. Saruman bread a race of half-orcs, the Uruk Hai, which are half goblins and half men.
The reason Frodo was not as affected by the ring as others, is because the more powerful someone already is, the more powerfully the ring can tempt them. Galadriel was actually surprised she could wrench herself away from the temptation of the ring.
Regarding your two questions at the end, the flaming Eye is meant to be Sauron in spirit form, without a body, so it's not just a vision of him from within the One Ring itself. In the books Sauron does actually have a body, which his spirit rebuilt over centuries since his last defeat. Sauron, Gandalf, Saruman and the Balrog are actually divine beings of the same order (though differing power), incarnated in different physical forms. As for Bilbo aging, you guessed almost right that it's been nearly 20 years (just over 17 to be exact) since he left the Shire to go and stay with the elves, and Gandalf returning to Frodo to confirm he has the One Ring and set him on his quest. In the books Bilbo doesn't seem to be aging as much (similarly to how Gollum has been alive for decades even without having the Ring), but I guess for the the movie they wanted to show it differently. What really happens is once someone doesn't have the Ring, they just start aging normally again. Gollum was imbued with so much corruption from the Ring after having it for over 500 years, that his aging process isn't really normal anymore, but Bilbo simply aged an additional 17 years, on top of his original 51 that he was when he found the Ring (his adventure is covered in the Hobbit book and movie trilogy).
"I don't know if this guy is good or not. I'm saying it again. Something about him feels off, but I don't know." Boromir does his best. Like all men of Middle Earth, he's tempted by power and has a desire to defend his homeland.
And that desire is what gives The Ring an opening to tempt him. As Gandalf said when refusing The Ring: "I would use this ring from a desire to do good..."
Yes. As others have said, there is like 17 or 18 (book) years between when bilbo leaves and when we see him again. They don't really show that in the films well. It takes a while to figure out what ring it is.
The ring affects everyone (with one exception that is not mentioned in the movies). But some are more affected than others probably based on their own desires and ambitions. Sauron put a great deal of himself into the ring, part of his soul or life force or whatever you want to call it. If the ring is actually sentient or not is something that is still debated among fans.
Both Gandalf and Galadriel are powerful in their own right ( especially Galadriel). If their power was added to the ring's power and they were then corrupted, they would end up as another Sauron, more or less. When Galadriel says "I passed the test and will remain Galadriel", she meant that she was able to resist the ring's temptation and would literally remain as Galadriel , and not become an evil queen.
how they named the locations just sound so cool. Lothlórien, Moria (khazad-dum), Caradhras.. so many more... and then there's saurons area.. called Mt. Doom. so unimaginative 😂
I read J.R.R. Tolkien's series, "The Hobbit" and the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" in 1973 which should be read (or the movies seen) in that order. Although the trilogy tries to explain the history, "The Hobbit" begins the entire adventure.
@@BileDuctBalderdash It is and it is incredible but I wouldn't recommend reading it before The LOTR or The Hobbit. It's *very* dense in detailed information and basically requires you to have the map of Beleriand and the character list next to you to not get lost reading it for the first time. That being said, after The LOTR The Children of Húrin is my favorite book by Tokien (maybe overall). It's such an insanely gripping and tragic story, I cannot recommend it enough (also keep a map of Beleriand ready for this one haha).
A horcrux is a great comparison, for anyone familiar with Harry Potter. The first time I watched Harry Potter and heard the explanation of a horcrux, I immediately thought, "Oh, so it's like Sauron and his ring." There are some differences in the details of course, but the basic idea is the same. I don't know if J.K. Rowling got the idea directly from Lord of the Rings, but she was certainly influenced by the modern fantasy genre that traces its roots back to Tolkien.
@@toddhadley9002 lol more like she shamelessly ripped whole characters and dozens of concepts. Not that I blame her, I'd definitely do the same if I'd write a fantasy novel. Just too many great ideas, concepts and archetypes in lotr to pass on.
Yes, Bilbo's aging in Rivendell came suddenly after giving up the ring. You hear Galdalf state, upon reuniting with Bilbo in Hobbiton, that he hasn't aged a day since the events of the Hobbit. The ring has been holding back his aging process somewhat.
An amusing irony to the Fellowship mourning the loss of Gandalf in Moria is that, when those scenes were shot, the eight cast members hadn't even met Ian McKellen yet, much less seen him in costume.
Greetings from Poland. Tolkien has been the greatest fantasy writer and one of the greatest in history for well over half a century, and nothing will change that, whose work has had a huge impact on the work of other writers, creators of films, games, etc. George Lucas wouldn't have made Star Wars (and certainly not this version) if it weren't for Tolkien. J.K. Rowling wouldn't have written Harry Potter if she hadn't read Tolkien first. It's obvious who she had in mind when creating the character of Dumbledore and the Dementors. George R.R. Martin wouldn't have written Game of Thrones without having first read Tolkien. In one of his interviews, he once told how he came up with the idea of killing the characters of his books. When he read The Lord of the Rings for the first time and came to the scene where Gandalf dies with the Balrog by falling off a bridge Khazad Dum was in total shock because he didn't think Tolkien would dare to kill such an important character. Later, when writing Game of Thrones, he said that since Tolkien had no qualms about killing off characters, he wouldn't have any problems either. One of Tolkien's greatest advantages as a writer, apart from creating the most "real" fantasy world in the history of literature, is writing in such a way as to leave as much room for the reader's imagination as possible. That's why adapting the book to the screen was so difficult, because the filmmakers had to meet the imagination of millions of readers in order to accurately represent this world. But Peter Jackson did the impossible. He made a faithful adaptation, which is considered a model. The three parts of the trilogy won a total of 17 Oscars and many other awards. But it doesn't change the fact that the book is better. But The Lord of the Rings, although an iconic book, is not Tolkien's best book. In my opinion (but I suspect that also of many other fans of the Professor's work) it is The Silmarillion. Tolkien divided the history of his imaginary world into three eras. The action of The Lord of the Rings takes place in the third era. The Silmarillion describes the first two eras, starting from the creation of the world (Arda, of which Middle-earth is a part). Silmarillion is not only the best fantasy book, but the greatest story ever created by man.
It might help you if you take a look at the map of middle earth - which is famous in itself. It will give you a better idea of where the hobbits started from, where they have been, and where frodo and sam are going, as well as an idea of where pip and merry and being taken. There's no spoilers in the map. The ring doesnt bring out people's bad side. It takes their desires and promises to make them real - but then corrupts that desire by exacting a terrible price. Its like the theme of the famous short horror story, The Monkey's Paw. The monkey's paw grants three wishes but its cursed. One day an old couple get the paw and they wish for £200 (the story was published in 1902 - and Tolkien would have been very aware of it). Then their son gets killed in a mine accident and they get offered £200 as a compensation payout. The mother, driven mad with grief, wishes her son back - so he rises from the grave and returns to the house that night, at which point the father grabs the paw and uses the last wish to send his son back to the grave, and the son's knocking on the door abruptly stops, just as his mother opens the door. Thats pretty much what the ring does: promises you what you want, delivers it, but in a badly corrupted form. Everyone thinks gandalf survives but gandalf the grey and the balrog did both die in that fight. The times in the book and in the movie are very different. The movie has speeded everything up a lot for dramatic effect.
It is funny you mixed Sauron and Saruman. In the 1978 movie, the producers thought people will mixed them up. For the first half of recording, they changed Saruman's name to Aruman. When the director found out, he told the actors to use Saruman's name, but it was too late to re-reccord the previous dialog. The 1978 Lord or the Rings movie uses both Saruman and Aruman, which is somewhat confusing.
The ring tempts people based on their relationship with power and authority. Boromir is the son of the Steward of Gondor, he has been commanding troops and weilding authority for his entire life. Moreso than any other member of the fellowship, Boromir was aquatinted and familiar with authority, and that is why he was tempted so strongly. In any other timeline he would have made a just and wise leader. But the temptation of the ring is irrespective of your character The other two strongest temptations in this movie are galadriel and gandalf. Both beings familiar with how to weild power and authority. And both of them dared not even touch it. Resisting the ring is not about strength of will, or wisdom, or righteousness of character, as galadriel and gandalf had all of those to the max. And yet both likely would have fallen prey to it's influence as quickly as isildur did were they to hold it in their hands. The reason hobbits are resillient to it's influence isn't for any supernatural quality or because they are particularly strong willed or good. But because of the truths that both the book and the movie open with: hobbits don't really care about much other than food and gardening. They have no real use or understanding of what it means to hold power or authority. Thus the ring finds seducing them difficult. Aragorn is another curious case. I think that the reason that aragorn was able to resist the temptation of the ring is that he has essentially spent his entire life resisting the alure of power and authority by putting off his ascendency to the kingship of Gondor
Great, authentic reaction! The best part about the extended editions vs the theatrical is the depth it gives to Boromir. You will sympathize with him much more after the next movie. I have a few answers for you: 1. The Eye is Sauron, as Saruman explains he is not yet powerful to take physical form. Think of the Ring as a Horcrux, binding Sauron to life after the destruction of his body as a weakened but potent spirit. Were he to be reunited with the Ring he would be able to restore his physical body and conquer Middle Earth. 2. The movie does not do a great job showing the passage of time. The journey from the Shire to Rivendell takes roughly a month, I believe. Bilbo has aged so much because from the time Bilbo leaves until the time Gandalf returns to the Shire to send Frodo off is well over a decade, 17 years if I remember correctly. 3. Unfortunately Gandalf the Grey is dead. Looking forward to the next one!
There are many different races in Middle Earth, Hobbits, Elves (several different types), Dwarves, Orcs, Wizards (only five: Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, who is not in these movies, and the two Blue Wizards, who do not appear in any of the six movies, The Hobbit movies) and of course Men. When Tolkien wrote he created the name first, then the character traits. The books are very different in that the story is not linear, but you should read them on your own.
The LOTR are the best example of oositive masculinity you'll see out of most films. The men hug, they cry, they give kisses, and they fight along side eachother.
The Tolkien legendarium is vast and subtle. 'In Deep Geek' on here does lots of good, short explainers to help fill in the lore, and answers lots of your open questions in the process.
Camilla: "We've got a cute little group here. I'm excited to see some outdoor activities." Me:"Yeah you'll get all the outdoor activities you can throw a hobbit at. Just keep watchin."
Sean Bean, aka Boromir, was once known for dying on screen... be it movies or television. Also, in the books, there are a lot of appendices for help in pronunciation of names as well as what the names either mean or where they come from. Also, you can learn to speak elvish (Sindarin) as well!
Concerning Sauron and the ring; they are bound together, as long as the ring exists, Sauron will be present. The horcrux idea was heavily influenced from the one ring
Fun reaction - looking forward to the rest. Listening to your outro, good call on captions for the next two films. For folks unfamiliar with the books, and thus unfamiliar with the characters and their names & languages, seeing the names in print can be really helpful. And without any spoilers, there will be more new names and characters to come. With regard to Bilbo's age, just being in possession of the ring for so many years slowed his aging (recall Gandalf seeing him and saying with some amount of surprise, or at least wonder, "you haven't aged a day"). Once he gave up the ring, his actual age started catching up with him quickly. So no, it didn't take the hobbits 20 years to reach Rivendell, it took a matter of weeks. But Bilbo aged 20 or more years in that time.
Dispite how long this movie is, the ending hits really fast and sudden. It is a great spot to end it though as they split up. The good news for you is you don't have to wait for Two Towers to see what's next.
Perceptive question Camilla. Jackson obfuscates it in the movie or deliberately leaves it unclear, but in the books, the time between Bilbo's birthday party and Gandalf telling Frodo that the ring is the One Ring is close to a couple of decades. During that time Bilbo does age rapidly going form seemingly mid-fifties to very elderly, but it is not close to instant. In fact, in the books, Frodo has months to prepare to leave the Shire after being informed that he has the One Ring. At times the timeline in the movie seems unclear to the point of not making sense, but only in hind sight and if you really pick at it.
The ring, for Sauron, is a bit like a horecrux from Harry Potter (probably where JK got the idea as LOTR came way before Harry Potter). As long as it exists sauron can live and he can’t be killed, only put back for a while. Unlike Voldemort, give him time, sauron regains his body and power (1000’s of years). The ring also enhances natural power, the more naturally powerful you are the more it does to you and affects you. Like a feedback loop. That’s why hobbits are such good ring bearers, as you mentioned they aren’t that powerful at anything, so not much to enhance and corrupt (also hobbits it general don’t want power, they just want a warm bed, good food and laughter so again not much to use to corrupt), people like boromir and Aragon are more powerful so the ring would probably make them near superpowered but would corrupt all the good intentions they had to evil. If Gandalf or Galadriel had it Tolkien admitted they could challenge Sauron outright.
She stole everything from LOTR. Death Eaters - Ringwraiths (Nazgûl) Pensieve - Mirror of Galadriel Horcrux - The One Ring Dementors - Ringwraiths Voldemort - Sauron Harry - Frodo Dumbledore - Gandalf Deathly Hallows - Three Elven Rings Nagini - Shelob (giant evil creatures) Gringotts - Lonely Mountain (treasure hoards) House-elves - Gollum (servile figures) Parseltongue - Dark Speech Forbidden Forest - Mirkwood Resurrection Stone - Aragorn's sword (symbols of legacy) And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
When Gimli asked for a single hair and she gave him 3 I think in goes with the history of women in some cultures giving their braids to their travelling loved ones . 3 hairs is the minimum of hairs you need to make a braid
No it’s symbolic her cousin feanor ( the mightiest elf ever) asked for a piece of her hair so that he could combine it with the silmarils and she refused because she didn’t trust him and felt something off about him
Young reactors always seem to fail to understand the significance of the hair given to gimlie. I know there's deeper lore pertaining to Feanor, but men would often in days passed carry a lock of their loved ones hair, on their way to war for example. It's very romantic, yet i feel romance is not something valued as much in these modern days.
It's by no means a generational thing. I don't remember how it was explained in the books because it's been years since I read them. It was reaction comments that cleared it up for my old brain. With that knowledge and then rewatching the scene where Gimili tells Legolas what he got, we see the smile on Legolas' face. It's the moment he knows Gilmli has a good heart and any doubt he had about trusting him is gone.
Some of the questions you have will get answered in the other two movies as long as you watch extended. In the silmarillion it explains what wizards really are. Sauron and Saruman are the same kind of being and fall under the same type.. Except saruman has restrictions on his powers and appearance. Their names are similar for that purpose. To show a parallel. Because they both started out as the same creature with similar personalities. I enjoy your reations! Keep it up
I actually thought you did pretty good picking up on the names of people and places for your first watch through. Everybody gets mixed up between Saruman and Sauron. The names are so similar when you’re not familiar with any of them to start with, it’s very confusing. Looking forward to watching the Two Towers with you. I hope you don’t put it off too long so that you forget what happened in this first movie. There’s a lot of backstory in this movie that helps explain what happens next. I agree that it’s helpful to have close captioning on when watching the 1st few times seeing the movies. You seem to be really involved, so I hope you enjoyed the movie and will continue. I subscribed so that I wouldn’t miss your reaction to the next two movies. It’s quite a journey!😊 P.S. I hope it’s not impertinent to say how pretty you are. 😉
Thanks for the great reaction. Yeah JK Rowling was influenced by Tolkien and that's okay. Most fantasy writers are/were as he's considered the grandfather of fantasy. And I like when people can enjoy both series. Glad you are enjoying this. Oh and totally turn on closed captioning if that helps you for the next 2 movies. There's so much information in these movies.
35:25 Well - Basically all fantasy- and science fiction writers that came after Tolkien are heavily influenced by him and his work. This icludes J.K. Rowling of course. And not just that - much of the entire genre of Roleplaying games is also heavily influenced by Tolkien. His writings are for example the reason why dwarves are depicted like Gimli in most post-Tolkien works. If you look at older depictions of dwarves - like Norse Mythology or Germanic sagas - you'll notice that they are very different. To learn more about Tolkien's work and also get a better understanding of it all I strongly recommend to read not only The Lord of the Rings but also The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is not so much a novel, it is more of ahistory book telling the entirety of Middle Earth's history from a point before the world was even created. You'll also learn a lot more about the more powerfull entities in Middle Earth in the Silmarillion, including the backgrounds of Sauron, the wizards etc.
I know we don't get to see him die on screen in a direct manner but gandalf really is just dead forever. which is so sad, I wish he could be in more movies cause he's my favorite character 😭
Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't come out well in the films. In the time in which Bilbo left the Shire and Gandalf went on a quest and came back to Frodo, 17 years passed. The Journey itself took over a year in which they travelled around 1350 miles to Mordor and back again.
16:20 Not many people realize this, but it's Frodo, with his deep passion for adventure and overall hiking, when Gandalf tells fellowship: "Fly (on the eagles), you fools", takes over fellowship leader role and cries with emotion: "NO!", devastated by the notion that this trip would end so soon.
The One Ring works by tempting people. Boromir was easily tempted, not because he was evil or power hungry, but because he was desperate to ensure the safety of his people. Since he believed (or at least hoped) that the Ring could be used to protect Gondor, he was an easy target for the Ring to influence. Conversely, Frodo is much more difficult to tempt, because he was perfectly content with his life before the Ring, and he really didn't want anything that the Ring could offer him. It's harder to influence and manipulate someone without any easy levers to pull on, like Boromir's fear for his country.
Very well explained! Boromir is my favorite.
Right. As Galadriel explained, "one by one, it will consume them all." Boromir was just the first, because he's under the most stress, not because he is inherently weaker than the others. His home city of Minas Tirith is on the front lines - directly across the river from Mordor.
Boromir was arguably the best swordsman around - even better than Aragorn. In the books, it specifies that the Uruk-hai had to turn to archery to bring him down because anyone who came within blade’s reach of Boromir was slain. He was such a good, complex character who cared deeply for his people and the hobbits.
Nailed it! The ring targets someone’s strongest points (Boromir’s determination to protect others) and turns it into their weakness… Hence why the more powerful people like Gandalf won’t even dare to touch the ring.
“Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? One day our paths will lead us there, and the tower guard will take up the call: The Lords of Gondor have returned.”
To answer your outro questions:
1. In the movies Bilbo ages super quickly. In the books Frodo has the ring for 17 years before he sets out. He doesn't know it is THE ring for a long time, and then he has to find some way to leave the country without raising suspicious. Also, by that point sam, merry, and pippin all know exactly what is going on and plan their own departures without frodos knowledge. So by the time Frodo meets Bilbo again he has aged to 128... But he stopped aging around 50 so it is a sprint to old age nonetheless!
2. Gandalf did indeed die.
3. The ring is the presence of sauron. There are some nuances you'll pick up to that reality, but at this point seeing that the ring is sauron and is the main villain of the story is enough to be getting on with for now. Enjoy the next ones!
The Ring can be described as a horcrux with even more power in itself (but i think it is a good was to describe for someone familiär wichtig Harry Potter... 'horcrux on steroids'
It has been hundreds of years since a dwarf has set foot in her lands, and there has always been an uneasy rivalry between the two races, with much history and bad blood behind it. So when she gives him the chance to pick a gift, anything that his heart desires, this is a true honor indeed. And perhaps, thanks to her powers of foresight, she already knows what he will ask, and it is because he asks for something so modest, so sweet, that she is happy to bestow it.
But the three golden hairs that Galadriel gifts Gimli at his behest have far more significance than their just being very pure and innocent requests, rather than all the gold or power or wisdom he could have asked for. Any fans who have read the Silmarillion will know that Feanor, one of the greatest elves, and most amazing crafters of the world had made a similar request of the golden lady thousands of years earlier.
Feanor was so inspired by Galadriel’s grace and beauty, that he wished to use strands of her hair in the making of his three Silmarils, the most precious gems ever created in Middle Earth. He begged her three times for a single strand of her hair, but even though she was young and inexperienced at this point, she looked into his soul and saw that his intentions were not fair and benevolent, but were driven by greed and a desire to possess something more precious than the other elves of the time. She, therefore, refused his request, causing much wrath and anguish, and he was forced to find other precious substances to infuse into his gems.
It is incredible then, that Galadriel would give this gift to Gimli. Her husband Celeborn is the only other being in all of her many long years who has been able to so much as touch the golden strands of hair on her head, let alone pluck them out and keep them.
So when she allows this incredible rarity to Gimli, she essentially gives him the three hairs that Feanor demanded of her, because she has looked into his soul and found that he has a good heart and that he desires them for nothing more than to treasure the beautiful days he spent in her lands. Here, she finds a dwarf who is worthy of ending the hundreds of years-long rivalry between their races, who proves that a dwarf can be loyal and brave, and all of the amazing qualities that Gimli shows, despite so many of his people simply being greedy and power-hungry.
Very good summary! One additional point is that carrying a lock of a loved-one's hair was a common way to feel connected to them while away before photographs were common. For people of Tolkien's time this would have been seen as an old-fashioned sweet tradition.
And, to you point, Gimli actually sets the hairs in crystal.
Additional lore dump: The significance of the gift lies in that there once was an elven craftsmen, the greatest of the elven craftsmen who was corrupted by greed. He asked her for a hair three times, and each time she denied him because she knew his motives to be evil. So when Gimli asks for just one, she gives him the three denied to the craftsmen, because she knows Gimli's intentions to be pure. He encases them in crystal to be a permanent symbol of friendship between dwarves and elves
Fun facts: Galadriel is Arwens grandmother.
Also, the 3 hairs she gives to Gimli has a very deep meaning in the lore, going back thousands of years.
There's also an interesting theory that the orcs were originally dwarves not elves.
@@isaaco5679 the man was stating a fact not a theory smh
@@isaaco5679 even though Tolkien was always inconsistent with how orc were made, in every iteration he says they either come from corrupted elves or men.
@@oddish3022 Agreed. Thank God that Tolkien (and Christopher) put out enough material or commented enough on the books to dispel any would be professors from inventing false theroies. Isaaco5679 is commenting on ClarkRowland's post and probably doesn't even know who Feanor is. SMH.
@@isaaco5679 Tolkien said everything that needed to be said to dispel any theories. Read "The Histories of Middle Earth", all 12 volumes, and hit me back.
A New Zealander here that lives 30 minutes from Hobbiton. The credits are so long as Peter Jackson wanted to give credit to as many people as possible, when the Movies were made New Zealand had a population of just over 4 million & it is said that nearly half of New Zealanders were directly or indirectly involved in making these moves. It you read the list you can see families of 5 & 6 people listed, grandparents, parents & children. What I love about these movies is that Peter Jackson made them as a passion project & it shows.
DYing for the next one & so happy you are watching the extended versions as you get a lot more of the backstory/info.
I really appreciate your after editing thoughts as well as giving first impressions.
One thing I love about these movies is the complex characters. People are never full on “good” or “bad”. Rather we all have good traits and bad traits. The one ring seems to bring the worst out of people. We see it with Boromir, he is an honourable man with honourable intentions, but sadly the ring played on his waning faith and lead him to a moment of weakness he later regretted. However he realized that and fought to the end to redeem himself, showing the good in him
Never clicked so fast! Loving the lord of the rings reactions 🥰🎉
Ages at Bilbo’s birthday party (obviously for filming purposes, Pippen’s age was off):
Frodo - 33 (the hobbit equivalent of human’s 21)
Sam - 21 (basically a teen for a hobbit)
Merry - 19
Pippen - 11 (though he was portrayed in the movie as being more like a single year younger than Merry)
Bilbo - 111
Ages of the hobbits when they meet Bilbo at Rivendell:
Frodo: 50 (he left the day after his birthday)
Sam: 38
Merry: 36
Pippen: 28 (still basically a teenager for a hobbit)
Bilbo: 128
When the credits ran in theaters, Enya's "Let it Be" song played and really captured the mood of the cliffhanger. It's covered a lot by many artists, check it out.
Let The Fellowship of the Ring continue, Camilla. See you soon for The Two Towers.
Context without spoils :
1) Sauron HAS a physical form by the time the events take place. When he lost his Ring and was defeated, 3000 years prior, his body was destroyed. It took him about 2000 years to regain a body and start gathering slaves again. Think of Voldemort and his Horcruxes. He’s not as powerful as he once was because he’s poured part of himself in the Ring. The reason he must NOT get it back is because the Elves and the other free folks are much weaker and divided by that point, and they can’t defeat him a second time.
2) Seventeen years passed between Bilbo’s farewell party and Frodo fleeing the Shire, hence why age suddenly caught up with the old Hobbit. Nothing significant happened in those 17 years (except Gollum was tortured and revealed everything, remember the scene?). So it was cut out of the movies.
Good Guys
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Gandalf - Ainur (Gray Wizard)
Frodo, Samwise (Sam), Meriadoc (Merry), Pippen - Hobbits (Frodo is related to Bilbo)
Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit in 'The Hobbit'. Finder of the One Ring.
Aragorn (Strider) - Dúnedain (A race of Humans) (Ranger/Heir to throne of Gondor)
Boromir - Human (Son of the Steward of the throne of Gondor)
Gimli - Dwarf (Son of Gloin, You'll find out more about dwarves in The Hobbit)
Legolas - Elf (Son of King of Mirkwood forest)
Elrond - Elf (Lord of Rivendell, Father of Arwen)
Arwen - Elf (Aragorn's love)
Bad Guys
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Saruman - Ainur (White Wizard, Lord of Isengard, Was corrupted and then betrayed good guys)
Sauron - The Dark Lord of Mordor (maker of the One Ring) (his history is complex)
Ring Wraiths - Former Human Men (The nine rings that were given to men and corrupted them into the wraiths)
Uruk-hai - Created by Sauron. Cross breed of Orcs and Goblins.
Orcs - At Isengard and Mordor mostly atm.
Goblins - You saw a lot of these in Moria.
Troll - You saw the 'Cave' variety in Moria with the Goblins.
Other
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Gollum/Smeagol - River Folk (cousin to Hobbits) - Corrupted over many years by the ring. Lost it to Bilbo Baggins during the adventure of 'The Hobbit'
Places
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Shire - Home of the Hobbits
Moria - Mines/City that belonged to the dwarves. They dug too deep and woke up the Balrog. Combined with goblins, they were killed.
Rivendell - Home of Elrond. Father of Arwen
Minas Tirith (The White City) - Capital city of Gondor (mentioned briefly by Aragon to Boromir during his death)
Isengard - Home of Saruman
Mordor - Home of Sauron. Location of Mount Doom where the ring was forged (and only place it can be destroyed).
Here's something that might help. I probably missed a few things. There's also more to come in the second & third movies.
That’s actually very helpful for someone new to the franchise 😂
Orcs and goblins are the same thing. The word "orc" is a slight alteration of the Elven word for "goblin".
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: 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.”
I always like to give context of those lines to younger viewers. LotR:FotR was released in Dec 2001, barely three months after the 9/11 attacks. Everyone was still waiting for the next shoe to drop and collectively felt the same as Frodo, that none of this had happened. The comforting wisdom of Gandalf, written by Tolkien from the lessons of WWI and WWII, provided the audience with a cathartic release and a feeling that just maybe do have a say in what’s to be done with the time given to us.
The Lord of the Rings Fan Club was everyone who contributed financial support to the creation of the film. Kind of like Kickstarter before there was such a thing. It's my understanding that Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the Royal Family chipped in several million (dollars, pounds, euro, something) to help get the studio to support the making of all three films at the same time - an unheard of thing in that era. The shoot of principle photography for the three films ran 417 days in a row.
I recommend watching with subtitles
Boromir: "They have a cave troll"
Camilla: "a what? Big goblin. This is like a giant troll or something."
Boromir: Am I a joke to you? 😉
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The Ring: "Yes."
Well, at least she didn't think it's a fish. 😅 (I've seen a reaction where someone seriously says: "is that a fish?" Idk what was going on there.)
Boromir was also the most kind to Merry and Pippin...in case no one noticed. Boromir was my 2nd favorite after Gandalf. He's hands down the most human and had the most understandable motivations...as you will see.
Be patient with the hobbits. They’re not a combat minded people. They live very simple lives that doesn’t require fighting. Hence why they showed Boromir giving Merry and Pippin some basic sword lessons. They’ll have a very serious and deep devotion to their friends, hence why all three of Frodo’s refused to be left out of the journey. Not for the adventure and the fight, but for him. So they’re not exactly gonna be the best of fighters, but they will try to help if they believe they can.
Others have already pointed out the lore about Gimli and Galadriel’s 3 hairs, but I also saw that it was war time thing, since Tolkein fought in ww1. Soldiers kept strands of hair from their wives. And it’s also not uncommon for people to keep locks of hair of their loved ones in general
Ron Weasley, and everyone honestly, WISHES he could be Sam!
Yes, the eye is Sauron manifested after the loss of his physical body and it’s him talking to Frodo. Part of his spirit is in the ring.
I’m surprised you still didn’t understand the Bilbo age thing after watching it again. The Ring prolongs the life of whoever keeps it, delaying old age, so once he was parted from it, age caught up to him. Although there is one thing from the books, but it might not be intended to be the same in the films. When Gandalf leaves the shire to do his research on the Ring, he’s gone for 15 years.
There are both orcs AND goblins running around.
In the books they both exist, but they're not properly differentiated. So they're kinda treated as synonymous.
The movies treat the goblins as the smaller spider-climbing ones (seen mostly in Moria), the orcs as the regular human-sized ones (most of the orcs seen everywhere), and the huge Uruk-Hai (In the books they are simply the largest most powerful breed of orcs, but in the movies they're half orc and either half human or half goblin. It's not clear.)
In the books, Goblin and Orc *are* synonyms, simply being nouns from different languages to describe the same thing. Goblin is what Hobbits call Orcs, and Orc is was Elves call Goblins.
One of the more INSANE bits of trivia about these movies is that when Lurtz (the huge Uruk-Hai "final boss" guy) throws that big knife at Aragorn, and Aragorn deflects it with his sword.....that was 100% real.
Lurtz' actor was supposed to throw it a different direction so it LOOKED like it was flying at Aragorn, but the two of them kept training for it over and over and over and over til he was essentially throwing the knife right at Viggo Mortensen, and Mortensen blocked it for real.
There is TONS of Viggo lore for the making of these movies.
Like the costuming for these movies was basically unrivalled by anything ever.
Weta Workshop made THOUSANDS of suits of ringmail armor (using PVC rings for lightness) to armor all the orcs and everyone else.
Countless different orc and goblin and Urik-Hai mask sculpts and prosthetics, etc.
And for the more important characters.....the costume were COMPLETE.
Like they made the underwear, the the first layer of clothing, the over layer, the armor, the gear, everything.
And they didn't half-ass it.
Like they had vests that you NEVER SEE because they're worn under other stuff fully embroidered with hyper elaborate elvish or royal designs.
And then Viggo Mortensen, being the hyper-dedicated legendary maniac that he is, took it all SO MANY steps further, and LIVED IN his gear as if he were really Aragorn.
He'd wander off into the woods in costume, when he had to go to a new shooting location....he'd just hike there in full costume, he'd sleep in Aragorn's gear, he'd hand wash it himself in the river, when it got torn he'd stitch it back together himself with a needle and thread, etc.
He has probably the most authentic possible costume EVER for a fictional character.
It's nuts.
I know you do prop stuff, so when I say....if you ever somehow get a chance to see Lord Of The Rings props and costumes, jump on that opportunity.
I got to see an exhibition of all of the main costumes and props, and they are absolutely INCREDIBLE.
I'm a pretty well-traveled museum and castle nerd (in the US, the Louvre, and all over Germany), so I've seen a LOT of real medieval weapons and armor. And it's CRAZY how real the Lord Of The Rings stuff seems.
In your second outro, you ask about the timeline. In the books, after Bilbo leaves the Shire, it is 17 years before Frodo leaves on his adventure. It took Gandalf that long to find the information he was looking for.
No Google or Siri. Hah!🤪🤣
Wifi and internet was terrible in Middle Earth during the 3rd age.
"That's some efficient food!"
"Elvish way bread" is the essence of food and nourishment magically distilled and compressed.
Heavy on the carbs, tho.
2:09 "Okay, this a cute group that we've got; I'm excited for some bonding activities, some campfire songs..."
Ah, the naivety of youth... 🤣
I can't wait for the next two. Watching all you young kids fall in love with this is awesome
To help you out here, I have read the books in my childhood. You asked a question about how Bilbo aged so much. After he left his party and left the ring behind, Frodo comes home to find it and has a conversation with Gandalf. Gandalf decides he’s going to leave and do some research on the ring. He then returns to Frodo in a panic state when he realizes what the ring is. It makes it look like not much time has passed in the movie when in actuality Gandalf was gone for 17 years researching and finding information on the ring. So when you see Bilbo again, it has been 17 years. He also doesn’t have the ring anymore, which was slowing down his ageing process. Hope this helps with your question. I think I’ve got that right although it has been several decades since I’ve read Lord of the rings.
Exactly right. Gandalf took 17 years to research the ring, making Bilbo 128 when they saw him at Rivendell.
He didn't spend all that time researching the ring. He also was looking for Gollum and doing other things. Read the book for all the details - and there are a LOT of them!
@ good to know I remembered it right sometime has passed. I should probably read those books again.
He died early in Game of Thrones as well. There was a running joke about the roles he was playing. We watched the movies in the theaters. Great experiences and memories.
The series of films beginning with Sharpe's Rifles is one of Sean Bean's earlier works. He plays a soldier in the English army in the Napoleonic wars and he survives (barely) through over a dozen episodes though he takes a beating in each and every one.
Imagine watching these movies in theaters, and having to wait a year before the next movie, and answers to many of our questions.
I was there, 3000 years ago when the movies were first released.
I can remember the feeling of awe as the credits rolled on the first movie. It was like no movie watching experience I had before or since. And I had read the books as a kid so the story probably did not hit me as hard as many others in the theater.
I don't have to imagine. I lived it.
I was there the day the strength of Peter Jackson failed.
"You must destroy it! Throw The Hobbit into the fire! Not an actual hobbit of course. The movie of that name!"
"No."
Hobbits make good ring bearers for a couple of reasons. As you noticed when you saw Hobbiton, they really don’t aspire to have power or possess much greed. They like things the way they are in their homeland and can take life pretty easy. They’re also not magically powerful, like elves or wizards, so The One Ring sees little use in them other than to try and push them to use it in order to be found.
Finally, the timeline of Bilbo having The Ring isn’t well covered in this movie, but he went on his adventure and came across it when he was 50 or so, and he gave it up when he was 111 with a little nudging from Gandalf. It took that long to get its hooks into him, and part of that was how far from Mordor he was and how weak Sauron himself was. The power of The Ring seems largely related to how close to Mordor it is, the place where it was made. As it gets closer, it will grow stronger.
The Ring _is_ affecting Frodo, but it is working more slowly because he is not power-hungry. Anyone who comes in contact with it will, sooner or later, come under its spell. But Frodo was "the chosen one" because it worked more slowly on him -- he had the best chance of fulfilling the mission. But he does increasingly become affected by the Ring as the story goes on.
Oh, and Sauron is the big Eye that we keep seeing when Frodo puts on the Ring.
37:55 saurons main thing in this is that he has a strong power to corrupt. like in the intro when galadriel described the ring she said "and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice.. bla bla". thats what the ring does.. it brings you to darkness, makes you lose hope, desperate, all the negatives, then corrupts you to do saurons bidding.
Galadriel, it should be noted, is one of the Ringbearers.
THAT'S part of why she's so powerful, and why offering her the One Ring is so dangerous.
She ALREADY possesses one of the 3 elven Rings Of Power. That's why she appears in the opening montage.
She's the bearer of Nenya, the White Ring, the Ring Of Water.
That's why she's such an important character for Frodo to meet, ESPECIALLY after losing Gandalf - because she's one of the VERY VERY few other Ringbearers who has experience and can offer advice to Frodo on how he might handle the burden of the One Ring.
And yes, she's the narrator.
Galadriel's main purpose as the narrator comes from her gift of sight - her borderline omniscience, as well as her ancient age.
She has already witnessed so much history, sees the present more clearly than any, AND sees possible futures.
So she's the character most naturally capable of taking on the omniscient narrator role.
It should be noted that Gandalf was ALSO a Ringbearer.
He inherited Narya, the Elven Ring Of Fire from its previous owner.
Galadriel's ring, Nenya's power was preservation and concealment from evil.
Galadriel used these powers to create and sustain Lothlórien, her glorious elven realm.
As the Ring Of Water, it's PROBABLY somehow connected to Galadriel's ability to turn water into a way to view possible futures, and LIKELY somehow related to her ability to bottle starlight within water.
Gandalf's ring, Narya, was described as having the power to inspire others to resist tyranny, domination and despair, as well as having the power (in common with the other three Elven Rings) to hide the wielder from remote observation (except by the wielder of the One) and giving resistance to the weariness of time.
It is also thought to have other magical properties and fire powers, as when fighting Durin's Bane (the Balrog of Moria), Gandalf claimed to wield the Flame Of Anor.
But, for both Galadriel and Gandalf, it's hard to tell where their sorceress/wizard powers stop and the powers of the Elven Rings begin.
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Well written, detailed information that's not included in the movies. Good job!
@1:29 When you know it's coming....
Boromir: They have a cave troll!
Camilla: a what?
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Camilla: woah, big goblin! This is like a giant troll or something.
duh?!
Billbo was kept young by the ring. Once he gave up the ring to Frodo, he aged to what he shoudl have been. If I recall correctly, there was a comment at the beginning that he was unexpectedly young. Glad that you have the various names sorted out. There's going to be more characters to meet! The Two Towers won the 2003 Oscar/Academy Awards for Best Picture.
Correction: "The Two Towers" was nominated for Best Picture in 2003 but did not win. "Chicago" won.
Goblins are a type of Orc, the smallest. They mostly live in the misty mountains. There are other types , like Uruk and Snaga, which are larger and smaller Mordor orcs. Saruman bread a race of half-orcs, the Uruk Hai, which are half goblins and half men.
The reason Frodo was not as affected by the ring as others, is because the more powerful someone already is, the more powerfully the ring can tempt them. Galadriel was actually surprised she could wrench herself away from the temptation of the ring.
Regarding your two questions at the end, the flaming Eye is meant to be Sauron in spirit form, without a body, so it's not just a vision of him from within the One Ring itself. In the books Sauron does actually have a body, which his spirit rebuilt over centuries since his last defeat. Sauron, Gandalf, Saruman and the Balrog are actually divine beings of the same order (though differing power), incarnated in different physical forms.
As for Bilbo aging, you guessed almost right that it's been nearly 20 years (just over 17 to be exact) since he left the Shire to go and stay with the elves, and Gandalf returning to Frodo to confirm he has the One Ring and set him on his quest. In the books Bilbo doesn't seem to be aging as much (similarly to how Gollum has been alive for decades even without having the Ring), but I guess for the the movie they wanted to show it differently.
What really happens is once someone doesn't have the Ring, they just start aging normally again. Gollum was imbued with so much corruption from the Ring after having it for over 500 years, that his aging process isn't really normal anymore, but Bilbo simply aged an additional 17 years, on top of his original 51 that he was when he found the Ring (his adventure is covered in the Hobbit book and movie trilogy).
"I don't know if this guy is good or not. I'm saying it again. Something about him feels off, but I don't know."
Boromir does his best. Like all men of Middle Earth, he's tempted by power and has a desire to defend his homeland.
And that desire is what gives The Ring an opening to tempt him. As Gandalf said when refusing The Ring: "I would use this ring from a desire to do good..."
Yep. That makes him neither good nor bad; just human.
Yes. As others have said, there is like 17 or 18 (book) years between when bilbo leaves and when we see him again. They don't really show that in the films well. It takes a while to figure out what ring it is.
Nice part 2 dropped. I was waiting for this 😊
The ring affects everyone (with one exception that is not mentioned in the movies). But some are more affected than others probably based on their own desires and ambitions.
Sauron put a great deal of himself into the ring, part of his soul or life force or whatever you want to call it. If the ring is actually sentient or not is something that is still debated among fans.
18:52 How’d you like some ice cream, Frodo?
Both Gandalf and Galadriel are powerful in their own right ( especially Galadriel). If their power was added to the ring's power and they were then corrupted, they would end up as another Sauron, more or less. When Galadriel says "I passed the test and will remain Galadriel", she meant that she was able to resist the ring's temptation and would literally remain as Galadriel , and not become an evil queen.
Awesome I just finished part one of your reaction!😊
how they named the locations just sound so cool. Lothlórien, Moria (khazad-dum), Caradhras.. so many more... and then there's saurons area.. called Mt. Doom. so unimaginative 😂
I read J.R.R. Tolkien's series, "The Hobbit" and the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" in 1973 which should be read (or the movies seen) in that order. Although the trilogy tries to explain the history, "The Hobbit" begins the entire adventure.
I like to think the Silmarillion is the beginning
@@BileDuctBalderdash It is and it is incredible but I wouldn't recommend reading it before The LOTR or The Hobbit. It's *very* dense in detailed information and basically requires you to have the map of Beleriand and the character list next to you to not get lost reading it for the first time.
That being said, after The LOTR The Children of Húrin is my favorite book by Tokien (maybe overall). It's such an insanely gripping and tragic story, I cannot recommend it enough (also keep a map of Beleriand ready for this one haha).
Yes the eye wreathed in flame is Sauron, or rather what’s left of him physically. His soul is anchored inside the ring, like a horcrux.
A horcrux is a great comparison, for anyone familiar with Harry Potter. The first time I watched Harry Potter and heard the explanation of a horcrux, I immediately thought, "Oh, so it's like Sauron and his ring." There are some differences in the details of course, but the basic idea is the same. I don't know if J.K. Rowling got the idea directly from Lord of the Rings, but she was certainly influenced by the modern fantasy genre that traces its roots back to Tolkien.
@@toddhadley9002 lol more like she shamelessly ripped whole characters and dozens of concepts. Not that I blame her, I'd definitely do the same if I'd write a fantasy novel. Just too many great ideas, concepts and archetypes in lotr to pass on.
Specifically came here to see future Camilla. Good call on the captions.
Yes, Bilbo's aging in Rivendell came suddenly after giving up the ring. You hear Galdalf state, upon reuniting with Bilbo in Hobbiton, that he hasn't aged a day since the events of the Hobbit. The ring has been holding back his aging process somewhat.
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An amusing irony to the Fellowship mourning the loss of Gandalf in Moria is that, when those scenes were shot, the eight cast members hadn't even met Ian McKellen yet, much less seen him in costume.
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Tolkien has been the greatest fantasy writer and one of the greatest in history for well over half a century, and nothing will change that, whose work has had a huge impact on the work of other writers, creators of films, games, etc.
George Lucas wouldn't have made Star Wars (and certainly not this version) if it weren't for Tolkien.
J.K. Rowling wouldn't have written Harry Potter if she hadn't read Tolkien first. It's obvious who she had in mind when creating the character of Dumbledore and the Dementors.
George R.R. Martin wouldn't have written Game of Thrones without having first read Tolkien. In one of his interviews, he once told how he came up with the idea of killing the characters of his books. When he read The Lord of the Rings for the first time and came to the scene where Gandalf dies with the Balrog by falling off a bridge Khazad Dum was in total shock because he didn't think Tolkien would dare to kill such an important character. Later, when writing Game of Thrones, he said that since Tolkien had no qualms about killing off characters, he wouldn't have any problems either.
One of Tolkien's greatest advantages as a writer, apart from creating the most "real" fantasy world in the history of literature, is writing in such a way as to leave as much room for the reader's imagination as possible. That's why adapting the book to the screen was so difficult, because the filmmakers had to meet the imagination of millions of readers in order to accurately represent this world. But Peter Jackson did the impossible. He made a faithful adaptation, which is considered a model. The three parts of the trilogy won a total of 17 Oscars and many other awards. But it doesn't change the fact that the book is better.
But The Lord of the Rings, although an iconic book, is not Tolkien's best book. In my opinion (but I suspect that also of many other fans of the Professor's work) it is The Silmarillion. Tolkien divided the history of his imaginary world into three eras. The action of The Lord of the Rings takes place in the third era. The Silmarillion describes the first two eras, starting from the creation of the world (Arda, of which Middle-earth is a part). Silmarillion is not only the best fantasy book, but the greatest story ever created by man.
Love the bilbo jump scare. Gets them everytime
It might help you if you take a look at the map of middle earth - which is famous in itself. It will give you a better idea of where the hobbits started from, where they have been, and where frodo and sam are going, as well as an idea of where pip and merry and being taken. There's no spoilers in the map.
The ring doesnt bring out people's bad side. It takes their desires and promises to make them real - but then corrupts that desire by exacting a terrible price. Its like the theme of the famous short horror story, The Monkey's Paw. The monkey's paw grants three wishes but its cursed. One day an old couple get the paw and they wish for £200 (the story was published in 1902 - and Tolkien would have been very aware of it). Then their son gets killed in a mine accident and they get offered £200 as a compensation payout. The mother, driven mad with grief, wishes her son back - so he rises from the grave and returns to the house that night, at which point the father grabs the paw and uses the last wish to send his son back to the grave, and the son's knocking on the door abruptly stops, just as his mother opens the door.
Thats pretty much what the ring does: promises you what you want, delivers it, but in a badly corrupted form.
Everyone thinks gandalf survives but gandalf the grey and the balrog did both die in that fight.
The times in the book and in the movie are very different. The movie has speeded everything up a lot for dramatic effect.
It is funny you mixed Sauron and Saruman. In the 1978 movie, the producers thought people will mixed them up. For the first half of recording, they changed Saruman's name to Aruman. When the director found out, he told the actors to use Saruman's name, but it was too late to re-reccord the previous dialog. The 1978 Lord or the Rings movie uses both Saruman and Aruman, which is somewhat confusing.
36:00 Boromir recovered just in time to ride the waterfall. 😱
The Lord of the Rings was written decades before Harry Potter, by the way.
Glad you’re enjoying Middle Earth.
Good take on Boromir
i was wondering when someone would point out who ripped of whom 😂
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The ring tempts people based on their relationship with power and authority.
Boromir is the son of the Steward of Gondor, he has been commanding troops and weilding authority for his entire life. Moreso than any other member of the fellowship, Boromir was aquatinted and familiar with authority, and that is why he was tempted so strongly. In any other timeline he would have made a just and wise leader. But the temptation of the ring is irrespective of your character
The other two strongest temptations in this movie are galadriel and gandalf. Both beings familiar with how to weild power and authority. And both of them dared not even touch it. Resisting the ring is not about strength of will, or wisdom, or righteousness of character, as galadriel and gandalf had all of those to the max. And yet both likely would have fallen prey to it's influence as quickly as isildur did were they to hold it in their hands.
The reason hobbits are resillient to it's influence isn't for any supernatural quality or because they are particularly strong willed or good. But because of the truths that both the book and the movie open with: hobbits don't really care about much other than food and gardening. They have no real use or understanding of what it means to hold power or authority. Thus the ring finds seducing them difficult.
Aragorn is another curious case. I think that the reason that aragorn was able to resist the temptation of the ring is that he has essentially spent his entire life resisting the alure of power and authority by putting off his ascendency to the kingship of Gondor
Great, authentic reaction! The best part about the extended editions vs the theatrical is the depth it gives to Boromir. You will sympathize with him much more after the next movie. I have a few answers for you:
1. The Eye is Sauron, as Saruman explains he is not yet powerful to take physical form. Think of the Ring as a Horcrux, binding Sauron to life after the destruction of his body as a weakened but potent spirit. Were he to be reunited with the Ring he would be able to restore his physical body and conquer Middle Earth.
2. The movie does not do a great job showing the passage of time. The journey from the Shire to Rivendell takes roughly a month, I believe. Bilbo has aged so much because from the time Bilbo leaves until the time Gandalf returns to the Shire to send Frodo off is well over a decade, 17 years if I remember correctly.
3. Unfortunately Gandalf the Grey is dead.
Looking forward to the next one!
There are many different races in Middle Earth, Hobbits, Elves (several different types), Dwarves, Orcs, Wizards (only five: Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, who is not in these movies, and the two Blue Wizards, who do not appear in any of the six movies, The Hobbit movies) and of course Men. When Tolkien wrote he created the name first, then the character traits. The books are very different in that the story is not linear, but you should read them on your own.
Frodos shirt is made out of the same material as the ring and I think it helped him control the ring longer
The LOTR are the best example of oositive masculinity you'll see out of most films. The men hug, they cry, they give kisses, and they fight along side eachother.
The Tolkien legendarium is vast and subtle. 'In Deep Geek' on here does lots of good, short explainers to help fill in the lore, and answers lots of your open questions in the process.
I'll second the recommendation for In Deep Geek.
Camilla: "We've got a cute little group here. I'm excited to see some outdoor activities."
Me:"Yeah you'll get all the outdoor activities you can throw a hobbit at. Just keep watchin."
Sean Bean, aka Boromir, was once known for dying on screen... be it movies or television. Also, in the books, there are a lot of appendices for help in pronunciation of names as well as what the names either mean or where they come from. Also, you can learn to speak elvish (Sindarin) as well!
Loved the first part, as I'm sure I will this one! Can't wait for more! You're very expressive, which is perfect for reactions 😄
Concerning Sauron and the ring; they are bound together, as long as the ring exists, Sauron will be present. The horcrux idea was heavily influenced from the one ring
Fun reaction - looking forward to the rest. Listening to your outro, good call on captions for the next two films. For folks unfamiliar with the books, and thus unfamiliar with the characters and their names & languages, seeing the names in print can be really helpful. And without any spoilers, there will be more new names and characters to come.
With regard to Bilbo's age, just being in possession of the ring for so many years slowed his aging (recall Gandalf seeing him and saying with some amount of surprise, or at least wonder, "you haven't aged a day"). Once he gave up the ring, his actual age started catching up with him quickly. So no, it didn't take the hobbits 20 years to reach Rivendell, it took a matter of weeks. But Bilbo aged 20 or more years in that time.
Dispite how long this movie is, the ending hits really fast and sudden. It is a great spot to end it though as they split up. The good news for you is you don't have to wait for Two Towers to see what's next.
Perceptive question Camilla. Jackson obfuscates it in the movie or deliberately leaves it unclear, but in the books, the time between Bilbo's birthday party and Gandalf telling Frodo that the ring is the One Ring is close to a couple of decades. During that time Bilbo does age rapidly going form seemingly mid-fifties to very elderly, but it is not close to instant. In fact, in the books, Frodo has months to prepare to leave the Shire after being informed that he has the One Ring. At times the timeline in the movie seems unclear to the point of not making sense, but only in hind sight and if you really pick at it.
to tell them apart:
SaruMAN has the shape of an old MAN.
SAURon has the shape of flaming eye SOARing over a tower.
The ring, for Sauron, is a bit like a horecrux from Harry Potter (probably where JK got the idea as LOTR came way before Harry Potter). As long as it exists sauron can live and he can’t be killed, only put back for a while. Unlike Voldemort, give him time, sauron regains his body and power (1000’s of years). The ring also enhances natural power, the more naturally powerful you are the more it does to you and affects you. Like a feedback loop. That’s why hobbits are such good ring bearers, as you mentioned they aren’t that powerful at anything, so not much to enhance and corrupt (also hobbits it general don’t want power, they just want a warm bed, good food and laughter so again not much to use to corrupt), people like boromir and Aragon are more powerful so the ring would probably make them near superpowered but would corrupt all the good intentions they had to evil. If Gandalf or Galadriel had it Tolkien admitted they could challenge Sauron outright.
She stole everything from LOTR. Death Eaters - Ringwraiths (Nazgûl)
Pensieve - Mirror of Galadriel
Horcrux - The One Ring
Dementors - Ringwraiths
Voldemort - Sauron
Harry - Frodo
Dumbledore - Gandalf
Deathly Hallows - Three Elven Rings
Nagini - Shelob (giant evil creatures)
Gringotts - Lonely Mountain (treasure hoards)
House-elves - Gollum (servile figures)
Parseltongue - Dark Speech
Forbidden Forest - Mirkwood
Resurrection Stone - Aragorn's sword (symbols of legacy)
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
In fairness, many fantasy authors were heavily inspired by Tolkien.
One could make the same list of Tolkien's work.
18:20 thats the Russian hitman/main antagonist of the first Equalizer movie!!
When Gimli asked for a single hair and she gave him 3 I think in goes with the history of women in some cultures giving their braids to their travelling loved ones . 3 hairs is the minimum of hairs you need to make a braid
There is a lot more to it than that. Gimli also does not braid them, he sets them in crystal when he gets home- also very significant.
No it’s symbolic her cousin feanor ( the mightiest elf ever) asked for a piece of her hair so that he could combine it with the silmarils and she refused because she didn’t trust him and felt something off about him
If you liked this one, wait until you see the next two!. Words do not suffice. Just watch.
I stayed for all your comments at the end.
You're good.
Young reactors always seem to fail to understand the significance of the hair given to gimlie. I know there's deeper lore pertaining to Feanor, but men would often in days passed carry a lock of their loved ones hair, on their way to war for example. It's very romantic, yet i feel romance is not something valued as much in these modern days.
It's by no means a generational thing. I don't remember how it was explained in the books because it's been years since I read them. It was reaction comments that cleared it up for my old brain. With that knowledge and then rewatching the scene where Gimili tells Legolas what he got, we see the smile on Legolas' face. It's the moment he knows Gilmli has a good heart and any doubt he had about trusting him is gone.
Never thought I would ever see anyone watch this movie and not cry. I guess you're not a cryer.
Some of the questions you have will get answered in the other two movies as long as you watch extended. In the silmarillion it explains what wizards really are. Sauron and Saruman are the same kind of being and fall under the same type.. Except saruman has restrictions on his powers and appearance. Their names are similar for that purpose. To show a parallel. Because they both started out as the same creature with similar personalities.
I enjoy your reations! Keep it up
I actually thought you did pretty good picking up on the names of people and places for your first watch through. Everybody gets mixed up between Saruman and Sauron. The names are so similar when you’re not familiar with any of them to start with, it’s very confusing. Looking forward to watching the Two Towers with you. I hope you don’t put it off too long so that you forget what happened in this first movie. There’s a lot of backstory in this movie that helps explain what happens next. I agree that it’s helpful to have close captioning on when watching the 1st few times seeing the movies. You seem to be really involved, so I hope you enjoyed the movie and will continue. I subscribed so that I wouldn’t miss your reaction to the next two movies. It’s quite a journey!😊
P.S. I hope it’s not impertinent to say how pretty you are. 😉
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Thanks for the great reaction. Yeah JK Rowling was influenced by Tolkien and that's okay. Most fantasy writers are/were as he's considered the grandfather of fantasy. And I like when people can enjoy both series. Glad you are enjoying this. Oh and totally turn on closed captioning if that helps you for the next 2 movies. There's so much information in these movies.
The thing in the water by the entrance to Moria is a baby Cthulu.
16:05 - gold.
Hobbits have a stronger magic resistance than the other races, so they take longer for the evil to affect them.
They also save as Fighters.
35:25 Well - Basically all fantasy- and science fiction writers that came after Tolkien are heavily influenced by him and his work. This icludes J.K. Rowling of course.
And not just that - much of the entire genre of Roleplaying games is also heavily influenced by Tolkien. His writings are for example the reason why dwarves are depicted like Gimli in most post-Tolkien works. If you look at older depictions of dwarves - like Norse Mythology or Germanic sagas - you'll notice that they are very different.
To learn more about Tolkien's work and also get a better understanding of it all I strongly recommend to read not only The Lord of the Rings but also The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is not so much a novel, it is more of ahistory book telling the entirety of Middle Earth's history from a point before the world was even created. You'll also learn a lot more about the more powerfull entities in Middle Earth in the Silmarillion, including the backgrounds of Sauron, the wizards etc.
We stan Boromir 'round these parts.
Wonderful reaction, especially to Boromir's death - looking forward to more 😍
I know we don't get to see him die on screen in a direct manner but gandalf really is just dead forever. which is so sad, I wish he could be in more movies cause he's my favorite character 😭
In that scene where the orc archer throws the knife at aragorn and he deflected it. That was completely real, and kinda accidental!
I can't believe Sean Bean's character died! :)
Ikr?!? Shocking. It never happens in other movies.
Or TV series.
Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't come out well in the films. In the time in which Bilbo left the Shire and Gandalf went on a quest and came back to Frodo, 17 years passed. The Journey itself took over a year in which they travelled around 1350 miles to Mordor and back again.
16:20 Not many people realize this, but it's Frodo, with his deep passion for adventure and overall hiking, when Gandalf tells fellowship: "Fly (on the eagles), you fools", takes over fellowship leader role and cries with emotion: "NO!", devastated by the notion that this trip would end so soon.
Cant believe she said that about them at 13:10, they have wives and familes they just want to spend time with yanooo 😆