There are a ton of great characters. One of my favorites is Samwise Gamge. I also find Lord Denithor one of the most misunderstood characters in the LotR universe, mainly because of how he was represented in the movies.
I just finished watching the Hobbit and then the LOTR and I never realized how freaking good those movies were and how much I love fantasy movie/books with a passion. I sobbed like a baby when it was over and "Into The West" played in the credits. Tolkien is one, if not the best book writer I've ever been able to enjoy. I wish he had written more.
Yeah “Into The West” gets me every time. I’m reading my girlfriend TLOTR Fellowship of the Ring for the first time, it’s great. Keeps the world alive for me that was. 👍🏻
@@ozzyg82 I really wish I had been alive for it in the theater at the age I am now to be able to understand and grasp what the story was fully about and what it truly meant. Honestly one of the best movie trilogies ever in my opinion.
littlehollow Music that’s a good point. I feel lucky, I think I was at a great age for the theatrical release of the trilogy, I really enjoyed them so much. I’m sure there’ll be other great movies released perfect for you too. I hope you get to see the three films on the big screen at some point too.
@@ozzyg82 Me too lol. I don't know if you saw Interstellar, but that's another movie I missed in the theater because I was too young and probably wouldn't have appreciated it as much then like I would now. I won't miss TENET though. (If you even know what that is)
The reason why the LOTR universe is so expansive is because Tolkein didn't just sit down and say, "Yep, I'm writing a story now." He actually stared by creating his own mythology, and then he worked down from there, creating the races and languages, and eventually he decided, "Hey, there needs to be a story for all of this." That's the very very short explanation of what happened, but that is why there is so much detail in the background of the characters and the world itself. He didn't create the world for his story, he created a world and a story came _from_ it.
Sam: It’s all wrong By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam? Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for. I love the Lord of the rings, I could watch it everyday & never be bored even tho I could word for word say every line in all 3 movies by now lol
My aunt and I had a special bond when watching these movies. My mom, my cousin and my aunt all went to see all of the movies, but my aunt and I had a huge crush on the actor who played Aragorn. I miss her and my mom.
@@SimmSumm I can see why you'd say that. But at the same time I love dude in it from luke cage and I'd welcome a positive movie on race relations at the moment.
Recognizing that JRR Tolkien creates this entire mythology out of thin air, complete with its own language is almost overwhelming. That intellect doesn’t exist anymore.
Not entirely out of thin air. His whole Legendarium has a lot of little inspirations in real world history and mythology, and in filology and linguistics, his area of study. I think the really innovative thing he did was how carefully he brought those elements together, rather than just throwing them in a pile. He payed attention to etymology for the sake of storytelling, bothered with genuinely rigorous consistency (though it has its occassional oversight), as well as presenting fictional historical events with a certain degree of variety and randomness (similarly to how they'd unfold in real history and real world mythic stories). Aragorn, both in the books and the films, is rather interesting for the fact that he finally breaks a certain vicious cycle that's been pursuing his ancestors since the times of Númenor. They always grew too prideful and complacent, then they often used that as an excuse to abuse less-developed peoples, and they fell for Sauron's tricks or even direct influence several times. Númenor paid the price for this, Isildur, his father and brother perished too, the two kingdoms in exile took a beating in later times, and the same sort of prideful mistakes kept reoccuring (the last king of Gondor mentioned in the vid died because he couldn't resist the Witch-king's challenge to a duel in Mordor, and went there like a complete fool). Aragorn's notedly different from the mannerisms of these ancestors by having travelled a lot across the world, often living humbly, getting to know various cultures. Being humble, learning humility and understanding what and who he's fighting for if Sauron is going to be defeated and the Arnor/Gondor royal line be reinstated to the throne. You could say he couldn't have become the person he is if he had a more pampered upbringing and considered his right to rule as a given. He knows he has to properly work for it, and be very principled and very honest, to grow into a king widely accepted by various people. The grammar and some of the pronunciations of Aragorn's mother tongue, Adunaic, and its folk offshoot, the Westron language, was partly inspired by Middle Eastern patterns, in addition to European linguistic patterns. The dwarven language was even more inspired by Hebrew and Arabic, interestingly enough, and the two main elven languages by Finnish and Welsh grammar and pronunciations. Aragorn's own name (and most other Arnor and Gondor names) are in elvish, though, rather than a human language.
One minor clarification: Yes, Aragorn spends a few weeks spying out Mordor after he leaves Gondor. However, he is reunited with Arwen in Lothlorien and returns to Rivendell before he begins his journeys in the farther East and the South. T.A. 2980 was a very busy year for our Ranger-boy, probably his single most momentous year until the War of the Ring.
I’ve read all the Tolkien material but this is interesting. Aragorn is my favorite character. Viggo Mortensen is one of my favorite people in general. 👩🏻🦰👍🏻👑
@@animec-dramaskpop6362 dont get me wrong I watch a ton off movies, I rig nets for a living so it means I get to watch films all day, slightly problematic when I stitch my clothes in the net through lack of consintration.. but lotr extended addition are perfect lenghts!!
@@rufersalonky9547 Yes, because his father told him about the young ranger and that he should find him. We don't see the meeting, though, but we know it happened.
Even though this trilogy is a 13-15+ movie, I started watching this masterpiece when I was 7 with my brothers. I left it for a while, but now have been reunited with it, and I immediately fell in love with Aragorn's character. Tolkien made him so likeable, and Viggo Mortensen did such an amazing portrayal. I would so love to see more, maybe even have him make a cameo in the new show set to come out next year. I would love to see his rule of 120 prosperous years.
If you think about it, Aragorn married his distant relative who is old enough to be his ancestor and he only met after staying with Elrond for more than 20 years.
Yes, but Arwen had been off visiting her gramma Galadriel during those 20 years (though you'd think that Aragorn would have heard something about her before then either from Elrond or from Elladan & Elrohir; and maybe seen a portrait of her).
@@jmmmenelik4784 Arwen is a Half-elf, the daughter of Elrond (Half-elven). Aragorn is a Man of the Dunedain, whose distant ancestor was Elros, the brother of Elrond.
@@otaku-sempai2197 and elros wasn't half elf, he was made human. the advantages of the numenorians were a result of perfected humanity being mixed with normal humanity, an elf decided to become mortal after the valar gave a choice, but the valar are awesome, they made the elf mortal, but that elf was still an elf. so the line of numenor lives for a ridiculous amount of time. and the number of years has been enough that even the original numenorians has spread around long life enough that pretty much all numenorians had long life before they even went back to middle earth. phaw, its a long story, a great starter is the silmarillion.
@@lizardlad279 cmon, there are really awesome stories and solid/good stories. it doesn't necessarily mean that people are just after the money... (but i'm in NO way saying that you're not right in the case of disney!) i think you can't compare "soap-style"-stories, like avengers, star wars etc (which i enjoy a lot!!) with epic legend stories like the greek myths or tolkiens myths p. s. plus, not everyone has the time and money (!) to be able to spend decades on writing one story-universe (without publishing it i mean)
Queen Eowyn was such a good character as well originally I thought for sure Aragorn and Her would end up but I love that Farimir ended up either way it would unite Rohan and Gondor
I watched these movies when I was a really young so never really remembered much of anything, but during the quarantine my gf and I decided to watch LOTR and Hobbit movies. Great movies, I loved them so much!
Thanks for an informative video. Just wanted to say though that this 'striking out in desperation' when Isildur cuts the ring from Sauron's hand is Jackson's vision, not Tolkien's, and is one of my two great disappointments with the film, the other being the removal of the 'Scouring of the Shire'. The original tale has Sauron properly defeated, not some lucky win by a chance blow.
You know, to this day, I still don't like the section with Tom Bombadill; it just seems a pointless side plot. The Scouring of the Shire however, that was Frodo's payback in respect of his return home; should never have been dropped.
Nno mention of how he met legolas before the fellowship of the ring. It's obvious from that movie that they have been friends for a long time. Also in "battle of the 5 armies", if am correct, legolas' father told him to seek aragon. So looper what do you guys think
That's bullsh*t from the movies. During the events of the Hobbit Aragorn was a 10 year old kid living in Rivendell. He and Legolas probably met when Aragorn captured Gollum and brought him to Mirkwood
Do we clearly know that the last king of Gondor (Earnur) died or is he corrupted by Sauron when he went to Minas Morgul to confront Witch-King? Mouth of Sauron, maybe?
the blood of Luthien and Beren runs in his veins....and in Arwens too....along with Tuor and Irdil of Gondolin....and within their blood lines runs that Melian the Mair...
The scene I found most evocative in this movie series was at the end of The Two Towers, when the river is diverted to drown out the works of Saruman, but only because it evoked the Biblical verse (Micah, I am guessing, or another of the pre exilic prophets, I think) that we think of in context with the work of MKL: "Let justice flow down like water." The first time I saw the movie in the theater, I found myself gasping back tears at the visual image that so vividly evoked that key quotation, with its relevance to modern American history. But casting Gollum to look like Humphrey? "I want's it, precious, I wants the nomination!" Ick. Distracts from the art of Tolkien, from the matter at hand. I can see why the guy would have done it, but I think it was a mistake, from an artistic point of view. For people who value RFK's actual valid contributions to U.S. political discourse, the recent Black Lives Matter marches, around the country and around the world, protesting systemic racism, commemorate RFK's real-world contributions far better than the cheezey-peazey digression in this silly movie. (By which I mean the unique contribution to the field of national presidential politics that systemic racism is an appropriate and a necessary topic for national presidential candidates in the US to address in their campaigns.) Let us hope that the real RFK didn't really imagine himself to be a saint, but would have been tongue in cheek about taking on a saint's name, "Will no-one rid me of this troublesome Attorney General???" Otherwise it's narcissistic as he**, as is trying to cast him, somehow, as Farimir. What, was he funding the production or something? Ick.
Isildur does not cut off the Ring in a desperate swipe. Gil-Galad and Elendil defeat Sauron, but die in the fight. Isildur cuts the Ring off of Sauron’s corpse
I would like to see this in a animation, im getting confused to whats going on on the screen and what is she talking about, still learned some things tho.
Personally I love the LOTR books and movies for completely different reasons. The movies feel like a mad rush from one end to the other. The books carry much more that the story is focused on the journey.
As much as I loved Viggos performance in TLR's I still say his portrayal of Satan in the first "Prophecy" is his best work, he scared the piss out of me as a kid with it and made me a fan from that moment forward...
thanks to the animated movie in the 1970s, there is an entire generation (Gen X) who will always think of Aragorn as a tall Native American man with a vaguely-British accent.
Iirc, Isildur doesn’t lash out like that in the books, Gil-Galad and Elendil fight Sauron toe to toe and leave him defenceless and succumb to their own wounds, and Isildur takes up the sword hilt and cuts it from Saurons hand as he lays exhausted.
As a righteous ruler ellaser should have lived the 500 year maximum lifespan of a descent of elros. Many Númenóreans rulers reached that span. Good content BTW. Tolkien should have given that span to a great king, returned. For the dunedein. Even if manwee had to intervene directly
It was stated in the book that by the time Elessar was King, the lifespan of the Numenorean descendants was greatly reduced, and hardly any of them lived past 200.
Is it just me or does anyone notice that aragorn, shanks and jim raynor have a lot in common. 1. All three hold positions of power yet they do not feel entitled about it. Aragorn is king, shanks is a yonko, jim is a commander. 2. All three have reliable right hand man. Aragorn has legolas, shanks has ben beckman and jim has matt horner. 3. All three have an overweight friend. Aragorn has gimli, shanks has lucky roo, jim has rory swann. 4 . All three have a skilled and mysterious swordsman friend. Aragorn has legolas/elrond/gandalf (aside from wizardry), Shanks has dracule mihawk, Jim raynor has zeratul. 5. All three have a love interest. Aragorn has arwen, shanks has makino (presumably), Jim raynor has sarah kerrigan. 6. Last but not that least all three men have indominable will. Gandalf remarked aragorn as one of the hardiest men, well of course shanks is will is enough to knock people unconscious, jim raynor is admired by fenix for his will bravery while being surrounded by zerg. Call this coincidence or whatever but for me these are the perfect mirror matches of eac other.
If you like LotR lore, you might want to also check out the channel Men of the West, Yoyston, who runs that channel, has tons of great LotR coverage, including character spotlights and the lore of many regions and nations of Middle Earth.
@Crus Harold Most of the Stewards of Gondor lived for well over 100 years, if they weren't killed, so the blood of Númenor was still strong in that family
I was always under the impression that Arwen lived on long after Aragorn died. As Elrond started she would live till the last of her innate elvin magic left her. So liked to imagine that she finally died when even her direct descendants believed her a myth.
You forget to mention how Legolas was sent by his father to meet up with Aragon after the last battle depicted in the hobbit the battle of the five armies.
@Crus Harold : I do not think that King Thranduil exiled his son Legolas, but most likely sensed that he may have developed a wanderlust after the battle of the five armies. That is why he may have sent him to Aragorn. That and the fact that he also knew Aragorn's true bloodline. Just a speculation.
Who's your favorite LOTR character?
There are a ton of great characters. One of my favorites is Samwise Gamge. I also find Lord Denithor one of the most misunderstood characters in the LotR universe, mainly because of how he was represented in the movies.
All.. but likely Sam !!
Aragorn without a doubt, my favorite in the book and made even more so my favorite in the movie with the great performance of Viggo.
Gandalf the grey
Faramir
Respect to anyone still turning over the complexities of LOTR and keeping it fresh in our minds. Thanks.
I just finished watching the Hobbit and then the LOTR and I never realized how freaking good those movies were and how much I love fantasy movie/books with a passion. I sobbed like a baby when it was over and "Into The West" played in the credits. Tolkien is one, if not the best book writer I've ever been able to enjoy. I wish he had written more.
Yeah “Into The West” gets me every time. I’m reading my girlfriend TLOTR Fellowship of the Ring for the first time, it’s great. Keeps the world alive for me that was. 👍🏻
@@ozzyg82 I really wish I had been alive for it in the theater at the age I am now to be able to understand and grasp what the story was fully about and what it truly meant. Honestly one of the best movie trilogies ever in my opinion.
littlehollow Music that’s a good point. I feel lucky, I think I was at a great age for the theatrical release of the trilogy, I really enjoyed them so much. I’m sure there’ll be other great movies released perfect for you too. I hope you get to see the three films on the big screen at some point too.
@@ozzyg82 Me too lol. I don't know if you saw Interstellar, but that's another movie I missed in the theater because I was too young and probably wouldn't have appreciated it as much then like I would now. I won't miss TENET though. (If you even know what that is)
The reason why the LOTR universe is so expansive is because Tolkein didn't just sit down and say, "Yep, I'm writing a story now." He actually stared by creating his own mythology, and then he worked down from there, creating the races and languages, and eventually he decided, "Hey, there needs to be a story for all of this."
That's the very very short explanation of what happened, but that is why there is so much detail in the background of the characters and the world itself. He didn't create the world for his story, he created a world and a story came _from_ it.
Sam: It’s all wrong
By rights we shouldn’t even be here.
But we are.
It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy.
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
I love the Lord of the rings, I could watch it everyday & never be bored even tho I could word for word say every line in all 3 movies by now lol
same
hahaha I love it too! you could remake the whole thing on your own 😂
I’m not crying, I’ve just got something in my eye.
Thanks for sharing that excellent quote. Tolkien's writing should - and never could - be overshadowed by any adaptation of his work.
I love this whole interplay between the two
My aunt and I had a special bond when watching these movies. My mom, my cousin and my aunt all went to see all of the movies, but my aunt and I had a huge crush on the actor who played Aragorn.
I miss her and my mom.
Thank you for sharing keep those memories alive and remember part of them lives on 🙏 ❤
▶️ I watched a movie with him, called "Green Book". Amazingly good! You may like it.
Good luck.
Jay Jr I don't watch movies where it's a whole bunch of white savor complex mixed in.
@@SimmSumm I can see why you'd say that. But at the same time I love dude in it from luke cage and I'd welcome a positive movie on race relations at the moment.
Viggo Mortenson.
Ah yes. He's the perfect Aragorn. 😊
Aragorn for me is the coolest fictional character ever.
For me it's a character called "Wei Ying" from a drama called "The Untamed."
He is real!
Same.
Not necessarily fictional 😉
Listen to slow cheetah by the red hot chilli peppers 😉
If only toklien had Aragorn's gift and live 200 years to continue this beautiful story.
Lord of the Rings is the best trilogy in the history of cinema
Yes it's more consistent than the original Star Wars trilogy.
theyre great but nothing compared to the books. you should read them if you have the time.
@@jaycerussell7761 I have read the books, they are great. I'm just talking about the movies, all 3 of them are great.
Meh
Segio Leone's trilogy the man with no name..
Recognizing that JRR Tolkien creates this entire mythology out of thin air, complete with its own language is almost overwhelming. That intellect doesn’t exist anymore.
Not entirely out of thin air. His whole Legendarium has a lot of little inspirations in real world history and mythology, and in filology and linguistics, his area of study.
I think the really innovative thing he did was how carefully he brought those elements together, rather than just throwing them in a pile. He payed attention to etymology for the sake of storytelling, bothered with genuinely rigorous consistency (though it has its occassional oversight), as well as presenting fictional historical events with a certain degree of variety and randomness (similarly to how they'd unfold in real history and real world mythic stories).
Aragorn, both in the books and the films, is rather interesting for the fact that he finally breaks a certain vicious cycle that's been pursuing his ancestors since the times of Númenor. They always grew too prideful and complacent, then they often used that as an excuse to abuse less-developed peoples, and they fell for Sauron's tricks or even direct influence several times. Númenor paid the price for this, Isildur, his father and brother perished too, the two kingdoms in exile took a beating in later times, and the same sort of prideful mistakes kept reoccuring (the last king of Gondor mentioned in the vid died because he couldn't resist the Witch-king's challenge to a duel in Mordor, and went there like a complete fool).
Aragorn's notedly different from the mannerisms of these ancestors by having travelled a lot across the world, often living humbly, getting to know various cultures. Being humble, learning humility and understanding what and who he's fighting for if Sauron is going to be defeated and the Arnor/Gondor royal line be reinstated to the throne. You could say he couldn't have become the person he is if he had a more pampered upbringing and considered his right to rule as a given. He knows he has to properly work for it, and be very principled and very honest, to grow into a king widely accepted by various people.
The grammar and some of the pronunciations of Aragorn's mother tongue, Adunaic, and its folk offshoot, the Westron language, was partly inspired by Middle Eastern patterns, in addition to European linguistic patterns. The dwarven language was even more inspired by Hebrew and Arabic, interestingly enough, and the two main elven languages by Finnish and Welsh grammar and pronunciations. Aragorn's own name (and most other Arnor and Gondor names) are in elvish, though, rather than a human language.
Certainly a Genius
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time is arguably more developed than LOTR.
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@@victroiki7321 who is the father of aragorn . In Google if you search elrond it shows aragorn as his child
Damn it. Guess I’ll rewatch LOTR.
Right!!!
I need a new Blue ray, I think the old one had broken due to the constant re play 🤣🤣🤣
just three days ago finished watching all three parts..now starting to watch the hobbit..
Read it y'all!
I do an annual rewatch every July!😌
We have to protect Viggo at all costs
One minor clarification: Yes, Aragorn spends a few weeks spying out Mordor after he leaves Gondor. However, he is reunited with Arwen in Lothlorien and returns to Rivendell before he begins his journeys in the farther East and the South. T.A. 2980 was a very busy year for our Ranger-boy, probably his single most momentous year until the War of the Ring.
I’ve read all the Tolkien material but this is interesting. Aragorn is my favorite character. Viggo Mortensen is one of my favorite people in general. 👩🏻🦰👍🏻👑
Everytime I see Viggo mortensen all I see is Aragorn. This character was made for him and vice versa. Like jack sparrow made for Johnny depp.
makes me want to watch the films all over again thanks!!!
All over again... does this mean you haven’t watched the triology this week yet ??
I re-watch them every year.
@@animec-dramaskpop6362 i watch them all every other
rmonth
@@michaelpledger8951 Damn, that's a lot. I like to watch stand-alones every other month like Troy and Gladiator.
@@animec-dramaskpop6362 dont get me wrong I watch a ton off movies, I rig nets for a living so it means I get to watch films all day, slightly problematic when I stitch my clothes in the net through lack of consintration.. but lotr extended addition are perfect lenghts!!
I would have liked to hear a bit about how Aragon met Legolas and their friendship.
Legolas met him after the end of hobbit
@@rufersalonky9547 Yes, because his father told him about the young ranger and that he should find him. We don't see the meeting, though, but we know it happened.
@@lyncat it be a lot cooler if u did
@@rufersalonky9547 That story should've been a part of The Hobbit.
well, it was never in the book, and Aragorn would've been quite a bit younger at the time
the Lord of the Rings is the Mona Lisa of cinema. I just remembered to watch it for the 24th time
Lotr is making a comeback on youtube recently. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
Even though this trilogy is a 13-15+ movie, I started watching this masterpiece when I was 7 with my brothers. I left it for a while, but now have been reunited with it, and I immediately fell in love with Aragorn's character. Tolkien made him so likeable, and Viggo Mortensen did such an amazing portrayal. I would so love to see more, maybe even have him make a cameo in the new show set to come out next year. I would love to see his rule of 120 prosperous years.
Viggo Mortensen is a beautiful man.
All time favorite! Watched it hundred times! Almost 2 decades since LOTR 1 released. Still the best ever.
Its so much better than Harry Potter which is complete crap
Hail King Aragorn long live the King
If you think about it, Aragorn married his distant relative who is old enough to be his ancestor and he only met after staying with Elrond for more than 20 years.
Yes, but Arwen had been off visiting her gramma Galadriel during those 20 years (though you'd think that Aragorn would have heard something about her before then either from Elrond or from Elladan & Elrohir; and maybe seen a portrait of her).
also if you think about it any one who is wed nowadays in our world is at furthest 17th cousins, and usually much closer relatives then that
I thought she is Elf how can she be related if they are different species. Aragon is half Elf.
@@jmmmenelik4784 Arwen is a Half-elf, the daughter of Elrond (Half-elven). Aragorn is a Man of the Dunedain, whose distant ancestor was Elros, the brother of Elrond.
@@otaku-sempai2197 and elros wasn't half elf, he was made human. the advantages of the numenorians were a result of perfected humanity being mixed with normal humanity, an elf decided to become mortal after the valar gave a choice, but the valar are awesome, they made the elf mortal, but that elf was still an elf. so the line of numenor lives for a ridiculous amount of time. and the number of years has been enough that even the original numenorians has spread around long life enough that pretty much all numenorians had long life before they even went back to middle earth. phaw, its a long story, a great starter is the silmarillion.
Is it just me or did Looper suddenly gain a massive obsession with LOTR
I think they’re gearing up for the tv show and getting on that train before everyone else does.
LoTR one of the best movie ever made on this planet.. an epic masterpiece..
Thanks for a great video! This makes everything so much clearer!
My all time favorite movie, Lord of the Rings trilogy...
And Disney thinks “somehow Palpatine returned” counts as writing
😂
that's a tough comparison though... i mean tolkien did write that stuff plus backstory and everything (languages etc) for quite some decades...
alex taws proves Tolkien cared about his creation and Disney is only in it for the money
@@lizardlad279 cmon, there are really awesome stories and solid/good stories. it doesn't necessarily mean that people are just after the money... (but i'm in NO way saying that you're not right in the case of disney!) i think you can't compare "soap-style"-stories, like avengers, star wars etc (which i enjoy a lot!!) with epic legend stories like the greek myths or tolkiens myths
p. s. plus, not everyone has the time and money (!) to be able to spend decades on writing one story-universe (without publishing it i mean)
alex taws what I meant was Star Wars WAS about the story but now it’s not the case
@@alextaws6657 thats exactly what star wars was... a single universe written over 40 years.
Queen Eowyn was such a good character as well originally I thought for sure Aragorn and Her would end up but I love that Farimir ended up either way it would unite Rohan and Gondor
one of the things i love about the book return of the king is faramir romancing eowyn
greg20067 yes the books do a great job as well as the extended version of the films
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I favour Theatrical cut version since it's first my nostalgia and second it gives us suspense.
@@TheLatiosnlatias02 oh for sure I started with the theater ( non- extended) first as well
@@greg20067 extended helped that
Love this... Please also make one for the "King of the Woodland Realm" Thranduil. That would be awesome.❤️❤️
This exactly shows that when time loses the correct memory,history will repeat itself and hope humanity learnt this lesson
I watched these movies when I was a really young so never really remembered much of anything, but during the quarantine my gf and I decided to watch LOTR and Hobbit movies. Great movies, I loved them so much!
Thanks for an informative video. Just wanted to say though that this 'striking out in desperation' when Isildur cuts the ring from Sauron's hand is Jackson's vision, not Tolkien's, and is one of my two great disappointments with the film, the other being the removal of the 'Scouring of the Shire'. The original tale has Sauron properly defeated, not some lucky win by a chance blow.
Exactly. Gil-Galad and Elendil kill Sauron at the cost of their lives. Isildur just cuts the ring away from Sauron.
Glorfindel should have brought Frodo and not Arwen. Beregond, Tom Bombadil are missing.
'Scouring of the Shire'
You know, to this day, I still don't like the section with Tom Bombadill; it just seems a pointless side plot. The Scouring of the Shire however, that was Frodo's payback in respect of his return home; should never have been dropped.
Now that's a love story. She literally died from a broken heart.
Narsil/Anduril is the most beautiful sword ever
Denethor's sword is so cool, We see him carry it but never seen him took it off
Time to re-watch LOTR again.
The best trilogy movie... Watch it again and again and again and again....
the best character ever in the best trilogy ever
This Pandemic brought me back to rewatch LOTR Love this movie then and now.
Around here, he’s known as strider
Nno mention of how he met legolas before the fellowship of the ring. It's obvious from that movie that they have been friends for a long time. Also in "battle of the 5 armies", if am correct, legolas' father told him to seek aragon. So looper what do you guys think
That's bullsh*t from the movies. During the events of the Hobbit Aragorn was a 10 year old kid living in Rivendell. He and Legolas probably met when Aragorn captured Gollum and brought him to Mirkwood
I really don't get how people are impressed with Game of the Thrones when Lord of the Rings literally exists
Competition from different companies
im not crying you're crying
Do we clearly know that the last king of Gondor (Earnur) died or is he corrupted by Sauron when he went to Minas Morgul to confront Witch-King? Mouth of Sauron, maybe?
we really need an aragon prequel here!!
That would be crazy amazing!
the blood of Luthien and Beren runs in his veins....and in Arwens too....along with Tuor and Irdil of Gondolin....and within their blood lines runs that Melian the Mair...
The scene I found most evocative in this movie series was at the end of The Two Towers, when the river is diverted to drown out the works of Saruman, but only because it evoked the Biblical verse (Micah, I am guessing, or another of the pre exilic prophets, I think) that we think of in context with the work of MKL: "Let justice flow down like water." The first time I saw the movie in the theater, I found myself gasping back tears at the visual image that so vividly evoked that key quotation, with its relevance to modern American history.
But casting Gollum to look like Humphrey? "I want's it, precious, I wants the nomination!" Ick. Distracts from the art of Tolkien, from the matter at hand. I can see why the guy would have done it, but I think it was a mistake, from an artistic point of view.
For people who value RFK's actual valid contributions to U.S. political discourse, the recent Black Lives Matter marches, around the country and around the world, protesting systemic racism, commemorate RFK's real-world contributions far better than the cheezey-peazey digression in this silly movie. (By which I mean the unique contribution to the field of national presidential politics that systemic racism is an appropriate and a necessary topic for national presidential candidates in the US to address in their campaigns.) Let us hope that the real RFK didn't really imagine himself to be a saint, but would have been tongue in cheek about taking on a saint's name, "Will no-one rid me of this troublesome Attorney General???" Otherwise it's narcissistic as he**, as is trying to cast him, somehow, as Farimir. What, was he funding the production or something? Ick.
Isildur does not cut off the Ring in a desperate swipe. Gil-Galad and Elendil defeat Sauron, but die in the fight. Isildur cuts the Ring off of Sauron’s corpse
Dang it!! Informations i never knew! Now im gonna have to watch Lord of the rings trilogy all over again😣
I would like to see this in a animation, im getting confused to whats going on on the screen and what is she talking about, still learned some things tho.
His story is so beautiful. Made me cry legit.
Personally I love the LOTR books and movies for completely different reasons. The movies feel like a mad rush from one end to the other. The books carry much more that the story is focused on the journey.
Well that's due to the different formats. You only get a couple hours for a movie but books aren't so limited.
When in the movie legolas describes who aragorn is I felt dude he is something big...!!!! ❤️
As much as I loved Viggos performance in TLR's I still say his portrayal of Satan in the first "Prophecy" is his best work, he scared the piss out of me as a kid with it and made me a fan from that moment forward...
Anyone who read the Lord of the Rings Appendices and/or the Silmarlian knows Aragorn's back story
Yeah that's gonna be a no from me dawg
@Mr Lesir oo I want a cookie
@@littlehollow Wait, is someone handing out cookies? I wanna a cookie too!
@@littlehollow 😂😂
Best trilogy in the history of literature. Read the book/s.
2:30 weren't many generations of Isildurs bloodline were raised in Rivendell???
4:00 Aragorn and Arwen met for the first time when he was 20??
I have lost sleep trying to figure this out
Thankyou
All you had to do was look in the book. It's all right there.
thanks to the animated movie in the 1970s, there is an entire generation (Gen X) who will always think of Aragorn as a tall Native American man with a vaguely-British accent.
Id watch Aragon movie
They really need to make an Aragorn show
man I would have loved for them have gave him his own movie
Theres an upcoming TV show on middle earth in its earlier ages so we'll likely see Aragorn. :)
@@bilaliqbal4012 Highly unlikely. It is set thousands of years before Aragorn was born.
I heard if aragorn have 6 kids and he called by "captain Fantastic"
They need to make a spin off explaining this in a new trilogy. I miss good movies like lord of the rings.
That is what you're going to get with the new Amazon series. :)
@@Serai3 The Amazon series will be in the second age, thousands of years before Aragorn was born
@@gearoidgarvey8266 i think, they make every season about another character, first beeing aragorn, could be wrong, but i'm sure i read it.
I never realized Aragorn was 87
11:30 bottom right, hey prop guy Toss the dummy.
Ok "Weeeeeeeee
There could easily be an Aragorn series made out of this. Both a prequel and a sequel
Right in the feels
Boy, the pronunciation from the narrator is just abysmal.
Lol
Yes that bothered me so much
the chieftaaaaaaaains - putting the emphaaaaasis on all the wrong sylaaaaables.
Dune….dane?
Great job!
loved this, thank you
Omg the pronunciation!
Great video!
Thanks! Explains a lot.
I think, my favorite character in a movie
The casting was perfect.
we need a aragorn movie
Iirc, Isildur doesn’t lash out like that in the books, Gil-Galad and Elendil fight Sauron toe to toe and leave him defenceless and succumb to their own wounds, and Isildur takes up the sword hilt and cuts it from
Saurons hand as he lays exhausted.
As a righteous ruler ellaser should have lived the 500 year maximum lifespan of a descent of elros. Many Númenóreans rulers reached that span. Good content BTW. Tolkien should have given that span to a great king, returned. For the dunedein. Even if manwee had to intervene directly
It was stated in the book that by the time Elessar was King, the lifespan of the Numenorean descendants was greatly reduced, and hardly any of them lived past 200.
Looper, great video! Enjoy your Sunday!💯🙏👐
Wow...
I noticed that legolas already exists even before the fall o lonely mountain..
being an elvin prince, he had been around for quite awhile.
Legolas is almost 3000 years old
If Amazon wanted another LOTR show to make... Here ya go!
Can someone please talk to the producer to make another LOTR. Like at the beginning 😊
OK, It will be ready in a few days
Awesome video
One of my all time favourite
“500 orca vs Aragorn? Seems pretty unfair. FOR THEM (orcs).” - random meme from google
Is it just me or does anyone notice that aragorn, shanks and jim raynor have a lot in common.
1. All three hold positions of power yet they do not feel entitled about it. Aragorn is king, shanks is a yonko, jim is a commander.
2. All three have reliable right hand man. Aragorn has legolas, shanks has ben beckman and jim has matt horner.
3. All three have an overweight friend. Aragorn has gimli, shanks has lucky roo, jim has rory swann.
4 . All three have a skilled and mysterious swordsman friend. Aragorn has legolas/elrond/gandalf (aside from wizardry), Shanks has dracule mihawk, Jim raynor has zeratul.
5. All three have a love interest. Aragorn has arwen, shanks has makino (presumably), Jim raynor has sarah kerrigan.
6. Last but not that least all three men have indominable will. Gandalf remarked aragorn as one of the hardiest men, well of course shanks is will is enough to knock people unconscious, jim raynor is admired by fenix for his will bravery while being surrounded by zerg.
Call this coincidence or whatever but for me these are the perfect mirror matches of eac other.
Best couple in the history of cenima ever
This is impressively and refreshingly concise. I'm weary of the usually tumid and deliberately obtuse Tolkien "explanations."
You should do a Videos for the other characters too
If you like LotR lore, you might want to also check out the channel Men of the West, Yoyston, who runs that channel, has tons of great LotR coverage, including character spotlights and the lore of many regions and nations of Middle Earth.
VIGGO 😍
Funny I just finished the return of the king earlier 😂 now this pop up
Basically most of what they said is pretty good until the details about how the eing was gained by isildur
Where is this footage of Aragorn dying and with his son from? I didn't see it in the movies? Did I miss something?
We need a movie
the thing is though, the extended version says he is 80 something in the two towers
Bro, all Aragorn, boromir, faramir are numenorians, they dont age that easy, they live around 150-200
@Crus Harold Most of the Stewards of Gondor lived for well over 100 years, if they weren't killed, so the blood of Númenor was still strong in that family
I hope they make a movie or tv series of aragorns legacy before lotr
I was always under the impression that Arwen lived on long after Aragorn died. As Elrond started she would live till the last of her innate elvin magic left her. So liked to imagine that she finally died when even her direct descendants believed her a myth.
Arwen left Gondor after Aragorn died, dwelling alone in Lothlorien until she returned to Cerin Amroth to pass away the following winter
4:21 make me spill went i drinking...lol
You forget to mention how Legolas was sent by his father to meet up with Aragon after the last battle depicted in the hobbit the battle of the five armies.
@Crus Harold : I do not think that King Thranduil exiled his son Legolas, but most likely sensed that he may have developed a wanderlust after the battle of the five armies. That is why he may have sent him to Aragorn. That and the fact that he also knew Aragorn's true bloodline. Just a speculation.
@Crus Harold also Aragorn was a 10 year old kid living in Rivendell at that time
"Their son becomes the new king of the reunited realm."
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