I Watched Lord of the Rings for the First Time
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Hiii everyone! As you can see, I watched The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (directed by Peter Jackson) for the first time recently. I actually watched all three of the LOTR movies in the trilogy, but it just so happened that when I sat down to talk about it, I only managed to get through the first one before I realized I had been talking about hobbits and elves and orcs and Tolkien for like an hour. I don't know if I will do this for the second or third LOTR films, but let me know how you liked listening to my thoughts and unpopular opinions here! I thought it was a fun way to get my thoughts out, and if people like it enough I might do one for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King too. My main opinion on the trilogy as of now is: Samwise Gamgee is the best, Frodo has some problems, and Gandalf and Saruman were in love. Thanks for reading and watching!
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Yeah Tolkien has a MASSIVE noted issue w race... The book tries to touch on people being more complex... It also uses horrific wording on occasion tho... Win some lose some when the author was literally born in the 1800s I guess.
Some of the issues were 100% on the movie makers tho. The books actually describe that the majority of hobbits are brown, and yet when Maori people tried out for hobbit extra parts during the hobbit trilogy, casting people literally told them hobbits couldn't be brown... So while Tolkien is not innocent I find myself side-eyeing the people making the movies in the 90s and 2010s even worse for not having done better despite the time they were living in
Edit: I am a dwarrow for sure (they only use the word dwarf in the movie but the books use dwarrow occasionally and my friends who have dwarfism say they prefer that we don't. Use that word for fantasy species). Got super into the lore and fanlore for them when i was in high school and the hobbit movies were coming out.
Edit 2: ❤ what u say about gandalf and Bilbo hooking up. Perfect read. But also they do not know its The Ring when the movie starts, to them its just a fun little invisibility charm, until Bilbo gets all Its Mine over it, which is when Gandalf leaves to go get more research. When Gandalf comes back and goes "aaa the ring get tf out!!" That's cuz he just confirmed it was The Ring for the first time
Oh my gosh yeah my thoughts exactly like... okay, so the source material is not so great. But does that mean the filmmakers have to go so hard on the ra cism too? And I had no idea that they legit turned brown people AWAY who auditioned for primary roles that is so insane!! Peter Jackson you'll have to answer for your crimes one day
obsessed w the way u describe the plot
thank you i attribute it to the speech class i took at community college and also my child-like wonder
omg please do the second and third moviess, I've watched them before but this way felt like im on facetime with a friend and getting the fun summary LOL. missed your videos!
omg yay okay i might end up doing them then hehe 😋 thank you for watching 💞🥰
This is the ideal way to consume these movies
agree, thank you 👆
Omg girlie you're still alive I've missed you sm
omg you guysss 🥺🤧💖💕💖
missed you! glad to see another upload 🎉❤
omg thank you youre so sweet 🤧💖
Gobby :)
gobby :)
She's back! 😍
aw hehe 🥰💞
love the way you summarized these movies, i had a lot of fun watching 🥰
aw omg thank you for watching!! 🥰💕
Children often recognize basic truths that adults are too afraid to speak openly. Now, there are exceptions to those truths, but that does not make them untrue.
the way idgaf about these movies at all but still watched this whole video 💋 loved the way you summarized the plot it was very fun to hear lmao
thank you 😌💖
Have not watched these movies in like a decade, and this was for sure the best way to revisit the story
hehe thank you 🥰💖
Best retelling of fellowship❤😂
Can't wait for your takeaway on the two towers
When i first got into LOTR I obviously jumped to fan spaces, and I felt it was weird the lack of discourse on the blatant racism coding of middle earth. Like the Uruk hai are literally gross ugly inherently evil cannibalistic black skin “people” and the “best” race are the eloquent perfect looking blonde white skinned people. It felt waaay to on the nose and I was surprised that in the discourse i did see (especially on tumblr) the fans DID NOT like it being brought to attention.
Anyways I think If I was in middle earth I would want to be an elf because of theyre cultural aesthetics but realistically I’d probably be dead.
I also find it very funny that she mentioned elijah woods giant eyes starting at you all the time and then got his eye color wrong 😂
"not in a gay way. i mean they are both gay, but like, not for each other" omg i was on the floor
I feel like I rewatched the movie with your vid 💋 haven’t seen it in yearss but it’s the perfect plot summary imo 😌
thank you so much hehe 😋💞
such feminism i am no man go off queen
also im so happy ur a legimli stan letsago
on the winning team 🫡
I love Gobby. I cant even remember his actual character name anymore
all we know is Gobby 👆
Interesting takes....
“he looked like a weirdo the whole movie” 😂😂😂 loved ur whole process, it was like hearing a friend recount a movie they just saw. great video!!
Gobby.
we missed you ‼️‼️‼️‼️
you're the sweetest thank you 🤧💖❤️💖
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I haven’t watched Lord of The Rings since I was 10, but I’m still gonna watch this
thank you, i respect you
Loved the video! Haven’t seen the movies since I was a kid so I’m choosing to believe they’re about a bunch of white gays who are also just little guys having to unlearn their racism, instead of whatever actually happens.
Also the hobbits would be SO sad if they had the covid pandemic they wouldn’t be able to have all their little parties :,(