THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING PART 1/2 (EXTENDED) - REACTION *READ DESCRIPTION*
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- UPDATE: I unfortunately had to mute the video from 1:44-4:07 due to copyrighted music in the Prologue. If you've seen the movie before (I imagine you have!), you know what happens :) I've added subtitles in this section so you can still follow along if you turn on CC.
Today we are watching Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring! The extended editions are long, so this movie will be split into two videos to show even more of the reaction. Enjoy!
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Each movie in this trilogy is long but every minute is worth it.
It is an epic, after all.
And it is not an apology.
I remember going to see this when it came out in the theater and walking out thinking, how could it have been that long it felt like nothing.
Once you start you'll never notice it and when it ends you'll wish it hadn't.
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes!
In my estimation the Lord of the Rings is the greatest achievement in the art of cinema to date. Nothing had been done like this before or since. An absolute masterpiece.
You've had way too many magic brownies. 🙄🙄🙄
@@scottperry8354 and you've had too much wine
It doesn't even come close to the Godfather and Godfather 2.
@@Wolf-ln1ml Didn't say it was the best film, just that it was the greatest achievement in the art of cinema. I would agree both of Godfathers are better dramas. But the achievements in art direction, screenplay adaptation, cinematography, scoring, makeup, costumes, set design and visual effects, are off the charts. Nothing has been done like it before or since. Doubt we'll ever see an epic like it ever again.
@@Wolf-ln1ml Tbh Marlon Brando can stuff up his cheeks all he wants, i don't buy him as Godfather, he came across much more believable as that dandy Fletcher Christian on the Bounty.
EVERYONE always says, "4 Hours??!!!!!!" followed by "It's over already?!?!?!"
EVERYONE loves The Shire
EVERYONE wants to kill Pippin at some point in the movie! =)
Not kill, just whack over the head
omg you have no idea. pippin is the worst.
@@takumi2023 He grows on you eventually
Nah i loved Pippin from start to finish x)
Pretty sure the credits are 30 minutes long
It never gets old seeing new people get into this masterpiece of a franchise. And it's such a small thing but you may be the first reactor I've seen that commented on how "heavy" the ring felt when Bilbo dropped it on the floor. It doesn't even bounce. Small detail but really significant on symbolizing just how much of a burden having that ring is.
Not only that but his hand was nearly perpendicular to the floor before it finally slid off of his hand. It didn't want to leave Bilbo.
Thump!! like it was made of lead. I noticed that too and I didn't think anyone else noticed it either.
I believe they used magnets to achieve that effect, it's such a small detail but says so much!!
I'll add that the sound my subwoofer made when the ring landed impressed me with that feeling of 'mass'.
It gets even creepier when you remember in the prologue, there was the scene of the Ring abandoning Gollum by bouncing freely down some stones in the cave. These two brief moments make a subtle but powerful reminder that the One Ring does indeed have a will of its own.
It's pretty much impossible for me not to watch someone react to the LOTR trilogy... favorite trilogy of all time
Yup, I check every couple days for new ones up
I'm in this club😄
Uhh yep 🤣
I still prefer people to watch the Middle-Earth saga in chronological order at this point (how many books does one start halfway through?), but most people don't have the balls, unfortunately. And all this 'release order fundamentalism' mentality among people doesn't help, either.
Lol I’m the same
20 years later and "one does not simply walk into Mordor" is still a famous meme 🤣 I love this trilogy, once a year I do a marathon of the Extended Edition 😁
"It's an old meme, sir. But it checks out." 😁
Is it going to be difficult to walk into Mordor?
No, it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
When I was a teacher, we used to say 'One does not simply walk in to the classroom. There is evil there that always sleeps.'
We do our marathon on Christmas Day! 😊
Extended edition is the only way to watch
“I want to be a hobbit”
A sentiment I too felt at 12 years old when I first watched this glorious movie.
If the intro makes you want to be a hobbit, then you fully understood it.
I felt it at 12 years old in 1978 on my first reading of the books.
I felt the same way when I first watched the Rankin Bass Hobbit cartoon way back in the late 70's. Then my parents bought me the LP record with accompanying book. Then they got me the actual book and I've been reading and re-reading it ever since.
I'm reminded of what Gandalf said in the Return of the King (1980) when people in future ages who hears of this tale, will ask themselves, "Is there a Hobbit in me? Is there?"
I felt it at 20 watching this when it first came out
Greatest movie trilogy of all time. Prepare to feel all the emotions
One of the more important things to bear in mind when watching these films is that the Ring is a character in its own right. It is motivated by its drive to return to its maker and master, the Dark Lord Sauron. Since it obviously lacks the ability to move about on its own, it warps and corrupts the thoughts of those with whom it comes into contact - thus, it "ensnared" a new carrier and it "abandoned" both Isildur and Gollum.
She knows. Gandalph talked about it.
True and most readers of the books believe that when Gollum says "we" all the time, he is referring to himself and the Ring, not his Gollum and Smeagol parts as the movies would have you think. The Ring is that much a part of him after 500 years.
It should be added, the ring can reshape itself at will.
@@thundercat2000ca Yes, it did when it slipped on frodos finger at the prancing pony in bree, when frodo only wanted to catch it in his palm.
Teh ring actually has 'voices', be it the singing of children or the whispers of the dark... you hear them all throughout the movie as it manipulates the various members of the Fellowship.
Fun little bit of lore. When the hobbits are hiding from the Ringwraith under the tree and all of the bugs are crawling out, it's because the wraith repel all living things and instill them with terror. The bugs are basically running away
Peter Jackson also largely shot this scene in the same way it was in the 1978 animated LOTR movie, albeit not giving the Ringwraith a limp for no reason...
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy yeah, not enough people know about that one. Imo it’s not as good as the PJ version, but still worth a watch. Strangely enough, there seems to be this notion among some people that you can’t say that because the latter lifts several scenes right from the animated version… Personally, I see nothing wrong with acknowledging that the Baksheesh film was the first to come up with these new scenes while still seeing the more recent movies as superior
@@jordinagel1184 Yeah, Bakshi definitely made some odd choices, particularly when it comes to design (making Aragorn look like a Native American? Borormir look like a Viking? The Balrog look like a tall guy in a winged lion costume? That random giant horned skull in Moria? 🤷♂️), but I still think Jackson is a bit more indebted to the film than he'd care to admit. I mean, he definitely took the lead on some of the stuff Bakshi did and just executed them better: the aforementioned 'Black Rider' scene, the 'bed-slashing' scene (particularly of note, since that scene was never in the book), and even ending "Two Towers" in the exact same place the animated film did.
30:47 Elrond is an Elf, and thus immortal. The movie is taking place at the end of the Third Age. Elrond was born at the end of the First Age.
32:20 Bit of a deep dive into lore here. J.R.R.Tolkien, who wrote LORD THE RINGS, met his future wife Edith when they were teenagers, They fell deeply in love. In the grand mythos that he created, the first union between Men and Elves was Beren and Luthien, a grand love story central to pretty much everything. Elrond and Aragorn are both remote descendants of them, many generations later (especially Aragorn). But when Edith Tolkien died, her husband had the name "Luthien" put on her gravestone, A few years later, he died and as per his instructions the name "Beren" was carved upon his.
Elrond was a half-elf, not full elf though.
@@raifthemad He is counted among the First Born.
Just want to bump the importance of Beren and Luthien. I find it hard to overstate how meaningful their tale is. If you were to argue that the lay of Beren and Luthien is the defining narrative of Middle Earth, I couldn't find fault with you.
@@DavidMacDowellBlue Yes, because he chose to live as one of them. His twin brother Elros, by contrast, chose to live as a mortal Man and became the First Ruling King of Numenor. Arwen is counted as a Half-elf and also has to choose between living as an Elf or as a mortal.
@@DavidMacDowellBlue yes, but he is still entitled Halfelven
RIP Ian Holm
RIP Christopher Lee
So many legends in one film
I have a personal connection to LOTR, as my uncle was in the BBC Radio adaptation, with Ian Holm. My uncle played both The Black Rider who utters them immortal line ‘Shire, Baggins’ & Beregond (who’s not seen in the films).
Back in 2005, I had the honour of meeting Sir Christopher Lee & spoke to him at length not just about LOTR, but his work in Hammer Films & the greatest British Horror of all time….The Wicker Man.
Tolkien was a master linguist. He created many fictional languages long before he wrote LOTR.
He had no way to properly use them, so he thought the best way to bring the alive was in a story. First the ,"Hobbit" story. Then with the LOTR epic saga. He also used his deep knowledge of Norse Methology and storytelling to further aid him in his book writing hobby.
Good overview.
He had already created the world, while 'The Silmarillon' was not published until after he died (because he continued working on it all through his life) the world already existed in his mind. The Hobbit was a children's story in which he used some of the same characters in his legendarium, LotR brought the Hobbit into the same world, when it was originally intended to be stand-alone story
what are languages for, but creating legends?
@@blacktronlego You can’t really say someone created a world or work of fiction until they actually create it physically through a medium. At least that is my opinion, otherwise you could claim you created anything you want, even work that someone already did and say you came up with it first, I just don’t think it works like that or that it should. Also, as a writer, you really aren’t able to expand upon your ideas until you begin writing them. And after you write them, you can go further and change things to fit later details or concepts and evolve it. So really, what you imagine in your head isn’t at all what you eventually end up creating even though it may share similarities.
He was a philologist, actually…but yeah.
Hey Addie I know this will tickle you heart. Director Peter Jackson took Bilbo's house interior set and made it a second addition to his mansion. When people come to visit him. He asks if they want to stay in the regular guest room, or the Hobbiton guest room. You figure which one they go for.
I realized the jump scares being experienced must be due to Peter Jackson's experience with the Horror genre. Using his skill set.
They don’t get me anymore but they always surprise new viewers and I find that hilarious everytime
Yep... Mordor is literally "Man's Land" from WWI - 'the very air you breathe, a poisonous fume' - poison gas. The ring wraith scream - artillery shells. The Great eye watching - snipers.
Frodo: “I don’t understand.”
Gandalf: “Neither do I”
And if that isn’t frightening in its own way…
Also, when Gandalf returns to Bag End: “Is it secret? Is it safe?” They did an excellent job of portraying Gandalf as utterly *terrified*. He doesn’t *know* what Frodo has, not until the fire reveals the letters, but he very strongly suspects it is the One Ring. And he also *knows* the Ringwraiths are out there hunting for it.
He would have far more self control though. That scene is pretty much the trilogy's equivalent of "Dumbledore asked calmly" meme...
Fun Fact: When Gandalf left Frodo at the beginning to go find information, it was 17 years before he returned to him lol. Great reaction!
it was 30, frodo was early twenties at the party and was 51 when he left the shire with the ring in the books
@@angelous8942 No, he was 33 - the age at which hobbits are considered to come of age. He has the same birthday as Bilbo. Merry and Pippin are in their 20s.
@@PhilBagels just looked it up, frodo is 51 mary is 37 and pip is 29 when they leave the shire. it was 17 years i guess since the party not sure why i thought 30 but anyway pip would have been 12 at the party and mary 20 but they show them as older in the movies which leads to confusion for people.
@@angelous8942 Frodo was 33 at Bilbo's party. And was 50 when Gandalf returned.
In the book, yes. In the movie, we can infer months passed rather than years.
As someone from New Zealand where this film was made its always a proud moment to see people admire our beauty
Prior to the Lord of the Rings, all I knew about New Zealand was that one of my elementary school teachers had moved there. After the Lord of the Rings, I learned everything I could about it -- from Aukland and Wellington and hot springs and the Maori to Christchurch's architecture, Queenstown's adventures, and the fjords and the sheep! I planned to explore it thoroughly, vacationing there for the full 30 days allowed by a travel visa. Sadly, life took a left turn, so it's two decades later and I still haven't gone -- but, if things go my way, maybe it'll happen by the end of this decade...
@@bigdream_dreambig I have found out reddit group dedicated to world maps without New Zealand:p
New Zealanders define themselves by something other than being where the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed challenge (impossible)
6:19 I could be wrong but I do believe Sir Ian did actually hit his head there and it fit so well that they rolled with it XD
Did I get that right?
yes
Yes
You will learn all about the incident with Bilbo and the Dragon when you watch "The Hobbit" and that is all I can say without spoiling things.
I will spoil a little bit: Gandalf was more than just "Barely involved".
Also, don't watch The Hobbit trilogy. It's garbage and betrays the books in any of a number of conflicting, terrible ways.
Watch The Hobbit Tolkien Edit *or* The Hobbit Maple Films Edit.
They've stripped out tons of unnecessary and terrible content, and edited three films down into a narrative that much more closely aligns with the books.
@@nulltheworm I’m going to disagree somewhat with your assessment of the hobbit movies. They were good movies, in their own right, almost independent of the books. Where all the extra material came from, was when they tried to stretch one book into three movies. I’d say, if you want to watch some fun movies with elves, dwarves, and a really big dragon, go right ahead. If you want what actually happened, look elsewhere.
I say go ahead and watch the Hobbit movies. I don't think there's anything that spoils the other two LotR movies.
And I personally enjoy them. Yeah, there's added stuff that has nothing to do with the book, but when is a movie 100% faithful to a book. My favorite childhood film was only half of a book.
Read the book. It's a quick read. The movies are a bloated mess. The Hobbit is only about half as long as a single book of LoTR. It would take a lot longer to watch the movies.
FYI: The reason why Aragorn was prepared for the Hobbits' arrival is explained in the books. He was assigned by Gandalf to wait for them there with a letter of introduction to join their Company and help them along the way.
14:35 The elfs are leaving middle earth ( the continent the movies take part on) to return to their own lands, as their power wanes and their power diminishes. The act has massive implications lore wise, which are WAY past the scope of the movies
* wanes
PRACTICAL EFFECTS BEFORE CGI
That's my motto
"That's a meme! I get it now!" Oh you precious bean... I was there, 3000 years ago when it was made XD
Out of all of the reactions I've seen to these, you're the only one I can recall that actually noticed the weight of the ring when it falls to the floor. I look forward to seeing you watch the rest of this trilogy!
Every Lord of the Rings reaction I've ever seen: "I want to be a Hobbit."
It's so universal a sentiment, this life we see played out in fantasy, it makes us long for something beyond the natural.
Long for something close to nature
@@georgechapman9688 Yes but that's not quite it. We want to believe there is some sort of utopia; happiness without limit in perfect harmony with nature. Of course, the movie quickly shows us this cannot exist.
"To be honest, who wants to be set on fire?" LOL
Being a burn survivor myself, I can qualify that no one would! 😁😁
😢❤
"What about second breakfast?"
"I'm definitely a hobbit."
🤣🤣🤣
There is some irony that the tallest actor in this movie is the dwarf.
Everyone, minute 4 is where the sound starts
Yasss! so excited for you to watch this trilogy. It is legit one of the greatest trilogy of movies of all time! One of the great stories of our modern age!! Very glad to be here to experience this with you. :) Keep up the good work, Addie!
There are other movies with extended versions where I feel there's a clear tradeoff between the extra information you get vs. the slower pacing of the film, but I don't get that at all with LOTR. Yes, the movies end up being 4 hours, and maybe that means not being able to see each of them in one sitting, but other than that I don't think the movie viewing experience suffers at all.
Literally the only time it feels slow is with the Ents and that's on purpose lol.
This is the only extended cut of the Middle-Earth movies that doesn't really add any genuinely pertinent info/lore to the overall narrative, IMO. Even "An Unexpected Journey" discusses the fates of the Dwarven rings.
Honestly you can watch each half-movie in the extended edition as it’s own film and it works as a series of 6 normal length movies
Ooh, can't wait for part 2!
My favorite part of watching these react videos is getting to see people experience The Shire and the Hobbits for the first time. It is such a beautiful place and a simple people, and I fall in love with the first hour of the movie again, every single time.
George R.R. Martin described Tolkien is the father of modern fantasy. With LOTR, The Hobbit, and The Samarillion. Tolkien created the biggest deepest mythological iceberg out there. The rest of us are just pretenders placing cubes of ice on a floating barge and hoping no one will notice the superficial storytelling.
More of a Dune fan myself
The way you smiled when Legolas entered.
So just some information that could help with understanding. First of all, yes Aragorn was expecting Frodo at the Prancing Pony. In the books, he helps Gandalf look for Gollum. Gandalf also tells him to go to Bree in case Gandalf himself can't make it. I think you're the only person I've seen who caught that Aragorn was there for Frodo.
Second, Gondor has been without a King for centuries and is run by a Steward until the king returns. It is also the closest kingdom to Mordor, so Boromir has spent his life fighting Orcs.
The ring wraiths are afraid of water. Ulmo (the water god) essentially roams the waters of middle-earth. And he hates Sauron. So any time the ring wraiths try to cross water and he happens to be near by, he floods them. So while it won't happen every time because it's not guaranteed he'll be where they are, they are always hesitant to cross. That's hard to get across in the movies so they just made it elf magic.
There is a great rivalry and distrust between elves and dwarves for a variety of reasons.
Elves are immortal. They were the first race created by the god Eru and they lived in Valinor/Undying Lands (heaven) at first. Then some migrated to middle earth. Elves are the only race that can go to the Undying Lands, they can sail there but their souls go there when they die (from being killed or broken heart). It is unknown where the souls of the other races go when they die because it is not Valinor.
There is an exception to immortality but only in Elrond's bloodline. He is called Elrond Halfelven because he has mortal men in his ancestry. So his family have the choice to live immortal or live a mortal life although still significantly longer than man. Elrond chose immortality. His brother chose mortality and the kingdom of numenor (the kingdom no longer exists). All descendants of numenor live a couple hundred years. But Elrond's daughter, Arwen has the choice. But once they choose to live a mortal life, they cannot go to Valinor.
Gandalf and Saruman are two of five wizards sent to middle earth from Valinor. They are Maiar, which are immortal beings that serve the Valar (gods). There's a hierarchy in the Maiar. Sauron was one too, but of a higher level than Gandalf and Saruman. The Valar Sauron served became corrupted and Sauron continued to follow him. Once he fell, Sauron took his place as the dark lord, trying to take over middle-earth. It's when Sauron first rose to power that the wizards were sent to middle-earth to help the free people fight him. They all had different roles. Saruman is meant to be leading the opposition against Sauron while Gandalf's job is more subtle. They have the form of old men so that the race of men will see them as wise and trust them. And also so the kings of men won't be suspicious of a coup from them. But the wizards bodies do not have the weaknesses or drawbacks that an old body has, it's just an appearance. The wizards are the only ones besides the elves that can sail to Valinor or their souls go there when they die. Except Saruman because he is now corrupted, same with Sauron, he can never return to Valinor either.
A sign of great world building is when the lore goes way deeper than is actually needed to tell the story, and that is definitely the case with Tolkien. It has to be the most detailed fiction there is.
Mix that with the incredible filmmaking of Peter Jackson and a cast of only amazing actors, and you get films like these.
Excited to see the rest of your reactions!
Also add years of preproduciton while movies today maybe has 3 months.
Gandalf only looks like an old man. It's a disguise :) He's actually a powerful creature that helped in the creation of the world. So is Saruman.
Your life will be changed by these films. As someone who came to them with no interest in them at first, literally had to be dragged by my best friend at the time to go see it in the theater, I came out of the theater completely invested and amazed. This trilogy is a testament to the ability of art (especially film) to change lives.
The incident with the dragon is a book, and movie trilogy, all its own. And its a blast too.
If you are interested in Bilbo's story, I highly suggest reading The Hobbit before you watch the movie adaptation(s) of the book. It is a very short read and very well told.
The 3 Hobbit movies were trash!
I always recommend movie watchers who enjoyed the LOTR trilogy to watch The Hobbit Tolkien Edit or The Hobbit Maple Films Edit.
They've stripped out tons of unnecessary and terrible content, and edited three films down into a narrative that much more closely aligns with the books. In short, these edits are not just better films, they're films that are more loyal to the books.
@@nulltheworm As someone who recently got on the fan edits wagon, my vote goes towards the Chris Hartwell edits. They aren’t as true to the book as the others you listed, but they do rework the three films into something far more watchable as three films than either official version
Worse than trash, as trash is the refuse of useful things that have served their purpose. They utterly distort and ruin the hobbit. They are poison. They ruined my favorite book ever.
"The incident of the dragon" is a reference to Smaug, from Bilbo's adventure to the Lonely Mountain with the company of Thorin Oakenshield.
Literally every reactor when Boromir says the thing:
"That's a meme!"
Still cannot get over how enchanting Liv Tyler is.
Oh thank goodness your doing Extended Editions
I havent seen anyone mention this particular piece of movie set magic. You mentioned that the ring sounds heavy when Bilbo drops it before leaving the shire. Peter Jackson really wanted to emphasize the weight of the ring, so he had his team magnetize that section of the floor for that shot. As a result, instead of bouncing like a normal ring would, the ring just lands with a heavy sounding thud and barely bounces at all.
In 1977 there was a cartoon movie called The Hobbit that got me into the story of The Lord of the Rings. J. R.R. Tolkien was a litterary genious.
Peter Jackson said he treated the Ring like an addiction, so Gandalf performs an intervention. JRR Tolkien compared the Ring's effect on its bearer to the phrase in the Our Father, "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil." The Ring draws out evil from within a person and it attracts evil from without.
"I'm glad he has a buddy!" Same is THE buddy
Everyone needs a Sam…
Literally read this the moment she said it lol
Hobbits come out of a bush: ***jumpscared**
Gandalf jumpscares Frodo: ***stares blankly at screen***
30:30 Can be bothered to check the dates now, but Elrond should be about 8000 years old by the time of this novel.
5:29 "I wanna know more about this incident with the dragon!" In that case, when you're finished with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you'll have to watch the Hobbit trilogy!
Couldn't get past about quarter of the first movie. They stretched this thing out so much, one long movies worth of material was made into a trilogy and the quality dropped off a cliff. She should read the book instead.
9:40 production note: When Bilbo drops the Ring, there is a magnet under the floor so that it won't bounce.
Gandalf is a mya; an angelic being from the West, the realm of the Elves. Funny enough, he is the same rave as the dark lord Sauron. Gandalf and the other wizards were sent in the form of elderly men, having their physical powers weakened as to be quides rather than warriors
These movies are the standard of how a movie, let alone a fantasy movie, should be made. The quality and care that were taken making these movies is uncanny! But one thing I never hear enough of is just how phenomenal the score is. Howard Shore created the BEST film score I have ever heard! So epic
Me seeing her jump at the fireworks made me think about what she'll do about Bilbo
Just to give proper credit - Bilbo Baggins did something extraordinary. In fact - unprecedented in all the history of The One Ring and Middle Earth.
He gave up the ring WILLINGLY. (A little nudge from Gandalf sure - but only to remind him - still willingly.)
Not a single other person or creature in Middle Earth up until that point had EVER DONE THAT.
NOBODY.
As Gandalf said it best - "Hobbits are extraordinary creatures. Just when you think you know everything about them, they can still surprise you."
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Visual Effects
Best Makeup
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score.
34:20 Sir Ian McKellan's best line in this film is the one he never says. His facial expression here says a thousand words. Phenomenal acting.
Fun fact: when Tolkien worked on the Lotr, his editor corrected him several times on the plural of Dwarf, officially it spelt: "dwarfs".
However J.R.R. (as pretty much everyone knows, he was a linguist) felt firmly against that way and insisted on it being kept "dwarves".
One time when he was corrected on the word, with the reasoning being: the closest thing in the Oxford English Dictionary to dwarf is dwarfs. To which Tolkien angrily wrote back: "I WROTE the O.E.D.!". As it got ppopular, masses added dwarves to their lexicon.
He was wrong! Although he was so certain, he later admitted it was technically incorrect. fun.
Why, then, is the plural form of elf 'elves'? Wife 'wives'? Loaf 'loaves'? etc. I always assumed Walt Disney was wrong when he spelled it that way with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." 🤷♂️
Way back when I was a kid, there was a comic called "Plop". They did a LOTR parody where the referred to Aragorn as "the incognito king of the world".
Elrond is roughly 6100 years old. More than twice as old as Legolas. Less than 2-4 times younger than Galadriel (who narrated the opening) and Celeborn, his wife's parents. Galadriel was friends with and mentored by Elronds Great-Great Grandmother (his grandfathers grandmother).
I cannot wait to see you finish the rest of the trilogy!!! Thanks so much for blessing us!
RIP Andrew Lesnie
"Isildur, son of the King, took up his father's sw....dagger" 😂
Sooo good. I saw this in theatres when I was a teenager and it has changed my world for ever.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." was my senior quote lol
Pirates of the caribbean, lord of the rings, harry potter and Spiderman were the top series of that decade. You need to watch all of them.
For Tolkien the languages probably came naturally that’s what he did he was a professor of linguistics
@Gerald H I knew wasn’t totally accurate but thought I’d make it easy to understand most people wouldn’t understand the difference
30:29 Elves are Immortal. If a elf's physical body is killed their spirit goes to the "Hall of Mandos" ; where at "some stage" they can be reincarnated back into the physical world.
This is what you get when the studio, director, writers, and actors all respect the source material.
Sir Christopher Lee was once a student to JRR Tolkien. He would read the whole trilogy once every year until he passed away. He was an excellent actor who excelled in a type of villain that in my opinion was the most dangerous. The Gentleman Villain. A prime example of his performance as a Gentleman Villain would be Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun".
You say that you have been an avid reader. If so, I strongly encourage you to read the books. There are significant differences between Tolkien's book and Peter Jackson & Co.'s movies, but the basic story is the same. The books are MUCH deeper, and if you enjoy them, there is also The Silmarillion for back story. This is a very deep rabbit hole!
I dunno... I was a big reader in high school, but I found them too unnecessarily dense for my tastes and gave up on them partway through. (They're still on my bookshelf waiting for the day I try to tackle them again, but I don't read as much now as I once did.)
@@bigdream_dreambig took me about six months to read just The Return of the King, around a year to read the full trilogy, and yeah, the writing is dense and, imho, way too detailed - but it's well worth the read
@@ThanesTito funny thing is; is that Tolkien tried to release all 3 books as 1 book, but the publisher wouldn’t let him saying it was too long. They told him to separate it into 6 books and Tolkien negotiated it down to 3 books
@@pickleboy6059 now it makes sense why the physical books I have are titled "volume 1/2/3", and inside there's books 1 thro 6 XD
@@pickleboy6059 Post-WW2 Britain suffered from a shortage of many commodities, including paper. Allen & Unwin weren't willing to risk publishing a 1200-page novel which many readers weren't able to lift, much less buy. So they agreed to publish LOTR in three volumes, waiting to publish 2T until they saw whether folks would buy FOTR. So like the movies, the books came out about a year apart.
LOTR is a wonderful book to read out loud. The words and names literally roll off the tongue! I read my wife to sleep every night, and over the years we've read LOTR together at least once a year. (We've read lots of other stuff as well.) I highly recommend the experience.
elrond is about 6300 years old , galadriel is much older - maybe 10k to 15k as its unspecified . aragorn is related to both , thru his distant elvish heritage . its all in " the silmarillian" - tolkiens entire history of that world starting with its creation all the way to movies present ( last 4 pages of 400) - its epic
I love to see first time watchers/reactors learning where pop culture references came from. They know the meme before knowing why it’s a meme or what it originally meant. 😂
"It seems like they don't like fire. . . To be fair, who likes being caught on fire?" 🔥🤣🔥
The opening battle scene years later is still god tier
Angel tier? Since it includes Sauron?
COMING BACK AROUND a year + later, to re-watch your reaction Addie !! One of the really GREAT things about the movie...re-watching them!!!!
That was fun, Addie! I'm so happy you are getting an immersion into J.R. Tolkien's LOTR!! Peter Jackson's films are amazing! You in for an adventure!
I loved your reaction! I have seen these movies so many times and have watched countless reactions to them, and I still get emotional watching🥲 I look forward to accompanying you on this journey 🧙🏻♂️🧝🏻♂️🏹⚔️🌋💍👑
Me and my buddies went on a camping/climbing trip to Mt. Judea Arkansas. We brought our pipes and were smoking a special Lord of the Rings tobacco blend called Tree Beard. Sat around the fire blowing smoke rings watching the movies on a projector. Good times
If you "want to learn more about the incident with the dragon" where Gandalf "Simply gave his uncle a little nudge out the door" then watch "The Hobbit" trilogy next. It's that whole story, and prequel to LOTR where Bilbo finds the ring.
"I want to know more about this incident with the dragon". *Inhales deeply*
"incident with the dragon" is The Hobbit. However, I didn't really like the movie that much but the book was fantastic.
Why make a trilogy out of one book? A part 1 and 2 would have done
Agreed. When I heard that The Hobbit was going to be a trilogy, my first thought was "Wut?" I supposed that it could be a trilogy, though I imagined it'd be more like a TV miniseries trilogy: three parts of 48 minutes each with commercial breaks. I love the book and I read it every few years, but I've never watched the movies yet. 😕
First movie is the best of the 3 by far. The second and third get convoluted and characters not in the book get introduced.
Here's a little about the author, J.R.R. Tolkien. He was not a writer by profession and only wrote a handful of stories during his life. He was a combat veteran of WWI, a devout Catholic, a Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He was also a Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College. Tolkien was also a close friend of C. S. Lewis, the author of the "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. His novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" series are somewhat of an autobiography, when you study his life you will find many parallels with his stories. His works are the basis of almost all modern fantasy, from Dungeons & Dragons to Game of Thrones. Without Tolkien, we would not have the high fantasy we all know and love.
It is literally insane how incredibly amazing this movie is!
Glad I watched this, was feeling low but for some reason watching you watch my favourite movie cheered me up
Aragorn was indeed expecting to meet Gandalf and Frodo at the Prancing Pony inn. He wasn't there by sheer chance, Gandalf had somehow contacted him to come help because he really should be involved for a number of reasons. I don't think Aragorn expected so many Hobbits to come along, but he had brought extra weapons just in case, I guess.
2:53 I guess it's true what they say.. it's not the size of the "sword", it's how you swing it📏😅
Lord of the rings is just one of those series that understands what fantasy really means
Gandalf's face @34:18 when Bilbo announces that he will take the ring... he had been praying that Bilbo would offer, because he could not ask anyone to take on such a terrible burden, but at the same time, it HAD to be Bilbo because he was the only one who had a chance of not being corrupted by its power and manipulation. Gandalf's look was of immense relief that there might be a possibility that the world will be saved but at the same time a deep sorrow that it would likely be at the cost of a pure soul that was so dear to him... just amazing.
...you mean Frodo !.. Bilbo was Frodo's uncle !
The "incident with the dragon" will be covered to the nth degree in the other over-long set of Peter Jackson movies based on the short novel "The Hobbit." Sauron's life force bound into the ring = Voldemort's 7 horcruxes? The elves don't trust men, dwarves don't like elves -- not a good foundation for a fellowship, eh?
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” -The Hobbit
I got so excited with the subtitles then she turned it off ... Subtitles are so great to go with reactions. Especially when parts get muted.
"Mother of pearl" is my new favourite swear🤣Fabulous as this video was, I think slo-mo's of your jump-scares would make it better😄
It was a great reaction, by the way - it looks like you're really into the film and characters
"Hold on! This is four hours long!?"
Welcome to the Fandom
Aragorn is 87 years old in these movies and lives to be 210 after 122 years as King. Let that sink in.
I never tire of watching people experience The Lord of the Rings for the first time. Was able to share these films with my daughter last month .. and I think it's time to watch them again 😆
Hahahah you really were shook when Gandalf touched the ring 😂, gave me a good laugh, all love
30:32 Lord Elrond is 6,516 years old in this movie. Elves are immortal, his daughter Arwen (the youngest of 3) is 2,776 years old. Lady Galadriel is 8,370 years old, she is Elrond's mother-in-law and Arwen's grandmother.