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It also should be noted until Sam says he can carry the ring again, Sam didn’t know truly know the effect the ring has had to Frodo and how much Frodo needs to keep it. The ring plays on Sam’s care for Frodo to try to get same to keep and then take the ring. But in the second scene Sam never actually approaches Frodo and he asks if he could carry it the second time knowing he shouldn’t say it. Oh and Sam puts on the ring twice, kills a dude while carrying the ring and willingly says that he has the ring compared to Bilbo who actively try’s to keep it a secret from the Dwarves in the Hobbit. And Bilbo has only had it on for less than a day. Sam was passed out for hours, I think he had the ring on while he was sleeping so it is absolutely insane that he can say he has it, shows it, and only slightly hesitates to give up the ring. He was more resilient (in the short term at least) to the rings influence than Bilbo, though Frodo was far better than him at controlling the ring in the short term, middle term, and long term though succumbs at the last term.

@@meem6154 I don't think Sam ever puts on the ring. He just held it (by the chain) But still, it's a pretty neat moment that when Sam gives Frodo the ring, he briefly hesitates, but then hands it over. You can tell he really thought about keeping it for a moment there...but then willfully chose to let it go.

@@DreamyAileen I just read the Return of the King, but my memory is horrible so I can't contest you on that even though I still think it's wrong and that Sam did put on the ring.

@@meem6154 Oh you mean in the books? That I don't know. I thought we were talking about the movies

hahhahahaha the same thing happened to me. I ran to the bathroom once it ended basically mumbling, goddamn hobbits couldn't just wave goodbye like a sane person

I'm laughing because that was also me.

Are you still with her?

Sounds like a very solid Gordon Ramsay quote.

@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 No, we broke up a few years later. Not that that's relevant for the anecdote.

Every single member of the fellowship was vital to it suceeding. And every event pushed it to success Boromir falling to the ring lead to frodo leaving the fellowship, saving everyone from succumbing to the ring eventually. Sam staying with Frodo, and thinking he was dead after shelob, saved Frodo and the ring from capture Gimli lead them into Moria, without him they just would have gone to the gap of Rohan. Aragorn's tracking experience and the whole king and ghost army stuff of course. Legolas, doesn't have anything specific, but his archery really helped in many places (In the books he scares off a Nazgul and Fellbeast with an arrow from Galadriel) Pippin had his errors that lead to benefits as you said. Merry came in with the assist to kill the Witch King (He had Eowyn by the throat before he stabbed him in the leg) Gandalf had a whole bunch of stuff of course And Frodo carrying the ring of course

All of the Hobbits had some amazing moments throughout the trilogy

And all because they just happened to be stealing Farmer Maggett's crops on a particular day, in the Shire...

Frodo's failure to throw the ring in the pit led to Gollum attacking him and finishing the job Frodo was supposed to do. I had some feelings when somebody pointed out that the third eagle sent to pick up Frodo & Sam would have picked up Smeagol if he had survived.

The doctrine of Felix Culpa comes to mind. Then again, Tolkien was a Catholic, so sure, why not?

It's also something that only Aragorn would have thought of, in his position.

An excellent demonstration of WHY he will be the epitome of ALL that is "noble" in a King. Someone who is effectively the ruler of the world, kneeling & bowing to some "short, small town, farmers from the 'boonies'"? You know? "Unimportant 'nobodies'." And THEN declaring, "YOU bow, to NO ONE!" And EVERYONE knelt & bowed to THEM? Royalty, nobles, elves, dwarves, high ranking military officers, probably the ENTIRETY of Minis Tirith's "elites", ALL bowed! Because these unassuming, ordinary, "irrelevant", little people DESERVED it!

My only nitpick is that all the Hobbits were the same size. Merry and Pippin should be taller after drinking that Ent Drought.

@@RitsusDarlingGirl They eventually grew to be the tallest of the hobbits. Over the years that is.

@@oakbridge4268 I know. But in the books there's a scene where Frodo and Sam mistake them for human teenagers because they're so tall. Just thought it was a funny thing to miss with all of the other details they got right.

May I add: "You shall not pass!" "For death and glory" "Not alone...ROHITHIM! To the king!" "Go back to the shadow!" "Fell deeds awake, now for wrath, now for ruin, and a RED DAWN!" What can men do against such reckless hate? "Ride out and meet them." "The Ents are going to war! It is likely we go to our doom. Last march of the Ents."

@@furtim1 and may I add to that as well: "If you let them go, your life will be forfeit." "Then it is forfeit." "I would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king."

"gondor has no king" "it only counts as one" "they will answer to the king of gondor" and most legendary "my precious .................... aaarrrggghhh"

Forth Eorlingas!

Umm Arágorn's entire speech at the Black Gate of Mordör

Also, Frodo and Bilbo showed mercy to Gollum, despite everything. So, in the end, Gollum accidentally destroying the ring is rewarding that mercy

You will never be a woman

“You don’t mean that” 😢 fighting for what you love but Frodo could never go back because of the fight. Tragic really

True. I just learnt that this year too.

*hugs*

Tolkien was a ww1 veteran who lost several friends during the war too

Arrow shafts could be up to half an inch thick and embedded relatively deeply in the oliphant's hide, so provided you grabbed them right next to the hide, they could support more weight than you might think.

I just wish that him scaling the falling bridge in The Hobbit was half as believable. Maybe it's those dumb contact lenses...

@@RiKSh4w oh god I forgot that happened

@@Captain_Yata What? What happened? Someone make a new movie? I don't think so, i have no memory of that shit. /s

@@Razzlion In one of the Hobbits (I think it was the third one) Legolas jumps on falling rocks to cross a gap and it looks absolutely ridiculous

Good kisser too. (I've heard)

@@stickiedmin6508 From Pippin?

@@breaden4381 Apparently, it's something that's quite *_widely_* known . . .

Tolkien hated alegory and rebutted the idea that LOTR was an alegory for WW1 explicitly. Check your facts

@@sagesigman8269 He didn't claim that it's allegory, but it is hard to separate Tolkien's experiences in the front to how they may have influenced LotR.

​@GUILLE832 Tolkien can complain about allegory all he wants but you don't write Frodo's ending without having lived some things

@@veronicamcghie5238 Likewise The Dead Marshes being an expression of the waking nightmare of battlefields like The Somme. He might not have intended to specifically refer to his own, lived experiences, but they still emerged through his writing. Heck, even Beren meeting Luthien / Aragorn meeting Arwen was a kind of reflection of his happy memories of Edith - He went as far as to have the names Beren and Luthien engraved on his and Edith's shared gravestone.

He may have not meant to write it this way but when writing a story this deep you can not avoid putting yourself and your personal experiences into the narrative . Tolkien himself wrote in the prologue of the second edition of Lotr that none of his writings were inspired by anything he had lived through

And he literally was the best support

Even though they literally swept the Oscars that year, I think Peter Jackson would agree. Heck, he'd probably give up one of his Oscars for it

Very unpopular opinion but I feel he was the weak link in the main cast. His whiny ass (compared to the books) annoyed the hell out of me and my family.

@@Ant82ish Even if you dislike the character himself as he was written for the movies, there's no denying the acting was flawless. Sean was incredible from his first scene to the last.

@@Ant82ish A rightfully very unpopular opinion not gonna lie.

When frodo say to sam Im the lord lf the rings return of the king, that shit slaps

I still say that out loud at work at least twice a day 😂 but yes I love/hate the look on Frodo’s face and Sam’s reaction when he says that. Powerful scene

@@lucasrodrigues-ew8ii Nah, man watch the extended cut, there the line is improved. He says "Im the lord of the rings return of the king extended edition"

Bunch of orks up here 👆🙃

It’s ringin time!

Wish I could like this over and over . I thought the exact same thing.

Can you explain the follow up? It seemed to show she’d died but was brought back to life. It’s the only part of the extended versions I’ve never understood……

@@liquidiced I completely understand PJ not adding this scene to the movies, but in the books (iirc) Eowyn and Faramir are struck down by the Black Breath of the Nazgul (apparently breathing on someone after not brushing your teeth for thousands of years causes paralysis), the same thing that happened to Frodo on Weathertop. It looks very similar to death, and if not treated it is fatal, but thankfully Aragorn was present with his ranger know-how. Aragorn crushes the leaves of an Athelas plant (like he did after Weathertop) and saves Eowyn and Faramir, leading to the two of them bonding while the others are at the Black Gate and Aragorn being a little more accepted as the king of Gondor due to a random saying Gondorians had, "The hands of a king are the hands of a healer."

@@imawaffle148 that is, a lot, to take in having not read the books! 😌 Can you tell me which book/chapter I can refer to in order to find the lead up and revelation to this?

@@liquidiced yeah, sorry lol. The parts where Faramir and Eowyn are injured is in the movies during their respective encounters with the Nazgul (The Siege of Gondor and The Battle of the Pelennor Fields respectively), but the specific chapters in Return of the King are The Houses of Healing and The Steward and the King. Had to break out the books for this one, been a little while since I read them.

Oh without a doubt

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The speech before the battle too!

Mines just the ride of rohirrim theme :P

Dude that scene Vigo draws every molecule of water from my eyes every time I see it

Not a battle cry. More like a personal conviction.

Thank you!

Howard Shore is always a win. 🏆

@@stickiedmin6508 Always

I've always felt that the 'Making of . . . ' documentaries that accompanied the Extended Editions are as enjoyable to watch as the movies themselves. There's just so *_much_* in there, and you honestly get the impression that many of the people involved would happily have carried on working on those movies *_for FREE._* Talk about a once in a lifetime opportunity, right?

@@stickiedmin6508 same

@@stickiedmin6508 The fact that so many of them (especially the fellowship actors!) were sitting together, laughing and telling stories, was fascinating all of it own. It's lovely to see such friendship.

A behind the scenes story is that while the entire cast and crew went home for Christmas break, one person stayed working on the destruction of Sauron's tower. They showed Peter what they got, and he loved it so much that was the shot they used in the film. It was also a one take shot.

That's so wholesome I never knew he called his son Faramir

I met a toddler named Faramir a few years ago. He'd be 8 or so now. I hope he still likes donuts 😄

I know. lol

Yeah. You think Smèagol is the nice one but they're both the bad one. And it was always gonna take an accident to destroy the ring.

They're not ALL women, just the vast majority are women. He also mentioned that in TTT video, iirc.

@@Richard_Nickerson . . . and there's an entertaining myth about Viggo developing a particular fondness for one of those strapping, bearded horsewomen...

That, for me and other Tolkien fans I'm sure, messed it up for me. The cry of "Death!" was one of desperation, anger, and vengeance. It was the cry taken up first by Eomer after the death of Theoden and what seemed to him, the death of his sister, Eowyn. In that context, it Made Sense! To start off with that as a warcry from the beginning, really doesn't. In the OG story, they started with singing; they sang as they slew. You can read into its use in the movie to make it make sense, that's fine, but it is not the way in the real story.

@@Elurin What makes you so 'sure' you speak for other Tolkien fans? I kinda think you're in the minority here Dan . . .

​@@stickiedmin6508 Because I've read the literature. When I say "Tolkien fans" I mean the fans of the Books, and not just those kids who got interested in the books because of the movies. There are a plethora of fans who absolutely HATED the movies when they first came out. If you were old enough back then, you might have read those same comments too! And when I say " other Tolkien fans" how can you be so dense to interpret that to mean "all" or "most" I don't hate the movies as much as some other Tolkien fans, but the movies could have been better if they stuck closer to the books, at certain parts.

I'm still trying to find a way to make that entire panning shot of the beacons lighting, from Gondor, all the way to Rohan, my computer's screensaver animation.

it's even better and more grand and hopeful for the soundtrack version

You rang

He's basically like "Ok buddy, I've had it with you."

Yes, but the character assassinations of Faramir and Denethor were among the worst parts of the film.

@@Elurin You have that right. Jackson deserves a punch in the mouth for how he depicted those two.

@@Elurinthe Two Towers extended edition clears up their motivations.

@@starryagent9936 It was never about not knowing their motivations, it was all about character assassination. Their motivation, while understandable, is no excuse for how there characters were butchered.

Among a sea of great music, it is a gem.

@@nicolle3517 I just love the way it tells it’s own story. So great

It's so amazingly powerfull.

Idk why but EVERY SINGLE TIME the violin starts playing my eyes get all watery and I start to cry lol. Even in this video it hit me lol

@@alexlewis510 I feel that. My wife and I just did a watch through of the extended eds, her first time viewing. So many beats that this movie hits. I think it’s one of a few masterpieces

Yup

Wait EOWYN DIES???

​@@DanyelAzamor-lh7yg She got better

The "True Hero" is The Fellowship itself. THEY are the ones that saved Middle Earth. If even one of them is taken out of the equation. Sauron would've most likely won.

I love that too! Love is always a win.

A truly inclusive Win video would be at least 100 hours. 🙂

In the book I think Sam says something like, "Is everything sad going to come untrue?" :)

It's right up there, for me, with Mulan's father tossing aside her gifts and hugging her when she returns home.

The entire description of the charge in the books is poetry, and that so much is captured in the film. I particularly like the description "Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed," and the viceral image of it. But nothing beats the description of Theoden. In relative full: Then suddenly Merry felt it at last, beyond doubt: a change. Wind was in his face! Light was glimmering.... But at that same moment there was a flash, as if lightning had sprung from the earth beneath the City. For a searing second it stood dazzling far off in black and white, its topmost tower like a glittering needle: and then as the darkness closed again there came rolling over the fields a great boom. At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups *he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before*: "Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!" With that *he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder*. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains. "Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!" Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him *his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green*, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. *Fey he seemed*, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane *like a god of old*, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. *His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed*. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

@@Freelancer4tehwin just something about that og Tolkien writing man. Thanks for posting this

@@Freelancer4tehwin There is no film to match that!

Yes! I'd like to add the beacon scene as a sort of intro to that as well. Gondor (well, Pippin) calls for aid and IMMEDIATELY Rohan answers. They've seen the orc armies, they've faced them before, they received no support from Gondor, but they send 6,000 horses immediately to Gondor in this suicide mission. And it's not fair, it's not what's in their best interest, it's just selflessly doing the right thing because to them it is better to have fought and died than to have sat back and done nothing. Rohan's whole reaction to the battle, just the hope and the righteousness in the hopelessness of it all gets me every time.

in the book Tolkien specifies that Theoden grabs one of the horns and blows it so hard that it "bursts asunder".

Until I saw this scene in the cinema, I always thought that "breath taking" was a metaphor. This scene LITERALLY took my breath when I saw it for the first time. It still makes my eye wet very time I see it. Raw emotional power indeed!

Agreed, there are so many moments in this trilogy that give me goosebumps but NOTHING compares to their charge. It's sublime.

Wait, that's the afterlife?

@@spicysalad3013 That's what Valinor basically is. For Elves anyway. Since Elves are already immortal, they're not going there because they are dead, so it's a bit more complicated than that. But basically, it's where one goes to be immortal, not when one dies. In any case, nobody ever comes back from Valinor once they go there. It is heaven, where the Gods of Middle Earth, and the remaining Elder Peoples of the First Age, dwell. To go there is basically reserved for only the most "worthy," which is why Men aren't allowed there, unless, like Frodo Baggins, they are truly exceptional people. So maybe it's more accurately compared to a mythical location, like: Valhalla.

It makes me happy...and feel peaceful. Regarding the ships to Valinor: it was a special place made for elves. But humans and dwarves have their own version of the afterlife. Humans go to the Halls of Mandos with a big question mark afterwards, and the dwarves believe there is a part of those halls set aside for them. The idea is made physical, much as it is in ancient Norse culture.

@@jacob4920 Mortals still die in the blessed realm. It's called the undying lands because all the immortal beings RESIDE there, not because you become immortal when you go. Matter of fact more than likely Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, and Gimli go to the island of Tol Eressea that is within the blessed realm. Death is a gift given by the One God Eru Iluvatar and the Valar are unable to deny it. No one but Eru Iluvatar himself knows where the souls of men (and kindred species like hobbits) go when they die.

I think the Grey Havens is the most relaxing music possibly ever written, at least ever written for film

Basically, yeah. Same.

Box of tissues every every time.

Morgoth's warhammer* Sauron had the mace

@@Richard_Nickerson yeah. Just got them confused

@@Richard_Nickerson I mean, what is a warhammer but a more advanced mace? It is a hunk of metal you use to smack someone.

@@coriusfarinprimarchofthese7007 It's almost as if there are 2 different words with 2 different meanings for a reason. It's almost as if Tolkien specified which character had which weapon.

Grond was said to make pits so deep that the only reason fingolfin lost the duel was because he tripped and fell into one of the pits and melkor (morgoth) stepped on him

I don't know, Star Wars comes pretty darn close.

@@Elurin John Williams writes the best hooks, but his ability to bring a world to life isn't close to shore

@@drkirbkennethkirby7634 yeah, but I still like the Star Wars soundtrack, even if Williams isn't as good as Shore (or Zimmer, imo)

honestly, if this had been his only score for a film/film series, I'd still place him as the best composer in cinema history, or at least in modern cinema

Yes, exactly. I always loved mythology because of that. They are stories we tell one another to make one another feel better about things that may not really make sense. Over time, we begin to believe it. I've always found that fascinating about people. I like Tolkien because of that. He understands people need and want culture, stories, and that's ultimately why humans are different.

And then . . the situation returns to the battle surrounding them. And Pippin and Gandalf say nothing, but ready their weapons and nod. This quite moment gives them both the strength they need to return to the battle one more time.

And Gandalf knows of what he speaks! You can seen in his expression that he's speaking from memory.

Actually, that's heavily implied in the book, when Sam one evening finds Frodo laying on his bed and repeating as in a dream "It is gone forever and now all is dark and empty".

I hold your oathes fulfilled. Amazing moment.

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I bawled like a baby when the ship carrying Frodo disappears into the sunset. So I didn't quite make it to the credits. lol

For me it starts when Gandalf turns back and says, "It is time, Frodo."

​@@Nuneven The first time I cried in RotK was during the beacon scene, mostly because of the amazing, emotional music and powerful moment. By the time Frodo and the Hobbits arrived at the Grey Havens, I was sobbing, and I was still sobbing 20 minutes after the end credits, haha 😄

@@LiliCanal Oh, yeah, the beacons scene is amazing.

I'm feeling a bit teary just half way through a video about it😁👍

The film perfectly encapsulates the spirit of comradery, honor and hope how can one who doesn't see this not get emotional? 👍👍

Same here. One of the masterpieces ever made

Contrasted with the horns of Rohan you hear a moment later as they re-form their line to meet the new enemy

Same here…. especially when coupled with those eyeliner-enhanced Mumakhil crazy eyes and the slow, dawning “oh shit” look on Theoden’s face as the Oliphaunts slowly emerge in the background. Terrifying.

If you notice, the Rohirrim (our experience of them, at least) starts in darkness; dank, dim halls with fear and despair the culprits. The turning point, which brought them back into the Light, so to speak, is the end of Helm's Deep, when Eomer leads the charge into the enemy-- "and the Sun rises." The Rohirrim are bright, beautiful, and have that air of innocence, even after all they have been through. It is their faithfulness to the promise between them and Gondor that starts the banishing of the dark clouds shielding the Orc army-- "and the Sun rises." I cry, too, at their terrible innocence, and their implacable resolve. And the Sun rises.

Look, im all for representation in movies but Frodo and sams relationship is NOT romantic in any way. They are extremely great friends and are practically brothers by the end, and that makes it better because they truly do decide to work together and go through hell and back just due to their own “brotherhood” and a will to do what’s right in the world.

@@AceBallon3721 yes! These movies I think do an incredible job of filling in a big gap in media which is close, vulnerable friendships, specifically between men.

@@AceBallon3721 Your opinion is valid and you have a big point, but I'm just saying I don't have a preference HOW people view them, and I also think that that love is there. Is it platonic? That's up to you. I could go either way. The point I'm trying to make is, no matter what kind of love you see it as, it's there.

I think when LotR is made by a staunch Catholic WW1 veteran who was considered conservative even during that time who's whole favorite and most well known story consistently showcases the evil of corrupting something good... that we can safely assume frodo and Sam aren't gay.

@@spiffygonzales5899 There are plenty of ways for men to feel and express love for each other without encroaching upon the dreaded and fearful 'gay,' don't worry.

his despair as eomer when he saw eowyn in the battlefield unconscious, probably thinking she had died, with the emotional burden of telling her off time and time again about joining the rohirrim because he wanted her to be safe - only enticing her more to sneak into their lines and fight, after losing his cousin and his remaining father figure in theoden... man, that cry made me shiver, he is such a good actor fr

I agree with CinemaWins, and you, on this count. I really like your suggestion. The weird deus ex machina felt off, especially the Witch King shattering Gandalf's staff.

One of if not the best film scores ever

After watching this video I read the details of Christopher Lee's WW2 service record. Holy Smokes!!! he got around!!

"Fuckin' hell why is there a dragon"

Been playing shadow of war since he dropped the fellowship video to scratch that itch I didnt know I had

Shadow of war/Mordor may not be canon, but it's still much more true to the universe than rings of power is :)

I would have to go back to something like Lawrence of Arabia to find a similar awesome-actor-heavy film.