yeah, by hearing this i just want to say: "look who's talking" :D

@Philip Martin Same with me, legit laughter :D

"...Two stars"

Full of... enemies.

500!!! I expect a balloon drop from the ceiling.

Same here, the film was loud in the cinema! And at 1:34 I thought I had been struck deaf, but then you realise it's a trick of sound editing when the white flame goes up.

Peredhil H I wish I was old enough to remember my experience

Just Me I wish I was old enough to see it then.

That, and the bass from the green light thingy shook the theater

I watch the appendices and it was actually made using one of the co directors horrible scream with some audio editing I thought that was funny

Dude goes ‘All right stop your grunting let me flex with a massive screech real quick’

@@benaoao6753 XD

In the book, the Witchking was only riding a horse in this scene, not the dragon. Glad they amped it up.

@@joshweiner4645 yeah I remember in the book he was riding his horse but in the movie he's riding a fell beast

He’s also on horseback during the siege of Minas Tirith, in which he rides and blasts open the gates alongside Grond. He then stares down Gandalf, before leaving to deal with arriving Rohirrim, at which point he swaps to the fell beast, which he uses to ride down Theoden.

Correct. The one from Gorgoroth was red in aspect.

1:27 I think this is it, you can see the light reflected off their faces.

How did sauron communicate with his officers anyway? Did he talk to the witch king?

@@Magido89 he used his plantir and telepathy

@@Greatermememan that or face book

yes

It even had it's own "laser going into the sky" trope. Did it invent that at all? Seems here it was merely to tell Gondor that they're on their way, hence all the scared reaction shots.

wtf does that mean ?

Don Carbon you prolly have no brain cells

Jin Lee Not to mention, it's better than a lot of films that Hollywood are making nowadays. :)

So, like hell, but not as bad

Dol Goldur is up there too. Sauron disguised as the necromancer, a shadowmaster with dark powers. I'd put Angmar in there too. We've never seen much of the north in the movies besides the Lonely Mountain.

Read the passage describing it in the book. Straight up Lovecraftian.

@@Archetype77 minas morgal was good at one point I believe. Until the witch king and his other nazgul

I'd say utumno took the cake for most depraved dark places in middle earth.

Well Gollum pulled him back because if the witch king got the ring he would not have got his "precious" back

He wants to bring them to Shelob. She'll kill the hobbits but won't care about the ring.

Gollum out of his love for the ring, Sam out of his love for Frodo.

Gollum has good and bad in him so half the good helped too 😊 pity he didnt survive after the ring would be destroyed he sure would wake up from the curse too .

pavel stefanovic his fate was tied to the ring no ring no Gollum deagol his hobbit persona was long dead by that time

Shit, you and me both. Maybe they’ll rerelease it again in the cinemas for the anniversary? 🤷‍♂️

@@Therealmoseslupai They actually just released the movies in 4K with remastered audio for Dolby Atmos

Oh really? Where? In select theaters?

@@Therealmoseslupai UltraHD Blu-Ray. A little disappointing

Aw damn, thanks for the info tho man. Stay blessed.

Its a fellbeast

Even Terminator 2 had so much better CGI than movies nowadays.

@@jalmaritammela8642 It's funny because it's true.

2001 a space odyssey has better effects than most movies nowadays

That CGI model looks average at best by today's standards. The textures lack depth and appear very plain. The lighting only appears acceptable because of the setting, it would look hideous in a brightly lit scene. It lacks many of the finer details we've come to expect.

Derrick Ranshaw It's lucky for Frodo and Sam that they didn't!

I wouldn't say quick seeing as this was probably at the 3 hour mark

but the orkceses are so stupid , yes , master frodo can pass easily he just have to avoid the nazgul yes , evil nazgul , shrieks , evil soundeses

ArtyPreventsCamping

You don’t realize how close the ring was to being found here. In the books the witch king feels like he senses the ring, and Frodo is extremely close to putting it on, but Sam stops him and since the witch king is on a tight schedule to lay siege to Gondor, he ignores the feeling. It’s awesome how on edge it is

Loud

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Paulo Lopes Frodo’s face...

Sends a chill down my spine every time I hear it. Imagine these guys existing in real life!

Petr Jackson’s wife scream,she was the one who screamed here

Jeff Greenwade Frodo: Sam remember when I told you to go home because I thought you ate the bread and wanted to take the ring from me?! Sam: 😂 yeah I remember that, I was sobbing like a baby!

How was Frodo and Sam responsible for the light? They weren't even in the building.

I think the light was sauron's magic.

I like to think that’s how they talk in middle earth

It wasn't caused by them. 🤦‍♂️ Don't you think they'd have been in a bit of trouble if that were the case? What do you even think is happening in this scene? Why do all the orcs come out?

The music throughout this entire trilogy is amazing.

@@erinelizabeth1110 can we agree LOTR has The best musics with Star Wars ?

Well. it's no surprise that The Return of The King has won 11 Academy Awards including "Best Sound Mixing". The LOTR trilogy won a total of 17 Academy Awards. In total, the trilogy won 475 awards worldwide, making it the most awarded film series in cinematic history!

@@thorfinnkarlsefni.1114 it's better than star wars

You say no movie now could but what about back then, like the Matrix, that was a good trilogy

yeah, it's one of the alltime greats. i am thankful to have been able to watch this in the cinema when it came out. I watched every movie around 10-15 times in the cinema, can you believe it

Not at same level, but the batman trilogy was great , in my opinion.

What we have now is MCU... and it's just so sad... Wait we always have Avatar 2 3 4 and 5 to look for!!! .....................................

no the best trilogy ever is sw prequels but lotr is good too

Kevin Mura I think Sam instead of Frodo should have carried the ring!

Arshad Khan “... but that is not for them to decide...”

@@ArshadKhan-ys9ey that fat piece of shit would have succumbed much earlier than frodo. I don't know why frodo is so underappreciated. Probably its because of idiots like you who only watched the movies

@@darkseidistheboss5781 chill out mate. As someone who seems to glorify in the books, you should know that Tolkien himself said that Sam is the chief hero of the story, without whom Frodo would have failed miserably. So quick to lash out and judge others...

Pretty sure that's the witch king, but I don't even know. Never read the books or watched the movies. I dunno why I'm even here lol

I thought the Witch King was Sauron’s top lieutenant? Wouldn’t that make him superior to the orcs of Barad-Dur?

@@stellarwind1946 The "rivalry" Is simply within the orcs, as they are tribalistic in nature. The Nazguls are 100% loyals to Sauron.

This is hinted at in the film as well, there's a scene were a Mordor Orc tells another Orc "I don't take orders from stinking morgul rats!" Insinuating the second Orc to be of the morgul "tribe" :)

Really interesting. I really need to read the books.

@@IronFatherKagaan I assumed the other orc was Saruman's, but I realise now he had no white mark... silly me... lol

Hmm, I wonder if Carn Dum, the capital of Angmar and former seat of the Witch-King, was also as hauntingly ghostly as Minas Morgul, formerly known as Minas Ithil back when it was under the control of Gondor

@@mechadoggyI doubt it. Places created by evil pale in comparison to the places of good they corrupt.

:-(

If only Jackson directed Amazon Lotr

@QE ornotQE the Jews?

@@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676 we haven't seen the series yet, but if it's bad then this is the comment of the sad reality

@@visionist7 Fool of a jew!

good pieces

the gondor are all pawns in this movie xd so incompetent

Pip: f**k chess. Let me have a hit of that pipe

*"WE COME TO IT AT LAST.... THE GREAT BATTLE OF OUR TIME!"*

Magneto: In chess the pawns go first

That bridge would have been a perfect ambush spot against the troops marching out of the castle, just saying.

@@luvfreedom1470 they have the Nazguls on the dragons who would see every threat in that valley from that high, the ground troups would be warned pretty wuick. But yea the narrow path also could be easily defended from the other side, like the battle of Thermopylae in 300

@@m.hoffman2889 Eh eagles would neutralize the nazguls.

It was built by the Numenoreans, Minas Ithil, and was the seat of Isildur. Years after, when the great plague came was abandoned. In 2002 the Nazgûl took it with an army of Uruk-Hai. PD: English it's not my mother's tongue, I try to make my best

You haven't played shadow of war then.

When Sauron disappeared technically witchking was the new dark lord

Witch king and Saroun are just Servants. Melkor forever.

In shadow of war Sauron battle Bright Lord for eternity

StreetEve shadow of war is not canon at all

And yet the Witch King was stabbed and killed by a girl...

Proper facilities.

It's easily one of the best and most effective shots of cinematography from the entire trilogy. And that's saying a lot because the entire trilogy is a masterpiece

@@matthewbrown5464 Which shot ? the birsdeye shot looking over the armies coming out?

@@jayv8068 yeah! It captures the screech of the Fellbeast in all of its ferocity and then immediately after shows you the march of the Minas Morgul army. It doesnt give you the chance to breath and overwhelms you with the might of Sauron's forces. It's very effective.

Matt Brown The witch king was screeching, not the fellbeast.

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The Witch King is like what Darth Vader is to the Emporer, their loyal champion. Even if they arnt on the same tier as Sauron, it makes sense why the dark lord declared him as his right hand and champion

Even Gandalf is shaken.

There's tons of moments like that. The mother embracing her baby before the Rohirrim set out from Edoras. The boy wearing an ill-fitted helmet at Helm's Deep. The woman offering a flower to a knight in Faramir's suicidal charge.

It was a surprise attack so they didn't know the enemy where coming to Gondolin. ^^*

one balrog would be enough if you don't have a gandalf.

@@DeathGoesCrazy Nope, since the magic and heroes from the First Age are far more powerful than later ages. For example two balrogs dies at the hands of elfs during the battle of Gondolin. One get tossed from a cliff, the other (Gothmog chief of the balrogs) gets headbutted in to a fountain and drowns.

@@00Kuja00 up's i meant the war of minas tirith not the first age.

And the iron dragons, too. Basically, Middle-earth's equivalent of tanks. Tolkien first started writing The Fall of Gondolin while recovering from the Battle of the Somme.

I didn’t know that. Was that in the book?

​@@conn_man_249yes, Minas Morgul was a lovecraftian place which made Men mad only at looking it.

Being a supervillain is all about presentation.

@@pikppa megamind reference in an LOTR scene 😂

@@pikppa megamind reference in an LOTR scene 😂

Underrated comment. Should have a thousand likes

I think this scene is what won the oscar for best sound editing.

Preach!

@@xiserhoff Well. it's no surprise that The Return of The King has won 11 Academy Awards including "Best Sound Mixing", not in sound editing. Best in sound editing was won by the movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World during the 76th Oscars. The LOTR trilogy won a total of 17 Academy Awards. In total, the trilogy won 475 awards worldwide, making it the most awarded film series in cinematic history!

Top notch cgi? Fucking Phantom menace or even attack of the clones had better cgi than any modern marvel movies

a good scene

For me are all best and favourite scenes😂

And favorite music. Damn so good

always liked how menacing it is

So far? They always will.

Ironically, these films are far better than the modern ones with everything made of crappy CGI. This was real filming.

Late 90s were really best time for movies

@@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676 this was 2001 wasn’t it

@@JoeSmith-hv7oe LOTR was shot in 1999/2000

Chillkrokette But it isn’t though is it.

+ Balrog roar + Saturn scene in Interstellar. My top 3 audio*visuals

IMAX didn't exist when this movie came out.

@@AimForMyHead81 yes it did it just wasn't the Imax that is used today

@@AimForMyHead81 was just gonna say that.

I wish they would repeat these in cinema in Czech Republic

I saw them just a few weeks ago at the Imax cinema, and I wanna see them again already.

When you step on lego

I think you need to not immerse yourself so hard if your having actual anxiety attacks. I understand it's a good movie but relax. No need to be having panic attacks.

@@Shad0wj3ster567 immersion +100

do you know what an actual panic attack feels like?

you don't have to spell out everything for the nabs. some things are better as a reward for the interested

IIRC the red light in the book was a volcanic plume from Gorgoroth (seen just fine at 1:42).

3:17 it's funny how those cave trolls behind or the Nazgul's leading figure did not notice or sense the ring's presence

@@TheLatiosnlatias02 In the books the Witch-king rode a horse and stopped for a moment, almost sensing the presence of the ring.

@@xalba5245 So he did not ride that winged creature, but a horse. And then what happened?

Literally came here to see if anyone else thought the same

Ronin Elenion bad for your ears though

@@alexrance3701 Bad ? How dare you call bad to a Nazgûl's screech ?

Pootis Pencer I am not calling the screech bad. I’m saying using headphones with that screech and how high pitched it is, can be bad for your ears. I love the speech itself.

@@alexrance3701 Ah I'm sorry, I read it wrong, I guess. I'm sorry for wasting your time.

@@combineadvisorwithinternet6040 fun fact, the nazgul scream is composed of a man screaming, the dude who made the movies wife screaming, and a horse orgasm

They do look a lot like balrogs dont they

They aren't balrogs, but deformed beasts.

Yep, well I'm pretty sure they just stole peoples metal garden fences and cut the railings out and told the orcs they were proper spears when they handed them out. The poor orcs probably knew better but were too afraid to argue back

Many of those were actual weapons. Look up medieval pikes. The armour on the orcs during the battle of Minas Tirith was serious. Not many armies even in the real world medieval times could afford to arm a few hundred men with heavy armour, not even speaking about a thousand.

Compared to the the urukhai of isengard, these orcs are lightly armed

Charles Danao Some separate orcs had heavy armour. Example are those that attacked Gandalf after they left the siege tower.

@@scudb5509 but, I think only those orcs had better arms and armour where as the urukhai all had formidable Spears, Shields, swords, and or crossbows. The orcs if Minas Morgul under the witch King and those under Sauron from Mordor weren't as greatly equiped altogether.

James Gravil He's the emperor's puppet

Since*

@James Gravil He's the most famous villain but not the main villain. The main villain is Pal Patine AKA Darth Sidious Darth Vader is his servant

To be the main villain one doesn't need to be at the top of his hierarchical system. Darth Vader is both the main villain and the main character in Star Wars, being at the center of everything

@@eikamik1123 Although the series as a whole has no true main character, Luke would be the closest possible thing to a main character regarding the films and some of the EU, Lucas himself even stated this. Also, MAIN villains kind of DO have to be at the top of their hierarchy. Or at the very least, they have to be the biggest source of misfortune in the protagonist's world (which almost always corresponds with the evil-doers at the top of their hierarchy). Also, Darth Vader is the central antagonist of the Star Wars films but not the main villain, that would be Palpatine. Villain and antagonist are two different things. The villain is the character from which all of the negative "forces" of the story derive from, the "Big Bad" so to say, the spider at the center of the web. It is through the villains machinations that all of the unfortunate events happen in the story to propel the hero into the situation he's in currently, I.E Sidious corrupting Anakin, leading to the birth of Darth Vader yet the death of Anakin and Padme (Probably the most crucial event in Lukes' life, and it was all Sidious' doing). The antagonist on the other hand, is just the being that the main character comes into direct conflict with the most. For example, Sauron is the central antagonist of the LOTR but the main villain of the franchise is Melkor, who Sauron is really just a lieutenant of. It was Melkors actions that LITERALLY birthed evil into the world, created Orcs, Balrogs, AND Dragons, THEN topped it off by corrupting Sauron. He's the single biggest source for all of the misfortune of the main characters, making him the main villain, even though you NEVER see him and the main character never comes into direct conflict with him, meaning he cannot be the main antagonist. For a real world analogy: If you believe in God, Lucifer would be the main villain for us, but Donald Trump would probably be the central antagonist as of right now lmao. (Sarcasm, I could care less for politics I'm more of a private sector guy).

The same can be said for the beginning of their journey as well. Pretty sure there was a Black Rider ALREADY in Hobbiton as they were leaving (at least in the book). If they left even a hour later it probably would've found and killed them.

@@thisisausername1506 yes frodo hears the Black Rider Talking with sams dad

@@thisisausername1506currently rereading the book and got done with that part recently. That’s one of those things you don’t even realize until you reread how close it really was. Just another one of Tolkien’s little details that makes it so great

Yep.

When I was a kid, this scene along with the Nazguls surrounding the hobbits in the first movie, always creeped me out. Always got scared when it zoomed in on the gargoyle. The directors perfected this city in making it have a super eerie feel as well as keeping it mysterious.

The timing is genius. When the beam is fired, Frodo and Sam just stare at it. Then the music starts and then they start moving almost as if they heard it too. On that note, I always like to think the city started blaring the music.

And Saruman created that organized and well-armed fighting force within 2 weeks. That's impressive in itself

In the books Saruman started to gather orcs around him around 2950 T.A. while the ring wars are in 3018-3021 T.A. took Saruman 70 years to build up his entire army. Also Orcs have bad PR in the movie, they are actually kinda crafty according to Tolkien if they have the right "motivation", they make all their weapons, armors, siege equipments, buildings themselves, don't forget they built Barad-Dur and had an entire slave army made of men working on farms at the sea of Nurn ( a inland sea in the south east of Mordor ). Pretty good considering they hate everything including Sauron, life in general and themselves.

Brady Lyter not really, the fact that they dont look the same doesnt mean that they are armed badly, actually those Morgul orcs were well trained and well armed comparing to any other orc armies, maybe except the army of orcs in Hobbit book and the armies of Gundabad orcs from the times of conquer of Arnor by the Witch King. But if we talk about every orc armies created by Sauron, these Morgul orcs were the best ones.

Idk that orc with the axe looked pretty serious bro

They’re Orcs, they’re not supposed to be quality troops.

It's a sound that send shivers down my spine I have watched these series a thousand times and for some reason now, this scene is one of my favourites !

Even knowing this scene by heart, this sound always makes me cringe at the simple idea of Morgul’s gate opening and revealing the horrors hidden in the dark city.

It's the sound of the outer Void or the timeless Dark, beyond the Borders of Ea, where Morgoth used to seek the secret of creation but was unsuccessful.

That sound is from world of dead

They found the noise with which to make that sound effect from donkey screams.

yeah, and I would say to sam "shit man, I know I shouldn't take the ring"

That's no Minas Ithil...

@@Phoebe5448 Its a *very nasty place*

@@creativeyoutubeaccountname1813 it's too big to be a nasty place. Sam, find us a way around.

Barad-dûr red light, Minas Morgul green light

Barad-dûr red light, Minas Morgul green light

You so lucky

I was 10 when it came out and I seen it with my older sisters .....I was literally speechless. That was until king theoden and Aimir were commanding the troops from their camp and theoden says ride now to gondor and I saw all of the rohirrm. I said wooooow so loud and joyfully my sisters covered my mouth and half the theatre errupted into laughter. Think I pissed off a couple of people aswel for ruining such an epic scene 🤣

The theaters and the sounds around the room. Yeah it gets epic as soon as the music starts.

Visit ArdaCraft next year and then you'll be able to explore it. We're building a 100% text-accurate Middle-Earth in there. We have already finished the regions of Lindon, Eriador and Rohan.

@@victorarmandoneis Wow that sounds like a job! Will do that hopefully

@@Walangord It is. We'll have Gondor by Christmas.

​@Victor Armando Neis damn nice job! To what extent of detail does 'the cannon' even extend, so to speak, and do you take liberties in filling the remainders?