If you recall, at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo was telling the story of when he was taken captive by the trolls to the little children.

Balin, who tells the story about the battle with Thorin and Azog, is, if you recall, the dwarf who Gimli talks about, entering Moria to reclaim it, only to find it full of orcs. It's Balin's tomb that they find in Moria.

It’s not said in the Lord of the Rings, but Frodo and Bilbo share the same birthday. When Bilbo turned 111, Frodo turned 33, which to hobbits was essentially the beginning of adulthood. When Gandalf left to search for answers about the ring, he was actually gone for 17 years! So Frodo was 50 when he began the journey to Mordor. Obviously the movie sped the timeline up a bit 😄

The Took family has some curious lineage. It was a rumour that one of the ancestors "took a fairy wife," which would explain their greater sensitivity to magic, and possibly their resilience to the ring.

The Tooks are a family of Hobbits. Bilbo's mother was a Took. Pippin from LoTR was also a Took. The Tooks are an adventurous line of Hobbits and Gandalf has had a relationship with the family going back generations. That was why Gandalf got Bilbo involved in this adventure. Also, while Gandalf can't see the future he has strong intuition. He just had a feeling Bilbo should be part of this. He doesn't know why its just a feeling he has. Of course it leads to Bilbo finding the ring and it finally passing to Frodo.

Tolkien wasnt /just/ an author. He was literally an expert in the art of writing. He was a linguist, etymologist, philologist, etc. He knew language, and in particular he knew all about ancient stories, mythologies, and what made them appealing to the human imagination. He was a literary historian; he understood precisely what made a story stand the test of time. He spend a LIFETIME perfecting his work. And he lived life, a veteran of the war; he had his own experiences and pains that he was able to impart in his work. All the greatest artists suffered in life, and the greatest suffering creates the best work. I sincerely believe there is no greater author in the entire English language. Probably even in all languages.

Balin (white hair dwarf) is the dwarf whose tomb we see in Fellowship of the Ring. Balin, Dwalin and Thorin are some of my favorite characters of all 6 films.

Gandalf and Radagast actually came to Middle Earth at the same time(around the beginning of the 3rd age), they’re the “youngest” of the Istari (at least their bodies are).

ANCIENT elven blades glow blue because they were enchanted to do so back when all out war between elves and orcs was much more common. Gandalf gives Bilbo sting which is the same weapon Bilbo passes on to Frodo.

what you were thinking of is the fact that orcs and goblins are synonymous terms, which is true there's no actual difference, however, modern audiences have chosen to distinguish between the two for the sake of clarity, nowadays when people say goblins it usually refers to the variant of orcs who have lived and adapted to the misty mountains, so while you can use orc and goblin interchangeably, an easy way to separate the two is that goblins are feral, mountain dwelling creatures and orcs are usually more organised non mountain dwelling baddies

In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. First words from the Hobbit book. Balin was also the Dwarf in Moria that Gimli was crying over in the Lord of the Rings.

Hey Stef, looking forward to you venturing into this trilogy so quickly! I want to answer all your questions, but since you’re all about the emotions I’ll share a bittersweet fact that inspires fellowship. Sir Ian Holm developed Parkinson’s disease and it got quite nasty. He stopped acting altogether, but Peter Jackson and crew were hoping to have him reprise the role of Bilbo, and he agreed as a favor to Peter, and I like to think he did it for the fans too. He couldn’t fly to New Zealand, so they set up a private studio in London with a small crew and all the time in the world. There, he gave this final performance as Bilbo (I believe this was his actual last acting job, though I can stand corrected), and one that can, and I think should, be appreciated by all. I think he was flawless. RIP Sir Ian Holm.

Remember in Fellowship of the Ring the trolls that were stone, they are the same 3 trolls Gandalf turned to stone in this part of the hobbit. Also when Legolas first met Gimli there was a rift between them because the dwarves felt abandoned by the elves. You see the dislike between elves and dwarves in the hobbit and is continued into Fellowship of the Ring. It took awhile but Gimli and Legolas became great friends by the end of Return of the King!

Smeagal was a branch of hobbits called Stoares. The lived near the rivers and streams. As a rule, hobbits don't really like waterways. But Stoares do. Same species, different branch.

Did someone tell her that 'Took" is the last name of his mother, Belladonna Took? She's the one in the red dress in the flashback scene. :) Her picture is hanging above the mantle in Bilbo's house. Still there when it's Frodo's house.

Gollum's family line became associated with the term "River Folk". Also, If you remember Bilbo's birthday party back in "The Fellowship of the Ring" you may recall Bilbo sitting in a tent telling the kids a frightening story. A story about his encounters with mountain trolls and how they were all turned to stone.. He was telling the kids about this encounter.

I believe that most, if not all, trolls can talk. It's more that you just don't see or hear them do it in The Lord of the Rings

First off - Took is a genealogy, it's like Johnson or Smith, so is Baggins. Bilbo is descendant from both (as of course is Frodo). The Tooks tended to be more adventurous or inquisitive - Pippen's full name was Peregrin Took, hence there reason he was always touching what he shouldn't. And Orcs and Goblins were essentially the same thing, Goblins tended to dwell in caves and were smaller. The Orcs in LOTR from Saruman were Uruk Hai, they're technically orcs and goblins blended together to make them stronger and less susceptible to sunlight. But they're all mostly the same thing and they're all descendants from elves that darkness had twisted.

These were sent by the Valar to help and assist the peoples of Middle-earth against Sauron as he gathered his forces during the Third Age. The five known Istari were: Curumo, a Maia of Aulë Olórin, a Maia of Manwë and Varda.

Frodo was 33 when Bilbo left the Shire, and 50 when he went on the main quest in Lord of the Rings (the movies don't really show the 17-year gap between the two events). The Ring kept Frodo at the physical age of 33, though, much as it kept Bilbo young while he had it.

So here's a basic outline. Thorin Oakenshield (the "prince") wants to reclaim Erebor and kill the dragon. However he can't do it alone and while he has access to larger dwarven armies, they won't risk it right now. But all the dwarven armies will fight if Thorin can get the Arkenstone and prove its possible to enter the mountain. Bilbo has been hired to sneak into the mountain to find the Arkenstone so that the armies of dwarves will come to the mountain and with their combined strength kill the dragon. That's the plan but we'll see how this crazy adventure goes.

This is gonna be fun! The Hobbit is a great trilogy - I really hope you won't get too many negative comments about it and let it color your opinion. Bear in mind that the book The Hobbit was written several years before before LotR, and was written as a children's story - something the movies does reflect with a lot more humour and childishness than LotR. With that said, it would probably be beneficial to not compare it too much to the LotR films' quality.

I believe Frodo is 33 ( the age hobbits are officially adults) in the beginning of lotr and Gandalf leaves for years and when the adventure begins he is 55

The Hobbit was a single book...stretched out into a trilogy. It will never be better than The Lord of the Rings for me, but certainly has its moments and well worth seeing.

Thank you commenters for sharing some Middle Earth lore. As a casual fan I respect your deeper knowledge and dedication to this fantastical world. I wish I could buy you all an ale at the pub and listen to you regale us with more of these anecdotes.

Balin is the dwarf whose tomb they find in Moria in Lord of the Rings. Gloin is Gimli;s father.

@17:25 - This is the same sword Bilbo gave to Frodo. He gives it to him with the mithril vest. I am surprised she didn't pick up on that, especially after she said she has seen fellowship more than once now.

Orcs and goblins are often considered interchangeable but there are some minor differences, most notably that goblins tend to be in caves.

The year this adventure starts is Third Age 2941, and it has been centuries since the dragon Smaug took Erebor in TA-2770 (dwarves live for centuries, might be worth remembering) the year when Gandalf discovers that Bilbo has the One Ring is TA-3001, he leaves and is gone for 17 years before returning to the Shire in 3018, which is when the War of the Ring starts off. :)

Bilbo's 111th birthday was 60 years after this story...that makes Frodo, since he was included in the flashback, over 60 years old when he gets the ring....and several more before he leaves on the quest.

Took is a well known surname among Hobbits. They are more adventurous and brave than the average Halfling. They have a legendary kinsman (Bandobras Took) who fought in the war against the Witch King (the era of the swords the Hobbits find in LotR in the books, Merry's dagger used to kill the Witch King etc.), he was so big and strong that was able to ride a pony into battle by himself. 😂

Yes it’s in New Zealand. You can actually visit Hobbiton. The literal set is still there and up and is a tourist attraction

Mountain trolls are a subspecies of Troll which are much smarter than their cave troll cousins. It is thought that Melkor (essentially the devil and Sauron’s boss) created Trolls out of boulders as a bastardization/ mockery of the Ents, who were created by the Vala Yavanna (Mother Earth/ Queen of the Valar). The same thing is how the orcs came to be, he created a mockery of Elves which Saruman mentions in the og trilogy. You see the exact same troll statues in the fellowship of the ring after Frodo gets stabbed on weathertop. Sam says “look Bilbos trolls”.

4:27 Balin was the dwarf who was in the tomb in Moria, btw.

Petrified trols are also in The Lord of the Rings. They are seen shortly after Frodo is stabbed by the Nazgul. And Sam says, "Just like Padron Bilbbo said."

Ah, Stef my dear, you are about to get so many lore-drops! The one thing that Tolkien fans enjoy is to share the knowledge and the lore of The Professor's creations. Just remember that your fans want to share all this with you, and we're all looking forward to making the journey with you!

Hobbits used to live in the Anduin vale, east of the Misty Mountains. The shadow that fell over the forest ( Greenwood the Great turned into Mirkwood ), was one of the reasons they migrated westwards, and eventually founded the Shire. In a land once called Arnor ( The Sister kingdom of Gondor ), but Arnor was depopulated,, and eventually would fracture, then cease to exist, mainly due to the conflict with Angmar. The realm of the Witch King.

4:30 remember in lotr when Gimli runs towards a tomb and Gandalf reads " here lies Balin " that's him the old dwarf

in the movies it's implied he's only 33, which is the coming of age for hobbits, making him essentially 21, but in the books he actually waits for Gandalf to come back for like 20 years and ends up setting out on he quest in his 50's (which is probably like late 30's or early 40's in hobbit years) The symbol Gandalf puts on Bilbo's door is an f rune: ᚠ from the very real runic alphabets used by ancient germanic peoples from about the first century ad to the eighteen hundreds in some parts of rural Sweden. Trolls and Orcs aren't the same, but Goblins and Orcs are, I know it's a little confusing, but Goblin and Orc you can remember is both meaning the smaller ones, and Trolls being the big ones. The only elven swords that turn blue are the ancient ones made in the now destroyed city of Nargothrond in the first age, thousands of years before the Hobbit. Gandalf's sword and Sting should both technically glow blue, as well as Thorin's blade Orcrist, but not any others because it's unlikely they come from Nargothrond. One thing about these movies, it that they add a lot that wasn't in the book. Ironically enough Radagast only ever appeared for a brief moment in the Lord of the Rings books and not at all in the Hobbit, Azog really was dead, and they didn't have a specific troop of orcs searching for them, and all the references or set ups of what will happen in lord of the rings wasn't there because Tolkien didn't even know he was going to write Lord of Rings when he wrote the Hobbit.

11:52 - that, my dear girl, is one of the best-loved of all the UK's animals - a hedgehog.

Bilbo is 50 when he departs in the hobbit. 111 birthday at the start of LOTR. What's not told in the LOTR movies is it is also the 33th birthday for Frodo the exact same day Bilbo turns 111. When Frodo Sam Merry and Pippin end their journey back into The Shire and finally deal with Saruman and Grima (little different that in the books) 17 more years have passed, Frodo is 50 (and Bilbo is 128) when he departs with the elfs to the west at the end of LOTR.

Took is a surname. The same as Baggins. It's Bilbo's mother side of the family, known to be more adventurous

You're seeing some of the history that played out in ancient times that went on to form the grudges and ill will between races. If you remember in "The Fellowship of the Ring", when they all came together at the council Legolas and Gimli disliked and did not trust the other. Because elves and dwarves had such a sorted past. When the quest started they basically just put up with each other. It wasn't till Galadriel gave Gimli three of her hairs as a gift in the forest that Legolas knew Gimli was trustworthy and of pure heart. Galadriel's hair is very special "a whole different story", but she would not have given her hair to him if she did not look into his heart and see that it was pure, and Legolas knew this.

The Hobbit story is on year 2941 of the third age. Lord of the Rings starts with Bilbo's party on year 3001 of the third age, but Frodo doesn't start the quest until 3018, ending a year later

Yes, Mountain Trolls are a unique type of troll. They are free from Sauron's breeding programs, and so they are smart enough to talk, but completely vulnerable to sunlight..

11.01 - In that scene Gandalf "forgots" names of Alatar and Palando the Blue wizards becouse these charachters were not included in copyrights given to filmmakers :D

There are different types of trolls in Middle Earth that appear in The Lord of the Rings, but the trolls in The Hobbit were all three mountain trolls who had come down into the lowlands, presumably to find more people to eat. turned to stone by the daylight. they are the same ones Frodo is laid under after being stabbed on Weathertop.

Hobbit book: Gandalf introduced himself as "Gandalf means me!" Just as he did in the live action movie In the cartoon? He does the aame thing but then also randomly simmons lightning bolts to hammer home how much Gandalf means "me" 😂😂

Could I just hug You when I see tears in Your eyes :3

"Took" is just a family name. The Tooks have a reputation for being a little more reckless and chaotic than other Hobbits. So by pointing out that Bilbo is part Took, he's playing on the part of him that has a bit of wanderlust and some non-conformity

In the book Frodo is 33 at the start of the LotR’s. He and Bilbo actually share the same birthday so the party at the start of Fellowship is actually both Bilbo’s 111th and Frodo’s 33rd combined birthday party in the book. They cut out the Frodo birthday part in the movie. Also the time between the birthday/s party and when Frodo leaves on his quest is 17 years in the book, so Frodo is 50 when he leaves, which is the age Bilbo was when he began his adventure. Elijah Woods who played Frodo in the movie was only 18 when filming began though, so he likely is not 33 in the movies.

Yes film in New Zealand too. Those Trolls are the same Trolls Sam mention when Frodo was stab by the Witch King of Angmar.

The most enjoyable parts of these movies are the big dose of Dwarves and young Bilbo, which we don't get in LOTR, plus the singing which is a big part of Tolkien's writing, but not so much in LOTR (even though it's huge in LOTR soundtrack that uses chorus all the time for this exact reason)

"Fool of a Took! Next time throw yourself in and rid us if your stupidity!" Bilbo's mom was a Took before marrying his dad then her name changed to Baggins. Pippin is Frodo's cousin and is also a Took, once removed on his mother's side. And the mountain trolls were different than a cave troll that were in LOTR. In the scene after Frodo is stabbed by the black riders, the group carries Frodo away and where they stop you can see the trolls made of stone in the background.

Bull Roarer Took was an extra large Hobbit who was very wealthy with a large Family home and lived to be 130 or so. Bilbos Mother was Belladonna Took.

You get to see two of the dwarves from the group in the first "Lord of the Rings" movie. Gloin, Gimli's father, is briefly shown as an old, white-bearded dwarf arriving with Gimli for the Council of Elrond. Ori, the young, rather shy dwarf with the slingshot is the dead dwarf in Moria who is leaning against Balin's tomb and holding the book Gandalf takes and reads from. If the camera had shown a different angle during or after the fight with the cave troll, we might have seen Balin as well, as the troll smashed his tomb open, but they decided not to show him on-screen.

I just binged watched your LOTR series last night. What are the odds that I get this video today. Lol. This is gonna be fun.

This happened around the day the Lord of the Rings and the Fellowship of the Ring started. The whole movie is just Bilbo's iteration of past events written in his book. So some things are embellished, like the big noses on the dwarves. These talking Trolls were mountain trolls from the Ettenmoors, some of them are smart enough to learn speech, others were animalistic. The Ologs are the war trolls of Mordor, they were smarter than the regular troll and generally spoke Black Speech.

That porcupine is a hedgehog, btw. 🙂 Fun to watch, as always!

Stef- Thanks for another great reaction. You're awesome!

The three trolls that turned to stone made a brief appearance in the Fellowship of the Rings movie where they stopped to attend Frodo's wounds when Arwen had shown up. Sam even mentioned them to Frodo.

Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Took had an adventuring ancestor "Belladonna Took" and she might be part Pixie. Tooks have a bad reputation of inheriting an adventuring nature, this is the reason Gandalf sought out Bilbo for an adventure before he met him. Hobbits are almost magically stealthy, his job was to "burgle" gold, not kill the dragon.

Frodo was 33 when Bilbo turned 111, they share the same birthday. Frodo was about 50 when he embarked on the quest to destroy the ring of power. Gandalf was gone 17 years before he returned to the Shire to see if Frodo’s ring was indeed the one ring to rule them all. Frodo was 53 when he left with Gandalf and Galadriel to sail to the undying lands.

Frodo turned 33 on the same day as Bilbo's 111th birthday, at the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring. After that, it was actually 17 years before Gandalf came back to test the ring to see if it was The One Ring. Then it was another year before Frodo left, just as he turned 51 (though the movie modified that aa bit). So yeah...frodo would not have been born for many years after the events of The Hobbit. And...yeah, every weapon from from the Teleri, Noldor, or Beleriand elves should glimmer blue when orcs are about, but in practice generally only Bilbo's is mentioned in The Hobbit and LotR as doing so. It also should be less of a glow, and more of like a blue glittering edge.

13:20 Goblins :) Orc and Goblin is used fairly interchangeable, though one could more easily consider the smaller and more thin to be more 'goblin' and the bigger ones to be orcs.

Theres an animated hobbit movie from the late 70s with lots of songs . Its really good but nobody ever reacts to it sadly

So glad you are reacting to this! Loved you reactions to the LOTR trilogy!!

The Hobbit was written first, and was a children’s book. This the lighter feel, such as the trolls. One of the challenges of the movie was to retain that feel, but also the feel of the LotR movies. Tolkien later regretted giving the trolls modern names. The movies make the mistake of only Sting glowing in the presence of orcs. All elvish blades glow in the presence of orcs (and goblins, Tolkien primarily used the term goblins in The Hobbit and orca in LotR, but occasionally used the term goblin to refer to orcs).

Yes ! I was gonna ask you to watch the Hobbit after watching your LOTR reaction videos. I went on the same rollercoaster of emotions with you even though I watched it before and I can't wait to experience that with the Hobbit. Keep up the great work!

their are goblins, orcs, trolls in the tolkienverse.

the misty mountains songs and Martin Freeman's acting are one of the few things that don't make me hate these movies

In Tolkien's lore goblins are basically orcs that live in mountains/caves, the standard "orc" are like Azog the defilers group, and the Uruk Hai are a special breed of super orcs engineered by Saruman during the time of "The Lord of the rings" films. Outside of Tolkiens lore however it should be noted that orcs and goblins usually do not share ancestry and tend to be very different from each other in capacity/function, specifically in whether they act straight forward or in a more stealthy manner.

It is 4:30 in the morning here and I can not stop watching your reactions. Loved your Lord of the rings reaction and cant wait for you to see the Hobbit trilogy.

It’s just that sword that turns blue. It’s the sword that Bilbo later gives to Frodo and it’s called “Sting”

It was Balin's tomb you saw in the Lord of the Rings in the mines of Moria where they fought the orcs and troll. Ori was the one laying beside the tomb with the journal in his hands.

I think of Hobbits as being Fey, or which is to say fairie-like beings akin to the Elves and not say, just small versions of men. This explains why Bilbo and other Hobbits are in tune with their surroundings, can pass quietly and mostly unseen if they desire. Elves are much more adept at those things but Hobbits certainly have similar skills.

I just watch her reactions to see her pretty smile 😍

Tooks was known as a family of adventurers, and one of them was even some kind of warlord, rode the horse and fought the goblins. Other hobbits don't respect that tho and see them as crazies.

Demonstrating the talent of the actors, the three trolls were voiced by three of the cast who.played dwarves

There were three hobbit ethnicities before they mostly merged. Stoors, harfoots and fallowhides. Stoors were more physically robust and adventurous. Smeagol was a Stoor. The Tooks, a family name are largely Stoors. And while a rich and important family, they are known as mischievous troublemakers. Like Pippin.

The Tooks are a lineage of "weird hobbits", legend has it their forefather married a fairy, they are curious adventurous and brave (by hobbit standard). Frodo,Pippin and Bilbo are from this family and that why they are way more adventurous than any other hobbits who are content mainly living in the shire for their whole life.

I bought a rug from Etsy that has a map of Middle Earth on it.

You should hear 'Misty Mountains' sung by the bass singer from Home Free. 😉

If you notice one of the dwarves names is Gloin who was Gimli's father.

'Goblin' was a Norman word while 'Orc' was a Saxon word; both meaning much the same thing. As his writing progressed Tolkien favoured the term 'Orc' more and more as it was closer to the English language.

Orc and Uruk are essentially synonyms of each other. Uruk is derived from the Black Speech "Uruk-hai" translating to orc-folk. The word Orc is derived from the Valinórean Elvish "Urko", which in Noldorin Elvish was "Orko".

Hi Stef! Bilbo turned 111 and Frodo turned 33 at the big birthday party.🤗🙏 And Took is an old Hobbit family name.

Hey Stef, hope you're doing wonderful. Looking forward to the rest of your reaction. Love u babe ♥️

21:20 It's one of the bigger Hobbit families! Baggins are also fairly big.

Estefania, estas peliculas son muy entretenidas, ojala te diviertas viendolas. Saludos..

Hi Stef, I just began watching your reactions recently, and I have to say I am having a blast! Just a quick note: A "Took" in the world of the Hobbits is a last name. There are others: Bracegirdles, Proudfeet, Glubbs, Jubbs, Baggins, etc. The Took's are a well known bunch, of whom some of their people were known to have adventures, which is quite unlike the average Hobbit who prefers to stay close to home, tilling the fields, smoking tobacco (weed) and drinking ale. Hope this cleared it up for you. ( :E

You bring great joy with this, m'lady. So the next journey begins... 👌😊

J.R.R. Tolkien interchanged the words Goblins and Orcs during the Hobbit book, but differentiated them as their own species in The Lord of The Rings book.

Radagast and his rabbit sled are Middle Earth's version of Jar Jar Binks. It was an embarrassing addition by Peter Jackson; Radagast was only mentioned in passing in the book.

The weapons they found in the cave were made by a long destroyed elven kingdom and that area of the continent sunk beneath the ocean

The shire beginning scene is the same day as the beginning of the fellowship movie. Bilbos 111 birthday party.

goblins are like scuffed orcs, but the line is blurry. uruk-hai are the elite orcs

They sing alot in the books haha, so it's pretty true to form

Hey Stef! I recommend google: lotro middle earth map to study before next movie. It will help a lot. All I know Bilbo was 111, Frodo was 33 which is like 18 on hobbit age. But at Rivendell Frodo was 50, Sam 38, Merry 36, Pippin 28 which means Pip was still teenager on hobbit age. 13:13 you mean orcs, goblins, uruk hai, trolls, wargs, spiders, giants, wraiths, balrogs, dragons and evil men are creeps. 17:32 not all weapons glow. Only made by elves in first age ones glow blue when orcs and goblins nearby. Tooks, Brandybucks, Proudfoots, Bolgers, Boffins, Baggins are famous families of hobbits. Check google lotro shire map. You can see some of their locations.

3:30 yes…this movie starts (in present time) just a few moments before the events of LOTR-The Fellowship of the Ring on Bilbo’s Birthday. In fact Frodo mentions he’s going to surprise Gandalf. He eventually meets him a few moments later.