As awe-inspiring as this scene is, I kinda think you have to hand the title of 'best cavalry charge' to the 1970 film Waterloo. It's not quite as impressive on screen as the Charge of the Rohirrim, but in terms of logistics? Jesus Christ it blows it out of the water. The film involved 15,000 actual soldiers, including an entire brigade of cavalry and military engineers. It was filmed in the Soviet Union at a cost of USD$40m (closer to USD$200m when adjusted for inflation), and its believed that filming anywhere else would've cost between 2 and 3 times that amount, which would've made it the most expensive film ever made
@@multiplefan682 Endgame is subjective - for me it slightly above average (but then again I am biased to that scene because I didnt really like that movie) but LotR is objectively better than anything else by a lot.
Theatre training. Most theatre actors develop booming voices simply by necessity in their profession. In any actors' gathering, you can actually quite easily tell who had a theatre background just by how they channel their voices.
A perfect representation of Theoden's call to battle in the book: _"...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!"_
If I was an actor in that scene I don’t think I could separate the acting from reality... like how many times are you going to be dressed in chain mail, wielding axe and shield and charging with 250 cavalry men??? Insanity!!!
No, really. People don't realise this. A company of 250 can create such a noise and thud, that the ground shakes. Ancient and medieval armies had cavalry spams from 1000 to 10-15k (much more, depending on if it's an empire, sedentary kingdom or steppe nomads). And those cavalry cohorts weren't just heavy gandarmes or paladins. You had archers. F*ck me, no wonder a lot of battles were won by a full on frontal charge by cavalry. Just imagine the power, the psychological effect it had. Pitched battles were a sight to behold, if you were not a part of them.
Honestly I envy all of these people, they are able to experience what a medieval-like cavalry charge ... “feels” like. To feel the ground shaking, the sound of hooves and cries of war. It’s epic, terrifying and majectic
Maybe I spent too much time in Iowa as a kid, I'd like to see a herd of bison rumble through the plains like we're told happened before the settlers arrived.
"Tolkien narrates the Ride of the Rohirrim" Great YT video I just caught. Don't know why, but during this crisis in Ukraine, YT is recommending a lot of great LOTR clips!
Bernard Hill is such a fantastic actor. Rides the horse wearing all that armor, hits a real full-weight steel sword on the soldiers' spears with his *right* hand (he's a lefty), maneuvers himself excellently for a relatively untrained rider, and STILL delivers with such emotion and professionalism... This was a hell of a challenging scene to film, and they nailed it.
Yeah. That Battle of the Bastards charge was just baffling. Not just because the main character got conned into it. Also because he survived the two armies clashing while standing in between them, on foot.
I wouldn't even call that a try at LotR. LotR is so far ahead in the fantasy genre that I compare it with movies from other genres like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption.
@Bacon Hunter Doesn’t matter. Why always make it a contest? Both are theatrical events in their own way, unnecessary and foolish to pit them against each other. Appreciate them for ONLY what they are and what they do, rather than compare them against each other.
Horses actually get really excited by the opportunity to charge like this. They've been bred for exactly this purpose throughout much of human history and that evolutionary conditioning of being prey animals that run in a herd creates a lot of energy and excitement in the animals.
For the projekt they had over 250 extras on horses. However, finding 250 men that could both act and ride was hard, so they hired a lot of females with prosthetic beards. In the unedited cheer, you can hear both men and women shouting, not just Eowyns actress.
One of the most touching stories of this scene that I've read is actually about a horse, I try to recall it as accurately as possible to make it justice: Basically, the film crew were short on extras capable of riding, so they made an advert promising anyone who would bring their own horse for the scene to be allowed to act in the scene and be shown on screen (most were women clad as men). One woman brought her old stallion that had been a lazy galloper his entire life. Bernard's speech got the old horse so exited and riled up that he galloped harder and faster than ever before in his entire life, overtaking the younger horses and surprising everyone around.
Even galopping with a group of 20 riders is so awesome! When you feel the strength of the horse beneath you, hear the drumming noise of the horse's hooves hitting the ground, sounding like a second heartbeat .... one of the best moments in my life!
Dude, the most real life experience i can relate to this is riding motorcycles within a 2500 riders or more, i could imagine riding full speed into something/someone, it’s chilling!
Its not just the way Peter Jackson & Co wanted it filmed, a huge credit goes to the music composition. Music has HUGE impact on the success of a film or one specific scene in general. 200 horses though! God Bless practical scene editing, angles and scope
100% correct. This scene is also the pinacle of Rohans theme. Through out the film we hear faint scores of the rohan theme with trumpets, or violins. With the Eorlingas marching in Howard Shore takes all the instruments from the diffrent Rohan themes and brings them all in here to hit home that this moment, this charge is the pinacle of Rohan. And boy do they make you remember. Howard Shore is a genius
It's a shame Tolkien himself couldn't see this scene himself. From what I've read, it's supposed to have been one of his own favorite scenes in the book and I think Peter Jackson adapted it as perfectly to a movie as humanly possible. I've read the books many times and this scene brings me to tears every time
This is epic and they say all this stuff for just having 250 men. It makes you think what would it have like if it was actually 6000 charging that plain.
They could probably have gotten 6k if they had put a worldwide request out, but that would have pushed back release because they would have to set a date and fly most of them out there
@@bartoszn1609 the total strenght of Rohan was 12k but only 6k were assembled in time to march on Minas Tirith. They only had 3 or 4 days to muster their troops
@@Palmacry95 I love how she hides her face as he rides by to strike their lances with his sword. Like what, he’s gonna stop the show and send you home? “EOWYN! Go home…now. And take the midget with you. What’s wrong you kids these days…”
I've had just 5 horses gallop past me and they didn't have all the heavy soldiers, tack and armour and it felt like an earthquake, 6000 would feel like the end of the world XD
When i watched this scene in theaters and the violin started playing i had goose bumps, and to this day i still get them every time i see this scene. Peter Jackson said out of all 3 films this is his favorite scene! Doubt Hollywood will ever top the emotional magic captured! Bravo to the cast and crew!
There’s a video on CZcams that I just discovered yesterday. It’s the Ride of the Rohirrim narrated by Tolkien, set to the scene from the movie. It’ll give you chills. Highly recommend it.
I actually like how he delivered the 'ride for ruin and the world's ending' line here better than the delivery they used for the movie. maybe it's just because it sounds for novel for a scene I have literally watched over and over again.
Could be the same delivery, just different microphones. Bear in mind that what you hear in the film was digitally cleaned up to get rid of background noise and echos.
Or maybe they have revoiced it in the studio? It's kinda hard to get a clear sounding voice in the middle of a field with all kind of random noises around.
Holy shit he sounds louder here than he does in the movie. I always thought that they boosted his voice in post so that it is loud enough and it turns out it is the opposite 🤣
Without a doubt the best scene ever made in cinema history if you ask me. The speech, the score, the buildup and everything else. Never fails to give me goosebumps, such an epic scene. Typing this with a tear in my eye
In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell. Forth Eorlingas. RIP Theoden King.
In the behind the scenes stories I've read before, the script had the words, and something like "Theoden gives rousing speech," and that was about it. The delivery, and him riding along in front of the line banging his sword on all the spears, that was ALL Bernard's doing! He was such an amazing talent, he will be sorely missed. 😥
A moment of silence to all the poor souls who were asked to take part in this and turned it down because they didn't believe in it, didn't have time or just didn't feel like it.
I'm having huge goosebumps even from watching behind the scene. What a passion this actors and Peter had for this movies, the soul, heart, love for the story. And now we have that Amazon abomination.
Bernard Hill and his performance here is the reason that LoTR is far and away my favorite series of books or cinema. He got absolutely into it haha. What a boss
They talk about the scale of 250 riders. The ground shaking beneath the thundering hooves of the cavalry charge. Just imagining that many horses, that many riders crying “DEATH!” all at once is crazy. In the story, the Ride of the Rohirrim had 6,000 riders charging on Pelennor Fields. (Also, fun fact, the largest cavalry charge in history was TRIPLE that size.)
Holy shit, I can hear Miranda Otto's voice very clear, very enthusiastic. No wonder her character end up bringing 2 oliphants down. Bernard Hill's performance though are so good I use this and the Hornburg's charge as motivators when I want to get inspired at doing something.
Just like to mention that according to Tom Shippey’s The Road to Middle Earth (the best book I have ever read on Tolkiens’ universe) the real ride of the Rohirrim was in 451 CE at the battle of the Catalaunian plain somewhere in mid France. The Goths under Theodoridc (or Theodorid in some accounts) attacked Attila the Hun’s forces, successful, but Theodorid was unhorsed and overridden, and died on the battlefield. Sound familiar.
This will always be up there as one of if not the coolest scenes ever in film. Seeing it as it was in the real world and hearing those yells max out the microphones is even cooler.
Thats as close as it gets to witnessing actually knight crusaders charging into an enemy army. Which by the way most of the time overwhelmingly out numbered them sometimes to the point of less than 200 against tens of thousands. That was what this scene was like, an army of horse back warriors charging into an army far bigger than there own. The crusaders were basically a train and would dismantle and route these huge armies consistently, absolutely mind boggling.
brings me to tears to this day, so proud I was able to witness all three movies in cinemas as they were coming out, there's never been anything quite like it
As a 30 year old when they first came out, it was a dream come true! I had read LotR every year, for 17 years prior. I've since introduced my children to it and we watch it yearly. I've also READ LotR to them - which is an experience to actually read and HEAR the words of Tolkien.
Holy fuck I remember being a kid watching this in the theatre. I had a LOTR risk board game but was a loner so I would just use the pieces to make huge battles. and the ps2 games ugh oh man the good ole days.
Imagine what this would have been like in real life as an infantryman. Seeing thousands of horsemen charging at you and you struggle to stand your ground as it is shaking under your feet as the impending doom is coming straight at you.
What makes this more impressive: Bern. Hill didn't have any prior experience with horseback riding and learned it for the movies. In fact, his horse even throw him off during the beginning of the shoot, but eventually he became quiet good at it, as you can see. Nowadays, this entire scene would probably have been shot completely in front of green screen & with CGI.
"It will take a long time to knock it off the top."
Correction: it will NEVER be knocked off the top.
Pecking order!
As awe-inspiring as this scene is, I kinda think you have to hand the title of 'best cavalry charge' to the 1970 film Waterloo. It's not quite as impressive on screen as the Charge of the Rohirrim, but in terms of logistics? Jesus Christ it blows it out of the water. The film involved 15,000 actual soldiers, including an entire brigade of cavalry and military engineers. It was filmed in the Soviet Union at a cost of USD$40m (closer to USD$200m when adjusted for inflation), and its believed that filming anywhere else would've cost between 2 and 3 times that amount, which would've made it the most expensive film ever made
@@josephcowie342 True that.
A brilliant work of art.
The Portals scene from Endgame came close. But Ride of the Rohirrim is still No. 1.
@@multiplefan682 Endgame is subjective - for me it slightly above average (but then again I am biased to that scene because I didnt really like that movie) but LotR is objectively better than anything else by a lot.
i wonder if these 250 men and women was know if they were doing one of the most epic scene in the history of movies
Dfathurr oh....they knew. ;)
mostly women actually ^^ but still so fucking awesome
Alot of them were women cause they needed qualified riders. So they had the women put on fake beards and makeup
@@regentvoo most of the qualified horse rider in New Zealand are weirdly woman
@@John_Ass that makes me wanna move to new Zealand even more
NZ Rohirrim: "Dith! Dith! Dith!"
Orcs: "WTF?"
but hey where nz orches
hahahaha xD
Yeah we do sound a bit like that! Not that the Orkcs were confused, at one part of filming it was half the NZ army!
That's where an NZ Army unit played a whole bunch of Orchs?
6 years after and this still makes me laugh.
Has anyone talked about how LOUD Bernard was? Like good God he’s bellowing his lines like he’s got blood on his sword already. Freaking magnificent.
Theatre training. Most theatre actors develop booming voices simply by necessity in their profession. In any actors' gathering, you can actually quite easily tell who had a theatre background just by how they channel their voices.
A perfect representation of Theoden's call to battle in the book:
_"...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!"_
And rising in his stirrups he cried aloud more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before
he had to have a mic installed.
He somehow distorted the mic on the camcorder they filmed this behind the scenes bit on despite being like 50 feet away.
If I was an actor in that scene I don’t think I could separate the acting from reality... like how many times are you going to be dressed in chain mail, wielding axe and shield and charging with 250 cavalry men??? Insanity!!!
Now imagine reality where 20,000 hussar cavalry charge
Chaotic, immense power !!!!!
@Aidan Hoffman if the ground shook with 250 horses, imagine the 1000 or so elephants that were used in battles in the subcontinent.
Imagine acting at the receiving end of that charge, duuuuuuuuss, i think i’ve needed bigger underpants
No, really. People don't realise this. A company of 250 can create such a noise and thud, that the ground shakes. Ancient and medieval armies had cavalry spams from 1000 to 10-15k (much more, depending on if it's an empire, sedentary kingdom or steppe nomads). And those cavalry cohorts weren't just heavy gandarmes or paladins. You had archers. F*ck me, no wonder a lot of battles were won by a full on frontal charge by cavalry. Just imagine the power, the psychological effect it had.
Pitched battles were a sight to behold, if you were not a part of them.
@@Paurames There were 2000 Winged Hussars. The rest of the 18 000 Cavalry was from the other coalition nations or Polish regulars.
Honestly I envy all of these people, they are able to experience what a medieval-like cavalry charge ... “feels” like. To feel the ground shaking, the sound of hooves and cries of war. It’s epic, terrifying and majectic
Even the Horses were probably feeling epic 🐎
Yeah it sucks but we have modern medicine so it's a fine trade off tbh.
You should see the Battle of Grunwald from Ford's movie "Krzyżacy" (The Teutones") from 1960. There was several thousands of real riders.
Maybe I spent too much time in Iowa as a kid, I'd like to see a herd of bison rumble through the plains like we're told happened before the settlers arrived.
It’s how it should still be, this is what youthful life on brilliant action looks like, industrial Revolution was the biggest worst mistake ever.
Twenty years later and I still frequently watch the Charge of the Rohirrim,.........and it still gives me goose bumps.
"Tolkien narrates the Ride of the Rohirrim"
Great YT video I just caught.
Don't know why, but during this crisis in Ukraine, YT is recommending a lot of great LOTR clips!
@@veramae4098 Happened the same to me.
And now I'm rewatching the documentaries from the making of.
@@veramae4098 Was just gonna recommend that too.
I still cry!
Same here, i even shed a tear.
Bernard Hill is such a fantastic actor. Rides the horse wearing all that armor, hits a real full-weight steel sword on the soldiers' spears with his *right* hand (he's a lefty), maneuvers himself excellently for a relatively untrained rider, and STILL delivers with such emotion and professionalism... This was a hell of a challenging scene to film, and they nailed it.
Dies saving a kingdom also dies saving people on the titanic
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@@benjaminrowley LMAO love this
I still cry when I watch this scene
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vaiouser I can't believe people still use "gay" as if it's supposed to be something negative.
Erik Ahl Gayyyyyyy
no I totally agree. its a very very powerful scene. it's very well written in the books too, you get the same feel.
It is a very emotional scene - 9 times out of 10 I get tears in my eyes as well.
Game of thrones tried and failed miserably to top this moment. FORTH EORLINGAS
DEAAATH!!!
Yeah. That Battle of the Bastards charge was just baffling. Not just because the main character got conned into it. Also because he survived the two armies clashing while standing in between them, on foot.
I wouldn't even call that a try at LotR. LotR is so far ahead in the fantasy genre that I compare it with movies from other genres like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption.
@Bacon Hunter
Doesn’t matter. Why always make it a contest? Both are theatrical events in their own way, unnecessary and foolish to pit them against each other. Appreciate them for ONLY what they are and what they do, rather than compare them against each other.
@@acp865 It's rather difficult to do so when it's obvious that one is trying to copy the other.
the horses were like: "what are we doing here man. i hope there's some hay to chew on at the end of this. im bored already"
Also the horses: "Where are the hurdles? What is this easy-mode course? I thought this was supposed to be epic?"
Old Grouchy Horse: "Shut it, you whippersnappers! This is what our ancestors were bred for! CHARGE!!"
@@gunnar6674 It will be, patience my friend.
Horses actually get really excited by the opportunity to charge like this. They've been bred for exactly this purpose throughout much of human history and that evolutionary conditioning of being prey animals that run in a herd creates a lot of energy and excitement in the animals.
0:33 you can hear Eowyn :D
For the projekt they had over 250 extras on horses. However, finding 250 men that could both act and ride was hard, so they hired a lot of females with prosthetic beards. In the unedited cheer, you can hear both men and women shouting, not just Eowyns actress.
Elias Wewel acting from the extras wasn’t necessary here.. they couldve casted anyone that could ride a horse
That or it’s one of many ladies who were bearded up to look like men.
My love ❤️
Theoden: RRRRIIIIIIDE NOOOOWW
Orcs: MY EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS
Daveed EAR RAPE
One of the most touching stories of this scene that I've read is actually about a horse, I try to recall it as accurately as possible to make it justice:
Basically, the film crew were short on extras capable of riding, so they made an advert promising anyone who would bring their own horse for the scene to be allowed to act in the scene and be shown on screen (most were women clad as men).
One woman brought her old stallion that had been a lazy galloper his entire life. Bernard's speech got the old horse so exited and riled up that he galloped harder and faster than ever before in his entire life, overtaking the younger horses and surprising everyone around.
WOW!!!
That is fucking amazing
warhorse DNA
I wonder if that's the one scene where one horse suddenly starts going way faster for no reason and the rider looks extra crazed about it.
@@ThaBeatConductor You mean the "dude" with the sword just before they hit the orcs?
the sound quality makes it sound like the leroy jenkins video...
this made my day much better
XD
All right everybody let's do this... FOOOOORTH EORLINGAAASS!
Even galopping with a group of 20 riders is so awesome! When you feel the strength of the horse beneath you, hear the drumming noise of the horse's hooves hitting the ground, sounding like a second heartbeat .... one of the best moments in my life!
Dude, the most real life experience i can relate to this is riding motorcycles within a 2500 riders or more, i could imagine riding full speed into something/someone, it’s chilling!
He said they where 250 not 20
@@RoGameReview We know.
@@RoGameReview He's talking about his own experience riding with 20 other riders.
Its not just the way Peter Jackson & Co wanted it filmed, a huge credit goes to the music composition. Music has HUGE impact on the success of a film or one specific scene in general. 200 horses though! God Bless practical scene editing, angles and scope
100% correct. This scene is also the pinacle of Rohans theme. Through out the film we hear faint scores of the rohan theme with trumpets, or violins. With the Eorlingas marching in Howard Shore takes all the instruments from the diffrent Rohan themes and brings them all in here to hit home that this moment, this charge is the pinacle of Rohan. And boy do they make you remember. Howard Shore is a genius
It's a shame Tolkien himself couldn't see this scene himself. From what I've read, it's supposed to have been one of his own favorite scenes in the book and I think Peter Jackson adapted it as perfectly to a movie as humanly possible. I've read the books many times and this scene brings me to tears every time
oh! but he saw the scene ^^
from valinor he saw everything ^^
The old geezer world have hated it.
Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill...
This is epic and they say all this stuff for just having 250 men. It makes you think what would it have like if it was actually 6000 charging that plain.
mjb328 15 thousand in the movie if I am not mistaken
Bartosz N no it was 6000 in the movie
They could probably have gotten 6k if they had put a worldwide request out, but that would have pushed back release because they would have to set a date and fly most of them out there
Mr_CollinGames, Hr said it was less than half so it would have been more like 14-16 thousand
@@bartoszn1609 the total strenght of Rohan was 12k but only 6k were assembled in time to march on Minas Tirith. They only had 3 or 4 days to muster their troops
jeez man, and you can actually hear Eowyn's (Miranda's) voice from that crowd. Impressive.
In that moment Theoden would just look behind at the riders
"Eowyn?? Is that you??"
Actually, most of those riders were actually women, which is why you can clearly hear female voices in the roar.
@@kanebravo953 yeah, we know that, but the vast majority of the front liners were I think men, so its still impressive.
@@Palmacry95 I love how she hides her face as he rides by to strike their lances with his sword. Like what, he’s gonna stop the show and send you home? “EOWYN! Go home…now. And take the midget with you. What’s wrong you kids these days…”
Damn even in the actual video of the scene recording, it's still epic.
6000 horses charging would feel like an earthquaking charging at you
And they hit just as hard as one.
I've had just 5 horses gallop past me and they didn't have all the heavy soldiers, tack and armour and it felt like an earthquake, 6000 would feel like the end of the world XD
It would be utterly terrifying.
Laughs in Battle of Vienna
Now imagine a tide of 6000 Mongolian horse archers coming for your village.
250 spears. Less than a 50th of what I'd hoped for.
Meanwhile in Rings of Power, they couldn't even put 50 people to play extras for a Billion dollar show
Bernard Hill was downright shakespearean as Theoden. What a powerful voice he has when he puts it on!
(NZ accent) "Dith, dith, dith... It was dithining"
Trust me, it can be even stronger then that, he has an urban accent, try a rural!
I thought it was scottish lol
It’s been over a decade since the release of this movie. I can’t name a single battle epic scene that comes close to this.
Going on two.
Most epic scene ever...goosebumps every time
Arise, arise, riders of Theoden! RIP
When i watched this scene in theaters and the violin started playing i had goose bumps, and to this day i still get them every time i see this scene. Peter Jackson said out of all 3 films this is his favorite scene! Doubt Hollywood will ever top the emotional magic captured! Bravo to the cast and crew!
It's apparently also one of Tolkien's Favorite Passages in the book.
There’s a video on CZcams that I just discovered yesterday. It’s the Ride of the Rohirrim narrated by Tolkien, set to the scene from the movie. It’ll give you chills. Highly recommend it.
I actually like how he delivered the 'ride for ruin and the world's ending' line here better than the delivery they used for the movie. maybe it's just because it sounds for novel for a scene I have literally watched over and over again.
More spur of the moment rather then film take perfection one could say?
Could be the same delivery, just different microphones. Bear in mind that what you hear in the film was digitally cleaned up to get rid of background noise and echos.
Or maybe they have revoiced it in the studio? It's kinda hard to get a clear sounding voice in the middle of a field with all kind of random noises around.
This one sounds more real since its raw but at the same time the film version sounds more clean and more epic!
Holy shit he sounds louder here than he does in the movie. I always thought that they boosted his voice in post so that it is loud enough and it turns out it is the opposite 🤣
Ive always wanted to be part of a mass cavalry charge.
Preferably not on the receiving end, though. XD
Bernard: it'll take a while before it gets knocked off the top
Everyone: it will never be knocked off the top
His voice. This energy. I think in the final scene it is just a quantum of the energy brought on set...
Without a doubt the best scene ever made in cinema history if you ask me. The speech, the score, the buildup and everything else. Never fails to give me goosebumps, such an epic scene.
Typing this with a tear in my eye
In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.
Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.
Forth Eorlingas.
RIP Theoden King.
Damn. Imagine 250 horses thundering the ground, imagine 6000...
not just that, imagine being on the receiving end of 6,000 hyped up riders armed to the teeth bearing down on you... :P
"Bring me my brown pants!"
When you put that armor, ride a stallion and delivers such a speech, you are no longer an actor for for the time being, you become the king
best scenes in whole trilogy. that warcry and charge!!
What I'd like to know is how did they make 250 riders look like 6000?
Decent CGI
you should really read this scene in the book. even if you don't read the rest of it. this one scene is beautifully written.
The ride of the Rohirrim must be one of the greatest scenes int the trilogi
What's Nori doing in the Rohirrim? Stole a horse no doubt
I thought I recognized him from somewhere, maybe it is Nori? You never know.....😉
He acted as like 2 orcs and one rider of rohan
Cool.
Yeah he was the Orc that tries to eat Merry and Pippin too.
Jed Brophy.
He was also the orc riding the Warg. Maybe more characters..
Jed was one of the hardest-working members if the cast
I love Bernard Hill! He is a great Actor! And this scene was just priceless!
''it will take a long time to top it off''. 2024 and its still the greatest payoff charge in the history of cinema. Magnificent, epic and emotional.
"It will take a long time to knock it off". And that time has and will never come
What’s crazy is how he said the ground shook from 250 horses… what the hell happened during the siege of Vienna with 18000 horses
In the behind the scenes stories I've read before, the script had the words, and something like "Theoden gives rousing speech," and that was about it. The delivery, and him riding along in front of the line banging his sword on all the spears, that was ALL Bernard's doing! He was such an amazing talent, he will be sorely missed. 😥
I'm just having a delayed allergic reaction... from cutting onions...
I'm not crying, trust me.
the lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the Best Movie
Rick from the walking dead looks like Aragorn you mean
EVER
A moment of silence to all the poor souls who were asked to take part in this and turned it down because they didn't believe in it, didn't have time or just didn't feel like it.
I'm having huge goosebumps even from watching behind the scene.
What a passion this actors and Peter had for this movies, the soul, heart, love for the story.
And now we have that Amazon abomination.
Yeaah.
even behind the scene is chilling af
You can't this level of emotion and enthusiasm with a green screen. There will never be anything like the Lord of the Rings trilogy ever again.
I didn't know that charge was real life content until today. This is why it can't be topped. You can never top the real thing.
Bernard Hill and his performance here is the reason that LoTR is far and away my favorite series of books or cinema. He got absolutely into it haha. What a boss
RIP Bernard Hill...you will always be remembered...RIDE NOW!
250 horse shook the ground... Imagine when 5000 charged the Anglo-allied army at Waterloo, that had to feel like an earthquake.
Imagine the Battle of Vienna, where 18000 rider of the Heavy Cavalry, led by 3000 Winged Hussars, the "Angels of Death", broke the Ottomanian siege
There is no man alive who wouldn't give everything to become a Rohirrim for that one moment when watching this epic scene.
They talk about the scale of 250 riders. The ground shaking beneath the thundering hooves of the cavalry charge. Just imagining that many horses, that many riders crying “DEATH!” all at once is crazy.
In the story, the Ride of the Rohirrim had 6,000 riders charging on Pelennor Fields.
(Also, fun fact, the largest cavalry charge in history was TRIPLE that size.)
Holy shit, I can hear Miranda Otto's voice very clear, very enthusiastic. No wonder her character end up bringing 2 oliphants down. Bernard Hill's performance though are so good I use this and the Hornburg's charge as motivators when I want to get inspired at doing something.
Just like to mention that according to Tom Shippey’s The Road to Middle Earth (the best book I have ever read on Tolkiens’ universe) the real ride of the Rohirrim was in 451 CE at the battle of the Catalaunian plain somewhere in mid France. The Goths under Theodoridc (or Theodorid in some accounts) attacked Attila the Hun’s forces, successful, but Theodorid was unhorsed and overridden, and died on the battlefield. Sound familiar.
His own men trampled him to death on accident as the horse threw him off mid charge.
Carl Urban gives outstanding performance here in acting!
Ride for ruin and worlds ending!
What a voice, what-a-voice, blows up the mic.
One of the best scene in the entire trilogy, it will take a long time and a lot to top this
That scene still gives me goosebumps!?!
A truly magnificent scene,One of the best ones in film history!!!
Let us be honest now, this will never be knocked off the top.
Bernard Hill's voice so god damn loud and amazing even behind the scenes.
Definitely one of my favorite scenes of all time.
*R.I.P. Bernard Hill, Théoden of Rohan.*
Greatest scene of cinema history imo!
Thank you to everyone, the actors, the support staff, P. Jackson, and of course Tolkien.
"I go to my fathers, yet in their grand company i shall not feel ashamed." Rest in peace Bernard Hill.
"The ground was shaking".. my fckn heart still is.. ❤
one of the greatest scene in one of the greates trilogy. still gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes every time i see it
Even watching the making of gives me goosebumps. These films are almost unsurpassable.
This shows a feeling you will never get by acting in front of a green screen... CGIs are killing the magic these epic moments can create !
This hits so hard with the passing of Bernard Hill 😢
Will we ever again get to see a movie like this?
That scene will never be knocked off the top.
This will always be up there as one of if not the coolest scenes ever in film. Seeing it as it was in the real world and hearing those yells max out the microphones is even cooler.
Thats as close as it gets to witnessing actually knight crusaders charging into an enemy army. Which by the way most of the time overwhelmingly out numbered them sometimes to the point of less than 200 against tens of thousands. That was what this scene was like, an army of horse back warriors charging into an army far bigger than there own. The crusaders were basically a train and would dismantle and route these huge armies consistently, absolutely mind boggling.
brings me to tears to this day, so proud I was able to witness all three movies in cinemas as they were coming out, there's never been anything quite like it
As a 30 year old when they first came out, it was a dream come true! I had read LotR every year, for 17 years prior. I've since introduced my children to it and we watch it yearly. I've also READ LotR to them - which is an experience to actually read and HEAR the words of Tolkien.
This had my blood pumping just from watching imagine actually being there as one of the riders charging into battle with your king.. man the chills
2022 and I'm 30. Still crying as the little kid I was when I watch this scene.
Rest in piece, Bernard. This scene will be the one no one ever will forget. Thank you!
Holy fuck I remember being a kid watching this in the theatre. I had a LOTR risk board game but was a loner so I would just use the pieces to make huge battles. and the ps2 games ugh oh man the good ole days.
The energy carries over to the screen!
Imagine what this would have been like in real life as an infantryman. Seeing thousands of horsemen charging at you and you struggle to stand your ground as it is shaking under your feet as the impending doom is coming straight at you.
yep definitely one of the best scenes of the trilogy. it gives me chills and goosebumps everytime i watch it
“Long time to knock it off the top”
This will never be topped. It’s not just the charge but the build up and the meaning of the charge aswell
Just perfect...And now? There would have been only one main rider and the rest of them CGI.....
This is my favourite movie scene ever and it will probably always be, I always get chills watching this
My favourite character in LoTR (the books) is Théoden. I was not disappointed by the film.
RIP TO A LEGEND.
There will never be a better charge sequence in film history
War of the Rohirrim cant come any sooner... this makes me want real stuff again...
RIP legend
Our king!! 📯📯📯
The greatest scene ever ...no thing would ever come close
What makes this more impressive: Bern. Hill didn't have any prior experience with horseback riding and learned it for the movies.
In fact, his horse even throw him off during the beginning of the shoot, but eventually he became quiet good at it, as you can see.
Nowadays, this entire scene would probably have been shot completely in front of green screen & with CGI.
Best fighting scene in film history. The Lord of the Rings gets better the more often you watch it.