My honest reaction and thoughts from my first viewing of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring. If you enjoyed, please leave a like and subscribe!
I was born in '79 but watched GoT before LoTR (didn't see the latter until around two years ago) so I'm a "hey it's Ned Stark" person :p (for the record, the LoTR trilogy are some of my favorite movies now and I've seen them several times since then. I need the extended editions though, I only have the "standard" ones)
02, I see him as boromir, then ned stark, then bond villain, then martin septim from oblivion (note how 3 of those were fantasy related, haha...) hail dragonborn!
1. Extended edition, man of culture here 2. This guy really knows whats happening on screen compared to other reaction channels. 3. Looking forward to the next 2 movies!
Maybe he has seen it before? There are a few reaction channels that pretend to not have seen movies but their reactions are oddly similar to info from the appendices. And they 'guess' at things that are right on the nose...
The extended edition are a lot worse as movies IMO. I really hate seeing people be introduced to these great movies this way. They really weren't meant to be seen like this.
@@davidjones272 Yeah, I know. I just said what J.K. Rowling had to say about the subject. She said she didn't even read The Hobbit before she began writing Potter books. I guess that means she didn't draw any inspiration from Tolkien and Middle-Earth. I don't know if she can convince anyone :))
@@EgemenUregen yeah, it may well be that she didn't. But Tolkien created so many tropes that came to define the fantasy genre that they seeped into broader culture. Anybody who writes a fantasy novel will be influenced by him to some degree, whether they know it or not.
Getting shot while wearing a bullet-proof vest can still knock you out and definitely hurts. I imagine getting stabbed while wearing Mithril is a similar experience.
Irl he would have had several ruptured organs and died just from the impact! In the movie, I assume it at least knocked the wind out of him and probably bruised/broke some ribs.
In the book he was seriously hurt with broken ribs and bruising, and he could barely breathe the whole time in Moria until he could get some elf healing in Lothlorian.
Exactly. Like if you read The Hunger Games, Katniss gets shot with a bullet and it still bruises/breaks her rib and ruptures her spleen. She had a bulletproof outfit out, but the force of it hitting still hurt her. And likewise, in the book, Frodo experiences broken ribs from this too.
Music: gets even better. CGI: Lotr couldn’t be made until this era because there was no CGI invented to do the books justice. They invented a lot on this film. Watch some of the extras which talks about how they created this masterpiece.
There were films before CGI. There was also CGI before this film. The main thing this film had that previous ones didnt was the CGI armies that didnt look fake, that was something they couldnt do before this. Wingnut developed the 'natural looking' CGI crowd system which can first be seen in the film Heavenly Creatures. The rest could have been done with practical effects for more cost with some limitation. Like you wouldnt have seen Golem walking close up to the camera - he would probably have been animatronic. Rather than saying it couldnt have been made before the advances in CGI, rather it is more accurate to say that it would have cost too much to make before unless taken on by a top director that could have had an almost limitless budget - e.g. James Cameron
@@HollowBagel It wasn't. If my memory it's okay, they in fact just used him to get references, specially for the face, but there wasn't motion capture. All was hand animated.
It's also known to have been lost somewhere in the Anduin, Saruman looks for the ring for a long time, the largest River in Middle Earth and for all anyone knows it was carried off into the sea.
... memories become legend; legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.... yesyes, i know, wrong fandom! 🤓
Make that TWO Elvish languages. And people 100% try to learn it, much as with Klingon and (more recently) Dothraki etc. (I may or may not have based my passwords on novel Sindarin word combinations throughout my 20s.)
@@Mercure250 Yup, and it's even more complex than that. Some are not languages in their own right per say, more dialects of another language. That's the genius of Tolkien using his knowledge about languages, and creating evolved or archaic forms for more or less advanced moments in the history of his legendarium.
But he did not create languages that are complete enough to speak (even he did not know enough Elvish to create extended prose passages). What people are learning is one linguist's extrapolation-in effect, linguistic 'fan fiction'. See Carl Hostetter's thoughtful discussion of this matter at www.elvish.org/articles/EASIS.pdf
Gandalf is extremely powerful. He is basically the equivalent to an angel, but he is forbidden from using more power than most necessarily needed :D This world has so much lore it's unbelievable
@@malcolmdrake6137 There's a heck of a lot more to the world than what is portrayed in the movies. So... It's quick summary nerd time! There was big god man, Eru Ilúvatar. He made Ainur, holy divine dudes. They sang together creating the world, but one of them, Melkor, wanted a bigger part in the play and corrupted the shit outta it, while his brother Manwë tried to minimize the damages. Some of the divine dudes went to the world they created and became known as Valar, who had Maiar to serve them. Gandalf was one, then known as Olórin, served big ol' Manwë himself, while this other dude called Aulë who created the dwarves or summat couldn't keep his own Maiar, Curumo and Mairon, in check. Melkor managed to bring Mairon over to his side, probably with cookies or something, and Mairon became known as Sauron. Can ya guess who Curumo was? Good ol' Mr. Saruman, of course. So yeah, Gandalf's essentially an angel, and he's the same whatever as Sauron is.
Four... fricking... hours! It's a sheer miracle I even stayed awake for that long when watching it. Then again, how could I fall asleep to a film as intense at that one?
And still it's too short to my taste. I would love to have Extended extended edition with all the material they could combine. I would gladly see our favorite hobbits talking about food while having a rest, or scenes of this sort. I wouldn't mind watching the films in multiple parts. I just want all the footage available as this is THE trilogy that will never be topped.
Just a few things, this isn´t really explained well in the movies but the ring its more corrupting the more power and ambition you have, he uses your own desires against you, it has a really hard time against hobbits because of that, what can power offer a hobbit? they want to enjoy life and live peacefully in his own home and they can easily get that withouth much problems
It also grants more power if you yourself are more powerful. A Hobbit will only turn invisible while someone like Elrond or Galadriel could easily take over all of middle earth with all the power they would gain.
@@neszell No. Gandalf said, "I'd want to use this ring from a desire to do good, but through me it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine." Meaning that Gandalf, like most people, would want to use the ring to do good. Boromir's desire to wield the ring came from his own desire to help his people; to do good. However, because Gandalf is a Maiar, the ring would amplify his own innate power to the point that he'd be a god and with its corrupting influence, any and all desire to do good would be replaced by the lust to rule.
@@neszell The ring uses your desires and ambitions like the ambition to do good to tempt you and make you use the ring, after you use the ring you will become addicted to his power and all the people warning about his corrupting power will seem ignorant, misguided or jelaous. Just look at Bilbo, Gandalf is one of his closest friends but at the end the ring almost convinced him that Gandalf was a thief and wanted to rob him even as his memories of Gandalf told him that he would never do that and his logic told him that if Gandalf wanted it he would simply take it from him. After that his corruption was so deep that he almost assaulted his own newphew for it.
so here's a brief rundown of the denizens of middle earth: Men: are basically like your typical human being, Aragorn belongs to a rare bloodline when 'men' were gifted with extremely long life by the god Eru Illuvatar, this bloodline was almost destroyed when Eru sank the island of Numenor (the greatest kingdom of men) after sauron corrupted it, only a very small number of people survived this cataclysm event, the ones that weren't corrupted by sauron. Elves: there are 3 main factions of elves, but only 2 of them are represented in the films, as stated they are immortal beings and can live 'forever', they are the 'firstborn' of Eru and are gifted with 'the light of the Valar', they are the most gifted when it comes to 'magic' in middle earth outside of the istari (wizards). Dwarves: while not immortal beings, they have extremely long lifespans relative to Men, with one dwarf in particular, Durin the deathless thought to be thousands of years old which is very long by dwarven standards (in dwarf mythos he is the father of all dwarves as he was the first to awaken of their species). Orcs: these are formerly elves corrupted by sauron and twisted into stunted vile forms, they make up the bulk of the armies of the enemy. Goblins: in the LOTR world goblins are in fact much larger in size than orcs, some of the sub species of goblins have evolved to be really small nimble creatures like you would typically expect to see in fantasy media today but on the whole goblins are large creatures with brutish strength. Uruk-Hai: these are the soldiers that saruman was breeding in isengard, they are a halfbreed between orcs and goblins (goblins giving them the height and physical strength orcs providing them the intelligence). Istari: these are the 'wizards' of middle earth, in the films we only see 2, Gandalf and Saruman, in the hobbit series you are introduced to Radaghast the brown, there were 2 other wizards known as 'the blue wizards' who went to the far east of middle earth but are unknown and never mentioned outside of appendix and other writings in the books. The Valar: these are immortal and powerful beings, they are the children of Eru Illuvatar think of them like angels and they each embody one aspect of creation, however there was one of the Valar who had dominion over all aspects (jack of all trades master of none) think of him like the 'Lucifer' character in the mythos, it was this being that sauron ended up serving and worshipping. Maiar: these are immortal beings who have immense power over certain aspects of creation and they serve the Valar, think of them like personal assistants to the Valar entity they serve, they are powerful beings in their own right but get further power from the Valar being they serve, as well as knowledge and wisdom from their respective Valar, all Maiar spirits are the same in terms of their essence, some are fallen Maiar spirits and are 'dark' some are 'light', Sauron due to his master being the most powerful Valar became the most powerful of the Maiar spirits, all of the Istari are Maiar spirits also, and they each had a specific task while in middle earth to aid the free peoples against saurons' tyranny. the great eagles: these are similar to Maiar spirits in that they serve a specific Valar, they are noble creatures who will only aid those they deem as pure and worthy. Nazgul (ringwraiths): these are the 9 great kings of old that were given rings of power by 'annatar the giver of gifts' an alias of sauron, and through these rings he corrupted them and turned them into his servants, as stated by aragorn they are neither alive nor dead but in a limbo inbetween simply called the 'shadow realm', in the mythos Frodo is the only mortal being to see their true forms after he put on the ring on weathertop, no other mortal being has seen their true visage. in regards to 'magic' in middle earth it is never explained in the films, but it is very nuanced, the Istari can use 'magic' but are forbidden to use it on the mortal denizens of middle earth by the Valar, they can influence those around them but are forbidden to directly influence them, in the opening segment of the film that is narrated by galadriel where she talks about sauron 'pouring his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life' into the ring when forging it, that's not just flavourful use of words to describe him labouring overt he project like 'i put my blood sweat and tears into this', it's much more literal than that, he literally siphoned some of his soul into the ring and that power was malice, and his ambition to rule all people of middle earth, it's also the reason why he was able to return after being 'killed' at the battle of the last alliance, his spirit and life force are bound to the ring so he survives thanks to that. Another point about 'magic', sauron 'invented' the black speech as a corrupted form of elvish, it causes uncorrupted elves physical pain when they hear it, Gandalf is reciting the inscription on the one ring during the council of elrond, it is this 'passage of text' that causes the sky to darken and the elves (elrond and legolas and his company) to recoil in pain in their seats, in this universe words have immense power when spoken in the correct way by those who can wield 'magic' which is why some of the old relics and tomes of the first age (like the palantir stones) are dangerous to use if you're not careful. you were correct in your assumption about middle earth being a continent, however, the other continent that exists in the Tolkien universe is not accessible by mortal races, only the Valar/Maiar/Elves are permitted to leave middle earth and reside in the undying lands of Valinor, and for a geographical scale of middle earth, if you took the entire USA landmass Florida would be where mordor/harad is, and the shire would be around where Washington state/Oregon is to give some sense of scale here.
Well put, but I have two simple corrections. 1)There were other Men that survived the downfall of Numinor. They were known as the "Black Numinorians" or "The King's Men." They served Sauron and had set up settlements in the south of Middle Earth before the downfall. 2)The Elves were not corrupted by Sauron, but by Melkor/Morgoth, loooooooooooong before Sauron was anything more than just second-in-command to Morgoth.
@@ridiculousedtollett6120 for the purposes of the films races what i said is accurate, as morgoth is never mentioned outside of durins bane, and gandalf telling the fellowship what it was that was chasing them through moria, and in terms of the black numenoreans, there's only 1 in the whole film trilogy ever shown, and only in the extended edition, the mouth of sauron, they are never shown in any the armies of darkness, and are never mentioned either. also in regards to orcs, you're confusing first age orcs to what were commonly called 'orcs' in middle earth, the ones that melkor created were VERY different to what was the corrupted elven orcs that sauron had created which is the 'orc' species that's present in the films.
They didn't keep tabs on the ring because... -All that was generally known was that Isildur cut the ring from Sauron's hand, ending the war. A year later Isildur died while travelling near the Anduin River. Literally nobody knew exactly what had happened (except Isildur, who was too dead to care). -There was a time span of over 3,000 years between the loss of the ring & the events of LOTR. Most of the events around the ring had been forgotten by then. -Virtually all of Middle Earth was illiterate. The various different societies were fragmented, isolated, and focused on survival at the expense of education. Only wealthier hobbits learned to write, and only a small percentage of them took an interest in history, especially history that didn't involve the Shire.
There were a lot of Characters in the Books who read and Write. And no mention of illiteracy. So saying most of Middle Earth was illiterat isn‘t plausible, since most medieval people could write and read in their OWN language. Only very wealthy People learnt to read Latin (the Bible). In the Books most Elvis, dwarves and hobbits could read. Most Human characters too. But your other points are totally right. ;)
They didn't keep tabs on the Ring because it was lost for an Age. Isildur was the last known person to have it, and he died trying to escape an ambush from Orcs. He tried swimming the Anduin, the Ring slipped off during the swim, he was seen and killed. The Ring was lost in the river, until it was picked up by Déagol, who was murdered for it by Sméagol AKA Gollum, who then disappeared into the mountains with it until it was found by Bilbo. Gandalf then learned the truth of how Bilbo came into the possession of the Ring. Nobody could track it because it was just waiting for the right people who would take it back to its rightful owner, staying in hiding with Gollum for all these years. 😊
@@erikhamann The people who could keep track (Gondor & Arnor) had other things to worry about during those 3000 years. Arnor ended up fragmenting and then the witch king gobbled up the remaining smaller kingdoms until they were all gone. Gondor went through massive wars with the pirates and easterlings, had a bunch of civil wars and were repeatedly decimated by plagues. And still, when Gandalf went to the Gondorian archives he did find records of the events, buried under 3000 years of other stuff.
Merecir Thats true. The human cultures from the late third age weren‘t too interested in recording history. Probably due to the lack of cultural exchange between men and elves after the last alliance. Most recorded history comes from the elves (Rivendell has a big archive of documents) and certain immortal characters were alive 3000 years ago. That people forgot about the events of wich witnesses are still alive, shows the lack of communication between elves and men.
@@erikhamann Most of the characters in the books were lords, wizards, immortal elves, and upper class hobbits. Samwise was illiterate until Frodo taught him to read after Sam was his employee, and people thought that was strange. The gaffer remarked that "it didn't seem to harm him." Note that Gandalf had to go into archives to find accounts of the greatest war ever fought. As an aside, there is no unifying cultural element here. No Bible, no overt religion, no empire.
@@danielcody7568 It's more like mythology than "idea", objects with "souls" are here since ancient folktales and myths, you can't really tell Rowling stole it. It would mean that Tolkien stole from ancient mythology or Shakespeare. It's similar if we said she stole the concept of centaurs. Ridiculous, because they are here since ancient Greece. It's not the idea itself it's the way how you use the idea in context, what makes story/art good and new.
9:34 that is a VERY astute observation for being a first-timer. The ring connects the wearer to the shadow world, where Sauron influences your spirit; the Ringwraiths were simply men who wore their rings for too long, until they were nothing BUT spirits, under Sauron’s dominion.
Gimli the dwarf hadn't heard from his cousin for years and that was normal. Dwarves live longer than men and those mines were really far away from Gimli's home. Yes, Frodo was hurt by the spear, it was a heavy impact and in the book, he was severely bruised. The mithril chain mail had actually cut into his skin from the force of the troll's spear. Sauruman is the head of Gandlaf's order of wizards so he is more powerful but wizards aren't supposed to use their powers unless its absolutely necessary. The are supposed to guide and help the beings of middle earth.
Yeah, it had been almost 30 years since Gimli hae heard from Moria. Dwarfs had love/fear relationship with Moria after original waking up of Balrog. They yearned to go there but where afraid.
After the Dwarves reclaimed the kingdom of Erebor, some of them figured they could also go and reclaim their even greater lost realm of Moria. So they did, and it lasted for a little while. But the place was still home to a whole lot of orcs. They'd have needed a much larger force to retake Moria. And remember, communication and travel are slow. There are no phones or airplanes. That was part of the reason why there was a delegation of dwarves in Rivendell - they hadn't heard from Balin's expedition to Moria in a while, and wanted to know what happened.
yeah people are debating whether Jesus was real and all that, and that was about 2000 years ago, and Sauron and the ring was about 2500 years ago, so you can see how things pass on to become legends that people dont know if its real or not
All those severed stone heads and all that debris you asked about, it was the kingdom of the numenor, the first men, touched by the elves and granted prolongued lives, now in ruins, the argonauts were the entrance to the kingdom It's awesome to see all those ruins, like the aftermath of what once was one of the greatest and most majestic of kingdoms, keeping it's memory as a mistery in every fallen rock
Aronauts! I had to look them up myself! They are the Argonath the Pillars of the Kings Anarion and Isildur. Argonauts are from Greek mythology--Jason and the Argonauts. Hercules was an Argonaut.
@@officialflikz Haha--i understand! For me, whenever I'm pretty sure of something and decide to post it without looking it up to make certain I'm right is when I am ALWAYS wrong. You think I might have learned by now.
aaa late reply but: Númenor was actually an island, and it was sunken by Eru because the men of Númenor had allowed themselves to be corrupted by Sauron, and did human sacrifice and all that. They tried to wage war on the Valar, and Eru sunk Númenor and turned Arda round, and because of that, no one other than elves can ever go to Valinor. The Argonath is actually a ruin of Gondor, which was ruled by Faithful Númenoreans who escaped the sinking of Númenor.
Hobbits have some "resistance" to the ring because they are not easily corrupted by the ring since they dont care about power, hobbits are simple people as you saw in the beginning of the movie And yes Saurman is more powerful than Gandalf since he is the leader of the wizards of middle earth
@@anjero86 Saruman was much more powerful because he was the leader of the Istari. But when Gandalf died he was sent back as the new leader (and as Gandalf the White) which makes him at least as powerful as Saruman.
And, the dagger throw, Sala Baker and Viggo Mortensen (the main Uruk-Hai and Aragorn) apparently practiced it where Sala would throw the dagger and Viggo would just dodge. But, on that take Sala threw it AT Viggo but because Viggo was a ninja in a past life after he was a Jedi just used his sword like a baseball bat. But I can’t imagine accidentally breaking my toe on a helmet and acting through it or smacking my head into a ceiling and just moving along with the scene.
I do so enjoy your reactions and comments! Some clarifications concerning elves--certain elves ("high elves--meaning those that had at one time lived "in the west"--it's complicated!!!! --have the ability to live in both the visible and invisible world at the same time. That's why, for example, Galadriel and the elves in the woods had a kind of glow. Actually Elrond and Arwen are not "high elves," so neither of them should actually glow. On the other hand, Elrond and Arwen are "half-elven"--descendents of a double-paring of elves with men. As such, both Elrond and Arwen (and her twin brothers whom you don't meet in the movies) are given the privilege of choosing a mortal or immortal life. In fact, Elrond's twin brother Elros chose mortality, and he is the ancestor (thousands of years removed) of Aragorn. Also, Gandalf has more powers than he actually shows, since he and the other wizards (you guessed it, kind of guardian angels) have been sent to help to help the people of Middle EArth, but not to fight their battles for them. Saruman, obviously, has gone off-brief. A bit.
In simpler terms, think of the ring as being kind of a Horcrux for Sauron. It is part of him and without it he is weakened but cannot die until its destroyed, like Voldemort when he was a wraith, but with it it empowers him. It also empowers others that have it too just to a lesser extent. Just like the Horcruxes though it has a sort of consciousness or will of its own and can corrupt others who have it for too long just like the locket or diary could do in Harry Potter.
@@ashazeal And you think Tolkien invented this idea? LMAO Tolkien recycled A LOT of fantastical ideas from fairy tales, but you wouldn't call him a plagiarist, would you? The horcrux or the soul jar trope is older than LOTR. Look up the mythological story of Koshchei the Immortal, heck or even Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray haha. I mean, any fantasy fan knows this trope is pretty common. what do you think? I feel like it should known by now that there're no new ideas, only recycled ones .
Here's the thing: Everyone told you to watch the "prequels" after the main trilogy because of how the movies are made. However, when you do get to the Hobbit, I highly suggest you go in with one major understanding: Tolkien wrote the Hobbit before he ever even conceived of The Lord of the Rings. In the movies, they tie it into the main trilogy a lot more than it ever was, and I think that draws attention to the wrong things and causes reactors to view them too much as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings instead of its own story. So, when you do get to the Hobbit, keep that in mind. The Hobbit was not made with the Lord of the Rings in mind. It was the other way around. When Tolkien wrote the Hobbit, Sauron did not exist. It was not an evil ring of doom, rather it was just an uncommon, magic ring. So yeah, I suggest you keep that in mind. I think that you'll enjoy the Hobbit more if you view it with that understanding. Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself. This is only the Fellowship of the Ring after all. PS (Now that I've watched the video): I love that you noticed Gandalf was going out of his way to avoid touching the ring. That's a detail most people seem to miss. I also really like that you understood that the moth was a messenger, instead of making the assumption that Gandalf turned it into an Eagle. I also really appreciate that you pointed out how much more powerful Saruman is than Gandalf. That is because Saruman is the head of the Wizards, and so was given the most power. As for why Gimili did not know that Gloin was dead: It had been a long time since Balin had been sent with a large force of dwarves to try and retake and resettle Moria. Moria is actually the most ancient of Dwarven Nations (Yeah, you heard me right. Moria is not just a city, it's big enough to be considered a nation), but it fell when they delved too deep and uncovered the balrog, among other things. In the books, the dwarves mentioned at the council of Elrond that they had not heard from Balin for several months, and were getting worried, although the last word they had heard from him was that all was going well. In regards to what the Orcs eat: They don't stay down there. The Misty Mountains are usually swarming with orcs at nightfall. They just don't like the sunlight, so they flee underground during the day. I also like that you noticed Gandalf mentioning the Flame of Arnor, which isn't mentioned ever again in the movies, but if you ever read the Silmarillion, you will understand it's importance. As for the theme for the hobbits, it is called "Concerning Hobbits" and it is fantastic. Anyway, sorry for the super long comment. I highly suggest reading the books, and I would actually suggest reading the Hobbit first and the Lord of the Rings after that, but it doesn't matter too much. I would also suggest watching the Rankin and Bass animated Hobbit and Return of the King films, since they are very enjoyable and capture Tolkien's style a little better (at least in my opinion).
Good explanation except: Gloin isn"t dead!!! Oin went with Balin to Moria, but Gloin did not---in the book Gloin brings his son Gimli with him to Rivendell and does some important talking at the Council of Elrond about Blck Riders who had come to the Lonely Mountain asking for information about Bilbo.
@@jegraham440 Ah, I had meant to edit it to say Balin, since I originally wrote Gloin and then looked it up to make sure. Not sure why the edit didn't go through.
Gandalf did not say "Flame of Arnor", he said "Flame of Anor". Anor is the Elvish word for the Sun, so literally the flame of Anor would have alluded to the light of the Sun, which had originated in the fiery fruit of Laurelin, one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Thus, Gandalf may have meant the power he gained as a servant (a Maia) of the Lords of the West, in defiance to the corrupted darkness of the Balrog.
"Did he get the breath knocked out of him or something?" He just got a spear rammed into him by a ten foot, musclebound Cave Troll. that's like getting hit in the chest with a baseball fired from a machine.
@@Pelagion98 From what I understand, it was pretty close to that in the book (I've never read the books so I don't know from experience, only what people have told me). I heard that the spear broke several of his ribs and all but collapsed the lung it hit until he got healing in Lothlorien in the book.
@Mr. Al Sounds less like Tolkien was an Elitist and more like he was a Realist. And I kinda have to agree with him if everything you've said about him is true. And I'm very much not an Elitist. Though, not being of a religious background, I don't have the problem he does with people tripping out on LSD and treating Gandalf like a guru. I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't hurt anybody, you do you. ;) And Frodo was stabbed by an Uruk in the book? Given the severity of his injuries in the book, that makes less sense than a Cave Troll. I mean, yes, Uruk's are big, especially compared to a Hobbit, but I don't think an Uruk would have the physical strength to strike with enough force to break bones and collapse a lung through Mithril. But, hey, it is what it is. And if that's what's written in the book, who am I to argue?
I'm quite amazed how well you picked up on things that just go over most peoples heads. Even piecing together things that would need more lore context. Great watch man :)
A lot of your questions have answers. The lore of Middle Earth is extremely extensive. Remember this is a fantasy series though haha, there are many abstract concepts
Keep your imagination open. The hobbit (prequels) explains quite a lot of these movies. TLoTR series is a fantastic world, much like the Potter world, with lots of lore. Enjoy the ride
What you must understand, which is not properly or just straight up mentioned in the movie is: The One Ring is pure evil. It will corrupt the purest soul, and in the wrong hands it can be too destructive. Gandalf didn't dare touch the ring, since if Gandalf (Basically an Angel, a Maia) was corrupted by the Ring to use it for evil, he would basically become the next Sauron. Maybe even worse. Who knows. But I can see that it's all a bit much to take in at once. For example "the perfect warriors", are not seen here. We've seen ONE of these warriors, which was no Orc, but rather an Uruk-hai. But yea, it's a bit much. So no worries. Liked the video.
Yes, he would probably become worse because Gandalf is the most powerful of the Maiar. He just learned compassion and the love of simple things and ways of life and that is what makes him the best one to fight Sauron. And I agree, the story itself is so complex and vast that it's hard to explain all the whys and consequences.
The Ring gave 'power according to stature' and the temptation was in proportion to the power it promised. This is why the humble hobbits are more resistant to it (and, in the book, Bombadil, who has metaphysically renounced all power beyond his realm, is utterly indifferent to it), but Galadriel, Gandalf, Aragorn, and Boromir are tried indeed. In a letter, Tolkien wrote: “Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would have remained ‘righteous’, but only self-righteous. He would have continued to rule and order things for ‘good’… Thus while Sauron multiplied evil, he left ‘good’ clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil.”
You have a really good memory, both Lotr and Harry Potter you remember the names and events so well for a first time viewer! Also just keep this in mind... "DEATTTTH"
I love that you are really into the movies you watch. Every second you're trying to understand what's going on, learning names, places, and things. I haven't seen this in other reactions, you're actively commenting your ideas and theories and talk out loud the rules the movie is proposing. That's really useful to understand fantasy movies.
So glad you went with the extended versions. These movies are fantastic! The theme you like is called Concerning Hobbits, but the entire album is a piece of art.
My man questions everything jeeez. Just like there are many humans on this earth, there are many dwarves, just one of the races in the world of Lord of the rings. And im not in contact with people from all over the world (and we have the internet), including some of my cousins, so that how gimli probably didnt know. why is frodo reacting like that? i guess its the same principle of a bulletproof vest, it might stop the penetration, but you can still feel the impact.
Bal hera I appreciate him taking an interest, but there were times it felt like hanging out with a 3 or 4 year old. Just non-stop questions that are hard to answer with a quick sentence. 🤣
@@susanmaggiora4800 Exactly. i mean i get it, its a reaction video and he needs to share his thoughts. But i do hope he re-watches some of it, because i feel like you cant really absorb and enjoy everything in these movies, if you keep questioning everything.
@@pandycious And there's a really easy answer to that question too. And that answer is: Why do you think all the Dwarves of Moria are dead? The true answer, of course, is more complex. But it comes down to linear thinking and assumptions. Like what makes him think that the Moria Orcs aka Goblins are trapped in Moria? The can, you know, leave and hunt for food if they want. Also, what makes him think that the only things in the mines are Moria Orcs and the Balrog? Thirdly, and he'll discover this in Two Towers, cannibalism. They get desperate? They'll eat each other.
I always loved how hobbits stand for what is essential and lovely in life. And that, in that way, they have more power to carry such a thing like the ring. Yeah, some of them are greedy little fuckers. But they don't dream of higher power, mountains of gold or countries to conquer. And that makes them very lovable characters that are a symbol of what is essential: Eating good food, dance, laugh, work hard, having a family and friends - And sometimes gossip a little haha.
Yay! I'm glad you're back! I only found your HP videos a few days ago, but you quickly became one of my fave people who react to movies. You seem to understand the emotion and pay attention to a lot of stuff that others don't.
I LOVE your reactions, watched the HP ones and now this one. I also love when people notice the music and share my enthusiasm about it. By far my favourite themes EVER. I can´t get enough and I´m always close to crying, nostalgia hitting hard.
These reaction videos are exactly what you look for when you show friends movies. The strict attention to detail and the intelligent comprehension make these great to watch. It's not just someone saying "oh hey, neat!", it's actually someone really diving in, and I've caught things from these reactions that I didn't notice before. Thanks!
The Argonath mark the border of Gondor and were built centuries before LotR by the Numenoreans. One is Elendil, the other Isildur (in the book its Isildur and his brother Anarion). The phial of Galadriel is a very complicated and in depth story that goes back to before Galadriel was born over 6000 years ago.
I am so happy you are watching the extended editions. I have watched these movies countless times and it is the best pleasure watching someone who's never seen these films watch them for the first time. So satisfying. Thank you.
A peice of advice for yotube reactors: You don't have to talk so much continuously throughout. Comment on certain things, but just pay attention if you don't understand something. Many times i find him just talking over the movie, missing key details, he's trying to find out.
@@gaelledelair7258 That's not really a spoiler. You are basically supposed to know Bilbos story anyway before you start reading/watching Lord of the Rings
The only thing about the extended editions for a new comer is that they gives you more questions that makes it harder for someone with zero knowledge, in my experience atleast. I tried it and usually start with theatrical version for new peeps. But kudos for trying
Yeah, and as he noted there are some "slow parts" - if you're not a diehard fan mentally reciting passages from the books in your head while the camera fondles some yellow leaves. X-)
Gotta say, I enjoyed this reaction so much more than almost every other that I’ve seen. I think you just pay attention and keep up with things so well that I’m not super frustrated. Looking forward to the next vids.
If you want to understand the connection between light and its use in magic and elvish culture, you dont get around reading the Silmarillion. Basically, before Sun and Moon existed, there were two magical trees illuminating the world from the land of the gods, one golden and one silver. There was a very talented but hotheaded elf prince who caught said light in three gems, called the silmarils. The original dark lord (Saurons master) destroys the trees (leading to the creation of sun and moon) and the rest of the Silmarillion is elves and men and Valar (gods) fighting over those gems that contain the last spark of light from these godly trees. Long story short, one elf called Earendil ends up wearing a silmaril on his forehead, forever sailing through the sky in his enchanted ship, looking like a star because the silmaril shines so bright. The phial Galadriel gave to Frodo captures Earendils light, the light of the holy trees from the past. The light of stars also reminds the elves of their goddess Varda, one of the Valar who reigns over the stars and the sky. The elves call her Elbereth. In the Hobbit movies, you will find the quote about starlight being "memory" by an elvish character. Elves and light magic are very much intertwined in Tolkiens world.
UGH! I love you! You’ve chosen to watch the extended edition! These films are my #1 fav films periodt! These films are what got me into film scores. These films broke me into my teens. It seems like tones of people, esp guys are reacting to fantasy films now a days. Harry Potter & these at the top of their lists. I love sharing my knowledge of these films & more importantly my knowledge of the Tolkien universe w/newbie watchers and potential fans. I was ready to respond to all your questions & confusions but that reply would be longAF. You’re right, you have a ton to read and if you like lore, you’ll love all the backstory Tolkien provides from Creation mythos to creating the languages you hear in the films (2 different kinds of Elvish [Sindarin|Quenya]), dwarvish (Khuzdul), Orcish, etc. It’s literally lore galore! If you choose to download the scores, I recommend you download the extended versions. Hmmm...what else?
LOTR is my favourite cinematic trilogy ever so happy that you are reacting to this movies, what version are you watching, normal or extended? i only watched extended versions so i don't know what scenes are not in the "normal" ones.
He´s watching the extended ones. I haven´t seen a few of these scenes, or can´t recall them even tho I have the extended versions, what. Time to watch it again myself!
Honestly one of the best reactions I've seen of the movies. You caught a majority of the details and plot so quick and are asking all the right questions. Keep to the extended editions, you wont regret it 👌 subbed
Yeah cause that's not his first time watching the movies ... you can't just get all these details just by the first time watching a movie I mean cmon it's pretty obvious like his Harry Potter reaction videos fake af ...
Couple of fun facts about Galadriel: she's several times older than the Sun and Moon, and is called the Lady of Light partly because (alone of all the Elves left in Middle-earth by the time of LOTR) she was born under the light of the luminous Trees that came before the Sun and, unlike it, were unmarred by the hand of Morgoth, the first Dark Lord and Sauron's original master. Elves do indeed worship the stars - their own word for themselves, "Eldar", means "People of the Stars" - and Eärendil is specifically the Morning Star. That same Eärendil is also Elrond's father, who sails the skies with the last Silmaril, which preserves the unsullied light of the Trees. As you can probably gather, the further back in the legendarium you go, the more mythic and strange it gets. If you enjoy this aspect of the movies, you'll absolutely devour the books.
I tell l a lie; there’s one older Elf left in Middle-earth by this point: Círdan the Shipwright, who comes into the book of LOTR but not the movies (except as the white-haired Elf who takes one of the Three Rings at the very beginning; in the books, he later gave it to Gandalf), and is so old that he’s actually got a beard.
I feel like you underestimate what it means to live without internet^^ These dwarfs live under mountains seperated by whole nations that are not always friendly with them. Same with the elves. They live weeks of travel apart. How would information get to them faster than the fellowship? 😁 By the way I love your reactions. You have the ability to understand the characters and correctly guess what might happen to them 👍
Gandalf was overthinking the door. He forgot it was made in more peaceful, friendly times. The inscription wasn't asking for a password. It was just instructions to get in. He mistranslated it. Not "Speak friend and enter." It was "SAY friend and enter."
Oh yeah, those cool big statues in the river mark the historical northern border of Gondor, and they are of Elendil and Isildur, Aragorn's remote ancestors and the first rulers of Gondor. Aragorn is descended from a race of men called the Numenoreans. Their prehistory is probably what the new Amazon series is going to focus on, so I don't want to get into possible spoilers. If you read the LOTR books, Aragorn's back history is in the appendices. REading them is like getting two or three bonus novels!
Excellent video. It was nice so watch someone paying attention instead of trying make a reaction video. It shows in how close your guesses were to what it actually is that you were really thinking about all the hints and clues scattered and carefully placed throughout the movie. It helps that you are watching the extended versions, but even the little things like Bilbo telling a story about trolls turning to stone and you noticing them in the background layer. Thank you for using your brain while watching and while editing. :)
RE: Gimli and Moria, in the books he is also reluctant to go, stating that there has been no word from Moria for years. They changed this in the film for some reason.
These 32 minutes went by in a blink of an eye. Awesome reaction, my dude. I saw this first one when I was about 10 years old. They are my favorite movies of all time.
You need a tiny bit more fantasy and imagination. Questioning things is good and healthy, but duuude you're literally watching fantasy. Don't treat everything with utter logic and let your imagination work and it'll find your answer :) And btw 2500 years later without internet, television or even the common folks reading books you can easily forget this stuff. The Plague heavily hit Europe already before 1348, like around 500 years earlier, but people had forgotten about it when it returned.
@@gaelledelair7258 Oh well depending on the questions that's super normal :) I mean Tolkien created a whole world with a huge history. Like "a Balrog of Morgoth". You can't know who Morgorth is just by watching the film. Or Bilbo's whole story or who Balin was or or or :) But sometimes he's focusing on odd stuff, like the glowing of the Elves.
One of the things I love about your reactions is that you are really perceptive and notice a lot of details. There's a point in the prequels in which an elf glows and for some reason people are confused about it, when these movies make it clear that elves glow pretty frequently. Some other answers/explanations to things you commented on: The ring is indeed evil and it can corrupt anyone who comes into contact with it, whether they touch it or not. Men are especially vulnerable to it; hobbits are the hardest to corrupt because they're so pure. Gondor has been run by a Steward for many years, since there hasn't been a king in so long. Boromir is the son of the current Steward, so there's a little of him feeling like Aragorn has abandoned them and also a little of him feeling like the Stewards have been doing just fine so maybe we don't need you after all. Meanwhile, Aragorn is of a lineage that is half-elf so he lives longer than most humans, and he was raised by elves for so many years that he feels more kinship to them than he does to men, who sometimes seem more greedy and petty in comparison. I definitely recommend reading the books (and also watching the BTS extras) because they're all so great and contain so much more lore. I can't wait to see your reaction to the Two Towers, keep up the great work!!
Nobody notices all these details just by watching a movie for the first time , if you check his HP reaction videos you can tell how fake this guy is ...
After this series, please begin giving reaction on MCU movies starting from Iron Man. Please watch MCU movies and give reaction on them. You will enjoy for Sure.
I absolutely love all the things you notice and the conclusions you come to, it shows that you really enjoy the movie and think about it as it's going on and I think this approach will let you better understand the overall themes of the entire trilogy
The Elves glow because they lived in a time the sun and the moon did not exist ( in fact the movie is set in third age of the moon and the sun). Most lived in the era of the two trees (like Galadriel) before they got destroyed and replaced by the Sun and the Moon, and thats why they shine, because they saw the holy light (are consider high elves, in contrast to Legolas who is not and doesnt shine since he was born later and didnt see the 2 trees). Elrond and Arwen are actually half-elf and human by descent (known as peredhil). They descent from most of the heroes of the past of M.Earth. This few half elven beings can choose their destiny, either live like elfs (inmortal) or live like human (short but intense). Elrond already chose inmortality but arwen wants to chose mortality due to her lover.
Maybe fantasy isn't for this guy. He takes everything super literally. "Do elves shine? I would like to know the physical properties that make up their body chemistry in order to achieve such a thing. I wonder which exact species of elf shine and what the exact luminosity is...." Like jesus christ bro, it's a fantasy movie, just go with it.
@SupremePrestige A reaction doesn't mean act like my annoying little brother going "but why but why but why but why but why" every 10 seconds. I swear, if there was a reactor who literally just sat there and made a farting noise every time something happened in the movie, there would be people in the comments going "wEll ItS a ReACtioN ChANNel, dO YoU WaNt hIM to JUst Sit TheRE DoINg nOtHinG?!?!"
18:46 a couple dwarves from the lonely mountain tried to reclaim it 50 years before the events in this movie. You'll get to know some of them if you will watch the Hobbit
I just want to say, you are a pleasure to watch as a react channel. Most react channels exaggerate and are extremely clueless as to what the director is conveying through the details in the film. You actually pay attention and infer things. I love that. Easy sub, especially cause LOTR is my favorite franchise ever. Good job m8
Don't get this the wrong way, but how is it that you haven't ever watched any of these films before. Harry Potter, ok, maybe. But LotR :D How could this happen xD?
I know, right?? What I hear is that apparently some people have these things called "lives" (it's like a super intense hobby) and those make it hard for them to spend every waking hour immersed in a fictional world, like us normal folks. ;o)
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll haahaaa ^^ buuuut normal folks these days rather watch some popular movies every now and then. Stumbling over people who say "I don't have telly" is the 21th century's not "normal" folk :p I wonder if he's ever watched... Star Wars, Hunger Games, Star Trek... like any of that stuff. Reeeeally curious ^^
I was actually really surprised at how well you did with making sense of everything. Like when I first watched it I didn’t really get what was going on but I got in the end. But you like caught on really quickly. I’m impressed!
Oh I loved this! Awesome that you were so focused on everything and picked up pretty quickly a lot of things most first timers don’t! And yes, the music is sooo good!
Heyo! Please note one point about Gandalf. Men (in the world of Middle Earth) talk of Gandalf being a mighty wizard, and he is, to be sure. But Gandalf is a being known as a "Maiar", a type of spirit, or primordial being, that existed before Time, and was present at the shaping of the World. Gandalf's greatest strength lies not in shaping the Fate of Middle Earth by his own strength of arms or through the power of his own magic; but in putting Men, Elves and even Hobbits on the path to shape that Fate for themselves.
I'm really impressed with how you understand most of what's happening. Like you realizing the ring takes you to another dimension like a limbo, you noticing how Rivendell is defendable because that's the main idea of that place, and noticing the main strengths of Gandalf. And all your questions have answers, you just have to dive deep into Tolkien's Legendarium.
People born after 2000 watching Lord of the Rings "Oh hey it's Ned Stark!"
People born before 2000 watching Game of Thrones "Oh hey it's Boromir!"
I was born in 2000 and he will forever be Boromir. I loved his portrayal of Ned Stark but he was the perfect Boromir
I was born in '79 but watched GoT before LoTR (didn't see the latter until around two years ago) so I'm a "hey it's Ned Stark" person :p (for the record, the LoTR trilogy are some of my favorite movies now and I've seen them several times since then. I need the extended editions though, I only have the "standard" ones)
Not after 2000 after 06-09
02, I see him as boromir, then ned stark, then bond villain, then martin septim from oblivion (note how 3 of those were fantasy related, haha...) hail dragonborn!
'70, I see Richard Sharpe.
1. Extended edition, man of culture here
2. This guy really knows whats happening on screen compared to other reaction channels.
3. Looking forward to the next 2 movies!
Cor sijtsma ikr? Makes it more entertaining to watch
Maybe he has seen it before? There are a few reaction channels that pretend to not have seen movies but their reactions are oddly similar to info from the appendices. And they 'guess' at things that are right on the nose...
@@roddo1955 true, but that seems not to be the case here. Ofc I could be wrong tho
Yeah him and ItsaPrimate are great for that
Not to mention he respects the music
The extended editions. I knew you were a man of culture.
I mean... He hasn't seen any of them until now
😂😂😂
@@wlf3514 he is now
What you talking about? You guys don't have any culture. You're multicultural. Worship me. I know what's best.
The extended edition are a lot worse as movies IMO. I really hate seeing people be introduced to these great movies this way. They really weren't meant to be seen like this.
25:45 "I feel like JK Rowling might have drawn inspiration from this."
Umm yeah. Like a lot.
Even though she doesn't accept that. I read that she claimed she didn't even read The Hobbit before she began writing the first Potter novel.
Lets be honest, everyone drew inspiration from Tolkien 😂
@@EgemenUregen the Lord of the rings is like the odyssey at this point, it influences pretty much everything
@@davidjones272 Yeah, I know. I just said what J.K. Rowling had to say about the subject. She said she didn't even read The Hobbit before she began writing Potter books. I guess that means she didn't draw any inspiration from Tolkien and Middle-Earth. I don't know if she can convince anyone :))
@@EgemenUregen yeah, it may well be that she didn't. But Tolkien created so many tropes that came to define the fantasy genre that they seeped into broader culture. Anybody who writes a fantasy novel will be influenced by him to some degree, whether they know it or not.
Getting shot while wearing a bullet-proof vest can still knock you out and definitely hurts. I imagine getting stabbed while wearing Mithril is a similar experience.
And stabbed with a spear by a cave troll even more so.
Irl he would have had several ruptured organs and died just from the impact! In the movie, I assume it at least knocked the wind out of him and probably bruised/broke some ribs.
In the book he was seriously hurt with broken ribs and bruising, and he could barely breathe the whole time in Moria until he could get some elf healing in Lothlorian.
Exactly. Like if you read The Hunger Games, Katniss gets shot with a bullet and it still bruises/breaks her rib and ruptures her spleen. She had a bulletproof outfit out, but the force of it hitting still hurt her. And likewise, in the book, Frodo experiences broken ribs from this too.
ZombieMom73 He can feel the pain still
Music: gets even better. CGI: Lotr couldn’t be made until this era because there was no CGI invented to do the books justice. They invented a lot on this film. Watch some of the extras which talks about how they created this masterpiece.
if im not wrong lotr was the first movie to ever do motion capture directly on set
@@elsecallers It was. Andy Serkis was the first person to use it, in his portrayal of Gollum.
There were films before CGI. There was also CGI before this film. The main thing this film had that previous ones didnt was the CGI armies that didnt look fake, that was something they couldnt do before this. Wingnut developed the 'natural looking' CGI crowd system which can first be seen in the film Heavenly Creatures. The rest could have been done with practical effects for more cost with some limitation. Like you wouldnt have seen Golem walking close up to the camera - he would probably have been animatronic. Rather than saying it couldnt have been made before the advances in CGI, rather it is more accurate to say that it would have cost too much to make before unless taken on by a top director that could have had an almost limitless budget - e.g. James Cameron
@@HollowBagel It wasn't. If my memory it's okay, they in fact just used him to get references, specially for the face, but there wasn't motion capture. All was hand animated.
@@gabrielgonach6330 You are mistaken.
Sauron was defeated 3,000 years ago. Hard to keep track for that long. Tales become legends, then become myth..
"and some things that never should have been forgotten, are lost"
It's also known to have been lost somewhere in the Anduin, Saruman looks for the ring for a long time, the largest River in Middle Earth and for all anyone knows it was carried off into the sea.
... memories become legend; legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again....
yesyes, i know, wrong fandom! 🤓
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll Whe Wheel of Time touches ALL fandoms. The worlds of IF are infinite.
@@officialflikz I was thinking of that exact line haha
"I cant speak elvish"
Interesting fact: Tolkien actually created the elvish language. You can learn it ;)
Make that TWO Elvish languages.
And people 100% try to learn it, much as with Klingon and (more recently) Dothraki etc.
(I may or may not have based my passwords on novel Sindarin word combinations throughout my 20s.)
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll There are more than two, there's an entire family. It's just that Quenya and Sindarin are the most fleshed-out ones.
@@Mercure250 Really a shame Black-Speech isn't flesh out... I'd learn the fck out of that
@@Mercure250 Yup, and it's even more complex than that. Some are not languages in their own right per say, more dialects of another language. That's the genius of Tolkien using his knowledge about languages, and creating evolved or archaic forms for more or less advanced moments in the history of his legendarium.
But he did not create languages that are complete enough to speak (even he did not know enough Elvish to create extended prose passages). What people are learning is one linguist's extrapolation-in effect, linguistic 'fan fiction'. See Carl Hostetter's thoughtful discussion of this matter at www.elvish.org/articles/EASIS.pdf
Gandalf is extremely powerful. He is basically the equivalent to an angel, but he is forbidden from using more power than most necessarily needed :D This world has so much lore it's unbelievable
"An angel" "forbidden to use more power" ...not sure what movie _this_ guy thinks he's talking about. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
@@malcolmdrake6137 You know that Lord of The Rings is a book right ?
@@malcolmdrake6137 There's a heck of a lot more to the world than what is portrayed in the movies. So... It's quick summary nerd time!
There was big god man, Eru Ilúvatar. He made Ainur, holy divine dudes. They sang together creating the world, but one of them, Melkor, wanted a bigger part in the play and corrupted the shit outta it, while his brother Manwë tried to minimize the damages.
Some of the divine dudes went to the world they created and became known as Valar, who had Maiar to serve them. Gandalf was one, then known as Olórin, served big ol' Manwë himself, while this other dude called Aulë who created the dwarves or summat couldn't keep his own Maiar, Curumo and Mairon, in check. Melkor managed to bring Mairon over to his side, probably with cookies or something, and Mairon became known as Sauron. Can ya guess who Curumo was? Good ol' Mr. Saruman, of course.
So yeah, Gandalf's essentially an angel, and he's the same whatever as Sauron is.
@@malcolmdrake6137 wow, what a funny guy
joram. tffb cause last time they did they F'ed up the reality of part of the world or something from what I've heard.
"this film is so long"
me: *laughs in ROTK*
Four... fricking... hours!
It's a sheer miracle I even stayed awake for that long when watching it. Then again, how could I fall asleep to a film as intense at that one?
Extended edition*
@@eliesh3833 I really needed to pee the first time I saw it.... when they went into the ghost cave!!
And still it's too short to my taste. I would love to have Extended extended edition with all the material they could combine. I would gladly see our favorite hobbits talking about food while having a rest, or scenes of this sort. I wouldn't mind watching the films in multiple parts. I just want all the footage available as this is THE trilogy that will never be topped.
Just a few things, this isn´t really explained well in the movies but the ring its more corrupting the more power and ambition you have, he uses your own desires against you, it has a really hard time against hobbits because of that, what can power offer a hobbit? they want to enjoy life and live peacefully in his own home and they can easily get that withouth much problems
It also grants more power if you yourself are more powerful. A Hobbit will only turn invisible while someone like Elrond or Galadriel could easily take over all of middle earth with all the power they would gain.
@@She-Devil94 Which almost implies that Tom Bombadil was Eru Iluvatar, as the ring had no effect on him and Eru is omnipotent
Yannic Held Why wouldnt they, then? I mean why Gandalf kept saying, I’d use it for good. But he cant even touch it?
@@neszell No. Gandalf said, "I'd want to use this ring from a desire to do good, but through me it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine." Meaning that Gandalf, like most people, would want to use the ring to do good. Boromir's desire to wield the ring came from his own desire to help his people; to do good. However, because Gandalf is a Maiar, the ring would amplify his own innate power to the point that he'd be a god and with its corrupting influence, any and all desire to do good would be replaced by the lust to rule.
@@neszell The ring uses your desires and ambitions like the ambition to do good to tempt you and make you use the ring, after you use the ring you will become addicted to his power and all the people warning about his corrupting power will seem ignorant, misguided or jelaous.
Just look at Bilbo, Gandalf is one of his closest friends but at the end the ring almost convinced him that Gandalf was a thief and wanted to rob him even as his memories of Gandalf told him that he would never do that and his logic told him that if Gandalf wanted it he would simply take it from him.
After that his corruption was so deep that he almost assaulted his own newphew for it.
so here's a brief rundown of the denizens of middle earth:
Men: are basically like your typical human being, Aragorn belongs to a rare bloodline when 'men' were gifted with extremely long life by the god Eru Illuvatar, this bloodline was almost destroyed when Eru sank the island of Numenor (the greatest kingdom of men) after sauron corrupted it, only a very small number of people survived this cataclysm event, the ones that weren't corrupted by sauron.
Elves: there are 3 main factions of elves, but only 2 of them are represented in the films, as stated they are immortal beings and can live 'forever', they are the 'firstborn' of Eru and are gifted with 'the light of the Valar', they are the most gifted when it comes to 'magic' in middle earth outside of the istari (wizards).
Dwarves: while not immortal beings, they have extremely long lifespans relative to Men, with one dwarf in particular, Durin the deathless thought to be thousands of years old which is very long by dwarven standards (in dwarf mythos he is the father of all dwarves as he was the first to awaken of their species).
Orcs: these are formerly elves corrupted by sauron and twisted into stunted vile forms, they make up the bulk of the armies of the enemy.
Goblins: in the LOTR world goblins are in fact much larger in size than orcs, some of the sub species of goblins have evolved to be really small nimble creatures like you would typically expect to see in fantasy media today but on the whole goblins are large creatures with brutish strength.
Uruk-Hai: these are the soldiers that saruman was breeding in isengard, they are a halfbreed between orcs and goblins (goblins giving them the height and physical strength orcs providing them the intelligence).
Istari: these are the 'wizards' of middle earth, in the films we only see 2, Gandalf and Saruman, in the hobbit series you are introduced to Radaghast the brown, there were 2 other wizards known as 'the blue wizards' who went to the far east of middle earth but are unknown and never mentioned outside of appendix and other writings in the books.
The Valar: these are immortal and powerful beings, they are the children of Eru Illuvatar think of them like angels and they each embody one aspect of creation, however there was one of the Valar who had dominion over all aspects (jack of all trades master of none) think of him like the 'Lucifer' character in the mythos, it was this being that sauron ended up serving and worshipping.
Maiar: these are immortal beings who have immense power over certain aspects of creation and they serve the Valar, think of them like personal assistants to the Valar entity they serve, they are powerful beings in their own right but get further power from the Valar being they serve, as well as knowledge and wisdom from their respective Valar, all Maiar spirits are the same in terms of their essence, some are fallen Maiar spirits and are 'dark' some are 'light', Sauron due to his master being the most powerful Valar became the most powerful of the Maiar spirits, all of the Istari are Maiar spirits also, and they each had a specific task while in middle earth to aid the free peoples against saurons' tyranny.
the great eagles: these are similar to Maiar spirits in that they serve a specific Valar, they are noble creatures who will only aid those they deem as pure and worthy.
Nazgul (ringwraiths): these are the 9 great kings of old that were given rings of power by 'annatar the giver of gifts' an alias of sauron, and through these rings he corrupted them and turned them into his servants, as stated by aragorn they are neither alive nor dead but in a limbo inbetween simply called the 'shadow realm', in the mythos Frodo is the only mortal being to see their true forms after he put on the ring on weathertop, no other mortal being has seen their true visage.
in regards to 'magic' in middle earth it is never explained in the films, but it is very nuanced, the Istari can use 'magic' but are forbidden to use it on the mortal denizens of middle earth by the Valar, they can influence those around them but are forbidden to directly influence them, in the opening segment of the film that is narrated by galadriel where she talks about sauron 'pouring his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life' into the ring when forging it, that's not just flavourful use of words to describe him labouring overt he project like 'i put my blood sweat and tears into this', it's much more literal than that, he literally siphoned some of his soul into the ring and that power was malice, and his ambition to rule all people of middle earth, it's also the reason why he was able to return after being 'killed' at the battle of the last alliance, his spirit and life force are bound to the ring so he survives thanks to that.
Another point about 'magic', sauron 'invented' the black speech as a corrupted form of elvish, it causes uncorrupted elves physical pain when they hear it, Gandalf is reciting the inscription on the one ring during the council of elrond, it is this 'passage of text' that causes the sky to darken and the elves (elrond and legolas and his company) to recoil in pain in their seats, in this universe words have immense power when spoken in the correct way by those who can wield 'magic' which is why some of the old relics and tomes of the first age (like the palantir stones) are dangerous to use if you're not careful.
you were correct in your assumption about middle earth being a continent, however, the other continent that exists in the Tolkien universe is not accessible by mortal races, only the Valar/Maiar/Elves are permitted to leave middle earth and reside in the undying lands of Valinor, and for a geographical scale of middle earth, if you took the entire USA landmass Florida would be where mordor/harad is, and the shire would be around where Washington state/Oregon is to give some sense of scale here.
Brief haha
Well put, but I have two simple corrections.
1)There were other Men that survived the downfall of Numinor. They were known as the "Black Numinorians" or "The King's Men." They served Sauron and had set up settlements in the south of Middle Earth before the downfall.
2)The Elves were not corrupted by Sauron, but by Melkor/Morgoth, loooooooooooong before Sauron was anything more than just second-in-command to Morgoth.
@@ridiculousedtollett6120 for the purposes of the films races what i said is accurate, as morgoth is never mentioned outside of durins bane, and gandalf telling the fellowship what it was that was chasing them through moria, and in terms of the black numenoreans, there's only 1 in the whole film trilogy ever shown, and only in the extended edition, the mouth of sauron, they are never shown in any the armies of darkness, and are never mentioned either.
also in regards to orcs, you're confusing first age orcs to what were commonly called 'orcs' in middle earth, the ones that melkor created were VERY different to what was the corrupted elven orcs that sauron had created which is the 'orc' species that's present in the films.
Ridiculous Ed Tollett Same got triggerd when I read that.
I think it's cool that a little moth summons the Eagles
"I hope Ned Stark will stick around for a little longer"
Oh dear. 😂
Yeah, Sean Bean dies in almost every film or series...
Lol literally what I said XD Wasn't This the film that kinda started that whole trend / meme also?? Lol poor Sean Bean xD :)
@@pvnvliet Does it started from LOTR or much before? Because for me it was the first film I saw with Sean Bean.
@@timkalier Oh, long before LOTR. Like Patriot Games in 1992 or Goldeneye in 95.
@@pvnvliet you just reminded me of "Sean bean to be given role as Julius Caesar in play, with predictable results" XD
They didn't keep tabs on the ring because...
-All that was generally known was that Isildur cut the ring from Sauron's hand, ending the war. A year later Isildur died while travelling near the Anduin River. Literally nobody knew exactly what had happened (except Isildur, who was too dead to care).
-There was a time span of over 3,000 years between the loss of the ring & the events of LOTR. Most of the events around the ring had been forgotten by then.
-Virtually all of Middle Earth was illiterate. The various different societies were fragmented, isolated, and focused on survival at the expense of education. Only wealthier hobbits learned to write, and only a small percentage of them took an interest in history, especially history that didn't involve the Shire.
There were a lot of Characters in the Books who read and Write. And no mention of illiteracy. So saying most of Middle Earth was illiterat isn‘t plausible, since most medieval people could write and read in their OWN language. Only very wealthy People learnt to read Latin (the Bible). In the Books most Elvis, dwarves and hobbits could read. Most Human characters too. But your other points are totally right. ;)
They didn't keep tabs on the Ring because it was lost for an Age.
Isildur was the last known person to have it, and he died trying to escape an ambush from Orcs. He tried swimming the Anduin, the Ring slipped off during the swim, he was seen and killed. The Ring was lost in the river, until it was picked up by Déagol, who was murdered for it by Sméagol AKA Gollum, who then disappeared into the mountains with it until it was found by Bilbo. Gandalf then learned the truth of how Bilbo came into the possession of the Ring.
Nobody could track it because it was just waiting for the right people who would take it back to its rightful owner, staying in hiding with Gollum for all these years. 😊
@@erikhamann The people who could keep track (Gondor & Arnor) had other things to worry about during those 3000 years.
Arnor ended up fragmenting and then the witch king gobbled up the remaining smaller kingdoms until they were all gone.
Gondor went through massive wars with the pirates and easterlings, had a bunch of civil wars and were repeatedly decimated by plagues.
And still, when Gandalf went to the Gondorian archives he did find records of the events, buried under 3000 years of other stuff.
Merecir Thats true. The human cultures from the late third age weren‘t too interested in recording history. Probably due to the lack of cultural exchange between men and elves after the last alliance. Most recorded history comes from the elves (Rivendell has a big archive of documents) and certain immortal characters were alive 3000 years ago. That people forgot about the events of wich witnesses are still alive, shows the lack of communication between elves and men.
@@erikhamann Most of the characters in the books were lords, wizards, immortal elves, and upper class hobbits. Samwise was illiterate until Frodo taught him to read after Sam was his employee, and people thought that was strange. The gaffer remarked that "it didn't seem to harm him." Note that Gandalf had to go into archives to find accounts of the greatest war ever fought. As an aside, there is no unifying cultural element here. No Bible, no overt religion, no empire.
Sauron, when he crafted the Ring, poured his soul into it, literally. It made him far more powerful, but, well, you saw what happens if he lost it.
Colva Moon yup, Rowling took the idea and called it a horcrux, except Sauron just made the one, instead of several.
@@danielcody7568 It's more like mythology than "idea", objects with "souls" are here since ancient folktales and myths, you can't really tell Rowling stole it. It would mean that Tolkien stole from ancient mythology or Shakespeare. It's similar if we said she stole the concept of centaurs. Ridiculous, because they are here since ancient Greece. It's not the idea itself it's the way how you use the idea in context, what makes story/art good and new.
@@lukasvalisek7483 He was took, not stole. He never said that she stole it.
The magic and horcruxes etc in these stories harken way back to Norse and Pagan mythology.
9:34 that is a VERY astute observation for being a first-timer.
The ring connects the wearer to the shadow world, where Sauron influences your spirit; the Ringwraiths were simply men who wore their rings for too long, until they were nothing BUT spirits, under Sauron’s dominion.
He made several very astute observations. I'm quite impressed.
Gimli the dwarf hadn't heard from his cousin for years and that was normal. Dwarves live longer than men and those mines were really far away from Gimli's home. Yes, Frodo was hurt by the spear, it was a heavy impact and in the book, he was severely bruised. The mithril chain mail had actually cut into his skin from the force of the troll's spear. Sauruman is the head of Gandlaf's order of wizards so he is more powerful but wizards aren't supposed to use their powers unless its absolutely necessary. The are supposed to guide and help the beings of middle earth.
Yeah, it had been almost 30 years since Gimli hae heard from Moria. Dwarfs had love/fear relationship with Moria after original waking up of Balrog. They yearned to go there but where afraid.
After the Dwarves reclaimed the kingdom of Erebor, some of them figured they could also go and reclaim their even greater lost realm of Moria. So they did, and it lasted for a little while. But the place was still home to a whole lot of orcs. They'd have needed a much larger force to retake Moria. And remember, communication and travel are slow. There are no phones or airplanes. That was part of the reason why there was a delegation of dwarves in Rivendell - they hadn't heard from Balin's expedition to Moria in a while, and wanted to know what happened.
"How do things live down there? Like there's no food or anything." Well, dwarves must have been tasty...
Not to mention Orcs are cannibals...
@@pvnvliet So plenty of food until there's only two. ;)
@@celticlass8573 Haha, yeah, but they breed like rabbits... supply and demand...
They eat each other
@@inakiizaguirre3362 That's not very sustainable. I imagine each generation would be 90% smaller than the latter if they mostly feasted on each other
the ring was lost and after many years, people will naturally "forget".
Many years, like *thousands* of years.
2500 to be exact by Lady Galadriel's words
yeah people are debating whether Jesus was real and all that, and that was about 2000 years ago, and Sauron and the ring was about 2500 years ago, so you can see how things pass on to become legends that people dont know if its real or not
@@deadringerrr pretty sure we know that Jesus was real, as a person
fenronin sure, but im thinking more about the mythos around him
All those severed stone heads and all that debris you asked about, it was the kingdom of the numenor, the first men, touched by the elves and granted prolongued lives, now in ruins, the argonauts were the entrance to the kingdom
It's awesome to see all those ruins, like the aftermath of what once was one of the greatest and most majestic of kingdoms, keeping it's memory as a mistery in every fallen rock
Aronauts! I had to look them up myself! They are the Argonath the Pillars of the Kings Anarion and Isildur. Argonauts are from Greek mythology--Jason and the Argonauts. Hercules was an Argonaut.
@@jegraham440 It was a finger mistake hahahaha
@@jegraham440 *Argonath
@@officialflikz Haha--i understand! For me, whenever I'm pretty sure of something and decide to post it without looking it up to make certain I'm right is when I am ALWAYS wrong. You think I might have learned by now.
aaa late reply but: Númenor was actually an island, and it was sunken by Eru because the men of Númenor had allowed themselves to be corrupted by Sauron, and did human sacrifice and all that. They tried to wage war on the Valar, and Eru sunk Númenor and turned Arda round, and because of that, no one other than elves can ever go to Valinor. The Argonath is actually a ruin of Gondor, which was ruled by Faithful Númenoreans who escaped the sinking of Númenor.
Hobbits have some "resistance" to the ring because they are not easily corrupted by the ring since they dont care about power, hobbits are simple people as you saw in the beginning of the movie
And yes Saurman is more powerful than Gandalf since he is the leader of the wizards of middle earth
@@anjero86 Saruman is only more powerful in crafting and physical fight, since he was under Aule
@@anjero86 Saruman was much more powerful because he was the leader of the Istari. But when Gandalf died he was sent back as the new leader (and as Gandalf the White) which makes him at least as powerful as Saruman.
"Bill, you're a legend"
I think he's official one of us guys.
Fun Fact
3:52 This bump was real. But he acted so perfectly, that they keept it in :D
I did not know that!
Just wait for the helmet kicking in Two Towers ;)
And, the dagger throw, Sala Baker and Viggo Mortensen (the main Uruk-Hai and Aragorn) apparently practiced it where Sala would throw the dagger and Viggo would just dodge. But, on that take Sala threw it AT Viggo but because Viggo was a ninja in a past life after he was a Jedi just used his sword like a baseball bat.
But I can’t imagine accidentally breaking my toe on a helmet and acting through it or smacking my head into a ceiling and just moving along with the scene.
The shriek when the dragon firework takes off was Billy Boyd initial reaction to it going off
Shelby Abbott dang! I forgot that, BUT THAT TOO!
I do so enjoy your reactions and comments! Some clarifications concerning elves--certain elves ("high elves--meaning those that had at one time lived "in the west"--it's complicated!!!! --have the ability to live in both the visible and invisible world at the same time. That's why, for example, Galadriel and the elves in the woods had a kind of glow. Actually Elrond and Arwen are not "high elves," so neither of them should actually glow. On the other hand, Elrond and Arwen are "half-elven"--descendents of a double-paring of elves with men. As such, both Elrond and Arwen (and her twin brothers whom you don't meet in the movies) are given the privilege of choosing a mortal or immortal life. In fact, Elrond's twin brother Elros chose mortality, and he is the ancestor (thousands of years removed) of Aragorn. Also, Gandalf has more powers than he actually shows, since he and the other wizards (you guessed it, kind of guardian angels) have been sent to help to help the people of Middle EArth, but not to fight their battles for them. Saruman, obviously, has gone off-brief. A bit.
In simpler terms, think of the ring as being kind of a Horcrux for Sauron. It is part of him and without it he is weakened but cannot die until its destroyed, like Voldemort when he was a wraith, but with it it empowers him. It also empowers others that have it too just to a lesser extent. Just like the Horcruxes though it has a sort of consciousness or will of its own and can corrupt others who have it for too long just like the locket or diary could do in Harry Potter.
Bane Drake great way to put it
Nailed it.
more evidence of j.k rowling plagarising ideas haha
@@ashazeal And you think Tolkien invented this idea? LMAO Tolkien recycled A LOT of fantastical ideas from fairy tales, but you wouldn't call him a plagiarist, would you? The horcrux or the soul jar trope is older than LOTR. Look up the mythological story of Koshchei the Immortal, heck or even Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray haha. I mean, any fantasy fan knows this trope is pretty common. what do you think? I feel like it should known by now that there're no new ideas, only recycled ones .
Here's the thing: Everyone told you to watch the "prequels" after the main trilogy because of how the movies are made. However, when you do get to the Hobbit, I highly suggest you go in with one major understanding: Tolkien wrote the Hobbit before he ever even conceived of The Lord of the Rings. In the movies, they tie it into the main trilogy a lot more than it ever was, and I think that draws attention to the wrong things and causes reactors to view them too much as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings instead of its own story.
So, when you do get to the Hobbit, keep that in mind. The Hobbit was not made with the Lord of the Rings in mind. It was the other way around. When Tolkien wrote the Hobbit, Sauron did not exist. It was not an evil ring of doom, rather it was just an uncommon, magic ring. So yeah, I suggest you keep that in mind. I think that you'll enjoy the Hobbit more if you view it with that understanding. Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself. This is only the Fellowship of the Ring after all.
PS (Now that I've watched the video): I love that you noticed Gandalf was going out of his way to avoid touching the ring. That's a detail most people seem to miss. I also really like that you understood that the moth was a messenger, instead of making the assumption that Gandalf turned it into an Eagle.
I also really appreciate that you pointed out how much more powerful Saruman is than Gandalf. That is because Saruman is the head of the Wizards, and so was given the most power.
As for why Gimili did not know that Gloin was dead: It had been a long time since Balin had been sent with a large force of dwarves to try and retake and resettle Moria. Moria is actually the most ancient of Dwarven Nations (Yeah, you heard me right. Moria is not just a city, it's big enough to be considered a nation), but it fell when they delved too deep and uncovered the balrog, among other things. In the books, the dwarves mentioned at the council of Elrond that they had not heard from Balin for several months, and were getting worried, although the last word they had heard from him was that all was going well.
In regards to what the Orcs eat: They don't stay down there. The Misty Mountains are usually swarming with orcs at nightfall. They just don't like the sunlight, so they flee underground during the day. I also like that you noticed Gandalf mentioning the Flame of Arnor, which isn't mentioned ever again in the movies, but if you ever read the Silmarillion, you will understand it's importance.
As for the theme for the hobbits, it is called "Concerning Hobbits" and it is fantastic.
Anyway, sorry for the super long comment. I highly suggest reading the books, and I would actually suggest reading the Hobbit first and the Lord of the Rings after that, but it doesn't matter too much. I would also suggest watching the Rankin and Bass animated Hobbit and Return of the King films, since they are very enjoyable and capture Tolkien's style a little better (at least in my opinion).
Brilliant comment, you said everything I couldn't be bothered to say and more!
Good explanation except: Gloin isn"t dead!!! Oin went with Balin to Moria, but Gloin did not---in the book Gloin brings his son Gimli with him to Rivendell and does some important talking at the Council of Elrond about Blck Riders who had come to the Lonely Mountain asking for information about Bilbo.
@@jegraham440 Ah, I had meant to edit it to say Balin, since I originally wrote Gloin and then looked it up to make sure. Not sure why the edit didn't go through.
+1 to reading the Hobbit before the trilogy. Better yet, listen to the audiobook. (Maybe someone can chime in with a recommended reader/version?)
Gandalf did not say "Flame of Arnor", he said "Flame of Anor".
Anor is the Elvish word for the Sun, so literally the flame of Anor would have alluded to the light of the Sun, which had originated in the fiery fruit of Laurelin, one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Thus, Gandalf may have meant the power he gained as a servant (a Maia) of the Lords of the West, in defiance to the corrupted darkness of the Balrog.
"Did he get the breath knocked out of him or something?"
He just got a spear rammed into him by a ten foot, musclebound Cave Troll. that's like getting hit in the chest with a baseball fired from a machine.
Otakuwolf4ever Katz I know. I was like, “Dude, he just got rammed with the tip of a spear. By a CAVE TROLL...” 🤣
Mithril or not, it's a miracle Frodo's organs don't looks like scrambled eggs!
@@Pelagion98 From what I understand, it was pretty close to that in the book (I've never read the books so I don't know from experience, only what people have told me). I heard that the spear broke several of his ribs and all but collapsed the lung it hit until he got healing in Lothlorien in the book.
@Mr. Al Sounds less like Tolkien was an Elitist and more like he was a Realist. And I kinda have to agree with him if everything you've said about him is true. And I'm very much not an Elitist. Though, not being of a religious background, I don't have the problem he does with people tripping out on LSD and treating Gandalf like a guru. I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't hurt anybody, you do you. ;)
And Frodo was stabbed by an Uruk in the book? Given the severity of his injuries in the book, that makes less sense than a Cave Troll. I mean, yes, Uruk's are big, especially compared to a Hobbit, but I don't think an Uruk would have the physical strength to strike with enough force to break bones and collapse a lung through Mithril. But, hey, it is what it is. And if that's what's written in the book, who am I to argue?
"She's old as hell!" Lol! My dude, she is older than the freaking moon!
2:29
Me : goosebumps, teary-eyed
Him : ... Nice.
I'm quite amazed how well you picked up on things that just go over most peoples heads. Even piecing together things that would need more lore context. Great watch man :)
4:48 Of course that is a story for the kids, ltsrrpp, but why on earth should that mean that it is not true ?
Dumbledore quote lol
: Crossing fandoms. Love it
Wait till you see the prequels lol
@@zasmanreviews497 well in this movie you can actually see the stone trolls
Basically, "The Hobbit"
A lot of your questions have answers. The lore of Middle Earth is extremely extensive. Remember this is a fantasy series though haha, there are many abstract concepts
Keep your imagination open. The hobbit (prequels) explains quite a lot of these movies.
TLoTR series is a fantastic world, much like the Potter world, with lots of lore. Enjoy the ride
Lady Galadriel is considered to be one of the most powerful Elves. She is Arwen’s grandmother through her mother’s side.
I just love your reactions. There's a perfect balance of paying attention, speculation and spot-on analysis. Well done!
What you must understand, which is not properly or just straight up mentioned in the movie is: The One Ring is pure evil. It will corrupt the purest soul, and in the wrong hands it can be too destructive. Gandalf didn't dare touch the ring, since if Gandalf (Basically an Angel, a Maia) was corrupted by the Ring to use it for evil, he would basically become the next Sauron. Maybe even worse. Who knows. But I can see that it's all a bit much to take in at once. For example "the perfect warriors", are not seen here. We've seen ONE of these warriors, which was no Orc, but rather an Uruk-hai. But yea, it's a bit much. So no worries. Liked the video.
Yes, he would probably become worse because Gandalf is the most powerful of the Maiar. He just learned compassion and the love of simple things and ways of life and that is what makes him the best one to fight Sauron. And I agree, the story itself is so complex and vast that it's hard to explain all the whys and consequences.
The Ring gave 'power according to stature' and the temptation was in proportion to the power it promised. This is why the humble hobbits are more resistant to it (and, in the book, Bombadil, who has metaphysically renounced all power beyond his realm, is utterly indifferent to it), but Galadriel, Gandalf, Aragorn, and Boromir are tried indeed.
In a letter, Tolkien wrote: “Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would have remained ‘righteous’, but only self-righteous. He would have continued to rule and order things for ‘good’… Thus while Sauron multiplied evil, he left ‘good’ clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil.”
You have a really good memory, both Lotr and Harry Potter you remember the names and events so well for a first time viewer!
Also just keep this in mind...
"DEATTTTH"
DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH!
You have such good attention to detail. It is amazing to see you get the little things.
I love that you are really into the movies you watch. Every second you're trying to understand what's going on, learning names, places, and things. I haven't seen this in other reactions, you're actively commenting your ideas and theories and talk out loud the rules the movie is proposing. That's really useful to understand fantasy movies.
So glad you went with the extended versions. These movies are fantastic! The theme you like is called Concerning Hobbits, but the entire album is a piece of art.
My man questions everything jeeez.
Just like there are many humans on this earth, there are many dwarves, just one of the races in the world of Lord of the rings.
And im not in contact with people from all over the world (and we have the internet), including some of my cousins, so that how gimli probably didnt know.
why is frodo reacting like that? i guess its the same principle of a bulletproof vest, it might stop the penetration, but you can still feel the impact.
Bal hera I appreciate him taking an interest, but there were times it felt like hanging out with a 3 or 4 year old. Just non-stop questions that are hard to answer with a quick sentence. 🤣
Yeah, I likes his HP reactions but in this one he just questions everything, like how do Orcs eat in Moria???
@@susanmaggiora4800 Exactly. i mean i get it, its a reaction video and he needs to share his thoughts. But i do hope he re-watches some of it, because i feel like you cant really absorb and enjoy everything in these movies, if you keep questioning everything.
@@pandycious And there's a really easy answer to that question too. And that answer is: Why do you think all the Dwarves of Moria are dead? The true answer, of course, is more complex. But it comes down to linear thinking and assumptions. Like what makes him think that the Moria Orcs aka Goblins are trapped in Moria? The can, you know, leave and hunt for food if they want. Also, what makes him think that the only things in the mines are Moria Orcs and the Balrog? Thirdly, and he'll discover this in Two Towers, cannibalism. They get desperate? They'll eat each other.
I know, I’ve honestly never seen someone so overwhelmingly concerned with logistics lol
You’re doing it again, catching on to the right things...
Yeah man. This guy is so sharp!!!
After he finished the Harry Potter series it must’ve been a thought in everyone’s head, if he could do it again, and it wasn’t just a parlour trick...
He like started with the most epic of movie franchises!! What's next?? PotC? Marvel?
I always loved how hobbits stand for what is essential and lovely in life. And that, in that way, they have more power to carry such a thing like the ring. Yeah, some of them are greedy little fuckers. But they don't dream of higher power, mountains of gold or countries to conquer. And that makes them very lovable characters that are a symbol of what is essential: Eating good food, dance, laugh, work hard, having a family and friends - And sometimes gossip a little haha.
Love that you appreciate the score! It's a work of art in and of itself.
Yay! I'm glad you're back! I only found your HP videos a few days ago, but you quickly became one of my fave people who react to movies. You seem to understand the emotion and pay attention to a lot of stuff that others don't.
I LOVE your reactions, watched the HP ones and now this one. I also love when people notice the music and share my enthusiasm about it. By far my favourite themes EVER. I can´t get enough and I´m always close to crying, nostalgia hitting hard.
These reaction videos are exactly what you look for when you show friends movies. The strict attention to detail and the intelligent comprehension make these great to watch. It's not just someone saying "oh hey, neat!", it's actually someone really diving in, and I've caught things from these reactions that I didn't notice before. Thanks!
“I’ve been looking forward to this”
The Argonath mark the border of Gondor and were built centuries before LotR by the Numenoreans. One is Elendil, the other Isildur (in the book its Isildur and his brother Anarion). The phial of Galadriel is a very complicated and in depth story that goes back to before Galadriel was born over 6000 years ago.
Been waiting for this, lotr is my favourite ever film trilogy
I am so happy you are watching the extended editions. I have watched these movies countless times and it is the best pleasure watching someone who's never seen these films watch them for the first time. So satisfying. Thank you.
I love your personality, dude. You have great commentary. Keep it up!
A peice of advice for yotube reactors: You don't have to talk so much continuously throughout. Comment on certain things, but just pay attention if you don't understand something. Many times i find him just talking over the movie, missing key details, he's trying to find out.
the whole movie is the perspective of Frodo so if we see shining elves its just frodos perspective
You know, Bilbos story about The trolls where actually true :D
: Spoilers !
@@gaelledelair7258 That's not really a spoiler. You are basically supposed to know Bilbos story anyway before you start reading/watching Lord of the Rings
@@She-Devil94 No you don't
@@brunokingz Lord of the rings is litterally the sequal. How are you not at least technically supposed to read book 1 first?
Fucking people!! It is a spoiler!!
I'm so happy you're doing these. My favourite trilogy of films of all time! Keep up the good work here, man!
The only thing about the extended editions for a new comer is that they gives you more questions that makes it harder for someone with zero knowledge, in my experience atleast. I tried it and usually start with theatrical version for new peeps. But kudos for trying
Yeah, and as he noted there are some "slow parts" - if you're not a diehard fan mentally reciting passages from the books in your head while the camera fondles some yellow leaves. X-)
Better wach the longer edition then the Hobbitt first! Watch always in chronological Order! Like the Filmmaker! 🤓
Gotta say, I enjoyed this reaction so much more than almost every other that I’ve seen. I think you just pay attention and keep up with things so well that I’m not super frustrated. Looking forward to the next vids.
If you want to understand the connection between light and its use in magic and elvish culture, you dont get around reading the Silmarillion.
Basically, before Sun and Moon existed, there were two magical trees illuminating the world from the land of the gods, one golden and one silver. There was a very talented but hotheaded elf prince who caught said light in three gems, called the silmarils. The original dark lord (Saurons master) destroys the trees (leading to the creation of sun and moon) and the rest of the Silmarillion is elves and men and Valar (gods) fighting over those gems that contain the last spark of light from these godly trees. Long story short, one elf called Earendil ends up wearing a silmaril on his forehead, forever sailing through the sky in his enchanted ship, looking like a star because the silmaril shines so bright. The phial Galadriel gave to Frodo captures Earendils light, the light of the holy trees from the past.
The light of stars also reminds the elves of their goddess Varda, one of the Valar who reigns over the stars and the sky. The elves call her Elbereth. In the Hobbit movies, you will find the quote about starlight being "memory" by an elvish character. Elves and light magic are very much intertwined in Tolkiens world.
UGH! I love you! You’ve chosen to watch the extended edition! These films are my #1 fav films periodt! These films are what got me into film scores. These films broke me into my teens. It seems like tones of people, esp guys are reacting to fantasy films now a days. Harry Potter & these at the top of their lists. I love sharing my knowledge of these films & more importantly my knowledge of the Tolkien universe w/newbie watchers and potential fans. I was ready to respond to all your questions & confusions but that reply would be longAF. You’re right, you have a ton to read and if you like lore, you’ll love all the backstory Tolkien provides from Creation mythos to creating the languages you hear in the films (2 different kinds of Elvish [Sindarin|Quenya]), dwarvish (Khuzdul), Orcish, etc. It’s literally lore galore! If you choose to download the scores, I recommend you download the extended versions. Hmmm...what else?
When you end this series could you watch the Avatar the Last Airbender(ATLA)?
Thanks for this video,we missed your reactions !
Marlock Bull I agree
YESSS
If you're saying the series, absolutely!! One of my faves. :)
i mean Avatar was literally created because of Lord of the Rings trilogy, only seems natural :)
I really hope he takes this into consideration ^-^
Imagine if when Gimli hit it with the ax the ring flipped in the air, fell in the ferns in the garden and then they couldnt find it.
LOTR is my favourite cinematic trilogy ever so happy that you are reacting to this movies, what version are you watching, normal or extended? i only watched extended versions so i don't know what scenes are not in the "normal" ones.
He´s watching the extended ones. I haven´t seen a few of these scenes, or can´t recall them even tho I have the extended versions, what. Time to watch it again myself!
@@likethatidea9899 Ok thank's for the info
Omg yay you are doing a good series again AND the extended editions!!!! I am so happy right now, sitting down to watch this ^.^
Honestly one of the best reactions I've seen of the movies. You caught a majority of the details and plot so quick and are asking all the right questions. Keep to the extended editions, you wont regret it 👌 subbed
Yeah cause that's not his first time watching the movies ... you can't just get all these details just by the first time watching a movie I mean cmon it's pretty obvious like his Harry Potter reaction videos fake af ...
Couple of fun facts about Galadriel: she's several times older than the Sun and Moon, and is called the Lady of Light partly because (alone of all the Elves left in Middle-earth by the time of LOTR) she was born under the light of the luminous Trees that came before the Sun and, unlike it, were unmarred by the hand of Morgoth, the first Dark Lord and Sauron's original master. Elves do indeed worship the stars - their own word for themselves, "Eldar", means "People of the Stars" - and Eärendil is specifically the Morning Star. That same Eärendil is also Elrond's father, who sails the skies with the last Silmaril, which preserves the unsullied light of the Trees. As you can probably gather, the further back in the legendarium you go, the more mythic and strange it gets. If you enjoy this aspect of the movies, you'll absolutely devour the books.
I tell l a lie; there’s one older Elf left in Middle-earth by this point: Círdan the Shipwright, who comes into the book of LOTR but not the movies (except as the white-haired Elf who takes one of the Three Rings at the very beginning; in the books, he later gave it to Gandalf), and is so old that he’s actually got a beard.
I feel like you underestimate what it means to live without internet^^
These dwarfs live under mountains seperated by whole nations that are not always friendly with them.
Same with the elves. They live weeks of travel apart. How would information get to them faster than the fellowship? 😁
By the way I love your reactions. You have the ability to understand the characters and correctly guess what might happen to them 👍
Gandalf was overthinking the door. He forgot it was made in more peaceful, friendly times. The inscription wasn't asking for a password. It was just instructions to get in. He mistranslated it. Not "Speak friend and enter." It was "SAY friend and enter."
Love how this guy actually seems like he has watched a movie before.
I'm actually really impressed with how well you kept up with the movie and remembered things. Great vid!
You're in for a great ride !
Oh yeah, those cool big statues in the river mark the historical northern border of Gondor, and they are of Elendil and Isildur, Aragorn's remote ancestors and the first rulers of Gondor. Aragorn is descended from a race of men called the Numenoreans. Their prehistory is probably what the new Amazon series is going to focus on, so I don't want to get into possible spoilers. If you read the LOTR books, Aragorn's back history is in the appendices. REading them is like getting two or three bonus novels!
Correction: the statues are of Anarion and Isildur. Anarion was Isilsur's brother. My bad.
"Oh it's Ned Stark. Hopefully he doesn't end up going out as early as Ned Stark did..."
Ummmm, Yeah...about that.
Been on a binge watching your videos! Your reactions are so good. Really good at catching every detail. Can’t wait for more
frodo: gets stabbed by a troll the size of a house
Itsrrpp: why the overreaction? did the breath get knocked out of him or something?
Excellent video. It was nice so watch someone paying attention instead of trying make a reaction video.
It shows in how close your guesses were to what it actually is that you were really thinking about all the hints and clues scattered and carefully placed throughout the movie. It helps that you are watching the extended versions, but even the little things like Bilbo telling a story about trolls turning to stone and you noticing them in the background layer.
Thank you for using your brain while watching and while editing. :)
RE: Gimli and Moria, in the books he is also reluctant to go, stating that there has been no word from Moria for years. They changed this in the film for some reason.
It is better that they changed it cuz then when they realize the audience also realizes and then they get locked in
These 32 minutes went by in a blink of an eye. Awesome reaction, my dude. I saw this first one when I was about 10 years old. They are my favorite movies of all time.
You need a tiny bit more fantasy and imagination. Questioning things is good and healthy, but duuude you're literally watching fantasy. Don't treat everything with utter logic and let your imagination work and it'll find your answer :)
And btw 2500 years later without internet, television or even the common folks reading books you can easily forget this stuff. The Plague heavily hit Europe already before 1348, like around 500 years earlier, but people had forgotten about it when it returned.
: I honestly had a whole like 2h discussion with a friend of mine who had watched it because I had so many questions >
@@gaelledelair7258 Oh well depending on the questions that's super normal :) I mean Tolkien created a whole world with a huge history. Like "a Balrog of Morgoth". You can't know who Morgorth is just by watching the film. Or Bilbo's whole story or who Balin was or or or :) But sometimes he's focusing on odd stuff, like the glowing of the Elves.
One of the things I love about your reactions is that you are really perceptive and notice a lot of details. There's a point in the prequels in which an elf glows and for some reason people are confused about it, when these movies make it clear that elves glow pretty frequently.
Some other answers/explanations to things you commented on: The ring is indeed evil and it can corrupt anyone who comes into contact with it, whether they touch it or not. Men are especially vulnerable to it; hobbits are the hardest to corrupt because they're so pure. Gondor has been run by a Steward for many years, since there hasn't been a king in so long. Boromir is the son of the current Steward, so there's a little of him feeling like Aragorn has abandoned them and also a little of him feeling like the Stewards have been doing just fine so maybe we don't need you after all. Meanwhile, Aragorn is of a lineage that is half-elf so he lives longer than most humans, and he was raised by elves for so many years that he feels more kinship to them than he does to men, who sometimes seem more greedy and petty in comparison. I definitely recommend reading the books (and also watching the BTS extras) because they're all so great and contain so much more lore. I can't wait to see your reaction to the Two Towers, keep up the great work!!
Nobody notices all these details just by watching a movie for the first time , if you check his HP reaction videos you can tell how fake this guy is ...
After this series, please begin giving reaction on MCU movies starting from Iron Man. Please watch MCU movies and give reaction on them. You will enjoy for Sure.
But only if he hasn't seen them. The magic is because he's discovering it for the first time. :)
@@celticlass8573 Exactly
I absolutely love all the things you notice and the conclusions you come to, it shows that you really enjoy the movie and think about it as it's going on and I think this approach will let you better understand the overall themes of the entire trilogy
This lad went from HP to Lord of the Rings.
I'm at home on this channel.
Yeah I feel the same way^^
The Elves glow because they lived in a time the sun and the moon did not exist ( in fact the movie is set in third age of the moon and the sun). Most lived in the era of the two trees (like Galadriel) before they got destroyed and replaced by the Sun and the Moon, and thats why they shine, because they saw the holy light (are consider high elves, in contrast to Legolas who is not and doesnt shine since he was born later and didnt see the 2 trees).
Elrond and Arwen are actually half-elf and human by descent (known as peredhil). They descent from most of the heroes of the past of M.Earth. This few half elven beings can choose their destiny, either live like elfs (inmortal) or live like human (short but intense). Elrond already chose inmortality but arwen wants to chose mortality due to her lover.
Extended Editions!! Niiiiiiice! So much better then the normal one. Do The Hobbit (also Extended Version) after 😍
I love that you actually watched the extended edition for the first time. No one does that. Indeed, man of culture!
Maybe fantasy isn't for this guy. He takes everything super literally. "Do elves shine? I would like to know the physical properties that make up their body chemistry in order to achieve such a thing. I wonder which exact species of elf shine and what the exact luminosity is...." Like jesus christ bro, it's a fantasy movie, just go with it.
@SupremePrestige A reaction doesn't mean act like my annoying little brother going "but why but why but why but why but why" every 10 seconds. I swear, if there was a reactor who literally just sat there and made a farting noise every time something happened in the movie, there would be people in the comments going "wEll ItS a ReACtioN ChANNel, dO YoU WaNt hIM to JUst Sit TheRE DoINg nOtHinG?!?!"
Finally a reaction where dude knows what is happening and is actually watching!
Extended edition. Much respect.
...just realized the ring is a horcrux O.O
Basically!
more like horcrux were a sort of ring^^
OMG thank you. The extended editions as well!! Your content is great!!
18:46 a couple dwarves from the lonely mountain tried to reclaim it 50 years before the events in this movie. You'll get to know some of them if you will watch the Hobbit
Also dwarves live over 700 years so they can go without seeing eachother for awhile
I just want to say, you are a pleasure to watch as a react channel. Most react channels exaggerate and are extremely clueless as to what the director is conveying through the details in the film. You actually pay attention and infer things. I love that. Easy sub, especially cause LOTR is my favorite franchise ever. Good job m8
Don't get this the wrong way, but how is it that you haven't ever watched any of these films before. Harry Potter, ok, maybe. But LotR :D How could this happen xD?
I know, right?? What I hear is that apparently some people have these things called "lives" (it's like a super intense hobby) and those make it hard for them to spend every waking hour immersed in a fictional world, like us normal folks.
;o)
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll haahaaa ^^ buuuut normal folks these days rather watch some popular movies every now and then. Stumbling over people who say "I don't have telly" is the 21th century's not "normal" folk :p
I wonder if he's ever watched... Star Wars, Hunger Games, Star Trek... like any of that stuff. Reeeeally curious ^^
I was actually really surprised at how well you did with making sense of everything. Like when I first watched it I didn’t really get what was going on but I got in the end. But you like caught on really quickly. I’m impressed!
I was hoping this would be it!
Oh I loved this! Awesome that you were so focused on everything and picked up pretty quickly a lot of things most first timers don’t! And yes, the music is sooo good!
you ask so many questions and i could answer all of them but i would recommend you read the books :D
Heyo! Please note one point about Gandalf. Men (in the world of Middle Earth) talk of Gandalf being a mighty wizard, and he is, to be sure. But Gandalf is a being known as a "Maiar", a type of spirit, or primordial being, that existed before Time, and was present at the shaping of the World. Gandalf's greatest strength lies not in shaping the Fate of Middle Earth by his own strength of arms or through the power of his own magic; but in putting Men, Elves and even Hobbits on the path to shape that Fate for themselves.
the ring works like a sort of horcruxe (that's i very dumbed down idea of it though)
I'm really impressed with how you understand most of what's happening. Like you realizing the ring takes you to another dimension like a limbo, you noticing how Rivendell is defendable because that's the main idea of that place, and noticing the main strengths of Gandalf.
And all your questions have answers, you just have to dive deep into Tolkien's Legendarium.
It also shows how well the movies were made that he could pick up on so much, like with his analysis of gandalf in moria
I was so impressed with your grasp on these films the first time watching them! Kudos to you my dude
Honestly, it's such a joy to watch someone react to this. I makes me remember how it felt to watch it my first time. Thanks for uploading!