"GO BACK TO THE ABYSS" !! REACTING TO *THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING*(2003) (PART2)
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We had so much fun reacting to this !! Hope you guys enjoy. Part 3 coming soon.
Can’t wait
I understand splitting it but 3 parts was a little much.
just make it 9 parts...do one scene a week....its a fkn movie, morons
@@andrewbird7364 someone is very passionate today 😂😂😂
@@Vonderbraffleit fits perfect for our extremely busy schedule
Little fact. Merry was wielding an ancient Arnorian/Noldor blade, it had the capability to remove a Nazgul's defences. When he stabbed the witchking in the leg, it enabled Eowyn to strike the killing blow. Both Merry and Eowyn, neither of the 'A Man", together killed the Witch King of Angmar. (edited for correction due to my rum addled memory).
I just wish Peter Jackson had re-used "no living man" in the Witch-King's last words to somewhat avoid tipping off Eowyn's killing line.
Friendly correction: The sword was from arnor, not numenor
@@Bushwacked487 I'm sure the blades were Noldor made not made by man, as the point of 'No man can kill me' is because men didnt have the magic to kill the witch king, while the elves did. The blades gifted to merry and pippin I'm sure were the reason they could kill the witchking as they were Elven made with elven mage imbued in them. Nothing to do with men
@@1vhn187 In the book, the swords came from an ancient tomb located in the North not far from the ancient realm of Angmar and right on the border's of the Shire. There was a whole little mini adventure that Jackson omitted from the movies that takes place before the Hobbits reach Bree.
The swords were crafted specifically for the wars against Angmar and were imbued with many ancient spells, curses and runes against the evil witch king. All four Hobbits acquired their swords from this tomb and carried them throughout the adventure. Frodo's sword was broken by the Black Riders when they attempted to cross the river. That is why Bilbo gives him his old sword, Sting before leaving Rivendell.
@@1vhn187 like the other poster said, in the books, the blades were found in a grave not far from the shire. It was an old arnor burial site. Arnor was the old sister kingdom of Gondor that the witch king destroyed. They imbued their swords with magic to fight against the Nazgûl powers.
"I like how he leads." Theoden and Denethor are opposites of each other. Denethor dines in his tower while his soldiers, and his last son, ride to their deaths, but Theoden leads his soldiers into battle. Even their two names are opposites.
The movies do denethor dirty. He’s a much more respectable character in the books.
Their names are almost exact with the letters and amount just SCRAMBLED.
WOW. I've been a fan of the movies for years and I honestly never realized their names were switched versions of each other 🤣 🤣 🤣 wow I feel stupid haha
Theoden (and Aragorn) are LEADERS; Denethor (and Saruman) are RULERS. It’s an amazing illustration of the difference between leaders and rulers. We have had rulers for far too long in our society. How I long for true leaders, who set the example and inspire others to follow, rather than sending others to their deaths from a location safely removed from the fight.
Lore fact. Denethor was well know for being wise and a competent ruler. The problem came from him trying to use one of the seeing stones (like the stone pippen picked up at Isenguard) to spy on Sauron. Sauron warped his mind and drove him insane thus his behavior that we see in the movies.
Yeah I really disliked that Jackson omitted that detail.
As much as I love this film, I hate how it downgrades Denethor from a cunning though proud ruler of Númenorean descent to a thoroughly incompetent prat.
Did he treat Faramir poorly in the books/was he cruel to him like in the films? Or was it only after his mind was corrupted? I love the films and am planning to start the books when I have the time!
His mind wasn’t warped: Denethor was done dirty: He was way more noble & mighty in the books. Not to mention he contended wills with Sauron for decades nonstop & ontop of that even now he was never broken nor could Sauron alter what Denethor would see in the palantir even then he couldn’t control what Denethor had control of which was how he CHOSE to INTERPRET the visions given to him. Using it all to Gondor’s advantage! ❤ he also lit the beacons and got the women & children far away from the city longer ahead of time. So the movie butchered him as well as faramir but they didn’t butcher faramir as badly thankfully. He could have been shown to give Pippen his newest order to light the beacons so then it wouldn’t change the scene much at all as presented! The story here is Faramir’s birth ended up killing his mother Finduilas(named after an elvish princess from the era of Children Of Hùrin was set in);she was a Numenorean woman of the Faithful which her ancestors survived the Cataclysm of Númenor by the way! He was hurt deeply by her death and ontop of that Faramir had the likeness both in temperament as well as his appearance/bearing so he ways reminded of his wife over and over again by Faramir who was just like her, and all it took was a simple look or whathave you to drive the knife in deeper into his heart about his wife. But also Aragorn when he went by the name gifted to him as Thorongil Denethor’s father basically overshadowing him from his own father so he is as psychology goes: treated Boromir the same way his father treated Aragorn/Thorongil. Note that Boromir and Faramir are half Númenorean which is a big thing as far as the legendarium goes! And it’s something to note that he treated Boromir like his father treated the clandestine Aragorn as Thorongil.
Denethor actually did many things the movie shows him not doing or neglecting. He was VERY competent and mighty in many craft and (even a lore-master to a degree). He had quite alot of mental and “magical” might which is why he could contend with Sauron too without being harmed in there process in any way! He too is of Numenorean decent. Meaning Boromir and Faramir also have decent amount of Númenorean blood.
@@VKayedexactly. Check out the comment I just posted going into detail of the real Denethor. The Wise and Mighty. ❤❤❤
The spider is actually completely sentient. In the book its described how much she enjoyed toying with her prey in a sadistic malevolent way rather than a simple predatory instinct.
She is the daughter of an entity from the void named Ungoliont. Ungoliont was basically the embodiment of gluttony and it is said that she ate herself long ago. The spider Shelob went to those mountains after she and her siblings were defeated by Aragorn and Elrond's ancestor thousands of years ago.
Ungoliant*
@@MusicIsRealDope lmao damn u got em
@@PeterTheDeleter Yeah I might have to hang in the towel. My pride.
And Sam was the first creature to inflict such pain on her. She's never experienced that before
That and she is the only survivor of when Ungoliant ate all the children of her brood. if there was any others it was as rare as her own survival. She went far away after that. Nearly devoured by her own mother. She too was semi able to control her form like her mother could since she is a direct ancestor. Even a very similar “Unlight” shroud around her.
The Rohirrim screaming "death" as they are getting ready to charge is powerful. Carl Urban played the hell out of being upset about finding his Sister's body on the battle field. He also had a legit war face too lol. Dude was on point for his little amount of screen time.
And Pippin saving Faramir is dope too. Boromir tried to save Merry and Pippen's lives. He fought until he could fight no more and was mortally wounded. Pippen got to return the favor and saved Boromir's little brother.
The Hobbits are small in size but have huge hearts and really made big differences in the battles/war and the journey as a whole.
Yes Karl Urban rocked it as Eomer so hard. Not a ton of screen time but he comes across as an absolute badass, almost berserker-like, warrior. Dude is straight INTIMIDATING in a way that a lot of the other heroes are not haha
@@jonathansherer5873 , yes "berserker-like warrior" was a good description. Very capable warrior and there were plenty of men that believed in him and followed him after being exiled. Men that still held true to Rohan and tried to clear out the orcs from their lands.
Also Boromir taught both Merry and Pippin swordplay as seen in the first movie, he basically saved not only their lives with it, but Gandalf's & Eowyn's aswell.
The Ride of the Rohirrim is one of the most incredible scenes in movie history. I legit can't think of one that tops it. The speech beforehand, the massive scale, the acceptance of their deaths and charging nonetheless. Chills, every time.
But yes, the whole battle is one giant Uno-Reverse-Card. "We've got artillery too. NOPE, Dragons gonna take them out." "We've got a giant, impenetrable gate. NOPE!!!!!! Giant, wolf-shaped battering ram." "We've got a wizard. NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Evil witch king." "BAMF Cavalry charge!!! NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Giant Elephants!!!!!!!" "What about a ghost army?..... ummmmm, yeah, that'll do."
I agree, It gives me goosebumps every time!
I can thoroughly recommend the movie The Lighthorsemen if you enjoy cavalry type charges czcams.com/video/BEv999K5Lr0/video.html
On what happened to Eowyn; if memory serves me, striking a Nazgul infests the body with a poison similar to the one that afflicted Frodo in the first movie. Merely attacking a Nazgul can be fatal, however, there was on old saying in Gondor; the hands of a king are the hands of a healer. With Aragorn's help, Eowyn was nursed back to health in the healing house at Minas Tirith, during which time she and Faramir fell in love.
Two years? Nope
@@neddhu Yeah for some reason I thought it took a super long time, but she just lived there for a while after her healing was complete. Edited
Theodens battle speech before their charge still almost 30 years later still gives me chills and gets me willing to join the charge.
right!! that’s scene def gave us goosebumps
If y'all ever get the chance ya have to see this in a theater. That scene on the big screen with the surround sound is one of the most insane movie experiences you can have.
@@Dai.Natreacts I was waiting for several episodes to watch you react to this :-)
How'd you get almost 30 years later? You mean 20? 😂
@@kylegibson5933 I mean 30. These where books long before movies hun.
Fun fact: the pirate that Legolas shoots accidentally is Peter Jackson, the director! He cameos as a different character in each of the LotR movies. The rest of the pirates are heads of the various behind-the-scenes departments, also getting a cameo in the movie they worked so hard on. =D
That's awesome! Who wouldn't want to be in a little cameo after all the years of hard work on something so epic?
TL,DR, Theoden is awesome.
The Ride of Rohirrim and Theoden's death had a whole movie of build-up. He wanted to prove himself, avenge his son, and if all is hopeless he wants to go out like a Gangster.
Theoden dying is sad, but like he says, he goes to his fathers where he will not feel shame since he was a badass. He doesn't need this, as Dai N Nat keep saying he's an awesome king. Still, he doubts himself and blames himself for his son's death and people suffering. Seeing Eowyn though made him happy too that she saved him from being torn up by the Witch King.
Theoden rides into battle here, knowing that he cannot win but is not afraid of death, but his people will do the right thing and defy evil and they are the turning point. Theoden's making such a difference in the battle that the Witch-King personally seeks him out to kill him because the WK knows that killing the king could break Rohan's army. Even with Theoden dead, he helped save Minas Tirith and Eowyn and Merry kill the Witch King.
As Theoden says in Two Towers, he got an end worthy of remembrance and song. A Toast to the King of Rohan!
A toast! to a GREAT KING 🥂🍻
That is actually Liv Tyler singing in the scene where Aragorn is healing Eowyn. Her voice is so beautiful angelic Elvish and magical.
With Denethor, Boromir and Faramir's dad, what they don't tell you in the movie is that he was driven crazy by Sauron. He also had a Palantir, the same round stone that Saramun had, and Sauron was using it to manipulate him into despair. Sauron kept showing him his forces, while leaving out that Rohan was on its way and the ghost army was defeating the mercenaries.
He turned suicidal when he saw Faramir on the brink of death, so assuming that Faramir was about to die, he figured they'd go out together. A lot about Boromir, Faramir and Denethor was changed from the books, but yeah, that's why he was so insane.
okay that’s explains it because we knew something wasn’t right with him
@@Dai.Natreacts also, Sauron shows denethor when Frodo was captured. Denethor things Sauron has the ring.
@@Dai.Natreactshe was way cooler in the books. Never incompetent as well as being VERY noble and wise and mighty. He was never corrupted. Even at his worst he still contended wills with Sauron through the Númenorean Palantir. ❤
@@Bushwacked487that would have been a great thing to include in the film considering how much work was put into this. Shown in the many behind the scenes documentaries the cast and crew created together. Still a masterpiece that has saved the lives of many ❤
You correctly say that Sam, in his heroic, desperate fight with Shelob, "doesn't give a fuck." Here (slightly edited) is how Tolkien, at the end of "The Two Towers," described Sam "not giving a fuck": ---"Disturbed as if out of some gloating dream by his small yell she turned slowly the dreadful malice of her glance upon him. But almost before she was aware that a fury was upon her greater than any she had known in countless years, the shining sword bit upon her foot and shore away the claw. Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head. One great eye went dark.
Now the miserable creature was right under her, for the moment out of the reach of her sting and of her claws. Her vast belly was above him with its putrid light, and the stench of it almost smote him down. Still his fury held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him and all his little impudence of courage, he slashed the bright elven-blade across her with desperate strength...
...She yielded to the stroke, and then heaved up the great bag of her belly high above Sam's head. Poison frothed and bubbled from the wound. Now splaying her legs she drove her huge bulk down on him again. Too soon. For Sam still stood upon his feet, and dropping his own sword, with both hands he held the elven-blade point upwards, fending off that ghastly roof; and so Shelob, with the driving force of her own cruel will, with strength greater than any warrior's hand, thrust herself upon a bitter spike. Deep, deep it pricked, as Sam was crushed slowly to the ground.
No such anguish had Shelob ever known, or dreamed of knowing, in all her long world of wickedness. Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh. A shudder went through her. Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap.
Sam had fallen to his knees by Frodo's head, his senses reeling in the foul stench, his two hands still gripping the hilt of the sword. ...Slowly he raised his head and saw her, only a few paces away, eyeing him, her beak drabbling a spittle of venom, and a green ooze trickling from below her wounded eye. There she crouched, her shuddering belly splayed upon the ground, the great bows of her legs quivering, as she gathered herself for another spring - this time to crush and sting to death...
Even as Sam himself crouched, looking at her, seeing his death in her eyes, a thought came to him, as if some remote voice had spoken, and he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel.
'Galadriel!' he said faintly, and then he heard voices far off but clear: the crying of the Elves as they walked under the stars in the beloved shadows of the Shire, and the music of the Elves as it came through his sleep in the Hall of Fire in the house of Elrond.
Gilthoniel A Elbereth!
And then his tongue was loosed and his voice cried in a language which he did not know:
[Sam shouts in Elvish]
'Now come, you filth!' he cried. 'You've hurt my master, you brute, and you'll pay for it. We're going on; but we'll settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!'
As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand...No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelob's face before. The beams of it entered into her wounded head and scored it with unbearable pain, and the dreadful infection of light spread from eye to eye. She fell back beating the air with her forelegs, her sight blasted by inner lightnings, her mind in agony. Then turning her maimed head away, she rolled aside and began to crawl, claw by claw, towards the opening in the dark cliff behind.
Sam came on. He was reeling like a drunken man, but he came on. And Shelob cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she tried to hasten from him. She reached the hole, and squeezing down, leaving a trail of green-yellow slime, she slipped in, even as Sam hewed a last stroke at her dragging legs. Then he fell to the ground.
Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell."
---Well. Thank you, Professor Tolkien. Yes. Great as the movies are, the BOOKS are even BETTER!
Eowyn didn't die. Killing the Witchking hurt her and made her fall into something akin to a magical comma from which she wouldn't have woken up. Only the hands of a Healer would wake her up, and that Healer was Aragorn, the True Heir of Gondor and Arnor.
In the book, it wasn't only Eowyn who fell into that spell, but everyone the Witching wounded, Merry included, and Aragorn spent a whole sleepless night curing everyone from that curse.
"This is Sam's story." Truer words are rarely spoken. Fun watching you guys.
"Skullvalanche". Y'all so cute...🤣 Auntie is gonna adopt y'all . I holler everytime I watch your reactions.
Kudos for picking up that Gimli deliberately skewed Legolas' aim to kill the bosun rather than send a warning. Few reactors pick up on that.
"I am no man" still gives me goosebumps, one of my favourite lines in the trilogy!
THAT line was a great example of a strong woman! Not her fighting skills but her inner willpower
Eowyn did that for herself. Just like she'd said... Why could SHE not fight? She had a warrior's heart and the skill to execute it.
Theoden's guilt over not being there for her and he didn't want her to die for him. It was misguided on his part but it came from a good place.
Eowyn was one of my favorite though mostly overlooked characters. Her fear was not of pain or death, it was fear of spending her life in a cage, where women were limited too in that age. Seeing her in battle, killing the Fellbeast, and standing up to fight that ugly leader of the orcs and the Witch King of Angmar was truly inspiring.
Merry saved the day with his magic ghost killing blade. He's the true champion.
@@michaelshafer5192 meanwhile in the legendarium: women of Rohan always rode with the men into war. The significance of Glorfindel's prophesy kicked into gear when she was the only one on the battlefield that day!
@@michaelshafer5192 Well said.
Honestly merry in the war is one of my favs. Like the fact he was willing to risk his life (they all were) at war knowing the disadvantage he’d have , made me feel really good for him
Crazy Denethor, father of Faramir and Boromir, wasn't the king. He was Steward, which is why Gandalf said, "It isn't given to you to deny the king, Steward!" The kings had died out, they believed, generations ago, but they didn't know about Aragorn's family hiding up North. This also explains Boromir saying, in Fellowship when he first met Aragorn, "Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king." Boromir would have been the next ruling Steward, as firstborn.
Omg i can't believe you edited in NIN while Arogan stormed off the boat! So epic 😎 ❤
I’m glad you caught that !
"This is Sam's story"
On point, indeed.
Imagine an army of people who have realized that if they don't win here, their world will end.. They're thundering on horseback towards you shouting "DEATH! DEATH!".
Denethor isn't a King of Gondor - he's a steward. His role (like his fathers before him) is to safeguard the kingdom until an actual heir to the throne - the actual and proper King - returns. Meanwhile, he's also been in possession of one of the Palantir - those round seeing stones like the one that Pippin felt compelled to examine. Through the Palantir, he'd wrestled with the will of Sauron for many years and, while he was thus able to learn parts of the Dark Lord's plans, he eventually was driven mad by the effort. The movies left out most of the nuance of his story, leaving the character essentially irredeemably bad. A pity, really.
😆Ya'll are the cutest couple, I swear!😂Your comments and edits just slay me, its so good 🤣 ONWARD, brave souls, to part 3 AND GLORY!!!
Chills every time with Theoden’s speech and the charge.
When Gandalf said to Pippin that there are white shores under a swift sunrise, he was talking about their afterlife.
“Nigga’s been an addict for, like, 800 years!”🤭🤣🤣
Love the reactions and the added bits, just an FYI the Witch King never breaks Gandalf's staff. He wouldn't be able to since Gandalf was much more powerful. Gandalf actually faces off with him at the gate of the city before Rohan arrives, and the Witch King is distracted by the new army.
Ya the Witch King is at least two orders of being below Gandalf there is no way he could win head to head with Gandalf.
2:40 first the king of the dead said “The dead do not suffer the living to pass” like it doesn’t matter who dies that is alive. It makes no difference to the dead. Then Aragorn says “You wIll suffer me” because if he dies, there will be nobody left to lift them from their suffering without being able to pass on since he is the only one who can
I will always love how the music stops as the first Mumakil swipes at the horses. It really drives home the shift in tone.
You guys are my fave, I hope you guys can make this your full time job. Can’t wait to see part 3.
Your favorite!!!? ❤❤❤ it will be soon!! Thank you. Dai is editing part 3 tonight after work!
Fun fact: The production team for this movie actually had to slay 290,000 people in New Zealand just to have enough skulls for the skull landslide scene! 🥰
1:32, finally a reactor who realizes that if Eowyn, her brother, and her uncle all die there would be no one left to rule Rohan. Most just go "You go girl!" and never thinking of what would happen if she dies.
In the scene where the Witch King is killed, when Merry stabs him in the leg, it seems like a regular dagger. However in the book it was a dagger that he acquired from a Barrow White, while in the Barrow Downs with Frodo, Sam, and Pippin. This is a very old and powerful blade; no normal blade was able to pierce the Witch King. Of course, this context and back story is not given in the film so I hope its alright that I'm sharing it here. Love your content, these are my favorite reaction vids on CZcams, especially your reaction to LOTR.
The spider, Shelob, was the “she/her” Gollum talked about at the end of the Two Towers.
"Pippin after killing the orc" LOL not the wild thornberries 😭✋
The Kill Bill music edit with the Witch King vs Gandalf had me dead. XD I almost spit my coffee over my laptop.
Reactors are usually confused over Eomer's reaction to seeing Eowyn's apparently dead body on the battlefield. I think it's best explained as Peter Jackson & Co.'s desire to have it both ways: to include Karl Urban's wonderful scene and also Miranda Otto's equally wonderful scene. In the book, Eowyn's death-blow to the Lord of the Nazgul produced a great shock to her own body. Merry was likewise affected by his stabbing the Witch-King. Both of them ended up in the Houses of Healing, along with Faramir, where Aragorn was able to heal them and prove his stature: "The hands of the King are the hands of a healer, and so the rightful King could ever be known." The Theatrical version of the movie omits these scenes in the H of H, but they're an important element of Tolkien's book.
"This king gives me hype" One of the best scenes in cinema history my man. Here is the book version of the charge, way more profound than the movie scene:
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
Loved the 3 movies reactions, you both have a lot of humour, while also grasping every detail pretty damn well
I love that the comments are filled with lore and fun facts. What a fun community you're building!
right!! we love all the comments and love !
In the book, all the women, children and old folk were evacuated from the city prior to the battle.
The amount of times you have found a perfect Tyrone Biggums clip for Smeagol's moments puts that whole "Smeagol is a crackhead" thing in another light, lol
23:42 that sound from South Park you added had me spit out my drink. Thank you! Love these little edits when done properly
thank you!
Everyone needs a SAM in their life
indeed!!
Been waiting for this one ❤❤
"N***a been a addict for eight hundred years. You can't trust him!" you got me crying, man - no one ever said it so clearly
Your memes are so perfect! The Tyrone Biggums appearance was absolutely brilliant and completely spot on for Sméagol in that scene. Well done!! Enjoying your reactions to the LoTR series.
When you said Merry fighting was like Chucky, I lost it 😂😂😂
Same!😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
That boss fight edit was lit 🔥 creative way of avoiding copyright😂
Dai’s favorite part 😂😂
30:18 The most accurate description of Legolas I’ve ever heard. 😂
Just have to say I love how much attention you both pay to the story and to your followers’ comments to get the most out of the stories you watch 👍
Theoden's speech is legendary. Imagine that the Dark Lord gave all of Middle-Earth an ultimatum. Surrender or be killed. Theoden and his riders gave Sauron their answer by screaming DEATH! They chose to die fighting.
The horn of rohan and then the haradrim arriving gets me eevrytime 😢
I love the edits, and that NIN track was fire af!
Denethor was basically just insane at that point ,even though Faramir was alive it’s like he couldn’t or wouldn’t see it. in the books day, at least explain why he is the way he is and it was mainly because he had a palantir. The crystal ball thing that Saruman had, and it drove him mad. He said his name at the end because he really didn’t know he was alive, because he was too insane to see it.
Love watching this with you guys! Great tease at the end there. :)
"that spider is greedy af he's got mad food in there" lmaooo I'm dyin one of my new fav reaction channels
😂😂😂 thank you!
25:17 This man said pterodactyls and T-rex elephants lmaoooo
Gandalf: "send these foul beasts in to the abyss!"
Gondorian soldiers outnumbered 20 to 1: "let's dance 😈"
I agree that after tackling the giant spider Shelob, Sam wasn’t going to be scared of a couple of orcs!
‘She fighting a dumpling’ 😂
When King Theoden start the best Speech to end all speeches and Drums start and violins kick in....✊️👊🤛🗡
Denethor was done dirty: He was way more noble & mighty in the books. Not to mention he contended wills with Sauron for decades nonstop & ontop of that even now he was never broken nor could Sauron alter what Denethor would see in the palantir even then he couldn’t control what Denethor had control of which was how he CHOSE to INTERPRET the visions given to him. Using it all to Gondor’s advantage! ❤ he also lit the beacons and got the women & children far away from the city longer ahead of time. So the movie butchered him as well as faramir but they didn’t butcher faramir as badly thankfully. He could have been shown to give Pippen his newest order to light the beacons so then it wouldn’t change the scene much at all as presented! The story here is Faramir’s birth ended up killing his mother Finduilas(named after an elvish princess from the era of Children Of Hùrin was set in);she was a Numenorean woman of the Faithful which her ancestors survived the Cataclysm of Númenor by the way! He was hurt deeply by her death and ontop of that Faramir had the likeness both in temperament as well as his appearance/bearing so he ways reminded of his wife over and over again by Faramir who was just like her, and all it took was a simple look or whathave you to drive the knife in deeper into his heart about his wife. But also Aragorn when he went by the name gifted to him as Thorongil Denethor’s father basically overshadowing him from his own father so he is as psychology goes: treated Boromir the same way his father treated Aragorn/Thorongil. Note that Boromir and Faramir are half Númenorean which is a big thing as far as the legendarium goes! And it’s something to note that he treated Boromir like his father treated the clandestine Aragorn as Thorongil.
Denethor actually did many things the movie shows him not doing or neglecting. He was VERY competent and mighty in many craft and (even a lore-master to a degree). He had quite alot of mental and “magical” might which is why he could contend with Sauron too without being harmed in there process in any way!
Denetor wasn't really weird, it's just that the movies totally omitted the fact that there was a palantir in Minas-Tirith, and over the course of decades Sauron steadily poisoned Denethor's mind with vision is Mordor's strength, nurturing deep despair in his mind.
9:58 the heads of different departments (art direction, makeup, special effects, etc) had cameos as the pirates. Director Peter Jackson is the man shot with the arrow before the ghost army appears.
When Dai said “Skullalanche” I 100% thought Russel Westbrook meme was coming up lol
lmaoooo
My favorite passage in the novel of Return of the King is the Ride of the Rohirrim. It's seen through the eyes of Merry, and he's looking at Theoden who is surveying the vast army of Orcs he has to fight, and Merry realizes how absolutely old and tired the king seems. However, as soon as the horns of battle sound, Theoden gets his act together and goes from an exhausted elderly man to a king of ancient times, a god of battle.
“At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
With that he seized a great horn from Guthlaf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. his golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.”
Peter Jackson made sure that all the extras in the front line of the Riders of Rohan right before the big charge memorized the scene from the book so they fully understood the significance of the moment.
This guy is hilarious!
"Gandalf is busy now......whooping ass!" loolllll
"He's like Chucky..."
"Man, this crackhead..."
A quote machine
Y’all have the funniest edits. Can’t wait for part 3!
30:15 and thus the iconic moment of the trillogy as to why Legolas is the best for me........Aragorn just called out his name like "you know what to do"
The scenes that always get me in this movie -
Theodens speech before battle
Pippin telling Merry he'll take care of *him* now
"you bow to noone."
And the Hobbits crying at the end. Any time the Hobbits start crying it just kills me
Speaking of war elephants. It was reported that some elephants would trumpet for joy whenever they'd manage to crush a man's skull underfoot.
Man this is the best reaction I have ever seen, these guys make me laugh. Keep rocking.
18:05 You didn't see TOO much of it's effect in the movies, but the light of the Phial of Galadriel quite literally Burned the flesh of Shelob, as she was composed of pure darkness given form. She didn't just run off to lick her wounds; she dropped dead shortly after this.
It’s mind blowing that it was literally just a few years ago that the last restrictions on women in combat were removed by the British Army. Tolkien having Eowyn fight in the war was extremely progressive for his time.
11:27 “Nigha make a U-turn!” 😂😂😂😂
"Is that a bat?" WRONG 😂😂😂 yall crack me up with these edits. Great reactions keep it up!
New subscriber from London 🇬🇧 love the channel especially now ive seen you guys are discovering lord of the rings for the first time! By the way, that edit when the Witch King confronts gandalf with the kill bill music in the background was 🔥 😂 rohan defo saved gandalf there
Something that’s so cool too is that most of the Rohirrim are played by women horse riders from New Zealand, many men too of course, but most had to be given costumes with hair and beards of Rohan men. ‘What if you heard a female voice’, there were probably plenty! 😂
"Skullvalanche"! (chef kiss)
27:34 he’s talking about the Undying Lands (where Frodo goes at the end), what us humans refer to as heaven today
14:05 I'm pretty sure that until that moment Gollum didn't know that Frodo and Sam were going to Mordor to destroy the Ring.
I never dreamed that I would hear Mr. Garrison in a Lord of the rings reaction 🤣
4:17 He said it’s like a skullvalanche! 😂
That ugly orc general uses fear as their main weapon, so seeing the rohirram charge and being fearless chanting "Death" experience Fear for the first time definitely made him shit his pants.
Oh, damn! The only bad thing about watching your reactions to this is having to wait for the next part. This is freakin' awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. 🤗
30:45 he's just walking off then slides off like he's at a skate park....if you can't rizz by talking, rizz by takinng down an Oliphant looool
LOL Paulie summed up my feelings exactly! Well played, looking forward to the next one.
The witch king broke her arm he didn’t stab her when he hit her shield with his mace and he also has this thing called Black breath which is what made her seem like she was gonna die after coming in contact with a Nazgûl
King Theoden was a real one 💯
These movies have such a great cast of characters
Some sequences in the LOTR movies are so much alike to Tsui Hark's famous 'Zu Warriors' from the 1980s, it's amazing to me.
Y’all reactions are so funny and your editor …🔥🔥🔥
"He been an addict for 800 years you can't trust him" 😭😭💀💀
Fun Fact did you know Orlando Bloom was only paid $170k for this famous role that he is so well known for.
Eowen looks dead when Her brother finds him because the witch king had curses on him that harmed any who touched him
"Theres some good in this world Mr. Frodo and its worth fighting for" - Samwise (The Brave) Gamgee
That line hits hard.
Two towers btw.