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00:10 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Movie Commentary
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Weirdly specific question for anyone reading this: the shrouded statue on the switchback path leading to Rohan’s camp by the door under the mountain…Has anyone else always been vaguely reminded of Icana Canyon or Stone Tower Temple from Zelda: Majora’s Mask, or is it literally just me?
"Gondor calls for aid!"
"And Rowhan will answer!"
13:21 The elf who speaks to Arwen is named Figwit, which stands for Frodo is great who is that! He is based on an internet gag some fans created after seeing him in the Council of Elrond .
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The two lines that always get me:
"My friends, you bow to no one."
"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."
58:28 From The Lord of the Rings Wiki
The Mûmakil Oliphaunt Body length: 20m Height: 15m A Mumakil's body would easily weigh over 200 tons.
What if I told you Frodo dies in the books? At the end? Also if you want to read the books… you could try the best version BY FAR… the AUDIOBOOK version read by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis. Its fantastic.
Sam’s moment of temptation when he held the Ring and hesitated to give it to Frodo, the Ring shows him what he wants most: to become ‘Samwise the Great’ and have the power to order everything ‘properly’ and turn Mordor into the Great Garden. However Sam had no desire for power, even for that supposedly good reason. But the Ring did play on Sam’s love for Frodo and made him think of keeping it, in order to relieve the burden on Frodo. But he ultimately overcame any temptation from the Ring and surrendered it.
Also note the parallel between Frodo grabbing Sam’s hand in the river (water) vs Sam grabbing Frodo’s in Mount Doom (fire).
@1:01:24 you missed the Wilhelm scream 😂
Fum video. Don't bother with the Hobbit movies. They suck. Lots of added unnecessary story elements added, so they could turn it into a 3 movie money grab. When you do read the LOTR books, don't forget to read the appendixes to glean further information. For the whole lore of Middle Earth you have to read The Silmarillion. It's very dense read, with lots of names of people and places that are hard to keep track of, and make sense out of, but there are lots of resources and videos online to explain them.
One thing the movies failed to show is that Denethor – Faramir and Boromir's father – isn't actually a bad father. He's a man in a very tenuous position with Mordor bordering the kingdom he is safeguarding and growing more powerful as they attack Gondor again and again. In his desperation, he tried gaining some advantage using the Palantir that Gondor had in its possession, one of the seeing stones that Saruman had and Gandalf warned against using.
And when Denethor used it, he opened himself up to Sauron without knowing it. Sauron didn't attack him directly, but he showed Denethor visions, small at first, but worse and worse as he darkened Denethor's heart and mind and pulled him deeper into despair and paranoia.
So the Denethor you see in the film has been essentially mentally manipulated into this paranoia by Sauron. He's sort of in the same position Theoden was in, except Sauron is more subtle where Saruman was more overt and direct.
King Théoden's death gets me every time
To answer your question, Middle Earth is Earth. We live in the 5th or 6th age of the world. This story takes place at the end of the third age, which lasted over 3000 years. The 2nd age lasted a bit longer, about 3300 years. The first age was relatively short, about 500 years. Before that, the sun and moon did not exist, and the world was lit by two trees in Valinor (where Frodo sails at the end of this movie), and years did not really exist. In fact, the earth was flat until the middle of the 2nd age, when Numenor was destroyed and Eru Iluvatar (God) made the earth round and separated Valinor from the rest of the world.
Smegul is evil that’s why the ring took him so quickly… he was probably a murder and a thief deep down the ring just gave him that little push
He was nice to Frodo to get the ring the movie does a great job in TT of making you like him but he was always a neutral evil character at best
The Fellowship left Rivendell on December 25 and the Ring was destroyed on March 25, three months later.
5:49 Fal La La lalalalala aheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The place the elves sail to is called Valinor, or the Undying Lands, because it's a place without death, and Aragorn was one of the last of the long-lived men, whom the elves joined forces with to fight Sauron during the battle at the start of the first movie. Middle-Earth was rapidly becoming a place where mortality was the norm, so they decided to leave to be with their own kind (with some notable exceptions, like Arwen.) Also, despite having suffered some conflicts of its own in the past, Valinor was a very good place, which is why the elves longed to return there.
20+ years later and the lighting of the beacons is still one of the most overwhelmingly emotional moments of cinema I have ever seen.
Frodo is suffering a supernatural level of PTSD and pain from his wound from the Witch King's blade. Going over the sea to the undying lands is essentially to let him heal.
The undying lands are essentially the heaven of the elves. Even the elves who die go there, but they're a physical land.
But don't worry. After a long life, and lots of children, Sam is actually allowed to sail across the sea to the undying lands as well. He was a ring bearer, briefly, so he's granted the same opportunity.
Legolas and Ghimli fulfill their agreement during the war and travel the forests and caves of Middle Earth together. When Ghimli reaches old age and is nearing death, Legolas builds his own ship and takes Ghimli to the undying lands as well.
Merry and Pippin become leaders of the community in the Shire as well.
Some of my favorite Easter eggs are the title tracks of the musical score. They refer to chapter titles from the book.
One of them is double referenced because it's the title of a track and also referenced in the film. When they first meet Merry & Pippin, after the tumble off the hill, Marry says it was a shortcut and Sam asks "a shortcut to what?" to which Pippin answers when he sees mushrooms. The music playing, and a chapter from the book, is "A Shortcut to Mushrooms."
You asked for anything else like this, and obviously there is the Hobbit trilogy, though that takes many more liberties with the original story than this one did – but Martin Freeman is fantastic as Bilbo. Regarding the fate of the Nazgul, we only get a split second glance in the movie, which is really not enough to make clear what is happening unless you've read the book, but basically they have raced to Mount Doom to retrieve the ring, and they arrive just as the mountain explodes, and are caught in the brunt of the explosion and incinerated. The land of Valinor, whence the elves came and to which they return, is also the land of the Ainur (gods), and among the Maiar, or lesser gods, are those who come to Middle Earth as wizards; that's why Gandalf returns there when his task is done. Saruman's death in the movie is very different from the way it happens in the book, but I've always thought that having a villain played by Christopher Lee die by falling from a height to be impaled on a spike must be a tribute to his character's death in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.
Read the books 🙂
Fantastic movie. top trilogy ever put to film… and yes I know that is saying alot!
Remember when Galadriel said of Frodo that the quest would claim his life? Most thought that meant he would be killed, but no. It meant that he could never return to his old life and she was right.
I will testify that you can watch these movies over and over again. I've done it.
Wow already? Wonderful
I know it's been a few days, but I'll add my comment lol
The elves are leaving Middle-earth(which is the continent[the Planet is Earth]) and going to the undying lands, which is the home of the gods and also where elf souls go if their bodies are killed.
Frodo leaves as a former ringbearer because he can never find peace in Middle-earth, but might be able to elsewhere. Bilbo is also allowed for similar reasons.
Gandalf leaves because, as a wizard, and a Maiar(basically an Angel), he originally came from the undying lands, with the other wizards, to fight Sauron. Also, it's difficult to spot in the film, but Gandalf holds the third Elvish ring of power(Galadriel and Elrond hold the other 2)
Two more ships will eventually leave Middle-earth. One carrying Legolas AND Gimli(BEST FRIENDS!). And another carrying Sam, in his old age. ❤
Also, just a small detail I never see commented on. Gandalf comes with three eagles to find Frodo. One each for Frodo and Sam, and one for Gollum… he still had hope and compassion for him. Gollum was a villain, but he was definitely also a victim. </3 😢
Denethor truly had the most epic exit scene of any character in all three movies.
SHAME on ME that my last comment made you put on a turtleneck Jenna. I apologize!!
The Lord of the Rings is set in a mythical past of our earth.
When the elves sail into the west, they go to Valinor, the Undying Lands. It's the elvish heaven, and it's the place Gandalf described during his "Death is just another path" speech to Pippin. Yes, the elves can physically travel to heaven.
It's also a place of healing for someone like Frodo, who suffered not just psychologically from his contact with the ring, but also physically from when he was stabbed by a Morgul Blade. Elrond said the wound would never fully heal, but Frodo went to the one place where it could.
One thing I noticed after watching the movies for the 50th time is that after Frodo was stabbed, he almost never smiled without a touch of sadness in his eyes. Until he stepped onto the ships and turned back to smile at his friends. That was a sign that he was finally beginning to heal.
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This trilogy is in it own category of movies. There is no comparing it to any other…the same can be said for Jen.
The ring didnt get to sam when he rescued frodo, sam saw what the ring is doing to frodo…
Yes. You should read the books. Arguably, one of the best series ever written. Phenomenal.
As for the hobbits returning to the shire, you go back to a place you love, expecting it to be the same but realizing it’s not because you have changed.