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Simon Tolkien truly is a lesser son of greater sires...

@@the_tactician9858 Christopher was the last protector of his fathers legacy.

Me too 😂😂😂

@@edyoung44 thank you thank you

Indeed.

Lol I was thinking the same thing. 25 years later, biggest budget ever and ROP cant even come close to how good LOTR is. Their priorities were not in the script, costumes or good casting that's for sure.

Nothing comes close to this.

😂

​@@johnwalker5622Their priorities were DEI and activism. Everything woke turns to ****.

Well, maybe if theoden had looked up instead of down, he wouldn't have sunk beneath his horse and died. Skill issue, clearly.

For real. I got goosebumps listening to this.

I think the movie actually almost improved the original text. But they got Lucky, they casted the real King Theoden for the role

It’s honestly a toss up for me. They have different qualities and are both done flawlessly. Easily the best scene in both movie and book

@@wilhufftarkin8543 I get tears. And I bow my shoulders and back just a little, and tense up, preparing for battle.

Absurd statement

One’s a movie and one’s a book

I actually think you are right, I think the movie actually manage to improve on the book, but it's mainly because Bernard Hill fucking killed it in this scene. Not to say anything bad about the book, but this is just astounding cinema.

Idk I really love both. I love the inner dialogue and the imagery given in the book. But I love the music and Bernard hills voice and delivery. Really tough choice

The movie did it justice period.

No correction needed. That is a line that a soldier could say. He says it in this recording.

It would make some sense. J.R.R. Tolkien fought in World War One.

This is a reference to something Merry overhears Eomer say a few pages earlier in the chapter, when Eomer is reciting a old addage, "'Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never'... And mayhap in this time shall the old saw be proved truer than ever before since men spoke with mouth."

​@@richh.2803It's an old adage too, and Tolkien definitely pokes holes in it here. To him it's better (for you) not to come at all than live with knowing you arrived too late to help. Very anxiety producing and real.

I think its in reference to the battle of the somme in which tolkien fought.

Hard disagree.

People are just slow these days.

British upper class speaking cadence until today, but especially in the older days, has this stylized oddness of pacing and intonation. You can also hear that with recorded Churchill speeches. "We shall fight in the hills (etc...)" is a climax of his famous speech, an inspirational fanfare. But in the original recording, he sounds as if he had to perform it 3 times daily for 3 years and reached a point where he can't wait to get this part over with. Interestingly, this seems to be entirely an upper class thing. Almost like a performative laziness in speaking. Something Tolkien doesn't, but you can hear it a lot from modern british politicians (the upper class spawn. Boris Johnson does it quite agregiously), is this weird... slacking off of vowels. "We must restore ordeeeeairrrrrr." To my german ears, this sounds like the exact opposite of well cultured upper class speech. It sounds like someone who is going to be told to get his teeth apart while speaking by his teacher the next moment.

@@tomitiustritus6672 What you ascribe to laziness and consider "oddness of pacing and intonation" is probably the results of being highly educated and knowing most of the Classics in their original language. Although it's prose, Tolkien uses a good variety of metres. It gives his prose and his scansion a tremendous impact. Read aloud the Illiad in Greek and the Aeneid in Latin a few times. Then, read Shakespeare and Chaucer. Your German ears may still get a proper education.

@@horacelidenbrock3905 I'm sorry. "Read aloud the Illiad in Greek and the Aeneid in Latin"? The fuck? Native english--speakers cant even decide how to pronounce "lever" and you think anyone can actually speak Latin or Ancient Greek? Also love how you equate being german with being uneducated. Real classy, especially after completely misunderstanding tom's comment.

No worse than the parasitic pseudo-intellectuals who crow the party line, spreading hate like it's the hot new drug on the streets. Yes, the Rings of Power sucks, but people like you complaining about it every chance they get is much more irritating.

​@@Cailus3542I don't agree. A devoted fan that's passioned about Tolkien work has every right to complain. People are just so aversed by critics these days. And that's in fact a sign that big media has brainwashed an entire generation to think down on being passionately critic.

​@@Cailus3542Hate is an emotion like any other, and valid criticism is not hate.

And Aragorn as well. Aragorn is a perfect example of a great and humble man, handling many situations with more grace than almost all people. Aragorn is who I try to model myself after and others should too.

Be the Tolkien, Theoden and Aragorn you want to see in the world. You cannot materialize hope, you must create it yourself, and share that fire with others.

@@michaelb8176 amen

❤

You won't. And that's a good thing.

Imagine charging behind him, seeing that

@@dustinscheller44 expert level unlocked

Pro tip!

Wowwww, why didn't I think of that! Good on ya mate, spot on!!!

@@magmablock I cry almost every time

@@ColonelAngus2 that’s a good thought!

He was hauling ass and was an amazing leader of his people

Easily one of my favorite characters.

@@bungle5899 lol. For real

@@gingerbaker_toad696 truth

Some folks have made AI renditions. Unfortunately AI can only recreate his voice timber, not his inflections, accent and pronunciation, so it sounds like a generic brit speaking, and what's more, it usually has trouble pronouncing words in his languages, so that's also a difficulty. I imagine we'll get there eventually though.

@@Pop_Culture_Podcast Is this AI? I'm going to call you a fucking retard for writing that comment in the hopes of getting your attention.

@@vaahtobileet No it's not.

Let the dead rest

When you shoot a deer, it runs away, not because it's still alive, but because even though you might have decimated its heart and lungs, it has oxygenated blood in circulation still. It will keep running on autopilot until it has expended that energy. It's a bit like a coil or spring. The motion continues even after the source (e.g. your hand) has been removed. I can't really speak for horses, but they're really big animals, especially when bred for war. I imagine there's a similar phenomenon going on.

@@Infinite_Jester i guess that peter jackson didnt look that up

​@user-qz9hc7rg7b Peter Jackson? More like Peter Hackson! He didn't look up horse facts and now Return of the King is literally unwatchable!

@@NPRoberto take it easy

Depends where the horse is hit. If it hits certain nerves, it could have that effect.

@@elevatormusicirelia9043 well said!

I agree, except that it's only one of the most powerful. Denethor's hatred of & then trying to kill Faramir - who was actually stronger & more noble than the favored Boromir - was heart-breaking. And Sam's final expressed determination to stay with Frodo all the way to the fires of Gondor was so heartrendingly beautiful. Truly, Tolkien was one of the most gifted storytellers the world has ever known

Necromancy...

Ya. It was fuckin disaster

I’m married to a woman. Does that count?

very beautifully put.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is: what are you going to do with the time that is given you.

@@TheNoladrummer The Horn of Helmhammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time, aye, I still have the fight in me.

Right it seems Jon Snow is the fulfillment of the prophecy….but I don’t like the prophecy being a part of the HotD story

*ere the sun rises . ( Ere means before)

​@@okaloperdis7187 thank you, I've always wondered what that meant!

Tolkien was likely paraphrasing the Norse saga Voluspa here: “Axe-time, sword-time, shields are splintered. Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls.” (This part of the saga is describing Ragnarok - the world’s ending)

@@Aeon135 Are all those hyphenated phrases kennings for Ragnarok?