Hey guys! Just wanted to clear up that YES this is the extended edition!!!! This is why I will be wearing different clothes in the 2 parts LOL I split the movie into a 2 day viewing :P
My dad took me and my brother to see these movies when they came out in the early '00s. To see them from fresh perspectives like yours makes me feel like a kid again and how awesome/scary these movies were the first time you watched. So thanks 😊
@@metoo7557 While that's true, it doesn't change the fact that people (especially young people who grew up on Harry Potter) make this mistake some times
@@mikelarsen5836 It's just people familiar with other media who draw similarities... if you insult them and call them names you can bet they'll lose any interest in reading the books or any other of Tolkien's masterpieces
"Why does he look so evil?" Because he's Christopher Lee. Among many other amazing things, he played a vampire 13 times and recorded a black metal Christmas album at the age of 92.
@@shotq8070 Amazing how he could hold up after all the things he took part in during and after the war and even have a successful career after it. Stalin's top executioner Vasily Blokhin became mad. But he personally executed more than 10.000 people.
@@mikelarsen5836 lol i mean we all have our gripes. Mine is lack of realism. This movie (being fantasy) has so much believability it blows me away how real it feels which is why i liked it. Just be happy they made your fav book into an actually good/beloved series. Is what i say.
"Nobody has the ability to let go of the ring... at least not without force." You're dead on. Bilbo is a hero... even though he struggled, he was able to do it.
@@kuroyuki6254 i was SO fucking happy when he gets to the havens and awakens from his stupor, gets this light in his eye and says" i am quite ready for another adventure!" Yes Bilbo! You deserve it my man!
@@kuroyuki6254 There's a bit in the book that really exemplifies this. When Bilbo offers to be the one to take the Ring to Mordor at Rivendell Boromir has a bit of a chuckle at how ridiculous the idea is. Then he looks around and sees that nobody else - not the wizard, Elrond, *nobody* - treats it as a joke.
The reason Sam calls Frodo “Mr. Frodo” is because he literally works for him… lol he’s his gardener. Also Frodo is older. Frodo=50 Sam=38 Merry=36 Pippin=28. Because hobbits live longer than mortal men Pippin is actually equivalent to a teenager.
I don't think they live longer than men, Bilbo was extraordinarily, unnaturally old, and he was just 111 years old. Humans have surpassed that by decades. Btw, if humans are mortal men, hobbits are mortal hobbits; they die too.
@@brunoactis1104 in the books it explains that some men live longer. Like Aragorn’s line. But I think it’s more the way they mature. It’s been a while since I’ve read them. I’ll double check. But you see in the last one how much Bilbo ages in a few years after the ring was destroyed.
That’s actually one of the funniest casting facts. The ages of the actors for the hobbits are almost reversed from the characters. Billy Boyd was the oldest and Elijah Wood the youngest.
@@brunoactis1104 111 years old isn't quite a Hobbit longevity record. What's pointed out as unusual (and more in a "huh, some guys have all the luck" and not "wait that shouldn't happen" is that at 111, Bilbo still looks like 30 years younger. That being said, it's not impossible for a human to live longer than a hobbit (especially in the LoTR mythos). But on average, a hobbit will live longer than a 'normal' human. I think someone did the maths and calculated that a hobbit average life expectancy is slightly above 100. And sure, a normal dude *can* live longer than that, but our average is still around 70-80 depending on where you live.
@@ericstoverink6579 the wise do not speak a lot nor prove by demand. Thats the entire point of the characters here.. their dialogs and the silence between them.
“How did he stab him if he can’t see him?” He CAN see him. The ring wraiths are between the world of the living and that of the dead (like between a human and a spirit). Putting the ring on makes you invisible to humans but makes you visible to wraiths because wearing the ring puts you in their dimension. If Frodo becomes a wraith, he will become invisible to the human eye.
Close. The power of the ring is the actual eye of Sauron and what people mean when they refer to the watchful eye. In the books, there is no actual eye floating above Sauron's tower, that was just added in for the movie, instead the ring's power and the fragmented soul of Sauron is the eye and when someone puts the ring on, Sauron is able to see you and in turn, so are his servants.
Yeah the power of invisibility the Ring provides is in fact drawing half into the the Unseen, the wraith-world: "You were in gravest peril while you wore the Ring, for then you were half in the wraith-world yourself, and they might have seized you. You could see them, and they could see you.'" ... "…they had other powers, more directly derived from Sauron ('the Necromancer': so he is called as he casts a fleeting shadow and presage on the pages of The Hobbit): such as rendering invisible the material body, and making things of the invisible world visible.” ... "The world changed, and a single moment of time was filled with an hour of thought. At once he [Sam] was aware that hearing was sharpened while sight was dimmed, but otherwise than in Shelob's lair. All things about him were not dark but vague; while he himself was there in a grey hazy world, alone, like a small black solid rock, and the Ring, weighing down his left hand, was like an orb of hot gold. He did not feel invisible at all, but horribly and uniquely visible; and he knew that somewhere an eye was searching for him. He heard the crack of stone, and the murmur of water far off in Morgul Vale..." ... "Frodo was hardly less terrified than his companions; he was quaking as if he was bitter cold, but his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring. The desire to do this laid hold of him, and he could think of nothing else. He did not forget the Barrow, nor the message of Gandalf; but something seemed to be compelling him to disregard all warnings, and he longed to yield. Not with the hope of escape, or of doing anything, either good or bad: he simply felt that he must take the Ring and put it on his finger. He could not speak. He felt Sam looking at him, as if he knew that his master was in some great trouble, but he could not turn towards him. He shut his eyes and struggled for a while; but resistance became unbearable, and at last he slowly drew out the chain, and slipped the Ring on the forefinger of his left hand. Immediately, though everything else remained as before, dim and dark, the shapes became terribly clear. He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him. Desperate, he drew his own sword, and it seemed to him that it flickered red, as if it was a firebrand. Two of the figures halted. The third was taller than the others: his hair was long and gleaming and on his helm was a crown. In one hand he held a long sword, and in the other a knife; both the knife and the hand that held it glowed with a pale light. He sprang forward and bore down on Frodo. At that moment Frodo threw himself forward on the ground, and he heard himself crying aloud: O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! At the same time he struck at the feet of his enemy. A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder. Even as he swooned he caught, as through a swirling mist, a glimpse of Strider leaping out of the darkness with a flaming brand of wood in either hand. With a last effort Frodo, dropping his sword, slipped the Ring from his finger and closed his right hand tight upon it."
@twistedsisler Umm, where are you getting that from? Certainly not the books where it clearly states that wearing the ring makes someone partially exist in the wraith world.
@@jasonbarkman what do you mean he never said it didn't put you in the wraith world. He was saying that Sauron didn't see from his tower, but rather through whomever used the ring
@@TwistedSisler The Ring isn't referred to as the Eye of Sauron in the books. The Red Eye is Sauron's symbol. His sigil. When people in the books refer to Sauron as "The Eye" they're not talking about his literal soul, but the sigil which symbolically represents Sauron. Saruman in the books is also referred to as "the White Hand", which, again, is his his sigil.
"I'm going to blame everything on gollum." Personally I blame everything on Morgoth, for singing evil into existence, and then taking Sauron as his apprentice.
@@bmxdoe But he should have known (being both timeless and omnipotent/all powerful/all wise) that Melkor was flawed and corruptable and would desire power of his own.
Yo this girl *gets it*. Most reviewers on youtube dont really get what The Ring actually is, but I'm very pleased how she gets that it's actually part of Sauron in there. Love this video, looking forward to part two!
Super late reply. But it is really impressive how quickly she understood the lore. She's the 1st person I've ever seen instantly connect the ring to Bilbo's old age from the moment his age is said.
The reason the ring makes you ‘disappear’ is because it takes you into the wraiths’ world. That’s why he could see them as they really appear, and of course, they could see him there just fine.
Exactly. I always autistically cringe when ppl think of it as a sort of magic Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility. The fact that it renders mortals invisible to other mortals is merely an incidental byproduct of it being worn by lesser beings (i.e., mortals) for whom it is not intended nor attuned.
I love how kind and respectful she's being and really taking in the movie and all its lore, it's a breath of fresh air from similar reaction channels that do nothing but make jokes, reference memes, and don't even pay attention half the time.
I kinda think pippin may be a contender lol If pippin didn't royally muck things up in Moria then a particular event wouldn't have happened to the Wandering Wizard
@@romanwagner8709 Meriadoc had a part to play as well. I doubt Frodo had ever been far from the Shire before, and certainly not to Bree. If it wasn't for Merri leading them there the outcome would have been different.
Not willpower, it's just that Hobbits don't really have any real care in the world or ambition. You can see that when Sam puts on The One Ring, his mind is filled with thoughts of planting many great gardens, because The Ring couldn't really latch onto any other ambition or want Sam had (other than saving Frodo, which The Ring definitely didn't want to encourage). And that's why Smeagol, who was similar kin to Hobbits, also didn't really do anything with The Ring, because he only wished for survival.
"How did they make the hobbits so small?" They used a bunch of different practical effects, they had some actors walking on stilts, they used "Forced perspective", where one actor would be sitting further away, but the camera angle would be such as to make them seem closer, and the main actors had doubles in multiple size categories.
"That's the matrix! the matrix!" fun fact, it is impossible to go anywhere in new zealand and not be able to find at least 3 people who were extras in these movies.
@@Cosmoproto I'm pretty sure it's like 100 bucks now and I'm fairly certain they've closed the bar. turns out it's closer to 200 but you can still go to the banquet nights.
@@ravensshadow2179 As someone who has studied WW2 from the original materials his whole life, I would say the evil won. Using computers to burn cities filled with civilians and no military targets is probably the worst thing since using atomic weapons twice just to get data of it's effects on humans. Though using famine as a weapon of war and bombing the hospitals, medicine deliveries to cause infections on the weakened people to kill as many as possible etc. are horrible war crimes. Then after the war was won, creating death camps where all those were executed who actually knew what the war was about, so that false narratives could be implanted on the people. Most of what people know on WW2 were conjured after the war. Because all of this started to come out during the 70s, they conjured up laws where providing evidence on what actually happened would be illegal. Anything but the official narrative is illegal. They even jailed almost 90yr old woman 15yrs ago who showed his own pictures and story during WW2 that was totally against the official narrative. But majority of people have been brainwashed in the second or even third generations, thus they just call people like me crazy etc. after all "they have seen the video clips" that prove the official story right. Obviously the narrative was formed so that everything you hear and see will fit perfectly. Think about what Christian's do in their churches. They have man in the cross on the altar, they eat the flesh of Jesus and drink the blood of Jesus. You could easily make Christianity to be like devil worship for someone who doesn't know Christianity. While this is not good analogy, it's the best i came up. People who think the good side is winning in the current world are blind.
@@VKunia “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this channel, one simple request. For Vkunia to react to The Lord Of The Rings. That long awaited day has at last arrived. It shall be a legendary reaction series.” - Abraham Lincoln. Or what he would have said. 😉😏
The ring didn't have Gandalf hypnotized - he was just deep in thought, connecting the dots. He hadn't realized yet that Bilbo had THAT ring, but seeing Bilbo's attachment to and fixation on it got the gears turning.
Fun fact: The author of LOTR, Tolkien, was friends with another great fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. The two taught at the same college and used to attend Bible studies together.
The bible studies thing is new to me. Tolkien was a devout roman catholic, so I can believe he attended bible studies, but C.S. Lewis was an anarchist, so that would really surprise me.
@@OriginalPuro Donald duck is an intellectual property created for money, the bible is a thousands of years old collection of historical and religious books.
@@patrickexiler9255 Are people really familiar with CS Lewis but unaware that he's one of the most widely-read Christian apologists? Or think that one of the great advocates of the Natural Law be an anarchist?
Yeah, not mamy people remember that Mithrandir was created before the Middle-Earth and he is like brother to Balrog [same creature, just different form]...
Worth noting that Ian Holm who played Bilbo Baggins in this movie passed away in June of this past year. He was a wonderfully talented actor, and his performance here was nothing short of magnificent. He is deeply missed.
6:38 I love this moment in the movie where Bilbo willingly let go of the ring and how the ring stuck onto him while he was making it slide off his hand it showed Bilbo’s strength of character and will was too strong to be totally corrupted.
Mostly Pippin. Merry actually shows quite a bit of intelligence throughout the story despite early goof ups. Of the four hobbits, I think he has the most natural intelligence.
@@ericstoverink6579 Something that gets glossed over from the books is that Merry and Pippin are semi-nobility and considered young gadabouts not yet mature enough for responsibility by their families. Merry in particular shows a lot of planning, leadership and organization in the trip to Bree and the Scouring of the Shire. (I think he's also the one to figure out the password to the gates of Moria, but I could be wrong.) Conversely, Pippin is not only the youngest Hobbit, he's not even of legal age yet. In general, the four hobbits each incarnate some aspect of their race: Pippin is curious and innocent, Sam humble and content, Merry is organized and thorough, and Frodo responsible and noble in his simplicity.
I actively seek out movie reactions from first time Lord of the Rings viewers, so I was delighted when you uploaded this. I must say, yours is, by far, the best reaction I've seen. Can't wait to watch you discover the rest of this amazing trilogy!
No kidding. That shit straight up scared me as a kid; so much that for a while I’d walk out whenever that scene would play and not come back until it was over.
"How did they make the hobbits so small?" A combination of practical effects, including forced perspective, body doubles, and scaling the set. There were 2 sets for Bag End: one scaled for the hobbits and one scaled for Gandalf.
Literally came here for this comment. Still have the video paused at this moment. Makes me wonder if she has seen all of these and that’s why everyone is surprised at how much she “gets it.” Not trying to be mean, I’ve just watched a lot of reactions to this and she’s the only one that has done that.
@@loomick she’s fine he only that’s said “it’s all literally Gollum’s fault. He just had to go digging through the river.” I mean, maybe she is really sharp and picks remembers things super well, but the movie mentions Gollum getting the ring from a river in a quick like 3 second shot at the beginning of the film. Most people are not really going to remember that in their first watch through. Heck, I’ve seen these dozens of times and I had to go back and check to see if it does, because otherwise unless you have seen Return of the King, you’re likely not going to know that’s how he got it on your first watch. Idk, I thought I was being too critical but I had to stop after the Mines of Moria. She suddenly goes on a long dialogue of how Gandalf is her favorite character conveniently before he falls from the Balrog, almost as if to prep her audience for that moment. She gives a dramatic reaction but then said “no I refuse to believe he is dead, ganadalf is too powerful.” Which to me is sus too because we haven’t really seen much of his power yet, and it just sets her self up well in the next film to say “I knew it!” It seems like just before every scene she is practically guessing what is going to happen next before it does, but she does it to where she is like half or almost right. When she said that Galadriel was intimidating the moment she saw her, again, feel like that was to set up the scene where she does actually become scary. Idk, I just had to stop at that point. I’d be happy to be wrong, but no other reactor has done all these things that I have seen.
“This man is like, 8-feet tall!” Well, Sauron is a [fallen] angelic being. As are the wizards Gandalf and Saruman, both being angelic beings in the bodies of old men. Sauron, however, is orders of magnitude more powerful than either of them- even without a body…
And as the more obscure Tolkien texts have it the entities the spirits to which Sauron belong to can assume physical forms with large size: "The sense of 'cloud’ was in Quenya borne by the derivative fanya (cf. I 394). The older fana developed a special sense, being applied to the visible bodily forms adopted by the Valar and their kind, when they took up their dwelling in Arda, as their normal 'raiment’.† In these forms they were seen and known by the Eldar. (Glimpses of other manifestations were seldom given to them.) A fana thus became used in Quenya only for the visible forms or 'raiment’ (which included both the bodily shape and the 'vestures’ in which it was clad) in which a 'spirit’, not by its nature incarnate, presented itself to bodily eyes. It thus became not really a 'veil’ (since the spirit itself could not be 'seen’ without it) but a form of expression in terms suitable to the incarnate. † Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe koaron: 'The Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in fanar (veils) after the manner of bodies of Elvish-kind'." ... "The fanar of the great Valar were said by the Eldar who had dwelt in Valinor usually to have had a stature far greater than that of the tallest Elves, and when performing some great deed or rite, or issuing commands, to have assumed an awe-inspiring height."
@@Shmulykas true. The power of the wizards is also intentionally restricted, if I remember correctly. I seem to remember something in the Silmarillion about the Valar not wanting them to try to match Sauron in might for fear of their corruption and concern for the destruction that such an outright contest of violence would inflict upon the world.
Can't believe you cut my favourite moment in the whole series: "Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!", with the darkness growing around him, the picture frames being moved away from him, the sound of the floorboard creaking. So epic!
I love how easily you seem to grasp many of the concepts of races, names, the nature and power of the ring, the motivations of each characters, etc. So refreshing after seeing so many reactors struggle with these! Add to that all the fantastic jump scares and this is already jumping to the front of the line as one of (If not my most) favorite LOTR reaction!
I don't wanna sound condescending, but it's awesome how easily you've been able to follow the story. I don't know if it's an act or if most people just find it hard to follow, but most people on RUclips who react to this film don't seem to understand what is going on or remember the names of characters. Watching that feels like pulling teeth, so I'm so glad you're enjoying the film instead of being completely lost.
No, they’re not getting high… aside from whatever small nicotine buzz they may get. Pipe-weed is just the literary term Tolkien used for tobacco in Lord of the Rings.
fun detail: When everyone is walking through the snow on the mountain, Legolas is simply walking ON the snow while everyone else is trudging through it
I'm always kinda wondering about the Nazgul not just leaving the river, but the general theory seems to be that the only real thing the river did was drive the horses into a panic.
In the books, there was a 17 year gap between when Bilbo left the Shire and when Frodo left. Frodo was in his 50s when he left. Without the ring, Bilbo began aging normally. When Frodo met him in Rivendell, Bilbo was 128 years old.
You don't need to visit all of those locations. However, you just need to visit one place, and that is New Zealand. It's where they filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 😎
Gollum’s species will be revealed in the next movie “How did you find your way into this man’s cave?” That’s covered in The Hobbit! 😃 The Hobbits are small from forced perspective and other filmmaking trickery They’re clueless because they don’t partake in adventure, they’re have no experience in these things You should blame Isildur since he refused to destroy the ring Everyone thinks Gandalf is gonna eat the moth! Bilbo walked to Rivendell “How does he look so evil?” Well he did play Count Dooku and Dracula
Honestly Elrond is just projecting. He wouldn't have done any better. But he's lucky enough to be able to blame Isildur, and by extension all humans, and passed that on to his adopted son as self hatred.
"I think that he's been around the block enough to know something really bad is about to happen." Oh man, you have no idea how many times Gandalf has "been around the block!" Lol
@@BlackJar72 LOL! I mean the expression describes someone with a lot of experience, so yeah, it can definitely be used as a euphemism for that. Though I don't think that was the intent in this case
Yes! I love watching people get into my favorite movies! "This man is 8 feet tall for no reason." Because he's not a man. Think of Sauron as basically a fallen angel. He was one of the Maiar, a race of spirits that also includes Gandalf and the wizards (in case you were wondering. They don't go into this bit of lore in the movies). "How did you find your way into this man's cave?" You'll have to watch the Hobbit movies for that (or read the book). "How did they make them look so small?" Forced perspective, little person scale doubles, scaled up sets, CGI, etc. All sorts of tricks.
Really pay attention to the music in this trilogy. John Williams with Star Wars and Howard Shore for LOTR, probably one of the greatest achievement in music for popular hollywood movies :)
he also played Dracula - he was also a REAL Secret Service Agent and killed real people during the war - he was amazingly badass - he was a master sword fighter in real life
Ironic seeing as Tolkien would have wanted to cast Lee (his close friend) as Gandalf. Plus Lee was the hammer-horror Dracula, the guy had his villain credentials and then some (RIP)
I cannot recommend enough watching the Extended Editions, it goes so much more in depth. The third movie the Return of the King almost has to be seen in the Extended Edition. Your reaction is wonderful; I'm so looking forward to watching these with you!
she mentions the scene w the wood elves (EE-only) and you can see in the immediate post prologue scene both the map shot which is EE-only, and the onscreen text is missing from the first Frodo shot - as it is in the EE.
@@angusauty4396 There are arguments both ways. Ultimately they have different purposes and uses. I do think Fellowship theatrical is a perfect film. But that's for a theatrical viewing. People now watch them either as like a miniseries, or at random, or as one big movie. So pacing becomes less of an issue. There are certain add backs that are simply mistakes - Gandalf's mention of mithril in Moria, spoiling the surprise; Galadriel actually introducing her ring, which an attentive viewer would have known she was referring to anyway, having remembered her from the prologue, etc. But there are several scenes and entire arc endings and subplots that are missing from the theatrical editions and they are huge things to have missing. The films as released in theaters are literally incomplete without these character arc endings. Two major villains and two major heroes just - don't get their stories finished in the original cuts. That's a problem. The extended cuts are not perfect but they are as of now the best cuts. I do think they could be fixed up tho, w a few additions removed again. But what they add esp in the 3rd film is invaluable. You need to finish those characters' stories. The theatrical didn't. The feeling the theatrical cut of ROTK leaves you w about the series as a whole is completely different from how the EE of it leaves you feeling. Much hollower emotionally. One big emotional payoff removed. Much richness removed. And all the extra time spent w the characters throughout adds up and pays off greatly.
@@georgial6398 the extended editions have content that i definitely do think should have been in the original films, such as the borimir flashback in tt, and the faramir stuff in rotk, the saruman scene in rotk isn't completely necessary for the film itself, as it is basically tying stuff off from the previous film that isn't that relevant for rotk, however it does help a bit with cohesiveness for the trilogy as a whole. As lore and world building the extended editions blow the theatricals out of the park obviously, but the theatrical cuts, whilst not perfect, and could have benefited from some of the content from the extended, are superior as films. Basically the extendeds are like a super-detailed picture, but the theatricals are like fine-art. Neither perfect, but both definitely have their place.
I watched the theatricals again for the first time in a while since I didn’t have time to see the extended. But they literally feel so different. The extended feel better paced for me and also have so many details. The character arcs feel fuller
Not sure about that. The first part of the extended ends directly after the council of elrond and in the theatrical version it ends on the mountain. Just like here...
In the eighties I was living in a tiny room behind a house in West Hollywood, a hundred bucks a month. Landa and her son Paco lived in the house in front. Paco went to a local elementary school and when he was about ten years old his bud from school came over to play videogames and such, off and on, for a few months. I thought that his friend had the most unearthly eyes I had ever seen. His bud's name is Elijah Wood. Hello, Paco, hello, Landa and hello Elijah.
That scene where Bilbo drops the ring remains one of my favourites of the whole series. The music, the way it hits the ground, the sense of willpower required is all so well done.
Also interesting that you mentioned what a good rider you would have to be to ride Arwen's white horse like she did when the ring wraiths were chasing her. The stunt woman who rode the white horse in those scenes fell in love with the horse, and when animals from the film were being auctioned when filming was done, she couldn't afford to bid on the horse, but Viggo Mortensen/Aragorn knew of her connection to the horse and he bought it for her.
The One Ring gives power to it's user that fits their level of spiritual power. Hobbits are so small and innocent that all it does is make Frodo invisible to those of the mortal realm. You saw what it did with Sauron. Dude was soloing an army. Edit : it will also prolong the users life. Hence why Bilbo aged SO much so quickly without it.
I will say, I love the fact that you are having ALL the intended emotions you are meant to have at every moment you are supposed to during all the movies, and it makes watching these with you all the better for it.
That old Fellowship of the Ring game I think, it was based on books more as it came out about the time when the first movie was out too, I remember that game, quite interesting :).
They used a variety of techniques for making the different sized characters: Sometimes they used short or tall stand-ins. Sometimes they used forced perspective. Sometimes they used digital composites. Don't confuse "pipeweed" for marijuana. Tolkien smoked pipes and only smoked tobacco blends. Marijuana wasn't prevalent in his day and in his circles. It's just tobacco.
Outstanding! "Firefly," and now, "LotR." Almost certainly the first things I would have asked for had you asked. I'll think of it as a personal favor anyway. 😁 Thanks. Here we go!
Then count yourself fortunate for not having to wait long for the films. I read the books in the early 70s. In 1978, Ralph Bakshi made an animated film version covering and part of , to mostly poor reviews. And it was bad, very bad. Since then I always thought that someday it would be filmed in animation. While watching "Shrek," I was hopeful that someone would do so using such animation. I'm glad they didn't. Peter Jackson blew my expectations away.
VKunia, you'll enjoy this fantasy, cause its so different from the other fantasies that are mainstream, GOT or the Witcher. The themes are more black and white than grey. Honor is what guide many of the characters' moral compass as opposed to Machiavelism. And the leading characters are motivated to save the day not because they're some self-absorbed primadonna but because of love and sense of obligation for others. Above all, this fantasy emphasizes the concept of destiney which has been disregarded by modern fantasy writers these days.
If just a few Orcs freak her out can't wait to see her reaction to Helms Deep or Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and to understand Frodo and Sam's relationship you need to look up about a WW1 British Army officer and his Bagman the Bagman is basically his servant, anyway really looking forward to your reactions to the rest of the trilogy it should be a lot of fun.
There were several tricks they did to make the hobbits (and dwarves look smaller). The oldest trick in the book is force perspective which means the actors that played the hobbits stood further away from the camera. When Frodo rides in Gandalf's cart Elijah is sitting further back with the pole on his side 30 % bigger than the other. There were moving force perspective that the hobbit actors were moving on dollies that moved with the camera so the hobbits would remain small even when the camera was moving. They had scale doubles, several little people for the hobbit actors (including Kiran Shah who plays Ginarbrik in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), he played Frodo, Bilbo and Merry whenever Frodo wasn't with him, one for Gimli named Brett Beattie (he was also Gimli's stunt double) and a seven feet tall guy named Paul Randall (nicknamed Tall Paul) who were doubling for all human, elf and wizard characters the hobbits were interacting with. Often the doubles either had their backs towards the camera with the actor's faces visible (like when Gandalf hugs Frodo at the start, when you see Gandalf's face, it's Ian McKellen with Kiran's back toward us and when the camera is on Frodo, it's Elijah Wood with the back of Tall Paul as Gandalf). Also in some shots where you see the hobbits and/or Gimli with Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir etc. behind them, it's Tall Paul though you only see his body but not face. In some scenes bluescreen were used for instance when Frodo talks about hiding The Ring, Elijah was shot against bluescreen with Ian's part filmed on Bag End set seperatley. There was also two different scaled sets of Bag End, a big one for Elijah and Ian Holm, and a small one for Gandalf which was cramped and you could easily hit the head on the cieling (which by the way was a mistake and not scripted but because the comedic moment and that McKellen stayed in character, it was left in the movie) and all the props, costumes and weapons were done twice, either 30 % bigger or 30 % smaller depending on what the objects are (hobbit props were smaller for the human actors while human props were bigger for the hobbit actors). For the shots where Gandalf sit at the kitchen table and is served tea by Frodo and Bilbo, Ian McKellen sat closer to the camera on one half of the table with small tea pot, plates and food and on the other half was big props for Wood and Holm to interact with (there's a gap between the two halves that is not seen on camera as it was placed perfectly with the table). For the scene where Bilbo takes Gandalf's staff and hat and goes away to put them away, Holm and McKellen were on different sets (Ian Holm on bluescreen), McKellen hands his normal sized hat and staff to a crew member while another one handed over a big staff and hat for Holm to take and those shots were blended together and the crew members erased out and carefully mapping out the different hats and staves to make it blend seamlessly. At Bree, in addition to the sets being overscaled for the hobbits, there were big rigs, that is huge suits of men with fake hands that were radio controlled off screen. Those were basically stilt walker costumes with a five foot tall gymnast walking in them, wearing a fake head over her. An example is the man that goes behind Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin when they speak with Butterbur at the Prancing Pony. The scale small scale doubles in some shots had rubber masks that resemled Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd and in the scene were Arwen rides away from the RIngwraiths, Kiran Shah had an animatronic mask of Frodo on his face which were radio controlled (Liv Tyler said she could hear the buzzing of the animatronics during the filming, in addition to Shah's cackeling). In some shots the scale doubles faces were replaced with the actors faces, shot speratley against bluescreen, such as when Boromir carries Frodo away after Gandalf falls in Moria and when the Uruk-Hai takes away Merry and Pippin at the end. For the shot where The Fellowship stand together in Rivendell, Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) and Sean Bean (Boromir) were shot in one shot on the Council set, while Wood, Astin, Monaghan, Boyd and John Rhys-Davis (Gimli) were shot on bluescreen, and Rhys-Davis is 6 foot 3 which means he is already taller than the hobbit actors so a third pass weren't necessary. For the Bill the Pony, they obviously had to have a horse that would look like a pony for the hobbit actors and a pony version for Aragorn and the small scale doubles, though for the remote mountains and the Midgewater Marches where transsporting a horse/pony with helicopter wasn't possible, they had a Bill the Pony costume with two actors inside, one is the front end and the other is the rear end like in a children's play. Also in the Shire scenes they gathered oversized birds, butterflies and animals for the hobbit actors to make them feel smaller. A gigantic bull was consindered, as it had a birth defect that just keeps on growing so it became ginormous but the problem was that the only part that wasn't growing was its feet so it couldn't walk, therefore it wasn't usable for the movies, unfortunatley.
The screams of the Ringwraiths were done by Fran Walsh, writer and producer of The Lord of the Ring (and Peter Jackson's wife) when she had a cold, so her voice had a lot of gravel. The sound team tried with different kinds of screams but none of them were working and when they played up the scream samples, Pete said "Fran can scream like that." so she was put in the recording studio and screamed into the microphone, which knocked the sound guys on their butts, and it destroyed her throat.
Funny, PJ actually grossly overspent the budget he had. Fellowship was a big gamble. But filming all three at once - before reshoots was bigger still. If FOTR failed at the box office no one was going to want to see the other films. So they might not have even been finished. You might say "The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true."
@@clarkbarrett6274 I actually have no idea what his budget was, and its no surprise to learn that he grossly overspent it. it looks it! you probably know that Star Wars was a huge gamble for George Lucas in 1977, in the shadow of the US getting kicked out of Vietnam 2 years earlier. Corporate Hollywood certainly didn't think much of it while it was being made, a low-budget (for $10 mil) "B" sci-fi flick that no one would take seriously...
V: "I don't like those screams. They actually invoke terror." The screams were "actually" recorded by a woman who worked on the movie set. They were having a problem trying to create a sound that could represent the dread of the "Nazgul" when they communicated. So one of the ladies on the set had a reputation for being able to scream really loud. They gave her a microphone for a voice test, and her scream was so shrill that it just about shattered everyone's bones. So they made her the "voice" of the Nazgul.
Hey guys! Just wanted to clear up that YES this is the extended edition!!!! This is why I will be wearing different clothes in the 2 parts LOL I split the movie into a 2 day viewing :P
Real question is will you be watching the animated ones too? 😬
Smart. I love these films, but they are a marathon. 🤣🤣
My dad took me and my brother to see these movies when they came out in the early '00s. To see them from fresh perspectives like yours makes me feel like a kid again and how awesome/scary these movies were the first time you watched. So thanks 😊
Why don't you just watch all 3 of them in one sitting? :D
@@IR4TE There are few who can ;-)
Normally, people call Gandalf Dumbldore… hearing someone call him Ganondorf is a welcome change of pace!
Haha 🤣 indeed
Au Contraire. Gandalf has a much bigger audience than Dumbledore ever did. Harry Potter looks like a flash in the pan compared to Lord of the Rings.
@@metoo7557 While that's true, it doesn't change the fact that people (especially young people who grew up on Harry Potter) make this mistake some times
@@mikelarsen5836 It's just people familiar with other media who draw similarities... if you insult them and call them names you can bet they'll lose any interest in reading the books or any other of Tolkien's masterpieces
Gannondorf joins the fellowship.
Everyone is here.
"Why does he look so evil?" Because he's Christopher Lee. Among many other amazing things, he played a vampire 13 times and recorded a black metal Christmas album at the age of 92.
He was also torturer at interrogations of Germans during and after WWII.
He also witnessed the last public execution with guillotine in france
@@shotq8070
Amazing how he could hold up after all the things he took part in during and after the war and even have a successful career after it.
Stalin's top executioner Vasily Blokhin became mad. But he personally executed more than 10.000 people.
He corrected Peter Jackson on how men react when you stick a knife in them.
@@chrissibersky4617 and people still think those trials prove anything lol
"Kill this man" to Pippin
That is just the uninitiated way of saying "FOOL OF A TOOK"
trow youself next time and pare us of your stupidity
@@mikelarsen5836 dude... chill '-'
@@mikelarsen5836 lol i mean we all have our gripes. Mine is lack of realism. This movie (being fantasy) has so much believability it blows me away how real it feels which is why i liked it. Just be happy they made your fav book into an actually good/beloved series. Is what i say.
@@mikelarsen5836 Jesus, dude. Judgemental gatekeeping much? Tolkien would be ashamed.
He should throw himself in next time and rid us of his stupidity.
"Nobody has the ability to let go of the ring... at least not without force."
You're dead on. Bilbo is a hero... even though he struggled, he was able to do it.
I get so upset when other people don't realize that, because they don't realize how strong Bilbo really is
@@kuroyuki6254 i was SO fucking happy when he gets to the havens and awakens from his stupor, gets this light in his eye and says" i am quite ready for another adventure!"
Yes Bilbo! You deserve it my man!
Thats the strong of hobbits ❤️ i love them
@@kuroyuki6254 There's a bit in the book that really exemplifies this. When Bilbo offers to be the one to take the Ring to Mordor at Rivendell Boromir has a bit of a chuckle at how ridiculous the idea is. Then he looks around and sees that nobody else - not the wizard, Elrond, *nobody* - treats it as a joke.
@@nosirragessej I don't remember this part. Probably because I've read the books more than a decade ago
The reason Sam calls Frodo “Mr. Frodo” is because he literally works for him… lol he’s his gardener. Also Frodo is older.
Frodo=50
Sam=38
Merry=36
Pippin=28.
Because hobbits live longer than mortal men Pippin is actually equivalent to a teenager.
Which explains everything lol.
I don't think they live longer than men, Bilbo was extraordinarily, unnaturally old, and he was just 111 years old. Humans have surpassed that by decades. Btw, if humans are mortal men, hobbits are mortal hobbits; they die too.
@@brunoactis1104 in the books it explains that some men live longer. Like Aragorn’s line. But I think it’s more the way they mature. It’s been a while since I’ve read them. I’ll double check. But you see in the last one how much Bilbo ages in a few years after the ring was destroyed.
That’s actually one of the funniest casting facts. The ages of the actors for the hobbits are almost reversed from the characters. Billy Boyd was the oldest and Elijah Wood the youngest.
@@brunoactis1104 111 years old isn't quite a Hobbit longevity record. What's pointed out as unusual (and more in a "huh, some guys have all the luck" and not "wait that shouldn't happen" is that at 111, Bilbo still looks like 30 years younger.
That being said, it's not impossible for a human to live longer than a hobbit (especially in the LoTR mythos). But on average, a hobbit will live longer than a 'normal' human. I think someone did the maths and calculated that a hobbit average life expectancy is slightly above 100. And sure, a normal dude *can* live longer than that, but our average is still around 70-80 depending on where you live.
"And you have my bow" - said Legolas and never spoke to Frodo again...
lol
He's too busy giving side-eye to anybody that talks to Aragorn during the entire trilogy.
Legolas pretty much only speaks to Aragorn and Gimli. He never says more than one line to anybody else.
@@ericstoverink6579 the wise do not speak a lot nor prove by demand. Thats the entire point of the characters here.. their dialogs and the silence between them.
@@Gaia369 iirc its not lore related or due to character traits. Its only in the films his dialogue is limited as such.
"He gives me somewhat evil vibes." And that, dear girl, is one of the many wonders of the actor that was Christopher Lee.
A man that literally made a living murdering people...
...granted they were NAZIS so "people" is probably pushing it....
He was Dracula, a Bond villain, count Dooku, Lucifer, both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, and a real-life spy. A great man and an awesome actor.
@@eduardopatraca3272 lollipops
Also, he was the only actor to have actually met the author, J. R. R. Tolkien.
@@Shadowman4710 ??? That's hella unsulting towards Germans
“How did he stab him if he can’t see him?” He CAN see him. The ring wraiths are between the world of the living and that of the dead (like between a human and a spirit). Putting the ring on makes you invisible to humans but makes you visible to wraiths because wearing the ring puts you in their dimension. If Frodo becomes a wraith, he will become invisible to the human eye.
Close. The power of the ring is the actual eye of Sauron and what people mean when they refer to the watchful eye. In the books, there is no actual eye floating above Sauron's tower, that was just added in for the movie, instead the ring's power and the fragmented soul of Sauron is the eye and when someone puts the ring on, Sauron is able to see you and in turn, so are his servants.
Yeah the power of invisibility the Ring provides is in fact drawing half into the the Unseen, the wraith-world:
"You were in gravest peril while you wore the Ring, for then you were half in the wraith-world yourself, and they might have seized you. You could see them, and they could see you.'"
...
"…they had other powers, more directly derived from Sauron ('the Necromancer': so he is called as he casts a fleeting shadow and presage on the pages of The Hobbit): such as rendering invisible the material body, and making things of the invisible world visible.”
...
"The world changed, and a single moment of time was filled with an hour of thought. At once he [Sam] was aware that hearing was sharpened while sight was dimmed, but otherwise than in Shelob's lair. All things about him were not dark but vague; while he himself was there in a grey hazy world, alone, like a small black solid rock, and the Ring, weighing down his left hand, was like an orb of hot gold. He did not feel invisible at all, but horribly and uniquely visible; and he knew that somewhere an eye was searching for him. He heard the crack of stone, and the murmur of water far off in Morgul Vale..."
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"Frodo was hardly less terrified than his companions; he was quaking as if he was bitter cold, but his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring. The desire to do this laid hold of him, and he could think of nothing else. He did not forget the Barrow, nor the message of Gandalf; but something seemed to be compelling him to disregard all warnings, and he longed to yield. Not with the hope of escape, or of doing anything, either good or bad: he simply felt that he must take the Ring and put it on his finger. He could not speak. He felt Sam looking at him, as if he knew that his master was in some great trouble, but he could not turn towards him. He shut his eyes and struggled for a while; but resistance became unbearable, and at last he slowly drew out the chain, and slipped the Ring on the forefinger of his left hand.
Immediately, though everything else remained as before, dim and dark, the shapes became terribly clear. He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him. Desperate, he drew his own sword, and it seemed to him that it flickered red, as if it was a firebrand. Two of the figures halted. The third was taller than the others: his hair was long and gleaming and on his helm was a crown. In one hand he held a long sword, and in the other a knife; both the knife and the hand that held it glowed with a pale light. He sprang forward and bore down on Frodo.
At that moment Frodo threw himself forward on the ground, and he heard himself crying aloud: O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! At the same time he struck at the feet of his enemy. A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder. Even as he swooned he caught, as through a swirling mist, a glimpse of Strider leaping out of the darkness with a flaming brand of wood in either hand. With a last effort Frodo, dropping his sword, slipped the Ring from his finger and closed his right hand tight upon it."
@twistedsisler
Umm, where are you getting that from? Certainly not the books where it clearly states that wearing the ring makes someone partially exist in the wraith world.
@@jasonbarkman what do you mean he never said it didn't put you in the wraith world. He was saying that Sauron didn't see from his tower, but rather through whomever used the ring
@@TwistedSisler The Ring isn't referred to as the Eye of Sauron in the books. The Red Eye is Sauron's symbol. His sigil. When people in the books refer to Sauron as "The Eye" they're not talking about his literal soul, but the sigil which symbolically represents Sauron. Saruman in the books is also referred to as "the White Hand", which, again, is his his sigil.
"I'm going to blame everything on gollum."
Personally I blame everything on Morgoth, for singing evil into existence, and then taking Sauron as his apprentice.
Actually Eru Iluvatar would be to blame, for creating Melkor as the most powerful Valar.
@@lailanashim274 well, thats blasphemy
lmao
@@lailanashim274 I don't think he's responsible for Melkor's choices though. Melkor had everything and he threw it away
@@bmxdoe But he should have known (being both timeless and omnipotent/all powerful/all wise) that Melkor was flawed and corruptable and would desire power of his own.
Great comment considering Frodo actually didn't complete his quest without gollum literally biting off his finger.
Yo this girl *gets it*. Most reviewers on youtube dont really get what The Ring actually is, but I'm very pleased how she gets that it's actually part of Sauron in there. Love this video, looking forward to part two!
It's right there in Galadriel's intro to the movie, I guess most reactors are still yapping away about nonsense while she's talking
Super late reply. But it is really impressive how quickly she understood the lore. She's the 1st person I've ever seen instantly connect the ring to Bilbo's old age from the moment his age is said.
The reason the ring makes you ‘disappear’ is because it takes you into the wraiths’ world. That’s why he could see them as they really appear, and of course, they could see him there just fine.
Exactly. I always autistically cringe when ppl think of it as a sort of magic Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility. The fact that it renders mortals invisible to other mortals is merely an incidental byproduct of it being worn by lesser beings (i.e., mortals) for whom it is not intended nor attuned.
more than that, you look like a big lit christmas tree to them XD
That’s why Tom Bombadil didn’t disappear when he put on the ring after saving the hobbits in the books.
@@robertpetre9378 Precisely!
@@robertpetre9378 Did Tolkien ever say what would have happened to Gandalf or Galadriel?
Rest In Peace, Ian Holm (Bilbo) and Christopher Lee (Saruman). 🥀
This film is cursed. So many of the people involved has passed away.
@@chrissibersky4617 It’s not a curse. It’s age.
@@chrissibersky4617 i mean its 20 years old now and some people were old even back then
@@chrissibersky4617 dude
On to another adventure...
I seriously laughed so hard when she said “time for a meal” when Gandalf grabbed the moth hahaha
LOL, yes, that was unexpected! And then "aww, it's such a cute moth!"
I love how kind and respectful she's being and really taking in the movie and all its lore, it's a breath of fresh air from similar reaction channels that do nothing but make jokes, reference memes, and don't even pay attention half the time.
"How did Bilbo find his way down there?"
HERE'S 3 FILMS TO EXPLAIN IT!
3 films....but you probably could have done it in one.
@@johnsmith8906 Rankin & Bass knocked it out in little over an hour... 😐
Or this neat little book that can be read in like two days.
Jesus Christ. They weren't that bad. This is getting really old.
@@johndelzoppo1366, for those of us that were fans of the book, yes they really were that bad.
“This is such an intense movie!”
*laughs in Return of the King*
Not gonna lie, if gandalf had mentioned I'd have to face shelob on this journey I'd politely yet firmly decline
"He's coming with them?" Samwise Gamgee is MVP of the entire universe and you cannot convince me different.
Gandalf, Aragorn and Sam hard carried the whole rest of the party.
I kinda think pippin may be a contender lol
If pippin didn't royally muck things up in Moria then a particular event wouldn't have happened to the Wandering Wizard
@@romanwagner8709 Meriadoc had a part to play as well. I doubt Frodo had ever been far from the Shire before, and certainly not to Bree. If it wasn't for Merri leading them there the outcome would have been different.
@@romanwagner8709 lol true, but you have to add Legolas for his high dps.
MVP? Gollum.
"Maybe the ring won't affect Frodo because he's to pure."
Ooooh my sweet summer child.
No no, that's actually right! Much more than willpower, and much more than any other mortal. Just, you know...
Not willpower, it's just that Hobbits don't really have any real care in the world or ambition. You can see that when Sam puts on The One Ring, his mind is filled with thoughts of planting many great gardens, because The Ring couldn't really latch onto any other ambition or want Sam had (other than saving Frodo, which The Ring definitely didn't want to encourage). And that's why Smeagol, who was similar kin to Hobbits, also didn't really do anything with The Ring, because he only wished for survival.
"How did they make the hobbits so small?"
They used a bunch of different practical effects, they had some actors walking on stilts, they used "Forced perspective", where one actor would be sitting further away, but the camera angle would be such as to make them seem closer, and the main actors had doubles in multiple size categories.
"That's the matrix! the matrix!"
fun fact, it is impossible to go anywhere in new zealand and not be able to find at least 3 people who were extras in these movies.
also i live about 45 minutes away from Hobbiton and keep on forgetting to go.
@@ISavant Please go for me
@@Cosmoproto I'm pretty sure it's like 100 bucks now and I'm fairly certain they've closed the bar.
turns out it's closer to 200 but you can still go to the banquet nights.
@@ISavant ah well, isn't it always like that
@@Cosmoproto i'll probably just go hike mount doom again when it's summer.
"I get evil vibes from him." That's Christopher Lee. He made a multi-decade career off of giving off evil vibes.
Dude probably killed multiple N*zis in WW2 with sinister vibes alone
@@JBWinter he saw true evil and stabbed it in the back
@@ravensshadow2179 Literally
@@ravensshadow2179 As someone who has studied WW2 from the original materials his whole life, I would say the evil won. Using computers to burn cities filled with civilians and no military targets is probably the worst thing since using atomic weapons twice just to get data of it's effects on humans. Though using famine as a weapon of war and bombing the hospitals, medicine deliveries to cause infections on the weakened people to kill as many as possible etc. are horrible war crimes.
Then after the war was won, creating death camps where all those were executed who actually knew what the war was about, so that false narratives could be implanted on the people.
Most of what people know on WW2 were conjured after the war. Because all of this started to come out during the 70s, they conjured up laws where providing evidence on what actually happened would be illegal. Anything but the official narrative is illegal. They even jailed almost 90yr old woman 15yrs ago who showed his own pictures and story during WW2 that was totally against the official narrative.
But majority of people have been brainwashed in the second or even third generations, thus they just call people like me crazy etc. after all "they have seen the video clips" that prove the official story right. Obviously the narrative was formed so that everything you hear and see will fit perfectly.
Think about what Christian's do in their churches. They have man in the cross on the altar, they eat the flesh of Jesus and drink the blood of Jesus. You could easily make Christianity to be like devil worship for someone who doesn't know Christianity. While this is not good analogy, it's the best i came up.
People who think the good side is winning in the current world are blind.
Well the guy did play Dracula in a couple of movies so I think he’s got the whole “being evil” thing down to a science.
People who have been asking Vkunia to react to Lord of the rings right now:
"it's been 84 years..."
LMAO I took my time
@@VKunia “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this channel, one simple request. For Vkunia to react to The Lord Of The Rings. That long awaited day has at last arrived. It shall be a legendary reaction series.” - Abraham Lincoln. Or what he would have said. 😉😏
“I was there. I was there 3000 years ago ... I was there the day the strength of men failed.”
I was there, 3000 years ago
@@SubOrYoureGay You beat me to it!
The ring didn't have Gandalf hypnotized - he was just deep in thought, connecting the dots. He hadn't realized yet that Bilbo had THAT ring, but seeing Bilbo's attachment to and fixation on it got the gears turning.
Fun fact: The author of LOTR, Tolkien, was friends with another great fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. The two taught at the same college and used to attend Bible studies together.
The bible studies thing is new to me. Tolkien was a devout roman catholic, so I can believe he attended bible studies, but C.S. Lewis was an anarchist, so that would really surprise me.
Bible studies, lol.
That's like studying Donald Duck, another fantasy figure.
And JK Rowling say they had a romantic relationship.
@@OriginalPuro Donald duck is an intellectual property created for money, the bible is a thousands of years old collection of historical and religious books.
@@patrickexiler9255 Are people really familiar with CS Lewis but unaware that he's one of the most widely-read Christian apologists? Or think that one of the great advocates of the Natural Law be an anarchist?
"I feel that Gandalf has been around and seen some things," Yeah, he's old enough to have seen it all.
Yeah, not mamy people remember that Mithrandir was created before the Middle-Earth and he is like brother to Balrog [same creature, just different form]...
@@grlt23 Gandalf, as a spiritual being, is the same as the Balrog, yeah. Basically angels.
Strider giving Frodo a swirly would be a plot twist no one saw coming.
A plot-swirl, if you will. 😂
For some reason this made me think of the scene from the beginning of The Big Lebowski 🤣
@@Shrapnel92 "Where's the fucking ring, shithead?!" - Strider
@@Potential123 "It's down there somewhere. Let me take another look." - Frodo Lebowski
@@Potential123 "The Eagles are coming!"
"Look man it's been a rough night and I hate the fuckin Eagles man."
"You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring!"
*Ryan George voice* THAT'S THE NAME OF THE MOVIE!
Hearing Ryan George in every movie is tight!
@@JanPopieluch it's super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Wow wow wow..wow
Oh really?
Worth noting that Ian Holm who played Bilbo Baggins in this movie passed away in June of this past year. He was a wonderfully talented actor, and his performance here was nothing short of magnificent. He is deeply missed.
6:38 I love this moment in the movie where Bilbo willingly let go of the ring and how the ring stuck onto him while he was making it slide off his hand it showed Bilbo’s strength of character and will was too strong to be totally corrupted.
And how he walked away quickly and could finally breath again
“How did they…?”
They used literally every trick in the book.
and Tolkien invented most of them.
And some tricks they straight up in invented
"So does the ring control people, and make them go crazy?" Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
She caught on to these things, (like it also extending life) quite quickly compared to some reactors I've seen. Encouraging.
Yes
You forgot the "DING DING DING DING DING ! ! ! " In front of the "winner, winner, chicken dinner " part. That's very important you know.
Your comment reminds me, Somebody should react to the lovely movie *"Waking Ned Devine" (1998)*
"That wasn't a very good idea..." Welcome to the Merry/Pippin experience.
Mostly Pippin. Merry actually shows quite a bit of intelligence throughout the story despite early goof ups. Of the four hobbits, I think he has the most natural intelligence.
@@ericstoverink6579 Something that gets glossed over from the books is that Merry and Pippin are semi-nobility and considered young gadabouts not yet mature enough for responsibility by their families. Merry in particular shows a lot of planning, leadership and organization in the trip to Bree and the Scouring of the Shire. (I think he's also the one to figure out the password to the gates of Moria, but I could be wrong.) Conversely, Pippin is not only the youngest Hobbit, he's not even of legal age yet.
In general, the four hobbits each incarnate some aspect of their race: Pippin is curious and innocent, Sam humble and content, Merry is organized and thorough, and Frodo responsible and noble in his simplicity.
I actively seek out movie reactions from first time Lord of the Rings viewers, so I was delighted when you uploaded this. I must say, yours is, by far, the best reaction I've seen. Can't wait to watch you discover the rest of this amazing trilogy!
That scene where Bilbo freaks out for a second and makes a grab for the Ring startled everyone the first time they see it.
No kidding. That shit straight up scared me as a kid; so much that for a while I’d walk out whenever that scene would play and not come back until it was over.
"How did they make the hobbits so small?"
A combination of practical effects, including forced perspective, body doubles, and scaling the set. There were 2 sets for Bag End: one scaled for the hobbits and one scaled for Gandalf.
"It's all literally Gollum's fault. He just had to go digging through the river."
About that.... 😉
Clearly that's the reason Hobbits don't swim....
Literally came here for this comment. Still have the video paused at this moment. Makes me wonder if she has seen all of these and that’s why everyone is surprised at how much she “gets it.” Not trying to be mean, I’ve just watched a lot of reactions to this and she’s the only one that has done that.
@@CarrotHawk done what?
@@loomick she’s fine he only that’s said “it’s all literally Gollum’s fault. He just had to go digging through the river.” I mean, maybe she is really sharp and picks remembers things super well, but the movie mentions Gollum getting the ring from a river in a quick like 3 second shot at the beginning of the film. Most people are not really going to remember that in their first watch through. Heck, I’ve seen these dozens of times and I had to go back and check to see if it does, because otherwise unless you have seen Return of the King, you’re likely not going to know that’s how he got it on your first watch. Idk, I thought I was being too critical but I had to stop after the Mines of Moria. She suddenly goes on a long dialogue of how Gandalf is her favorite character conveniently before he falls from the Balrog, almost as if to prep her audience for that moment. She gives a dramatic reaction but then said “no I refuse to believe he is dead, ganadalf is too powerful.” Which to me is sus too because we haven’t really seen much of his power yet, and it just sets her self up well in the next film to say “I knew it!”
It seems like just before every scene she is practically guessing what is going to happen next before it does, but she does it to where she is like half or almost right. When she said that Galadriel was intimidating the moment she saw her, again, feel like that was to set up the scene where she does actually become scary. Idk, I just had to stop at that point. I’d be happy to be wrong, but no other reactor has done all these things that I have seen.
@@CarrotHawk it wasn't even gollum
It was his best friend
And I am pretty The One would have been found by anyone as long as it remained
You have no idea how excited I am right now! These are my favorite movies ever, so I've been waiting for these reactions! 😁❤
Same! It feels like Christmas :D
These are the best movies ever made ! 🥰😄
“This man is like, 8-feet tall!” Well, Sauron is a [fallen] angelic being. As are the wizards Gandalf and Saruman, both being angelic beings in the bodies of old men. Sauron, however, is orders of magnitude more powerful than either of them- even without a body…
And as the more obscure Tolkien texts have it the entities the spirits to which Sauron belong to can assume physical forms with large size:
"The sense of 'cloud’ was in Quenya borne by the derivative fanya (cf. I 394). The older fana developed a special sense, being applied to the visible bodily forms adopted by the Valar and their kind, when they took up their dwelling in Arda, as their normal 'raiment’.† In these forms they were seen and known by the Eldar. (Glimpses of other manifestations were seldom given to them.) A fana thus became used in Quenya only for the visible forms or 'raiment’ (which included both the bodily shape and the 'vestures’ in which it was clad) in which a 'spirit’, not by its nature incarnate, presented itself to bodily eyes. It thus became not really a 'veil’ (since the spirit itself could not be 'seen’ without it) but a form of expression in terms suitable to the incarnate.
† Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe koaron: 'The Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in fanar (veils) after the manner of bodies of Elvish-kind'."
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"The fanar of the great Valar were said by the Eldar who had dwelt in Valinor usually to have had a stature far greater than that of the tallest Elves, and when performing some great deed or rite, or issuing commands, to have assumed an awe-inspiring height."
No. Not orders of magnitude. They are both maiar. It was mostly the forging of the ring of power that gave sauron a leg up.
@@fantasywind3923 a far better explanation than I could hope to give. Was that from one of the appendices or form one of Tolkien’s letters?
@@Shmulykas true. The power of the wizards is also intentionally restricted, if I remember correctly. I seem to remember something in the Silmarillion about the Valar not wanting them to try to match Sauron in might for fear of their corruption and concern for the destruction that such an outright contest of violence would inflict upon the world.
Sauron was only a 2nd in command to Morgorth the fallen angel from the first age
Can't believe you cut my favourite moment in the whole series: "Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!", with the darkness growing around him, the picture frames being moved away from him, the sound of the floorboard creaking. So epic!
I love how easily you seem to grasp many of the concepts of races, names, the nature and power of the ring, the motivations of each characters, etc. So refreshing after seeing so many reactors struggle with these! Add to that all the fantastic jump scares and this is already jumping to the front of the line as one of (If not my most) favorite LOTR reaction!
As far as reactions go, you can tell Vkunia is a pro
@@Grizzlox she could barely tell that Tropic Thunder is a comedy
Well, this is a well-known movie, even if she hasn't seen it
“Dang girl, were you forged in the fires of mt. doom, because you precious.” Is a pickup line I’ve used and has surprisingly worked. Once
LOL
Peter Jackson is a cinema wizard, lots of the hobbit scenes were shot just with clever use of perspective and camera tricks.
And sadly this is the kind of stuff that was lost in The Hobbit movies. The substitution of practical effects for CGI.
And a tiny Thai woman who was a double for Gimli.
Glad to see you're doing it right with the extended version. I'm happy to see you take this journey. You will not be disappointed.
I don't wanna sound condescending, but it's awesome how easily you've been able to follow the story. I don't know if it's an act or if most people just find it hard to follow, but most people on RUclips who react to this film don't seem to understand what is going on or remember the names of characters. Watching that feels like pulling teeth, so I'm so glad you're enjoying the film instead of being completely lost.
This is the best piece of fiction ever created (along with the books), so enjoy, this will be magical.
No, they’re not getting high… aside from whatever small nicotine buzz they may get. Pipe-weed is just the literary term Tolkien used for tobacco in Lord of the Rings.
True but some of us like thinking pipe weed is cannabis.
There's a whole RUclips video discussing what pipe-weed is including some mentions from the books indicating that it might get them a bit high.
For the books sure, but the movies 100% allude to it being cannabis
It's definitely weed based in the films lol
You should ask Radagast the Gree..i mean Brown!
You can visit the Shire in New Zealand, it's a tourist attraction now.
No you can’t. New Zealand doesn’t allow visitors!
@@simianinc Well not from the United States of Covidia....
@@Shadowman4710 Yeah, 'cause this is the only place it's happening
@@LA_HA . no, but we are leading the charge in being dumbasses about it.
@@koyoteekoy916 I get it, you hate your country, nobody cares
14:10
*Gandalf grabs a moth*
Vkunia: "Time for a meal"
lmao
It always brings tears to my eyes to see folks discovering that they enjoy LotR :')
If ganondorf rolled up on a wagon I would find that hilarious and potentially bad news for the hobbits.
Can’t wait to see how she handles Shelob 😆
Shh... let's let it be a surprise
@@gallegosm1000 😆😇
I predict an endless barrage of nope's and curling up on the chair
fun detail: When everyone is walking through the snow on the mountain, Legolas is simply walking ON the snow while everyone else is trudging through it
Elves man... :p
I'm always kinda wondering about the Nazgul not just leaving the river, but the general theory seems to be that the only real thing the river did was drive the horses into a panic.
In the books, there was a 17 year gap between when Bilbo left the Shire and when Frodo left. Frodo was in his 50s when he left. Without the ring, Bilbo began aging normally. When Frodo met him in Rivendell, Bilbo was 128 years old.
You don't need to visit all of those locations. However, you just need to visit one place, and that is New Zealand. It's where they filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 😎
Gollum’s species will be revealed in the next movie
“How did you find your way into this man’s cave?” That’s covered in The Hobbit! 😃
The Hobbits are small from forced perspective and other filmmaking trickery
They’re clueless because they don’t partake in adventure, they’re have no experience in these things
You should blame Isildur since he refused to destroy the ring
Everyone thinks Gandalf is gonna eat the moth!
Bilbo walked to Rivendell
“How does he look so evil?” Well he did play Count Dooku and Dracula
comments like these are awesome 👏
Honestly Elrond is just projecting. He wouldn't have done any better. But he's lucky enough to be able to blame Isildur, and by extension all humans, and passed that on to his adopted son as self hatred.
"I think that he's been around the block enough to know something really bad is about to happen."
Oh man, you have no idea how many times Gandalf has "been around the block!" Lol
This comes of as funny to me, since my mom uses that as a euphemism for being promiscuous.
@@BlackJar72 LOL! I mean the expression describes someone with a lot of experience, so yeah, it can definitely be used as a euphemism for that. Though I don't think that was the intent in this case
Or in Gandalf’s words out of the frying pan and into the fire
Yes! I love watching people get into my favorite movies!
"This man is 8 feet tall for no reason." Because he's not a man. Think of Sauron as basically a fallen angel. He was one of the Maiar, a race of spirits that also includes Gandalf and the wizards (in case you were wondering. They don't go into this bit of lore in the movies).
"How did you find your way into this man's cave?" You'll have to watch the Hobbit movies for that (or read the book).
"How did they make them look so small?" Forced perspective, little person scale doubles, scaled up sets, CGI, etc. All sorts of tricks.
Fun fact: Gandalf is a shapeshifter and is VERY ANCIENT. He took the shape of an old man to make people at ease with him
Really pay attention to the music in this trilogy. John Williams with Star Wars and Howard Shore for LOTR, probably one of the greatest achievement in music for popular hollywood movies :)
Ennio Morricone and the Dollars Trilogy. I would place that one above the star wars score.
Saruman was played by Christopher Lee. He was also played as Count Duku in Star Wars prequels. That's probably why he had such evil vibes.
"Saruman was played by Christopher Lee." That's all you had to say.
Whippersnappers, all of you! Before all that, he played Dracula in, like, 100 movies. Talk about evil vibes!
he also played Dracula - he was also a REAL Secret Service Agent and killed real people during the war - he was amazingly badass - he was a master sword fighter in real life
@@NecropsY1 - We'll wait until RofK for the obligatory Christopher Lee story, and TT for the story we all know is coming.
Ironic seeing as Tolkien would have wanted to cast Lee (his close friend) as Gandalf. Plus Lee was the hammer-horror Dracula, the guy had his villain credentials and then some (RIP)
I cannot recommend enough watching the Extended Editions, it goes so much more in depth. The third movie the Return of the King almost has to be seen in the Extended Edition.
Your reaction is wonderful; I'm so looking forward to watching these with you!
she mentions the scene w the wood elves (EE-only) and you can see in the immediate post prologue scene both the map shot which is EE-only, and the onscreen text is missing from the first Frodo shot - as it is in the EE.
Extended editions have more content but theatrical editions are better films
@@angusauty4396 There are arguments both ways. Ultimately they have different purposes and uses. I do think Fellowship theatrical is a perfect film. But that's for a theatrical viewing. People now watch them either as like a miniseries, or at random, or as one big movie. So pacing becomes less of an issue. There are certain add backs that are simply mistakes - Gandalf's mention of mithril in Moria, spoiling the surprise; Galadriel actually introducing her ring, which an attentive viewer would have known she was referring to anyway, having remembered her from the prologue, etc.
But there are several scenes and entire arc endings and subplots that are missing from the theatrical editions and they are huge things to have missing. The films as released in theaters are literally incomplete without these character arc endings. Two major villains and two major heroes just - don't get their stories finished in the original cuts. That's a problem.
The extended cuts are not perfect but they are as of now the best cuts. I do think they could be fixed up tho, w a few additions removed again. But what they add esp in the 3rd film is invaluable. You need to finish those characters' stories. The theatrical didn't. The feeling the theatrical cut of ROTK leaves you w about the series as a whole is completely different from how the EE of it leaves you feeling. Much hollower emotionally. One big emotional payoff removed. Much richness removed. And all the extra time spent w the characters throughout adds up and pays off greatly.
@@georgial6398 the extended editions have content that i definitely do think should have been in the original films, such as the borimir flashback in tt, and the faramir stuff in rotk, the saruman scene in rotk isn't completely necessary for the film itself, as it is basically tying stuff off from the previous film that isn't that relevant for rotk, however it does help a bit with cohesiveness for the trilogy as a whole. As lore and world building the extended editions blow the theatricals out of the park obviously, but the theatrical cuts, whilst not perfect, and could have benefited from some of the content from the extended, are superior as films. Basically the extendeds are like a super-detailed picture, but the theatricals are like fine-art. Neither perfect, but both definitely have their place.
I watched the theatricals again for the first time in a while since I didn’t have time to see the extended. But they literally feel so different. The extended feel better paced for me and also have so many details. The character arcs feel fuller
Elrond: Cast it into the fire!
Isildur: Nah bro, I'm a melee..and look at those stats!
"Why don't you ask a hobbit for money? Because they're always a little short." ROFL! 😂🤣😂
VERY happy to see you watching the extended editions
Not sure about that. The first part of the extended ends directly after the council of elrond and in the theatrical version it ends on the mountain. Just like here...
@@tonidipianduni4660 I’m not sure what you’re talking about
Not sure whether vkunia is watching the extended Edition.
@@tonidipianduni4660 she is. I watched along with the full reaction on Patreon. I used my extended edition DVDs. It’s the extended edition.
In the eighties I was living in a tiny room behind a house in West Hollywood, a hundred bucks a month. Landa and her son Paco lived in the house in front. Paco went to a local elementary school and when he was about ten years old his bud from school came over to play videogames and such, off and on, for a few months. I thought that his friend had the most unearthly eyes I had ever seen. His bud's name is Elijah Wood. Hello, Paco, hello, Landa and hello Elijah.
If she reacts this way to Orcs, just wait for The Balrog or Shelob XD
Or the Urukhai
"I just want to go to all these places!"
It was mostly filmed in New Zealand, which is Stunning!
That scene where Bilbo drops the ring remains one of my favourites of the whole series. The music, the way it hits the ground, the sense of willpower required is all so well done.
The only person to ever let go of the ring without force applied. Bilbo is a fucking G.
@@RoxxSerm Bilbo and Sam.
Also interesting that you mentioned what a good rider you would have to be to ride Arwen's white horse like she did when the ring wraiths were chasing her. The stunt woman who rode the white horse in those scenes fell in love with the horse, and when animals from the film were being auctioned when filming was done, she couldn't afford to bid on the horse, but Viggo Mortensen/Aragorn knew of her connection to the horse and he bought it for her.
NICE. this is gonna be one hell of a journey for you.
An... unexpected journey, you could say.
The One Ring gives power to it's user that fits their level of spiritual power. Hobbits are so small and innocent that all it does is make Frodo invisible to those of the mortal realm. You saw what it did with Sauron. Dude was soloing an army.
Edit : it will also prolong the users life. Hence why Bilbo aged SO much so quickly without it.
Bilbo doesn't Age so much so quickly. There are like 20 years between Frodo getting the Ring and the journey starting
“When you grab the ring you also become evil” that’s one hell of an insight and basically yeah
I will say, I love the fact that you are having ALL the intended emotions you are meant to have at every moment you are supposed to during all the movies, and it makes watching these with you all the better for it.
She played the LotR game like any Hobbit would. Not even leaving the house.
Far too many adventures outside. And adventures are such troublesome things; they make one late for dinner.
That old Fellowship of the Ring game I think, it was based on books more as it came out about the time when the first movie was out too, I remember that game, quite interesting :).
"how did you find your way into this mans cave" so there is a story for that
Im adventurous, outgoing, positive and I like to take long walks in caves
@@KurticeYZreacts Do you enjoy flying, also? How about river rafting?
@@grega8586 do i ever!
@@KurticeYZreacts You like riddles?
@@grega8586 lol *head bobs backwards remembering the scene now*
So excited for this! "I don't know if it has lasers" that line really cracked me up 🤣
I mean, it would have been kind of cool
Lol i chuckled too
@@lindseystein9676 if anything now I'm bummed that he doesn't have lasers lol
Here from your tiktok, I genuinely love people experiencing this for the first time because it means more people get to enjoy what I love
“Every civilization on this planet is gorgeous!”
It real, it’s New Zealand.
They used a variety of techniques for making the different sized characters: Sometimes they used short or tall stand-ins. Sometimes they used forced perspective. Sometimes they used digital composites.
Don't confuse "pipeweed" for marijuana. Tolkien smoked pipes and only smoked tobacco blends. Marijuana wasn't prevalent in his day and in his circles. It's just tobacco.
"It's a very good cheese"...loved that line.
Outstanding! "Firefly," and now, "LotR." Almost certainly the first things I would have asked for had you asked. I'll think of it as a personal favor anyway. 😁 Thanks. Here we go!
“I’m blaming everything on Gollum.”
Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgement; even the very wisest cannot see all ends.
"Gandalf, I'm happy you didn't eat the moth." This is my new favorite English sentence.
I read the book in high school in the early 90s. I was blown away when the movie came out.
Then count yourself fortunate for not having to wait long for the films. I read the books in the early 70s. In 1978, Ralph Bakshi made an animated film version covering and part of , to mostly poor reviews. And it was bad, very bad. Since then I always thought that someday it would be filmed in animation. While watching "Shrek," I was hopeful that someone would do so using such animation. I'm glad they didn't. Peter Jackson blew my expectations away.
I cannot tell you how much I've been looking forward to your reactions to this truly AMAZING movie trilogy!
VKunia, you'll enjoy this fantasy, cause its so different from the other fantasies that are mainstream, GOT or the Witcher. The themes are more black and white than grey. Honor is what guide many of the characters' moral compass as opposed to Machiavelism. And the leading characters are motivated to save the day not because they're some self-absorbed primadonna but because of love and sense of obligation for others. Above all, this fantasy emphasizes the concept of destiney which has been disregarded by modern fantasy writers these days.
"Did he walk all the way to the mountain just to say 'no'? King of Petty" - pffffft XXD that's some beautiful description of (movie)Isildur
The reason everywhere is so beautiful is because it's filmed in New Zealand, which may just be the world's most beautiful country.
If just a few Orcs freak her out can't wait to see her reaction to Helms Deep or Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and to understand Frodo and Sam's relationship you need to look up about a WW1 British Army officer and his Bagman the Bagman is basically his servant, anyway really looking forward to your reactions to the rest of the trilogy it should be a lot of fun.
First ever reaction I've heard someone guess Gandalf would eat a moth
Always wondered why none of the many reactors I've watched never thought that, he probably hasn't eaten in a while.
@@jowbloe3673 lol I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a moth
One other did, actually very recently.
Most of them do, actually.
I'd recommend watching the extended versions. They're terrific!!
There were several tricks they did to make the hobbits (and dwarves look smaller). The oldest trick in the book is force perspective which means the actors that played the hobbits stood further away from the camera. When Frodo rides in Gandalf's cart Elijah is sitting further back with the pole on his side 30 % bigger than the other. There were moving force perspective that the hobbit actors were moving on dollies that moved with the camera so the hobbits would remain small even when the camera was moving.
They had scale doubles, several little people for the hobbit actors (including Kiran Shah who plays Ginarbrik in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), he played Frodo, Bilbo and Merry whenever Frodo wasn't with him, one for Gimli named Brett Beattie (he was also Gimli's stunt double) and a seven feet tall guy named Paul Randall (nicknamed Tall Paul) who were doubling for all human, elf and wizard characters the hobbits were interacting with. Often the doubles either had their backs towards the camera with the actor's faces visible (like when Gandalf hugs Frodo at the start, when you see Gandalf's face, it's Ian McKellen with Kiran's back toward us and when the camera is on Frodo, it's Elijah Wood with the back of Tall Paul as Gandalf). Also in some shots where you see the hobbits and/or Gimli with Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir etc. behind them, it's Tall Paul though you only see his body but not face. In some scenes bluescreen were used for instance when Frodo talks about hiding The Ring, Elijah was shot against bluescreen with Ian's part filmed on Bag End set seperatley. There was also two different scaled sets of Bag End, a big one for Elijah and Ian Holm, and a small one for Gandalf which was cramped and you could easily hit the head on the cieling (which by the way was a mistake and not scripted but because the comedic moment and that McKellen stayed in character, it was left in the movie) and all the props, costumes and weapons were done twice, either 30 % bigger or 30 % smaller depending on what the objects are (hobbit props were smaller for the human actors while human props were bigger for the hobbit actors).
For the shots where Gandalf sit at the kitchen table and is served tea by Frodo and Bilbo, Ian McKellen sat closer to the camera on one half of the table with small tea pot, plates and food and on the other half was big props for Wood and Holm to interact with (there's a gap between the two halves that is not seen on camera as it was placed perfectly with the table). For the scene where Bilbo takes Gandalf's staff and hat and goes away to put them away, Holm and McKellen were on different sets (Ian Holm on bluescreen), McKellen hands his normal sized hat and staff to a crew member while another one handed over a big staff and hat for Holm to take and those shots were blended together and the crew members erased out and carefully mapping out the different hats and staves to make it blend seamlessly. At Bree, in addition to the sets being overscaled for the hobbits, there were big rigs, that is huge suits of men with fake hands that were radio controlled off screen. Those were basically stilt walker costumes with a five foot tall gymnast walking in them, wearing a fake head over her. An example is the man that goes behind Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin when they speak with Butterbur at the Prancing Pony.
The scale small scale doubles in some shots had rubber masks that resemled Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd and in the scene were Arwen rides away from the RIngwraiths, Kiran Shah had an animatronic mask of Frodo on his face which were radio controlled (Liv Tyler said she could hear the buzzing of the animatronics during the filming, in addition to Shah's cackeling). In some shots the scale doubles faces were replaced with the actors faces, shot speratley against bluescreen, such as when Boromir carries Frodo away after Gandalf falls in Moria and when the Uruk-Hai takes away Merry and Pippin at the end.
For the shot where The Fellowship stand together in Rivendell, Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) and Sean Bean (Boromir) were shot in one shot on the Council set, while Wood, Astin, Monaghan, Boyd and John Rhys-Davis (Gimli) were shot on bluescreen, and Rhys-Davis is 6 foot 3 which means he is already taller than the hobbit actors so a third pass weren't necessary.
For the Bill the Pony, they obviously had to have a horse that would look like a pony for the hobbit actors and a pony version for Aragorn and the small scale doubles, though for the remote mountains and the Midgewater Marches where transsporting a horse/pony with helicopter wasn't possible, they had a Bill the Pony costume with two actors inside, one is the front end and the other is the rear end like in a children's play. Also in the Shire scenes they gathered oversized birds, butterflies and animals for the hobbit actors to make them feel smaller. A gigantic bull was consindered, as it had a birth defect that just keeps on growing so it became ginormous but the problem was that the only part that wasn't growing was its feet so it couldn't walk, therefore it wasn't usable for the movies, unfortunatley.
The screams of the Ringwraiths were done by Fran Walsh, writer and producer of The Lord of the Ring (and Peter Jackson's wife) when she had a cold, so her voice had a lot of gravel. The sound team tried with different kinds of screams but none of them were working and when they played up the scream samples, Pete said "Fran can scream like that." so she was put in the recording studio and screamed into the microphone, which knocked the sound guys on their butts, and it destroyed her throat.
"Fellowship of the Ring" or in modern DnD terms, the OG adventuring party.
I wonder?? Could our girl, VKunia, handle THE EXORCIST??She startled by Sauron's all seeing eye.
Hopefully the original version, not the George Lucas version as I call it
"I wonder??"
Why is that a question?
Should we answer whether you wonder or not? Oo
with the limited budget Peter Jackson had, he did all he could to stay as true to the novels as can be in film.
I'll take "things that were never said about The Hobbit, for $800, Alex."
Funny, PJ actually grossly overspent the budget he had. Fellowship was a big gamble. But filming all three at once - before reshoots was bigger still. If FOTR failed at the box office no one was going to want to see the other films. So they might not have even been finished. You might say "The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true."
@@clarkbarrett6274 I actually have no idea what his budget was, and its no surprise to learn that he grossly overspent it. it looks it! you probably know that Star Wars was a huge gamble for George Lucas in 1977, in the shadow of the US getting kicked out of Vietnam 2 years earlier. Corporate Hollywood certainly didn't think much of it while it was being made, a low-budget (for $10 mil) "B" sci-fi flick that no one would take seriously...
“Frodo looks like the little brother you just took the PS2 from”
Spoken as if you have experience in this field
V: "I don't like those screams. They actually invoke terror."
The screams were "actually" recorded by a woman who worked on the movie set. They were having a problem trying to create a sound that could represent the dread of the "Nazgul" when they communicated. So one of the ladies on the set had a reputation for being able to scream really loud. They gave her a microphone for a voice test, and her scream was so shrill that it just about shattered everyone's bones. So they made her the "voice" of the Nazgul.