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Now i understand why they didn't made it 100% accurate. Too much action happening, It was the budget needed for them to make it 100% accurate, and also it will make the movie longer.
NGL I think the Movie version of events is better than the books. I know that's a near criminal thing to ay but in this instance the movie's events made for a better battle. I suppose it helps also that the Movie version of this battle is so good. One of the best battle sequences in cinema history.
I much prefer the strategic depth of the books, but it has so many different elements that it wouldn't have been possible to portray in the movie. I don't like some of the decisions Peter Jackson made, but at least he had good reason to make them.
With all due respect for the beauty and grace of the Lady of Light, Galadriel going dark in the movies made me shit my pants more than any balrog or nazgul ever did!
My dad pointed out the first time we watched RoTK. Aragorn couldve held the oathbreakers for an eternity. Conquering the entire planet. But he held their oath fulfilled.
Book version is more realistic...They had an elevate position above the hills,due to it's small number of troops. The suicide charge of the film is more epic,but is just a nonsense suicide....And Aragorn wasn't so fool in the books,he was a Captain of Men.
3:57 Peter Jackson in the movies perfectly made this look other way around too. Faramir's bathalions were running away criying like babies. In the movies Gondor's army look much weaker compared to Rohirrim.
This was great, as I was reading I was doing my best to put these kind of images in my head and I was mostly right, but it's helpful to see it here as well
She didn’t turned dark, she just showed her power unveiled before Frodo to show what will happen if she takes the one ring. Remember that she took the same form of power when she banished Sauron from Dol Guldur, this time using the light of earendil to make Sauron flee.
This is three years on since this was published but I'm going to comment anyway. I was reared in a culture in which young ladies did not take paid positions after we married and only either a teacher or a nurse before we married. I wanted to be a veterinarian but Mother said that this profession was for boys. It was the job of men to provide for their families and for women to run the household and bear children. You must also know that we came from extreme privilege. The only good thing that came out of that for me was the best education money could buy. I went to college in the 60's when women were continuing the slow repair of our egos, whom we loved and what we were "allowed" to do. I burned my bras and the young men my age burned their draft cards. I ended up as an RN but Mother never understood that a Registered Nurse in Critical Care wasn't the same thing as a Red Cross Volunteer aide who wore a cute little blue uniform and hat once a week to make beds and give baths at the local hospital. I read The Lord Of The Rings when I was 10 years old, shortly after it was first published in its completed form. I saw Galadriel as a powerful, deeply feminine and strong elven maid who took crap from no one, not even her beloved Celeborn. She ruled Lorelinorinen and that was that. She gave me hope that we, as young women, could choose our own paths, not taking the "Stepford Wife" life into the oblivion of doing aught but changing diapers and solving grade 3 math for our sons. And it was sons who were important. She had only one son and four daughters. We cleaned my brother's room, made his bed, obeyed him and treated him like a king. He had his own suite with a sitting room, his own guest room, study, bath and a private entrance into the very large house. He also had his own valet. We four girls had enough room but certainly not our own suites or personal servants. Mother had a ladies' maid and Father had a valet, as my brother did. That was how it was, period, full stop. Tolkine's books opened my mind on so many levels of how my life might be when allowed to choose my own life. I'm old now and still practising nursing. I have two daughters to whom I gave a blank slate to choose how they wanted to live. My elder and her wife live on the Canadian border in Vermont. She speaks 4 languages, has two Master's degrees and makes a living as an American Sign Language Interpreter. She and Julie, my daughter-in-law, have decided not to have children. My younger daughter is a professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at U Chicago and does her research in Antarctica. She is now a globally known and recognized physicist, winning every major prize on the planet except for the Nobel, for which she has been nominated twice. She has two children and lives with her husband, and they are raising my grandchildren with their own blank slates to choose as they will. That is what came out of Tolkien's legendarium, Galadriel's character being the inspiration.
Easy enough, even she knew she wasn't proof against the corruption of Sauron's "One-Ring." - she'd spent thousands of years hiding her own Elven Ring to protect herself from being indirectly corrupted by Sauron's ring. She'd watched each of her parents and siblings die from their own hubris in thinking they could take on Morgath and she realized that even the Noldor weren't powerful enough to take on a Maia let alone a Vala.
I prefer the movie, I hate how the Eagle just come out of nowhere its so cheap. also the movies show the battle instead of summoning up what happen after skipping the whole thing
Movie Denethor is unjustly portrayed as broken and defeated. He doesn't organize defenses, prepare his troops, protect his people or take meaningful interest in his son Faramir partaking in a suicidal charge against the orks at Osgiliath. Book Denethor on the other hand actually put his back into defending Minas Tirith with great vigor. He was also strong enough to use the Palantir and stand up to Sauron in a battle of wills, but it drained him physically.
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The Ghost Army involvement was pants.Just happened to be on the way and it’s use rendered all other circumstances pointless.Just needed Ghost Eagles to complete the fiasco!
This isn't the full story though as in the Hobbit she takes the dark form to drive off Sauron. I believe it has more to do with tapping into either Sauron's power through the ring, or the powers of the gods that give elves their eternal life.. and when she taps into it fully it skews to dark either from the ring's influence, or because she's doing it for herself and not the good of others. Case in point how all the Maya/Istar were good in the stars originally, but once they were brought to Valinor they started making their own choices and some turned dark. Saruman was always petty and self centered, but many others were seduced by Morgoth and eventually turned into 23 Balrogs.
Excellent answer. The Ring is not a burden for the eagles to carry. They are natural and divine creatures, they would have recoiled and crumbled under its darkness.
My interpretation of what happened is when Sauron realised he was f*cked he leads the final sortie to reach Orodruin, perhaps to create a volcanic inferno that destroys the last alliance. When he reaches the mountain and starts to descend, on one of the platforms Gil-Galad and Elendil reaches Sauron and duels him. They fight and wound each other several times. At last Sauron gets the overhand and flings Elendil aside. Gil-Galad pierces Sauron with Aeglos but is simultaneously hoisted up in the air and scorched by Saurons hand. Sauron takes his ring and drops Gil-Galads lifeless body, but before he can put it on Elendil tackles Sauron, flinging them both over the edge of the platform, crashing down at the side of the mountain. Narsil brakes beneath Elendil and the king dies in the fall. Sauron, wounded and weak tries to drag himself towards Vilya. Isildur finds him, takes his father’s broken sword and cuts off the ring from the dark lords hand, creating a shockwave from the separation of Sauron from his power. Tell me what you think ;))
Oh, as very much a novice in the lore, is this really correct? Was it the Balrog's spells and knocked the doors in and not the orcs/goblins? And what about the Goblin being hit in the head by stones, is this from the books? Edit: I'm sorry but, even I know from the books that Balrog actually escaped the water out of fear for the nameless things, through tunnels, in which Gandalf followed him to not be lost. I get the sense that you are not really staying the trail of the actual books. Tell me if I am wrong thou as some important details are ommitted or falsely added :)
The Elven rings were created before the one ring. Though I'm unsure of their connection to Sauron and the one ring, they did have power all of their own long before the one ring was created. No reason to believe they would lose their power after the one ring was destroyed. We also see Galadriel turn into this dark form in the Hobbit. She does so when she is fighting/using magic. Probably one of the best scenes in the entire Hobbit trilogy when the wizards and elves take on the Nazgul and Galadriel banishes Sauron's spirit. So no, the dark form has nothing to do with who she would become if she got the one ring. The dark form could be connected the corruption of having her ring for so long, not sure, but I disagree with your lore of the rings.
I think it would have been cooler to see more ents than surprise elves.. but I can see how expensive it would have been to have the Huorns animated for a second major battle. Such a shame. This scene could have been even cooler.
The movies were a great visual spectacle and the ride of rohirrim was done so well. I specifically prefer 2 details of the book: 1) only the outer gate of minas tirith being breached and Gandalf rallying the defenders to go out to help the rohirrim. 2) Aragorns ghost army only being used to scare the corsairs which frees up reinforcements for the big battle. Especially the second detail bothers me a bit. What even was the point of the entire battle if they had the deus ex machina of the oath-breakers. The rohirrim were not even required since the whole army was going to be destroyed by ghosts anyways.
Sauron was unarmed. No mace, sword, etc. Likely Sauron was badly wounded, and Gil Galad thrust Aegilos into Sauron's body. Sauron pulled himself up the shaft of Aeglos, grabbing Gil Galad by the neck or head, immolating him with the heat of his body (estimated at 900F degrees). Elendil thrusts Narsil through Sauron's heart, mortally wounding Sauron's mortal form. Elendil dies from wounds and/or burning and falls across his sword. Narsil was made brittle from the heat of Sauron's body with the blade of Narsil breaking about a foot from the hilt when Elendil falls upon it. Isildur describes the One Ring as being "hot as a glede" when he took it. Tolkien was fond of old English in which "glede" meant a red hot burning coal. Little wonder that Isildur was never free of the pain from the ring burning him.
