EFAP Movies #60: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition

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Good god! here it is! A wonderful celebration of the greatest trilogy ever PUT TO FILM!
Join us for a glorious adventure through the world of Middle Earth!
Complete with incredible characters going on thorough journeys to defeat evil once and for all!
This series of movies is famous for being that of immense quality and 20 years ago, The Return of the King was released in cinemas and entertained the whole world for generations to come!
We at EFAP wanted to give you guys an awesome experience to celebrate this anniversary and hopefully the commentary/editing gives yah a blast.
A sad reality is that this video, despite great effort, cannot be monetised unless given heavy copyright protection. There was a wall of copyright claims which, when you watch it... makes some sense but hopefully the experience isn't hampered.
Though it is worth mentioning that this was an incredible sink of resources for several editors and something like this cannot be made often without support from you folks.
What matters to us most is that it entertains the hell out of you and sets a celebratory milestone for some of the most inspirational movies of all time, make sure to let us know what you think! \o/
Editing credits (time relates to raw recordings worked on):
The Fellowship of the Ring:
Hour 1 - Mauler
Hour 2 - Mauler
Hour 3 - Mauler
Hour 4 - Mauler
The Two Towers:
Hour 1 - Fringy
Hour 2 - Mauler
Hour 3 - DasBoSchitt and Mauler
Hour 4 - Mauler
The Return of the King:
Hour 1 - Mauler
Hour 2 - Fringy
Hour 3 - Fringy
Hour 4 - Fringy
Additional polish/montage and animations - Wolf
Excruciating copyright protection passes - MauLer
Integration of chat (Please tell me it was worth it lmao) - MauLer

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@TheMaleRei 3 месяца назад

"I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now be ashamed." - Theoden the Great

@ungenerationed9022 3 месяца назад

Love that line and that entire scene!

@deanog2577 2 месяца назад

Its works even better after Théoden calls himself "A lesser son of greater sires" In the book chapter The Voice of Saruman.

@the_absurd_hero Месяц назад

Bruh... you didn't have to 😭

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

MauLer telling fringy about his mild arachniphobia and fringy laughing because the spiders in australia will fucking end you.

@JoMiMo555 3 месяца назад

Even the harmless ones were created from my nightmares.

@CharlesUrban 3 месяца назад

Don't go to Australia to research spiders right before you die, because the dying part won't take long.

@Soyuz2578 3 месяца назад

I live in Brisbane Australia and our spiders that we get around here are the daddy long legs (DLL aren't much to worry about) and we get Huntsman spiders, Huntsman aren't venomous as such; but they are the size of an average man hand and can get up to the size of a dinner plate and the worst thing is that they jump which can be a bit scary. But once again aren't really venomous. The ones you have to worry about are White Tail, Red Back and Funnel web.

@UlmoIsGod 3 месяца назад

I'm just north of you.... We get all those. Add in the Golden Orb spider.... I hate them with a passion. I'm usually looking for taipans and eastern browns on the ground then have a golden orb web wrapped around my face!

@FeralGoblinx13 3 месяца назад

Isn't Fringy from New Zealand, or am I remembering wrong?

@realmofloredor 3 месяца назад

“Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. his golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed.”

@sztallone415 3 месяца назад

this is epic. is this from the book? this is quite clearly the badass last charge of an old man, one last time moving like decades ago. we lost scenes like this in our post-post-postmodernism, I feel.

@jonarc2403 3 месяца назад

@@sztallone415yes. It is from the book. And it is one of the only references to the valar in the entirety of the trilogy. I think it might be the only mention by name of any valar other than Morgoth in the trilogy, but, seriously, don’t quote me on that

@anyaabusable9888 3 месяца назад

"And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City."

@AnnaMarianne 3 месяца назад

@@jonarc2403 Elbereth is name dropped quite a few times by the Elves.

@runvti3274 3 месяца назад

I just read this part to my son. Damn hard to maintain my voice. I had prepared for that moment for like a 100 pages, and still failed XD

@Skele10bro 3 месяца назад

I still can't believe that Gimli wanted Frodo to rot in Mordor...

@Joe45-91 3 месяца назад

Such a shame, feel like they could have gotten along

@spbynum 3 месяца назад

For NO REASON!

@councilofkarens729 3 месяца назад

He was just upset at the blatent gayness between Sam & Frodo.

@RanOutOfChannelNames 3 месяца назад

NOURGH REASON!

@JoMiMo555 3 месяца назад

It's probably because he knew Frodo was going to frequently misspell his name in the inevitable book.

@tool4132 3 месяца назад

The best excuse to not send the Army of the Dead to Mordor, and makes sense canonically, is you wouldn't want to send a dead army to a place where a necromancer is in charge. I would imagine that even without a physical form Sauron would and could do something to counter them.

@lordofthepizzapie9319 3 месяца назад

"Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended; over death, over dread, over doom lifted out of loss, out of life, unto long glory." - King Theoden's burial poem

@budakbaongsiah 3 месяца назад

the musical adaptation of this by Tolkien Ensemble sounds wonderful (it's called Burial Song of Theoden)

@NicTheGreek1979 Месяц назад

RIP Bernard.

@budakbaongsiah Месяц назад

@@NicTheGreek1979 Fuck. RIP.

@Paul-bs5wl 3 месяца назад

About the army of the dead: A book element that is missing from the movie is the concept that Gondor has significant armies that are tied up in skirmishes along the coast with the men of Harad and Umbar. The function of the army of the dead is that they assist Aragorn in ambushing the corsair fleet at Pelagir; what they achieve is that they supernaturally terrify friends and foes (much like the Nazguhl do) a power that is even enhanced by Mordor's Shadow being projected across Gondor. They allow Aragorn to break a couple "minor" battles through terror alone, after which he dismisses the ghosty bois. He then proceeds to sail up the river in the captured ships gathering actual human soldiers from Gondor's scattered armies. This is a much better use for them, it uses the established concept of supernatural terror from wraiths, while also paying off the worldbuilding of Gondor's wider struggle and gives Aragorn the opportunity to establish himself as the King in wider Gondor before coming to Minas Tirith, something which also dovetails with Denethor's story of his greatness slipping away from him and him losing his grip. Obviously the wider worldbuilding doesn't exist in the movie, but I think it's weird for Peter Jackson to hate them so much from the book, and then proceed to make it significantly worse by having them just wipe out the seiging orcs. In the books, the orcs are trapped between Aragorn and his reinforcements (who come from where the orcs expect allies), the Rohirim and the prince of Dol Amroth leading a sortie from the city, broken by entirely mortal forces.

@georgekhoshtariya8458 3 месяца назад

I once saw this on a major Ukrainian TV channel, with Ukrainian dubbing, and in the scene where Faramir leaves for Osgiliath again, Gandalf - I shit you not - says: Faramir, your father loves me!

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

Theoden a fkn badass paraphrase "we cannot fight them its an impossible battle" "WE WILL FIGHT THIS BATTLE REGARDLESS! DEATH!"

@datzfatz2368 3 месяца назад

Absolute definition of a Hero. And to not paraphrase^^: Gamling: "We cannot defeat the Armies of Mordor in the Field" Theoden: "No, we cannot. But we will face them in Battle none the less" And damn sure they did. Legends.

@MelchiahTheObscene 3 месяца назад

[Smeagol has lost the argument]

@nont18411 3 месяца назад

Ahh the good old days. Before the dark times. Before the subversion bs.

@IIJOSEPHXII 3 месяца назад

Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) used to sit at my bar in Manchester in 1988. Martin Hannett used to come in as well. He was played by Andy Serkis in 24 Hour Party People.

@majomajo1835 3 месяца назад

The beacon scene is simply magnificent. Théoden would have every right to let Gondor hang, but he knows that Aragorn, not him, won the Battle of Helm's Deep for Rohan. When Aragorn finally needs his help, he no longer hesitates, 'And Rohan will answer' is the perfect payoff of the dynamic between those two, they built up over two movies. 'You were willing to die for my people and so I am willing to die for your people.'

@harbl99 3 месяца назад

Lighting of the Beacons begins. "Sce-ne-reeeeee! Sce-ne-ry proooooon! Sce-ne-reeeeee! Sce-ne-ry proooooon!" And I'm okay with that.

@Montrovantis 3 месяца назад

Well, no... lol. It wasn't his willingness to die for "your people." He assessed he was looking down extinction.

@frawDgnicnaD 3 месяца назад

@Montrovantis that risk was obvious from the moment Saruman was revealed as an agent of Sauron. All his reasons for not aiding earlier were about the Gondorians not providing aid.

@Montrovantis 3 месяца назад

@@frawDgnicnaD ...yep. ?

@OccamAsylum 3 месяца назад

As a youngster it was exciting because you knew it was really significant. But also memorizing where all of the beacons were. 😂

@councilofkarens729 3 месяца назад

"For Trungo"

@MediumRareOpinions 3 месяца назад

There may come a time where I do not have the chickpea Grumbo *but it is not this day*

@nobleman9393 3 месяца назад

For Frugo

@RorytheRomulan 3 месяца назад

I will be DEAD before I see the chickpea grumbo in the hands of a Wumbo!!!

@MediumRareOpinions 3 месяца назад

@@RorytheRomulan _"the Dwarf eats grumbo so loudly we could have shot him in the dark"_

@Ceyx000 3 месяца назад

"One does not simply order chickpea grumbo."

@mordirit8727 3 месяца назад

In defense of the Army of the Dead in the Books (totally agreeing with Mauler that they are the biggest flaw in the movies btw): they are _not_ an army in the books. Aragorn manages to bend the shades to fight for him in turn for forgiving their broken oath, yes, but in the books they _don't_ go to Minas Tirth and kill everyone. All they do is attack corsair armies that were keeping most of Gondor's forces locked in the south. Lebennin and Harondor had _even bigger_ armies than Minas Tirith, but the men of Umbar and Harad had been keeping them locked in their lands, unable to travel the Anduin to come to Minas Tirith. Aragorn just uses the ghosts to liberate those armies. The ghosts don't even _fight,_ they just scare the absolute living shit out of the enemy allowing the soldiers to take quickly assault and defeat them. It's the armies of Gondor that Sauron had forced to stay away, not an op instakill ghost army that ends up arriving with Aragorn and winning the day, and far from being "we got here, victory!" the arrival of those armies is basically barely the midpoint of the battle, almost all of the war is still to be fought after that. If Jackson hates how overpowered the ghosts were, I have no idea why he decided to _make_ them powerful, when in the books they are basically a D&D Fear spell that is not even used in the war.

@christophergirardi8145 3 месяца назад

I honestly love the ghosts use in the movies. It's epic and pushes Aragorns arc in making the kingly choice of releasing them right than instead of throwing his hold over them as a lesser man would.

@luckierloser 3 месяца назад

@@christophergirardi8145 that happens in the book as well

@luckierloser 3 месяца назад

i think denethor (everything about him) is the worst flaw, but the ghosts undercut a lot of good stuff from the book as well

@gunterthekaiser6190 3 месяца назад

My guess would be time? The battle of the pelenor field is massive, with multiple players changing its course all allong. Having the ghosts allows it to not linger too much on that battle. Still would have liked my Swan Knights tho.

@Michael-zf1ko 3 месяца назад

I feel like the ghosts in the movie undercuts Rohan's achievements, too. I mean geez, why charge into battle and lose half your men when you could've waited a little bit for Aragorn and his unstoppable ghost army to come in and save the day? That's probably why he never says anything to anyone, so the Rohirrim has to just assume he abandoned them on the eve of battle. It would've been better if Rohan took care of all the elephants on their own accord while Aragorn retakes the city itself with the liberated army of men.

@berserkshirtbear1271 3 месяца назад

This is in my opinion a better format than the video with all of them together because breaking them into their three parts allows you to reset and hear each film discussion on its own

@thomaspeterson8357 3 месяца назад

One of my favorite lines from the book is when Gandald says " and Saramon needed to be shown that the power of his voice is waning. He cannot be both tyrant and councilor." It seems very applicable to these modern times

@RebelCannonClub74 3 месяца назад

The big stone ball the Uruk uses in the Riot might be a clay barrel. Before wooden barrels, people rolled big hollow balls filled with beer/liquid instead. The reason they switched to wooden barrels is because once you opened the ball up there's no real way to cork it back up without it leaking.

@doopdoopdopdop7424 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the fun fact! I like the idea that it was a present from Grandma more tho.

@tkopp10976 3 месяца назад

People like to poke fun at the "My Lady!" guy, but really, what was he supposed to do? He's on foot, Arwen is on a horse and just decided to turn around. He can't stop or catch up to her. And it's not like we're given the impression that Elrond has ordered her onto the ship, and it's someones duty to make sure she embarks. Hail the Return of the Wolf!

@bryannorton8945 3 месяца назад

And isn’t that Bret from Flight of the Conchords?

@tkopp10976 3 месяца назад

@@bryannorton8945 Never saw it but IMDB says yes, he has a RotK credit as "Elf escort" lol, and uncredited as "Figwit" in Fellowship. Probably in the background at Elron's meeting.

@bryannorton8945 3 месяца назад

@@tkopp10976 hahaha that’s awesome. I love flight of the conchords and thought one of them was in it

@anon17472 3 месяца назад

That's Brett from Flight of the Conchords, credited as Figwit (named for the face he made in fellowship "Frodo Is Great. Who IS That?") I think non nzers refer to him as Britt

@Paxchi 3 месяца назад

One of my favorite lines in the movie is when Theoden is imploring Wormtongue to reject Saruman. "Grima . . . come down from there. Be free of him." I don't know why, just something about the line "Be free of him" just has a lot of power to it. Especially from Theoden, who knows Grima had helped put him in the state that potentially caused his son's death.

@David_the_Psalmist 2 месяца назад

The power in that line is found in simple acceptance. It's like Jesus spotting a doofy short man in a tree and saying, "come down. I'm having dinner at your place." There's so much love and forgiveness in such a simple line, and yet it remains unsaid.

@UPTAUT 3 месяца назад

Watching my favourite films with the people I wish were my friends.

@manganimesYT 2 месяца назад

i love how you can tell at the end, that froddo is not really comfortable in the " you bow to no one" scene. he wants out pretty much

@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan 2 месяца назад

Yeah, very true. I think when he accepted his task of destroying the ring he may have had an understanding of just how huge his undertaking was going to be but by the end of it he is overtaken by the ring and may feel that he actually failed by allowing himself to be consumed by it. This is when Gandalfs line about Gollum having a part to play for good or evil, by him ultimately destroying the ring comes to mind. It may well not be until after the "You bow to no one" line that Frodo begins to appreciate what he and Sam were able to do and he can begin to start healing but soon realises that his time with the ring has taken far more from him than can ever be healed or replaced and understands he has to sail to The Undying Lands.

@manganimesYT 2 месяца назад

@@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan yeah, very true. Agreed . To me , it was more a show of how much Froddo has actually just … tuned out, that he wants to chill and be done with life ( not literally obviously)

@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan 2 месяца назад

@@manganimesYT Yeah, he understands that no matter what lies ahead for him it pales in comparison to what he's gone through and his journey to Mordor. He wants to be left alone but understands that The Shire folk, although they may not totally understand exactly what Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin have done, they will hold them in such high regard for the rest of their lives that he won't be able to ride off into the sunset whilst he remains in Middle-Earth. I also think Sam understands this and we see a little of that recognition in Sam at the Grey Havens scene. Were Merry and Pippin don't quite understand why he has to leave. They haven't been a ring bearers and won't understand the true toll it takes from him. This is also a good argument for why Sam is unlike anyone else in the whole story. He willingly gives up the ring, without help from Gandalf, and truly has no thoughts of ever regaining it or using it other than to rescue Frodo and see its destruction. I believe that Frodo knows that if not for Sam that the ring would continue to endure and that's why he leaves the final chapters of the book to be written by Sam. Not the Lord of the Ring but the only being not to be undone by its power and corruption. Tom Bombadil isn't undone by it but he doesn't appreciate the danger concerned with it's existence.

@LeanBack_HaveASnack_TakeANap 3 месяца назад

The extended editions made an absolute killing in home video rentals and dvd purchases. Releasing the full version in theaters would've left a lot of money on the table.

@Joe45-91 3 месяца назад

29:41 This is actually the impression I got of the elves when reading the books. Can't remember now, but it was either Fellowship or the Hobbit the elves are described as singing and giggling while in the bushes outside of Rivendell. I remember thinking the elves are closer to what Rags is depicting 😆

@runvti3274 3 месяца назад

Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was the Hobbit. Elves are a bit goofy in that one😅

@OccamAsylum 3 месяца назад

@@runvti3274even at the beginning of fellowship id argue lol.

@runvti3274 3 месяца назад

@@OccamAsylum True. But there's this serious tone with them also. Especially when the hobbits start to ask about the black riders. I think they feel more "elvish" than any elf in the hobbit.

@wangusbeef86 3 месяца назад

And then you have the Silmarillion Elves who are all psychotic badasses who kill balrogs every other tuesday.

@Kainvverd 3 месяца назад

No matter how many times I watch these movies, I always cry by the end... My head gets filled with thoughts and heart with emotions.

@FiladelP59 Месяц назад

I love the chat when Ride of Rohirrim happens. Both original and new chats spamming DEATH is fucking glorious!

@Mrfox2025 3 месяца назад

God these movies are amazing…the amount of love that went into these movies…cheers

@NicTheGreek1979 2 месяца назад

RIP King Theoden 😔

@mordirit8727 3 месяца назад

1:35:30 Uruk-hai going "we can't _spoil_ the Hobbits." Orc responds: "but _she_ can!" Cut to Shelob "having her way with them."

@dragonknightleader1 3 месяца назад

Which makes Shelob in the Shadow of Mordor games so creepy.

@thetoad5407 20 дней назад

She jabs them with her "stinger" until she goes as limp as a "bone" fish

@blackdragoncyrus 3 месяца назад

Can't wait for me wacky, spinning, zooming editing.

@MagickGOATee 3 месяца назад

Imagine the power of the Home Depot of Rivendell 😂

@thetoad5407 20 дней назад

They'd probably have a pretty extensive seasonal section.

@Nidhoggrr 3 месяца назад

I do wish they had followed the description of the book more closely when creating Shelob. It really makes her out to be an actual alien with a huge bulbous body covered in armor with spindly legs tipped in huge claws.

@zachrohler1047 3 месяца назад

Just got back from the comicon in kansas city. John rhys davies was there. Dude had a line the enitre time. Its really nice to see so many people adore Mr.Gimli as much as i do. I just wish i had the cash to meet him.

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

Farimer "I would gladly give my life for this city"

@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan 2 месяца назад

1:44:35 The story told by PJ, Philipa and Fran about the writing and recording of "Into the West" (score playing at timestamp and final credits) is totally heartbreaking. It's regarding the passing of a young child who was a huge fan. The lyrics of the song are great at echoing the sentiments of Gandalfs description of travelling to the Undying Lands but it always hits that bit harder when you realise that they also had this young child in their thoughts when writing the song. Annie Lennox hits her performance out the park and I can't imagine anyone else singing this song.

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

re: farimir borimir cosplay its the third arrow that kills, if borimir was only hit with 2 arrows he would of been just fine. Farimir knows the limits of tthe human body and only took 2 arrows, so he lived.

@philleW12 3 месяца назад

Rags mispronouncing everyones names is the best part of video

@haraldisdead 3 месяца назад

"Hail, the victorious dead!" is such a good line.

@Joe45-91 3 месяца назад

What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord? My ass! Kung Pao EFAP movie is absolutely needed

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

RIDERS OF ROHAN, OATHS YOU HAVE TAKEN, NOW FULFILL THEM ALL!!! sounds like simple speech in text, not much said really. **however** gets me in the feels everyttime, pure epicosity. same with the DEATH! speech

@Kainvverd 3 месяца назад

The Lord of the Rings will forever remain the "perfect" movie trilogy. I highly doubt that we'll ever see movies that'll be able to rival LOTR, it's both beautiful and sad in a way.

@rio20d 3 месяца назад

I really like the armor of the Fountain Guard of Gondor , guarding the white tree, they look sick especially with that winged helmet

@yetanotherspuart3993 3 месяца назад

Same. The fountain guard look amazing.

@cebraulkenne8571 Месяц назад

There is a fraction of a second during the charge at Pelenor fields where you can see the orc lines collapse and route even before the cavalry hits them. Legendary morale break.

@piecesof9 3 месяца назад

Tolkien was worried about "industry". He should see England now...Sauron won and the Orcs have taken over. 😢

@DelightfullyMADD 3 месяца назад

It's just that the orcs have Skittles colored hair now and all identify as various made-up flavors of gender. That was all Sauron needed to do; just have the orcs identify as trans and then Gondor and Rohan would just have to say "Well damn, we can't fight against them now because if we do it would make us bigots and opressors"

@Kino_pup 3 месяца назад

I’m so sorry my friend. We suffer this loss with you. Ughh.. modernity..

@nobleman9393 3 месяца назад

Being ruled by Sauron seems like a good alternative.

@poe-master-6913 3 месяца назад

Don't worry, diversity is your strength.

@UniversalConscript 3 месяца назад

It's really shameful how much less they create nowadays with so much more resources. Also, hi Wolf. 😁

@davidgannon5388 3 месяца назад

1:57:47 - From the Bakshi LotR: Where there's a whip, There's a way! Where there's a whip, There's a way!

@wyattwebb6963 3 месяца назад

Wasn't it also in the book?

@reginaldcampos5762 3 месяца назад

@@wyattwebb6963it was not the exact quote, but similar.

@adruvail 3 месяца назад

Slight correction, that was from the Rankin Bass Return of the King.

@mmx4gaming12 3 месяца назад

All the endings make sense because you need to have all these ending to wrap up all these characters.

@samuelmoore6340 2 месяца назад

Imagine how epic it would be if people with the same passion, talent and determination as those who made this film made a movie series of the Bible. It's another truly epic and inspirational story that could be really great if properly adapted to screen.

@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan 2 месяца назад

Ah The Bible, otherwise known as The Silmarillion 😂. All jokes aside, yeah with real storytellers and great movie makers at the helm that would be awesome to watch. There's so much "content" that it's almost an unlimited well of great stories, myths and legends.

@zardox78 2 месяца назад

I don't understand why they wouldn't just bring back intermissions for the sake of movies that are 3 hours plus... or even 2 and 1/2 hours. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to give people the opportunity to go back out in the lobby and buy _more_ snacks and drinks, which is apparently where theaters make most of their money. It would be almost like double-dipping. But it doesn't even occur to them. It's just "not done" anymore. That's it. That's 100% of the reasoning.

@ShadQuakeFix 3 месяца назад

The Return of Gilgo Gaggins!

@greyknight627 3 месяца назад

1:04:00 the contention with the Army of the Dead stuff is weird because the book is very clear about how they are employed and Jackson deviated from how the book used them. The army of the dead were good for ONE fight. Afterwards, they were gone. In the Book, when Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and the Dunedin (because there were others who came with Aragorn) left the paths of the dead, instead of just the Corsair fleet, it was an outright battle between the Armies of Gondor and the Corsairs. This is a tad odd because the film admits to the Armies of Gondor not all being recalled to MT (Gandalf asks where all the armies are), and yet it seems like they are all there for the duration of the film. In the book, Aragorn only used the AotD for that battle the Gondorians had with the Umbar Corsairs. After, Aragorn took command of THAT army and sailed up the river. When he got there, he flew the Standard of the King right before making landfall. The mixture of initial confusion and another Gondorian army arriving was what turned the tide at the battle of the Pelenor Fields, not the direct use of the AotD. I feel like this could have been done skillfully in the films: show Aragorn and company exiting the PotD, seeing the battle between Gondor and the Corsairs, and declaring their need to assist. Then, later just have the Corsairs sail up the river like the film did, but have the Gondorian army pour out of the ships. The visual queue of the previous battle would have been enough for to identify what happened.

@Synthetic94 3 месяца назад

Rags was totally on point. They knew how to make haste because Shadowfax showed them.

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

re: Splinter Cell / Sam Fisherr Green Lights and Goggles that glow brighter the more hidden you are. long story short itt was a meme in my family that every npc is able to see the glowing green but when they feel like investigating sam fisher yells out "I AM STEALTHY" and they decide against it.

@the_absurd_hero Месяц назад

"Ride for ruin, and the world's ending!" "DEEEAAAAAAATTHHH!!" Bernard Hill (1944--2024 )

@dukeofdarlo5896 3 месяца назад

I journeyed from the treat mountains of Raggle to the toxic pile of Maulers hovel and back again. Many years I wandered from one to the other before I found the golden Gates of Mooler. Once those white shores opened I saw the future, the past and all in between. I trogded through the gooey swamps of Fringles bayou, I clunked and clanged in the land of Mootels German ingenuity and I found the keys to so many places I never knew existed and to those I once thought lost. I discovered the magical island of EFAP and all its marvelous massives and I knew there and then that I was indeed, home. I now sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen. - Bilbolus Bumbleton you magnificent hobbit you!

@RebelCannonClub74 3 месяца назад

You can tell a corpse from (a person sleeping with their eyes open or not apparently breathing) by 1, the stench, a corpse will release most of its crap, 2 the jaw, which will be open. Your subconscious controls both of these things.

@luciferthedoberman8991 3 месяца назад

Whoever does the editing for this video deserves a medal

@divineright3034 3 месяца назад

The only thing I will credit the theatrical version vs the extended is the theatrical (in my opinion) handled the army of the dead better. In the theatrical Aragorn says he is the heir and fight for me and I will hold your oaths fulfilled. What say you? After that the film immediatly goes to Minas Tirith seige. It leaves the answer up in the air so you go through the entire Seige and Pelenor fields with an uncertainty as to if more help is coming. Where as the extended you get the skull avalanche (fun) into the ghost king saying we fight. In my opinion that kills a lot of tension in the Seige and Pelenor because we know we have an unbeatable ghost army on the way.

@thetoad5407 20 дней назад

Totally agree

@nickmanaseri7182 3 месяца назад

FINALLY LIVE!!!!

@Wolfbroa 3 месяца назад

I’m so excited for this just because lord of the rings will always be fun happy topic to watch with others

@biotrekker 3 месяца назад

I can't watch Theoden's death w/o tearing up.

@kylegoff5331 3 месяца назад

Thank you Guys for the journey on rhis trilogy. Look forward to watch more movies with you alo

@joeldykman7591 3 месяца назад

I remember watching this in theaters and thinking "this is really long and i need to pee, but holy shit is this not the best movie i've ever seen". Then when my family bought the extended edition trilogy and I got to see the whole Saruman scene at the beginning of the film i thought "why the hell didn't they just keep this in? I would have been more than happy if they just added an old school 'intermission' somewhere in the middle of the movie so people could use the bathroom, stretch their legs, hey maybe even get another snack." But no, we lose some of the best dialog in the movie because somebody thought that a 4 hour movie wasn't worth it. Shameful.

@hothotheat3000 2 месяца назад

“For Frodo.” Aragorn is THE GOAT.

@constcarry 3 месяца назад

Rags: *talking* M: "no offense rags but i want to hear wolf's and Gary's thoughts on this" W:*gives book thoughts* G:*starts to talk* Rags:*interrupts to continue talking* 😂

@gwoody4003 3 месяца назад

I was today years old when I realized Fringy's character is from Plauge Knight. I never even heard of it before, and I saw someone playing it as background footage for a video and was like... Holy Hell thats Fringy chucking his Goo 😂.

@magnushorus5670 3 месяца назад

these are really fun to watch, thank you for making them!

@josealzaibar5274 3 месяца назад

I've been watching these in preparation to watching the movies for the first time with my son. I gain even more appreciation for the movies...as well as keeping note of the scenes where my son should cover his eyes.

@agarsorchids7708 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing!❤

@luckierloser 3 месяца назад

I am never not disappointed about the way denethors story was adapted. the movie could have been so much cooler still

@ldywendolyn 3 месяца назад

Did you get Gollum PTSD Mauler?😅

@angelashby1400 3 месяца назад

This trilogy of videos has been fantastic! Thank you gentlemen ❤

@TheStereovenom 3 месяца назад

Cutting out christopher lee’s scenes is never a good idea, that man had great presence in this franchise.

@nont18411 3 месяца назад

“Yeah, this movie is cool but what about Aragorn’s tax policy? Also, I’m better than Tolkien because my story is so dark and mature. I killed my heroes and wrote a lot of rape scenes but I just can’t finish my last 2 books right now because I have to complete my side quests first. Plus, Trump winning in 2016 hurt my feelings and the toxic fans who have been waiting for my books for 13 years are so mean. I’m still levels above Tolkien, by the way. I’m the real RR, not him.” - George RR Martin

@Ranben. 3 месяца назад

"BTW I am just copying all my old scifi stories with hive minds! Bran and Young Griff will be in a glass flower situation in the end, get the throne through maester vote rigging and marry Joy Hill (who is actually Tyrion's daughter)!"

@TheTrickynicky13 3 месяца назад

Tolkien finished his books though George haha.

@Darkstar_Dayne 3 месяца назад

He's an old man give him a break, you don't need to insult every person that says something bad about Trump

@sigy4ever 3 месяца назад

@@Darkstar_Dayne george insulted a ww1 vet tho, if he doesn't have to treat old people good why do we?

@nont18411 3 месяца назад

@@Darkstar_Dayne I don’t give af about Trump.

@bailysawyer804 3 месяца назад

I remember the fight with the dead king in the games and when I saw the movie of it just cutting to him saying “we fight…” I was so disappointed as I wanted to see Aragorn whip his ass in mortal/non mortal combat

@drinaldi2000 3 месяца назад

Always good to see the boys back together for some LotR.

@jmh8697 3 месяца назад

"Only if you get past my avalanche of skulls."

@al-Bass 3 месяца назад

i feel bad for the younger generation

@staplecrab 3 месяца назад

I'd be surprised if this trilogy is surpassed in my lifetime

@TheGarywolfbarron8 3 месяца назад

The unforgivable sin is Frodo turning on Sam and Sam LETTING HIM GO!! No way, should that have happened!

@TexanWarEagle 3 месяца назад

This EFAP series on the LOTR trilogy has made 2024 RU-vid worth it on its own 👏🏽

@bromordra 3 месяца назад

The thing about the ending I've always heard is not that the ending is too long, it's that it feels like it 'ends' multiple times in a row. It's a matter of thinking you're done and then the movie suddenly continuing six seperate times that is jarring and hits people as annoying, not the absolute time involved.

@hariman7727 3 месяца назад

I wish they'd filmed The Scouring Of The Shire and released it with the extended versions.

@leedobson 3 месяца назад

Tell that to Theoden's snapped neck

@darrellmarcks6304 3 месяца назад

Gary, the one thing I'll always remember from Rottendotcom was "Smurfette".

3 месяца назад

The ending was so meaningfully and so short that they all drifted away thematically and had to be rained in to talk about what was on the screen. ^^ Yep, i'm one of those who would really liked to see the 'The Scouring of the Shire' chapter in the extended cut.

@bryannorton8945 3 месяца назад

They should’ve released the theatricals first then few years later after first release release extended. Would’ve made so much money

@englishlady9797 2 месяца назад

I always laugh when people are like **Tolkien would have been offended by the drinking references in the movies**/ He literally wrote a poem about the Man in the Moon so drunk he fell down to earth and incorporated into the Fellowship of the Ring. He wouldn't have been offended in the least.

@darthnihilus1608 3 месяца назад

We need you to replay the LotR games on stream!

@unnf9971 3 месяца назад

My god the edits... such a good taste for humor it's killing me haha

@pce0 3 месяца назад

fantastic

@dmidkif Месяц назад

Seeing the sun set into the west as Frodo’s ship departs and the boys are sitting here talking about Morbius is absolutely insane.

@Mdhneo007 3 месяца назад

I'm sure others have/will address the issues raised about the ghosts and lack of Gondoran armies. Plus we all know this epic movie is still limited by the confines of length and budget. The book adds scale and scope to the war and explains where the armies of gondor and the fiefdoms are engaged (plus many, like Dol Amroth are present). This, in turn, allows the op nature of the Dead of Dunharrow to be constrained since they commit to A battle that frees up the armies stuck South in Pelargir and along the Anduin to save the Pelennor Fields rather than a somewhat cheesy ghost wave. Not to mention how the book's negotiation with the King of the Dead is enhanced, or how the Grey Company and Elrond's boys, Elladan and Elrohir, are present to rep the Elves.

@biferose158 3 дня назад

I'm a little late to this, but this was an amazing set of efaps, efap movies is always pog. & wolf great to hear you again buddy, hope all is good for you 👍