Fellowship of the Ring ~ Extended Edition ~ Wood Elves making their way to the Grey Havens HD 

at least Valinor is a nice place to live.

@@marcinzysko1653 They are treated like second class citizens in Valinor. Why do you think they wanted to leave in the first place?

@@kmallory100 Because they followed Feanor, on his chase for Morgoth

@@marcinzysko1653 That is not why Galadriel and the other Noldor who were not part of kinslaying left Valinor. They knew that they would be more revered and have kingdoms of their own in Middle Earth. In Valinor, the Valar were the most revered and the Elves were seen and treated like children.

@@kmallory100 that doesnt mean the elves were treated worse. They were part of hierarchy which included literal gods, so it is obvious they would not be at the same position as valars. But they were still beloved by their superiors and lived lifes that, compared to travelers, were filled with happiness and joy. In middle earth, though independent, elves were still no greater than they would be in valinor.

Its like you feel you could watch them sitting there - in peace - for hours :) sorrounded by the beautiful forest and magical dusk :)

and then transition from warm to cool indicating some time has passed finding the elves…i love all of it 😊

It really is top notch. fully transports you into the world

This interlude is probably one of my favourites in the entire trilogy. The music when the elves are passing is heart-stoppingly beautiful. The scenes are filmed illustrations from the books, and perfect in tone. It's a dream come true.

These movies are the high water mark of modern cinema. I'm old and I probably won't see movies this good in my lifetime again.

Actually it was Gildor who said "Hail, Frodo!" They knew him by sight, having seen him with Bilbo often in the Shire. And they weren't "wood elves;" they were HIGH Elves of Rivendell; and they weren't going to the Havens, but were just merry-making in the Shire.

@@iandezur4043 I think Gildor was going to the West. I can't remember.

@@Daniel-gp6sd he says "we are now only tarrying here a while, ere we return across the Great Sea."

@@Daniel-gp6sd No, Gildor was traveling East from the Tower Hills. His group was one of the Wandering Parties, using the Palantir there to get a glimpse of Elbereth.

Didnt they interact in the books?

Agreed

You managed to read the books as a kid lol

Thats because this scene comes closest to capturing the essence of Tolkien's vision.

Ohh!

I recall the opening scene of the movies where Frodo is waiting to meet Gandalf under the trees in the shire. To see the story come alive on the screen in that moment was pure magic.

I am completely taken aback and mesmerized by its beauty

Tolkien represented the Blessed Mother Mary in Elbereth.

Elbereth! Elbereth!

Which is why they shine with starlight. Galadriel does too.

They are not gods nor are they to be worshipped. They’re simply meant to be angelic beings tasked with shaping and guarding the world so long as it exists by the Almighty God who is One.

@Visitant 01 Right. And the vast majority of Ainur didn't even enter Arda anyway, they stayed with Eru in the Timeless Halls.

Nice parallel 😊

Marius Loftum Peter Jackson’s vision of the elves was a bit more serious and melancholy than Tolkien’s vision. In the book they are far more jolly. It’s a small change but one I actually favor.

I actually think Tolkien wouldn't mind this version of the Elves. The Silmarillion especially gives the Elves a truly otherworldly feeling, they're beings so far removed from humanity that it's difficult to even conceptualise some of the earliest ones in their heyday; like Fingolfin, Feanor and Earendel. It seems that Elves could be very alien at one point to Tolkien's understanding of them.

@@DeFactoLeader Yeah, totally agree! LotR elves are kind of halfway between jolly Hobbit elves and grim/fateful Silmarillion elves. That's kind of what LotR is as a whole, the innocent world of the Hobbit smashing into Tolkien's epic Legendarium. Comparing the elves seen near Mirkwood in the Hobbit to, say, the tale of the sons of Feanor is night and day.

@@jasonfenton8250 That's very true. In fact it's appropriate in regards to Mirkwood because it's apparent that Elves were a somewhat degraded race by the Third Age. Not quite to the degree of Men, who were much closer to Elves millennia ago; but still noticeably so. It's why I like this scene so much, it subtly illustrates a journey meant to cleanse the Elvish soul, releasing them of weary lives they were never meant to experience. Generations of lingering in Middle-earth and generations of Elves that had never personally known the embrace of the Valar; resulting in bitterness, warlike attitudes and even kinslaying (not that it was all their fault, of course). Obviously some Elves were less like this than others, but the fact that _any_ of them were was the problem. It's a beautiful concept to me, really.

this reminds me of how Tolkiens son disliked the films saying it was an "action movie directed at 15-25 year olds", but how did he imagine it should be? he probably didnt want a big screen adaptation, i dont know, but i reckon if it was made to appeal to 60+ year olds it would probably have a shitty kitsch atmosphere and ironically be far more infantile than it was. also the action is obviously a thing since the books are about war

Sounds awfully like academics...

Love that line!Sassy Frodo😂❤

Which is why it is an 'advice', not an order XD

We see this theme repeated with the palantir and the mirror of Galadriel.

So they never answer with "maybe" or "Well, I don't know about that" ?

I don't think it is a foreshadowing of frodo leaving. The elves are magical creatures. They are beautiful, wise and immortal. They are leaving Middle earth forever. Who wouldn't be sad?

K They may be leaving middle earth, but they are still existing in the world...that fact alone would make me happy and proud

@@gilgamesh8334 But no one in middle earth will ever see them and in the future they will probably think that it is just a fairytale.

Because IT'S NOT IN THE BOOK. They weren't leaving. Frodo, Pippin and Sam all join the Elves for a night woodland dinner-party, and they name Frodo an Elf-friend.

You might like to hear that Sam goes West to join Frodo after Rosie dies (after a long, happy marriage). It's in the appendices of the books. Gimli is the only dwarf to go West, joining his buddy Legolas.

LMAO-

@@john-zu6mm again i see you

"Wait nah I can't leave my homies here, I'm turning back"

Then one elf goes.. Wait I got to pee. Frodo and Sam goes like.. WTF bro!!! WTF!!! (Sam and Frodo all wet).

@@duelknight69 😂

@G E T R E K T To be fair, they were trying to make a movie everyone could see without being bored or confused. The extended editions are really for big fans of the books and movies.

@G E T R E K T Well, cutting parts for pacing purposes is done in pretty much every entertainment medium, including literature. The fact that Tolkien didn't abide by those 'rules' is part of what makes his writing unique, I would say. I do agree that the extended editions are superior, though, especially 'The Two Towers'.

@@jmack8767 this is so nice music and i feel from this nostalgia.

@@halflifer1 I love the music too.

Along with the breaking of the Fellowship

Mine too. The main reason of why I couldn't let go LOTR was for this feeling of ''there's something that is endging'', it isn't an end where good guys win and everything is back to normal and life is perfect, no, LOTR is a story where actions really have repercutions, and even if all wounds can heal, either they can leave a big scar or they never fully heal. You see that in the books, the Shire is reconstructed and is hella beautiful, but it isn't the same that Frodo and Sam left, Bilbo's tree isn't the same, neither are Gondor, Gandalf, Aragorn, or no one, and I can't even imagine how melancholic and depressing would Rivendel and Caras Galadhon look without the elves. Middle Earth feels better after Sauron than before, but it isn't the same. You are happy cuz good guys win, but you still lost something, something has changed. It is so real.

@@vegito9019 That’s why it is so good. It’s something people like Tolkien could only do. Probably part of the reason why fantasy authors who rip him off or aren’t too original don’t go that deep like him. On the surface LOTR is just another Good vs Evil cliche, and even tho our beloved characters don’t die (except Boromir) everything just kinda fades in the end. Frodo, bilbo, the elves, etc, go to the west and things are very different and I think that leaves a mark more than some people realize. 👍👍

likewise, how rings of power destroyed the beauty of Elves is truly incredible

Aye. Haven't seen any of the theatrical cuts in close to 20 years. Whenever it comes time for me and my family to make our annual pilgrimage back to Middle Earth, it is always the 12 hour one.

Yes and this is only possible in a society where many people cannot feel scenes like these. 🙏

And his little smirk when he says “me neither, Sam.” He’s not bothered by Sam’s complaints. He just finds them endearing. Love it.

Technically it is “kept in”, just in the extended edition, which is the preferred version for me. There’s just so much good stuff in there especially in Return of the King.

I was going to write the exact same thing until I saw your comment. it truly ties in with Frodo's destiny.

This scene was there at the cinema when I went.

@@rufuscoppertop330 Wasn't when I saw it at the cinema.

Tolkien would agree

In the book, they were specifically Noldorin exiles led by Gildor Inglorion and they appeared later in the story when the Nazgul were hot on Frodo and company's tail. Their song of Elbereth warded off the Nazgul.

@@Fan_Made_Videos Yeah true, but on the book, we just see that they are a bunch of elves, led by a Noldo, Gildor. The song is a Sindarin song (since Elbereth is the Sindarin name for Varda) while the Noldor spoke Quenya as their mother tongue (Although they were also fluent in Sindarin). So i'm sure they were Noldor and Sindar travelling together but singing in Sindarin.

Aren't they High Elves in the books?

@@miloslolz5164 The book reference is odd. Frodo says: "They are High Elves! They have mentionned Elbereth"... but that doesnt make sense. First because High Elves speak Quenya, and Elbereth is the Sindarin Name of Varda (being Varda the actual Quenya equivalent that would have shown to Frodo they are high elves). So how can the mention of a Sindarin name make them High Elves? Sindarin is spoken by Silvan Elves and Sindar Elves as well while Quenya is only spoken by High Elves... so its complicated.

This scene is not from the book. It's just thrown in by Peter Jackass.

not as cute as Frodo in this scene

So GAY you mean. Seriously, Sam's like "what, that's IT?"

@@iandezur4043 ..

@Dr.Dow thank you ^^

Love this comment...

Clever!!!!!

@@AlisonBryen thanks!

and now all nine are present

The Nazgul wouldn't pay attention to the elves as they needed to find the ring

You serious?

@@trevorvallo5841 yes

Tomatoes, sausages, nice crispy bacon!

@@rosesyed1447 y e s.

Oh YES! 🍴😋

I agree. I would even dare to say is the best one for me. So magical without falling in any stereotype, so meaningful, deep, so genuine and proper to Tolkien's Legendarium. I simply love it.

Yep. For me it’s the song, and the wind and the light (that near-purple dusk with the deep greens all around). Look at the wind in the bushes as they run up the slight incline and in their hair as they watch. You could just sit there for hours watching with them. And while I wouldn’t have minded if it was ten times longer. what it adds to the world of the film is incredible for such a short scene: imagine living in a world where if you were out in the woods, you might just see walking nearby, a solemn procession of ancient beings who have known the world before the Sun even existed (the light of the two trees), and they sing as they walk and you know they are passing never to return. There is something so utterly magical about that. And it sets up two things so well: 1. This world is not our world. It is beautifully magical, yet deeply real and profound and serious. 2. This is a world characterised in all ways by twilight; by the passing of once-great things; a melancholic, autumnal world. Utterly beautiful. Makes me cry it’s so beautiful.

And also, the dialogue. because of all the other elements (music, setting, somber tone, whispered voices) things like “they’re going to the white towers” etc. just sound so much more heightened and profound. Like even if you don’t know what that is, the pure poetry of it is deeply evocative and stirring, and you have this sense that there are these other places of marvellous wonder and splendour in this world, that you’ve only heard whispering of, and this greater, solemn purpose which you can’t fathom. It’s this wonderful glimpse into the great cycles of the world that are too big for you to really understand. :)

Same😆 The only real way to watch it honestly!

I saw the theatrical cuts originally but got the extended editions as soon as they were available. Now I've seen the extended versions so many times it's really hard to remember the films without the extra scenes.

Be glad for that; you are better off for it... except in one respect: Seeing the Extended Editions after having been limited only to the theatrical releases was like getting to eat real ice cream made with real sugar for the first time in your life, after having been brought up by hardcore vegans and having to eat only soy-milk "ice cream" made with brown-rice syrup for sweetening.

Sad, right? 🤣 I've just seen Galadriel's elves armours from their ship - the scene of TV show - and compared those armours to Helms Deep elven armour 😭 😭

Very much agreed. It's great foreshadowing and definitely should have stayed in the theatrical cut.

There are a lot of meaningful and amazing, deep and beautiful scenes that weren't put on the theatrical cut. Imagine watching LOTR once in your life and never know about these...

@hardstyle905 I don't understand the point you're trying to make. That it's not foreshadowing?

Exactly. Sam will one day lose Frodo at the Grey Havens, and then will sail from there himself thereby losing his children as he can never come back to them.

Thats kind of what Tolkien intended. The ideas what, with the beginning of the Fourth Age, magic was fading from Middle-Earth, and with the departure of the Elves, Middle-Earth will become the Earth that we know today. Yes, Tolkien intended his mythology to relate to ours - it was part of a project to make an "English mythology"

It's the essence of Tolkien 💗

I think that the Wandering Days scene (the Harfoots migrating scene) is pretty little and charming.

They went deeper into the woods.

Yeah, I wish he'd said "grey elves" or "high elves".

@@yuyutubee8435 He probably didn't know and that's understandable and kinda cute, I'm sure that almost any Hobbit knew Elves even existed.

IMO in the book Frodo is able to differentiate between tribes of elves but at this moment in the movie he probably just thinks that there are average wood elves around, not expecting to meet the high elves traveling to the heavens, but when he hears the Elbereth song - and he knew sindarin - he realised that they were acualy going to the heavens, so not wood elves at all :) And there is another reason for this "wood elves" of Frodo - in the book there were traveling companies of elves who dont go stright to the heavens but realy were constantly moving between Rivendell and Heavens so they could be like nomads, often living in the woods. So for Frodo these companies like the one they met in the book - Gildor's company - were "wood elves" regardless of the company members of different clans :)

@@TallisKeeton havens :)

@@katherinewilson1853 of course, sorry :) I m not native speaker :)

Something like that but it isn't as wonderful and magical as this scene

They're praising their goddes, the maia Elberth Githonial. When the elves first awoke, it was she who set the stars in the night sky for all elves to see as this was the greatestlabour ever since the creation of Arda, and so they love her the most, as she herself is most associated with the light in Arda. They're just singing about her labours and their love for her and their return and desire to be with her again as she and her husband are queen and king over all other Maia.

@@jamiejoseph3298 Thanks but Elbereth is a Vala, not a Maia XD

@@efaristi9737 And her name is Varda Elbereth lol Gilthoniel is an alternate name

​@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 Thoses are the same names. Varda Elentári are her names in Quenya, it means "Sublime" and "Queen of the Stars". Elbereth Gilthoniel mean more or less the same thing in Sindarin.

Nothing lasts forever. Eventually the Age of Man will end and something else will take their place.

Oscar Stainton Tauriel isn't part of the literary canon of the Tolkien Legendarium. She doesn't even exist.

Oliver Rodriguez I'm not saying she is actually in this scene, or even a character of Tolkien's creation, I just think that fans of her could imagine that shes with the Wood Elves in this scene. You don't need to remind me what is and isn't canon with the books.

Oscar Stainton Yeah, you're right. The scene is beautiful nonetheless.

I wasn't aware that fans of that character existed. How curious.

Hahahhahahah "it was reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal"........... no. no it wasen't.

Oblivion X LOTR - Hell yeah!

Ah - OURGHH- oof

It's not a story the Noldor would tell you....

It's a film error. They definitely are Noldor Elves, but the script has Frodo saying wood elves by mistake.