FIRST TIME WATCHING Lord Of The Rings : The Two Towers | MOVIE REACTION (PART 2/2) 

The moment when you realise that almost 20 year old cgi still looks better than most of cgi today..

You know the movie is a masterpiece when after 4 hours of watching, you go: "NO! I need more!"

Aragorn and Legolas: *Elvish gibberish* Aragorn: Then I shall die as one of them. Rohan soldiers: 👁👄👁💧

On the wall of Helm's Deeep, during the battle, a one-eyes warrior turns to the camera, revealing his scarred empty socket. The performer, Wayne Phillips who played him showed up as an extra, wearing an eyepatch. Director Peter Jackson politely asked to see what was under the patch and then inquired if the gentleman would be interested in appearing in the movie sans eyepatch. He was reluctant at first, and quite self-conscious, but afterward said the experience had made him more comfortable with his condition.

I swear after 15 years of watching these films, sams speech in this film always gets me. “Theres still good left in this world Mr Frodo, and its worth fighting for.” 😭😭😭

“There is a bigger battle” Well…. He ain’t lying. Can’t wait for Return of the King

Fun fact: the actors playing Aragorn and Arwen loved speaking Elvish so much that they convinced Peter Jackson to change a lot of their dialogue to elvish. Those dream sequences were meant to be in English originally. Also, elvish is a legit language now. Tolkien, the author, literally created a language for his fictional race. So there were actual language specialists on set teaching the actors how to speak proper elvish.

To get the horse to lay down like that Viggo Mortensen (Aragon) used to spend nights in the barn to form a bond with that horse. After the movie wrapped he purchased the horse and took it home with him.

J.R.R Tolkien not only wrote the Elven language, at one point his editor tried to change a word in his book, saying it wasn’t a real word and that he should check the dictionary. Tolkien responded like a boss saying, “I wrote the dictionary” which he had.

So a word about why Elrond gave that speech to Arwen: The movies don't really do Elrond's character justice. He's half-elven and had a twin brother. Elrond chose to be immortal, and Elros chose to be mortal and went and founded Numenor (where Aragorn comes from). Elrond had to essentially watch his brother die. He lost his parents, his brother, his adoptive parents, and also watched his king/father-figure Gil-Galad literally burn to death in front of his eyes at the Battle of the Last Alliance (when Isildur separates Sauron from the ring). Sauron, just prior to killing Elendil (Isildur's dad), had grabbed Gil-Galad in a choke-hold and combusted him into flames, then tossed him aside like trash. Elrond couldn't do jack about it. Later, he gets married and has three children (we only meet Arwen in the movies). His wife is waylaid by orcs, captured, and tortured. Elrond's sons rescued her and brought her back and Elrond did his best to save her, but he couldn't help her cope with the trauma and she fell into a deep depression and eventually sailed West without him. So Elrond knows a thing or two about grief and what that sort of choice that Arwen is making does to people. I think he's also holding onto Arwen, quite desperately/selfishly, because she's one of the few people he has left. If she chooses to be Mortal, Elrond knows there will come a time when he will never see her again. It also means that Arwen will never get to sail West and see her mother again, either. So really, he's not trying to stop her from making her decision. He's trying to help her make the most informed decision possible. He's speaking from personal experience. He had to make the same decision when he was Arwen's age, and it ultimately cut him off from his brother and many people he cared deeply about. I think the pain and grief he describes to Arwen (about lingering on and dwelling in darkness and doubt) is something he himself has lived through, and still lives through-- and he loves her, and he really doesn't want her to have to live with that kind of pain.

Who else is stoked for them to see Return of The King? I'm gonna cry with them all over again at the end. Man tears worth it.

Viggo liked that horse so much he bought it for himself.

Fun fact: When Tolkien submitted LoTR to the american publisher they had said he was wrong for saying "Dwarves" instead of "Dwarfs" to which he responded that he was in fact correct. They told him that they had checked it in the Oxford English Dictionary to which he once again replied explaining that he was the professor of English literature AT OXford and that he, "remembered writing some of that book."

"Why am I relating to Smeagol?" Because the writers are amazing and so is Andy Serkis. Also, you're not a monster. People SHOULD react that way to seeing that kind of violence committed against someone (or something) who hasn't actually done anything to provoke it. And the writers, Peter Jackson, and Andy Serkis all do an amazing job presenting this situation in such a way as to tug at your heartstrings.

I LOVE that you noticed Wormtongue crying when he saw the Uruk-Hai forces. It's a moment many reactors miss, and it's one of my favorite details. In his heart, Grima is still a man of Rohan, and the realization he was on the wrong side but couldn't go back makes me pity him.

She is only a little wrong Romans call it a testudo which means turtle (Edit *tortoise) in English.

When they say "He fell" they don't mean off the cliff. When a combatant says someone fell - they mean they fell in battle - died.

J. R. R. Tolkien wrote dozens of languages. And he was also a professor of languages.

Fun fact: Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) Bought 2 of the Horses from the movie. The one he rode most of the time and one for a Stuntwomen who could not afford to buy it herself. What a generous and gracefull man he is... truely from the Line of Numenor.

RoTK's opening scene is going to blow Hannah's mind.

Actually Tolkien created most of the languages FIRST, because he was a philologist. Only after that he created the world and the stories behind them, and this led to all his novels and short stories.

About Theoden giving up: You have to remember his mind was controlled by Saruman for a long time. After waking up from that he found out that his only son had been killed and his kingdom is falling apart. He is suffering from PTSD and simultaneously having to lead his people in battle. Not an easy thing to do.

The Treebeard's speech was one of my favorite scenes in the movies. "Come on my friends, the Ents are going to war... It is likely that we go to our doom... The last march of the ents...". It shows that Treebeard really thinks that they will probably fail and all his race will die, but he does what it is right, in spite of certain death. When you know that you are gonna die by doing what is right and you still do it. That's heroism. Wish you had included your reactions on this but I get it, you cant include everything. Also, Treebeard's voice is done by the actor that plays Gimli!

Why are you two so freaking cute. Watching y'all is as entertaining as the movie.

"are you sure you want to have this convo" LMAO!! you guys are great together!

Andy Serkis revolutionized cinema by playing Gollum, an amazing actor. Can't wait for you to watch The Return of the King, and the Hobbit too 😁

"OH MY GOD!!" The synchronized exclamation was great. That guy with one eye who signaled the volley of arrows and prompted that reaction was an extra who actually had only one eye. That wasn't CGI or makeup. That was real.

There's something extremely hilarious about the idea of selling Arwens (priceless) necklace on the market 😂

THEYVE GOT THE K- ‘The key, they don’t need the key!’ She makes these videos she is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

The horse that saves Aragorn is the one he releases in the Rohan stable.

23:35 Fun fact: The arrow shot by the old man was so accurate that Aragorn shouted out an order in Elvish thinking it was an Elf that had fired it.

I love that you know about the Roman tortoise formation. That's a keeper

She's totally right, the Romans did the tactic with the overlapping shields. They called it the Testudo, which was derived from a word to describe protective shells, including turtle/tortoise shells.

Funny story about the creation of the Ents: Tolkien loved this line in Shakespeare's Macbeth: “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.” He loved the thought of marching trees. However, Shakespeare had other ideas. He just makes an army cut down tree branches so they look like a marching wood. Tolkien thought this was bullshit and said "Fuck that."

Viggo trusting that horse not to sit ON him warms my heart every time. The BTS talk about how dangerous that actually was but Viggo just went for it.

Dead assed "Do you wanna have this conversation right now". Guys are killing me.

Another thing ppl miss with Bormir is he was struggling with not only the temptation the ring brings to ppl but struggling with his father telling him to bring him the ring.

I can't wait to watch the 3rd movie reaction. It has been a real pleasure to watch you two. Thanks for sharing your reactions with us.

To think that scene with Boromir and Faramir is caught out from the theatrical version is criminal...One of my faves really shows you what Faramir comes from, and also how great and badass Boromir is when he is with his people, a true hero!

"It's incredible that his little pants haven't fallen off yet. You think they would have gotten caught on a tree or something." I literally laughed for 2 minutes straight after this. The funniest thing I've ever heard in a reaction before! Keep it up. Love the reactions!

There was actually speculation that Aragon was falling for Eowyn since he let Arwen go. And fun fact: the chanting done by Saurmans army was actually a sound recorded by thousands of rugby fans chanting words off of the jumbo tron & stomping there feet. Another fact too: Elves can die of a broken heart because when they marry, it’s with there literal soul mate. And a really sad fact: when you put it together, Boromir was pushed to madness by the ring because of his desire put there by his father. His fathers words influenced him to think of the ring as a gift. In a way, his father was responsible for what happened to him & Boromir breaking the rings curse was almost like him finally breaking free of his father. But his father sent him to his death. Another fun fact: the elf army stood at attention for Legolas since Legolas is a prince. Son of king thranduil of mirkwood Another funny fact: the shot to the neck by the old man was so good that Aragon thought an elf made that shot😂 Another fun fact for the Narnia fans: CS Lewis and Tolkien were good friends. They once had a debate about how trees would move if they came to life. CS Lewis thought it was silly to have them move like actual people, so as a friendly jab at his friend, Tolkien based Treebeard off of CS Lewis😂

"" The geezzers of every pub are coming for OUR ale, Theoden"

Am I the only one who just...without fail, gets chills from Treebeard's roar every f***ing time?

Faramir is hated by his father because his mother died during his birth. Denethor (Boromir's and Faramir's father) loved his wife very much so he blames Faramir for it. He would prefer to have her instead of him.

Man, the movies did Faramir dirty; still great films, and I understand why that change was made, but he was way better in the books. As soon as he found out what Frodo's quest was, he let them go, and even said he wouldn't pick up the Ring if he found it on the side of the road

I was laughing to myself about Ash's ladder pushing character, especially when Hannah is like 'you will def be dead' Imagined the LOTR Ash trains for years to push ladders, sets up perfect in this battle, his moment of glory is at hand... ... and then he is that one guy that is hit in the chest by the rope-thrower and flies backwards 100 feet, killed first

When Aragorn kicked the helmet at the “orc bonfire”, he actually broke his toe. So his primal scream was a real scream of pain!

During the height of the pandemic the cast did a livestream together and at the end Sean Astin who played Sam preformed the monologue from the end of the movie, simply because of what you said, he felt it lent itself to what has been happening.

I can't say this enough. I absolutely LOVE how you guys take the quiet moments as seriously as the loud ones. Not to mention the chemistry of you two are electric. You have earned my sub that's for sure

"I *was* Ara-Gone. Now I'm Ara-BACK."

If you didnt notice, the Elf who shows up with his army at Helms Deep is the same actor who plays the Roman General Gaius Glaber in Spartacus!

I watched the Trilogie at least 20 times and it still gives me chills and blows my mind how good it looks even 20 years later. My favorite Filmseries of all time. Cant wait for Return of the King.

"Ara-GONE" 🤣🤣🤣

Imagine being so stressed that you pull your ear off and keep it in your hand?

A fun fact is that in the books the hobbits mention there being old tales and legend of living trees close to the shire. A wide spread theory is that that's where the Entwives disappeared to before falling into slumber and turning into regular, immovable trees.

The languages came first. Tolkien was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon, he knew how languages work and how they evolve, he created new languages, then created the races to speak them. There is an enormous amount of backstory, a whole history and mythology.

If Sam’s speeches choke you up wait until he starts talking about how it’ll be spring soon, and the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields. And they'll be eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Then you’ll ask yourself if you remember the taste of strawberries.

Aragorn almost drowned when he floated down the river. The filmmakers expected him to go one way but instead he when against something and got pulled under. They were about to send help to him but then he surfaced. Also the reason why elrond told his daughter the future was because soon the elves were leaving to go to the undying lands and once they left she wouldn't be able to get there so she stayed she would live forever here and have to witness Aragorn dying and she'll to deal with nothing but sadness. So he told her that so she would be more likely to go.

Tolkien himself said that the desire to write these stories was to create a native English mythology not just a novel

"This is the sexiest breakup ever." 😆

Those are actually not dragons, they're referred to as fellbeasts. You'll see a real dragon in The Hobbit - much scarier.

The cool thing is Treebeard's real name IS Fangorn which technically was named after him. he also was a young adult Ent when in Doriath and even met Luthien herself. the Fangorn forest is essentially named after him. the creation of the Ents have to do with the Valar named Yavannah. she has a vast wonderful story too.

Tolkien, the writer, was a linguistics genuis who was making up languages for most of his life. He also had a love of history/ mythology and he combined the two when he made a world surrounding the languages he made. That's why the world feels so alive, because he started with the basic building block of any civilization, the language, and built from there. He did this because he felt that the rest of the world had these amazing creation myths but England didn't because they'd gotten lost in the shuffle of time so that's what he made LOTR to be, a creation myth. He even added a whole "mythology" that these books were transcriptions of a mysterious "red book" he found in the fields of England that he translated. As if it was a lost Beowulf book. Tolkien was the real deal.

“Apologise to the fucking trees!” is iconic

I don’t know if you guys noticed, but the horse that saved Aragorn from the fall was in fact the Rohan horse that he calmed and ordered the stable keepers to be released. The Prince’s horse

The shot where Gandalf and Eomer ride down the side with the Rohirrim and you hear Gandalf's scream that sounds like it is an ancient echo of battles past billowing through the centuries as they crash into the orcs with the light shining on them is my favorite scene in any film ever. I am so glad someone got so excited for that particular shot, that shot is absolutely legendary imo. The quotes about hope all take on a new meaning when you realize that as a child under Elrond's care in Rivendell, Aragorn was named Estel meaning 'hope' in Sindarin, to hide from him his true identity as heir to the throne of Gondor out of fear that he would be hunted. Aragorn to the boy: "There is always hope"

I really love your "mini fights" because of Arwen - Aragorn - Eowyn scenes! At 1:45, "And now you look at her" referencing to Eowyn. :D You guys are so adorable and fun to watch.

What many don't really understand about Arwen's sacrifice is the length of time. Arwen is over 3000 years old in the movies. Galadriel, her grandmother, over 7000. So if she sacrifces her immortality to stay with Aragorn, in human terms... Would you sacrifice your entire future life to stay a MONTH with your lover?

You guys are gonna freak out and cry so hard in the third film and the speeches are gonna knock you for six. The next battle is bigger than Helms Deep. Also you guys have to check out The Hobbit trilogy next to see how Bilbo got the ring from Gollum. Very good eye both of you by the way for seeing how resonating the story actually is, it is multi-racial and multifaceted story. These races of different people from different cultures who can't really agree on anything other than Sauron is not in their best interests, they do fight amongst themselves but it is still a better world than the world Sauron wants. Remember One Ring, one land, one people, one world, one Lord Of The Rings. Sauron is willing to commit genocide against any who do not fall in line with him. Gandalf "There is one Lord Of The Ring. Only one who can bend it to his will and he does not share power !". No one can save the world alone only together can people do that. Tolkien btw is the writer and not only did he write a world, he wrote the most detailed fictional world in history. This world has geography, languages, stories, legends within in it's own world, a bible including a creation story, a dark lord even more evil before Sauron, family trees, fallen kingdoms that go back thousands of years. So The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings are really just the tip of the iceberg, just the massive mountain above the surface of the water and the rest is all bellow the surface right down to the centre of the earth. Love you two can't wait for the next reaction.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO ASH!! Another proper reaction with Hannah. TROTK is even better. Can't wait for your reactions. Aloha

The actor who plays Aragorn, Viggo Mortensen, actually trained the horse himself to lie down next to him to rescue him. The director was worried about it, in case the actor was hurt. Viggo had such a bond with the horse that he bought him from the studio after filming was finished. I love that.

Aragorn's childhood name, given him by his mother was Estel. "Hope" in Elvish.

The next big battle makes Helm's Deep look small. Get ready!!

Fact: The horse that rescues Aragorn is Brego, the horse he told to be set free (Theoden's dead son's horse). And the actor actually kept the horse after the movies

In an earlier version of the script, Arwen was with the Elves that came to Helm's Deep. Some scenes of this were filmed before that was changed, most of which weren't used but there's one shot remaining which once contained Arwen. When Legolas is pulling Aragorn and Gimli up the wall on a rope, Arwen was behind him, helping. Legolas glances back to her. She was removed from the shot using special effects.

What you said about these films being from early 2000s is just on point! These movies, and the books before them, were timely in the 50s, were timely in the 2000s, and are still timely now... That's why lord of the rings is a perfect classic

Their dynamic with each other makes one of the best reaction channels I've seen yet on RU-vid. Ash is great, but she really brings another side to the energy. If RU-vid channels had casting, this would be one of the best pairings I've seen. It's like watching an episode of Friends or something. Where they just watch movies. XD

The horn of Helm Hammerhand is in reference to a previous king of Rohan who also used the helms deep fortress for a long siege. He preferred to punch his opponents and died standing up

They filmed the entire part of Helm's Deep at night, and it rained almost every night. It was such a slog of production that the producers gave everyone shirts that said 'I survived Helm's Deep'

The scene at Osgiliath, Sam: Mr. Frodo, we shouldn't even be here, this isn't in the book!" Faramir makes the decision to let Frodo and Sam go just after capturing Gollum. He does not take them to Osgilaith. That would have been a march of at least 2 weeks time. I love Maps and Tolkien's books always have a map you can refer to and see where all the characters are at different times and how far away these places are from each other. The ruins of Osgiliath are only mentioned in passing in the book and no scenes actually take place there but a battle is referenced. It was the former capital of Gondor but now in ruins after hundreds of years of fighting against orcs from Mordor.

The Battle for Middle-earth is about to begin!!! Ash, your right…Tolkien actually created the languages first as he was a linguist and an English professor from oxford. He created Middle-earth and it’s history to support the idea of these languages. What we see in these stories is just a tiny bit of its history! Great reaction you two!

We would really appreciate if you could edit the next movie in 3 parts, due to its great length!

"Reminisce... about the good times... like when you had me dress like a f***ing hobbit." Look, she's friggin hilarious. You're both funny as hell. I'm in the middle of a huge house move and i've waited anxiously for this reaction. Its midnight and I'm taking a break to watch. And your girly is more beautiful than Eowyn. WITH the skin of Arwen. Haha.

Also The actor of Faramir is the same who narrated 300 ( the survivor with the eye patch whom you wanted to narrate your life ;P)

"These guys are like sloths! Come on! Make your decisions!" So when the Ents have their moot, they speak in a language called Old Entish, where the words are all very long. They never rush, because why should they? They're trees! Even their proper names are long. Treebeard even says, "there are those who call me Treebeard." He doesn't give his proper name, partly because he just met the hobbits and that's a BIG trust thing, and partly because they'd be there all night. Entish names "grow" as the ent does, because an Ent's name is basically his life story. And they almost never want to be hasty. I say "almost" because there's a character who didn’t make it into the movie named Bregalad, which means "Quickbeam." And he's considered hasty by the other ents. Not by the hobbits though. Lol. Even Bregalad is slow to them.

Really wishing the best for this channel, an enjoyable watch!!!

"Look at this shoooot" lol..it's indeed one of the best in the trilogy..The lighting, scale, the way it slows down, the sounds fading out and the choir fading in, just stunning.

When I saw those movies in theater, each time was like a punch in my face. Guys you are not ready for the third one. There is nothing next The return of the king epicness.

Guys, you two have cracked the reaction channel formula. This feels more like regular entertainment than just a simple reaction video. I'm subscribing in hopes for a lot more of this.

Faramirs character was changed for the movie...creating more conflict and make Faramir more... not perfect. In the book he said something like “I wouldn't even touch the ring even if I found it on the road.“ Such a pure heart...

Your reaction to Smeagol reverting back to (Gollum*) XD was GOLD the exact same reaction I had when I first saw this film!!

"Let's do something, yeah?" Hey! You leave my boys Merry and Pippin alone! They're getting their character growth 😜

Pouring myself a whiskey and chilling out to the reaction I've been waiting for all week!

When I saw this in theaters in '02 it was almost scary how good it was. People were audibly gasping in their seats throughout the whole movie. Not only does Helm's Deep remain possibly the best battle scene ever made, at the time nothing like that had ever come close to having been done before as far as visual effects and scale. It's a marvel of filmmaking and still holds up 20 years later.

" Theyve got a key " ( big hole in the door ) 🤣🤦‍♂️ love it bruh , lets get the next one.

I could watch you two banter for hours 😭 this was excellent! Hannah being so invested in Gollum is so endearing and relatable (I will see the good in anyone too!)

Sam is my favorite character. The speech he gave about old stories seriously hits me in my feels every single time.

I can’t wait for the “bigger battle”. Best on screen battle in cinematic history (IMO)

26:25 yes they did though in Latin this is called Testudo, which sounds cooler than turtle.

Ash, I think you need to get into these films more... 🤣 FINALLY someone (and beautiful Hannah too) who appreciates my favorite trilogy OF ALL TIME! 💚💚💚