Haldir and wooden elves arrival at Helm's Deep scene from The Lord of The Rings "Two Towers" I DO NOT OWN THE VIDEO. IT IS A SCENE FROM "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS."
i think they used elves because: 1) they are cool; 2) They didnt show battle of Dale and battle of Dol Guldur, where elves fought in same time as battle of Minas Tirith. And elves are very important, and they placed them here, so they dont have to make 4 movies.
What’s great is that the thing Aragorn does with his hand at 1:10 is like a serious hug for elves. Aragorn does the elf hug, and goes ‘Nope, doesn’t convey my feelings enough’ and goes for the human hug; and Haldir is just like ‘oh.....okay, this is happening’ and awkwardly pats him on the back. It’s so small and silly, but I love it.
@@skychieftain I mean, I'm sure the river Aragorn fell into helped with that stench... ...at least a bit, surely, 😆... Buuut maybe Brego the Horse's breath and hygiene ruined that soak? lol
I was an extra on set in this scene; I was one of the blonde elves standing on the wall with a long bow. There were two days of shooting in which Haldir (Craig Parker) was doing sword combat with the Uruk-hai and various other stunts. I recall one where he jumped onto the shoulders of an Uruk-hai, stabbed it in the top of the head then somersaulted off as it fell down dead. Pity that more of Haldir and his fighting didn’t end up in the final cut (or even the extended edition).
I remember in one of his Comic-Con interviews, PJ mentioned that one day he may release an ultimate cut of the trilogy, including possibly at least an extra hour long footage which is otherwise unedited or never released before. I hope this would become real soon.
This scene contradicts one of the major themes of the story. A big part of LotR is that the elves are leaving and that men have to face the Enemy on their own without the help of the elves. It also makes no sense for Lothlorien to send aid to Ronan when they have to defend their own land from Sauron as well.
@@GREENdragon1224 I've always interpreted this moment as a pre-emptive strike from the elves. If the bulwark of Sauron's army was going to hit Helms Deep, send a detatchment of elves to help the men kill as many as possible. Best case scenario, you beat back Sauron's army. Worst case? You've inflicted enough casualties by being there to weaken Saurons army enough to consolidate and leave the elven lands alone long enough for the last elves to leave.
Phillip J. Benson I mean the Uruk hai were literally raised and ready to fight in weeks. Imagine what Saruman can raise in months. Killing 10,000 Uruk hai won’t make a dent in Saurons army. Plus we forget the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, Gundabad, Mordor, Rhun, Haradrim etc. Sauron was already set to take over the world
I love these comments...I am in love with these films an i am so passionate with the books and tolkien is my father for everything!That feeling every time....even now that i am older....
@@AnzuBrief no especially not that it was crap u knew every character in lotr ya didn't even get all the dwarfs names character performance was shocking
This is my favorite scene of The Two Towers. The Elves, immortal and beautiful creatures, forfeit their immortal lives to stand side by side with their allies in a hopeless battle, so the humans wouldn´t die alone. That´s so powerful, i always get the shivers watching this scene.
Even if the Elves "died" they would eventually reincarnate in Valinor, after spending some time in the halls of Mandos. Men die for real, they transcend
@@willowwhisper6575 I heard that men don't die but going to a place far off from Arda, where only Ilu himself can go.(Maybe like heaven or an adaptive Earth/our world without elves/dwarves etc?) That's why even the Valar ar jealous. Because like Maya, elves, they are Immortal. But they are bound to Arda. If that's really true then Men have the biggest "achievement" after death.
@TheJohnson That's true, just one small correction: in Tolkien's universe, our earth IS Middle Earth, in the fourth age (age of men) or sixth/seventh depending on the source. Arda (the world) started as your typical flat earth, in the second age of the sun Valinor was separated from Arda, Númenor sank and the world took spherical shape. From the fourth age onwards continents break apart and Earth takes the shape we know today.
>Be Elf >Die at Helms Deep >Wake up in Mandos immediately after >Heckle Feanor >Get body back immediately due to sacrifice >Live in blessed realm until the world is destroyed Not even a sacrifice really
For anyone wondering, the reason the elves turned when Legolas and Haldir greeted, its because Legolas is the son of Thranduil, the king of Mirkwood, making him his prince. It was the Evles way of standing at attention for royalty. Edit: the controversy this has started in the comments 😂
Love the attention to detail. Legolas looks amazing compared to the humans he's surrounded by because of his elven blood, but when stood next to Haldir he looks more dishevelled and dirty from long travel and battle compared to the fresher, cleaner Haldir.
@@_RatL0vinghuman_ Why? In the book he introduces himself while dealing with the fellowship when they first enter the forest at Lothlorien then he's not mentioned again. I'm just curious as to what he does to warrant being a favorite character.
@@TheEckoEcho actually the dwarves and the lake people were fighting a large army of rhun warriors. By large I mean more than 100.000 men strong. If not for the dwarves and lake men Gondor would've pretty much fallen cause rhun were mostly spearmen who could've easily countered the rohirrim which is cavalry.
And if I recall correctly, the people/Royals of Rohan _(my book-knowledge is limited)_ have a... distrustful _(or worse)_ view/feelings toward Elves. Them just seeing hundreds of them, Bows in hand, shrouded in cloaks, marching at Helm's Deep... and they didn't halt and question them first before letting them in. Beit desperate or trusting-optimism _('cause of Legolas', Aragorn and Gimli's help with rescuing Theoden's soul),_ Rohan accepted them in before their doom approaches... the range of emotions they had and displayed on-screen was vast, I'm sure. 😁
"We are proud to fight alongside men once more". What an underrated line. One of the best of the trilogy cause it's able to rievocate and condensate all the sufferances Humans and Elves lived togheter throughout the eres.
This is one of the most tear jerking scenes in the whole trilogy for me, right along with “you bow to no one” and “I can carry you”. Yes, it’s relatively minor, yes, it’s not even in the books, and yet it always has an amazing effect on me.
I found it strange that i cried when haldier died, because i hadn't even seen extended edition fellowship yet, but even without very much character development it still made me cry
That’s the power of honor my friend. Virtue and morals. This scene is so good, I’d bet money Tolkien watched it from the afterlife and said, “Ok, I gotta put this in a new edition of the book. Too good.”
Baltazar Martinez I always wondered how Legolas keep his hair so beautiful, my hair is long, and it always gets messed up, now I know why Legolas and Haldir (and other elves) keep their hair so majestic. :D
CaptainPeelz Oh yea... I remember reading and hearing about it in several documentaries and such. But that's before battle. My comment says "hourly" hair brushing.... and who knows, maybe bleaching and conditioning as well lol.
Legolas and his father are pure Sindar elves, mere elves soldiers would consider them as a noble even though they doesn't ruled any elven kingdoms as King and crown prince. 😁
Domino's is like the elves. They both keep their promises. The elves promise to fight, they fight. Domino's promises to deliver in 30 mins or it's free and they fucking get there in 30 mins, even if they have to go past an army of Uruk-Hai to get it there.
LMFAO you plebs. Learn Gimli is a Vikingkr Battle training from birth that makes agogi the Spartan warrior training look meek. For Tolkien derived much from Norse mythology. And the Mongols as did George. R. R. Martin. Til Valhal, So Tolum Niko. The battle cries of 2 spearheads that even the regiment use. He who Dares Wins. We yield not one inch of Land.
This scene has so much more meaning when you realize that for the elves it was basically a suicide mission they were leaving middle earth but these elves chose to stay and fight to honor their bond with man that’s the thing throughout the series that really separates elves from the other races their power of magic and the fact that they live forever for all we know some of those elves who looked 22 could have been 222 years old but that’s the thing about elves they always honor their word so glad that they decided to add this scene even when it wasn’t from the book
The word suicide has little meaning when your race has the ability to Respawn right after death. They got to go out fighting and got to fast travel to Aman/undying lands instead of taking a ship there, which is where they were leaving to in the first place.
@@SagaciousNihilist it’s not right after by a long shot. Elven souls go to the Halls of Mandos & can wait thousands of years before they are re embodied Valinor.
@@frenchsterr4708 This is true, but the rest of what @SagaciousNemesis said is pretty accurate. They do respawn. Eventually. (Besides, thousands of years is not a huge deal to an Elf, especially not in Valinor.) To add, it differs per soul. One could speculate that an Elf who sacrifices their life to fight against the darkness would be 'done' sooner. It's still a noble sacrifice, of course, but before I learned about the Halls of Mandos it seemed like an incomprehensibly-enormous sacrifice to me.
Course they do, they were the first to take up arms to face Sauron, they deserve all the help they get. Edit: Old comment I know, but it's normal for such old videos that are still popular
@@StrayingCat They weren't the first. The Edain, the ancestors of the Numenoreans, fought alongside the Elves against Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, whom Sauron served. They fought at the battle where Morgoth was overthrown by the Valar and cast outside the reaches of Middle-earth and forbidden to ever return. And the Numenoreans arrived in Middle-earth after Sauron had recovered from his master's defeat and taken his place as Dark Lord, and forced him to surrender; but it was then the Numenoreans sealed their doom, for their king took Sauron prisoner and was swayed by his honeyed words and his (then) fair appearance, so that he made his enemy one of his chief advisors, and was led to his ruin and the ruin of all of Numenor. The realm of Gondor and the fallen realm of Arnor in the north, of whom only the Dunedain remain, are all that remains of the Numenoreans.
I love the books but people who complain about Jackson adding scenes like this are insane. This scene was incredible and the addition of the elves to the Helm's Deep battle was a great move. And I'm normally an extreme purist when it comes to adaptations, but in the case of LOTR, I was fine with all of Jackson's choices because it was done so beautifully and worked.
@@skychieftain this doesn't matter for a race that is unable to die. Even when they are killed in battle they will enter the halls of mandros and later he reborn. Their live will never really end
For the most part, Jackson's changes didn't throw the core lore out the window like Rings of Power does. For example having Arwen save Frodo before Rivendell still is the core idea of a powerful elf aiding the Rignbearer against the Ringwraiths. Bakshi had it be Legolas in his version since he was going to be part of the Fellowship. Having a company of elves show up to Helm's Deep is a nice touch. It doesn't change the course of the battle in the slightest and most of them die anyway.
It really cements the various Elven realms giving one last heroic sacrifice with what's left of their strength to give hope to the race of Men and other Free peoples of Middle Earth as their own race is departing away from Middle Earth.
One of my favorite scenes. To many of the men of Rohan elves are a distant memory or a far off tale. The actors sell this look perfectly. They look about how i would if a bunch of elves showed up to defend my home.
I was looking for this comment. I think you're 100% right. For most of the people of Rohan, the Elves would have been little more than a myth. I think the extra's in this scene sell their surprise at a bunch of Elven archers suddenly coming to their aid really well.
One assumes it was to get the elves involved in the conflict, without the headache of constantly cutting back to the battles at Lothlorien and Mirkwood.
The main thing that bothers me is the geography. How did Elves from Lothlorien get to Helm's Deep before the Uruk-hai army from Isengard (which is closer)? During Galadriel and Elrond's "elf skype" (good phrase from Dunadi above) Galadriel says "Isengard has been unleashed" and you see the Uruk-hai army on the move. This is before Elrond has Haldir's force dispatched. Possibly a smaller group of elves could move faster than an Uruk-hai horde which would have had to organise its forces before showing up at Helm's Deep. Also the Uruk-Hai force was slowed by Rohan skirmishes or stopped to attack towns and villages? Its just something I wonder on.
I'm an avid lover of the books, and if you're too, even if this didn't happened in there, the way Haldir says :"We are proud to fight alongside Men once more" just sends chills down your spine, knowing the glory days of the Last Alliance.
Even before "The Last Alliance" the Numenorians came to the elves rescue. when Sauron basically had them hemmed up in Lindon and Imladriss, it was the Numenorians arrival that turned the tide and forced Sauron back. Then after this we had the Elves fighting with Arnor, or the remnants of anyway, against Angmar. There is a long history of men and elves fighting side by side, at least the men of the West anyway, dating all the way back to the First age and the wars with Morgoth. The only reason they did not help in the Books, is because the Orcs from Moria were threatening Lorien and they could not send aid to Helms Deep. That said, like you I really like this scene as well.
In comparison with Rings of Power changes to the lore, this is an example of a lore change that doesn't rock the foundation. It's a nice scene that shows the Elves aren't so aloof or uncaring. Most importantly it doesn't change the core story of the Battle of Helm's Deep as it's only a relatively small company of elves who don't affect the outcome of the battle plus they pretty much all die.
If this movie was made today this scene would consist of a bunch of black, female elves marching in to save the toxic men from doom. And not a single woman would die.
@@onkelmorra87 Yes, turns out there are good and bad writers. I am not sure women being in the elvish army changes even one sentence in the trilogy, I will say that much.
Well be honest if it weren't for the elves they probably would've lost the fortress alot sooner, considering that it took half the battle for the Uruks to break through the elf positions.
1:27 Legolas standing behind Haldir looking like your friend introducing you to his cool older cousin who's gonna buy you guys liquor for a party since you and your friends are still in Highschool.
@@marsnz1002 they didnt come form Rivendell, Elrond sent word to Lady Galadriel to sent some of her elves to help Rohan due to most of Elrond's people at Rivendell had already left those that would have enough elves is Thrandiul and Galadriel. because Rivendell is where elves take ships to the undying lands, the Valar. the elves also wear Galadrim armor and weaponry while the Elves that Elrond leads they have different armor and weapons remember back during the second age where Sauron gets defeated
Seriously. Howard Shore must have written a thousand melodies for this trilogy. There’s one for everything. Nobody expects a theme just for Aragorn running up the stairs after seeing the beacons, yet he did compose it.
Haldir came when no other hosts did, he didnt come to win, he didnt come for the glory, he came to uphold a age long alliance and promise, based haldir
Look at them, look at this synchronicity, the soft voices escorted by a powerful roll of drums as we hear their steps in unison... majestic... 1 BILLION DOLLARS AND YOU COULDNT DO THAT AMAZON?! PATHETIC!
Goosebumps, a sunken heart, a choked throat, and tears. That is what this scene gives me. It is so beautiful, the love of the Elves, their goodness. They are getting ready to leave Middle Earth and go to paradise but no, they will not leave humanity to die in this fucked up way, totally outnumbered and alone. The Elves choose to stay and risk death, they are there for their friends, even though Men are so much lesser than them. Absolutely heart wrenching and beautiful.
Yes the Elves don't like how we squabble and fight over things they consider petty but they realize that we are a shorter lived race. But men are generally good and against evil and darkness so there's that common goal.
“We are less petty than you, we are wiser, we are more beautiful, we have long, flowing, carefully groomed hair and we are destined to live forever......but we will fight and die with you cause we love you.”
@@ladyalaina42 Cos in the books they were fighting their own war against Sauron and since PJ didn't show that i think this was his way of having the elves in his movies.
My gosh look at them!!!! THEY REALLY looked like elves, not like the ones of Rings of Power. These are So beautiful, bright, intelligent, elegant and brave 👏😍😍 PJ did an AMAZING job and this trilogy will FOREVER be THE BEST OF ALL TIME. ♥
Question: is it ONLY because they are black you didn't like them? like if everything else worked in RoP, would the elves being multiracial ruin the rest of it?
THIS IS how "subverting expectations" is done successfully, not Arya killing the Night King. You hear me D&D? You fucking morons who fucked up one of the greatest TV shows of this decade.
I love it you can see the hope and the joy return to the faces of the men of Rohan upon seeing the elves. An army of elves had not been seen in the west sense the days of the last alliance, it was as if myth came of to life when they walked into the fortress. The skill and grace of the elves is unmatched in middle earth, they would surely provide an excellent moral boost.
Ever since LOTR came out, I never missed a year re-watching the Trilogy. I am still amazed, the battle at helms deep still gives me goosebumps specially when the elves arrives and then the Rohirrims. I still find Aragorn very handsome and he's still my favorite character (maybe not, if its not played by Vigo). Damn, I love LOTR, its the number 1 movie in my heart. I was so addicted to LOTR, I went to New Zealand to visit its set. :")
I love how Legolas is in frame when Haldir says the elves are proud to fight alongside men once more because it signifies that Legolas too, as a fellow elf, is proud to be there fighting (which is of course made significant because of his earlier doubts)
That scene is awesome! Soldiers and warriors of Helms Deep looking on in awe at the arrival of these legendary fighters and allies of their forefathers.
Actually that was the smartest thing to do as they outnumbered the uruks coming into the wall gap so they last longer and kill more uruks as they are the ones attack from more angles
"Helm's deep has but one weakness...the door guards will instantly open the gate for an entire army without even asking who they are if they have nice armour and stuff."
@@AkasukaNoMila They’re not from Rivendell so that’d be an immediate red flag, but ‘making a horn sound’ is probably beyond Saruman’s powers, that much I’ll concede.
@@nickstone1587 They are from Lorien, yes, but they are send by Elrond. Also, is clearly stated by Tolkien that "the evil can't replicate Eru's creations". So, the elves are the most pure creation of Eru, is impossible to be a trap or some artiluge of Saruman.
0:17 The Elves arrive wrapped in clocks marching proudly towards certain death. 0:55 Dialogue, imagery and musical selection are clear examples of why these movies Rocked.
Just now realized this is why the elves in the hobbit (cgi ones) were so synchronized. Much more impressive in this scene. You get the feel of the martial discipline and control.
Chills and even more chills I remember the first time i watched this and almost cried when them elves came.. its just pure epicness.. then there’s this .. “ring of power” .. what madness
The HUG gets me every time. While not an elf custom, he embraces and hugs him back knowing its mans tradition. Its sort of like when an introvert opens up to an extrovert, of which I am one. I find introverts fascinating, like a project to work on.
I have to rewatch this because I love the elves’ presence in the movie. It’s so majestic, beautiful, graceful and powerful. There is something so mysterious and fascinating about them. Rings of power is a good series but the way elves look and behaves, it’s quite different from what I grew up knowing. ❤
After all this time this scene still gets me in the feels. I remember seeing it in the movies and I felt their hopelessness and then they arrive and you feel your morale lift.
I always loved that the Elves honour alliances from literally thousands of years ago. All those men they were friends with are long dead, but to the Elves time is kind of meaningless in a way, and they hold themselves to such high standards that they still remember that understanding.
I imagine myself happily dancing around as an elf with a wooden bow, spotting a little group of orcs, and running away like the cowardly little girl I am. I'm proud to say that I stated the truth.
You could argue that the help of the Elves is one of the main reason that King Theoden finally decides to help Gondor in The Battle of Minas Tirith. He was so surprised that the Elves was willing to help them, knowing that Men have dishonored the allegiance long time ago when Isildur took the Ring. The Elves have no obligation to help Men and honor the allegiance, but they did it anyway, even to death. King Theoden and the Kingdom of Rohan also have no obligation to help Gondor, after Gondor abandoned them and dishonor the allegiance years before. But Theoden have learned from the honor shown by the Elves. He finally decides to rise above and help the undeserving Gondor, even while knowing that they are vastly outnumbered and most likely to die. It was the grace of the Elves that changed Theoden, and made him an honorable King in the end, not ashamed as he go to his fathers.
In the books the elves weren’t involved in this battle. It was just Rohan. In the past Rohan made an oath with Gondor to come to their aid. In the Return of the King they answered that oath.
