The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | Movie Reaction | Part 1: Just Chuck It! 

Tolkien experts, please correct any misstatements or answer any questions she has that I can’t. I’m no expert. 🤠

I learned today that "And you have my bow" are the only words Legolas says to Frodo in all three movies.

Wife: "Viggo Mortensen--he's so handsome." Husband: shakes his head in resigned acceptance, like every other husband of a LotR fan wife

“Is that her daddy”? No, Aragorn is her Daddy, that is her father

Dude in the hat is on point. Love how he refuses to spoil anything, but knows how to answer the questions. Thats an impressive skill. Sub'd.

Just so you know... Tolkien hated war, loved languages, was a great humanitarian. He was in the trenches of WW1 when he began writing these. The Hobbit being the prelude.

13:40 Sauron didn't just come back. He had been back for a while, but had kept it a secret while searching for the ring and building his power. At the start of this movie, Gandalf is only just figuring out how bad it is.

Sauron never died, he pored his life force into the one ring. So as long as the one ring exists Sauron will endure, not in the physical realm though. But Sauron waited 2500 years because he was basically gaining power back, after his defeat when he got his fingers cut off

In the books, Sauron had been awake and aware for some time, and looking for the ring. But he was looking in the wrong part of the world and didn't know anything about hobbits. In the book, The Hobbit, Sauron is running around under the guise of "the Necromancer" and Gandalf leaves Bilbo and the dwarves to drive him out of Mirkwood where he was hiding.

I'm a simple man, I see a LOTR reaction, I like the video.

The Ring doesn’t make Sauron invisible because he has power over it, it does not have power over him. It makes other people invisible because it shunts them forcibly into a purgatory or shadow realm. They’re physically still where they are in the “real” world but they’re sort’ve between reality and shadow.

Elrond may seem sketchy because you're used to seeing him as Agent Smith or the Red Skull.

The Elves seem to glow because they are semi-divine immortal creatures. To most mortal eyes, they just appear to be preternaturally fair of face and figure, but Frodo, during his afflicted state, when first beholding Arwen, was afforded a brief glimpse beyond the veil of their luminous essence, their grace.

Still can't believe how amazing the music is in this trilogy. Goosebumps and tears in my eyes.

LOL her face when Gollum says "My precious"...

Aragorn was singing the Lay of Lúthien, a song about the two of his distant ancestors, Beren and Lúthien: mortal Man falls in love with beautiful Elf maid and is given impossible task by her father in order to win her hand. The story of Beren and Lúthien shares a lot of parallels between that of Aragorn and Arwen (even more so in the book than in the films). There is a *lot* more going on in the backstory than could possibly be dealt with in the movies and still keep them a reasonable run time.

If I am not mistaken, Sauron was never truly 'dead' in the traditional sense because in his forging of The Ring of Power, he put something of himself into them and while IT persisted, he persisted, as a spirit, as a force - so in that final battle, millenia ago, it was only his body that died. Beings such as he are notoriously hard to kill anyway as they're not simple flesh-and-blood creatures of Middle Earth, they're actually much, much more (as is Gandalf and every member of his order). The passage of time is a small thing, to these beings, as they would live forever outside of external sources causing their death - Tolkien appreciated the passage of time and it wasn't uncommon, in the greater wars of the Ages that came before, for the forces of darkness (and light) to take many hundreds of years, or more, to marshal their forces after greater defeats. The behind-the-scenes story of everything that goes on immediately preceeding The Lord of the Rings is pretty crazy ;D

I'm really appreciating your editing. You've kept in several scenes that most others have left out. I thank you.

I was waiting for the jump scare with Frodo,Bilbo,and the ring. You did not disappoint.😲

Point of trivia about Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo in these movies: Way back in the 80s, BBC radio broadcast a 13-week one-hour production of LOTR (it later aired on NPR in the us as a 26-week half hour series) which featured Ian Holm (not yet knighted) as not Bilbo, but Frodo. So Sir Ian Holm has played both Bilbo and Frodo.

"Strider actual has some elf blood in him." And Arwen has human blood. She's actually a descendant of the woman he was singing about, who fell in love with a mortal, and their story parallels it

The dwarf Gimli was played by John Rhys Davies - who played 'Sallah' in the Indiana Jones movie: 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark'. He was Indy's friend in Cairo, Egypt.

12:11 Sauron has actually been back for many years at this point, but he laid low in order to rebuild his fortress and his armies, which included breeding more orcs and trolls and calling upon other allies

21:09 In the Tolkien universe, orcs and goblins are the same species, just alternate names. Tolkien originally named them goblins in the Hobbit, but as he began expanding his universe, he applied the word Orc(deriving from Orcos, the greek god of oaths, and the old-english word for demon). The elves called them Orch, of Yrch in plural, which is a general description of a terrifying creature. Orch is pretty much elvish for "boogeyman". In the more recent media, like in the films, Orcs evolved into various breeds over time since their conception, including goblins(small orcs adapted to life underground), hobgoblins(abnormally large orcs that grow almost as big as trolls) and uruks(regular human-sized orcs)

Sauron doesn’t *suddenly* return, but it takes him thousands of years to build his strength after having the ring cut from his hand (he had already been “killed” once before, so this time it was bad). So by the time of the LOTR story, he has a body again and is strong enough to start building armies and hunting for the ring.

The one ring draws the wearer into the shadow world. As such, it will turn almost everyone who wore it invisible. Only an immortal with great strength to bend the power of the ring to their will would remain visible. Sauron, Gandalf, Tom Bombadil (from the book), and other extremely power beings from that world would still be seen if they wore the ring.

Saruman isn't actually joining forces with Sauron, he's just buying time to search and find The One Ring because he was fool and greedy enough to believe he could master it. He actually spent years secretely looking for it before joining Sauron and building his Uruk-hai army.

Fun fact: The bridge that Merry mentions as an alternative to the ferry to get to Bree was guarded by Aragorn and the rest of the rangers. Most of them died trying to stop the Nazgul from crossing.

"He got hairy feet?" "Oh yeah." lmfao

I like how you two feel real like friends and not like the typical annoying youtubers spazing out. Please don't change, I'm really enjoying you two.

Christopher Lee was also a British Commando in WWII, and is told to have given advice to Peter Jackson on what a being stabbed actually sounds like.

Also, in the books it took Gandalf 17 years to research the ring and then come back to Frodo, in the movie seems like a few days only

If memory serves, all of their given names are Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took and Frodo Baggins!

I love the way that the Orcs and Goblins and the Uruk-Hai look in The Lord of the Rings trilogy honestly they’re frightening

You might have recognized the actor who played Elrond if he had said, "Mister Anderson." Or if he had spoken in a German accent. You might have recognized the actor who played Gandalf if he had used his magic specifically to manipulate metal objects. You might have recognized the actor who played Gimli if he had said, "Asps. Very dangerous. You go first."

Lord of the Rings is the source of the modern concept of Dragons, Wizards, Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Trolls, Orcs, and all the other fantasy tropes.

Something to note for part 2. Aragorn puts on Boromir's bracers (armor on the forearm) and wears the for the rest of the films to honor his sacrifice trying to save the hobbits.

Turned on captions. Frodo jumps onto Gandalf's cart and says..."Its wonderful to see Uganda"

Sauron didn't just wake up he was awake during the events of the Hobbit during this movie Sauron simply has regained most of his former strength and hence began searching for the one thing to fully restore his full strength. Also Elrond is Agent Smith in the Matrix how was this not mentioned.

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23:13 These bois are the Uruk'hai, Saruman's perfect human/orc hybrids

Sauron had been back for a while - but under a disguise and false identity: The Necromancer. He had been posing as a human sorcerer, but Gandalf had uncovered his true identity the same time he entered Dol Gûldor and got the Map and Key from Thrain (though the order of events is off in the Hobbit movies). Sauron actually fled before the White Council arrived. He then revealed himself in Mordor and rebuilt for the next 78 years. He was a known entity by this point, but the Shire knew little of the troubles of the Southern lands.

i love that you are just honestly watching and reacting to the movie. not trying to put on a show for youtube while missing half of the greatest trilogy of all time... :) Edit: also, cowboy dude is the perfect partner for watching this, doesn't spoil everything. great duo

17:51 the guy chewing a carrot is Peter Jackson, the director of the trilogy. He had a few seconds cameos in each LOTR and Hobbit movie :)

I'm sure you've already had this answered but just in case here's the super nerdy explanation: You can think of the ring as constantly emitting little radar pings in an attempt to get back to Sauron. Putting on the ring is like a HUGE radar ping going off while it's on. Sauron and the ringwraiths can detect it * but * like a radar-dish it's not unlimited range. Sauron and the ringwraiths have been growing in power over the years which has improved their ability to detect the ring. So during The Hobbit, Bilbo was too far away / Sauron was too weak to detect the ring but now, many decades later it's * way * more dangerous to use.

Yeah in the books Sauron didn't start to actually manifest in physical form again until a thousand years after his defeat. And when did, he was very weak. Before that he was just a spirit that couldn't be seen, heard or felt or have any influence on the world. He was basically in limbo because he couldn't die because his life force and spirit where tied to the Ring. Over the course of the 3,000 years between his defeat and the start of the film he gradually regained his strength, remaining hidden while his servants carried out his will. He was hiding in a fortress called Dol Guldur, which is in a kind of haunted forest called Mirkwood. Then in the year 2941 (the same year of Bilbo's Quest) of the Third Age, Gandalf and the White Council drove him out of Dol Guldur. But he was prepared and simply fled to Mordor, which his servants had long been preparing for him in secret. In 2951 he declared his return openly and began marshalling armies to prepare to conquer Middle-Earth once again. The films begin in 3001 with Bilbo's 111th birthday, then when Gandalf leaves 17 years actually pass until he returns and Frodo's quest begins.

"That's a big horse!" "They're hobbits." "That's a normal-sized horse..."

This was to this day the best theatrical experience I’ve ever had. Nothing has come close since. I wish I could go back and relive it for the first time again, but seeing you watch it for the first time and the expressions on your face was pretty darn close haha.

They rip the trees down for the furnaces. They're making weapons and armor. A lot of people seem to miss that.

Fun fact. When Bilbo is telling the Troll story, he says "...and squash us into jelly!" The little hobbit girl who makes the surprised face is also in the street throwing flowers before Faramir's charge.

The "human" you see for just a second in the first village the hobbits come to who is eating the carrot is a cameo of Peter Jackson himself.

"Good work Sam" is a theme for these stories

he did not wake up,he was not asleep or dead just dispersed and it took him a long time to reform himself. kinda. edit btw. i have also been watching the dexter reacts i am enjoying it. nice to have something to watch and enjoy when there is no work to be done. thank you. both liked and subbed. have a nice day.

At 16:21, that whole scene was lifted - as an homage - from the Ralph Bakshi animated version from 1978. That movie also featured Anthony Daniels (C3-P0) as the voice of Legolas and John Hurt as Aragorn.

15:03 the Wizards are like angels sent to Middle earth to guide but not lead. The White Wizard is considered the top of the wizards thats why Saumons fall was so big. In the books it it kinda hinted that he knew sauron would kill him after taking middle earth so he was trying to gain the ring to make one for himself.

When Bilbo sees the ring and his face changes it reminds me of large Marge from Peewee's Big Adventure

Dude it's 2024 ans i JUST created a playlist of all 6 videos of the 3 movies! it's laike re-seeing them for the 1st time again!!! big love to you guys channel and family!

It's kind of amazing that the Lord of the Rings movies set the standard for the Fantasy movie genre, when the Lord of the Rings books set the standard for Fantasy books.

Describing the Palantir as "Lookin Balls" well he aint wrong

so apparently the actors that play Merry and Pippin have a youtube channel where they do a podcast about the filming of the movies, it's called ''the friendship onion''

Gimli did not broke his axe, if you look close, he does not grab his axe, but the other dwarf axe

This film is 20 years old. That's insane.

Sauron was never truly destroyed, as a small part of his spirit remained tied to the ring. it just took him a really really long time to gain strength enough to make his return & he probably would have stayed hidden a while longer if he could but in the Hobbit the White Council do discover he has returned in the guise of the Necromancer.

13:55 in this scene the elves are sing a song praising the Queen of Valonor Varda. When the elves first awoke it was she who set new stars in the night sky for all the elves to see, because of this act she held in the most highest regard and is beloved by all elven folk the most. The glowing animating from them is is a throw back to this deed.

In the Hobbit, they hint at Sauron returning, when they talk about the return of a necromancer.

Also fun fact: Elrond (Arwen's dad) had a twin brother. Their mother was an elf and their father was half-elf/half-human (and with a little bit of demi-god mixed in a few generations back). Because of that, Elrond and his brother could choose to be either human or elf. Elrond chose to be an elf, and his brother chose to be human, and actually ended up being the first King of Numenor, which eventually became Gondor. Aragorn is a direct descendent of the Numenorean kings, meaning that Elrond is actually his great-great-great-etc-etc-etc uncle from over 3000 years earlier, and Arwen is his first cousin, 3000 years of generations removed.

I'm sure others have explained as well, but I'll give my version: Sauron wasn't destroyed when the ring was cut from his finger, but he was left as some kind of spirit, without physical form. He has been slowly regaining his lost power, over a long period of time. Even "now" at this point in the Fellowship, he still can't take physical form, but he can influence his servants.

"bring your ding-dong is still in your pocket" - Closed Captioning 10:04

To answer, "If putting the ring on makes it more apparent where the ring is, Bilbo was putting it on all the time!" It's likely most easily explained, at least for the films, that it's a proximity thing. The closer the agents of Sauron are, the more precisely they sense the ring. So before Sauron had his people near The Shire, the most he could probably tell is that someone, somewhere in Middle-Earth, was putting the ring on occasionally.

Ian Holme played Ash in Alien... and Father Cornelius in The Fifth Element... and Fluellen in Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V...

The easy guess would be Bilbo finding the ring and removing it from Gollum's cave would have been what woke Sauron but there is an episode mentioned with an entity called The Necromancer that Gandalf had to take care of during The Hobbit. The Necromancer ended up being Sauron so he was already starting to regain his strength. This tale is not directly mentioned in The Hobbit but is mentioned in the Appendix that has the major events of the ages in the back of LotR. Him using his strength to do what he was doing could have been the reason he didn't notice Bilbo using the ring during The Hobbit as well (this would be a guess of course, but it makes some sense)

When I was around 12, a friend loaned me a copy of the Hobbit. Small sized book. Then I read the Lord of the Rings, 2000 pages over 3 books, got into it, and all the material, epic does not describe it enough. Its encyclopedia sized!

Sauron has actually been active for years now. First he hid in the black bisque like a necromancer, then he returned to Mordo and openly announced his return. By the present of the film Sauron had already returned, only Mordor is so far from the country that the hobbits do not know it. The point is not the return of Sauron itself, but that Gollum is the one who reveals to Sauron that the ring is in the region and 2, Gandalf confirms his suspicions that Bilbo's ring is Sauron's ring.

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Sauron didn't wake up, he'd been in a sense regenerating for 2500 yrs,

Sauron didn't die when the ring was cut from him, he just lost his physical form. He did get it back, in a manner of speaking, after a thousand years of effort, though he was greatly weakened without the ring. That was the Second time he had lost his physical form, so regaining it took time - the first loss was when it was destroyed when Numenor was sunk and the world made round. He would later become the Necromancer in Dol Guldur, in Southern Mirkwood, searching for the Ring in the last place it was known to be: the Gladden Fields between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood, though he was quickly driven from there by Gandalf, who wanted to know the identity of the Necromancer, as Sauron wasn't strong enough at the time to fight the Wizard and reveal himself, and he fled East. 800 years later, Sauron returned to Dol Guldur to resume his search, but by that time it had already been found by Gollum. He remained there, searching in vain and revealed himself as Sauron, until The White Council drove him out in the year Bilbo found the Ring. He fled to Mordor, where he rebuilt his Tower, and started the process of gathering his forces to hunt for the Ring, still unaware that it had been found. It wasn't until Sauron used his power to call all dark things to him that he unintentionally lured Gollum, who had left the Mountains to try find Bilbo, to Mordor where he was captured and tortured. The Black Riders, with a name and a location, set out 17 years after Bilbo's 111th birthday, when Gandalf returned to test the Ring to see if it was the One Ring Sauron was looking for. The film makers didn't do enough, in my opinion, to get across the 17 year time jump.

I Shed a tear when she said Christopher Lee's name said nothing to her. haha Seriously, tho, research his movies and about his real life badassery during the war, the man was a legend.

Sauron hasn't been asleep. He was weakened and took time before he could take form again (NOT as a giant eye but there you go). He's been quite busy for several hundred years at this stage. But once the Ring was no longer with Gollum in the bowels of a mountain that set a lot of things in motion

Extended versions - brilliant! Love your set up. Cool pad. And yes, sir, sort yourself out😂

Talking about Elrond and she says “so he’s the ONE “ lol he also played agent smith in the matrix lol.

Sauron is a Maia (pl. Maiar). A lesser spirit of the Ainur, the angelic/god-like beings that helped create the world and rule over it. As such he is incapable of ceasing to exist. He can be defeated, his essence can be torn apart and spread so far and wide that it would take an eternity to reassemble and have any shred of power, but a part of him will always exist.

Sauron wasn't sleeping, he was simply hiding. He was "The Necromancer" in dol goldur during the Hobbit

The man eating the carrot when the Hobbits enter Bree is the director, Peter Jackson in one of his three cameo appearances in the trilogy.

"Did he just kill Gandalf...that would suck."

Samwise Gamgee. Actually, because JRR was a professor of Old English and loved languages, Sam-wise in Old English means "half" wise. That is to say, wise in a practical or common sense kind of meaning and not someone with just "book-learning".

The reason Sam was eavesdropping isn't explained, but it is an interesting bit of story. Frodo didn't leave immediately, in fact the time between the birthday party and when Gandalf returns to verify the identity of the ring as the "one"... Is actually several years. Sauron gained more power in those years, which is why Bilbo was safe when using it, but not Frodo, as his power to sense the ring was stronger and the ringwraiths were now able to be sent to search as well. But basically Frodo's plan was for him to make up an excuse that was believable as to why he was leaving, and a fake destination. Making it believable took a bit of time to set up, several months. Basically he bought a small home near the Border of the Shire close to his mother's family, and said he was moving there. This was to confuse any spies or inadvertent talk getting to the ears of the enemy. They would try to look in the wrong place, as he was really leaving by a different route. Sam, Merry, Pip, and a fourth Hobbit not in the films, who were friends of Frodo. suspected something was up and Sam was asked to keep his ear open, especially when Gandalf was around. (Sam was part friend and part employee, he was a hired gardener, this is why he uses the term uses "mister Frodo" but Merry and Pip do not, also Frodo comes from money as it were, and Sam is from a working class family. A bit of British class system of how the poor talk to the rich) Sam got caught and brought in on the plan by Gandalf, but he still secretly met with the other 3 hobbits to help make extra plans to help Frodo. They actually surprised Frodo by telling him at the last minute they knew the real plan and they were going to help him. Sam, Merry, and Pip went with of course, and the fourth stayed behind pretending to be basically a live in butler, to keep the fact Frodo was leaving the shire a secret for longer. He would pretend to be running errands for Frodo and talk about him still being up at the house. This works, and at one point he had to escape a ringwraith that came to the house and then raise the alarm and gathered a small force of hobbits to chase the ringwraith out of the shire. Farmer Maggot has a brief role in the books, and he is awesome. When the ringwraith comes asking about Baggins and the Shire, he didn't get scared and duck into his house like the film... He instead basically looked the ringwraith in the eye, and told him F' off, he wasn't telling him anything, wouldn't help him at all, and to get off his property before he makes him leave. When the other Hobbits run into him a bit later, he warns them about the danger, feeds them dinner, and then when it turned dark, helped them sneak out of the Shire by smuggling them in his cart... Knowing full well there were several of the ringwraiths around and that they were very dangerous. (He didn't know they were ringwraiths specifically, just that they were very dangerous, and that by helping Frodo, it could get himself killed) That takes some serious stones, to be a small hobbit, and tell an obviously dangerous person two or three times your size to stuff it and get out of his face. Also Saruman wasn't flat out evil, at least he didn't intend to be... His plan was to actually betray Sauron and take the ring. But Sauron knew this and was using him, and twisted his mind to get him to do evil things... It's what Sauron does, twist and dominate minds to his will.

Sauron physically died in the battle. He is a fallen angelic spirit that existed before the formation of the world. When his body died, his spirit endured but was not powerless because the Ring’s continued existence tethered him and allowed him the ability to return. He was so weakened, it took around 2,000 years but he was able to return to physical form (the eye on top of the tower is a film creation, his Eye is a manifestation of his will) without having the Ring with him. He had been back for a while when The Ring passed to Frodo

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I just love his sheer dedication to not give any spoilers lol

True Fact: The New Zeland Army was actually used as extras in these movies.

Christopher Lee was basically Lord of the Rings expert having read all the books every year since possibly their publication until his death.

Elrond was also from the Matrix. Sean Aston also played Rudy and his parents are Patty Duke. She had a teen sitcom back in the 60's. His adoptive dad was John Gomez Adams from the Adams family. It seems Patty Duke was a bit of a wild child and no one knew for sure who his real dad was until a few years ago. It also could of been Desi Arnaz Jr. Lucille Balls kid. But it turned out to be someone named Michael Tell.

So basically, this dude in maxed out Daedric armor used mods to get a God power ring of one handed wielding. He grew too arrogant and a level 1 noob cut his fingers off by sheer luck.

The eye of Sauron has been active for a while. He could have stayed ignorant of the rings location, but conveniently they find Golem at the beginning of the movie and he helps them narrow it down. Here's a video that explains the origins of the rings: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WKU0qDpu3AM.html

30:46 “It's a trap. Get an ax. "

Things I learned. Studios really don't want anyone using the beginning narration by Cate Blanchett.

Gandalf arriving in the Shire: "A wizard is never late." Gandalf in Rivendell, explaining why he wasn't in Bree: "I was...delayed." Apparently late isn't the same thing as delayed... ;)

Also from the last time Bilbo puts on the ring at his birthday party and when Gandalf and Frodo discover it is the one ring 17 years pass.

Hobbits eat 7 meals a day. Breakfast - 7 a.m. Second Breakfast - 9 a.m. Elevenses - 11 a.m. Luncheon - 1 p.m. Afternoon Tea - 3 p.m. Dinner - 6 p.m. or 5 Supper - 9 p.m. or 7

Sauron's spirit has been reforming for many centuries...slowly growing stronger.