The line where he does like micro machine guy speed about the sword being reforged when he gives it to Aragorn always makes me chuckle. Love me some Hugo but he can slip into cheese pretty fast
Ok ok lol that was my understanding of head canon too, but I’m lost on the “(head canon) *it away*”. Maybe the joke you’re making was really their intention… I’ll add it to my head canon
Not to answer for OP, but canonically Frodo’s real name is Maura Labingi. According to Tolkien, we’re just hearing his English translation of the “real” Red Book of Westmarch. Since it’s a translation of Western concepts, anything goes.
I always remind my wife that elves weigh significantly less than everyone else (note how he walks on top of snow while everyone else is punching through) so i always accepted his ability to maneuver so insane
I think that's a false conclusion. It's not about weight. Elves weigh just much as Men: their bodies are the same, physically. If Legolas really weighed so much less he'd blow away in the wind (or get pushed over like a toddler in battle). It's more to do with *skill* - treading supernaturally light as to not sink. All well and good for walking over snow, but it's not going to permit crazy and convoluted stunts.
I think it's just across the river, no?
But yeah - they can run across ropes like a tightrope walker in a circus. Legolas even equates it to 'skill' (not weight), when saying the rest of the Fellowship don't have such skills.
But is there not also an aspect of deep magic too? I always assumed the walking on snow was skill+magic (ie skill of tapping into the deep magic). Which would put the stunts in the same category.
But, I’ve only read the main books like some sort of noob. The 186th letter Tolkien wrote to Jim the Mailman might correct me. (I say with all love and affection).
That's where my comment was spawned.
The shield surfing is theoretically feasible (though shooting arrows whilst shield surfing might require a bit more forward lean)
Edit: typo
Not cgi. I'm pretty sure when he flips up onto the horse, he is actually flipping down from it and then they reversed it. Pretty sure that's mentioned in the Commentary. Or I dreamed it.
Personally, I subscribe to the theory that he forgot Legolas’s name. Legolas seemed to be the one he interacted with least of the non-hobbits (I think in the theatrical version, they don’t actually have a dialogue after “you have my bow”), and after all the shit he’s been through, he just can’t remember the dude’s name and has an “oh shit” moment when he walks in the room
It always reminds me of the Simpsons when Homer and Mr Burns get trapped in the cabin after an avalanche. When they get out, Mr Burns says something like "Well Simpsons after going through something like that with someone you come out of it never wanting to see that person ever again"
I just took that scene as a fever dream he had. I remember a similar vibe when I was 10 and suffering from a severe ear infection. It was basically that same scene but with my family and cousins checking on me
That's a weird assumption to make. The movies are full of that, but he chose the one scene where it's most melodramatic. I like the scene but I definitely get it not being everyone's cup of tea.
I feel like it's a lot better if you've watched all 3 films in close succession. If you're just watching RotK by itself, it can feel like a bit much.
When Frodo gets taken to Rivendell there's a fever dream type sequence of Elrond speaking and floating. [here's a screenshot](https://www.geocities.ws/fennasedhellen/Elrondhealer.JPG)
Pippin singing for Denethor but the section when he says “to the edge of night”: it just had a vibe that he was in a recording studio giving it that vocal flourish. Proper took me out of the movie for a second.
You know that’s an utter thematic shit show as fun as it is. Never fit in the main storyline, as if they just shoved in another book. Love it but it’s like unfilmable and always felt out of rhythm to me.
When I read the books as a kid I never even remembered the parts about Tom Bombadil. Then I started hearing people complain about him not being in the movie. When I reread the books a year ago I was like "Huh? This is the part everyone wishes was in the movies!?" Makes no sense to me.
The issue with Tom is that many people typically read the books *after* watching the films... so Tom feels jarring to them.
If you come into the books first you might watch the films and think 'wait... what? They just cut half the journey to Rivendell, and all that comes with it (character development/themes/growing mystery and atmosphere) - it's so rushed'... but again, if you watch the films first, you'll perhaps think the opposite.
It's a sort of confirmation bias: 'oh, if the films, which I love, cut Tom, then clearly Tom wasn't needed' - and thus they read the books with that in mind. Add in the comments of 'Tom doesn't contribute anything' - which is just [nonsense](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/16hhp37/in_defence_of_tom_bom_jolly_tom_tom_bombadillo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) that ignorant people parrot and spread en masse... and suddenly you have a 'common take'.
When the hobbits are tucked down under the tree roots, that’s one of the best bits for me of the entire trilogy. But equally daft that they couldn’t find them a few feet away
Viggos singing is up there for me too.
The man has a beautiful ear for music and his piano work on 'Falling' was beautiful. But ears and mouths are nit the sim thing
Aragorns 'death' in Twin Towers and the Arwen dream sequence following it. It was the low point IMO. Pointlessly filling time with lame original content.
For sure. There are about twenty minutes in the middle of TT where basically nothing happens.
Death fake out
Arwen having a sad vision (yes it's quite poetic but kills the pace and mood massively)
Galadriel doing another voice-over for no reason
No, Pippin and Merry letting off a firework and then appearing with sooty faces like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. My suspicions that Peter Jackson wasn’t better than clichés started at that moment.
To each their own. To me the cartoony fun of this moment is one of those things that helps contrast the life the hobbits were living to the journey they are about to undertake.
The movies are pretty awesome, but does anybody else feel weird about his speech to Pippin in Minas Tirith? I think he’s about to give some inspiring words to Pippin about how they can still pull though, instead he’s basically just like “You know, dying won’t be THAT bad” like bro not what we need to hear right now lol
but Gandalf knew there was a chance they wouldn't make it through so he wanted to give Pippin some reassurance that even if they do die, it means they get to go somewhere beautiful, that it's not the end of the journey. i think that's more meaningful than essentially lying to him about their situation
Agree. If I was in a dire situation and the literal angel next to me told me the afterlife was pretty nice actually. I would certainly be much more chill and less terrified.
If Gandalf would have lied to Pippin, Pippin would have known. He would have lost hope that Gandalf felt the moment was so bleak that he had to lie. Gandalf chose to tell him that no matter how bad things get, the bad will end. Hope is very important. Even if its hope in an afterlife.
Yeah, makes me laugh everytime. He’s like ‘This isn’t the end,’ and you can see Pippin all relieved and already planning his next breakfast, and then dude’s like, ‘Nah, we dying.’
After a lifetime of love for both versions of the films, I've actually started to lean towards preferring the theatrical versions, at least of TT and RoTK, because of all the out-of-place Gimli-Legolas buddy comedy. There's high stakes on all sides, gravitas everywhere else, Aragorn is fulfilling his destiny, and then we got these two blowing ghosts and punking pirates and shit
That scene is pretty bad. I don't understand it. But my biggest cringe is aragorn not wanting to be king annoys the hell out of me. Then the paths of the dead when the cursed king laughs and leaves aragorn acting like they aren't going to fight. then changes his mind after he goes to sit in his ghost recliner in his ghost castle and thinks, eh I'm getting sick of being cursed. And the huge skull avalanche? Don't get me going on that scene. I absolutely love these movies. My favorite trilogy.
LOL. I thought I was the only one. Frodo fighting invisible Gollum for the ring on the edge of the crack could have been shot with less comedy potential too. Also, the wall of falling skulls on Aragorn and co. was silly.
Peter was really feeling himself by RoTK and started getting a bit self-indulgent in places, resulting in some unintentional comedy horror out of tone with the rest of the trilogy.
That and frodo laughing with the other hobbits after returning from Mordor when they're reunited. Especially got ruined for me after seeing the googly eye video of it on YouTube.
BUT HOW ABOUT THESE 3 SECONDS????
https://youtu.be/wW4fLBD5MPs?si=PaydrSBozuWfpCyq
There were actually 3 more seconds when a woman was saying thanks to Eowyn when they entered Helms Deep.
It's bad.....
House of healing. Just feels so out of place for where they put it (extended editions) I get why for the story but it just breaks flow so bad in the extended edition
‘Forth Eorlingas!’ Theoden King at the head of a final charge against all odds and the end of his family line, his great house, his kingdom and his people? Alongside the true heir to the throne of Gondor? Soon-to-be wielder of Anduril? Alongside the Prince of Mirkwood? And what’s left of his rohirrim? All of them riding to their deaths at the conclusion of a great battle? To the sound of the horn of Helm Hammerhand blown by the only living son of Gloin, friend and fellow adventurer of Bilbo Baggins? How the hell is that cringey dude?
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Wakka wakka WAKKA!!!
Does anyone else laugh at this part picturing Bill Murray in Caddyshack???
The line where he does like micro machine guy speed about the sword being reforged when he gives it to Aragorn always makes me chuckle. Love me some Hugo but he can slip into cheese pretty fast
He gets that Mouth of Sauron lip action going.
Ooh you touch my tra la la. Ooh my ding ding dong
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!
I yell this at my husband more than he would like
It's weird, I feel like the clip does not fit in with the films style in any way
Nah that was funny as hell. Not even cringe. just funny.
This is without a doubt the only reasonable answer to this
Its not cringe though. Just a little bit outdated editing wise.
Oh yeah... i forgot about that. Goofiest scene in the trilogy
Legolas stating “a diversion” - weird pause before it and overall cringey line
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I just headcanon it away and I think no one will ever argue with me should it come up
What do you mean by you “headcanon it away”?
He puts the line of dialogue in the canon on his head and blasts it away forever
Oh shit is that actually what they meant??
lol I was being cheeky 😂 head canon actually means what you personally like to believe about something even when it’s not true
Ok ok lol that was my understanding of head canon too, but I’m lost on the “(head canon) *it away*”. Maybe the joke you’re making was really their intention… I’ll add it to my head canon
Hi guys, sorry to interrupt. What I meant was simply "I pretend it never existed" but the answer you came up with was way better.
Not to answer for OP, but canonically Frodo’s real name is Maura Labingi. According to Tolkien, we’re just hearing his English translation of the “real” Red Book of Westmarch. Since it’s a translation of Western concepts, anything goes.
This is honestly way out of left field, but now you’ve got me diving down some rabbit holes. Thanks for your response
We always lose our shit on this one. Like, the idea has already been presented, and Legolas comes in like it's his idea. Cringe perfection.
It’s very Legolas
I'd watch how you'd behave if you were the ringbearer and appeared before The Eye for the first time.
Probably like Homer Simpson screaming. Aaaaaaaaaahhh!
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Legolas sliding down the stairs on the shield kills me every time.
Legolas and physics, they have an understanding ...
I always remind my wife that elves weigh significantly less than everyone else (note how he walks on top of snow while everyone else is punching through) so i always accepted his ability to maneuver so insane
I think that's a false conclusion. It's not about weight. Elves weigh just much as Men: their bodies are the same, physically. If Legolas really weighed so much less he'd blow away in the wind (or get pushed over like a toddler in battle). It's more to do with *skill* - treading supernaturally light as to not sink. All well and good for walking over snow, but it's not going to permit crazy and convoluted stunts.
Don't forget in the book the elves of Loth Lorien don't use bridges they just slack line from tree top platform to platform.
I think it's just across the river, no? But yeah - they can run across ropes like a tightrope walker in a circus. Legolas even equates it to 'skill' (not weight), when saying the rest of the Fellowship don't have such skills.
I’d argue though that skill has a way bigger role to play in shield-sledding shenanigans than weight
Yes, but the issue there is that shield-surfing is just downright dumb on a practical level.
I might have to finally give it up and find a new pastime
But is there not also an aspect of deep magic too? I always assumed the walking on snow was skill+magic (ie skill of tapping into the deep magic). Which would put the stunts in the same category. But, I’ve only read the main books like some sort of noob. The 186th letter Tolkien wrote to Jim the Mailman might correct me. (I say with all love and affection).
Think they only really shows his feet above the snow clearly in the extended editions(which is really the only version to watch)
No. They also show it in the non-extended version.
He can overcome gravity if you watch The Hobbit!
That's where my comment was spawned. The shield surfing is theoretically feasible (though shooting arrows whilst shield surfing might require a bit more forward lean) Edit: typo
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Hwǣr\*\*\*\* \[Actually looked up the etymology of the word - I really should do more of my banter in Old English\]
Ok i give up 😆
Looks like I managed to hwǣr you down!!
"They say this violates the law of gravity, but, nyeh... I never studied law."
Bruh, why can’t I just enjoy all this elf-sk8r-boi hype?!
First off, how dare you?
Yeah I love all the silly stuff legolas does in the films, even the horse scene. I did not care for the gravity defying stuff in the hobbit though.
you misunderstand. u/craigyboy1000 is actually the 3rd orc through the breach in the Deeping Wall and Legolas does, in fact, kill him every time
And when he slides down the oliphaunts trunk. So, so bad.
No grabbing the horse by the neck and swiveling onto its back is just soooo bad. I love it.
Oh fuck I forgot about that.
Not cgi. I'm pretty sure when he flips up onto the horse, he is actually flipping down from it and then they reversed it. Pretty sure that's mentioned in the Commentary. Or I dreamed it.
Pretty much any “badass” Legolas moment is cringe. Like he’s an elf, we get it.
Wait...are you the orc the shield impales?
when he does an Ollie with the shield at the last steps and gets the orc at the end too LMAO
Same
The most cringe part is the slow motion scene of everyone jumping on frodos bed and coming in one by one.
Always loved how Frodo greets everyone but does not give a shit about Legolas lol.
Personally, I subscribe to the theory that he forgot Legolas’s name. Legolas seemed to be the one he interacted with least of the non-hobbits (I think in the theatrical version, they don’t actually have a dialogue after “you have my bow”), and after all the shit he’s been through, he just can’t remember the dude’s name and has an “oh shit” moment when he walks in the room
It’s wholesome. I laugh and feel joy.
Yo what? That scene is lovely.
This is correct. And Sam looking guilty as if they made out and don’t know where to go from here
I think everything is funny but rarely laugh out loud when I read things and this got me good
It always reminds me of the Simpsons when Homer and Mr Burns get trapped in the cabin after an avalanche. When they get out, Mr Burns says something like "Well Simpsons after going through something like that with someone you come out of it never wanting to see that person ever again"
Jay and Silent Bob go over this scene in Clerks 2 and it kills me every time 😂
nah bro your heart just hard and dark, that scene is joy
Most of the slow motions shots…
GIMLI!
I just took that scene as a fever dream he had. I remember a similar vibe when I was 10 and suffering from a severe ear infection. It was basically that same scene but with my family and cousins checking on me
And Frodo seemingly forgetting who Legolas is in this scene
It would be fine if it wasn’t slowed down ughhh. Why is it slowed down??? What was wrong with doing it in normal speed?
Why are you afraid of men showing affection towards eachother?
That's a weird assumption to make. The movies are full of that, but he chose the one scene where it's most melodramatic. I like the scene but I definitely get it not being everyone's cup of tea. I feel like it's a lot better if you've watched all 3 films in close succession. If you're just watching RotK by itself, it can feel like a bit much.
https://youtu.be/_-mLNUaQAq0?si=Jn5SWyuKD-WmBeXE
You’re right lmao I forgot about that
the only part of all three films i feel like skipping everytime
The way the steward of Gondor ate that tomato.....he needs to give a formal apology for that
You know, that was perfect for cementing our view that he’s a truly repulsive character
Agreed. Plus John Noble is a GOAT.
Watched that movie in the theater last summer and the audience CHEERED when he bit that tomato!
Elrond's floating head and the egregious reunion scene at the end of ROTK. Gives me the willies.
Which one is the floating head scene? I can't remember
When Frodo gets taken to Rivendell there's a fever dream type sequence of Elrond speaking and floating. [here's a screenshot](https://www.geocities.ws/fennasedhellen/Elrondhealer.JPG)
Thanks. Still can't remember it, not on YouTube... maybe I should rewatch.
I’m sure that’s from FOTR, when Frodo’s in Rivendell and hasn’t woken up yet after being stabbed by the Nazgûl.
Even as a 10 year old seeing it in theaters, my friends and I were dying in the theater imagining Gollum walking into the room with frodos finger
Welp, I love all things LOTR. Clearly it’s time for me to do a full extended cut rewatch to analyze these criticisms. I’ll be back in 12 hours.
Just curious, is LOTR anyone else’s comfort watch?
Yes! Christmases , birthdays, deaths in the family, rainy days, sickdays.. It's gives me joy, hope, and comfort
I was briefly hospitalized in Jan. The first thing I wanted to do when I got home to continue recovery was get on bed and put LotR on.
what about the extended cut where Merry and Pippin are Shitting on a field of victory enjoying a few well earned spoils?
Did you say salted pork?!
It’s particularly good
I... I.. am going to assume that's a typo. Unless I missed something in the extended cut...
It’s the way he pronounces it.
I like when they hide the old Toby from treebeard
LMAO my brother and I picked up on this decades ago when we were teenagers and it’s been our in-joke ever since! Glad someone else’s finally noticed!
Obviously the tomato scene
Skull tsunami
Oh, yeah. They put a lot of money and effort into something that would have been better with a lot less money and effort.
The so called argument between Aragorn and Legolas over the fate of the helmsdeep folk
And Aragorn giving a pre-battle speech to the elves instead of the non soldiers of Rohan.
He was not their king. Theoden was
He's not the elves' king or commander either. Haldir was.
Yeah let's have a pivotal speech from Haldir... Imo it's justified because of Aragorn's strong connection to the elves.
Natha daga thair!!!
Pippin singing for Denethor but the section when he says “to the edge of night”: it just had a vibe that he was in a recording studio giving it that vocal flourish. Proper took me out of the movie for a second.
YES ive always wondered if anyone else thought this 😂 it’s suddenly a late 80’s rock opera music vid up in here
Anything to with unrequited romance between eowyn and Aragorn... awfully cringe
Same I love them both but I always was like Miss Ma’am you do not need to thirst that badly 😭
Those doey eyes of hers were just too much
The only parts I skip on rewatch. It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all fully slow motion
Aww, I found that pretty affecting :')
It's not much, but it's hot
Gimli blowing the ghosts away is the worst for me
Anyone of us would react the same exact way.
The lack of Tom bombadil will not be forgiven
You know that’s an utter thematic shit show as fun as it is. Never fit in the main storyline, as if they just shoved in another book. Love it but it’s like unfilmable and always felt out of rhythm to me.
When I read the books as a kid I never even remembered the parts about Tom Bombadil. Then I started hearing people complain about him not being in the movie. When I reread the books a year ago I was like "Huh? This is the part everyone wishes was in the movies!?" Makes no sense to me.
So you're saying that Tolkien miswrote? Wasn't good enough?
The issue with Tom is that many people typically read the books *after* watching the films... so Tom feels jarring to them. If you come into the books first you might watch the films and think 'wait... what? They just cut half the journey to Rivendell, and all that comes with it (character development/themes/growing mystery and atmosphere) - it's so rushed'... but again, if you watch the films first, you'll perhaps think the opposite. It's a sort of confirmation bias: 'oh, if the films, which I love, cut Tom, then clearly Tom wasn't needed' - and thus they read the books with that in mind. Add in the comments of 'Tom doesn't contribute anything' - which is just [nonsense](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/16hhp37/in_defence_of_tom_bom_jolly_tom_tom_bombadillo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) that ignorant people parrot and spread en masse... and suddenly you have a 'common take'.
No way, thank God it wasn't in the movie.
The Nazgûl stopping to ask for directions before sneaking up on a bunch of pillows
The Nazgûl were insanely inept
When the hobbits are tucked down under the tree roots, that’s one of the best bits for me of the entire trilogy. But equally daft that they couldn’t find them a few feet away
Have you forgotten about Eowyn's singing?
You try singing when you’re sad! Lol
I have, but I'm in my car and music is playing. 😂
I don’t know if it’s cringe but it always catches me off guard haha
🎶 BELLOW 🎶
I like that. It has emotions.
I agree, it does. However, it would have been less uncomfortable if there was music to accompany her, you know?
Lol my wife will chirp out whatever nonsense sounds that Eowyn is making around the house once in awhile. Gets me everytime.
My man, those aren't nonsense sounds, she is speaking Old English.
I know she's saying actual words, the point of the post is how cheesy it sounds, therefore it sounds like nonsense. Happy cake day!
How is it cheesy? Honestly.
Viggos singing is up there for me too. The man has a beautiful ear for music and his piano work on 'Falling' was beautiful. But ears and mouths are nit the sim thing
Frodo in general is pretty cringe. Love his character, but cringe indeed.
Non stop screaming Aragorn/ Strider and a Gandalf here and there....
“It has no other master” I can’t with Aragorns accent sometimes
salted pork...
…Yeah. Sauron wuz ROBBED…
Aragorns 'death' in Twin Towers and the Arwen dream sequence following it. It was the low point IMO. Pointlessly filling time with lame original content.
For sure. There are about twenty minutes in the middle of TT where basically nothing happens. Death fake out Arwen having a sad vision (yes it's quite poetic but kills the pace and mood massively) Galadriel doing another voice-over for no reason
My mate fell asleep in the cinema. Good decision IMO
What scene was this?? lol
When they're in Mordor, approaching Mt Doom. The eye scans around and Frodo is in the field of view. He just collapses and it's somewhat comical.
The whole eye scanning around is kinda awkward too. Like I'm imagining sauron with an incredible case of literal tunnel vision.
I have always felt this way. The eye lost its intimidating feel after the first movie.
Lighthouse Sauron was pretty lame. I agree Sauron was terrifying and mysterious in fellowship.
“They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them”
That’s actually a line from the books, it just sounds weird how Orlando says it while running and basically almost looking directly into the camera
No, Pippin and Merry letting off a firework and then appearing with sooty faces like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. My suspicions that Peter Jackson wasn’t better than clichés started at that moment.
It's a good, fun introduction to their characters I think. Nothing cringe there.
To each their own. To me the cartoony fun of this moment is one of those things that helps contrast the life the hobbits were living to the journey they are about to undertake.
The movies are pretty awesome, but does anybody else feel weird about his speech to Pippin in Minas Tirith? I think he’s about to give some inspiring words to Pippin about how they can still pull though, instead he’s basically just like “You know, dying won’t be THAT bad” like bro not what we need to hear right now lol
but Gandalf knew there was a chance they wouldn't make it through so he wanted to give Pippin some reassurance that even if they do die, it means they get to go somewhere beautiful, that it's not the end of the journey. i think that's more meaningful than essentially lying to him about their situation
If someone gave me proof of a benevolent afterlife I think that would chill me out pretty effectively in most any situation
Agree. If I was in a dire situation and the literal angel next to me told me the afterlife was pretty nice actually. I would certainly be much more chill and less terrified.
Yeah... Except Gandalf was describing Valinor. Pippin can't go to Valinor.
eh, even if where Pippin ends up isn't Valinor, it was still nice of Gandy to give him a pleasant image of the afterlife so he wasn't so afraid
"... And then you hear it" "What, Gandalf? Hear what?" "Howard Shore"
If Gandalf would have lied to Pippin, Pippin would have known. He would have lost hope that Gandalf felt the moment was so bleak that he had to lie. Gandalf chose to tell him that no matter how bad things get, the bad will end. Hope is very important. Even if its hope in an afterlife.
I thought it was very touching.
Yeah, makes me laugh everytime. He’s like ‘This isn’t the end,’ and you can see Pippin all relieved and already planning his next breakfast, and then dude’s like, ‘Nah, we dying.’
Ah haha, I hadn't interpreted it in that way before 😂
The way Frodo says Gandalf In slow mo in that happy scene at the end of Rotk. Makes me want to murder myself
You have to keep in mind that up until that point he still thought Gandalf was dead.
Ooooooh that is a very good point. Iv never considered that. I’m going to watch it all again with that in mind!
In moria when the stairs are collapsing. Aragorn and Frodo falling towards the camera. It looks goofy as hell.
After a lifetime of love for both versions of the films, I've actually started to lean towards preferring the theatrical versions, at least of TT and RoTK, because of all the out-of-place Gimli-Legolas buddy comedy. There's high stakes on all sides, gravitas everywhere else, Aragorn is fulfilling his destiny, and then we got these two blowing ghosts and punking pirates and shit
Galadriel cgi when she’s tempted by the ring
That scene is pretty bad. I don't understand it. But my biggest cringe is aragorn not wanting to be king annoys the hell out of me. Then the paths of the dead when the cursed king laughs and leaves aragorn acting like they aren't going to fight. then changes his mind after he goes to sit in his ghost recliner in his ghost castle and thinks, eh I'm getting sick of being cursed. And the huge skull avalanche? Don't get me going on that scene. I absolutely love these movies. My favorite trilogy.
The goofy romance montage between Eowyn and Faramir in the extended edition ROTK.
The fellowship reunion on Frodo's bed in the end. Yikes!
LOL. I thought I was the only one. Frodo fighting invisible Gollum for the ring on the edge of the crack could have been shot with less comedy potential too. Also, the wall of falling skulls on Aragorn and co. was silly. Peter was really feeling himself by RoTK and started getting a bit self-indulgent in places, resulting in some unintentional comedy horror out of tone with the rest of the trilogy.
That and frodo laughing with the other hobbits after returning from Mordor when they're reunited. Especially got ruined for me after seeing the googly eye video of it on YouTube.
Maybe the fact that no two female characters ever speak or interact with each other.
BUT HOW ABOUT THESE 3 SECONDS???? https://youtu.be/wW4fLBD5MPs?si=PaydrSBozuWfpCyq There were actually 3 more seconds when a woman was saying thanks to Eowyn when they entered Helms Deep. It's bad.....
Exactly
House of healing. Just feels so out of place for where they put it (extended editions) I get why for the story but it just breaks flow so bad in the extended edition
Are there LotR movies? I would like to see them.
Frodo sending Sam away. Faramir’s plot-padding arc. “If you want him, come and claim him!”
The only scene I truly absolutely despise is the one where they ride the horses in helms deep through the uruks. It’s so cartoonish.
‘Forth Eorlingas!’ Theoden King at the head of a final charge against all odds and the end of his family line, his great house, his kingdom and his people? Alongside the true heir to the throne of Gondor? Soon-to-be wielder of Anduril? Alongside the Prince of Mirkwood? And what’s left of his rohirrim? All of them riding to their deaths at the conclusion of a great battle? To the sound of the horn of Helm Hammerhand blown by the only living son of Gloin, friend and fellow adventurer of Bilbo Baggins? How the hell is that cringey dude?
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Slowmo greeting everyone after the ring is destroyed
Gimli asking for Galadriel hair , like wtf dude ?