First time watching LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Extended Edition). WOW!

[@jonesfamily7126]

I love how everyone goes in dreading the movie length but comes out annoyed it finished so soon

[@ericwallace3175]

Its my favorite part eveytime. That and the 45 minutes of crying at the very end

[@houdin654jeff]

My stepdad was not, and really still isn’t, a fantasy guy, but he borrowed the DVD of this back when it was new to test his new speaker set up. I figured he’d watch half an hour and be done with it. Cut to two hours later and the volume gets cranked up and he’s glued to the screen. As Sam and Frodo descend the hill and it fades to black, he yelled, “Don’t you fucking end!” I had to tell him there were two more coming, December and the next December, he replied, “We’re going to the theater for those.”

[@jasonbeatty831]

They were so good I had no issue waiting for the next one a year after it. I def wanted more but knew it was worth having a little patience.

[@jeromeshaw2248]

Tolkien created the languages and then wrote a story to fit them He had just been to war so some of his stuff is dark

[@jeromeshaw2248]

@ I did hate the wait. But it was a father son thing to go and watch them on New Year’s Day

[@GrinningDwarf]

"Is this really it for Gandalf?" Yes, this is it for Gandalf the Grey.

[@VPortho]

Truly a great loss 😔

[@Hyperschark001]

Dark have been my dreams of late =(

[@StressBurger]

Gandalf the grey shall not return

[@craigwheller]

JRR Tolkien wrote this over years and much more, an entire world with histories and languages. It's one of the most important works of the 20th century

[@a7734999]

Often overlooked is another book Tolkien was a coauthor of, is one you may have heard of. It's called the Oxford English Dictionary.

[@kilroy987]

It's a poem about everything

[@schnebot]

in the lore, Feanor, greatest of elven smiths asked Galadriel for her hair three times to use in his great works but she refused. she saw the darkness in his heart. so its a nod to the lore and very meaningful that she gives three strands of her hair to a dwarf especially given the animosity between dwarves and elves. three strands she originally refused to give to the greatest of the noldor elves, Feanor.

[@cmdrbrantford888]

Slight spoiler from the books about why Gimli asked for her locks of hair and what he did with them - from the Fellowship Of The Ring book: "‘There is nothing, Lady Galadriel,’ said Gimli, bowing low and stammering. ‘Nothing, unless it might be - unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the gold of the earth as the stars surpass the gems of the mine. I do not ask for such a gift. But you commanded me to name my desire.’ The Elves stirred and murmured with astonishment, and Celeborn gazed at the Dwarf in wonder, but the Lady smiled. ‘It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues,’ she said; ‘yet that is not true of Gimli. For none have ever made to me a request so bold and yet so courteous. And how shall I refuse, since I commanded him to speak? But tell me, what would you do with such a gift?’ ‘Treasure it, Lady,’ he answered, ‘in memory of your words to me at our first meeting. And if I ever return to the smithies of my home, it shall be set in imperishable crystal to be a heirloom of my house, and a pledge of good will between the Mountain and the Wood until the end of days.’ Then the Lady unbraided one of her long tresses, and cut off three golden hairs, and laid them in Gimli’s hand.” Galadriel then said to Gimli: “I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion.” (Dwarves were often guilty of being greedy over treasure and it often led to their downfall) As for Sam calling Frodo "Mr. Frodo" - he was his gardener. JRR Tolkien wrote his books in the background of classes being dominant in England at the time - upper class, working class etc... He wrote it in that vein re: Frodo and Sam's relationship.

[@Djorgal]

To add to the significance of the three strands of hair she gave Gimli. The movie can't do it justice, as her hair is described to be beautiful beyond measure. We read: "...and her hair was held a marvel unmatched. It was golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother, and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees had been snared in her tresses." The Two Trees in question are the trees of Valinor, the immortal lands, and were the first lights of the world. They were destroyed at the end of the first age by Ungoliant, the great spider, and the Sun and the Moon were then created from the last flowers of the Trees. Their light was purer and more beautiful than that of the Sun and Moon. That means Galadriel's hair shine from the first light of the world, a more beautiful light than Gimli's ever beheld. In ancient time, thrice did Fëanor requests a strand of hair from Galadriel. Fëanor was arguably the greatest of all elves, assuredly their greatest craftsman at least. Thrice she refused him. So it isn't without meaning that she gives three strands to Gimli who asked with humility. (Of course, much of Tolkien's work is inspired by medieval ideas of nobility and chivalry and there's also the meaning in the gift of a lock of her from a noble lady to choose her champion.)

[@echobucket]

I always wish the line about is bring a pledge of goodwill between dwarves and elves would have made it into the movie. Everyone is always confused about the hairs.

[@Heathcoatman]

In the next one, every time someone tells you how Viggo broke his toe.....drink.

[@ZR-lj9xv]

He calls him Mr. Frodo because Samwise was Bilbo and Frodo's gardener, AKA their employee. He got pulled into the Fellowship by accident and stayed because he promised Gandelf he would look after Frodo.

[@jimglenn6972]

In the books, Frodo is quite a bit older than is here. Bilbo turn 111 years old but in the books, Frodo, who has the same birthday, turn 60. So, in the books, Frodo is 2 x or 3 x the age of the other hobbits. Samwise was modeled after Tolkien assistant or “batman” during WWI.

[@ApocalypseRick]

​@@jimglenn6972Not quite, the birthday party in the book is to celebrate Bilbo's 111th birthday and Frodos 33rd birthday (33 for hobits is pretty much like 21 for us) between the party and them leaving the shire it's 17 years (skimmed over in the movie) which puts Frodo at 50 which would probably be man in their early 30s Sam is a bit younger, perhaps late 30s Merry a little bit younger but older than 33 and pippin is the youngest under 33. (So technically still a "child")

[@jimglenn6972]

@ Oops, you are right. Three-three it is.

[@chadbennett7873]

As you keep asking, J.R.R. Tolkien was a Professor at Oxford, specializing in linguistics. He created the language of "Elvish" which is now an actual recognized language, and he would tll his children stories at bed time. Those stories eventually became "The Hobbit" and his first book. It was published in 1937. Being highly successful, his publishers wanted a sequel, and since The Hobbit was intended to be sort of a children's book, that is what they were expecting. I purchased a book that shows the development of LOTR, and it started similar to the Hobbit, but as he reworked it over and over, it got darker and darker. Tolkien was inspired by Beowulf, and it was his intention to write an English mythology in a like manner. He had a group of friends who were great writers, called "The Inklings" which included C.S. Lewis of "The Chronicles of Narnia" fame. They met in an inn called "The Eagle and the Child," which they lovingly called "The Bird and the Baby." They discussed their current works with each other and his "childdren's sequel" eventually became influenced by his experience in World War I and his religious beliefs, as well as his fellow Inklings. Lewis's "Narnia" books (7 of them) were highly Christian based, yet Tolkien felt too much so, and his books took a wider view of faith. As a writer myself, I can only say that ideas come from places you would never expect. My best ideas have been in the middle of the night, but others have come when I'm driving and sometimes watching a movie or television show. They, seemingly, come from nowhere, but it is often a "what-if this happened" sort of thing from real life. Having grown up as a comic collector and reader, I have a different view on reality thann most people, I think. Hope this helps, creativity not an easy thing to describe.

[@LeChaunce]

Languages. There are two elvish languages spoken in these films -- Sindarin (the language of the elves who travelled to the western shores and then chose to stay in Middle-Earth) which we mostly hear in the film, and Quenya, the language of those elves who DID sail to the Undying Lands and then returned to Middle-Earth in the First Age to defeat Melkor/Morgoth and retrieve the silmarils, the magical stones Morgoth stole. We hear Galadriel (who was one of those elves who returned) speak Quenya in Lothlorien. Tolkien also did gramatical sketches of other elvish languages as well.

[@konto800]

With regards to influence of inspirations from faith - Tolkien himself said „The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision”. The difference beteeen him and Lewis wasn’t so much about Christian vs. „wider view of faith” inspiration, but rather a method - Tolkien particularly rejected analogy, which is very obvious in Lewis’ works.

[@LeChaunce]

@@konto800 And in fact, Tolkien was VERY critical of Lewis using analogy in the Narnia books, to the point where it damaged their friendship.

[@konto800]

@@LeChauncewow, i didnt know that!

[@chadbennett7873]

@@konto800 Much truth in the statement. Lewis held on to characters representing specific aspects of Christianity far more than Tolkien ever did.

[@jeffreywood924]

It's strange that Cristy remarked "I guessed he was a wizard by the way he was dressed." Gandalf is the prototype for our idea of what a wizard "looks like": the robe, staff, pointy hat and long beard. :)

[@bucky7162]

I believe Merlin was the og wizard in literature

[@SeedFactoryProject]

@@bucky7162 But Tolkien defined the modern fantasy genre with wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, etc. He did not define the "hero's journey" story type, that started with Homer's Odyssey, but set it in the modern fantasy setting.

[@derekdecker555]

@@SeedFactoryProject interestingly, Tolkien based Gandalf off of descriptions of Odin in Norse mythology.

[@slayskool777]

"He has to escape to the pony island so Sauron doesn't find him?" had me laughing.🤣🤣

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Right? I was like, “wtf?!?”🤣

[@HeinrichVenter88]

It makes me want to see this pony island...where is it and how do I get there? 😅😂

[@davewhitmore1958]

​@@HeinrichVenter88 it's probably full of furries

[@Philbert-s2c]

@@HeinrichVenter88 Yeah it exists. It's in the NC outerbanks near Virginia. Nothing but wild ponies (and of course housing developments.)

[@jeromeshaw2248]

Galadriel doesn’t want the ring. She is telling Frodo what would happen if she had it

[@ComedicPause]

Well, she was tempted by it in that moment; it's not as if that whole spectacle was just to teach Frodo a lesson. In that moment, her wisdom won against her desire for power, and she "passed the test."

[@mevb]

She actually disered The Ring but managed to resist temptation at the last second.

[@krisfrederick5001]

No one is late, nor are they early to experience The Lord of The Rings. They arrive precisely when they mean to. And your life will be changed forever. Some call it the "Star Wars of our Generation." No comparison. This seems like history, not a galaxy far, far away. It doesn't even come close to the depth, languages, lore and analogy's to Tolkien's experiences from the first World War, to the industrial revolution and the destruction of nature in the process of progress. Enjoy the journey with us, it will leave you breathless...You can actually visit the Shire in New Zealand, it still exists!

[@carthos4402]

Note: The more powerful or self ambitious someone is, the faster the Ring can corrupt them. Hence why Hobbits arent as effected, they are already content with their lots in life. But for someone powerful like Gandalf, Galadriel, or men it would corrupt them quickly and lead them to a path of evil.

[@mevb]

Hobbits aren't immune to its influence but are much more resilient than men, dwarves and even elves.

[@markmartineau1015]

That is why Galadriel and Gandalf didn’t want to take it they knew it would lure them into doing good things but eventually corrupt them. The ring used Borimers want to save his people and the kingdom as the wedge to enter his mind.

[@custardflan]

Luthien was an elf princess who saved the man Beren from a dungeon. They fell in love and Luthien sacrificed her immortality to be with him. This is the story Araglrn told the Hobbits in the wilderness. The gravestone of Tolkien and his wife Edith is inscribed with the names Luthien and Beren. There's a pretty good movie, "Tolkien," about their love story and the Genesis of this story. A lot of has to do with his experience in WWI.

[@RobertHoward-d8g]

Amazing that one of the tallest members of the cast plays the part of Gimli, the dwarf. John Rhys-Davies - the actor - is six feet and one inch tall.

[@swisspease]

He also plays the voice of one of the tallest characters in the next movie and beginning of the third.

[@mevb]

He was perfect as he was the right height compared to the hobbit actors, therefore he could be filmed with them instead of being shot separately.

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

I loved your reaction! So glad you decided to watch the extended edition. The books have quite a lot more plot than was included in the movies, and the extended editions have scenes that explain the motivations of some of the characters that would otherwise be obscure.

[@martinbynion1589]

Filmed and made entirely on location in New Zealand. 🙂It was written in the 1940s and 50s by JRR Tolkien, who was a Professor of Philology (Languages). Amongst other things, he created languages for his tales, including Elvish, which was used in the Movies for the relevant characters. Mr Frodo is landowning class, Sam is a gardener who did/does work for Bilbo/Frodo. He just can't lose the habit of respecting his employer.... 🙂 Back in the day, we had to wait 12 months for the next movie!

[@majkus]

It is more accurate to say that the stories were created for the languages, which pre-dated the writing of even the oldest tales that evolved into what was published as The Silmarillion.

[@gawkthimm6030]

as a promise to his friends who died in ww1 Tolkien promised to tell of the tales they had talked about as kids, he invented langauges as a professor of English literature and linguistics, he spend 30 years working on the books, he is basically the first "world builder"

[@3DJapan]

It was filmed in New Zealand and the town of Hobbiton is still there.

[@BobBlumenfeld]

When you said, "You'll live forever, Gandalf," you actually touched on a very important part of the LOTR universe. Gandalf will indeed live forever, and in fact has lived forever. He, Saruman and three other wizards, or Istari, are essentially angels who helped create the universe with Eru Iluvatar, God, if you will, with their music. Sauron was also once an angel, before he fell.

[@mevb]

Maia spirits to be more exact.

[@llanitedave]

Tolkien invented not just "a" language for his world, he invented no less than five. He was a professor of linguistics and old Anglo-Saxon studies at Oxford University, in addition to his other literary accomplishments.

[@corvus1970]

"They're too old to be falling like that." If Wizards were indeed old men, that would be true.

[@hewiex]

"So they have to escape to the Pony Island"

[@skinnyjax]

The Island Kingdom of Pony-nor! Let the sacrifices begin!

[@Sah-o5m]

Tolkien invented the languages and races and histories first. This story then fell out of that world building

[@mevb]

You wondered about werever Middle-Earth is our world, in a sense it is since John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, the author of the book(s) have claimed that Middle-Earth is a prehistoric version of our world that he "translated a lost script" to the work that is The Lord of the Rings. He wrote his works because he felt like that the real myths of England have disappeared due to The Battle of Hastings in 1066 and have been replaced by the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table myths, which is a mix of different sources including french. He first wrote The Book of Lost Tales when he was fighting in World War I (during the Battle of Somne) which after his death was published by his son the late Christopher Tolkien (who edited it based on his dad's many different drafts which he constantly wrote even up to his death, his original work was never complete during his lifetime) ad was retitled The Simarillon. He started writing The Hobbit when he was bored with correcting sutdents' tests, writing on a blank paper "In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit" and then he wrote it and told the story to his kids as a bedtime story. When he came to the part where Smaug the dragon flies out of The Lonely Mountain, he hadn't finished the story but one of his students Elaine Griffiths read what Professor Tolkien wrote so far and with Tolkien's permission she presented it to the publisher Allen and Unwin. The publisher Sir Stanley Unwin contacted Tolkien and asked him to finish the book, so he did and his son Rayner Unwin read it and said it was good, which greenlit the book into be published and it became a success. Allen and Unwin asked for Tolkiento write a sequel and he started on writing The Lord of the Rings which took Tolkien 17 years before he finished it. The reson it took so long was that when he got to a certain point after the journey out of The Shire, he got writer's block and he started over and he got a bit further but got stuck again, rinse and repeat. Originally, The Hobbit and his earlier work were seperate bodies of work but he later incoprerated some of the myts from The Book of the Lost Tales. When The Lord of the Rings was done, Tolkien realized that the scene between Bilbo and Gollum didn't match with how Gollum became in the latter, so he rewrote the chapter Riddles in the Dark to fit in the new continuity.

[@presencerocks2224]

I’m so glad you reacted to this! I saw it at midnight when it first premiered and watch it every year. It is one of only a handful of movies I like enough to watch over and over. I can’t wait to continue the journey!

[@wernergatterer2953]

I can't wait for your reactions from the other 2 parts!

[@kilroy987]

34:43 "Welcome to Rivendell.. Mr Anderson." I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons in my youth. I read a lot of pre-published scenarios for players to play in, and the plotlines all had their own representations of evil and their ambitions. Having seen so many of those stories, and enjoying so many movies in my life, I feel like the devices and representations in LOTR are an archtypical distillation of what even makes up a story. A enemy, a crisis, a goal, a journey. And this movie told its part really well.

[@cb361]

I think it’s interesting that while LOTR pretty much set the template for modern fantasy, it also avoids or subverts nearly all the cliches to which later fantasies are often prone.

[@tehawfulestface1337]

Hi Cristy. The author J.R.R. Tolkien endured and survived the horrors of World War I. The nightmares he experienced, the tragic loss of so many comrades. You can see hints of it in The Lord of The Rings. The few comrades who survived the war with him shared a bond only they know, a Fellowship. He saw the awful destruction caused by modern warfare at the time, technology destroying the natural landscapes, embodied by Sauron and Saruman’s destruction of Middle Earth. The nightmarish landscapes of ‘No Man’s Land’ during the war, you can see in Mordor.

[@brianlangstraat3066]

How to get someone to watch LOTR: It begins with ten minutes of exposition, then twenty minutes of an old dude's birthday party, then two hours later you want to watch six more hours of it immediately.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

When this movie was released, totally blew my mind after watching it in the cinema. Later on, for Christmas, my family gave me the OST CD-ROM. It was magic.

[@RP_Williams]

Back in the day (WW2 and before) a sweetheart would give a lock of her hair to her man as a token/keepsake to remember her while he was away at war....hence her gift of hair to Gimli.

[@Perktube1]

The score is due to the genius, Howard Shore. 😊

[@Djorgal]

32:30 : Nah, it's the other way around. Tolkien didn't make a language for his story. He was a linguist, he made the languages, but he needed a world for these languages to be spoken in and he needed stories to happen in this world.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) speaks Spanish so well. Although he was born in the United States, he spent much of his childhood in Argentina, therefore he speaks Spanish fluently, and maintains a strong connection with Argentine culture and his passion for San Lorenzo. It´s funny to me, hear him talking with that accent (I´m spanish from Spain).

[@mevb]

And his dad was danish and his mom american.

[@FrankJReynolds]

Not only did Tolkien come up with the Elvish language, he came up with different dialects of the Elvish language!

[@J4ME5_]

And mordor too, the black speech

[@victore6242]

A rock thrown by a hobbit is deadly

[@cyrilmeynier5688]

hobbits invented intifada

[@davewhitmore1958]

High Dexterity scores, y'know 😉

[@Charles_Bro-son]

Natural 20s dice throws all around! :P

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

J. R. R. Tolkien was the ideal person to write fantasy. He was a professor of Anglo Saxon at Oxford whose field of study was the great epic stories and eddas of medieval northern Europe. He spoke many languages, and made translations of _Beowulf_ and _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ . The _Lord of the Rings_ books, written between 1937 and 1949 are the most beloved fantasy books and at 50 million copies some of the best selling books of all time. During the 1960s they became cult classics when they appealed to young people wanting to drop out of modern life. They inspired the _Harry Potter_ and _Game of Thrones_ series. After the books, Tolkien continued extending the _Lord of the Rings_ fantasy world until he had created an entire legendary history of Middle Earth back to its creation by the gods, the Valar and Ainur. This was published posthumously in 1977 by his son as _The Silmarillion_ and was made into a 2022 TV series, _The Rings of Power_ on Amazon Prime (most fans do not think it as good as the _LotR_ movies).

[@CliffordLake]

As far as what matters - one of J.R.R. Tolkien's greatest strengths in writing this story is interconnecting literally everything. The interweaving of themes, defeats victories, characters and places is beyond brilliant. You mentioned you prefer reading the books first. As you haven't read these, I would suggest doing so would be well worth your while.

[@mariag.4884]

Bilbo knew nothing about the origin of the Ring and the great evil power that was contained within it. Even Gandalf was not sure for a long time what this ring was, he had to conduct his own investigation. Perhaps subconsciously Bilbo could sense that something was wrong, but for him it was still just a magic ring. And he himself would never have put Frodo in such danger if he knew the truth. In the book, he was also present at the Council of Elrond and was ready to go to Mordor to destroy the Ring himself.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

Cristy, you have made my day. What a present to have this reaction from you. As usual, I will join you till the end☺

[@Big_Tex]

26:30 why would Bilbo do this? Reactors miss some key info and ask that a lot. Remember, Bilbo did not know what the ring was. Hence the whole episode where Gandalf researches old manuscripts to learn about the fire inscription. Only then did Gandalf and Frodo learn that was Sauron’s ring. In the intro you see Bilbo find a simple gold ring in a cave. You are given no reason for Bilbo to know the history of that piece of jewelry. If you were lost in a cave and you found a ring would you just assume it belonged to Satan 3000 years ago? For Bilbo it was just a magic ring that turned him invisible. And even still Bilbo wanted to keep it and was almost incapable of leaving it behind and only did so because Gandalf urged him to. In the lore the ring was not common knowledge. No hobbit of the Shire would have ever even heard of the great rings. Sauron’s ring was an ancient military top secret now known only to a few Elves and Wizards and a very few men maybe.

[@dannykent6190]

I automatically assume all unclaimed jewelry belonged to Satan 3000 years ago and leave it alone. It might sound excessive, but it's prevented me from having to trek to a volcano so who can argue with 40 years of empirical success?

[@dciach12]

Lmfao at "so he has to escape to the pony island?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bruinb77]

The intro was great for folks that did not read the books. Very nice intro to the trilogy.

[@kylestillwagon]

These films are a yearly rewatch in my house around Christmas and new year since they were released.

[@victore6242]

Peter Jackson has a wonderful eye. Every scene is a moving painting

[@J4ME5_]

Coupled with the acting, the source material and the score.. A true masterpiece

[@victore6242]

Bilbo was 51 when he started on his adventure with Gandalf. He's had the ring for 60 years.

[@user-lv5bt3nt3r]

The ring actually tells lies to whoever is around it. It gives visions of your dreams and desires coming true - but if you fall for that the ring will corrupt whatever it is you desire. Hobbits desire very little, and very simple things, so they are low risk. But the ring will even deceive a hobbit into trying to use it if that hobbit is weak-willed and stupid enough. If your desire overcomes your rational thinking the ring will get you. The less intense your desires, the easier you can resist the ring’s lies. But in any case, you also need to have magical abilities to use the ring for anything spectacular and hobbits dont have those abilities. At best they can go into the spirit world with it (which makes them invisible in the material world) and understand black speech while wearing it. If gandalf had put on the ring he could do spectacular things - but everything he did with it would have been corrupted. Ps theres a good reason why there are lots of perils in Moria but it would take a long comment to explain. Short version: the orcs dug the lake by the back door so the Watcher in the Water would trap the dwarves in moria, then they invaded through the front gate and defeated the trapped dwarves, who had already been weakened because they had dug down to where the balrog was sleeping. The balrog was a servant of Sauron’s original master, Morgoth, and the only balrog to survive Morgoth’s defeat many thousands of years before. Waking him up was a very big mistake. Pps no. Gandalf the grey and the balrog killed each other.

[@VoltesWithElias]

The original idea for a ring that turns you invisible and corrupts you comes from an ancient Greek tale that Plato mentions in the Republic. The story of Gyges, since you ask how did Tolkien come up with this. But a lot of this is a mix of many tales from the past as well as a lot of his own genius of course.

[@folcotook3049]

FYI - Hobbit "pipe weed" is just tobacco, not "weed." Remember these books were published in the 50s and written by a man (JRR Tolkien) born in 1892. Some of the language is a little bit out of date in terms of slang. 😉 Prof. Tolkien was a linguist and had a passion for creating new languages. He invented several for Lord of the Rings, including two forms of Elvish. He spent many years developing the backstory for his fantasy world. The tourism board of New Zealand thanks you for your complements of their landscape. Merry and Pippin joining Frodo and Sam is a little forced in the movie version of the story. In the books, it's not. The main point is their loyalty to their friend, Frodo. Remember that Bilbo had no idea his "magic ring" was the One Ring and evil. He really thought he was just leaving a magic trinket to Frodo. Sam says "Mr. Frodo" because he (and his father) worked for Bilbo Baggins, and then Frodo, as a gardener. The Baggins family was already well to do even before Bilbo's adventure where he brought back a very significant amount of treasure and became the wealthiest Hobbit in the Shire. So Sam says "Mr." as a term of respect.

[@MrCOLBSTAH]

Even if that's true, I still like to think that it's weed. It kind of makes sense to be honest with how the hobbits love food. Just kind of being jolly and hanging out and enjoying life

[@pillmuncher67]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, Ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk, Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

[@geniusjohn8280]

He calls him Mr Frodo because Mr Frodo is his boss, Sam is an employee (his gardener) .

[@davewhitmore1958]

😮 "Ocean-Lake-River" was the name of my band in college! 😮

[@l.piloto7964]

Tolen, the writer of these stories went through WW1 in the trenches for several years then later in life while at university, wrote A Hobbit's Tale & Lord of the Rings. He without a doubt wrote a story that build a world so full of detail it allowed the reader to be immersed in the story as a participant.

[@FlorianRothacker]

His name is not "Tolen" but "Tolkien" - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien to be correct....

[@glenketchum6379]

Sooo .. Christy is a Hobbit at Heart! I Luv IT!!!!

[@davewhitmore1958]

Never a doubt ❤

[@Philbert-s2c]

A lot of reactors seem to be, especially the girls.

[@Andrew04291]

The music of Gandalf’s fall is the sound of a heart when it breaks.

[@ingobordewick6480]

The scene with Galadriel and Frodo is often mistaken. She doesn't want the ring, she just showed him what she would become, if she would take it. She is one of the oldest creatures in Middle-Earth and one of the wisest. Gimli calling her a "witch" is grounded in a deep mistrust between Dwarfs and Elves.

[@lizzieheart709]

The languages were part of why Tolkien (the author and famous old English and linguistics professor/expert) created middle earth. They are all fully fleshed out languages that can be learned and spoken.

[@pillmuncher67]

Galadriel giving Gimli three strands of her hair was the highest honor she could bestow on him. It's much more meaningful than most people know. When she was young, before the Sun and the Moon were created, the world was illuminated by the two great trees Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree. Galadriel's hair was said to have caught their light in its shine. Her uncle Fëanor, -who had made the Three Elven Rings,- approached her three times because he wanted to capture the light of the Two Trees in a gem stone, and three times she denied him because she sensed darkness in him. Legolas, of course, knows this back story, hence the look on his face when Gimli told him about Galadriel's gift.

[@FlorianRothacker]

Not Feanor created the elven rings! He created the three Silmaril (sort of gemmes in the first age of Middle-Earth). The three elven-rings were created by Celebrimbor, the elvish smith in the second age.

[@pillmuncher67]

@@FlorianRothacker You're right. It's been a while since I read the Silmarilion.

[@shawnkroll3950]

Cristy Gimli was different from most dwarves...he appreciated beauty of the elves. He found her hair beautiful, so he asked for one hair. She gave him three. :)

[@minnesotajones261]

The sign of a good, no... great film, is that it flies by. Titanic, all 3 LOTRs, Avengers End Game, Dances with Wolves,... any 3+ hour "great film" doesn't "feel" like a 3-hour film. You WANT it to last longer.

[@Steve-qy6yk]

You were doing great - then you mentioned Titanic 🤭😉

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

"Why are there so many evil things opposing them?" One factor is that evil is drawn to the ring. Gandalf says 45:10 : "Evil will be drawn to you from outside the Fellowship - and, I fear, from within". Sam calls Frodo "Mr. Frodo" because he is his gardener. The hobbits apparently have a class system, Bilbo, Frodo, Merry and Pippin come from prominent families, but Sam is working class.

[@zeroherrera]

Just wanted to add, because the original English language had no word for Tobacco, Tolkien used the word "weed." So whenever they are smoking the pipes and calling it weed, its tobacco leaves, not anything else. Tolkien himself smoked tobacco for a time I believe and it was a very common practice in Britain for centuries.

[@victore6242]

The significance of the three golden strands of hair from Galadriel is explained in tokens book The Silmarillion

[@thecripledgammer9106]

20:59 JRR TOLKIEN. The writer was a literal genius of his time he wrote all the places, languages, and there alphabets and the history of the world before writing the story itself

[@oshingi]

The great J.R.R. Tolkien wrote LOTR and the Hobbit. His good friend C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which is a great allegory similar to LOTR. Definitely worth checking out as well!

[@l.piloto7964]

The visibly dark areas of the story reflect the years Tolken spent in dark trenches with smoke and dusk darkening the skies and death and destruction darkening his heart.

[@l3orn2bwild]

In the books, galadriel's gift to gimli is my favourite dialogue, i have lost count on how many times i took the book just to read that part.

[@brucewilliams4152]

Merry and Pippin are actually Frodo's cousins. They are very wealthy and minor noblity, pip is not even an adult in hobbit years, he's be about 17 in human years. Merry only just an adult

[@ethirnandor5439]

Tolkien spend decades on the elven languages (Quenya and Sindarin). He didn't create the languages for the story, it is more that he wrote the stories to give the languages some dept and background.... ... He was a weirdo and a very early generation nerd... :)

[@Hustwick]

In the books, Gandalf was researching the ring for 17 years before realising which one Frodo owned.

[@danielgibson7948]

Sam call's Frodo "Mr. Frodo" because he's Frodo's gardener. Frodo is the owner of Bag End, and is basically landed gentry. The people living on or around the hill are like tenants and workers to the Bagginses.

[@custardflan]

Tolkien said the ring works like the line from. The Our Father, "lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil." It draws out evil from within your heart and attracts evil from the outside toward you.

[@J4ME5_]

Tolkien was inspired to write this as a way of expressing his experience in world War 1, to give myth and legend to his people.

[@custardflan]

Welcome to the mind of JRR Tolkien. He was a professor at Oxford and created this story as a backdrop for the languages he invented.

[@matdow4470]

The ring is binded to Sauron. Anyone who finds the ring will simply suffer the rings secondary powers; the ring's will to be found and reunited with its master.

[@indiecab9593]

BITE THE BULLET: without anesthesia in old West movies, the doctor tells his patient who has just been shot or injured in some way to bite on a bullet to keep from screaming while the doctor operates.

[@MrSimonNay]

Gimli said he would preserve her hair in crystal to be a emblem of his house signalling frienship between dwarfs and elves

[@brianarnold8666]

14:44 for this scene they built an upscale ring that was 20ish lbs so it didnt bounce around like a normal ring that size would

[@jakebreunig9737]

Glad you’re watching this! Outside of using doubles when you can’t see the hobbits’ faces, Peter Jackson used a lot of “forced perspective” in the filming, which involves a combo of set design and camera angle hacks to trick our eyes into perceiving something as a different size. You know how an airplane looks like it would fit in your hand when it’s high up in the sky? Peter Jackson basically used tricks to film the hobbit actors further away and recreate that visual phenomenon! If a hobbit or dwarf was next to an elf or human, the hobbits would be on a lower floor built into the set (or vise versa). Obviously, the films had plenty of VFX, but in regards to the hobbits, Jackson did his best to use practical effects as much as possible.

[@jakebreunig9737]

There’s a lot of behind the scenes footage that shows examples of set pieces that were designed for forced perspective, like the seat of Galdalf’s wagon when he and Frodo ride together at the beginning of the film

[@chadbennett7873]

Welcome to the world of Tolkien. These films are based on the book voted "Book of the Millennium" in one poll, and "Book of the Century" in another in the year 2000. It basically created the genre of Heroic Fantasy, and set me on a 45 year effort to write my own. It is finished now, but I keep making adjustments, so I haven't tried to publish yet. I guess I need to while I'm stiol around to do it. "The Lord of the Rings" changed my life back in 1974, and I have an actual autograph of J.R.R. Tolkien on my wall to inspire me daily. Enjoy this journey, and I hope it brings you the pleasure and love that it brought to me.

[@VPortho]

Tolkien was a linguist and actually came up with this fantasy world and the stories in it to make use of the languages he created in the first place. These languages are used in the movie, so the movie writers didn't make them up.

[@rickardroach9075]

11:01 They're Tolkien up.

[@FosterTravis1071]

Gandalf is already extremely old. A being in middle earth from it's beginnings. Practically an angelic being.

[@LeChaunce]

Not practically. He IS an angelic being who has taken the form of an old human in order to guide the people of Middle-Earth to combat Sauron (who is also an angelic being who was seduced by Melkor/Morgoth, Middle-Earth's equivalent to Lucifer, becoming his chief lieutenant). Saruman was another like Gandalf, whose studies of the One Ring ended up corrupting him. The balrog is also one of these beings who was also seduced by Melkor/Morgoth.

[@StinkyBuster]

Partially correct. He hasn't been in Middle Earth from it's beginnings. He was sent in the third age.

[@TheTurinturumbar]

​@@StinkyBuster well, he has been in Arda since the beginning and is older than Arda. So, yes. Not Middle earth but in the world.

[@StinkyBuster]

@@TheTurinturumbar yes correct, not in Middle Earth

[@skinnyjax]

Let's call them what they are: Maiar. Immortal spirits that helped Ëa create Arda. Among them are Eönwë • Ilmarë • Ossë • Uinen • Salmar • Melian • Arien • Tilion • Curumo (Saruman) • Olórin (Gandalf) • Aiwendil (Radagast) • Alatar (Morinehtar) • Pallando (Rómestámo) Sauron (Mairon) • Gothmog • Durin's Bane • Ungoliant • Shelob

[@rnkelly36]

How did J.R.R. Tolkien think of this? That is a question that universities have classes on. If you are not well read in fiction/fantasy any story you could read is based off the imagination of the writer. Tolkien actually based this entire world off a poem about an angel and creation. As a philologist Tolkien used his skill of studying languages and mythologies to create a mythology of his own. From the world he created he fashioned a kids book "The Hobbit". This was so well received back in the 1930s he was encouraged to write another book. This book became Lord of the Rings which was so big it got split up into three books by the publishers. The mythology and the world were all part of Tolkien's research of various cultures and writings. Elves, giant, goblins, dragons everything were images picked from many cultures and myths. Tolkien created his world and from his world the stories of The Hobbit and of Lord of the Rings was born. There is so much more about this that it would take months to explain. How someone makes fantasy of fictions comes from how much they can push their imagination. Tolkien borrowed from many cultural stories to create his world and become as he would say a translator of the world of magic and men.

[@rikk319]

Any story needs an author, whether it is in novel form, film form, or video game form.

[@blacksheep8427]

0:30 "I have no idea what I'm walking into." Mordor. Wait! One does not simply walk into Mordor.

[@cx3valenz421]

The “Black Speech” is the version of Elvish that is spoken by the people in Mordor. it is the form of Elvish that Frodo can’t read inscribed on the One ring. Gandalf speaks it at the council where they decide to destroy the ring.

[@justsmashing4628]

Tolkien wrote LOTR's as a vehicle for the languages he created as Oxford Professor of Linguistics…which is pretty awesome 😊

[@sheert]

53:00 "Why is there so much evil and so many evil creatures in this world?" That is a pretty deep question. LOTR is a mythology and alternative history to our own world. In the ancient world, evil was even more extreme but the heroes that fought against it were crazy powerful. For example, one ancient elf took on multiple balrogs at once. In the time of LOTR, evil is still powerful but good is approximately equal. In our time, we have more banal evil (no dragons for example) but good still has to fight against it. The decline of the world (at least that which is accessible to mortals) is a recurring theme in Tolkien.

[@ercsey-ravaszferenc6747]

Welcome to this magnificent journey Cristy! Just so you know, there is an unfathomable amount of lore behind this. Tolkien did his job thoroughly, so there are thousands upon thousands of years of history in this imaginary world, with all the wars, alliances, conflicts, betrayals, tragedies, peoples, cultures, languages, writing systems, love stories, drama, all worked out in minute detail in Tolkien's books. I guess the more difficult job for us Tolkien nerds who will comment is to restrain ourselves and only give you those details and information that really helps you understand better this story.For now only this: they made Hobbits look small by building two versions of every set in two sizes, filming everything twice, once from Hobbit perspective, once from human perspective. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, me and other Tolkien nerds will be happy to answer, unless the answer should spoil something of course :)

[@l.piloto7964]

The word golem occurs once in the Bible, in Psalm 139:16,[2] which uses the word גלמי (golmi; 'my golem',[3] 'my light form', 'raw material'[4]) to connote the unfinished human being before God's eyes. I simple terms it is as if Angels watch how God created Adam and replicated the steps but since they can't blow life into it, it is an empty body like a brain-dead human, controlled like a robot. The spiritual being (fallen Angel, demon, etc.) would have to possess it to used it.

[@EnglishRalph]

You went a bit Colombiana Jones for a moment with your “It should be encased in bulletproof plexiglass.”

[@davewhitmore1958]

It belongs in Michel Delving!!!

[@sonosoloio]

If you're interested, I can tell you a few things, without spoilers, that aren't detailed enough in the film: Galadriel (the Lady of the Light, from the elven word "galad") is a very powerful sorceress who in her millennial life fought many battles (most likely as heavy artillery) against the original dark lord Morgoth, the one who taught Sauron the way to the "dark side". Galadriel and Elrond, the elven king of Rivendell, have telepathic powers, can communicate at a distance and he also has the gift of foresight. Galadriel's daughter married Elrond and therefore Arwen, the one who swears eternal love to Aragorn, is Galadriel's granddaughter. Galadriel's gifts to the company are enchanted and the two daggers given to Merry and Pippin have already been used in combat, as she tells them. the palantir, Saruman's seer stone, is not the only one, there are others (another is kept in the city of Gondor, where Gandalf went to find information about the ring) and looking into it for too long can lead to addiction and folly. Saruman doesn't actually seek the ring for Sauron but he believes he can bend its powers to his will. Pippin comes from a noble family and he is the heir to the title of earl of the shire. many were shocked by the request for the hair made by gimli to galadriel, as if it were some kind of fetish perversion, but in reality it is a custom that is lost in the mists of time, lasting in bits and pieces until it was invented photography, practically until the mid-nineteenth century, when men-at-arms went into battle carrying a lock of their beloved's hair with them as a souvenir and good luck charm.

[@lizzieheart709]

Tolkien who wrote it had spent years and years building the world of middle earth and lord of the rings is one story that occurs within it. The hobbit is the earliest one he published which is about Bilbo and parts of the hobbit were changed in a new edition after he started working on the lord of the rings. The silmarillion was the origin myth and his baby. Partially he wanted to make a mythology for England.

[@BobBlumenfeld]

How did John Ronald Reuel Tolkien think of all this? This is, in fact, only a small portion of the universe Tolkien imagined. It has an enormous history and at least four invented languages. It was truly his life's work.

[@chadfalardeau5396]

One does not simply watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there's much to draw you in and repeatedly enjoy it.

[@drb6771]

I have been waiting sooo long for this!!!!!!! 🙌👋👏🥰🌠

[@CristyReacts]

the day is here!

[@bruinb77]

Fun fact: You can visit the shire. It's located in New Zealand as a tourist attraction (filming location). NOTE: I'm commenting real-time to the reaction :)

[@victore6242]

The writer JRR Tolkien was a linguistics professor. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (/ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/,[a] 3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.