EFAP Movies - Minis - The Worldbuilding of The Lord of the Rings

This is a supercut taken directly from the EFAP Crew watching The Lord of the Rings, links to all three EFAP movies are right here:
Fellowship - • EFAP Movies #58: The L...
Two Towers - • EFAP Movies #59: The L...
Return of the King - • EFAP Movies #60: The L...

[@texteel]

"one of my favorite things about fantasy is the monsters you can get out of them" "Like the harfoots?" Never change, Rags

[@archstanton9073]

If he's stops being a pedantic know-it-all, it would be a big improvement.

[@darkbum1510]

@@archstanton9073 No, the elevator music moments in EFAP are among the best highlights

[@ImperatorIke573]

I taught Middle School History for my last year in college, I would put the Minas Tirith theme on in the background while my students would have lunch with me and ask me questions about what we learned that day. The White City backdrop soon became such a great space for the kids to learn and feel safe. Minas Tirith is one of those places that you'd wish was real so you could move there when it's not getting besieged

[@TwoHanderVGC]

The Best reviewing the Best. Glorious.

[@Firguy]

If you look carefully during the Battle of Helm's Deep: you can spot an Uruk-Hai wearing a Dark Side of the Moon t-shirt.

[@reginaldcampos5762]

Where, though?

[@IdiotCinema]

@@reginaldcampos5762On his torso. 😉

[@reginaldcampos5762]

@IdiotCinema i know you're being a cheeky jokester, but, grammatically speaking, what you said makes no sense. The subject is the Uruk-hai, not the shirt. Why would an Uruk-hai be on someone's torso?

[@IdiotCinema]

@@reginaldcampos5762 Haha, you can read your question as intended, and you’d be correct. But you can also read the question as “where is he wearing the shirt?” In that case, clearly on his torso. Unless, of course, he decided to fold it up and wear it as a diaper. But yes, I’m being cheeky. 🖖

[@HerohammerStudios]

Very interesting bit of world building. I wonder what the larger implications are

[@leriava]

There's something magical about hearing people talk so passionately about things they love and to know that there was also love and care in the part of everyone who made this piece of media. Wouldn't it be nice if it could always be like this?

[@silverscorpio24]

These guys fangirling over the trilogy brings me joy in life.

[@trequor]

>boogie detected

[@jamesgoss1860]

I live right outside SF. The day the sky turned dark orange was surreal and won't be forgotten.

[@ODST_Parker]

Rohan got me so excited when I was a kid. The combination Scandinavian and European aesthetic and culture, it just struck me as so cool and interesting even back then. I loved everything from the buildings and banners to the armor and weapons, the focus on horses, the history of lineage that they hold so dear. They are, without a doubt, my favorite fantasy human civilization.

[@reactiondavant-garde3391]

@@slawaboga1433 They are gothts and vandals. Half-nomadic germanic people. Though it is very clear the anglo-saxon aestatic as well.

[@Ranben.]

There's a LOTR anime film about Rohan coming out this year - the War of the Rohirrim!

[@ODST_Parker]

@@Ranben. I'm extremely cautious about anything coming out now related to Lord of the Rings.

[@Ranben.]

@@ODST_Parkerthat's fair. I thought the 2023 dwarf game was unfairly inoffensive and fun

[@2ndRodeo_Keziah]

Every time I watch any EFAP coverage of LOTR it makes me want to watch the movies again. No one else on the interwebs does as much justice to this cinema masterpiece of a trilogy as do our lads. 👏😁❤️ Aside: I kind of miss the total drama of the SF Bay Area during those orange skies of 2020 August. Epic times.

[@defeqel6537]

Every time I see a scene from the movies I get the desire to watch them again (edit: and honestly, every time I hear the music, the same thing happens, it's just excellent)

[@waffles2waffles]

Wife and I are rewatching the extended trilogy again thanks to EFAP.

[@Avarn388]

What Jackson and company managed to do cannot be understated. How they managed to craft Middle Earth into a believable location with unique cultures and regions is why I love fantasy so much. Because story and characters are paramount. But the world of a fantasy series should be a character in itself. When integrated well, it can make good story and character elements shine that much brighter. Especially when it is backed by strong internal consistency. It’s why I love series like Last Airbender and One Piece for this reason. And for these films, why I consider them the best fantasy movies ever made. With Conan the Barbarian being a close second.

[@TomQuixote39]

Critical is very wrong about Rohan trading with Mordor, in the book it is claimed Rohan pays a tribute of horses to Mordor but Boromir states that it is untrue

[@UchihaOokami2596]

Yeah i think at worst they had a large amount of horses stolen like 100 years prior and the ones bred from that group became the horses of the Nazgul. No horses were better and they needed time to be corrupted and broken the bear such horrific entities of Un-Life.

[@LordHoth_09]

And Eomer got pissed, saying it was a lie also

[@Speedyneedlemouse]

Ahh, yes, please!! Keep up the small conversation on different topics to be on smaller videos. Great idea, Moobchler!

[@gordoncaddell3989]

Massive applause for this wonderful stream. I watch it more times than I care to admit 👍

[@Mike-Humsmels]

Same

[@benkanohi2819]

10:58 actually in the special features they specifically reference how this scene happened completely spontaneously. They were filming the shot with Eowyn, and the wind tore off the flag, completely unplanned, and landed near the front gate. It works so well thematically for that part of the story that they kept the footage So as Fringy suggested, indeed God saw what they were doing and approved and was like "Here, let me help you out a bit"

[@weeshock3480]

Damn it, EFAP. Every time you post a LOTR vid, I end up binge watching them: all 12 hours. Thanks, guys. Keep up the fun work.

[@monopolizeme]

I've watched the original stream countless times, the new individual uploads almost daily and I was still so excited for this supercut. Keep releasing any versions you have!

[@DigiMyst]

I've been asking for highlights and supercuts for a *while* , so it's great to see them being made! Really liking the new direction!

[@Kainvverd]

I hope that The Lord of the Rings will never be forgotten. It deserves to be talked about forever.

[@abstractjwl806]

Thank you for uploading these shorts. I can listen to the channel all day in bites or main courses. 😊

[@ferdinandomarte]

5:33 I would say, Rivendell almost looks like a more elaborate Thomas Kinkade painting ;)

[@ViolentMessiah666]

Not a request but if Efap ever did a mini/movie on "The making of The Fellowship" documentary I'd totally be here for it..... just sayin 😏

[@Pheebs77]

Mauler & Drinker you should have come to the Royal Albert Hall a few weeks ago, they had Return of the King with a live orchestra doing the music. ABSOLUTELY EPIC. The lighting of the beacons scene OMG the orchestra was amazing for that part!

[@captaindropkik]

must have been so difficult editing so much world building down into this 20 minutes, RIP Mauler's soul

[@jonathanyaloussa]

At 4:25, the cast reacts to Bree and at 4:30 Drinker says that it's the intrusion of men into Hobbit world/life. But that's not really what's happening here: Bree is the only place where men and Hobbits live together. This explains why there's a hole at the gate for Hobbits and the big people. That's also why there are Hobbit-sized rooms at The Prancing Pony.

[@sigy4ever]

Aragon looking at shock as the flag of Rohan flies in the wind to lay tattered on the ground. symbolism innit?

[@mrq1]

Popped in here just long enough to drop a view and a like... stayed for the whole 20 minutes. Damn, Lord of the Rings is sooooo good and hearing people praise the hell out of it is cathartic for some reason.

[@stuarthill5309]

That's why it works, the fantasy feels plausible

[@Kainvverd]

I don't know if there's a more influential fictional world than that of The Lord of the Rings, I highly doubt it.

[@ForgottenSpartan1]

1 episode of loki theyll talk about for 2 hours, the worldbuilding of lotr for 20 minutes. I think they might have a masochistic slant

[@ProjectRedfoot]

7:20 yea Boston smokers were over here like, "So, I don't have to be 100 feet away from any buildings, now right? Because there's smoke everywhere!"

[@jonahlstrom4753]

Yay! Maulie, Raggggggggs and the rest!

[@Sue20022010]

Chad editing

[@daskampffredchen9242]

Oh. I hoped you guys would watch the Behind the Scenes Mini Documentaries

[@ahbyss-em9zr]

funniest thing is seeing comments that didnt get shown in chat lol.

[@warsong99]

Orange sky? I saw those a couple times a week each summer when i used to be a forest fire fighter.

[@christo-gj1qk]

I wonder if EFAP will ever cover all the chucky movies.

[@bumblebee1300]

More lord of the rings? I’ll take it

[@archstanton9073]

Well, it's the same LotR. Mauler's just chopping it up into smaller bits since his super long video got demonized a bunch of times.

[@nathantitus4697]

*Worldadmiring of The Lord of the Rings

[@WhoLover]

New series? Interesting

[@archstanton9073]

Old series. This was part of one huge stream (or several put together) but it got demonetized so now he's chopping up bits into smaller videos.

[@WhoLover]

@@archstanton9073 ah, interesting, thanks for the info man!

[@user-xx6vy9ri8p]

For me the questionable point is what wizards and other magic creatures can and can't do. Like Gandalf can survive falling into the abyss on a burning Balrog and continue fighting, but can't jump from the Orthank? He can't do a simple pull-up hanging on the bringe (Balrog's whip wasn't attached to him, I checked)? He couldn't defeat Smaug himself? I understand that in the books Maiars can't go outside the limits of their specific tasks, but even there it's explained really vaguely (plus there's Tom Bombadil), in the movies - not at all. Also, Witch King can break Gandalf's staff, but Aragon can scare him away with a torch?

[@raze2798]

Well the pullup is explainable. Gandalf just doesn't have the upper body strength lol. Nothing crazy there. As for the fall, he did fall on top of the Balrog, which took the brunt of the blow to the water. As for the Witch-king breaking his staff, you're 100% correct, that should not have happened. That's an issue the movies created by not adapting the books well enough (that could be a reason that scene was cut from the theatrical version). But Aragorn scaring him off with fire is fine, cuz Nazgûl don't like it, plain and simple, even though that explanation doesn't exist in the movies. As for Gandalf's limitations, he and the other wizards (the Istari) specifically took the forms of old men to dampen their powers as they were ordered to help the free peoples of Middle-earth, not to win their wars for them. That's not something all Maiar are held too. Durin's Bane is also a Maia, but as he didn't take that oath, he doesn't have those self imposed limitations. Additionally, it's not explained what Tom Bombadil is, so any confusion about what he can do and why the Ring doesn't affect him doesn't cause any issues because there is no contradiction. The Ring also works a bit differently in the books, which can explain some of this as well

[@trequor]

The wizards are supposed to advise in regards to mortal matters. They are not to be heroes themselves. It's very meta and I can understand people having a problem with it. Gandalf very clearly lets go in Moria. He doesnt fall from a strength failure. I think the Balrog fight is the only time Gandalf really lets loose his full power. He is fighting a fellow Maiar spirit, a matter external to Middle Earth and mortals. The Balrog has wings which i presumed slowed his fall considerably. (After all, Gandalf catches up to him). No wings at Orthanc. The staff breaking is quite nebulous, but i always got a sense from the story (both book and movie) that spiritual matters are somewhat determined by mortal battles, and especially the ENVIRONMENT. Gandalf can only break Saruman's staff when Saruman is defeated and his factories destroyed. The Witch King can only break Gandalf's staff when Gondor is losing and Minas Tirith is in terror. "This is my hour" is the line from the Witch King.

[@derekfcc]

I’ll allow it

[@user-xx6vy9ri8p]

@@raze2798 Right after that he had enough body strengt to run from a dungeon to the top of the mountain while fighting.

[@raze2798]

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p Being capable of doing a pull-up does not require the same type of strength as running a marathon. He also didn't have a very good grip on the bridge nor the time to get a better one. I also agree with another commentor who pointed out that Gandalf intentionally let go to fight the Balrog. So whether or not he had enough strength to pull himself up, I don't think he would have regardless

[@alphachadfeanor]

Shame they didn't have much love for Tolkien's work when recording this particular EFAP movies. I wonder if it's because they have such a high view of the movies that they don't want it tarnished by the superior storytelling of Tolkien.

[@SolipsismCrisis]

Milk Milk Milk

[@EmptyAltruism]

So THIS is how you get blue milk…milking too hard…

[@archstanton9073]

There are no rhinos in LotR.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

6:15 yea they scout tax breaks

[@maverick8915]

I have not eaten breakfast yet, but I beg to efap gods first. I beg to thy, maulgod, fringoo, metalai, and fraggyoddess. I beg thee gods to do an efap movies on 30 days of night

[@EmptyAltruism]

Cringe

[@sierraactual4310]

I thought we are getting Halo today haha

[@turinturinbar]

Did Tolkien replace Shakespeare

[@michaelgradey7442]

Valhalla Rising? Do you think Shad can handle it?

[@odinsonthered9226]

My wife and I, just marathoned the extended versions. We both agree, Frodo is awful, and Gandalf is essentially useless. Sam is the goat. I remember watching them as a kid thinking Sam was annoying cry baby, but nah, he’s the fucking goat.

[@marshalltom]

One of you guys please please check out Zorpazorp, in the world of middle earth strategy battle game /40k he is a scenery making legend, and frankly right now he needs KZbinrs like yourselves to bail him out

[@prolltarodies]

Video number 666 lel

[@CMCAdvanced]

There is a lord of the rings card game

[@Archphoenix1]

if you look closely, you can see that most riders of rohan are women with beards cause they couldnt find enough male horseriders in new zealand so they had to go full 2010+

[@trequor]

Women make up the majority of horseback riders in general

[@DuranceBell]

I can't believe these toxic hatemongers spending hours tearing these movies apart. Don't they like anything?

[@Azrael__]

I'll never understand the obsession right-wingers have with these movies.

[@agentsmith2378]

I watched all these live but i cnt help but click the clips aswel.