280 Insider Facts about 'The Fellowship of the Ring' for Die-Hard Fans | LOTR MEGA COMPILATION

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Apologies for the cropping on the videos! Warner Brothers strikes again… I tried uploading multiple times and they kept blocking it completely. If you want to rewatch the whole series with the original edits, check out the series playlist linked in the description! 👀

[@EALS-pb5rs]

If you think I'm not watching it all over again, you're sorely mistaken.

[@adren-a-line1473]

To be honest I read this comment wrong many times as I was also rewatching it all over again. Now I feel really stupid lol

[@mark0551]

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Enjoyed it alot.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼

[@Amrcin]

the thing about lotr is that behind the scenes materials are equally interesting as the movie itself

[@KarenSDR]

I haven't listened to all of this yet, but I'll pause and comment while I'm thinking of it. I'm someone who had read the book about 20 times before the movies came out. By then I had been wishing for a live-action adaptation for over thirty years. There was a lot I loved about the movies, and some things that disappointed me, so I'm enjoying your analysis a lot. One scene that I think you didn't cover was the delightful gift-giving scene right after Bilbo leaves, where relatives are given specific items with pointed notes on them. These are hilarious (especially the spoons he left Lobelia.) I took my nickname in a Tolkien forum from the character to whom Bilbo left the wastebasket. I understand why ir wasn't in the movie, but it was a great illustration of Bilbo's biting wit. One detail you mentioned was Farmer Maggot facing the Witch King. I'm pretty sure that was Kamul, not the Witch King, but pretty impressive anyway. I agree it was too bad we didn't get to see how feisty Farmer Maggot was. Carry on! I look forward to listening to more. This is great!

[@EALS-pb5rs]

Oh the noted gifts! Another thing it could have been adapted into The Hobbit trilogy but wasn't.

[@daveythesearcher]

Heck yeah!! Happy Christmas!! I'll have this playing on my ear buds or in the background as i help prepare food & clean. So thank you kind sir & happy christmas to every Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf, wizard & good old hearty men. Lol 🤟🏼😄 I Hope you all have a good day even if you don't celebrate Christmas. We can rejoice in our celebration of middle earth. 🙂 Thanks again FACTS OR FANTASY.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Merry Christmas and enjoy!

[@seangriffin5524]

Your channel is just the gift that keeps on giving ❤

[@seamusmcmullen9945]

Love your channel! Look forward to your videos every week, thank you for all of the effort you put into these! Very enjoyable

[@MadinaAhmed90]

What a treat, 4hrs long, now I have something worth watching 😊

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Enjoy! ☕️

[@Riverphone-t2e]

this is quality content.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for watching!

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I've got a 281st fact did you know Viggo Mortenson broke his toe when.... I'll let myself out

[@Vnemes1sV]

Nah, that's the misinformation. Viggo broke TWO toes.

[@KarenSDR]

Here I am again, after listening to your discussion of the Flight to the Ford. Frodo's character was one of the things I was disappointed in by the movies (though I did love them in general.) I came to the movies with 30 years of my own mental image of Frodo. Bakshi's Frodo and the Frodo from the BBC radio plays (wonderfully portrayed by Ian Holm) matched my mental image much better. No shade on Elijah Wood as an actor: he did a phenomenal job with the part he was given, especially at such a young age. And his performance was very moving, especially in the later scenes. But he's not my Frodo.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Agreed. I love Elijah Wood’s performance. I know some do not like it, but I think he did a great job with what he was given. After all, it isn’t his fault that Jackson completely changed Frodo. 😂

[@craigturner6565]

Karen’s a perfect name.

[@KarenSDR]

@@craigturner6565 Thank you, I've always liked it.

[@KarenSDR]

@@craigturner6565 Wait, you mean Karen's a perfect name for someone who's a LotR book fan? I'm even more flattered. I'm going to take that and run with it

[@DavetheNord]

Very good. Tom Bombadil forever!!! \o/

[@virgilcaine3291]

Good job.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

🫡

[@bryanmatthews2370]

I'll be shocked if theres something I'll learn about lotr from this, but I will still watch in its entirety lol I do wish Elendil and Gil Galad got more screen time during the opening scene of Fellowship, that battle between them and sauron would've been epic to see but I can understand why they didn't include it.

[@johnlawrence7386]

Just watched another reaction to the film and this popped up when I closed it, not watched it yet so let's go. Before I do, the film left out a great deal at the start meeting the Elves, Tom Bombadil, old man Willow, Sam, Pippin and Merry taking Frodo to his new home in Buckland, oh so much. The films do not also show the scale of Middle Earth or how long the journey's would have been, for example Weathertop to Rivendell was a 12 day trek on foot, in Tolkien's mind Middle Earth was a vast land.

[@sgtatarms1000]

A yes. An excuse to watch and read the series again

[@hanne5678]

Ok, I won't fight for Tom, but the hobbits got their weapons in the Barrows, which turned out to be really important for Merry's contribution to the demise of the witch king. That was a really cool connection that Jackson has neglected.

[@tsmith9555]

“After Boromir leaves to find a Band-Aid” 😂😂😂 1:51:00

[@RoboSteave]

I like to think of the actor who got the role of Isildur: Actor: Is Isildur an important character? Producer: Oh yes, very important. A (excitedly): Better give me my dialogue so I can start learning my lines. P: (hands actor a note card with the word “no” on it) Here A: (looks at card, turns it over with growing disbelief): What? That’s it?! P: Yep. Study it. A: No P: Whaddya mean no? A: Oh, just practicing my “lines”...

[@factorfantasyweekly]

He became very good at looking mischievous and saying “…. No” 😂

[@RoboSteave]

@@factorfantasyweekly He did, didn't he?

[@reeceemms1643]

Are we not getting a new episode today or is it going to be later? Also I'm not sure if someone pointed this out when episode one came out for the first time but they did actually film Gil-Galads death scene for the prologue but it was deleted.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

No new episodes this weekend or next for holiday break!

[@EALS-pb5rs]

More time to catch on the books

[@reeceemms1643]

@@EALS-pb5rs Or rewatch the films. Though I realized that extended edition its took me 2 days to get through one film.

[@hanne5678]

I love your analysis, but I think you're cutting Jackson too much slack for his shrinking of the timelines. There are ways to show the passing of time in a movie. The way Jackson is (not) handling it, changes the dynamics between the hobbits. As you're pointing out, Frodo is an adult, while his cousins and Sam are children at the time of the party. By the time Frodo is leaving the Shire, Pippin is still considered a child. Also, Sam is Frodo's gardener, not his peer of equal social standing. Those distinctions are important in Tolkien's world.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Very true. However I understand why they made all the hobbits essentially the same age. Just makes them mesh better on screen. But the age difference does explain why pippin is the way he is 😂

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

1:38:10 If Frodo is carrying on in conversation, the pain is probably not that bad; that doesn’t indicate bravery at all.

[@franky.378]

Holy crap, strap in boys, we're in for the long haul

[@crtune]

I would be interested in a bio of Glorfindel - Tolkien paints an amazing background for this character but does not employ him heavily in LOTR. He is quite unique, I think, in canon, since he essentially was REINCARNATED (Luthien and Beren also seem to fit this) owing to his heroism in sacrificing his life to defeat a Balrog in single combat. He is what I'd deem badass.

[@aSnailCyclopsNamedSteve]

The standard explanation for Gandalf refusing to touch the Ring was that he feared the temptation. But what if it is not that, but that his own power would immediately alert Sauron to the Ring's location and that it had been found? Bilbo and Frodo had little power except to resist, but Gandalf had the power to wield the Ring if he so chose and certainly by the time of the LoTR, Sauron had enough power to act on that knowledge of the Ring's location.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Hmmm yes I could definitely see that!

[@franky.378]

I watched the trilogy before reading the book, I was so confused when they introduced Tom Bombadil 😅

[@histguy101]

They didn't get them "wrong" or "right." They're deliberate changes that they felt worked better for the narrative of their films. Also, the movies aren't based on anything but the LOTR books, as they didnt own the rights to any other works, so such works cant be used to say the films left some detail out

[@jasononeill1586]

Epic video......but the amount of re-iterations, you could have saved 30 minutes.

[@franky.378]

Hmm I'll be 33 this year 🤨

[@hawk7780]

Great video, but edit out the introductions..it would've saved time.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for the feedback! Will definitely look into this for future compilations. 👍🏼

[@shanebeightol8280]

Get the rights from Tolkien Estates and cough up the money it would take to bring us your FLAWLESS masterpiece!!

[@jaredmarkham7300]

A small detail that was changed is Frodo. Hair color he's actually blond, and I think it's either Marry or Pippi that have dark hair.

[@commanderstark5932]

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