LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition - Concerning Hobbits

[@LusoAustralian]

The problem with watching these scenes is that they make me want to watch all of the 3 extended editions again!

[@AngelCakes1997]

Same :/

[@TraustiGeir]

+SCPimenta Doesn't it?

[@horaceb2614]

+SCPimenta Man I know it wouldn't have been exciting but just chilling in the Shire is alright with me

[@mryoyoserpico]

But there's nothing wrong with that!

[@eliasfigueroa3324]

you too...i was in the middle of writing an essay, found myself at the and of the Return of the King 12 hours later like, "what happened?"

[@aryarizky222]

Rest In Peace Sir Ian Holm The Ships have come to carry you Home.

[@surtaandume_psykermystyk4010]

Why you gotta make me tear up like that? Same team, no fair lol I just got a little sad-stalgic just then, having read that haha You still get a 'like', I guess...

[@chesschad81]

Um, but people don't go to Valinor when they die.

[@b.3277]

@@chesschad81 The ring bearers did, and he played one, so good enough.

[@chesschad81]

@@b.3277 The ring-bearers did not go to Vailnor when they died. They sailed to Valinor. They died there.

[@kidragakas]

@@chesschad81 The Ringbearers travel there to receive healing for the wounds (spiritual more than physical) incurred in the ownership of the One Ring. They would still die, but the hope was that they could live the rest of the time they had remaining in peace. So not on the way or on arrival.

[@raunak6501]

" It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life" - Imagine the peace the world would have if people believe in this...

[@nelsonfraser2800]

raunak sarkar “The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.” Tolkien. Strange that England - and maybe all lands - creates within itself people who love the peace you describe and people who liked nothing more than conquering everything.

[@GuukanKitsune]

@@nelsonfraser2800 Have you ever noticed the conquerors are the comparative minority?

[@markoadzic7355]

I know one thing - there are people who believe in the simple joys of life. There are - you can just feel it! I am one of them and I'm at peace with myself just the way I am. The first step to world peace is achieving peace with oneself. 🕊

[@Prometheus7272]

This was once true but the modern age changed this.

[@veronicaglitchh9667]

Lots of people believe in that

[@robertbrown3064]

This is the best movie opening of all time. The map slowly fades in and sweeps over the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo begins to write his book, setting the stage. Instantly, you're transported to another time and place, to Middle Earth, the 3rd Age of this World... It's a dangerous business, viewer, watching this movie. You're pulled in, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

[@pgurjanov]

Thx for this man

[@AngelCakes1997]

+Brian L He's also a massive nerd who loves the books.

[@MrDoa1234]

+Robert Brown well said :)

[@mypassions1]

Arogon I know elvish

[@Bigtime1998]

This scene and movie got me through some tough times and so thankful it got me to the right side of the fight!!

[@jakobhirsch5462]

"...Things that grow" shot of Samwise Gamgee, who probable grows most throughout the story.

[@NehnBellanaris]

Nah. All of them grew in some way. It was just different for each one.

[@polutoman9845]

@@NehnBellanaris Sam I feel grew the most though, especially in the books, they make it feel like sam is the main character

[@Ihavehadmanynames7779]

And frodo??? Lol

[@willowflower0207]

Please stop, I am already crying enough as it is.

[@p1ssedoffchristof48]

Merry and Pippin grew the most but that was from drinking the ent water

[@kingjellofish]

Found this video in while looking for studying music....12 hours later I finished Return of the King...

[@kinslayer1298]

There is no shame in that whatsoever. Perhaps the best trilogy of our time.

[@SkulduggeryGaunt]

12 hours only? You need to get your hands on the Directors Cut!

[@WouterPlanet]

what about the hobbit?

[@captain2ahab]

Fcuk the Hobbit. It is crap

[@ClaudeEarl]

@@kinslayer1298 not just our time! ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!

[@EyeStorrm]

I love the way Bilbo laughs. It's like he acknowledges that many Hobbits are silly but he's proud of them.

[@jamesplunkett8912]

Hobbits must seem as little importance, either renowned as great warriors. Nor counted among the very wise. 😄 🤣 😂 😆 😄 🤣 😂 😆 😄 🤣 😂 😆 😄 🤣 😂 😆

[@georgechapman9688]

He's enjoying his own humour 🖤😁

[@CalvinNoire]

Hobbits are goofy ahh creatures.

[@katherinewilson1853]

@@georgechapman9688 Talking to oneself is one of the finer pleasures in life. ☺

[@averiesoto4042]

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” This has to be my favorite quote from the trilogy 😊. Many of us will never be famous and have everybody know our names but it’s the time that we spend with the people we love while enjoying the things that we enjoy, that make life so incredible and worth living. A good book, a warm fire, happy people and great food are just a few examples of things that make life so great. With the winter season coming up I wish you all happy holidays! May we eat, drink, love and enjoy our lives like hobbits!! 😁

[@michaelblower7363]

"If more of us valued food and song and cheer over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world" - Thorin "Oakenshield".

[@the_dank_jedi]

Wise words, my friend. Hope you live a full life like that of a Hobbit!

[@robertbrown3064]

Truer words have never been spoken.

[@Fontenelle2307]

Wise choice of favorite quote. I can't decide mine, however. Maybe the Sam's monologue on the ending of The Two Towers. But I can't really make a choice, even to this day.

[@JesusIzAPunkRocker]

I love how Tolkein centered his story around hobbits. They're simple, jovial, 'little folk'. They don't desire fame or wealth or power. Like most of us, they're 'quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the big folk.' which makes a Hobbit the perfect carrier of the ring. Frodo never wanted his quest. He never desired riches titles and glory. He says as much: "I wish it need not have happened in my time." But as gandalf says, "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." And Frodo, a simple Hobbit, understood that he had an obligation, though he never asked for it, to do the deed. Just a heartwarming story about how anyone, no matter how small they seem, can have the strength to complete the most difficult task.

[@TomEranze]

"For all hobbits share a love of things that grow..." Gives me shivers every time.

[@joellaz9836]

Tom Is it because they don’t grow very tall?

[@pershop4950]

@@joellaz9836 There are many things that grow. Hobbits love them all.

[@handsoap3346]

Love your pfp

[@Vanessa.i.r]

Right? Makes me emotional

[@DestinyAwaits19]

The theatricals are much better movies. They don't fossick. The extended editions are too light hearted and refuse to take themselves seriously. Watching the theatricals and extended is like 2 totally different films from spearate genres. There's a reason the theatrical were chosen for theaters, and it's not because they're shorter. They're better movies, and much tenser ones too.

[@alejandromachado7133]

“I know I don't look old, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart... I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return.” RIP - Ian Holm.

[@hunterolaughlin]

Ikr? I can imagine that’s what Ian Holm was thinking in his final years.

[@davecrupel2817]

"...in fact, i mean not to."

[@1101millie97]

Just imagine he is happily enjoying eternity in Valinor as the character he played, and it makes his absence that much easier to bear.

[@andrewjoyce9038]

Like butter spread over too much bread

[@katherinewilson1853]

@@andrewjoyce9038 yes, that is the worst feeling.

[@dmq696]

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort"

[@ST0AT]

I always cry like a little bitch when I hear or read these words.

[@admiralflynn895]

Ah yes. Some of the first words JRR Tolkien wrote to contribute to The Hobbit.

[@chody5840]

@@admiralflynn895 This is actually not usually true of most authors. Generally, when writing a novel a writer will skip around and write different pieces, editing and stitching them together until they reach the final product. But Tolkien's writing style lends credence to think that the opening line may very well have been one of the first things he wrote in The Hobbit. He would sit and write by hand as far into the story as he could get, and when he ran out of ideas or hit a wall in where to take the story, he would start over from the beginning, copying by hand everything he had written previously and hoping that by the time he finished copying he would know how to continue. It's really a fascinating and unique process, considering how much tedium and 'wasted time' it would involve in the view of most writers. Of course, his earliest writings predate typewriters being affordable to the majority of people.

[@multiverse_media2023]

"Good food, a Warm heart, and all the comforts of home."

[@alexreasoner9919]

"nasty, dirty, wet hole" 😏

[@aanuoluwasoetan20]

2:13 “but where our hearts truly lie is in peace and good tilled earth…” This is so beautiful.

[@BenMoranFilms]

"But where our hearts truly lie, is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth." has become the most important sentence in the world to me. I aspire to be like one of those old men playing chess in the sun with a mug of beer in hand. (2:12)

[@DraculaCronqvist]

That's what life is truly about. If, at the end of your life, you do not live like this, it is a sad state.

[@robertbrown3064]

Likewise, my friend. I'll be the guy across the bench from you, taking all your betting money. 😋

[@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676]

Same here,peace and quite and money is everything 😄

[@fireblizard8366]

That’s the dream

[@DraculaCronqvist]

@Jan-Ola Ellingsen He cannot. That was one of the points Tolkien was trying to make. This is where true happiness lies, not in grand schemes and mastery of all and everything.

[@12classics39]

I love how in the extended edition, Sam is the first member of the Fellowship to appear onscreen. It makes for a great book-end at the end of Return of the King, in which he is the last member of the Fellowship to appear onscreen.

[@armoredgaming2352]

Rest in peace Ian Holm. This scene hurts to watch now. When lotr is rereleased in theaters, i’m surely going to cry 😢

[@multiverse_media2023]

I want the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies to be re-released again so we can watch these masterpieces again.

[@transformersrevenge9]

I just saw a re release in the theater. I cried so much.

[@VirusEclipse]

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell." -Thorin Oakenshield

[@Lazyboy5298]

I love the look on the hobbit's face as he grabs a cupcake at 1:59

[@Lordofcookiejars]

+BuckFutter MYYY......... PRECIOUSSSSSS

[@davideferrari1194]

1:56 the girl on the left is a man.

[@Bananesko]

find a partner that looks at you the way that hobbit looks at that cupcake.

[@ckratooss]

I think they filmed me assaulting the cupcakes tray during my cousin's birthday to use as visual reference for this scene. Hehehehe.

[@codyj.braunva5406]

@@davideferrari1194 no it’s not a man

[@95DarkFire]

Big Folk: "Hobbits only loveo ne thing - Food!" Bilbo: "How dare you! We also like alcohol and pipeweed!"

[@BlueShift24]

The older I get the more I yearn for this kind of life. Quiet, peace, spending an evening with friends, simple, but good food and drink, no real worries.

[@matheenarifkhn3548]

Me too bro

[@jaegermann4170]

The CIA: “oh shoot. Looks like we’ve got another extremist here.”

[@prot07ype87]

​@@jaegermann4170 Based and Uncle Tedpilled.

[@Ebbybuddy]

Everytime I watch this - I too, feel envious of their simple and beautiful existence- I feel like there’s villages like this in Europe to find

[@DGenerationX1311]

When the camera cuts to Sam, I just wanna start crying 😭

[@Zutnop92]

I literally do.

[@Makie.2001]

But i always smile again when Bilbo says 12 seconds later "sticklebags"

[@TheFawly84]

The shot at 0:34 where the camera pans out from the map, then locks in and starts moving towards Bilbo. The music kicks in and the title card plays, is one of my favourite scenes ever. It feels like it’s saying, “welcome and enjoy the adventure”. It’s like you’re literally being pulled into Middle Earth. A simple scene like this is better than half of the action movies made nowadays!

[@hulmad]

this gets me every time, such a happy life the halfling leads. Tolkien's work will remain a part of peoples lives forever.

[@jsfilms6623]

May his work be ingrained in the halls of literature for all time.

[@bouchandre]

I would love to go back in time to watch these movies in theatre. Since time travel does not exist yet, I wanna make a theatre screening room in my future house to be able to experience all the movies that I've missed in full glory.

[@Turbo7334]

Me to... imagine all the things you can see a second time... more then I can remember.

[@mudyao]

Turbo7334 what if the reason time traveler's havent appeared yet is because the world is destroyed before time travel can be achieved?

[@Turbo7334]

A fear point.. and it absolutely wakes more interesting thoughts!

[@bouchandre]

mudyao Or maybe they are there, we just don't know it.

[@guadalupefestival]

They may show them again like they did a couple of years ago with the release of the new hobbit! Who knows? I bet they are! I really really REALLY hope they do! www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy

[@ImperatorPenguin]

"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage, and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell." -Last Words of Thorin Oakensheild.

[@calowenby1654]

Beautiful words to go out on.

[@SKyrim190]

Seeing Samwise, the Brave just caring for his flowers all happy and content always make me tear up, knowing what he will have to endure 😭

[@levongevorgyan6789]

This is how to start a movie. Majestic, stately, in the home of a great being having reached his glory, surrounded in the trappings of might. I had never read the Hobbit and i knew this was n important character.

[@littlehorhey5285]

RIP Ian Holm, thank you for enchanting my childhood with your performance.

[@kaylarose1081]

my husband and I moved out of chaotic Washington DC with our toddler, and settled in rural New England. The property had a garden overgrown with weeds. One evening I finished pulling all the weeds, and I paused to admire the scene - dark soil, ready for planting, and the pond and pines and rolling mountains stretching out behind it, and I pulled this scene up on KZbin. I listened to Ian Holm deliver that line: “but where our hearts truly lie is in peace, and quiet, and good, tilled earth.” That dramatic, solemn drop in his voice … combined with the beautiful score in the background, and the scenery around me … all I could think was how glad I was we got out of the high-paced, exhausting, cutthroat DC madness. The fog came rolling over the mountains on little cat feet, and I thought, “it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”

[@matheenarifkhn3548]

You are lucky

[@patsfreak]

I think of this scene driving through western Maine in early spring when most homes have a chunk of ground tilled up and ready to go next to them.

[@roninelenion4805]

I love this scene. I wish the Shire was a real place so that I could have a beautiful garden and peace. Sam's flowers are beautiful. I never noticed it before, but in this scene, Sam makes his entrance and the hobbit hole in the background is the same one he, Rosie, and their kids go into in RotK. I recognized the yellow door. Great scene. Thanks for sharing. It's funny, too.

[@AngelCakes1997]

+Peter Coolman Been there. Got a Ring of Power.

[@user-ng5my1jt8q]

Ronin Elenion well you can always visit New Zealand and see the real life shire where they filmed this, the hobbit homes are there and everything !! It’s amazing

[@gregarious1]

But, you actually can. The Shire DOES exist, across the world, in the humble town of Matamata in New Zealand. I went there myself, and you literally FEEL like you left the real world, they did a fantastic job recreating it all for tourists!

[@jordanbelfort9992]

I wish it actually existed and was a real community where you just live off the land and do exactly this. Farm everything, no money no nothing. No bills, just living life how humans were supposed to. I envy the hobbits, because they’re so worry free and do as they please. Now that I’m older, I wish nothing but that!

[@humblefolk1499]

@@jordanbelfort9992 and to have lots of food and hearty meals. like, an awful lot. as custom. 7 meals a day. that sounds like heaven😔

[@Badboyben1422]

So sad, Ian Holm, our beloved Bilbo Baggins has passed onto the West! RIP thank you for your great narrations of Concerning Hobbits and Erebor and Dale!

[@billprice8596]

I see many of say you would like to live in Hobbiton or be a Hobbit, etc. Well, maybe there is a way you can. I suggest you read the essay by Tolkien "On Fairy Stories" or if you like you can look up the KZbin video of it. It is a reenactment of the lecture Tolkien gave on Fairy Stories. After seeing it I think you will see how Tolkien "lived" Middle Earth in his day to day life. Here was a man who had lived through so much heart ache; his father died when he was baby, his mother died when he was 12 and all but one of his close friends died in the trenches of World War I and yet here was a man who was such a gentle soul with no bitterness in his life. He wrote his books so that people could escape but also to bring back that world to this one to make this one more like that one. I hope that helps and I haven't written too much, I tend to ramble.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

Thank you

[@Monarth]

I love this scene so much. I have a strong appreciation for not rushing slice-of-life scenes, as it lets you to truly sink in and achieve the feeling of what it'd be like to actually be there. It also lets you care more about the characters and people, which sells to me both the starting and ending of the movies. All I could ask from these movies would be more slice-of-life scenes, like how Legolas and Gimli's friendship formed between the action, which would sell me Gimli's change of attitude about elves after leaving Lothlorien. Regardless, this scene is a testament to great immersion.

[@flashdalsu9792]

Rest in peace, bilbo. You will never be forgotten

[@TurboMintyFresh]

Cant wait for my extended trilogy marathon this christmas

[@pyromania1018]

Bilbo's exposition perfectly sums up why the Ring had such a hard time corrupting any and all Hobbits who picked it up: they just don't have the ambition to become evil overlords. Even Gollum, despite being a delinquent beforehand, wasn't interested in anything more than finding raw meat (preferably fish) to chew on, and the Ring kept trying to escape him and/or get him killed, but always failed.

[@TOCR815]

I get these serious goosebumps after the map zoom out at around ;28. Amazing.

[@robertbrown3064]

+TOCR815 It's merely a sub-neural inter-dimensional shift. They can be triggered by scenes like this one. Modern science still isn't entirely sure how they work, but we do know that when they happen the prefrontal cortex ceases to exist only in the dimension we inhabit, but in two. Side effects do include the tingling you describe, and usually last only a few minutes, so nothing to worry about. Of course, there is the fact that you are now partially phase-shifted into another reality, so it is not advisable to get up too quickly or attempt to operate heavy machinery. To an outside observer, you're still sitting in your chair glued to the screen, but not to you. You're actually strolling through the woods and meadows of the Shire without a care in the world. While you cannot directly interact with anything in this reality, you can visit it for a little while.

[@TallisKeeton]

Robert Brown hahaha tnx - it was priceless :)

[@elmertjee]

+TOCR815 Same here my friend. That 'bass' when the title comes up, perfect...

[@briageniusfreak]

I watched the Extended cuts of these films a few years ago and wow, I'm amazed by a lot of these deleted scenes, scenes like these just made these films even better

[@eghosadonaldson3058]

I started watching this movie since wen I was 15. now am over 30 am still waiting it again.. can't get tired of it

[@SpArX0110]

Howard what you have done to my soul back then over 20 years ago is unimaginable... Every time I hear this song I go back to being a 11 year old boy... But yet feeling hope for the future... It is just amazing what one can do with a piece like this.... Thank you for the music... and thanks for not doing the score for the Amazon series... it would have dragged your name down....

[@flocklinclock4733]

Rest In Peace MR Holm. We'll all miss you.

[@Raveityourway]

That shot of Sam with the flowers is the cutest thing I've ever seen.

[@SestraMensha]

It made me smile

[@comesahorseman]

"Peace and quiet, and good turned earth." I've never forgotten these words.

[@tiedyemanatee9291]

This is a beautiful scene. Simple, yet poignant. Cue the fellowship theme, the way the camera pans up from the map slowly, showing Bag End. Absolutely amazing.

[@Badboyben1422]

Okay guys, this movie was made before the Hobbit, so it would've been after the fact of the Bilbo's tale of his journey, that he starts to write in his book about the Great War of the Ring as depicted by the four Hobbits, but obviously he wants to give an account of what Hobbits are, where they live and their view on life. And though that does not happen right away, we as the audience or those people who've never read the books, get an understanding, or general idea of what Hobbits are. So for an introduction into the movie, it was very great. And Ian Holm is an excellent actor for the role Bilbo Baggins.

[@SlasherClips]

And Martin Freeman for the hobbit trilogy as well ^^

[@lordeppiothe1]

''But where our hearts truly lie, is in peace and quiet, and good tilled earth, for all hobbits share a love of things that grow'' i think i'm a hobbit deep down. I'd trade anything in a heartbeat to live a hobbit life.

[@gonzaloorivevilla3329]

2:55 "Oh Sticklebacks, where is that boy?" 🤣

[@AngelCakes1997]

You know you're old when you're calling a 50 year old a boy.

[@doubleflores8350]

Goodbye Sir Ian Holm. We’ll never forget you. Bilbo.

[@rowandavis2061]

"It's no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." - While it's cool to seek big adventures and adopt a "work hard; play hard" lifestyle every now and then, I often find the pressure from peers and influencers to "live every day like it's your last" to be too much and I feel like the world would genuinely be a lot more pleasant if we all took more time to slow things down and take greater care of our minds.

[@Kanig94]

I can't believe how sooo good these extended scenes were, like wtf. How it all fits per-fect-ly with the camera zoomout, Bilbo's voice, and ofcourse, the music! This is 10 times better than the "normal" version.

[@katherinewilson1853]

The detail that they cast people with certain features for hobbits really helps. It makes it so realistic.

[@Thebeardyhero]

As I struggle to understand where am i going, why am I here or even what am I supposed to do, this video brings me back at peace. I try every single day to find answer to my never ending questions, and yet, I found solutions in simple, humble ways of living, thanks to Tolkien. In my opinion, I slowly realize that life shouldn't be complicated. "But where our heart truly lies, is in peace, quiet, and good tilled earth"

[@tonybleau6219]

The short versions exclude this little scene, which is one of my favourites.

[@benjaminrosloff4518]

Playing Bilbo Baggins one last time was the perfect way to end Ian Holm’s career before his death in 2020. Rest in Peace Ian Holm.

[@danyelpaladintheimpetuous1438]

This shall become my cure for every time I have the misfortune to gaze upon the scourge known as the Rings of Power

[@matheenarifkhn3548]

Don't even talk about that Shite

[@Swalexbass]

Peter Jackson did such a fantastic job bringing Tolkien’s fictional world to life. My favourite movie series of all time...

[@Bauglir100]

His Middle-earth movies did such a good job translating the Shire, Bree, Rivendell, Mirkwood, Erebor, Moria, Lothlorien, Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, and so many other places to the big screen. New Zealand truly is Middle-earth.

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

he did, and just think of the task set for him.

[@gr8m887]

"Everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love." The shire is truly a paradise. Not a place for every hearts desire, but a place for every hearts content. Comfort, company, and honest lives. Something we should aspire to achieve, rather than surpass.

[@theblatantaussie1530]

No, No, we must concrete over the Shire so more Orc families can be housed!

[@bigorange4919]

I remember as a kid watching lord of the rings and being thrilled by the action and adventure, but these first few minutes in hobbiton have grown to become some of my favorite parts of the trilogy. I absolutely love middle earth.

[@KawaiiDansu]

Truly wonderful. One of the many reasons to watch the Extended Editions.

[@silly_on_]

This is perhaps the greatest thing ever created

[@JesseBonales]

The sound of his quill dipping into the inkwell lives rent free in my head. I love it so much.

[@JesusIzAPunkRocker]

"But where our hearts truly lie is in peace, and quiet, and good tilled earth." Beautiful.

[@Pan_Z]

The shot of Sam is quite powerful every rewatching. Thought almost nothing of it the first viewing.

[@matheenarifkhn3548]

What a masterpiece. Beautiful

[@elalbert942.0]

R.I.P Ian Holm, one of the greatest actors i some of the greatest movies of all time!

[@abigail5380]

Con esos mapas, esa música de fondo y Bilbo hablando se me llenan los ojos de lágrimas.

[@XiyuYang]

It's impossible to watch one scene of the trilogy and not want to watch all three films again. It's been two decades and these films are still magical to me.

[@matheenarifkhn3548]

This shows that this trilogy is best one made

[@dodosinplight]

Such a great intro

[@thefaceofregret5416]

R.I.P Sir Ian Holm, may you find peace in the Gray Havens. 'And he lived happily ever after, unto the end of his days.'

[@Punki80]

Gosh, I have never seen this opening before! I went to the theatre when it first came out, but I have never watched the extended version. This is brilliant! Why is Ian Holm so left out from everything? Everybody else was interviewed and shown in production clips of both trilogies, what about him? Nobody even mentions him, save Martin Freeman when he is asked. As if Ian Holm never was a cast member! This is really sad, he is so cute and brilliant in this!

[@plumeria66]

Punki80 I know! I prefer Ian Holm as Bilbo, and wish a younger him could have been in the Hobbit trilogy instead of Martin Freeman. Ian is more jovial and swashbuckling, whereas Martin is too academic and nerdy and never laughs or chuckles the way Ian does.

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

It’s a fantastic opening!!

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@plumeria66 Sadly, having a younger version of him as depicted in the opening prologue of TFOTR is *impossible* considering Ian Holm’s death and even if he was still alive and they redid The Hobbit, he’d be unable to play the role due to his age. So they’d most likely bring back Martin Freeman if they did.

[@Haylash8]

If there is afterlife, I hope it would be like this. Enjoying every part of ur life, of who you are, doing simple things with your friends and loved familly and not worrying about anything.

[@testicide2503]

Rip Ian Holm may your last journey be adventurous

[@vasiliypupkin3239]

Hobbits’ way of life is an adults’ life imagined by kids 😂

[@theblatantaussie1530]

It existed, before we were inundated with foreign culture.

[@matthewwatkins4938]

This is always the most beautiful scene I can think of.

[@peedfarded]

Well..time to watch through Lord of the Rings extended again..

[@SonOfHanni]

I don't know why but I love the part from 0:18 to 0:52

[@castamerereyne3151]

It's such a cozy and humble title drop to what is a grand epic, makes me nostalgic.

[@generalerica4123]

Probably because it's the best opening to a movie in cinema history.

[@antalonampreel861]

Me too. It makes me nostalgic!

[@green_creeper288]

"No bad thing to celebrate a simple life." Never underestimate how good a 'boring' life can be.

[@sdj-ni2ig]

2023 but still watching my favorite movie LOTR❤

[@Grivian]

If I were in middle earth I would be a hobbit

[@DonutCopperOnline]

Well, WHAT hobbit? Cause basically all hobbits besides the protagonists are cowardly, boring, fat farmers.

[@DonutCopperOnline]

+Mr Tyger true, i forgot about them

[@PoliticRevolutionnaire]

a hobbit why not a nazgul?

[@mryoyoserpico]

Wouldn't mind being a hobbit myself!

[@catwoman1263]

not really; Tolkien described them all as having a spark of courage deep within their hearts and under the right circumstances, would burst into flame.

[@kyotovaiau4797]

hobbits are hard worker ppl , they enjoy thier life , they be honest , they having fun party , family and social others .... love the life in hobbits

[@Toffeehammer]

Halflings and all variations of them will always be my favourite fantasy race.

[@persephone9360]

How on earth this could have been cut from the theatrical version...i cannot comprehend. One of the best scenes in any movie, ever. What a masterpiece

[@ImperatorPenguin]

Honestly, I think Hobbits are my absolute favorite fantasy race. Other examples are great... but I think the Halflings are the only ones I can say that I envy.

[@calowenby1654]

They're a good choice.

[@forsetylord]

rare footage of heaven

[@keironharvey]

Farewell Dear Bilbo. May you rest in the Light of Valinor 😢💙

[@halfnoob24]

Hobbits only real passion is food, ales and pipeweed. College in a nutshell

[@samwell2386]

Sex

[@FlagAnthem]

Smoke weed everyday

[@ihavethehighground8697]

And peace and quite

[@katherinewilson1853]

My life in a nutshell.

[@KBISH99]

This scene alone makes the extended editions worth it

[@Arkaeus04]

This how you do hobbits, Amazon

[@seancollins8804]

Bilbo Baggins starts out finish writing his adventures, which he started at the beginning of The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey.

[@abdizur8765]

The Extended Cuts are the only way to watch LOTR anymore. I was watching the Theatrical Version of FotR on tv a little while ago and it just didn't feel right.

[@generalerica4123]

This is the best opening to anything in the history of the universe. It's cinematic perfection, for lack of a better word. I'd happily die watching this. In fact, it's earmarked for when I die. Should I have the opportunity, this will be the last thing ill see of this world.

[@ajshdhenskaka]

My fellow Hobbits, if we don't bring in more Uruk-hai our Shire will cease to exist

[@theblatantaussie1530]

Uruk-Hai have *always* lived in the Shire, in fact, *they* actually invented Golf, as opposed to the Hobbit-centric history books who do not give these underprivileged minority groups their due recognition!

[@nowyuosee3]

"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." This line gets me the most in this clip. We are almost always in search of something bigger and with more meaning in our life but do we really need it? Yeah, we live in a materialistic world but I still believe that it can be great if it's lived simple, with a little help of friends and love, which money can't buy. Tolkien sure was great with words and I believe that we are all grateful to him for his written masterpieces.

[@CameliaIrwanti77]

My Grand Fathers told me that Hobbits just Simply New Zealanders 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 before 1990. So Humble, Warm but strong enough to do Farming.

[@calowenby1654]

Hahaha as I'm not from New Zealand for all I know he might have a point there.

[@repwashere]

I feel like I wanted to cry whenever I see the Shire and hear its theme

[@theonekeanu8920]

I wish I could go back to when I was 7 to count how many times I've actually seen it since. I didn't know then it would be apart of me for the rest of my life. Always has been my favorite story

[@Hugh_Morris]

Getting older is realising The Shire is the best place in Middle Earth

Rivendell.

[@theblatantaussie1530]

Now if we could just allow ourselves to live like this, rather than paving over the very shires that inspired Tolkien to house people have no love for this land, then that would be just swell.

[@Edpeb]

It was such a nice detail of starting this movie with a little resume of the “prologue” in the book and get it narrated by Bilbo as it was Tolkien developing the whole Hobbits lore as intended at the very end of the original tale. Concerning Hobbits, a friendly introduction with a friendly music to a little friendly town, their own world and they doesn’t care of the problems of the big people. As the book describes them in the same chapter name.

[@osmi2816]

I cry Everytime I see this scene😣. *R.I.P SIR IAN HOLM*

[@Nicole_Auriel]

Every time I think of the Harfoots from Rings of Power, this video helps soothe my anger

[@generalerica4123]

Rest In Peace, you absolute legend, you...