The Fellowship of the Ring 20th Anniversary WATCH PARTY!

Join me and some special guests as we watch The Fellowship of the Ring to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its theatrical release!
HOW IT WORKS:
1) Pull up your DVD, Bluray, or Digital Copy of The Fellowship of the Ring (EXTENDED EDITION)
2) Use a second screen, phone, tablet, or whatever to pull up this stream.
3) We all start playing the film at the same time, watching together. I'll have special guests like Cliff from @TheOneRing and Yoystan from ​ @Men of the West and we will read your comments, answer questions, and share thoughts of our own in kind of a running "Fan Commentary" with the film.
*If you are unaware, I cannot legally stream the actual film, which is why we will merely be syncing together in this watch party format. I will have a running timer throughout, so if you come late or get interrupted, you can easily locate our position in the film!
To learn more about our holiday initiative to donate copies of The Hobbit to kids in need, check out this video: • Let's Donate copies of...
#lotr20 #fellowshipofthering #lordoftherings

[@NickNapoli]

Happy 20th Anniversary to the greatest trilogy to have ever been made.

[@evanhimes3545]

THATS WHAT IM SAYEN!!!!!!

[@michaelmeis366]

Lord of the Rings is the number 1 trilly

[@hellosurge4622]

Trilogy?! More like greatest MOVIES ever made!!

[@samjames1642]

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[@samjames1642]

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[@TheCinderestBlockAround]

Only the most wonderful movies the world ever produced, and will produce. Happy Anniversary LOTR

[@kylestever]

I was in the theater 20 years ago today watching this with my family when I was 9. I fell in love with the movies and the story and ritually watch them every X-mas. Here's to the start of the next rewatch. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Cheers!

[@shareetz3154]

i can’t believe i was 12 when this came out. sometimes it still feels like yesterday… just goes to show timeless this trilogy is…

[@Cian._.]

If that's you in your pfp you still look like a young teen! Pretty crazy

[@shareetz3154]

@@Cian._. haha yes that’s me! taken 3 years ago though, and i’m 32 now 😂

[@Cian._.]

@@shareetz3154 still crazy! I think you look younger than me and I'm 20!

[@willandersen3695]

I was 9, and I am still always amazed at how long ago it was.

[@daalfonso]

I was 12 too. I'm from Argentina. Here we don't have (culturally) this level of bound to a history even if it is fictional, not to mention that we don't celebrate what comes around consequently of that richness that a written play brings: music, events like this one, theatre versions with live music, and so on. But I guess when it went globally through movies it gathered us fans from every corner on the planet and create our own Comunity. 20 years later we keep sharing our love for JRRT

[@vixendoe2545]

It is amazing that it has been 20 years. I discovered Tolkien and Middle Earth. While in college. Having them on screen was such a joy. Seeing people's reaction to them was so much fun.

[@el_tabarnako9224]

I love how I can listen to you guys without actually watching the movie, yet, I 100% see every scene as you describe these extra things. What a nice idea it was to do that. The only bad thing is I put that video to fall asleep and here I am at 2 am, fully awake and just wanting to hear you commenting Two Towers next!

[@MultiEvil85]

I was 16 when lotr came out! What an cinematic experience! Happy Anniversary!

[@Coach_Buj]

Matt thank you so much for your channel. Following along with this was such a treat that I would never have been able to appreciate if not for all your Tolkien explained videos during this pandemic! I have such a fascination with the history of this world that I had no idea about before hand. I've seen all the movies and played LOTRO but now my love for the movies and the game is an obsession thanks to your videos. All the references in this watch-party are little nuggets that would have gone right over my head just a few months ago!

[@luthientinuviel1049]

Happy 20th anniversary Fellowship of the Ring!!! Thank you Nerd of the Rings!!! I hope you will do this next year with the Two Towers!!!

[@jaygbardo8781]

I was 50 years old when I saw Fellowship in the movie theater....I saw each one when it came out in the theaters. I went to Return of the King twice in 3 days

[@WhoIsCalli]

This watch along stream was such a delight, thanks to all. Plus the facts/titbits sprinkled in were ace!

[@paninerfan8797]

The sound effect of that ring hitting the floor was absolutely amazing it sounded like it weighed like 1000 lbs Bilbo sounded like a different person immediately after just the way this movie tries to let you know the actual weight of htis ring is amazing with the score. Keep up the good work guys.

[@MegInWhispers]

wish i could've joined this but excited to see the replay! i was at a screening of The Shop Around The Corner. Maybe there'll be more screenings of LOTR?? 🥰

[@silvia-90_]

I wish I had known about it too. I wonder the same, hopefully there'll be other in the future.

[@VoiceoftheRings]

That was so fun @NerdoftheRings! Thanks for having us on and doing this awesome Watch Party!

[@FletcherReedsRandomness]

I started about ten minutes after you, so I couldn’t watch it with you guys. Even then, I would’ve been desynced (or however you spell it) because I had to switch discs after Pippin says “So where are we going?” But I still had a great time. These movies have barely aged in the last twenty years.

[@deniibook1007]

You guys put a big smile on my face. Eveybody was talking about the movie at work this mornin.

[@pj3679]

When I was in fifth grade, our reading textbook had the first chapter of the hobbit in it. When I read it, I had to have more, so i went to the neighborhood bookstore, and bought the hobbit in paperback , I read it several times before finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the same store. I read them so many times. That was all before the cartoon of the Hobbit came out. I loved that movie. My father bought the vinyl album of the Hobbit soundtrack with the movie and music just like watching the movie. This was before VCR tapes. When I was able I bought the VCR tape of the hobbit, and then the Lord of the Rings cartoon. I have always loved these books and movies.

[@staychill6864]

i was 10 years old !! Happy 20th anniversary to the best trilogy ever made.

[@sakrowley]

I just rewatched the whole extended trilogy. I cry multiple times every time. Such great movies!

[@kirandeepchakraborty7921]

Happy 20th anniversary. It was overwhelming to watch the movie with you guys. Always get these goosebumps every time I watch them. Peter Jackson's Direction and Howard Shore Score is evergreen.

[@DudesfromMiddleEarth]

Best movie series of all time!!

[@juusovuolle8251]

I was 12 when the fellowship came to the theaters. Saw it 5 times. My parents were furious and it changed my life.

[@sherman3567]

Thanks so much for leaving this up as a video. I was so excited to watch with you live, but I had to work that night.

[@silvia-90_]

Just found this channel, I wish I had known about it and joined yesterday ☹, anyway Happy 20th Anniversary to everybody! 😊

[@oskytel3780]

I had never been so amazed and floored by a movie in a theater. I must have gone back and watched it a half dozen more times. They really, really did do such an amazing job.

[@AndrewCarlisle11B]

This was such a great time! KZbin pulled up this video just as I happen to be watching FOTR lol

[@charlie_23Laaaa]

Brings me back to simpler times good memories

[@Vince17777]

This was so much fun. Thank you!

[@AnthonyBerkshire]

I am from Germany and I am always recommending the „prancing pony Podcast“ to my friends.

[@elizasavage9740]

Thanks for answering my question during the stream :-) loved watching along with it

[@phillippasillas2337]

love what your doing brothers!

[@loganrichards9172]

I had my mom paint my walls and ceiling Lord of the Rings themes when I was a kid. She even did 2 little double wooden drawers/boxes for me! Painted a whole Eye of Sauron on my wall, my dad got me a life size version of Narsil for my 14th(still have it, 8 years later). I am in love with this series, it is absolutely breathtaking that a single man could encapsulate so much lore, story and depth with his literature.

[@loganrichards9172]

By the way, Clifford I believe Bilbo and Frodo are cousins! Not Uncle/Nephew! Correct me if I’m wrong but I think I read it in the first book.

[@taylorhirthmusic]

This brought me so much joy. Thank you for everything that you do Matt! Aloha, from Big Island of Hawaii 😀

[@taylorhirthmusic]

I actually just watched this again ..love all the insight and bits of knowledge! Never gets old.

[@megamoviez]

This masterpiece turned 20 on my birthday!

[@bonnafide2606]

I had a baby on December 19th, 2002. My sister and her boyfriend stopped to visit at the hospital after they went to the premiere of the Two Towers. 🤣

[@koheletcalaforexclan6508]

Would you believe I was scared of these movies as a kid? 10 years later I started reading and watching again and now I’m a lore nut! Best movies ever made!

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

Happy 20th to The Lord of The Rings Trilogy!!

[@SurinaSlackArt]

This was such a treat. Luckily, I've seen this movie so many times, I didn't need to play it alongside; I just listened to the commentary and played it in my head 😂 Major props for organizing this! Zoom calls are hard to pull off but this was very well put together. Also shout outs to Mithrandir who really wanted to participate in the commentary too 🐈

[@TheWorldofLorecraft]

Just finished the trilogy for the 15th time yesterday, love em. Just started reading the silmarillion.

[@BushiiidoKenzo]

i need the next two and then the hobbit series from you guys!! loved this

[@kaptcha]

As a sound engineer, it is nearly insufferable every time Clifford starts speaking on this stream. I am perfectly fine with his commentary and presence, it's just that his mic is literally peaking out, distorted and much louder than Matt and Yoystan. I'm binging through NOTR's complete video library so hopefully this has been addressed in more recent uploads. I love you guys so fkn much, thank you for providing me with such great Tolkien content, your uploads always make my day.

[@TeKillaShot]

I know it's so hard to listen because of that.

[@rnanni1048]

You guys should watch the Sovjet LOTR together!!! And upload it for us on YT

[@erwintorres1427]

Loved these ✌️👍

[@saltysam9072]

PROUDFEET!!!!

[@matthewricketts5330]

This is awesome! Can't wait for the two towers and return of the king watch party!

[@jannavarik9447]

i wish i had noticed this, definitely gonna watch this next time watching

[@hater623]

Man of the west is young thunder cat lol I remember watching Fellowship in theaters. Epic

[@watchingpilgrim8851]

I was 16 when LOTR came out in theatres. Great experience!!!

[@megadawg342]

i wore my Gandalf Wizard hat. Smoked a lot of the finest bud in the shire. Too much fun. Thanx guys.

[@megadawg342]

TY. I luv u gy's

[@megadawg342]

I am listening to the 2nd half tonight Dec 26, 2021 and loving it!!!!

[@nikoluslira7753]

This was awesome

[@davidstewart5905]

Lots of young people I was 18 make me feel old

[@jackofalltradesprepping9611]

Bummer I got myself all excited thinking I was gonna be able to watch the movies 😂

[@HeavyCha]

Cool stuff love the cats in the background lol

[@micipalacinci]

This is great ,i went on all 6 movies PREMIERE ofc )))

[@nybsfp7486]

Definitely remember my eyes going wide in the dark the the first seconds that prologue started and instantly realizing I was about to have an amazing next 3 hours…. But the worst part about seeing this in the theater was when the 3 hours were up and the 24 month clock started for the full set…

[@rooteddwellings]

I watched each one in the theaters. Am I old...

[@justanothershirerat7584]

Clifford going on long (and borderline unrelated to the movie at some points) monologues throughout this whole thing while also having by far the loudest mic volume gets tedious after a while :D Other than that this was amazing. Balancing out the mic volumes before starting would be the easiest and biggest improvement for this concept. Thanks for putting it together! Much love to all involved.

[@tammywoodworth3563]

Love the movie

[@rsstenger5113]

20th Anniversary!!!! OMG! I feel OLD!

[@rdotmitchell]

He said he was two years old when the fellowship came out. Damn that makes me feel old I was in high school.

[@spartanFox_LadyFoxGames]

im 21 minutes into this and have watched the movies more then 100 times and I have learned literally 20 new things so far

[@raisinbran3736]

I'm so sorry I missed it!!!!!!!

[@sunylou3992]

It's over a year later, and I'm starting my watch party streaming 😅 🍿

[@jaygbardo8781]

Howard Shore uses leitmotif, a musical theme related to Gondor in this instance when Boromir speaks. The Leitmotif was developed in the Wagnerian Ring Cycle...and Wagner's last opera Parsifal.

[@davidstewart5905]

The movie's I do wish to see in theaters original star wars and Indiana Jones trilogies

[@RealLoki]

My Dad use to read me the the Hobbit. Its pretty cool that later in life i helped build Park Road Post Production.

[@worldlylexicon671]

Woh Voice of the Rings is on! 3hours 6 minutes!

[@thinkfirstt]

Don't do the next watch party early, I agree. What fun this was. Learned many new things. I usually triple time thru the slash/war scenes, so this is the first time letting them run normally. Not my favorite scenes. I'll take more Lorien.

[@hater623]

My fourth grade teacher Mr. Gonzalez read the class the Hobbit and it’s been history since 😂

[@TheWolfeDen_]

I found this channel by voice of the rings. :)

[@belaraven]

I was brought here by Voice of the Rings!

[@alphasierrazulu]

My 20th anniversary watch party didn't have this kind of commentary, but there's always next year!

[@J.Hermansson]

I started my Tolkien journey by reading Silmarillion in 1983.

[@chinmayeelenka9589]

Thanks for uploading the video. It seems that film franchise has forgotten to celebrate the anniversary

[@MrEscobar.]

Nooooo, I can not believe I miss it. Are you gonna do that again?

[@GraveDank]

Was hoping to see In Deep Geek in your fellowship. Between this channel and his i get tons of great LOTR lore and what if’s.

[@NerdoftheRings]

I’ll definitely invite him next time! I was focused on my US friends this go-round because I knew it would be really late for my Europe friends!

[@Schellnino1994]

It would make sense that the scenes of Bilbo finding the ring would look different in the two films. One was told from the perspective of Frodo and the other from Bilbo. Frodo probably pictured his Uncle looking a little different than his uncle pictured himself :)

[@ladyfantastic765]

just putting this out in the aether: if i win the lotto (something i basically never play), i WILL be building my own hobbit home. but no well wishers or distant relations!

[@puzzlefighter8801]

I wish I had been able to take part in this. Maybe you'll do it again next year, eh?

[@NerdoftheRings]

Two Towers is already on my calendar! 😊

[@DudesfromMiddleEarth]

I wish the ring had never come to me. So do all who live to see such time. But that is not for them to decide.

[@jaygbardo8781]

Harry Goatleaf is played by Martyn Sanderson, gatekeeper of Bree

[@Fuuntag]

Can we expect another Watch Party for the Two Towers Extended Edition?

[@JimakisP]

Nice

[@charliemahoney3932]

Could you make a video on the sun and moon of middle earth?

[@gandalf4751]

The lord of the rings 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@tomharding1322]

Hey mate, are you still in the UK? Fellowship being show in cinemas tonight in the UK!

[@joelcheng813]

I really wanted to watch the live but I couldnt

[@mrdr1ggy]

50:00 the theory that suits me for how Gollum didn't age even tho he had it longer time than Bilbo but was also separated from it, was because Sauron personally tortured Gollum himself to get info and it says in the extra texts that Gollum saw the black hand of Sauron having a finger lost - and it is sugested that since Sauron let Gollum go, he might have made a bargain with Gollum to keep him still living long life even tho they both were now seperated from The Ring, for a future purpose only Sauron knew..

[@raisinbran3736]

i was a senior in HS and I took a girl.. we held hands a lot :)))))))

[@RedHuntsman]

Great party. As a suggestion for next the next time, please equalize the volume of the participants sound if possible. May not be possible in real time, but for those of us watching later it would be helpful. I'd be willing to donate for the cost of the effort, yes I know that it would be more than nominal.

[@jonathanm4738]

Man I missed it. Well I guess there’s the Two Towers 20th anniversary

[@goodlife3199]

@yoko im in !!!

[@josephgregory308]

I'm sorry. It needs to be said of Cliff's cat... Meow-thrandir

[@Gamman612]

Ive been watching this video for about the 5th time. Are you planning a watch party for The Two Towers this December?

[@NerdoftheRings]

We actually did a Two Towers one last year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKmVn4SIbdaLkJo This year it will be ROTK, and we are hoping to make it a party of special magnificence!

[@metalmadsen]

Love that the cat wants attention 😻

[@jaygbardo8781]

ARagorn puts on Boromir's gaunlets

[@sketchygetchey8299]

I’m one of those people who prefer the change of Frodo choosing to take the Ring to Mordor over the book’s version of him doing it because it was in a prophecy. I personally think it adds to his character and him realizing the danger, what would happen if the Ring isn’t destroyed, despite him not knowing anything and wanting nothing more than to return to the Shire. I’m kinda the same way with Clarice in the Silence of the Lambs movie over the book.

[@Schellnino1994]

In the Heights meets the Hobbit.... I DIG IT!

[@RainCloudat3am]

Will this stay up? I'm at work rn and I don't get home for another 30 min :(

[@NerdoftheRings]

Certainly! It isn’t going anywhere. 😁

[@knightofarnor3234]

Next video covering all king or queen in the 1-4 age