*Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring* is life affirming! |First Time Watching|Commentary

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  @Vigrith · 2 years ago

  Very fun watching you experience this for the first time. Nobody will judge you for your tears, no human heart can resist this story. Welcome to the greatest trilogy ever to grace the silver screen!

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  @rosebudjonesy2014 · 2 years ago

  I make a hobby of watching reactions to LotR. I love experiencing the first experience of others, since I can never have that first experience again. You have so much heart, and intelligence, and forethought. You have a gift with words and putting voice to emotions and thought trails. I can’t wait to see you continue this journey.

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  @nemesis4852 · 2 years ago

  As an old Tolkien aficionado who was read this story at the age of ten in the late 1970s and followed and read many of Tolkien's works since, and watched many many reaction videos,  yours is one of the most sensitive and heartfelt I have seen. Many thanks. I'm definitely looking forward to watching the next the next ones with you. God bless and cheers!

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  @The1Music2MyEars · 2 years ago (edited)

  Bro...your vocabulary, clarity of thought and staying on point the entire time is incredible!

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  @Kimmerkel-k · 2 years ago (edited)

  Great reaction.  A few things…. Bilbo and Frodo are like the “landed gentry” (as are Merry and Pippin) and Sam is Frodo’s gardener, hence “Mr. Frodo”.  If you didn’t catch it, Boromir was the son of the Steward of Gondor, the biggest human kingdom. Generations of stewards have been ruling Gondor until a king someday returns. Boromir would have led Gondor after his father’s death as the next steward. In the next movie, you will meet folks from a smaller kingdom called Rohan. (Sometimes new watchers get confused by the two.) Finally, I will add my voice to those saying watch the extended additions of the remaining movies for deeper lore scenes. Cheers!

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  @BigGator5 · 2 years ago

  &quot;I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.&quot;<br><br>&quot;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 to us.&quot;<br><br>Fun Fact: Despite playing a dwarf, John Rhys-Davies is the tallest of the actors who play members of the Fellowship. He is 6&apos; 1&quot; in height.<br><br>&quot;I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. Don&apos;t you leave him Samwise Gamgee. And I don&apos;t mean to. I don&apos;t mean to.&quot;<br><br>Fun Fact: Sir Christopher Lee read &quot;The Lord Of The Rings&quot; once a year until his death in 2015, and had done so since the year it was published. He was also the only member of the cast and crew ever to have met J.R.R. Tolkien.<br><br>Thud Landing Fact: According to Sean Astin in the Extended DVD commentary, when Bilbo (Ian Holm) drops the Ring before leaving Hobbiton, the floor was magnetic to prevent the Ring from bouncing. This was done to demonstrate the importance and weight of the Ring.<br><br>Stay In Character Fact: Gandalf&apos;s painful encounter with a ceiling beam in Bilbo&apos;s (Ian Holm) hobbit-hole was not in the script. Sir Ian McKellen banged his forehead against the beam accidentally. Sir Peter Jackson thought McKellen did a great job &quot;acting through&quot; the mistake, and kept it in.<br><br>High And Dry Fact: Sean Astin&apos;s scene underwater didn&apos;t really happen. He was filmed in a dry studio, with fans making his cloak billow. The water effects were added in afterwards by computer.<br><br>Rosetta Stone Fact: The Elvish language lines spoken in this movie are not just quotes from the book, they were derived from J.R.R. Tolkien&apos;s own limited dictionary of that language. Dialect coach Andrew Jack used recordings of Tolkien reading his books to guide the actors&apos; and actresses&apos; pronunciations.<br><br>Adaptation Background Fact: Asking for and receiving a lock of hair isn&apos;t unusual. In the time before photos, men would often carry a lock of hair from their sweethearts when going off to war or extended trip. But the three golden hairs that Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) gifts Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) at his behest have far more significance than their just being very pure and innocent request, rather than all the gold or power or wisdom he could have asked for. Any fans who have read the Silmarillion will know that Feanor, one of the greatest elves, and most amazing crafters of the world had made a similar request of the golden lady thousands of years earlier. Feanor was so inspired by Galadriel&apos;s grace and beauty, that he wished to use strands of her hair in the making of his three Silmarils, the most precious gems ever created in Middle Earth. He begged her three times for a single strand of her hair, but even though she was young and inexperienced at this point, she looked into his soul and saw that his intentions were not fair and benevolent, but were driven by greed and a desire to possess something more precious than the other elves of the time. She, therefore, refused his request, causing much wrath and anguish, and he was forced to find other precious substances to infuse into his gems. So while Galadriel refused Feanor, she knew Gimli was a pure soul.

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  @mandybobandy2112 · 2 years ago

  Another vote for the extended editions of the next two movies. They really flesh out certain aspects of the plot/characters. <br><br>About the pipeweed/halflings leaf: it&apos;s canonically tobacco, but the writers and director obviously played it off ambiguously leaving it up to the viewer to interpret. My headcanon is that in the books it&apos;s tobacco, but in the movieverse, it&apos;s something a little more fun.😎<br><br>Anyways... Love your reaction, your insights, your good humor, your ability to express your emotions, and your ability to express yourself in general. I really appreciate that you enjoyed all the world-building before they took off on the quest. Some reactors don&apos;t care for it, but I feel it really immerses you into the story for the rest of the trilogy. This is definitely one of the top reactions to this movie. It was a true pleasure to watch.

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  @michaelmatejka1068 · 2 years ago

  Thank you for the respect you gave to Boromir 💯🙌🏻<br>Too many reactors don’t give him the proper attention and respect. &nbsp;They just see him as a bad guy and it’s just sad

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  @Blynat · 2 years ago

  The intro to the second movie is one of the best intros in movie history.

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  @NunyaBiznessss · 2 years ago

  If you&apos;re at the end saying things like &quot;I don&apos;t want this movie to be over&quot; then you should check out the Extended Editions (I&apos;m sure everyone is already saying that lol). These movies and books defined much of my life and continue to shape it to this day. They&apos;re so, so beautiful, and it makes me endlessly happy to see people finding them two decades later. I love how much they hold up in modern times, both the effects and the messages.<br><br>Tolkien was a WW1 vet and saw many of his friends die. While he claimed vehemently that The Lord of the Rings was <b>not</b> allegory, those experiences absolutely defined how he portrayed war and peace, life and death, fellowship and hatred. It feels so real, despite the fantastic elements, because it comes from something real.

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  @PerfectHandProductions · 2 years ago

  Subbed, your reaction was far better than most on this platform, including the most popular ones.

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  @hypersleepdialogues8889 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve never seen a reactor understand the themes expressed in LotR so well on their first watch. This was amazing. I can&apos;t wait for the other two.

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