The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring | Reaction & Review | Part 1

one of them at least his biggest inspiration was the war of the roses.

Michael Short

it was George RR Martin's inspiration.

BabaYega

This makes no sense whatsoever.

Lindsay Mathieson

WTF so many parallels to GOT

Juan

It was my opinion so other peoples’ “yums” don’t come into the equation for me. But yes, there are aspects I did appreciate. The scenery, the makeup, sfx were all great. I think there was just a few too many super drawn out slo mo moments and slo motion glamour shot type shots on characters’ faces. Hence the cheese. I think going in, I just expected it to be more serious and possibly darker so it just caught me off guard.

AG

I think the word "insanely" in front of "cheesy" is probably what did it. No need to yuk other peoples yum lol. All that aside, I hope you at least acknowledge how groundbreaking these films are from a technical standpoint. You said you are in your mid 30's so you're old enough to remember what movie special effects were like back in the year 2000 (these films were primarily filmed during 1999/2000)

Kale

Right. cause a bunch of grown ass men running around in 18 inch lacefront wigs and prosthetic elf ears, casting spells using made-up words, totally sounds like something meant for only mature, serious adults. Give me a fcking break, don't try to insult someone's intelligence just because they don't fancy something that you're too blinded by devotion for to find flaws in.

Jonny Rey

@Will 😀😀

Eshwar Tangirala

Spartan already saw it

Eshwar Tangirala

spartan is absolutely gonna love Aragorn. Viggo the actor was really quite a natural with the swordplay.

Mark Laniel

Lol I’m in my mid 30’s and said I wasn’t the biggest fan of the movies on my first watch as I found them a little too cheesy for my taste. Not sure how that makes me a kid or seem like a kid but ok.

AG

They're saying you're kid. so it's not for you. and based on your original comment i would have to agree lol

TallTyrionLannister

Huh?

AG

its not really for kids

Eshwar Tangirala

I only watched these for the first time last year and did NOT get the hype lol. They’re insanely cheesy in my opinion but I’m gonna rewatch with ya’ll and see if that changes for me at all.

AG

Yess !!!! You guys are in for a treat .!!! Hands down my favourite trilogy of all time. Best movies of all time

trent sutton

It is number 2 for me for all times after GOT

Viktor Rashkov

Angelo, pls never give advice again🤣.

100%. is it a great show? no. is it super fun and good for reactions? YES.

concerneddoggie

Please do Vikings next, you will be thankful

Viktor Rashkov

Spartan and the memes😂💖🤣 I believe Lord of The Rings is fully responsible for creating the fantasy genre. GoT would not exist if these movies weren't so popular, and the books wouldn't exist either because J.R.R Tolkien's books inspired Martin to write his.

William

Nothing comes to mind that may spoil the third movie. Why shouldn't they watch the extended version of the second movie?

Ricky

No Twin Towers is the best of the three IMO

John O'Neil

I'd be interested as well maybe there is something I am not aware of. why? :D

neutchain

You can say Elrond's quote "men of the west" can be applied to such and such, but you can't say that's the reason why he wrote it. In my first example it is valid interpretation as anything is, but it's just that, interpretation. Only that way it can't be wrong and it isn't misleading, because it's not a claim about intentional meaning. Do you realise the difference between interpretation and claiming "he wrote this because of "_______" insert historical event""??

Milorad

Kate, im amazed that we can go back and fourth 5 times and you still don't get what I'm saying, anyone can have any interpretation they want, and apply it to whatever situation they want. They just cant claim "that's why Elrond said "men of the west"". He claims it as a fact, It is misleading and WRONG, because Tolkien doesn't want to reference real word events in that way. This is pure LOGIC, i don't know how to make this any more clear, if you still don't get what I'm saying i don't know what to do, I'm tired of explaining such a simple comment.

Milorad

Excited for this <3

SleeplessCSGO

You realize "dislike" is Tolkien's word? "Cordially," no less. Talk about misinterpretation. You jumped down someone's throat for what you admit is a valid interpretation, and which didn't actually make any claim to allegory or authorial intent. Tolkien wasn't against people making real-world connections to his work, hence his distinction between allegory and applicability. He just didn't want people thinking the text was coded and inflexible in its meaning. You seem to have some investment in blowing his statement out of proportion, so I'm not engaging any further.

Kate

why??

Sean Carroll

DO NOT watch the extended edition of the second movie. You should only watch the extended edition for the third movie due to an important scene. Only watch extended editions later on if you really like the movies

Angelo

It's not just dislike of allegory, he DESPISED allegory. Of course he's gonna be influenced by his experiences, that's why i said there's no INTENDED relation to any real world events, i wrote it in caps for a reason, but you didn't catch it. Tolkien doesn't want people to interpret and try to find any hidden meanings and real world references in his work. It's supposed to be lost history of the world. Like i said, yes you can interpret however you want, no one is stopping you, it's fine, there's no interpretation that's not "valid", you can imagine it to mean whatever you like. But that would also be completely missing the point of Tolkien's legendarium. People still to this day can't seem to grasp that someone would write a story so magical and deep, without it having some hidden meanings, they always want to interpret and in the process rob themselves of magical immersion of this world.

Milorad

If it’s easier watch each movie in two sittings render them seperate it’s fine to take your time with lotr there is so much too it!

Chris Button

Aragorn is a heroic prototype with few nuances. He doesn’t have to learn and grow because he’s in his eighties, his moral character is set on automatic to do good. That’s fine— he operates as a mythic figure Jon Snow is an internally conflicted, multilayered character who faces one moral quandary after another, right up to the very end. Duty is the death of love, love is the death of duty.

Daniel Siegel

I was responding more to cocawren, but you said "nothing is reflected on any known real world event," which I think goes way too far in interpretation of Tolkien's dislike of allegory. For one thing, Tolkien's mind was shaped by his experiences and the world around him, and so, inevitably, is Middle Earth. I don't agree with the original poster's interpretation of the "Men of the West" line, but it's a perfectly valid literary interpretation. For just one example of how the Lord of the Rings reflects Tolkien's real-world context, the dwarves are quite closely modeled (in characteristics, history, and language) on gentile representations of Jews, and Tolkien was explicit about that.

Kate

Im not mixing anything Kate, it can be seen as anything you want, and you can interpret it however you like, that's fine, but the fact is it doesn't have any INTENDED reference to real world events. Which is why Angelo's comment is misleading and shares false information.

Milorad

You're mixing up allegory with what Tolkien called "applicability." Allegory is when you can map the story precisely onto another. Elements of the story are just one-to-one representations of other things--that's not what Angelo suggested. Lord of the Rings isn't allegory, but through applicability it can be seen as relevant to infinite real-world situations, including WWII in a general sense. That's what makes it timeless.

Kate

Jon Snow is BORING. Aragorn isn't.

Martin Robertson

Angelo, WRONG, nothing is reflected on any known real world event, this story is timeless.

Milorad

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.” - JRRT. But I’ll stop being a prick now.

concerneddoggie

Great reaction vid! I heard you mention how some of the themes resonate with you. The story was written in the time period of WW2 and espouses the corruptibility of the desire for greater power. It was reflected briefly in the council meeting as they jostled with each other. It’s also why Elrond identifies them as ‘men of the west.’

Angelo Burton

towards the end of the video I thought, "wow they're really only going to do post-Council plot in 12 mins of reaction?" and then I realized it was only part 1 :'( can't wait until the second half is uploaded.

concerneddoggie

The books and movies are both legendary in their own respects. The Hobbit and LOTR are foundational to the fantasy genre. Before this there was mythology and folklore but all modern high fantasy derives from Tolkien whether it’s Witcher, Thrones, DND, etc. The movies aren’t 100% book accurate but damn if it isn’t the best trilogy ever filmed. Looking forward to part 2, it gets epic af from here.

Ludus Aurea

An amazing feat of organisation and craftsmanship.

Lindsay Mathieson

This has to be the best trilogy of all time. Crazy that you all haven't seen them but I am excited to be able to watch you both see for the first time

Lou Dryka

Funniest moment: when Spartan said to Pudgey that she must see the world of humans in the same way the hobbits do! And she took the joke in her usual good humor!

Daniel Siegel

What a pleasure to watch this again with you guys! Perhaps you can begin to see how LOTR echoed into GOT. One example: Strider is actually Aragorn, just as Jon Snow is actually. . . That’s just one example. What’s most interesting about the influence, however, is how George RR Martin used tropes and themes from Tolkien in different ways and for different purposes. Something to think about more perhaps when you finish the trilogy.

Daniel Siegel

I am commenting to provide engagement. Please continue LOTR.

Jeff

Great vid! I was unconvinced about movie reactions but this was great! This plus Breaking Bad is an exciting future

sincethelasttime

I am so psyched for this! It’s my absolute favorite trilogy of all time and I think you guys will absolutely love it! The first half of this movie and also this movie in general is a lot more wolf building and general set up. It goes so hard after this omg 😂

Ismail Chettfour

Holy smokes. These are my favorite movies. In many ways, it's a more beautiful story than GoT. This is the best thing I could have seen after you guys finishing thrones.

Mark Levesque

Love it! Can't wait for your reaction to the other two movies!

Agnes

The trilogy is magic. Pure platinum. I can see you getting into it already, looking forward to see how you will find the whole journey. The characters will continue to develop, so much it felt for me like they were all my buddies. I've seen someone else commenting to say they watch it once a year, so do I. I've seen them sooo many times I know the dialogues 😆 hopefully, it will be as magical for you as it is for the huge fandom 🙂 enjoy!

Natalija Fausta

This is awesome. So hype. Spartan will go out of his mind in the second and third movie. This is written spartan all over it.

john

I’m definitely going to ask him if his version of Gollum was influenced at all by Disneys The Black Cauldron character Gurgi because the voice is sooooooo similar.

Scuba Steve

I heard the prelude to return of the king was so Andy Serkis could be eligible for a nomination because on towers he didn’t qualify due to him not “technically”appearing onscreen. Ask him for me in a few weeks 😉 as that Man deserved Best Supporting Actor and because I don’t want to spoil anything here for Spartan and Pudgey I’ll not talk about which award Sean should have won.

Joe

It’s crazy that out of the 3 films they didn’t receive a single win/nomination even for best actor/actress or best supporting actor or actress. So when return of the king cleaned house at the Oscar’s it was everything BUT the 4 acting categories.

Scuba Steve

I don't think I've commented before but I'm doing so now to say enthusiastically: please react to all the LotR movies! This was great especially as we're at the end of GoT 🙏 really nostalgic movies for me and great to see y'all's reactions.

Crooked

How Sean Astin didn’t win an Oscar I have no idea, this trilogy will always be so special to me as it was the catalyst of my love of the written word and in retrospect a testament to my Dads foresight, love and deviousness rolled up in one Epic tale. I’ll be honest if I ever have kids I hope the existence of the movies doesn’t stop me playing the same trick on them when there 8,9,10 years old.

Joe

Also as a small joke. If you think GOT fucked up time travel… look into how long it was between when Gandalf left Frodo with the ring to go find out information before Frodo even steps out the door 😂 Gandalf was gone for 17 YEARS before he came back

Scuba Steve

These are such a classic! Can’t wait to start another wild ride with you guys!

Daniel Jackson

Also so you guys are aware LOTR did something unique while filming. Jackson was able to convince the studio that it would be cheaper and more effective if they filmed all 3 films together/simultaneously/back to back. So all 3 movies were filmed at once

Scuba Steve

I’ve been fortunate enough to have travel to New Zealand and do tons of site seeing for the Hobbit and LOTR tours of Weta, met Sir Richard Taylor at comic con, and have a meet n greet with Andy Serkis in a few weeks 😂 almost forgot about the LOTR travel exhibition I saw in Boston with Sean Astin signing his book!

Scuba Steve

Awesome I was kinda hoping this is where you were going. So awesome you guys got to have that experience.

Scuba Steve

Funny your half right, my late farther bought me the hobbit comic when I was 8 which was really well drawn when I finished that I wanted the rest of the story but The Lord of the Rings was “To Advanced” so he read me the fellowship of the ring at a few pages a night over the next year, he invented voices for the characters, so strider was American Country Twang lol etc - (he actually wasn’t that far of with Sam and Treebeard it turned out - he actually elbowed me in the ribs when tree beard first spoke in the films) anyway I was 10 when we got to the return of the king and he just stopped and said “if you want to know how it ends you have to read it yourself” - I begged him to carry on but he point blank refused saying I’d never learn to enjoy reading if I didn’t do it myself, so a smart heavily invested 10 year old with established head cannon and who is highly motivated can infact read the return of the king - he told me years later that he’d intended to trick me into reading from the start and that he’d practiced the pages for each night the day before so that he’d got the flow and voices right in his own head, as you can probably imagine I was insufferable with my school mates when the movies came out, obnoxiously bemoaning the importance of Bombadil and the Scouring which in hindsight were omitted correctly by Jackson.

Joe

I have an extremely difficult time believing you read LOTR before 11 years old. 😂 maybe the hobbit but certainly not LOTR that honestly would be near impossible for a child to read, or at least read well enough to comprehend or even understand characters. It’s literally almost a genealogy book. LOTR and The Silmarillion aren’t kids books. Especially in reading level. At almost 40 years old LOTR and the Silmarillion are still hard to get though with just the names and locations.

Scuba Steve

I'm so pleased you guys are watching this, my favourite movies just after finishing my favourite series. I've really enjoyed your reaction so far, your intuition is spot on and you're already picking up on important points and really immersing yourselves already! These movies really are fantastic, I must have watched them thirty times, perfect for a marathon on a rainy winter day, perfect films in general pretty much. The books and world from which they came were intended to create a new mythology for England inspired by folklore and the author's huge knowledge of Anglo Saxon languages, the world he created was truly vast, complex and awe inspiring really - the culmination of a lifetime's creative work which laid the foundation for all modern fantasy writing. I can't wait to see your reactions to the rest of the movies!

David Richardson

I mean I’m dead jealous of both of them, to be able to have this experience straight through for the first time and told so well by Jackson and his team is truly something special. The books where the first novels I read growing up and then at 11 when the first movie hit the cinemas I was there opening night ha. It killed me to wait a year between films and then again for the DVD extended editions.

Joe

Yeah that's really weird that he hasn't seen it.

Milorad

I can understand Pudgey as a disproportionate amount of girls decided to give The Lord of The Rings movies a miss growing up but Spartan, Dude ! 🫢 you must be way younger than I’d pictured because anyone who’s into Medieval/Warrior/Fantasy/Historical/Epic genres then The Lord of the Rings is the absolute Godfather of everything that came afterwards. Peter Jackson got 17 Academy Awards for 3 movies and there’s only about 6 Academy Awards for the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe

Joe

appreciate you guys and all your hard work <3 i'm just one very excited viewer haha

Ghostcat

I rewatch these movies at least twice a year. Agree with Spartan, they aged extremely well, they still look great. Everything about them is just epic. The story, the events, the characters, the world and omg the music. So happy you guys are doing this, its right up your alley. You guys have the perfect attitude that needs to go into these richly written worlds, just soaking it all up and enjoying it. Love watching hove genuine your reaction is. Another epic story from one of the greatest author. Cant wait for the next one. :)

neutchain

Breaking Bad is their next series but u may be referencing a series they plan to watch

MrMoleHole

Aragon from the kingdom of arthedain GOT Arthur Dayne hehe…

joseph wells

breaking bad?

Abby

Ok that was great guy’s, this was where everything came from GOT, Witcher all of them the original OG so you have to watch the trilogy then no doubt you’ll want to do the Hobbit but as previously mentioned there was not a lot of CGI used in the orcs just a lot of amazing wardrobe and makeup artists, look forward to seeing more.

John O'Neil

I mean, I watched these last year for the first time andI never looked at a map, I just remmeber the names of places and thats all i needed

Sean Carroll

THE GREATEST TRILOGY OF ALL TIME

Sean Carroll

Take care, burn out is a real thing for reactors. You breathe in, you breathe out. Eat, shit, sleep. You take whatever they give you, and you give nothing in return. Not hinting at your next series though or anything...

Lindsay Mathieson

Ok, that was a delight, so enjoyed seeing you discover it through your eyes, like seeing it for the first time. So definitely want to see Part 2, and the next two movies, they are all masterpieces. Re the CGI - less than you might think, Jackson (the director) used a lot of practical effects, the props department did an amazing job creating individually crafted items for everyone, even the extras. Most of the props are real functional items. The orcs etc are people in prosthetics. They also pioneered using AI for the mass battle scenes. Jackon wanted a realistic organic feel to the battle, so each individual soldier had a basic AI running it in a simulation, reacting to the environment around, giving a armies built from individuals, rather than being directed from a all-seeing perspective. Interesting you likened it to the Wild Hunt. The author (Tolkien) of the books this is based on, was a huge English history/legend buff, he spent decades researching tales and European history for the themes in his books. The Wild Hunt was definitely part of that.

Lindsay Mathieson

We are trying our hardest!!! Editing and copyright are kicking our asses 😅

CpaSpartan Pudgey

If they don't release them weekly, I'll turn into Gollum.

Kate

J.R.R. Tolkien walked so George R.R. Martin could copy his footsteps. 🤷‍♂️ I said what I said! George you're a great writer but you gotta finish them damn books man!

Ersin Günay

yes pretty much that's why these take a long while to edit

CpaSpartan Pudgey

same, cannot wait!

Anthony Brown

Desperately waiting for movie 2!! Cant wait

Ghostcat

I think you would benefit from having a map of Middle Earth so that you can track where they are since locations are very important to the plot of these movies.

David

Omg yes ! Part 2 please :D

Super Novice

i thought it was the second one 🥺

Monkey D. Tomy

I can imagine it was quite the challenge.

Lindsay Mathieson

MOD MESSAGE: PLEASE NO SPOILERS OF ANY KIND FOR THE OTHER MOVIES! THEY WILL BE DELETED! TY!

SuddenImpulse

Ok, I was going to do some overdue work tonight, but screw that - some things are more important than earning some dollars! Been hanging out for this.

Lindsay Mathieson

This is my favorite franchise 🥰 it’s really something special. I’ve never heard of anyone not liking these movies before, they are pretty much perfect. You’ll love it

jessica schwantes

Not part 2 ;(

Farmer John

Do you essentially have to watch the whole movie again to create the youtube edit? Impressive to tackle such a long movie to cut down

Frenzy