The Official 'Lord Of the Rings' Thread

[DarkKnight88]

The first movie mostly is as is the last part of the third movie. Funny enough, all the Bilbo centric scenes are the best from the movies.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

Honestly I think Theoden's best speech is just before the Rohirrim charge the Orc army in ROTK. It's such an intense moment, and the music really sells it.

I agree that it's his best one but I think he overall has the best speeches/monologues in the trilogy (Gandalf is probably the real top but he has so much more time to speak so I'll fudge it) and some great intact quotes from the book. From the sadness of realizing his son is dead, to despair over impending doom, to rallying for a glorious attack. While he's a secondary character he's still up there with the best ones in the films to me.

 

[Iceman]

Yeah, I agree. Theoden’s best speech is before the charge in RotK. He’s on form there!

 

[Batmannerism]

I agree that it's his best one but I think he overall has the best speeches/monologues in the trilogy (Gandalf is probably the real top but he has so much more time to speak so I'll fudge it) and some great intact quotes from the book. From the sadness of realizing his son is dead, to despair over impending doom, to rallying for a glorious attack. While he's a secondary character he's still up there with the best ones in the films to me.

Yeah, I agree. Theoden’s best speech is before the charge in RotK. He’s on form there!

Theoden was a great character- Bernard Hill brought so much to the role. That short speech before the charge is a real contender for the best I the trilogy ,always gives me chills, maybe on par with Aragorn's " Stand now, men of the West " speech.


And here it is , so we can all enjoy it again - wow, Howard Shore really hits for six ( out of the park) with the score here - especially at 1:45 !

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

Theoden was a great character- Bernard Hill brought so much to the role. That short speech before the charge is a real contender for the best I the trilogy ,always gives me chills, maybe on par with Aragorn's " Stand now, men of the West " speech.

For me it's even more effective than Aragorn's speech in stirring my emotions. I also think that the charge of the Rohirrim is a stronger experience than the last stand, although I guess it's not a fully fair comparison as the last stand isn't even the main dramatic tension at that moment.

 

[Schlosser85]

The Ride of the Rohirrim never fails to give me chills. Theoden’s speech, the choreography, the horns blowing, and especially Howard Shore’s score. One of the truly epic movie moments.

 

[Iceman]

Theoden was a great character- Bernard Hill brought so much to the role. That short speech before the charge is a real contender for the best I the trilogy ,always gives me chills, maybe on par with Aragorn's " Stand now, men of the West " speech.


And here it is , so we can all enjoy it again - wow, Howard Shore really hits for six ( out of the park) with the score here - especially at 1:45 !

So good. Will never get bored of watching that. One of my favourite scenes in films period.

 

[Drizzle]

Watching that in a theater was an otherworldly experience. It's not only one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy, but one of my favorite scenes in any film of all time. The only other scene I can think of to invoke that same kind of emotion was Portals in Avengers: Endgame, which I'm certain was more than a little bit inspired by the Ride of the Rohirrim.

 

[Gothamsknight]

One of the greatest scenes ever put to film, in my mind.

 

[Brother Jack]

Watching that in a theater was an otherworldly experience. It's not only one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy, but one of my favorite scenes in any film of all time. The only other scene I can think of to invoke that same kind of emotion was Portals in Avengers: Endgame, which I'm certain was more than a little bit inspired by the Ride of the Rohirrim.

If there's one thing that I wish I could go back and watch for the first time again, it would be this. That goes for the whole trilogy, really. It's an almost unparalleled achievement in cinema.

 

[Batmannerism]

The Ride of the Rohirrim never fails to give me chills. Theoden’s speech, the choreography, the horns blowing, and especially Howard Shore’s score. One of the truly epic movie moments.

Yeah, what can I say - it is incredibly intense, and the actual cavalry charge is brutal. Jackson really captures the emotions there. It's one of those scenes you can watch over and over and still get a thrill.

 

[Batmannerism]

Watching that in a theater was an otherworldly experience. It's not only one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy, but one of my favorite scenes in any film of all time. The only other scene I can think of to invoke that same kind of emotion was Portals in Avengers: Endgame, which I'm certain was more than a little bit inspired by the Ride of the Rohirrim.

For me that charge at the end of Endgame with the Avengers theme blasting instantly reminded me of the final charge against the Black Gate in ROTK, when I saw it in the cinema. ( I suppose perhaps due to the lack of horses). I felt that they had a similar vibe.

Endgame has its ups and downs, but that sequence is pretty spectacular.

If there's one thing that I wish I could go back and watch for the first time again, it would be this. That goes for the whole trilogy, really. It's an almost unparalleled achievement in cinema.

LOTR in the cinema (the whole thing) was one of the best movie going experiences of my life, up there with seeing Star Wars in 1977, Superman in 1978, and the Dark Knight in 2008. There have been lots of other terrific films in that time, but nothing that totally transports you the way LOTR does. When ROTK won 11 Oscars, I felt the Academy finally understood.

Those films are nearly 20 years old, but hold up beautifully. Big sigh, might just watch them again.....

 

[henzINNIT]

I have no need for any updating of LOTR, but there is one thing I do need fixed for this 4k release, and that is removing the green tint that was applied to the extended version of FOTR on Bluray. I've still got the dvds at this point.

If Jackson is ever compelled to tinker, I'd be very interested in a rework of the Hobbit trilogy back into the 2-film structure. A total pipe dream, but I reckon you could damn-near save those films with that treatment.

 

[Kane52630]

Experience The Lord of the Rings Trilogy in IMAX® for the First Time

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Experience The Lord of the Rings Trilogy in IMAX® for the First Time

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yup. I'm doing this this weekend. I never saw FOTR in theaters. I was nine and my parents never took me. So I'm finally ready to experience it on the big screen.

 

[Kane52630]

I remember watching FOTR in the theater, but we showed up late and had to sit upclose on the front row.

 

[Drizzle]

I want another shot at FOTR in theaters too. I sat in the back but I had forgotten my glasses at school at the time (I was 13) so I was squinting at the screen the whole time.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Geez, you must have needed a new prescription after squinting for that long.

 

[Iceman]

I saw FotR 13 times in the cinema and then every day for a few months when it came out on DVD

 

[Drizzle]

Geez, you must have needed a new prescription after squinting for that long.

My greatest regret was not going back to see it a second time in theaters. I did see The Two Towers twice and Return of the King three times so I did spend roughly 18 hours watching the trilogy in a theater.

 

[DKDetective]

Yup. I'm doing this this weekend. I never saw FOTR in theaters. I was nine and my parents never took me. So I'm finally ready to experience it on the big screen.

Enjoy! I remember when I saw it the first time, it was a matinee and I started to get a light sleepy when they were at Rivendell, but the scene where Bilbo turns ghoulish when he sees the Ring, startled the living daylights out of me and made wide awake for the rest of the movie.

The following summer I read the entirety of the Lord of the Rings on the eve of Grade 9. I think I was literally at the perfect age when the films came out. Also helped that the English/Art teacher who ran the enrichment program for gifted students at my high school was a huge Tolkien/fantasy nerd.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Enjoy! I remember when I saw it the first time, it was a matinee and I started to get a light sleepy when they were at Rivendell, but the scene where Bilbo turns ghoulish when he sees the Ring, startled the living daylights out of me and made wide awake for the rest of the movie.

The following summer I read the entirety of the Lord of the Rings on the eve of Grade 9. I think I was literally at the perfect age when the films came out. Also helped that the English/Art teacher who ran the enrichment program for gifted students at my high school was a huge Tolkien/fantasy nerd.

Oh, I will. And that scene scared me as a kid. I used to fast forward that moment. Experiencing FOTR was the same as when I first saw Star Wars. Even on the television screen I was sucked in. Even if the names got a little hard to follow sometimes, I was blown away by the story. It's the film that kickstarted my love of movies and the making of them.

 

[DKDetective]

Oh, I will. And that scene scared me as a kid. I used to fast forward that moment. Experiencing FOTR was the same as when I first saw Star Wars. Even on the television screen I was sucked in. Even if the names got a little hard to follow sometimes, I was blown away by the story. It's the film that kickstarted my love of movies and the making of them.

Yeah, I was also at the perfect age when I first saw Star Wars as well. I was 8 when I first saw the OT on VHS in 1996, just after the wonderfully remastered final release of the theatrical cuts (snagged that 1995 boxed set later that year for Christmas).

Then the Special Editions were released the next year, with my Dad talking me to see each one in theatres, culminating in Return of the Jedi which opened the weekend before my 9th Birthday (my 9th Birthday Party was my parents taking my friends and I to see ROTJ opening weekend). Boy was I ****ing lucky.

 

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This sure is something to watch...

The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream - The Verge