Gandalf?

>Gandalf?

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Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Watching this in the theater was so hilarious. Every time another character showed up with this incredibly gay smile, everyone started laughing. It was a fucking riot.

Why the fuck did Jackson think it was smart to put a soft filter on this scene? literally looks like a 2-bit porno

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You think too much. Just enjoy their celebration of destroying the ring.

Were they being ironic when they decided to include this scene?

>music swells
serious feels

All the budget went to Gollum, apparently. That green screen looks awful

It's 2002/2003. That's 14 years ago. Don't expect too much.

It was supopsed to be a fairy tale happy ending with marshmallows and everything but Jackson got carried away a little bit.

Looks fine in motion

It's super homoerotic. I can't believe no one brought that up when they were reviewing the final cut.

I think that horrible bloom/shine effect is the #1 responsible for this. I don't get why Jackson insisted to put that shit on half of the movies' runtime. The whole "Everyone laughing in slomo" thing could have worked okay.

It was a different time. Not everyone was so obsessed with homosexuality then. It only looks super gay now.

Why did he forget Legolas' name?

I think you are forgetting that this scene happens after frodo and sam at the "here at the end of all things" and eagles rescuing them at mount doom, where everybody at the theater were crying.

They never interacted

Guys I was in the theater when this movie debuted and everyone was fucking losing it. Granted it was a bunch of high school kids, but still. It's just way too gay.

I blame the filter.

It's more that the movies failed to emphasize the relationship between Frodo and Sam properly. Frodo is around 50 years older than Sam, Sam sees him as a father figure and Frodo treats him like a son.
There's a time skip of about 60 years from Bilbo leaving the Ring to Frodo and Frodo escaping the Shire, whereas the movies presents that as happening within a few days.

Of course. For a book is fine, but if the movies would follow the correct timeline it would be a constant climax killer.
Scourging of the shire wouldn't make sense.
I think they even spent 1 month at lothlorien in the books.

The scourging of the shire was better off cut honestly, but cutting out that timeskip removes a pretty significant piece of context from Frodo as a character. Sam, Merry and Pippin are kids, whereas Frodo is actually fairly old and he's trying very hard to keep the stupid kids from getting themselves killed.

I think the movie conveyed a nice companionship between the hobbits. And that's what the movie is about. An old man taking care of some kids would feel a bit awkward. But hey, everybody got different opinions and that's a good thing.

This. Jackson went full bromamce before that was even a word

>Be 14
>Front seat passenger side in car
>Reading the third book
>Never finished it; dropped it after they destroyed the ring
>Close to the scourge
>Pull into apartment complex driveway
>This blonde 12 year old loli in an EXTREMELY high-cut one-piece is getting ice cream from a truck
>Blows everything else the fuck out my mind, just staring at this goddess
>Never finish the book

>GIMLI! SAM! AND aaahhhh! ohh, youuu! it's youuu...! oh AND ARAGORN! GANDALF

poor legolas :c

Frodo isn't 50 years older than Sam, he's not even 50 for a start. He's like 11 years older, which is not much of a difference in the Shire since most hobbit men have kids at 40+. Pippin and Merry are quite a bit younger though.

should not have had a filter
should not have been in the bed
get frodo out of the bed and then have everyone pouring in to greet him

to be fair Jackson could hardly make the ending less gay than the books. In the books Aragorn sings the WHOLE story of the one ring and Sam bursts out crying. The least homosexual part of the ending is Faramir showing mad game and picking up Eowyn.

You forgot the part where Sam tells Frodo he loves him.

Was about to say this
Hobbits don't live long enough for any of that shit to have happened, Bilbo was considered pretty fucking old at his birthday in the fellowship(which IIRC was around 100 or so). IIRC the Hobbit takes place 60 years before the fellowship, and from the time the ring was left to frodo to gandalf telling frodo what it was, took about a year or so.
Pippin and Merry are like 20 years younger than Frodo but for Hobbits it doesn't matter much because they mature slower than humans

>took about a year or so.
I'm pretty sure it's longer than that, around 10 years. Frodo is a middle-aged chubber by the time he leaves the Shire

>Aragorn sings the WHOLE story of the one ring and Sam bursts out crying
What's gay about that? Snackson could've pulled it off.

keked

>Frodo is a middle-aged chubber by the time he leaves the Shire

The ring had an age halting effect on him though. So while in terms of maturity he was older than the other hobbits in terms of how he looked he would have only looked up to a decade older than them at most.

Bilbo was 111 at his birthday

I think it's called a "gross" in the books for whatever reason.

its 17 years. he is the same age as when bilbo set out in 'the hobbit'. the other hobbits have just turned of age after their tweens, which is the hobbit equivalent of teen years except in your 20s.
So Meery, Pippin and Sam are around 33 and Frodo is 50.

Frodo doesn't use the ring while he's in the Shire. He only starts using it after, first at the Inn by accident and later at Weathertop on purpose.

>ooooh there once was a hobbit from the shire
>had a ring the size of a tire..

Great song that

I don't think Hobbits look much different from when they are 30 to 70 in any case, ageing in terms of its affact on their appearance is less harsh probably because they have slower metabolisms and a longer maturity. A lot of the effects of age are brought about by hormones past puberty. Testosterone for instance raises male blood pressure and maintains more lipids in the blood which over time hammers our capillaries and veins meaning most men start to go deaf.

You don't have to use the ring for it to have influence over you, you just need to be in its presence. Bilbo also looked remarkably young for his age due to his proximity to the ring for years. This is specifically mentioned in the book.

Can you imagine this scene from the perspective of one of those dirt farming peasants?
>OI, WUT DID THESE WEE CUNTS DO THAT WE'S BE BOWIN'?
>DEY CARRIED A RING, THEY DID
>DEY CARRIED A FOOKIN RING? ME SON AND ALL ME FRIENDS DIED FOIGHTIN OFF THE ENTIRE BLEEDIN ARMIES OF SAURON LIKE THREE DAYS AGO AND WE'S BE BOWIN FOR DESE RING CARRYIN MIDGETS?

Then why does Frodo just chill with the ring for like 20~ years while Gandalf is off fucking about looking for answers?

You'd think he'd slip it on, give it a try so to speak.

You probably need to have it literally on your person for it to influence you.

in this more perfect universe, peasants know their goddamned place

I don't think it halts aging, I think it just prolongs your lifespan. Case in point, Bilbo mentioned that he was feeling very 'stretched' in the books and somewhat understood it had granted him an unnaturally long lifespan. Gollum is the prime example, because originally he was more or less a hobbit that exceeded his max lifespan by several hundred years. It didn't halt his aging, it just made him live longer.

Trying to imagine the characters doing the singing while reading the book is fucking bizarre. Like in Legolas last scene where he randomly starts singing about the sea and then walks off into the distance

it is, but Tolkien was driving at a fair point that past cultures would have been pretty big on singing, it tends to get overlooked in history and archaeology.

Kek

if you think of our world at that level of technology, what would people do for entertainment, most people were illiterate, gather round the fire and tell stories sing songs, pass on oral history.

would have been pretty common.

The book specifically mentions Frodo looking young for his age. So while mentally he was 50, in terms of physicality and appearance he was still the same age he was when he received the ring at 33.

>"As time went on people began to notice that Frodo also showed signs of good 'preservation' : outwardly he retained the appearance of a robust and energetic hobbit just out of his tweens. 'Some folk have all the luck,' they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer"

Frodo doesn't try on the Ring because he has no temptation to. He's incredibly resistant to its call but not to its passive effects of agelessness.

If Frodo had had the ring for as long as Smeagol or Bilbo then he would have started to look more fucked up but for the time that he had it for the only effects that it showed was a sort of agelessness.

Why did Treebeard said "The ents are going to war, it's likely to be their last", when they didn't lose a single tree in the combat and btfoed Isengard?

Consider also there was no Pandora radio or youtube, not even CDs. All music had to be performed. It would be a rare treat to hear someone with a real good voice sing something.

There are studies that suggest that tonal vocalization(the precursor to singing) predates actual language. In other words, we were already singing before we even properly had language.

because all their bitches had been gone for centuries and without bad pucci ents take roots and stop being conscious

Treebeard was a bit of a prankster

>all their bitches had been gone for centuries

They could resist the Big Black Ent Cocks ?
lmao, poor little white ents

kys

rock stars think they get pussy now, imagine being the one guy in a ten miles radius that could afford to learn and play an instrument.

>Sam?

>we wuz TREES n sheeeit

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'I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.'

Youd be a court performer, with the kings harem of hotties shlicking themselves while you played. Then youd be beheaded

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Is this the single greatest piece of cinematic music ever produced?

>forever ruined by shitty high pitched mixing done by some deaf fuck

RRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Be Merry and Pippin
>Get lost in one of the most dangerous places in Middle Earth on a quest to save it
>Get rescued by ent
>Ent almost kills you after thinking you're an orc
>Figure these guys must hate orcs so you ask for their help with your quest to save the world from them
>"lol nah it's not our problem, brah"
>"We'll drop you off at home though, it's not like you're doing anything important, right?"
>Ents notice that they're getting killed too
>wtf we hate Saruman now!
>"Fine we'll help you but this means the extinction of us all. I hope you can live with that"
>They defeat Saruman easily and with only a couple of ents dying at worst
>Hope that the ents can continue to help since they're now fully aware of the threat posed to them and are of great help too
>"lol nah it's not our problem, brah"

Fuck the ents

I think maybe you meant the Redwoods.

I'm pretty sure every dumbfuck shepherd could play an instrument, herding sheep is boring

That's nothing Bateman

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All the music is pretty incredible tbqh

I wish traveling musician was still a thing. Just travel town to town, singing for food and lodging, getting laid on the regs, picking up and moving on.

Shit sounds so cash.

nvm the soundtrack version is kind of fucked.

there's a lot of nuance to the editing in the scene.

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They still are a thing, they usually look like this

I wish highway robbery was still a thing. I'd slit your throat you minstrel fag.

Shit would be so me taking your cash

>said nah to the eagle
>i'll walk it with Smeagol
>but both fell into in doom's fire

Gandalf had a LED staff, their technology was good enough

>Fiddle kicks in right as they begin to charge

Chills every time.

Yeah man same. Also I love those fucking horn FX.

It's amazing how well this scene holds up over 10 years later.

kek

they're called gypsies, m8

Actually they're called troubadours

Gypsie are ethnic nomads, typically Irish-American.

The word that guy meant is "bard"

>Frodo isn't 50 years older than Sam, he's not even 50 for a start
yes he was. He was literally supposed to be about 50

the film got his image right though

>forever ruined by shitty high pitched mixing done by some deaf fuck
What?

Gypsies were more notorious for being copper and bronze workers, and of course thieving, kidnapping shits

Why didn't they use the eagles to drop nukes on Isengard?

>Gypsie are ethnic nomads, typically Irish-American.
>typically Irish-American

What kind of bait is this?

Dumbfuck shepherds couldn't afford any instrument that wasn't a flute they carved on their own. Being the one guy who could afford a lute or some shit like that, something you don't just carve in an afternoon, would have been rockstar-tier.

The Shepherds would spend their time singing too, but that doesn't mean they'd be any good at it.

Irish gyppos are a thing, but they are unrelated from those of mainland Europe and are less of a lost cause in terms of acting like actual human beings

sorry I got all my knowledge of Gipsies from pic related

traveling Irish-Americans is a real thing tho

Didn't trees become Ents and vice-versa?

I'm I the only one who skipped all those shitty badly written songs and poems?

They were so shit.

That's what I'm saying. They're trying to pursue a career that went the way of the dodo pretty much the instant radio was born.

There are Irish gypsies though. We call them Tinkers.

Now compare this to the fecal matter that Battle of the Five Armies. It's amazing the same guy directed both.

But I could write songs for you and turn you into a folk hero. It would become an honor getting robbed by you.

>[Autistic screeching]

It is truly amazing. It never should have been three movies. There's enough material for MAYBE 2, but the studio is so Jewish that wanted more shekels.

We've all seen Snatch, lads.

It's the American part of Irish-American that's weird as fuck, while it's a bit weird to equate gypsies to typically being Irish anything.

>Tinkers
Really makes you tink

Someday I want to do an indepth attempt at figuring out why LotR works and The Hobbit doesn't.

People are quick to point out the big problems but I think it's all the little nuances that really make the difference.

The worst parts have been memed to death here, that's definitely part of it. I think we all have antigrav Legolas seared into the brain at this point.

Why didn't Jackson include singing orcs?

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The Hobbit feels like a Marvel film. LOTR was more mature in comparison of course since The Hobbit was based on a children's book but it doesn't feel like a children's movie. It feels like a children's movie for children who want to feel like adults.

I wanna fuck Frodo's hobbitpussy.