Favorite Scene From The Lotr Movies

My Favourite Scene would have to be when (In the Extended Version of TRORK) the ships start streeming past in that valley and Aragons all like: "You Shall Not Pass" and then they laugh and the army of the dead come and then the pirates faces.... ohhh its an awsome scene. Plus Peter Jackson gets shot with an Arrow! Brilliant!
 
I watched the first half of fellowship of the ring this arvo - and I found a really funny bit - but i guess no-one except me with my random sense of humour will find it amusing. Well Johan might!!!

OK. Its when Arwen's dad (I cant remember his name) is about to talk about what happened with Isildur. And he says:

'I was there 3,000 years ago'

It just sounds so silly and I started laffing!!!
 
*crazy northern monkey*
I may have to watch the 'trilogy' tomorrow, I've got no internet then and a day off, so it'll be me, big bowl of popcorn and some telly, super!
 
One of my favorite parts is in the Return of the King where Legolas kills the oliphuant and Gimli says,"That still only counts as one!" Hahahahahaha!!!!!High-lari-ous!!
 
Haha! I love that part too.

Then there's the "I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, Here at the end of all things." *tears up* It's all so magical! *sob*
 
Johan 72109 said:
And yeah, they should have put in the Scouring of the Shire. The entire point of the chapter in the book was to show the way the hobbits have grown and changed. At the beginning they're wide-eyed villagers, without a hope in the world of fighting evil on their own, but in that chapter we see them as they've become, without them being in the shadow of greater warriors like Aragorn and Gandalf. Even though it's just a skirmish in comparison to the war that's just finished, it proves them the heroes we know they are. It's the end to their character arcs (well, except for Frodo's... he's got a bit further to develop in the book before the end.)
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Aye, that would have been good, cuz it's one of the background themes in Tolkien--you leave your home, and when you come back to it, nothing's the same as it was when you left(think Bilbo in the Hobbit).


WHB, I'm gonna go with Rosy and assume your deranged laughter is due to your geogrpahical locale. By the way, Arwen's dad is Elrond... :p
 
Elrond - thats the chap!!! Big forehead and long hair!

Does no-one else think its a bit random to make that statement though.........Hmmm apparently not. Oh well - must be the terribly unpolluted air I breathe up here!! :D
 
Does anyone else find it a bit creepy that "Mr. Smith" from the Matrix played "Elrond"? In my head I keep hearing Elrond say, "Hello Mr. Anderson". Maybe it is just my twisted habit of associating very different movies.

-JS

P.S...One of my favorite scenes from FOTR would have to be the part where the "Three Hunters" set off in search of Merry and Pippin..."Let's hunt some Orc"...I love that line.
 
I thought the whole Hugo Weaving (am I right?) being Elrond thing was really messed up. He's WAY too ugly to be an elf, and WAY to evil looking.
 
Jene Sai said:
Does anyone else find it a bit creepy that "Mr. Smith" from the Matrix played "Elrond"? In my head I keep hearing Elrond say, "Hello Mr. Anderson". Maybe it is just my twisted habit of associating very different movies.
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I noticed that too. I think that's why I couldn't keep a straight face in most of the scenes with Elrond in them, I kept hearing his voice as an agent and the spiffy "Hello Mr. Anderson" line.
unleavened said:
I thought the whole Hugo Weaving (am I right?) being Elrond thing was really messed up. He's WAY too ugly to be an elf, and WAY to evil looking.
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Yup yup, too evil looking to play Elrond...he was nothing like the way I pictured Elrond when I was reading the books.
 
LOL --
I saw the Matrix a long time ago, but I didn't recognize Elrond as being in it. Probably if I had, I would have felt differently ...
 
This post may label me as a heretic, but then I guess I am too controversial for my own good....

...I can forgive Liv Tyler as Arwen, Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Hugo Weaving as Elrond, but I don't think I will ever adjust to Elijah Wood as Frodo...It is not that he is way too young (which he is) but the fact that he is simply too immature for the role....He does well as a happy, carefree young hobbit, but he doesn't portray the strength of character necessary to bear the burden of the one ring....To phrase it differently, Elijah is too like Pippin and not enough like Aragorn, Gandalf, or another character with an inner strength that belies their outer appearance...

-JS

PS..I am interested who agrees or disagrees with me, so please weight in on the issue.
 
Well, I would agree with you JS (especially after seeing him in a few late-night interviews...). He just seems too immature for the role, he was supposed to be the oldest of the hobbits, yet in the movie he was the youngest. It just didn't seem to work.
 
Jene Sai said:
This post may label me as a heretic, but then I guess I am too controversial for my own good....

...I can forgive Liv Tyler as Arwen, Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Hugo Weaving as Elrond, but I don't think I will ever adjust to Elijah Wood as Frodo...It is not that he is way too young (which he is) but the fact that he is simply too immature for the role....He does well as a happy, carefree young hobbit, but he doesn't portray the strength of character necessary to bear the burden of the one ring....To phrase it differently, Elijah is too like Pippin and not enough like Aragorn, Gandalf, or another character with an inner strength that belies their outer appearance...

-JS

PS..I am interested who agrees or disagrees with me, so please weight in on the issue.
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As I said before. I didn't like him as Frodo. He was too young on the outside and he seemed very distant and not in touch with reality. I always thought Frodo had more strength than that.
Although I have a hard time forgiving their choice of actors for the elves. Legolas was ok, but the others were a disaster. How could Arragorn love someone who was so spacy? It just didn't fit.
 
I agree. JS had it right when she said he was okay for a care-free young Hobbit, but fell apart when he needed to be the driven Ring Bearer on quest. I think Wood could have done it with better direction from PJ -- he needed to be more determined and display more inner strength, rather than looking all the time as if he were just being buffeted along whichever way the wind blew.
 
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