aliciaxlife - Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring P2

Saruman's actor Christopher Lee is an operatic and metal singer. now that I know that, I can definitely hear it when he's chanting.

Kyllix

2025-06-16 14:26:03 +0000 UTC

One does not just watch Lord of the Rings; there is an experience there that never sleeps. And the fandom is ever watchful. Not with a thousand journalists and Rings of Power writers can you diminish it.

The Dragon’s Lair

2025-05-08 01:36:58 +0000 UTC

It is sooo easy...but no one gets it, as it is WAY too simple

FlaschenJoe11

2025-03-12 20:31:53 +0000 UTC

So many d&d campaigns have a puzzle like the door that stumps the party.

Fei Ashtear

2025-01-12 07:25:17 +0000 UTC

It isn't fantasy, unless you can't get through a door.

Ochezo

2025-01-08 23:11:12 +0000 UTC

Ah yes legolas your only words to frodo the entire trilogy.

Brandon Weiland

2024-12-18 06:32:35 +0000 UTC

I should note that the Silmarillion is but a collection made by his son Christopher Tolkien from his father's notes, meaning he wrote even more and probably had different versions of the stories too. And that doesn't even cover everything that happened in the Ages, like the stories of the Kingdom of Rohan. My favourite story of those is the saga of Helm Hammerhand, the 9th king of Rohan who at one point was also besieged in the place that later bore his name, Helm's Deep. Helm was a strong man, he earned his epitath when he one-hit killed a guy with his fist. When his realm came under threat from invasion, he retreated to the Hornburg, where a siege began that lasted deep into the bitter cold winter. When supplies dwindled his only son and heir went to forage with some of his personal guard, but he went missing. Then, the king himself went out. Every night he dressed in white, sounded his horn, and went absolutely beserk on his enemies, as deadly in winter as a snow troll, bearing no weapons in the belief that doing so rendered him immune to them. Every time the horn was sounded, his enemies were filled with fear of the white death stalking them. However, one misty night, his horn sounded, yet he didn't return. His men feared the worst, and went looking for him. They found him, frozen, but standing upright. Even in death his foes had not dared to approach him, and the tale goes that his spirit still seeks vengeance upon the enemies of Rohan. It is in fact his horn that during the Battle of the Hornburg was sounded during the final moments of the battle, and the sound, combined with the bold charge, both from Theoden and from Erkenbrand and the White Rider Gandalf, once again routed the foes of Rohan. I believe the new animated PJ series on Rohan will feature Helm too, and who knows, I might even give it a chance, even if its Amazon LotR we're talking about.

Yuul B Alwright

2024-12-04 11:49:38 +0000 UTC

This is where we see why Aragorn is the one most suited to be king. As the old adage goes the ones most suited to rule are the ones who o not wish it.

Random3x

2024-12-04 02:23:01 +0000 UTC

F

Jay

2024-11-30 05:42:21 +0000 UTC

Never change, i love your theories whether they are right or wrong.

Jay

2024-11-30 04:15:57 +0000 UTC

Gandalf's player: I cast Featherfall.

SweetCandle

2024-11-28 02:47:22 +0000 UTC

The merry and pippin hate is so mean. They are just good beans but because they arent sam and frodo you are so mean to them. Frodo does his fair share of stupid things but he gets off the hook.

Immeasurably Me

2024-11-26 19:15:06 +0000 UTC

The game is my canon in my head. I know that doesnt matter but it is so good i can live with falsely believing it

Immeasurably Me

2024-11-26 19:12:36 +0000 UTC

Wizards are subtle, and quick to anger.

Joy the Black Dragon

2024-11-26 12:36:38 +0000 UTC

@32:30 "One does not simply teach kids swears"

Joy the Black Dragon

2024-11-26 11:54:59 +0000 UTC

so wild that there is no music in the cave troll fight. it makes it so tense.

MenacingScone

2024-11-22 22:30:41 +0000 UTC

they're definitely gamers. They're beaten by the two things they can't handle: water and a women lol

Martijn Derese

2024-11-21 17:18:29 +0000 UTC

Alicia you need to adjust your sound settings. I can't hear anything over your screaming. You talk loud anyway, turn up the video volume just a bit.

TurdManJones

2024-11-21 16:24:52 +0000 UTC

Yeah I figured it wouldn’t be just like I said the shadow games are pretty much my only real experience with the franchise other than the first films and the oddball mount and blade mod or 2 😂😂😂

Nightmareman99

2024-11-21 03:12:23 +0000 UTC

Sorry, but, those games are not canon. All of the Ringwraiths were the nine kings given the nine rings of men.

Kevin Bell

2024-11-20 20:24:58 +0000 UTC

I hope she does, she just saw Gandalf go.

Yaboi7117

2024-11-20 03:48:21 +0000 UTC

the thing arwen did with the river was movie only the one who actually did it was her dad. it was also not her who was with frodo but glorfindel its a same they cut him out honestly

Sniper sougo 13

2024-11-18 14:05:56 +0000 UTC

I will say right off the bat I don’t know much about lotr whatsoever but I do love the shadow of Mordor/war games. With that being said it give you such a connection to the ringwraiths. I honestly don’t know if the games are cannon or not but by the end he becomes aRingwraith to protect Gondor using the power of necromancy and his will to create an army to fight. It is pretty sad to think someone who gave up everything to defeat sauron and protect his people still fell to his power even with the insane will power tailon had

Nightmareman99

2024-11-17 08:06:36 +0000 UTC

After this one, I can't wait for her reaction to the next movie.

Matt Clark

2024-11-15 04:38:26 +0000 UTC

Rip Dinner you will not be forgotten and your sacrifice never greater dust to dust, ashes to ashes

Alex

2024-11-14 09:31:32 +0000 UTC

Hope she dont get to watch DoctorWho then, Steven Moffat would become her archenemy

Faroth

2024-11-13 19:08:15 +0000 UTC

There's the saying that many authors create languages for their stories, while tolkien 'created a story so he can use the languages he invented'

Faroth

2024-11-13 19:07:22 +0000 UTC

F in the chat for Alicia's din-din.

Kinji

2024-11-12 06:29:13 +0000 UTC

Balrog whippin' Gandalf like Junkrat grenading on defeat

Rhodair

2024-11-10 12:41:36 +0000 UTC

Just because it's a part of context I appreciate : no one (other than Gandalf) lived the Balrog as hard as Gimli and Legolas. Gimli because it is litteraly the bane of his people, who massacred settlers to the last one and made one of the greatest dwarf kingdoms of middle-earth into his lair. Hell, he was having full on panic attacks coming out of the mines. And Legolas, on his part, actually recognized what the Balrog was on a primal level. Balrogs are basically the real demons of middle-earth, servants of evil, slayers of heroes and everything. Legolas actually grew up hearing scary stories about the those things. Imagine being on an adventure and hearing that your childhood nightmare was actually on it's way to kick your ass.

Le Karibou

2024-11-09 14:19:21 +0000 UTC

That Bilbo jumpscare is one of the 2 movie moments I saw as a child that gave me nightmares (the other is Cujo), the way his eyes changed up just scared the shit out of me

Cyric Sherburne

2024-11-08 20:57:20 +0000 UTC

Tolkien was a history and language professor and he puts a TOOOOON of old European myth and the Old English language into his work. In Anglo-Saxon England (7th-11th century CE) dooms were what we today call laws. Which is metal af. So when Elronds says “Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom” that he means it fr fr. All corners of the world and everyone between them are under threat and there is no running or hiding from that FACT.

DoomlordSteve

2024-11-07 08:56:40 +0000 UTC

In the book, Bilbo was at the secret council. He felt such guilt at bringing the ring back with him that HE was actually the first volunteer to take it to Mordor. Of course the others stopped him, but still.

StylishJack

2024-11-07 04:42:15 +0000 UTC

Alicia's catch phrase is going to have to be "You killed my favorite character." with the roll she has been on lately.

Okoga

2024-11-06 22:22:04 +0000 UTC

Its so nice to rewatch these again with Alicia. I only saw them for myself recently and seeing it again here is such a treat.

NebulaNyx

2024-11-05 09:36:34 +0000 UTC

I can't be too mad at Pippin. My mom's dog was named after him

Kap

2024-11-05 01:57:45 +0000 UTC

"IM SO UPSET." Before watching the video, I was so sure Alicia was saying this about Gandalf. But maybe it's about her dinner... EDIT: nvm she said she's more upset about Gandalf than the dinner lol

hemahemahema

2024-11-04 15:30:54 +0000 UTC

This is getting good now

Gildarts1#fan

2024-11-04 10:24:15 +0000 UTC

To give some more context to the elf/human relationship thing (because the movies never really explain it), elves cannot die of old age, but they can literally die of despair. So the sad part of a human/elf relationship is that the elf knows he or she will eventually die of heartache when their chosen spouse inevitably succumbs to their mortality. The song Aragorn (hot human heir) was singing earlier was about Luthien, the last elf to choose this fate, and ironically an ancestor of Arwen (hot elf girl) so she knows well she is choosing a miserable death eventually.

GingerBardMan

2024-11-04 08:33:42 +0000 UTC

To make the special orcs even more gross and grim, when Gandalf says crossing orcs with "goblin men" he means human-goblin hybrids... in other words he's been taking humans and breeding them with goblins for a while now in preparation to make these things. Thankfully Tolkien never goes into any detail about how that was accomplished.

GingerBardMan

2024-11-04 08:19:19 +0000 UTC

This was Orlando Blooms first Movie btw

Noah Benden

2024-11-04 02:45:03 +0000 UTC

When the Balrog appears, it's like you've been playing Baldur's Gate and then suddenly an enemy from Doom shows up.

Malkalypse

2024-11-02 16:19:57 +0000 UTC

While the untimely death of your would be dinner was very unfortunate it did give me a good look at the background lol, I gotta say the artist that did the work on it absolutely fucking killed it. Actually so freaking beautiful!

NekoSoophie!

2024-11-01 05:24:37 +0000 UTC

It’s the Monkey’s Paw. She wished for Gandalf to fight the Balrog and the finger curls.

Tyler Jeffers

2024-10-31 14:26:03 +0000 UTC

Fun trivia though, even through her reaction video I found out the actors for the Fellowship all got matching tattoos of the Elvish for "9", while Peter Jackson had a tattoo for "10".

hemahemahema

2024-10-31 12:09:23 +0000 UTC

btw, should have bought these on the windows store so you didnt have to deal with the Xray shit. then you could have also downloaded them and used the media player to let you go frame-by-frame

Randomocity732

2024-10-31 02:22:50 +0000 UTC

at about 46:00 ish notice how legolas walks ON TOP of the snow and the others sink in, elves are very light footed.

Robert Traeger

2024-10-30 18:22:33 +0000 UTC

The ring corrupts but among all who have possessed it only one to this point has ever let it go successfully, only a hobbit, only Bilbo.

Vik Persson

2024-10-30 16:59:50 +0000 UTC

Rats on the background are quite cute

Karatsuki

2024-10-30 15:47:49 +0000 UTC

thank you

Aaro Tiljander

2024-10-30 08:20:12 +0000 UTC

loud thundering crashes Goblin 1: "What was that??" Goblin 2: "Probably just som debris falling. You know how old and decrepid this place is.." Gandalf echoing in the distance: "Fool of a Took!!" Goblin 2: "On second thought, we should probably check that out..."

QuibblesAndGitz

2024-10-30 07:19:37 +0000 UTC

Elves are functionally immortal in LOTR. Once they reach maturity, they no longer age. They are immune to almost every disease and poison, and are always at peak physical form. Essentially, they are OP as hell. The only ways an Elf can die are from wounds, or they no longer wishing to "live", and even that is not the end for them, because their soul never leaves the world. It goes to a sort of "house of the dead" in Valinor, the land where the gods live (That's where all the elves are going), and there they heal both "physically" and "spiritually" until they are ready to leave it and live forevermore in Valinor. Tolkien really cooked with his worldbuilding, there is SO MUCH MORE to know about the world and those who dwell in it, most of it told in the Silmarillion, a book that tells of the creation of the world and what transpires in it until Bilbo's adventures.

Miguel Aarón García

2024-10-30 06:47:09 +0000 UTC

For reference: normal orcs cannot stand sunlight. They were born in darkness, and the sunlight, while it doesn't directly damage them or turn them to stone like it did to the trolls, is like a thousand searchlights focusing on them. They revile it as it's the complete opposite to their very essence. Saruman's Uruk-hai, on the other hand, as they're a recent creation and are more of bio-engineered half-orcs, do not share that ancient hatred for sunlight.

Miguel Aarón García

2024-10-30 06:36:29 +0000 UTC

35:15 Alicia's "I find him pretty, but not attractive" sounds a lot like Maomao's view of Jinshi in Apothecary Diaries lol

QuibblesAndGitz

2024-10-30 06:30:04 +0000 UTC

41:30 yeah! the greatest and most grand piece of music to ever exist… And it’s just nine dudes walking past a rock

Erick Ruiz

2024-10-30 06:28:53 +0000 UTC

would you still disappear if you put the ring elsewhere but your fingers

Yagi di Hoshi

2024-10-30 05:57:26 +0000 UTC

Yeah, in behind the scenes Orlando said that he just finished acting school and audition for the role. The rest as you can say is history.

Robert C. Dona

2024-10-30 04:52:25 +0000 UTC

my friends and I have been binge watching all the X-Men movies in October!

PerfectYarn

2024-10-30 04:17:37 +0000 UTC

kind of part of the mcu binge she's started, though i'm not sure if she's actually planning on going any further than endgame so she might not be doing that either

Ellerian

2024-10-30 03:20:24 +0000 UTC

yeet ishildor

Lance Ivy

2024-10-30 02:22:25 +0000 UTC

rip Alicia's dinner

beanz

2024-10-30 02:20:59 +0000 UTC

Wait, she hasn't seen that one show that has that one guy in it? Well damn...

Nicholas Johnson

2024-10-30 01:39:04 +0000 UTC

RIP Alicia’s dinner you were not meant for this world

SimpleSimian

2024-10-30 00:08:06 +0000 UTC

"Gandalf is my favorite character." Thinks he dies "No!!" He's alright "Oh thank god. I was scared for minute." Actually dies "NOOOOO!!!!" Hehehe. Crazy Talk.

Jacob Goodheart

2024-10-29 23:56:19 +0000 UTC

"One does not simply teach kids swears."

Liesmith

2024-10-29 22:49:18 +0000 UTC

It is the same for the Elves. They have one partner in life, and if/when their partner dies, they often begin to fade from this world from their heartbreak, either passing on to the next world, or becoming disembodied spirits wandering the lands (I might be wrong on a couple of details, but I know I have the gist 🤣) Edit: Fun fact, what Gimli said translates to “I spit on your grave.”

Chronos Hoffman

2024-10-29 22:45:51 +0000 UTC

"I can not watch an old man cry" oh man you should watch the fox X-Men movies so you can watch Old Man Logan.

RF

2024-10-29 22:03:16 +0000 UTC

wait, for real? he was never in anything else before?!

Gavin Bickel

2024-10-29 21:51:17 +0000 UTC

The movies generally compress the timeline a LOT, which isn't unusual for movies. But yeah, Frodo has some time to settle in as the master of Bag-End and be a country squire before Gandalf shows back up at his door. Similarly, the trip from the Shire to Rivendell took about a month.

Linnaeus

2024-10-29 21:23:05 +0000 UTC

so good, gonna have to catch part 3 when I get off work

Ronix

2024-10-29 21:08:39 +0000 UTC

Noooo, first her plate of food fell and now Gandalf? We shall never recover from this tragedy

PotterBrony

2024-10-29 20:57:29 +0000 UTC

"One does not simply teach kids swears"

Pixel King

2024-10-29 20:40:04 +0000 UTC

At min 59 you mentioned how much you love the music; Howard shore did a BRILLIANT job creating the music for this series. It won't come up in these series because only in the Silmarillion did it go into any depth about the creation of the Tolkien universe. But there are several chapters talking about literal songs of creation that the gods of Middle Earth were singing to create their domains and their people. So when you get thematic songs in the backgrounds it is (at least in part) meant to represent the associated god singing - the deeper gregorian chants near moria, the higher melodic hymns near Rivendell, the flute for the shire, the pomp and fanfare for the men of the west. Of course a lot of it is also just standard composition for storytelling having theme music, but I just think it's neat to have a bit of background info to make it a bit more meaningful. Even after having watched this series probably dozens of times I still get chills from hearing the musical score.

Mike E

2024-10-29 20:17:02 +0000 UTC

To my knowledge, Dragons only show up in The Hobbit with Smaug and then in the Silmarillion with the OG Dragons such as Glaurung and Ancalagon the Black who make Smaug look like a putty tat.

BakaSama

2024-10-29 20:07:25 +0000 UTC

based Sir Christopher Lee may he rest in peace

NoviTall

2024-10-29 19:59:27 +0000 UTC

So, while this is overall a stellar adaptation that more then does this story justice... there are a few issues with certain choices in how they did things, one of those being how it treats Merry and Pippin. They are not as "just there for comic relief" as they are in this movie. Pippin was the closest to being that, but the movies did kind of play it up a bit more, and with him in the book it helped that we knew he was by far the youngest member of the group, being the Hobbit equivalent of in that 18-20 range where you are technically an adult, but still not quite. While Merry was much more level headed but got pushed into being more immature for the humor with Pippin. It's not wholly wrong, because Pippin was the most likely one in the group to make a mistake through being careless, but not quite to the extent the movies portray it.

Seraphem

2024-10-29 19:30:21 +0000 UTC

And they are pretty much literal demons. Maia (essentially Tolkien's equivalent to angels) who fell to darkness and were twisted into dark forms by Morgoth. (Tolkien's Satan analgoue.) So yeah... epic bad news.

Seraphem

2024-10-29 19:19:52 +0000 UTC

Oh he did so much more. Christopher Lee was an actual spy in World War 2. He had an argument with Peter Jackson over a stabbing scene in a movie, when he asked Lee to."imagine" stabbing someone in the back, he simplify replied: "I don't have to imagine it."

Sleepy Hydra

2024-10-29 19:18:46 +0000 UTC

The mithril chainmail doesn’t have the value of a town, but of a country. The Shire is a country. (Hobbiton was the town where he lived.)

Sancturillore -- Élie Simard-Wallot

2024-10-29 18:33:46 +0000 UTC

She saw him as Count Dooku as well

Kaz

2024-10-29 18:23:18 +0000 UTC

I know, I was making a joke on what she said in the video haha.

Azel !!

2024-10-29 18:22:45 +0000 UTC

around 40:00 the talk of Michael Caine and crying makes me want a Muppets Christmas Carol reaction

Olivier Leduc

2024-10-29 18:13:47 +0000 UTC

Fun fact, this was Orlando Bloom's first roll for a movie.

Robert C. Dona

2024-10-29 17:56:48 +0000 UTC

This is wonderful! I'm so glad you chose to watch these.

VaanGov

2024-10-29 17:50:51 +0000 UTC

"This foe is beyond any of YOU" - damn Gandalf, throwing shade at them. I mean, he is right...

leviathan_13

2024-10-29 17:44:32 +0000 UTC

The guy that played saruman also did heavy metal or something

Blooocki :3

2024-10-29 17:37:36 +0000 UTC

It's been split into three parts, look for the posts here on patreon. They were probably uploading while you posted.

leviathan_13

2024-10-29 17:36:25 +0000 UTC

at 1:17:55 "I'll never forgive you if Gandalf doesn't 1v1 a demon" the monkeys paw curls

Lukrasta

2024-10-29 17:03:36 +0000 UTC

Gandalf's death is a warning, a promise even. Not even a being of the power of Gandalf is save and we're sending little hobbits into Mordor. Things will be dangerous for our heroes.

Jobbe Smit

2024-10-29 16:44:27 +0000 UTC

Imagine if that axe actually destroyed the One Ring though. Boom. Journey over.

Gunmandude2

2024-10-29 16:10:42 +0000 UTC

I will have more to say about Arwen and Aragorn when you get to later movies, but their story is an echo of the love of the human Beren and the elf-maiden Luthien/Tinuviel. That's why Aragorn was singing an old song about them earlier, and the relationship is something that Tolkien always identified strongly with, to the point that the grave he shares with his wife Edith is marked with the names Luthien and Beren as well as their own.

Linnaeus

2024-10-29 15:57:38 +0000 UTC

the first age really hit different

Jake stephens

2024-10-29 15:55:49 +0000 UTC

Tips coming: All Balrogs have been so powerful, that only greatest of greatest heroes have been able to defeat them... and all those victories were due to heroes sacrificing their own lives to do so...

Kampela

2024-10-29 15:52:33 +0000 UTC

Now that you're watching it this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend not long ago. We had been talking about how different the world would be if: One Piece had been written by J.R.R. Tolkien, and if The Lord of the Rings was written by Eiichiro Oda. We both came to the conclusion that it would be a super awesome world. The stories have so many parallels and are so different, yet to me they can't help but feel similar and super awesome.

Sozony

2024-10-29 15:51:28 +0000 UTC

20 plus years and it still hurts

Uncle Urdnot

2024-10-29 15:44:41 +0000 UTC

Hey I'm here from youtube, where's the full movie uncut.

Azel !!

2024-10-29 15:37:09 +0000 UTC

Tolkien Lore: JRR Tolkien was a Linguist and a professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English). He found linguistics and language so interesting that he actually created multiple languages for Middle Earth and tracked out their rules. As a result, the languages you hear in these movies were actually created BY Tolkien. The Elven tongues of Quenya and Sindarin, a few phrases of the Dwarvish language Khuzdul, the Black Speech of Mordor, etc. I think there are a few bits where later people have tried to fill in vocabulary or verb conjugations based on his original work, but most of it is his.

Linnaeus

2024-10-29 15:31:43 +0000 UTC

True, on how you're not tied to your family lineage. We are not our family or upbringing. We're a reaction to them. You choose what the reaction is.

Usually Shalune

2024-10-29 15:28:17 +0000 UTC

We never said this story would have a happy ending, did we?

SouthHill

2024-10-29 15:22:36 +0000 UTC

Demons rarely play fair

Derpy

2024-10-29 15:12:04 +0000 UTC

Fun Lore: When world was made and Elves and Dwarfs awoke, Elves hunted Dwarfs as they were seen as mere beasts. 50 or 200 years later hunting stopped but it left a deep wound in their relationship. Later when great treasure was being transported by Elves, Orcs attacked Elven group, killed all and looted them. Later Dwarfs found Orc warband and destroyed them, among Orcs they found great treasure and took it. Soon after this Elf group found Dwarfs with Elven treasure and assumed Dwarfs had attacked Elf group, this led to long strife between two races. Yes, there is deep distrust and hatred between Dwarfs and Elves.

Kampela

2024-10-29 15:04:25 +0000 UTC

Oh crap, I thought it was like a few months not like over a decade.

Speed1247

2024-10-29 14:51:25 +0000 UTC

And Gandalf, as well as the rest of the wizards, were also semi-divine, immortal beings who descended to Middle Earth to rally its people against Sauron(who himself was once one of them until he decided that Middle Earth would be better if he was there to personally micro-manage everything in it for maximum efficiency). None of this really has anything to do with the movies; it’s just some cool lore from the books and Tolkien’s notes

unknown organism

2024-10-29 14:50:50 +0000 UTC

Be cool if she watches that trilogy later, cause I'm pretty sure there are no dragons in this trilogy. (To everyone's misfortune, except well the characters themselves since a dragon would be horrifying to face)

Speed1247

2024-10-29 14:50:44 +0000 UTC

Alicia really needs to be careful what she wishes for, but she got what she wanted, just at a cost.

Speed1247

2024-10-29 14:43:46 +0000 UTC

Orlando Blooms first job after school was having role as Legolas in this movie. After that, he found rum! XD

Kampela

2024-10-29 14:41:19 +0000 UTC

So, when Gandalf says "demon", he means it. The balrog is a spiritual being that was corrupted and turned to aid the Enemy.

Makix217

2024-10-29 14:29:30 +0000 UTC

Rip for Dinner

Afell Tale

2024-10-29 14:25:11 +0000 UTC

The time that passed from when Bilbo left the Shire until Frodo left was 17 years.

RedRam-Ipsen

2024-10-29 14:20:52 +0000 UTC

I thought about Boromir and I started crying 😭

Nikolaj Nielsen

2024-10-29 14:11:09 +0000 UTC

The Balrog is one of my absolute favorite monsters portrayed in film. Smaug being the only other entity to challenge that top spot.

Makix217

2024-10-29 14:10:03 +0000 UTC

One of my favourite lines in the book. Gandalf's final words - no unrealistic soppy goodbye , but totally in keeping with his character. Just "fly, you fools"! So happy to see you reacting to this. Have to go back to part 1, though - I don't have time to watch right now.

Toasted Toad

2024-10-29 13:12:54 +0000 UTC

Well, of course Gandalf died in the balrog fight. Why do you think the scene is so iconic?

Nate Zabinski

2024-10-29 12:57:00 +0000 UTC

Fun fact:Strider's Actor Viggo bought and gifted one of the horses used in this movie to Arwen's Stunt Double because she wanted to keep the horse after principal photograghy but couldn't afford it.

Ian Moscrop

2024-10-29 12:55:38 +0000 UTC

You know what makes this even more special for me? You’re watching this on my wedding anniversary!

masteroftheassassins

2024-10-29 12:41:01 +0000 UTC

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring P2

Comments

Saruman's actor Christopher Lee is an operatic and metal singer. now that I know that, I can definitely hear it when he's chanting.

One does not just watch Lord of the Rings; there is an experience there that never sleeps. And the fandom is ever watchful. Not with a thousand journalists and Rings of Power writers can you diminish it.

It is sooo easy...but no one gets it, as it is WAY too simple

So many d&d campaigns have a puzzle like the door that stumps the party.

It isn't fantasy, unless you can't get through a door.

Ah yes legolas your only words to frodo the entire trilogy.

This is where we see why Aragorn is the one most suited to be king. As the old adage goes the ones most suited to rule are the ones who o not wish it.

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Never change, i love your theories whether they are right or wrong.

Gandalf's player: I cast Featherfall.

The merry and pippin hate is so mean. They are just good beans but because they arent sam and frodo you are so mean to them. Frodo does his fair share of stupid things but he gets off the hook.

The game is my canon in my head. I know that doesnt matter but it is so good i can live with falsely believing it

Wizards are subtle, and quick to anger.

@32:30 "One does not simply teach kids swears"

so wild that there is no music in the cave troll fight. it makes it so tense.

they're definitely gamers. They're beaten by the two things they can't handle: water and a women lol

Alicia you need to adjust your sound settings. I can't hear anything over your screaming. You talk loud anyway, turn up the video volume just a bit.

Yeah I figured it wouldn’t be just like I said the shadow games are pretty much my only real experience with the franchise other than the first films and the oddball mount and blade mod or 2 😂😂😂

Sorry, but, those games are not canon. All of the Ringwraiths were the nine kings given the nine rings of men.

I hope she does, she just saw Gandalf go.

the thing arwen did with the river was movie only the one who actually did it was her dad. it was also not her who was with frodo but glorfindel its a same they cut him out honestly

After this one, I can't wait for her reaction to the next movie.

Rip Dinner you will not be forgotten and your sacrifice never greater dust to dust, ashes to ashes

Hope she dont get to watch DoctorWho then, Steven Moffat would become her archenemy

There's the saying that many authors create languages for their stories, while tolkien 'created a story so he can use the languages he invented'

F in the chat for Alicia's din-din.

Balrog whippin' Gandalf like Junkrat grenading on defeat

That Bilbo jumpscare is one of the 2 movie moments I saw as a child that gave me nightmares (the other is Cujo), the way his eyes changed up just scared the shit out of me

In the book, Bilbo was at the secret council. He felt such guilt at bringing the ring back with him that HE was actually the first volunteer to take it to Mordor. Of course the others stopped him, but still.

Alicia's catch phrase is going to have to be "You killed my favorite character." with the roll she has been on lately.

Its so nice to rewatch these again with Alicia. I only saw them for myself recently and seeing it again here is such a treat.

I can't be too mad at Pippin. My mom's dog was named after him

"IM SO UPSET." Before watching the video, I was so sure Alicia was saying this about Gandalf. But maybe it's about her dinner... EDIT: nvm she said she's more upset about Gandalf than the dinner lol

This is getting good now

This was Orlando Blooms first Movie btw

When the Balrog appears, it's like you've been playing Baldur's Gate and then suddenly an enemy from Doom shows up.

While the untimely death of your would be dinner was very unfortunate it did give me a good look at the background lol, I gotta say the artist that did the work on it absolutely fucking killed it. Actually so freaking beautiful!

It’s the Monkey’s Paw. She wished for Gandalf to fight the Balrog and the finger curls.

Fun trivia though, even through her reaction video I found out the actors for the Fellowship all got matching tattoos of the Elvish for "9", while Peter Jackson had a tattoo for "10".

btw, should have bought these on the windows store so you didnt have to deal with the Xray shit. then you could have also downloaded them and used the media player to let you go frame-by-frame

at about 46:00 ish notice how legolas walks ON TOP of the snow and the others sink in, elves are very light footed.

The ring corrupts but among all who have possessed it only one to this point has ever let it go successfully, only a hobbit, only Bilbo.

Rats on the background are quite cute

thank you

*loud thundering crashes* Goblin 1: "What was that??" Goblin 2: "Probably just som debris falling. You know how old and decrepid this place is.." Gandalf echoing in the distance: "Fool of a Took!!" Goblin 2: "On second thought, we should probably check that out..."

35:15 Alicia's "I find him pretty, but not attractive" sounds a lot like Maomao's view of Jinshi in Apothecary Diaries lol

41:30 yeah! the greatest and most grand piece of music to ever exist… And it’s just nine dudes walking past a rock

would you still disappear if you put the ring elsewhere but your fingers

Yeah, in behind the scenes Orlando said that he just finished acting school and audition for the role. The rest as you can say is history.

my friends and I have been binge watching all the X-Men movies in October!

kind of part of the mcu binge she's started, though i'm not sure if she's actually planning on going any further than endgame so she might not be doing that either

yeet ishildor

rip Alicia's dinner

Wait, she hasn't seen that one show that has that one guy in it? Well damn...

RIP Alicia’s dinner you were not meant for this world

"Gandalf is my favorite character." *Thinks he dies* "No!!" *He's alright* "Oh thank god. I was scared for minute." *Actually dies* "NOOOOO!!!!" Hehehe. Crazy Talk.

"One does not simply teach kids swears."

"I can not watch an old man cry" oh man you should watch the fox X-Men movies so you can watch Old Man Logan.

wait, for real? he was never in anything else before?!

The movies generally compress the timeline a LOT, which isn't unusual for movies. But yeah, Frodo has some time to settle in as the master of Bag-End and be a country squire before Gandalf shows back up at his door. Similarly, the trip from the Shire to Rivendell took about a month.

so good, gonna have to catch part 3 when I get off work

Noooo, first her plate of food fell and now Gandalf? We shall never recover from this tragedy

"One does not simply teach kids swears"

To my knowledge, Dragons only show up in The Hobbit with Smaug and then in the Silmarillion with the OG Dragons such as Glaurung and Ancalagon the Black who make Smaug look like a putty tat.

based Sir Christopher Lee may he rest in peace

And they are pretty much literal demons. Maia (essentially Tolkien's equivalent to angels) who fell to darkness and were twisted into dark forms by Morgoth. (Tolkien's Satan analgoue.) So yeah... epic bad news.

Oh he did so much more. Christopher Lee was an actual spy in World War 2. He had an argument with Peter Jackson over a stabbing scene in a movie, when he asked Lee to."imagine" stabbing someone in the back, he simplify replied: "I don't have to imagine it."

The mithril chainmail doesn’t have the value of a town, but of a country. The Shire is a country. (Hobbiton was the town where he lived.)

She saw him as Count Dooku as well

I know, I was making a joke on what she said in the video haha.

around 40:00 the talk of Michael Caine and crying makes me want a Muppets Christmas Carol reaction

Fun fact, this was Orlando Bloom's first roll for a movie.

This is wonderful! I'm so glad you chose to watch these.

"This foe is beyond any of YOU" - damn Gandalf, throwing shade at them. I mean, he is right...

The guy that played saruman also did heavy metal or something

It's been split into three parts, look for the posts here on patreon. They were probably uploading while you posted.

at 1:17:55 "I'll never forgive you if Gandalf doesn't 1v1 a demon" the monkeys paw curls

Gandalf's death is a warning, a promise even. Not even a being of the power of Gandalf is save and we're sending little hobbits into Mordor. Things *will* be dangerous for our heroes.

loud thundering crashes Goblin 1: "What was that??" Goblin 2: "Probably just som debris falling. You know how old and decrepid this place is.." Gandalf echoing in the distance: "Fool of a Took!!" Goblin 2: "On second thought, we should probably check that out..."

"Gandalf is my favorite character." Thinks he dies "No!!" He's alright "Oh thank god. I was scared for minute." Actually dies "NOOOOO!!!!" Hehehe. Crazy Talk.

Gandalf's death is a warning, a promise even. Not even a being of the power of Gandalf is save and we're sending little hobbits into Mordor. Things will be dangerous for our heroes.