Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers / Part 1 /Movie Series Reaction

I will be typing random things that I think you should know, or are just fun. Apologies in advance for the length of my comment. I enjoy leaving a book behind. I believe New Line wanted there to be a prologue like the last film but Peter fought to have it open with Gandalf fighting the Balrog. Which, I think, was an amazing choice. We kinda have a mid-film prologue where Galadriel narrates again. It’s when she is telepathically speaking to Elrond. Is it bad that I loved seeing you go from, “Don’t put me through this trauma again.” to, “Gandalf is a god!” You aren’t far from the truth. He is a Maia. Real Elvish rope made of Hithlain by the Lothlorien elves. That scene with Frodo and Sam and the rope isn’t in the theatrical cut. Also, the rope is very uncomfortable and painful to be tied up in. You see what it does to Gollum. Burns and freezes. No physical signs left behind. But he wasn’t lying to try to get them to take it off. I wouldn’t wanna get on the elves’ bad side. Andy Serkis is a legend! He put his all into the performance. And if it had just been the voice, Gollum would’ve looked a lot different, acted a lot different, and wouldn’t have had as much character. Andy was there on set in a full body white-ish suit acting as Gollum doing the physical performance so Sean Astin and Elijah Wood had the physical presence of Gollum. The only time Andy Serkis wasn’t standing in for Gollum was when he crawled down the rock face in the first scene we see him in. Seeing his performance early on made Peter realize that it wasn’t just the voice. They began to develop a whole new way of doing acting and CGI. Andy Serkis paved the way for Motion Capture acting. The animators would more often than not paint him out of the shot and use his performance for reference in animating Gollum. It’s in the behind the scenes stuff. I recommend you watch that amazing stuff on your own time. The scenes where they are running in a wide shot were filmed from helicopters. All 3 actors had painful injuries. You probably know about Viggo’s toes. Orlando had fallen off a horse and the Gimli scale double fell on top of him and cracked him rib. The scale double for Gimli, Brett had dislocated his knee. Peter called them the “walking wounded.” Guys were troopers for running through what I can only imagine was terrible pain. Elves can see long distances. Very long distances. Treebeard was voiced by John Rhys Davies who also was Gimli. I am so happy you caught that Gollum said “me” and “my” after Frodo calls him Smeagol. Fell Beasts! The bit where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli find Gandalf in Fangorn was filmed on a sound stage where they just brought in a bunch of branches and leaves and such. When Gandalf shows up they had Christopher Lee (Saruman) do the voice over too and kind of meshed the voices together. They also claim that they overlaid Chris’ eyes on Ian McKellen’s for a moment, but I have not gotten a visual confirming this. Calling Gandalf the Grey becoming Gandalf the White “leveling up” is crazy and I’m here for it! 1:07:00 When Gandalf calls Shadowfax, that horse was trained to come when called and stop on a plank of wood at Ian McKellen’s feet. Only needed one take to call that horse from across the field and he stopped right at Ian’s feet. I love that you love Treebeard and his poetry 1:17:29 The ring only makes the wearer invisible. Impossible to make two people invisible at once with it. They had the elven cloaks of Lothlorien. Which makes the wearer incredibly difficult to see. If you are a distance away and still your enemies cannot see you. Or as you see here, if you cover yourself in them, they camouflage. They shimmer and change colors in the books. Hard to do this in the movie without it looking cheesy so this is what we got. 1:30:06 In the book, there is another level to this part that didn’t make the cut of this movie because of a change they made in the introduction of Aragorn’s character. In the book, he already has Anduril, Flame of the West, reforged from the Shards of Narsil. At this point, he doesn’t want to give it up. He refuses to hand it to the doorman and he leans it against the wall and says that he forbids anyone to touch it and will kill anyone who dares. It’s such a cool moment in the book. Shame it isn’t in the movie. All because Peter thought Aragorn carrying a broken sword in Bree would be humorous. Darn it PETER! However, I do like the little fistfight with the servants of Wormtongue. 1:36:50 I also love the moment Aragorn bows to Theoden. Especially after he just stopped him from committing murder out of anger in front of his people. Now, he could have sentenced Grima to death or life imprisonment. But not in that irrational state of anger. 1:37:58 This I’m pretty sure is actual Old English. Like, the really old English. I am also pretty sure Tolkien wrote what she is saying. And you are right. Making you feel sad about a character’s death that didn’t even SPEAK! Like, how!!??! I love these films so much! 1:45:25 I absolutely LOVE the moment between Brego and Aragorn in the stable where he calms him! I wish it was in the theatrical cut. It makes sense why it isn’t. But also, Brego comes back later. So I like that this sets that up. 1:54:40 I love this scene with Gollum PO-TAY-TOES! 2:04:05 Yes, Eowyn fancies Aragorn. But he doesn’t return it. Because, obviously, Arwen. You going, “She obviously has a crush on him and I don’t blame her, I do too.” Made me burst out laughing. Because I don’t think there is a woman alive who could watch these movies without having a bit of a crush on Aragorn.

Anyone else get slightly annoyed when someone says they don't like Sam because of how he treats Gollum?

You were wondering if the swamp was the site for the battle in the very beginning, where Isildur cut the ring from Saurons finger - and the answer is no. The war is the same, that was the site for the previous battle. After that the last alliance of elves and men commensed to besiege Barad Dur, which one is the battle you saw in the first movie's intro. More points: Sauron wouldn't think that anybody would try to destroy the ring, because it's beyond him to understand beyond lust for power. He wouldn't believe there to be someone like a hobbit who just wants peace and quiet. And even then the ring does it's best to lure even hobbits with it's power, and given time, it will. And yea, those soldiers marching trough the gate to mordor are way far from east, Sauron has even men in his armies.

I can’t stand Sam he will not have the same smoke for Bilbo with his elites bigoted self he’s the least favorite character for that reason

wait, did you know that vigo mortensen broke his toes when he kicked the helmet, thats why he yelled and went down , sheer pain

I've seen this trilogy so many times it stillgets at all the same scenes emotionally. The whole score for all 3 movies is the best I have heard in any movie ad my favourite out the 3 movies is the Rohan theme ead to toe gosebumps every time. I nromally watch these movies once a year before christmas and I decided to watch them on your channel as I've never watched them within a reaction before on my annual watch. I've watched loads reactions but no extended watches other with than Media Knights, who are another of my favourite channels. I love how you pick on a load of stuff that most other channels dont notice. looking forward to pt2 then ROTK next.

The men of Numenor are men from an elf and human line, the first one tho. Arwen and her father Elrond are both half elf but for men it means a long life and high perception and longevity

Gandalf is a Maiar (might have spelled it wrong) and not a god but close- He’s a being created from this stories’ gods creation (Eru iluvitar created a bunch of gods like melkor and manwe) and those mf made shit like the land and the water and their creations included people like wizards and the balrogs and shit, but the god god made things like dwarves and elves and then eventually men and hobbits and other beings that live there and when they sung this existence was when Eru found his solution to war and adversary

Hi, if you're interested in the author's use and appreciation of language, you should watch the movie about him called "Tolkien". I think you would find it interesting.

I came back to watch this part because when I watched it the first time it cut off early. So I thought I would leave the answer to one of your questions that I haven’t seen anyone else answer. The reason that Sauron and Saruman would not think that anyone was going to destroy the ring is because they would believe that anyone who had it would want to keep it and use it.

You are really blowing my mind with some of your deep but quick and accurate insights. Bravo

28:50 Eowyn: "Theodred?" SoFie: "Theo-dead?" Loool meme

So excited for The Two Towers! I just finished the first and couldn't wait! As I knew, your reaction is everything! ❤❤❤ Before reaction channels, I used to play the movies as white noise. It made me feel like I was still close to them. 😂 It kept me immersed in that world, where I wish I could go, like many others.

its gone ?

By the way Treebeard is voiced by John Rhys Davies who also plays Gimli

I love the extended version this is my first time watching the extended version the scenes they added make it better and adds more comedy to the movie

"Gandalf the Grey?! More like Gandalf the Great!" 🤣🤣🤣

Will we get part 2 today Sofie?

Awsome reaction cant wait for part 2 :)

"Me! Not us!" You are brilliant

You should know when Aragorn kicked the helmet and screamed that was the real reaction of the Actor Viggo Mortensen breaking two of his toes haha

This is a comment I wrote on the last LotR post, but I deleted it because I thought it could be a spoiler for the lore (it has nothing to do with the movies though). But I want to share because Gimli is my favorite character < Possible spoiler > The most powerful elven king asked Galadriel for her hair, but she refused three times Thousands of years later, when Gimli asked, Galadriel gave him three strands. (This was included in the first movie) All the elves were surprised

Gandalf is bascically an "angel" indeed. Sauron and Saruman and even the Balrog were also "angels" on the same level as gandalf, but got corrupted and are now evil. They were all called "maiar", some kind of angels to the service of middle-earth gods

Boromir's final line to Aragorn was "I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king." :')

Amazing reaction, Sofie! It makes me so happy that you like these movies so much. :-) Here are some hopefully helpful and/or entertaining annotations: - The orcs have always talked. In the first movie, an orc tells Saruman that's it's difficult to cut the trees down, and an Uruk-hai says "Saruman!" when Saruman asks him whom he serves, for example. - Elvish things are often magical, they sense evil and hurt it. That's why Gollum can't eat the Elvish lembas bread that Frodo offers him, and it's also the reason why the Elvish rope around Gollum's neck burns him. - The way the filmmakers brought Gollum to life is truly fascinating. This was one of the first movies to create a digital creature by applying motion sensors to an actor. Andy Serkis who played Gollum did a fantastic job, not only with his voice, but also with his facial expressions and mannerisms. - The Ring can indeed be seen as a metaphor for drugs, but also for nuclear weapons. Which works well because the evil Sauron wants to use it and the good guys want to destroy it. - As for your question why Saruman doesn't suspect they would want to destroy the ring: Both Sauron and Saruman are simply too power-hungry and evil to be able to imagine anyone would rather destroy the ring than use it for their own selfish purposes. - Saruman is clearly delusional about working together with Sauron. Remember what Gandalf told Saruman in the first film: "There is only ONE Lord of the Ring, and he doesn't share power!" (The titular Lord of the Rings is actually Sauron, a fact that many readers and viewers often forget.) - Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) actually broke a toe when he kicked the helmet, which probably made his scream more believable. :-P - It's actually not surprising that Treebeard has never heard of hobbits. Hobbits live in a rather small, remote corner of Middle Earth and barely ever travel. Most people in Middle Earth have no idea what a hobbit is. - I think the "giant orcs" are probably trolls, because they resemble the cave troll that stabbed Frodo in Moria.

Loving it so far but how come its going black whenever you're talking when pausing? It's very jarring and distracting esp in a dark room :(