LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring The Shadow of the Past

my favorite part

[stellarwind]

Sir Ian Mckellen’s acting here is particularly superb

[ripsnorter]

The fact the ring is basically alive and can talk and listen to you is fucking creepy

[IronsteffL]

When Frodo mentions Sauron and the ring whispers "Zigûr....", "wizard" - woah, goose-bumps every time. Thanks for sharing!

[Ronald_Ruck]

I always giggle when Gandalf says "It's quite cool."
I like to imagine that he is describing how awesome the ring is.

[Rathause]

I love that look of relief on Gandalf's face when Frodo says "there's nothing"
And I love that second look on his face as soon as Frodo says "wait...", I can practically hear Gandalf's internal monologue of "Goddammit"

[AstraVex]

For a such an evil dark language of doom, the ring has a rather nice font 🙂

[PaperbackWizard]

Frodo: "But he was destroyed. Sauron was destroyed."
The Ring: "The f**k you just say?"

[TolkienGeek.]

The fact that the ring whispers "Zigur, " which is Sauron in the Numenorean language, is such a small but very impressive detail by Jackson and the writers.

[bro_bruh]

"evil is stirring in mordor" *chills every time*

[pengyang]

I like how at 2:30, Sauron is like "I hear you guys talking shit about me, I'm not dead."

[bilbo_gamers]

1:10 you can see gandalfs miniscule amount of hope he had left, that this was just a lesser ring after all, evaporate in this moment

[krusekids]

I love the change in Gandalf's face when Frodo says, "Wait." From relief to total despair. Fantastic acting.

[hothotheat]

Elijah Wood’s eyes are so big. It makes him look even more innocent and guileless. He’s basically a Disney character thrown into real life

[DjVortex-w]

In the book Gandalf isn't hesitant to take the ring with his hands and handle it. In the movie he's extremely hesitant to even touch it.

I don't know, I actually like the movie's choice more. It just emphasizes how dangerous the ring is, when even Gandalf doesn't want to touch it.

[BustYoung]

What blows my mind is that in the actual books…from the time Gandalf leaves the shire to go investigate the history of the ring after Bilbos birthday party…17 YEARS PASS. It’s literally 17 years before he shows back up to the shire, finding Frodo (who is 50 years old already at this point) and tells him it is indeed the one ring and it must be destroyed and the journey begins from there. But I always loved how Tolkien had very realistic views on time and space in his world. Gandalf is an immortal being, so 17 years is literally like a week to him, and tracing the History of the ring that is thousands upon thousands of years old and had changed hands and been lost multiple times…finally he comes to the clue that fire will make writing appear upon the band. That’s when he journeys back to the shire. But it’s such a task that it takes him nearly 2 decades (and during this time he and aragorn actually captured Sméagol, Aragon takes him to the halls of king thranduil, Legolas father, the same dungeons we see in the hobbit movies…only for Sméagol to escape). So yea I always loved how Tolkien portrayed the MASSIVE amounts of time that passed between major events in his story. Obviously for a 3 hour film Jackson had to make it seem like Gandalf was only gone for a few weeks or so and came right back, which works better for the film obviously but nothing beats the books.

[folkestrid]

You gotta realize what they were doing. They didn’t have the money to pay for the heavy players; all of these guys were unknown. Except for one. They had one guy to rely on. One guy to express it. One guy to deliver it all and in the fandom bind them. And that was Sir Ian McKellen. They KNEW they didn’t have a dime for Brad Pitt as Aragorn or some shit. They knew they needed someone to deliver what seemed a whole heap of bullshit to sell the idea of a ring being the face of evil, a threat big enough for all of the races of middle-earth to come together to defeat.
They chose Sir Ian McKellen, and they knew what they were doing.

[xaptus]

2:32 If I ever heard a ring whisper like that to me, I would lock it up & move out of that country fast a I could

[augustuslxiii]

If Gandalf wasn't sure it was THE Ring, it was rude of him to assume it was "quite cool." A normal ring would have burnt Frodo's hands.

[Aeros]

You know, for a language with a dark and evil origin from bleak terrible ugly lands, in it's written form, the language is elegant.

[MaiaGothmog]

Sauron is so scary, even his ring whispering gives me chills.