“We’ve had one breakfast, yes, but what about second breakfast?” Aye, that sounds as delightful as afternoon tea, which stateside is as much a fantasy as everything else in these films! Wizard Battle!
Pippin takes a moment to illustrate hobbit dining habits to a less than interested Strider. At this point, it isn’t exhausting to witness struggle it’s terrifying, much like the contorted Dutch angle staring up at this grim reaper.
As Merry, Pip, and Sam struggle to ignore all the nasty spiders and creepy crawlies running away from the wraith, Frodo is having his first true battle of temptation with the ring. It even turns to animation for one of its best moments involving Elijah Wood and a stunt guy in an elaborate costume.Įmulating a famous scene from the 1978 Ralph Bakshi The Lord of the Rings, a Ringwraith corners Frodo and his companions on the side of the road. Lacking the CGI windswept battles of the rest of its trilogy, or the overabundance of 48fps and blue screen wizardry of The Hobbit Trilogy, this first 35mm feels, frankly, old fashioned. The beauty of Fellowship of the Ring is how classical its approach seems compared to the rest of the Jackson/Tolkien affairs. “Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks!” Dear Elrond, we don’t! Take the ring don’t hurt us, just take the ring! Almost Had Him Read more: Can Fantasy Films Escape the Lord of the Rings’ Shadow? Hearing Bag End creak and twist in the shadows cast by Ian McKellen’s mere annoyance is the stuff of nightmares. Thus when it finally runs cold, on dear old friend Bilbo no less, it’s one of the most frightening moments of the trilogy. With his long flowing beard of silver, and his absent-mindedness when he meets Frodo with a feeble excuse for his tardiness, this is a big man with a big heart. Gandalf the Grey really does seem to live up to his name for most of Fellowship’s first act. Read more: Is The Fellowship of the Ring The Last Great Film Score?įortunately, from the moment Ian McKellen appears on screen there is no doubt that he is indeed Gandalf the Grey, brought to life in live action for the first time, and perfectly embodied. If this first on-screen interaction between two of the key players of the films, separated by height, species, age, and potential power, didn’t work on every imaginable level, then the entire trilogy would be built on sand. But in this case, the introduction of Ian McKellen’s Gandalf is so important. Meet Gandalfįellowship of the Ring is such a perfect film that it’s tough to not just make this into a scene-by-scene triptych. Watching Sauron annihilate soldiers by the half-dozen with each swing before getting his digits severed was a breathtaking moment when first beheld, and the fact that these opening moments also managed to summarize key events from The Hobbit (no jokes, please) is all the more impressive. It’s handled elegantly, with plenty of reverence and just the right touch of spectacle. There’s considerable heavy lifting that needs to be done in order to tell Sauron’s origin and get the necessary exposition out of the way to set up the general Middle-Earth mythology at the start of Fellowship of the Ring. So, in celebration of fourteen years of Peter Jackson bringing the most seminal works of fantasy fiction to life, we look at our (many) favorite moments from the two trilogies.
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There’s even a Lord of the Rings TV series in the works over at Amazon right now, although that will deal primarily with characters we didn’t meet in these films. Unlike the open-ended narratives of superhero films, The Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbitmovies have definite resolutions.
Tolkien’s Middle-Earth mythos is the kind of thing we’re unlikely to ever see attempted again. Regardless of your feelings about The Hobbit trilogy, the sheer scope of Peter Jackson’s six film exploration of J.
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