The influence of this film — and really, this trilogy — on the drinking game genre cannot be overlooked. My housemates and I hosted a marathon with all three extended editions; the guests were encouraged to riff along (hey, we were Rocky Horror people, OK? Comes with the territory) but we had a penalty box set up…

“My friends! You bow to no one.” got me all teared up when I first saw it, and still does honestly.

One small moment that shows Jackson’s attention to detail is the arrival of the eagles to pick up Sam and Frodo. There are *three* eagles. Why the superfluous eagle (Gandalf’s eagle picks up Frodo).  Because Gandalf knew that Smeagol was with the hobbits. He brings the extra eagle for Smeagol. That thought almost…

I could write ten-thousand words on the LOTR film trilogy without taking a breath. What it, and the books, have meant to me. Then and currently.

sigh so many great moments in these films. I still feel Two Towers is the best and why the hell PJ left out the reckoning with Saruman at Isengard remains an unsolvable mystery. The Hobbit films sullied these for me because frankly PJ exhausted me with them. Never should have been 3 films- EVER. as a result his whole…

I still maintain and will always maintain that Sean Astin absolutely, positively, without question should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this movie.

In rewatching the trilogy yet again over Christmas break (I’ve seen these movies a million times, but it had been a few years since last viewing), my main takeaway was, “I can’t believe Sean Astin didn’t get a supporting actor nomination for this.” He is so, so good as Sam, but especially effective in ROTK.

Even though I grew up with the prequels, Lord of the Rings is still my generation’s Star Wars. The only difference was that a lot of us knew the story going in and the level of hype and expectation, especially for Return of the King, was simply through the roof. And with the exception of the last Avengers movie I…

Proudfeet!!!!

“So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion...”

To say that as the guy is burning to death in front of you is the ultimate badass

When the LOTR movies started showing up in theatres, I was in my mid 20s and had been a fan of the books since I had first read them. Fellowship was a revelation to me. The magic of seeing these books onscreen was great, but Jackson’s reverence for the books, and his ability to carve out great cinema from them made me…

At the time I felt that all those Oscars were for all three movies and they waited for the last one to hand them out. I loved the books since the 1980s and now even 20 years later these movies are still fun to watch.

Exactly ... wbich is why I have to disagree with “The biggest problem, I realized upon rewatching, is that Jackson never quite gets me to care about any of those characters.”

I rewatched the trilogy over the weekend. They’re the only Blu-ray discs I own, which I now realise means that my Blu-ray player is in fact a dedicated LotR player. It’s perfect. I mean yes there are a few bits where the cgi didn’t quite manage it and Aragorn’s accent wanders a bit in the first film and the army of…

On Youtube, the lead comment for clip of the charge of the Rohirrim scene reads something like “There you have it, folks, the greatest moment in cinematic history.” I tend to agree that about covers it.

“funniest character in the whole trilogy is Gimli”

I read the whole series for the first time when I was 7, and another 4 times since. These movies made me so happy.

My family has a tradition of watching these movies every Christmas, and slowly Theoden has become favorite character. His death in this movie gets me every time. “I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.” Every fucking time.

As a passionate Lord of the Rings fan my feelings about the third movie have always been sort of mixed. On the one hand it is a fantastic spectacle, perhaps the best ever filmed, and it holds up remarkably well. Maybe the problem is that it bore the burden of following and having to conclude two of the greatest films…