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grima’s tear
i believe he found the sight of the all conquering isengard army beautiful
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Hey dol, merry dol, ring a dong dillo!
Where’s Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo????
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Elrond: Man Hater?
As I’m sure everyone noticed, in the movie trilogy Elrond is not a big fan of the race of Men. In fact he seems to deem them weak and useless. Yet Isildur and Aragorn are direct descendants of his brother Elros. He is Aragorn’s foster father, and future father-in-law if all goes well. Not only…
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Aragorn’s claim to Gondor
I was researching on an unrelated topic when I came across this piece of information on The Thain’s Book (www.tuckbourough.net). It concerns Aragorn’s claim to the throne of Gondor. In this essay the author seems to imply that the heirs of Anarion, King of Gondor died out, and that Aragorn therefore claimed it as the…
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What Gimli says to Haldir…
When Gimli says the Dwarvish line in Lothlorien, and Aragorn turns to him and says “That was not so courteous” – this makes very little sense, as no translation is provided on-screen (as far as I remember), so the viewer doesn’t know what Gimli has said or why it’s discourteous. Little bit of a slip…
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Twins
You should have mentioned the twins Elladan and Elrohir. Otherwise, great.
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Aragorn
In this scene, Aragorn is not as kingly as they made him out to be. When talking to the two hobbits (taken out of the movie completely), he wrapped his cloak around him and started to smoke again. Pippin says something to the effect of “Strider the Ranger has come back!” and Aragorn replies with…
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Aragorn’s Sword
In the book, they also talked about Aragorn’s sword, which I noticed they left out of this scene.
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Sniffing Riders
I think they left out my favorite quote in the entire book! “Your talk of sniffing riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.” (Pippin after Frodo talks about the Riders sniffing)
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Slight Correction to your data…
-The making of the Fellowship In the books, Elrond chooses the companions for Frodo. “For man you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely.” (FotR, The Ring goes South) After that, Aragorn again asks Frodo for leave to be his travelling companion. In the films, Aragorn is the…
