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I like how the Mouth of Sauron inadvertently gives away waaaaaaay too much information that allows Aragorn to discern that the plan hasn't failed 1) He never mentions Sam at all. Just that they caught a halfling with a mithril vest on. The Mouth exclusively only talks about the one hobbit they caught. 2) No mention of the Ring. If the enemy had the Ring, they would've revealed that immediately. So for not saying anything about Sam and the Ring, Aragorn is able to figure out that Sam at the very least is still alive, and most likely has the Ring. So the plan can still succeed as long as they hold the line. This is also why Gandalf stops Merry and Pippin from talking.
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The Council of Elrond might be the most underrated scene in the entire trilogy, and it's all because of Boromir. Everyone remembers the Black Speech, the darkening sky, Gandalf's voice cracking the room in half. But the real story of that scene is a good man quietly falling apart. The moment Frodo sets the ring down, Boromir is the first to speak. "So it is true." Two seconds, and the ring already has him. But here's what makes it tragic instead of villainous. Boromir never wanted it for himself. Watch his speech about Gondor. His father holding back Mordor for years, his people bleeding so everyone else's lands stay safe, and no one even thanking them for it. He's not greedy. He's desperate. He's a man who has watched his home fight alone for too long, and now someone puts a weapon on the table and tells him he can't use it. And listen to the music underneath. The second he speaks of Gondor, the horn theme plays quietly beneath him. Even while the ring is corrupting him, the score remembers who he really is. A man of Númenor. A protector. That's why the older you get, the more Boromir hits. As a kid you see the guy who tried to take the ring. As an adult you see the man carrying a weight nobody helped him carry, whose only real flaw was loving his people too much. He fails the test at the Council. But he dies with a horn to his lips defending two hobbits who couldn't defend themselves. The most human character in Middle-earth, start to finish
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I mean, the fact that Boromir is even able to give the ring back to Frodo at all shows his inner strength. People like Isildur and Sméagol were ensnared immediately. Boromir already proved in that moment that he was stronger willed than many. I love that Boromir is mostly a strong, heroic and well-intentioned guy. It makes the Ring even more insidious. The Ring can turn any hero into villain.
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The scene is actually pretty funny in the book - the soldiers look in amazement to Gandalf and praise him for his great wizard powers. He's like all humble saying "I only gave good council and made use of Shadowfax's great speed. You all did way more than me" and so on. And they all think he's fucking with them looking at the huge forest that appeared over night. Then he's like "Oh you mean the trees? - I didn't do that and I have no idea how they got here" :D
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Bilbo survived the Ring because he spared Gollum's life Sixty years he carried it, and it barely marked him. Not because he was strong. Because of one choice he made the day he found it: he had Gollum at his mercy, and he let him live. Gandalf says that pity is the whole reason the Ring took so little of him Gollum got the Ring the opposite way. He murdered for it. And it devoured him for five hundred years. That's the rule underneath Tolkien's world. The Ring doesn't corrupt you based on how strong you are. It corrupts you based on how you came to hold it
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Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't fly the Eagles to Mordor.
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I love how his own personal room in the tower looks tattered and disorganized. It makes me think that Saruman really did try researching and looking into ANY and EVERY solution and method to defeat Sauron, through logic and knowledge, but found nothing. He was too rational to consider hope, bravery, unpredictability, and cunning as advantages, and instead focused on numbers, power, and might. Like a mad scientist trying to solve an equation, he gave up, and refused to let anyone else solve it, either
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An entire audience of fans screaming "DEATH" during a live performance of The Ride of the Rohirrim.
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