There was a scene when they showed frodo turning into the golem:
Arwen was at the battle at helms deep:
Aragorn prayed over the dead at helms deep:
Tom Bombadli was supposed to be in it:
There was a very long scene when they showed gimli and legolas in ithilien after the war:
*Weeps deeply*
And I would have loved to have seen all of those things!
WHHHHHAAAATTTTTTT!!?!?!?!?!?!?
Please don’t forget Annatar (Sauron’s fair form) at the end of RoTK
Fun fact the super gay AF scene between Aragorn and Legolas when Aragorn returned, Legolas gives him his necklace, they lean in close and Eowyn from afar suddenly gives up on him for some incomprehensible reason that probably has to do with her thinking Aragorn is gay for an elf
Well it was gay AF because the scene was meant to be between Aragorn and Arwen and eventually they decided having Arwen there didn’t make sense plot-wise so they kept the scene but replaced Arwen with Legolas
Legolas was specifically standing in for Aragorn’s elf girlfriend
There was a scene with Arwen and Galadriel cut, too!
Sorry for the terrible quality of the picture. It’s from the Official Movie Guide…it says nothing about what the scene is actually about, but can you imagine it? TWO ladies in a scene TOGETHER
teaches Merry and Pippin to defend themselves, praises them, apologises for accidentally hitting Pippin, lets them ‘tackle’ him, laughing and just being generally adorable
literally cuddling and helping M + P in the snow, “We cannot stay here. This will be the death of the Hobbits.”
catches Frodo when he’s attacked by the Watcher outside Moria – and carries him out of the water
puts a comforting hand on Gimli’s shoulder when they find Balin’s tomb
jumps across the bridge with M + P in his arms, then catches Sam and Frodo
holds Frodo as Gandalf falls, and literally carries him out of Moria
holds and comforts Gimli after Gandalf’s death
“Give them a moment for pity’s sake!”
stands up to Aragorn, defending his people
sobbing, whimpering, calling out and apologising to Frodo when he’s released from the influence of the ring
(and we know that resisting the Ring is one of the most difficult things ever and he literally says he want to use the ring against Sauron – to protect Gondor and it’s people)
runs to protect M + P, giving his all in that fight, protecting them on his own, continuing to fight even after he has been struck with multiple arrows
with his last breaths, his concerns are Merry, Pippin, Frodo, admitting to what he has done, worrying about his people, and pledging his allegiance to Aragorn as his king.
Boromir, who isn’t a bad guy, he has been condemned for making literally one mistake, people have chosen to ignore everything else he does. Boromir is sweetness and light and so just and pure hearted and he needs to be protected at all costs.
[…] all these folk have taught you to say so. For themselves they may be right. These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps. Yet often I doubt if they are wise and not merely timid. But each to his own kind. True-hearted Men, they will not be corrupted. […] And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power. It is a gift, I say; a gift to the foes of Mordor. It is mad not to use it, to use the power of the Enemy against him. The fearless, the ruthless, these alone will achieve victory. What could not a warrior do in this hour, a great leader? […] I need your Ring: that you know now; […] If any mortals have claim to the Ring, it is the men of Númenor, and not Halflings. It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It shoud be mine. Give it to me!
Boromir, to Frodo in Book II, The Breaking of the Fellowship
#boromirweek | Day 3: favourite quote
Yes, my favourite quote (or conversation) is this one, though it has very little of the good and much of the bad and the ugly and it does pain me to see him like this.
But I like it best—for the first part—because, beside what he has already said at the council of Elrond, it shows how dear he holds his countrymen and how valiantly he thinks of them. Secondly, though, he also says what I think is the view that most of the people of Gondor hold at the time—regarding Elves and Half-elves etc.—because what’s presented as Faramir’s view (which is somewhat more well-informed and (therefore) less sinister*, if not much less suspicious, or careful at least) certainly isn’t the popular one, neither does the very positive perception of the Elves by the people of Dol Amroth strike me as such. Overall (and with what we learn a little later on) this makes me see Boromir as a true voice of his people.
I do like it also, however, because we finally see the Ring’s power—if really just a fraction of it—other than that which draws the Nazgûl close or Galadriel’s performance which ends pretty mildly. We’re finally shown that the Ring corrupts. The mere thought of it, of having it, of wanting it does. It does this to a good man. Frodo asks Boromir, if he did not listen at the council: that they can not use it because whatever is done with it turns to evil. I don’t think Boromir didn’t listen, or plain didn’t want to hear it (again) in that moment but couldn’t. That the Ring had him well wrapped up in it’s power, that it would try anything to get into someone’s hands who would just use it, before Boromir literally leapt at Frodo for it.
And I think this part is still too often misunderstood. People might think it’s about Boromir not being a good man, or at least not good enough—but I would argue that it’s about no one being good enough, that this is about the Ring being too powerful, instead. Sometimes the question comes up: would Faramir have succumbed to the Ring? And I can not make myself say no. He may have held out longer that Boromir, perhaps, at least by what he says to the Hobbits about it when they meet in Ithilien, but it would still be a mere matter of time (for anyone in its proximity such as was with the Fellowship).
It’s tragic, of course, to witness Boromir’s fall here, especially with all that follows, but I do love this scene—this quote—in so far as that it’s a further glimpse into the people of Gondor, of whom little is known at that point, and that it shows a very human character with all hopes, desires but ultimately and very immediately also the flaws within them/the means sought to achieve these ends and because the Ring finally “gets” its power.
