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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1277091" data-attributes="member: 2205">Hmmm... that's an interesting excercise.  I don't have the same moments, I don't think.  Let's see, going movie by movie:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frodo says "I will take the ring."  Gandalf sighs, everyone shuts up and Frodo continues, "Though I do not know the way."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gandalf falls into Moria's chasm.  This keeps going until after they start running through the trees in Lorien.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Fall of Boromir</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frodo standing on the shore with the Ring in his hand, trying to muster the courage to go on to Mordor alone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A few minutes later, Sam joins him and convinces him that he must go with him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Rohirric woman puts her kids on the horse and tells them to run to Edoras.  The little girl starts crying.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Theoden speaks the line "No one should have to bury their child" and breaks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In a moment of Ragnarokian fatalism, Theoden agrees with Aragorn to ride out against the Orcs at Helm's Deep with every expectation that he will die and his nation will be destroyed in the wake of his death.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gandalf comes up over the ridge and says "Theoden King stands alone," then Eomer comes up behind him and says "Not alone!"  This continues throughout the charge down the hill, and for that matter, while Sam speaks his lines about why they must go on.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Still not remembering well the order of things in the new movie -- wait until after tomorrow night when I've seen it two more times! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Still, here's a few moments I remember:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Rohirrim chant "Death" and charge into the hopeless battle at Pelennor Fields.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pippin sings that despairing song while teary but resolute Faramir rides to his death (or so he believes) and Denethor sits calmly spilling tomatoes and strawberry juice on his chin.  Tragic and creepy at the same time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eowyn pulls off her helmet and says "But I am no man!"  Granted, I agree with barsoomcore that this moment was surprisingly underplayed, but maybe I made it up too big in my mind as one of the most dramatic moments in print anywhere, so there's no way the film version could ever live up to it...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sam picks Frodo up and says "I may not be able to carry it, but I can carry you!"  For some reason this scene never struck me as emotionally powerful in the books, but man did it pack a punch in the movie!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sam and Frodo sit on the rock as lava flows around them talking about Sam and Rosie and the life they believe they'll never now have; glad at least to be together as friends at the end.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frodo and Co. take their leave of Merry, Sam and Pippin at the Grey Havens.</li> </ul>And also, was anyone else really creeped out by Gollum at the very end?  As he hugs the ring to himself, completely oblivious to the fact that he's falling in the frikkin' lava?!  Or the look on his face as he hits the lava, and tries to hold the ring up out of it; clearly more concerned about it than himself...</blockquote>

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