The Epic Moment

[Forge315-Halfling]

Good name think I might right a poem called that, oh sorry. Back to real subject.

I was thinking about good points in the cartoon movie and book, and well what exactly are your favorite moments in the book and movie?

In the movie I was always moved when that king guy died, and the book it was always "Riddles In The Dark".

That last exchange of words, and Gollum’s says:

"Not Fair! Not Fair!" he hissed. "It isn’t fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it’s got in its nasty little pocketses?"

Lol! Pore Gollum.

Also, I always like the one poem or song, that goes:

Roads go ever on,
over rock and under tree,
by caves where never sun has shone,
by streams that never find the sea;
over snow by winter sown,
and through the merry flowers of June,
over grass and over stone,
and under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on under clouds and under star,
yet feet that wandering have gone turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen and horror in the halls of stone look at last on meadows green and trees and hills they long have known.


Share your moments away.

[Varda]

In the animated movie, I also appreciated the Gollum scene... and in RotK I liked the orc song "where there's a whip, there's a way." My roommate gets songs from that movie stuck in her head, liek "frodo of the nine fingers and the ring of doom" and such. in the book of TH..... I like Beorn a lot... the riddle game... oh, and in the book and in the movie I enjoyed bilbo's conversation with the dragon. very amusing

[webwizard333]

I liked the dragon conversation alot, but my favourite moment was when Bilbo heard that the Eagles were coming just before he passed (or was it knocked?) out.

[Ñólendil]

Knocked. I think he was hit in the head by a flying stone.

[Strange-Looking Lurker]

How on middle-earth am I supposed to chose <i>one</i> scene?!?!

One that's really good is when all the dwarves start showing up at Bilbo's house.

[Strange-Looking Lurker]

grrr....how do I post HTML on these forums?

[Varda]

like this italics use the [ and ] instead of < and > or else simply press the "I" button for italics when you are sending

[olorin]

I always enjoyed Bilbo's last taunt to Smaug, the one that cost him a bit of foot hair.

[morkhon]

My favorite and what I think is one of the most moving scenes in any of Tolkien's works is Thorin's death.

[webwizard333]

You're right, that is a very moving scene.
A rather scary scene is when Bilbo has just lost the dwarves and Gandalf.

[Strange-Looking Lurker]

It's also interesting when Thorin almost throws Bilbo over the cliff. Makes you wonder what would have happened if he had.

[olorin]

We would know whether or not hobbits bounce.

[webwizard333]

That's a funny game, but Bilbo had lost too much fat over the journey to bounce. He would've have probably made a "splat" sound and then the book would have ended much earlier.

[Linette Smallburrow]

-Bilbo and Gollum's riddle competition. I especially liked how Bilbo used Gollum's own tool (The Ring) against him.

-How Bilbo got the dwarves out of the dungeon and out of Mirkwood. Even though he was stuck riding on the top of one of the barrels and almost half-drowned himself, it was still better than being stuck INSIDE one of the barrels! I had to wonder if he wasn't feeling a little smug about it then.

-The Death of Thorin. That scene--in the MOVIE, mind you--always makes me want to cry. Hans Conried and Orson Bean put a lot of emotion into that scene. It's one of the most memorable scenes of the movie.

[Bregalad, Ent of Fangorn]

I agree that is a well done scene, but the rest of the movie I feal does not do the book Justice.
The same goes for the Fellowship Movie comming out it looks good so I hope it is not a dud.

[Agburanar]

Riddles, yeah them. But I just love Bilbo's arrival at the Green Dragon, 11 o-clock sharp. (Thin Hobbit go crunch, just ask Smaug!)

[Ace]

My favorite scene in the cartoon movie is at the Battle of Five Armies when Gandalf speaks with the Kings. Thorin goes, "Get out of the way, old fool." Gandalf replies, "Old fool?" Gandalf is saying, you crazy. Then the following speech rocks, and all of a sudden Thorin and Thraindul become "my truest friend and ally, your people are like brothers to mine." Show's what happens when an army of orcs with claim to the treasure comes riding on wargs.

Also, for those who like the songs, you can download them on morpheus, i just made a cd, where the odd tracks are LOTR pieces and the even tracks are songs I like. My friends think I'm a loser. They just don't get it.

"If the choice be mine, I say, we march!"

[Twilight]

I like the dwarves singing about how they were going to smash everything while they were washing dishes in Bilbo's house. That must have annoyed Bilbo so much.

[Agburanar]

Ooooooh yeah!

[barrelrider110]

Have many favorites.
One not mentioned:
How Gandalf tricked the trolls,
Also Bilbo's conversation with Smaug.
Also liked Gandalf first meeting with Bilbo; See my sig.