The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003, The Ride of the Rohirrim, Director: Peter Jackson
by PsychologicalSlip642
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003, The Ride of the Rohirrim, Director: Peter Jackson
by PsychologicalSlip642
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A masterpiece
Alright fine, I’ll go watch the trilogy for the 150th time.
I went to see this with my class at school when I was 9 years old. I am fully confident that no other cinematic experience will ever top this moment for me.
Imagine getting hyped up by his speech only for your horse to get shot and then trampled by all your homies in the initial charge
Chills.
The greatest speech by the greatest king leading the greatest cavalry charge in cinematic history.
*Ride now! Ride now! Ride!*
*Ride for ruin, and the world’s ending!*
*DEATH!*
Never fails to choke me up a bit.
LOTR Trilogy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Star wars Trilogy (or any other trilogy)
FUCK YEAH
What’s the point in these posts? Is it a bot?
I love these movies, but this comes across like a very bot-like post.
Have I forgotten bits or is some of this an extra scene at the beginning? Definitely need to rewatch it, haven’t watched it in probably 15-20 years.
Pretty much the best “the cavalry has arrived” scene in cinema history.
That moment when the orc general’s face shifts from “lol look at these nerds” to “oh, oh FUCK, this is about to SUCK” is so great.
In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen.
“You cannot enter here,” said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. “Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!”
The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.
“Old fool!” he said. “Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!” And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.
police siren should be replaced by horn of Rohirrim
This scene is awesome but I prefer the original and not the extended version. It’s cool to see Gandalf to toe to toe with the Witch-king and all – but it almost makes the appearance of the Rohirrim ‘smaller’.
In the original (which I weirdly can’t find a full clip of online) – you see lots of panic in the streets from the civilians and the soldiers. It seems like all hope is lost for everyone. But, in the extended version, it’s as if the riders are here just to save Gandalf and Pippin. It feels ‘smaller’ in a sense.
It’s crazy how good these movies still look
Still makes the hairs on my arms stand up
The greatest 8 or so minutes put to film of all time, fight me!
I can’t believe this was 23+ years ago.
At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before.
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
Spears shall be shaken, shields be splintered,
A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Suddenly, the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be over taken.
Fey he seemed, or the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire within his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a God of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shown like an image of the sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed.
For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath overtook them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
this scene pisses me the fuck off so much.
edit: Gandalf getting rekt by the Witch King specifically.
People can argue till the end of time, this will still be the greatest moment in all of cinema. Nothing will even top it.
This is probably one of my favorite scenes of all time. Never fails to give me chills and bring a tear to my eye.
And then the dead show up and make everything else superfluous. Should have stuck to the book, cause this charge is fantastic.
This moment is one I think lands much better in the theatrical vs. the extended cut. Rather than a deus ex machina that saves gandalf, the arrival of rohan happens amidst the chaos of the battle in the city, which Gondor is clearly losing. It literally turns the tide.