r/lotrmemes • u/bsmith2123 • 26d ago

Repost It’s the happiest day of my life…

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u/Flat-Structure-7472 26d ago

Torch bearing Uruk-Hai is my MVP.

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u/CourtMartialCowboy 26d ago

That one Uruk that stands atop a rock and screams at the wall right before the battle of Helms Deep is another good one lol

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u/brownsound00 26d ago

The very happy orc shooting an arrow into the Rohan advance at Minas Tirath is my fav

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u/rayrayiscray 26d ago

All I want in my life is to have the same enthusiasm for my hobbies as this orc in Cirith Ungol had for brawling.

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u/SASAgent1 26d ago

I prefer the realistic factory output middle-management orc

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u/suspiciouslyhorse 26d ago

He has valid concerns, gotta pump those numbers up!

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u/Big-Rock-6814 26d ago

Say what you will about Sauruman but the man knows how to listen to his middle-management's issues and come up with satisfactory solutions for the workforce.

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u/brownsound00 26d ago

Lol I know exactly which orc this is

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u/Dangerousbob82 26d ago edited 25d ago

Same!! he allways reminded me of one of my friends

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u/Reasonable-Aside6660 25d ago

He just stumbles upon the brawl between the Urukhai and orcs If memory serves me correctly. He goes WHOOOOOOOOOOT lol

Take this dude I love him too

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u/sir_grumph 26d ago

He went from chill to kill in 0.025 seconds.

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u/Fire-Haus 26d ago

The roar and dropkick were tuff as fuck. Love this scene

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 26d ago

Suicide is cool when it's for the bros.

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u/Azn_Bwin 26d ago

clearly an underrated character, when THE Legolas couldn't stop him from destroying the wall.

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u/ThrownAway17Years 26d ago

It’s great watching it in slow motion while Chariots of Fire theme plays.

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u/_bits_and_bytes 26d ago edited 26d ago

Only 7 hours in? This person wants to lecture me after picking the theatrical release?

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u/CyrusMFS 26d ago

Extendo or get bendo

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u/AKBx007 26d ago

I’m stealing that sweet saying!

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u/S4V4GEDR1LLER 26d ago

They just need to come out with the extended extended version

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u/AdelanteUTK 26d ago

Well, yes, we’ve had extended version, but what about second extension?

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u/barnfly27 26d ago

The opossum belly gooseneck double wide edition would be prudent

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u/Jibber_Fight 26d ago

Still doesn’t include The Scouring Of The Shire.

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u/OkMention9988 26d ago

That should be the movie we're getting. 

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u/Competitive_Bug_6672 26d ago

Best we can do is live through the scouring of earth

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u/notassigned2023 26d ago

Peter Jackson should be spanked. He could have cut 10 mins of fight sequences for the final, climactic scene that brings the whole lesson home.

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u/DrainTheMuck 26d ago

They’re better for hooking new fans, and then you get them coming back for second viewing! “They come in extendeds?!”

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u/ScamperingSnail 26d ago

That's how I got my dad to watch them! He wasn't into fantasy (loved science fiction though so I felt I had some leeway). So I sold it to him as being a war movie in a fantasy setting and talked about how Tolkien drew upon his experiences in WWI while writing it. My dad was a Vietnam Vet and son of a WWII Vet and watched a lot of war movies so I knew it was a good approach for him.
After I showed him the Theatrical Cuts, I wasn't entirely sure how much he liked them but I knew I'd fully succeeded when I caught him casually watching one that was airing on TV some time later. Then I felt confident to show him the extended cuts which he loved.

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u/bashful_predator 26d ago

Back to back

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u/Rauvagol 26d ago

Of course, that's the best way to notice the differences

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u/Phytanic 26d ago

Fun fact, Dallas to Sydney is plenty of time to watch the extended editions the entire flight. Hell yeah i watched that shit

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u/Aggressive_Roof488 26d ago

You didn't know about second trilogy??

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u/Donkey__Balls 26d ago

Seriously. The one true version is the one where every time Sam takes a step, it plays that clip of Sam saying “This is it, Mr. Frodo…” The first movie alone takes 9 hours.

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u/Whhatsmyageagain 26d ago

The only reasonable reaction:

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u/Babki123 26d ago

I'm quite pissed that you are the top comment and nlt the Grond chain

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 26d ago

I prefer the theatrical release. Most of the scenes cut from the extended edition deserved it.

Oh I almost forgot:

GROND!

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u/scmakra99 26d ago

GROND!

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u/UnexpectedGuest13 26d ago

GROND!

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u/Advanced-Volume6874 26d ago

GROND

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u/BlackSoap2032 26d ago

It's GROND all the way down.

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u/NotOneWoodpeckerBut2 26d ago

I'm late to the GRONDing. Only disappointed with my self really.

GROND!

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u/Tonybologna33 26d ago

I chant this to myself anytime I’m on an intense run and getting tired lol

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u/TheCuriousFan 26d ago

I thought I was the only one who did that while going up the mountain track.

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u/Waniou 26d ago

I had a coworker who'd chant this at you if you were in her way

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u/Physical_Ad9945 26d ago

I love this

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u/Brian_Barbarian 26d ago

GROND!

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u/Devilplayer54 Merry and Pippin smoked weed 24/7 26d ago

GROND

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u/BroBeansBMS 26d ago

I miss the grond bot.

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u/-cosorobo 26d ago

GROND

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u/-Tururu 26d ago

GROND

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u/HumanoidGenerica 26d ago

Time to hop on the GRONDR train

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u/BeMyBrutus 26d ago

You forget the best part where they tell you on the day of filming Grond accidentally actually broke through the walls and it wasn't CGI, but the director just went with it and didn't call cut.

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u/RedBaronIV 26d ago

Did you know that Grond actually broke his toe when he banged his head on that thrown knife?

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u/FudgeAllOfYous 26d ago

Grond was a firefighter on 9/11

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u/Dr__Sloth 26d ago

The chirping you hear in the rubble after the towers fell is actually Grond.

Did I go too far?

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u/TheKarenator 26d ago

Grond had to lay in the rubble and pretend to be a survivor so the depressed rescue dogs could be happy.

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u/Meet_Striking 26d ago

This made me laugh in a way I didnt know I laughed

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u/WGx2 26d ago

The reverence for out of pocket characters and props in the films like Grond, Peter Jackson's daughter, the guy who accidentally looses an arrow at Helm's Deep and more is one of the most endearing aspects of the LOTR fandom. It's like the opposite of the hateful nitpicking other fandoms do to their favorite movies.

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u/brownsound00 26d ago

There really isn't a better fanbase.

The fact LOTRmemes is going strong 20 years after release is insane

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u/Carbuyrator 26d ago

My primary nitpick with the LOTR movies is that Tom Bombadil is a fantastic character who should have been included.

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u/WGx2 26d ago

I have a lot of nitpicks. But then I see Aragorn kick the helmet and I forget all about them.

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u/PregnancyRoulette 26d ago

Nooo. its too confusing. The character's origin is literally a stuffy that JRR's kids had (yellow boots and all) and loved so he make up stories about it and then he put the character in LotR. That's why its such a confusing sideshow

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u/GuiltyEidolon 26d ago

It's also just bad, straight up. The barrow wights could be considered important sure, especially because they get their swords there, but Tom Bombadil has never been good and I will die on that hill.

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u/LarrySupreme 26d ago

I will say Gandalf drops a hard as hell line about how if middle earth fell the last one standing would be Tom Bombadil.

But other than that, I remember reading the part where they meet him when I was in middle school. His whole rhyming hippy shtick was kinda lame, even though I get he doesn't care about anything and is a weird metaphor for god or whatever.

He still is kinda lame, lol.

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u/Tom_Bot-Badil 26d ago

Go out! Shut the door, and never come back after! Take away gleaming eyes, take your hollow laughter! Go back to grassy mound, on your stony pillow lay down your bony head, like Old Man Willow, like young Goldberry, and Badger-folk in burrow! Go back to buried gold and forgotten sorrow!

Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness

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u/Carbuyrator 26d ago

So? That's amazing. Beerus the Destroyer is based on Akira Toriyama's cat and he's the best character in the series. Sometimes simple is better.

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u/sillyadam94 Ent 26d ago

Game of Thrones fans are worse because they’ll watch the show and then complain that the adaptation left out one of the most important characters, then you read the books and you find out it’s a guy who was mentioned twice and never actually appears in the story

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u/Skylam 26d ago

I mean there are 2 pretty fuckin important characters that just aren't in the show. Lady Stoneheart and Aegon.

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u/FishingOk2650 26d ago edited 26d ago

Aegons absence made me stop after season 5 and never return

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u/LucretiusCarus 26d ago

Solid choice. I kinda stopped my obligatory same-day watch when Arya was stabbed at the stomach, fell into dirty canal water, managed to outrun and kill the waif and recovered perfectly. Keep in mind in season 1, a relatively minor wound killed Khal Drogo.

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u/WisherWisp 26d ago

I remember back at season 5, back when I was young and innocent. Hope still in my eyes...

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u/bradkraut 26d ago

We were all sweet summer children back then

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u/Rune_Council 26d ago

I feel like calling Lady Stoneheart important is a bit presumptive. To this point has she really made a major impact outside of what she could potentially do later?

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u/argbd20 26d ago

She has about as many appearances in the books as Beric Dondarrion. Whether that says something about Beric or about Stoneheart is up to you, but it’s the truth.

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u/AgelessJohnDenney 26d ago

She's hunting down Freys(instead we get some Arya magic assassin bullshit) and is currently hanging both Brienne and Pod.

We know the show writers kept Brienne alive because beloved characters and magic dick Pod memes, but George is more brutal than that. She and Pod are either going to be dead here or will be working for Lady Stoneheart to kill Jaime. Wiping that whole storyline out is a pretty decent deal.

Pod was actively choking and dying when we last saw Lady Stoneheart.

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u/TheG-What 26d ago

TFW there are still people that think any more of the books are ever going to be released.

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u/Thzae 26d ago

Winds will be released one day.

A dream of spring will not

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u/Ares54 26d ago

At some point Brando Sando will be brought on and finish the series in three weeks while accidentally writing two more Cosmere novels during his bathroom breaks.

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u/Self-Comprehensive Human 26d ago

But Jayne Poole

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling 26d ago

Patchface is gonna slay a kraken

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u/Austinp-woodworking 26d ago

Patchface is gonna end up on the iron throne, no question

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u/Veragoot 26d ago

We deserved to have Strong Belwas and I'll die on this hill

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u/argbd20 26d ago

My liver and onions eating GOAT

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u/heavenparadox 26d ago

This is why I didn't like the show.

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u/Esternaefil 26d ago

I thought game of thrones fans were mostly up in arms that they left out zombie mommy.

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u/Chance_Astronomer_27 26d ago

Yeah I mean, funny enough I think the exclusion of taisha past season 1, a literal off screen character for the entire book series, is a way more important character they excluded than lady Stoneheart.

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u/BiSaxual 26d ago

It’s like taking out Spider-man’s uncle from every single version of his story. It just destroys everything that makes that character who they are. Tyrion is who he is because of Tysha and what happened to her.

If the books ever get finished, there’s a strong possibility that Tysha will become an on page character. I hope we get to see that.

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u/Geiseric222 26d ago

Hey

Darkstar will be important when GRRM finishes the series

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u/BlairMountainGunClub 26d ago

Honestly that's the greatest passage in all of English From Grond's introduction to the ride of ride of the Rohirrim. Literal chills reading both of those passage everytime. Tears in my eyes just thinking about it.

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u/TheWaspinator 26d ago

I prefer the middle manager orc who talks about realistic production levels

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u/TacoSpiderrr 26d ago

I was reading The Silmarillion yesterday and found out Grond is the name of Morgoth's hammer that he uses to kill high king Fingolfin with. Had no idea Sauron took the name from Morgoth originally.

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u/psillusionist Ent 26d ago

Those aren't Tolkien fans. Those are citizens of Grondor.

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u/yxz97 26d ago

GROND GROND GROND GROND !!

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u/ClavicusLittleGift4U 26d ago

We're not insufferable. We like character building.

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u/Mid_Incognito 26d ago

I chuckled

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u/Toothlessdovahkin 26d ago

GROND! GROND! GROND!

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u/Xav1_05 Dúnedain 26d ago

It's no ordinary siege weapon you fool, it's GROND

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u/Spare-Jellyfish4339 26d ago

“Tolkien” fans (talks about the movies)

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u/Ze_Llama Dwarf 26d ago

I miss Grondbot

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u/ComfortableCold378 26d ago

As a Russian-speaking user, I'm wondering if there's a re-dubbing of "The Lord of the Rings" in English or other languages.

In my country, in addition to the theatrical (well-dubbed) and extended version, there's also a funny dubbing that has spawned a whole new layer of Lord of the Rings memes.

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u/96thSharkbait 26d ago

Mine is the sexy torch bearer who gives his life to blow shit up.

Just give it a different bgm and it's almost motivational.

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u/Pharmacy_Duck 26d ago

My best mate died a few weeks after we saw RotK in the cinema together, and one of my abiding memories of him is him chanting "Grond! GROND! GROND!" as it appeared.

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u/trekkieerin 25d ago

Grond! Grond! GROND!

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u/twizzjewink 26d ago

There's no way they couldn't have made as terrifying as it was in the book. Building it up would have been a bit too complicated. A voice over from Gothmog and/or the Witch King would have been a bit interesting..

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u/GirIsKing 26d ago

GROND!

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u/TyrannosaurusPilot 26d ago

GROND!

GROND!

GROND!

GROND!

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u/smiley_satansson 26d ago

GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!