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. :p

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 :D

[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.:D

[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.:p 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.

[Nibs]

I like it when the Dwarves of the Mountain come to Thorin's aid and nearly come to war upon the Elves and Lake-men, except Gandalf announces that the Goblins and wargs have gathered and will soon come upon them. It was pretty moving to read about them fighting together. The shouts of "Dain, Dain!!" and "Moria, Moria!!" really made my spine tingle.

[Khadrane]

I like Beorn in the book. Especially when Gandalf is telling him their story.:)

In the movie, when I first rented it from the library I was looking forward to seeing Bilbo get knocked off Dori's shoulders. Right at that part, however, the tape was spliced! I'm the most unlucky girl in the world. (Well, not really.:) )

[Elf Girl]

When Thorin dies. :(

[BeardofPants]

When Bilbo is trying to defeat the spiders in Mirkwood! I LOVE that song. ;)

[Beleg Strongbow]

When Frodo claims the One Ring of Power...
and just about any time they say that phrase.

<<oops, i didn't know that. Sorry..>>

[webwizard333]

Beleg Strongbow, just to let you know, this forum is for the Hobbit only, not the Lord of the Rings.

[SamwiseGamgeeOTS]

Ok. In Riddles in the dark, I don't think that "What have I got in my pocket?" is a riddle. Riddles are more wordy and complicated. Therefore I do not think that Bilbo should have won. (Not that I have anything against Biblo. He's a very nice hobbit.):confused:

[webwizard333]

Hi and welcome to the Moot (I'm glad to finally find someone else who thinks Bilbo cheated). I think you meant to post this in the Bilbo a cheater? thread, PM if this is the case.

[Radagast The Brown]

the beginning when Gandalf and Bilbo meet in the first time. I liked the 5 armies war too.

And I don't think that Bilbo did something wrong when he cheated. It was to save his life!! (and I do think he cheated, but it was a good thing)

[SamwiseGamgeeOTS]

imagine this. ur playing a game of riddles with your friends. You dont' want to loose, so you ask an impossible riddle, what have you got in your pocket. do you not think that your friends would call you a cheater too. every riddle has to have an answer of some kind that can be found. sure, what have i got in my pocket has an answer, but an impossible one. that is unfair to Biblo and Gollum. he could have came up with something better.

[webwizard333]

Back on topic, I would choose when the dwarves leap come out of the Lonely Mountain wearing their ancestors' armor and weapons.

[Radagast The Brown]

originally posted by SamwiseGamgeeOTS
imagine this. ur playing a game of riddles with your friends. You dont' want to loose, so you ask an impossible riddle, what have you got in your pocket. do you not think that your friends would call you a cheater too. every riddle has to have an answer of some kind that can be found. sure, what have i got in my pocket has an answer, but an impossible one. that is unfair to Biblo and Gollum. he could have came up with something better.Did I say that Bilbo didn't cheat? because I meant that Bilbo wasn't wrong when he cheated because it was to save his LIFE!!!!!
originally posted by webwizard333
Back on topic, I would choose when the dwarves leap come out of the Lonely Mountain wearing their ancestors' armor and weapons.Can I ask why?

[webwizard333]

I like that because the dwarves really start to take a more active role in reclaiming their treasure and heritage. Up until that point, Smaug had been killed by a man not a dwarf, Biblo had done much of the work, and it seemed until that point that their role was merely to get Bilbo to the Lonely Mountain. Also, please keep the discussion of Bilbo's fair play of lack thereof to the thread for that purpose.

[katya]

my favourite parts were riddles in the dark, and that part where the trolls ask what a burahobbit is. i laugh everytime i hear that. and the part about hooting. i guess there are a lot of good parts in that chapter...like the mutton thing. oh yeah and the conversation with smaug. that was great.

[Rían]

For some reason, the part where the elves' spears and swords "shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them."

I guess just the picture of righteous anger against evil.

[Gilrond]

"If more of us valued your ways, food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell."

[Lanelf]

Burrahobbit! LOL!
In the book one of my favourite bits was when Bilbo took the Arkenstone to the men. I didn't realise when I first read it (I was about ten years old) but when I reread a few years later I knew how brave he was for that. Yep, Hobbits rock.:)
Lanelf.