friendship challenges

[mark12_30]

It's an oldie, but I thought I'd "bump" this thread and add the second and third movies for discussion.

TTT: "Leave him alone, Laddie. Let him be."

TTT: Legolas' silent return of Arwen's necklace to Aragorn. Nice touch.

ROTK: Sam's refusal to be sent home, though non-canonical, was still a good expression of stubborn loyalty.

RotK: "Courage, Merry. Courage for our friends."

RotK: "Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of dwarves?" Nice line, nice segue.

[Lhunardawen]

Good ones, Helen.

Boromir's swordsfighting tutorials for the hobbits has been already mentioned. So was his death, with Merry and Pippin screaming in vain. But who could have forgotten his final conversation with Aragorn, right before he died? The words he uttered were not only for a comrade, a brother, a captain, or a king...but also for a friend.

TTT:

Legolas looking over the cliff after Aragorn fell, and the bewildered look in his eyes when Theoden said, "Leave the dead."

"Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?"
"Hehehe."

RotK:

"I never imagined fighting alongside an Elf."
"How about fighting alongside a friend?"

*scattered sniffles*

Now that I look at it, the friendship between Gimli and Legolas stood out the most for me. After all, this one is out of the ordinary. Such can be expected from the hobbits, but not from two individuals whose races had a longstanding disagreement. It's amazing how adversities can change people.

[ninlaith]

Love, love, love, bum bum bum. It's easy. I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. This love is all around me and so the feeling grows....oh sorry..little show stopper there.

FOTR:

Frodo: "Sam we're still in the shire what could possibly happen?"
(POW)
Pippin:" Oh Frodo! Merry, it's Frodo Baggins!"
Merry: "Hello Frodo!" (so happy to see each other)

Sam: "Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee! And I don't mean to...I don't mean to."

Arwen: "I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

The part where boromir is about to fall from the arrows of the Uruk-hai and Pippin and merry stand there in astonishment then let out these mournful cries for their friend and head straight into the running Uruk-hai.

I've got more. Many more....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Pippen searching for hours amidst the dead and dying for Merry after the Battle in RotK.

"I knew you'd find me."

*sniff*

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Pippen searching for hours amidst the dead and dying for Merry after the Battle in RotK.

"I knew you'd find me."

*sniff*

I was just about to say the same thing! I was watching RotK and that very same scene today and for the first time I realized how horrible it must have been for Pippin. Imagine that your best friend is somewhere there probably lying dead. You wish to find his body but there are tens of thousands horribly mangled orcs and men in the battlefield. Imagine all the smell and gore *shudders*

Another one is Aragorn's line: "For Frodo." A man who's about to become a king and marry a girl he loves rushes against an orc army head over heels. Not maybe the best tactic to attack but I'm imprssed.

[Dimturiel]

One of the most impresives scenes, as far as friendship and loyality are concerned, is the one when Aragorn says: "For Frodo." and the first to follow him are Merry and Pippin. It is so sweet! Also, I like the scene from the inn from ROTK when the four Hobbits are sitting together. It always brings tears to my eyes.

[Evisse the Blue]

I agree about the Legolas-Gimli relationship being depicted well.
Also, the scene with the hobbits in the bar at the end of ROTK- that is such a well done scene in my opinion! It shows the hobbits a bit apart from the rest of the people in the bar, which by contrast, underlines their friendship with each other. Only they know what they went through, and this knowledge brings them together. But at the same time, they're still the kind of friends they were before they set out, ready to rejoice in drinking an ale (compare with scene in FOTR in the bar).
Also another friendship that stood out for me is (don't laugh) Boromir and Aragorn. This mostly works because of Aragorn's brilliant skills in dealing with people. His modesty as a character in the movie really pays off when it comes to this relationship. Meaning, Aragorn from the book and Boromir from the book didn't get along so well together, they were always a bit cold and at a constant disagreement. Of course, Boromir from the movie was far more good natured that Boromir in the book. There are scenes like the one in Lothorien, when they talk together, or when they just sit together, talking and smoking, in Moria, waiting for Gandalf that tells you they're good friends; so it doesn't come as far fetched to see Aragorn cry when Boromir dies.