comic relief in LotR - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-21-2002, 03:02 AM

I love the funny moments in the book, so let's share them!
One of my favorites is the scene in the Houses of Healing, where Aragorn and Gandalf want the athelas for healing the wounded.

Aragorn to Ioreth: "Run as quick as your tongue and get me kingsfoil."

Gandalf: "I will ride... with Ioreth... and she shall take me to the woods, but not to her sisters. And Shadowfax shall show her the meaning of haste."

Aragorn to the herb-master: "I care not whether you say now asea aramion or kingsfoil, so long as you have some."

Gandalf to the herb-master: "Go and find some old man of less lore and more wisdom who keeps some in his home!"

Doesn't that crack you up?!

Lobelia · 01-21-2002, 05:35 AM

I love the comic moments, too! And Ioreth is a hoot. But my favourite is the reaction of the Gaffer to Sam's homecoming:

(to Frodo) 'And I hope my Sam's behaved hisself and given satisfaction?'

'Perfect satisfaction, Mr Gamgee', said Frodo. 'Indeed, if you will believe it, he's now one of the most famous people in all the lands ...'

(I just love the contrast of this, after hundreds of pages of the most dire trials. The Gaffer hears Frodo's reply and continues undeterred:...)

'I takes a lot o'believing, though I can see he's been mixing in strange company. [Indeed!!] What's come of his weskit? I don't hold with wearing ironmongery, whether it wears well or no.'

What I love about this is not only that it's hilariously funny but that it's also somehow very moving at the same time.

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-21-2002, 07:54 AM

yes, lobelia! Doesn't that evoke a mental picture of a hobbit at Mark's and Spencer's:
"It's so heavy and uncomfortable!"
Salesman: "But it wears well!"

Lush · 01-21-2002, 11:07 AM

I laughed out loud at the part when Pippin and Merry greet the Riders at Isengard, and Gimli's reaction to them ("Where did you come by the weed, you villians? Hammer and tongs!"), as well as Legolas' amusement ("...I would sooner learn how they came by the wine."). It was a much-needed moment of comic relief after all the bloody doings, dead orcs, and howling wolves.

Thingol · 01-21-2002, 08:38 PM

There are so many funny moments in The Scouring of the Shire. The Scouring of the Shire is arguably the best chapter in The Lord of the Rings because of Tolkien's juxtaposition of humor and profound sadness in the chapter. My personal favorite is when Rosy says to Sam that he better not leave his master now that things are just beginning to look dangerous. Although like Lush, I laughed out loud when the company of Rohan find Merry and Pippin in front of the Orthanc.

Lush · 01-21-2002, 09:55 PM

The ability to create a flowing mix of sadness and humor is the mark of a true writer (remember Gloucester falling down, and Lear dressed in flowers in Will Shakespeare's King Lear). Three cheers for Tolkien.

Aralaithiel · 01-22-2002, 04:07 PM

What a great thread! Actually, I am still howling with laughter over the movie where they are crossing the Khazad-Dum and Gimli says "Nobody tosses this dwarf!"
Now my quest begins to fondly recall other hilarious moments!

Eldar14 · 01-22-2002, 05:02 PM

Hmmm. . . my favorite funny part? I'd have to say when ol' Bilbo dissapears at his eleventy-one party. It's a classic. The crowd's reaction is the best part. Just imagine what their faces looked like. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

That's the face

Dûrkriswen · 01-22-2002, 05:06 PM

I allwas thought the S-B's were funny, just because of there attitude, and they were allways trying to get their hands on anything that Bilbo had that was valuable. I allso thought it was funny how Frodo went and saved Middle Earth and is a hero and all - except in his own land! No one seems to care about what happens in the "outside world," nor do they want to here about it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

03-13-2002, 03:28 PM

I always found Gollum amusing which, now that I think about it, is quite disturbing.

Starbreeze · 03-13-2002, 03:37 PM

I found Gollum funny too - don't worry! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

ElanorGamgee · 03-13-2002, 03:44 PM

I loved Gollum!

"Give me fish now, keep nassty chips!"

Belin · 03-13-2002, 03:50 PM

Orcs can be amusing too.... like at the end of TTT when Gorbag and Shagrat are carting Frodo off and talking and Shagrat says "Ah, well, you always did take a gloomy view." Come on, you're orcs in Mordor for goodness sake!... And, as Lush says, it's just great when authors stick in the moments of humorous irony at very solemn parts of the story.

dragongirlG · 03-13-2002, 03:53 PM

Gollum is funny, if you think about it. LOL! But I like the part when Sam stands up to Faramir. I cracked up.

"See here! Let's get to the point before all the Orcs of Mordor com down on us! If you think my master murdered this Boromir and then ran away, you've got no sense; but say it, and hae done! And then let us know what you mean to do about it. But it's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He'd be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he'd got a new friend, he would."

I also like the part where Pippin says (in Lothlorien, after Galadriel's questioning with her eyes,) "What did you blush for, Sam? Anyone would think you had a guilty conscience. I hope it was nothing more than a wicked plot to steal one of my blankets." That made me laugh a lot.

I did also enjoy reading Flotsam and Jetsam, when Gimli gets all angry, and in "The Scouring of the Shire" when the travelers make the Shirrifs run in front of them. Served them right!

[ March 13, 2002: Message edited by: dragongirlG ]

ElanorGamgee · 03-13-2002, 03:56 PM

I also thought it was great the way Merry was making jokes while being pushed around by the orcs.

"'Hullo, Pippin,' he said. 'So you've come on this little expedition, too? Where do we get bed and breakfast?'"

Lyliac · 03-13-2002, 04:41 PM

i think the funnniest part is when tolkien describes the presents bilbo gives away after he leaves.

Birdland · 03-13-2002, 11:13 PM

I always loved "Please Mr. Frodo, sir!...
Don't let him turn me into something unnatural! My old dad would take on so." Poor Sam!

"I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh."

Kalimac · 03-14-2002, 12:20 AM

Yes, that "My old Dad would take on so" is what really makes that one [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. You can just imagine the Gaffer chewing Sam out for getting himself turned into a toad ("Allus knew somethin' bad 'ud come of this book-learnin' and foolishness").

"Flotsam and Jetsam" is one of my favorite parts of all of LOTR, and the talk between the hobbits and Legolas and Gimli is great for that sort of thing. (Gimli saying "smoking - smoking!!!" and "Well earned [comforts]? I cannot believe that!") And the hobbits give as good as they get. Of course the scene is funny largely because it's a bit of downtime after Helm's Deep and the storming of Isengard, but it's also very humorous to see how differently the hobbits talk to the Elf and the Dwarf...as equals who have also been through battle, instead of the comic baggage they were before they were kidnapped. Understandably it takes Legolas and Gimli a few moments to catch on, but they do eventually [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] .

Joy · 03-14-2002, 12:30 AM

I loved the Flotsam and Jetsome chapter also. Though one of my fav scenes is in the "Houses of Healing" chapter. It is the chapter after Merry is healed and he begins to talk to Aragorn about pipeweed, then Aragorn goes into his speal and leaves him. Then Pippin says "My dear a*ss....." That was so funny! Of course the scene with Ioreth and her kin.

Haldir · 03-15-2002, 04:27 PM

I loved the part when Frodo woke up in Rivendell
and Pipin yells at him "The Lord Of The Ring Woke Up !"
that was so funny I wet my pants...

[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]too bad it has been cut off the movie...

Rosa Underhill · 03-15-2002, 05:02 PM

I was quite fond of the description of the things Bilbo left to his friends and relatives (especially the spoon for Lobelia). And Frodo and Sam in Mordor talking about stories; I laughted outright reading that.

The bath scene at Crickhollow was hilarious!
Frodo: I'm drying off in the kitchen where there's less water in the air! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Samwise · 03-15-2002, 05:14 PM

Sigh....showing my ignorance yet again...
What's a weskit?

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"Come on, Sam!" said Merry. "There's more stored in your head than you let on about. "

ElanorGamgee · 03-15-2002, 05:18 PM

I looked up weskit, and apparently it's a waistcoat.

Samwise · 03-15-2002, 08:01 PM

Oh, okay. TY. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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*Frodo and Sam walking across a feild*
*Sam stops*
*Frodo turns* "Sam, what's the matter? "
*Sam* "If I take another step, I'll be farther from home than I've ever been."

NotHomeYet · 03-15-2002, 11:52 PM

"Then who would you take up with? A fat inkeeper who only knows his own name because people shout it at him all day?"

I also cracked up when I read the part where one orc greets the other with "hola!" b/c I know this guy who speaks fluent Spanish, and he would take it as a personal insult that Orcs speak it as well. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Mirkgirl · 03-16-2002, 06:35 PM

It's strange but one of the moments that made me laugh was the fox in "Three is company" /I can't find the exact quote in English now/

03-17-2002, 08:21 PM

Hi, this is my first post. :-)

I wanted to say I love all the comic moments that others have mentioned, but there's another great one that I haven't seen here yet --

Gandalf is trying to figure out the words to open the doors to Moria, and says that the doors cannot be forced open from the outside.

"What are you going to do then?" asked Pippin, undaunted by the wizard's bristling brows.

"Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took," said Gandalf. "But if that does not shatter them..." (etc.)

I love Gandalf! When those brows start to bristle, watch out!

Estella

Samwise · 03-17-2002, 09:52 PM

That whole scene is a knee-slapper, Estella. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Welcome to the 'Downs!

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"Well, I'm back."
Sam Gamgee

Amarinth · 03-17-2002, 10:19 PM

yeah i love all the funny lotr stuff you guys mentioned, especially the meeting of the hobbits and the rohan party in isengard ("hammer and thongs" exclaims gimli [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ).
there's another eposide that cracked me up...when aragorn, legolas and gimli found signs of merry and pippin where the uruk-hai were raided by the rohirrim...they couldn't make sense of how the hobbits escaped and found the sense of eating in the middle of the skirmish. i hope they show that in the ttt movie!

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muffin_goddess · 03-19-2002, 12:51 PM

Yeah I love all those bits. but one of the things that most impressed me about the movie was how they managed to brink humer into moria, thae part with Billy and how he flinched every time the corpse banged and how Viggo said the words "they have a cave troll!" It just goes to show, even in the direst places you can find humer if you look hard enough

firncristwen · 03-19-2002, 01:29 PM

Oh my goodness...how could you guys have forgotten when Samwise goes to try and save Frodo? He uses the Galadriel-glass to get past those horrid-sounding guards, once he does they send off a warning to I believe the watcher on the tower. As our favorite hobbit realizes this he says: 'There! Now I've gone and rung the front-doorbell!', or something to that affect. I was crying from laughter and that's a marvelous achievement of the trilogy; when scary parts affect you to the point that you're tense from all the orcs and mouth of Sauron and God knows what you get a wonderful line like that. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

pippin_took0 · 03-25-2002, 09:47 AM

I like it when they go to the house at Crickhollow, and the hobbits are wondering who should be first in the bath. Merry says 'Should it be the quickest or the oldest? Either way, you'll be last Pippin'

And in Rivendell, Gandalf says to Frodo:
'And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.'

!! I just think they're funny, people being mean to eachother!

VanimaEdhel · 03-25-2002, 01:19 PM

A-HEM! Did we forget the little incident with the Legolas and Gimli contest with killing the orcs?!
lol [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Nevfeniel · 04-03-2002, 10:06 PM

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that was so funny I wet my pants...

I hope you didn't mean that literally. . .

Nevfeniel · 04-03-2002, 10:22 PM

I thought it was hillarious in the scouring of the shire. . .

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"What's all this?" said Frodo, feeling inclined to laugh.
"This is what it is, Mr. Baggins," said the leader of the Shirriffs, a two-feather hobbit: "You're arrested for Gate-breaking, and tearing up of Rules, and Assaulting Gate-keepers, and Trespassing, and Sleeping in Shire-buildings without Leave, and Bribing Guards with Food."
"And what else?" said Frodo.
"That'll do to go on with," said the Shirriff-leader.
"I can add some more, if you'd like it," said Sam. "Calling your Chief Names, Wishing to punch his Pimply Face, and Thinking you Shirriffs look like a lot of Tom-fools."

[ April 03, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

Tigerlily Gamgee · 04-03-2002, 10:35 PM

I really like where Pippin is talking about the events with the Ents & he gets to the part where...
~"Gandalf!" I said at last, but my voice was only a whisper. Did he say: "Hullo, Pippin! This is a pleasant surprise!"? No, Indeed! He said: "Get up you, you tom-fool of a Took! Where in the name of wonder in all this ruin is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!!~

Birdland · 04-04-2002, 05:03 AM

Sam beaning Bill Ferny, and muttering "Waste of a good apple." [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Niphredil Baggins · 04-04-2002, 05:52 AM

Hmm... what has happened to my memory? Ah, this is the vision: Frodo and Sam found by the men of Faramir. I can't remember the discussion, but it was hilarious, the rangers of Ithilien wondering wether they be elves, and deciding they are not fair enough...

Nevfeniel · 04-04-2002, 05:39 PM

It was kinda funny when the orcs thought Sam was an Elvish warrior. I just thought 'Far from it. . .'

Arwen Imladris · 04-04-2002, 08:07 PM

One more that I can think of, Sam at the council of Elrond, Frodo isn't going any where without me (or something like that). And of corse the corresponding sceen in the movie, you need someone of inteligence on this mission, quest, thing. Well that rules you out pip.

Also in the movie: what about second breakfast...

01-21-2002, 03:02 AM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,499	comic relief in LotR I love the funny moments in the book, so let's share them! One of my favorites is the scene in the Houses of Healing, where Aragorn and Gandalf want the athelas for healing the wounded. Aragorn to Ioreth: "Run as quick as your tongue and get me kingsfoil." Gandalf: "I will ride... with Ioreth... and she shall take me to the woods, but not to her sisters. And Shadowfax shall show her the meaning of haste." Aragorn to the herb-master: "I care not whether you say now asea aramion or kingsfoil, so long as you have some." Gandalf to the herb-master: "Go and find some old man of less lore and more wisdom who keeps some in his home!" Doesn't that crack you up?! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-21-2002, 07:54 AM	#3
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,499	yes, lobelia! Doesn't that evoke a mental picture of a hobbit at Mark's and Spencer's: "It's so heavy and uncomfortable!" Salesman: "But it wears well!" __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-21-2002, 11:07 AM	#4
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	I laughed out loud at the part when Pippin and Merry greet the Riders at Isengard, and Gimli's reaction to them ("Where did you come by the weed, you villians? Hammer and tongs!"), as well as Legolas' amusement ("...I would sooner learn how they came by the wine."). It was a much-needed moment of comic relief after all the bloody doings, dead orcs, and howling wolves. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

01-21-2002, 08:38 PM	#5
Thingol Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Long Island, New York Posts: 259	There are so many funny moments in The Scouring of the Shire. The Scouring of the Shire is arguably the best chapter in The Lord of the Rings because of Tolkien's juxtaposition of humor and profound sadness in the chapter. My personal favorite is when Rosy says to Sam that he better not leave his master now that things are just beginning to look dangerous. Although like Lush, I laughed out loud when the company of Rohan find Merry and Pippin in front of the Orthanc. __________________ Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.

01-21-2002, 09:55 PM	#6
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	The ability to create a flowing mix of sadness and humor is the mark of a true writer (remember Gloucester falling down, and Lear dressed in flowers in Will Shakespeare's King Lear). Three cheers for Tolkien. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

01-21-2002, 05:35 AM	#2
Lobelia Wight Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 150	I love the comic moments, too! And Ioreth is a hoot. But my favourite is the reaction of the Gaffer to Sam's homecoming: (to Frodo) 'And I hope my Sam's behaved hisself and given satisfaction?' 'Perfect satisfaction, Mr Gamgee', said Frodo. 'Indeed, if you will believe it, he's now one of the most famous people in all the lands ...' (I just love the contrast of this, after hundreds of pages of the most dire trials. The Gaffer hears Frodo's reply and continues undeterred:...) 'I takes a lot o'believing, though I can see he's been mixing in strange company. [Indeed!!] What's come of his weskit? I don't hold with wearing ironmongery, whether it wears well or no.' What I love about this is not only that it's hilariously funny but that it's also somehow very moving at the same time.

01-22-2002, 04:07 PM	#7
Aralaithiel Ghost Eldaran Queen Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A remote mountain in Valinor Posts: 353	What a great thread! Actually, I am still howling with laughter over the movie where they are crossing the Khazad-Dum and Gimli says "Nobody tosses this dwarf!" Now my quest begins to fondly recall other hilarious moments! __________________ A lelyat, wen! (Quenya Elvish for "You go, girl!"

01-22-2002, 05:02 PM	#8
Eldar14 Wight Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: the Cottage of Lost Play Posts: 182	Hmmm. . . my favorite funny part? I'd have to say when ol' Bilbo dissapears at his eleventy-one party. It's a classic. The crowd's reaction is the best part. Just imagine what their faces looked like. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] That's the face __________________ "Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!" -- Fëanor to the Noldor

01-22-2002, 05:06 PM	#9
Dûrkriswen Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 12	I allwas thought the S-B's were funny, just because of there attitude, and they were allways trying to get their hands on anything that Bilbo had that was valuable. I allso thought it was funny how Frodo went and saved Middle Earth and is a hero and all - except in his own land! No one seems to care about what happens in the "outside world," nor do they want to here about it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/...2320898899.jpg

03-13-2002, 03:28 PM	#10
Howlin' Pelle Guest Posts: n/a	I always found Gollum amusing which, now that I think about it, is quite disturbing.

03-13-2002, 03:37 PM	#11
Starbreeze Ghost of a Smile Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mirkwood - Middle Earth Posts: 389	I found Gollum funny too - don't worry! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Do not tamper with the affairs of wizards, they are not all that subtle - Terry Pratchett To write is to make dreams, to make dreams is to awaken the fantasy of the mind, to awaken the mind is to be a master.

03-13-2002, 03:44 PM	#12
ElanorGamgee Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 314	I loved Gollum! "Give me fish now, keep nassty chips!" __________________ Soli Deo Gloria

03-13-2002, 03:50 PM	#13
Belin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: all the wide unfriendly pathways of the world Posts: 330	Orcs can be amusing too.... like at the end of TTT when Gorbag and Shagrat are carting Frodo off and talking and Shagrat says "Ah, well, you always did take a gloomy view." Come on, you're orcs in Mordor for goodness sake!... And, as Lush says, it's just great when authors stick in the moments of humorous irony at very solemn parts of the story. __________________ "I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum

03-13-2002, 03:53 PM	#14
dragongirlG Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Stock, the Shire Posts: 151	Gollum is funny, if you think about it. LOL! But I like the part when Sam stands up to Faramir. I cracked up. "See here! Let's get to the point before all the Orcs of Mordor com down on us! If you think my master murdered this Boromir and then ran away, you've got no sense; but say it, and hae done! And then let us know what you mean to do about it. But it's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He'd be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he'd got a new friend, he would." I also like the part where Pippin says (in Lothlorien, after Galadriel's questioning with her eyes,) "What did you blush for, Sam? Anyone would think you had a guilty conscience. I hope it was nothing more than a wicked plot to steal one of my blankets." That made me laugh a lot. I did also enjoy reading Flotsam and Jetsam, when Gimli gets all angry, and in "The Scouring of the Shire" when the travelers make the Shirrifs run in front of them. Served them right! [ March 13, 2002: Message edited by: dragongirlG ]

03-13-2002, 03:56 PM	#15
ElanorGamgee Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 314	I also thought it was great the way Merry was making jokes while being pushed around by the orcs. "'Hullo, Pippin,' he said. 'So you've come on this little expedition, too? Where do we get bed and breakfast?'" __________________ Soli Deo Gloria

03-13-2002, 04:41 PM	#16
Lyliac Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Dead Marshes Posts: 25	i think the funnniest part is when tolkien describes the presents bilbo gives away after he leaves. __________________ "Atheism is a non-prophet organization" [img] C:\Documents and Settings\user1\My Documents\My Pictures\sig1.gif [/img]

03-13-2002, 11:13 PM	#17
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	I always loved "Please Mr. Frodo, sir!... Don't let him turn me into something unnatural! My old dad would take on so." Poor Sam! "I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh."

03-14-2002, 12:20 AM	#18
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Yes, that "My old Dad would take on so" is what really makes that one [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. You can just imagine the Gaffer chewing Sam out for getting himself turned into a toad ("Allus knew somethin' bad 'ud come of this book-learnin' and foolishness"). "Flotsam and Jetsam" is one of my favorite parts of all of LOTR, and the talk between the hobbits and Legolas and Gimli is great for that sort of thing. (Gimli saying "smoking - smoking!!!" and "Well earned [comforts]? I cannot believe that!") And the hobbits give as good as they get. Of course the scene is funny largely because it's a bit of downtime after Helm's Deep and the storming of Isengard, but it's also very humorous to see how differently the hobbits talk to the Elf and the Dwarf...as equals who have also been through battle, instead of the comic baggage they were before they were kidnapped. Understandably it takes Legolas and Gimli a few moments to catch on, but they do eventually [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] . __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

03-14-2002, 12:30 AM	#19
Joy Spirit of a Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wandering Posts: 1,012	I loved the Flotsam and Jetsome chapter also. Though one of my fav scenes is in the "Houses of Healing" chapter. It is the chapter after Merry is healed and he begins to talk to Aragorn about pipeweed, then Aragorn goes into his speal and leaves him. Then Pippin says "My dear a*ss....." That was so funny! Of course the scene with Ioreth and her kin. __________________ God bless, Joy KingdomWarrior@hotmail.com http://kingdomWarrior.jlym.com As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

03-15-2002, 04:27 PM	#20
Haldir Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 40	I loved the part when Frodo woke up in Rivendell and Pipin yells at him "The Lord Of The Ring Woke Up !" that was so funny I wet my pants... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]too bad it has been cut off the movie... __________________ "In place of a Lord you shall have a Queen, not Dark but Beautiful and Terrible as the Dawn, Treacherous as the Sea, Stronger than the foundations of the Earth all shall love me and dispair"

03-15-2002, 05:02 PM	#21
Rosa Underhill Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waymeet, the Shire Posts: 297	I was quite fond of the description of the things Bilbo left to his friends and relatives (especially the spoon for Lobelia). And Frodo and Sam in Mordor talking about stories; I laughted outright reading that. The bath scene at Crickhollow was hilarious! Frodo: I'm drying off in the kitchen where there's less water in the air! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)

03-15-2002, 05:18 PM	#23
ElanorGamgee Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 314	I looked up weskit, and apparently it's a waistcoat. __________________ Soli Deo Gloria

03-15-2002, 11:52 PM	#25
NotHomeYet Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 13	"Then who would you take up with? A fat inkeeper who only knows his own name because people shout it at him all day?" I also cracked up when I read the part where one orc greets the other with "hola!" b/c I know this guy who speaks fluent Spanish, and he would take it as a personal insult that Orcs speak it as well. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] __________________ The signs are obvious They are everywhere All that we hear about Is the gloom and despair Too many would be prophets Saying it's the end of it all 'Cause Mother Earth can't take much more The skies are gonna fall So nature has its needs That's a lesson learned But it appears to me There are greater concerns 'Cause we can save the planet Thinking we will somehow survive But Father Time is calling us To save somebody's life So I won't bend and I won't break I won't water down my faith I won't compromise in a world of desperation What has been, I cannot change For tomorrow and today I must be a light to future generations --- 4HIM

03-16-2002, 06:35 PM	#26
Mirkgirl Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 84	It's strange but one of the moments that made me laugh was the fox in "Three is company" /I can't find the exact quote in English now/ __________________ "Hobbits! Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this."

03-17-2002, 08:21 PM	#27
Tracy Hemenover Guest Posts: n/a	Hi, this is my first post. :-) I wanted to say I love all the comic moments that others have mentioned, but there's another great one that I haven't seen here yet -- Gandalf is trying to figure out the words to open the doors to Moria, and says that the doors cannot be forced open from the outside. "What are you going to do then?" asked Pippin, undaunted by the wizard's bristling brows. "Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took," said Gandalf. "But if that does not shatter them..." (etc.) I love Gandalf! When those brows start to bristle, watch out! Estella

03-17-2002, 10:19 PM	#29
Amarinth Wight Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: realm of agonized volcanoes Posts: 113	yeah i love all the funny lotr stuff you guys mentioned, especially the meeting of the hobbits and the rohan party in isengard ("hammer and thongs" exclaims gimli [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ). there's another eposide that cracked me up...when aragorn, legolas and gimli found signs of merry and pippin where the uruk-hai were raided by the rohirrim...they couldn't make sense of how the hobbits escaped and found the sense of eating in the middle of the skirmish. i hope they show that in the ttt movie! --------------------------------------------- every man's life is a path to the truth -- hesse __________________ pity this busy monster,manunkind, not / -progress is a comfortable disease;/ your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness ---ee cummings

03-19-2002, 12:51 PM	#30
muffin_goddess Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: uk Posts: 22	Yeah I love all those bits. but one of the things that most impressed me about the movie was how they managed to brink humer into moria, thae part with Billy and how he flinched every time the corpse banged and how Viggo said the words "they have a cave troll!" It just goes to show, even in the direst places you can find humer if you look hard enough __________________ I don't aski much... just worship me feel free to eat my subjects

03-19-2002, 01:29 PM	#31
firncristwen Pile O'Bones Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The light-swept paths of imagination Posts: 15	Oh my goodness...how could you guys have forgotten when Samwise goes to try and save Frodo? He uses the Galadriel-glass to get past those horrid-sounding guards, once he does they send off a warning to I believe the watcher on the tower. As our favorite hobbit realizes this he says: 'There! Now I've gone and rung the front-doorbell!', or something to that affect. I was crying from laughter and that's a marvelous achievement of the trilogy; when scary parts affect you to the point that you're tense from all the orcs and mouth of Sauron and God knows what you get a wonderful line like that. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ 'For many life is only the border of a terrible dream; shall we pass, I wonder?' ...from "Quest in the Blue"

03-25-2002, 09:47 AM	#32
pippin_took0 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth Posts: 82	I like it when they go to the house at Crickhollow, and the hobbits are wondering who should be first in the bath. Merry says 'Should it be the quickest or the oldest? Either way, you'll be last Pippin' And in Rivendell, Gandalf says to Frodo: 'And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.' !! I just think they're funny, people being mean to eachother!

03-25-2002, 01:19 PM	#33
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	A-HEM! Did we forget the little incident with the Legolas and Gimli contest with killing the orcs?! lol [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

04-03-2002, 10:35 PM	#36
Tigerlily Gamgee Hostess of Spirits Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Meduseld Posts: 1,055	I really like where Pippin is talking about the events with the Ents & he gets to the part where... ~"Gandalf!" I said at last, but my voice was only a whisper. Did he say: "Hullo, Pippin! This is a pleasant surprise!"? No, Indeed! He said: "Get up you, you tom-fool of a Took! Where in the name of wonder in all this ruin is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!!~ __________________ ~ ExerciseJunky.com (Hobbits fitness of choice!)~ ~Lady of Rohan: An Eowyn Fansite ~ ~The NEW/OLD Barrow Downs Photo Page~

04-04-2002, 05:03 AM	#37
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	Sam beaning Bill Ferny, and muttering "Waste of a good apple." [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

04-04-2002, 05:52 AM	#38
Niphredil Baggins Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 118	Hmm... what has happened to my memory? Ah, this is the vision: Frodo and Sam found by the men of Faramir. I can't remember the discussion, but it was hilarious, the rangers of Ithilien wondering wether they be elves, and deciding they are not fair enough... __________________ Wistful, willful, wingless, fly!

04-04-2002, 05:39 PM	#39
Nevfeniel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 783	It was kinda funny when the orcs thought Sam was an Elvish warrior. I just thought 'Far from it. . .' __________________ Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.

04-04-2002, 08:07 PM	#40
Arwen Imladris Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a box with a fox Posts: 1,347	One more that I can think of, Sam at the council of Elrond, Frodo isn't going any where without me (or something like that). And of corse the corresponding sceen in the movie, you need someone of inteligence on this mission, quest, thing. Well that rules you out pip. Also in the movie: what about second breakfast... __________________ "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies, we must go, yes, we must go at once."