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Frodo just fell right into the Haunted Mansion

A lot of the visual language in these movies got either tried-and-abandoned or passed over entirely by film at large, but video games really picked them up and ran with them

It hadn't occurred to me how much Gollum was in the movies. I think people are a little generous in how well they say the CGI effects aged, but you do gotta hand it to them for how many scenes they had to animate him in

Gollum trying to stop Frodo and Sam from blindly barging right in Mordor's front door is very the DM trying desperately to convince the players to rethink their really stupid plan without outright telling them not to do it

Come to think of it didn't Boromir have something to say about this

Treebeard

Manface

The bit with Merry and Pippin waking up in the forest is about the most changeling thing I've ever seen packed into like two minutes

I didn't know there was an exorcism in LotR

A big reason why I have struggled with this series is that everyone has fifteen names and Tolkien really expects you to remember every single one of them

Might be a reason I'm doing better with the movies and after I'm already somewhat familiar with the Lore™, because I can see who's being referred to and I've heard people explain "This person has this and this name for these reasons"

Sam would fail the "would you still love me if I were a worm" test

He would still love you if you were a worm, it's just that when you ask he'd be like "but worms are super gross"