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10followedfelagund:

DELETED CLIPS FROM THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY.

Some things in this video that make it worth watching:

• Legolas and Arwen saying goodbye to each other as the Fellowship leaves Rivendell, by awkwardly touching each other’s faces.
• Homesick (heartbreaking) Merry and Pippin.
• Aragorn angsting at Gandalf, over whether Sauron can really be defeated.
• Shot of some orcs about to attack Lothlorien.
• Wounded Merry being hugged by Pippin in the middle of a battlefield. 
• Oh look, a really fucking big army of orcs.
• A two-second shot of young Aragorn and Arwen being adorable in Lothlorien, where they first met.
• Eomer being sexy as fuck (and kind of confused-looking? Or maybe that’s just his face), riding through a forest somewhere.
• Legolas walking through a forest, which is not interesting unless you know this is the epilogue, and it’s supposed to be Ithilien. But then where’s his dwarf?
• “If we do not trust to the strength of men, then we trust to the victory of Sauron.”
• Eowyn. Is fucking awesome. And fights orcs in the caves under Helm’s Deep. 
• Oh yeah, you know that Aragorn angstiness earlier, about Sauron? Turns out that in the original cut, that wasn’t a troll he was fighting at the gates of Mordor. It was literally Sauron. In the glowing, heavily-armored flesh.
• Legolas being repetitive (of course).
• Some Hobbits in suspenders.
• Aragorn doing a L’Oreal commercial in the snow.
• More stuff from the Council of Elrond. Apparently Sauron forged the Ring with some of his own blood inside it. Ew.
• Elrond does the English version of the “One Ring to Rule them All” rhyme. Yikes.
• Galadriel’s only appearance in the video, being ethereal as shit.
• Arwen in her Helm’s Deep costume and hairdo. I’m so glad that never actually became a thing.
• Oh wait I lied. Galadriel being even more ethereal. I didn’t think it was possible.
• Eeew. Holy shit. Faramir’s vision of Frodo becoming a creature like Gollum.
• Gimli’s epilogue scene! His magnifying glass reminds me of Balin.
• Eowyn being a motherfucking badass, orc-killing and yelling at the other women to run. 
• Aragorn getting his ass personally kicked by Sauron.
• Aaaand a perfect ending: Some more Shieldmaiden kickassery by Eowyn.

/faints about everything but especially Eowyn fighting at Helm’s Deep