Im called Evil Roda-Stein in a game i play, so everyone started to call me Evil. So now i put in WitchKing in my name as he is one of my favourite villains. Next time me and my gaming friends meet im dressing up as the Witch King with my own flair on the costume. :)
I think it was actually good that it was this large... not because it made Eowyn afraid of IT, but because she was terrified that someone, ANYONE, could wield such a massive weapon of utter destruction. It was, in a simple way, a very good way of showing off the Witch King's tremendous power and ability/desire to evoke fear in others.
Typical PJ thinking: pander instead of entertain. Why use subtelty when you can employ the most obvious of visual aids in that given situation...something large and spiky. This illustrates perfeclty what an unimaginative and lazy director PJ is. He has absolutely no head for drama. Eowyn isn't afraid of the ridiculously large mace. She's afraid because she's facing the Lord of the Nazgul, a poweful force of darkness. Guess PJ thought the audience was too stupid to pick up on that.
@donxavier10 I think that his intention WAS to make it entertainment. And while in the book it is great to give the Witch King a great atmosphere of fear and explain his power to drive people insane with fear, in film you can't show that as easily. They made him as terrorfing as possible and used the giant mace as a visual message of his termendous power. It is difficult in a visual mediam to have an atmosphere of tenstion and fear in the middle of the day etc
Its a shame none of the villains in the movie get much character screen-time save for the very important ones. It really gives much more of an epic saga encompassing the entire War of the Ring period.
That explains why we never saw the Witch King recover the thing from a swing. I always wondered about that. Seems like Peter Jackson and Blizzard Entertainment submit to the same line of thinking: If it's an epic weapon or armor it must be stupidly huge and be covered in spikes. Shit! I can totally see the Witch King using the Wild Hammer! It actually fits him quite well. Massive spiky beast of a 2 handed mace. Even the aesthetics fit him. Not a surprise LotRs has influenced Warcraft.
@SupaChard89 That'll do it. I know there are some people that wondered if the hammer had been used as a base to construct the ram. Sounds interesting but then again we don't know how big the mace was.
Yup, nazgul break the rules of momentum physics. Next time, make sure you bring Elrond to the battle with you. He can dodge bullets, punch through reinforced concrete, and turn people into clones of himself with two fingers.
I think it works absolutly perfectly and doesn't break the reality at all, all it does is show how damn strong the nazgul is. And the way he can swing it around shows that its not impractical for him either. if people should be criticizing anything it should be that Eoywin was able to dodge that thing and only have her arm broken from that.
It works in the movie because you know the Witch-King is a supernatural being of immense power. If any mortal, even Aragorn or muscle-bound Gimli, had been shown using that thing, it would have been ridiculous.
If that thing just hits Sauron's freaking head, I think Sauron would no longer BE the Lord of the Rings, but it would be the Witch-King. Because damn, this mace compared to the one of Sauron is amazing. Sauron's mace would simply grow a pussy and run off before he would try to attack the Witch King.
@ifidiebeforeiwake909 The Nazgul arent supposed to be much larger than normal men from what i understand. The huge fucking flail is believable as the Witch-King isnt fully understood.
that mace makes it dang obvious how Eowyn got her arm broken. No fan could argue that the choreography was weak there; that thing was so massive it just didn't matter. :D
Not by far the most ridiculous thing they did with combat situations in the movie. Though most of the stupidities can be explained away with orcs being damned stupid.
That guy needs to make more films... Pronto. It's a shame that we've only got King Kong from him after this trilogy. At least the Hobbit is coming, but he needs to tell more tales with all-night movies.
I remember in the theatre, my reaction was definitely like "hly sht that thing's freakin huge!" but in a good, suspenseful, truly-scared-for-Eowyn kind of way. now that I think about it, though it is kind of silly!
Pffft. It wasn't ridiculously large at all. Can you imagine how bad it would have looked if the frickin' Witch King of Angmar had had a tiny little pathetic mace?
This video shows the arrogance of PJ. Someone refers to it as "Peter Jackson's story telling." It's Tolkein's story telling. Peter just interpreted it.
the scene at 1:51 makes it look smaller actually, because as the camera goes down it only looks like the size of a basketball compared to his hand which is shown like a second before
A morning star simply has a ball end with spikes:) This is more along the lines of a flail to be technical...but it's not important, "damned heavy" works just as well.
oh man, this really made me laugh. Now I won't be able to look at that scene the same way again. Youtube is certainly making the movies seem very diffrent. For example, Legolas' line in the two towers about where the Urks are headed, always makes me laugh now, even though it was meant to be totally serious. Yep, youtube changes everything.
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This was yet another illustration of why the live-action movies stunk in many respects when it came to the props/accoutrements. This was cartoonish in the extreme and the wrong weapon to boot. Between the plate armour, Narsil/Anduril being a hand-and-a-half sword and this ridiculous pile of crapola, the movies had nothing even remotely in common with the novel vis-a-vis the armaments of The Free Peoples.
its a flail cause you flail it around a mace is just a version of a hammer that you smash with, so the little round spiked ball at the end of a stick = morning star, flail has the chain on it
You have to consider that the Witch-King is damn tall. Ans it works with the Witch-King. Just like Sauron has the über-large mace, at the beggining of TFoTR.
When someone sees that, they don't go "That's just huge and impractical," they think, "Oh Jesus Fuck, that's going to whack me into a strato-cumulus cloud, isn't it?"
Is the mace in the books too. Or just the movies? If so it was a good idea for an addition, Witch King wouldnt be scary at all with just a sword........"NO LIVING MAN CAN KILL ME" "BUT YOU DONT HAVE A GIANT MACE" "WELL, WELL NOONE CAN KILL ME ANYWAY. IM THE WITCH KING." 'stab at back by Merry' hehehee
@StationaryHawk, agreed, Aragorn got a 5 foot long sword, so why shouldn't the Witch King have an enormous mace? Besides they had to try and capture with visuals the sort of power the Witch King has over people, ridiculously large weapons is one way to do that.
the other thing that was cool is that the actual LOOK of the mace other than the size was PERFECT like you see it and you KNOW it belongs to the Witch King and nobody else.
No, it's not your own work and if you try to continue it people will look at what you write as nothing more than "fan fiction."
Read other books too, take in everything you like and use it as inspiration to ultimately come up with your own work. I'm guessing you're in your teens, at that age you become so impressed with things to the point you want to reproduce them, but as you get just a little older the urge to create will outweigh the urge to mimick.
okay to get things straight, I wasn't going to copy his work I was going to use some of the characters.... -twitch slightly- but now I'm going to be a games designer and help make more pokemon or just draw monsters for DQM(Dragon Quest Monsters)
It fit the Witch King. He is basically a God of sorts. A god lesser or greater would wield such a weapon since they are completely unhindered by the material plane and therefore physical limitations. Of course I also could have just said....It is F#$%&*g awesome!!!...Hehehe
Yeah it's technically a morning star. A good example of a mace is the weapon Sauron wielded in the intro to the first movie. It's a single, solid piece with no chain, as opposed to the Witch King's flail.
I didn't even notice that it was overly large. I mean... it's the Witch-King. What good would he be if he didn't have a weapon that was so ridiculous only he could pull it off?
@StationaryHawk I thought the witch king himself was pretty damn tall to begin with, hes a ghost with no body after all, he could be as big as they want him to be
yeah the witch king got fucked over by this movie. barely did a thing. same for gimi, reduced to nothing but comic relief while legalos gets all the glory. books were better
True but you probably have to consider that they were tring to fit an entire book into a movie that is respectively 3 hours long. I do agree that Legolas got to much of the glory and that more emphasis should have been placed on the witch king and gimli. However a lot of scenes with gimli and the witch king were deleted/removed. Thats why I enjoy watching the movies with the deleted scenes.
@JustThink00@JustThink00 The books were FAR better. Never understood why some people make a movie about a book only to eviscerate the story that inspired them to make the book in the first place. I realize the challenges of adapting a book to a film but many of PJ's changes to the story made no sense. Gandalf can't figure how to get into Moria, even though he is this wise and learned wizard, but Frodo comes up with the answer with seeming ease.
1:32 Of course they have a black guy playing a wringwraith.
AntiTroll101 1 day ago
@AntiTroll101 not funny
transformersbannana 1 day ago
Im called Evil Roda-Stein in a game i play, so everyone started to call me Evil. So now i put in WitchKing in my name as he is one of my favourite villains. Next time me and my gaming friends meet im dressing up as the Witch King with my own flair on the costume. :)
Trixstien 3 days ago
Peter Jackson is such a size queen. XD
HindsightPOV 1 month ago
If this was a Tarantino film, the witch king would have killed that stupid farm bitch...not before he had ripped her ears off with a dull razor
mrksuckerberg 1 month ago
@mrksuckerberg that's why he writes his own movies lol Tolkien would have flipped in his grave if Tarantino directed LOTR
blackheartsbirth 3 weeks ago
@mrksuckerberg Eowyn, farm bitch? More like badass shield-maiden.
Kataxu 4 days ago
too small :P
TheMonsterSkull 2 months ago
I think it was actually good that it was this large... not because it made Eowyn afraid of IT, but because she was terrified that someone, ANYONE, could wield such a massive weapon of utter destruction. It was, in a simple way, a very good way of showing off the Witch King's tremendous power and ability/desire to evoke fear in others.
PhoenixCrystalHatter 2 months ago 4
@PhoenixCrystalHatter right on dude
TheMonsterSkull 2 months ago
Typical PJ thinking: pander instead of entertain. Why use subtelty when you can employ the most obvious of visual aids in that given situation...something large and spiky. This illustrates perfeclty what an unimaginative and lazy director PJ is. He has absolutely no head for drama. Eowyn isn't afraid of the ridiculously large mace. She's afraid because she's facing the Lord of the Nazgul, a poweful force of darkness. Guess PJ thought the audience was too stupid to pick up on that.
donxavier10 2 months ago
@donxavier10 I think that his intention WAS to make it entertainment. And while in the book it is great to give the Witch King a great atmosphere of fear and explain his power to drive people insane with fear, in film you can't show that as easily. They made him as terrorfing as possible and used the giant mace as a visual message of his termendous power. It is difficult in a visual mediam to have an atmosphere of tenstion and fear in the middle of the day etc
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donxavier10 2 months ago
Molag Bal used to let me use his mace like that, but then i took an arrow in the knee
NixxGrimBlood 3 months ago
@tetrisclock Beat me to it!
MisterMortarious 3 months ago
Mace of Molag Bal.
tetrisclock 3 months ago 5
Epic FLAIL!
Archer2509 3 months ago 4
When I saw the movie, I could have sworn that that flail broke Éowyn's arm.
Having seen this snippet, I'm surprised it didn't break the Witch-King's, too.
evilegg288 4 months ago
The Witch-King laughs in the face of impracticality.
stitch99 4 months ago 9
1:40 that should have been in the movie
TheSeveredArm 4 months ago
That is a flail/morning star, not a mace.
SupaChard89 4 months ago
"... you see the look on Eowyn's face when she sees it - she's terrified!"
And thus the scene fails. Falling from an epic battle between a brave shield maiden and a wraith, to a ridiculous farce.
grailchaser 5 months ago
Witch king is good enough to have a mini series dedicated to the wars in the north at angmar
dragon2712 5 months ago
Its a shame none of the villains in the movie get much character screen-time save for the very important ones. It really gives much more of an epic saga encompassing the entire War of the Ring period.
romanlegions 5 months ago
1:29 - witch king sighing, saying "Oh God" exasperatedly = funniest thing ever :)
hmspinaforethisisspa 5 months ago 3
That explains why we never saw the Witch King recover the thing from a swing. I always wondered about that. Seems like Peter Jackson and Blizzard Entertainment submit to the same line of thinking: If it's an epic weapon or armor it must be stupidly huge and be covered in spikes. Shit! I can totally see the Witch King using the Wild Hammer! It actually fits him quite well. Massive spiky beast of a 2 handed mace. Even the aesthetics fit him. Not a surprise LotRs has influenced Warcraft.
EvilCleric 6 months ago
@EvilCleric If anyone were to wield the Wild Hammer, it'd be Melkor or Morgoth. He had his own hammer called Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld.
SupaChard89 4 months ago
@SupaChard89 Which conveinantly was the name of the huge ass ram the forces of Mordor used to destroy the gates of Minas-Tirith
EvilCleric 4 months ago
@EvilCleric That's not convenience, that's Sauron paying tribute to his master.
SupaChard89 4 months ago
@SupaChard89 That'll do it. I know there are some people that wondered if the hammer had been used as a base to construct the ram. Sounds interesting but then again we don't know how big the mace was.
EvilCleric 4 months ago
I didn't notice it was so big because i didn't see it. If they had shown a different camera angle maybe i could have noticed how big it was
attomal 6 months ago
Hey look! It's reverse Darth Vader. 1:31 White guys voice but a black dude playing the person.
Sibbot 6 months ago
large?, you guys call that large
wargarurumon 6 months ago
1:25
"...oh god."
30072743 6 months ago
hey! who took links morning star?!
BurritoMan64 7 months ago
Holyshit the witch king is black!?
themooseman780 7 months ago
@themooseman780 they had to get a huge maori guy to play him.
EndOfTheOuroboros 7 months ago
nice the mace looks awesome and it made it seem like a good foe to fight
mh3slayer 7 months ago
you hid the mace underneath your coat ?? i hope the fuck you would hide that face.
antoireland09 7 months ago
Witchking: 'oh god' 1:28
Poor guy xD
TheThreeWeavers 7 months ago 3
Melkor's mace was so large and heavy he made hills and valleys with it when he hit the ground so this isn't very far fetched in a fantasy fairy tale.
Nerfherder3 8 months ago
That mace was the source of brown pants throughout Middle-earth.
Steinmanius 9 months ago
Yup, nazgul break the rules of momentum physics. Next time, make sure you bring Elrond to the battle with you. He can dodge bullets, punch through reinforced concrete, and turn people into clones of himself with two fingers.
QuiteUnused 9 months ago 5
I think it works absolutly perfectly and doesn't break the reality at all, all it does is show how damn strong the nazgul is. And the way he can swing it around shows that its not impractical for him either. if people should be criticizing anything it should be that Eoywin was able to dodge that thing and only have her arm broken from that.
notpoorsmeagol 9 months ago 2
It's called an EPIC FLAIL! >:D
VorpalDrake 9 months ago 5
Whenever I watch the Special Features I can't help but think how cool it would have been to have worked on those movies.
squamish4244 9 months ago
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It works in the movie because you know the Witch-King is a supernatural being of immense power. If any mortal, even Aragorn or muscle-bound Gimli, had been shown using that thing, it would have been ridiculous.
squamish4244 9 months ago
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squamish4244 9 months ago
Who but Peter Jackson could do something like that and make it work?
Eldritchfan 9 months ago
"either way, i ended up calling it damned heavy cuz... it was damned heavy."
padfootrocksmysocks 9 months ago 31
If that thing just hits Sauron's freaking head, I think Sauron would no longer BE the Lord of the Rings, but it would be the Witch-King. Because damn, this mace compared to the one of Sauron is amazing. Sauron's mace would simply grow a pussy and run off before he would try to attack the Witch King.
aliddas 10 months ago 2
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a fucking nigger played sauron
OUWATZAHLE08 10 months ago
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@OUWATZAHLE08 i know that feel.
I was like damn some fucking badass guy played sauron, but then i was dissapointed
123Cranker 10 months ago
OOHHH, what a HEAVY Ringwraith-Weaponry. You can slaughterd the whole wall of an old house!
ruedigerjohne1978 1 year ago
When you see illustrations of Morgoth and Sauron and realise how much bigger they were than men/elves, this isn't surprising at all really :)
ifidiebeforeiwake909 1 year ago
@ifidiebeforeiwake909 The Nazgul arent supposed to be much larger than normal men from what i understand. The huge fucking flail is believable as the Witch-King isnt fully understood.
Skoojoo 10 months ago
1:38 shows how CGI can save almost any fail
musaholic755 1 year ago
Epic flail.
WatermelonRat 1 year ago 7
@WatermelonRat Icy what you did there.
Bokyotheturnip 1 year ago
1:21
best facial hair EVER.
woodchuckchuck10 1 year ago 2
2:16 "COME AT ME SIS!"
AbokaseeTheTroll 1 year ago 4
BEHOLD THE MACE WEIGHING A FULL GODDAMN TON!
TechUnadept 1 year ago
i didnt even notice it was so huge i was too busy having a good time watching the movie
aODSTstudio 1 year ago 2
One thing I can say.....
that mace makes it dang obvious how Eowyn got her arm broken. No fan could argue that the choreography was weak there; that thing was so massive it just didn't matter. :D
Serena2009ification 1 year ago
lmao you look at that think and shes terrified
bet she was ;)
gaxxy 1 year ago
how can they cover the actor face to be damned black like that ...I need that suit
mitomen2000 1 year ago
yeah that flail was the deal breaker for the witch king for me... I lol'd quite hard in the theater.
Gigas0101 1 year ago
witch king=best villain ever
LivingIn1969 1 year ago 69
@LivingIn1969 TOTALLY, hands down.
megncomedy 1 year ago
@LivingIn1969 witch-king and sauron and the nazgul ren ftw
Maxbun3 3 months ago
If you notice at 1:54 there is indeed some slack in the chain as the dude below it, off camera, is lifting it up
592220 1 year ago
'almost flipped him over' yeah sure :L
thats SO how it went down -.-
iloveashstymest 1 year ago
It sound's like they are talking about the results after the use of a P****Pump!! XD
alitllebitemo 1 year ago
I think I have to watch the making of's again...
Toffelielain 1 year ago
Not by far the most ridiculous thing they did with combat situations in the movie. Though most of the stupidities can be explained away with orcs being damned stupid.
Cyberspine 1 year ago
Are they compensating for something?
IGeorge94 1 year ago
large ...really ? ¬¬ ..... nerds
loxinder 1 year ago
That guy needs to make more films... Pronto. It's a shame that we've only got King Kong from him after this trilogy. At least the Hobbit is coming, but he needs to tell more tales with all-night movies.
bomimo1 1 year ago
@bomimo1 Actually, he directed and produced The Lovely Bones last year!
katiepoo66 1 year ago
@bomimo1 District 9.
Bokyotheturnip 1 year ago
It's a flail.
valtiel87 1 year ago 2
I remember in the theatre, my reaction was definitely like "hly sht that thing's freakin huge!" but in a good, suspenseful, truly-scared-for-Eowyn kind of way. now that I think about it, though it is kind of silly!
KristinLavrans 1 year ago
Pffft. It wasn't ridiculously large at all. Can you imagine how bad it would have looked if the frickin' Witch King of Angmar had had a tiny little pathetic mace?
TheJediNinja 1 year ago
Eowyn was terrified cuz it was ridiculously large co-.. I mean mace.
Zorenomaru 1 year ago
This video shows the arrogance of PJ. Someone refers to it as "Peter Jackson's story telling." It's Tolkein's story telling. Peter just interpreted it.
fjccommish 1 year ago
@fjccommish How is it "PJ's arrogance" if it's *SOMEONE* else who refers to it as "Peter Jackson's storytelling"???
Incidentally, it *IS* Peter Jackson's storyTELLING. It's Tolkien's story, but Jackson, being the director and all, is the one TELLING the story.
wibiqu 8 months ago
@wibiqu I thought about your reply. You're right about Peter telling Tolkein's story.
fjccommish 8 months ago
the scene at 1:51 makes it look smaller actually, because as the camera goes down it only looks like the size of a basketball compared to his hand which is shown like a second before
Wrathbringer2010 1 year ago
Actually I think morning stars have chains, maces are one solid piece.
WhiteTiger950 1 year ago
@WhiteTiger950
A morning star simply has a ball end with spikes:) This is more along the lines of a flail to be technical...but it's not important, "damned heavy" works just as well.
lowenklee 1 year ago
1:25 morning star's have no chains...
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nuttalex 1 year ago
oh man, this really made me laugh. Now I won't be able to look at that scene the same way again. Youtube is certainly making the movies seem very diffrent. For example, Legolas' line in the two towers about where the Urks are headed, always makes me laugh now, even though it was meant to be totally serious. Yep, youtube changes everything.
happylmc 1 year ago
All I remember about that part of the movie is being scared shitless for Eowyn.
palebluedot 1 year ago
Lawrence Makoare as the witchking was brilliant...
FreJasMic 1 year ago
@FreJasMic
And Lawrence Makoare as Gothmog was brilliant...
loravine 1 year ago
1:50 -
That's what she said
BlckComb 1 year ago
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This was yet another illustration of why the live-action movies stunk in many respects when it came to the props/accoutrements. This was cartoonish in the extreme and the wrong weapon to boot. Between the plate armour, Narsil/Anduril being a hand-and-a-half sword and this ridiculous pile of crapola, the movies had nothing even remotely in common with the novel vis-a-vis the armaments of The Free Peoples.
BrooklynRedLeg 1 year ago
witch king was the scariest character of lotr
MrJoaolayne 1 year ago
they enlarged it because Eowyn likes it big
josepasillas530 1 year ago
man. if only the witch king was real. Id hang out and fly on his dragon to a black metal concert xD
parkerbob99 1 year ago
Funny around 1:24, when he was majestically holding the mace, the he immediately slumped his shoulders. LOL
Somebodylost 1 year ago
I think Lawrence is really handsome, and he plays all of his parts perfectly. :) What a trooper.
FMAfanFMA 1 year ago 3
1:41-1:43XD
Suport7000 1 year ago
its a flail cause you flail it around a mace is just a version of a hammer that you smash with, so the little round spiked ball at the end of a stick = morning star, flail has the chain on it
emanuelorjesus 1 year ago
"Some people call it a mace. I call it damned heavy"
Well I call it damned terrifying!
Angelofmusic303 1 year ago
Peter Jackson is a size queen.
Daladun 1 year ago
You have to consider that the Witch-King is damn tall. Ans it works with the Witch-King. Just like Sauron has the über-large mace, at the beggining of TFoTR.
juresaiyan 1 year ago
When someone sees that, they don't go "That's just huge and impractical," they think, "Oh Jesus Fuck, that's going to whack me into a strato-cumulus cloud, isn't it?"
ZerbanDaGreat1 1 year ago 7
Maybe the witch king has issues with his penis size. You know what they say about men and big swords.
wetyewruyrtsutrdhjfg 1 year ago
There's flail, there's heavy flail adn then there's this thing, likely comperable to swinging around Sauron's torso with collosal nails in it.
It would explain what happened to Sauron's remains, The Witch King's smelted the stuff down and used it to bitch-slap damn near all of Rohan.
darkwartexx 1 year ago 82
@darkwartexx its like a wreking ball
WhiteStripe44 8 months ago
"this thing is getting huge." thats wat she said.
lnsordo91 1 year ago 5
lmfao when the flail handle go caught in Jackson's shirt
iKhicken 1 year ago
That's not a mace, that's a flail.
malkrow21 1 year ago
@malkrow21
I think he meant mace as in the Flail's head, because it is massive
iKhicken 1 year ago
the weapon fits the witch king
it just so overwelmingly awesome
and the witch king himself is also taller than most of the persons on that battlefield so a big weapon fits
bdw just my opinion but the witch king owns sauron big times when looking at appereance
WulvPawz 1 year ago
"don't you think the head is a little excessive?" - that's what she said
Zen0Ph0bus 1 year ago
If its the Witch-King, it has to be freaking huge and intimidating. A witch-king will settle for nothing less, i reckon. XD
MaidenofNight 1 year ago
lol now I remember Sauron's mace. So elegant and small... yet it takes out ten guys with a single swing xD
EdikShepherd 1 year ago
@EdikShepherd thats partly down to the fact that he's using magic along with the weapon itself
mrbreckles 1 year ago
@mrbreckles I know, I was just saying
EdikShepherd 1 year ago
Its not a mace...
Cokecakepopcorn 1 year ago
Is the mace in the books too. Or just the movies? If so it was a good idea for an addition, Witch King wouldnt be scary at all with just a sword........"NO LIVING MAN CAN KILL ME" "BUT YOU DONT HAVE A GIANT MACE" "WELL, WELL NOONE CAN KILL ME ANYWAY. IM THE WITCH KING." 'stab at back by Merry' hehehee
KaminoProductions 1 year ago
Haha, i didn't even think about it... He seemed capable enough to lift it in the movie!
Namaechan 1 year ago
"You don't think it's a little to big do you?"
"Actually I was going to say it's about 50% to small.."
"On no, please" *facepalm*
"Some people call it a mace, I just called it 'dammned heavy'" LOL
Me likes! xD
Pumanic 1 year ago
listen Peter's voice, is the same of Steve Harris one XDDD
badwaiser 1 year ago
lawrence as the witch king and Lurtz. such a great actor :)
nb4pur3 1 year ago
LOLOLOL 1:02
xxjanzxx 1 year ago
its not a mace its a flail
bachiboy18 1 year ago
@StationaryHawk, agreed, Aragorn got a 5 foot long sword, so why shouldn't the Witch King have an enormous mace? Besides they had to try and capture with visuals the sort of power the Witch King has over people, ridiculously large weapons is one way to do that.
peacecanhappen27 1 year ago 5
if going against the witch king doesnt make you shit yourself seeing that mace sure will
kagami67 1 year ago 7
Lol at Lawrence, 'I ended up calling it damned heavy', XD.
xxJSGC123xx 1 year ago
@skyazurehardy I DON'T REMEMBER WRITING THAT, GOOD LUCK!! :D :D
JoF00l 1 year ago
Some people call it a mace, some people call it a morning star, I ended up calling it damn heavy.... Epic!
doffyah 1 year ago
the other thing that was cool is that the actual LOOK of the mace other than the size was PERFECT like you see it and you KNOW it belongs to the Witch King and nobody else.
Lakross101 1 year ago 3
1:25 the witch kings sighs "Oh God" so funny. it was a perfect weapon for him
0Silverguitarist0 1 year ago 50
I need to get me one of those.
ChuckTiz 2 years ago 3
I hate to be "that guy" but it's a flail, not a mace or a morning star.
TwinUzis 2 years ago 5
Nothing wrong with the size, it worked fine in the movie, the Witch King isn't just a guy in a mask...
PMeursault 2 years ago 7
1:41
If the Witch-King actually di that in the movie that would have been hilarious!
balrog13571 2 years ago 4
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THAT THING IS HUGE
does anyone think i should carry on J.R.R Tolkien's work about the lord of the rings?
SkyAzureHardy 2 years ago
@SkyAzureHardy
No, it's not your own work and if you try to continue it people will look at what you write as nothing more than "fan fiction."
Read other books too, take in everything you like and use it as inspiration to ultimately come up with your own work. I'm guessing you're in your teens, at that age you become so impressed with things to the point you want to reproduce them, but as you get just a little older the urge to create will outweigh the urge to mimick.
JoF00l 2 years ago
@JoF00l
okay to get things straight, I wasn't going to copy his work I was going to use some of the characters.... -twitch slightly- but now I'm going to be a games designer and help make more pokemon or just draw monsters for DQM(Dragon Quest Monsters)
SkyAzureHardy 1 year ago
Witch King SMASH!
EliteSamurai2 2 years ago 3
It fit the Witch King. He is basically a God of sorts. A god lesser or greater would wield such a weapon since they are completely unhindered by the material plane and therefore physical limitations. Of course I also could have just said....It is F#$%&*g awesome!!!...Hehehe
vorpal72 2 years ago 4
it was great. there's one thing running through every audience member's mind:
"OH SH-!!!!"
LukyRemington 2 years ago 5
I remember seeing this at the cinema and being wowed.
GiefCherryCoke 2 years ago
thats a good weapon
UsherMoore 2 years ago
1:28
lol :D
rockfootfootfoot 2 years ago
Yeah it's technically a morning star. A good example of a mace is the weapon Sauron wielded in the intro to the first movie. It's a single, solid piece with no chain, as opposed to the Witch King's flail.
Pilaf1984 2 years ago 4
I think it was unnormal and awesome in the movie, made it have some more fantasy spirit
H3XZOc 2 years ago
Dang... I love that thing. <3
Long live the Witch-King!
FrauofGermany 2 years ago 6
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if you think that weapon looks too big, wait until u play WoW :P
Seirios86 2 years ago
darnut, he wasn't really, a guy had to lift it up for him from below. Then swinging it is easy.
too true StationaryHawk too true!
peacecanhappen27 2 years ago
I was talking about the "real" Witch King. Tolkien said he had a rather big mace!
darnunt 2 years ago
ah! then yes I agree.
peacecanhappen27 2 years ago 2
"I ended up calling it 'damned heavy'..." :D
HayleToTheHammer 2 years ago 131
@HayleToTheHammer yeah it was my friend had a replica of it and she called it that
mhgirsl 1 year ago
I still wonder how the Witch King was strong enough to wield that HUGE mace...
darnunt 2 years ago 4
I remember watching the movies for the first time, and I was like 'Daaayum!'
I was pretty scared for Eowyn, lol.
twizzlerskittles 2 years ago 6
its not a mace its not a morning star it was damn heavey
slezy108 2 years ago
it's called a flail
xpacterol 2 years ago 2
i was repeating what the guy said knights called them morning stars in lord of the rings they called it a mace
slezy108 2 years ago
yeah i know i just said that so you know =D
xpacterol 2 years ago
i had completely forgot about it being called a flail until i watched deadliest warrior
slezy108 2 years ago
I didn't even notice that it was overly large. I mean... it's the Witch-King. What good would he be if he didn't have a weapon that was so ridiculous only he could pull it off?
I thought it was awesome.
StationaryHawk 2 years ago 139
@StationaryHawk I thought the witch king himself was pretty damn tall to begin with, hes a ghost with no body after all, he could be as big as they want him to be
Huzzawful 1 year ago
yeah the witch king got fucked over by this movie. barely did a thing. same for gimi, reduced to nothing but comic relief while legalos gets all the glory. books were better
JustThink00 2 years ago
True but you probably have to consider that they were tring to fit an entire book into a movie that is respectively 3 hours long. I do agree that Legolas got to much of the glory and that more emphasis should have been placed on the witch king and gimli. However a lot of scenes with gimli and the witch king were deleted/removed. Thats why I enjoy watching the movies with the deleted scenes.
JaredTheOmega12 2 years ago 4
@JustThink00 @JustThink00 The books were FAR better. Never understood why some people make a movie about a book only to eviscerate the story that inspired them to make the book in the first place. I realize the challenges of adapting a book to a film but many of PJ's changes to the story made no sense. Gandalf can't figure how to get into Moria, even though he is this wise and learned wizard, but Frodo comes up with the answer with seeming ease.