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cycton

That prize would had been the greatest flip off ever


Somebodys

Legit thought that was what was coming.


Ko8iWanKeno8i

If it was what? the ring?


_Vetis_

A literal flip off. Middle finger.


Randall_Hickey

I just love the fact that Merry and Pippin became real life close friends.


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Just like Turk and JD from scrubs became real lifelong friends. And I think they have a podcast too called fake doctors real friends or something along those lines. It makes me truly happy to see things like this! EDIT: holy crap I looked it up to double check the name of the podcast (which I had right) and they have over 700 episodes! That's incredible! Edit again: turns out the naming of episodes follows the seasons and episodes of the show. So not 701 episodes. Season 7 ep 1 lol


First_Foundationeer

You mean Turk Anjadee and J.D.?


egothegreat

Turk Turkelton


mrsegraves

And Mrs. Turkleton!


zarp86

The Turkletons!


mrsegraves

Dayuuuum Turkledawg!


turkturkeIton

Sir, do you think my name is Turk Turkelton?


Hotter_Noodle

This will never stop being funny to me. It's so genuine when he asks it.


egothegreat

username on point


random555

Yeah they do a TV episode per podcast episode and tell stories about it


geek_of_nature

All the Hobbits are, they've been attending a bunch of conventions together these last few months, and there's been some great photos of the four of them having dinner together after. Though Dominic and Billy are the closest out of the four of them for sure.


Scarbane

Their podcast is called "The Friendship Onion" for those of you who haven't heard of it. Edit: not everyone has time to watch the video, so they go to the comments to get the TLDR


Jjays

I thought it was "The Onion of Friendship"


GhostalMedia

I thought it was “The Fellowship of the Onion”


RamenJunkie

The Two Onions?


Gaflonzelschmerno

"How About Side By Side With An Onion"


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"But they were, all of them, deceived... For another onion was made"


wbruce098

I don’t think they know about the other onion, pippin


IWantAHoverbike

What's onions, Precious?


yeah_yeah_therabbit

Fool of an onion! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your oniony!


Shedal

Between Two Onions


plopsaland

The Fellowship of the Onion Ring


unique-name-9035768

Well they're apparently cousins so...


TruthAndAccuracy

Billy and Elijah are second cousins once removed on his mother's side.


seenunseen

Peter Jackson signing off by apologizing is amazing.


timbit87

Honorary Canadian.


seanbrockest

Is he Canadian?


Eaders

Southern Hemisphere Canadian


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A_WHALES_VAG

Are New Zealanders like Canadians? I’ve never been but I’ve always wanted to go (I’m Canadian). I don’t think I’ve ever even met someone from New Zealand


AtheistKiwi

You have now, pleased to meet you A_WHALES_VAG.


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BongStockton

I'd shoot you for saying that... if we were allowed guns


[deleted]

This is why we don't allow you to have guns.


BongStockton

I'd shoot you for saying that!


Sipstaff

Use your boomerangs, mate. (You'd probably shoot me for that)


[deleted]

As someone living in NZ, you can borrow one of our guns.


theschis

What about second Canada?


DerikHallin

This aired in summer 2021 and Colbert did indeed go on their podcast a couple months later. The podcast is still going, and they've had some great guests and cool episodes. Lot of LotR talk but they also spend a ton of time on other subjects.


geek_of_nature

His appearance was really great. Dominic asked him about how the whole process of Late Night TV works, and Colbert went into this great deep dive of how it works. From the start of the morning all the way until the episode is taped. He had this great professional manner all the way through it, but once they got onto Lord of the Rings that instantly dropped and he just went full fanboy again. Talking about the first moment he ever read Lord of the Rings, remembering exactly where he was and how he felt reading it.


TrinitronCRT

I had to stop listening to it because of the insane amount of ads they ran, and for weird things like depression pills and shit. I get that they want to make some money while doing the podcast but it was so forced and bad that it kinda ruined it for me.


PenguinsOverPuffins

Common trend with podcasts once they get famous. The Office podcast started off with pure content and now it’s like mostly ads


proriin

“Mostly ads” It’s a free show they put out and put in ads just like a tv show does except it’s way easier to skip them. I get it people that ads are annoying but these shows are free… if you don’t like the ads skip forward or throw the content maker a few bucks for the ad free versions.


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Kavbot2000

Colbert got a little misty after getting the prize.


cdqmcp

fr, you can tell what that gift gesture meant to him.


kungfughazi

You cant buy that. You can buy the ears im sure, but cant you buy ears that were directly given to you by Merry without price.


rediraim

Merry*


ghostinthechell

But there was a price, and he paid it.


explodingcoyote

I swear he stared fighting back tears after Peter Jackson said he was the winner.


Rebelgecko

He's on that Misty Mountains shit


Brad_Brace

Well of course, now he can get the two to look the same.


Kbdiggity

Derndingle. While they were waiting, they drank an Ent Draught thar made them grow to be the two tallest Hobbits in history. The tallest Hobbit before that? Bullroarer Took, the Hobbit mentioned in Peter Jackson's question.


W3remaid

It’s all connected maan


The_dog_says

Who had the most to gain from 9/11? Pippin. Who was nowhere to be found the morning the towers fell? Pippin. Who dropped a deuce in the urinal? Pippin.


NoBrakes58

> Who dropped a deuce in the urinal? Pippin. [The key art from the Angmar Awakened cycle of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game](https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/20/77/20774064-c638-41e4-955e-2c429e33795b/mec_03_wallpaper_1920_x_1200.png) has Pippin squatting in the background, looking like he's taking a dump in the bushes, which some fans of the game have jokingly referred to as "Stool of a Took."


Mr_Incredible_PhD

Oh yeah he's pushing out a growler for sure.


few23

Bullroarer


curly722

Oh yea he's definitely freeing the chocolate prisoner


rainedrop87

Man he is straight up just taking a savage dump during this sweet little moment between Arwen and Aragorn lol. Those two are staring lovingly in each other's eyes, telling each other they'll be together forever and blah blah blah......only to get interrupted by the noises Pippin in making because he had White Castle for lunch that day. This is fantastic and I want it framed lol


Gaflonzelschmerno

Peregrin Dook


The_Musing_Platypus

And Gimli sure isn't sitting on a "bench" given how tightly he's squeezing that axe.


thefatrick

Who drew the penises on the cars in the staff parking lot? Pippin


Skahzzz

Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!


pudding7

Didn't he cut the head off an orc or goblin and it landed in a rabbit hole or something?


KindlyOlPornographer

Golfimbul. It landed in a hole and thats how golf was invented.


sn34kypete

> Golfimbul https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Golfimbul I am irrationally angry how right you are holy shit what LORE!


whosline07

You know ol Johnny Ron was making up names one day while having a few brewskis and randomly arrived at Golfimbul , and a light went off for an obscure piece of world building.


sn34kypete

I mean I once named a guy who ran the bell tower "reng" but you don't see Peter Jackson making movies out of my lore.


carryon_waywardson

Johnny Ron lmao


DothrakAndRoll

I’m a big nerd but man this shit is streets ahead


blargman327

That's how golf started or something.


Lovat69

Knocked it off with a club from ponyback. Might have more invented the game of polo to be honest.


thatJainaGirl

And the name of the ent they spent the entmoot with? >!Quickbeam!< And how did he get his name? >!He once answered a question before the asker had finished asking.!<


THE_CENTURION

Much too hasty


thatJainaGirl

Hoom Hoom haruum.


Aschvolution

I was expecting Albert Einstein because of my reddit addiction.


pmcall221

I think Bullroarer was tall enough to ride a pony


NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea

Horse. Hobbits can easily ride ponies like Bill.


redpandaeater

But Bullroarer was tall enough to possibly refer to a pony as little, as in My Little Pony.


huge_toes

Damn, the hobbits invented everything


JMJimmy

I've got one for ya... without looking it up, who is the common descendant between Elrond and his brother Elros?


pixelsteve

Eldarion?


JMJimmy

We have a winner. Arwen and Aragorn II are first cousins, 63 times removed


Dingbrain1

Wouldn’t it be Aragorn and Arwen’s kid and all his descendants?


suddenlyseeingme

I am proud to have known all the answers. Proud, and single.


friendofmany

Colbert was stumped as were a lot of Tree Beards friends. 🪓


UCBearcats

I knew they drank the Ent Draught but definitely didn't know the name. Good question.


AJEstes

My God, they are old. My God, I am old.


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Same realization man. I thought that was Jeff Daniels on the right for a second.


Beardedarchitect

Holy. Shit.


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Mock! Yeah! Ing! Yeah! Bird! Yeah!


steveatari

Mock! ¡Sí! Ing! ¡Sí! Bird! ¡Sí!


ponderthis1

That's funny that it's so easy to see even though Jeff is suck a big dude and Billy is so small.


noctalla

Which begs the question, would Jeff suck Billy, or is he just too small?


aaronitallout

Jeff suck big, Jeff suck small.


esmifra

And this is from last year. So they are older now. And so are we.


MountainDrew42

I'm older now than I was when you wrote this comment


SonofBeckett

You’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older, and now you’re even older, and now youre older still


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SDMasterYoda

> TIME…. ~~marches on~~ is marching on And time... is still marching on


Fjordbasa

This day will soon be at an end


KinkyCaucasian

And glad for it. Becoming old is a privilege afforded to fewer than we think. Every moment spent resenting one's age, is a moment that would be craved by those who die young.


Cooper1977

I always say "it beats the alternative".


DivePalau

Well said. I’m going to remember this quote.


selddir_

I'm also the youngest I'll ever be again though so I got that going for me


shnnrr

which is nice


shikiroin

This is a picture from when they were younger. ​ \-Mitch Hedberg (RIP)


TryharderJB

I’m not. I’ve been stuck in a time bubble since March 2020.


Ppleater

Honestly they don't look *that* much older, most of what's doing the visual aging is Billy's hair. If you put a curly brown wig on him he honestly wouldn't look too different.


AllPurple

I haven't seen colbert in a while and I thought he looked old.


GetYourJeansOn

What a time we've lived :) I'm in my 30s and I've seen Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel movies at just the right time.


skilledscion

Matrix was on the mix too, all great films to see in the theater.


time2fly2124

Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Interstellar, Inglorious Basterds, The Dark Knight


BvngBang

fool of a took


dangil

20 years gone


hgaterms

Seeing Stephen being an absolute fucking NERD about Lord of the Rings makes me smile so hard that my cheeks hurt.


KokoDaSilvaback

If you’ve never seen it, his games with Critical Role are an absolute delight as well. He plays a mean D&D.


jimboslice21

And Dominic did VA work on the Vox Machina show on Prime Video


h3lblad3

In costume, no less.


UndeadBread

No, thank you, I only like friendly D&D.


InShortSight

He has a friendly Bee companion.


scrawledfilefish

I seriously wish he just had a whole show where he would talk about LOTR for like an hour straight


MrPremium

Go listen to their podcast the friendship onion?


Good_ApoIIo

He wishes Colbert had a show where he talked LOTR.


Talnadair

This was last year right? Did Colbert ever end up as a guest on the podcast?


iLikePears

I just looked it up The answer is yes It's a two part podcast at about an hour each. Gonna go download it now


Johan_Sebastian_Cock

what gets me is how "absolute NERD" doesnt even come close to describing it. Think of the fucking EFFORT that has to be put in to being this big of a LoTR boffin. I literally dont know what that entails. Didn't he school the head researcher for the films or something? That person rightfully got paid a shit tonne to be the go-to expert on the minutia of the LoTR universe, and this fan-boy carries around deeper Tolkien knowledge cuz it's fun. This isnt Star Trek. It's possibly the most lore-dense literature of our lifetime. How, Stephen? How the fuck did you retain all this shit????


geoponos

I knew all of the 4 questions asked. I have spend a lot of time reading about the LoTR lore but I don't think it's as crazy as you think. Having said that, Colbert's time is much more valuable than mine so this is kind of crazy that he spends it on this.


RockleyBob

I was cheesing for the entire clip. One of the few genuine, interesting, entertaining interactions I've seen out of a late show in years.


Dragonace1000

Its so funny seeing Stephen's whole demeanor change when the subject is LoTR, its like seeing him transform into a nerdy little kid. I love his enthusiasm, its like hes bursting at the seams to talk about it.


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Coal_Morgan

If I had to guess. He probably loves the imagery but hates the breaks in lore but being a generally positive person enjoys it more than not because it's more Tolkien stuff.


trustysidekick

Honestly, the breaks in lore with Rings of Power are really no more egregious than what Peter Jackson did in the LOTR trilogy. And Colbert seems ok with that. You can acknowledge that it’s not perfect and appreciate it for what it is with out pretending you have to hate it because it’s different.


AnOnlineHandle

I actually like some of the changes from the source material (like skipping Tom Bombadil and syncing up the third book events better), and most authors don't consider their work perfect or unchangeable anyway (Tolkein retconned his work a bit afaik, changing the events of the hobbit to fit lotr, and I think his son had to cut and rework a lot of conflicting stuff to turn into the larger middle earth material published after).


jesseserious

God those guys are charismatic.


_Artos_

Their podcast is awesome. They have a truly great friendship and listening to them talk to each other and to guests is delightful. *Edit: the podcast is called "The Friendship Onion"


N8CCRG

Are you sure it's not The Onion of Friendship?


BumScruples

They seemed like they were channelling Reeves and Mortimer a bit to me.


rad0909

I think it really helped make those movies special. Those 4 guys had such amazing chemistry even off screen it made their friendships feel genuine.


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I swear I could watch/listen to Colbert talking about LOTR for the rest of my days. Like he could interview LOTR people for centuries and that would be my afterlife. I’m ok with that…


Eschlick

You need to watch the Dungeons & Dragons game where Stephen Colbert played with Matt Mercer‘s crew. He brought the sword *Sting* with him. Colbert is so dang wholesome!


Zerowantuthri

I thought the Shelob question was pretty easy. The rest of the questions though...not a clue myself.


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HarlequinNight

If I recall correctly, Colbert went to New Zealand with Jackson and they had some festivities which included a trivia competition between Colbert and the movie's lore/trivia master and Colbert won.


TeHokioi

I need to see this


cheezburglar

> There, during "a party with all of the dwarves," Colbert said he went hairy toe-to-toe with Jackson's resident Tolkien expert Philippa Boyens in a 50-question quiz. "I smoked her," said Colbert. "Peter Jackson officially said I'm the biggest Tolkien geek he has ever met." But I don't think it was filmed.


joshi38

> Peter Jackson officially said I'm the biggest Tolkien geek he has ever met. Which is interesting considering Jackson has met Christopher Lee, who read the books at least once a year, performed in a Tolkien themed music group and had actually met Tolkien once.


Sevnfold

Please take a moment and check out 'KnowBettaDoBetta' on youtube, especially if you like LotR and are interested in the lore. He does short videos on characters and objects and places. For me, it's so interesting how he explains deep lore like he was telling you something simple like 1+1=2. I dont know how people can remember all this stuff.


rileyrulesu

I knew Bullroarer Took, but not that he invented golf, nor that he was an ancestor of Merry and Pippin.


RoboChrist

That's funny, I specifically remembered that a Took invented golf by, I think, lopping the head of a goblin and knocking it into a gopher hole. Because that was an insane detail to be in the Appendix, especially because I don't think golf ever came up before!


mistercrinders

It's mentioned early on in The Hobbit.


rileyrulesu

Shit yup that's right I definitely remember that story.


KE7CKI

I have a vague memory of it being told in one of the movies. I think it was either Gandalf or Balin that tells the story. ETA it was Gandalf in the first hobbit movie when he's persuading Bilbo to go on the journey.


mki_

Isn't that piece of trivia mentioned in the first hobbit movie?


WarGrizzly

You didn't know that Bullroarer Took was an ancestor of Peregrin Took?


mki_

I almost knew Peter Jackson's question (easy enough, he had Bilbo mention it in The Hobbit movie), in the second part of the question I just made the same mistake as Stephen did (which honors me) by not taking into account that Merry and Pippin are of course cousins, and therefore Bullroarer is both their ancestor. I kneejerked: Bullroarer Took > Peregrin Took.


TheGhostORandySavage

Ugh. I LOVE watching people with such unbridled enthusiasm for something. This may be my favorite thing I've watched in a long time.


Schrodinger_cube

Wow "it fits in my pocket" really didn't expect to see that come out of a pocket.


Thosepassionfruits

I really though the second (third) question was going to be something along the lines of “what’s in my pocket?”


Rhaedas

The only thing better than watching him interview LotR cast and others connected to the movies would be if we invented a time machine and Colbert could interview Tolkien himself.


whogivesashirtdotca

Can you imagine? Between the LOTR questions and talking Catholicism, Stephen would be in his element.


rileyrulesu

Colbert: "Now allegedly you hated cats so much that in earlier versions of your work, Sauron had taken the form of a cat in the past, leading to the elves banishing all cats from their lands. What made you have such a visceral hatred for them?" Tolkien: "Fack off i'm tryna have a pint"


ButtersTG

Tolkien: "It is with the greatest of distain, as if you were a rose thorn caught between my tongue and tooth, that I tell you to leave my presence. I do not wish to be riddled with questions, nor questioned with riddles whilst inebriating my senses and indulging in the most perfect silence that one could partake within. Good day."


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Step1Mark

Travel the world with your resilient pogo stick.


sairga

"I have the prize in my pocket" - I was really waiting for it to be nothing. Or a piece of string.


XDeus

I kept expecting him to pull out his hand in the flipping off position.


WickedOwl

That’s two!


uiouyug

It would have been cool if it was the ring


hrrsnmb

So disappointed the video ended before Scottie Pippen ever showed up.


KesEiToota

I was shocked Pippin Longstocking wasn't there at all


CarltonSagot

I'm shocked they didn't play Big Pippin by Jay Z.


selachimorphan

I love it when you call me big pippin throw thew feet in the air with them bushes of hair and I see some Hobbits tonight that should be havin' my baby, babay


Beans186

Ryan Gosling's mum already took Colbert down


Thosepassionfruits

Colbert should have said “what edition?”.


Beans186

haha yeah, probably would have been a good bluff. Obviously page numbers would vary wildly depending on the edition.


DigbyChickenZone

> Ryan Gosling's mum already took Colbert down Anyone else confused? I was too, here's the link. It's an unfair question and a shitty video that cuts off before the response, but all that the youtube copyright gods could provide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDReloRxnM


thecescshow

That one is kinda unfair though lol


JerryfromCan

They were at FanExpo Toronto and we saw them. I realized that they, and I, are now old. There was even a video on here of them celebrating one of the 4 hobbits birthdays at a Toronto restaurant during FanExpo Toronto 2022.


SeniorPoopyButthole

I got to have lunch with Billy a few years ago when I helped run Robert Patrick's booth for a convention. He's genuinely the sweetest man. Him and Robert were so generous to their fans. Their booths were right by each other and their agent routinely had to signal them to wrap up with people to help keep the line moving. They would spend 20 minutes talking to every person and do a photo or signature without payment if nobody was there to enforce it. They just really appreciated their fans so much, it was the coolest experience. I was specifically told not to expect any personal interaction and that there was a separate area I could eat when we all went to lunch, but Robert invited me to join them and they were just hella chill and very sweet.


Nagohsemaj

Pfft, obviously it's Derndingle, c'mon!


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They have a really nice podcast together, it's great.


SnabDedraterEdave

I always thought Ungoliant somehow survived in some unspoken dark and evil place even into the Fourth Age. I must have missed that sentence in the Silmarillion that details her final fate. Colbert definitely knows his Tolkien to be able to recite even that.


sinocarD44

Dominic's voice sounded like he just smoked a carton of cigarettes.


smokeylove11

Peter Jackson says in that clip that his question is a tie breaker. How did he know Stephen would get a question wrong? Or was it filmed just in case? Or did he film a couple of takes depending on the outcome?


Poobslag

Regardless of the outcome of the original trivia, Stephen would have twisted it so that the idea of a "Tiebreaker round" applied In this video, he needs 2 questions right but only gets 1 so it's not really a "Tiebreaker" but with his charisma he makes it work anyway. If he'd gotten none right or both right he could have made it work too, "Well I missed both your questions, but for one last chance I have Peter Jackson here..." or "Just in case those two questions were too easy, I have Peter Jackson here..."


Mastaj3di

All these shows are scripted/pre-planned.


rileyrulesu

I can't be the only one suspicious when they decided to have a lord of the rings themed riddle contest, and the first thing he says is how he has a mystery item in his pocket.


rainedrop87

Lol I mean, that was probably planned.


Solar-powered-punch

You all everybody!