History Funny / THELORDOFTHERINGS

!!Crowning Moment Of Funny in TheLordOfTheRingsOnline

*** Funny, I always interpreted that line as: "I don't know half of you as well as I feel I should, and I don't appreciate some of you anywhere near as much as you deserve." Furthermore, I found that the fact that there were people invited to that particular sub-event of the party that actually had to work out if they were included in the more complimentary portions of said above statement or if they were among the ones that Bilbo knew too well for his tastes and definitely did not deserve to be known better, to be genuinely chuckle-worthy. Of course, we all know the Sackville-bagginses were among the latter group and only added to fill out the 144.

** Similarly, "An elf goes underground when a Dwarf is unwilling to? They'd never let me hear the end of it!"

** Also the blooper of this scene, wherein Sean Astin answers Gandalf's accusation with: "I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest!I just wanted a little bit of a close up there, because you know you've got one and Frodo's got one and I've been in nothing but group shots so far and I just wanted to be a part of this movie and AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" (Gandalf knocks him off the desk)

* Eomer telling Gimli "I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground." This is undercut, though, by Legolas' immediate CMOA response ("You'd die before you made your stroke!")

* There is a FunnyBackgroundEvent during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (that could also count as a CMOA): The ghost army attacks one of those enormous and very tough oliphaunts like a swarm of ants - and ''brings it down within one second''!

*** Frodo's exact words to Merry are that he is not to let anyone in "even if they bring a battering ram."

--->'''Frodo:''' And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!
--->'''Pippin:''' Good heavens! At breakfast?

-->Treebeard: "''The entmoot has decided that you (Merry & Pippin)... are not orcs".'' (Ents nod)
-->Pippin: "''Well, that's good news''."
** It should also be mentioned that the ents behind Treebeard were '''really''' cheerful while nodding.

-->Pippin: "What's that?"
-->Merry: "This, my friend, is a pint."
-->Pippin: "It comes in pints?! I'm getting one!"
** In that same scene, when Pippin is blabbing about Frodo's real identity, he's going into lavish detail about exactly ''how'' he's related to Frodo, taking his listeners through the finer points of Hobbit genealogy. It's very very short, but a GeniusBonus as well, because Hobbits ''adore'' studying family trees.

* Gollum's response to Faramir asking what Frodo and Sam took from him is just hilarious. And so is his "Smeagol wouldn't hurt a fly" thing where he smacks his palm against his hand, accidentally killing a fly, and making a hilarious cry.

* They are taking the hobbits to Isengard, a video along the same vein of the why is the rum gone? video.

* Eomer telling Gimli "I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground."

* What about second breakfast?

-->'''Eowyn''': I'm going to save!

** did you mean when he catches the bouquet and then grins goofily at the attractive girl next to him?

** Also a CMOA and a CMOH.

* Aragorn gets one in the Return of the King, and Merry asks him for pipeweed, Aragorn says he will need to ask the Herb Master at the Houses of Healing saying "he will tell you that he did not know that the herb you desire had any virtues, but it is called westmansweed by the vulgar, and galenas by the noble, and other names in other tongues more learned, and after adding a few half-forgotten rhymes that he does not understand, he will regretfully inform you that there is none in the House, and he will leave you to reflect on the history of tongues." The Herb Master had of course just done this to Aragorn, who needed a herb to save dying patients.

** Dividing it out helps HUGELY. "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like" = "I don't know you as well as I would like," and "I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" = "I acknowledge that you are excellent people and I would like to like you better than I do." Pretty easy . . . at least for this troper, who enjoys wordplay greatly.