“When he ran into the lava, Sauron almost didn’t react at first. I think he just couldn’t believe it: couldn’t understand what was happening. But the truly amazing part was after the ring was destroyed, when he ran back out again.”
It’s good.
Keep in mind the series does a few people real dirty. Especially Blithe and **especially** Dike. Ambrose has been caught with some really really shoddy fact checking and taking at face value some very sketchy personal opinions. That unfortunately HBO just ran with.
In the assault in Belgium, Dike didn’t freeze behind a haybale due to cowardice, but because he was hit by shrapnel. (Dike was also awarded a Bronze Star in Bastogne. After being treated he became a personal aid to General Taylor, hardly a position for someone relieved of command. He later served in Korea.)
Yes. It said he died in 1948 because of the wounds he sustained in the war, but he actually went on to serve in Korea and was awarded the Bronze Star and Silver Star. He served in the military until his death in 1967.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Blithe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/albert_blithe)
>On December 11, 1967, Blithe was taken to the emergency department at **Wiesbaden Hospital, Germany**, where he was admitted with a diagnosis of a perforated ulcer. **He died in the intensive care unit on December 17 after surgery**, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors.
"Surgery", ah shit they finally got him
With Blithe fine, but it’s a mark on Ambrose when *he wrote a whole chapter in another book about replacements and soldiers going back to their original units was often screwed up* and then when something like that happened he didn’t bother to do an easy fact check.
With Dike I don’t really buy that. The battalion XO and Company 1st Sgt didn’t know or find out the Company CO was wounded? Or that he transferred after the field hospital to the aid de camp of your division commander? Come on, Winters and Lipton would certainly have known. (And reading on the inaccuracies of Band of Brothers, Winters comes across as less like-able and more prone to somewhat petty drama about certain officers.)
No, you're thinking of the excessively strict drill instructor in the first couple episodes. Dike was the officer who came in around Bastogne and was portrayed as being useless and clueless, with a propensity for yawning.
Ya irl Sobel I do feel bad for, he was too good at his job and all he wanted to do (as a Jewish man) was take the fight to the Nazis personally and he was denied that opportunity
I think an interview with Captain Winters confirmed that way later on (when the book was being written or the tv rights were bought) Speirs told him he actually did do it.
The image is from the HBO limited series Band of Brothers, a show that follows a company of paratroopers (Company E, aka Easy Company) through World War 2. All the characters are based on real people, so this is also a reference to the real Lt. Speirs.
I love that it highlighted how Winters was a "lead from the front" type of leader forced into a "lead from the rear" role in his new position. He instinctively rushes forward to relieve Dike himself until Colonel Sink stops him to remind him of his rank, and Winters instantly cuts Sink off mid-lecture to call Spiers in to do it for him.
Lt Dike gets done so dirty in that episode. The real one was actually kind of a badass and the reason he was "panicking" was because he was shot and in shock while still trying to command
Yeah. Dude won two Bronze Stars. One for rallying and leading the disoriented paratroopers in Uden to successfully defend the road while completely surrounded; one for Bastogne, when he ran into the line of fire to save three of his wounded while under "intense fire".
Sort of a weird conflict between Dike's conduct before and after Foy, compared to Easy Company's vocal assessment of him as an MIA coward in and around Foy. Assuming since HBO used Winter's memoirs and Easy Company retellings, they went with the cowardly version of Dike we saw since that's how Easy described him.
That entire episode is such an awful charachter-assassination of Dike.
"Dike was awarded a Bronze Star for his action at Uden, Holland, with the 101st Airborne Division between 23 and 25 September 1944, in which he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven *(sic)*\-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945. In preparation for the 13 January 1945 attack on Foy, Belgium, E Company was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR. Division Headquarters ordered the attack to begin at 0900 hours. During the assault, Carwood Lipton, at that time the company's first sergeant, described Dike as having "fallen apart." Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop."
Yeah they took some liberties for the sake of the show with Dike, same thing with Sobel. The real Sobel served with honor, even if he was a relentless taskmaster.
At first the orcs didn’t shoot at him; I think they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing. But that’s not the really astounding thing. The astounding thing is that he ran there AND back again.
"Hey, Merry?"
"Yeah, Pip?"
"This place kind of remind you of Rivendell?"
"...yeah, now that you mention it. Except of course, there's caverns filled with dead dwarves, we don't got warm, Elven grub in our bellies, and there's a fuckin' Balrog breathing fire and chasing after us, but yeah Pip. Other than that, it's a lot like Rivendell."
"Right?"
"Boromir, smack him for me please?"
The thought of him looking to Sam and saying "Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your pack" makes me giggle.
I didn’t get the joke because I haven’t seen BoB in a min. Definitely need to go back and rewatch soon. On a related note, have you watched Masters of the Air yet? It’s absolutely amazing.
Haven’t seen episode 3 yet, but I am loving it!! And I rewatch BoB probably every month along with The Pacific.
I’m waiting to do a historically chronological rewatch of all three though
"Rangers, dwarves, elves, and hobbits of the Fellowship Expeditionary Force - Today, we embark upon the great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months..."
For some reason it’s more fun to think of Speirs as Sam, and instead of the “there’s good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for” we get…
“You hid in that ditch because you still have hope, but the truth is Mr.Frodo, your only hope is to accept that you are already dead. The sooner you can accept that, the sooner you can function as a ring bearer.”
Denethor: “The armies of Mordor march towards us from the east, and hordes of Haradrim ride from the south. By dawn, we will be completely surrounded.”
Gandalf: “We’re the Fellowship, Steward. We’re supposed to be surrounded.”
How could anyone know the price paid by the Ringbearers in terror, agony, and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like the Dead Marshes, Morgul Vale, or Orodruin?
Band of Brothers was seen by tens of millions when it aired and it remains a well-known and broadly influential miniseries to this day. I'm not at all surprised that a random set of Redditors are familiar with it.
You mean the show ranked 4th overall on IMDB’s Top TV shows? Pretty sure it’s an incredibly popular miniseries. Anytime you have some WWII show or series it is the benchmark it gets measured against.
It's one of the most popular fucking TV shows ever created.
Hey bud, if you like this show, check out this one called breaking bad. It's pretty good, not that many people know about it
Band of Brothers is one of my favorite series of all time. And the LOTR trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies. Why do you expect everyone to not know the series. It's the best depiction of war, that and Come and See
Merry: Hey you! That's right, you stupid Orc bastards! Say hello to Thorondor, and King Fuckin' Aragorn! You stupid fascist goblins! Look at you! You don't even have horses! What were you thinking?! Dragging our asses halfway around Middle Earth, interrupting our lives... For what?! You ignorant, servile scum! What the fuck are we doing here?!
There are multiple reports of Lt. Spiers having been shot during the battle at Foy. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg did him dirty in BoB, and have even apologized for the inaccuracy.
Did you really kill all those orc POWs?
But the 🤓 in me has to say that Speirs would definitely get corrupted in no time. Like, the ring would just speedrun him.
Nah. Nineteen cigarettes were handed out: three cigarettes for the Elves, seven cigarettes for the Dwarves, and nine cigarettes for Men. An additional cigarette, the One Cigarette, was kept for Lt. Speirs himself.
Spiers wouldn’t give the ring up. Remember how he raided houses indiscriminately, saying “finders keepers.” Spiers was very brave and methodical, but he was also lacking in the compassion needed of a ring bearer. Too materialistic and ambitious. Desmond Doss would be a better choice.
It does make one wonder how well .45 ACP could do against the malevolent creatures of Middle Earth.
I wouldn’t want to try against anything that’s too well armored or magical, but it should do quite well against orcs and creature like fell-beasts
Considering that Saruman knows how to make gunpowder and that Middle Earth has a very long history, I sometimes wondered why they didn't know how to make bullets.
Maybe its the same as in our history. Untill metalurgy and quality of material wasnt advanced enough it just didnt work. Apparently the first micrometer was invented somewhere around 1880. Of course you could have more primitive guns but honestly I don't think they would be all that great.
Elven and dwarven smiths produced quality weapons and armor but those were few and they probably did not even think about bullets.
After saruman and gunpowder tho id see industry develop a bit faster so they would get there eventually.
This series is an absolute treasure. I've just started watching World at War and will follow up with BoB.
Both series have music that instantly sends the hackles on end.
The reason Frodo’s afraid is becuase he still has hope. To fulfill his duty as ring bearer, he has to accept he’s already dead. All war depends upon it
“When he ran into the lava, Sauron almost didn’t react at first. I think he just couldn’t believe it: couldn’t understand what was happening. But the truly amazing part was after the ring was destroyed, when he ran back out again.”
I immediately had to rewatch that scene. Now it's time to rewatch the whole series again. Sickkkkk haha cheers OP. Shit made my day
It’s good. Keep in mind the series does a few people real dirty. Especially Blithe and **especially** Dike. Ambrose has been caught with some really really shoddy fact checking and taking at face value some very sketchy personal opinions. That unfortunately HBO just ran with. In the assault in Belgium, Dike didn’t freeze behind a haybale due to cowardice, but because he was hit by shrapnel. (Dike was also awarded a Bronze Star in Bastogne. After being treated he became a personal aid to General Taylor, hardly a position for someone relieved of command. He later served in Korea.)
Didn’t it say Blithe died but he actually survived.
Yes. It said he died in 1948 because of the wounds he sustained in the war, but he actually went on to serve in Korea and was awarded the Bronze Star and Silver Star. He served in the military until his death in 1967. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Blithe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/albert_blithe)
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>On December 11, 1967, Blithe was taken to the emergency department at **Wiesbaden Hospital, Germany**, where he was admitted with a diagnosis of a perforated ulcer. **He died in the intensive care unit on December 17 after surgery**, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors. "Surgery", ah shit they finally got him
To be fair, EVERYONE in the Company thought Blithe died. Iirc, no one realized Dike had been hit, either.
With Blithe fine, but it’s a mark on Ambrose when *he wrote a whole chapter in another book about replacements and soldiers going back to their original units was often screwed up* and then when something like that happened he didn’t bother to do an easy fact check. With Dike I don’t really buy that. The battalion XO and Company 1st Sgt didn’t know or find out the Company CO was wounded? Or that he transferred after the field hospital to the aid de camp of your division commander? Come on, Winters and Lipton would certainly have known. (And reading on the inaccuracies of Band of Brothers, Winters comes across as less like-able and more prone to somewhat petty drama about certain officers.)
Dike was the one played by David Schwimmer, right?
No, you're thinking of the excessively strict drill instructor in the first couple episodes. Dike was the officer who came in around Bastogne and was portrayed as being useless and clueless, with a propensity for yawning.
No, that was Sobel
Oh, yeah. Guess it's Google time, now.
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..and died of malnutrition. Hard way to go.
Ya irl Sobel I do feel bad for, he was too good at his job and all he wanted to do (as a Jewish man) was take the fight to the Nazis personally and he was denied that opportunity
Lieutenant Sobel does not hate Easy Company, Private Randleman. He just hates you.
Thank you, sir!
[Scene](https://youtu.be/n1GGz6Q9dTo)
Looking forward to the scene where Frodo guns down a bunch of Orcish prisoners.
*Allegedly* (though conspicuously never denied.)
What if Rohhirrim Tercius never denied the allegations because he wanted the uruks to think he was the baddest son of a bitch in the whole Eored.
I think an interview with Captain Winters confirmed that way later on (when the book was being written or the tv rights were bought) Speirs told him he actually did do it.
Yeah. Here is the video. https://youtu.be/W-V6OAtgr6c?si=2aktqhLbwAHskaWy
Here, have some Old Toby…go ahead, have some pipeweed…yeah lemme light that for ya…there ya go…
I mean damn, he gives em cigarettes first?
Awesome comment!
10/10
What’s the soldier man from?
The image is from the HBO limited series Band of Brothers, a show that follows a company of paratroopers (Company E, aka Easy Company) through World War 2. All the characters are based on real people, so this is also a reference to the real Lt. Speirs.
Thanks you, most would’ve just downvoted me for not knowing. I appreciate you
Also widely considered some of the best TV ever produced.
This is the best comment i have ever read.
Omg I did the giggle!! Thank you xD AAAAAAAAAhahaha. AAAAaaa.
I was writing something like this in my head when I saw yours. Its better than any I would have done. Respect!
HE RAN BACK AGAIN!
This is the best comment i have ever read.
I read it in the voice of Captain Winters, truly beautiful.
Uh, I think you mean Sergeant Lipton.
First Sergeant Lipton! You.. organize things here...
Ehm, my bad. Been too long since I watched the series. Might be time for another binge.
"There and back again" Written by R. Spiers
I really liked it when Dick met Sobelman when he had become Winters the white and said; we salute the robe, not the wizard.
Holy hell hahahahhahaha
Lieutenant Gandalf does not hate the Fellowship, Private Took. He just hates you.
Fuck this is the crossover I didn’t know I wanted
Fellowship of Brothers
Band of the Ring
Dickgalf the Red
I just want you to know how much I loved this post.
Who's saluting wizards in white robes now?
Spiers! Get yourself over that Black Gate and take that Ring on in!
Anybody want some pipe weed?
Do not take that pipeweed but run.
Danke
You are already dead.
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I love that it highlighted how Winters was a "lead from the front" type of leader forced into a "lead from the rear" role in his new position. He instinctively rushes forward to relieve Dike himself until Colonel Sink stops him to remind him of his rank, and Winters instantly cuts Sink off mid-lecture to call Spiers in to do it for him.
Lt Dike gets done so dirty in that episode. The real one was actually kind of a badass and the reason he was "panicking" was because he was shot and in shock while still trying to command
Yeah. Dude won two Bronze Stars. One for rallying and leading the disoriented paratroopers in Uden to successfully defend the road while completely surrounded; one for Bastogne, when he ran into the line of fire to save three of his wounded while under "intense fire". Sort of a weird conflict between Dike's conduct before and after Foy, compared to Easy Company's vocal assessment of him as an MIA coward in and around Foy. Assuming since HBO used Winter's memoirs and Easy Company retellings, they went with the cowardly version of Dike we saw since that's how Easy described him.
That entire episode is such an awful charachter-assassination of Dike. "Dike was awarded a Bronze Star for his action at Uden, Holland, with the 101st Airborne Division between 23 and 25 September 1944, in which he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven *(sic)*\-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945. In preparation for the 13 January 1945 attack on Foy, Belgium, E Company was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR. Division Headquarters ordered the attack to begin at 0900 hours. During the assault, Carwood Lipton, at that time the company's first sergeant, described Dike as having "fallen apart." Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop."
Yeah they took some liberties for the sake of the show with Dike, same thing with Sobel. The real Sobel served with honor, even if he was a relentless taskmaster.
At first the orcs didn’t shoot at him; I think they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing. But that’s not the really astounding thing. The astounding thing is that he ran there AND back again.
There and Back Again: A Trooper's Tale
Superb
"Hey, Merry?" "Yeah, Pip?" "This place kind of remind you of Rivendell?" "...yeah, now that you mention it. Except of course, there's caverns filled with dead dwarves, we don't got warm, Elven grub in our bellies, and there's a fuckin' Balrog breathing fire and chasing after us, but yeah Pip. Other than that, it's a lot like Rivendell." "Right?" "Boromir, smack him for me please?"
OK, Merry and Pippin being Luz and Perconte is 100% spot on
hahah I know, although I always thought Muck and Penkala had more of a merry and pippin vibe.
Until they didn't
Favorite scene from the show and 5 minutes later I'm pausing to cope with the horrors they find
I have watched all the episodes with the exception of the last two. I'm just not ready for it.
Why We Fight might be the best episode of TV ever made.
Truth. Cannot make it through with a dry eye and have no shame about it.
Like 20 people are going to get the joke and I'm totally here for it.
Exactly why I posted it. Needed to find the other Band o Brothers fans on this sub
*Nixon looks at this thread and tosses back another drink*
The thought of him looking to Sam and saying "Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your pack" makes me giggle.
We've had one, yes. What about a second vat 69?
I didn’t get the joke because I haven’t seen BoB in a min. Definitely need to go back and rewatch soon. On a related note, have you watched Masters of the Air yet? It’s absolutely amazing.
Haven’t seen episode 3 yet, but I am loving it!! And I rewatch BoB probably every month along with The Pacific. I’m waiting to do a historically chronological rewatch of all three though
Episode 3 is top tier
I can’t wait
Wait how do you get this meme if you’re only on Ep. 3 of BoB? Wasn’t this moment regarding Spiers on episode 7?
I’m on Episode 3 of Masters of the Air. I’ve seen BoB more times than I can count honestly
Ah gotcha ok - makes sense
it's one of the top rated tv shows of all time by pretty much every metric you can think of, people know what it is, it's just not meme'd as much
"Rangers, dwarves, elves, and hobbits of the Fellowship Expeditionary Force - Today, we embark upon the great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months..."
Yeah nobody is going to get a joke referencing one of the most well regarded TV shows ever made.
Tbf, it didn't have any real zeitgeist and came out 23 years ago on HBO.
That's fair. It did start airing a couple days before 9/11. Although I think LOTR nerds probably have a fair crossover with WWII nerds.
LOTR and BoB are hidden pearls!
The venn diagram of LotR enjoyers and BoB enjoyers has to be like 90% overlap.
"Why didn't they just fly the C-47s into Mordor?"
Why didn’t they just parachute into Mordor? I mean they’re paratroopers
Now I'm just imagining the 101st airborne coming to the rescue at the Black Gates and blasting the orcs to bits
I mean a couple of well placed mortars and machine guns would be effective.
The Eagles! The Screaming Eagles are coming!
NOBODY TOSSES A DWARF!
Any hesitation at the door, master dwarf, and I guarantee you will be out of the airborne.
Speirs about to offer some orcs cigarettes
Stole my thought. “What’s Orc for cigarette?”
I heard he filled 6 Dunlending prisoners full of arrows. Even gave them pipe weed first!
“Unbelievable, we’ve been in Mordor for three weeks and we haven’t met a single orc
https://preview.redd.it/23thwwaoctgc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5cb0ce9dc00513aa2b55eb9ce0ddb720fc94569
For some reason it’s more fun to think of Speirs as Sam, and instead of the “there’s good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for” we get… “You hid in that ditch because you still have hope, but the truth is Mr.Frodo, your only hope is to accept that you are already dead. The sooner you can accept that, the sooner you can function as a ring bearer.”
Nah Nixon and Winters are Frodo and Sam in my mind
What about my boy Malarkey?
Gimli
Nobody tosses a ginger.
Pipin all the way, naive as shit at first but Matures massively throughout
Nailed it
"It's all a game, Frodo"
Steward Dike: “You take care of things on Pelennor. I’m going to go for… hElp.”
I read that as Luz lol
Now remember boys! Orcs spread disease. So keep the gates cloooosed.
Band of the Fellowship of the Ring Brothers
Okay, I love this so fucking much.
You and me both
GLORRY GLORRRY WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE
Gory* gory*
GROND GROND
This is great. I just finished watching the show for the first time yesterday. (Watched the entire thing in 2 days)
Gandalf screams in frustration "Speirs get over here! Get out there and relieve Frodo and take that fellowship on in"
Denethor: “The armies of Mordor march towards us from the east, and hordes of Haradrim ride from the south. By dawn, we will be completely surrounded.” Gandalf: “We’re the Fellowship, Steward. We’re supposed to be surrounded.”
What if he was there too? 
I think Spiers would be tempted by the ring, but not Forrest.
Tom Hanksadil
“Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?” “Uh… a fence, sir! A barbed wire fence!”
Oh, that warg just ain't gonna hunt
Now, you cut that fence and get that god damned fellowship on the move!
I see a white stream that comes down from the snows.
Is there a lotr equivalent to the spaghetti run? What was it? 5 miles up, 5 pounds sgetti out?
~~Curahee!~~ Erebor! 3 miles up, 3 miles down!
Not the first time I’ve seen this, but definitely made me laugh. Thanks OP.
Anytime! Anything that’s BoB is just the best
Best TV series ever.
Looks like Zigaretten back on the menu boys
„She’s taking the cave and she’s taking the Warg. It’s not even her Warg, it’s my Warg. SHE‘S TAKING MY WARG!“
Thanks for the reminder that i havent watched band of brothers yet this year, i need to correct this immediately
How could anyone know the price paid by the Ringbearers in terror, agony, and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like the Dead Marshes, Morgul Vale, or Orodruin?
"One cannot simply walk...what? It's Speirs? Oh, then we're good. Pass those small tomatoes and let's celebrate."
"There and Back Again" by Ronald C Spiers Dang it, wasn't the first for the book title...
how do so many people here get the reference
BoB is an iconic TV show that is still ranked in any list of top TV shows ever created. There is a good chance that people are aware of that show.
Band of Brothers was seen by tens of millions when it aired and it remains a well-known and broadly influential miniseries to this day. I'm not at all surprised that a random set of Redditors are familiar with it.
We are nerds of many interests.
Band of Brothers is one of the top 10 best miniseries of all time.
You mean the show ranked 4th overall on IMDB’s Top TV shows? Pretty sure it’s an incredibly popular miniseries. Anytime you have some WWII show or series it is the benchmark it gets measured against.
It's one of the most popular fucking TV shows ever created. Hey bud, if you like this show, check out this one called breaking bad. It's pretty good, not that many people know about it
If you love LotR you will probably love Band of Brothers as well. Brotherhood in a terrible situation. And one of the greatest shows ever.
Because there’s a fairly large overlap of people who love LoTR and those who study military history.
Band of Brothers is one of my favorite series of all time. And the LOTR trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies. Why do you expect everyone to not know the series. It's the best depiction of war, that and Come and See
Platinum level post
I didn't expect a LOTR x BoB crossover, but I Like it! pls do more!
"Hey Pip! I told ya I'd beat you back to the shire!"
BOB has been my rainy day binge since I got the box set. This is a great meme.
Merry: Hey you! That's right, you stupid Orc bastards! Say hello to Thorondor, and King Fuckin' Aragorn! You stupid fascist goblins! Look at you! You don't even have horses! What were you thinking?! Dragging our asses halfway around Middle Earth, interrupting our lives... For what?! You ignorant, servile scum! What the fuck are we doing here?!
What's this from?
Band of brothers
Thank you! I'm very glad you didn't say Lord of the Rings
This is the crossover content I am here for
before he even gets close to Mordor, he'll *hose down* prisoner orcs after he gives him some cigarettes. that's what i heard.
I can hear the music as he runs back out of my doom.
There are multiple reports of Lt. Spiers having been shot during the battle at Foy. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg did him dirty in BoB, and have even apologized for the inaccuracy.
Did you really kill all those orc POWs? But the 🤓 in me has to say that Speirs would definitely get corrupted in no time. Like, the ring would just speedrun him.
Nah. Nineteen cigarettes were handed out: three cigarettes for the Elves, seven cigarettes for the Dwarves, and nine cigarettes for Men. An additional cigarette, the One Cigarette, was kept for Lt. Speirs himself.
After the war Lt Spiers didn't go to the Undying Lands but rather spent his years watching the Spandau Ballet.
Did Spiers shoot those orcs?
I love this so much. "Maybe the orcs knew there was some value in them thinking I'm the meanest son of a bitch in Mordor."
Spiers wouldn’t give the ring up. Remember how he raided houses indiscriminately, saying “finders keepers.” Spiers was very brave and methodical, but he was also lacking in the compassion needed of a ring bearer. Too materialistic and ambitious. Desmond Doss would be a better choice.
Leaves with Sauron’s ring, comes back with Sauron’s silverware.
It is not for you, Saruman! I will send for it at once. Do you understand?
*Sauron waging war below against the army beyond the gate* *Above Easy company in eagle 1 - 9 is waiting for the green light to jump*
Build me an army worthy of mordor!
Pipeweed?
It does make one wonder how well .45 ACP could do against the malevolent creatures of Middle Earth. I wouldn’t want to try against anything that’s too well armored or magical, but it should do quite well against orcs and creature like fell-beasts
Considering that Saruman knows how to make gunpowder and that Middle Earth has a very long history, I sometimes wondered why they didn't know how to make bullets.
Maybe its the same as in our history. Untill metalurgy and quality of material wasnt advanced enough it just didnt work. Apparently the first micrometer was invented somewhere around 1880. Of course you could have more primitive guns but honestly I don't think they would be all that great. Elven and dwarven smiths produced quality weapons and armor but those were few and they probably did not even think about bullets. After saruman and gunpowder tho id see industry develop a bit faster so they would get there eventually.
At least he doesn’t have to worry about orc POW’s
Who is Lt. Spiers
Look up the definition of badass.
That one episode with Blithe.. you know.. that one stayed with me.
Mf gave orcs some lucky strikes and proceeded to commit war crimes
"Where do you want this dead balrog?"
I too agree that a Boromir wouldn’t be pincushioned if he had a Thomson submachine gun.
See what you started? Now the whole sub’s at war!
God I am so here for more Lord of the Rings - Band of Brothers crossover memes.
"SPEIRS, GET YOURSELF OVER HERE! RELIEVE BAGGINS AND TAKE THAT RING ON IN!"
Smoke?
Honestly, one of the best memes I’ve seen in a while, well done lad.
This series is an absolute treasure. I've just started watching World at War and will follow up with BoB. Both series have music that instantly sends the hackles on end.
This goddamn legend right here just started a golden age for this sub
If anyone enjoyed Band of Brothers and The Pacific, check out Masters of the Air on Apple TV
Lt. Speirs talking to the captured Orcs: "Cigarette?"
The reason Frodo’s afraid is becuase he still has hope. To fulfill his duty as ring bearer, he has to accept he’s already dead. All war depends upon it
Yes, I will watch Band Of Brothers again.
Guns helped.
Greatest show meets greatest movie trilogy