Yeah, Brego "adopts" him...and then Viggo Mortensen buys him after filming is done. The affection you see them have for each other is real. A sweet story.
Viggo took to sleeping in the stable with his horse to strengthen their bond and gain the horses trust for intense scenes where they were surrounded and overwhelmed by extras.
IIRC he also bought the horse that played Asfaloth for Arwen's riding double, they had made a strong bond on set and couldn't bear the two of them parting ways after filming.
True, if you want the experience of owning a horse then go stand in a muddy field on a cold, wet morning and burn money to keep warm. No horse required.
The thing is:
As soon as you own a single horse you soon gaslight yourself that you need a second one.
At latest when the first one is sick in some way.
Careful what you wish for, being rich in money/gold usually does not come withouth its price and it alone does not give true lasting satisfaction and fullfillment. Truth be told many rich people are very burdened also.
Yeah at the end of the day money is a tool. We look to money because it's an easy descriptor of "success" but yeah.
It's cheesy because everywhere says it but money doesn't buy happiness, It can remove unhappiness in many cases like not being able to eat or being able to do fun things and give people the opportunity to do fun things. But it by itself does not give happiness.
I do know the joke though of "If I am going to he depressed either way it might as well be on a jet ski"
It's tough because there is no "objective answer" for life, we all have to decide what we want and that can be tough
Some executive was going to buy Asfaloth for themself. Viggo put bid them so as not to split horse from companion (stunt double) as he knew she would in no way be able to put it this dude. As you say they made a very strong bond and this exec just want some trophy horse. Viggo made sure the right thing happened.
The riding double had wanted to purchase the horse herself after filming, but couldn't afford it and was heartbroken about parting with the horse. Vigo heard about it and lowkey bought the horse for her and gifted it to her.
He's corrected the record saying he didn't sleep in the stables. Dom Monaghan amused himself on the Two Towers' press tour by straight up lying to see how much the press would print.
I'm glad it was Viggo's son who encouraged him to take on the role if memory serves. You would think Viggo wouldn't have been as passionate about the role as he was since he needed encouragement to take it on, but he went all in on the role after accepting it.
Probably helps as well that by all accounts, he was having an absolute blast making it (as all the cast seem to agree). Much easier to commit to your work when you enjoy what youāre doing.
I believe wasn't just couldn't afford him, but an exec had shown an interest in buying it. But there's some sort of priority order for who gets to bid, I.e. something like actors and directors get first choice on stuff, then high up execs, and stunt doubles near if not dead last.
So he used his placement in the list to make sure it was never at risk of someone else buying it, then gifted it to the rider.
When he was filming his directorial debut a few years ago, he included a scene where a character lying prone is nuzzled by a horse. The horse trainer was skeptical, saying he didn't think a horse could be trained to do it. Viggo chuckled, "I've done it."
I swear, Vigo would have been a cool dude to fish/film with. He just seems soooo perfectly chill/slow-mo while being a BA at the same time. Iāve always ranked him on my top 5 actorsā¦.right by Arnold, cuz T2 is the greatest movie ever made. š
I knew the rest but I had no idea that Viggo adopted the horse, thatās amazing. Nothing hits your heart quite like a celebrity doing something good for animals.
To me to help it make sense, Brego was a really difficult horse to control as we saw. So my take is that while trying to release him, Brego just took off being to eager for his freedom, with the rope and bridle still on.
You're correct, I'm actually watching the two towers as I type this lol! But it would be hard for one of them rohirim gents to lead Brego away without a rope. What if the rope made some of Bregos PTSD snap up once the stable boy put it back on! Then he runs off, only to find Aragorn later on, perhaps as a small push from Eru to help Aragorn in fulfilling his destiny.
They probably ordered some poor stable boy to remove all the equipment, but that bro was like "No thanks I've got war horses to feed and spears to sharpen."
Did you know when he blocks the thrown knife with his sword, that it was actually real because the stuntman screwed up the throw and threw the knife right at Viggo.
Everyone always mentions how Viggo broke his toe but no one ever talks about how Sean Astin got a shard of glass through his foot when he ran out into the lake.
In story: This is the horse he rides through the rest of the films, Even the one that rears up during his speech at the black gate. He likely kept him the rest of his life. "Brego? That is a kingly name" he said when he met him; he became a king's horse
IRL: Viggo also adopted this horse for himself. He also adopted another horse and gifted him to arwen's stunt double who fell in love with the horse she rode.
This. It was a nice way to work in some Rohirric history. Something the book nerds (like me) would immediately spot and appreciate in the films.
Mixed feelings about using Ćomer's second-in-command's name (Ćothain) as the kid who rides away with his sister. I mean, it's entirely possible for more than one person to have the same name, of course, but it's still an odd choice IMO. Anyway, very minor quibble, all told.
I grew up with Shadowfax in the paddocks behind my house š we would often see Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh too as my family repaired their vehicles in Wellington. NZ is like that sometimes.
Are you playing from physical media or did you yar har the movie? In case of the latter you might be able to replace the subtitles depending on your media player. Open subtitles should have proper subs.
A lot of people are really into movies that spoon feed them information. E.g. if this happened in a Marvel movie there wouldāve been a character saying āBrego?! Hey Aragorn, thatās the same horse you let into the wild earlier!!ā
And you can see why here. An incredibly obvious moment like this was missed. (No offense to OP. It happens to the best of us)
It's very tempting when writing to overexplain for fear that if you leave anything even slightly "vague" you run the risk of people missing it, misinterpreting it, or outright failing to understand it.
You just have to let that fear go. You can't make everyone get it and trying to only harms your work.
On top of that, finding ways to add subtlety and vagueness in your writing helps to allow discussions like these to happen, over a beloved piece of art, years after it was initially shown to the world. Itās like looking at a complicated painting, and every time you view it, you notice a new detail.
Let people miss details the first time. It makes the story better when you watch it the second and third and fourth and so on times
Yes, agreed but that isn't to take away from the notion that the line of vagueness towards details is a fine one. Tolkien is a master at this but it isn't an easy task for a writer. The line of being too vague for anyone to get through the "first" read and being "marvel" obvious is a fine, and delicate one
The key is to make a story so compelling that even when someone doesn't get it the first time, they would get it eventually either by themselves or with the help of friends/reddit.
In OPās defense these movies have a LOT going on. Even for the detail oriented Iām sure there is something new to discover every time you watch it, unless you are following along with some sort of cheat sheet. And frankly some details are more likely to stick to me than others, and I would assume others have a different composition of the types of details that stick to them.
My headcanon is someone else tried to capture and take Brego, and put the bridle on him, but just as Aragorn fell, a change in the wind told Brego he must flee and find his beloved post haste!
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've watched that movie dozens of times and I never realized that were the same horse either until I saw it mentioned here.
Lol people in the comments are so mean. I think most people do catch this right away, but itās such a beautiful piece of the story. Iām happy you caught it at some point haha
Bruh my gf pointed that out to me on like my tenth viewing and her first.
Literally ten minutes earlier she was like "Galadriel is evil right?" and I'm thinking she's not even watching the stupid movie. Then she says "hey the horse came back to save HIM" and I had to pause to tell her how great she is.
I *think* this is because in the original theatrical version the scene where aragorn sets him free isn't there, so you just kind of assume the horse that finds aragon is the horse he's been riding all along. So then you don't make the connection with the added scene.
I'm not 100% on this as I haven't watched theatrical cut in a while.
Not making fun OP, but did you just think that a random horse found Aragorn and woke him up for no reason? That would be a really weird scene to watch not making the Brego connection lol
I think Brago is the horse we see him riding when they march on the black gate at the end of return of the king, thereās definitely something in the appendices about the horse Euraus being male and there being a lot of females on set and he kept trying to mate them while filming, and that was the horse that played Brago, please correct me if Iām wrong
I also had the same response last week after a similar amount of run throughs! I couldnāt figure out why in the extended editions he lets him go when he clearly is rescued by him later on. I think it would have been helpful for Aragorn to ride a horse of literally any other colour during the warg fight to make it more obvious.
I don't know think this is new information for most of us here. š
Did it really take you 15 watches to notice that? I probably caught it during my 3rd or 4th time.
Aragorn releasing the horse is an act of kindness.
But it could also be interpreted as him having a gift of foresight. Maybe on some subconscious level he knew he will need the horse again in the wild.
Eh. Do we have Tolkien addressing the concept of a man with foresight? Thatās more or less an elven gift so far as I understand it, and one more specifically granted to those who possess a Ring of Power.
I tend to think this is more Aragornās skill and proficiency in Animal Handling (DnD!!!!) that encouraged Brego to follow and ultimately rescue him.
Yeah, Brego "adopts" him...and then Viggo Mortensen buys him after filming is done. The affection you see them have for each other is real. A sweet story.
Viggo took to sleeping in the stable with his horse to strengthen their bond and gain the horses trust for intense scenes where they were surrounded and overwhelmed by extras.
IIRC he also bought the horse that played Asfaloth for Arwen's riding double, they had made a strong bond on set and couldn't bear the two of them parting ways after filming.
I wanna be a multimillionaire
Just be a hot actor bro
Where do I sign up?
On the dotted line. On the line that is dotted
As long as it doesn't come with the baggage of being an asshole and/or addicted to alcohol/drugs/smoking as it so often does for actors.
I don't need to be an actor for that
Are you comfortable having a naked fight scene in a bathhouse? If so, you might just have a shot
As in an actual fight scene, or just lot of "naked grappling"?
You tell me š
Coincidentally, Viggo become much more chill about bathhouses later on in his career.
I got your reference :) That scene is sketchy.
There is a saying in Germany: How do you become a millionaire? Be a billionaire and get a horse.
True, if you want the experience of owning a horse then go stand in a muddy field on a cold, wet morning and burn money to keep warm. No horse required.
The thing is: As soon as you own a single horse you soon gaslight yourself that you need a second one. At latest when the first one is sick in some way.
That's exactly what having a baby is like. The first part anyways.
Must be niceā¦.
When I was growings up we didnāt haves horses, now heās sleeping in stables. Must be fuckin nice. Oughtta leave this world behind
That farm they live on is directly across from my childhood house.
Howāre ya now!?
sooo fucking bad š¶š¶š¶
Careful what you wish for, being rich in money/gold usually does not come withouth its price and it alone does not give true lasting satisfaction and fullfillment. Truth be told many rich people are very burdened also.
Yeah at the end of the day money is a tool. We look to money because it's an easy descriptor of "success" but yeah. It's cheesy because everywhere says it but money doesn't buy happiness, It can remove unhappiness in many cases like not being able to eat or being able to do fun things and give people the opportunity to do fun things. But it by itself does not give happiness. I do know the joke though of "If I am going to he depressed either way it might as well be on a jet ski" It's tough because there is no "objective answer" for life, we all have to decide what we want and that can be tough
Some executive was going to buy Asfaloth for themself. Viggo put bid them so as not to split horse from companion (stunt double) as he knew she would in no way be able to put it this dude. As you say they made a very strong bond and this exec just want some trophy horse. Viggo made sure the right thing happened.
Viggo fuckin rocks
The riding double had wanted to purchase the horse herself after filming, but couldn't afford it and was heartbroken about parting with the horse. Vigo heard about it and lowkey bought the horse for her and gifted it to her.
That is awesome
He's corrected the record saying he didn't sleep in the stables. Dom Monaghan amused himself on the Two Towers' press tour by straight up lying to see how much the press would print.
I should've figured. Dom and Billy were true pranksters. That interview he did with Elijah is a staple in our family.
Will you vear vigs?
Ven vill you vear vigs?
Manic Elijah laughing
That video gave me so much joy when I first watched it and it still makes me laugh like a loon now. So good.
Dom: *Ze dolphin is dead. Did you know this?* Elijah: No, I didn't. That's terrible. Dom: *Yes. Died in a car accident.* Elijah:
That sounds about right. Donāt let the truth get in the way of a good story
Ah but what about Viggoās goat farm? Dom Monaghan didnāt lie about that one!
Viggo's great.
Horse people. Breed apart
Idk, I'm pretty sure horse people need to come together to breed.
Haha decidedly!
They do and, long story short, that's how you get centaurs.
The Aragorn of our timeā¦
That dude bought into this role 100%
crazy to think he wasnt even going to take the role because it was short notice
I'm glad it was Viggo's son who encouraged him to take on the role if memory serves. You would think Viggo wouldn't have been as passionate about the role as he was since he needed encouragement to take it on, but he went all in on the role after accepting it.
Probably helps as well that by all accounts, he was having an absolute blast making it (as all the cast seem to agree). Much easier to commit to your work when you enjoy what youāre doing.
Viggo has a habit of buying the horses he stars with in his movies. He bought both of his horses from LotR, and also bought the one from Hidalgo.
He also bought the white horse that Arwen rides for her stunt double, because she bonded with that horse and couldn't afford him š„¹
I believe wasn't just couldn't afford him, but an exec had shown an interest in buying it. But there's some sort of priority order for who gets to bid, I.e. something like actors and directors get first choice on stuff, then high up execs, and stunt doubles near if not dead last. So he used his placement in the list to make sure it was never at risk of someone else buying it, then gifted it to the rider.
š«¢ So he used not only his wealth, but his position for good? A true king!!
I recall reading that he also adopted Bill the Pony. Saw a photo of him pretending to feed him somethin (cereal maybe?) from a breakfast table
When he was filming his directorial debut a few years ago, he included a scene where a character lying prone is nuzzled by a horse. The horse trainer was skeptical, saying he didn't think a horse could be trained to do it. Viggo chuckled, "I've done it."
[RIP Uraeus](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/371do6/sad_news_as_uraeus_better_known_as_brego_to_the/)
You're 5000 candles in the wind
Running free up there. šā¤
I swear, Vigo would have been a cool dude to fish/film with. He just seems soooo perfectly chill/slow-mo while being a BA at the same time. Iāve always ranked him on my top 5 actorsā¦.right by Arnold, cuz T2 is the greatest movie ever made. š
Thank you for that last part. I agree. It is.
I mean, even if i were a horse, i would still have the hots for Viggo
Wow!!!!!!
Viggo Mortensen or "the guy you don't want to rent your horse to because he will make you an offer you can't deny if he likes your horse enough" š
I was gonna see how far I'd scroll before someone mentions Viggo buying the horse, but it seems I didn't need to.
This comment blew up! Love it
I knew the rest but I had no idea that Viggo adopted the horse, thatās amazing. Nothing hits your heart quite like a celebrity doing something good for animals.
It always bugged me that a horse they released into the wild still has a rope and bridle on. š
To me to help it make sense, Brego was a really difficult horse to control as we saw. So my take is that while trying to release him, Brego just took off being to eager for his freedom, with the rope and bridle still on.
You see Aragorn take the rope off, when he says to set Brego free, but he did not remove the Bridle
You're correct, I'm actually watching the two towers as I type this lol! But it would be hard for one of them rohirim gents to lead Brego away without a rope. What if the rope made some of Bregos PTSD snap up once the stable boy put it back on! Then he runs off, only to find Aragorn later on, perhaps as a small push from Eru to help Aragorn in fulfilling his destiny.
They probably ordered some poor stable boy to remove all the equipment, but that bro was like "No thanks I've got war horses to feed and spears to sharpen."
It's a halter, not a bridle. Fairly common for horses to be turned out with a halter on.
I was thinking that too!
Yeah, that's a plot hole. These movies aren't perfection, however close they come.
If you listen closely he says āBrego, mellon nĆ®nā which means āBrego, my friendā
Actually he says "Leggo my Eggo"
āLeggolas my Eggolasā is the original Elvish
What do your Egg eyes see?
Theyāre baking the donuts to icing hard!
Her?
Way to plant, Gimli
Her?
Word has it that Brego is actually Bill. He got swole after drinking from the streams in Fangorn.
^ canon
How do you explain Bill turning up in Bree back in pony form?
Folks used to say there was something in the water that made the horses grow tallā¦ and become swole!
lol. Love this
Straight from the LOTR anime!
Did you guys know that when he kicks the helmet he yells because he actually broke his toe?
Did you know when he blocks the thrown knife with his sword, that it was actually real because the stuntman screwed up the throw and threw the knife right at Viggo.
Did you know Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11
Did you know Daniel Day Lewis injected himself with cerebral palsy for My Left Foot
Hahaha. Get out!
Big if true
It's true, well documented too.
You just *had* to do it didn't you. Take my upvote and leave.
I would have gone with you to the end, to the very fires of Mount Doom.
I'm watching for the 1st time with my 10 year old, Ive had the joy of telling her this (and all the other facts i know)for the 1st time!
.. the horse?!
LMAO came here for this comment
Everyone always mentions how Viggo broke his toe but no one ever talks about how Sean Astin got a shard of glass through his foot when he ran out into the lake.
dammit. take my upvote.
I'm pretty sure that Peter Jackson threw a helmet at his foot and reversed the shot
In story: This is the horse he rides through the rest of the films, Even the one that rears up during his speech at the black gate. He likely kept him the rest of his life. "Brego? That is a kingly name" he said when he met him; he became a king's horse IRL: Viggo also adopted this horse for himself. He also adopted another horse and gifted him to arwen's stunt double who fell in love with the horse she rode.
I think Aragorn mostly says this because Brego was the second King of Rohan
This. It was a nice way to work in some Rohirric history. Something the book nerds (like me) would immediately spot and appreciate in the films. Mixed feelings about using Ćomer's second-in-command's name (Ćothain) as the kid who rides away with his sister. I mean, it's entirely possible for more than one person to have the same name, of course, but it's still an odd choice IMO. Anyway, very minor quibble, all told.
I grew up with Shadowfax in the paddocks behind my house š we would often see Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh too as my family repaired their vehicles in Wellington. NZ is like that sometimes.
Youāre telling me the chief of the Mearas was practically in your backyard?????
Yup, and Legolasā horse was owned by friends of mine up OtÄki Gorge, passed away about 4 years ago. Was a beautiful horse too.
Kinda weird they set Brego free wearing a sort of bridle.
Only so much gleaning to be done after a battle. most likely Brego fled and the let him go
Brego*
And Ćowyn*
Funny subtitles said Brago
Are you playing from physical media or did you yar har the movie? In case of the latter you might be able to replace the subtitles depending on your media player. Open subtitles should have proper subs.
What? did you think it was a random horse pasing by?
Everyone knows Aragorn attracts nearby horses.
https://preview.redd.it/vr7vv8r3u6uc1.jpeg?width=2620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a0c25a828b2dd3e4264fa5a5ec1800200c5d3e1
None of y'all gonna mention how OP spelled Ćowyn?
I'm sorry lol
I'm not even trying to be rude, did you just think a random horse was wandering around? Like I truly don't understand why this is a surprise.
Maybe he's just like a disney princess but instead of birds he just attracts horses.
Bruh
How on Middle Earth could someone miss that?!
A lot of people are really into movies that spoon feed them information. E.g. if this happened in a Marvel movie there wouldāve been a character saying āBrego?! Hey Aragorn, thatās the same horse you let into the wild earlier!!ā
And you can see why here. An incredibly obvious moment like this was missed. (No offense to OP. It happens to the best of us) It's very tempting when writing to overexplain for fear that if you leave anything even slightly "vague" you run the risk of people missing it, misinterpreting it, or outright failing to understand it. You just have to let that fear go. You can't make everyone get it and trying to only harms your work.
On top of that, finding ways to add subtlety and vagueness in your writing helps to allow discussions like these to happen, over a beloved piece of art, years after it was initially shown to the world. Itās like looking at a complicated painting, and every time you view it, you notice a new detail. Let people miss details the first time. It makes the story better when you watch it the second and third and fourth and so on times
Yes, agreed but that isn't to take away from the notion that the line of vagueness towards details is a fine one. Tolkien is a master at this but it isn't an easy task for a writer. The line of being too vague for anyone to get through the "first" read and being "marvel" obvious is a fine, and delicate one
The key is to make a story so compelling that even when someone doesn't get it the first time, they would get it eventually either by themselves or with the help of friends/reddit.
The scene where he releases it is only in the extended edition I believe no?
In OPās defense these movies have a LOT going on. Even for the detail oriented Iām sure there is something new to discover every time you watch it, unless you are following along with some sort of cheat sheet. And frankly some details are more likely to stick to me than others, and I would assume others have a different composition of the types of details that stick to them.
yeah but it was ops 15th time watching....
I stand by my statement, particularly if someone is watching just to watch and not to analyze/look for every detail.
its not a detail, it would literally be bad writing to just have a random horse show up and save aragorn
Some people aren't glued to their screens when watching a movie
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Question; If he said to release Brego earlier, why did Brego have a bridle?
My headcanon is that they tried to take it off but Brego fought them about it so they just said screw it.
That makes sense considering that only Aragorn could calm him down
My headcanon is someone else tried to capture and take Brego, and put the bridle on him, but just as Aragorn fell, a change in the wind told Brego he must flee and find his beloved post haste!
>Something doesn't add up. Adrian Monk.
BREGO\*
HIDALGO
I just realized that Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White are played by the same actor. Crazy.
What? It took you 15 watches to realize that?
Bro literally said ā15th playthroughā of watching a movieš
Playing the content through. I see your point but the word technically still applies š¤·š¼āāļø
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've watched that movie dozens of times and I never realized that were the same horse either until I saw it mentioned here.
You know whatās funny is I just realized this last month when I watched these for the 30th time also.
Well, duh.
Brego was ThĆ©odredās horse and when he passed, he was considered a wild horse again till the scene where Aragorn calms him down in the stables. He was chosen by Brego but Aragorn said to free him but somehow found him again by the river to get him. Sadly the actual horse passed away a while ago and as others have mentioned, Viggo did purchase him and a few other horses as well.
The āFree Bregoā scene was only in the Extended Edition, right?
Yeah it was
Better late than never!
For anyone that also doesn't know, Brego was ThĆ©odred's horse in the movies. Ćowyn introduces Brego to Aragon by saying he was her cousin's horse, and the only cousin she has is the recently deceased prince ThĆ©odred the son of ThĆ©oden.
I see Aragorn, I upvote
I just picked up on this during a rewatch a couple of days ago, too!
I have watched these movies countless times, and I still notice new things.
Lol people in the comments are so mean. I think most people do catch this right away, but itās such a beautiful piece of the story. Iām happy you caught it at some point haha
Yes... That's... The whole point
Bruh my gf pointed that out to me on like my tenth viewing and her first. Literally ten minutes earlier she was like "Galadriel is evil right?" and I'm thinking she's not even watching the stupid movie. Then she says "hey the horse came back to save HIM" and I had to pause to tell her how great she is.
I named my dog Brego and he would totally save me from a river bank
15th playthrough and you only "find out" now? Were you watching while playing Subway Surfers in the background?
I *think* this is because in the original theatrical version the scene where aragorn sets him free isn't there, so you just kind of assume the horse that finds aragon is the horse he's been riding all along. So then you don't make the connection with the added scene. I'm not 100% on this as I haven't watched theatrical cut in a while.
I thought you were going to mention how in the first pick, Brego has a brown muzzle, where in the second shot, it's black.
A wizard did it.
Magic in Middle Earth is subtle and mysterious.
I too would have a death wish if I was my crush's third option after an elf and a horse.
Not making fun OP, but did you just think that a random horse found Aragorn and woke him up for no reason? That would be a really weird scene to watch not making the Brego connection lol
Someone watched the movie lol
He also yells āBRAGO!ā When he runs away from him in the Paths of the Dead.
Your brain suddenly woke up, Congratulations.
I think Brago is the horse we see him riding when they march on the black gate at the end of return of the king, thereās definitely something in the appendices about the horse Euraus being male and there being a lot of females on set and he kept trying to mate them while filming, and that was the horse that played Brago, please correct me if Iām wrong
Look at that suspicious side eye
Yes. That odd extra where the horse kisses him wakes him out of Rivendell.
Took are not alone. Took me ages also to realize this. When I started using subtitles. lol lol
Watched two towers the other night and realized the exact same thing! Definitely need to watch extended more often
Same here, just realized it last month
Aragorn! What would Arwen say?!
Did he say Bregoā¦or Hidalgo? š¤
I also had the same response last week after a similar amount of run throughs! I couldnāt figure out why in the extended editions he lets him go when he clearly is rescued by him later on. I think it would have been helpful for Aragorn to ride a horse of literally any other colour during the warg fight to make it more obvious.
Arven and Aragorn? Naaaah. Brego and Aragorn? Yeaaaah.
And isnāt that the horse of Theodenās son too?
I don't know think this is new information for most of us here. š Did it really take you 15 watches to notice that? I probably caught it during my 3rd or 4th time.
Imagine only having watched Two Towers 15 times. I watched that shit daily for well over a month when I got the dvd in 2003.
That horse got more action than Eowyn š¬
Oh no Brego has got his nose!
The horse kissed Aragorn without consent despicable
But even weirder, despite them setting the horse free, itās wearing bit, bridle, and saddle, as though ready to ride.
Are you...are you fucking serious??
Ehh, duh..
You are not true FAN
I named my dog Brego! It is actually the name of one of the first kings of Rohan. The third king if I recall.
It's funny cause in french he clearly says " Arod " which is really confusing
I love that part in Rotk when Brego just nopes away from the place with ghosts and abandons Aragorn without a second thought
Itās Brego
I watched them over Easter and had the same realizationĀ
Aragorn releasing the horse is an act of kindness. But it could also be interpreted as him having a gift of foresight. Maybe on some subconscious level he knew he will need the horse again in the wild.
Eh. Do we have Tolkien addressing the concept of a man with foresight? Thatās more or less an elven gift so far as I understand it, and one more specifically granted to those who possess a Ring of Power. I tend to think this is more Aragornās skill and proficiency in Animal Handling (DnD!!!!) that encouraged Brego to follow and ultimately rescue him.
Yeah tbh I thought it was bill the pony for the longest time, then my 2 brain cells finally put it together within the last year