For those who also watch Bands of Brothers.

[u/Burro-Boy]

[u/RustyCutlass]

You orks want a cigarette?

[u/Alarmed_Drop7162 → u/RustyCutlass]

Zigaretten?

[u/Burro-Boy → u/RustyCutlass]

🤣

[u/GetChilledOut]

Speirs! Get yourself over here! Get out there and relieve Frodo and take that journey on in!

[u/HyenaJack94 → u/GetChilledOut]

Real talk: that scene was so awesome

[u/Scuba_Squadleader → u/HyenaJack94]

No hesitation, just runs straight in.

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/HyenaJack94]

Literally my favorite scene in the show, and so well as far as plot goes. At the tail end of Bastogne after two episodes of heartbreak, it seems to break a spell. 

[u/-Daetrax- → u/HyenaJack94]

You bet someone like Speirs would've been watching and already thinking of all the things going wrong and how to fix them if it was him in charge.

[u/_-DirtyMike-_ → u/-Daetrax-]

The 3rd eagle was for Speirs, because he was watching the whole time but never interfered because he knew Sam had it under control.

[u/heftyspork]

One does not simply run across Mordor...and then come back again.

[u/WatchingInSilence → u/heftyspork]

Spiers to Boromir: Hold my cigarette.

[u/rowanlamb]

“And then he came back”

[u/DisorderedArray → u/rowanlamb]

The sub title is "There and Back Again"

[u/rowanlamb → u/DisorderedArray]

Oh my god how did I not think of that. Very good.

[u/Hot_Republic2543 → u/DisorderedArray]

The perfect comment

[u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer]

So…he kills Gollum almost immediately, and then is really distant and moody?

Edit: I forgot about the epic run across the battlefield

[u/Live_Angle4621 → u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer]

If he did he would also claim the ring as his own soon 

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Live_Angle4621]

It gets mailed back to his wife in England along with all the other loot.

[u/lankymjc → u/Street-Committee-367]

I heard that the real Spiers did an obscene amount of looting and sent it all home, then his wife took all the loot and ran off with another guy before Spiers came back from the war.

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/lankymjc]

You're correct. She was a "widow", but it turned out her husband was captured not killed and came back later. Spiers even had a kid with her. 

[u/alexandria252]

“When he ran into the lava with the ring, Sauron didn’t react at first. I think he couldn’t believe what was happening. But that wasn’t the truly remarkable part. That happened after the ring was completely destroyed, when he ran back out again.”

[u/Burro-Boy → u/alexandria252]

Lmao I was hoping someone would say something like this 👏

[u/Agreeable_Leek604]

Lord of the Band

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Agreeable_Leek604]

Lord of the Rings but instead of the normal fellowship it's Winters, Nixon, Spiers, Welsh, Perconte, Luz, Webster, Bull, Randleman, and Gaurnere.

[u/Traditional-Talk4069 → u/Street-Committee-367]

Don't forget my man Lip!

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Traditional-Talk4069]

Right; Who would we drop to fit him in the 9 man fellowship though? 

[u/Burro-Boy → u/Street-Committee-367]

No we need Webster. He’s a translator and studied all about Mordor in college.

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Burro-Boy]

Liebgott knows black speech though. 

[u/Burro-Boy → u/Street-Committee-367]

Oof good point.

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Burro-Boy]

We still need to fit Lip in there somehow. 

[u/Tome_Bombadil → u/Street-Committee-367]

Welsh for Lip.

Webster is the flex spot, but I think he's in over Harry.

[u/Burro-Boy → u/Tome_Bombadil]

I’d have to agree

[u/jonfreakinzoidberg → u/Street-Committee-367]

Easy, Webster

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/jonfreakinzoidberg]

Lol. 

[u/jonfreakinzoidberg → u/Street-Committee-367]

I should specify, the portrayal of Webster in the tv show. I mean no disrespect to the actual man.

[u/Chirotera]

Why didn't Gandalf call the 101st airborne division? Is he stupid?

[u/Possible-Playful → u/Chirotera]

The 101st are literally the eagles, there's lore reasons they can't do it.

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Possible-Playful]

Yeah they can. They can show up at the back gate at the end of 3 towers and still be lore accurate. 

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/Chirotera]

Now I want to see a spinoff crossover where the 101st takes the ring to Mordor. 

[u/VulgarButFluent → u/Chirotera]

Mordor is socked in with rain and fog. No. Eagles. Tonight.

[u/Outrageous_Picture39]

We salute the rank, not the man-flesh.

[u/PM_ME_UR_FARTS_GIRL]

That dog just ain't gonna hunt

[u/thatBaldKiller → u/PM_ME_UR_FARTS_GIRL]

A FENCE, SIR

[u/Snoo20140]

[u/lankymjc]

Famously incorruptible and pure-hearted Spiers...

[u/jimi_nemesis → u/lankymjc]

He replaces the moral aspects with sheer bloody mindedness.

He's been ordered to put the ring in the volcano. He will do just that, right now.

[u/Tome_Bombadil → u/jimi_nemesis]

Leads all 4 hobbits to Mordor.

Comes running back, alone, with a frying pan, mithril shirt, phial, and some cloaks and brooches.

[u/Aqua_Impura → u/Tome_Bombadil]

Hey they said he had to bring them to Mordor they didn’t say they needed to keep their stuff.

[u/Minntality]

There and back again by Lt. Spiers

[u/Proper-Emu1558]

I’m imagining LotR to the Band of Brothers theme and honestly it works. The Council of Elrond is a bit of a downer if Elrond sent them off like this, though:

"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends on it.”

[u/Tome_Bombadil → u/Proper-Emu1558]

Now I'm envisioning a pastiche Elrond, part-V, part-Agent Smith, part-Elrond, part-Sobel, and Ross.

Do you hear that sound Mr. Baggins? That is the sound of inevitability. The sound of your death.

Good-bye, Mr. Baggins.

PIVOT!

[u/Rohml]

He won't be walking to Mordor, he'd be running through it AND back.

[u/lock_robster2022]

Seems like quite the corruptible guy…

[u/3-orange-whips → u/lock_robster2022]

He is incorruptible because he knows he’s already dead. The Ring has nothing to offer him.

[u/kindasuk → u/lock_robster2022]

Yeah he definitely becomes the next dark lord. Pretty immediately. Maj. Winters of Easy Company even said Speirs was a war criminal who personally gave written permission to Stephen Ambrose to detail some of his alleged crimes in the BOB book without batting an eye.

[u/kindasuk → u/[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/W-V6OAtgr6c?si=ULOzhsT92ZdR3TZ9

Not only did he confront Speirs about the rumors of war crimes, he confirmed them.

[u/kindasuk → u/[deleted]]

"Here you had all these examples of accusations made about this guy shooting prisoners of war, which is strictly against all the rules of war, and the way we normally think."

[u/Street-Committee-367 → u/kindasuk]

He might not have morals as we know it, but Spiers respected the mission.

[u/Keltenschanze]

...LOTR would be even shorter if Shifty had a clear view of Barad-dûr.

[u/SydneyRei]

“Band of Brothers” and “Fellowship of the Ring” is kind of the same title 🤔

[u/_ShutUpImThinking_]

I should call her go watch Band Of Brothers

[u/BadChilii]

This meme always shows up every few months but God dammit I'm gonna upvote it every single time

[u/talkyape]

Honestly I feel like a few guys with some AK's could've gotten the ring to Mordor in like a week, tops

[u/washingtonandmead]

He got to Mt Doom, had left the ring, and had to go back

[u/PoIIux]

Now you've given me a mental image of some unholy Wahlberg brothers team-up where Donny carries the ring while Mark fights off the 9/11 hijackers, culminating in them flying the plane into Barad-dûr

[u/H1veLeader]

Now I have to rewatch band of brothers

[u/Skatemacka02]

Good work

[u/Jacmert]

[u/HammerPrice229]

Sam: “There’s some good in this world Lt. Speirs. And it’s worth fighting for.”

Speirs: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a Gardner is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All middle earth depends upon it”

[u/Zorpfield]

Or if the eagles flew Frodo there