Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
This movie contains 39 potentially triggering events.
After being possesed, Theoden regains his memories and he says to Eowyn “I know you, you’re Eowyn”. This happens twice, the secont time right before gis death. Even though he doesn’t forget her, this might still trigger some people
Smeagol/Gollum strangles his friend Deagol to death in the beginning of the third movie and he also attackes the hobbits with his hands on their throats
Denethor is abusive towards his son Faramir and even says he should have died instead of his other son. He later tries to burn hinself and Faramir who he believes to be dead even though he is told that his son is still alive
Faramir was emotionally and psychologically abused by Denethor his whole life, and Boromir was abused through Golden Child Syndrome. There isn’t a child abuse category, so I’ll put this here just in case.
Faramir is frequently emotionally abused by his father, Denethor. Denethor even goes so far as to say that he wishes Faramir had died in place of his other son.
The giant spider, Shelob, is in Return of the King (the third movie).
Not sure about other bugs but I can’t remember any distinct scenes off the top of my head
An adult child dies. We do not know him but we see his father’s grief and he comments “No parent should have to see their child die”. (Given that no one else has commented on this it is possible it is only shown in the extended version as this is the only version I have seen.)
Boromir dies, Gandalf is dead but comes back later, Theoden dies, Saruman dies (only in the extended version), Gollum dies and a couple of other not as important characters die as well
Tecnically Theoden is the uncle of Eomer and Eowyn, but he is a father figure for them and his death is very tragic especially for Eowyn who is with him when he dies
It's cheating to extract information through torture. It's cheating to make a little person trek across Middle Earth when you've got eagles that can transport people. It's cheating for a bad guy to trap a good guy into a position where he learns the truth too late and he has to fight his way out. Use of the ring to go invisible could be considered cheating, especially at the beginning when it wasn't for self-defense.
Ringwraiths, who resemble empty cloaks and armor riding black warhorses. The Dead Men of Dunharrow, who are neon-green spectres who alternate between freshly dead" and "skeleton."
The only people of color in the films are South Asian villains who ride elephants. The Uruk-Hai are dark-skinned monsters with tribal markings. Dwarves and Hobbits are based on classical fantasy archetypes rather than little people but there are little people (notably Peter Dinklage) who feel stereotyped by the archetype.
Gandalf has a particular hate for Merry being prone to mistakes, and Gandalf is supposed to be a very good character otherwise which causes role model issues. He keeps wishing Merry was dead. In the next movie Gollum will express his deep hate for hobbits. A human, who ends up being a good guy, doesn't respect Gollum's PTSD in that movie either. There is talk of racial/species extermination and oppression that comes up throughout the movie (it might be this one or movie 2 where hobbits are enslaved)--this one is promoted by the bad guys.
Tectically yes because Arwen, an immortal elf is a few thousand years old, while Aragorn, a human is only about 90. That doesn‘t really matter though because they are a very healthy couple and both are very mature.
Eowyn may be a little younger than Aragorn, but her love for him is noch reciprocated
Male characters cry all the time. It is never shamed. There is no toxic masculinity in this movie, male characters are allowed to show all kinds of emotions and also show their affection towards one another
If you just want to know about movie one instead of the other commentator's spoiler for the whole series, this movie is still bittersweet. A couple good main characters have died. However Frodo is willing to have Sam accompany him after trying to run away from him. There are a lot of good quotes that give you hope.
There are intense stabbings and arrow shots in uncomfortable places. They tend to be pretty rapid fire in battle scenes throughout the movies, but some are not the blink and miss it types.