Uncle introduces 9-year-old niece to Lord of the Rings and she becomes a fan, only for mom to find out and forbid uncle from babysitting again: ‘Apparently she doesn't know the difference between Game of Thrones and LOTR’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 14, 2025 3:00 PM EST

There is nothing quite like getting the opportunity to introduce a young kid to one of your favorite and best cinematic universes of all time.

I remember the first time my mom set me and my sister down to watch one of her favorite trilogies – Back to the Future. I remember how excited she was after we finished the first movie and asked to watch the second. It was like watching her become a kid herself as she watched this beloved piece with us, all of us having the time of our lives. 

We all have that one thing we cannot wait to show our kids and hope they would love it as much as we do. It's a rite of passage, to get to experience those pieces for the first time through the eyes of someone we love and care for.

That was the initial experience for the lovely uncle in the story down below, who got to introduce his niece to the Lord of the Rings franchise, and she absolutely loved it.

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  • However, when her mother found out what her uncle had been showing her, she was not pleased and threw some serious accusations at the uncle's face, forbidding him from babysitting his niece again.

    They later found out that it was all due to a misunderstanding when the mom admitted she thought he showed her daughter Game of Thrones and not LOTR. Yet, the mom still refused to take her words back…

    Keep scrolling to read the full story. 

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  • "AITAH Because My Brother's Wife Doesn't Know The Difference Between LOTTR and GOT?"

    So I (M39) was babysitting my 9 year old niece. For the evening while my brother and his wife (31) had a date night.
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  • We were playing Legos and Tea Party dress up. I jokingly took one of her rings and said "my precioussss" she didn't get the reference. I said you
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  • know like Gollum/Smeagol? Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit? She didn't get the reference. This shocked me.
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  • We are from a very Sci-fi and Fantasy family. She's a littler little nerd like me, we even read comics together. So I made some popcorn and we watched Fellowship
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  • of the Ring together. She loved it. She liked the Hobbits the elves magic ring. She wanted to see the next one. It was late I put her to bed. Brother and his wife came home, I left.
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  • Next morning, I get a phone call, brother's wife is furious with me. My niece woke up asking to see the next one and asked if the dragons would be in this
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  • one? Because I said there's no Dragons until the prequels. My sister in law is freaked out screaming about how I could be so irresponsible to
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  • show her that. I'm confused as h because we saw the same things at her age. She's yelling at me about sand in ct and heads being hacked off! I'm
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  • confused by this and said what the hare you talking about?! There's nothing like that in it! Sis in law is beside herself ranting and screaming mad about how I'll never babysit again.
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  • My brother gets on the phone and explains that his wife doesn't know the difference between Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. Apparently she
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  • doesn't see the difference, and he can't explain that to her. So now they are ped off at me because she's too ignorant to know the
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  • difference between a movie and a TV series. I might not get to babysit my niece. again over it. **For context the wife is not into it because she has
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  • a short attention span and doesn't actually watch anythingwhen its playing, she is always on the phone so she never see's any distinction between any of it. All she sees are swords horse's and magic.
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  • My niece has seen every Star Wars EXCEPT the Holiday Special. She loves dragons, and aliens her favorite doll is Grogu and she absolutely did not find
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  • anything scary. We grew up watching that stuff the wife didn't. My brother has issues and is the non confrontational type.
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  • "I might not get to babysit my niece again"
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  • Street-Length9871 I think your brother needs. to consider finding a way to make his wife listen instead of acting like an irate closed minded crazy person. NTA
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  • offbrandbarbie NTA. I could understand her being upset if she got the two confused, because I'd be ped if someone shower my 9 year old GoT but at this point she surely must know she's wrong and just doesn't want to apologize
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  • Psychological-Fox97 NTA She might never realise how stupid she is but she'll probably get sick of the no free babysitter situation pretty quick. Your brother should be sticking up for you not just leaving this as is.
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  • DragonSeaFruit lol oh no..... you don't get to provide them free babysitting anymore.... Until your brother's wife gets her head out of her a. and properly apologizes, you shouldn't babysit for them ever again
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  • Lonely_Reality7033 Send them the link to the Common Sense Media analysis of the movie. It has a recommended age of 11+. Not to far off from your nieces age. If she can handle a little fantasy violence, it's all good.
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