| Bloopers/Misconceptions |
| When Arwen is talking with Aragorn near the broken sword her eyes are brown. Later, when they are talking on the bridge, you can see that here eyes are clear blue. When Gandalf pulls Sam in through the window at Bag End and throws him on the desk to ask him questions, several items fall off of the desk. The scene switches back and forth between Sam and Gandalf's perspectives several times. When Sam is shown, sometimes there is a wooden box or book on the floor to the left side of Sam's head and sometimes there is nothing on the floor. When Gandalf is talking to Saruman in the tower at Isengard, the sunlight is streaming through the window behind Saruman. When the shot switches to Gandalf, who is opposite Saruman (and facing him), the sunlight is streaming in through the window behind him as well. When Saruman and Gandalf are fighting in Isengard (Orthanc), Saruman is pushed to the wall. When he "crashes" to the wall, you can see the black, short hair of the stuntman losing the white hair of Saruman. In the Prologue, right after King Elendil, Isildur's father, is struck by Sauron and killed, you see him land next to the cliff and a close-up shows that Elendil's helmet is still firmly on his head, although it is damaged. In the next shot of Isildur running up and holding his father's head, the helmet is nowhere to be seen. Isildur did not remove it, because it is not on Elendil's head when Isildur runs up and crouches next to him. When Gandalf arrives in Hobbiton, you can see a long silver scarf (as described in the book) dangling from a post on his cart - next to the driver's bench. In the first shot it is on the right hand side of his cart In the VERY next shot, the scarf has moved to the left hand side of the cart, nearer to Gandalf. When Gimli falls onto his knees in front of Balin's Tomb in Moria, in one shot he's a few feet in front of it, in the next he is so close to it, that he could lay his head onto the tomb. In the following scene Gimli is further away again, so he should not have been able to reach it with his head. At the council of Elrond, when the fight breaks out between the Dwarves and Elves, we see a closeup of the ring showing a reflection of the scene. The mirrored scene should appear back-to-front, but it doesn't. When Galadriel pours water from a pitcher into the fountain, three set lights can be seen reflected in the pitcher. When Gandalf is leaving Bag End in a hurry, right after Frodo has received the Ring, he clearly bends down and passes below the light fixture in the main entrance hall without touching it. When he turns around to answer Frodo�s question, the light fixture is swinging back and forth as if he bumped it. At Weathertop, when Frodo gets stabbed by the Black Rider, the other hobbits come over and kneel down beside him while Aragorn fights off the Black Riders. If you watch closely, the three hobbits change sides (beside Frodo) throughout the scene. Eg. Pippin is on the left in one shot, then on the right in another. When Gandalf first visits Bilbo in Bag End they sit at a long table that is positioned lengthways from the camera. Bilbo potters about at the far end of the table and Gandalf goes to the left at the end closest to the camera. As he sits down the near half of the table wobbles but the far half does not. This seems to expose the fact that the table is actually in two parts, a small sized piece of table close to the camera next to which Gandalf looks large, and a normal sized piece of table a bit further away that looks the right size for Bilbo. The two pieces are filmed from such a perspective that they look like they join together in one long table and the fact that there is really a gap between them so that Bilbo is further away than it seems, makes him seem small compared to Gandalf. There is a round of cheese and various pieces of crockery on the near piece of table to disguise the gap. After the fellowship passed the statues of Argonath, the river ends by a huge waterfall. There's a huge rock on the very tip of the waterfall, yet the reflection is not visible on the water; compare it with the Argonath statues which have its reflections on the water. Just after Gandalf enters the Bag End for the first time he looks the map of the Middle Earth on the table. In first shot when he is grabbing the map, you can see that there are two scrolls and a flat empty paper stacked on the map. In next shot, there is only one scroll and a paper with some kind of pattern on it. Not only do the arms on the two large statutes at Amon Hen change, the statutes themselves switch places. When we first see them, the statute of the younger man has a winged helmet and is on the left and the older with the smooth helmet is on the right. In the shot once the boats have gone past, the winged helmet statute is on the right and the smooth helmet statute is on the left. When Frodo and Gandalf are discussing the fate of the ring in Bilbo's house, the ring is on the table in front of them. When the camera goes to close ups of the ring it is sometimes to the left of the table and sometimes to the right. Looks like a simple camera reversal. When Frodo rescues Sam in the river near the end of the movie, he grabs his hand. After a moments pause Sam grabs Frodo's hand in return. But when the two break through the surface, the two hands are turned the wrong way. There is no way that they could have gripped each others' hands in that position. When Aragorn is letting Frodo go to Mordor, in one shot it shows him facing the camera and you can see that Frodo is up to his shoulder. In the next shot, Frodo is only up to his waist, but Aragorn hasn't moved. In Boromir's death scene, when Aragorn puts the sword into Boromir's hand, Aragorn's finger with the ring on is covered in blood. When we see his hands on Boromir's chest a second later, the blood has vanished. When the hobbits are hiding under the tree trunk from the Ringwraith in the beginning, you can see space to the left and right of the tree above them. Logically when the Ringwraith walks past the tree you would see it on the right side of the tree first, then on the left, but you don't - it looks like it walks out of the tree instead of behind it. When the hobbits enter Bree through the gate, there is a distance shot from above, and the principal actors have clearly been replaced by their shorter doubles. Worse than that, however, is that their sizes are completely wrong. The last hobbit through the gate is really really fat - much fatter than any of the hobbits really are. And he isn't even supposed to be Sam, who is the stockiest of the hobbits: when the view switches to a closeup of the principal actors from inside the gate, it's actually Merry who's last - and he certainly isn't obese. |
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