| Bloopers/Misconceptions |
| At Isengard, Gandalf is on top of the tower, it starts to pour with rain. Cut to Saruman and orcs "the trees are strong, their roots..." etc. No rain at all. Cut back to Gandalf and wide aerial shot over Isengard, still pouring. After Frodo leaves the Fellowship with Sam at the end of the movie. Aragorn and Legolas are talking to each other about what is to happen next. When the shot centers on Legolas alone you can clearly see he has modern arrows in his arrowshaft. They're factory made wooden arrows with plastic tip ends to fit the string. The same thing can be seen with Aragorn in the next shot. In the scene where Gimli kneeling is at Balin's Tomb (in the Mines of Moria), he is first shown kneeling right next to the slab. When the shot changes, he is suddenly a couple of feet back. Throughout this whole section, his position changes, depending on the shot used. In this same scene, his axe also changes positions. The blade faces forward, then suddenly it is turned around backwards, again alternating depending on which shot was used. At the secret meeting scene at Rivendell, when Pippin and Merry appeared to join the fellowship, Elrond's head movement was not in-sync with the path the two hobbits took when they ran towards Frodo and Sam. In the Mines of Moria, when the cave troll has barged in and started fighting with the Fellowship, the troll hits the tomb, causing Gimli to leap over to the side and fall on the floor. In this shot you can see Legolas fighting an Orc up some stairs behind the troll, but just a second later, Legolas is seen firing two arrows UP at the troll, from the level where Gimli just was. After Arwen has crossed the river at the Fords of Bruinen and is challenged by the Ring wraith Witch-King, she draws her sword and holds it high and ready to strike. Arwen then calls upon the waters of the river for assistance. When the rush of water with horses heads comes around the bend and into view there is a clear shot of Arwen�s back as she is watching the water come down on the ring wraiths and she is not holding her sword up. Shortly after all the ring wraith�s are swept away, there is a scene of Arwen�s face and upper body and she is still holding the sword high and ready to strike. In Moria when Frodo is hiding around the column from the cave troll, Frodo slides back to where he thinks the cave troll isn't, and breathes a sigh of relief. However, Merry and Pippin are directly to his right, looking at the spot where the cave troll pops out of and surprises Frodo. Don't you think they would have warned him? During the scene when Gandalf is reading about the ring there are candles burning to the left of him. When he starts reading the first page the candles are barely melted, but by the time he has finished that one page, they are almost burned out. Frodo stumbles down the snowy mountain and loses the ring. When Boromir brings him the ring, you can see that Aragorn's right hand is not on the sword-hilt. But just a second later, the camera shows Aragorn removing his right hand from the hilt. In the scene where Sam and Frodo are in the field with the scarecrow, you can plainly see a car cruising past in the distance, from right to left. This holds the dubious distinction of being the first urban myth (of sorts) spawned by this site - some people swear blind there's a car there, others insist there's nothing at all. All I can say is watch it and make up your own mind. If there is a car, they'll delete it for the DVD release, so get in there quickly! Further comment - there are two different shots which show the car moving from right to left. One starts at the top right distance, and in a shot a few seconds later the car has travelled down the road a bit and is more easily visible. Complicating matters is that the dust thrown up by the car looks similar to smoke from a chimney in the right distance, making some people think it is just the chimney. But chimneys don't move, and the smoke from the chimney is separate from the moving vehicle. As Boromir and Aragorn talk right before Boromir dies, you can see Boromir's right hand gripping Aragorn's left shoulder in the shot from behind Aragorn's right shoulder, but when the camera veiw changes to Boromir's perspective, looking up at Aragorn, his hand is not there. The scene goes back and forth between these two views several times. When the Fellowship meets in Rivendell, and Gimli trys to break the ring with his axe, the axe breaks into many pieces on the platform upon which the ring is laid. At first, the pieces are there in the closeup view. When the camera pans back for a long range view of the Fellowship, the pieces of the axe on the platform are gone. In the following closeup, the pieces magically re-appear. When the hobbits first start to run away from Farmer Maggot, they are running through the corn, which is clearly much taller than them. Two seconds later, when the camera angle changes to the wide view (you can see all four hobbits running through the corn), their heads are even with, if not slightly above the corn. When Frodo stops rolling down the snow covered hill, just before the shot of Boromir picking up the ring, you can see the edge of the stockings that the actors wore to protect their feet since there were walking in real snow for that scene. When the fellowship is in Moria, right before the Balrog comes, they are surrounded by orcs. They all have their swords drawn, and Frodo's is not glowing blue even though they are surrounded by orcs. Some people have said they're goblins, but given that Frodo's sword was glowing during the first attack, it should be glowing later too. After the battle with the cave troll, Aragorn rushes over to injured Frodo and brushes past some big rocks which wobble, showing that they are clearly lightweight and not real. When Frodo awakes in the bed in Rivendell, Frodo's shirt is open and the sheet low down on the bed in the first shot, and then his shirt's closed and the sheet pulled substantially higher in the next shot. Towards the end of the movie, where Frodo is collecting wood and he has the fight with Boromir, he puts the ring on his finger, somehow it went from the chain he had it on to his finger without any problems. the next time he has the ring is when he takes it off (no chain) and offers it to Strider (no chain) when he is down by the river, he has it on the chain in his hand...too much action going on with that chain. When the orc kills Boromir, he shoots him twice, and you can clearly see the hole/blood stain for the third arrow between first ones, and only then the third arrow appears. |
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