| Bloopers/Misconceptions |
| When the Fellowship first sets off they are on top of a mountain and the bird spies are aproaching, Boromir says that it can't be a cloud because it's blowing against the wind, when quite clearly his hair is blowing in the same direction as the shape is moving. When Arwen and Aragorn are talking on the bridge, you see Arwen's lips moving while Aragorn is speaking. When the hobbits are sitting at the table in the Prancing Pony in Bree, Merry comes back with a pint. Pippin leaves to get one too. Then we see Sam mention to Frodo that a man is looking at them, across the table sits Pippin and no Merry. When they are in front of the 2 big statues, the statues raise their left arms. When they pass them and you can see them from behind, one statue has raises its left arm and the other its right arm. The logs that Boromir carries in his arms when he talks to Frodo at Amon Hen are different in pattern and number during the conversation and right before he throws them to the floor. When Gandalf and Saruman are talking in Orthanc, we can see a black strap around Gandalf's fingers on the hand holding his staff. In some shots it's around different fingers, in others it's disappeared completely. In Balin's tomb (in Moria), just before the Orcs break in and the fight begins, watch the hobbits (behind Gandalf). In the front view (where you see their faces), they are huddled together in close proximity. When the shot changes to the rear view, you can only see two hobbits behind Gandalf because they are much more spaced out. When the camera comes back to the front view (they draw their swords), they are close together again. At the battle on Amon Hen, Strider falls back and lets an Uruk Hai fall into his sword. In the next shot you�ll see Strider drawing his sword from the Uruk between his arm and his chest (seen on the left side of the scene). After Bilbo returns from the party invisible and finds Gandalf by the fireplace, look at Gandalf as Bilbo walks between him and the fire. There is no shadow cast on him when there clearly should be. Also as the camera pans round following Bilbo's movements, you can see Gandalf is casting a shadow on the floor but not on the table, but when Bilbo walks up to it he does, even though Gandalf is between him and the fire light. In the scene where the fellowship of the ring have just arrived in their boats past the two massive statue things, Sam sits down. He is in the background of the main shots and at one point he is deeply asleep, then suddenly he is halfway through cleaning his sword, then he's deeply asleep again. After the Hobbits go through the gate at Bree it is raining heavily, however there are no raindrop splashes in the puddles further up the road. In one scene we see a man cutting wood. A close up shows him putting a piece of wood on the stump, but when we pan out to see the dog barking, the piece of wood is gone. When Gimli jumps up on Balin's tomb he crosses his axes in front of his face. The shot canges to his front and now he's holding the axes straight up (so you can see his face), the shot switches back and the axes are crossed in front of him again. When Arwen enters the water after being chased by the Ringwraiths, as she turns the horse, you can clearly see the fake hobbit (representing an injured Frodo), bounce up and down like a rubber band. When Frodo is recovering in Rivendell from the Ringwraith dagger he is first seen lying in the bed with a chain necklace clearly visible (to which the ring is attached) - in following scenes the necklace is sometimes there - sometimes not. Most of the time the hobbits are barefoot, but when Frodo and Sam are first walking through the fields, Frodo's leg come above long-grass level and his shoe is clearly visible. Near the end when Frodo has tears running down his face. In the first shot the tear on his right side is short and the left side tear is down to his chin. in the next shot they are reversed. Some people have said it's just that one tear lengthened and a new one started, but look at the right-hand one (the longer one in the first shot). If there was a new tear, we'd still see the damp path of the first one, but it's rolling down a dry cheek. When Boromir goes to the door of Balin's Tomb in the mines you can see Aragorn in the background putting his torch on the ground, then when it switches to Aragorn and the others he puts the torch down again. Before the passage of Carhadras, Boromir is fencing with Merry and Pippin. When they tackle him you can see Merry's face and it's obviously a dwarf stand-in for the actor. When the fellowship are sailing down the river (through the two statues) the foot of the left statue looks as if it's at the same level as the water. Then in the next scene (camera angle from above) the foot is not at water level. It appears to be on a high rock. When Bilbo flees from the party, turned invisible by the Ring, as he opens the door to Bag End we see out through the door and the camera shoots off against a black drape. In subsequent shots through the door at night moonlight scenery has been added. When they are all walking up the snowy mountain the camera starts off with a larger view and then goes to a closer view of the people. In the larger view there are no footprints but in the smaller view there are. In the beginning, Gandalf's pipe keeps mysteriously vanishing from each scene, when he is guiding the cart with Frodo. When Sam tells Frodo that if he take another step, he will be farther away from home than ever before, he stands next to a scarecrow. In the next scene, we see both Sam and Frodo, and Sam has passed the scarecrow by several metres. Another zoom at Sam, and he stands by the Scarecrow again. |
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