| Bloopers/Misconceptions |
| When Frodo is lying on the floor after Arwen defeats the Ringwraiths, you can see a pimple under the right side of his mouth. The same pimple can be seen when the fellowship approaches the Pillar of the Kings on the Emyn Muil; in the rest of the movie there is no pimple. At the end of the movie, when Frodo takes the boat to continue on his own. Sam runs into the water to follow Frodo as he promised Gandalf. When Sam is about half way to the boat, he goes under water because he can not swim. He almost reaches the bottom of the flood, and does not swim up at any time. Suddenly, Frodo takes his hand and pulls him into the boat, but Frodo has not moved an inch and Sam did not swim to the surface. In the credits, the word "Technical" is spelled "Technicial" in one instance (it's on the right side, reasonably early on - it is used in the phrase "technicial continuity."). When Frodo is talking with Gandalf while sitting at the table in Bag End, he is pouring tea into a teapot in one shot, then Galdalf talks for about 3 seconds, and in the next shot Frodo has a cup of tea to his lips. Misconceptions When Gandalf first approaches the village on the cart, a water-powered mill can be seen slowly turning in an anti-clockwise direction. The water in the foreground stream appears to be travelling from right to left which would make the mill turn in a clockwise direction. However, in the very next scene (shot looking across the bridge at the same mill) the water is clearly stationary because the leaves on the surface of the stream are not moving. So either the mill is turning the wrong way or it should not be moving at all. [If you look closesly at the Mill house, you can see a water sluce over the top of the wheel. It is the water from the sluce which is turning the wheel, not the water in the river. In fact the wheel doesn't even touch the river.] When Hugo Weaving is urging that guy to destroy the ring, at one angle his cape is not blowing in the wind; at a different angle his cape is blowing wildly. [His cape blows up with the air and then settles by the time the shot cuts.] When Borimir is about to die and Strider is running towards him, one of the supposedly dead Orcs lifts his head to watch Strider run by and then promptly lays his head down again. [Debatable - looks more like he's just wounded but has no energy to get up and continue the fight.] When Gandalf battles Saruman, Gandalf's staff is taken from him and he is therefore defeated. Gandalf is placed atop a large column until rescued by the giant bird. Once united with Frodo again, however, Gandalf's staff is by his side. [Gandalf doesn't regain his staff, he has two different staffs. The branches on the tip of the first one are almost straight and there's a spot for his pipe to fit. On the second one the branches on the tip are bent to one side. Both can be seen in pre-release pictures.] When Gimli the Dwarf tries to smash the ring to pieces at the council of Elrond his axe breaks into small pieces instead. In a shot shortly after, when the fellowship is decided, he promises his axe and his company to the fellowship, but this time the axe is completely whole. [He does not grab his own axe, he grabs the axe of the dwarf next to him.] When the orcs charge down the mountain, Legolas shoots his arrows at them. At one point, he has three left and doesn't fire any more, but in the shot by the lake, he has about 20, which then change colour to a vibrant green. [In the book, Legolas always collects the orc's arrows to use. So it's likely that they use green arrows and he picked them up after the fighting was over.] When Frodo is recovering in Rivendell, he is talking to Gandalf. Frodo is a three foot hobbit, in an elf sized bed, but you can see his a lump where his feet are at the end of the bed. [Similar to another misconception - it's a hobbit-sized bed, so of course his feet are at the bottom]. When Frodo is recovering in Rivendell he goes out onto a balcony, places his hand on the railing and looks out over the city. However, the railing for Frodo is waist high. Seeing as how he is a 3-foot Hobbit in a city of human-sized elves, the railing should be over his head. [He's in Bilbo's room, so everything will be Hobbit sized]. At the beginning, when Gandalf is looking around Biblo's Hobbithole, he picks up the map that was given to Bilbo in the Hobbit. The red letters on the side are Moonletters, which should only be seen when moonlight is shining through them. But we can see them - its lame that they went through the trouble to put in something that us Tolkien dorks would recognize from the Hobbit and then mess it up. [It is true that the map in the book (The Hobbit) had moonletters... however, this map may very well be a copy of the original which Bilbo has made. (I believe that the map was never Bilbo's to begin with. In "The Hobbit", the Dwarves had it.)] At the beginning of the movie, when Bilbo dissapears to leave, Gandalf and Bilbo are talking outside, they leave the door open, then Bilbo leaves. Then, in the next scene, you see Gandaf opening the door when it wasn't closed. [As seen in the previous scene the door isn't open all the way. Then Gandalf slowly pushes the door fully open.] At the end of the movie, when Frodo is paddling away there's only one paddle present in the boat; the one Frodo is using. After he rescues Sam, they are both paddling. Where does the second paddle come from? [Look closely - you can see the second paddle]. When Bilbo and Frodo first meet in Rivendell after Frodo wakes up, Bilbo's hair is snow white. Later on in the movie when Bilbo is giving Sting and the Mithril coat to Frodo, his hair is gray again - the same color it is at the beginning of the movie. [It's all due to the lighting.] When the fellowship is sailing down the river Frodo is sitting in front of Sam. When they reach the Aragonath statues Sam is sitting in front of Frodo. [The book shows how long that journey is - they stop to camp several times, so they could very easily change places]. When the Ringwraiths have found the hobbits again at Weathertop, they all draw their swords at the same time and point them at the hobbits. Frodo falls over, and then pulls out the ring, one of the Ringwraiths looks at him and then draws his sword. Didn't they already draw their swords? [The ringwraith has two swords, a regular one and a Morgul Blade, which he uses to stab Frodo]. When Aragorn sets the last Ringwraith on fire you can CLEARLY see the stuntman's breathing tube as the wraith turns from side to side. [It's the torch that Aragorn threw at it]. During most of the movie, Frodo's fingernails are short and bitten down. Yet in the scene where the Black Rider appears after they have just been in Farmer Maggot's field, and Frodo struggles to avoid putting the Ring on, you see a close up of his hands and the fingernails are normal. [Moosey-Seeing as this was the first day of filming maybe Elijah started biteing his nails through the rest of the filming. It is one of his bad habits.] In the Mines at Balin's tomb, Gandalf finds a diary that one of the dead Dwarves is holding. He reads out what has been written, and the last thing that has been written on the page is scrawled across the paper - when the Orcs got into the tomb and killed them. So how come when he first found the book the Dwarf was holding the closed book tightly in his arms? Did the Orcs pick it up and put it back after they had killed everyone? [Moosey-We don't know that the dwarves died immediatly after that was written. The writing shows it written in a hurry. For all we know, it could have been written a few minutes before they were killed. You see what I mean?] A pictoral cameo: The two portraits in oval frames hanging above the fireplace in Bag End are of Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens. |
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