RANDOM LOTR FACTS LIST:
1.) When Tolkien first wrote LOTR, it was going to be about Bilbo going out for more treasure after he spent all that he had acquired from his adventure in The Hobbit.
2.) When Tolkien realized that another Bilbo story might not work, he introduced a Frodo-like character named Bingo Bolger-Baggins. He was actually Bilbo's son! But then Tolkien realized that he could not make this work either (for obvious reasons...who would hav been Bilbo's wife?) so Bingo became Bilbo's nephew. (It wasn't until the book was nearly finished that Bingo actually became Frodo.)
3.) When Orlando Bloom first auditioned he had actually wanted the part of Faramir!
4.) Elijah Wood made a cameo appearance in Spy Kids 3-D.
5.) Sean Astin's father was in the movie "The Frighteners" which is also a Peter Jackson film.
6.) The Quenya form of Galadriel's name is Altariel.
7.) "Frodo" was originally Pippin's name! While Merry was "Marmaduke" and Sam was "Odo"! Frodo (Who started the story as Bingo) was later given the name of his traveling companion, and the other hobbits names were changed as well (obviously).
8.) Arwen and Aragorn's kids are 1/16 Elvish and 1/111,088,677,576 Numenorean! ~Arramiel, who did the math herself, without a calculator!
9.) At least half of the Fellowship Actors had not read the book until the plane ride to New Zealand. ~Arramiel
10.) Despite the rumor that all of the Fellowship actors got a tattoo, John Rhys-Davies did not, because he felt it was innappropriate due to his age. He did however send his size double Brett Beattie to get the tattoo because Brett had spent more hours filming as Gimli than John! ~Arramiel ((More info on the Fellowship Tattoos))
11.) When Dom brought Billy the wrong ice cream flavor, Billy locked him in a cupboard as punishment!
12.) Orlando Bloom has broken his back, both legs, an arm, three ribs, his nose, a finger, a wrist, a toe, and cracked his skull three times! ~Arramiel
13.) Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when he kicked the orc helmet in TTT. He also nearly drowned during filming. ~Arramiel
14.) During Bilbo's farewell speech at his party, his cake (Which was polystyrene) was actually on fire! But because Sir Ian Holm was doing such a good take, they just kept filming, and actually used it in the film!
15.) When Boromir comes running at the orcs to defend Merry and Pippin, he originally does not have the Horn of Gondor. Then, when you see him again, the Horn of Gondor is swinging blatantly at his side. ~Arramiel
16.) 1,264 eggs were served to the cast and extras every day during filming! ~Arramiel
17.) Viggo Mortensen bought the horse that played Brego.
18.) Arwen is 2,690 years older than Aragorn. ~Arramiel and Diamond
19.) Sam's daughter Goldilocks married Pippin's son, Faramir. ~Arramiel
20.) Aragorn's father died by being shot through the eye. ~Diamond
21.) Viggo Mortensen got a black eye when surfing, so in Moria they shot only one side of his face. ~Squishy
22.) Sean Astin (Sam) got a piece of glass through his foot and it came out the other side. ~Squishy
23.) Stewart Townsend was originally going to play Aragorn, but he left because of "Creative Differences" and Viggo was called on very short notice and asked to play the part. Also, his son convinced him to do it, because Viggo had never read the books and had no idea what he was really being asked to do. ~Lora
24.) Viggo Mortensen chipped his tooth while filming the Weathertop seen. He asked if they could gule it back on so he could finish. Instead, they stopped filming and sent him to the dentist in full costume and weaponry! ~Mormegil Veinyatium and Kelly
25.) In the cast commentary of the extended edition DVD of FOTR, Dom mentions that his father has been mistaken for Ian Holm on two separate occasions. ~Veronica
26.) Aragorn and Arwen's children are also part Maia (like Gandalf), through Melian, the mother of Luthien, who is Arwen's great-great grandmother. ~Veronica
27.) Tolkien was unhappy with all of the people who became hopelessly obsessed with Middle-earth and his books. It upset him when he heard of couples who had LOTR themes for their weddings and other such tributes to his work, because he himself could always part from the world he had created, and take his mind off of it nearly any time he wanted. He was not happy to learn that not everyone could.
28.) Craig Parker (Haldir) provided the voice for the Nazgul who says "Give up the Halfling, She-Elf!" and also provided some of the Nazgul screams. ~Lora
29.) Craig Parker also provided the voice-over for Frodo: FOTR Extended Edition> Special Features Disk 1> Storyboard to Viz ~Lora
30.) When Pippin says "is he going to die?" in FOTR, 3 stone figures can be seen in the background. If you read The Hobbit, you would know these are the 3 trolls that got turned to stone. ~Jenn
31.) John Rhys-Davies was not only Gimli, but also supplied the voice for treebeard in TTT. ~Deirdre
32.) In the ROTK they are going to use Sean Astin's daughter to play Sam's daughter. ~Deirdre
33.) Viggo(Aragorn) used to work as a lorry driver. ~Lorna and Deirdre
34.) Dom(Merry) originally auditioned for the part of Frodo. ~Lorna and Deirdre
35.) The Hobbits Counted 52 days where they spent 2 hours getting their feet put on and then they were never filmed! ~Lorna and Deirdre
36.) Peter Jackson appeared as one of the spear-throwers at Helms Deep in TTT. ~Lorna and Deirdre
37.) Peter Jacksons son, who played one of the hobbits listening to Bilbo's story in FOTR, is the only Hobbit (including extras) who never had to wear a wig in FOTR. ~Lorna and Deirdre
38.) The same reflective material that is used on road signs was used for the Ithilden in the Door of Moria. ~Lora
39.) In TTT, a horse rears over Pippin. When he rolls over and screams his hands are untied and are spread out on either side, but in the next scene he's crawling away with his hands bound again. ~Jackie
40.) In the extended edition of TTT, when Aragorn is walking down the stairs of Rivendell before Arwen confronts him, for a moment you can see the four hobbits and Bill the Pony getting ready to leave. You can also see Gandalf, and Gimli walks up...and someone who appears to be Boromir.
41.) Elijah's sister, Hannah, can be seen walking into the glittering caves followed by someone Dom describes as "Our friend Diana". ~Diamond
42.) Gimli's beard was actually made from the hair off the belly of a yak. ~Winter
43.) In FOTR Peter Jackson is seen outside The Prancing Pony eating a carrot... at the end of making the 3 films he got to keep the carrot which was preserved and framed. ~Winter
44.) John Rhys-Davies first tried out for the voice of Gollum. ~Winter
45.) LOTR was one of the first films Orlando Bloom was ever in. ~Winter (He had a short part as a Rentboy in the movie Wilde. ~Anonymous)
46.) Sean Connery was going to be Gandalf but he didn't know what a hobbit was, so he refused the job. ~Winter
47.) The actor who played Lurtz was also The Witchking. ~Winter
48.) When they ran out of blue-eyed blonde-haired extras for the Rohan the had to get Maoris, and they were put right at the back and were called the bro-han. ~Winter
49.) The New Zealand army was called in to dig out the houses in hobbiton. ~Winter
50.) Cate Blanchett really wanted the part of Galadriel because she's always wanted pointy ears. ~Winter
51.) At the premiere for FOTR, Elijah commented that he hadn't seen his dad for 6 years. ~Winter
52.) For the scene when Boromir falls off the waterfall in the boat at the end of FOTR, WETA (the company who made all the minitures, sets, costumes and props) was asked to make a life-like model of Boromir... the model looked so realistic that a person from the crew actually went up to it and offered it a drink! ~Winter
53.) At the end of FOTR when Frodo is in the boat and Sam starts swimming under the water, he falls down when Frodo and the boat are still a couple of meters away, but Frodo manages to grab Sam without either of them moving. ~Winter
54.) At the end of ROTK Sam is at home and picks up a small blond-haired hobbit child. That Child is his own in real life! ~LOTR lover (Fiona from yarm)
55.) Gimli's fake beard is actually made from the hair of the belly of a yak. ~Winter
56.) John Rhys-Davis first tried out for the voice of Gollum. ~WInter
57.) The actor who played Lurtz was also the Witchking. ~Winter
58.) In FOTR when the Fellowship is on a hill and they see the flying things comming towards them and Gimli says that it's just a whisp of cloud, Boromir says that "they are moving fast against the wind." but just before that it shows his hair is blowing in the direction that the things are flying. ~Winter
59.) The Watcher in the Water's scream is actually the sound of a walrus. ~Ethorin
60.) Orlando Bloom's left ear was the hardest one to make pointy. ~Ethorin
61.) Sean Astin couldn't hear his commands from the director because of his hobbit ears so they had to cut bigger holes in them. ~Ethorin
62.) Craig Parker provided the voice for Gothmog and his evil lieutenant in ROTK. ~Submitted by Lora
63.) The bow given to Legolas by Galadriel could shoot up to 140 yards further than his Mirkwood bow! ~Johnney
64.) When Sam is in the river at the end of FOTR he is not in water its just him standing up with fans and digitaly put in bubbles.this is mentioned in the commentry of FOTR. ~Laura Augarde
65.) The sword given to Merry in Rohan was Theoden's when he was young and the one given to Pippin in Gondor belonged to Faramir when he was a boy. ~Johnney
66.) The Armor Pippin wore in ROTK was Faramir's when he was a boy, and Merry wore Theoden's from when he was young. ~Johnney
67.) Billy Boyd is in "Master and Commander"! ~Miss Rivendell
68.) In TTT, when Theoden turns and says 'Let them come,' you can see a figure on the left-hand side of him that looks almost exactly like Boromir. ~Anonymous
69.) Sean Astin did the voice over for Hercules in the PS2 game Kingdom Hearts. ~Mandy
70.) Written in elvish,Gil-galad's spear in FOTR said: Gilgalad weilds a well-made spear the orc will fear my Point of ice. And when He sees me in fear of death, he will know my name Aiglos. Also, Aiglos means icicle. ~Johnney
71.) Saruman was also in Star Wars episode 2 ~Johnney
72.) Andy Serkis does the voice for two or 3 of the orcs in TTT when Merry and Pippin are almost eaten. ~Precious9
73.) The Spear that the troll in the FOTR tried to stab Frodo with in Khuzdul said Troll-bane orc-bane. ~Johnny
74.) In TTT at the battle of Helm's Deep, there's one man who turns forward and shouts "fire" and you could see that one of his eyes is missing. He is actually missing an eye. He was originally wearing an eye patch because he was self-conscious of his looks but Peter Jackson asked him to take it off to do that scene. ~Ange S.
75.) In the scene at the harbor in Return of the King, Pippin isn't wearing HIS scarf! He's wearing some hideous paisley wanna-be instead. ~Reasonably Crazy
76.) Galadriel is Elrond's Mother-in-law! ~Johnney
77.) Some of the noises made by the flying nazgul steeds were actually made by donkies! ~Cassie
78.) Peter Jackson's children (Katie and Billy) have a cameo in each movie...as hobbit children in fotr, rohan children in the glittering caves in ttt, and gondorian children in the scene where faramir is leaving for battle in rotk ~Laurefin
79.) Peter cameo's as a belching breelander-fotr, a spearthrowing rohirrim-ttt, and a gasping gondorian soldier when minas morgul lights up-rotk. ~Laurefin
80.) Some of the riders in Eomer's troop are women w/ beards! ~Laurefin
81.) In the mines of moria, in one shot Gimli's head is on the tomb, and in the next it's not! ~Laurefin
82.) The reason Eowyn was able to kill the Witch King in rotk was only because the makers of Merry's sword (which he recieved from the Barrowdowns in the book) placed a special enchantment and runes on it for exactly that purpose. ~Laurefin
83.) Legolas' arrows change from green to orange multiple times during the movie (ex. when Aragorn says "lets hunt some orc" in fotr, Legolas has green arrows, then the shot of him walking away has orange arrows. ~Laurefin
84.) In TTT, when Aragorn tells Legolas to bring down the orc lighting the bomb, he shoots white Lothlorien arrows instead of his usual green ones. ~Laurefin
85.) Aragorn warns everyone that the orcs are sending up ladders during the battle of Helm's Feep, and Gimli says "Good!" the only problem is that Aragorn said the word ladders in elvish! ~Laurefin
86.) Legolas' eyes change from blue to brown....this is especially obvious in TTT a little before he says "that is no orc horn" ~Laurefin
87.) The song in the Green Dragon by Merry and Pippin (only in the extended edition) is a combination of a walking song and a bath song.... ~Laurefin
88.) At the very end of ROTK, in the Green Dragon there are 2 green mugs and 2 brown mugs, and they somehow get traded back and forth during the entire scene ~Laurefin
89.) In the scene in which Theoden, Gandalf, and Aragorn are discussing the lighting of the beacons of Gondor (scene 4? in the DVD) a dog walks about 1/2 way across the room in the begining of the scene, and finishes walking across at the very end! ~Laurefin
90.) Tolkien's gravestone says the name Beren, and his wife's says Luthien (if this makes no sense to you, read the Silmarillion, or listen to Aragorn's song in the midgewater marshes in FOTR extended edition) ~Laurefin
91.) Just before the battle of amon hen, when Gimli is explaining the "labyrinth of razor sharp rocks" of Emyn Muil, Sam is alternately sleeping, resting, and playing w/ his sword. ~Laurefin
92.) Unlike in the movie, where Frodo figures out the riddle on the doors of Moria, in the book, Merry does. ~Laurefin
93.) In the book, the Watcher in the Water in Moria has no body only tentacles. ~Laurefin
94.) When Gimli says "The very warmth of my blood seems stolen away" before the Paths of the Dead in ROTK it is actually a line stolen from Beregond(an excluded character from the book). ~Laurefin
95.) If you watch Sam's lips closley at the end of ROTK, you can see that he calls his son Frodo, a true fact from the book, except Frodo Gardner wasnt' supposed to be alive yet. ~Laurefin
96.) Sam names one of his 13 children Strider. ~Laurefin
97.) When Frodo awakens at the end of ROTK, he says everyone's name except for Legolas'. ~Laurefin
98.) In ROTK, Shelob stings Frodo right through his mithril chain mail, explain that! ~Laurefin
99.) In the book, after his capture Frodo is completely naked! ~Laurefin
100.) Sam and Faramir are the same age. ~Bobi
101.) The day of Aragorn's coronation and wedding is also his birthday! ~Laurefin
102.) In the book (and hopefully the extended edition of rotk) Faramir and Eowyn get married and rule over Ithilien, the only hint of this in the actual film is them standing together during Aragorn's coronation. ~Laurefin
103.) In the ROTK trailer we see Eomer holding the head of what looks like Eowyn, Gandalf and Pippin on Shadowfax in front of the Nazgul, Merry pledging his allegance to Theoden (also in the DVD's national geographic special), Gollum saying "once the hobbitses are dead" in a strange voice, and Merry saying "we *will* see the shire again Pip"....none of which we ever see in the actual film. ~Laurefin
104.) When the hobbits ride on the horses in front of "big folk" they are proportionally too tall compared to them...considering they are 3 feet standing and we are about that height sitting. ~Laurefin
105.) David "Daisy" Wenham is a friar/monk in Van Helsing. ~Lauefin
106.) Eowyn was born 15 years after Aragorn and Arwen had met and pledged their troth. ~H. Elanor
107.) Arwen is Galadriel's Grandaughter.
108.) Bilbo and Frodo have the same birthday with 78 years between the days they were born. ~Elizabeth
109.) In the book RotK Wormtonge kills Saruman (who is known in the shire as Sharkey) ~Elizabeth
110.) In the scene in bag end where gandalf hits his head on the ceiling was an accident ian wasn't supposed to hit his head but since he acted it so well they kept it in the movie. ~Elizabeth
111.) The, "gollum" sound Smegol makes was developed by Andy Serkis by trying to immitate the sound a cat makes when coughing up a hairball. ~K the L
112.) When Frodo awakens at the end of ROTK, he says everyone's name except for Legolas and Sams'. When they come in he just stares at them smiling. ~Gabby G.
113.) Aragorn was born and died on March 1st. ~Jessie
114.) Gandalf is supposed to have a scarf a beard and eyebrows that stick out from the brim of his hat. ~Jessie
115.) Smeagol hates Aragorn because he captured him in the Dead Marshes and since Smeagol bit Aragorn, Aragorn tied him up and starved him into behaving as he dragged Smeagol to Mirkwood. ~Jessie
