When Sam is attacking Gollum after overhearing him at the pool, he hits him with his pot as he cries, "I'll stove your head in!"
😆 This is a pointless fact thread anyway, it just cracked me up. 😆
During the siege of Minas Tirith, when the first rock is thrown into Minas Tirith and part of a building crumbles ... a crowd of Gondorians are running and one of them looks to be Barrie Osborne.
Gandalf gives the description to Pippin of the end being a continuing journey from a dream Frodo had at Tom Bombadil's house which he remembers as he approaches Valinor at the end of the Grey Havens chapter. "The grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."
Éowyn actually grabs an Orc's blade right from its hands as Merry drives their horse toward the Mûmak to possess two blades.
Eomer killed 3 Mûmakil and Eowyn, 2.
At Cirith Ungol, four Orcs come down the stairs to fight Sam, but he deals with only three of them when one turns and goes back up the stairs (carrying Frodo's effects).
The Ring was whispering "keep me..." when Sam was trying to give it back to Frodo.
Frodo's look, the angle, and the lighting as he claims the Ring mirrors the scene with Isildur at Sammath Naur from the first movie.
Film version: "I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. Here at the end of all things." Book version: "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam." Given the dynamics of the film's Frodo and Sam, I like the focus to be Frodo being glad to be with Sam instead of being glad that Sam's there with him ... Frodo's putting Sam ahead of himself.
When we fly over the map with Frodo's voice over, as Frodo says "eternally bound by friendship and love" (talking about the Fellowship, of course) the camera is over Fangorn Forest - a nice nod to Treebeard and to Legolas and Gimli going there after the War of the Ring!
Pippin gets the wedding bouquet at the wedding of Sam and Rosie. And indeed Pippin is the next to be married of the four Hobbits.
Is Pippin wearing tartan at the Grey Havens? PJ told Billy early on that the Tooks were Scots, which meant he could keep his native accent. Looks like he also donned some Scottish garb as well!
Characters who have sung in the trilogy are Pippin, Merry, Frodo (together at the Green Dragon), Aragorn, Éowyn, Gollum/Sméagol, Bilbo, Gandalf, and Treebeard.
When Sméagol has killed Déagol, the ring laughs and recites the ringspell as it did at the Council of Elrond.
When Faramir and the other Gondorian soldiers were making their way back to recover Osgiliath, it is supposed to be a very poignant and emotional scene. But one of the spectators near the gate was waving his hand and cheering and laughing like an idiot.
LOTR has its fake death scenes! (Fake Death Syndrome) Let's see if we can count 'em all!
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
All four Hobbits killed in their beds by Nazgûl (for all of 10 seconds).
Frodo killed by cave troll.
The Nazgûl that jumped or burned at Weathertop/Amon Sul. A stretch perhaps for most except maybe the one that took it in the face.
The Balrog and Gandalf dying in Moria when they fall.
The Nazgûl drowning at Ford of Bruinen.
Frodo "dies" by the river in Arwen's arms.
Sam drowning.
THE TWO TOWERS
Pippin killed by a horse stomping on him.
Merry and Pippin killed and burned in the pile by the Rohirrim (not by the Uruks).
Aragorn killed by fall from cliff.
RETURN OF THE KING
Faramir killed by the Orcs of Osgiliath.
Frodo killed by Shelob.
Gollum killed by falling off the cliff.
Aragorn has vision of Arwen dying.
Merry "killed" on the battlefield.
Éowyn "killed" on the battlefield. (more definite in the book)
Frodo killed by falling off the precipice into the lava.
Of the main characters, it's only Legolas, Gimli, Galadriel & Elrond don't suffer from "fake death syndrome."
~ better uncontributing bumping than a dying forum.
This bumping really livened KMC up for a while - loads of interesting topics back to the top threads.
Another random pointless fact - gandalf says that it takes three days to ride from Rohan to minas tirith, Theoden says the same about the distance from Dunharrow to Pelennor which is also true,
but if I remember correctly Aragorn it told in Dunharrow that it will take the ships another two days to reach the havens near Pelennor? Yet he shall stop them before they reach the city? Without horses?? Howz that supposed to work?
Originally posted by Shadowy_Exa
Frodo holds the all time record for a movie character falling over.🙂
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On the DVD, in the scene where Gandalf is driving the carriage (with Frodo and Bilbo on board), in the zoomed out shot you can see four hobbits riding on ponies. There should only be three. Since Frodo is in the carriage, that would only leave Sam, Merry, and Pippen. These are the only hobbits going along, since they are the only ones at the harbor.
Re: lotr movie fun facts and in jokes
Originally posted by Shadowy_Exa
- Sean Bean (Boromir) starred in a UK TV series as a soldier during the Napoleonic wars with the name of Richard Sharpe. He subsequently appeared in a series of commercials where he would allude to his earlier role, saying things like, "Sharpe idea". In FOTR he continues the joke: after touching the Sword of Elendil he says, "Still Sharpe."- In late 1999 in Queenstown, a record rainfall caused the worst flooding in the history of the district. Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom were caught between landslides and trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They were taken in by a kindly woman who offered them food and a bed.
- Boromir's father, Denethor, is played by John Noble. In Lothlorien, Boromir says, "My father is a noble man."
- When Boromir is teaching Merry and Pippin to use their swords, he says "2, 1, 5!". These are actually the correct numbers for the system of parries used by the Society of American Fight Directors, and many stunt coordinators and fight masters worldwide. Boromir even matches the numbers with the correct locations
- At Osgiliath, Samwise says, "It's all wrong! By rights we shouldn't even be here!" In the books Frodo and Sam never visit Osgiliath.
- In the book The Two Towers, Pippin talks about being captured by the orcs. "Only nine days ago," he says, "It seems a year since we were caught." Unfortunately, this line did not make it into TTT (the movie), where it would have been unintentionally amusing
- Richard Taylor said Treebeard would be "a very different creature from anything we've seen in cinema before." Treebeard talks and acts just like the Rockbiter in "The NeverEnding Story".
- Writer Frances Walsh voiced the screams for the Nazgul. "We dragged Fran onto the Foley Stage," recalls Ethan Van der Ryn, supervising sound editor, "and got the most spine chilling screams I've ever heard in my life. They just about knocked me on my ass."
- In the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as Harry enters Dumbledore's study, a portrait of Gandalf the Grey is included in the collection of paintings. (It is above the doorframe.)
- The volcanic lava of Mount Doom was actually made of the same sauce that's in fast food apple pies
- The portraits on the wall at Bag End, representing Bilbo's parents, are actually portraits of Frances and Peter (without the beard).
-Dominic mahagan starred in... What.. was... it.... UMM
same synchro voice in german as LOTR 😖hifty: