A bit of odd behavior. When Frodo begins packing in Bag End to go on his journey, Gandalf hands him a folded article of clothing. Frodo grabs it, shakes it out so that it is no longer folded, and stuffs it in his bag. [If you notice, Gandalf rolls the article of clothing up in a pretty large roll. Frodo unrolls it so he can jam it into his pack a little easier and have it take up less space in his pack. As many have noticed, Frodo isn't exactly what you'd call neat and tidy.]

Rivendell was built by elves and lived in by elves, so wouldn't the balcony ledges be above the Hobbits heads? It seems a little odd that they seem just like normal balcony ledges to them. [There's also at least one hobbit living there full-time, namely Bilbo. The elves being a courteous bunch, they'd no doubt create an area for him to live in that's scaled to hobbit proportions, so that he'd feel comfortable.]

Orlando Bloom had no stunt double. [This is not true. Though Orlando did do most of his own stunts, he did have a stunt double, named Morgan.]

After Aragorn kisses Boromir right after he dies, he gets up and says something about how the tower guards of Ecthelion will look for his coming, but he will not come. Where is the 3rd arrow in Boromir's chest/stomach? [When Aragorn stands over Boromir, the three arrows are there. The top arrow is clear, but look at the still shot, Boromir's hand is resting on his stomach between the middle and bottom arrow. In this shot, the horn of Gondor is below his arm.]

Gandalf (v/over): "We must walks over to Frodo and they watch Boromir sparring with the two other Hobbits. Pippin is wearing a white shirt and Merry is wearing a vest. Boromir is fighting with Pippind he says "Two, one, five. Good, very good." after he's done that short round with Pippin. Then he does a little fancy thing with his sword and turns to Merry. [You can identify Merry by his yellow vest] As Boromir fights with the hobbit, Merry moves backright shoulder near the camera, and then he disappears from view, all except his arm and his sword. Then the shot moves to Aragorn, with his pipe who says "Move your feet." The rhythm of the clanking swords continues without break but after the camera moves away from Aragorn, Boromir is suddenly fighting with Pippin again. Then Merry says "You look good Pippin." You can also tell that it changed from Merry to Pippin, because Merry's sleeves are larger/puffier that Pippin's and they are also longer. [Go back and advance that scene shot by shot and you will see that you are wrong. Boromir twirls his sword and only looks at Merry, but continues to fight with Pippin. It is Pippin's shoulder, arm and sword that are shown close up, fighting with Boromir. Pippin has a white shirt, that has a decorative color thread running through it on the cuffs and on the front of the shirt. Pippin is fighting with Boromir the whole time, until Merry says, "You look good, Pippin," at which point Boromir starts to fight with Merry.]

In the part where Boromir gets hit by arrows three times, you see the first arrow hit just below his shoulder. If you look closely, you can see the second arrow hit him in the same exact place as the first, and the first arrow has somehow disappeared. In the next shot you can see one arrow in his shoulder and one lower down, even though the second arrow looked as though it hit him in the shoulder. [I checked in slow motion, and the second arrow does NOT hit him in the shoulder. That arrow is already there when the second hits, although the sequence is very fast and it could seem like he jerks from the arrow already in his shoulder.]

In the prologue we see the three Elves that received the Elven rings, with Galadriel in the foreground. The elf behind her looks elderly. Elves did not age beyond adulthood, (Tolkien says of Galadriel and Celeborn, "but no sign of age was upon them"). [Not actually correct - elves do age, according to Tolkien. To quote from his Letters "The Elves were sufficiently longeval to be called by Man 'immortal'. But they were not unageing or unwearying". The Elf in question is almost certainly Cirdan the Shipwright (who may or may not appear at the end of the final film). Cirdan was one of the very first Elves and, as such, he would have been around for long enough to show some signs of aging.]

In the director's commentary, Peter Jackson says that for the prologue sequence in Gollum's cave they used tape to pull Ian Holm's (Bilbo's) skin tighter to look younger. They needn't, as even though that scene takes place many years before the story proper, because he then bore the Ring, as Gandalf later says, "You haven't aged a day." No-one who has the ring ages in any way. [Clearly not true, as Bilbo does look different - Gandalf is merely commenting that Bilbo has aged remarkably well. The opening narration observes that the ring granted Gollum "unnatural long life", not immortality, and the Ring has certainly not prevented Gollum from undergoing significant changes.]

When Frodo offers the ring to Aragorn at the end, we see a couple of shots of Frodo from Aragorn's perspective. We see the back of Aragorn's head, and he is a few inches taller than Frodo. But seconds later he is suddenly about two feet taller as he kneels down to examine the ring in Frodo's hand. [At first, he is only ducking down a bit, then he kneels completely and tells Frodo to leave.]

When the Black Rider confronts the wood-chopping hobbit and his dog and says "Shire. Baggins," the dog backs into the house supposedly in fear of the evil thing, but his tail is wagging. A terrified dog, even if barking furiously, would have his tail between his legs. [That's not even close to being true. Classifying dogs generically like that is wrong, mainly because many dogs have different types of reactions to certain things, and even have their own 'personalities' to some degree. Case in point: One of my own dogs is absolutely terrified of one of my friends, but wags her tail despite barking and cowering in fear from him. Dogs wag their tales for many different reasons.]

Balin's tomb is directly under a beam of sunlight. Yet, when the cave troll enters the chamber, why isn't it turned to stone when the sunlight hits it? [Given that Balin's tomb is deep underground, an excavated hole to the surface would only provide a beam of direct sunlight for a very short period of time on any given day - most likely only a few minutes. In order to keep the tomb illuminated during the day, the dwarves must have employed some sort of system (either magical or mirror-based) to redirect the sunlight down into the tomb chamber. As it's not actually direct sunlight, it probably causes the troll some discomfort, but doesn't have the full stoning effect.]

I just get a hoot out of the fact that the Uruk-Hai are these huge, ferocious, twisted and unbelievably strong warriors, yet at the end when they attack the Fellowship, many of them are being felled by the rocks that Merry and Pippin are tossing at them. Though those rocks may seem big to the young Hobbits, compared to the Uruk-Hai they would be no more than small stones, yet many of them are being laid out easier than Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are doing with their swords. [It's stated in the books that hobbits are extremely good shots - even Uruk-Hai have vulnerable spots that could be exploited by somebody with good aim. It doesn't seem unreasonable that the impact could at least stun the Uruk-Hai temporarily.]

When the Uruk-Hai come after the Fellowship right near the end of the movie, Merry and Pippin shout at the orcs to lead them away from Frodo. As they run away, Pippin is in front of Merry at first, but then suddenly in the next shot Merry is in front and Pippin skids to a stop beside him as they realize there are now orcs before them as well as behind. [Pippin stops to look behind his shoulder and comment "It's working". Merry, who doesn't stop, thus passes him.]

In the high angle wide shot of the Nazgul in a V-formation chasing Arwen and Frodo, there are only eight of them. Granted, the last one could have joined the chase afterwards, but he either would have had to have a horse that was much faster than the others, since there is no sign of him behind them, or he'd have to be waiting for them all in the trees ahead. But if so, he never jumped in front of them, which would make a lot more sense, but just joined the chase behind them. [This is in corrections already - in fact has the distinction of being the first correction I ever submitted. The book states that there were only 8 Ringwraiths chasing Frodo, until they near the Ford, and the 9th one comes out of the woods near the road.]

At the birthday party at the beginning of the film, Frodo pushes Sam onto the dance floor and into Rosie Cotton's arms. As they go sweeping off to the right, you see the musicians in the background. For an instant (more visible in freeze-frame), there's an object that looks strikingly like a modern bottle of mineral water by one of them. [I've already corrected this once - the object is far away, indistinct, and VERY similar in shape to the pottery vases on the tables throughout the scene. IMHO not a mistake. :)]

For the most part, the height difference between Hobbits and Humans is very well done, but just after the fellowship is formed we see the members walking over the crest of a hill one by one. Just after Legolas walks over, a horse accompanied by at least one Hobbit follows, however the horse is at least as tall as Legolas was, and the Hobbit is at least as tall as the horse. [The "horse" is Bill the pony, so the hobbit would be the right size. The camera angle also changes between the time Legolas passes and the hobbits pass, quite possibly to make it hard to gauge differences in height.]

In the scene at the end, when Boromir is killed, the Uruk-hai has a bow, and is about to shoot Boromir again, when Aragorn jumps out at the Uruk-hai. Suddenly, the Uruk-hai's weapon changes from a bow to a sword and shield. [Lurtz (the Orc) dropped his bow as soon as he knew he was being attacked at close quarters, and we can see him seize another Uruk-hai's shield and sword from the ground. Lurtz had the best reflexes of the entire army (as demonstrated when he was "born"), and that was why he was picked as leader.]

In the scene after the battle of Amon Hen, when Merry and Pippin have distracted the Uruk Hai and have run across the bridge, why does an Uruk Hai come at the hobbits with an axe as if to kill them, when they have direct orders from Saruman to bring back the hobbits alive? [Isn't it easy to capture someone if you are threatening them mortally? After all Merry and Pippen DON'T KNOW that the orders are to capture and not kill.]

When Bilbo is giving Frodo the sword and apologizing to him for giving him the burden of the ring. Bilbo sees the ring on Frodo's chest and after making the evil face Frodo buttons the shirt back up and covers up the ring with it being tucked inside his shirt. The camera angle changes and Frodo is seen walking up to Bilbo and the ring and necklace it is on is now outside of the shirt. [I've checked this and it seems as if Frodo did not have the time to really close this last button. Instead he clasps his hand over the ring to protect it, which is why you can see it later when he walks up to Bilbo.]

When Arwen and Frodo are being chased by the Ringwraiths, in some editions and certainly in the cinema, the soundtrack to the scene was of a cantering horse. Canter is three beats, whereas gallop (which is what all the horses on screen are doing) is four very fast beats that frequently sound like a single beat. It is also obvious that there should be more than one horse on the soundtrack (both Asfaloth and the Ringwraiths' horses), but instead the soundtrack (in the cinema and on my VHS copy at least) is of a single horse. [Sound issues such as this are impossible to report accurately on a system with an analog or inadequate sound setup (VHS). A proper 5.1 home theater setup has multiple hoofbeat tracks coming from all directions depending on the location of the horse. The soundtrack also accurately portrays Arwen's horse Asfaloth in a full gallop.]