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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - 16 mistakes

Directed by Peter Jackson, starring Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

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Continuity: At the dinner scene at Bilbo's house, just before Bofur throws the egg at Bombur's mouth, Fili is seen sitting next to Bombur. Yet as Bombur catches the egg, Ori is now sitting where Fili was sitting.

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Continuity: As the group reaches the dilapidated house that Gandalf claims belonged to a farmer, a birdhouse on a pole can be seen on the threshold. In the next shot, it is gone.

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Continuity: Radagast has white stuff on his beard whenever we see him. But just after Radagast has a flashback of him seeing the Necromancer, we can see half of the white stuff on his beard has disappeared, in the shot where he inhales the smoke in Gandalf's pipe.

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Continuity: When the Ring falls out of Gollum's pocket, it lands on dry ground. When Bilbo picks up the Ring, the ground is now wet.

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Continuity: When Bofur tells Bilbo in the cave that he is homesick, Bilbo's hair suddenly gets a lot wetter.

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Continuity: Shortly after Bilbo finds the Elvish sword that turns blue in the presence of Orcs and Goblins there's a fight with Orcs at the entrance to the hidden valley. However, the sword doesn't glow blue. In subsequent fights with Goblins and Orcs the sword does glow blue, even when sheathed.

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Continuity: When Gandalf appeared to save the dwarfs from the Goblin King, he was covered in darkness and slowly became visible when lights came back. During this time Glamdring is not glowing (whereas it was around goblins in the LOTR trilogy). Funnily enough the Goblin King described Glamdring as "Foehammer, bright as daylight!". Which would make sense since the only time they would have ever seen Glamdring (and Orcrist), it would have been glowing.

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Continuity: In the scene with the rock giants the dwarfs and Bilbo get completely soaked by the rain. Once they reach the safe rock, you see Bombur land on his back and he is totally dry.

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Continuity: In the scene where the dwarfs are in Bilbo's house discussing Smaug, Bofur is seen leaning forward next to Balin with his pipe out of his mouth, then in the next shot he's leaning back against the wall with his pipe in his mouth.

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Audio problem: During the scene at Bilbo's table when Thorin says they should take back Erebor, everyone starts cheering and are interrupted by Balin saying "You forget the front gate is sealed". If you look closely you'll see his mouth doesn't move for the first half of the sentence.

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Continuity: When the company are surrounded by Wargs outside the Hidden Pass, Thorin can be seen holding his sword Orcrist in one hand and an axe in the other; the shot changes and he is then holding his sword with two hands, the shot changes again and he reverts back to the original configuration.

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Continuity: As the dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf enter the troll's cave, a skeleton can be seen propped up against the entrance. In the next shot, it is gone.

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Revealing: When there is a flashback of Thorin in the war, in the first few seconds, on the left of the screen, there is a man with a shield. He swings it at an ogre and you can see it misses by a good five inches, but the ogre moves his head back as if it were hit.

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Continuity: In the scene with the mountain trolls, the captured ponies are in a corral untied. Over the course of the entire troll scene, the horses go from being free in the stall to being tied up by the reins.

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Deliberate "mistake": When Bilbo finds The Ring, he kneels down to get it and notices Gollum at 12 o'clock. In the prologue in Fellowship Of The Ring, Bilbo is lying on the ground and notices Gollum at 10 o'clock.

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Continuity: In this movie, Gandalf looks older than he does in his grey incarnation in Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. However, this takes place before the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, so he should look younger.

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