Corrected entry: After the battle at Amon Hen, when Aragorn is running to Boromir who is laying on the ground after being shot, Aragorn jumps over an Uruk-hai on the ground. Just after Aragorn jumps, the Orc moves his head up. The Uruk-hai is supposed to be dead though.
Tailkinker
16th Dec 2006
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
15th Nov 2006
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: Gandalf's sword, Glamdring, is an Elven blade, just as Frodo's sword Sting is. However, Glamdring does not glow when orcs are near as an Elven blade should.
Correction: This is a book thing - Gandalf's blade is never stated to be an elven one in the film and film/book discrepencies are not valid sources for mistakes.
17th May 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: When Galadriel is distributing gifts, she gives Merry and Pippin "daggers of the Noldorim", the blades of which are barely longer than their hands. If they had actually been daggers of the Noldorim (a race of Elves), they would have been the hobbit equivalent of a sword.
Corrected entry: In Jackson's films the word 'Uruk' is reserved for Saruman's mutated soldiers only, as opposed to the smaller common orc of Moria, Mordor, etc. But according to Tolkien, the term 'Uruk' is actually the orcs' own word for an orc, and the term 'Uruk-hai' is the orcs' term for a group of orcs.
Correction: Incorrect - Tolkien only uses Uruk-Hai to describe the large warrior orcs, like those created by Saruman. While the term Uruk is indeed the Orcish term for an Orc, and Uruk-Hai does literally translate to "Orc-People", Jackson's use of these terms is entirely in keeping with Tolkien's - they haven't changed anything.
25th Aug 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: Boromir's horn magically splits in half for no apparent reason.
Correction: It's damaged during the fight - just because we don't see the actual specific moment of the split doesn't make this an error.
21st Jun 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: We are told both by Galadriel and Aragorn that the Ringwraiths were once 'great kings of men'. This is not entirely accurate as the second-in-command of the Witch-King, Khamul, was once an Easterling (not a 'great king of men').
Correction: Easterling is merely a term for the men of the East - they're not orcs or anything like that. Khamul was presumably one of their kings, making the description quite accurate.
27th Nov 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
13th Oct 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: 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"). (00:01:10)
Correction: 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.
13th Oct 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: 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. (00:07:20)
Correction: 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.
27th Sep 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: 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? (01:55:50)
Correction: 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.
11th Sep 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
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Correction: Already submitted and corrected. People don't necessarily die instantaneously from their wounds - he's mortally wounded, but hasn't yet died, so moving his head is hardly unreasonable.
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