The Lord of the Rings (film)/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: In the first movie, Elrond sure liked expressing his disgust of the human race.
 * A more obvious one, though, is Boromir cutting his finger with the Shards of Narsil and going "Ah, still sharp..."
 * In addition, Saruman is impaled on a spike that goes through his heart after falling to his death from Orthanc.
 * And Boromir says his dad is a "noble man". Denethor is played by John Noble.
 * All-Star Cast: A staggering list of recognizable names in the cast, not to mention that these movies made recognizable the names of every actor in them whose names hadn't been beforehand.
 * Author Phobia: Peter Jackson actually used his own phobia of spiders to measure the effectiveness of Shelob's design and animations.
 * Backed by the Pentagon: The New Zealand army in this case. Heck, parts of Mordor were from old mine fields (that were swept beforehand), since they had enough ash to make the look needed.
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty: People often don't remember Aragorn's speech before the Black Gates quite right--possibly they're remembering the version in the trailer, which was from a different take. Théoden's speeches get this too, to a lesser extent.
 * Cast the Expert:
 * In addition to the lead actors who were trained on horses, and numerous digital extras, the Riders of Rohan were portrayed by regular horse riders from all across New Zealand who came with their own horses to act as extras.
 * For The Return of the King, The New Zealand Army provided extras for the final battle in front of the Black Gate. Behind the scenes commentary on the DVD's makes note of how good they were as following directions and setting up formations, as well as how much enthusiasm they brought to the combat scenes.
 * Cowboy Bebop at His Computer: Nazgûls = flying reptiles? So say every popular media on the subject. So distressingly common that Peter Jackson and many cast and crew bought into it. No wonder the Witch-King's dialogue with Eowyn was omitted... it makes no sense under this interpretation.
 * Nazgûls are the Ring Wraiths themselves, the flying reptiles are their mounts/steeds, described as "Fell Beasts".
 * The "bow guy" is something else, too.
 * A distressing amount of people seem to believe that the Witch-King of Angmar is Sauron himself. Must be the helmet he wore at Pelennor Fields.
 * His helmet was actually changed to the one seen in the movie, since his original helmet was even more similar in design to Sauron's, and they were afraid people would get confused. You can still see the original helmet in the video game, though.