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** A review decried the fact that Arwen gets such a small role (whereas in the books, she has all of ''one line'', near the end of ''Return of the King''). Another assumed that Eowyn's killing of the Witch-king was an [[Affirmative Action Girl|expansion of her role in the books]], but her role in the books was actually reduced for the films. In the film, she kills the Nazgul Lord and sort-of-generally pines for Aragorn. In the book, she slays the Nazgul Lord and delivers a badass speech on how men get all the glory and heroism, whereas women's right is, once men fail, "to be slaughtered at the threshold of our own home."

** At least one review of the ''Lord of the Rings'' movies put forth the opinion that the reason the filmmakers put so much painstaking effort into Gollum's portrayal was simply because CGI is a new toy and they wanted to show it off as much as possible.

** [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm The Tolkien Sarcasm Page] is a deliberately erroneous, tongue-in-cheek summary of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''. A writer for the ''Sunday Times'' [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/blanchett.htm took it seriously] and used it in preparation for an interview with [[Cate Blanchett]].

** [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm The Tolkien Sarcasm Page] is a deliberately erroneous, tongue-in-cheek summary of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. A writer for the ''Sunday Times'' [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/blanchett.htm took it seriously] and used it in preparation for an interview with [[Cate Blanchett]].

** A newspaper reviewer of ''The Return of the King'' made a complaint that the movie included a giant spider and wondered why Peter Jackson felt it was needed. Shelob appears in the series, though her appearance was moved to the third installment for the films.

** A newspaper synopsis of ''The Lord of the Rings'' read "Frodo and friends go on a quest to find a magic ring." Some quest that would have been, given that one of the first things that happens in the story is Frodo getting the ring from Bilbo.

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** Italian magazines sometimes get to call Darth Vader "Death Star". Or with the Italian dub name, Dart Fener.

** [[Roger Ebert]] stated in his review for ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' that Fox could continue the series, regardless of whether or not [[George Lucas]] wanted to make another one or not.

* An NPR reporter once talked about the "[[Lord of the Rings|Lord of the]] [[Narnia]]" series, apparently mixing two franchises.

* An NPR reporter once talked about the "[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the]] [[Narnia]]" series, apparently mixing two franchises.

* The ''Boston Globe'' reviewer of ''[[Donnie Darko]]'' seems to have taken a bathroom break during half of the film and walked out fifteen minutes before the ending. No other explanation would suffice. However, he admits to not paying attention to the part where Frank explains to Donnie that he (Frank) comes from outer space. Because the reviewer seemed sure that scene appeared in the movie.

* The whole kerfuffle that erupted over the film ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' was because people were informed about scenes of Jesus settling down, getting married, and having sex. What they ''weren't'' informed about was that these scenes were a hallucination caused by the Devil in order to try and convince Jesus not to fulfill his destiny, walk away and have a normal life, a temptation Jesus rejected. You know, as sort of described ''in the name of the film''. Nobody listened, however, and due to staunchly Catholic [[Media Watchdogs]], the film wasn't premiered in Mexico ''until 2005!''