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** When Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli first arrive at Edoras, there is a shot of a Rohirrim flag fluttering to the ground. The flag had simply slipped loose due to the wind but Peter Jackson threw it in because he liked the symbolism.
** The "rat catcher's cottage" in Minas Tirith. The build team interpreted one of Alan Lee's drawings of a building as having a dead rat hanging in the window, and based an entire house around the idea that the Official Gondorian Rat Catcher lived there. Alan Lee maintains he didn't have something so specific in mind when he did the sketch, but then he realized that it was completely logical: after all, a medieval city the size of Minas Tirith ''would'' have a rat problem.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Arwen was originally planned to be at Helm's Deep, giving Aragorn his sword Anduril, the Flame of the West, and also fighting alongside him.
** The idea of Sauron taking form (specifically ''[[Heavenly Creatures|Kate Winslet's]]'' form - The Eye was really [[Bishonen]] back in the day) and almost kicking Aragorn's ass at the final battle was also briefly entertained, and then mercifully abandoned in place of a troll.
** The episode with [[Magical Native American|Ghan-Buri-Ghan]] and the [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|Wood Woses]] (who were hunted and killed by the Rohirrim [[Fantastic Aesop|for sport]]) was cut out... but we have [http://www.tuckborough.net/images/ghan-buri-ghan.jpg a production still of what he would have looked like.]
*** Looks awful blue-skinned. In the book, the Gondorians were encroaching on their forest to mine it. [[Avatar|Hmmm...]] Yeah, Tolkien did it first.<ref>David Boyle wrote: "The good Woses have disappeared completely from the narrative, with their implicit message that indigenous peoples, too, are folk worthy of respect. If there are Maori experts on Tolkien..."</ref>
** The movies were originally planned as duology because Jackson thought making a trilogy was going to be a hard sell. Thankfully, when he pitched it as a duology to New Line, they responded with "why do you want to make ''two'' movies?" and just as Jackson was about to launch into his defense of why it couldn't possibly be done in one film, they continued... "this is ''three'' movies."
** Stuart Townsend was actually cast as Aragorn and in New Zealand filming. A couple of days in they realized it wasn't going to work out and called up Viggo Mortensen. [http://www.herr-der-ringe-film.de/v2/media/archiv/hdr/townsend02.jpg There's even a still of him in character.] um... Yeah.
*** Jackson didn't realize until four days into filming that Aragorn should be an older, mature type.
** Sean Astin lobbied for his father, [[The Addams Family|John Astin]], to be given the part of Gandalf.
** When Mirimax was unable to finance the original two films, they tried to get them meshed into one two-hour movie. Thankfully, Jackson understandably considered this to be "cutting out half the good stuff." Apparently it was suggested that they:
*** Shorten Rivendell and Moria
*** Cut Bree and the Battle of Helm's Deep
*** "Lose or use" Saruman
*** Merge Rohan and Gondor with Eowyn as Boromir's sister
*** As well as having Ents prevent the Uruk-hai kidnapping Merry and Pippin. Jesus.
*** Luckily, New Line was more than happy to dish out the money to finance the project as ''three films'', not just one. [[Who's Laughing Now?|Guess who has three movies that rank on the best-of-all-time list now.]]
** Frodo was originally [[What the Hell, Hero?|gonna push]] Gollum and the Ring into the lava.
*** There was also another take that was true to the book - namely, that Gollum, while celebrating getting the ring back, slips and falls off the edge. They decided to [[Take a Third Option]] and go with the take that's in the movie.
** There was going to be a river rapids scene in the first film when the Fellowship was traveling by boat. However, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|real life wrote the plot]] when the equipment the crew was going to use was washed away or ruined by flood waters.
** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46263-2002Dec27 The tenor of the times in 2002] compelled them to actually cut out a lot of material that mostly served to humanize the other races, such as the bit with the Southron or the conversations with orcs. (The writers said that people felt it necessary to show that the villains were "irredeemably evil").
** You know that song at the end of ''The Two Towers'' that's sung by someone who sounds an awful lot like Björk? Well, the original idea ''was'' for her to sing it, but she was pregnant at the time and declined the invitation. They used another Icelandic singer, Emilíana Torrini, instead.
** The Balrog was going to be shown after falling in the water with its fire gone out and covered in slime.
** [[Uma Thurman]] and Ethan Hawke were being considered for [[Cast Incest|Eowyn and Eomer]]. Thurman initially accepted the offer but had to cancel due to pregnancy.
** Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Gandalf, but turned it down because he didn't like the first script. (Another version of this says he "didn't understand the story".) Russell Crowe was another actor who turned down a role from this movie (as Aragorn) because he didn't like the shooting schedule.
** [[Christopher Lee]] originally auditioned for the role of Gandalf.
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