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[[File:lord_of_the_rings_the_fellowship_of.jpg|thumb|350px| An epic of glaring proportions.]]

 

 

One of the biggest movie projects ever undertaken, the overall budget was around $285 million and principal filming for all three films took place over 18 months in Jackson's native New Zealand. The entire project took eight years, factoring in the early pre-production and the fact that additional pick-ups were filmed in between each films release. The trilogy was a great financial success, with the films being the 19th, 10th, and 3rd (8th, 4th, and 2nd following the third film's release) highest-grossing films of all time, respectively, unadjusted for inflation. The films were critically acclaimed, winning 17 out of 30 [[Academy Award]]s nominated in total, and received wide praise for the cast and for the innovative practical and digital special effects. ''Return of the King'' is the first (and currently only) fantasy movie to ever be awarded the Best Picture Oscar.

The theatrical versions were lengthy epics (the first two clocking in around 3 hours and the third 3 1/2 hours), and the Special Editions (released before the succeeding movies) added at least another half-hour to each films running time. Unusual for such a thing, Peter Jackson has stated that the Special Editions are not an actual [[Directors Cut]] but merely a fan-friendly extension to enlarge the world of Middle-Earth and see what things they left out of the faster paced Theatrical Versions.

 

 

== A through C ==

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]

** [[Fridge Horror]]: Where are they at the end of the battle? As well as all the elves that went to help them. We see ''how'' many people ride out at the end?

*** Supposedly, they all had death scenes filmed, although the battle scenes are too dark to tell.

* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Barad-dûr, when Sauron is finally defeated. See [[Keystone Army]].

* [[Color Wash]]: Especially noticeable in day-for-night scenes. There's even a scene in ''Return of the King'' where Pippin is searching for Merry, that appears as a daylight scene in the theatrical version but was regraded to night for the extended version.

* [[Kneel Before Frodo]]: Aragorn and a courtyard full of people bow to the hobbits during his own coronation.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Performed by Sam in one of the Osgiliath scenes in ''The Two Towers'' when he whines to Frodo that "by all rights, we shouldn't even ''be'' here!" - referencing the fact that the two characters never go to Osgiliath in the book.

* [[Leave No Survivors]]: In the films both Saruman and the Witch-king tell their minions to kill everyone in Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith, respectively.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: a number of Internet parodies compared this to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F0yUhLJUaY Aragorn's final charge].

 

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