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trqn13 Bree Feb 8 2013, 10:23am Views: 1794 movie mistakes wondering what other movie mistakes other people have spotted: like Eomer's sword falling out when he gets on his horse after meeting Aragorn & co, Gimli's shoe falling off when running, and Theodens horse doing a number 2 whilst walking towards Orthanc: any others?

sevilodorf Tol Eressea Feb 8 2013, 11:58pm Views: 1311 There's two that get me The hand tied, hands untied Pippin -- right before they escape the orcs and go into Fangorn The appearing and disappearing barrels -- Sam and Frodo at Henneth Annun with Faramir. There's others that I manage to squint and ignore but these two get me every time. Fourth Age Adventures at the Inn of the Burping Troll http://burpingtroll.com

zarabia Tol Eressea Feb 9 2013, 2:09am Views: 1367 Eowyn's hair and dress In the scenes on the way from Edoras to Helm's Deep, Eowyn has the front part of her hair pulled back in some shots, and down in others; she's also wearing two different dresses. You could say this shows the passage of time, but the switch back and forth happens even in the scene with them arriving at Helm's Deep. Unless she's pretending to be Queen Amadala from Star Wars prequels, it's a big continuity boo-boo. "The question isn't where, Constable, but when." - Inspector Spacetime

Lily Fairbairn Half-elven Feb 9 2013, 4:04pm Views: 1248 The only thing I noticed at my first viewing... ...was Boromir's hand during his death scene, on Aragorn's shoulder from one angle, not on his shoulder from the other. Most of the other errors I only noticed after someone pointed them out to me here, although I may have seen Pippin's tied/untied hands for myself.

Nira Lorien Feb 10 2013, 3:49am Views: 1253 Most of these I heard about from others before I noticed Merry kicks a mug off the table when he and Pippin are dancing and singing in RoTK, but it might not be a blooper. Maybe another intentional one is Shelob stinging Frodo- the location of the sting wound, and the camera angle, along with the neckline of the mithril coat all don't make sense to me. Every time I notice the Ringwraith coming out from the middle of the tree, party tent props disappearing after the dragon firework, Gandalf's power cord in Moria, The horses are suddenly gone in RoTK after Aragorn gives his speech to the troops, Pippin's rope, and Eomer's sword falling out. I never seem to think about Boromir's hand, though. I'm sure moviemistakes.com has a bunch posted there. "Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?" -Samwise

TheSexyBeard Lorien Feb 10 2013, 9:31pm Views: 1196 Not dead yet... When Aragorn runs to the dying Boromir, he passes an Uruk who looks up slightly, I think Viggo might have stepped on his hand or something. Some of the stalagmites in the caves of Helms Deep wobble as people pass them. I hear there is also a dead Galahadrim wearing glasses at Helms Deep too. Yes, my username is terrible.

Ataahua Forum Admin / Moderator Feb 11 2013, 2:58am Views: 1189 Sam stabs Shelob twice in the belly but removes the sword once. When on the banks of Amon Hen and considering leaving the Fellowship, Frodo's tear tracks are long, then short, then long.. (although this pice of continuity would have been too difficult to get right, I believe!) However the two that particularly grate, as someone else has said, are Pippin's tied-untied-tied hands when he's beneath the horse at the edge of Fangorn Forest, and the disappearing barrells in Faramir's hidey-hole. Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..." Dwarves: "Pretty rings..." Men: "Pretty rings..." Sauron: "Mine's better." "Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak. Ataahua's stories

Rostron2 Gondor Feb 11 2013, 4:46pm Views: 1140 Disappearing barrels... Never noticed that. Maybe they will show up DOS!

RangerLady23 Lorien Feb 11 2013, 9:05pm Views: 1146 Movie mistakes At Helm's Deep during TT after Aragorn and Legolas have words when Aragorn is sitting on the steps, some Rohan dude steps on the end of Aragorn's sword and nearly flips it up in Viggo's face! Priceless.

Tigero Rivendell Feb 15 2013, 9:58am Views: 1054 There are crew members showing in the background in many places One of the most famous is one in the middle of Uruks at Black gate, but something i noticed recently is that there's some random bald guy in some shots at Council of Elrond. Pessimists have no disappointments.

Tigero Rivendell Feb 15 2013, 10:15am Views: 1051 Oh yeah and ofcourse many doubles in shots where they stood out a bit too much Also, something that i remember is Aragorn shouting 'Hold!' in Elvish to the Bowmaster of Helm's deep... Pessimists have no disappointments.

Brethil Half-elven Feb 16 2013, 1:05am Views: 1223 The Black Rider on the Road. When the Hobbits first hide under the tree and the Rider comes into frame, you only see him on the left side of the tree. The space on the right of the tree (where he would walk through first) stays empty. And the light is graded differently in the small right segment between the tree and end of frame. Threads like this must give editorial staff chest pain. ...she took the point at once, but she also took the spoons.

Ataahua Forum Admin / Moderator Feb 16 2013, 5:38am Views: 1077 I still think that's deliberate, to increase the spookiness factor of the Black Rider and his horse. Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..." Dwarves: "Pretty rings..." Men: "Pretty rings..." Sauron: "Mine's better." "Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak. Ataahua's stories

Starling Half-elven Feb 16 2013, 10:48pm Views: 996 Never thought of it that way I've always seen it as a mistake. I am going to try watching it with different eyes next time.

Starling Half-elven Feb 16 2013, 10:54pm Views: 1091 Some things that are probably mistakes also fit in quite nicely with the scene. One example is a horse in Faramir's hopeless mission misbehaving. In a wide shot of the horses charging towards death in their battle formations, one horse shies out of line and it's really obvious. It's clearly not meant to happen in the movie, but to me it looks just like what could really happen in battle, so that's how I choose to see it. And I would put a horse doing its business in that category, because it's just what horses do.

The Prancing Pony Rivendell Feb 18 2013, 10:27am Views: 974 I think it's only one dress, the other one (with the brooch) is, I believe, a coat that she sometimes puts on over the dress. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

RangerLady23 Lorien Feb 20 2013, 8:01pm Views: 1136 More movie mistakes Okay so I've been thinking and I've come up with some more mistakes: In FOTR, just after the Hobbits meet up with Strider and he is leading them off, his bow whacks into the camera. You have to look hard because the camera shake is barely visible. In the TT in Emyn Muil right after Frodo and Sam capture Gollum, Frodo trips on a rock and we all know that Elijah didn't intend for that to happen. In FOTR in the Midgewater Marshes when Pippin falls on his face you can see that Billy's prosthetic foot is coming off because of the damp. In ROTK when everyone is riding back from Isengard and it shows Eowyn standing on the Edoras steps, notice the smoke is going DOWN the chimneys because they reversed the shot. In the TT as the Three Hunters are running and the camera pulls away watch closely and you will see Orlando trip and catch himself. Graceful Elf indeed! In ROTK after Faramir returns and Denethor sees Boromir's image behind him, when Denethor falls backwards he bumps against his throne and the "Very Heavy Marble" rocks back and forth! I'm sure there are more mistakes that I've missed but the really cool part of it is is that we just accept these "Quirks" as part of the experience and let it be. True fans we must be! RangerLady out!