![]() They set up a special light rig just for Cate Blanchett’s closeups to give her the appearance of having stars reflected in her eyes. “Look really closely at Galadriel’s eyes, though.” Sean Bean hated riding in a helicopter so much that he would get up extra early to go through makeup and costuming and then hike to mountain locations every day in his full Boromir getup. Image: New Line Cinema “Did you know that Sean Bean hates helicopters?” When they’re crossing the Pass of Caradhras, Legolas walks on top of the snow while everyone else is in it. Leitmotif, or the use of specific musical phrases to accompany recurring characters or themes, was popularized by the composer Wagner, which is ironic because Tolkien hated Wagner for Nazi-ing up one of his favorite subjects, Norse mythology. “Hey, that’s the name of the movie.”Įlrond says “the Fellowship of the Ring.” “Howard Shore used a lot of leitmotif.” John Rhys Davis is so tall and all the hobbit actors are so short that they didn’t need size doubles or CGI in shots of Gimli and the hobbits. Image: New Line Cinema “John Rhys Davies is actually that much taller than the hobbit actors.” Liv Tyler also accidentally stabbed herself during this scene in one of the outtakes. “Arwen’s double actually owns that horse now.”Īrwen’s riding double loved that horse so much that Viggo Mortensen bought him for her at the end of production so she could keep him. The Weathertop Battle against the the Ringwraiths was the first thing Viggo filmed. “Can you believe this is the first scene Viggo Mortensen filmed?” Viggo was actually the one throwing apples at Billy Boyd’s head. Image: Miramax “Viggo Mortensen actually threw that apple.” When Aragorn shows up in the Prancing Pony, well that could have been Daniel Day Lewis. “Daniel Day Lewis was the first choice to play Aragorn.” The guy in streets of Bree with the carrot is Peter Jackson. Tolkien, and he could recite the Ring poem from memory in the Black Speech of Mordor, just so you know. ![]() “Christopher Lee was a huge Lord of the Rings nerd.”Ĭhristopher Lee was the only member of the cast who had personally met J.R.R. Christopher Lee corrected people on set when they made minor mistakes. ![]() Christopher Lee read the LotR books once a year.Christopher Lee helped the make up department to make sure everything looked right.Christopher Lee wanted to be cast as Gandalf.Ian McKellen actually hit his head on the ceiling beamįeel free to pepper these in whenever Saruman appears. “Watch, Gandalf hits his head on Bilbo’s ceiling beam.” Image: New Line Cinema “Hey those are Peter Jackson’s kids!” The first good example is Frodo sitting on the cart with Gandalf, but you can bring up this up almost anytime a short-looking person is on screen with a tall-looking person. But you should probably only watch it with people who are also like this.įellowship of the Ring “They did this scene with forced perspective.” In conclusion: If this is how you watch the Lord of the Rings, that’s fine. This article is a cursed object, and should be handled with care. Frankly, we annoyed even ourselves putting this together, and we’re not proud. We’ve arranged our facts in the order they come up in the movies, and even provided suggestions of things to say for maximum annoyance. This is Polygon’s Guide to being a very annoying person to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy with, compiled by Polygon’s Toussaint Egan, Austen Goslin, and Susana Polo, all of whom admit to occasionally being very annoying to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy with. They will if you are constantly spouting facts about the movies during their runtime. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. 2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. ![]()
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