Minor Mistakes

[Parmawen]

[QUOTE=Knight of Gondor]Can we get a DVD time? I'd like to check it out! (Specify EE or regular?) QUOTE]

Well, it was TTT the EE, but it doesn't really matter...I think it'd be in the regular too...the exactl DVD time is: 17 minutes and 37/38 seconds. Turns out it's not his hat, but it looks like a shoe or something. All I know is that it tumbles off his feet and he gives it a little kick as he runs!!!

As for the car...that is SO annoying. Everyone always would talk about it, but I could never see it...no wonder. I feel almost betrayed they erased it *sighs*.

As for Eomer's sword-dropping accident, can anyone give a specific time?!? It sounds great.

And lastly...Gimli's little dwarven-snot incident at the Council of Elrond before saying "I'd die before I'd see the Ring in the hands of an elf!" looks to be more like spittle that flew up and landed on his nose. I know, very impressive. I was watching it in slow-mo...everyone else left the room after the fifth time

[the guy who be short]

I'm not sure if this counts as minor, but it is something I have wondered about that is also relevant to the Books.

ME is supposed to be Europe. How, then, does Sam know of Taters?

[Kitanna]

The potato was a major crop in Ireland.

[the guy who be short]

After being imported from the New World.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by TGWBS

After being imported from the New World.

As was tobacco (aka pipeweed).

[the guy who be short]

And, if we're including the Movies, Cherry tomatoes.

I suppose we must draw the conclusion that Middle Earth was actually in the Americas. What a terrible shame for us Europeans.

[Orominuialwen]

Yes, but there are umbrellas in the Shire, and I believe (unless I'm mistaken, which I could be) that umbrellas came post Columbian Exchange, or at least after it had already started. So fear not, ME still could be Europe (much the pity for those of us in North America, although the potato was actually from Peru.)

[Ar-Pharazon]

Here are a few things that irked me about LotR.

1) What happened to the elves at Helms Deep after Haldir died its like they all disappeared, not one mention of them after that. Not even a body, although I cant remember if there was one in the EE.

2) Their is the fact that they made Anduril so damn big that Aragorn could never wear it sheathed throughout the whole movie except when hes on a horse, and for the point when he becomes king, even then it looks ridiculously big.

3) The scene when the trio enter Rohan from their chase after the battle at Rauros. Aragorn asks "Legolas, what do your elf eye's see". He replies "The unit has turned NORTH EAST, they are taking the hobbits to Isengard." Legolas needs a compass. I thought Isengard was at the western most point of Rohan.

4) The most blatant scene of goofs is when Gandalf, Aragorn, et al enter Edoras to face Wormtongue. At points Legolas is helping Gandalf walk then the shot switches and they are totally seperate. At points Gandalf has his staff out at other points he is carrying it behind his cloak. It just shows that this scened took far too many shots to keep the flow more genuine.

I noticed how 1 or 2 of the dead orcs of Isengard on the floor (in the FOTR after Bormomir is killed) show quite a bit of movement even though they are meant to be long since slain!

[Kitanna]

In FOTR when the Hobbits are hiding from the Black Rider he just sort of pops up from behind the tree. In the top right hand corner of the shot there's a bit of sky which the rider should pass by, but he doesn't. He just comes from thin air.

[Lúmen Rómello]

Originally Posted by Ar-Pharazon

Here are a few things that irked me about LotR.

1) What happened to the elves at Helms Deep after Haldir died its like they all disappeared, not one mention of them after that. Not even a body, although I cant remember if there was one in the EE.

I never noticed that before. But yeah, where did they all vanish to? Maybe they all got scared of the big bad Uruks and turned into rocks.

2) There is the fact that they made Anduril so damn big that Aragorn could never wear it sheathed throughout the whole movie except when hes on a horse, and for the point when he becomes king, even then it looks ridiculously big.

I agree. Then there's the fact that he's supposed to be carrying Narsil/Anduril the whole freakin' time he's in the movies, since he pulls it out in Bree and his sword is only about a foot long and broken. At least it is in the books. Actually, all of Aragorn's swords are way too long to be sheathed comfortably at his side, I think. They all look like bastard swords or broadswords. No way you're going to sheathe those at your waist. Those go on your back (or better yet, have your page/donkey carry them. )

3) The scene when the trio enter Rohan from their chase after the battle at Rauros. Aragorn asks "Legolas, what do your elf eye's see". He replies "The unit has turned NORTH EAST, they are taking the hobbits to Isengard." Legolas needs a compass. I thought Isengard was at the western most point of Rohan.

HOLY CRAP!!!! There's an instance where Legolas isn't Superelf?! He got something wrong?! I'm surprised PJ and Co. didn't do something about this in post-production. I mean, he's got impeccable fashion sense, he never gets filthy, he can shoot a fly off a Mûmak's arse from a league away, he can hold about 20 glasses of mead without any ill effects, he can do some weird vaulting thingy into a saddle, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam, why can't he get directions right?! Because we all know that OMFG Leggy is t3h r0xz0rz!!!1!!!!!11111!!!

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-LR.