Directed by:
Peter Jackson

Starring:
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey
Billy Boyd as Peregrin 'Pippin' Took
Dominic Monaghan as Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn/Strider
Sean Astin as Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee
Liv Tyler as Arwen Undómiel
Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins
Orlando Bloom as Legolas Greenleaf
Christopher Lee as Saruman the White

• When Gandalf and Saruman are talking at one point Gandalf is holding his staff and he has a leather strap around his finger, then it cuts to Saruman then when it cuts back to Gandalf the strap is gone. (Theatre) - Kit_Kat

• After the battle with the cave troll, Aragorn rushes over to the injured Frodo and brushes past some large rocks which wobble, showing that they are clearly lightweight and not real. (Theatre) - Justine

• Hobbits are always barefoot, but when Frodo and Sare walking through the fields, Frodo's leg comes above the level of the long grass - and a shoe is clearly visible. (Theatre) - Justine

• The hobbit guys are smaller than the rest of the characters. Fine. But in some scenes, it's obvious that they used either children or little people to complete the effect. In one scene, Bilbo (a hobbit guy) shakes hands with Gandalf and you can see Gandalf's larger hands are fake. (Theatre) - Sam

• In some scenes Frodo has a zit, and in some scenes he doesn't. - Jane
  • Addition: When the fellowship is rowing down river Anduin, you can clearly see Frodo's got a spot on his chin covered with makeup. When they row ashore, it's gone. (Theatre) - noise

• When Frodo is taken to Rivendell, he is lying in bed with Gandalf sitting next to the bed watching over him. When Frodo is just waking up and starts to lean up, you can clearly see the ring on the chain. The camera switches to Gandalf, and then back to Frodo, but the ring and chain are gone. All you see is the bandage. (Theatre) - Ree

• At the mountain on their way to Rivendell with Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Strider the terrain was clear, then there was a face shot , and a long view and there was snow on the hill side. (Theatre) - Lis

• At the beginning, Bilbo drops the Ring on the hall floor and walks out and Gandalf follows, leaving the front door wide open. After Bilbo goes off, Gandalf goes back into Bag End, but he has to open the door. (Theatre) - lars

• I have my eye on Legolas most of the time, and in order to see this you have to too. Some where in the scenes when the ugly pig people are attacking everyone in the forest... Legolas shots an arrow and then goes for another one, but he can't reach it! It cuts to the next scene very quickly so you have to watch closely. (Theatre) - Cerasi

• When a meeting is held in Rivendell and the ring is placed in the center, the dwarf gets up and hits the ring with his axe, breaking his axe into pieces on the table in the center. Then the broken axe pieces disappear. But then suddenly, they reappear! (Theatre) - Ahmed Mashhood

• I forgot where, but there are seen brand marks on the fruit they used in the film. (Theatre) - Teh'Ailosacath

• In the love scene on the bridge at Rivendell, there is a wide shot that establishes the environment, with voice-over of the two characters, Aragorn and Arwen. They are facing one another, holding hands. During a silent moment in the conversation, as they are zooming in, Arwen's head and mouth are moving as if she is talking, and Aragorn is clearly listening to her, but there are no words on the soundtrack (and any words at that point would be incongruous with the direction of the conversation). (Theatre) - veiner

• When Aragorn bows over the dying Boromir there's a pretty clear goof you can see for several times. When the shot is from behind Aragorn, Boromir has his hand on Aragorn's shoulder, when you see them from the side, Boromir's right hand is lying flat down on the ground. (Theatre) - Jonas

• When the Fellowship is resting in the Mines of Moria, Gandalf has a crystal on his staff lit. There are also two torches inbetween the three doorways. These torches are lit when shown, but when Gandalf remembers the way and the party is proceeding further into the mines. As they walk away from the spot, the light that is illuminating the wall behind them is a white colored light. Clearly, if the two lit torches were illuminating that wall, the light should've been orange colored. (Theatre) - Quignotz

• In the shots just before Frodo tries to leave by himself for Mordor the tears on his face swap sides for no reason. - robo

• (Not to sound perverted) Okay this isn't really a goof but when Arwen is riding Asfaloth, she is being chased by the Nazgul on a Mare, very easy to see when it jumps. When she gets to the River and it rears, it is easy to see it is a Stallion. (Theatre) - Erofeb

• After Isildur's father was thrown by Sauron in the beginning of the movie, he landed with his helmet on. But when Isildur rushes over to him, the helmet is off of his head. (Theatre) - Erofeb

• When rowing away from Galadriel's forest,the fellowship pass between two statues of former kings of Gondor. As they get closer, both kings are holding out the same arm (the left one), but as the camera changes angle once they are past them, and you can see the statues from behind, the statue on the left is holding out his right arm. - toddler

• When Frodo and Sam are walking and Sam stops, he says something like 'This will be the farthest away from home I'll have been', the scarecrow is like a foot in front of him. When it shows an overview of the whole field they are in, the scarecrow is now like 10 ft behind Sam. Then again when they get a close up of Frodo and Sam, the scarecrow move has moved to about a foot behind Sam. Did the elves do something to that scarecrow or what? (Theatre) - Aimee Greenleaf

• The farthest Sam would have ever been away from home is when he walks into the corn field. When he stops and says he only has to take one more step, he is about 5 steps away from the corn field. (Theatre) - Erofeb

• When Frodo and Sam are walking in The Shire, there are mountains in the not-so-far-away background. That's OK if Peter Jackson changed the layout of Middle Eath but Bilbo says that he wants to see mountains again. After seeing mountains behind Frodo and Sam, we hear that they have not even left The Shire yet... so those mountains must be in The Shire or close to it. I think it's just a nice landscape scene that was used out of place. (Theatre) - Big Mike

• About half an hour from the beginning of the movie, Frodo gets ready for leaving The Shire and gathers his belongings. You see Frodo putting on his coat, then they cut to Gandalf. When they cut back to Frodo, he puts on his backpack/rucksack. But what the heck is standing/moving behind Frodo? It´s about twice the size of Frodo, and it may be his rucksack, but in the next scene, the rucksack is only about the same size as Frodo. (DVD/VCD-Rip) - Käpt'n Eisbein

• After viewing the movie seven times in theatres, I noticed in the Prancing Pony scene after Merry sits down, Pippin leaves the table. But, in the next shot, Frodo gets Barliman's attenetion and Pippin, not Merry, is still sitting at the table. It's a back shot of him though, so viewers who are watching for the first few times may not notice the difference. - Katie

• (I just thought this was funny) When Frodo is packing to leave the Shire, Gandalf is seen carefully folding a sheet. He then hands it to Frodo who shakes it out as hard as possible and rudely shoves it into his bag. Obviously Wizards are more organized than Hobbits. - Erofeb

• When Gandalf Fights the Balrog, Frodo stops running the other 2 hobbits and Legolas run past him.In the next scene they run by him again. (DVD) - toddler

• In the English cinema version my friend said that she saw an apple sticker on the apple that Aragorn threw to Merry and Pippin. - Soapy
  

• After Frodo gets stabbed by the cave troll the rest of the fellowship just stops and looks at him. They look at him for about 10 seconds and then he drops to the ground. After he drops the rest start killing orcs again. Do the orcs just stop fighting when Frodo gets stabbed too? (Theatre) - Erofeb

• Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, gets a scar on right side of her face from a tree branch when she is rushing Frodo to Rivendale. But on the movie cover, the scar is on the left side of her face. - comedykid

• This is the scene after the Balrog initially shows up in the distance and the Orcs of Moria all run, yet before the Company has to face the collapsing staircase: Gandalf tells Aragorn he has to lead the Company; when Aragorn hesitates, Gandalf tells him "Go, swords have no more use here!" (or something to that effect) in Gandalf's hand you can see the sword Glamdring...as bent and twisted as a piece of tin. Not what you would expect from a great Elven sword, even though it remains unnamed in this movie. (Theatre) - Munkin

• In one of the scenes when the elf lady is rinding from the ringwraiths there is a close up of Frodo and he has some nasty green stuff on his face it cuts away to a ring wraith's hand coming toward Frodo then back to Frodo, he still has the green stuff on his face. It cuts away again but when it goes to Frodo again it's gone. (DVD) - nik
  

• Not really a goof, but Legolas is wearing boots and in the book there is special mention of the fact he wears shoes. - JOhnRov

• After Frodo and company leave Bree, there's a shot of Strider walking towards the camera (57 mins in). As he passes it a rod or something on his back smacks into the camera shaking it slightly. (DVD) - Jim

• When the fellowship is in the dwarf tomb fighting the cave troll Legolas is in the lefthand corner of the screen fighting a orc right after you see him it cuts to the cave troll for 1 frame then you see Legolas with 2 arrows ready to fire it would be impossible because a 10th of a second earlier he was fighting a orc with a sword. (DVD) - toddler
  

• In the last scene with the dwarf, elf and human, the feathers on the elf's arrows change colors from yellow to green the red. - toowide

• In the scene where Gandolf catches Merry and the other hobbit after they set off the rocket, Gandolf beard appears to be coming loose. - toowide

• When the 4 hobbits are hiding by the roadside, there is a tree on the road above. We can see either side of this tree. the black rider emerges to the left of the tree, traveling right to left across the screen but we never saw him come in from the right even though it was in shot the whole time. (Theatre) - gregmcd101

• In the scene where Frodo is leaving to go to Mt. Doom and Sam chases him into the water and Frodo pulls him into the boat, Sam's clothes and Frodo's arm are dry. Sam was just pulled from the water and should be soaking wet. - Britt

• In the part in the beginning when Sauron blows up and there's that big shockwave right after Isildur gets blown to the ground it shows you a knight and he seems to be wearing glasses and they look pretty modern too! (VHS) - arwen

• Gandalf's staff changes places several times on the wagon as he rides up. First it is to Gandalf's left. Then it moves to his right. Some shots it is hanging out the back of the wagon. (DVD) - chrisB

• Frodo's sword does and does not glow blue when orcs are near. In the scene where the cave troll is fought, the sword switches on and off. In the DVD version this has been corrected somewhat - but it still happens. According to the book - it glowed all of the time they were in Moria. - Marcus

• When The fellowship are in the snow, and Frodo falls backward to Aragorn. Then Aragorn helps him, the ring fall off his neck (Sean Bean) picks it up if you as the camera is still on the ring, and as Sean Bean picks it up, pause it when the ring is like this (picture) O the ring is bigger then it normally is. - lil_dude114

• I am begging to read the book series and in the book they mention that the Hobbits have 6 meals a day. But in the movie they mention all their meals: Breakfast, 2nd breakfast, elevzes, lunchen, afternoon tea ( which is a snack or a meal), dinner and supper that is 7. The makers of the movie should really pay attention to all parts of the book. - TAZ

• When Gimli runs in to Balins tomb, he kneels down right next to the coffin thingy. Then in the next shot we see he has room enough to hang his head. Then in the NEXT shot, he leans over and taps his head on the coffin thing, magically close again. - Nuinatariel

• When the hobbits enter the Prancing Pony, only their heads are wet, and their clothes are dry (it was raining out). Why would their heads be wet if they were wearing hoods, and how come their clothes are dry? - Nuinatariel

• If you watch closely when Aragorn is fighting Lurtz (the big mean, arrow shooting orc for you slow people), Anduril (Aragorn's sword) is dropped twice for the same reason! When Lurtz throws the shield, the Man drops his sword, and then it switches quickly to the next scene, somewhat clearly showing the sword flying away from Aragorn again. (Theatre/DVD) - Erofeb

• In the scene where Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin are in the woods, having just left Bree one of them asks " Where are you taking us?" and Aragorn answers " Into the wild." As Aragorn moves off the screen watch carefully and you can see the top of his bow ( or arrow) knock the camera, causing it to wobble slightly! - Spemz

• How long can orcs live? At that war in the beginning you can see that orc with the staple things on he's nose. some time later, the same orc is saruman's little hunch man. (VHS) - geekmeek

• (Revealing mistakes) The Doors of Durin (entrance to the Mines of Moria) have two trees carved into them. The tree on the right side is incomplete. There should be additional lines between the two tendrils at the top as on the left side. (DVD) - Todd Wagoner

• (Continuity) After Aragorn gets thrown by the cave troll Frodo goes and shakes him awake. At that time you can see the ring hanging out of his shirt. The ring is hidden the rest of the time a few seconds later. Also, while they are running out of the room where they were attacked by the cave troll and into the main hall; they are surrounded by orcs but sting isn't glowing. (DVD) - mandie

• (Continuity) Kind of near the beginning of the movie, when Frodo is about to leave the Shire, when Gandalf pulls Sam in through the window and plonks him on the table, some junk that was on the table fell off, of course. Well, when you see Sam laying there, you can see some books lying on the floor (that presumably fell off the table). But after it cuts back to Gandalf and then back to Sam, they're gone! And then a few shots later, they're back again! (VHS) - chrissy

• (Continuity) In the part where Frodo wonders off, when the orcs attack on the shore... Frodo has a the ring and it has a necklace on it, then later on it doesn't, but then even a little more later, it has it again! (VHS) - Tight End

• (Continuity) While the fellowship was in Moria being attacked by the cave troll the ring jumps out of Frodo's shirt and back again. Also while they're surrounded by orcs before they see the Balrog, Sting is not glowing. - mandie

• (Continuity) There are lots of close ups of Frodo's hands fondling the ring, and in all but one he has extremely small fingernails. In the scene where they hide from the Wraith under the tree, his nails are relatively long. (DVD) - Leo

• (Continuity) In the last battle scene of the Fellowship, when Aragorn is fighting the leader of the Uru Kai, Aragorn is thrown against a tree and his sword clearly flys out of his hand. But when the Orc throws his sheild at Aragorn if you watch closely u see again his sword leaving his hand as the sheild sticks him against the tree. Clearly bad editing by the editor. (DVD) - FlyYouFools

• (Continuity) In the scene where Gandalf arrives at Bilbo's for the first time, and Bilbo is serving tea, Bilbo at first has 2 curly q's on his forehead. Then the camera shifts to Gandalf, and then shifts back to Bilbo and he has 3 curly q's. Once again the camera shifts back to Gandalf and then the third time you see Bilbo, he has only 2 curly q's again. (VHS) - Vicki

• (Revealing mistakes) As Gandalf and Frodo cross the bridge into the shire, there is not wind blowing the grass, trees or hair of any of the inhabitants except for two shots where the wind is blowing profusely. (VHS) - Vicki

• (Continuity) After Gandalf throws Sam onto the table in bag end I realized (after the 15th time seeing it) that when flashing back and forth between Gandalf and Sam that Sam moves up and down the table! (Theatre/DVD) - Legolas' girl

• (Continuity) When Boromir is shot with the arrows we flash between him and the uruk hai leader and while doing this one of the arrows disapers then reapears later in the scene! (Theatre/DVD) - Legolas' girl

• (Continuity) When Frodo awakens in Rivendell and sits up his nipple is clearly visible. Then after flashing to gandalf and back to frodo as he sits up it is clearly covered! too bad... (Theatre/DVD) - Legolas' girl

• (Continuity) When Aragorn leans over Boromir and talks to him, he has blood on his moustache (left side). But, after Boromir dies and the camera switches back to him, it's completely gone! talk about royal blood :P - Censored

• (Continuity) Gandalf and Saruman fight, in which Saruman takes Gandalf's staff. Later Gandalf makes his escape on the back of a giant falcon. Saruman obviously didn't give the staff back but Gandalf in fact does have it back later. - idlehand

• (Continuity) In the mines of Moria, right as the Balrog falls, you can clearly see that the portion of bridge Gandalf stands on is smooth, and is the same way when he's pulled to the edge. Yet, in the next scene with a close-up shot of him, he's grasping at one of many cracks that have now appeared randomly in the bridge. (Theatre/DVD) - Shiari

• (Continuity) When Frodo and Gandalf come into Hobbiton, Gandalf sets off fireworks for the children and all of them jump up and down cheering. There is a girl with bleach blond hair or white (it is hard to tell [she is also on the left side of the screen]) who jumps up and down with the other kids when the camera is pointing behind her, but then when the camera is in front of her (she is now on the right side of the screen) she has her arms down. There was no point in time to put her hands down that quickly! - Joel

• (Factual errors) When Legolas goes down some steps in Rivendell you can hear footsteps as he walks, how can this be, when Elves are soundless when they walk? (DVD) - Rory

• (Revealing mistakes) After Aragorn kills Lurtz and runs over to Boromir, one of the orc corpses lying on his side raises his head and looks around! He's easy to spot, as Aragorn leaps over his head. (DVD) - Grubbs

• (Plot holes) Just before the battle with Lurtz, Legolas says "we should cross the river now" or something like that and Aragorn goes "No! Orcs patrol the eastern shores, we shall wait for cover of darkness!" but the whole thing about orcs is that they can't travel in light so Aragorn was completely wrong and because of him Boromir died (which is no great loss but hey!) - Ringwraiths no.1 fan

• (Plot holes) When Frodo and Bilbo put the ring on (though obviously not at the same time) they become invisible. So how come at the beginning when Sauron arrives and he's wearing the ring, how come he's not invisible? (DVD) - Ally

• (Misc.) During Bilbo's Party, when the cake is passing through the scene, you see Billy Boyd helping another Hobbit to carry the cake. In the scene directly after that when you see Elijah Wood dancing, you see Billy Boyd playing the "bongo" (instrument is not mentioned by Tolkien) in the Hobbit band. (DVD Directors Cut) - Aratwathien

• (Continuity) In Isengard when Gandalf and Saruman fight over joining Sauron, Saruman takes Gandalf's staff. He traps gandalf on the ceiling, without the staff. Later in Rivendell when Frodo awakes, Gandalf has the staff back again. - matt the spoon master

• (Continuity) When the party just reaches the other side of the river, and they realize that Frodo is missing they show Gimli with his beard done with a straight part in the middle and one braid on either side. When they reach the scene when Boromir dies, Gimli's beard is simply two braids. - Mishka

• (Audio/visual unsynchronised) In Moria when Gandalf is talking to Frodo saying something like, "Bilbo was meant to have the ring and therefore you too, were meant to have it..." There is a segment that Gandalf's head is wiggling in speech mode but he isn't actually saying anything. - Mishka

• (Plot holes) The first time I saw it in the theatre (opening night), at the end of the movie when Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas decide to follow the orcs, Aragorn says, "Leave all that can be spared behind, we travel light." It clearly showed Legolas leaving a sword behind. Accuracy: Legolas as an elf wouldn't be overburndened by a little sword and Gimli as an high endurance dwarf wouldn't notice extra weight. If anyone had need to travel light, it would have been the person with human blood in him, so who exactly was this comment directed to? The other two times I saw it in the theatre, the scene with Legolas leaving the sword behind was cut and it also isn't on the regular or extended version DVDs, so someone must have realised their error. - Mishka

• (Plot holes) In the movies you can clearly see the shards of narsil in Rivendell, and the hilt of narsil in the prologue, but after the fellowship leaves Rivendell Aragon should be carrying the newly reforged Narsil, now called Anduril, but he is still carrying his old ranger sword. I have watched the DVD many times and have paused on shots of the sword. (DVD) - craig

• (Revealing mistakes) I always wondered how the how they enabled the actors to walk in the snow on the Gehadras (sp?) scene without their feet and legs freezing. Then while watching the DVD on progressive scan, I noticed some type of a line on Frodo's calves and the rubber socks were quite visible. Look at Frodo's left leg after he rolls down the snowy mountain and loses the ring from around his neck. - olbinatah

• (Revealing mistakes) When you first see Rivendell, and there are horses with elves on them riding on a path at the right of the screen, you can clearly see that the Rivendell in that scene is a picture because the water is not moving on the water fall.

• (Continuity) In the scene after Bilbo puts on the ring at his party he goes back to his hole. Gandalf is looking down on him near the fire as Bilbo moves to the left placing himself between Gandalf and the fire. First, Gandalf's gaze never follows Bilbo but remains locked on the spot where he stood and second, Bilbo casts no shadow on Gandalf as his robe is clearly illuminated by the flames, then Bilbo moves right and clearly alters the light in the rest of the dim hole. - McFrodo

• (Factual errors) In the beginning of the movie Gandalf crosses a bridge in the shire. In the background you see a watermill (anyway so we call it in Holland) Loot at the wheel, it turns the wrong way. Since it is above the water, the current can't play any role. So it must be fed at the left side and therefore should turn around left, but instead it turns clockwise. - Alfred
  

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