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

Debated Goofs

• At one point Frodo is standing by himself and in the distance you can see a car! (Theatre) - loz
  • Addition: The car can be seen in the wide shot in the scene before Sam and Frodo meet up with Merry and Pippin. Right after Sam tells Frodo if he takes one more step, he'll be the farthest from home ever, in the wide shot, middle screen behind the shack, you can see a car coming up, with a big dust trail behind it. (Theatre) - LowD
  • Correction: In the wide shot the smoke you see I believe is coming from one of the Hobbits houses. I saw the movie again last night and never saw a car. - larbac66
    • Correction: Hobbits live in holes, not houses. - mandie
  • Correction: Somebody mentioned a car coming across the field when Frodo and Sam are leaving on the quest. Somebody else said what the first person saw was actually a cloud of smoke coming from a hobbit's house. I see the stack of smoke over to the right, and that is NOT the car. The car is just BARELY visible (I would have never noticed it had not somebody pointed it out to me, and I can hardly believe it'll be able to be seen on a television set), but it's there. At least, it looks a whole lot more like a car than a stack of smoke!!! :) - Lotte
  • Comment: I just saw this movie again (4th time!), and it's pretty easy to tell that the cloud is smoke from a smokestack. Cars don't churn up white dust! (Theatre) - Bob
    • Correction: Bob, cars can kick up white smoke. - mandie
    • Explanation: It's not the smokestack, OR the white smoke. In the background on the second panoramic shot of the farmland (in the cornfield) there is a growing trail of dust, left of the white smoke. It's obvious it's a car because the dust trail is being made rather quickly. It's hard to see but it's there. Expect it to be edited out on the DVD and VHS so you'd better get downloading on mIRC or something. - xenophile
  • Comment: Ok when I watched this movie for the third time I was looking for this so called car what I seen was smoke or dust, it could have been anything it was very close to the houses in the distance I think it was smoke from a fire. (Theatre) - toddler
  • Correction: The car/smoke scene is definitely smoke and it appears to be coming out of hill/hobbit hole. I have watched it over and over in slow motion. - Big Mike
  • Explanation: I didn't catch any smoke from the cars (there are two of them), but the white smoke is coming from the chimney. The cars appear some distance from the shack in a gully that is seen in the wide shot of Sam and Frodo. What I saw was the sun reflecting off some large metallic objects that pass behind some trees in the gully. Now we all know what cars look like and how they move even at a great distance. So what I saw was most certainly a couple of cars driving along a windy road in the gully to the left of the shack. (Theatre) - mikehud
  • Correction: There is no car in the scene with Sam and Frodo in the shire. I have seen the movie over a few dozen times since I bought it and I too was curious about this rumor and used my zoom button on my dvd player to get a closer look. There is no car and the plume of smoke is obviously from some sort of fire. - michael
    • No more comments on this debate. The debate is continued on the Goof Forum.

• Lutz, the pony, disappears and reappears as needed. Frodo and Sam leave the Shire without Lutz while they depart from Bree with the pony again. When they're trying to cross the mountain Caradras, the pony is not with them. A scene later, standing before the mines of Moria, they send the pony home because the mines are a too dangerous place for a pony. What a magic pony. ;) (Theatre) - noise
  • Correction: Actually, the name of the pony is Bill, not Lutz. When they release the pony at the gates of Moria, you can clearly hear Aragorn call him Bill (as is the name of the pony in the books). - LowD
  • Correction: As for the pony Sam gets the pony after leaving Bree with Strider. So I am assuming that Strider brought it with them. Seeing the movie again last night (3rd time) the horse, which Sam called Bill when he sent him on his way, was on the mountain with them. - larbac66
    • Comment (spoiler): According to the book, the reader would notice that the hobbits took Bill the pony from a wreched man in Bree who acted as a sort of spy for Sauron. The man was practically killing the horse so it was better off with the fellowship anyways. They didn't not receive Bill from Strider. - Ruby
  • Correction: "Noise" says that the pony Bill (Lutz in German books) is not with Frodo and Sam when they leave the Shire - which is correct, as Bill joins them IN Bree. Though it is correct that Bill's missing when they cross the Caradhras. - Slarti
    • Correction: It is true that Bill the pony is not with Sam and Frodo when they leave the shire. The only horse with them is Gandalf's horse. But it is not true that Bill was not with them on the cahadras mts. He could clearly be seen in a 1 sec. shot. You can also see him on the wide screen shot. He is all the way at the back of the line. He looks like a snail with a mini shell. - Legolasluver
  • Comment: Regarding the pony Bill. While staying in Bree, all of the ponies they brought with them were chased away by the storm. The innkeeper (Butterbur, I think) feels a bit responsible and buys them a new one from a resident most of them consider a tad on the evil side, his name is Bill Ferny. (Who way overcharges, AND gives them a weak old pony to boot) I believe that is how Sam names him. Bill is happy to go, and does a great deal of work for the travelers and becomes a strong, swift one by the time he is separated at Moria. - thecharronfamily
  • Correction: Bill the "magic" pony is indeed with the felloship the entire time... even when they're all burried in the snow. I watched carefully for him after I thought I saw him dissappear the first two times I saw the movie in theatres. But the remaining 8 times I did indeed catch him in every scene.

• Now for Gimli, the Dwarf: In Rivendell, where the council of Elrond meets, he offers Frodo his support: "And you've got MY axe!" What axe if he just broke it when he tried to destroy the ring? Maybe he's got some golf bag full of axes which he orders where Gandalf gets his staves? ;) (Theatre) - noise
  • Correction: This is not really a goof. The proclamation Gimli makes also has a figural connotation. Although he just broke his axe, it wouldn't be difficult to get a new one. It's just like people offering you a hand. They don't offer you the physical hand, but their aid. It's the same with Gimli's line. - LowD
  • Correction: I believe that Gimli swung a war hammer to try and crush the ring in Rivendell, not an axe. And if I remember right you might even see the axe in the background leaning against his chair. - Cerilia
  • Correction: That's not really a goof. It's just a term, it's like him saying you have me to help as well. You know he'll get another axe, he's a dwarf for crying out loud. - fbernard
  • Correction: Ok you people are going on about Gimli using two magical axes in Rivendell. One to hit the ring, trying to destroy it, and then you all say it magically appears again!! this isn't true, when he says, "and you have MY axe" and he stands beside the others, he is clearly resting his hands on his axe! and ALSO when he stands up to hit the ring, there is another axe lying against the wall behind his seat. One more thing.. when they are about to attack the cave troll and the orcs in that little room with the casket, Gimli is holding up two axes! so obviously he is always with two axes! Watch the freakin movie instead of Claiming you see weird things!!! - Emily
  • Correction: In fact, he snatches the axe of the dwarf next to him to attack the ring. - toddler
    • Comment: Thank you toddler! I can't believe you are getting so worked up about where gimili's getting his axe from, isn't it a little more strange that the pieces of the axe that breaks when he hits the ring just kind of disappear without anyone coming in to sweep them away?? - Legolas

• This one's quite obvious---Legolas never runs out of arrows. It states clearly in the book that when Legolas meets up with Aragorn after Boromir has died, he has his 'long knife' out because 'all his arrows were spent' - in the movie he does not have a knife out, and still possess a full quiver of arrows. (Theatre) - Rupreckt
  • Comment: Hmm, no, it's not so obvious actually. First of all, the movie does contain a lot of time condensing moments, in which Legolas would've been able to refill his quiver. Especially in potential hostile situations, a good bowman would always make sure he has a full quiver. Furthermore, it's likely Legolas would've refilled his stack of arrows (on a sidenote: he could've had more arrows with him than would fit in his quiver) in Lothlorien, an elven haven after all. Lastly, it's quite normal for a bowman to both retrieve his arrows and reuse the ones that are still good, and carry a fletching set, to make new arrows if necessary. So, in short, your observations aren't so obvious. By the way, never did Pete Jackson claimed his film to be as true to the book as possible. His film is a reading of the book, and on several occasions strays from the written work. - LowD
  • Correction: Legolas used his knife quite often in the movie, at one point I was sure he was using two. Near the end, he used it while his bow was in his other hand, though I wasn't sure if he was using it because he didn't have arrows or if there were just too many Orcs. I also hear at one point he was seen picking up Orc arrows off the ground, but I didn't catch this. - ryan
    • Correction: Actually, he uses two arrows not two knives in the part you're thinking about. Plus, he picks up an Orc arrow just to prove it was from an Orc, he then tosses it back to the ground. Also, if you watch Legolas closely, you will see that he is not carrying a knife anywhere on his body, so it is virtually impossible for him to use one in the heat of battle unless he borrowed one or it magically appeared. While it is possible that Legolas was able to pick up more arrows at Lothlorien, there is no feasible way that his quiver should be full after the amount of Orcs he had battled---even if he carried more arrows elsewhere, he did not stop fighting to fill the quiver----its fine that the movie isn't exactly the same as the book, but I doubt peter Jackson decided to take the liberty of giving Legolas the power to magically reproduce arrows. (Theatre) - Rupreckt
  • Comment: In the book Legolas recycles arrows. In fact that is how they discover that the orcs that killed Boromir are not of the Mordor kind, he was looking for ones he could use. - liltazie
  • Comment: Actually, Legolas does 'recycle' his arrows, In the film, they shot a scene where Legolas (Orlando Bloom) was pulling out arrows out of dead bodies. They took it out of the movie as it wastes time. I thought that that was a mistake as well until I read a answer to that question, Peter Jackson (Director) answered it. - Prisca_Greenleaf
  • Comment: Legolas does actually carry two daggers. They are located on his back near his shoulders. You can see them in a few scenes. He uses them in Moria and his last fight scene. - Bobaloo
  • Comment: Legolas doesn't run out of arrows. There is a deleted scene where Legolas is picking out arrows of dead guys. - Legola's Girl

Commented Goofs

• When members of the Fellowship walk up the snow-covered mountain, their footprints cannot be seen in the wide shots. (Theatre) - Justine
  • Comment: Legolas the elf is very light in the books and leaves barely any footprints. - Joel

• My mom absolutely insists that there are pizzas in Lothlorien. I've seen the movie 23 times, and to me they just can NOT be pizzas, but she insists they are, so I thought I'd post this and somebody can reply and tell me what they think they are so I can run it by Mom, OK? :) Anyway, it's right before Aragorn and Boromir (::cheers::! He's my favorite!) have their little talk about Gondor. Aragorn comes over from the left side of the screen saying "Take some rest, these borders are well protected." He walks in front of this little table, and there are these round red things on it. They really DO look like pizzas. (Theatre) - Lotte
  • Comment: Lol. I saw the pizzas in Lothlorien. That's funny. It proves that Pizzas didn't come from Italy or New York. They came from Lothlorien. - Erofeb
  • Comment: I guess I haven't really noticed the pizza thing, but while we like to think of this story as completely mythological, Peter Jackson wanted to make the movie to seem like a history, something that COULD have happened, with that said, WE like pizza's, why shouldn't elves? - Legolas

• Almost immediately after Frodo wakes up in Rivendell he sits up halfway in bed, putting his weight on his arms. Later he goes outside and greets Merry, Pippin and Bilbo in the form of hugs. All of this should be very painful due to the fresh stab wound in his shoulder! - mandie
  • Correction: Ok mandie, It is not a fresh wound, he had been there sometime, if you watch the movie and/or read the book you can understand, watch and hear quite clearly that he hadn't been there 5 seconds after he got the wound... - Var
    • Comment: Var, so Frodo slept for a while. He would still be really sore after being stabbed with a poisoned dagger and carried on horseback at full gallop to Rivendell. (I read the book before I saw the movie.) - mandie
      • Comment: Mandie and Var, he's obviously not completely well, you can tell by the coloring in his face, but if you listen to Gandalf he says that Frodo has been in the care of Lord Elrond, and I'm sure a mere stabbing is nothing the powere Elven king couldn't mend, or at least stop from hurting. - Legolas

• Not so much a goof as a short cut to the movies end. Why is it that when Gandalf calls the large eagle to rescue him from Isengard the eagle isn't used to take Frodo to Mount Doom, this would take half the time and Frodo could be home for supper! Job done! - The2DefLeppards
  • Comment: First of all, that would defy the book completely. Second of all, the great eagles were not a method of transportation in Middle Earth. Gandalf had befriended the eagles and had saved them once before, therefore the eagles were in debt to Gandalf, and were only used in such cases of dier need. - Ruby

• When Frodo and Gandalf are riding with carriage, you can see in one scene tracks behind. Does carriage have tyres? (DVD) - assa
  • Comment: Assa, the carriage doesn't have to have tires, wooden wheels can leave tracks just a easily. - mandie

• In the beginning of the movie, when Gandalf and Frodo are riding in the the carriage with the hobbit kiddies following, Gandalf lights a few fire crackers for fun to amuse them. In the book, Gandalf refused to light and fireworks until the party. - MelCat
  • Comment: It is reasonable that Peter Jackson chose to change this part of the story. I'm sure he knew what he was doing and it's not a mistake. - Ripper

• When Legolas arrives in Rivendell he is riding a horse with a saddle. Elves ride bare back. Also he, personally, rides bareback in Rohan in the Two Towers. It is the same thing with Arwen when she is riding her horse back to Rivendell with Frodo.Erofeb - Aragorn'sgirl
  • Comment: Orlando Bloom (Legolas) broke a rib falling of a horse during filming, that's probably why he didn't want to ride bare-back. - Grace Greenleaf
  • Comment: Actually in the book when Frodo gets injured, Glorfindel puts Frodo in his saddle on the horse. - Britt

Corrected Goofs

• This is an easy mistake to make but when they pronounce Legolas's name they say Leg-O-Less but the name is actually meant to be pronounced Lig-o-liss. - Kit_Kat
  • Correction: As a matter of fact the name is pronounced just the way it writes, with the last syllable stressed. In elvish (Sindarin and Quenya) normally the last syllable is stressed (a few exceptions, of which I might tell some more at a later date...). The name Legolas is clearly pronounced right in the Rivendell council scene by Aragorn: Lay-go-LAHS. Forget the "i" in the pronunciation, for it doesn't belong there :) - LowD

• Gandalf loses his staff at Sarumans castle, but when the fellowship arrives at Moria, it has mysteriously reappeared in hispossession again. Hmmm... (Theatre) - Fibz
  • Correction: It's right, that he loses one staff when fighting with Saruman, and later in Moria he has another staff. So what's wrong? Of course he's got a new one (why shouldn't a wizard be able to create a new one?). BTW: It is an official fact, that G. has three staffs in the movies, he loses the second one when fighting with the Balrog but returns with another one. - Slarti
  • Correction: Actually, the staff he possesses after he escapes is an entirely different staff. Well, maybe not entirely, but it is different. - ryan

• When Frodo is recovering in Rivendell he goes out on to a balcony, places his hand on the railing and looks over the city. However, the railing for Frodo is waist high. Seeing how he's a 3'6" Hobbit in a city of human sized elves, the railing should be over his head. (Theatre) - Justine
  • Correction: Actually, considering that the elves are immortal and have a long view on life, it is entirely conceivable that the elves of Rivendell might have constructed hobbit - sized rooms for their guests. After all, Bilbo visited Rivendell during "The Hobbit" and was currently staying there -- imagine the inconvenience if everything he had to use was outsized! - zerodude

• In the second scene with a black rider (right after Frodo and Sam meet up with Merry and Pippin), you see the black rider's horse take a pee. (Theatre) - PyRoPHiLe
  • It's completely normal for horses to urinate.
    • Comment: Yes. It is completely normal for horse to urinate. How ever, some directors that really care about the mood they're trying to set will go to great pains to re-film a scene that involved an animal that didn't know it wasn't supposed to do that. Since the "rakes" (don't know the spelling) are dark and dramatic, an audience might see a urinating horse as humorous. Think about it, How many people have you known to sit in a theatre and start giggling at the sight some an animal or person performing a bodily function when its out of context? I have over the years heard many. It takes the attention away from the guy with the sword and your not as frightened as your supposed to be. Besides all that- the rakes are "neither dead or living but consumed by the ring. (almost like a vampire)" Their entire being rests in the capture of the ring- wouldn't it make sense for the director to strengthen that concept by refilming? Though he didn't- A being like that has no need for bodily functions. - Lynn136503
      • Correction: Lynn136503 first comments on how normal it is for horses to urinate and later says that "A being like that (neither dead nor living) has no need for bodily functions". This is right for the ringwraiths, but Tolkien clearly says that they use ordinary (living) horses in the first place - this is why they are washed away in the Ford of Bruinen. If they were magical, they should have survived that easily... - Slarti

• When Aragorn is running to Boromir lying on the floor after being struck with arrows, as Aragorn runs to him one of the Orcs is lying on the ground (supposedly dead) lifts his head up and then lies still again. (Theatre) - Philthefish
  • Correction: It is normal for a dead man to breathe his last breath, and rise for a moment. You could also see this in The Rock, where the body constantly moves his foot. - Bart
    • Correction: How come then he is the only one out of a couple of dozen who does that?? - Philthefish
      • Correction: In referance to this (the Amon Hen battle scene), the one that raised its head was merely wounded, yet too weak to fight or strike out at Aragorn. - Lydia

• When approaching the Argonath (after the Lothlorien departure and the subsequent river ride) at first shot both statues extend their right arm. In close-up however, one of the statues is extending his left arm (as a mirror-image of the other statue, creating symmetry). - LowD
  • Correction: You are right, but wrong. The statues are actually extending their left arms at first (just as described in the book) When seeing them from behind the left statue is now extending it´s right arm, making both statues extending the arm closest to the passage... - JP
  • Correction: Actually, I think when you are looking back at the Argonath, they are both still holding up their left hands. You have to look carefully, and remember that the one on the left (looking back at the Argonath) has his right elbow jutting out because he is holding a sword. - Bob

• When the group leaves exits the Mines of Moria, Sam sits down and holds his head. His cloak falls open and a flashlight is in his shirt pocket. Merry also has a flashlight but is trying to cover it up with his hand. (Theatre) - aerioch
  • Correction: They aren't carrying flashlights. You are seeing the pommels of their sword hilts. - bombadil

• When Gandalf arrives at Bilbos house, Bilbo takes Gandalf's hat, but when Gandalf leaves to research about the ring, he doesn't take his hat. But then when he's riding you can see that he has his hat on. (Theatre) - Da Stumpinator
  • Correction: Right before Gandalf leaves Bilbos house he does take the hat with him, Right before he says to Frodo "Keep it secret, keep it safe." (Theatre) - Lis
  • Correction: If you look closely Gandalf has his hat clutched in the same hand as his staff as he leaves Frodo at Bilbo's house to find out more about the ring. (Theatre) - larbac66

• I can't believe nobody picked up on this yet! When Boromir is being shot with the arrows near the end of the movie the first arrow hits his shoulder, then the second arrow is fired and the first arrow has "moved" lower down his body and the 2nd arrow hits where the first one did! It's almost as if they have used the same take for both arrows. (Theatre) - MCS
  • Correction: I've watched this multiple times and it appears that the first arrow never moves and the second hits lower. - Bobaloo
  • Correction: Wrong. You don't see the second arrow actually strike Boromir as you did with the first (as I think this is difficult to film), you just see the movement Boromir makes and after the cut the second arrow is where it should be. - Jonas

• When Frodo pulls Sam up from the water near the end, he garabs Sam's arm with his right hand. When pulling it cuts to the next shot, Frodo is using his left hand. - Jaz
  • Correction: He seems to be using his right hand to me in both scenes. Check again. - Bobaloo

• In the scene on the way to Weathertop, the hobbits try to stop for a meal. Strider glowers at them and continues on, going behind a bush. We see him toss two apples at the hobbits: Merry (I think) catches one, and the other hits Pippin (I think) on the head. But barely visible at the bottom of the screen in Pippin's other hand is a third apple. (Theatre) - Nikita
  • Correction: You're incorrect. There are only two apples. The first is given to Pippin by Merry (caught from Aragorn I believe), and the second is thrown against Pippins head. So there is no third apple :) (Theatre) - LowD
  • Correction: Merry gives the apple he catches to Pippin, that is the one shown that he is holding after the second hits his head. - bobaloo

• The Nazgul (black riders) leave their swords when they stab Frodo at Weathertop and then they all mysteriously get them back at the river before Rivendell. (Theatre) - Lis
  • Correction: The Riders did not leave their swords. The sword that stabbed Frodo appeared to be a second sword carried by one of them that wasn't as long as long as the ones they carry. That sword was left and disintegrated. - Bobaloo
  • Correction: The ring wraiths didn't stab Frodo with a sword but rather a dagger. - Ruby

• In Lothlorien, Legolas suddenly has on a different shirt on and in the next scene he has on his normal clothes. (Theatre) - Lis
  • Correction: I don't see this as a goof, it's just that Legolas washed up and put on a clean shirt before going to see Galadriel. Then when they were leaving he put his traveling clothes on. If you are going to say that this was a goof, then you should also list the "goof" that Elrond had different clothes on at the beginning of the movie than when they met him in Rivendell 3000 years later. - Bombadil

• When the fellowship is climbing up Caradhras in the scene just before Frodo loses the Ring, you can see that the area where he rolls down, has the snow already "flattened" - there must have been takes before. (Theatre) - Slarti
  • Correction: Actually, the "flattened down snow" was from where the other seven had stepped while hiking up the mountain. (Theatre) - Lydia

• When Aragorn is running to Frodo after being stabbed by the troll their are no fresh bodies of orcs their all covered in cobwebs and dust hmmm. (Theatre) - kat
  • Correction: Actually, those are the bodies of dwarves in Moria, not orcs. - Frodo Baggins

• I'm not so sure if this is a mistake but before the black riders (should only be 9) start chasing Arwen, quite a few are burned but soon as they chase Arwen, all 9 are shown. Maybe they can survive the fire and that's probably why they're afraid of the water! (Theatre) - Ahmed Mashhood
  • Correction: About the Burned Ring wraiths. Aragorn did set some of their cloaks on fire but when they are chase Arwen; is days later. Sam says "We're still six days from Rivendell". The cloaks could have been mended or replaced but more likely they were just extinguished. They are set on fire but are never shown as ruined or burned up. P.S. They are afraid of water but that is a long explanation that goes back before the time of LOTR. - Big Mike

• During the the battle when Boromir is being shot with arrows the horn of Gondor is split in half, obviously made out of plastic and not bone. (Theatre) - toddler
  • (Spoiler) Correction: The horn was suppose to split in half... this follows the book. If it continues to follow the book, this will play another part in the next movie. - Bobaloo

• When Sam tells Gandalf what he overheard of Gandalf and Frodo's conversation, the map Gandalf is holding disappears and then reappears under his right shoulder. - toddler
  • Correction: He does not have a map in his possession in either of these two scenes. - Bobaloo

• Right before Frodo and Sam meet up with Merry and Pippin in the corn fields, Sam quotes Gandalf "Don't you lose him Samwise Gamgee". At the end of the film, when Pippin gets in the boat with Frodo, he says he made a promise "Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee". A miss-quote perhaps? (DVD) - Jim
  • Correction: What movie are you watching? Sam is the one that got in the boat with Frodo, and followed him into Mordor. Did you notice the last line of "Sam, I'm glad you're with me"? Jim, rewatch the movie "for pity's sake"... - Goo

• Qhen Urukhai wants to kill Bormidor he has only a bow nothing else, but when Aragorn saves him he has a shield and a sword. He can't have picked up the sword and shield when he fell. (DVD) - ali g
  • Correction: Boromir never has a bow. He has a shield and sword but thats it. Legolas and Aragorn have bows but not Boromir. - Erofeb

• When the fellowship is trying to enter the mines of Moria, Gandalf gets fed up with not being able to open the door, he throws his staff down and mutters "OH Jesus"... Jesus of middle-earth? Did I miss something? - Mike
  • Correction: Gandalf does not mutter "OH Jesus." He mutters "Oh it's useless." Put on the captions or listen closer. - Erofeb

• When Gandalf is seen at Bag End to hit Sam with his staff in the bushes, the tip of the staff is clearly all wood. However, when they are in Moria, the staff suddenly has a crystal on it which illuminates to provide the group with light. - Sophonax
  • Correction: Gandalf has three staves. At the time in Hobbiton, he has his first. After he escapes from Saruman, he has his second, which is the one he uses in Moria. And I think he places the crystal on his staff, not sure though. - ryan
  • Correction: He very clearly places it into his staff as he enters the mine. - Shiari

• (Plot holes) In the Fellow ship of the rings, Sam Wise Gangee keeps going on about Gandalf the Wizard making him promise not to leave Frodo, SAM: "Don't you leave him Sam Wise Gangee". But at no point in the movie does Gandalf say this to him!!! (VHS) - Hannah
  • Correction: Just because something isn't said where we can see it doesn't mean it doesn't take place. It's just time condensation. After all when Gandalf caught Sam, it was night yet when he left them on his horse, it was mid-morning. Time passed. - Shiari
  • Correction: Actually, Gandalf does say this to him. Have you read the books? Since the movie was already too long, Jackson left out the scene between Gandalf and Sam Gamgee. It can be assumed in the movie that this DOES happen. It isn't a mistake. - Aratwathien

• This was probably not a goof, but Arwen's eyes go from blue to green and then back to blue. Same with Legolas but his eyes go from hazel to bluish. It was probably meant to happen, but I can't remember their eyes changing color in the book. - Britt
  • Correction: In regard to Arwen and Legolas' eyes seeming to change colour, this was not a goof. People with blue eyes may notice that their eyes look greenish in some lights, the same with people who have green or hazel eyes. It all depends on the light. This is not a goof. - Aine
  • Correction: I have not noticed this myself in the movie, but there is NO reference to this in the book. It is quite possible that the actors' natural eye color changed throughout the filming. I know my own eyes (hazel) can change from bright green to dark brown from day to day or hour to hour, and the same with my friend's eyes which change from blue to gray. - Elanor

• (Revealing mistakes) I don't know if anyone has seen this, or if I am right, but if I'm not mistaken there are only 8 black riders chasing after Arwen. Not 9. (Theatre) - FlyYouFools
  • Correction: If you look closely at the part when the flood comes in, you can count 9 riders. But in on shot of Arwen riding across the plain, you can only see 8. Where'd the extra one come from? - El Barto

Explained Goofs

• In several scenes (Moria, when Gandalf speaks about Gollum not being killed/establishing shot in the love scene Aragorn/Arwen) the actors lips/movements are not matching with what they are saying. So Gandalf clearly moves his head and hair in Moria as if speaking, though he doesn't say a word. (Theatre) - Jonas
  • Explanation: Jonas, because the set wasn't properly sound proofed the entire dialogue had to be dubbed in a sound booth and added to the movie after everything else, considering that, it's hardly fair to think that they would have every single thing perfect in a movie of this magnitude. - l
    • That is no excuse. A goof is a goof and this site is dedicated to bringing them forth.

• I just wondered if someone could explain to me why the elves don't take the ring to Mount Doom and destroy it. Considering they are immortal surely Sauron could not stop them. - AJ
  • Explanation: Elves are immortal meaning that they can live forever. If someone/something kills them then they will die, but if nothing does then they will live forever or they will live until they get bored of living and kill themselves. - Erofeb

• Ok in the beginning the evil Saruman has the ring on his finger...clearly he is a very big creature so therefore the ring would have to be able top fit his hand...how is it that it fits Frodo's hand perfectly when Frodo is like 3 times smaller then him. - ben
  • Explanation: While Gandalf is reading Isildur's scroll, we see Isildur holding up the ring and shrinking itself. Its conforming itself to its new temporary master (until it gets back to Sauron, of course).=) - Bob

• In the beginning of the movie when the story of the ring is being told, when the creature Gollum reaches in the river to pick up the ring it shows a human hand picking it up. If I'm not mistaken shouldn't the hand be greenish and have a goblin look to it. (DVD) - Jon
  • Explanation: Gollum is in fact 'fallen' hobbit, so, when he obtains the ring he was ordinary hobbit and his hand was human-like. - Srdjan
  • Explanation: Gollum didn't always look the way he did. He used to be a being distantly related to hobbits. It was the 500 years spent underground with the ring that 'caused him to look as he now does. - Shiari
  • Explanation: Jon if you read the books you will learn that Gollum once was a hobbit like creature named Smeagol and his friend Deagol found the ring, Smeagol killed Deagol and took the ring and then over the years became Gollum. - arwen

• (Factual errors) In the beginning when they are talking about the history of the ring, when the Prince cuts that goes finger off to get the ring off: how would make him explode? I don't think chopping a finger off will make someone explode. - taz
  • Explanation: Sauron's life force was bound to the ring so when the ring was cut from his hand it destroyed him, he lost physical form. - Gooth

• I'm uncertain about this one, but shouldn't the cave troll be affected by the stream of light in Balin's tomb? As the troll passes through the light, shouldn't it turn to stone? (DVD) - Jim
  • Explanation: No, because trolls only turn to stone in sunlight, and the light coming in is moonlight. - Rory