The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Goofs, Mistakes and Bloopers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Movie Details

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King DVD Cover Download “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” 2003	Actors: Bernard Hill Viggo Mortensen Ian McKellen Elijah Wood Noel Appleby Everard Proudfoot Alexandra Astin Elanor Gamgee Sean Astin Sam David Aston Gondorian Soldier 3 John Bach Madril Sean Bean Boromir Cate Blanchett Galadriel Orlando Bloom Legolas Billy Boyd Pippin Sadwyn Brophy Eldarion Alistair Browning Damrod Marton Csokas Celeborn Richard Edge Gondorian Soldier 1 Jason Fitch Uruk 2 Theoden
	Directors: Peter Jackson
	IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 out of 338,269 votes

“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” 2003 by Peter Jackson – Movie Goofs

“The Return of the King” Plot Summary

The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

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“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” Goofs List

• Continuity: SPOILER: After Eowyn decapitates the Witch King’s fellbeast, the severed head disappears.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: While Eowyn delivers the decapitating blow to the Witch King’s Fell Beast, the path of her sword swing does not come close to matching the location of the eventual sword strike on the beast’s neck.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Eowyn kills the Witch King, her arm is hurt and she keeps holding it close to her body. But when she stands up after Merry stabs him she uses her hurt arm to push herself up.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Sam stabs Shelob in the eye with Sting, the blade is covered with blood, but when it is knocked out of his hand in the next shot, it’s perfectly clean.
• Continuity: SPOILER: After defeating Shelob, Sam runs to Frodo. He lays Sting down next to him, on an area of dirt with a couple rocks sticking up. But later, when we see Sting glow blue, it’s on perfectly level dirt ground.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Sam deals the killing blow to Shelob, he is shown pulling Sting from her belly two times, first at the end of one view, then again about a second into a different view.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Pippin realizes that Denethor intends to burn Faramir alive, he leaves Denethor, who is preparing the pyre, and runs to find Gandalf in a scene that is apparently set in the pitch darkness of night. When he finds Gandalf, however, it is very clearly daylight (a long of shot of Minas Tirith shows the slant of early-afternoon or late-morning sunlight). Logically this would mean that it took Pippin about nine hours to find Gandalf, yet when they race back to the tombs Denethor hasn’t even lit the pyre yet!
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the scene where Frodo is hanging on the ledge in Mt. Doom; as Frodo grabs Sam’s hand, you can clearly see that the finger that’s supposed to be cut off is actually curled up.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Saruman falls from the roof, he turns backward and falls top-of-body first, meaning that he is toppling counter-clockwise when viewed from stage left (the camera’s view, in this sequence): In the brief moment showing him reaching the bottom of the tower (just before smashing on the water wheel), his body is toppling clockwise, still viewed from the left.
• Miscellaneous: SPOILER: When Denethor catches fire, he is in the Hallows of Minas Tirith, on the sixth of seven levels of the city (according to the books). However, he dies not by immolation but by plummeting off the prow of the city, meaning that he ran, fully engulfed in flames, “… about a mile…” (as Peter Jackson later revealed in the audio commentary).
• Continuity: In the scene of Theoden’s death, a black line appears and disappears between shots on the right side of Eowyn’s forehead, over her eyebrow.
• Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the film as the camera flies towards Rohan you can see the smoke pouring back into the chimneys rather than out of them.
• Continuity: When Sam and Frodo are climbing Mt. Doom, Sam’s sword switches from his left side to his right. Later when Sam draws his sword, it is back on his left side.
• Continuity: At the Black Gates, although we see all the main characters on horseback to start with, when the battle actually starts *all* the horses have disappeared.
• Continuity: When Sam is holding Frodo on his lap during the climb up Mt. Doom, the wound on Frodo’s face has moved from his right cheek to his left. The footage for the entire scene has been flipped.
• Continuity: The position of Smeagol’s hands around Deagol’s throat changes noticeably between cuts.
• Continuity: Orlando Bloom’s eyes are brown, but as Legolas, his eyes are changed to blue using CGI. In close-up outside the Black Gates, his eyes are CGI blue, but in a shot immediately following with Gandalf in the foreground and Legolas in the near background, his eyes are clearly brown.
• Continuity: When Frodo and Sam are bewildered as the orc army marches out from the fortress by the bottom of the secret stair, they are lit from the bridge’s direction by red and orange fiery colors. In the reverse shots of the bridge and the fortress, there is no orange light in the shot at all, only the ghostly green lighting.
• Continuity: When the orc and the Uruk-Hai fight over the mithril shirt in the tower, there is a short shot where the normally long-haired orc is bald.
• Continuity: When Gandalf and Pippin are in Minas Tirith, and Gandalf is outside he starts coughing on his pipe smoke. On this wide shot, Pippin is tucked into bed. Then, in the next shot, he is up standing by his bed looking at his new Gondorian armor. He then gets Gandalf some water from the pitcher.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Prior to Faramir’s ride to re-capture Osgiliath, Gandalf challenges him. There is one shot where Faramir comments on the “Men of Gondor” there are a number of words before this phrase but his lips do not appear to moving.
• Continuity: In the “Voice of Saruman Scene”, Treebeard starts and ends the scene in front of Orthanc’s door. Throughout the scene, Treebeard is nowhere to be seen.
• Continuity: Elrond’s hair changes from being neatly tucked behind his ears to free flowing and back behind his ears again between shots as Arwen convinces him to re-forge the shards of Narsil.
• Continuity: The amount of mud along with the ring in Deagol’s hand lessens considerably with each shot of him looking at the ring, until the mud is completely gone by the time he is attacked by Smeagol.
• Continuity: The two doors of the Black Gate continue to open as Aragorn and the others ride away from the approaching Orc army. When Aragorn rides as he shouts, “Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers… when the age of men comes crashing down,” at the top of the screen the “closed gate” is visible.
• Continuity: After Frodo wakes up in Minas Tirith, Merry and Pippin stand in the doorway. Their height reaches the middle of the ornate door carving in the close-up, but in their next wide shot running in, they are considerably lower. When Legolas and Aragorn walk in, also in a close-up, their height is just a bit higher on the carving than the two Hobbits’ heights were. Then when Sam stands in the doorway his height also reaches the center of the carving.
• Continuity: Sam rolls down Shelob’s back, then he grabs Sting and takes a stance against Shelob. In the next wide shot, Sam stands ready and Shelob positions herself at the stairway. Frodo’s wrapped body is not lying anywhere to be seen.
• Continuity: At the end, when the four Hobbits are entering Grey Havens, Sam is wearing a yellow vest with brown buttons over a white shirt. When Frodo makes his way onto the ship and turns back to smile at his friends, Sam is no longer wearing the yellow vest. The vest is still not there when the three Hobbits turn to leave the Grey Havens. When Sam is holding his daughter, he is once again wearing the yellow vest. On the Extended Edition DVD they explain this mistake.
• Continuity: When at the Black Gate, the army of men are surrounded by Orcs, then after Aragorn’s “For Frodo” line, they charge across the screen from left to right. When they are running, in a shot where Gandalf is seen on the very right of the screen, you can see through some gaps and there are no Orcs, just an open field.
• Continuity: After Gorbag says, “You touch it, and I’ll stick this blade in your gut”, Shagrat and Gorbag start to fight. A few shots later there’s a close-up of Gorbag being bald – he’s not wearing his hairpiece/wig in this shot-as he’s being pushed towards the right of the screen by Shagrat, just before falling into the hole! (On the Extended Edition DVD Director/Writer commentary, writer Philippa Boyens actually admits that his wig falls off!)
• Continuity: When Aragorn first meets the Army of the Dead, he is holding a torch in his left hand and a sword in his right hand. When he turns around to look at the rest of the undead, his torch and sword have switched hands. He then turns around again and the torch and sword are back where they originally were.
• Crew or equipment visible: After Pippin draws his sword, the next shot is of Orcs running to the right of the screen. As that shot opens, click five or six frames in and two crewmembers are seen between the Orcs on the right of the screen, click a few more times and more crew members are visible in the middle, between the Orcs.
• Continuity: When Gollum drops the lembas from the bridge, you see the leaves it was wrapped in falling away, and the wafers fall generally straight down. However, when Sam finds it later, the lembas is still mostly wrapped in the leaves, with only a few morsels broken off and laying around unwrapped.
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