Lotr Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

a New Zealand bomb testing area

To make Treebeard's voice sound more like a tree, the sound designers played John Rhys-Davies' voice out of a speaker and through a large, complex wooden box to attain a tree-like resonance

Is set in the world of middle earth. This is an actual place in NW England where Tolkien spent his days recovering from trench fever in 1917. The surrounding areas are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Morland and Cumbria. The Shire itself being a national park.

While trying to use the Pass of Caradhras in LOTR : The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Legolas walks over the the snow with ease due to his elvish light of feet.

And The Hobbit (2012), the prequel to the LOTR trilogy, the stone trolls can be seen frozen in the same position.

. Seen the movie literally hundreds of times. Never realized until tonight that Eowyn grabs a scimitar from an orcs hand before using it to take down an oliphant.

Sauron laughs after Gandalf speaks the Black Speech in Rivendell

When Pippin looks in to the palantir and wakes everyone up, Gimli stays passed out from drinking too much that night. (see bottom left hand corner)

The two towers (2002), ?owyn offers Gimli her soup and he says no. She then gives some to Aragorn and the soup turns out to be gross. Gimli had said that dwarves have a good sense of smell, indicating that Gimli knew the soup was bad, which is why he didn't take any.

Samwise Gamgee finally returns home and is hugged by his daughter, Elanor. That's Sean Astin's daughter in real life, Alexandra.

Gollum's pupils are tiny when he is in his "Gollum" persona, but they change to much bigger when he switches to "Sm?agol"

Boromir & Isildur, both corrupted by the One Ring, die by three Orc arrows in an ambush. However, Isildur is blinded by the Ring's power, betrayed by it, and stabbed in the back. Boromir sees the Ring's corruption, betrays the Ring, dies fighting, and is stabbed in the front.

You can see Eomer's sword fall when he climbs on his horse

We see Denethor holding Boromir's broken horn. We actually see the horn being broken after Boromir is shot by the third arrow in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Elendil is the faithful king that escapes the fall of Numenor, he founds Gondor and is the direct ancestor to Isildur and Aragorn. In The Fellowship of the Ring Aragorn briefly uses his name as a warcry while leaping into battle.

A GIANT ring was used for several of the shots in LOTR (2001).

Gandalf brought three eagles to the erupting Mount Doom instead of two -- presumably to save Smeagol had he survived.

The firework at the beginning of Bilbo's birthday forms a tree

Saruman displays a weapon never seen before (black powder for explosives). However, in the Fellowship of the Ring Gandalf has fireworks that launch as rockets and explode...Additionally, the hobbits seem a custom to the fireworks (at least seeing them on occasion)

Bilbo tells the story of how they defeated trolls during the course of The Hobbit. Later on, after Frodo is stabbed by a Nazgul, they are hiding out by the aforementioned trolls

After Sam kills the orcs in the stronghold, Sting stops glowing, meaning there are no more orcs nearby.

During the final battle, you can see archers shooting with no arrows on the bottom right. There is also a soldier waving his axe in the air for no reason.

When the Hobbits are hiding under the tree roots, the Nazgul appears from behind the tree without being seen before he passes it, making it seem like he's coming from nowhere

Crebain from Dunland suddenly come to spy on the fellowship, what afterwards makes them change their way to the Pass of Caradhras. Yet, once Crebain are back to Saruman, they tell him fellowship is about to go through the Pass of Caradhras...

An ent is spotted extinguishing himself in in the wave during the battle at Isengard

When the Rohirrim charges the mumakil, the moment the first mumak hits a rider, all background music stops for 90 seconds... everything focuses on just the fighting