[Grig]

I think it would be cool if the DVD had a sub-title set that just pointed out all the little things like this as the movie played.

[SolitaryMan]

Did you notice that once this three hour movie was over, everyone went directly to the restroom?

[My2Cents]

Apparently, some of the missing scenes (e.g., Galadrial's gifts to the Fellowship) will be included in the "Director's Edition" of the DVD (to be released in May?) In the end, Jackson apparently thought it best to keep the film to around three hours.

[stanz]

It certainly was easy to miss those things while dozing off. That movie was a BIG BORE! Three hours in an uncomfortable seat in a freezing theater didn't help.

[2Jedismom]

I took my eldest jedi yesterday. My second time to see it and his very first movie ever seen in a cinema! We're going again this Saturday. It was fabulous.

The things I noticed this time that I didn't notice the first time was the cloaks and clasps, and that Legolas trod on the top of the snow while the others sunk.

[Yo-Yo]

I think it would be cool if the DVD had a sub-title set that just pointed out all the little things like this as the movie played.

Maybe MTV will do a "Pop-Up Video" version! ;)

[ArGee]

When the Fellowship leaves the Lady of the Wood they all receive a gift, but you only find out about Frodo's.

I'm going to bet dollars to donuts (and I REALLY like donuts) that any details from the first movie that are important to the later movies will be covered in the intros to those movies. They're also going to have to explain lembas or figure out some way for the orc hunters and captives to be eating.

Shalom.

[John Farson]

ping!

[maquiladora]

Fran Walsh is not Peter Jackson's partner, she is his wife.

[EdZep]

Bump to find later.

Socialists in Congress? Click on the zeppelin, Grasshopper.

[maquiladora]

[BibChr]

Thanks. I really enjoyed this. I had not seen a number of those. Darn! Now I guess I'll have to see it a FIFTH time!!

Dan
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[Dawntreader]

Bump for later read when I see the movie again.

[AppyPappy]

The pictures above Bilbo's mantlepiece, in Bag End, are of his parents, but they're actually pictures of Peter Jackson (without his beard) and Fran Walsh, Peter's partner and co-screenwriter.

GIF'S!!

[JMJ333]

My son noticed that Gandalf was riding a brown horse instead of a white one.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I was extremely disappointed that my favorite part of the first book was cut: when the fellowship, at night, is being pelted with arrows by orcs on the eastern bank of Anduin; they row over to the western bank and Legolas jumps out, strings an arrow, and fires a shot high into the air across the river. A few seconds later an orc cries out. I just loved that. It really showed how much elves hated orcs because the shot had no tactical purpose: it was pure spite. I can understand why that wasn’t included but not including Legolas falling the steed of the Dark Rider was totally confusing.

(Hey all! Lay off stanz...so he didn't like the movie. Oh well.)

>:)

[Deb]

I'm stunned that no one anywhere has mentioned the fact that when Frodo "comes to" in Rivendell, Gandalf tells him it's "October". Since October comes from the Gregorian calendar how could it exist in the Middle Earth time frame? I thought this was a huge technical error and that everyone would scream about it. None of the Hobbit Heads seems to have noticed.

[Deb]

PS: Tell Tom Haren, Gimli has brown eyes.

[BibChr]

One of the reasons I liked this thread is that I had a notion to start a similar one, but it wouldn't have been nearly as good. Here are some of my own observations about details of this wonderful movie:

• After Gandalf has tested the Ring and is discussing it with Frodo, as it lays on the table, you can still see a little dusting of ash along its edge
• When the outline of the gate to Moria shines, it is not reflected in the lake's waters, though the characters are. (A FReeper explained to me that this was because it was a magic outline < g >)
• My son Matthew observed that the horn of Boromir is shown as having been cloven (or split) in two at the end, though how it split hadn't been shown
• I love the detail (from the book) of the white horses in the flood at Bruinen; though Gandalf does not later claim credit for it (as in the book)
• The movie, I think, doesn't say, but Gandalf goes to Boromir's beloved Gondor to do his library-work; so that's the beautiful city we briefly see
• As in Tolkien, the book Gandalf reads in Moria has gashes in it

Dan

[mtngrl@vrwc]

BUMP for later reading.

[VietVet]

Two details impressed me most, one at the beginning, and one at the end.

First, as the camera tracks over the hill and we see Hobbitton for the first time, it is virtually identical with Tolkein's painting for "The Hobbit". For long time fans of the books, this visual effect was stunning, and served to instantly put any fears that the producer/director was going to take off on some tangential interpretation of his own.

Second, and this was not in the book, at the very end, as Aragorn sends Frodo off, and turns to hold off the Orcs, he steps out into the road with his sword drawn, sees about 100 Orcs marching up the road towards him, draws his dagger and SMILES! Just a little, grim smile, it goes by in half a second, but it is a difinitive moment for the character. "100-to-odds? Seems fair to me."