ATTENTION MISTAKES MADE I honestly never expected this video to get so much traction, I would’ve been more professional with my investigations 💀 Here’s some corrections of problems in the video. The first two being just dumb errors on my part, speaking off the dome and not bothering to consider what I said. -Theoden is Eowyn’s uncle not father 🤦♂️(@giulioaprati338) --Saruman died at the beginning of RotK, not Two Towers (@garysmith5696) -The knife wasn’t technically “real” but made of medal (@bagggers9796) -All movies together won 17 Oscar’s, RotK alone won 11 (@nathanboosman) Thank you all so much for watching and for even bothering to correct me 🙏 it means a lot. If there’s anything that I might’ve missed please feel free to comment!
Also, a bonus one - the scene where the 10’s of thousands of orcs are chanting was the sound of a full stadium of sports fans that Jackson fed black speech lines to.
Tword the end where the director hugged the Frodo character? For a second I thought: oh, he must be a small man hisself... 😄 __it happens. But I'm not making a video either 😄
Inaccurate, all the scenes in the shire and near the shire aren’t the furthest away he’s ever been and when he’s in Rivendell at the end of return of the king he hasn’t been further away from the shire at that point since he has been to Mordor and he was also previously at Rivendell as well. So… ha
Fun fact, when Viggo Mortensen kicked the helmet, he broke the world record for the longest helmet kick. His scream of joy at finally breaking the long-standing record can be heard in the film.
The residents telling Peter Jackson to come again tomorrow so that they can get back in their cozy living room to watch Rugby seems to be such a Hobbit thing to do in my opinion. After all, he found the perfect location for the Shire!
Another kind of known fact is that at the Charge of the Rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields, the front riders were the ones on the cast (including prosthetic-bearded women) who read the books, so they could feel more vividly the importance of the moment
The comment is about how the front of the charge was made up of men and women who understood the significance of the scene. The answer is about how they could only find women 🤔
@@MollyHJohns True, but this comment wasn't about the Rohirrim being women, what they said was that the actors who were in the front rows of the charge were solely allowed to be people who've read the books and knew the importance of the moment and how to accurately convey that, and then everybody else was behind them
The actor who played Gimli, the _dwarf_ , was actually the tallest of the cast. He is about 6’4. Peter Jackson used camera tricks to make him seem short. Similarly, Ian, that actor for Gandalf, was nowhere near 7 feet tall. It was once again Jackson’s use of cameras tricks to make him look like he was that tall.
Yeah, John Rhys-Davies was the tallest actor in the fellowship, but in the wider cast there are actually taller actors, like Martin Csokas who played Celeborn, Hugo Weaving who played Eldrond and of course Christopher Lee who played Saruman.
Fun fact: when Aragorn charges into the fight at the end of RotK, a chorus says in elfish: "If with my life or my death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword"
I have seen too many people saying Christopher Lee was the only cast member to ever meet Tolkien. Martyn Sanderson (gatekeeper of Bree) went to Oxford and actually studied literature under Tolkien in 1959.
10:05 There's nothing surprising about New Zealanders preferring to watch the All Blacks play a rugby international. It's more surprising that Peter Jackson, himself a New Zealander, didn't realise the match was on.
Christopher Lee, what a badass. "No that's not what it sounds like when you stab a man." "How do you know?" "I've in fact stabbed quite a few of them myself."
Of all the facts here, I am absolutely blown away by the revelation that filming continued AFTER the release of the final film. Just for the extended editions?? The fact that these movies exist is an absolute mystery and miracle on every single level. HOW did this random guy get to produce such an ambitious project (in terms of budget, scope, and schedule) which has famously been proven as an unfilmable IP? And then SUCCEEDED so tremendously?!?! And then got to KEEP FILMING and spending massive budgets on extended scene, exclusively for home release?? Truly an astounding mystery that will never be replicated in the history of cinema again
My friend, I highly suggest watching the commentaries on the dvds of the movies. I learned so much about filmmaking that was. To your point, principle photography for all three movies was done at once. But after the first was released, they had a year before the next one was released. So they had time to film pickups (and they knew it was a success by that point). So it wasn’t for extended scenes, but instead for scenes in the later two movies.
Viggo Mortensen is such a fan of the Montréal (Canada) hockey team, the Canadiens, that he was wearing a Canadiens jersey underneath his armor basically throughout the whole three movies.
The knife wasn't technically real, it was a prop that had been sharpened to look good in close-ups. It still could have seriously hurt him, but you can actually see it shatter into a thousand pieces when Viggo hits it.
The one about the Oscars is wrong. It was the biggest clean-sweep with getting 11 nominations and 11 Oscars. Not 17 nominations. All the movies together did win 17 Oscar’s if you add them up…
I did not know so many Riders of Rohan were really women with fake beards. In the film they also make the comment that dwarven women have beards, which probably was doubly funny to the cast and extras after the Rohirrim scenes were shot.
Considering they aren't dwarves in the movie or in real life, why would that be the case? Drawing a rough tenous relation to some other comment you heard in the movie doesn't mean they're actually connected
I am glad Christopher Lee got Saruman, he is legendary in that role and Gandolf was played expertly by Ian McKellen, who was also incredible as Magneto.
Christopher Lee also Just excells at the kinda disaproving and charusmatic evil Guy . . . .He voices the old King in the Last unicorn, in english AS well AS German!
Yeah definitely excelled as Saruman. From my understanding he was too old by the time of the movies he couldn’t do all the walking and effort involved with playing Gandalf to make it happen.
Fun fact about the Hobbiton set near Matamata - the farm road leading to it is called Buckland Road. Buckland is the name of a region of the Shire, but that's not the reason for the naming of the road (as far as I can tell). It was most likely already called Buckland Road, after a migrant from England who founded a small town in New Zealand of that name. So the farm really was destined to become the real-life Shire!
Fun fact: the bridge scene at Khazad-Dum wasn't scripted. While filming, they encountered the real Balrog, flame of Udun, servant of Morgoth. Ian decided to sacrifice himself for the rest of the cast, and Peter liked it so much he kept it in.
The only thing that intrinsically call to me that the owner of the land where the scene for shire was filmed had no idea about the expansiveness about the film that way portrayed in the scene that they blindly accepted. They blindly agreed for it for what so reason but thankfully it lead to best visualisation of the humble beginnin of entire history of LOTR
Oh I don't know .. looking at Yellow Submarine .. the Beatles Version of the Ring could have been quite the ride. Also missed opportunity to call out the fact that the Hobbit Actors were nicknamed the Beatles on set.
@@tam11225 The story goes like this, because the were always hanging out together and wearing weird hair wigs .. I tried to find the source but after an hour I gave up .. I guess I heard it in one of the many making of videos. just a short sentence that stuck with me.
Not only Peter Jackson had multiple cameos, so did his children in all three movies. In Fellowship both of his children are being fed the story of Bilbo about the trolls turning into stone. In Two Towers they're hiding in the caves and in ROTK they are in the crowd as people are throwing flowers as Faramir sets off to retake Osgiliath.
Peter Jackson also appears in the third film as "the hand of sam" holding sting right before sam fights shelob. He wanted an establishing shot of the set but apparently the actor wasn't there, so PJ put on the costume and filmed a quick scene of Sam's hand.
Correction: Viggo did not deflect a real knife, and that moment was not an accident. That knife was obviously a prop, since a real knife would be illegal to use while filming this. Secondly, the actor that played Lurtz confirmed that he and Viggo came up with this idea together, and practiced this move before filming, even if it wasn't written in the script (which is why it is still improvised).
Im an avid Tolkien reader, but I didn't know several of these! Awesome stuff and thanks for acknowledging your mistakes and correcting them, most people would just ignore it.
Originally, for the role of Gandolf, Sean Connery was supposed to play the wizard. Yes the James Bond actor. But he turned it down because “script was too confusing”
The alternate casting choices keep me up at night. I might be the only miserable bastard who doesn't like Sean Connery, I think we can all agree it would have been a comparative disaster. Same goes with Nicolas Cage and Jake Gyllenhaal.
I think Sean Connery would also have been great as Gandalf. See e.g. his role as a Franciscan monk in "The Name of the Rose". But I do have a hard time imagining Nicolas Cage as Aragorn.
He turned it down because he didn't understand the script. He said that rejecting LOTR and The Matrix (where he was offered the role of Morpheus) were the biggest regrets of his acting career.
I’ve never been able to see Connery as Gandalf. “YOU SHALL NOHT PAARSHHH!!!” Ian McKellan is brilliant in the role, I think the only other replacement I would be interested in is Patrick Stewart.
He would have been an incredible miscast. He was a notoriously lazy and disinterested actor in most stuff he did, as shown in the mere fact that this old ass man had apparantly, in his entire career as an actor, never read Lord of the rings, heard of it, or "gotten it" as somebody whose job it is to understand stories and the characters within them. I like seeing him on screen, but Jackson made the right decision. Not just the right one, the best one possible. Ian McKellen is the definitive Gandalf.
Fun fact: Tolkien was a devout Catholic and he infused a lot of Catholic theology into the LOTR. For example, the Lembas bread that they eat is meant to be the Eucharist. And Lembas means life. How cool is that?
As a Catholic that’s very cool I knew a lot of the characters are based of Jesus like Frodo Aragorn and Gandalf but I had no idea the lembas bread are supposed to be the Eucharist but that makes more sense now
Did you know: Guinness World Records representatives were on set during the scene when Aragorn kicks the helmet, so he tried to break the record for world's loudest scream.
Can you blame them, though? It was the late 90s, pausing a live broadcast wasn't a thing, and most people didn't have the ability to record TV. PJ should have known better :P
I’ve been entrenched in lotr for years now (on and off, always gotta come back you know how it is) and I love how no matter what I continue to learn new facts and tidbits about these amazing movies and it’s story.
among famous actors that did audition for the movie but didn't get the role is Nick Offerman he tried for the role of Samwise Gamgee, but didn't hear back from Peter Jackson crazy to think there is a timeline out there with Ron Swamson in the Shite instead of Pawnee
5:42 yknow whats so poetic, when the istari were being formed in valinor that's exactly what happened to saruman. Which is where his resentment and jealousy of gandalf started too!
I highly suggest the 2 hours of behind the scenes for these movies (I think someone made one long video compiling them all), there’s so many fun facts and mishaps that happened including Viggo almost drowning while taking a Lothlorien boat down the rapids.
I always thought Theoden didn't want Éowyn to go in to battle because there would be no technical leader left to lead their people. He was going off to war, assuming he wouldn't survive, and I don't know what happened with the nephew (assume he went to aid Gondor as well), so I think Éowyn was the only real person left that could lead their people (i.e. she had likely witnessed, from living with her uncle, how to rule) and him not wanting her to fight was more him wanting someone left to take over if he didn't come back.
@@reitekaredacted2787you have a good point overall but Eomer is in several scenes in the battle of Pellenor fields. We know exactly what happened to him, he was right next to theoden most of the time.
@@estebson Haha! Thank you, sir. I really didn’t think anyone would notice. My username handle is also supposed to match my best friend, but I can’t find him anywhere on TH-cam. 😅
You aren't "the" one. You're one of the hundreds of thousands of fans who completely agree. And that goes for every movie adaptation, too. Although, compared to adaptations like Harry Potter and Jurassic Park, I'd say Peter Jackson did a great job sticking to the books whenever possible. He even scrapped the battle between Sauron just because it strayed to far from the story. He did a good job copying scenes detail for detail, in all honesty.
@@amazingfireboy1848 i believe he means he is the "one" person in a group of people watching the movie that is constantly saying "That's not what happened in the book"'.
@@amazingfireboy1848 the battle against sauron should have stayed, the whole point of the battle is to distract sauron from frodo so him actually showing up against aragorn is a way clearer way of telling hes absolutely focused on this rather than just watching it from afar
Tolkien never wanted to do a Beetles version of The Lord of the Rings since he lived close to them once and heard their practice sessions he called “indescribable”. From then, he severely disliked them as they most likely interfered with his “hobbit” like life as he preferred his life traditional and more quiet, likening himself to a Hobbit because of it.
Saruman's death wasn't in the Two Towers it was filmed for it but cut, much to Lee's frustration. After the Theatrical version of RoTK came out and it was still missing he wasn't on speaking terms with Jackson for years. Also when Christopher Lee met Tolkien, he asked for and received his blessing to play Gandalf if the books were ever adapted to film.
I’m very very very glad we didn’t get that more famous cast mentioned around 2:35. Lord of the Rings is one of those series where I really *cannot* see those actors as anyone else in anything else they’re in, despite actors like Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, and Christopher Lee already having storied careers and major roles in films I watched before LotR. I think it was helpful to have it mainly be unknown and lesser known actors and actresses.
Jackson's also seen squeezing past the Hobbits in Fellowship, he's the who banged the gong you hear as they're entering Rohan in Towers and that's Jackson's arm holding Sting when Sam steps up to save Frodo from Shelob's clutches! I haven't seen the Hobbit's Appendices yet, really need to get round to them at some point... Also, when we first see Aragorn, that's not Viggo! Another mishap was that flag in Rohan, it only broke off cuz that plain was so damned windy! And I totally believe that last one, they're pretty crazy for their Rugby in New Zealand!
The Embassy Theatre where Return of the King had its premiere stands at the foot of Mt Victoria, a few minutes walk from the spot where the hobbits encountered the Nazgul in Fellowship.
3:30 Please tell me this is a joke. Theoden was NOT Eowyn's father - he was her uncle. He even tells Aragorn in the movie about her father getting killed by Orcs. And Eomer - Eowyn's brother, is Theoden's nephew.
Did you know that Viggo was always in character even when not filming, so much so that he was wandering around Wellington in costume complete with sword and got reported to the police and nearly arrested - as soon as he mentioned he was filming for Peter Jackson they let him off with some advice to not carry a sword around in public
I knew about Peter's cameo in the Fellowship but had no idea he was in the other two movies as well. I guess it's time to rewatch the trilogy for the 8th time.
Imagine some regular, random person watching LotR with a bunch of hardcore fans, utterly confused why they keep talking about people breaking their toes, teeth and ribs
I knew most of these. Although, I'm doubtful about that head bump scene being planned by Ian McKellen... I have watched all the behind-the scenes materials of all movies' DVD releases, and In don't remember anyone mentioning that. I do remember Peter Jackson telling that it was an accident and not part of the script. If I recall correctly, he also said that the team shot the scene again according to the script, without the bump, but he ended up using the earlier version in the final cut because it fit better.
Just wish y'all read the original printed books.. the 1500 page copies. You'd learn way more on the story. But this film clip on the fun fact breakdown is nice. Well done 👏👏
ATTENTION MISTAKES MADE
I honestly never expected this video to get so much traction, I would’ve been more professional with my investigations 💀
Here’s some corrections of problems in the video. The first two being just dumb errors on my part, speaking off the dome and not bothering to consider what I said.
-Theoden is Eowyn’s uncle not father 🤦♂️(@giulioaprati338)
--Saruman died at the beginning of RotK, not Two Towers (@garysmith5696)
-The knife wasn’t technically “real” but made of medal (@bagggers9796)
-All movies together won 17 Oscar’s, RotK alone won 11 (@nathanboosman)
Thank you all so much for watching and for even bothering to correct me 🙏 it means a lot. If there’s anything that I might’ve missed please feel free to comment!
Mistakes or not this video is top notch!
Also, a bonus one - the scene where the 10’s of thousands of orcs are chanting was the sound of a full stadium of sports fans that Jackson fed black speech lines to.
Not gonna lie, I was about to complain about a couple of these
Tword the end where the director hugged the Frodo character? For a second I thought: oh, he must be a small man hisself...
😄
__it happens. But I'm not making a video either 😄
Was it made of gold, silver or bronze medal?
here's one: Every single time Sam takes another step it is the furthest away from the shire he's ever been
Inaccurate, all the scenes in the shire and near the shire aren’t the furthest away he’s ever been and when he’s in Rivendell at the end of return of the king he hasn’t been further away from the shire at that point since he has been to Mordor and he was also previously at Rivendell as well. So… ha
@@FrshcukoBruh…
@@LetsGoMan am I wrong?
@@Frshcuko Wowww, you sure showed him! That you're dumb and have no humour, that is.
@@Frshcuko 🤓
Fun fact, when Viggo Mortensen kicked the helmet, he broke the world record for the longest helmet kick. His scream of joy at finally breaking the long-standing record can be heard in the film.
did he
XD@@joeligma4721
I don't think so...@@joeligma4721
"They had us in the first half, not gonna lie "
@@joeligma4721i mean, possibly, right? if you only count REAL helmets
PJ: "So you're gonna get stabbed in the back and scream like th-
Christopher Lee: *"Have you ever witnessed a man die, Peter?"*
Channeling full 1940s MI6 with that one
I read this in Lee's voice. XD
@@goldengriffon Whith this cold, dangerous, wizardly accent of his xD
Every fact I've ever learned about Lee makes him cooler to me
@@Anileux Bro, I would have loved watching him as Gandalf.
The residents telling Peter Jackson to come again tomorrow so that they can get back in their cozy living room to watch Rugby seems to be such a Hobbit thing to do in my opinion. After all, he found the perfect location for the Shire!
Great work btw!
😂 True!
As a Kiwi he should have known not to interrupt during an All Blacks game. All Blacks is more or less the national religion in NZ.
That's just kiwis yeah XD
Yeah, now you mention it...
Fun fact! In the scene where Viggo Mortensen kicks the helmet in The Two Towers, the scream you hear is actually the helmet screaming in pain.
:D
the helmet broke its toe
Theoden is eowyn 's uncle, not father
Oh my gosh 🤦♂️ I’m so embarrassed I forgot
@@tam11225No worries, Theoden would be very happy to see people saying he was her father. He actually considered her as so 😊
@@tam11225 Are you, did you? On the whole unrelated note it is full of sleazy video engagement´s tricks out there.
Just had the same thought!
this is a fact, that its ok to ause The Movie if someone didn´t knew.
PJ's line during pick-up filming on ROTK was a pure flex: "Let's not try too hard. We've already won Best Picture for this one."
😂
Emotions built up for centuries: "You should have been Radagast's babysitter, not me. The Valar always liked you better."
Fun fact: Christopher Lee has a metal Christmas album
I never knew this 💀🔥
And he shed the blood of really numerous Saxon men. 4000 to be exact ;).
@@tam11225 Precisely his metal score is about Charlemagne whom he descends from.
@@grzegorzmj4881and you just KNOW he brought that sword from home for that music video.
Yes, I forgot about that, they even brought it up on Have I Got News For You?! Quite surreal!
Another kind of known fact is that at the Charge of the Rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields, the front riders were the ones on the cast (including prosthetic-bearded women) who read the books, so they could feel more vividly the importance of the moment
Also because most horse riders/ranchers/owners they could find at the time were women so yeah
The comment is about how the front of the charge was made up of men and women who understood the significance of the scene. The answer is about how they could only find women 🤔
@@MollyHJohns True, but this comment wasn't about the Rohirrim being women, what they said was that the actors who were in the front rows of the charge were solely allowed to be people who've read the books and knew the importance of the moment and how to accurately convey that, and then everybody else was behind them
The actor who played Gimli, the _dwarf_ , was actually the tallest of the cast. He is about 6’4. Peter Jackson used camera tricks to make him seem short.
Similarly, Ian, that actor for Gandalf, was nowhere near 7 feet tall. It was once again Jackson’s use of cameras tricks to make him look like he was that tall.
No he is not the tallest. The tallest one was Christopher Lee at 1.95m (6'5). Rhys-Davies is 1.85m(6'1).
Yeah, John Rhys-Davies was the tallest actor in the fellowship, but in the wider cast there are actually taller actors, like Martin Csokas who played Celeborn, Hugo Weaving who played Eldrond and of course Christopher Lee who played Saruman.
I think I remember they just used the actor to play the close up face shots etc and used an actual dwarf for the far away shots.
I mean... A lot of the time, it wasn't John Rhys-Davies, it was his double, Brett Beattie.
@@ColoradoStreamingit was useful when simply shooting Gimli and the hobbits. The height difference was perfect for that.
Fun fact: when Aragorn charges into the fight at the end of RotK, a chorus says in elfish:
"If with my life or my death I can protect you, I will.
You have my sword"
And you have my bow
@@JobiWan144 And my ex!
@@VeryUselessPerson No thank you you can have her back
I have seen too many people saying Christopher Lee was the only cast member to ever meet Tolkien.
Martyn Sanderson (gatekeeper of Bree) went to Oxford and actually studied literature under Tolkien in 1959.
Didn't know that! Thanks!
OMG! Thats so cool!
Any relation to Brandon Sanderson?
The guy that got mercilessly flatlined by the Nazgul and their horses? 😭
@@iSamwise Probably not a close one
10:05 There's nothing surprising about New Zealanders preferring to watch the All Blacks play a rugby international. It's more surprising that Peter Jackson, himself a New Zealander, didn't realise the match was on.
Christopher Lee, what a badass.
"No that's not what it sounds like when you stab a man."
"How do you know?"
"I've in fact stabbed quite a few of them myself."
Well... He killed Nazis, not men so much
Still badass
"wanna find out?"
Of all the facts here, I am absolutely blown away by the revelation that filming continued AFTER the release of the final film. Just for the extended editions?? The fact that these movies exist is an absolute mystery and miracle on every single level. HOW did this random guy get to produce such an ambitious project (in terms of budget, scope, and schedule) which has famously been proven as an unfilmable IP? And then SUCCEEDED so tremendously?!?! And then got to KEEP FILMING and spending massive budgets on extended scene, exclusively for home release?? Truly an astounding mystery that will never be replicated in the history of cinema again
My friend, I highly suggest watching the commentaries on the dvds of the movies. I learned so much about filmmaking that was.
To your point, principle photography for all three movies was done at once. But after the first was released, they had a year before the next one was released. So they had time to film pickups (and they knew it was a success by that point). So it wasn’t for extended scenes, but instead for scenes in the later two movies.
Viggo Mortensen is such a fan of the Montréal (Canada) hockey team, the Canadiens, that he was wearing a Canadiens jersey underneath his armor basically throughout the whole three movies.
No way 💀💀
Sounds dumb
This real? @@tam11225
That must've got pretty stinky over the months . . .
@@nigeldepledge3790 to be fair the habs are kinda stinky ;) - from a leafs fan (we also stink)
The knife wasn't technically real, it was a prop that had been sharpened to look good in close-ups. It still could have seriously hurt him, but you can actually see it shatter into a thousand pieces when Viggo hits it.
Nevertheless, it's a bloody good thing that Viggo threw himself heart and soul into his sword training.
@@nigeldepledge3790the guy who trained Viggo said he was the most naturally gifted actor he ever worked with.
Aragord killed him nevertheless.
Watch lord of the rings but every time Sam’s takes a step he says “this is the farthest away from home I’ve ever been”
Somebody actually made that and posted it on TH-cam, the video is over 9 hours long
@@gerbillover3186 golumn would have killed him after half a minute.
Did you know that when Aragorn kicked the...
When he kicked the helmet, he broke the sound barrier with the most iconic scene in the whole series.
Yeah some bad editing there I think.
@@randomgrinn Not bad editing, they just don't want to repeat the one fun fact that everyone has already heard way too often.
@@currykingwurst6393 alright boys, the joke's been explained. Pack 'er up!
HELMET AND HE ACTUALLY BROKE HIS TOE WHICH ADDED TO THE PERFORMANCE SOLIDIFYING THE SHOT
In The Two Towers, Eomer's sword falls out of its scabbard just before he rides away from Aragorn, Legolas & Gimli.
you can actually see the actors looking at it fall
"men of rohan! we ride north!"
(30 minutes later)
"men of rohan! we ride south!"
@@MaydupNemthey'll never find it, Gimli made sure of that.
Daaaamn. The knife deflection was already super badass when I beileved it was scripted and rehearsed. It looks amazing.
apparantly, it WAS rehearsed by the actor for lurtz and viggo. It just wasn't scripted, so still improvized on their part.
Did you know that when Aragorn kicks that helm- * is taken out by a sniper *
help from above
The one about the Oscars is wrong. It was the biggest clean-sweep with getting 11 nominations and 11 Oscars. Not 17 nominations. All the movies together did win 17 Oscar’s if you add them up…
I did not know so many Riders of Rohan were really women with fake beards. In the film they also make the comment that dwarven women have beards, which probably was doubly funny to the cast and extras after the Rohirrim scenes were shot.
Considering they aren't dwarves in the movie or in real life, why would that be the case? Drawing a rough tenous relation to some other comment you heard in the movie doesn't mean they're actually connected
I am glad Christopher Lee got Saruman, he is legendary in that role and Gandolf was played expertly by Ian McKellen, who was also incredible as Magneto.
Christopher Lee also Just excells at the kinda disaproving and charusmatic evil Guy . . . .He voices the old King in the Last unicorn, in english AS well AS German!
Yeah definitely excelled as Saruman. From my understanding he was too old by the time of the movies he couldn’t do all the walking and effort involved with playing Gandalf to make it happen.
The fact that this video is only 10 minutes and not 2 hours is astounding
Fun fact about the Hobbiton set near Matamata - the farm road leading to it is called Buckland Road. Buckland is the name of a region of the Shire, but that's not the reason for the naming of the road (as far as I can tell). It was most likely already called Buckland Road, after a migrant from England who founded a small town in New Zealand of that name. So the farm really was destined to become the real-life Shire!
Fun fact: the bridge scene at Khazad-Dum wasn't scripted. While filming, they encountered the real Balrog, flame of Udun, servant of Morgoth. Ian decided to sacrifice himself for the rest of the cast, and Peter liked it so much he kept it in.
The only thing that intrinsically call to me that the owner of the land where the scene for shire was filmed had no idea about the expansiveness about the film that way portrayed in the scene that they blindly accepted. They blindly agreed for it for what so reason but thankfully it lead to best visualisation of the humble beginnin of entire history of LOTR
Thanks Tolkien for stopping the Beatles, you saved us Yoko Ono destroying Tolkien sixty years before Amazon
😂😂
She probably could’ve played a damn good Nazgûl
Oh I don't know .. looking at Yellow Submarine .. the Beatles Version of the Ring could have been quite the ride.
Also missed opportunity to call out the fact that the Hobbit Actors were nicknamed the Beatles on set.
@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 I’ve never heard that one before lol! I wonder the story behind it
@@tam11225 The story goes like this, because the were always hanging out together and wearing weird hair wigs ..
I tried to find the source but after an hour I gave up .. I guess I heard it in one of the many making of videos. just a short sentence that stuck with me.
Not only Peter Jackson had multiple cameos, so did his children in all three movies. In Fellowship both of his children are being fed the story of Bilbo about the trolls turning into stone. In Two Towers they're hiding in the caves and in ROTK they are in the crowd as people are throwing flowers as Faramir sets off to retake Osgiliath.
Peter Jackson also appears in the third film as "the hand of sam" holding sting right before sam fights shelob. He wanted an establishing shot of the set but apparently the actor wasn't there, so PJ put on the costume and filmed a quick scene of Sam's hand.
Correction: Viggo did not deflect a real knife, and that moment was not an accident. That knife was obviously a prop, since a real knife would be illegal to use while filming this. Secondly, the actor that played Lurtz confirmed that he and Viggo came up with this idea together, and practiced this move before filming, even if it wasn't written in the script (which is why it is still improvised).
Im an avid Tolkien reader, but I didn't know several of these! Awesome stuff and thanks for acknowledging your mistakes and correcting them, most people would just ignore it.
John Rhys-Davis actually sneezed and shat himself at the same time when he was tossed as a dwarf at Helm's Deep
One more thing I found interesting. Viggo ACTUALLY BROKE HIS TO-
Thanks for not finished that sentence.
Originally, for the role of Gandolf, Sean Connery was supposed to play the wizard. Yes the James Bond actor. But he turned it down because “script was too confusing”
We started filming and when Gandalf dies Mr. Connery just went home. No one can get in touch with him.
Real ones know that’s Indiana Jones’s Dad
Now we know he just has no fate as a wizard.
The alternate casting choices keep me up at night. I might be the only miserable bastard who doesn't like Sean Connery, I think we can all agree it would have been a comparative disaster. Same goes with Nicolas Cage and Jake Gyllenhaal.
I think Sean Connery would also have been great as Gandalf. See e.g. his role as a Franciscan monk in "The Name of the Rose".
But I do have a hard time imagining Nicolas Cage as Aragorn.
Eowyn is not Theoden's daughter. She's his niece. She even called him Uncle in the scene where we meet her.
I was about to point that out.
Kinda, but ITS a Bit more nuanced, He calls her sisterdaughter which means niece but He also adopted her and eomer which makes them His kids
@@SingingSealRiana Sister daughter = sister's daughter = niece. He didn't adopt them
Thank you but somebody already pointed that out a month before you so your pedantic correction is not needed K. Thanks for wasting everyone's time 😊
@@Goro_Maj1ma Thank you for letting us know you're a humorless prig. You just wasted your own time sneering at someone who didn't do you any harm.
Another casting fun fact you may have missed is that Peter Jackson originally wanted Sean Connery to portray Gandalf in the trilogy
He turned it down because he didn't understand the script. He said that rejecting LOTR and The Matrix (where he was offered the role of Morpheus) were the biggest regrets of his acting career.
@@TheZetaKai can see him as Gandalf..Morpheus tho? Laurence an his pokerface is too iconic
I’ve never been able to see Connery as Gandalf. “YOU SHALL NOHT PAARSHHH!!!”
Ian McKellan is brilliant in the role, I think the only other replacement I would be interested in is Patrick Stewart.
The actor of James Bond, vs the IRL James Bond... It could have been excellent.
He would have been an incredible miscast. He was a notoriously lazy and disinterested actor in most stuff he did, as shown in the mere fact that this old ass man had apparantly, in his entire career as an actor, never read Lord of the rings, heard of it, or "gotten it" as somebody whose job it is to understand stories and the characters within them.
I like seeing him on screen, but Jackson made the right decision. Not just the right one, the best one possible. Ian McKellen is the definitive Gandalf.
Fun thought.
Sir Christopher Lee desired to play Gandalf, but instead was cast as Saruman... Who was famously jealous of Gandalf!
Fun fact: Tolkien was a devout Catholic and he infused a lot of Catholic theology into the LOTR. For example, the Lembas bread that they eat is meant to be the Eucharist. And Lembas means life. How cool is that?
As a Catholic that’s very cool I knew a lot of the characters are based of Jesus like Frodo Aragorn and Gandalf but I had no idea the lembas bread are supposed to be the Eucharist but that makes more sense now
@@Ryan_Bonilla Nice to see a fellow Catholic here:)
How this is an incredible video! I’m surprised you aren’t more popular!
Gandalf didn't shoot lightning out of his fingies because that would have made his fingies go ouchie
Makes sense
PJ had the perfect look to play Tom Bombadil in Fellowship .
Did you know: Guinness World Records representatives were on set during the scene when Aragorn kicks the helmet, so he tried to break the record for world's loudest scream.
Peter Jackson: "I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure"
People of Matamata: "No, no, we don't want adventures here, he have rugby."
Turning away peter jackson wanting to lease your land because youre watching football is actual hobbit behavior, lmfao.
Can you blame them, though? It was the late 90s, pausing a live broadcast wasn't a thing, and most people didn't have the ability to record TV. PJ should have known better :P
I’ve been entrenched in lotr for years now (on and off, always gotta come back you know how it is) and I love how no matter what I continue to learn new facts and tidbits about these amazing movies and it’s story.
among famous actors that did audition for the movie but didn't get the role is Nick Offerman
he tried for the role of Samwise Gamgee, but didn't hear back from Peter Jackson
crazy to think there is a timeline out there with Ron Swamson in the Shite instead of Pawnee
Amazing auto correct
A 24 hour trilogy binge turns into a whole year binging when watching this with a friend that has no life
5:42 yknow whats so poetic, when the istari were being formed in valinor that's exactly what happened to saruman. Which is where his resentment and jealousy of gandalf started too!
I highly suggest the 2 hours of behind the scenes for these movies (I think someone made one long video compiling them all), there’s so many fun facts and mishaps that happened including Viggo almost drowning while taking a Lothlorien boat down the rapids.
6:28 I literally said “This is just two old dudes beating each other up” when I first watched it.
I always thought Theoden didn't want Éowyn to go in to battle because there would be no technical leader left to lead their people. He was going off to war, assuming he wouldn't survive, and I don't know what happened with the nephew (assume he went to aid Gondor as well), so I think Éowyn was the only real person left that could lead their people (i.e. she had likely witnessed, from living with her uncle, how to rule) and him not wanting her to fight was more him wanting someone left to take over if he didn't come back.
”The nephew”? You mean Eomer? Have you even seen the films?
@@Reznor1983 Yes I have and thank you for the comment completely unrelated to the point I was making :)
I agree they wanted her save at home and even named her the ruler while they went off to war
@@reitekaredacted2787you have a good point overall but Eomer is in several scenes in the battle of Pellenor fields. We know exactly what happened to him, he was right next to theoden most of the time.
@@asmodiusjones9563 Fair point.
I’m a kiwi- my fun facts are “Ive been there….Ive been there.. my Aunt lives there”
Thank you for keeping your little word stumbles in this
Seems sincere
He tried to school people but got schooled himself. :D
4:16 "pipes" *shows a spraygun*
that got a chuckle out of me
Ngl, the fact that the wizards in the trilogy very rarely used magic to accomplish their tasks was an absolute boon to the movies.
Did this to my best friend at his house, and he told me to go home. So mean…
“Go home, Sam” 😞
@@tam11225 No, seriously. He was joking, of course.
Your channel description genuinely reads as if Sam had a YT channel lol. Well done.
@@estebson Haha! Thank you, sir. I really didn’t think anyone would notice. My username handle is also supposed to match my best friend, but I can’t find him anywhere on TH-cam. 😅
Im the one who says, "That's not what happened in the book".
You aren't "the" one. You're one of the hundreds of thousands of fans who completely agree. And that goes for every movie adaptation, too.
Although, compared to adaptations like Harry Potter and Jurassic Park, I'd say Peter Jackson did a great job sticking to the books whenever possible. He even scrapped the battle between Sauron just because it strayed to far from the story. He did a good job copying scenes detail for detail, in all honesty.
@@amazingfireboy1848 i believe he means he is the "one" person in a group of people watching the movie that is constantly saying "That's not what happened in the book"'.
@@D0G5Coolpat11 Oh, I see. 👍
@@amazingfireboy1848 the battle against sauron should have stayed, the whole point of the battle is to distract sauron from frodo so him actually showing up against aragorn is a way clearer way of telling hes absolutely focused on this rather than just watching it from afar
@@julien827 How could Sauron appear under a material form without having recovered the ring yet ?
No LOTR movie marathon is complete without the obligatory 'Viggo Mortensen broke his toe during the helmet kick.'
Tolkien never wanted to do a Beetles version of The Lord of the Rings since he lived close to them once and heard their practice sessions he called “indescribable”. From then, he severely disliked them as they most likely interfered with his “hobbit” like life as he preferred his life traditional and more quiet, likening himself to a Hobbit because of it.
0:24 Data and Lore in the corridoor meme could blow blow a couple of circuit boards trying to read that one! :D
Nick Cage as Aragorn would've been wild.
Saruman's death wasn't in the Two Towers it was filmed for it but cut, much to Lee's frustration. After the Theatrical version of RoTK came out and it was still missing he wasn't on speaking terms with Jackson for years.
Also when Christopher Lee met Tolkien, he asked for and received his blessing to play Gandalf if the books were ever adapted to film.
John Boorman also intended to do a version of LOTR, and some designs and props were eventually used in Excalibur.
The title and the preview are gorgeous
Pretty cool Review. I didn’t know that Jackson was in all 3 movies
Not mentioned was when Sam shows up to save frodo from the great spider Shelob, the shot of just his hand and the sword is Peter Jackson
@@maljakotilo Source: trust me bro
But if that's true, that's really cool!
@@amazingfireboy1848 iirc the source is the official behind the scenes material
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I’m very very very glad we didn’t get that more famous cast mentioned around 2:35. Lord of the Rings is one of those series where I really *cannot* see those actors as anyone else in anything else they’re in, despite actors like Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, and Christopher Lee already having storied careers and major roles in films I watched before LotR. I think it was helpful to have it mainly be unknown and lesser known actors and actresses.
This was the winningnest... winninest....Wait... winningest video about LOTR I've seen in a while.
Jackson's also seen squeezing past the Hobbits in Fellowship, he's the who banged the gong you hear as they're entering Rohan in Towers and that's Jackson's arm holding Sting when Sam steps up to save Frodo from Shelob's clutches! I haven't seen the Hobbit's Appendices yet, really need to get round to them at some point... Also, when we first see Aragorn, that's not Viggo! Another mishap was that flag in Rohan, it only broke off cuz that plain was so damned windy! And I totally believe that last one, they're pretty crazy for their Rugby in New Zealand!
The Embassy Theatre where Return of the King had its premiere stands at the foot of Mt Victoria, a few minutes walk from the spot where the hobbits encountered the Nazgul in Fellowship.
3:30 Please tell me this is a joke. Theoden was NOT Eowyn's father - he was her uncle. He even tells Aragorn in the movie about her father getting killed by Orcs. And Eomer - Eowyn's brother, is Theoden's nephew.
Tbf Liam Neeson as boromir would have been amazing
the Beatles starring at the hobbits sounds hilarious
Did you know that Viggo was always in character even when not filming, so much so that he was wandering around Wellington in costume complete with sword and got reported to the police and nearly arrested - as soon as he mentioned he was filming for Peter Jackson they let him off with some advice to not carry a sword around in public
Also he said Saurmans death was in the two towers but it was in ROTK
I didn’t know I had to see this video to make my life complete.
Great video. Very interesting facts from behind the scenes.
A video made specifically for me. How great!
This list is pretty good. But did you guys know that when Aragorn kicked the helmet, he broke his toe?
I thought he broke his helmet when he kicked the toe?
@@Iluvatar196 i thought he kicked his broke when he toe the helmet
this is probably my favorite video made by a not popular creator, ever, GOOD JOB!
7:07 is nobody going to mention how hilarious this picture is? That boy is legit terrified 😅
Thank you. I will use all of these on my dad tomorrow when I binge all the extended editions. Looking forward to it 😂
Frodo: "How far is from Bree?"
Merry: "Just across the city"
Frodo: "What city?"
I knew about Peter's cameo in the Fellowship but had no idea he was in the other two movies as well. I guess it's time to rewatch the trilogy for the 8th time.
8th time? Ya lagging behind. Ya need to at least watch it two to four times a year
Those are rookie numbers
I swear, Viggo is such a badass
Imagine some regular, random person watching LotR with a bunch of hardcore fans, utterly confused why they keep talking about people breaking their toes, teeth and ribs
Remember everyone, don’t halt the pacing of the movie to insert your fun facts. Discuss them after the fact
I knew most of these. Although, I'm doubtful about that head bump scene being planned by Ian McKellen... I have watched all the behind-the scenes materials of all movies' DVD releases, and In don't remember anyone mentioning that. I do remember Peter Jackson telling that it was an accident and not part of the script. If I recall correctly, he also said that the team shot the scene again according to the script, without the bump, but he ended up using the earlier version in the final cut because it fit better.
PJ said it was an accident and Ian said he did it on purpose. Fun fact, Ian "misremembers" quite a bit. lol
did you know that aragorn broke his toe on that scene and turned the pain into that scream of anguish off script? I BET YOU DIDN'T HAHA
I'm sorry, but Liam Neeson as Boromir would have been legendary.
At least it would be better than Nick fucking Cage as Aragorn. Nick Cage is awesome but man, he would have butchered that role.
@@NickyHendriks yeah, he's just not the right actor for that role.
I was so proud that I knew all of these, but ind the last few minutes there where 2 things I didn't actually know yet.
Just wish y'all read the original printed books.. the 1500 page copies. You'd learn way more on the story. But this film clip on the fun fact breakdown is nice. Well done 👏👏
I known most of these my favourite is Viggo deflecting the real knife coming at him due to lurtz actors prosthetics blurring his vision.
Theoden was Eowen Uncle
“Needed the effort of two people to lift it up.”
Random film hand: “hold my beer”