The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[tamara]

To create realistic galloping horses for the largely CGI horseback army, they took some footage of a horse in a motion-capture suit.

[morris]

Andy Serkis' first scene was on top of Mount Doom near the Cracks of Doom. His last scene was the scene were Gollum and Frodo are fighting and fall off the ledge.

[liam]

Combined as a trilogy, these were voted the best movie of all time in a 2005 Australian Movie Poll.

[christina]

In every installment of the trilogy, one character says the subtitle of the movie. In Fellowship, during the council scene, Elrond refers to the nine as "The Fellowship of the Ring"; in The Two Towers it's Saruman who says "The Two Towers" during a voice-over; and finally in this movie, Gandalf tells the steward of Gondor that he cannot deny The Return of the King.

[leo]

In the scene where the Hobbits return to Hobbiton, three of the Hobbits had slight problems during the shoot. Elijah Wood had a hard time controlling his pony, Sean Astin was allergic to the ponies, and Dominic Monaghan was in a really bad mood because of technical aspects revolving around the scene. Billy Boyd was "in stitches" during the shoot.

[jesse]

The scene where Aragorn's army assembles in front of the Black Gate of Mordor was shot in a desert that was used by the Army as a training field. Because it was still littered with mines and bombs that hadn't gone off, the Army had to sweep the field with metal detectors to make the danger for the actors, actresses, and extras acceptable at least.

[melinda]

Like Billy Boyd earlier in this movie, Viggo Mortensen also composed the tune and sung the part to the song Aragorn sings at his coronation. The translation of the Elvish words runs "Out of the Great Sea to Middle Earth I am come. In this place I will abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world." This is, according to the book, the same verse Elendil sung when he first arrived in Middle-earth from Númenor.

[caroline]

A scene was cut from the finished movie that showed Eowyn (Miranda Otto) stripping away her regular clothes and then dressing herself in the armor of a Rohan warrior.

[sylvia]

Director of photography Andrew Lesnie caught most of his shots during the intense battle on the Pelennor Fields by putting on polo armor and wading into the thick of the action.

[linda]

Listed on the first release of the cast list for this movie was Wi Kuki Kaa, who was to have appeared as a character named Ghân-buri-Ghân. In the book, this character is the Chieftain of the Woses, a group of wild men that inhabited the the Druadan Forest of Gondor, who offered their assistance to the Rohirrim as they passed through. Ghân-buri-Ghân does not appear in either the theatrical, nor Extended Editions, nor is any mention of him made.

[ronnie]

Miranda Otto had to undergo numerous fittings to finally settle on a helmet that disguised her face yet revealed enough of it so that the audience would know who she was.

[oscar]

The entire running time for The Lord of the Rings trilogy is approximately twelve hours from start to finish.

[violet]

Most of the lines Legolas says in the Extended Edition scene of the Paths of the Dead are direct quotes from the book.

[kyle]

The end-credit portraits of each of the lead actors and actresses appearing alongside their name was the suggestion of Sir Ian McKellen. The sketches were created by production designer Alan Lee from production stills, although what is seen on the movie is actually a slight morph between the sketch and the original photograph.

[jessica]

The only trilogy to have all three movies nominated for the "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" by the American Film Institute.

[ava]

Broke the international box-office record for an opening weekend, bringing in nearly $250 million.

[nina]

Orlando Bloom's big heroic scene atop the Mûmak was shot in just one day. Bloom was filmed on top of a pile of sandbags.

[amber]

Éowyn is similar to Mulan from Disney's Mulan (1998). Both women entered a war by disguised themselves as men. They bravely fought against and killed an evil character (the Witch-king of Angmar in Éowyn's case; Shan Yu in Mulan's case). They are accompanied by a comical, if plucky male character (Mushu the Dragon in Mulan's case; Merry the hobbit in Éowyn's case), and at the end, they fall in love with a noble Army Captain (Captain Faramir in Éowyn's case; Captain Li in Mulan's case).

[nina]

Minas Tirith and the surrounding area are actually a combination of several locations. The seventh tier was a backlot set at Three Foot Six Studios. The other streets were a maze-like set built at the same rock quarry where the Hornburg (Helm's Deep) was shot. Pelennor Fields was a large open field in Twizel. Osgiliath was another backlot set. The full cities of Osgiliath and Minas Tirith were built as models. The surrounding mountain ranges were a digital composite of photographs taken of several mountain ranges in New Zealand.