It seems that not many of the errors I've seen listed are ACTUAL errors, though some obviously are.<P>I guess it's just about impossible for any movie to have perfect continuity! But you folk surprise me! Two errors that I've heard about before are not even mentioned in this list, though perhaps they are so familiar that no one else thought them worth mentioning. But for the sake of a pedantic sense of exhaustive completeness (the foul spirit in which we labor), here are two more:<P>1) When Sam and Frodo are in the cornfield, leaving the Shire, you can see the dust plume of an automobile (or an extremely fast pony-drawn hobbit racing buggy!) in the upper right corner of your screen.<P>2) When Saruman is bringing a storm down upon the heads of our heroes laboring up the Caradhras pass, you can see a bandage on a finger of his extended left hand. Christopher Lee had smashed it in a hotel room door. In another scene, where he seems to be holding himself after Sauron tells him to "Build me an army worthy of Mordor!", Lee is hiding his broken hand in the robes of the Saruman costume.<P>It is difficult even on paper to avoid continuity errors. How much more difficult in a three part movie that will in extended version likely be on the order of 12 hours long!<P>But there are occasional moments when the reality of shooting adds more than it detracts. <P>1) When Gandalf bumps his head in Bag End, that was a real gaff by Ian McKellen, who continued on with the take in character and so they left it in. Priceless.<P>2) Note when Aragorn parries the orc-hurled blade (the knife given him by Celeborn in the Extended DVD, I believe) when defending fallen Boromir. That was actually Viggo Mortensen batting that thing down out of mid-air and not CGI enhanced prowess!<P>I'm sure there are other such shots, and to me, they balance out the inevitable imperfections.
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