Fellowship Of The Ring Facts To Rule Them All
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
The first Lord of the Rings movie, Fellowship of the Ring, earned over 800 million worldwide when it was released and helped inspire a new generation of fantasy movie lovers.
Here are 45 facts you probably don’t know about the first part of the trilogy.
Fellowship Of The Ring Facts
1. Ouch!
The scene where Gandalf hits his head off a beam in Bilbo’s house as not originally in the script. Ian McKellen knocked his forehead on the beam by accident. Peter Jackson thought McKellen did a fantastic job "acting through"
the gaffe, and so he kept it in the final cut.
2. The One True Ring
The wedding ring of Co-producer Rick Porras was the the template for the look of the Ring used in the movie.
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), New Line Cinema
3. Not Quite the One Ring
Director Peter Jackson gave one of the rings used in the movie to Elijah Wood and another to Andy Serkis, who played Gollum, when the shooting for the film was finished. Both Wood and Serkis thought they had the only one.
