Fun Fact #1:
J.R.R. Tolkien has constructed over 20 languages in his lifetime, most of them are in the Lord of the Rings.
Fun Fact #2:
The name "Frodo" originates in fród, which means "wise by experience" in Old English.
Fun Fact #3:
In one of the parodies made on Lord of the Rings, Aragorn has no skill in battle, he just shouts random nonsense and battle cries and the enemies are disabled because they can't avoid laughing to death. or something.
Fun Fact #4:
Lord of the Rings is the most-grossing film series in all times, reaching almost 3
BILLION
dollars. that's fuckin' massive.
Fun Fact #5:
In the Peter Jackson movies, the miniature that was built for the filming of Barad-dûr was 15 feet high(!!). The one that was made for Orthanc, Saruman's tower, was as big as an entire car park, and the one for Minas Tirith included over a thousand houses.
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Fun Fact #6:
The last fun fact was really awesome, but Sir Christopher Lee, is even more awesome. The guy has turned 92 in the last two weeks, and he's still acting, singing, voicing, etc. just read his bio - he is frekin awesome.
oh yeah, the fact. Saruman - Sir Christopher Lee - was 79 years old when they *started* filming the first movie. Today, at 92, he is still active.
Fun Fact #7:
Galadriel is about 1854 years older than Elrond.
Fun Fact #8:
It took me about 20 minutes to calculate fun fact #7.
Fun Fact #9:
One of the effects the One Ring had on its wearers was that their hearing was sharpened.
Fun Fact #10:
Andy Serkis not only played Gollum and Smeagol, but also, one of the orcs. He is the one who wants to eat Merry and Pippin, and asks "what about their legs?", answered by *cool dialogue* and decapitated and eaten
Fun Fact #11:
Durin's Bane, the Balrog who fought with gandalf and stuff - had wings. So in the movies - well - he could just fly back up if he wanted.
Fun Fact #12:
In the Return of the King, Peter Jackson plays a role of a Corsair of Umbar.
Fun Fact #13:
Treebeard is the oldest being in Middle Earth, possibly. The only other option is Tom Bombadil, who was there even before the Valar came.
Fun Fact #13 correction:
As pointed to me by MTD, in fact there is another option. Treebeard himself calls the elves 'the eldest of all'; and it is unknown which came first: The first 144 elves or the Ents. So let's just crown Bombadil, eh?
As the Ents were of the Children of Ilúvatar, they might or might not have awoken in Middle-earth at the same time as the Eldar.
Lord of the Rings wiki
so point is there are other options :/
Fun Fact #14:
The Haradrim were men who lived to the south of Middle Earth. In the Lord of the Rings, they allied Sauron, and used the Oliphants as their warbeasts; nobody knows how they managed to tame them.
Fun Fact #15:
Gimli the Dwarf, did not join the journey in "The Hobbit" because he was forbidden; the reason: he was too young. He was 62 years old. Later, when he was 138, he joined the Fellowship.
Fun Fact #16:
Arwen died about 1 year after Aragorn died, in the 121st year of the Fourth Age. However, he was born on Third Age 2931, and she - on Third Age 241..so that makes her 2690 years older than her husband. So much for Anililagnia, lol
Fun Fact #17:
Gríma, or Wormtongue, was actually the one who told the Nazgûl where the Shire was. He has also killed one Hobbit of the Sackville-Baggins family, after holding him prisoner in Bag end. *drums*
Fun Fact #18:
Mirkwood, the forest from which Legolas and Thranduil come(
Elves of Mirkwood
) has once been called
Greenwood
. However, about 1900~ years before the Lord of the Rings story, Sauron regained powers and lay in Dol Guldur, and the people who considered him a 'necromancer' started calling the forest Mirkwood.
Fun Fact #19:
A little bit of music: Howard Shore is the composer of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy's music; this was a major success for him, and he won an Oscar for it and a Grammy and probably some more that I don't remember. Some of the music for LotR was re-used in other movies' trailers and stuff. In the trailer FOR LotR, iirc for the Two Towers, was used the music from the amazing movie Requiem for a Dream.
Fun Fact #20:
The total budget for all three films combined was 281,000,000 USD. for comparison, that's about a half of what was invested into GTA V.
Fun Fact #21:
Khazâd-dûm literally translates to 'The Dwarves Mansion'.