Even More Fellowship Extras

The cast often had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter.
Sean Bean (Boromir) was afraid of flying and would only do it when absolutely necessary.
When they were shooting the scenes of the Fellowship crossing the snowy mountains,
he'd spend two hours every morning climbing from the base of the mountain to the set near the top, already dressed as Boromir.
The crew being flown up could see him from their helicopters.

This old man and woman were sleeping in their bed when they heard a loud knock on their door. The old woman woke up and made her husband go see who was at the door. The old man put on his trousers and opened the door to see Boromir (who was very drunk) staggering at the door. Boromir said, "I need a push!" The old man said, "Sod off you drunk!" and slammed the door in his face." As he crawled back in bed, his wife asked who was at the door. He told her about Boromir and what he wanted. The old woman looked furious and said, "Do you remember that time we had to go to your sister's wedding and our carriage went into a ditch, we couldn’t get the carriage out. If that stranger hadn’t come by and helped push our carriage out of the ditch we would have never made it to the wedding." The old man remembered that day and felt bad. He went outside but couldn’t find Boromir. So he called out into the darkness, "Boromir! Do you still need a push?" From the distance the old man heard "Yes!" The old man replyed, "I can’t see you Boromir, where are you?" To this Boromir replyed,

"I’m in the backyard, on the swing!"

Viggo Mortensen did his own stunts. He also insisted on using only
the real steel sword, instead of significantly lighter aluminum sword or
safer rubber sword which were manufactured for battle scenes and stunts.

Orlando Bloom (Legolas) did most of his own stunts and broke a rib in the process when he fell off a horse
and Gimli's stunt double fell on top of him.

Whilst filming the scenes on the River Anduin, Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen were swept out of their boats.

Orlando Bloom originally auditioned for the part of Faramir.
He was called back and subsequently cast, instead, as Legolas.

Peter Jackson's original plan was to exclusively hire British actors for the roles of the hobbits. As it turned out, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan were the only ones, and one of the tasks he charged them with was to coach Elijah Wood and Sean Astin in the ways of British pub culture.

Dominic Monaghan (Merry), wore a fat suit made of foam.
He drank three liters of water a day so he would not dehydrate.

When Pippin is being hit with the apples after asking about second breakfast, it is Viggo Mortensen himself chucking the apple at his head. They had to shoot the scene 16 times to get it just right, and Billy Boyd says he believes Mortensen enjoyed himself immensely.

When Bilbo makes his farewell speech at the party Dominc Monaghan read the speech for the reaction shots of the hobbits.

Gandalf's painful encounter with a ceiling beam in Bilbo's
hobbit-hole was not in the script - Ian McKellen banged
his forehead against the beam accidentally, not on purpose.
But Jackson thought McKellen did a great job "acting through"
the mistake, and so kept it in.

More than 1,600 pairs of latex ears and feet were used during the shoot, each "cooked" in a special
oven running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There was no way of removing the feet at the end of the day without damaging
them and so each pair could only be used once. The used feet were shredded to prevent a black market in stolen hobbit feet.
Dominic Monaghan (Merry) kept a pair anyway as a souvenir.

When Frodo falls on the snow and loses the ring, a close-up of the ring with Frodo in the background is shown. In order to keep both the subjects focused, a giant ring (6 inches of diameter) was used.

What did Pippin do when he got drunk?

He began to feel Merry

During filming, most of the members of the Fellowship took up surfing in New Zealand in their spare time. Among them was Viggo Mortenson, who wiped out terribly one day, and bruised one whole side of his face. The next day, makeup tried to mask the bruising and swelling, but were unsuccessful. Instead, Peter Jackson opted to film Mortenson from one side for the entire scene. In the scene in the Mines of Moria when they find the grave of Gimli's relative, Aragorn is only seen from one side in the whole scene.

In the scene in which Merry asks where Aragorn is taking
them after leaving Bree, and he replies "Into the wild,"
Viggo Mortensen accidentally bumps the tip of his bow into the camera.

"I got halfway through the book,
and got a little distracted by girls."

~ Orlando Bloom on his first attempt at reading LOTR

"We were in the studio in New Zealand, and it was very hot, and I just remember thinking, God, man, the Elves look really strange. But it was fun."

~ Orlando on his first day filming FOTR

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Extended Edition Interviews

World Premire: London

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Intresting but Real Captions

Like you have room to talk, who's hanging off a bridge right about now?

Those damned fake rangers!

My! Aren't we grumpy!

I see we've totally given up on accuracy

Ahhhh! Run for your lives! The oxen are coming!

And my absolute favorite...