The ability to use stop action and frame by frame forwarding on DVD has allowed viewers to catch many goofs and losses of continuity in motions pictures both present and past. Tech people who end up onscreen. Motor cars that appear in period pieces, broken bones that shift limbs, clothing that is alternately wet and dirty, clean and dry.
In Lord of the Rings we get to see dramatically the way in which gunpowder made castle battlements obsolete. No longer could rebel nobles hide behind their walls and defy their kings.
Two items relating to Saruman and his Wizard’s Tower Orthanc have troubled me. When Gandalf is lifted by wizardry to the platform atop the tower he appears to have been transported right through solid stone. No stairs or openings lead to it. Saruman stands there to curse the travelers on the mountain top and on other occasions. In his final scene Grima Wormtongue joins him there.
In that same scene Saruman talks of the rings of the seven kings and five wizard’s staffs. Was this a scripting error? There were 9 Nazgul. We know of only 2 wizards in the books. I’ve never quite figured out where Aragon’s Ring of Barahir fits in the scheme of things, seemingly it has no magical powers. Further the third elven ring appears to be worn by Gandalf leaving Galadriel’s husband without one. Is Elrond a wizard, don’t remember seeing him with a staff.
Gandalf seems to go through a number of wizard’s staffs. He loses the original one to Saruman in Orthanc. Has another when he appears at Rivendell. Loses another in Moria. Has his staff broken in the movie by the Witch King of Angmar in Minas Tirith but appears shortly afterward with an identical one outside the Black Gate.
In Lord of the Rings we get to see dramatically the way in which gunpowder made castle battlements obsolete. No longer could rebel nobles hide behind their walls and defy their kings.
Two items relating to Saruman and his Wizard’s Tower Orthanc have troubled me. When Gandalf is lifted by wizardry to the platform atop the tower he appears to have been transported right through solid stone. No stairs or openings lead to it. Saruman stands there to curse the travelers on the mountain top and on other occasions. In his final scene Grima Wormtongue joins him there.
In that same scene Saruman talks of the rings of the seven kings and five wizard’s staffs. Was this a scripting error? There were 9 Nazgul. We know of only 2 wizards in the books. I’ve never quite figured out where Aragon’s Ring of Barahir fits in the scheme of things, seemingly it has no magical powers. Further the third elven ring appears to be worn by Gandalf leaving Galadriel’s husband without one. Is Elrond a wizard, don’t remember seeing him with a staff.
Gandalf seems to go through a number of wizard’s staffs. He loses the original one to Saruman in Orthanc. Has another when he appears at Rivendell. Loses another in Moria. Has his staff broken in the movie by the Witch King of Angmar in Minas Tirith but appears shortly afterward with an identical one outside the Black Gate.
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