Goofs for
           The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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Continuity: Several shots after Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn
encounter Eomer and his men have been reversed (leaf- brooches are
upside down, and Legolas' chest straps and quiver are on the wrong
side).

Continuity: When King Theoden is having his armor strapped on, his
aide fastens the left shoulder strap, then we see the leg greaves
being strapped on, and gloves being tied. In the next shot, the
aide goes to fasten the left shoulder strap again, and there are
no greaves on his legs or gloves on his hands.

Continuity: At times the character Gimli is as tall as Aragorn's
shoulders. At other times, he is much shorter.

Continuity: The length of the chain in which Frodo carries the
ring changes throughout the film

Continuity: Near the end of the film, when Frodo and Sam are in
Osgiliath, the chain around Frodo's neck with the ring on
repeatedly switches between being caught around one of his buttons
and hanging freely between shots.

Continuity: When Gandalf the White first enters Theoden's hall,
the position of his staff changes from being held perpendicular to
the ground to being held parallel between shots.

Continuity: When Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are entering
Theoden's throne room for the first time, Gandalf turns quickly
around when the doors close but in the next shot his head is
centered.

Continuity: Aragorn's sword disappears from his hand shortly
before he falls off his horse, but reappears in its scabbard
later.

Continuity: When Legolas is escorting Gandalf into the king's
hall, Gandalf is holding on to Legolas' arm in some shots and his
arm is down at his side in others.

Continuity: When Treebeard is talking to Merry and Pippin at the
Entmoot, the stars that can be seen behind him change.

Continuity: Gimli's hat falls of, but then reappears between
shots, though he never stopped and picked it up.

Continuity: The gash on Merry's face changes sides throughout the
movie. Sometimes it is on his left brow, sometimes on the right.

Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Saruman is talking to the
Uruk-Hai, they are obviously screaming and yelling, but there is
no noise coming from them.

Continuity: Gandalf's horse "Shadowfax" is obviously played by at
least two different horses in the movie, as different markings can
be seen on the horses.

Continuity: Aragorn's beard repeatedly changes length between
shots in King Theoden's hall.

Continuity: Merry and Pippin switch position between shots when
Merry is making his speech to Treebeard at the Entmoot.

Continuity: When Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are in the Dead Marsh and
the Nazgul flies over, Frodo goes after the ring with his left
hand, which Sam grabs and holds. Frodo is then shown putting his
right hand to his chest, but in the wide shot, his right hand is
still lying at his side.

Continuity: When Grima Wormtongue is talking with Eowyn, he puts
his hand on her face, but when she says, "Your words are poison,"
we see that they are several feet apart.

Continuity: In the storeroom where Sam is suggesting that Frodo
use the Ring to escape, Frodo is initially sitting in front of a
barrel. When Faramir arrives, Frodo and Sam are sitting on a cloak
and there are no barrels in sight.

Continuity: When Gimli enters Helm's Deep for the first time, he
speaks to Eowyn about Aragorn's fate. Before she speaks, Gimli's
helmet is on and his axe is covered in blood. After she speaks,
his helmet is off and his axe is clean.

Continuity: In the battle at Helms Deep, when Aragorn unsheathes
his sword, the shot is reversed (he draws it left- handed when he
is right-handed).

Crew or equipment visible: A small gas pipe, leading to one of the
large torches outside the Golden Hall, is briefly visible in some
scenes in Edoras.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Shadowfax first appears, there
are tracks across the paddock behind and to the right of him. Some
say these are tire tracks, others argue that they could just as
easily be the wheel ruts of a farm cart.

Continuity: Legolas' eyes are brown for the majority of the battle
of Helm's Deep, instead of their customary blue. It has been
pointed out that elves' eyes change color with their mood.
However, a story is reported that, in fact, this particular color
change came about when Orlando Bloom's blue contact lenses were
forgotten during some of the shooting for this sequence.

Revealing mistakes: In the beginning of the movie, when Frodo and
Sam are walking on the rocky mountain their rubber artificial feet
can be clearly seen flapping around.

Continuity: When Faramir is holding Sam and Frodo in Osgiliath,
and is about to let them go, the shot of the Hobbits is reversed
(leaf brooches face the wrong way).

Audio/visual unsynchronised: In the intial shot when Theoden is
talking to Gamling on the wall outside Helm's Deep, Gamling's
mouth is moving like he's replying to Theoden's orders but no
sound is heard.

Audio/visual unsynchronised: When the Rohirrim surround Aragorn,
Legolas and Gimli at the beginning, you can see �om�r's lips
moving in one of the wider shots and he obviously talks to the
three but there is no sound coming out of his mouth.

Continuity: When Merry and Pippin are dropped to the ground by the
Uruk-Hai, Merry is lying very close to Pippin. In the next shot
Pippin is obviously a few feet away for he has to crawl closer to
Merry to be able to talk to him

Continuity: Pippin's hands are tied, but when he falls under the
horse, his hands are untied and apart. When Aragorn is working out
what happened we see, in the flashbacks, that Pippin did not cut
his bonds until after the horse incident.

Miscellaneous: When �om�r mounts his horse after talking with
Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli his sword falls out of its scabbard
(look over Aragorn's right shoulder).

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During Arwen's vision of Aragorn's
(eventual) death, Aragorn's fingers do not move on his sword as
many, many people have suggested - they are Arwen's fingers.

Continuity: When Sam is telling Frodo to use the ring to escape
Faramir, the light changes directions (from the left in the wide
shot, from the right in the close-up).

Continuity: In the "dream sequence" where Aragorn remembers his
time with Arwen prior to embarking on the quest to destroy the
ring they embrace and kiss. As they do so, Aragorn's left hand is
alternately on her face/around her waist between shots.

Crew or equipment visible: During the Helm's Deep shot where the
Orcs charge with the battering ram, a second camera can be seen on
the extreme left, dollying out of frame.

Continuity: (flipped shot) When Aragorn is tracking Merry and
Pippin from the orc pyre to Fangorn Forest, his ring (usually on
his left hand) is on his right forefinger and his glove (usually
on his right) is on his left hand.

Revealing mistakes: As Th�oden, Aragorn and the others ride out of
Hornborg at the end of the battle, when they ride down the
"bridge", one of the computer generated orcs, on the side of the
bridge that is closest to the camera, goes straight through one of
the horses before he is thrown from the bridge.

Continuity: In Helms Deep, as Legolas throws the shield onto the
stairs, he has his bow in his left hand. As he runs to jump onto
the shield, the bow is gone. As he is sliding down the stairs, he
is using the bow again.

Continuity: When Frodo and Sam are hidden under the elvish cloak
at the Black Gate, we can see from under the cape the feet of the
enemy soldier through a gap in between the cloth and the floor.
But in the next shoot when Frodo unfold the cape (that looks like
a rock) we can see it was well buried in the dust and there is no
possible gap.

Continuity: When Legolas has to hand over his weapons, he takes
the knives from his back. When Aragorn hands over his own sword,
we see Legolas taking off his knives again in the background.

Continuity: When Legolas is waiting on the wall for the Urak Hai
battle to begin at Helms Deep his hands repeatedly change position
on his bow between shots.

Continuity: Theodred's face is uncut, with no signs of blood on
the left side, as Eomer rides him through the gates of Edoris.
The next scene shows Theodred lying on a bed with the left side of
his face cut and covered in blood.

Continuity: During the Warg fight Aragorn's horse has a saddle,
but when his horse finds him by the river he has no saddle.

Continuity: When Aragorn is lying on the river's shore, he forces
himself onto an unsaddled horse. But, when he sees the Orc Army
and starts to gallop towards Helms Deep, he is riding with a
saddle.

Continuity: When Gandalf and Theodin are talking outside town,
near the burial mounds covered in white flowers, all the shots of
Gandalf show the wind whipping his hair around, but in all the
shots of Theodin there is not even a hint of a breeze in his hair.

Continuity: Prior to his arrival at the Theoden's hall, Gimli's
axe is one sided, but when they are asked to surrender their
weapons, he hands over a two sided axe.

Factual Errors: During the preparation for the battle at Helms
Deep the swords are held the wrong way against the grind stone,
blunting them instead (although it looks better - you get
spectacular sparks when you mistreat a blade in this way).






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