If you've seen the 11-hour extended version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you might think you already know a lot about Middle-earth. Just like Bilbo outsmarts Gollum in a guessing game, when it comes to Tolkien's work, you might think you know all the answers.
You probably know the difference between the sword of Nasir and the sword of Andulil. When Gandalf called the Fire Demon "Uton's Inflammation," you might understand what he was saying. You might even know the real names of those woolly elephants. But unless you've read the original novel in its entirety (and some of the appendices), some of the key elements in the film may still haunt you.
Did you know that the original book does not explain how Sauron was defeated? Do you know where the other Rings of Power came from? Did you know that the description of the genie in the original novel is very different from the movie?
Next, this article will reveal some mysteries and misconceptions about The Lord of the Rings, including Parantir, Big Eagle, and of course the mysterious Tom Bon badir.
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When Bilbo Baggins left the Shire, he gave his magic ring to his nephew Frodo. The grey-robed wizard Gandalf suspects that the ring may have used black magic and tells Frodo that he must leave to study it.
After reading the scrolls in the Minastilis Library in Gondor, Gandalf's suspicions were confirmed, and Frodo's ring was the Supreme Ring that ruled over the rest. Upon returning to the Shire, Gandalf told Frodo about the history of the Rings and asked Frodo to leave the house as soon as possible to avoid being hunted down by Sauron's followers.
In the film, Gandalf seems to have been away from the Shire for only a few months. According to the novel, it took Gandalf 17 years of research to confirm the Supreme Ring!
In the film, Frodo leaves the Shire immediately after Gandalf warns him. In the book, he leaves after a few months, as Gandalf spends a long time explaining Sauron's history, among other rings of power.
Of course, to speed up the tempo, this small detail was omitted from the film.
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In the Lord of the Rings movie, 20 Rings of Strength are introduced at the beginning, three elves, seven dwarves, nine humans, and one Sauron. Aragon explains to Frodo that Sauron helped forge the human ring so that he could turn the human into his slave.
However, the film omits a crucial detail – casting the Ring of Strength was Sauron's idea. Disguised as an Anata, the lord of gifts, Sauron convinces 19 respected leaders to protect themselves with magic rings.
Once the rings were made, Sauron associated them with his black magic, forcing the leaders of Middle-earth to come under his control.
Because the elves only trusted their own kind, they forged the ring themselves and hid it so that they could prevent the holder from being corrupted. Since Sauron wasn't involved in making the elf rings, he couldn't control them. However, he succeeded in using other rings to make humans evil and dwarves greedy.
After Sauron is destroyed, the Lord of the Rings loses its magic, and the evil of humans and the greed of the dwarves disappear.
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When Saruman revealed to Gandalf that he possessed a Parantir (True Knowledge Crystal), Gandalf panicked, saying that they couldn't stare at the crystal for too long because they didn't know who else was watching it.
In the film, The use of Palantir is not very clear. The average viewer thinks it's like a crystal ball, and the bearer can see anything they wish to see in Middle-earth. Saruman also proved that he could use the crystal ball to contact other people who owned the crystal ball. It sounds like a Middle-earth version of the phone, but it's actually a little more complicated.
First of all, these crystals are very unreliable. Gandalf resists Parantir because they show a truth that a viewer might misunderstand. In the extended version, Sauron uses his crystal ball to tell Aragon that Alwei is dead. Since that's not true, you would certainly think that Sauron was showing him an illusion.
However, Palantir does not lie. Alvin's body was actually what it was thousands of years later, but Aragon misunderstood, thinking she was dead at the moment. According to the director, throughout the story, everyone who has seen Palantir misunderstands what it shows.
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Although Sauron has been the main villain in the millennia-old Lord of the Rings story, the description of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings novels is surprisingly vague. The first film opens with Sauron portraying him as a giant ironclad warrior.
However, he never appears directly in the book and is never specifically described. The appendix says Sauron has "an unbelievable malice, filled with a terrible atmosphere," but that still doesn't explain his size, clothes, looks, and height.
The film also highlights how Sauron was destroyed by a soldier named Ishirdu thousands of years ago. The book does not explain how Ishirdu defeated the Dark Lord.
In the second and third films, Sauron transforms his body into a giant eyelidless Eye of Flame, which stands on top of the Tower of Balatur.
This is entirely the conception of the film. Sauron didn't do that in the original story. While Sauron is one of the most notorious villains in literature, it's odd that even the most loyal Tolkien fans can't tell you what he looks like.
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In the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Aragon tells Iovin that he met her grandfather decades ago. Aragon appears to be a man in his 40s, but he informs Iovin that he is 87 years old, much to iovin's confusion. He explained that he was young in appearance because he was a Numenoran and a long-lived race.
Because there is no mention of anything else about the Numenoreans in the film, the scene was cut so as not to be unjustifiably confusing. So, who are the Numenoreans, and what happened to them?
While it was all agreed that humans were easily corroded, the gods of Middle-earth considered the Numenoreans to be the greatest human beings, and therefore rewarded them by extending their lifespan. When several Numenor people tried to venture into the undead lands that were forbidden for humans, the gods destroyed their homes. Only a few Numenores survived and fled to four corners of Middle-earth. As their numbers dwindled, Aragon became one of the only survivors of this once-great race.
It would be cool to incorporate this backstory into the film, because it would be understood that Aragon had to prove his worth after his people and his ancestor Ishir Du tarnished the reputation of humanity.
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The Lord of the Rings films are better than everyone thinks. But no matter how good it is, the slightest deviation from the original book will always be criticized by Tolkien fans. "In the book Alveen did not save Frodo!" Gandalf's hat is too gray!" And, the big question is, where did Tom Bombadir go?
In the book, when the hobbits leave the Shire, a short hermit named Tom Bonbadil rescues them from an evil tree spirit named Old Man Willow. At first, he seemed to be a whimsical but harmless guy. However, Tom Bon badir is the most mysterious character in the entire story. He was the only one who was completely immune to the Supreme Ring. At the Elrond Conference, Gandalf advised the elves to give the Supreme Ring to Bombardier because he would not be conquered by the magic of the Ring.
Little is known about his past and his abilities, but he is considered the oldest man in Middle-earth. Despite his enormous powers, why he refused to take part in the Battle of the Lord of the Rings remains a mystery.
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In most European mythology, elves are often described as beautiful blonde creatures with pointed ears. This trait continues throughout the Lord of the Rings films, with all the major elves except Elrond and Alve, who are blonde. In addition to this, each elf has long flowing hair and pointed ears.
This is entirely due to popular culture, and everyone seems to have forgotten how Tolkien described elves in his works, in fact, he did not describe elves. According to Tolkien, elves are unique in that they are tall, agile, elegant, fair, and intelligent. In all of his books (not just the Lord of the Rings series), Tolkien never described elves as species with pointy ears and flowing blond hair. Although Legolas is blonde in the film, his hair color is never mentioned in the novel.
To make these characters more recognizable, the film portrays the elves as blondes with blue eyes and pointed ears. Ironically, the Lord of the Rings films helped cement these universal traits of elves that the author never described.
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Soon after The Lord of the Rings was published, critics and readers began to search for hidden meaning in the story. Over the years, fans have developed many theories about The Lord of the Rings, but the most common is that The Lord of the Rings is a fable about World War II.
At first, this sounds like a reasonable conclusion. The story shows the ugliness of corruption and how war forces allies and friends to kill each other. In addition, Tolkien himself was a soldier, and the book was published a few years after the end of World War II.
But Tolkien began writing The Lord of the Rings in 1936, three years before World War II. Also, Tolkien fought in World War I, not World War II. Tolkien hated fables and often ridiculed his friend C.S. Lewis because his Chronicles of Narnia series was a religious set of biblical fables.
Unfortunately, this does not stop readers from making up far-fetched theories that they believe are full of religious metaphors and political symbols. Tolkien was so annoyed by these misunderstandings that he clarified in the preface to his new book that there were no subtexts in the book. According to Tolkien, the theme of the story is the human obsession with escaping death. That's it.
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Many viewers were disappointed that Saruman did not appear in the final installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Considering that he is the main villain in the film, the lack of a clear ending for his character seems a bit of a tailspin.
In the extended version of The Lord of the Rings: Invincible, we see Saruman engaged in a brief battle with Gandalf before being killed by his servant Yu Tongue.
However, Saruman's story is very different in the novel. After Saruman's army was wiped out by the Treemen, Gandalf stripped Sajuman of his powers and expelled him from Eisengard.
After Sauron's defeat, peace was restored in Middle-earth, and the Hobbits returned to the Shire, only to find their homeland plundered and their inhabitants enslaved by Sajuman (who somehow now calls himself Shaki).
Frodo infiltrates Saruman's base and orders him to leave. In a fit of rage, Yu Tongue attacked Saruman and stabbed him to death. When Yu Tongue tries to escape, he is killed by archers, and the Battle of the Rings ends once and for all. This scene did not appear in The Lord of the Rings: Invincible, probably because the film ends with too long a story to be marked.
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Gandalf sent Frodo to destroy the Supreme Ring, so the Hobbits left their homes and headed for The Mount of Doom, the only place where the Supreme Ring could be destroyed. The entire journey is unbelievably long at 1350 miles.
The journey was so arduous that many who had read the original book or seen the series of films pointed out that Frodo's adventure was completely unnecessary.
There are two scenes where Gandalf and a group of giant eagles are good companions. Why didn't he just send an eagle to Doomsday Mountain? Frodo's trip took more than a year. If Gandalf had summoned the Great Eagle, he would have been able to fly up the volcano in a few days.
This is considered the biggest flaw in the story, but there is a plausible explanation.
Gandalf entrusted the Supreme Ring to a hobbit because they were considered the purest people and the least likely to be corrupted by the evil of the Ring.
If the Eagle or Gandalf is corrupted by the Supreme Ring, the Eagle may fly directly to Sauron's castle, and Sauron regains his strength.
So, that's it. The biggest flaw in the Lord of the Rings trilogy isn't actually a bug.
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