Christopher Lee corrected people on set when they made minor mistakes.Christopher Lee read the LotR books once a year.Christopher Lee helped the make up department to make sure everything looked right.Christopher Lee wanted to be cast as Gandalf.Ian McKellen actually hit his head on the ceiling beamįeel free to pepper these in whenever Saruman appears. “Watch, Gandalf hits his head on Bilbo’s ceiling beam.” Image: New Line Cinema “Hey those are Peter Jackson’s kids!” The first good example is Frodo sitting on the cart with Gandalf, but you can bring up this up almost anytime a short-looking person is on screen with a tall-looking person. But you should probably only watch it with people who are also like this.įellowship of the Ring “They did this scene with forced perspective.” In conclusion: If this is how you watch the Lord of the Rings, that’s fine. This article is a cursed object, and should be handled with care. Frankly, we annoyed even ourselves putting this together, and we’re not proud. We’ve arranged our facts in the order they come up in the movies, and even provided suggestions of things to say for maximum annoyance.

This is Polygon’s Guide to being a very annoying person to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy with, compiled by Polygon’s Toussaint Egan, Austen Goslin, and Susana Polo, all of whom admit to occasionally being very annoying to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy with. They will if you are constantly spouting facts about the movies during their runtime.

So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. 2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story.

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