FUN FACTS

As well as being the only member of the cast and crew to have met Tolkien face to face, Christopher Lee was also the first person to be cast in the trilogy because of his extensive knowledge of the books. 
After the New Zealand premiere, director 'Jackson, Peter' joined the actors who played the nine members of the Fellowship by getting a commemorative tattoo of his own. While their tattoos were the Elvish symbol for "9", Jackson re-ceived an Elvish "10".
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.
The makeup prosthetics applied to Lawrence Makore when playing Ugluk, the chief Uruk-Hai, meant that he could actually see very little. In the scene where Ugluk shoots an arrow at Aragorn, and narrowly misses him, Aragorn was saved only by the quick reactions of Viggo Mortensen who deflected it with his sword. Lawrence was in fact meant to shoot far away from his head, but couldn't see where to shoot. This was a once only take... and Peter Jackson was shouting to every camera "tell me you got that"

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