History Funny / TheLordOfTheRings

--->'''Gollum:''' Piss off Serkis, you fat f***ing turd!\\

--->'''Serkis:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne I'm not fat.]]

* Butterbur notes that there has been a plague of bandits in the Shire and its environs in addition to all the other things going wrong. The hobbits express surprise that they met no bandits despite coming along at their leisure and setting no watch, and Butterbur is forced to point out to them that ''of course'' no bandit's going to try their luck on a party that includes two unusually burly hobbits who are wearing armor and carrying swords.

*** Which is actually funny once you read the Silmarillion--Aragorn is the adopted son of Elrond, great-great-grandson of Melian the Maiar (of the same type of being as Gandalf). Which means that, albeit ''very'' distantly, they actually are related!

*** Sir Ian's FridgeLogic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61kIL334X8 moment]]: "[[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why don't I just zap them?]]" Peter responds by explaining that Gandalf is out of batteries and coudln't find any AA batteries anywhere in Minas Tirith, before patting himself on the back for coming up with a clever answer.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWgQMZDfaM "...but behind the walls of Mordor, our enemy is regrouping. [''beat''] Bollocks."]]

--->'''Faramir:''' I would! ''(kisses her in full-view of half the city)''

--->'''Faramir:''' I would! (kisses her)

--> My beer's been uncommon
* After Middle-Earth is saved and our heroes, now some of the most famous and respected people in the world, get back to the Shire, a gang of shirriffs (the closest thing the Shire has to police) tries to arrest them:

----->'''Fredegar''': Who's this young giant with the loud voice? Not little Pippin! What’s your size in hats now?

* Peter Jackson was describing how he wanted Saruman to sound after he'd been stabbed by Wormtongue. Christopher Lee, who served in World War Two, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adJdBSdMGKU gently told him he didn't need to imagine]]. Jackson, for his part, [[OhCrap didn't press the issue]].

** Their account of a game of "Tig" that they got Creator/ElijahWood involved in during ''Fellowship'', and not telling him it was a made-up game until ''years'' later.

* Théoden translating the irrevernt nickname of "Old Toby" to "Tobold the Old," more in line with Rohirric sensibilities about histories and sagas.

** Twice funny if you see it as a bit of a TakeThatUs given Tolkien's own love of languages and alternate names in different tongues and the tendency to cram them in at every oppurtunity. Better yet, when you think about it, he did just that in this scene as well.

* Apparently nobody liked their helmets. Creator/MirandaOtto claimed that she thought the only person who looked good in his helmet was Creator/KarlUrban. Karl just thought he looked circumcized.

*** Sir Ian's FridgeLogic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61kIL334X8 moment]]: "[[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why don't I just zap them?]]"

* At the end of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgZDcUQPEY Towers of the Teeth]]", Aragorn shouts "Silence!" - and the song ends. He then makes a expression that says "Wow! It acutally worked."

* Watching the behind the scenes, it's kind of hilarious to see one of the hobbit actors standing next to Creator/ViggoMortensen and they're the same height.

* Peter Jackson was describing how he wanted Saruman to sound after he'd been stabbed by Wormtongue. Christopher Lee, who served in World War Two, gently told him he didn't need to imagine. Jackson, for his part, [[OhCrap didn't press the issue]].
-->'''Creator/ChristopherLee:''' Do you know what it sounds like when a man has been stabbed, Peter? [[DissonantSerenity Because I do!]]
* As an extension to the "What about second breakfast" line in the Fellowship Of The Ring, Aragorn just walks them onward [[PetTheDog only to chuck a few apples at them from offscreen]]. Merry catches his and reassuringly pats Pippin on the shoulder, but the second apple bounces off Pippin's skull with an audible THUNK. And he looks with up a 'Is it raining apples?' expression.
** Which is given a CallBack in the Extended Edition of ''The Two Towers'': the two hobbits are wondering if there's any food after the sacking of Isegard, only for Pippin to see an apple floating in the water. He picks it up, ''then looks up in the exact same way''.

--> ''It's devine.''

*** However, it's also a sort of FunnyAneurysmMoment. One of the locations (where Sam swims out to accompany Frodo in the boat) they had divers going into the river to pick up anything that might hurt the actors. They missed a shard of glass, causing Creator/SeanAstin to get impaled through the foot.

--->"One of your hairs is in my mouth."
--->"Who's moving into Bag End?"
--->"Does this mean I can have your bike?"

--> "My beer's been uncommon

''[Elijah bursts out laughing again]''

* The director/writer commentaries have the RunningGag of the 20th Anniversary Edition, in which Peter Jackson intends to go back and reinsert ''everything'' that he couldn't originally get into the movies, as well as an account of his plan to give Treebeard his own spinoff [[TheyFightCrime detective show]].

** "An exclamation of dismay came from the empty boat."

** "Of all the confounded nuisances you are the worst, Sam!"

* ''Funny/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''

** The fact that Tolkien basically invented the "forgot your password" helpful hint ("speak friend and enter") is pretty funny, as is the fact that Gandalf spent hours trying to figure out the spell.

*** Speaking of Radagast, he exits the conversation (and effectively the story as well) by, in Gandalf's words, riding off "as if the Nine were after him."