“The Fellowship of the Ring” has all this time harbored a nod to Sauron that many hadn’t noticed…
Behind-the-scenes details, filming anecdotes shared by the actors, deleted scenes… For more than 20 years, many curiosities about the Lord of the Rings saga have been revealed. However, as reported by our colleagues from SensaCine, a little nod to Sauron seems to have gone unnoticed, even by the most observant…
As is often the case with trilogies, the first installment is the one fans – or actors involved – remember most fondly. The Fellowship of the Ring, without a doubt, was quite a phenomenon when it was released in 2001, the same year that another major cinematic event, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, also made its grand debut.
In this first episode of Lord of the Rings, the famous Fellowship of the Ring is forged, before it ends up breaking up. But before that happened, Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin) and company had already begun their journey to Mount Doom.
During this journey, Frodo and his friends encountered the dreaded Nazgûl several times. And during their first real face to face, the latter manage to injure the bearer of the ring which immediately pushes Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) to act: he thus takes him to Rivendell among the elves for treatment. However, the Nazgûl know he is vulnerable and do not give up their efforts. This is when one of the film’s most famous and memorable sequences takes place.
We are obviously talking about the meeting between Arwen (Liv Tyler) and the Nazgûl. In this scene, a detail is hidden in the dress of the horses of the feared specters, a detail that perhaps you had not seen…
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In the photo you can see above, Reddit user Martijingamer noticed that Nazgûl horses wear the Eye of Sauron, around their neck, on their chest. This detail, although minimal, has a very great symbolic load, since it is one more proof that the Nazgûl are faithful servants of Sauron.
Whether you noticed it or not, this wink – quite literally – proves, once again, that nothing was left to chance in the making of Peter Jackson’s original cinematic saga.
Yet another viewing wouldn’t hurt us: the Lord of the Rings trilogy is to be seen and seen again (and seen again and again) on Amazon Prime Video.