„Never Got Around to It.” Peter Jackson Has Admitted a Mistake in The Lord of the Rings. It Concerns The Character Played by Karl Urban

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, 2002

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy are carefully crafted films by Peter Jackson and his team that are considered cult favorites. Fans appreciate how hard the filmmakers have tried to capture the spirit of the books and how they have done their homework to provide viewers with the best possible pictures. To this day, the feeling is that it will be difficult to top what Jackson has accomplished with J.R.R. Tolkien's books.

But even Jackson and his team made a mistakes in a few instances, and that was in The Lord of the Rings. Maybe not everyone, but some viewers pointed out a mistake in The Two Towers that caused quite a stir, because in the scene after the Battle of Helm's Yar, which should have included Aragorn, Gandalf, Theoden, Legolas and Eomer looking at Mordor while sitting on their horses, Karl Urban was missing. Instead, there was a completely different person in his costume.

On the left should be Karl Urban | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, 2002

As it turns out, it was his double. The actor apparently couldn’t participate in the shooting of this scene for some reason, so a replacement was used. However, someone must have forgotten in post-production to put Urban's face on it, which resulted in a person unknown to fans in the film.

Peter Jackson commented on this error in the director's commentary video for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

So, as you can see, this was indeed a mistake, resulting from the team's oversight, and not the introduction of a character unknown to anyone, as some may have thought while watching the film. Such minor errors, however, do not affect the perception of Jackson's films, which is generally very good.