20 Facts That Every 'Lord of the Rings' fan Should Know

Let's face it, there's a lot going on in the universe of 'The Lord of the Rings'. Middle Earth is a complex, sprawling, living, breathing world. Which isn't surprising, given that it comes from one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century.

That just means that it's almost impossible to get all the knowledge and facts of the universe perfectly straight (unless you're Stephen Colbert), which is why things like this exist. 

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    Font - LORD OF THE RINGS RANDOM FACTS that eveRy Fan should knou
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    Text - Sauron didn't create all the rings, he just forged the One, but he provided the elves with the science necessary to forge the other 19. 16 of them were made under his supervision. The last 3, the elven rings, were made by the master craftsman of the elves, Celebrimbor, alone, and were never touched by Sauron.
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    Face - Arwen is 26g0 years older than Aragorn and they met when he was 20. By the War of the Ring she was 2777 years old and 2901 by the time of her death.
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    Hand - Originally, the rings were made for only the elves, not for dwarves or men. Sauron took them little after his plan was discovered (all but the three) and gave them away. Seven to the dwarves and nine to the men.
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    Beard - Gandalf, Saruman, Sauron and the Balrog belong to a same kind of spirits, the Maiar, beings that were created before the universe itself.
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    Text - Sauron did have physical form by the time of the events in The Lord of the Rings. He just never abandoned his fortress as he wanted to regain full power before showing himself.
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    People in nature - Unlike in the movie, in the book the journey of Frodo doesn't begin until 17 years had passed since the party. He was 50 years old by the time he left The Shire, the same age Bilbo had when he began his own journey
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    Facial expression - Hobbits have an innate ability to throw stones with a very accurate aiming.You can see in the movies how this is depicted, as Merry and Pippin throw stones at the orcs in The Fellowship of the Ring and in The Two Towers, and Bilbo does so in more than one occasion in The Hobbit trilogy.
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    Movie - Aragorn is 87 years old by the time of the War of the Ring. He is part of a bloodline that is gifted with long life, the Dúnedain. By the time of his death he was 210 years old
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    Text - Besides Arwen, Elrond has two twin sons, Elladan and Elrohir. They used to ride with the Rangers of the North and deeply hated the orcs, as their mother, Celebrían, was ambushed and tormented by them, damaging her so bad that she had to abandon Middle Earth forever.
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    People - In fact, Aragorn wanted to reclaim his right to the throne from the beginning. It was the only thing that could assure him the hand of Arwen.
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    Facial expression - Gandalf is much more powerful than he shows. The only reason he doesn't use more of his power is because his mission is to merely be a guide for the free peoples of Middle Earth in their battle against Sauron.
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    Geological phenomenon - A common misconception is to think that Mordor is very hot. In fact, Mordor is cold. It is even mentioned several times that Frodo and Sam were shivering in their way to Mount Doom.
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    Adaptation - The hobbits are actually a sub-group of men. They appeared in the First Age and lived by the river, passing unnoticed by other races until the Third Age, when they settled in The Shire with the permission of the King of Arthedain (a kingdom of men in the north).
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    Facial expression - The lifespan of a hobbit is longer than that of regular men. The oldest known hobbit to ever live before Bilbo was the Old Took, who reached 130 years. Bilbo outlived the Old Took, by the time of his departure to the Undying Lands he was 131 years old.
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    Text - Arwen is said to be as beautiful as the fairest maid to ever walk the world, Lúthien, and shares many similitudes with her. The biggest one is the fact that both were immortal maids that fell in love with a mortal man, choosing death in order to be with them.
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    Photo caption - No part of the books ever mentions Legolas's hair colour. It could be assumed that he is likely to be blonde due to his father's golden hair, but chances are that he could be dark haired, as some illustrations depict him.
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    Facial expression - The reason for Boromir's presence in Rivendell is that his brother, Faramir, had a recurrent dream that little after Boromir dreamt too, so he was seeking the advice of Elrond. In the dream a voice said some kind of profecy, which basically meant that they should look for Aragorn in Rivendell, the One Ring was about to waken and the war for Middle Earth was about to begin.
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    Text - Gollum story has some pretty dark and grim parts. It was said among the Woodmen that there was a blood-drinking ghost that "crept into the holes to find the young" and "slipped through windows to find cradles", suggesting that Gollum ate human children and babies when he could find them.
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    Text - When the Fellowship is about to leave Lothlórien, Galadriel orders Gimli to ask for a gift (this can be seen in the extended edition of the movie). He asks for a single strand of Galadriel's hair, she then proceeds to cut three of them and gives them to Gimli. What brings a deep and significant meaning to this gift, is the fact that she was asked for the same thrice by the most badass of all the elves that ever lived, Feanor, but she always refused.
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    Text - Many think that all the good guys in The Lord of the Rings are white-skinned and beautiful and all the bad guys are black/dark-skinned and ugly. That's not true. There was a tribe of men called the Drúedain that lived in a forest within the borders of Gondor. These men were short, dark skinned and, in the eyes of elves and other men, ugly.Yet they were never corrupted by evil, hated the orcs and his actions were key in the outcome of the Battle of the Pelennor, as they aided the Rohirrim
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