LOTR: Important Character Interactions That Never Made It To The Movies

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The Lord of the Rings movies are considered to be one of the best film trilogies of all time. They manage to tell a huge story without sacrificing too much of what made the books so special. However, as with any epic movie of this size and this length, there was always going to be footage that was shot that didn’t quite make it into the final version of the films.

The Lord of the Rings is lucky to have been given a director's cut, which has extended scenes that didn’t even make it into the cinematic version, but even then, there is only so much that can be squeezed in before the films become unwatchable. That means that some of the best character interactions from the books didn't manage to make it into the final cuts, which is a shame, as some of them are truly special.

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These two elves aren’t actually seen together at any point in the trilogy, but they do in fact have a strong sense of kinship, which can be seen in one of these unused clips where Legolas arrives in Rivendell and Arwen and a host of other elves are there to meet him. The two place a hand on their chest and then on each other’s faces as a symbol of their shared love and respect for one another.

Considering that Legolas is one of the main members of the fellowship, he has surprisingly few interactions with the other characters, other than Gimli and Aragorn. This unseen clip shows him walking through a mountain pass alongside Gandalf, and they appear to be discussing something. Whether it is general conversation, or discussing the perils that they are about to face in the journey ahead is unclear.

Before the famous scene in which Saruman says that he is going to take the stronghold of Helms Deep and Grima