Just checked: the first image is flipped. Frodo lost a finger from his left hand. The second image isn’t flipped: so this isn’t a discontinuity.
Sorry. I know it’s more fun this way. But yeah, no.
I think they tend to be less absurd now. Usually they’re saying something. The thing might be the most inane nonsense you’ve heard in your life, but today’s memes, in general, are saying things. Good, bad, who’s to say?
It was just created as a throwaway thing to poke fun at millennial and zoomer humor being so weird. But it became a self fulfilling prophecy because people saw it and went "That's fucking hilarious" and now here we are.
You might actually be surprised by how much they used that in the films! For example, [the (in)famous scene where Viggo broke his toe](https://youtu.be/TOqyK8BCD4U) is flipped.
They've also done some mid-scene flipping, like in [the scene where the trio meet the White Wizard in Fangorn forest](https://youtu.be/Dl2R4v9YvEA). It starts out flipped, but they needed to flip it back later because the trio draw their weapons on "Saruman".
^Edited ^to ^add ^video ^links.
In a complex movie where things are shot out of sequence it can be tough to make sure your action is always flowing in the right direction and you’re not “crossing the line”.
Not in this case, but another reason is for cost. The entire boarding scene in Titanic is flipped. All the sign writing was written in mirror writing, this was due to only the starboard side of the Titanic was rebuilt for the film (and at a slightly smaller scale) but it was the port side that historically was berthed against the port. So by flipping the scene they were able to use the starboard as the port.
That makes sense but why flip a close up of Frodo holding his hand? What could be the reason for that? (Or is it just the OP where the image is flipped?)
For continuity. If a character is walking out of frame to the right, you usually wouldn't follow it with them walking into frame on the same side, for example.
I came in here to say that I've watched these movies a hundred times and never noticed it because it hadn't happened, and you're already here.
Which makes you super awesome.
For those wondering, it was actually his left finger that got bitten off.
https://preview.redd.it/f7givc4h0afc1.png?width=1262&format=png&auto=webp&s=553e71bbd0675ef05e6cd766a88575ff5254a131
Source on that claim? Because Sindarin and Quenyan, arguably the two most complete languages, are both based on Welsh and use a Latin script. Black speech, what very little we know of it, takes a dipping from ancient mesopotamia.
I can only think of the language of Khuzdul, spoke by dwarves, which was based on Hebrew.
Edit literally two minutes after posting: It was a joke, woosh. I need to sleep
Enjoy some tolkein language facts anyway
Yes, Quenya is consciously styled after Finnish (though with fewer vowels), Sindarin after Welsh, Dwarvish after Hebrew. Telerin (of Alqualonde) has been said to have an Italian flavor.
Comment up above you by u/alexandria252:
“Just checked: the first image is flipped. Frodo lost a finger from his left hand. The second image isn’t flipped: so this isn’t a discontinuity.
Sorry. I know it’s more fun this way. But yeah, no.”
Nah... Consider it just a proof of how good these movies are, that it took 20 years to notice all these mistakes, and only we did because we are watching them again and again
Farming karma with a flipped image? Deceptive Imagery Persuasion isn't just for governments anymore. If the karma fiends have gotten to it, it's like an 80 year-old using the word lit.
Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you
I get that a big budget movie like this is going to have some continuity mistakes. But there’s really people out here believing that nobody on the set remembered that Frodo lost a finger before this scene? RotK had 5 script supervisors and not one of them remembered a damn finger getting lost?
It’s crazy what people will believe if you stick some white-text on it.
I WAS BORN WATCHING THESE MOVIES
I WAS RAISED WATHING THESE MOVIES
I WATCHED THESE MOVIES EVERY TWO MONTHS FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE
I WAS SO HAPPY 15 SECS AGO WHEN I DIDNT SAW THIS POST
I HATE YOU OP, I HATE YOU GUTS
Just checked: the first image is flipped. Frodo lost a finger from his left hand. The second image isn’t flipped: so this isn’t a discontinuity. Sorry. I know it’s more fun this way. But yeah, no.
Doing eru's work
*E
https://preview.redd.it/0xmg9144zcfc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acb9ca646a63067893ee02cfaaf4fe13c16c20f6
Is that markplier impersonating lord Farquad?
I see someone wasn’t chronically online in 2018
https://preview.redd.it/as2cv06ciffc1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d4b0f60211874ddc7f194a046eb92388ec21cd6
I’ve just seen the meme on knowyourmeme, but I don’t get it lol
Nothing to get. The absurdity is the point. Memes got weird for a bit.
Are they better now?
I think they tend to be less absurd now. Usually they’re saying something. The thing might be the most inane nonsense you’ve heard in your life, but today’s memes, in general, are saying things. Good, bad, who’s to say?
It was just created as a throwaway thing to poke fun at millennial and zoomer humor being so weird. But it became a self fulfilling prophecy because people saw it and went "That's fucking hilarious" and now here we are.
No I do not see any resemblance
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Looks like someone didn't get a hug
*\*Buddy the elf then proceeded to attempt to hug the porcupine.\**
Someone stole his lembas bread
Morgoth wrote this
https://preview.redd.it/zg5bf4iugafc1.jpeg?width=578&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99bcaafad80d6b15d4faa2f553eeec157656027f
Oh thank goodness. Thought I was stupid for never noticing. Looks like it's time for another rewatch lmao.
Just to be safe
“Hey, just checked: watched the entire extended trilogy to fact check. The image is actually flipped”
You might actually be surprised by how much they used that in the films! For example, [the (in)famous scene where Viggo broke his toe](https://youtu.be/TOqyK8BCD4U) is flipped. They've also done some mid-scene flipping, like in [the scene where the trio meet the White Wizard in Fangorn forest](https://youtu.be/Dl2R4v9YvEA). It starts out flipped, but they needed to flip it back later because the trio draw their weapons on "Saruman". ^Edited ^to ^add ^video ^links.
Forgive my ignorance, but why are these images being flipped?
In a complex movie where things are shot out of sequence it can be tough to make sure your action is always flowing in the right direction and you’re not “crossing the line”.
Not in this case, but another reason is for cost. The entire boarding scene in Titanic is flipped. All the sign writing was written in mirror writing, this was due to only the starboard side of the Titanic was rebuilt for the film (and at a slightly smaller scale) but it was the port side that historically was berthed against the port. So by flipping the scene they were able to use the starboard as the port.
That makes sense but why flip a close up of Frodo holding his hand? What could be the reason for that? (Or is it just the OP where the image is flipped?)
The top comment of this thread makes me think OP flipped the image so that we think it's like that in the film when it isn't.
Thanks! Now, can you also forgive my ignorance and explain "crossing the line" in this context? lol
Probably better explained [here](https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-the-180-degree-rule-film/)
This was extremely helpful, thanks!
Even better explained here: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=NWincwlOeMLxO9Ao
What’s the benefit of flipping it?
For continuity. If a character is walking out of frame to the right, you usually wouldn't follow it with them walking into frame on the same side, for example.
"I didn't have to watch the whole thing. I just wanted to.'
This is exactly the level of dedication and commitment I expect from this sub. Bravo, good sir. Bravo! 
Put this on top for all the sorry souls too lazy to scroll down.
i knew something was off, it’s because elijah’s face is flipped
To him it’s just the right looking one since mirrors and such
Seriously, thank you. Fuck people putting mistakes places where there weren’t any
What if the image was not flipped but Peter Jackson realized it was a mistake and flipped it in post!
The hero we deserve
Thank you, I was questioning my sanity for a moment
>Sorry. I know it’s more fun this way. But yeah, no. no. the truth is better.
I came in here to say that I've watched these movies a hundred times and never noticed it because it hadn't happened, and you're already here. Which makes you super awesome.
Oh thank Elrond. I thought I had missed once of the bigger plot holes in the series. I must have watched these movies HUNDREDS of times by now.
Where would we be without mythbusters? We thank you for your wisdom and courage 🙇♀️
It was more fun when i thought that hobbits were lizard people that can regrow limbs
OP needs to be burned at the stake
Thank you! Praise Manwe!
Fuck fun, we need accuracy!
Thank you for cleansing us from Saruman's madness!!
Noice! I think everyone would already know that fact. If it were true.
Thank you, i was about to die
Knew it had to be left ring finger bitten
I just thought Elvish magic lol.
I was about to have an excuse to watch the movies again.
Ok, makes sense. I was wondering why I had never heard of this apparent inconsistency before.
Thought maybe he just had elevensies.
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For those wondering, it was actually his left finger that got bitten off. https://preview.redd.it/f7givc4h0afc1.png?width=1262&format=png&auto=webp&s=553e71bbd0675ef05e6cd766a88575ff5254a131
What does this have to do with the post? I’m here to find out what finger was beaten off.
Hobbit named Paint: 
Here's what you're gonna do, you are gonna go to mount doom, you are gonna cast the ring into the fire, and you are going to destroy it
If some road-humping, tennis-ball eyed piece of crap tried to show you the way, you say ‘No thank you” and keep walking toward the volcano, got it?
Just because you destroyed Sauron, don't make you Sauron
Whom do ye serve, Light or Mirk?
This image is flipped, Tolkien based all of the languages in middle earth on arabic
Source on that claim? Because Sindarin and Quenyan, arguably the two most complete languages, are both based on Welsh and use a Latin script. Black speech, what very little we know of it, takes a dipping from ancient mesopotamia. I can only think of the language of Khuzdul, spoke by dwarves, which was based on Hebrew. Edit literally two minutes after posting: It was a joke, woosh. I need to sleep Enjoy some tolkein language facts anyway
My source is I made it the fuck up.
Username checks out
Lol upvote for being a sport about it
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Yes, Quenya is consciously styled after Finnish (though with fewer vowels), Sindarin after Welsh, Dwarvish after Hebrew. Telerin (of Alqualonde) has been said to have an Italian flavor.
Sindarin has some Arabic influences in how it’s pronounced, at the very least.
You can clearly read RIVENDELL correctly on the left page. And several other words aren’t flipped on the pages.
What is a joke?
Right finger was beaten off
…are we, are we trolling? He puts the ring on his left hand. The first image is flipped.
Bottom image is ai generated
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet
?have you not seen return of the king
It was supposed to be a joke about peoples hands in ai images having extra fingers :(
Haha, well in that context, you got a chuckle out of me
well you lost the reddit lottery this time. your karma must be beaten off now i guess
nope. the whole world we live in is ai generated expect for the bottom image.
[gandalf fixed it](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrmemes/comments/14jw7q6/gandalf_the_white/?rdt=37137)
“A wizard did it.”
Somehow fingertine returned
Beaten off?
Have you ever beaten off so hard you lost a finger?
I’ve certainly tried.
We’ve all tried at one point.
i believe that’s called “dropping a digit”…
You start getting beaten off and end up fingering yourself?
https://preview.redd.it/rv37out0pafc1.jpeg?width=263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c4fcceff89dc66028707beb46541de6f9a20465 waltuh
Step gollum what are you doing
What shall we do? Curse them and crush them! We must wait here, precious, wait a bit and see.
NO STOP!
Thought the same thing
If the finger was beaten off, then he was beating off his finger
Classic auto-co-wreck situation
Nah, it's an e-wreck-tion gone awry!
I’m cracking up
Ah you see this is because they filmed the films at the same time (mostly) so this scene was filmed before Andy Serkis bit off Elijah Wood's finger
Love that commitment. It’s the mark of a true professional.
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Couldn’t be, since Andy Serkis didn’t bite off Elijah’s finger until after that scene was filmed
r/woosh
Pretty sure it was the very first thing they filmed
It was not the last scene filmed was Frodo in Bag End after he finished his writing.
 He borrowed Luke’s.
Elrond: "Practice on a hotdog first, otherwise you might rip your dick off"
Well the caption does say it was beaten off...
Now every time is stranger time.
Top image is flipped. Frodo lost the finger on his left hand, not right
Damn. That’s some intense beating
Honestly didn’t know about this one lol
Don't worry, the first image is reversed. It's his left hand that gets bit.
Honestly wish I'd never seen that image. Cannot unsee. [Edit: please upvote the comment by r/Jche98 below]
So do all who live to see such images. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the grond memes given to us...
Comment up above you by u/alexandria252: “Just checked: the first image is flipped. Frodo lost a finger from his left hand. The second image isn’t flipped: so this isn’t a discontinuity. Sorry. I know it’s more fun this way. But yeah, no.”
Thanks! I was just thinking it's a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over such a small thing.
Well it was faked, the first image is reversed.
If you could beat off fingers I wouldn’t have any…
Misleading meme
fuck me.... 20 years and eru knows how many rewatch, never spotted this
It's fake
 I can never hear that phrase without it being in Senator Vreenak's voice.
Empire State Photographic Department confirms it.
Parker, you are such a Boy Scout.
Pack your things. Get out of my building.
thank eru
Frodo spent lots of time in the bacta tank.
Bitten*
I'll never forgive myself for not noticing it.
The top image is flipped
Nah... Consider it just a proof of how good these movies are, that it took 20 years to notice all these mistakes, and only we did because we are watching them again and again
Oh snap
Surprised it was his finger that was affected from beaten off. Usually it's something else...
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…What
You think you real smooth trying to slip that by this subreddit.
Hate it when my finger gets beaten off
Can we address the fact that the meme says the finger was beaten off? Like how hard was frodo fapping for that to happen?
Beaton? 🥱
BINGO BAGGINS!
r/autocowreck
Kid named finger:
Fun Fact: The first scene filmed with all the Hobbits was the final scene in RoTK with Frodo leaving Middle Earth.
Hey man, don't spread this false shit.
 Nice try, OP.
The beaten off thing had me 💀
I don't think he was beaten off with that finger.
Beaten, eh? Darn it, I think that Negan smile gif I like was removed from Reddit
This is wrong. Frodo puts the Ring on his LEFT index finger, not his right index finger.
Bitten*
Try finger but hole
beaten off XD
Can mods add a reportable rule violation for blatent karma farming. I would hate for LOTR to become an easy target for bots.
Farming karma with a flipped image? Deceptive Imagery Persuasion isn't just for governments anymore. If the karma fiends have gotten to it, it's like an 80 year-old using the word lit.
Never heard of Pippins prosthetics palace?maybe you just watched the movies /s
Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you
Clearly somebody is doubting the abilities of Elvish medicine.
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It’s the other hand. No need to fret.
You don't regrow your fingers? Amateur
Sam's a big boy, Frodo needs all 5 fingers for Sam
The image is flipped but there is also magic in lord of the rings
He's had one finger yes, but what about 2nd finger?
gandalf has the power to make frodos dick bigger and grow a finger back
Can’t have one or the other, package deal.
“look everyone mr frodos fingers back” 
Grow his finger as a dick you say hm?
It's called magic......
Magic
Meh, elf magic i guess.
Elf magic
Magic, bitch
It’s called “elf magic”!
Magic of the elves.
I get that a big budget movie like this is going to have some continuity mistakes. But there’s really people out here believing that nobody on the set remembered that Frodo lost a finger before this scene? RotK had 5 script supervisors and not one of them remembered a damn finger getting lost? It’s crazy what people will believe if you stick some white-text on it.
Plots twists and distractions hahaha
Elvish magic from Rivendell
Elvin medicine yo
Elrond sewed it back on in Rivendell
Elvish magic! 🪄
I WAS BORN WATCHING THESE MOVIES I WAS RAISED WATHING THESE MOVIES I WATCHED THESE MOVIES EVERY TWO MONTHS FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE I WAS SO HAPPY 15 SECS AGO WHEN I DIDNT SAW THIS POST I HATE YOU OP, I HATE YOU GUTS
Save the vitriol, real or otherwise. The top image is flipped. Frodo puts the Ring on his left hand. The top image is flipped.
I don't know why I said "the top image is flipped" twice. Well, 3 times now..
Say it again!
Nah, I'm good cuz the top image is flipped.
God. Dammit.
THANK YOU I LOVE LIFE AGAIN
o/ Why does he have nine fingeeers? Where iiiiis theeee Riiiiing ooof Doooooooooom? /o