The Lord of the Rings

Peter Jackson first encountered The Lord of the Rings via this movie, and some shots in his live-action trilogy were influenced by it. One such shot features Frodo and the other Hobbits hiding from a Black Rider under a big tree root, while the Black Rider stalks above them. In his version of the sequence, Jackson uses a similar shot, although he filmed it from a different angle (in the book, Frodo hid separately from the other Hobbits). A second sequence features the camera slowly revolving around Strider and the Hobbits, who stand in a circle as the Black Riders approach them on Weathertop. In his staging, Jackson also used a similar shot, although his camera was much faster, and Strider is not amongst the Hobbits. A third similarity was the depiction of Gollum losing the Ring in the prologue: both movies show similar events, but the book had no such prologue, and it runs directly counter to Tolkien's scheme for the storyline. Another similarly staged scene is Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn's discovery of Gandalf the White.

The name of the wizard of Isengard fluctuates between "Saruman" and "Aruman" throughout the movie.

The version screened on British TV in the 1980s contains more music than the recently-released VHS and DVD version.