Here are compulsed all the little "stories" that happened before, during, and after the Lord Of The Rings' filming. We have also filled these pages with little facts you may ignored until now. ;-)

The Orc battle cries for the Helm's Deep battle sequence were provided by a stadium of 25,000 cricket fans (Wellington's Westac stadium), who screamed the war chants, spelled out on the Diamond Vision screen, with Jackson himself leading the crowd.
Thousands of rugby fans were needed to record sounds for battle scenes in The Return Of The King (August 2003).

From EW.com : "Jackson simply tore down the Helm's Deep set and built [Minas] Tirith in the same quarry. But Tirith will be a much more evolved and detailed city, with a miniature version built on a 1-to-72 scale for sweeping overhead shots." [...] "It took 12 painters a month to make the 11,250-square-foot floor look like intricately patterned marble. The classical influences didn't stop there. ''One of the things we decided early on was that Minas Tirith would have a European feel,'' Dan says of the Corinthian columns and Moorish arches. Artists crafted the eight-foot polystyrene sculptures of the fallen kings of Minas Tirith to evoke ancient Greece and lend ''a grandeur'' to the room, he adds. ''It's about giving the city a formality and a history that people can relate to.''"

Gimli's armour weighed about 30 kilos.

Théoden's armour costume weighed about 22 kilos.

From an interview with Miranda Otto posted on lordoftherings.net (September 2003) : "My costume weighed between eight and 10 kilos (22 lbs) with the chain mail and everything. It's really quite heavy and it really takes the energy out of you. It's like carrying around four heavy shopping bags while doing all this physical activity."

As Lawrence Makoare explains in The Return Of The King Extended Edition, Lurz required 11 hours of prosthetic make-over and make up, Gothmog, the Orcs sergeant, required 4 hours and a half. The Witch-King required 20 minutes...

From Guardian Unlimited (October 2003) : "The [LOTR] score was written for a 200-piece ensemble : a 100-piece symphony orchestra (the LPO), a 60-voice choir, a 30-voice all-boy choir, and 10 soloists. [...] Peter Jackson chose Shore partly because he admired his music for David Cronenberg's The Fly. [...] Shore admits this has been one of the most all-consuming experience of his composing career : 'My feelings are bittersweet that we have to finish. You feel you could spend more time on the project.' Tolkien took 14 years to write the book. Shore sounds vaguely apologetic he has spent a mere three on the music : 'When you write an opera, the staging, the lighting, the movement, the whole expression of the opera is based on the score. With the film, I wanted the music as a piece to have an integrity to it - and yet it's adapted to feeling all of the emotional gestures and nuances of all the scenes in the film.'"

In 1997, voters in a BBC poll named The Lord of the Rings the greatest book of the 20th century. In 1999, Amazon.com customers chose it as the greatest book of the millennium.

Injuries. In this movie, few were the ones not bruised or battered :
The plains of Rohan were shot in a location that had, besides the great prairie-like landscapes, big, nasty rocks. In one of the horse ridding scenes shot there, Orlando Bloom found how nasty. He fell off his horse on top of one, and Bret Beattie (John Rhys-Davies' body double) managed to land on top of him. Result : One cracked rib. 
In the scene where Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas encountered the pile of dead Uruk, Viggo decided to express his character's anger by kicking a heavy helmet. Peter Jackson liked the idea, and asked him if he could kick it in the camera's direction. Viggo did 4 takes, and in the last one, he was so close to the camera that Peter asked him just one more, so that it would be perfect. Result : 2 broken toes in his foot and a pain so deep that we could all feel Aragorn's loss of the 2 Hobbits. The scene was so good that it was the one used for the movie, so we can see the exact moment when Viggo breaks his toes.

Also Viggo, in Helm's Deep, managed to have a close encounter with one of the real swords used in the fighting scenes. Result : a big sunk of his front tooth was broken. According to all, he grabbed the piece of tooth from the floor and asked for super glue, intended on not stopping the shooting.
Bernard Hill got it bad at Helm's Deep too. Initially, Théoden was supposed to be at the gates before the Uruk broke in. In one of this shots, someone's hand knocked in to someone's sword that then fell on Bernard's ear. Result : Lots of real blood mixed with the make-up one and 6 stitches to get his ear back together.
Helm's Deep, again. In the shot where you see one of the soldiers being hit by the large spikes that the Uruk are using to attach the big ladders. For that shot, they used a device that pulls the stuntman backwards. He landed the wrong way. Result : One broken leg.

Andy Serkis, not only brilliantly gives his voice to Gollum/Sméagol, but he is also the one behind three of the Uruk-Hai's voices (in the scene when the Uruk stop to rest near Fangorn forest). This happened because, as he explained, at the time, they had no one with the right accent to do it (Cast Audio Commentary).

Due to one tiny spelling mistake in the script that was delivered to the 'miniatures' team, the black gate of Mordor was made with two gates instead of one as in the book.

In TTT, we see a similar version of Galadriel's voice over in FOTR prologue. The reason for this, as Peter Jackson explains, was because of the studio's demand that TTT should have prologue, to explain film one to those that had not seen it. After many 'battles' over this topic, they agreed to have their 'prologue' in the middle of the movie, in the scene where he see Elrond's and Galadriel's telepathic conversation.
Also about that scene, there were thoughts about having Elrond going in person to Lothlorien and have a meeting with Galadriel, Celeborn and Haldir, amongst others. The scene was even shot, but in the end the decision was made that it would be too much.

In the extended version, we see Merry being forced fed some of the 'orc's draught'. According to Dominic Monaghan, this lovely drink was made of peach tea and soda concentrate, which gave it the consistence of super glue and a taste to match.

In the scene where Gollum is trying to catch a fish in the river and Frodo has his first big fight with Sam, an explosion went off just as Sean Astin says "It's the Ring (…)". Turns out, as the scene was being shot in one of the practice fields of the NZ Army, and even though the crew had the Army's permission to do so, someone forgot...
Also in that scene, for the sake of continuity, the snow from the all area was melted, just hours prior to the shoot, because Frodo, Sam and Gollum were walking through a snow-free hills. Of course, the water in which Andy Serkis rolled to catch Gollum's fish, was still freezing cold by then.

Facing the Black Gate of Mordor, Gollum pulls Frodo and Sam back, trying to stop them from going in. Andy Serkis did it so well, that he ended up ripping Sean's wig right out of his hair. As the thing is GLUED in, Sean Astin was not very happy about it.

Lots of cameos in TTT : in Helm's Deep, young Haleth is Calum, Phillipa Boyens' son; next to him, on the right side of the screen, it's Henry, Viggo's son; Peter and Fran's sons were in the movie once more, as Rohan kids, inside the caves; Peter Jackson himself was one of the Rohan guards, defending the gates; Barry Osborne was there too, right beside him; Elijah's sister is one of the young girls we see getting in the Glittering caves; both Alan Lee and Dan Hennah were two of the men in the armoury scene and editor Michael Horton also appears, as the sword sharpener in Théoden's poem scene.

In the final scene, after Helm's Deep's battle is over, in the heroes shot on horse, on the far left side of the screen, we see Eomer's double. His face should've been replaced by Karl Urban's face... But it never was.

The one eyed man at Helm's Deep was asked by Peter Jackson to take off the cover he usually wears over his empty eye socket. Feeling a bit self-conscious about it, the man was reluctant, but ended up agreeing. When he saw the impact he had on the movie, he thanked Peter Jackson.

Legolas' blue eyes were, in a number of shots, digitally painted. The contacts that Orlando used scratched his eyes on some days, so he was given 'days off' wearing them. The scene where the Rohirrim surround him, Aragorn and Gimli, is one of them.

The famous scene of Legolas jumping in to his horse, in the Warg attack, was a lucky fluke. Bad luck, that is. Orlando Bloom had cracked a rib on that day, so he wasn't able to shoot the stunt they had planned. And the scene was forgotten. In post-production, Peter Jackson realized he had no image of Legolas getting on the horse, so he called the actor to do a pick up. Unfortunately, Bloom was shooting Ned Kelly at the time, with a largely bearded face (very un-elven). So, in despair, the visual effects team was asked to do a CGI sequence of it. Literally on the run, because the movie was due to be delivered in a short time.