An Uruk-Hai complains "We ain't had nothing to eat but maggoty bread for THREE STINKIN' DAYS!" An orc then whines "Yeah! Why can't we have some meat?!" This is the only time in the trilogy where the forces of Isengard and Mordor manage to agree on something.
When the lead Uruk-hai, Ugluk, reminds his restless soldiers that Saruman wants Merry and Pippin alive, one particularly smartass Orc asks "Wot about their legs? They don't need those to live!".
What makes the scene even funnier is Aragorn shouting 'Halt!' in Sindarin without looking, thinking it was an intentional shot and the one responsible an immortal Elf, instead of an old Rohirrim man who is shocked at his own results.
"Ten thousand of us, and you hit me? Oy." The arrow goes through his body as he hits the ground!
Also darkly hilarious is the long tortured moan that Orc lets out as he falls.
It's like they're all thinking, "No fair! We ain't done yet!" The rest of the Uruk-hai, who had been stomping and roaring throughout the whole thing, immediately stop what they're doing and stare at him in utter shock. His shot nails an Uruk-hai right in the throat, and the Orc unceremoniously falls face-first into the mud.
At the beginning of the Battle of Helm's Deep, an old Rohirrim archer loses his grip on his arrow before the order is given.
What Éowyn told Aragorn about fearing a cage (like in the book) becomes funny on a meta level since Nicolas Cage had been offered the role of Aragorn, but turned it down.
How does he do this? Through the most laughably transparent bullshitting Middle-Earth has ever seen. Then Pippin realizes that getting Treebeard to take them to Isengard will set him off and finally get him to go to war. Treebeard is taking Merry and Pippin home after the Entmoot results in no response to Saruman's treachery.
What happens beforehand between Pippin and Treebeard doubles as both a CMOF and a CMOA.
This information, except for Aragorn's elaboration, comes straight from the appendix of the books, so this could be considered a CMOF for Tolkien himself.
Gimli: And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women! And that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground! *Éowyn laughs*. In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men.Īragorn: *whispering* It's the beards. Gimli: It's true, you don't see many dwarf women.
After Gandalf cures Théoden, there's an unintentional Double Entendre:.
Also, the way he leans on Legolas as they enter to make himself appear frail.
Just before that, when they're disarming to enter the Golden Hall and Gandalf convinces Hama to let him keep his staff and then gives Aragorn (and the audience by extension) a little knowing look with a slight twitch of the eye - literally blink and you'll miss it but delightfully devious.
Before the fight even starts, the look on Grima's face when he notices Gandalf's staff shows he knows exactly what's about to happen.
Also at the end of the fight, the hilarious look of terror on Grima's face when Gimli pins him to the floor with a boot on his chest.
The highlight of that part is, while Legolas and Aragorn are punching and tripping the guards, Gimli seems to be just ramming headfirst into people.
There's the scene with Gandalf walking calmly and confidently up to Théoden, ignoring the chaos as Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli bat guards out of the way in the background.
Also a meta example - Peter Jackson was fully aware of the Anachronism Stew.
Gimli: He was twitching? Cause he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system!.
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