Eagle-eyed Lord of the Rings fans have already spotted 44 errors in the final movie.

A mixture of continuity and factual errors in Return of the King have been identified on the Movie Mistakes website so far, despite the film having been out for less than a week.

Among the featured mistakes: "As Aragorn leads the army from Minas Tirith towards the Black Gates, look at 'Pippin' sitting in front of Gandalf. Rather than the usual scale stand-in actor, it is a rather stiff dummy."

Others include disappearing horses, moving dirt smudges and erratic footprints.