--- title: Lord of the Rings Onscreen Deaths Supercut description: A supercut of every onscreen death in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. canonical: https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-10T21:17:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:12.222Z og:title: Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy og:description: A supercut of every onscreen death in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. og:url: https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62e8548bf0884c6d/69876e232dce01368e9dc5eb/screen-shot-2014-12-10-at-4-16-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=700&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 700 og:image:height: 394 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-10 at 4.16.43 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy twitter:description: A supercut of every onscreen death in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62e8548bf0884c6d/69876e232dce01368e9dc5eb/screen-shot-2014-12-10-at-4-16-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=700&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the _Lord of the Rings_ Trilogy > Sponsored content. 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Without giving away too many plot details, it’s safe to say that a lot of people die in these movies — 212,470, according to Digg’s estimate. They die by arrows and swords, fire and water, elephants, stampedes and winged creatures. The barrage of mostly faceless deaths is accompanied by a ticker in the corner of the screen, calculating the toll as it rises. Digg has a penchant for death supercuts. Its compilation of [deaths from the _Star Wars_ trilogy](http://time.com/3536665/star-wars-supercut-onscreen-deaths/) featured more in the way of lasers and explosions, and proved ten times deadlier than the battles on Middle-earth. If guns and samurai swords are more your kind of thing, try [this supercut](http://sploid.gizmodo.com/heres-every-death-scene-from-quentin-tarantinos-movies-1623624640) of every death scene from Quentin Tarantino’s films, compiled by Sploid. Or you could just watch the [trailer for the next Pixar movie](http://time.com/3628467/inside-out-pixar-trailer/), in which no one dies. _Read next:_ [_Watch Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit in 72 Seconds_](http://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/"},"headline":"Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy","datePublished":"2014-12-10T21:17:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:12.222Z","description":"Nine hours of gore condensed into a trim six minutes","url":"https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","violence","Lord of the Rings"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62e8548bf0884c6d/69876e232dce01368e9dc5eb/screen-shot-2014-12-10-at-4-16-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62e8548bf0884c6d/69876e232dce01368e9dc5eb/screen-shot-2014-12-10-at-4-16-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-10 at 4.16.43 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3628745/lord-of-the-rings-supercut/","name":"Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy"}}]}] ```