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I immediately gave him a hug and I just said, “Hey!” because I knew who he was. When I met Sean for the first time, we were both scheduled to get our wig fitted at a hotel in L.A. Those two need each other, and certainly Frodo needs Sam. Whilst my character of Frodo is seen as this hero, there’s even more true heroism in Sam and the way he picks up the pieces of where Frodo can’t go on any further. My read on it was just about an incredible companionship. What were your thoughts about this friendship between these two characters back then?

I just wanted to continue to work on things that were really small and very different from “The Lord of the Rings.” I felt quite sad to see it all come to an end, but also ready to move on with my life and have new experiences.Ĭlose fraternal relationships between men like the one Frodo and Sam have in the trilogy are more common now in media. My experience of living was so defined by being in New Zealand with this group of people that the sudden shift of being home again felt very abrupt.

It was that experience multiplied by a great degree.

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We had been intensely invested in the world of the movie we were making, and then suddenly we weren’t, which is often the case when you make a film: You’re in that microcosm, and then you’re thrust at the other end of it. That was when all of us were at our most exhausted. The most profound moment of feeling like I was stepping away from it and questioning what I was going to do next came after principal photography. Twenty years on we are still connected in that way, even if we haven’t seen each other in a long time.

We all left the variety of places that we came from and made our lives in New Zealand with each other. Or taking surf trips on weekends with the other hobbits and Orlando and the camaraderie and the daily life that we had. We’re sitting at the hotel on top of a washer and dryer, getting our feet taken off with a glass of whiskey. Often what I think about is the in-between moments, not just the incredible set pieces with hundreds of extras in orc outfits, which is certainly an extraordinary thing, but the seemingly mundane moments, like getting our hobbit feet taken off because we had to vacate set as it started to snow. When you think about the “Lord of the Rings” films and how they redefined your career, what are the memories that remain most vivid for you? Below are edited excerpts from the conversation. Twenty years on, Wood, now 40, reminisced about the monumental filmmaking adventure. The first chapter, “ The Fellowship of the Ring,” which was recently added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, won four statuettes after its release on Dec. It wasn’t the trilogy’s first brush with Oscar. Auden wrote about “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first volume of Tolkien’s trilogy, in 1954. A Soviet Take: A 1991 production based on Tolkien’s novels, recently digitized by a Russian broadcaster, is a time capsule of a bygone era.Being Frodo: The actor Elijah Wood explains why he’ll never be upset at being associated with the “Lord of the Rings” movie series.He invented an alternate reality, complete with its own geography, languages and history. Artist and Scholar: Tolkien did more than write books.

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