| Film Quotes |
| He's got the heart of a hobbit, he's cool like an elf, he's mad like a wizard, and he's got the fighting spirit of one of the humans," Orlando Bloom talking about Director Peter Jackson. "Elijah is playing Frodo as if he actually were a hobbit caught in these circumstances and dealing with them the only way he can- as a hobbit. You feel seeing the film, that it's not acting or performance which makes it very real. I can't possibly imagine anyone else in the world who would be better suited for the role of Frodo Baggins," Peter Jackson "They're the Fonzies of the town," Dominic Monaghan talking about the hobbits. "Geeks are generally interesting people," Elijah Wood in Entertainment Weekly "I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 am and have freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long days sitting in my trailer waiting... waiting... waiting. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow," Dominic Monaghan in E!Online On the Tattoos Orlando Bloom (Legolas): "It was designed by Alan Lee, who illustrated all of the Lord of the Rings books. It's in Elvish script, and it's the word for nine. We all chose to put them in different places. I got mine on my forearm, because I'm an archer." Ian McKellen (Gandalf): "They were supposed to be our little secret, but there's a way you can see mine: I'm appearing in Dance of Death on Broadway, and in one scene, I take my shirt off. My tattoo is on display--but it will cost you $70 for a ticket." Dominic Monaghan (Merry): "We all had such a great time together, and we wanted something to remember the experience. At first, we talked about a ring, and then we got on to the tattoo. It became a group project. We rang up this guy who had a tattoo parlor that was closed on Sunday--our only day off--so we convinced him to open up for us, and we had a real party, taking photos of each other and everything." Sean Astin (Samwise): "I brought my wife and daughter because they were visiting me. It was an amazing day. My daughter was under the table, and she whispered, 'Daddy, if it hurts too much, you can come down here with me.' " Elijah Wood (Frodo): "I don't know how I picked this spot [pulls up his shirt to show the tattoo on his stomach]. It just felt like the right place. All I can tell you is when I was getting it, it hurt like a motherfucker!" On the Prosthetics. Elijah Wood: "The first day I put on the feet, it was amazing. People were gluing stuff to my feet, and they looked really cool. But that wore off so bloody fast. Once we started filming, I wanted to have nothing to do with them, because putting them on meant losing an hour and a half of sleep. I had the sweatiest feet of all the Hobbits, so the glue was constantly melting, and we had to reapply them. It was just a mess." Liv Tyler (Arwen): "They glued the Elf ears on, but they never got all the glue off. So, we would be picking glue out of our ears constantly. I went home to New York, and a week later, I still had all this sticky stuff. I was at a party, picking my ears and going, 'Ooh, sorry.' " Orlando Bloom: "It was quite amusing to see the cast on a night off in Wellington. The Hobbits would be picking their feet, and the Elves would be picking their ears." Cate Blanchett (Galadriel): "My ears were so beautiful; I fell in love with them. The special-effects workshop had them bronzed, and I've put on them on my mantle. They're lovely mementos." On September 11th Orlando Bloom: "What's beautiful about this story is it says the evil of the world is contained within one Ring. And the smallest of beings, the Hobbits, can come together with friends and a Fellowship and go off to destroy the Ring in the fires where it was made. So, it runs very parallel with what's happening today. I think it's a story of hope, because at the end, the evil is overcome." Elijah Wood: "I saw the movie for a second time just the other night, and it really hit me how it resonates. It's about facing adversity, relying on your friends and facing things with courage and hope. I think of that as a beautiful thing. If people can see this now, and take those things away from it in light of recent events, it's a bonus. I think Tolkien's work has found relevance in other times, too. I mean, in the '60s, the books were really embraced by our culture during the Vietnam war. Hippies and peace advocates were in love with the idea of Hobbit life representing a simpler existence." Viggo Mortensen: "It's not just about protecting your home and your way of life against forces of evil. It also reminds us that there's potential in all of us for good and evil. Each member of the Fellowship has moments of self-doubt--the potential to do the wrong thing. The story also deals with prejudice and fear of the unknown--the things, nations and cultures we don't understand. If the world keeps spinning and doesn't come apart, we need to be patient with ourselves and with others. There isn't much future in keeping a wall between ourselves and the rest of the world." Liv Tyler: "I think it will seem very relevant. It will be wonderful for people to go and see a film about all these people coming together to destroy evil through friendship, love and companionship." Sean Astin: "After September 11, I'm looking at everything with a heightened sense of awareness. Even when I watch old Disney films, they have a different kind of meaning for me. So, I think in that sense, the movie is relevant, because it's such a powerful thing that has happened in the world, and this movie and these books speak to issues that are being talked about in a very serious way right now." |
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