'The Lord of the Rings' Almost Killed Off One of The Hobbits
If The Lord of the Rings wasn’t emotional enough already, now we get word that New Line was angling to murder one of our precious hobbitses. While promoting their new podcast, The Friendship Onion, with an interview for IGN, LOTR stars Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan described a request put forth by New Line during the making of the epic trilogy, which breaks down to “someone’s gotta go.” And by someone, they were looking specifically at the shorter folks of the Fellowship. Farewell and Adieu to You Fair Little Hobbits That’s right. There was a concern from New Line about a need...
Source: slashfilm.com