"It has been an amazing life experience for all of us.  It also gave us an opportunity to become closer than any of us had ever been working on other films.  I think we've made some of the best friends of our lives."  ~Elijah Wood.

     

     "In creating Frodo, Tolkien may well have been thinking back to the First World War and the lad who went on a terrible journey from which many never returned.  Elijah reminds me of those statues of idealized young men on war-memorials throughout the world: more sublime than human and with a complexion of molten marble.  He is simply terrific."  ~Sir Ian McKellen.

     "Elijah Wood will never grow old!  With that almost elfin face, he was Frodo.  In his gentleness and sincerity - and in his enormous enthusiasm as an actor - he was simply perfect for the part."  ~Christopher Lee.

     "We lived and worked so closely together that he became more like a brother than a fellow actor.  I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo... In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and, I literally might not have survived the journey had this young price of an actor not taken me under his wing!"  ~Sean Astin.

     "Those remarkable, God-given, eyes!  That glorious, good-natured personality!  Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair..."  ~Sir Ian Holm.

     "Elijah has the innocence of a child, the wisdom of a ninety-year old man, and the grace of an angel."  ~Miranda Otto.

     "It's three movies, but it is one story.  People are anticipating the next chapter of what happens because it becomes much more dynamic.  And much more interesting, in my opinion.  There are more battles, and, of course, you've got the inclusion of Gollum, which is one of my all time favourite characters in literature."  ~Elijah Wood.

     Elijah was born on January 28th, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and began to show his acting talent as a young child.  He first appeared in commercials and then moved on to television and film roles.  On his role as Frodo, "When I first heard that Peter was going to make The Lord of the Rings, I thought: 'How perfect!'  I was so excited by the idea of playing Frodo, partly because there was nothing ordinary about the role or the story and because it was going to be filmed over such a long period of time that it would almost be like setting out on as long and exacting a journey as that taken by the characters in the book."

     All the food used for filming was quite good (the food used for Bilbo's party in particular) with the exception of the Lembas bread that Frodo and Sam had to live on for the majority of their journey.  Similar to pita bread that had to be pre-frozen, apparently eating it eventually became as difficult for the actors as it was for their characters.  By the end of filming the trilogy, the four lead hobbits alone went through a total of 1600 pairs of hobbit feet.

     "It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were.  And sometimes you didn't want to know the end.  Because how could the end be happy?  How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?  But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow.  Even darkness must pass.  A new day will come.  And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."  ~Samwise.

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