10 Things you never Knew..

Here is a list of 10 things you never Knew about The Lord of the Rings.

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1. HOBBITS sure are tough on their feet! Actors Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan wore out 1,600 pairs of tootsies while filming The Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. Elderly members of a knitting group in Wellington, New Zealand-director Peter Jackson's home- town-wove chainmail for 900 suits of armor.
3. Viggo Mortensen, who plays Aragorn, had never read the Rings books when he was cast, but took the role on the recommendation of his 11-year-old son Henry and flew to New Zealand the next day.
4. Liv Tyler kept her elf ears as souvenirs, but they ended up a melted mess when she left them on the dashboard of her car.
5. One publisher rejected the first book in the J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring. Since then, it has sold 100 million copies.
6. Crazed fans have harassed Tolkien's family since the films came out, and his son Christopher, 79, keeps wild boars in his yard to fend off intruders.
7. John Rhys-Davies had an allergic reaction to the prosthetics used on his face to turn him into Gimli the dwarf-all the skin around his eyes peeled off.
8. Sean Astin is immortalized on a 90-cent New Zealand stamp as his hobbit character Samwise Gamgee, but the presentation package misspells his name as "Sean Austin".
9. Jackson had to call in 15,000 extras for battle scenes, when the New Zealand army he was using, got called off to a real war in East Timor.
10. Tolkien refused to let The Beatles make a "60s Rings film, in which John Lennon was to play Gollum and Paul McCartney would be Frodo!