Lord Of The Rings trilogy, two of the film’s stars say.All four of the main Hobbit characters in the film – Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin – survive at the end of J.R.R.
Tolkein’s books.For the end of third film, The Return Of The King, though, studio executives asked Jackson to kill off one of the characters.Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd – who played Merry and Pippin in the films respectively – were speaking to IGN about their new Lord Of The Rings-themed podcast The Friendship Onion when they spilled the beans on Jackson’s quandary.“It’s a good job that didn’t happen, because it would have been me,” Monaghan said. “It definitely would have.
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