From Daily Star, March 2004 : "The Lord of the Rings films have been something so beautiful. I've left Frodo behind but a part of me will always be connected to that character. Being recognised as Frodo for the rest of my life, that's something I'm very proud of."

From CBBC Newsround, December 2002 : Q : "Our viewers say Orlando is the sexiest - do you agree ?"
EW : "Of course ! That is understandable, I've already come to terms with this [Elijah jokes]. I'm a hobbit, I'm fine with not being sexy. Really. It's OK."

Q : "So you're not jealous ?"
EW : "Really, it's fine. [joking]"

From Total Film, January 2002 : "[The blue screen] involved a lot of imagination but also, in terms of acting against things that don't exist, we had such a good idea of what we were supposed to be seeing, since we always saw the designs. So it didn't really take that much imagination. There's a scene with some orcs and a cave troll, the orcs were there but the cave troll wasn't. They had a foam cut-out of it, with a marker for its eyes and nose and mouth. It was actually more of a reference for the camera than it was for us, but it gave us an idea of the size."

X-posé, 25 november 2001 : "I didn't follow the general path in getting this role. My agent called and said 'you have to put yourself on tape immediately because they are looking for English actors' so I decided to do my own video. I got a book to research what a Hobbit looked like and then went to a costume store for the  wardrobe."

People.com : Q : "Was making The Lord of the Rings a growing-up experience for you ?"
EW : "The experience really came at a perfect time in my life. I was 18 when I left for New Zealand (where the movie was filmed) and it was really the first time for that length of time that I'd been away from home living on my own. It was kind of accepting my adulthood in the most extreme way that I've ever had to face it before. That was wonderful. I basically propelled myself into a completely different world, made some of the best friends of my life and  essentially gained another home in New Zealand. It was incredible. After a period of time, because of the time difference between home and New Zealand and  because I was working constantly, I rarely called home. And it wasn't because I  didn't miss my family. It was just kind of circumstantial -- and even when I did  have time, I didn't really think about it because I was so involved in my life there."

Q : "How are you and Frodo, your character, alike ?"
EW : "I think in  some ways Frodo's quite similar to me. Hobbits in general have a real love for life and a passion for friendship and food and drink, the simple pleasures of  life. Those things I totally relate to. And Frodo's got a sort of quietness  about him. In some ways he's kind of internal in the sense that he thinks quite a lot and, unlike other hobbits, he's really kind of curious about the outside world and about adventures and travel and other peoples and places. I could  relate to that as well. It's interesting, after you're a character for that  length of time, the character bleeds into you and you bleed into the character  and it's difficult to tell really how that occurs and what part of you the  character contains and so on and so forth."

Time Out Magazine - Interview, 11 August 2001 : Q : "What was the hardest scene to film ?"
EW : "Probably the scene at the end of  the third book, where Frodo is a shadow of himself, nearly taken over by the Ring, it almost becomes like a drug. He's an addict in away, he's afraid of  anyone taking the Ring over. How to go with that, that was challenging."

Interview by Paul Byrne, 11 January 2001 : "It was a privilege shooting all three films at the same time. And over such a long period of time as well. Normally, you'll have the  character in your mind for just 45 days or whatever, but here, you could  actually live out the film over that period of time, the same length of time  that's in the book. The idea of shooting one at a time could have been damaging to the characters, it could have been damaging to the atmosphere. We all - the  cast and the crew - delved completely into an adventure together for a year and  a half, and enjoyed all the highs and lows of that adventure together. The  amount of collective passion was overwhelming and beautiful, and I would have  had it no other way. It was absolutely incredible. I'd love to do it all over  again actually."

"Everyone knows that there's that potential with this film, but when I signed on for this, all I was asking myself was, "Are you prepared to go on a journey like this ? Are you prepared to give up a year and a half of  your life, of your career, for one project ?" I was just so determined to get  the part - I went up into the Hollywood hills and made my own, fully- costumed,  audition tape - that I didn't really think of the magnitude of what the film  could possibly become. Not initially anyway. I just wanted to be part of it, no matter what. It was only later that I started thinking about what it could be.  When the toys started being made; that's when we all started to realise that we were part of something really massive."

AOL Interview, 2001 : Q : "Did you read the books ?"
Elijah Wood : "I picked them up when I traveled to New Zealand... however I found that I was surrounded by Middle-earth and all things 'Lord of the Rings.' So I felt it difficult to consult the books, although they were constantly referenced. I'm in the middle of them now, which is brilliant, specifically for the amount of time that has passed since being emersed in the journey."