In celebration of the 20th anniversary of 'Fellowship of the Ring,' SeanAstin talks about his new perspective on Samwise Gamgee and why he's excited to read the first 'Lord of the Rings' book with fans.
20 years ago, on December 19, 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in theaters, and the landscape of fantasy filmmaking was changed forever with Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's series. The massive success of Fellowship of the Ring would go on to be followed by two equally successful sequels in 2002's The Two Towers and 2003's Return of the King. This year, Fellowship of the Ring was also selected for inclusion in the U.S.
So fable.co is a new platform that has book clubs, and I have a book club. We just finished my first one, which is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The publisher of Lord of the Rings granted us the right to use it just a week ago. So we switched from the book I was going to do to Lord of the Rings. And we're going to do a chapter a week. We started yesterday. It's an amazing thing.
I'm 50 years old now. I'm a 50-year-old man. I come to these books now as a different entity. I have three kids now. The youngest one's about to finish high school. So I wonder as I come into this how I'll experience Sam differently this time from before. But one thing [that] is immutable is just his faithfulness. That fidelity is... We need it so much in this world. You need it, or else there's just chaos.
I'm in graduate school at the moment. I just took my final yesterday. I have a managerial economic class I just took, I passed it barely. I know you're wondering.
When I finished Lord of the Rings. I was like, "What if I never work again?" Peter Jackson teased me at one point. Because we were playing these little hobbits. And it's cute, and it's funny, and it's sweet. But in a way, we're diminutive. And in a way that it's charming, it's also can be kind of pejorative. We had these doubles that were filming. BK [Bhoja 'BK' Kannada] was my double, he's three feet tall.
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