Liv, how did you first hear of The Lord of the Rings ?
I got a phone call one day from my agent saying that they were making this movie, and they wanted me to read the material. It’s very rare to be offered something that you are really excited about! I was immediately really excited that somebody wanted me and liked me. But I was also a bit embarrassed because I didn’t know anything about it. My agent knew quite a bit about it, [and] I started remembering kids in school, mostly boys, I think, who played Dungeons and Dragons and read The Lord of the Rings – I know they are very separate worlds – but that was really all I knew. I was not, as a kid, a particularly big reader; I was much more of an outside person. I had attention deficit, and I was just not a bookish kind of person. I was kind of creating my own fairy tales in my head. Then I got sent the scripts and this incredible, large booklet of computer-generated images that was one of the first things that Peter had put together – to give some visuals to people. I looked at that and th
