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Wood Versus Astin in Two Towers

Elijah Wood, who stars as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, told SCI FI Wire that Frodo and Sam (Sean Astin) fight each other in a scene for the second film, The Two Towers, that is not in the J.R.R. Tolkien text. "We did the fight scene as part of the re-shoots we did this past summer in New Zealand," Wood said in an interview. "That scene was not in the book."

The actor added, "Literature and film are very different, and for the sake of the film we needed to raise the stakes slightly, just to show that there is a little more going on with Frodo, in terms of the effect the One Ring is having on him. We needed a little more of that and it needed to be clearer, and so that fight was added onto what we'd already shot. We actually filmed much, much more intense moments of the two of us fighting, and they'll be in the extended edition DVD of The Two Towers. But what you get in the theatrical release gives you enough to really see how the Ring is affecting Frodo." The Two Towers opens nationwide on Dec. 18.