9 Films Dominated By The Last Actor You'd Expect

6. Brett MacKenzie €“ Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Figwit OK, this one€™s a bit strange and is probably the least applicable out of all the roles on this list, but I felt I just had to mention it, if only for the barnstorming lunacy it inspired. If you don€™t know who Brett MacKenzie is, then shame on you €“ he€™s a member of New Zealand music-comedy group Flight of the Conchords, who are undoubtedly hilarious and you should totally see them. Now that€™s out the way, I€™ll explain what he did in Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring. He was an extra, and that€™s sort of it. He didn€™t have any lines, and he just stood at the back of the Council of Elrond scene and looked serious. However, for some reason or another, a large swathe of LOTR fans took to this anonymous elf, with entire fansites and slash fiction epics being struck up in his name. Because he didn€™t have a name, the fans dubbed him €˜Figwit,€™ an acronym for €˜Frodo is great€who is THAT?€™ Apparently, it had something to with his photogenic nature €“ the two fans who created the website €˜Figwit Lives€™ believed him to be €˜Legolas for the thinking woman,€™ utterly taken it by his wonderful eyebrows and complexion. It got so bad that he was given an autopgraph card in the LOTR Topps Authentic Autograph range, has a documentary named after him which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and Peter Jackson eventually gave him two lines in Return of King. The elf who tells Arwen that they cannot delay when she€™s on her way to the Gray Havens? Yeah, that€™s Figwit, and now he's in The Hobbit too. Never has a man got so much for doing so little.
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