[HCIsland]

While we're on hobbit cameos, how about Farmer Maggot? I'm pretty sure that in the scene where the Black Rider is asking the hobbit with the dog, "Shire? Baggins?" that the person answering is supposed to be Farmer Maggot as he describes being questioned by a Black Rider to the hobbits in the book and he has dogs.<P>This scene was a pick-up after the main shoot but it always makes me laugh. In the book, Farmer Maggot informs Frodo and company that he told the Black Rider off. "You'll go back where you belong, double quick. I give you one minute before I call all my dogs." Now a hobbit saying this to a Nazgul who's mere sight makes others cower in fear is rather comical and I always figured this was largely tough talk that is pretty easy well after the fact and in front of a warm fire. So when in the movie when he says, "No Bagginses around here. They're up in Hobbiton" while he's backing through the door and you can all but see the pee stain spreading at his crotch, I think, "ah, now the truth comes out". <P>H.C.