Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan reveals which scene was hardest to film

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan has named which scene from Peter Jackson’s fantasy trilogy was the hardest to make. Monaghan played the bumbling hobbit Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck in all three Lord of the Rings films, a role which saw him appear in several large and complicated battle sequences. “If you were to ask all four of us, ‘Pick a scene you can guarantee you only have to do once and not go back to,’ we probably would have said Grey Havens, just cause we were all there weeping like children.” “So, doing it three times, I definitely think that the third version that I did, the one that’s in the film, is probably not quite as hysterical in terms of the state that I’m in as the first one, or possibly even the second one. Podcast co-host and fellow Lord of the Rings alumnus Billy Boyd, said: “For those of you who don’t know why we did it three times… Sean Astin was wearing the wrong costume.