who does dominic monaghan play in lord of the rings?
Meriadoc Brandybuck
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 Irish American actor Brian Donlevy was brought in by Robert L. Lippert to play the title role of Quatermass to provide an interest for American audiences . Donlevy , in his own words , specialised in " he @-@ men roles – rough , tough and realistic " . Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beau Geste ( 1939 ) , he was also known for his appearances in The Great McGinty ( 1940 ) and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) . At the time he appeared as Quatermass his career was in decline , however . Donlevy 's no @-@ nonsense portrayal of Quatermass is very different from that of Reginald Tate in the television version and was not to Nigel Kneale 's liking , who said , " I may have picked Quatermass 's surname out of a phone book , but his first name was carefully chosen : Bernard , after Bernard Lovell , the creator of Jodrell Bank . Pioneer , ultimate questing man . Donlevy played him as a mechanic , a creature with a completely closed mind ” . Responding to Kneale 's criticisms , Val Guest said , " Nigel Kneale was expecting to find Quatermass like he was on television , a sensitive British scientist , not some American stomping around , but to me Donlevy gave it absolute reality " . By this stage in his career , Donlevy was suffering from alcoholism ; it was some weeks into the shoot before Guest became aware that the flask of coffee he always carried on set was laced with brandy . Guest found , however , that " Brian was all right , no problem at all once you kept him sober " . He reprised the role of Quatermass in Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) but was replaced by Andrew Keir in the third film , Quatermass and the Pit ( 1967 ) . 

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 Figwit is a fan @-@ created name for an unnamed Elven escort in Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , played by actor and musician Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords fame . The name Figwit derives from an acronym for " Frodo is grea ... who is THAT ? ! ? " [ sic ] . 

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 Cillian Murphy as Robert Michael Fischer , the heir to a business empire and the team 's target . Murphy said Fischer was portrayed as " a petulant child who 's in need of a lot of attention from his father , he has everything he could ever want materially , but he 's deeply lacking emotionally " . The actor also researched the sons of Rupert Murdoch , " to add to that the idea of living in the shadow of someone so immensely powerful " . 

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 Gavan O 'Herlihy as Airk Thaughbaer , the military commander of the destroyed kingdom of Galladoorn who shares a mixed friendship with Madmartigan . 

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 Years later , during Bilbo 's birthday celebration , the wizard Gandalf ( William Squire ) tells him to leave the Ring for his relative Frodo ( Christopher Guard ) . Bilbo reluctantly agrees , and leaves the Shire . Seventeen years pass , during which Gandalf learns that evil forces have discovered that the Ring is in the possession of a Baggins . Gandalf meets with Frodo to explain the Ring 's history and the danger it poses ; and Frodo leaves his home , taking the Ring with him . He is accompanied by three hobbit friends , Pippin ( Dominic Guard ) , Merry ( Simon Chandler ) , and Sam ( Michael Scholes ) . After a narrow escape from the Ringwraiths , the hobbits eventually come to Bree , from which Aragorn ( John Hurt ) leads them to Rivendell . Frodo is stabbed atop Weathertop mountain by the chief of the Ringwraiths , and becomes sickened as the journey progresses . The Ringwraiths catch up with them shortly after they meet the elf Legolas ( Anthony Daniels ) ; and at a standoff at the ford of Rivendell , the Ringwraiths are swept away by the river . 
