“[The actors who played members of the Fellowship] decided to have [tattoos of the number 9 in Elvish] done at a tattoo shop in Wellington, New Zealand, and went along to hold each other’s hands. Mine tickled a little bit, but there were some naughty...

“[The actors who played members of the Fellowship] decided to have [tattoos of the number 9 in Elvish] done at a tattoo shop in Wellington, New Zealand, and went along to hold each other’s hands. Mine tickled a little bit, but there were some naughty Hobbits who had them done on more sensitive parts of their anatomy and they hurt a lot more.”

- Sir Ian McKellan