When a rumor started spreading that there would be nudity in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series, J.R.R. Tolkien fans were up in arms and ready to fight. I believe there’s even a petition out there to stop if there is nudity being planned.
Well, it turns out there there was almost a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy that would have included a couple of nude Hobbits! The news comes from actor Billy Boyd during an interview with Stephen Colbert. He shared:
“Here’s the thing: there was almost nudity in the movies … Philippa Boyes … she wrote a scene, because we’d been doing some kind of gags and winding people up. She said, ‘Oh, it’s a new scene we’re filming next week, with the Ents, with Treebeard. When Merry and Pippin are up Treebeard, he gets afraid and shakes his branches, which makes you guys fall… and as you hit all the branches on the way down, by the time you hit the ground, you’re naked. And Merry turns to Pippin and says, ‘It’s cold, isn’t it?’ And Pippin says, ‘Hold me, Merry.”
It’s a playful scene that I don’t think anyone would have had any issues with. In the end, we don’t even know what to expect from the upcoming Lord of the Rings series, and if there is nudity, we don’t know how it will be utilized. I seriously doubt that we’re going to see any R-rated type nudity in the series. People just need to calm down until we actually see what is being done.