Arwen Quotes

(on playing Arwen in "Lord of the Rings":) It wasn`t until I came back home after such a long time away that I realized how much hype there was about this. I get to play someone 3,000 years old. I`m 23, so that`s quite an acting challenge.

I was in New Zealand for a long time and preparing for fight sequences - all of these kind of elaborate things. And the more I did that stuff the further we were getting away from why they cast me and what was true of Arwen. And we all realized that. . And we went back into the book and into the appendix. And . . reshaped it. I think originally that, when they were looking at this character, they wanted her to be a strong character. She is a strong character, but . . maybe they thought, "Oh, well if she`s a fighter she`s strong." And over time they realized that you don`t have to put a sword in a woman`s hand to make her seem tough. That`s little actual makeup of who Arwen is, and her sheer will and strength and love for this man was strong enough.