They were joined by castmates Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, and Karl Urban.

Jackson said he wrote the iconic speech the day before the scene was filmed, and that Bean needed help remembering it.

“What Sean did, which I thought was really clever, is he got a print-out of the speech taped to his knee,” Jackson said.

He arrives precisely when he means to.” During the reunion, Boyens said she actually came up with that herself, and the line was never in the novels from J.R.R.