Why tempt it?

Exactly. But I wouldn't necessarily consider myself superstitious to the point where if I did walk under a ladder that I would be worrying about it.

By the way, is it just me or have we had like five Friday the 13ths this year.

Have we had one?

I just feel like there is always one just coming up or just past.

I love the idea of Friday the 13th. I think it's great. Anything that is slightly shady and freaks people out. That's probably why I am into horror movies as much as I am. Did you see 'The Ring'?

Yes, it was awesome.

That made me smile. What a great movie.

I hope the sequel is as good as the first. I hope they do the sequel. Have you seen the Japanese version? So there we have an Elijah Wood movie recommendation.

There you go.

Speaking of special days in the near future, aren't we getting close to your birthday?

We are, January 28.

Any big plans?

Last time, I said I was going to Vegas. That never happened. This time I've got another harebrained idea that I am sure in keeping with the fact that I didn't do anything last year, I probably won't do this either. But the plan at the moment is to go to Hawaii for a week.

You can go surfing. That would be so much fun.

Wouldn't that be cool?

The waves are better in the winter.

I know, exactly.

As I learned from watching 'Blue Crush.' Here is a question from Toby1158. What other movies are you working on right now? You have upcoming projects, right?

I do. I did a movie called 'Try Seventeen' that comes out sometime next year. And there is a movie called 'Thumbsucker' that I am probably going to start working on sometime in the new year. But other than that, there is nothing actually happening at the moment. I kind of took the summer off to just enjoy some free time with friends, which was kind of totally necessary, especially to lead up to this whole mayhem. But this has been fun, too. I feel like I have been working on this press junket for two months.

Yeah, because you are all over the world, right?

Yeah. We started like early crush in November, the actual trip didn't start until the first week of December. But it still feels like it's being going on for a while. It's been fun, though.

It can be stressful, though. I've been there.

I haven't slept at all. I got 2 and a 1/2 hours of sleep the other night and I had to do a whole day of television, press interviews in Paris.

We will have to try to look at those clips.

Yeah, exactly. Look out for the European press and see how dog tired I look. I managed to pull it off OK, though.

Here is one from Fonz518. Hello, Elijah. You are my idol because all of the hard work and determination you have. There you go. What in your opinion was the biggest physical challenge in making 'The Two Towers'?

The biggest physical challenge was getting through the challenge of the endurance of the schedule, the length of time that we were in New Zealand. The schedule was constantly changing and the hours that we were having to deal with and halfway through the movie, we were doing like six-day weeks. It was just... there was an intensity to the process that after the first, like, three or four months, it starts to wear you down. And when there is no sign of it letting up, it literally takes quite a lot of strength to push yourself through and keep yourself motivated and passionate about the film.

Well, I have to ask this question because it's the most-asked question tonight and the girls would kill me if I didn't. I think that Nina42 put it best when she said, is there a special girl in your life?

At the moment, there is not. That was probably the best way to put it.

I think you just made 10,000 people's days by that one sentence. So here is one from Diva. Did you ever not want to be a Hobbit and play a different role?

In the film, probably not, no. It's funny because it's only recently that people started asking me that question. I love Frodo. I wouldn't want to be any of the other characters. I love a lot of the other characters as well, but I wouldn't want that responsibility. I enjoyed the responsibility that I had. That kind of internal struggle and the fact that he is a Hobbit. I love Hobbits. I relate to Hobbits quite well.

We've got time for a couple more questions. This one comes from Toro5girl, speaking of upcoming projects, has it been difficult to move on to other projects after you completed 'Lord of the Rings,' given that it was such an unprecedented experience?

You were sort of breaking up there, but I think I got what you said. What was the question again?

Has it been difficult to move on to other projects after you completed 'Lord of the Rings,' given that it was such an unprecedented experience?

It hasn't been easy to jump into other things, particularly smaller movies. Right after I did 'Lord of the Rings.' I didn't want to work at all. But when I did want to work and projects started to become available, the idea of doing something smaller and completely different from 'Lord of the Rings' was really exciting. Kind of a relief. It was nice to be on something that was a little bit more focused and not as massive in scale and just simply not as long, two months to do a film was kind of a relief. So in that sense, it was, you know, it was good to get back. But hard in the sense that I had been away from... I had been in that comfort zone of 'Lord of the Rings' for so long, it was difficult to imagine myself on another project. So from that perspective, in a lot of ways, it was actually difficult to move on because it meant that I had to kind of break free of that zone and put myself in a different head space.

OK, well, here is a really fun question from What an angel 181 who was been following your career. Did you have fun spending time with the Osbournes? You were on an episode last season. That was fun.

It was cool. The Osbournes are great. I haven't seen them in quite some time. I saw Jack recently at a party in Los Angeles. He organized some crazy party and it was very funny. He is a character. I haven't seen Kelly in ages. I actually saw Amy a while ago. But they're fantastic. I love the family. I think they're very sweet and incredibly... it's odd for a television family that are seemingly so controversial. I feel like they represent the truth in what a family is all about more than most reality shows would -- or even fake television programs -- That try and capture that essence of what it means to be a family. I think they capture it better than anything.

That was a funny episode that you were on because you were cleaning --

Cleaning up urine.

It's a fun activity.

What you didn't say later on is that we made ramen and grilled-cheese sandwiches.

How could they leave that out?

It's not as rock 'n' roll.

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