The story:

Elijah: There's this fountain in the center of Wellington. That was a point of particular frustration for myself and Dom Monaghan who plays Merry. It's a fountain that's made up of buckets. Colored buckets. And the water sort of comes down from one bucket to the next and the next. But it doesn't actually work. You see, the area surrounding the fountain gets sprayed with water too. So people walk by this thing, and you get water all over yourself. So I thought, 'This is poor engineering, Why would someone create a bucket like this? Or a fountain like this." So on one drunked evening, Dom, myself, and Billy-who's also in the film were walking home and we pass this fountain. And Dom and I look at it, and are like, 'Man, that thing's rubbish.' So Dom's like, 'Lets conquer it.' I said 'Conquer it?' He said, 'Come on lets climb it.' I said okay. So we climb the thing...*laughs* And umm...once we got to the top...what is there to do...

Jay: Right.

Elijah:....but urinate in it. And really show our disgust.

Jay: Right. This is why Americans are loved around the world.

*Elijah laughs*

Jay: We go to a foreign country and we urinate in the fountain.

Elijah: There you go.

Jay: And now the people walking by, rather than just getting sprayed with water, would have urine on them.

Elijah: Possibly, yeah. And Peter, Peter Jackson-the director of our film was pretty upset to find out that we'd down this. I believe he was heard to say, "B-b-b-but I grew up with that fountain." It's a shame. So I felt really bad after that.

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:laugh: LOL! that's hilarious! "let's conquer it." :lmao:

Haha!!! GOD!!!
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I was about to click on a link earlier on to look at the fountain but somehow it didn't load!! :eek: I can't believe they actually climbed up THAT!!!

Anyway, I vaguely remembered from an old interview that Liv was actually with them and was rather anxious about them getting down lol!! But I guess I'm mistaken...

Ahahah Jay Leno's *so* funny! :laugh:

(it's Flower here...)

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Damn it! That was hilarious!! Hehehe
And the fountain looks kinda... um.. crappy... :unsure:

*stares*

*sputters*

*falls over*

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Man, he is right. That is an ugly fountain.

They climbed that drunk? Woah. They deserve an award or something for that! I don't know if I could climb it sober. But then again I am a klutz, so ya know...

AHAH!!
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That funny!!
Hahah!!
*falls off her chair*
AHAH!!

I remember Liv Tyler told that story during the interviews of the first LOTR, and it tickled my curiousity... thanks for letting me know how it looks like...

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The thing I wanna know is how they climbed that thing while drunk. Some talent. I'm sure it was quite a sight!

~Stacy~

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Yeah... I wonder where I've heard that before. **snigger** I'm just kidding. It's good to know great minds really do think alike!

-Kat

The funny thing is that PJ was actually upset because it was a LANDMARK :lmao: Sorry...

Yes, they were completely pissed when they climbed up the fountain!

*note the pun!*

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Sorry, I didn't read any other replys before I commented. Maybe I should have. :) heehee.. I didn't realize you said the same thing.

~Stacy~

LOL KAT!!!! Kluz...*rolls over laughing*

That story is hilarious! I would have climbed it with them! lol, just for the experience....no i dont go pissing in fountains! LOL!!

*cracks up laughing at mental img of girl trying to pee on fountain*

I nearly peed my pants cause I was laughing so hard when Elijah told that story and now I have a visualization of the fountain. So now it makes me laugh even harder cause I can picture those 2 "conquering" it then peeing in it! :lmao: Thank you.

:yay: Amber

Lol. I've heard this on another website. But I've never seen that picture. The fountain looks a little bit crapy. Lol. But PJ likes it obviously, so respect to him. I wish I could have seen them do that.