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“I get a lot of questions where people ask me ‘What character would you be?’And even though the obvious answer is an elf - you know, tall, handsome, slender - I'm much more of a hobbit,” he said.
And hobbits, like Jackson, are most comfortable at home
“The idea of a cup of tea, sitting with my feet up in front of the fire and not coming to
mysterious dark places like Hollywood or Los Angeles,” said Jackson. “Scary places, scary, scary places – ‘I don't like to venture beyond the borders of the Shire,’ as Bilbo says.”