"The benefit of that was that we were also signing up for something that was going to be a part of our lives forever," Wood added of his "not massive" salary.

Not so precious. Elijah Wood recently revealed that the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which made a huge profit from 2001 to 2003, did not end up in a big pay day for the cast. “Because we weren’t making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next,