Pippin in the Royal Navy!

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I was surprised to see Peregrin Took turn up aboard the frigate
HMS _Surprise (in _Master and Commander: Far Side of the World_, 2003).

Not only that, he's a coxswain (someone who manages small boats).
Very unusual for a non-Bucklander to be skilled with water craft.

2003 was also the year when _Return of the King_ was released. It must
have been a busy year for him.

--SPQ--

[JJ]

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I was surprised to see Peregrin Took turn up aboard the frigate
HMS _Surprise (in _Master and Commander: Far Side of the World_, 2003).
Not only that, he's a coxswain (someone who manages small boats).
Very unusual for a non-Bucklander to be skilled with water craft.
2003 was also the year when _Return of the King_ was released. It must
have been a busy year for him.
--SPQ--

Bit of gross miscasting ... in the books, Barret Bonden, the captain's coxwain played by Billy Boyd, was a big tough Englishman not a weedy Scot! The coxwain was the captain's chief servant and bodyguard, as well as steering the captain's boat.

[Paul S. Person]

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I was surprised to see Peregrin Took turn up aboard the frigate
HMS _Surprise (in _Master and Commander: Far Side of the World_, 2003).
Not only that, he's a coxswain (someone who manages small boats).
Very unusual for a non-Bucklander to be skilled with water craft.
2003 was also the year when _Return of the King_ was released. It must
have been a busy year for him.

IIRC, all the shooting took place before the first film came out.

At least a year before, to allow for post-processing of /FOTR/.

He might, of course, have been called back during post-processing of
each of the three films, for brief periods of time.

Including most of 2003, since /ROTK/ appeared in December and so
post-processing would have happened during that year.

Of course, filming for /M&C:FSofW/ (what were they going for, an Oscar
for Longest Film Title?) might well have occurred in 2002 or before.
It would have had some post-processing time between filming and
release.