Speaking of their time on South Island...
Title: Playing House
Rating: NC-17
Summary: A week alone on South Island means more than just surfing and tequila—surprisingly enough!
Author: Beizy
Notes: Inspired by this quote from Billy: “In fact, there’s a great tape that no one has seen, that’s very hilarious, that I have here. Orlando bought a video camera while he was there, and me and Dom stole it when we were going to South Island. What happened was, they were filming Frodo and Sam’s story in the South Islands somewhere, and they put everyone up in hotels while they were doing this, but they didn’t have any wet weather cover for Frodo and Sam. So if it started to rain and they couldn’t film Frodo and Sam, there was nothing to film, you know? And you can’t have that. You can’t have a day without filming, so they set an inside set, which was a Merry and Pippin set. So they said to us, ‘It’s too far to fly you every day, so you guys will have to come down, but it means that you probably won’t be working.’ They said, ‘So rather than put you up in the hotel, we’ll get you a nice house down here, while you’re here.’ It was just in a small place in the South Island. We thought, ‘Yeah, great! We’ll just hang out and watch movies or whatever.’ So we stole Orlando’s camera, and there is a tape of that week, of me and Dom sharing a house together, which must make it onto a DVD at sometime.”
Since that, we’ve learned that they ended up only working three days out of a slotted ten, and spent the other seven whole days alone together in that house. This is a fic I seem to be known for. I had no idea at the time people would like it so much.





