"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.

The star of Peter Jackson's massively profitable trilogy says, however, that shooting the films led to "some of the best experiences of my life."

"The Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood has become the latest member of the cast to discuss how, in spite of Peter Jackson's trilogy of films becoming huge financial successes as well as cultural touchstones, no one in the cast received the kind of massive payday you would expect.