Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving....twins separated at birth? When I first saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I remember thinking "Sam could have done that!" It wasn't until the second or third time that I decided he should have played Elrond Half-Elven, in fact I wondered...it was filmed in New Zealand by a New Zealand boy, why wasn't Sam asked? (which, by the way, I still don't know...) After a while, I decided that Hugo Weaving had been an inspired choice for the part. No one could have said "Men...men are weak" with quite such disappointed contempt. I was happy with him as Elrond. But yet, every time I see Elrond on screen, part of me still thinks ...sam neill... Okay, so I'm thick. It was a whole year before I realized that the reason Sam kept popping into my head during Hugo's scenes was because THEY WERE TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH! I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before! No one else seemed to know this, so I set out to prove it. To my astonishment, there WAS no proof. Yet I am sure that Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving are twins, separated at birth. Yeah, I know. Hugo's a bit younger (or so he says....) Don't believe me? Check out these pics... (I couldn't get the j-script to work just right, so each one will bring up the first pic, then you can click thru...I'll work on it...) Back