Yes Rings fans the obvious has been revealed as Elijah Wood tells Exclusive Movie News exclusively in an exlusive interview that he, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd all played their respective Hobbit roles as gays, not that there’s anything wrong with that…

I know many out there had the same feeling I did when Frodo and Sam were getting all snuggly close in Return of the King, well, the cat is now out of the bag. When asked, Wood was reluctant to reveal anything at first, but that reluctancy provoked me to ask even further. “Okay, I’ll tell you, but I know I am going to get killed for this,” Wood began. “After reading the script I spoke with Sean, Dom and Billy and we all agreed there was a relative – let’s say softness – to our characters and we started hamming it up and no one ever stopped us.”

Wood began laughing, “There are some scenes were you can actually see Sam trying to grope Frodo. You have to look close, but they are there. Nothing was meant by it, it just started out as a joke and some may say it went too far, but hell the films made billions of dollars so I don’t think anyone is complaining.”

He’s got that right, Fellowship of the Ring made $871 million worldwide; Two Towers made $926 million and the ever impressive Return of the King made a whopping $1.1 billion at the worldwide box-office. Considering the DVD sales along with all the cross promotion of videogames, t-shirts and what not, it is safe to say the “softness” of their relationships on screen didn’t hurt sales one bit.

This is W. Black saying, “Keep it dark… and soft.”