It again reteams Scorsese with his favorite actor, Robert De Niro, who had appeared inMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977),Raging Bull (1980),andThe King of Comedy (1982).In her larger suite across the hall, she invites him to share the space and move right in, to offer his lessons there.Murtaugh found a rubber-covered tree plant on his desk as a practical joke, and he responded: "Go spit.In a second storyline, abducted hobbits Merry and Pippin were held by an army of Saruman""s Uruk-hai/Orcs and taken to Isengard, while being tracked by three of the original Fellowship: exiled Gondor heir Aragorn, dwarf Gimli and keen archer Legolas.