Elijah Wood made some Lord of the Rings fans’ dreams come true — and it happened to be on their wedding day in The Shire.
Wood, 44, who famously played Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s LOTR film trilogy, as well as in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, crashed a couple’s nuptials on the Hobbiton movie set in Matamata, New Zealand.
In a video shared by Hobbiton Tours on TikTok Tuesday, October 29, Wood arrived at the wedding, unbeknownst to the bride, groom and guests, before he was spotted by the crowd.
Camera operators caught the moment the guests realized Frodo himself was also in attendance at the wedding, eliciting “oh my Gods” and applause.
Wood, dressed casually in a raincoat and jeans, then ran down the aisle to the happy couple, in their wedding day best, and posed for photos at the altar.
He chatted with the pair before pointing out that “everyone is dressed as Hobbits.”
“This is amazing,” he also said as Howard Shore’s score song “The Shire” played in the background.
“POV: You’re getting married in The Shire and an unexpected guest crashes your wedding…” the TikTok read, with the caption, “An unforgettable wedding in The Shire… #hobbiton.”
Couple gets the surprise of their lives at LOTR-themed wedding. Courtesy of Hobbiton/TikTok
“I love this! So kind of Elijah wood. This is so sweet 🥹,” one fan commented on the video, to which the Hobbiton Movie Set responded, “He was so lovely.”
They also shared hi-res photos from the wedding’s photographer in another upload.
It’s been exactly 26 years since Jackson, 63, assembled the sizable cast and crew to commence production on the film series’ first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring. The trilogy is a movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s fantasy tale, which follows a group of heroes on a quest to help young Hobbit Frodo destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron in the fictional world of Middle-earth.
The film franchise was a box-office behemoth, raking in over $2.9 billion worldwide. In total, the series earned 17 Oscars and catapulted cast members, including Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom, into a new level of superstardom.
Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin and Billy Boyd at the 76th Annual Oscars. Photo by SGranitz/WireImage
Wood recently opened up to Vanity Fair about the “extraordinary journey” the production team went on together while shooting the iconic film trilogy.
“The ‘letting go’ of the character didn’t really happen until after The Return of the King was released, because we would continue to go back to New Zealand,” Wood said of filming reshoots following principal photography. “We were saying goodbye over the course of many years, really. And then there was kind of the very fortunate scenario of getting invited to go to the Oscars and the film had been nominated for so many Oscars and it won them all. That was sort of this extraordinary family reunion, an unbelievable victory lap.”
Wood said it was “really strange” returning to Los Angeles after living in New Zealand for nearly two years. But, the cast of LOTR has remained tight and frequently get together for mini reunions.
In fact, the Hobbits — Wood, Astin, 54, Monaghan, 48, and Boyd, 57 — are set to head out on a new adventure in May to September 2026 for a nationwide Fan Expo tour titled “An Evening with the Hobbits: In Celebration of 25 Years.”
The foursome will stop in New Orleans, Portland, Vancouver, Orlando, Calgary, Denver, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and Dallas.
