Elijah Wooden crashes “Lord of the Rings”-themed marriage ceremony held on the Shire: ‘Oh my God’

The hunt for the ring continues.

Elijah Wooden not too long ago returned to the New Zealand set of The Lord of the Rings' Shire to shock a contented couple on the altar.

In a video shared Monday to the official TikTok account of Hobbiton, the charming Matamata, New Zealand, set that Wooden's Frodo Baggins referred to as house in Peter Jackson's acclaimed movie trilogy, Wooden surreptitiously arrives with a small armada of digital camera operators to doc the shock. As quickly as he steps out from the throng and presents himself on the finish of the aisle, the bride and the groom can each be heard exclaiming, "Oh my God."

Wooden stood out like a sore thumb, wearing a easy outside jacket, pair of denims, and sneakers. As he noticed after becoming a member of the soon-to-be newlyweds on the altar, "That is wonderful, and everyone seems to be dressed as hobbits!"

The 44-year-old actor posed with the beaming bride and groom — the latter clad within the acceptable mid-calf size trousers — for an image. The group continued to ooh and ahh as the total marriage ceremony celebration found one after the other that the nondescript gentleman who'd crashed their cherished one's huge day was in actual fact the explanation for his or her being there within the first place.

"Thanks a lot for coming," the groom fortunately enthused, as Wooden consented to a different selfie, and went on his means.

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It's 26 years to the month that director Peter Jackson first assembled the sizable manufacturing crew in Matamata to start capturing The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The primary entry in Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's behemoth fantasy traditional set the tone for the movies to observe, grossing roughly eight instances its price range, choosing up 4 Oscars, and catapulting solid members like Wooden into superstardom.

Tolkien conceived of the Shire because the quaint, pastoral homeland of the Hobbits, a race of quick but brave dwellers of the fictional Center-earth. Jackson imagined the Shire as idyllic past measure — cozy cottages dug into the panorama's light inexperienced slopes, completely freed from the battle and violence that the saga's Hobbit quartet finally study lie simply past its borders.

When the unique movie trilogy ceased manufacturing on the finish of 2000, there have been no plans to protect the 39 "Hobbit Holes" dug throughout the 12-acre plot. All however 17 have been demolished, however the groundswell of vacationer visitors to the previous set led to Hobbiton being designated an official attraction, full with guided excursions in 2002. Jackson returned in 2009 to movie The Hobbit trilogy, leaving 44 reconstructed Hobbit dwellings that vacationers and newlyweds proceed to take pleasure in.

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