{"id":2402723,"date":"2026-05-05T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402723"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:11:32","slug":"elijah-wood-reveals-he-still-hasnt-finished-reading-lord-of-the-rings-books-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/elijah-wood-reveals-he-still-hasnt-finished-reading-lord-of-the-rings-books-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Wood Reveals He Still Hasn&#8217;t Finished Reading &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Books &#8211; Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2190822\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elijah-wood\/\" title=\"Elijah Wood\"><strong>Elijah Wood<\/strong><\/a> made a surprising revelation during a recent interview. <\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old actor appeared on <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em> and unveiled that he has yet to finish reading the <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lord-of-the-rings\/\" title=\"Lord Of The Rings\"><strong>Lord of the Rings<\/strong><\/a><\/em> books, over 20 years since he first filmed the movie adaptations.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2190822\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have it be from you\u2026 I feel almost the most embarrassed, <strong>Stephen<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cI know no one else in my life who loves<strong> Tolkien<\/strong> more than you and has read the books more than maybe anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that 25 years later \u2014 actually 27 if you consider we started shooting in October of \u201999 \u2014 I\u2019ll at least say this, there\u2019s an update,\u201d <strong>Elijah<\/strong> added. \u201cI have started them, and they\u2019re incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elijah Wood On Those Frodo Rumors And His Epic &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; Text Chain\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptRp_KE5m1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In addition, <strong>Elijah<\/strong> revealed that he still keeps in touch with the cast on the group text called \u201cShire Folk,\u201d which was renamed by <strong>Dominic Monaghan <\/strong>from \u201cThe Hobbits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke to <strong>Ian McKellen<\/strong> spilling the beans that <strong>Elijah<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-will-return-in-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\/\"> would reprise his role as Frodo Baggins<\/a> in the upcoming <em>The Hunt for Gollum <\/em>movie. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing to add,\u201d <strong>Elijah<\/strong> said. \u201cNothing to subtract either. We\u2019re in a good spot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <strong>Elijah<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/12\/elijah-wood-addresses-lord-of-the-rings-return-plays-coy-about-the-hunt-for-gollum\/\">spoke out about his apparent return<\/a> at a fan convention, where he also didn\u2019t confirm or deny.<\/p>\n<p>Photos: CBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elijah-wood\/\" rel=\"tag\">Elijah Wood<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lord-of-the-rings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.justjared.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Wood made a surprising revelation during a recent interview. The 45-year-old actor appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and unveiled that he has yet to finish reading the Lord of the Rings books, over 20 years since he first filmed the movie adaptations. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 \u201cTo have it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Elijah-Wood-Reveals-He-Still-Hasnt-Finished-Reading-Lord-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402725,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402723\/revisions\/2402725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}