{"id":46232,"date":"2026-07-02T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46232"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:02:25","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-star-elijah-wood-confirms-new-spin-off-solves-a-major-issue-with-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46232","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Star Elijah Wood Confirms New Spin-Off Solves a Major Issue With &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/lord-of-the-rings-gollum-hobbit-difference-elijah-wood\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-hobbit-elijah-wood-frodo-baggins.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:204px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The actor reveals what makes the spin-off different from his &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/lord-of-the-rings-gollum-hobbit-difference-elijah-wood\/\">&#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Star Elijah Wood Confirms New Spin-Off Solves a Major Issue With &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Speaking with\u00a0<em>MovieWeb\u00a0<\/em>in support of his new animated series\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28230655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Among Us<\/a><\/em>, Wood explained how the upcoming spin-off\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32328070\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>will reunite not only actors from the original trilogy, but also bring together key behind-the-scenes figures. In this sense, the new spin-off will be a marked improvement over his gratuitous cameo in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0903624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hobbit<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>movie<br>&#8230;<br><em>The Hunt for Gollum\u00a0<\/em>was announced back in 2024 and was confirmed to explore the timeline between Bilbo&#8217;s birthday and Frodo leaving The Shire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor reveals what makes the spin-off different from his &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2262,1882],"class_list":["post-46232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hobbits","tag-lotr","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232\/revisions\/46237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}