Frodo Actor Elijah Wood Admits He's Still Trying to Finish Reading Lord of the Rings, 25 Years on From Filming the Movie

More than 25 years on from filming The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins actor Elijah Wood has said he's still trying to finish reading the books. An embarrassed Wood made the admission this week while chatting with J.R.R. Tolkien superfan Stephen Colbert, though said he did have something of a positive update to share. "To have it be from you, I feel almost the most embarrassed," Wood told Colbert, when asked to comment on rumors that he had never finished reading Tolkien's trilogy. "I know no one else in my life that loves Tolkien more than you," Wood continued, looking sheepish, "and has read the books more than maybe anyone, so that 25 years later... actually 27, as we started shooting in September 1999... "I'll at least say this," Wood finally stated, "there's an update... I have started them." To this, Colbert quipped that Wood did at least know how the books end. (Although, perhaps not, since Peter Jackson's film trilogy famous trimmed out Return of the King's final section detailing the Scourging of the Shire). Over the last quarter of a century, Wood has portrayed Frodo Baggins in four Middle-earth films — and looks set to soon appear in a fifth. As well as the original Lor

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