On the occasion of Elijah Wood’s birthday, we offer you a quiz on the trilogy of which he is one of the leading faces: The Lord of the Rings.
Actor Elijah Wood turns 43 today. His first appearance on the big screen dates back 35 years since the actor took his very first steps in the cinema when he was only eight years old and not in just any film!
Indeed, if the actor was able to experience global success thanks to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in the early 2000s, he had already had the opportunity to make an appearance in another very famous trilogy, from the 80s this time, Back to the Future.
It was in the second part released in 1989 that we were able to discover this very young Elijah Wood, in the scene (at 15’20 precisely) where Marty McFly, then projected into the future of the year 2015, falls on a contemporary video game arcade machine of its time, but which has become old school in the future. This is what Elijah Wood and his friend make clear to him, unconvinced by this Wild West game, which also announces in a wink the third part to come.
Subsequently, the young actor appeared in around fifteen films during the 90s (including The Good Son, Deep Impact and The Irresistible North in which a Hollywood superstar appeared on screen for the first time), but It was therefore in 2001 that the actor achieved worldwide fame by playing Frodo, in the first part of the adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s heroic fantasy novels, The Fellowship of the Ring.
We will find him a few years later alongside Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry, and also in the very particular universe of Sin City by Robert Rodriguez, in the guise of a disturbing killer serial cannibal.
Back today on the trilogy signed Peter Jackson, with a very simple concept, namely trying to find which of the three films these images come from. If you score 15/15, you are the King!